LITTLE GOLDEN SHOES. • Sr )111Et. I.TVY. • May bought golden shoes for her boy, tiolden leather from tip to toe, With Myer tares l• to he at top, And dainty lining as white n• mop bought a pair of ehnce ae well, For the restless feet of a little lad, Common nqq t coarse, and copper tipped, • ' The beet reoul•I Inc filo sum I had. " tiolilen,"May said, to match Ins curls„." Iperer new her petted 1 warrabt he is but a pony. elf, All pink and whit, like china toy; And what in he the hie feat should walk All shod in gold n tha king's highway, While little Fred. *ills a kings own grace, Must wear 'mill brogans every day. And why NOT Mr front her lane It Wd Fling baubles her idol'alcet, While I can ha ly shelter Fret!, Fran the crfl stones altos broken • ( reel I envy not he nilken ratio, Nur 'hatchets' shine, nor t o lael,c)'•• • •re Rut eh • to giro what I en. VOA Thin, 'Nis rt is •o hard to be ar hl ern+ll the• h,tt, r then:Ott no grudge to pretty May, le la mph and 1 ~10 poor, rwe 'mere at r I ;1% er they, ; the Lo to ger.4l, the feat, sinfully ml e wooly elnel, hey ace lit to mak the.beet lint down And h Tin ugh AA = /mob bye,,friend “lloml li)e, May ,„ What dons her eyes to bright and Woe, 'As she looks at the rugged shoes askance, "l as ish my boy could wear those 100 ; , lot ho will never walk, they say," do May with si ILLtlo sigh has gone, And I am left in a wandering wood, To think of my wicked tholights alone. It need not that f tell you how, I sloped toy sturdy rogue that night, Anil thanked the (Ito/ who gave hint strength, And made him such a merry weight, Nor envied May one gift she held, If with it 1 must. also iilaiwo That sight of little crippled feet, Albeit shod in golden shuns. -I .; _. r . THE PURITAN SON-KILLER ___ Extraordinary Statement of Joel Lind say, the Clergyman who beat his son to Death —Two and-it half hours Whipping --The defendant admits "he was not Angry,'' 6e. That l should make this statement, I feel la due both to myself and the public I have long 111111.011 for flits opportunity, but in view of the legal purl of the molter and the injunctions of my counsel, my mouth has been anted and I have suffered in si lence Had I been called before the coro net's jury to make my own statement of this rase, it would have saved me a great deal of ' pain and the public much fa!, impresston. ltut this was not the cane, and the few words I spoke in respect to the matter were spoken to Dr Chamberlam in a 1110111 alone, with no one present but himself and me, and the communication Ifas b•t a verbal one My little boy lost lifs another when about ono year and a half old, a lady whom I loved intensely and who loved me with all the I,aolerness and 11,011011 of a woman's 11111- tore After !lip death of my wife, my alt lia were dralin more closely around toy child, and loved him most tenderly. Ile was noble, manly; and beautiful child, very affectionate in his disposition and bright in his intellect. Ilia father and friends looked upon Imo with pride and 110110, and I should not have been satisfied to have him been absent from me a week My little bay had a wonderfully firm will, enough for an adult, but there was nothing milicious to it Ido not speak of Ibis as any thing against bits, but "011 the other haul, I consider it to have been a Gotl given talent of the highest importance,had it been rightly trained lin the night of his death, lire step mother had taken him to another room to put lino to bed My little Troy had been teamed by his own mother, during her life, In be put to lied by him self alone, its on account of her feeble health she was net nble to do as mothers ordinarily would, nod he would 110 It just ns ClloPrftllly and happily as though pat to bed itt any other way. lo iltimustoooc my child refused to obey my wife, and alto was ...II lying to secure obedience I supposed it word from me would be suffioient, as he very seldom refused to obey rue. lint it was not. We questioned whether it was 1,e71 In try to force oliedtence --or tilielher . it was best to drop the matter and round er ahout. at I finally deckled, on my own . responnibility, to pun ish• him , oat that,) ' cared so much fur tile particular thing he WAS to do, butt felt it was important to secure tlip !Habit of obeiltence. I ant imps Ind no serious conflict at all The instru• anent I used was a piece of a shingle taken from Come old shingles used for kandlings, dotty years old, Or more, and the wood, I ' ehould think, was hemlock, certainly not 'fraril wood My impression is that it might Lvr o been an inch and one quirfet wade, p•i,mlily, but I cannot iitiite with precis( accuracy the width...4.f it It very likely itits less, as was shall iiwourt It was not a thick shingle notbing , lthe n club about it It occurred to one that obedience would be'secured monti,readil,, by it than by 101- mg the hand, .if it were necessary to 1100 corporeal punl4lllllellt at till dratinctly of feeling when I cotemenced, that I would ratliOr the blows would fall upon myself than upon my buy.' As I con tinued to punish him, stopping at very fre quent intervals and talking to him, I felt convinced that he knew what I wished hihl to do, as his reply to any question, “why will you not do it, Johnny v Pa is sorry Thal Johnny will not mind," tons, ''l do not nish to. I wish to do smething else," , 'app erg crying at the same tune. I bad undertaken to secure obedience, and I fal( OA I must accomplish it It will be eatd that I erred in commencing at that hour, when my child was tired by the play of the day. I did err in so doing, but as I lire maid,' bad no idea of any serious conflict at all If 1 bad I ahould not have corn— ineneeal. Ilul it was a part of my educa tion end was my own judgement that a child at that age, however much gas, a gen eral thing t4ellarent should avoid coming directly across the will of the child, yet, when that did occur, that there was no bet ter or wiser way than for 'the parent to wisely enforce obedience. In this case I full that unless my boy with his firnmess of will, ooeyed, he could not be made to obey when older. Others, doubtless would darer but that was my honest conviction at the time. Ino not speak of these things to excuse - orixtenuato my conduct, but to spreadliut,ls far as I am ablepthe influence which operated upon arty mind at that time, and then the public must judge are. As I went on I recollect that my anxiety became very intense that my boy should yield. Ilad the point been yielded I should have felt as though a mountain had been removed from any breast. As to whether he understood what was required of him, probably most will think that he did nor lat the time believed that ho did. Under this great anx iety, with my mind fixed on the necessity of my toy's yielding fur his own future good, and expeOting every moment that he would yiehl, I wns not aware of the extent to which I had gone, or to the effects I was • produclog on my child. I suppose my de-, teethe eyesight had something to do in the case by preventing my seeing the actual effects I was producing abut the main cause, 1 believe, was great anxiety and my mind fixed upon its being necessary for the good of my child that heihould yield. I was \ ' . .. . . • I ~i, . . . . . . . , '"1 L' . • - • • irlir 7)-.timart4 It. - ' - iti IP 41t11M411 . 