DVEitTistaiEmt - n.
.tdvertisements are inserted at the rate
of sl,ooper square for first insertion, and
q - each subsequent insertion 50 cents.
A !Ilicral discount made, on , yearly ad
v....tisements.
space equal to ten' lines of this type
~,•• ir.a re. a ..qUare„
I; 1-/Ilt . hti Notices set under a head b
„ ves immediately after • the 10%
„ • will be ohargod ten. cents a r
1.:1011
od• in
ertisertlents should be hy ert i on
;-,re Monday noon to insure
,that week's paper,
Btt siness' DireffirY•
BEATE!'
7 .s. ),ES CAXERON.Aitc'eY at Law. 'Beaver,
ac room. formerly oc
I,J Va. OftleXol :td 14., ith rin i n ,h am. All bail-
Jied by the and
~ :, eotrtmted to Itim
L.:.e ' luf 'gqli reeilce prom P t.
1
...nli at tell tit) a . jeV3 y
. ..
S 4 )11 N 11. YOUNG ..... i torney at J. raffia and
retddence or, Tbfd .t.. ea.-tiorthe Court !Irise.
ls..itiebs tiruruptuatlentled.toc_
-- . lif."
e;ly
j ll - 11cflItEraN/Attorney \at 1...ay. (Once on
. Third Ft., 1 . ,,,0w the Court Mouse. Al! hue!-
--pr‘aript.y. .tended ,o ' ' ' jet!. 'lotl .
s i • -F.V. T. dealer In Millinery. Trim
-1,1 "` : • Ili • O a .1 - tt.
. tuno .. LK) 00 2., c., on e corner or
- bi rd ar .....enaiLary-freer.. je1.4'71-ly
T 1 .. Kiiin. Attoruty at jiM.- ( file, cat
I' j . end vf - l'hird -trees, Beaver. Pa. in:Jar:o;ly
.1 S NI, NCTT. PurstclAN AN'ti SC /IGXON.
4.1.11 al tell I lull paid to treatment of Female
I: c.htence and office on Third rrreet,
I, el tor lite Curt-lioti.be
t. \ it YMEIZZ. Manufacturer and Dealer in
,•-, ;meet. and Gaiters: Main pt. [pep2S:ly
I. Ell Andrlersen
. Apothecary, Main et. Prescrip
.- ,„,retulls culnyonntind• (sep2stly
:%lily BLIGLITON.
COALE, Dealer in paints. oiLginesmails,
glast, loot ing-glasses. frames, garden
• 11, , ,,r-seeds and Lamy fowls. Falls street.
rep:n - 71-1Y
• LAM:NECKER d... , alel•Watch'es: Clocks
• and Jewelry. Repairßag neatly vieenteil,
ay. near Falis-st. noer7l-ly
I 11 - NII'VERT, Baker S; Confeetiones-; lee
) • ereatu, Oysters nod Guile in peas On.
\Viddings. Se.. supplied. noel •
' SMITH, tippositv Ptsss °Bite, Bi oadway.
• Dealer in the la•-t linildiwzlrardware. gins.
and putty, which he furnishes to contractors
1 , 1 builders cheap for each. oet2s 71-1 y
1 -
S. Nl.Erz, Bridge street, dealer* in fresh
1.• meat and. tat cattle, will %left. Beaver on
'nesday, Thursday and Saturday of etill •rtvek.
1 EVBR.ARD-bry-Gootts, Groceries, Notions
T gneensware, Big,liest price for good but
a• end prudure generally.- Opposite Presh a rterl-
1 Church. Broadway. ,[rep27 71-17
• E 'W
I NTEK,-fit'atchmaker, Jeweler add Op
tician. '2'24 Broad way . ser27'7l-17
M. IL McDONALI , Deah•r in Fine Teas,
1 .hone Family Grocsries,gneensware.Glass
;,•, Wooden w.tre. Willow ware, &c. Broad
, Sr„.., ser277l-1y
• It. TUTTLE, M if. -232 Broadway, New - -
6101 ton. makes the treatment of chronic
female tecnkut.sses a specialty. Con
•: free to the poor every tsumlay front Ito 3
. J.. it m erp27illy
_
„lIILILsf."'D coealers in fancy and
Dry Goods. ' D Millinery. Groceries,
•-. Broadway. New Brighton. 15p.27
•
I Nl\ Photograph Gallery. Every va
• - Pt, itm.s neatly co -rated. Corner of
. l‘,o, New fl,pzlitou L>{'2”:
1.1 E. Den'er ui Italian Sr, Alma - mat
‘: • . Monuments, Grave.
_ „'" A - ea.-on:0 , 1e prices. Railroad et.,
p• 1. Neu' Brighton. “727
I i MILL", Billiards. 'Tobacco,
i• • - i l,!-- Furnishing Goods, Brow _•sen27l Itt
'F .k 1 1' l CO.- Groceries. Cottei%
I a V d k'ruit.,, and ever Hag:
. . a Gr>t Clan grocery. Bridge SI.,
owori:ly.
\l e .1 - \\ I'N E. I)ealem iti iluotA
Lear SietilvlC:4
. 1. - 2 1 . y
1 I N(.. . '.d I . 7il'. 74 l'EAli. Dealers In
• I,d.iee• Funitr,hinz goods, 110-lery.
... Cr,o Apple ..t Broadway, je-Thy
i t.
Llis IA URANT and EATING 5A
.,.". at all liourr, ta leguipplied %, ith
.. of the 6C.1,011. Jeep, 10W. Win.
. . of Paul and Broa way. int•ll.3'7l-ly
I Ah.I . NT NI WSEHIES. Ever
• 1 •Ta.L , I Fruits. Three tnileg I ast of
1i0r29'71-Iyl E. THOMAS.
