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The Tragedy in Alabama.
--The suicide of Wm. English, in Baldwin county, Alabama, after killing three of his children on the 14th inst., has been noticed.
A letter in the Pensacola (Fla.) Observer, gives further particulars of the horrible affair.
It says:
"He went to Mobile with a draft on the bank of that city, calling for $60,000, which he failed to get. Supposing it lost forever, and himself and family impoverished, he returned home with a heavy heart.
On the first evening after his return home he ordered the nurse to assemble the children in the parlor, which she did, not suspecting his murderous intentions.
As soon as the nurse had left the room he approached the cradle in which lay his youngest child, an infant nine months old, and cut its throat from ear to ear. The nurse happened to look through the window and saw what he was doing, and hastened to the garden where Mrs. English was superintending some work, and gave the alarm.--Mrs. E. started for the house in
Col. Gilbert C. Russell, one of the earliest settlers of Alabama, but late a resident of Washington city, died in Mobile on the 25th inst.
Wm. Shriver was arrested at Memphis, Tenn., on the 25th inst., for a forgery committed at Wheeling, Va.
Allen T. Caperton, Esq., and Maj. John Echols are candidates for the Virginia Convention, in Monroe county.
Ex-President Tyler has been nominated in New Kent county for the Virginia State Convention.
In some parts of Illinois sorghum growing and molasses making have been carried on quite extensively during the past year.
The Erie Railroad was sold at New York, Monday, for $220,000. It was bought in by the trustees
Robert K. Watkins, a well known merchant of Lynchburg, Va., died on the 26th inst.
Ex-Senator Yulee has chartered a schooner on which to return to Florida with his family.
Alabama Convention. Montgomery, Ala., Jan. 29.
--The Convention held a secret session last night, and adopted a resolution instructing its deputies to the Southern Congress to insist upon the enactment of such measures as will forever prevent the re-opening of the African slave trade.
To-day it passed a supplementary ordinance, authorizing the Governor to carry into effect the ordinance for protecting the defences in the Gulf; also, an ordinance adopting, as the laws of Alabama, the laws of the United States relative to patents, so as to secure rights of invention to the citizens of the Southern Confederacy.
The Convention then adjourned until the 4th of March.
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Early in the Field.
--The Apalachicola (Fla.) Times of the 16th inst., comes to us with the names of the Hon. William L. Yancey, of Alabama, and Hon. James H. Hammond, of South Carolina, at its head, as candidates for the Presidency and Vice Presidency of the "Southern Confederacy."