Vandalia Whig And Illinois Intelligencer

From a French paper.

The following horrid occurrence is said to have taken place in a lonely house at the camp de Lune, Arrondissement of St. Menehould. The account is extracted from the Echo de l'Est;-

"A person of the department of Marine, who had about him a sum of 500 francs, was arrested towards the close of the day, in a forest by a fellow who demanded his purse or his life.-- "My purse is light," said he "six francs is all it contains." "Give them," said the robber, "and pass on your way." The traveller was scarcely out of the woods when perceiving a light in the fields, and afraid of being attacked by other thieves, he thought it prudent to direct himself towards a lonely house and ask for refuge.-Here he found a woman alone, to whom he related what had happened to him, not forgetting to add that by his presence of mind he had saved his 500 francs. The woman readily consented to give him a bed & conducted him to a back room. Her husband who was no other than the thief of the forest, came in soon after, and she told him what he already half knew. The worthy couple immediately laid a plan to assassinate their guest, which was fortunately overheard by the traveller, who armed himself with a heavy stick, and resolutely awaited his murderers. The husband seized a large kitchen knife, and the woman a hatchet, and went straight to the stranger's room. The door was barricaded; they broke it open; a conflict ensued in the dark, in which the stranger by a lucky blow with his stick, felled the husband to the earth. The woman, concluding that it was the traveller whom she heard fall, struck several blows with her hatchet on the head of the victim, and thus accomplished the death of her husband. —Justice is inquiring into the circumstances, but if these facts be exact, Divine justice had already avenged society."