WASHINGTON, Sept. l6, lS45.

Melancholy Suicide of Mrs. Nicholson.
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Melancholy Suicide of Mrs. Nicholson
From visit this evening to the residence OF II.


E. Riel, Esq, on Capitol Hill, we are enabled to
give correct particulars of dreadful tragedy COM
mitted there to-day.


Mrs Nicholson came up on visit to Mrs. Riell


last afternoon Mr. Riell had left in the morning for
Bordentown to be present the great sale of Joseph
Bonaparte's paintings The best, therefore, that
Mrs. Refill could do with her visitor-who, for some
months past, has been suffering from partial de-
rangement OF mind, produced from excessive grief
from the death of favorite daughter-was to take
care of deceased as long as she was disposed to re-
main. Whether Mrs. h. was apprehensve OF evil or
not, we do not know, we should inter that she was,
from the careful surveillance over her unfortu-
nate guest Today, at about I o'clock, & n, the
lowed by young, girl, according to lnstruc-
put her out Of the room, and closed the door. Di
recty thereafter Young lad peeP%ed % tarGsg bs oone e
ing glass, the opposite side OF the room, IN me
act of drawing a knife Ga common table knhe,
with which she had provided herselD across ner
throat The lad Immediately gave the aiarm' ihe
door was broken open, and Mrs. N. discovered ly-
ing upon the floor IN the last ag9rles ol ne. Wis;
Riel. on witnessing the dreadful spectacle swooned
away, recovering shot .te condon % she was cnp
veved to q neiphborlng house. her two young daugh-
ters accompanying her, where they remain the mo-
ther somewhat recovered, but still is In precarious


The Coroner this afternoon, over the unfortunate
body, rendered verdict according to the act and
INSTRUMENT from which she died and at O'Clock
this evening, Major Nicholson having despatched
Major Walker and detachment Of marines tor the
purpose, the corpse was born off to his residence
The marines were emerging from the house
with the coffin in its sable drapery, as we en-
tered the portlco. A group of ladies', neghbors Of
do x.y,th tla,r he hall
Gloom and terror pervaded the place, and there ap-
peared a fearful anxiety among the company col
Iected for the melancholy duties to the dead, to
escape into the open air and moonlight.


Mrs. Nicholson was not a relative Of Mrs Riell,
but an acquaintance known perhaps to Mrs r., in
New York She was daughter OF Mr.. Lispenard
OF your city, as we are informed. A stranger even
would not have suspected her monoma-
MIA She was woman Of intelligence and educa-
ton, and OF an attractive personal appearance.


Mr. Riell has been sent for-meantme his pre-