1• 30TA.TE RICINTS AND Pm:ll=Am UNION." l' , VOL. XII. , , NO. 9 lot Ogry or inn passion in all this I wish to slate this and without reserve ; AO, if I know anything of the action of my mind,' I was not angry. I never could have punished my child for an hour or half an hour, or anything like, it, in anger Were it so, I 'should have felt very guilty, nail to have done so would have been monstrous lint never for one hour or one moment hare I been 'conscious of any criminal intent in this case No true man or woman will wish me to belie my convictions in this matter Do not misunderstand me here. I have been greatly in isrepreiented upon (kis point. I cdttsider the act to have been wrong and very wrong, but as to a criminal intent 44pre was none in any form I greatly firkijudged, and the fearful consequences, in the loss of wy child, have come upon mo with a crumbing weight. A word more Hero as to the idea that I-0-was angry: The Judge says "his (Lindsay's) statement to the Coroner that he was not angi7, is not ; Ii ire the same' weight as the rest of his I a eAot,li use it was in his own faros " ors „Thai. is t depend on' circumstances • Is it just 6 impartial in this case' All thst - t ask is that the public elkolljuive the same faith in hwinnin nature (lint I had What I mean is that I made any statement in frankness to the Ceroner If you cue di-corer t hat I way then fin mg up , oini e thing for my own &fen, 10 Mil lOW myself from justice , if you can lIIIICOIrt that I hail any idea of a legit I prosecution, or that my friends bad: if I had known anything of tho bearingiof anger upon the degree of e criminal olitme, which I knew nothlllg about, then there would be reason it, such a distinction. But did I hire any such feeling or apprehension, er my ()lends ° I could (lien jukas easily have shortened the limo during which I way/engaged with my child, in my stritererifbefore the Coroner, an to have misrfpresented on the point of anger it lint I might have said to the Coroner as to the •length Of time. I du not remember, but I think I lime trurilly via- tell the time at from Iwo In two mid a half Lows, and I should think it was as proba ble that It was more than two hours as that it was two and a half The Coroner testi fies that I pins tolled the child until I anti signs of weakness This is a mistake , l' do not w bill to provoke a controversey with the Coroner, nor ant I accusing him of in tent lentil Inisrepresentation, but it is a mis take I made a stntement to Dr Crawford on the canto day and lie will testify to the truth of what I say, though it could not be brought into court I stopped punishment because I felt that it was useless to go farther I took my little boy anti laid hint upon trio settee, and covered him on, At the lime I ceased the punishment, at the lune I laid him upon the settee, and rot some Lac after4artl I saw no signs that the child hail been injured. Ile had tallied during this time null appeared natural. , Then there was a change, and soon after wards lie died Then it was I began to realize my fearful tins, and the terrible Pang the circumstances of the case gore to it , then it was I felt and said not long of ter to my father, that I would have given my own life for ley darling boy. I f 1111.11 COl/14 1111Y0 seen nay oasts 110 Gl,' BMW it, they would not Litre born down upon me 40 heavily as was ;lone because I shell no learn. Did they not know that the deepest miefindbes not manifest itself in tears ° Dal they not knew that some countenances dal not show the Ullgbiz undercurrent of feel ing and , sorrow wli irk tlows beneath "But," they say, -he went to sleep after willde and slept till morning " A (let Ilp . ing.. repeatedly urged I dui go to bed, and piny have slept a little through that long and wooly night I am sorry that any should have.thought so poorly of WO or of human nature, as believe that I could have burned the feet of myc Id It was impossible ( it for Inc to litre il ne it, and each a thought never entered ay mind. \ word as to why the limbs al arms were no extensive ly discolored It rose nom this, ilmit I aimed not to repeal the blows In the same place I carefully avoided the vital parts of - tlie bcoLy There moue nu blows at all upon the body of my child I ire not aware that I (lima the trod at all with the in otrinnent useyi, nor with iiii3 thing nbc I think the slight milks must hare been pro ducod accidentally, as they ought hare' bpen ' 41,9 10 the tithe Pilellt , lll 11010111 pun iilment I Collid not state 4 ith accuracy At frequent intervals I slopped and talked ho him,Cintlemoring to induce obedience The huger portion of the nine was spent tik this way I in 11l say something more as to PI, feelings For the lirst few Jaya I cannot at all describe (lion While the Inflows of public indignation and excite ment were rolling a ound me under a greV ly exaggerated statement of the facts in the ease, and a total illlSCollelplloll of my allotirev of conduct, I scarcely hestol them —I felt 11,111 not The heat was tot full of its own son row fur anything more It lay crushed end wiling under the keenest nogiii,ll .