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M'CAUSLAND. one, we suppose, has the vete- Sn'pmoner, whe, for S5 long been confined in the county at Au- Many too, very many, by curiosity, have looked through his iron grates, and beholding the stately form countenance, and long white beard of him who has not seen the sun object in the world without, for more than one generation, have listened to the simple, well committed story ihe waste! circumstances which brought theV -They will see him no more The old man is gone. body has at leneltrieft the dark, damp dungeon, in, which-ivhad been immured for more than ti third of a century, and death has kind- set rrii spirit free forever. He died Friday the of Auguit, aged 70 yC The that cut him off forever from the society of man, and consigned him to prison for life, peculiar, and go far to show how mistaken of duty may sometimes drive people to the most -shocking extremes. M'Causland was an inhabitant -of thii town at the tune of Imprisonment.

His devotion to religion, or what was perhaps now bv tome, considered religion, operated powerfully on some peculiar passion, 'as to render him on that subject partially -insane. On all other except religion, he WBS, and to his death, regained perfectly rational. Instances, believe, are on record, of mental alienation, confined to subjects operating on other passions of the mind. In this of religious fanaticism, he imagined that he was called of God, to make a ing and a sncrifi den was en the government to prove him and suggested to him the expediency of recalling his plea, and pleading "not guilty." Mr. M'CausIanVl woulf! lhe honorable judges of the supreme court of Massachusetts advise me to lie I did kill the woman.

I am guilty." Tne judges this reply, were thrown into an unpleasant dilemma. His guilt being established by his own confession, nothing remained for them but to pronounce the dread sentence of the Saw--death. wishing to do this under the circumstances of the case, they removed him to prison to await his sentence; and theie he remained thirty-five years waiting for his sentence, with murmurs against the court for its unreasonable delay Mr. M'CausIand might indeed have been -sentenced, and then pardoned by the executive; but a pardon would give him his liberty, and not thought safe that he should be again let loose on society, lest the Lord should call again to commit some other fatal The safety of ithe community required his confinement. He accordingly remained in the narrow cell until his decease.

The curiosity excited amongst strangers to see was a source of THE PL ARIQ3T. SANDUSKY, OCT. 10, 1329- Ottotrr Election. II. WTLCOXON, GEOKGK G.

A MOSES C. SANDEHS. I H- TOTTLE, JOHN I PHILO A A Treasurer, I A ALMON RUGGLES. Commissioner, A I FORSYTH, PATTEE, JOHN FULLER, I W. FOWLER.

him act. were proud of thejiame of" democratic republican;" but we have seen it so hamefu'lly prostituted, by being to embrace all classes of political vaga- xmds, and since we have witnessed the were in pieces; in short, in the same chamber, who were nM by the shock, but not otherwise injury The chimney was entirely thrown 0w the glass all broken, the furniture of tj" 1 house, as Bellas much of theclothing shivered in uieces: in 1 income to him. Each spectator, before he could behold him, was required by M'Causlaud to pay him two cents, and then lie would proceed to exhibit his tall, stout body, long beard, delicate hands, to give a history of the circumstances thai brought him to the prison, to sing and pray for the visitors, e. The fees which he collected from ers, amounted, some years, as we been informed, to sixty or seventy dol- time-he struggled against this fancied, but us it appeared to him, real divine command. At length, however, he yielded, under the persuasion that he should obey God rather than man.

In the execution of his supposed duty, he set fire to the church in this place, which was consumed. This was burnt offering." In his conflict with the spirit, as to the necessity- a sacrifice," he was reminded of the scriptural declaration, that without the shedding of blood there is no remission of sin. -It was plain, then, to him, that in order to have his sins remitted, he must shed 'human blood. He knew that for so do. ing, he would have to suffer capital pun- hhment; hot this would be for would be hrgluy meritorious on his parf, and give him a stronger claim on the blessings of heaven hereafttr.

These considerations led him to seek for a victim. There was a female--a married woman--residing jn the back part of the town, who as he interpreted the scriptures, had sinned against the Father, a gainst the Son, and against the Holy Ghost, in that as he thought, or as the spirit had reveal, the secret to him, had lars. His story, his hymns, and his prayers, were uniformly the same After--having completed these, evpr. he SS how- ready to converse, and answer any questions proposed to hitn. Every thing he said, evidently ptoceeded from honest opinions.

Nevsr would he acknowledge that he had done wrong in murdering the woman the contrary, be always appealed conscious of innocence, and had at command many passages of scripture tojustify his course. He was a soldier in the 'Revolutionary Anry, and drew a till his deaiii Tlie money for his services he collected he pension therein. distributed among his children, with the exception of what was required to purchase some ankles for his own use and comfort. lie had occupied his cell to long that lie had got habituated to confinement, and as happy in his situation as the rich snd free are in theirs. On cue or two occasions his Keeper propcsrd to let him out that he might see the village for few minutes hut he declined the offer, partly because he this he contrary to the strict letter of the Jaw, and partly because he sensible he should return TO his cell loss contented a if he had never left it.

