Daily National Intelligencer

New Orleans, Nov 18.

Suicide.—On Saturday last Cadet Jeano, a shop keeper, a Frenchman by birth, about 55 years of age, short and remarkably stout and corpulent, an inhabitant of Madame Castillon's square committed suicide. His doors were fast on Sunday morning at an unusual hour, as he was known to be an early riser it created suspicion among the neighbours, who after knocking several times, agreed to break open the door. On entering his bed chamber, his body was found in bed, in the position in which he had destroyed himself. It appears that he had prepared a dagger for the purpose, remarkably sharp, with which he had stabbed himself three times in the left side, and breast, apparently with a horrible firmness, without moving his body from the position in which he had wished it to be found. The corpse was found on its back, stretched at full length, and the dagger clenched in the right hand. The deceased was a man in easy circumstances, owed but very little, had $5,500 in cash in his house, $3,000 in bank, and goods in his store supposed to the value of $10,000. The steady firmness with which he executed the desperate and unnatural deed is scarcely equalled in the history of suicides: I recollect a story related as a fact by Mr. Moore, in his travels in Europe, of a blacksmith in Geneva, who determined to destroy himself, and not having any implement to suit his purpose at hand, he deliberately took an old musket barrel, put a sufficient quantity of powder in it and two balls, and introduced the breech into the coals of his smith's hearth and fastening a string to the handle of his bellows, in such a manner as to enable him to blow, placed the muzzle to his temple and continued blowing until the explosion took off the top of his head.