% re y nu a fattier who has lost a dear and, only chi ld 111100 whom your af fections centered m a pecoliar manner? You may go a little way in your apprecia tion of my feelings. But that other pang of having been in some sense the cause of the death of your own child, unwittingly indeed. Heaven grant that you,may never know that feeling. As the lime wore on and the averted looks of men met me, shut out almost entirely from sympathy, which seemed most precious, nod false public sentiment resting on me with a crushing weight,'-while my heart won still bleeding with as own grief— all was like it gore piercing me At first my friends rearm that reason would ho dethroned. And to day language cannot describe lox yearnings for my child when my mind reverts to him. Perhaps I ought to say something inThriew of the conviction and sentence passed upon me. It may be inferred from whet I have said, believing as I do that a former sick ness had to do with this matter, a sickness the severity and particulars of which could be but imperfectly presented in courts, be ing for years under the most powerful ton ics and narcotics daily, a sickness from ill'hich my physical constitution never has . recovered sad never can,it witosld be strange indeed if my mind had the same vigor which I had before. My own judgment is, that had it not been for this sickness and subse quent nervous prostration more or less con nected, being so for months after I canto home near four years ago, that I could not, look into a newspaper,that this thing could never have occurred. But as to the con —A'r, hioj IMO viction I did not knew that I was not angry, Hid- felt that from a hard, unfeeling temper toward my child.] recklessly hazar ded his life or health , If I felt that I was dotyrtnined to conquer him at all hazards, coin° life or dealt., I would Buffer silently, and feel that I deserved to suffer. But if I was actuated by the highest,motives of any man's nature, in pain performing what I believed to lie my duty . if it was the very love I felt rot: my child which caused that intense solicitude ; tf I felt after I saw the result that I could have given my own life for my child, then you may judge how I felt. in view of ale sentence. Tits judge says (ho majesty of the law must be sus' tamed. I had always supposed that human crihnnal law mYst be founded upon the law of God, and derived fi•om it alone tin force Does God hold a man responsible for any thing more Man wilful wrong doing 111 the present or on the past, or for a neglect to do right arising froln culpable indifference . to the right or a preference for the wrong Is . crimo to lie deteryoned by - tire comic-. quences Van acC, - tir""br the intent of the heart? Can you Inakii crime without you can prey° sonic unlawful and °million' or— tent in some form v Can you ninke crone of nh error in judgment though it be a very oe'rions one" But the judge says the maj.. esty of the law must be sustained I eau nut see the point. :inch an application In deed of sustaining the majesty of the law, in my opinion, caps 114 1 Cry foundation I feel that my home has been desclated by the death of a dearly loved child The con 'sequences of my 01111 act here COlllO, 1111011 1110 , 0,111 n ciuslilng -weight in limt, lose which ninny could never have lived through I f-inkly confess my great error in this My family tins been broken tip My -prop erty has been swept 'away by the necessary expenses of ttial, and I great]) frar that the life of my wife IA at least jeopardized in her present feeble and critical state of health If you ask me what I think of the sentence and eon% iet ion, in view of all this, I must say that I feel it to be unjust and unworthy the code of art enlightened Chris tian nation In saying this Ido not at all import the integrity of the judge or jury Who sat upon my trial While, my repute 'lion is as precious to toe as to tiny man, yet I feel that character is infinitively more im portant. tlian'teputation , and thii.),a#, been my only support, my hope in God in all my trouble that truth would sooner or later bear sway in the minds of toy fellow men I hive jll,l read 111 ale Rrplildtran the re 11111tIrs upon my trial, myself, and ale 11011- (once - I thank Mr Beach for lins..ifpotk statement and manly neknowledgmeni of the error into which he has been led in my' case, lend fun his appreciation In some sense of my sufferings.' The gist of his closing remarkS, I think, is that though I intended nothing wrong, end tioßstlili in the immedi at erre le of relatives rind ac q uaintances it might do to let the cane re 4 er a penal sentence might not be necessary yet in view oPthe public sentiment of the country, the pri.oner should have been convicted and sentenced It may be I have not folly sla ted this, but, whatever aro Gips° closing remarks, nil Illave to soy is, let Mr Beach or any other onto take my place he would feel much no I do 11l I ask is that the law, do to others as you would be done by, be applied t4l 11101 , 3 1101,0111111 S and 1110 pub la` EIMMEMEI I+. ' ot ruin IVAti --On one of:- CW.II4M, after the battle of Shiloh, the has pitch of the iOllll9 and cities o Mit° se were e crowded with wound :nen, both ('onfederate :Intl Federal, thldsonie of theta were seat to Covington, Ky., and placgA in the Southern Nlothers Home, un der the care of that benevoient institution iii n brightund pleasant day, after BOllle of the wounded had become convalescent, a Confederate soldier was out..suuntog him self," when a Federal soldier of the 'Fenian to persuasion also ClllllO out, and aft, walk ing round and e)eing our Confederate ft tend fur some time, accosted him huts 1 nn pees roll feCCSII 9 " ❑ow do you know 9 said lire Colifede 100 p 0 II) fat yourself,' 5.11,,1 the Confederate “I ell 1 pees 111 to Ito:Title myself, I sees some lingo vote goes on Do ladies conic mit the packet on do arm, and she counted to me and she laity .vat you pc •' I nay 1 pees Ronan mon, vounded at Shiloh She / say, 'vat .1 pity for de beeples von de war don I sthope " Den slit goes to put and say, 'vat you ' you say, 'I pees it n ebel soldier, rounded mit ' Den she puts Let lily site 11 11 1111 in to pasket and dukes silt de cake and de.vine, and gives pm ever Val yOll vnut liter vile another lady comes M. lute de basket on her arts, and and she goes to 304 foot, and ask you Vol you ? you sit), .1 pees label soldier, vountled mit Shiloh ' She say •vol n pity ' lien I dint. I gum' to get something Veil, she come to me anti say, ..sdt I. you bin " I arty '1 pees 0016011 111511, VDU Ilded mit Shi loh She sets down her packet and pods in her lily site hand, and pulls out ft . tut ist track ' roil links a Man gel fat on de 3lettotts( track he secesh, da guts de cake punt vine, and ever vat du vont, and de °onion 'liens can't even git to smell de bot tle "—Er. —Since the loot inolith'S statement the Federal debt has increased more than four million dollars This iv due to the