He could take no exercise except wr.lk across his celi lengthwise, which he did regularly. Indeed, in all SHEFFIELD, JOHN D. HOSK1NS, LEVERETT BRADLEY, JESSE TA1NTER, STEPHEN MEEKER, JOHN BOUNCE. Representative for Sandusky, Seneca, Wood and Hancock. SAMUEL M.

LOCKWOOD, A J. A A I A EVERETT. For Seneca County. Treasurer, JACOB PLANE. Assessor, JAMES BOYD, Jr.

TIMOTHY P. ROBERTS, JOHN Satidusky County. Sheriff, MERIT SCOTT, SOLOMON A -S A Auditor, SAMUEL TREAT, EZRA WILLIAMS. Treasurer, GILES THOMPSON, GRANT F. FORGERSON.

Assessor, AARON II. SNIDER, JOSIAH RUMERY, EXEK1EL RICE. The Collector of Sanrfusky. The editor of the Cleaveland News-Letter disapproves of the language we used in giving information of the. removal of this of- faciliU with which it uansforms the dregs all parties into pure patriots, we are almost as much disgusted with the sound, as sve are i Jacksonian professions of regard for ihe people, or anti-masonic pretensions to piety.

In short--if Jack- sonism be republicanism, we desire to be strangeis lo it. What is i a i is intended for general application. We a nothing against Mr William H. Hunter, as an in- i i a and can freely say, that if a Jacksonian must have the office, is our opinion, as good a selection as could be made from the Jackson a but object to the practice of robbing one man, la pay another. was scatter.

Several persons Steamboat Sunk. We learn than nn i the 6th the Steamboat Pioneer, on her return from the show at the falls, was injured by i agaiint the pier in Black Rack harbor and sunk. No lives were lost. 'Vessel Lost. We learn that apprehensions aie entertained that the Schooner Lake Serpent, and all her crew, are lost.

Jamcs B. Weavn requests us to remove his name from the of candi- dales. 0 being whole interior of the house edm ruins. in the lower part of the house ct ih time it was struck, past 2 o'clock) and it is remarkable, that not one of them saw the light of the stroke. IJ'reck.

The Schooner Capt. Arquet, of Kettle Creek, u. was upset is a squall, off Erie, sundown last evening, and immediate! filled. There we.pe twelve persons board, who were saved by the humane and sphiled exeitions of Captain Wig and crew, of the Steamboat Wiili aR Penn. Captain Wight was go near ai the moment as to witness the accident but for which fortunate circumstance the people must nil have been a there a a high sea, and lhe appeared bef6re the boat which too them up had reached the Penn.

Th. Dauntless was owned by Messrs. War ren Hamilton, of Ketlle Creek, a light vessel, only forty tout burden and Imd no cargo save 19 barrels of po ash. The captain, passeifgsrs and cr lost all their clothes and other effects, eluding seveial hundred dollars imp cie. Too much praise cannot be bestowe? upon Captain Wight and his perilous exertions in an open boat were crowned with such complete The sufferers Here safely landed facrj lists morning from the Penn.

Journal. Extensive Bank Robbery. We learn from the Frankfort Commentator, thai the Louisville Branch Bank of the Com- Wiliiam Greenfield declines candidate fur Rfpiesemative. -jfr- the Louisville branch BanK of the Uom- We Inve received ihe supplement i a has been robbed of tin- Bogota Gaccta de. Culotnbia, of i i a i to be nearly all the money it con- 13th uh.

i conuins an important tained. The bank was entered by meant 'locumerit--a oeneial arumiice, 01 r.ith- i of false kes on ihe evening of ihe 17th er nielm-inarv 0 convention of inst. The Thief found the key of between Colombia and Peru. iron cheit in a pigean hole of a case signed on ihe 1Mb July at Bol here it was kept, and consequently had ivar's head quarters i i on but little trouble in getting possession his part, and on that of Don Austin the money. Suspicion cai! Gamarra, commander in chief of i i a letter the president of of the i a lepubltc, i mother bnnk a a has he neponau-d The duration of upon individual, who has been com- the armistice was fixed at seventy days; and who most earnestly U- and ail hostilities bv sea or land were to ped, will be able to give some clue to be suspended the' department of Gua- The princ.pa part of the money was in notes of the Bank ol a i and iis fortress to be put at the disposal of the government of Co- lon.bia-ihe blockade the Southern reward cf $500 been offered for the coai nf Colombia was be detection ot the thief, a negotiation fur a dertnitive treaty im- fipiriv liau rcvcata iijc i his- hab-w, iie was very systematic.