.. I : 1.11. \ND..t. KERR, Drag;:lsts
, „ • , ~ ~ enr:Zrortway and .I. alto
.. •,, • I', (.4uccemore to L It. No,
fele22'7l-1) -
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Lilt I DI: E 11 ATE IC
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dealer In limo.. 4la.n r.
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I.LEG/11,7A V CITY
ciric.il
•1+ a .pecially. 14.11ce. 1, - ; W. 1 ,11
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V , I. '1:7..1:1, tilir low; tivilliziarturvrp
-.03p. 'to In Itint - lotm
14.,z60ti) co;;;lty's
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LI VOLPOOL,
A ::ch,•;.'.l ti..irfup..ut of
:!•It.111('W. are. Uuu.rd
.1, Cl 5 - Dealers in Dry.
L• 4 ;, 5i10..., lists C:tp4,
re.
;'n,,ware: uC .
IVYrpool. / ly
OE
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cAretully at.d accurately
fel)1.:1
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LlT's cG. In General
(~ ,d +lGroreries, (Zueenr".
paid 101* country pro
janlilay
•1 1 ,, (•ELLANEOUS
I) Ilvaver conroyz Pa.,
aid I,r xr.611 of all
hair to ordvr. ]anl/71-:y
• I I. , :c•:ll.l.A.Manntaeturer of the Great
• so_oe.nud Patentee of Por
and centre. i , alletun. Pa
J. AN kilEliNOlNi t taken hold of
•• • • e.,/ Fuuntlry a..mtn. 12oehesier, r
meet his old customers
,and
may wail( either the BEST COOK
; r ,, k E. fleatinz Store, or atilt other kind of
of I. -VI material and workmanship. The
~e •t.e, %Ili he conducted by
J. J. ANDERSON &SONS.
• ,
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Vol. 54—N
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Carpets, 011 Cloths;
Mattings, &0., &c.,
AT LOWEST PRICES
Henry McCallum,
(Late McCallum Bro.'s,
PITTSIVICTICG-11,
aprh. , 7l:ly
RETAIL - IYEAL i t:Eres •
Equal to any Eastern Tot& t : o ng House.
Henry :llcCallum..
aurNay.
1 1 / 4 7 D. CONE, XL D., Late of Darlington.
LI • having removed to New-Brighten, offers his
medical services, to all Its branches, to the pelvic.
of the city and surrounding country. Office/cor
ner of BuW - r and Broadway. seplSay
ARTIFICIAL TEETH PERFECT.
E t— T. J. k U. J.
CILANDLER have pur
chased the exclusive
• right of Beaver county
_ • to useDr.tituek's Patent
by which they.can put
upPulcattite as , thin u
(told Plate, withabeam-
Wt •• 7 T Wm enameled polish;
1 and so light and elastic as to perfectly adapt itself
to the mouth; obvistingall that clumsy and bulky
condition, so much complained of heretofore; and
lessening their liability to break 100 percent- In
deed, no one reeim. it would be willing to wear the
old style plate any longer than they could conven
iently get them exchanged. All branches of Den
tistry performed In the best and most substantial
manner. In filling teeth with gold, etc., we chal
lenge competition from any quarter, and can refer.
to bring subjects w - hose Bllbrzs have stood be
tween thirty and forty years. Among the number.
lion. *John Allison will exhibit fillings we inser
ted some 115 years ago; the teeth as. erfect as the
day they were filled. Laughing Gas prepared on
a new plan, freein.! it from all unpleasant and dan
gerous effetts, making the extraction of teeth a
source oPpleasure rather than of horror and pron.
Prices as loy as any vaor: dentist in the StMe.
ctillce at Beaver Station. 1:0‘ nester Pa.
nort: t 'l' J. it 11. J CHANDLF it.
Brighton Paper Mills,
BEAVER FALLS, PENN'A.
, PRINTING,
Hardware, Glass, Straw.
RAG AND CARPET
PAP 30 FL ,
MAN VT VA.( yrunrin3
Wholesale d: Retail by •
O'-Raft. taken to erchange.
Homes - Still Larger
FOIL THE MILLION!
ksl
Rare rtiip.trt unities .re flow offered for Kt-caring
in a mild. health 9, and congenial climate
1,4 ttltt third ttt their value lire years hence.
N ATI* tN A L REAL ESTATE AUENCY
ha- tw. ,il , • ro.tl It-tate of every description, local
ed I. Middle and Soathern States: improred
k. r/ at attd fruit farms; rice, sugar and rol
-1,. pl.intatums: timber'and mineral lands; city,
root residence. and business stands;
ruin, and p.a, xitex,fac/Oriczt. 60.
11 . /./14,1 llegi.eter CODtaining dears ip tl on,
Ittrattttn, price and terms of properties we have
-fur sal, Address— R. AV. CLAIRE et CO.
, _National Rear Estate ,17eney,
477 tiF,,/ 1%-,ia. Avenue, Walittigton, D.
s; i4 •
Bridge Street,
I; RI DUEW ATER, l'A.
1A w Ek:1; LY RECEIVING A FRESH surriS
OF t;oous IN EMIL OF . TIIE FOLLOWINCi
DEPARTMENTS:
1)1Z, (.51 CDC)
Stilibenvi Ile Jeans,
l'a,stnn rt'S anti Sattinet!;,
\Voulen Bl4nliets, •
Whitt. Iliad Colored and
Barred
Merinos,
1)( I.li ne. , ,
( .
