Vermont Phœnix

A Murder. The Albany Journal gives the following particulars of a murder committed in Greene, Chenango county, New York, by a party of Locofocos. They are extracted from a letter dated March 15th:—

Capt. Arnold Horton attended our town meeting on Tuesday last. After the Locofocos ascertained that their ticket was elected, they went into Calender's ball room and set up a yelling and drinking, which soon attracted the crowd. Capt. Horton, among others went into the room. The cry was raised that there was a Whig in the room, and a motion was made and carried that the Whigs should be put out; "hereupon a crowd gathered around Horton, forced him through the door and over the banisters, down stairs. They then returned and reported that they had pitched the damned Whig down stairs, and hoped it had killed him. The revel was continued without inquiry about the fate of their victim.

Capt. Horton was taken up for dead. Four bones of his neck were crushed. Indeed he was so shockingly mangled that Dr. Willard, in his testimony, expressed his astonishment that he survived an hour. He did, however, linger till the 9th inst., when he died.

The Locofocos were soon informed that Horton could not live, but they continued their carousal. Indeed they soon after sallied into the streets, and with a violin and bugle, marched about, drinking, shouting, and insulting peaceable citizens.

A coroner's jury, after a long and patient investigation, have returned as their verdict, that Arnold Horton came to his death by being violently, feloniously and wickedly forced out of the room over the banister and down stairs. He has left a wife and eight children, who were in a great measure dependent upon him for support.