reckless expenditures of the Rump Congress, and the revolutionary course of the Radical leaders, by whom the couintr l ,. is agitated and kept oonstantly upon he verge of a panic The people of the South feel no security. They can have no hope from the dominant party efeept in the surrender of all the rights Which make life endurablq, They have no aninrarice that they will be allowed to enjoy whit they raise from the soil or produce by their labor or skill. They cannot contribute revenue to the Government when 'they are fettered, and lashed and e pullawed. In the North the Radical threqta of and movements towards impeachapit coupled with open as saults upon the eV stitutiou, the Eieculive and Supreme Court, have put a check to in dii;trial pursuits, whilst the commercial people standdistleasy swatting the settle, meat of conflicting Interests en the' tariff question. In a word, Ito great business of the country stands idle whilst the fanatics and politicians—the ghouls of the body politic— fatten upon the vitals of the nation. —Exchange. BELLEFONTE, PA., FRIDAY, MARCH' 1, 18137 LIVE WITHIN YOUR MEANS We don't like alnypiness We don't like "economy" ;liken it comes down to ragvand starvation. We have no sympathy with the notion that the poor man should hitch him self to a post, and stand still while the rest of the world moves forward II is no man's 'duly to deny himself of every amusement, every luxury, every recreation, every coo fort, that he may get rich It is no roan's duty to make on iceberg of himself—to tThniti his eyes aril cars to the suffering, of his fellOws—and to Icns himself the enjoyment that results from generous actions—mere); that he may heard wealth; for h is heirs to quarrel about. limit there is yet an economy which is ev ery mum's duty, and which is especially commendable in the man who struggles with poverty—and economy which, is consistent with happiness find wltich must he practi ced, if the poor man would secure indepen dence It is every nine's privilege, and it he 'comes Ills duly to live within his mean., not op 10, but withui them Wenith does not make the man, we admit, and should never be taken into the account, in our judgment of men But competence should be limited, whoa it can be; and at almost always cart he, by the practice of economy and a• If denial to only a tolerable extent It should he secured, not SU touch for whet, to look upon, or to raise us 111 the est MEI t lOU of others, as to Fertile the conscious ness of independence, ba i t is derived, front acquirements and possession We would like to impress thin ningle fact upon the to of every laboring man who may peruse this short at title—that it as possible tar 111111 to rise above poverty, nail that the path to independence, though beset with (oils and self-sacs ifi:.e.t, is much more pleasant to the harder, than fifty one he Call enter upon The man who feels that he to enrning something more then be in spending, will walk the streets w ill, a much lighter heart, and enter his lioinn o with a much more cheerful countenance than -Ire who spends as he goes, or falls gradually behind Lis IleCeSSllies m acqhiring the nice,e of meet ing 1 11C111 Next to tire slavery of sitlemperanee,there ie no slavery on earth' more galling than that'of poverty and indebtedness The men who is everybody's debtor, is every body's sitter, and in * n !Mich worse condition, than he who serves a single m•lstl' For the sake of the present, then as well its fur the sake of the future, we would most earnestly urge upon every working n let live within hie means Let him lay 'by something every day—if but a penny be it a penny—it is better dint! nothing; infi. nitely better than running in debt, a penny a day, or n penny a week. If lie can earn a dollar, let hint try fhirly and faltliftilly, the expel lineal of living on ninety cents Ile wall like it "People an 11 laugh:' Let. !heal laugh. "They will call one stingy " Better call you stingy than say you do not pay your debts "They will wondei• why I do not have better furniture, live an a finer lionise, and intend concerts and the play house " Let them wundcr, for n,while al wont hunt thilillltud it certainly wont ynu By and by, you can have 4:fine house, and line fur niture of youi op . u.; and they will wonder again and coniAmlbug and cooing around yon, like no many pleased fools Try the experiment Live, within your 111011114 -- Name!',name 11 nlr IT \lt rnr-1 very COIIIIIIOII ex elamation in the 'flearlirer'r ofhee these day., by bard work rag won, upon heating the amount of their their taxer, is, ;ilVbdi doer it mean"' We can tell our bard 'a-wising filends who have been voting the Abolition ticket fur the past six yenrv, what it weans, no a voy few bentenced II Means that you have beets vo4of 10 rob yourselv,, for the purpose of emit:ll- (I[lg ns rapaciottv a set of scoutulrek, as ever kited It lotions that you base boon helping to build op IL Twirieyeil or ISLOCrtley, who by rheir orpon 041111 of ihe legislation of the country for their own riirere,ts, It means that 3ou ore paying the lazes of your rich neighbor 4, who lta,e. their thowurile invested In bonds, It ineonv [hot you hav o c Leconte serfs to the • 'loyal" of the Abolition potty - ' II means (lint fon are paying the bill for reducing you lu the level of the negroes It means ihtu n NaDonal Debt Is a Na Ibnial Curse It meant ILnI 11111 e, 3 lit wont your 40118 ill lead t lilr of blavety, you maul help ha hall num puller the Ihtelen who under iLr gnoe of loyalista, ore nial,log this o'inotry a ilesputlbill, and its people eleven II 1111,1 IP{ 101 L yolf , are unworthy the, name of It return if )on longer consent to bear the burthen of your bond Ii old tag neighbors lie above with your tax receipts awl sec ictbey do not tally Toledo cord --Brother Caleb Bowser gave in his experience at it class meeting a few nights since as follows : "Bret boring and sisters, I was out In the swornp to-day, and while 1 Was about the wickednei, of my heart, I liesrd immethin' in the swamp cry in' out in a feerful voice, "Caleb ! Caleb ! Caleb '" Wur it a nperrel, or what wur it, bretherin' and sisterens A death-like sGllneas followed the query, when a Utile red headed urchin in die back part of the meeting house cried out : "Mebbe it war a thill frog, Mr. Bowser !" --A tgrattiluntan initealtfornia having mode a lady a present of a pair of pastels, after several trials of skill they ioncluded ,to go through the forme O f f a duel. They took their positions, fired at the word, and, Aerlic terror of the lady, the gentleman fell. Shb threw herself frantically upon the corpse, embracing and kissing it with every, emotion of endearment. Under such magical influences the gentlemen revived, and rose ukhurt from the ground, and— Cod--they are to be married.' —Women arc a grcatgeyotery. Acoor ding to Mailer, 'Women hear hunger longer than men; cowling to Plutarch, they can resist the effects Of Wino better; 'according to Unger, they grow older and never bald , according to Pliny, the are seldom'attacked by lions( on the contrary they will rufi after lions ) ; and according to Gunter, they can talk a few ! L OUR NEW GOVERNOR.