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Mcdaniel AND BRowa--Betwecn three and
four, yesterday afternoon, these unhappy men
were launched into eternity, from the scafiold,
erected few hundred yards west of the Arsenal,
below the city. The concourse, embracing fcl-
bw creatures OF all ages and Of each sex, was
ytry great. Up TO the morning OF execution, the
hope OF reprieve wss INDUCED in by the con-
iemned, and even TO the last, the idea was re-
luctantly abandoned by them. Mcdaniel, whose
irmness 4 possible, increased with the approach
Of the awful moment, addressed the crowd, in
yoaing his God to witness, that of the crime of
murder he was as innocent as any of the spccts-
iors around him. He asseverated that The act of
killing was pcrpetrated by Mason" the wretch
who swore their lives away"-while he (NIc-
DanieD was cndeavorng to save the lifeof Chavis.


Brown followed, in an address somewhat lon-
ger than that of Mcdaniel. He said, that for his
own part, he had always considered the fatal act
more in the light of an accident than any thing
else; at any rate, neither he nor his fellow.suf.
irer was guilty Of it. 1t had been committed
by Mason, after Chavis, who had endeavorcd to
escape, was overtaken by Mcdaniel.


[St Louis Revei!e, Aug. II.