•
( ~bere
=
.1.") I is
lihrt‘n 111:Ick )111 , 111 ,, ,
r,
Lim ,
a: Mit!:
Sulrur.
and l . olllllioL Syrup.. M:tekerel
r+-i• :Intl Star and Taltovi Oandle. •
sp t ,., and Mitt,. Meat. AI. 0. ‹ i y•
SALT
Hardware, Nails, Glass,'
Door Lort,.D.,or at ch,v, Ser,v•.7ahn
'l: t,er). ah,.. :o.d I , •a Sta. I. Sltt!:.th Dellt.. Coal
rtra• and Nailo and
Spade.. Sta' t 2. tt line Fork..
Scylin, and :matt., Corn'aild harden
=ME
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galt , •r Prilldr and iiidles
..‘ N. ()IL.
Linseed ()il.& White Lead.
1i0Ott:.; SI10('S
LA DIEM' MlSst , ' ANI) CHILIMENs'
I •a
j ".
Poll der and Shot,
Blasting . Powder and Fuse.
1-'l<wur I=c.c.(l
!RE
hcav th•lle,rvd (rev of charge
I;y attenti,n to Inn.ne.s. and by keeping
ronstat.ny .4113111 f! 3 well nil ted sleek of 400de
of all th. dlnt•reh: ku d. u%ually kept Ina tonntr7
gt"re. the uh.lers:,:net, hopes in the tntire Sip In
thel , r.st to merit and re, , ..lVe libera: e:lare of the
patrou3::".
1:t t 1
It. r-4. ILA NC;
CITY BOTTLING HOUSE,
PI TTS 13T I, I'A.
•
ift//t, q:o
Fargo pa ri , 11ifl(1_31 and Raspberry
!a Wati•N, Sy rnp , 4 and f'ider. Smith
11'ainwrig4s, and all the In
'brand , . "I A h• and London ..a•ket
-4,1 and load I.,“ttled h , t...`.lt.dioal and P:1111
111 . 11 (;‘ , ..6,dcliverect free. LtnrS;7l;ly
A LLEGIIES I.IIIIAVEII I. Spriwz
XV'rtt, r SMITH Brewers, Malt
en, nail HOP deulers, No. 46:, Rehercli oreet,
Alleatiruy, Till/S. BOOTA.
A voUNC:.
Mf.h vie,. paid for Barley_ jys:ly
STEREOSCOPES,
E. & H. T. ANTHONY & CO.,
591 Broadway, New... York.
Invite the au:cotton of the truce to tlmir
extensive assortment of the above goods,
.of thi-ir otrn publication, mattufacture
and importation.
Al4O.
PIRao LANTERN SLIDES
and
GRAPHOSCOPES.
NEW VIEWS OF YOSEMITE. -
I
& 11. T. Anthony &
Broadway, New York,
Opposite Metropoliean Hotel.
In porters mid Manufaidurers of
PHOTOGRAPHIC MATERIALS.
mar:3'7l—ly
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.ilfisellatteous.
51 FIFTH AVENUE,
I have facilities for supplying
MAATNILLA,
ROOFING, BAILING,
Frazier; Metzger & Co.,
82 Third Avenue.
PITTSIICRGEI
Law rw,
IV:Ltor Pronis,
ClOhs.
Wonff,n Shawls
. _ ,- •
Ci rocerier,4,
W( )(WEN WARE
ME=
`ti:►. 39 Thirket Street.
noTTLEns or
VIEWS.
Clll{oMos,
FRAMES,
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13aitiOods.
RAILROADS.
MTS.. FT.WAYNit -& CIIICAOO ILAILWAY:
.Onand after N or , Mb. 187 L crane will leave
emulous daily, (Sundays excepted) as folknws.--
Mrsin laming =ago at 5.35. P. Y.. leaves &U
-LM [Trey. leaving Pittsburgh at &00 P.
lesTas
_
STATIONS. 1; End's.
Pi ßoch ttab es urg ter h.. .... ~.. !I
= 145.5.
..930 842 ,axl -
84 71 5 04 X 2304.11 838
Salem *
Alliance • ; 51)3 • 135 rniiiii ..013
Ifassillon
11 . 43 —' M 153rn 70,....
Orrville
Wooster
Cres Manß li n th ei c , f . I . j . :: ....it 930. 71°-
''' 635 61 0 11(Xl rflast ,1 1946 1020 010 *
Bucyrus , if
Upper Sandas.7— )1 •,: "• • . 17 E5 illiats
Forest , 1 1003 828 t
Lima ';1151 960 UV 1243
Van, Wert.
Foayne. /
!'iiti
Fort Wrm iiiibx iiio . 253
Columbia
rtAcw
tith
.. . 417 805
• • si" • .iil rai 510
, tiatisaraiso
celay g o 740 1630 630
•• IltatSlll 00010 SAIST
. 1/TATUM s.
gKeillo
l ESP'S. au.,.. hires
Il
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Chicago , talus / =et arloAx .olopN
, .... 1 ..
Valparaiso
Plymouth 123 pat 906 1947 IZiDAx
"Warsaw
Columbia • • • •
rort Wayne 230 i .... iiiap . iik
, /tau
Van Wert... ..... • , .... • ...
603 Lima . .1 420 I•44Lus 1 805
Forest • 620 i 250 430 au
upper Sandusky.., .... .•• .: •• -- •• •• ,
Bucyrus , i . 6 : 1 8f- . 4 •66, -a t -iii
c r e ll iin a 111 ••••i! Teo 4303 _ . moms 830 •
Mansneld '- 1 723 - aoly:., 120Orn 1 904
Wooster ...... .... • • i'• • •-• , Cia - i• - ••• i• • • '
Orrrille 1 9 2 0 . 700 , A 1.5 1113
Massillon . ,
. •••• • •••• •••
Can ton.
