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.
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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.
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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.