BY EO. W . ROWli A NEW SERIES. S c I ec t |3 o ctv 5. From Dwight's Journal ot Music. THE premium; op the trees. FIIOJI THE \ Oi' (jRL ER. At midnight hour, when silence reigns 1 lirough al! the woodland .-paces, l!ein the bushes and the trees Jo wave and whisper in the breeze, Aii talking in their places. The Rosebud damps with look of joy, And perluine breathes in glowing; "A Rose's lite is quickly past ! Then let me, while my time shall last, Re richly, gaily blowing !" The Aspen whispers, "Sunken days! Not rr.e thy glare deceiveth ! I hy sunbeam is a deadly dart, That quivers in the Rose'.- heart— My shuddering soul it grieveth !" The slender Poplar .-peaks, and seetn I'o stretch her green hands higher; "Up yonder lite's pure river flows, So sweetly murmurs, brightly glows, lo that I still aspire'"' The Willow looks to earth and -peaks: "My arm to fold thee yearneth ; I let my hair float down to thee; hut wine the rein thy flowers lor me, As mother her child adorneth !" And next the wealthy Plume-tree sighs: "Alas! n,y treu-ures crush me! I t.is load with which my shoulders groan, lake oil—rsnot mine alone: Ry robbing you refresh me !" The Fir-tree speaks in cheerful mood: ••A blossom bore 1 never; Rut steadla-tness is all rnv store; In summer's heat, in winter's roar, 1 keep my green forever!" The proud and lofty Oak-tree speaks ; "God < thunderbolt confounds me! And yet no storm can bow Thee down, Strength is my stem, and strength thy crown ; Ye weak ones gather round me!" The Ivy vine kept close to him, Her tendrils round him flinging: "He who no strength has of his own, Or loves not well to stand alone. May to a lrieud be clinging!" .Much el-e. now half forgot, they -aid: And still to n?p rame creeping, Lo.c whi-ppre<| \vor<J>, upon the air. V\ hih jr ty the irax % e atone *Toocl there The Cypress mutely weeping. t>! might they reach one human heart, I hes" tender accents creeping ! H hat wonder if they do not reach ! 1 he trees by starlight oniv preach, V\ lien we n;u-t needs be sleeping. Horrible ( a*e in Norlh Carolina. 1 lie Charlotte (North Carolina) Democrat, of the 12th inst.. gives the particulars of a horrible ati'uir which has just been brought to light in the neighboring village ol Concord, in Midden burg county. Jlsays: A (/ttt/clc dorfur known bv the name of Nu gent, applied to a man to assi.-t him in taking tip a child that had been buried a few days be fore. | he man made the request known, and intimated that two little girls, daughters of a very respectable gentleman residing in the vi cinity bad been removed from their giaws by tills man Nugent, tor the purpose of extracting medical properties front their flesh and bom s. In ascertain the truth of the rumor, the father had the graves reopened, and found the collins and bodies missing, fit course this created a deep sensation, and we are informed that it was determined to inflict summary punishment up on Nugent : hut upon visiting his house he was . Mind very ,-ick and in a riving condition. One report says that he took poison, after learning that !ns operations were known to the public and another,that he died troui a iiis>ase con tracted from frequent handling of decomposed bodies. Nugent died on Wednesday last. !fe made a fctytement before death that he ha I exhumed about sixteen dead bodies in Concord and t i,-e --where, and after using them (for making medi cine) he burned the flesh, coffins and every thing, to prevent detection. His a-h pile vas examined and teeth and bones found therein. His theory appears to have been that a medi cine could he made by boiling the liver of a hu man being that would cure liver complaint : >ind so with regard to other diseases. We learn ■ hat Nugent was front Forsythe county, and had been living in Concord about two years.— Jl-once lived in this town, we are informed, engaged in selling peppermint and cinnamon drops. Before he died he gave the names of hiree or four of his accomplices, one of whom, a white man, named Bogus, was arrested in this place last week, and committed to jail. What the M tow did with the medicines he has been making, no one knows, lie has a gencies jn Salisbury and Goldsboro', where one or more of his accomplices reside. Lite Petersburg Express of yesterday morn 1n - Mates that a shocking casualty occurred at 'he Richmond depot in (hat city yesterday just as the evening train staited North. An Irish man named Thomas Bogan, who was late in •arriving, attempted to get upon the forward platform of the hindmost coach while the train u 'as in motion, tint missed his footing and fell, fitir wheels of the coach passing over both his ■•'gs between the ar.k'le and the knee, and crush ing them in such a shocking manner that the •'One., and marrow protruded. He was placed opon a cart and conveyed to a place of safety, " l 't tlie injured limbs are so horribly mangled that amputation is deemed ineviatble. ■'••' . \l; (_ I! >\. J . -ER E. BR : . A story having been set afloat bv s utw news papers, that this gentleman intended supporting Judge Wilmot, it is hut just to hi:,i to pualish the following letter written by him : I'ITT.