Manes Pm* Snu 440 i lit!'
Salem• 1
Rochester r litian 1 1 03 717 . 337
Pittsburgh 1 , 210 1210r9 513 41.5 1
•
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Youngstown, New Castle and Elie Express
lealem Youngstown at tto p. m; New Cattle, 2:55
p.m; firth es at Pittsburgh, 5:15 p, tn. Retorting.
lenrcs PlttabuNb 7:00 a. in: err. at New Castle.
9:30 a. ni. Younettown, 10:20. a. in.
lionngstoven, "New Castle and Pittsburgh Ac
commodation leaves Youngstown, 6:30 a. In; Nrw
Castle, - 4:20 a. In; arrives at Pittsburgh, 10:10 a.
m. Returnb,g, leaves Pittsburgh, 2:00 p. ar
rives New Castle.4:4s a m.. .
General lizesenger and 7intet Agent.
CLEVELAND ,t PITTSBURGH RAILROAD.
On and after Nov 12th 1671, train@ will leave
Station.) daily 4Sundays excepted) aarrollows.
STATIONS. j , MAIL., an% S.
Cleveland
Euclid Street. ....
Hudson IIYXI 124 505
Itiorenna .
Alliance ..
Bayard,
W..:115,111e
Pitt.bur4h
MI
MAIL.
Pitl 630.11 Wellsville ..... 11110
lia) ard
Alliance
Ravenna....
Hudson
Euclid Street
Cleveland
STATIONS. ACCON
Belisle .. . ... .... ' War .... 1 200 pr
Bridgeport 555 '.. . 210
Steubenville......l 100 '. ' 1 815
Wellsville , 815 t 158 PA 440
BialWa Ferry 11 . .. 1.... ..-.:
Beaver.
Roehesier. 11in4 1 ssr. , ' , , zr,
Pittsburgh . _ _ 111010 4OO • 610 I
(oci>l9,'64:t
lIEMM2
Pittnburgh
Rocheeter.
Beaver .
f.imitb'e Ferry
Steubenville
13riageport...
Bellair
TUSCARAWAS BRANCII.
leaves. Arrives.
N.Pniladelphlati:4oa.m. Barard 9;45 a. m.
Bayard 12:10p. m. I N.Phlladelphia 3:00 p.m
B. R...IIYERS. General Ticket Agent.
Miscellaneous.
__ •
AG EN TS WANTED
THE PEOPLE'S BOOK 1
De4gned for every home and In
dividual.
rr 111 NA.rrl 0 N,
Itn Haien% and Institutions,
Outlines of the Government,
.iriTI)GE
Published in English and Gerunin
1r4,000 COPI1.1:1, 1 4 50.L13,
.Ind xelling Faxter than any Book
AGENTS . ARE POSITIVELY
MAKING $3O TO $5O PER WEEK.
SEND AT ()NCI: FoR DEscruPTivE
CIRCULARS and TERMS,
AND .ET THE FII:ST CHOICE OF
Gs Firth Avenue, Plttlburgh, Pa
fehti-ly-chd aprs-n0,.1.
-- , -.Pft:c ARTIFICIAL HUMAN
INSERTED TO
MOVE AND LOOK LIKE THE NATURA L EYE,
No Culling or Pain Whatever.
A Dill - LENS —DR. CV. W. SPENCER, Sur
Art nqic and Dent let, •25{ Penn Ftreet. Pltb ,
burgh, Pa. Nepl3:l3,
81,311 kg. 11111-beads. Cards, Yowlers, fie
Dently execuetil at thh. °Mee.
.11. MOORE
DRUGGIST
Preswriptions Carefully and Accurate=
ly Cbmpounded.
THE BEST BRANDS OF ASSOBTER‘
.13aeclictiria,l.
WINES AND LIQUORS;
I" int.K , OiIIS,
DYE STUFFS:
MINE MS OF ALL COLOR
GLASS Sri PUTTY;
Special streation given to secure the best qtuslity
of Lamps end Lamp Trimmings, Lanteras
A Large Assortment of
TOILET ARTICLE 6, SOAPS,
BRUSHES Si--
PATENT MEDICINES,
Main Street, Beaver Pa.
SLING GOING WZ
Xamt. t ftr's
Axes.
F. 11 MYERS
OOP, 14 OUTfI
Ace°ls
840► n 1215 pm
:45.90 irk 53. i
1130 24 615
1202P21 4)02.
!65 410
410 640 •
GOENG NORTH
EXI
21()Px
0.9 it
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61) 725 A u
7r4 813
711 E 455
1115
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111258
1010
210 845
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SELECT MISCELLANY.
A BOLD STDOILV.
• It was my first withitt North since I
had taken up ray abode and entered
upon the practice of my profession in
New Orleans.
In the city of Netiv . York I had a
very dear friendfriy old chum and
classmaterge Dickson ; and, as
he was the only, tan I knew in
the great metropo o f course I lost
no time in lookingfri up.
Three years had *seed since onr
last meeting, but
. tf:tn could scarcely
have produced a change more mark
ed than had taken place in the ap
pearance and mann* of my friend.
Our first greeting*nd friendly in
quiries over , . I longed , yet forbore, to
ssk the cause of my, friend's melan
choly. I felt sure, In due time, of
being the confidentnf his secret, pro
yided no motive of delicacy prompt
ed. its concealment.
That evening. Jainy room at the
hotel. George told- inc his story. Ho
had formed an attachment for 'a
young lady, -whose graces of mind
and person he potrayed with all the
fervor of a lover'S. eloquence. She
had returned -his ifection, but the
father had oppesed' is suit, having
Set his heart on the; marriage of his
daughter to a nephew of his.
