Morning Star

Ports. Times.

Morgan.-Considerable excitement has been produced in New-York, by the finding of a body supposed to be that of Morgan. The circumstances of the case were these : a body was found on the 7th ult. near the mouth of a creek belonging to Lake Ontario. A coroner's jury was called, and as the body could not be identified, they found it was the body of a man unknown, who came to his death by suffocation by drowning. After the verdict was pronounced the body was interred, but rumors getting afloat that a body resembling Morgan's had been found, it was disinterred and another jury and other witnesses called. After a full examination of witnesses, the testimony of most of whom was decidedly in favor of the supposition that the body was that of Morgan, the jury consisting of twenty-three members, agreed unanimously that it was the body of William Morgan, and that he came to his death by suffocation by drowning, which verdict was made up in the form of an inquisition and signed by the whole panel. Thus Morgan's body is legally identified, but whether the public generally will be induced to place confidence in this identity remains to be seen. To this circumstantial account, and to these positive proofs, we have but one objection to oppose. This is the fact he must have lain in water more than twelve months. To suppose a body could retain its identity during that time staggers belief. The facts, however, are published in the New-York papers as we have stated them, and we must leave our readers to draw their own conclusions. Our's is, that if it be the body of Morgan, he must have been living till within a few weeks before his body was found.-Nat. Phil.