The Hillsborough Recorder

Lamentable Event.--Never have we witnessed a state of equal excitement, with that produced on our community for the last ten days, by the mysterious absence, and supposed, by suicide, of Mr James R. Creey, Esq. of this town. Mr Creey left home some seven or eight weeks ago for Baltimore and other northern cities on business as he stated for three or four weeks after corresponded regularly with his family and friends, as he had uniformly been in the habit of doing when absent: after which they had no tidings of him until about ten days ago when it was rumored that he had destroyed himself in Baltimore or its neighborhood. and the rumor was soon strengthened by the following facts--One of his friends went on to Norfolk and at Portsmouth found a letter in the post office containing the key of his trunk, with intimations that he had forwarded the trunk home and that on opening it, they would have the whole matter developed--the trunk was found in a few days at the steam boat office in Norfolk and brought to this place: on opening it, it was found to contain all the clothes he had carried from home with the exception of a single suit, and several letters and memorandums, in which he stated that he had resolved on destroying himself; that the great difficulty with him for several days had been, how he should dispose of his body so that it would never be found; that he had at length fallen on a plan and that all search after it would be fruitless--the letters are without date both as to time and place, are written partly in an apparently composed mood and in other parts in a wild and incoherent manner. but from the fact that the trunk arrived in Norfolk by the steam boat from Baltimore, on the 4th inst. that he was seen at Barnum's hotel about the 1st, it is conjectured the letters were written between the 1st and 3d in that city. There a thousand rumors afloat in regard to this mysterious affair. but we forbear to dilate on the subject or to enter into details, in the fear of adding another pang, to the deeply lacerated feelings of the family of Mr. Creey.

Elizabethton Gazette.