This nephew-was a young physi
cian ofpreiligate character, my friend
Mined rir=--0, that may have been
prejudice—who had long...but unsuc
cessfully wooed hisaiasin, to whom
his !troffers were as repugnant as to
her father thev . weranceeptable.
Some u3onthasineallir. Parsons—
the young lady's father—had gone
South. on businew, accompanied by
his nephew. At IsTO Orleans ho had
been seized by,fiudden illness, which
-terminates Adaya
On the day proceeding his death re
had executed a will (which had since
been duly proved by : the deposition
of the attending witnesses (contain
ing a solefen request that his daugh
ter, to whom he hati,left the whole
estate, should accept the hand of his
nephew in marriage, coupled with a
provision that in case he offered and
she refuSed within a specified period
to enter into the proposed union, the
entire estate devised to the daughter
should be forfeited to the nephew.
To sacrifice her fortune to her
choice, would not have cost Julia
Parsons a moment's hesitation, 'and
nothing could have more delighted
George Dickson than so fair an op
portunity of showing how superior
his devotion was to all considerations
of personal advantage. But her fath
er's dying request, in Julia's eyes,
was sacred. It had surprised and
stunned her, it is true, for in their
many conferences on the subject he
had !lever even hinted anything like
coercion.
Young Parsons had not the mag
nanimity to forego his ungenerous
advantage. , He might have been
content with his cousin's fortune
alone, but his right to that depended
on his offer and her rejection of an
alliance which she felt in conscience
duty bound to accept. The brief sea
son of grace, which she had been
compelled to beg even with tears, had
already almost passed, and a few
more days would witness the con
demnation of two lives to hopeless
misery.
At the conclusion of my friend's
narrative, in which, for reasons
which may hereafter be developed,
I felt a peculiar interest, I prevailed
upon him to accompany me to a
place of amusement, to which I had
previously procured tickets.
Whet. we reacned the theatre the
performance had already begun; but
we succeeded in finding seats that
commanded a fair view of the stage
and of the audience.
In a few minutes George touched
my elbow.
"Observe the gentleman nearly op
posite, in front of the parquette, seat
ed next the column, leaning his arm
on his cane," he whispered.
I looked in the direction indicated,
and saw the face, whose striking re
semblance to one I had seen before
caused me to start with surpriSe.
"Who is it?" I asked.
" Eldridge Parsons." was the re
wrhe nephew of whom you spoke?"
"The same," answered George.
" Does he resemble his uncle?" I
was on the point of. inquiring, but
just then the stranger drew the glove
from his right hand, and I s t itw that
the first joint of the middle finger
was wanting, a circumstance which,
for sufficient reasons, absorbed my
attention. •
" Do you know the exact date of
Mr. Parsons' death?" I asked, when
we had gained the street, at the Close
of the performance.
"yes," said George; "it was the
Mci of December. His daughter re
ceived a telegram from her cousin an
nouncing the act the sameßut
why do you ask?"
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"I hdve a reason which .may or
may not prove a good one," stating
that I had bUshiess engagements for
the whole of the next day, I parted
from my friend, promising to meet
him on the following evening.
Next afternoon found meat the of
fice of Dr: Parsons.
. "Dr. Parsons, I presume?" were
the words with which I accolted the
gentleman I had seen at the theatre.
, "Yes, sir."
"You may not remember me, Doc
tor, but I believe we have met be
fore."
"I beg your p!irdon for not recol
lecting the occasion."
"You were in New Orleans last,
winter. were you not?"
"I was," ho answered with embar
rassment.
"I am the gentleman on whom
you called to draft a will."
He turned pale and made no reply.
, ,
"'JAW the record of that. iwiltin
Abe Surrogate's offtcethis morning,"
I resumed- "and—" , . ,_
"Youspeak of my uncle's will," ho •
hastily interrupted.
"And 'yet," I continued, "you sold
it was yours when yotkapplied to
have it written. YOU` presented
yourself as desimus of executing the
document preparatory to embarking
on a perilous voyage. "The paper was
drawn in accordance with your in
structions,. leaving the date to be
filled, at the timid signing.,. Your
locks were-gray then, and yOu
g;cer
tainly looked old enough to have a
marriageable daughter; bu your
disguise was not perfect,". mill I
pointed to the mutilated tin - r.
"What do you mean?" he houted
in defiant tones, springing to Us
feet.,
.
"SiMply that your tuicle'S signa- '
Ore to _that paper is a forgery." I
lil P ilWered. rifling and . confronting
him. __"He died on the 23d of De
cember. Your own telegram to that
effect is in existence. It was on the
24th, the day befotve.Christmas, that
you called on me 1,0 prepare the pa
per now on record as his will. The
zfrtoo
inference is plain; you, und' kto
Inference
spurious estament
after, your uncle's death; a d, wish
ing to clothe your villiany in legal
form, you procured throug me the
required draft. You, or some one at
your instigation. imitated the signa
ture of the deceased. The witnesses
who have since perjured themselves
in their depositions,. were procured
insomotpanner best known to your
self-7-7, --,
,'FanOt4gh. sir I" he .: ejaculated pla
cing his,ck against the door; "you
have shown yourself in paslon of
a secret the custody of;Which .may
prove dangerous." :.
"I am not unprepared for your
threat," I replied. "In the first place,
I did not come here unarmed ; in the
next, I have prepared a full written
statement of the facts to which 1 have
alluded, with information, besides, of
my 'present visit to you. This paper
will be delivered to the friend_ to
whom it is directed, unless within an
hour I reclaim it from the messenger.
who has been instructed for that
length of time to retain it."
