Rochester, Monroe, NY Rochester Republican Mar 22 1849 HORRIBLE TRAGEDY - MURDER - SUICIDE, AND CONFLAGRATION Warren, Bradford Co., Pa., March 11, 1849 Messrs, GREELEY & McELRATH: I have just returned from the scene of a most horrible tragedy which took place last night. About midnight Mr. Wm. MANNING of this place saw a blaze of light in the direction of the house of Charles CORBEN, one of his immediate neighbors. He at once gave the alarm and hastened toward it. He found both house and barn wrapped in devouring flames. It appears that there were at the time only three persons in the house. Mr. CORBEN and his two sons, one seven and the other thirteen years of age. Judge of the horror of the benevolent neighbor, when he saw that the room occupied by the children had just fallen in, and on the straw bed, not yet consumed, lying among the ruins, were the disfigured and scarcely recognizable remains of the two boys; their limbs were already burnt to ashes. The body of the wretched father lay near them on his back, his body s- -darly mutilated by the fire. It was too late to stay the conflagration. As soon as possible the almost formless cinders were removed. It could be seen that the father had cut his own throat after firing the house. There is no doubt in the minds of the neighbors that he first killed the children or stunned them by a blow on the head. He also tied up eighteen head of cattle and one horse in the barn previous to setting it on fire. The motive of this fearful crime is thought to have been a brutal ferocity excited by hatred of his innocent and affectionate wife. He had often threate ned her life and last Thursday, alarmed at his menaces, she escaped and went to Oswego. He then went and on pretense that his wife was dangerously ill persuaded his daughter, who had also fled from his cruelty some months before to return to the house. There he confined her, treating her like a fiend, till yesterday afternoon, when with difficulty she again escaped. Immediately after he must have proceeded to carry out the horrible purpose whose results I have above described. Yours, respectfully, H. W. ** AN INDIAN CHIEF FROZEN TO DEATH — The celebrated Indian Chief MACKSAUBA, of the Ottawa tribe was recently found frozen to death at Fisher's Mills, Alleghany co. Liquor was the cause. The band to which he belonged is located near Black Lake, at the Old Wing, and through the instrumentality of the missionaries have become nearly civilized in all their habits. MACKSAUBA was a very popular chief. — [Buffalo Rep.] ** A DOUBLE EXECUTION AT TROY — To-day the extreme penalty of the law will be executed on Andreas HALL, who was convicted in January last of the murder of the wife of Noah SMITH, in Rensselaer county in July 1849. The evidence on the trial was entirely circumstantial, but HALL has made a full confession of that crime, and of the murder of a young man who was traveling with him two years ago. The youth had money in his possession. HALL pretended that he had left him at Buffalo. He confesses, also, that he had set fire to buildings in Troy. The murderer is only 24 years of age. At the same time and place, Barney O'DONNELL will be hung for the murder of an Italian, named Antonio RATTO. O'DONNELL killed RATTO in order to obtain possession of a hand organ owned by the latter. The property was found on the murderer, together with such other proofs as left little or no doubt of his guilt.--[Utica Herald] ** "TO ERR IS HUMAN." — A clergyman having indulged too freely in filling up his glass, went one Sabbath into the pulpit, and having given out a hymn to his congregation, sat down, the melody of the sacred song soon lulled him to sleep, and he continued for some time to play a treble bass symphony with his nose. At length one of the deacons ascended to the sacred desk, and told him the hymn was out. "Well," says he, "fill up again." ** FIRE - Between nine and ten o'clock last evening, a fire broke out in the Livery Stable of D. LAING, corner Washington and Perry sts., which was entirely consumed. Fortunately the horses and carriages were rescued. A quantity of hay and grain was consumed. The loss of property, however, is not heavy. --[Buff. Express.] ** J. M. PHILLIPS a school teacher at Pittsburg, recently punished a daughter of Mr. NELSON with considerable severity. He was afterwards met by Mr. NELSON, who knocked him down and otherwise severely injured him. PHILLIP's life is despaired of. ** Mary HOYT, of Portsmouth, N. H., has recovered $1000 of Wm. M. MOULTON, who "wantonly, wickedly and maliciously" neglected to marry her, after an engagement and courtship of fifteen years. ** A Mormon Temple is about to be erected at Salt Lake, of a stone resembling cornelian. — The ground, 17 miles long by 12 wide, to be enclosed by a mud wall 8 feet high, and to contain four cities, has been laid out. ** ACCIDENT — The Southport, Wisconsin Telegraph says that a man by the name of Christopher FARRELL, employed in the flouring mill of Gen. C. J. HUTCHINSON, was on the 27th ult., caught on one of the mill shafts, and literally crushed to death. ** A newly married lady, who was very fond of her husband, notwithstanding his extreme ugliness of person, once said to a very witty friend — what do you think? My husband has gone, and laid out fifty guineas for a baboon, on purpose to please me. "The dear little man," cried the other, "it is just like him." ** QUICK - A Cincinnati paper says that a telegraphic despatch sent from Washington, D. C., to that city, was put on the wires at six minutes after 8 o'clock, and reached there at six minutes before eight, coming through, literally, in "less than no time," and arriving at Cincinnati, an Irishman would say, twelve minutes before it started! ** FRANK COURTSHIP — An old Count paid his addresses to one of the richest heiresses of Paris.-- In asking her hand in marriage, he frankly said to her: "Miss B., I am very old, and you are very young; will you do me the honor to become my "widow?" ** Find ALL of the News Abstracts for Monroe Co., NY at http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/NY/Monroe/index.html -- GjS