He 1 I I. 1- i i 1C IT1 Cf had hU i to rising These three corresponded to the nuinbe. of persons in the Trinity, against each reading his omle, and saj.ing his pray i 1 i i i 4 1 1 Ii of whom the offence was therefore severally committed. The Lord directed him to choose her as the victim for sacrifice. Accordingly he selected his and in the still hours of nighi, launched a boat into the Cobbosse Come stream, and made his way, not without much difficulty and fatigue, for he had rips to encounter iruhis passage to the residence of the woman, who then confined her bed by sickness.

Anived at the house, he entered without female attendant was sitiing bed, watching the sick female. Without saying much, he proceeded to ihe bed side, and noticing a large butcher's knife, recentjy whetted, pending from the ceiling at'the head of the bed, with one hand he seized the head of the woman, and with the other took down the knife drew it across the throat of the victim. She bled," said he to us a few weeks ago, with a smile that sometimes accompanies an act of conscious bled like a coif!" took no instrument of death with him, and when he discovered the knife near his intended victim, he knew it was provided by Him who sent him, to enable him to fulfil his painful commission. The woman died immediately; and having made both a burnt offering and a sacrifice, he was willing to abide -all the consequences which might follow the violation of mere human believe he made no effort to conceal himself afier the commission of this murderous act. Immediately he was arrested en the charge of murder.

The charge if proved against him, -or acknowledged to be true by him, would subject him to the penalty of brought into court, the indictment being read, and he being interrogated --are you guilty or not guilty "Guilty," he replied. The judges, apprehending that in the perpetiation of the deed, he had not acted under the influence of a sane mind, proposed that he should not guilty," in order that the jury might bring in a verdict that he wan not guilty by reason of insanity, which would avert the sentence of death. The chief justice, therefore, remarked to him, that he was under no obligaiion to plead ihe government had charged hijp with a crime, the bur- ers. In the coMest winters he chose no fire; But kept himself a fay exercising his body. Afier Mr.

Dillingham took charge of jail, his family taught him to revl. This acquisition he valued highly, and he did not mtsim- prove it. But his bible was his chief This he read through in course a great number of times bat in all his reading he found nothing but confirmation of ihe course he had taken in the acts which brought him to prison. On the subject of religion, alone, Mr. Causlar.il, no doubt, was insane; but not much more so, as we believe, than some others who pass for the most devout and experimental Christians-among us.

These gloomy views of religion, which are accounted by many as tire most orthodox, seem to us calculated to produce that distraction which leads to shocking consequences. Mr. M'Caus- Innd was very pious--too pious, indeed, lo make such a Chiistian as is useful in the world. But his errors were honest ones, and obtained for him what he deserved--the pi(y of all who visited i His case is not i instruction to ail teachers and professors of gloomy icli- gion. Well would it be for mankind would they profit by it.

Bank ef Genesee. The following gentlemen have been chosen directors of "the Bank of Genesee: David E. Evans, Trumbull Gary, Jacob Le Roy. Himnan Hoiden, Jonathan Lay, Phineas L. Tracy, Gaius B.

Rich, Henry Hawkins of Genesee, Oliver Benton of Orleans, James Wadsworth of Livings ton, Joseph Fellows of Ontario, Isaiah Townseml and Rufus H. King of Albany. Trumbull Gary was elected President. Casualties. Mr.

ln of this A man by the name of Coon drowned at Black Rock, Thursday last, by falling from the low path, in a fit of intoxication. Buffalo Journal. ficer, and thinks it would not pass at mL instituted. Nat Intel. Cieaveland and some other places i could mention, if it escapes censure in The National Gazette contradict, nn a i of the proceedings before Huron.

Thotmh we have no desire cnroner i a truent i language that will be offensive to the i een uera jiy published in citizens of Cleaveland, we must con(es newspapers, that the Ure General Wil- of (Jleaveland, we must newspapers, that ttre late uenerat vv it- have a a been more Ham Brooke, of Delaware died Co'mmonwraith and its branches. A Cincinnati Com. Daily Ade-. to use surh us would clearly ex press OUT meaning and feelings, than to make it agiee.ib.'e to their ears; but whatever has been deliberately said in our editorial articles, is not to be re called. The editor thinks he has discovered by our remarks on this removal, what are our "democratic republican principles," and affects surprise that we should think the removal a violation of individ ual rights.

If he has discovered what are our democratic republican principles," lie has, at the same time, given us an indication of what are his moral principles. We do indeed think, that when a man is appointed to office, for a period fixed by law, that that appointment confers a right to hold and enjoj the office i that period expires, if he discharges well the duties thereof; anc that he cannot be divested of it under these circumstances, without doing him personal" injustice. While the editor of the News-Letter denies the right of the incumbent to a subordinate office, if some partizan of fice seeker aspires to it, he appears to consider it as an appendage to the Presidency that it was intended not so much for the protection of commerce and the revenue, as to enable the president to buy votes, and pay his retainers. We ask the editor to take a second thought, and then say whether his opinions or ours are most aristocratical. He must see that such a system will tend to jring unworthy men into office--men whose principal qualification is a servile devotion to a political chief, and whose aim is personal advancement.