His face grew livid, His frame
quivered with mingled fear and rage,
and his eyes gleamed like those of a
wild beast at bay.
"What is your purpose '?" he ex
claimed, in a voice hoarse with sup
pressed passion.
'"To keep your secret while you
live;" I answered, "on one condi
tion."
"Name it."
"That you write instantly to Julia
Parsons, renouncing all pretensions
to her hand, and absolutely with
drawing your proposal of marriage."
After a moment's pause he seated
himself at his desk and hastily penned
a brief note, which he submitted for
my inspection. It was quite satis
factory.
"Be so good as to seal and address
it." I said.
Re did so.
"I will see that it is delivered," I
remarked taking it up and bowing
myself out.
When I met George Dickson that
evening his old 'College look had come
back. He had great news to tell me.
The next , thing was to take me to see
Julha, and it is needlessto say that a
happy marriage followed not _long
after.
Eldridge Parsons, I have learned,
joined one of the Cuban expeditions,
and was killed in an encounter with
the Simniards.
A PeVreet Cure Without the Doctor.
'A ''63ntributor tells -an exchange
how ho was permanently cured of
fits. He was riding in the mining
district of Nevada—one of those
mushroom growths common in the
territories—when night came upon
him. Tired and. hungry, he drew
up at a greasy, dirty shanty which
was called a tavern, and sought ac
commodation. Ho thus details his .
night's experience:
The landlord only could give me a
room With a bed-fellow.
"Very well, 'don't object," said 1,
as he led the way by the light of a
miserable tallow dip, which he left
with me to light me to bed.
I surveyed the room, and particu
larly my bed-fellow. He was a mild
looking man ; I thought—perhaps a
class leader in some primitive log
church near by. His repose was so
quiet and child-like I thought we
would sleep peacefully together for
the night; but beforeNl had blown
out the light he opendd a snore that
seemed liken cross between filing a
saw and sawing a board, and my
feelings at once became malicious
toward him.
I haunched my friend, and as he
opened his eyes with a snap, he said:
"By jingo ! how you seared me,
Mister ! You going to sleep here to
night?"
y es. t,
"Well, lam mighty glad of it. I
always like company. Its kinder
lonesome to sleep alone."
"Yes, it is so. Pardon me for
Waking you, but I thought it my
duty to tell you that I sometimes
take tits."
"'What! fits? You don't say so,
Mister !"
''Yes I do. lam not part icularly
dangerous, but I bite sometimes; so
be careful that I don't get my teeth
into you."
Well be doggoned! I hope
you won't have any fits."
"So do I."
"I hope, Mister, you won't bite
me if you do have any tits."
"0, I hope not."
He drew a long breath, and then
said:
"Well, I'm afraid won't sleep
any to-night."
"0, don't lose any sleep."
"But how am I to know when you
are going to have fits?"
"0, I groan and breathe hard, and
froth at the mouth; and when you
hear me snap my teeth like a dog,
then you'd better look out."
" Well, I'm hlam'd if I ain't sorry.
Mister you come in here. I'm afrai
yon'll be more company than I want
at present."
" 0, don't be uneasy I sometimes
don't have any for months. Let's go
to sleep;" and I pretended to drop
off into, peaceful slumber.
My companion rolledand tumbled
uncivilly for some time, then dropt
off into a restless sleep, and soon com
menced that old snore just where he
left off when- I woke him up. That
decided me upon having a fit and,
with a fearful snore, and a terrible
groan i ng,lsent my nails into his arms
and my teeth into his shoulder Just
hard enough to nip nicely, but it was
enough for the purpose. With a ter
rible yell he sprang from the bed,
and went down stairs exclaiming:
"0 dear, he's . got a fit; he'sgot fits!
He's bit a piece out of my shoulder!"
The landlord, with a crowd from
the bar-room, came hurrying up l and
found me just recovering from the
effects of the fit; and giving me a hot
toddy from his own private bottle.
he left nie. He carried with him the
clothing of my bed-fellovi, who turn
ed in on a blanket down stairs, re
solved to be bitten no more by men
that had fits.
—Train No. 13 ran off the track at
Faster's Station on Al
Valley Railroad, and the l
rolled o eg ve h r e an ny
embankment into the river. No one
was killed. About a dozen Were
badly hurt The train was smashed
up badly. ir
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CAP/TAI. rincumniniT.
W . C`havebeen requested to publish
the following article on capital pun
ishment, which app e ared in the To
ledo (0.) Index e time After' the
a im
escape of Meier, t convicted and
condemned murderer from the Tole•
do jail : ' ,
Conrad Meier. the convicted and
condemned murderer whose execu
tion was appointed to take place in
this city on Deftmber 8, hail just
" broke jail," and fled for his life to
parts unknown. I -am glad of it.
With • the utmost deliberation i and
full 'knowledge of what the words
imply, I repeat, l am glad of it. His
escape, I admit, is a dangerous defeat
of the ends of justice. at least in the
`common Opinion of the community ;
but none the less do I experience a
sense of relief that this poor wretch,
guilty as I suppose he is, will not be
legally strangled to death;:a week
from next Wednesday by the State
of Qhlek—that the atmosphere will
not be made thick and stifling on that
day will* a defenceless man is Mur
dered. in cold blood and with malice
aforethought-by this great and pros
perous commonwealth: You may
call the actin execution, if you please
—it is none the legs a murder; and I
rejoice that this horrible tragedy is
Indefinitely
. postponed. lam glad
that Meter is gone; I hope he will
never he re-mitured; and what is
more, I believe that you are secretly
as glad as I am,—that your .hope is
secretly, as strong as mine.
