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Suicide.

--Miss Virginia Miller, only daughter of J. H. Miller, Esq., of Cadiz, Ky., committed suicide by drowning, Sunday night, the 16th inst. Miss Miller was a lunatic, and an inmate of the Asylum, at Hopkinsville, at the time it was destroyed. After the burning of the Asylum, her father brought her home, and procured a watchful attendant to guard her. Notwithstanding, she managed to escape Sunday night, about twelve o'clock, and immediately threw herself into the river adjoining the town.

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