-uuud, April "Ji;ii, IHfi?. .//. 11. Coaly, E.sij.— Dmr Sir—l am gratuied that we, who are Americans indeed, are to hare separate nominations of candidates for the dif ferent State officers who are to be elected m Oc tober next. This is right —we shall thus he enabled to ca>l our votes in accordance with our principles, and we shall not he placed in the unpleasant position of either choosing be tween the candidates ol the other parties, or not voting at all. The great effort, of course, will be on the part o, the Republicans, to induce honest Amer icans to vote their ticket, tor the pnrp ?e ol beating the Democrats: and those who were { formerly ol the American party, but who are j essentially Republican, will be the most active in seeking to accomplish this object. In a former letter, J endeavored to show that the American party bad nothing to expect from a union with the Republicans, i now propose to show that no practical good can possibly result to the eonntrv from the succes <d ii;at party. It is tiie practice ol (rolitical parlies, in pre senting candidates to the people for their sup port, to set forth their principles and the meas ures they will adopt in the event of their povv. r. it these principles are such as cannot be carried into practical operation, then it would be clvar . ly useless to sustain the party that proclaims them. Now jet us try Republicanism by tins test. If we examine the resolutions of the late Har tisburg Republican Convention, we will discov er that its leading principles are opposition to the extent ion ot slavery into territory now free; and opposition to the Supreme Coint in the Dred Scott case. In carrying out their first great principle, it was absolutely essential that the Convention should condemn that decision; and also endeavor to bring the Court into contempt, wrtli the people, because ii utterly annihilates their platform. If I understand the decision, it denies to Congress, or any body delegated bv them, to legi>hite upon the suhj. i t of Slavery in the Territories. It, indeed, s. far a- the Terri tories are concerned, effectually* divorces the General Government from Slav, rv. Now, let ns suppose that in I SCO the R<-publicans shall succeed in electing a President, and in obtaining a majority of bath branches of ihe Legislature, could timy miiry into eff.-cUtheir principles ? ♦ could pass bslls prohibiting the existence of sla very in the Territories, but w uld they be obli gatory ? v.:, they would be disregarded, and the Courts would be compelled to adjudge tliem null and void. What then, I ask any reasona ble man, should induce him to support such a party ? But lam arisvv en d; we will elect such Presidents as will appoint to the Supreme Bench such .fudges as will reverse this deci-ion, Without sav ing anything about the length of time it will take to accomplish this object, J re turn k, that it us a new tie 'bod ol changing the constituiion itseli, and rover thought of by the statesii • n ami patriots who formed that great instrument. It is an invention of modern Re publicanism, and it is t lie us by which they are to~IVr miplish tin ir object, in appealing from the ( urt to the people. A more alarming and startling doctrine, and one fraught with such fearful evils to the peo ple of this Republic, never was promulgated bv any party. Let us look at it. Its inevitable tendency must be to degrade the Judiciary in the minds ot the people, and to lessen their re spect, 11 it onlv tor the Suj fine Court of the I - nited SHHes. but lor all the Courts, tiow ■ asv will it he tor demagogue?, it our Supreme Court should, on some gnat constitutional question which may agitate tin.* public mind, decide ad verse to the views ol the n ajorit v, to rai-e a clamor of corruption and fraud against the Judg es, an ! . specially if a minority of the Court should difibr from the majority. But this is not all. ( anrlidates for the Presidency are hereaf ter to he selected with a special view to this sid je t, and they are to be pledged to appoint, in case of vacancy on tin* Supreme Bench, no one who will not also pledge himself, at the proper time, to reverse the judgment in the Dred Scott case. Under such a system, what kind ofCourt think you we shall have ? Would any high-minded, honorable lawyer, w ho appre ciated the high position of a Judge of such a Court, and who was qualified lor the position, accept of an appointment on such conditions ? Rely upon it, he would not, and the necessary* consequence would be the elevation of unlearn ed