Now, my friends, there is some
thlug wrong in all this—l frankly
admit it. There is something mast
decidedly wrong, when men who
wish well to the Suite,—who' desire
to see italaws respected. obeyed and
sustained,—are obliged to take pleas
ure In a public defeat of those laws.
It is extremely disastrous when the
law of Nature and the law' of Man
are thus brought into , open conflict.
But yet I see no help for it. so long
as Man's law remains unadjusted to
Nature's law. "The laws of any
community," President Walker, of
Harvard University used to say. "are
simply the expression of its average
conscience." This is true, though it
would be more exact to say that the
laws of any community are the ex
pression of the average conscience as
it was, several generations back ; for
changes in the laws by no means
keep pace with changes in publicsen
timent and conviction. Our statute
books are full of laws which are prac
tically a dead-letter. On the whole,
hoitever, it Is true that the average
conscience is pretty fairly expressed
in the laws which are, at any par
ticular period, aetively.‘and habitu
ally enforced. But for this very rea
son the finer and more highly cul
tured conscience of the reriod,—the
conscience of those men and women
who we the inadequacy, or positive
injustice of the laws, and labor for
their reform.—is often forced into
open antagonism with them. This
is the origin of every battle between
the law of the land and what is called
the "higher law,"—that is, between
the average conscience of the com
munity and the conscience of the
more enlightened portion of it. The
bulk or the people are contented with
things as they are: the more thought
ful and conscientious portion of the
penule will pot be contented except
with things as they ought to be.—
Thus is a constant warfare of conser
vative and radical, of stationary and
progressive exists. without which
society would stagnate and decay.—
The growing uneasiness with which
civilized communities regard the
death- penalty.iselearly, in my opin
ion, occasioned by the expanding
conscience of the race, which begins
to realize the truth that no man is
wholly a brute, that criminals are
men, and that something better can
be done with them than to stamp
their life out under the heels of the
multitude. The great faith in man
which lies at the root of civilization
and is the grand inspiration of Free
Iteligion. begins already to teach the
inviolability of human life, and to
throw a sacred protection even over
those who have themselves dared to
violate. Yes. society is slowly learn
ing that hardest of lessons, how to
overcome evil with good,—how to
take the desperate outcast out of his
desperation and, while restraining
him from further evil, to, melt his
hardened heart with kindness and
love.
Society has no right to forget that'
criminals become such, nine cases in
ten, because of its own criminal neg- '
lect ; and, remembering this, it will
treat them lees as criminals than as
unfortunates. What are you and I
doing to rescue the children of vice
and poverty from their surround 7
lags? What are we doing to educate
them into habibil 'of self-respect, to
place them in situations where virtue
shall be possible, to give them a fair
chance in the great struggle of life?
What right have you and I to hang a
man for being what you and I, by
our neglect, hatT made him ? We
shall have no rig4to hang anybody,
until we have given everybody at
!mist a cliance to be honest and 4
right ; and then we shall not want to
hang at all. Society approaches this
whole question from the wrong side,
when it considers first of all the inju
ry the criminal has done to itself,
First of all it ought to consider, what
good have I ever done to the
erimi
.nal ? The frank and eardest investi
gation of this problem would work a
vast reform inaiur penal legislation,
and we should discover that the pre
vention of crime must be sought, not
In the erection of jail and gallows,
but in the erection of reform-schools
anti agricultural colleges 'and every
species of educational institution by
which the young vagabond of our
streets Shall be trained to useful in
dustry. It makes my heart sick to
think of the great mass Of humanity
predestined to crime in' all our cities
by the moral poison thby inhale at
every breath; and it gi'ves me no
comfort to remember that we can
hang them all, the moment they
yield to temptation. Society makes
its own criminals , friends; shall it
dare defend its right to hang them
when made? I carry the war into
Africa. Let society do its duty by
the child, and it never need strangle
the adult. A century ago the Mar
quis Recarria uttered this memorable
predictipn : "The punishment of
death must disappear from the earth
when knowledge and pot ignorance
shall be the portion of the greater
number." In universal education,
opening an honorable career for eve
ry child, will yet be found the surest
remedy for pauperism and crime;
but until the means of entering upon
this honorable career shall be within
the reach of all, I deny Point-blank
the right of society to murder its un
fortunates. '
The evil, howeirer, or which I
complain,—that conditlim of the
modern world which makes the birth
of thousands of children tantapount
to their direct compulsion toa dree
of crime,—is very ancient, ard
to cure. What unist be done mean
while, before means are devised to
right this wrong? Crime must be
repressed in the most efficient way or
society will dissolve into anarchy.
Law add order are such priceless ben
efits that they must be preserved aft
every cost. t spits' Punishment, it
is urged, is indispensable, in the ac
tual state of things, in order to secure
the prevention of crime; mid this is
its sufficient justification.
Now while this defence of Capital
Punishment is almost the only one
put forward deliberately at the pres-
Establi,shed 1818 ' •
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cut day , I think its force is o ft en st‘
eretly enhanced in the minds of many
t=eling that the worst criminals
death, that their loss of life
Is a righteous retritfhtion for the vile
they have done. But this feeling I
conceive to be utterly wrong, if made
a. reason fer continuing the death
penalty. It Is neither more nor less
than the ti - iniffitient of gratified ven
geance; it Is a vindictive emotion,
unworthy of an enlightened soul. It
is no part of our province to deal out
the details of iniquity, as such ; the
rights of society do not include this
power of rewarding or punishing the
individual on pur e moral grounds.