---HOW HE PREACHES AND HOW HE PRACTICES. In bin inaugural, John IV Ornry, the Governor elect of l'cnn•ylvnnut, made a special point of the ties end aloises of the pardoning power. Ile promised greit e ire and cm cuinspection In the exerciae of this prerogative of the Executive Shortly af terwards he caused to be published, over his own signature, the following regulltions concerning the issue of pardons which he promised be strictly enforce," 111. First-1 , 70 pardob will be vented until notice of the applicationAlerefor shall have been given by publication once a week for twotconsecutive weeks in a newspaper lirin ted in the county in which the conviction was hod Second—So pardon will be granted unless notice of the application shall bare been given to the judge who tried the cause, to ,the district attorney,or to the attagney who prosecuted ; proof of wycli notice shall be furnished toll dipartment Third—All applications for pardon must have with them the following papers written In a clear and distinct hand: 1 A certified copy of the whole record including docket entries, minutes of court copy of indictment, pleas, and all otht , r pa pers on file in the court relatifig lodic case 2 AMlketatemenLot the reasons upon which the application os based /iiiltling forth all the fools, the notes of evidence taken On trial letters froth responsiple persons in the community where tine crime woe committed , n recommendation from tine jurors who sat on the trial, and if any of thein'refuse to recottmend a pardon. rear ens given for 911C11 refimal: letter limn the district alloviry or cOnnSei wins tried the case, and a letter flout the, jinlge settling forth his views upon the subject of the ap plication Fourth—lteconnocoolon tons for pardon for unexpired terms of sentence WOO hove a copy of the whole recuid as before rewired Also a copy of COOLUffilnent , petition front prisoner setting forth reasons and statement float warden and inspectors of prisons Filth—No personal applications will Tie permitted Sorth—All the shove papers, when sub mitted, must he'itcotainpanied by a piloted copy of the saiwn plianphlV form, twelve copies of which at least must he sent to this depaitment If the parties are too poor the paper book need not be printed Simple minded people believed these rules would be observed, and 'many of the abases that had heretofore been minnected with the exercise of the pardoning power, avoided lint those who were acquainted with the vacillating character of our new Governor were not deceived by his profes- Ile was the fir9t to violate his own regu lations, and the manner in which it was done is refreshing to the toroth 'of coons toncy and honest dealing, viz. Jonathan Bieber, a Judge of Election, in Berke county, was recently tried in that county-for misdemeanor, in having refused to received the vote of Samuel Reinert, an alleged deserter, at the October election, and on trial was convicted The fact was laid lief... , the Governor by tThe political friends of the prisoner, and 1111141 he was called Op for sentence, his attorney presen ted to the court n full and free pardon from Gov (henry, rind \lr. Bleb.' was ucoor tingly liberated Ile exacted none of the tectiniony which ho declared to be necessary before the issue of a pardon, and which he had lard down to the above regul.itions Ile violates good faith to shield a partizan friend from pun ishment, nail hints the decision of the So prone Court with contempt 11'1111 tills 11151111 We of inuring fault it the 1)00111111g of Ills 11th11111131.11011, What hare ITC the right to expect befote Its close'— Moil , *town Ilentorrat MASSACHUSETTS SLAVERY Sectional papers grab at ovdrythiog now which lends to give R debasing oleo of Southern sootety , A few years ago slavery was intended in Massachusetts, and die ucmpnpeas were filled with disguting ad vertiseinent> o elating 10 the sale of negroes The following speenuens, ge.thefelOini old \l•lesnchusetis paperg, and furnished by Mr Nlnoro, libraradi of the New 1 ork his tot Ical society, and teeently publiblied by %tin tine of theta otters for sale. ••\•cry good Ilarbadoes him, and 4 young lore that has had the small pox " Anol her trader °fins "LIU:Iy met% acid 1,311.1f11, just an vii /M!1=1 .Negro melt, now, and negro 1,034, who have Iltell 111 the COMO ry for ..one rime , also, just' aPnved, 11 choice parcel of negro hoyxn:i•l girls MEE ".% little negro woman about 19 years 01d and a chit/ ,six months of age; to , bro sold togrt bcr or apart " More marvelous is another, of tho follow mg tenor ••A new() eh lid soon expected of a good breed, may be owned by any perron Inc n- cd to take it Tim reader may by this tune exclaim, "Enough! enough!" but hero is one sample more to complete the assortment; "Tel. sold, an extraordinary likely ne• gro womau,sl7 years old; she can be war noted to be strong, healthy and good na turail, has no noticing( freedom, has always been need to a farmee's kitchen and dairy, and is not known to have any failing but being with child, which is the only cause of her being sold." ..The New haven ?km!, sale It seems that in those very pious days of Mummabu setts, it was cheaper to buy negroes there, ready grown, than to pay for feeding and clothing their infants while too young lb work. Their good Inca were too clingy Sei• pay for taking care of lielpleas children, and so sold the mother i s slavery, to get rid of them. They were not then up to the nothern IllassachuseitJ way olkgelling rid of children, by which, as their statistics show the present name population, though four times as large as the foreign resi dents of that State, have, annually, a less number of children born alive, than have the small foreign population If such a collection of slave advertise bleats, as above,..were collectedafrom the Southern States, ( who imported most of their old stock by means of Massachusetts slave trade ahipe,)how would the Sumner., Wilsons, POlipses, Boutwills, and Co on, roll their eyes in horror, and swear, as did the pichis Gen. Butler, that those States should never be rapresented in Congress "till the heavens mbtt with fepent heat.