demagogues, and in fact, and in truth, the degradation of the Court. We should, too, ev en where throughout the Country, have stump orators discussing great constitutional questions, and county conventions and township and waid meetings gravely giving their opinions up on them, is such a state of things desirable ? Let those who think it is rio t, eschew modern Black Republicanism and its startling doc trines. Now-? am free to confess, that the decision in the Died Scott rase, s 0 far as it regards the jrower of Congress to legislate u port tlm subject of slavery in the I erritories, is at variance with all mv preconceived opinions upon the subjtct. But before ] pronounce that decision erroneous I desire to have tire same learning and experi ence as a Jurist as the able Judges who made it: the same Opportunities of investigating the question: and to hear the arguments which "were twice addressed to thorn by the able and learn- Cf)l, nsel. I u 'iil not presume to set op t puny opinion against theirs; nay, indeed,! had been a Quarter Session Judge fresh In the Bench, I should hesitate to do so. i\lv di sir, let the people reflect upon these grave ni ters, and I have no tears for the result. li the popular voice is to prevail in the < (ision of constitutional questions; or, if ii Courts are to be influenced bv that voice, will require no prophet to foretell, that thi will he no sia slity in our Jaws, and little svc nty oi property, ft was among other reaso! to prevent the effects of this influence, that (] ioiv-fatheis, in framing the Constitution, wis* provider! fur the independence of tie- natiod Judiciary, not only of the but of t other hranches of the government. So Ion" this admirable provision is sustained, the pvu> may look with confidence to the Judicial v protection in their rights, liberties and prop > E . Destroy its independence and render it - pendent, either upon the people or upon eitt of the other branches of the Government, d you destroy its usefulness, and the necessy consequence rrm-t he anarchv and confusiij which might result in despot ism. \\ ith these vows f, ot course, could not st p rl tlie Republican parly as il is now orga /."d, nor in my opinion could any sound Ann icait. .!. E. BRA DYE 1 lie Black fiej ul.licsn papers have n.adei great outcry about that part of the decision! tlie J)r-d Scutt case which decides that a shr is not made free by Icing carried temporal} into a free State. They declare that this is. new doctrine, and contrary to the whole cone id judicial decisions since the foundation of fe Government. \ .-t ;i letter is now prodtrtd fiom the lute Judge Story, fully sustaining |e Doctrine. A case arose in the English Cou, (ot which Lord Slowed was Chief wliere art Antigua slave was carried by his as ter to England for temporarv residence, and us subsequent 1 y taken back to Antigua. Mi bjft suit for his freedom, and the Inferior Court r cided again.-t his right ol freedom. In the A>- p llaat Court, Lord Stoweil in behalf of the u jority of the Court, affirmed the judgement f- I >w. Lord StowelJ sent ins decision to Jtnle Story, with whom he was in the habit of cc responding. in-reply, Judge Storv wrote s follows : S.n.f :. .vast P •; .• Sept. 22. ISBS. Id lit. fl ui. VVrn. Lord Sfowelf; Mv Lord—l have fhe honor to acknowledj the receipt of your letters ot January and i\'j\ la>!, tlie loriVief cT u fiK n, ie'aetn-i! • i i tin latter part of the spring, and the latter quite re cent Iv. I have read, with groat attention, your judg ment in the -law case from the vice Admira!l\ ' utirt in Antigua. I 'pou the fa!!>-sf c onsiiera fion which / han been able to give Hi • xuhf.rf, > < -ntirehj concur in your idric-s. It I hud bm, rolled upon to pronounce a jo>l?men! in u HI en*.-, I shout:! certainly have arrived ot the sumi result, though I night not have been aid ' b present the reasons which led to it in such a striking and convini ing manner, tl appears tc me that the decision is impregnable. "In my native State (Mas,-.) tin* state of sla very is not recognized as legal ; and vet, if „ stare should come, hither and afterwards return fo his own home, we should ceitninhj f.'.inl: that the focal law won! I re-attach vr.an ■' : m, u-.J that his servile character would be rr.