It will end to draw around the person in power i band of hollow-hearted knaves, who will fawn round him while he continues to From the Aew-York Advertiser of Sept. 26, LATEST FROM ENGLAND. By the packet ship Canada, Captaia Graham, which arrived last evening from Liverpool, we have received London papers up to ihe I9ih August, to the 21M, Lloyd's Lisii sod No evidencf London Shipping Lists to the iSth, snd to crtmitiate Liverpool Price Cui rents to the 21st, all inclusive. Trc Canada sailed on tU in company i i the o. Branch Bank.

"vVe learn that 1 Boston, which'arrived at that pert on Rochester, is appointed Presi- Thmsday last, and by which we have dent of t'-e United States Branch BankJ received intelligence of tiie same oaves, i 1 I at this place, anl mote unexception.i ble selection could not, probably, be made. We have not yet learned the names of lhe Board of Directors. Ruff (do Journal. bv hand of Ins sun. i i I iJl I village, shot through the body, Friday morning last, by the accidental a broken pistol, which'had jusl been handed to Col.

Dygert to be support them by plundering the offices repaired. VVe are happy lo learn that of better men; but who will be the there is every prospect of his recovery. he firil lo descrt i his power Begins to decline. As the editor has alluded to bur political principles, it may not be improper ID say thai we have seen lime when we Distressing Providence. During the thunder storm which passed over the town of Richmond, on the morning of the 31st the house of Mr.

John Adams wan struck by lightning, and one hisdaughters, aged 13, instantly killed. Her two sisters were sleeping i her in ihe same bed, one aired JS, and the other 5 years. The bed was set on fire by the electric fluid, and the elder daughter so severely burnt, that she survived but 5 days the joungcr one was not seriously injured. The electric fluid descended the chim ney at the east end of the house, and the main shaft followed the flue to the I I I SI i i V- i i i i -earth and passed off under the side of taken place, SO pieces of cannon. i i y-t i i i 2 11V the house making a deep fm row in the hard chiy for a considerable distance.

The first branch followed the ridge of the house, and passed off at the west end, in a horizontal direction, and struck barn, 10 rods distant, and descended to the earth, but the fire was so far spent that ii did not leave a spark. Another bianch left ihe chimney, after it had descended 10 feei, and apparently struck the feet of the daughter who was killed, (and lay on the front side of the bed) and after passing to her head, fell on the floor, nnd broke down three of the boards, and then passed out at the eaves of the house, flinging up the feet of five pair of rafters. The bed occupied by the ihrec daughters, was in ihe chamber, 1 and stood with the foot towards, nnd a few feet distant, from ihe upper bed was of feathers, niurh worn, and covered i cotton; the straw bed beneath, wiih the cotton clothing, were in a a when the family from below got to the relief of the distressed daughters, who had by that time the decased) recovered from the hock so far as to he able to speak, bin were entirely helpless. Two young men, sons pf Mr. A da mi; were sleeping i a the Boston papers of Thursday.

Official advices had been received St. Petersburgh, of the capture, on 27ih of June, of Eizeroum, and the foitress of Has nn Kale. At Erzeroum, the Seraskier himself and four other Pachas were made prisoners, and 150 cannon had fallen into the hands of the Russians, of i 29 were taken at Hassan Kale. The capture of this important c'ny, in fact leaves all Asia open to the i a Russians. The piagi is fast approaching Odessa.

A letter from July 27, 1 We Irani by letters from Varna, our army had completed, on the 2-ltl the passage of the Balkan. Count Die bnscb had pushed forward his advanced post as far as Cape Emin, near Burgoj General has established his head quarters at A ids. The Turks have lost in the different engagements that seveial villages in the environs, symptoms of the'pest have shown but the authorities have taken all i cessnry measures to i uprenot' 5 Algemeine Zt-ituncr states, under the head of Snulin, July 28, al the most alarming reports are in circulation at Belgrade respecting the situation of lite i army, i issa'd to oe near its i i a the "oops oi fliissien Pacha have imumed; inai luera i in ni finiotig jit. were a so OI 3 that the general garrison of HHIIII 1 le re TM tng diers to gin to he scarce, them a fire arms and it has been. sary pikes the mihu.i.

The Journal of Odessa, of The news of the total of the brig from Constantinople, had sternation in the Turkish cnpnal. reported that the Ottoman army 33.000 men, with all iheir car.jp fillerv. The reserve coming from 1 the of men, in four.