— Albany Argus. TARIFF TINKERING The New loll: , Nt . I ,4 ru t die one n roll Mnr since 1840. no, is I 'Tbd 1,1 of \larch I, Ilya, ‘,11.1,1h Cy Join, I.liln t cos olr f t ngn wit, I+ tol ro.ol b% Int. t,iir a^l .pf y,•°- ), 2 The .11 tof kogo+t I•dl, eht,•h to cren.,l tlo tint.•• levied by the in t, bt. 8 'rite !tel of pr.vl,l ing fur higher Ilnuco 4 The net of ittly I I IhU. prusuling still higher duties L. The ne 4 ti Mardi 180, %thick int s.ct.Lpi ill Vier din n•n • (3, The nel. of June ail, 1!361, winclr im posed much higher duties on nearly every • 7. The set •of March., which int posed yet higher tiniies on sonic things. 8 Thu net of larch 11, 1581.4 16 101 lus posed atlaspsi:o duties on Tits 10111 I burg, Theo Oct of Alny 111, Itll4, which inspo9 eJ snore Julies on some articles 111. Lastly, the Oct of July which Imposed from four to twenty per cent nthlitionsil July on everyiblug And it adds that Congrevl is now ituket ing at the eleventh bill What Is the use of ouch trilling 1 Why will...not „Nina. Fen aiblexneniber of Cie' Coutinittee ofVays and Mel"s introduce a bill •'to abolish all Itt tercourse w.th foreign notions, class the ports cr the United States, except to coast wise 'raffle, and appropratte —m tlhans for the construction of a Chinese wall, one 'hundred feet high and fire hundred feet thlck, nronnil the land boundari6s of the United •burs" That t. wbnl it all tilellll., and it is lucre Piling and tinkering,antil beating about the bush, to do less Le: 119 have a will by all means, nod lei the whole force of the [lotted States Navy he employed to hoot bard merchantmen bunging the products of foreign counirles to otit'poris AN UNFORTUNATE PRIZE HOLDER A who lives m one of l ho rural nontr CY of Ulm: nays the Totnil 21),(100 acres of laud, in W the prize of Pike county, Kentucky," in a recent gift enterprise scheme in this vicinity Ile called upon the managers of the enterprise, and told them lie daft want the land, and they might keep' it by giving him s2o,inio. They declined the offer, generous an it wa., aud then lie dropped to $15,000, and finally .to '310,000, declaring ihat he "hoped never to see his wife and children" if be would take a cent less The gift non didn't want the land. It was North double the pric • lie offered to take for it, of emirs", but they, had other uses for the money and couldn't invest lle took the deed for the land—he would gladly have taken fhb will for the decif, that in, if they had wilted to give him the money—and went to Pike county to view his possessioty.v."Mino cot, rot 0 coun tries!" lle fouled twenty thousand acres of barren rock and mountlait flint would hardly afford stalmste leo for a rattlesnake lie couldn't find a level spot &round that afforded sidlicient ape, fir ITC ime, eco nomical g mien patch, but he could instead. rude]) stroll Crag o'er er.1,1„ 111111 fell o or fell," id nothing else fie wended his way back 114Lasw front Pike"—and offer to let the gift 11111111geri have the laud or Start—hope to die if he'd fall another cent. They declined this offer, it may appear, lila;Ily agreed to I ike it off lliS hands, az I pay hun Z. , 7aitt he indignantly refused, and no he still re nouns olio of the great "land inanopolints ' id the thy, the owner of an exceedingly picturesqne and undulating faro of twenty till/1181111d acres Ile would probably prefer a small farm worked maw-eddy rather than one so and,-late - tinderstand di It he MEM 0.4 trust (tie managers of the (tuft Enterprise, Lecture the lied is not what they represented Ile thinks they got his dollar under (also pretences Ile Norms to (lava np, pi. at Pike—a 401 t of Pike's Peak, as one might •+ty—from 111 c ju .k he got at it We doubt ~bout his ma king anything out of Ms law-sit it, however The land might be worth the ruin named in the enterprise circillar, if the possessor of it wanted to open a atone goat r) Nit /..1.1. Tit sprint,- k rneinotable inci dent took place last night to the Senate Nlr, tientlernon, of Ml.lollrl, was denounc ing the South for having rejected the con st mit tonal ahientkinent, when Ur IWultlr le quietly interrupted hum with the question, "flow inns the South rejected it"' i "Ily their Legislatures " The words werThard ly oat of his moutlrbefore he felt himself entrapped, and quick as thought the Witl• cony. Senator demanded, "flow can they have Legislatures unless they are States, and if ittey are not StalFa, why censure them for rejecting the dmendment'" And inn row earnest, impassioned sentencesdhe Wisconsin Senator showed the illogical and unjust position of tho Radicals on this point Mr Henderson silnplyi•e6ught to Ifroak the force of his opponent's argument by begging him not to get excited, anti de spite his wonted amiability, ended by losing his own temper —National Intellegeneer —Geary's par tie of limber, (the llerke county election officir who was convicted of misdemeanor in refusing the vote of a so called deserter,)fft advance of sentence,it is said hpil its effect in producing the recent Democratic triumph in that oily. The peo ple began to think that,when convicted offenders were provided with pardons with which to rise up in court and floor the jud ge as he was upon the point of passing son tence,it was high lime to turn over new Itiof,and stand by the courts ratherAtian by the politicians. In (hut They certainly were right. —A terrible thing occurred in Boston `'hub of the universe "—the ether day. A hackman refused to hire his carriage to " a colored lady of character, education and talent," Great excitement pervails, and the probability is that the fallow gill share the fate of Roger Williams or the Witches who used to infest that region --i—Tho bile rose so high is Thad Stev ens, the other day whilst making one of his treasonable spesohyis, that he became very sick and fears where entertained that hie snuff' would go out. It didn't, though. The old fellow is too wicked to die. UP-TOWN AND:DOWN-TOWN7 , t anlint entely on the •Itoore, 11 tit, Ir trtt nutlettn o n le".'instg "LI .t-tho:.l. I In hitt% 11 ttlt hurt, I Itrentl, nn