-integ rated. J have had occasion to know that vonr judg ment has been extensively read in America, [where qmstions of this hature are not of (infre quent discussion) and I l ave never heard anv <ther opinion, hut that of approbation of it ex pr- -Ned among tlie profession of the law. I cannot hut think that, upon questions ol this sort, a- - well as general maratime law, it were well if the common lawyers had studied a little more extensively the principles of public and civil law, and bad looked beyond their own mimic ipa! jurisprii b rice. I remain willt respect, Your most obedient servant. JOSEPH STORY." This is precisely tin* doctrine upon which the Dred Scott decision is based: and coming from .so eminent a in'M, arid one who was know n to he strongly opposed to s!aver\,ought to remove all doubt as to the justice <d the de i ision. Volley Spirit. The .Main Line Bill Signed. — IVe learn from Harrishurg that Govornor Pollock has s'igne.l tlie hill for the sale of the main line ol the public works, and if is now a law. The no tice for the sale i- to b, advertised within ten days, and the sale itself will take plat e within forty tlavs from this time, unless adjourned for want of a sufficient bid. [ Philadelphia Jlrgus. The passage of (his full hasiaised a feeling of the deepest indignation throughout the enliie length and breadth of the State. With Packet and "repeal" inscribed upon their banner, the Democracy will sweep the State next October by an overwhelming majority. Washington VJI ion. The follow ing novel marriage notice appear ed in a recent number of the Louisville Jour nal. Thjs mav be appropriately termed a case of seeking felicity under difficulties : Martied on Tuesday, the tilth nit., on a rock in the .North branch, at New Creek depot, Dv the Rev. Roland Dayton, Mr. Rorenhongh to Miss Wollord, all of Pendleton, Ya. The party lives some fittv miles distant, and walked the w hole distance', tlie arm of the groom entwining the waist of his fair mistress throughout the w hole journey. A rare instance ol an elope ment on foot with so happy a result. Freedom offbought and Opinion. FRIDAY MORmdBEDFORD, PA. MAY 29, 1857. ESow i{ was lioiu*. The Harrisburg correspondent of the Phila delphia Ledger—whose comments upon thedo- Ihgs of mir State Legislatuie are distinguished for their strict impartial'itv—gives us the (1 low ing information as to the means by which the passage oj the hill lor the sale of the Main Line ol the Public Works, was secured. If all that is strongly iimted at he true—and there is scarcely any reason to doubt it —this rnav he set down as the must disreputable act of legislation, fu magnitude at least, which has ever disgraced our Common wealth. The amendments made by the Senate to the hill for the sale of the Main Line, were adopted by the House, this morning, so that it only heeds the sanction of the Executive to become a law. The most powerful lobby influence was brought to bear upon the Legislature to secure the passage of this bill, with the sweeping ex emption of the Pennsylvania Railroad Compa ny from all manner of taxation, and il has been crowned with success. The inquiry will natu rally arise, what peculiar interest can the lobby have in the passage of a bill which seems to lie adapter! entirely to the Pennsylvania Railroad Company ! The precise nature of this inter est, or upon what terms the contract has been taken, is perhaps only a matter < f conjecture. It is confidently averted that the Main Line will be sold first to a i assu iation of iudivi dials, who will transfer it to the Pennsylvania RaiU mail ( ornpany a! a handsome advance, by which m aus they are to be compensated ' T their ex ertions in procuring its passage through the Legislature. This assertion has some color ol probability horn the fact that the third section of the hill provides that in case an association of individuals purchase, they may transfer their right t) any Railroad or Canal Company in the Common wealth. It'this is not th- precise way in which the powerful lobby influence is to receive a return for the anxious solicitude with which they have watched and guarded the pas sage of this m- a-uie, it is certain that they are to derive compensation for their services. No one will pretend that disinterested patriotisrn, and a regain for the financial prosperity of the State, was the powerful lobby organization.— Outside influences are lately used on that side. The Governor has signed the hill and adverti sed the -ale to take place, on the evening of the —:> th d June ii' \'. tit tlie Merchant's Exchange, Philadelphia. We shall now soon see what we shall see. J 'What is thought oj it. —The Pittsburg Dailv I niO'i , one of the must reliable paper* in the State, n>, s the follow ing justly seveie lan guage, in rei'-ring t ) the final passage of the hill ; !h * aU. <,f f? - Mum f/rrT**c Our readers will see, by the letter of our at tentive correspondent a! Harrishurg, the bill for the sale, or rather the giving av\av of the Main Line, has passed the House with Senate amend ments, and only needs the Governor's signature fo become a law. It lias passed with all its a b 'iriinatiorts, and soon w ill Pennsylvania groan under the base and infamous wrong that has he.-n done h> r bv her own sons and servants.- And soon will those uho have solotillv betray ed her, be made to feei the power of her anger and the intensity of her rvenge. Poor Penn sylvania! from our inmost fit art we mourn <- ver lie;- degradation ami the ignominy of her Representatives. We clip tlie following from the San Francis co Herald-of April 20 : A BUCK-HOI:X CHAIR FOR 'RUN PRESIDENT.— On Saturday we saw a greafcuriusity in the shape of a chair made entirely of elk antJeis, and designed as a present to James Buchanan, President of the Doited States. It arrived here on Saturday afternoon on the steamer Gokah. It wu- made in tlie north ren part of ilumbolt • unity, by Srth IXIIIman, a hunter, who has srriv.-d with it in this city, en route for Wash ogton. it is mainly composed of four massive •nick horns, with the antlers branching as ap propriate! v as if the whole affair were the work >1 a carver. The two largest horns compose he hind legs and hack, and they incline hark tards very gracefully a! the top and meet (o jether, so as to form an arch. The two other ■ 'ins compose the lore legs and sides, and extend >ack so a> to lap on and firmly fasten in tfv oiks' ! the hack part. Tlie feet are original : i stead of faking old antlers, the hunter "bro't down" She largest living bucks, and cut the torus out of their heads with about three juches d bom* attached. This hone is solid and white 2s ivory, and the ends on which Jhe chair rests aie formed into the shape ol deed's hoofs. Tile rounds or rungs are made of straight pieces of lorn, and so neatly jointed that there is no out laid evidence of i!. The small liorrts, which pioject lioin every part of the chair, have their points polised like ivory. The scat is of White buckskin, prepared e.xpiessly for it by the maker. An extraordinary excitement (says the New \i rk Tribune of the I 3th instant) v. as occasion ed in Bond street yesterday by the gathering in front of Mrs. Cunningham's residence of a dis orderly niofi of Women ami boys. *Tiie women, about thirty in number, held a sort of drum-head ; eourt-ir artial, and unanimously agreed that Mrs. Cunningham was guilty of murder, and ought to bedriven from tin* city. With the help of Ihe boys they made an attack on the house, sto ning the windows and doors, ringing the bell, making hideous faces, and shouting their opin ions in no very delicate way. The attack was continued until the arrival of an officer, who! took the most active of the Amazons to the lock-up. Fatal .Icriuent. —At Bastrop, La., a lew davs since, Dr. Armstrong, assisted by a servant, dis sected the body of one of his negroes w ho died of a singular disease. The doctor bad a scratch on otie of his hands, and (he servant a tetter on his. They were both poisoned, and died in a. few hours —in ten minutes of each other. The Georgia Volcano. A letter to the Augusta Chronicle from Waik ! er County, Ga., states some interesting facts in relation to the volcano which has lately made its appearance in Pigeon .Mountains, about ten miles from Layfayette. Since October, 185G, the mountains has been occasionally attended with roaring sounds, resembling distant thunder, frequently accompanied with dull explosions. This was not very closely confined to any par ticular place, but seemed nearly equal for about a mile, extending each way from where the crater of a volcano has since made an app-ar • ance. This roaring sound, continued occasionally dying away and reviving again, until tiie Istn of tfn- present month, when jailer an abatement, so long that it was believed to have entirely ' subsided) it became suddenly and unusually boisterous, and was attended, for tin* fiist time with shaking of the earth. After this date it was comparatively tranquil, until about mid night on the 24th, when the earth was violent ly agitated several times. The citizens its tlie vicinity were aroused and terribly frightened by tin* commotion. When observing the mountain they were more than ever terrified, for a bril liant light was seen issuing from the summit.— The atmosphere soon became strongly impreg nated wi'.li a disagreeable sulphuric order. On the following day, a thick torrent of smoke and ashes descended fiotn where this light was previously seen. The smoke was not visible at night. 'I his was perhaps ov. ing to the elements : being covered at tlie time with a very dark cloud. No hiaze has yet been seen to issue from the crater. It has continued about as a bove described ever since, emitting smoke and ashes without intermission. The crater is thought to be about one hundred yards in diam eter. No one lias yet ventured near enough to in-certain anything of its genera! depth. Several springs in the vicinity have totally disappeared. Many of the citizens are very much alarmed, and some are even moving out of the valley through anticipations and fear ala violent erup tion. The Chronicle, remarking upon these facts, Ml vs the principle of a volcano has for many years been germinating in Pigeon Mountain.