I tOtitene 1 bi••. I:,st ottgitt nt not, wit!, rteatlng Irr'rrt•, I It, r It! ri d prayer i• 11 hen tatantt ...I tar nit• the tr uhle I 1% he it :t;.stittoto , n elttlo:r, 11 tit) Fp h tont the enlle, An I reunil “bout, 'module I Inst4o, The ining ',ten r within the, myn , ,,. Doorn tnon. the jangling 4nutels tra to 'ltmgle unpin the Ine , ) t, A nil pitfall+, open. he nloent Fer hceilleo+, nom el:oleo...I feet torn -- the garnered tre.i•nro • lie That gather in a gem! man's hider, Trifles, which, through ronienitor-itioe rot,. t Alood dear and hod) halo loroodne Down flown—the ledger and the is Elbe,' the ?eighty boll ten Ltrt, Atilt the eltett.thty loll:, •re e 'rho-only tvorth beneath .the ttr 14! town— the hal!) he, - Eretrltile AR errolle re , lo! awl -wing. APII the !nether)! Int” nerelle thee, IVlttle tender') nn.l ft ehe surge Up town—the white role, el' the le v.!. 00er thC fnther'4 threOlehl en et p, p tonlp=tho hApletb he, An), nuterp tern nen p mem Dawn tour, no , ontc t• wit the air. Awl the t rattled b t it ) . gr..un .1 on 111. htrutsgle. fcr Late, anti ll'enlth anti Plat a. It tea them, pert bailee, keep, at hu t an Dawn tloust-llte-brplesracitt;,. olathatue I at u tt tau , l it trd t cl.l, anti Itslraf t ire, And rem kle.t etutitistklatia cam .4 u.tik Meal. 11 the g. 1.1 from not hot huff tafitin front peaceful }1. , 111e. up Ptsrit, ItrAti ainners hopeful come and go, Let sratnen's pra)ers abut u them float, Whether they heed the prayers or 1111; 110 1111, , er , Ivry feeble 01104 -- it 14 ~,,, at-es era wrtt len down, So let us n. Ner full at• ask Gruen fur the one iv I a goes titian town. THIS, THAT AND THE OTHER. st v. ' --How sweet tt i 4. recline t o the Is too of gee—say - aged alum& tentreii reasoning, if y u wish irtferenees that , ill and follow, draw the, . • -The epow,tlrills aro konuelod in Chlrlen , Ma•earhueeua . , . . . —A a tfu's farewell to hotliuslaind on going out—ltt9, Siq —Braxton Bragg has sold h war horse iir Molobiliur Shono. —Tho hex' currency is that ..I%ihieli a did lar is worth a dollar the abide worldover. —A negro in Chicago attempted poison the Minutes of o hoard mg —Thu Lyy. hburg t.ibaceo faitories tt be ginning opurationa and will soon hr at iso . --Cougressinan Nlorrisse) denied the report that he boat $lOllOOO ley guiulditig m gocki. —A fire in it. Jonetilis, , on Salmilo,) hung,ilmiro3,l $1611,111111 Worth of propert,,. The t Ileum AI wort, of Dos hitt. A ( . 0, Baltimore, were S mole The t $lO,OOO. An col well onle llolinden cArtu, nt holy, Pa., abandoned two month+ brinillt Com need llowmg laat week --Fresh herein git, the lint of the PO. sin, re in life Notion+ market on Monday, and d et Katy fit • vent. per dozen —lt take. mere :none) to run the Freed- lien's Itureiiii than it del the whole got crnment under Jeffiirson , ~-111*exeliange palter we saw an girlish, fill. lit —One of l'orney's Lies That ta k e saying, 000 e of 111.•• sorpoh of the coo. —The Cutholies of Erie halo organ iced emperanee sinety, the membership in which • to be CI .flllOll to adherents sif the church. —The alt well discovered in Lawrence, 111111,as, le said to lold lOU bushels of salt daily with n small rifler!. pow!. --A hotel and se, eral buildings adjacent, Ogdensburg, N. Y ,were Jesmyed by fire un e 7tll ult. Tlio loss Is $511,000 —An old lady bring asked to subscribe fur nowltiper, declined mi the grunt that nheo o a anted news sho inantiflutured it hersolf There are two directly °moot Ito reasons ly amon s onetinies , tine is, bo wie he l ls net known , and the ether, 11,11.0 --A fury fellow down South .pal le Tennes see after this faidon—leee, nail veil, Andrew Jackson—urn damn Ile will bug A plinaary --Mr Thorektuorton, of Colorado, lately eloped from her bleat-m.l, and left a ante urging him not to mourn Da the ahsene of the chil dren, as none of them were hiP —TI Virtonin Legit!Moro passed nsea ton to tax bachelors for the support Of witb. and Old annuls, left without protection by --Mrs. Alive 11 Condit, of Muncie, ham ta ken out a patent for mend . ..tar tug an article called feathered cloth, whirls et Intended to take the place of swan's down, and is touts h cheaper —A 11.‘neas correspondent of a Ct icago paper says that poulo ,are sold in the b'enatortal conteefjust as they are at a horse-raco. There aro ton chewer on the card. --Thad Stet ens says *slid(' dm Ivrea the Soul.); will catch h—l ' All right—when Thad. dies, h—l will catch him for keeps—and that is undorthan he can do by the South, —One of the nehent colonic:note in England him been Ben. Butler«, out of all bte spoone.— ills butler escaped with u wagon load of silver ware: But, lees fortunate than the great spoon thief of America, he ban been arrested, An exchango eayw We should like to see 46ut 6 li:onion of negroos flock into Massa hueelll._nkt.is...A lutln tho most horrlblo puishment wo iii6 7 6wer lidard wished upon the poor darkeys —Prontico says, Massachusetts hll6 more aertd lions and more lire jatkasdes than any oth er mernher of the Union, and atm, one the lat ter is flinging his heels at some ono of the for- —Vip natice a paragraph in •Imost every exchange, saying—ship building is almost wholly suspended in New,York. What a - Pity that the party which has suspended it, was not served the alma way Itself! —A man has been arrested in Hungary for killing four children and eating their hearts raw. Ile acted ow the belief that he would hese the power .to become invisible when he had eaten seven, but was not permitted to catty his experiment to a conclusion. —At thp Virginia State Library may be seen a curiosity In the shape of a piece of white pine plank, in the heart of which is a perfect representation of a human leg and foot, earn pieto in its proportions, as well RS color. —Before She Republican party come Into power the Treasury Department of the United States had 416 clerks. Now It has 2,3f0. The difference is suggestive, in simple arithmetical proportion, as 2,300 are to 415 so hasa been the expense of the government under RepublltaW rule. A CAPITAL GHOST STORY We do not generally give much credence to ghost filmic!. but the following. `which, we find in the.Lynchbutg Yews, appears so oft inticolly reasonable t view of the ow -ful doom which doubtless awaits the wreieh that would nn editor, that we can not for a mature t doubt its truth The story, says rho News, is "dedicated• in en especial manner lo`all newspaper renders." That apparitions do not always wander ICIII/011l nn sufficient Cause, is proved by the well iiiiestr I feet wit cb we give below. font Tac.iihy fart night, as is I t idy r kilter liternry tastes and studious rth.