— About ten miles south from where the present appeared, is the crater of an extinguished volca no, which appears to have been in an active state at no very distant period. Every appearance goes to vindicate the con jecture : it has been in a state of erupt ion with in less than five hundred v ats. Several persons of credit have slated that in the winter of '4B or '49, tin earth in the vicinity was in a remarka ble w arm state. Others have avowed to have seen siti"ke, with a sulphuric smell ism.- fiom a very remaikable cavity which is found it: the neigh : horhood of this place. The Indians had a tradition, that a great many years ago, there was a lake of fire in this mountain. They pretended that it was frequen ted by invisible spirits, that w hen provoked they would pour fire upon their heads and burn their tents—that their squaws and children were stolen away in their sleep and throw n into this lake—and finally, one of their warriors, by some magic influence, charmed away the evil spit its, and the fiery lake disappeared. From the Cincinnati Commercial of the 11th. An Elopement Extraordinary. —Our city was thrown into a feverish and excited condi tion yesterday morning bv the rumor that a prominent member of our council; a marred man —had suddenly departed this section of the country, accompanied bv a beautiful, gav and dashing young widow. Rumor wtih its thou sand busy tongues, gave vent-to its feelings, and, after a careful investigation of the matter, we have arrived at the conclusion that Madam Ru mor has not far deviated from the truth. The "Dan Juan" of the story is a young man of considerable acquirements, engaged m the wholesale liquor trade, and one of our city so lo as. Although not taking a vet v active part among our sages, he has been looked upon a< a **sir or acle."" on many occasions, and I. s (;• en consid ered a cautious, firm, determined and positive diplomatist, which is fully substantiated bv Id last diplomatic act. Our "Dun"' as we before saiil. is a married man, and the father of a small family. 11 is wife is the sister-in-law < ftbe frail widow. The partner of "Don" in his expedi tion to foreign climes, is the daughter of a must worthy and estimable steamboat captain, a gen tleman of considerable wealth. Her )at.* fins hand was fbe brother of her seducer's wife.— A Iter the death of her husband who was en gaged in the wholesale liquor business, in part nership with Iter brother "Don" became a partner in the firm, where an intunacv sprung up ill their business relations which resulted as above stated. The parties left the- city on Fri day evening, and it is supposed an* en route for Europe via New York. Telegraphic dispatches have been sent East ordering their arrest, and Dagnereotypes of both transmitted to the New authorities. The affair is one of a most distress ing character, involving the happiness of sever al families, and causing the deepest anguish a mong the friends am! acquaintances of lite e loping parties. PARDONED. — Palmer, who was sentenced to the Penitentiary for two vears for killing a man named Grant, in a political quarrel last fall, has been pardoned by Gov. Pollock. v „ . The. .A". Y. Times Deserts (he Republirui Party! — The New \ ork Times makes the for mal announcement that it will hereafter he an independent, not a party paper,4bus withdtaw ing the powerful influence, which it has hither to exerted for that patty, from tire Republicans. Probably no paper in thisconntrv is conducted so closely "with an eye to the main chance" or j whose editor has so strong a scent for majori ties; hence the withdrawal of the Times from the support of Republicanism has peculiar sig nificance. TKRTIN, S3 PER YEAR. VOL XXV. NO. From the Detroit Tribune. May l.j. The Restitution in o!ichisaii. A call, signed by some of our most prominent citizens, appears m this evening'** Tribune, fur a meeting to consider the best means of affording relief to the famished settlers in the northern counties. Our lormer statements of the desti tution and suffering in that region have been most painfully confirmed. We shali not speak in the language of i vpeibole. when we statu that a number of families in (Gratiot, ar.d adjoin ing counties, are perishing fur want of even the meatiest luixi. This statement i.> made on Die authority of the presiding elder ot the M. E. Church of that section, in a letter to the Rev. Mr. Ma!,oo. ot Lansing, who related the facts in a public meeting held in that place, on th'' night before last. One poor woman, who with a mother's devo tr'dness had given her two little children all the food she could procure, died a few days since in Gratiot count v of absolute starvation, and her children, when found, were too weak to be revived, and shared Die mother's fate. Other citizens have painfully struggled into Clinton county on trot, begging for food. Some of them had lived for a nun her of days on leeks a- IOIIP, and the stencti of their bodies was almost insufferable. The whole counirv in the new counties is stripped of t rod, and even those in best circumstances can procure nothing to eat but boiled pumpkins and molasses, while the poorer classes, where actual want has overtake■ them, ek< out a mis-iabß subsistence on roots, leeks arid boiled oats. These statements, to 11s who have enough to eat and drink, and comfort ail around us, *,-<>, incredible-, but it pains u.s to say that tie ir truth is beyond doubt. The cattle, until the recent coming of the pasture, . have dropped off day by day. The people of these distressed regions have 1 not made known their suffering : for beside a natural reluctance, they have looked forward to the Spring to afford them relief; but a< yet we have had no Spring. They have now arri ved at a condition wheie their famishing* cries ;f r help must lie responded to. We feel confi j dent that our citizens will respond liberally.— When the intelligence of the destitution reach ed Lansing, a public meeting was called at I once. Our worthy Governor presided. The story of suffering wa> told bv Rev. Mr. Mahon, who spoke both from reliable information he had received and fiom actual observation in the Southern part of Gratiot county. Those pres ent subscribed promptly §297, and resolved fur ther !o purchase fifty barrels of flour for the re lief of the sufferers. The subscription was pla ced in the hands ot W liter Chester, Esq., of this city, for dishurs.ai, and he ha< already pur chase! and sent forward supplies of beans, meal, vCc. This purchase the Detroit and Milwaukee Railroad lias transported free of charge to St. John's, where a committee from Lansing have agreed to he with teams, and convey- the sup plies into tlie distressed districts, and distribute them. .''rhinr/in.'i/ Suiciilf. of a Vovng Wift. — Miry Caldwell, wife of Wm. B. Caldwell, of No. IN Leonard street, New York, committed suicide on Monday afternoon, by swallowing a quantity- of the solution of silver commonly used for electro-plating. The deceased, it appeared, was a beautiful woman, about nineteen years of age, and had been married but a few months when she contemplated self-destruction. Her husband was an electro-plater by profession, li t was somewhat unfortunate in business, which had such an effect upon the mind of the young wife that she resolved to commit suicide. Ac cordingly , on Monday afternoon, when her hus band came home, h-* found deceased apparently stupid from the effects of drink. He asked her if she had been drinking, when she ran to a clos et, ptocured a cup. and folding it up to her husband's face, exclaimed in the most tragic manner, "There, how do von like that tor a change'?" Mr. Caldwell immediately divined the melancholy truth. Knowing that the cup was usually filled with a solution ofsilver which tie used tor electro-plating purposes, and that it was a most deadly poison, In* giasiied hit wile around the waist and in the agony of despair a.-k --• ■il her what she had done. The suicide tell fainting in his arms aud from that moment she was bereft of ali conciousness. In less than hail an hour after the administering ot the poi son. Mrs. Caldwell breathed her last. Sh died without suffering much pain, lor the poisoti completely paralysed her nervous system and acted precisely as prus-ic acid would if taken under the same circumstances.—. Yeic Yorl; Her ald. The Jackson (Michigan) Citizen announces I lie sudden death of Mr. Allen Hiscock. of Princeton. Illinois, formerly of Jackson. While proceeding in the cars to Ann Arbor, where his wife was visiting, and where iie was to stop, he was attacked with a violent toothache, and a physician on the train administered chloro form to ease the pain. On arriving at Ann Ar bor he complained of faintness, soon swooned a wav, and died without recovering from the state of insensibility. A FACT.— A voting ladv in Bionklvn, .V d . has recently had her leg amputated midway be tween the hip and knee in consequence of a wound causid by a broken hoop. The hoop was of steel, and in some unaccountable man ner a broken point penetrated to the bone. The wound became inflamed, amputation was thus made necessary. We have the story from .1 voting lady who is a Iriend ot the now crippled tor-life victim of fashion, and can vouch for its authenticity. Win si tad Herald. A REMEDY roit Br.uics.— A Lousiana Sena tor was proffered a fee of §.")0 if he would ev ert bis influence for a certain private bill. He immediately read the epistle to the Senate when that body ordered the bill in question to be burnt by the Clerk in front of the Capitol, which was done forwith.
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