•,t-it trtlma 111 her driving [lwo, lie clock on the et int le piece struck twelve , in the lamt /drake geeerbersad through Its pirtined, the ,door woos flung wide open ! ti the net of ratting her to repot the tit nt,um iuting for) of her •erilint, her e t stool on flttioitt:in of her Isle husband' he serealuoil rind fell se%soloss, in the et.- 6naghi Op 01)01) .11/1 mt., of the 1,1,1114 f) 1.1 114 I 11..1 unroll to r, 41 , VC . 1:401.1- !vie+ Wete •rdwmi.ierea, .14 I tit tintot her =w,prwl sl f teufite•t, anl Laing a wonnis and highly cu,ittv ctrl mu Herz, she felt ilinpor tl to ron. , ler the whole .I.isti ct : : she had molt rgorte av ILe result of cet Lim Itm4oL La ioni hot 7retv l'ke met ihrb osie site hail been verusilig an I her late 1 , 144, operating CI part tally dettirgel nervous op•lrtil SI., Ito never, cons b e lreed it I le t s ,hlr t Sol ser,lll! Ithould rerq r .go in bre Otani - - tier, lent any return oe what • shr c notnlereil ==IEZZZ2M ,1 nltrut the ' Last Tuesst iv night, feeling stronger flu better spirits than site Inel been for ser- al monthl p iv, ---tll +penned w Ith he presence of her atteutlont, retiring alone 0 her chamber. and went to bed • little be e teed'elook Exactly no the clods struck, write see w.it to Ikeue.l front sleep, and tstinetly beheld the apparttion she had seen, air toting b olt the tattle, ots !Itch sl e I her a qht I Ilop, aunt a stootl ppostio to hat Intl She describes her ry blot! .1s rein , wing setth Itty chillness her heart from e‘ery The euttntou..co of her fire wore not its bedterolent alieet the eyett otter livaining /with nlfeei lOU were flow fixed with xiern ',lord on tilt. trembling half dpi.olved being. who w it h the courage of deco 1 mion, thul abjurd , "Chocks, dear lee, why are you come ng.un •" . Jessie," slowly and solemnly gasped he shadowy form, w living in hIS lntnd a mall roll of ',riling paper, -Jessie pay my ewspaper accounts and let me rest in wage ", ARTEMD.S WARD'S THRESHING MA .r. CHINE. My wife n ereee.itngly Freely.] woman I hi, her intichly, however, and h finer her hole ways. Its a reckha falsehood that she henpecks me, and the young man to OUT neighborhood who said to no as I was dm tendin my diafram with u gentle cocktail at the village tavern—who saiii.tu'lne in these very longwitlge. "Go hoMe ell man miles■ yeti want another tea pot ilirowd at you by It. J " probi.Krearsts Iloilo suds," I said, t•lletay Jane is my wife's front nalne,geotle youth, and I pettnits no person to alood to her ae II J , otitsititlY the family circle, of which I omit tprtneipaldy myself,. Your other observations I scorn and disgust, and I must polish you off " ITe was a able bodied young man, and, .removin his coat, he inquired If I wanted 'to be ground to powder ? I said yes, if there was a powder grintliat handy, nothin would 'ford me greater\pleasure, when he struck me a pain ful blow into my right eye, CILIISICI me to make a rapid retreat into the tire place. I hadn't any idea that the enemy was so well organised Ilut I rallied and went for him in n rather vigris style for my time'of life, Ilia parents lived near by, and I will simply state that fifteen minutes had only elapsed after the first hit, wkfinna was car ried home on o abutter IT mamma tart the solluni procession at thetloor and alter keerfully looking hoe offspring over Idle said . ttNly I lan, I see h.* it is distinctly . You've .been foolib around a thrash in Mn' sheen You Weill in at the place where they put the groin into the thingainyjig and let the bosses tread on you,dida't my eon!; The pen of no liven miller could describe that dtiforttinit young 17111111 . 8 sitawntion more clearer But I was sorry fir hunt EN went and tinstitl.li ins till he got well Ilia reglar original father liatheen Seat to the war I told him I'd he a father to him toy self lie milk a sickly smile, acid said I'd already been wets, than two fathers to 0, CONO.ITENCY —We lately noticed the sad arpearantla certain lot of freedmen front other Mat duel arrived here, and the Chicago Post exclaiins—'What a commen tary on the condition of freedmen in Texas!" ,Tlits is as near as the Post ever gets to the truth where the South is concerned. But, even supposing tho freedmen had taken on the scaly appLaranee in Texas, abet right wiruieLit have_ltad4o,leake any such re masks the wool and poverty the Southern negroes ever knew were brought upon them by their emancipator. at ih4 North, and the worst of tu t ta i those philan thropies, while professing to free the ne gro from humane moilves, were actuated by nothing better than n low malice agninet Southern whites We have no doubt the philanthropists believed that emancipation would exterminate the negro, but this made no difference with them, not 'even to pre scut their makirk tlie attempt to create a fame at the South, on the heels of the war 'And even now, when they refer to the suf. feringsbf freedmen, they cop nothing for the minor, e.Feept.se far es they eon trans. form it into political capital. A few months ago, Mr Judd, the member of Congress from the Chicngo Dietriot,nuide a flaming speech there, in which he greatly abused the Southern whites and eloquently sympathised with the freedmen The next morning the Post came out With, a full re. port of this speech and a lively account of the meeting, etc , but it did not mention the foot that just about the time when all this hypocrocy waigoing on, an old negro m'an—who had gone about seeking help, and had been everywhere refused—was dy ing in a street of Chicago, probably within heartrig of Mr. Judd's voice. A thews of that kind did not suit the Post. The out- cringe di' uagroea are itok available for ils rposses unless they take place at the south:—Netos (Galveston) Tarn's, ---The Radicals of Pennsylvania denied, last fall that the Rump amendment wits as signed to bring about negro eurrage in the Southern States. Oa the 15th instant, in the Rump Senate, Wilson. of Maasaehu setts, 'teetered that 'he haired the Consti tutional amendment, if adopted, would have resulted in Impartial aukrage In ninety dam what have the Rode [nay to this. Did the " copperheads " lip, then —A spottglveoi►, V.., tower @aye }be wheel looks loaf Nam PM Mb- hal disappear ed, but Out !loon" boded le very Baia. Ism