With the abstract Ott or wrong of
human actions, has nothing
to do; ft mast regard t soleiy as
beneficial°, injurious to metal order.
and scrupulously forbear from assign
ing to them either rewardh or pun
ishments on the wore of their moral
character. The murderer. may or
may not deserve to be hung; but in
any case that is no reason for hanging
him. The only justifiable reasons
for the Infliction of penalties are three,
—reformation of the criminal, rep.i
ration to the injured party, preven
tion of future crime. ',Now the death
=ty can neither reform the aim
nor make any reparation to the
!murdered man; Its only possible
justithation must, therefore, 1* the
prevents of future crime. The de
fence of lintpital Punishment turns
wholly on thisaue point, regardless
of the moral fitness or unfitness of
the penalty ; and it should be care
fully observed, that to lideocate the
Infliction of death as a punishment
on the score of Its moral appropriate
ness or desert, Is to make the elate
l usurp the functions of the private
1 conscience, and meddle with matter
Which ought to be sacred from all
public interference.' The sole ques
tion is.---IsCapital Punishment neces
sary to prevent crime? As long ago
as the time of Nero, it was perceived
by the philosopher Seneca, that retri
bution is no part of a just punish
ment :—" No wise man," he says,
"punishes because crime has been
committed, but only la order that
crime may not be committal [ Nenzo
prudeneis punit quia peocaduns at, std
tie pecmturl ." Unless essential to
the preventon of crime, Capital Pun
ishment cannot be for a moment jus
tified to an enlightened conscience on
t the plea that the criminal deserves
&nth, as the reward othis crime. It
loco business of the State what he
deserves, unless the State is authorPt
ed to sit as moral umpire and judge
in cues of conscience, to weigh mo
tives, and execute vengence for sins
' as such,—than which nothing could
be mine tyranical or absurd. Keep
out of the problem, therefore, all
questions of moral desert, an con
fine it strictly to the one inqui into
social cousequences.
The general question, how er,
whether the State has any right. to
inflict the death penalty even to se
curethe prevention of crime, must be
first settled. si right to punish
capitally deperTfis on the AB.SOIXTk
N.WEssITY of capital punishment.
On this point the.great and good Ed-
Ward Livingston; in his introduction
to the Criminal Code of Louisiana,
has, I believe, laid down the right
principles :—"The right to inflict
death exists, but it must be in de
fence either of individual or social :
existence; and it Is limited to• the
case where no other alternative, re-•
mains topevent the threatened des
truction., '
In the application of these
principles Mr. Livingston holds that
a nation may wage a defensive war.
against a
another nation, or may sup
press y arms a. rebellion or insurree:
tion, s ce in these cases no alterna
tive reniains; but that society never ;
need take the life of an individual,',
since the alternative of lin prison m en t-,
always remains, and since an indi
vidual can never threaten it.' actual'
existence. This, however, seems to
be an Inference not correctly drawn.
What is social existence ?, Nut the
existence of the individuals who corn
pose.society. as Mr. Livingston ap
parently
assumes; all of these, or
course, no one criminal could seri
ously threaten. But social existence
is the existence of that social order
that established organic law, which
secures life and property to all the
members of society ; and a case may
be coneeivekin which single individ
uals. might so endanger this aggre
gate stability and peace as ta'Justify
the taking of their lives in simple
self-defence. Tam inclined to justify
the action of 'Vigilance Committees'
in certain cases. At any rate, the
question whether capital punishment
is essential to social existence cannot
be settled a priori for all communi
ties; the only principle that will
hold is this, that wherever it has be
come possible to maintain a reasona
ble degree of public security to life and
property by other penalties, the
right to inflict the death penalty
straightway ceases, inasmuch as self
defence no longer absolutely requires
it. That this Is the case in all our
settled States, certainly in the State
of Ohio, I have not the shadow of a
doubt.
Highly as 1 value human life, it Is
not, in my_ estimation, above all
price ; freedom is worth more, honor
is worth more, virtue is worth more,
country is worth more, the welfare of
the race is worth more, great ideas
are worth more. For such as these a
man will cheerfully sacrifice his life ;
and to preserve them nations and
communities are summoned to sacri
fice the lives of their children. But,
nevertheless, life is worth more in
proportion as the race becomes civil
ized; and, in faci, the value get on
human life is one of the chief criteria
of the elevation attained by any peo
ple in , the scale of civilization. Sav
ages fling it away in meretime;
but the wise man would pkt pas die as
the fool dies. A high reverence for
human life is so priceless in its influ
ence on social well being, that every
means may welt be taken to enhance
it in the community. It hr precisely
because the death penalty cheapens
human life, breaks down the guards
of its sanctity in popular estimation,
that capital punishment, the moment
it ceases to be absolutely necessary,
immediately becomes an enormous
outrage. At the very best, it Is a
necessary evil in certain disorganized
states of society; but in every organ
ized community it is a demoralizing
agency of fearful 'rawer. The people
that permits legalized murder when
other penalties would better accom
plish the same end, educates its chil
dren to bloodshed, and wilfully fos
ters crime in its own borders.
For proof of this statement one
need but consider the effect of public
executions. The sight or blood-shed
ding exercises a terribleinfluence on
the imagination. I saw a year or
two ago in the • daily papers au ac
count of a little boy of nine years
who, having seen his father kill and
drags several hogs, afterwards induc
ed his younger brother to play at kil
ling hogs. and murdered him in the
horrid sport. The school-master at
Newgate, England, says that "heitas
seen his pupils, before the bodies of
criminals were taken down from the
scaffold, play the scene over again,
one acting the convict and the other
the hangman.'! The famous Volney,
just after the French Revolution,•re
lates that he was deeply affected at
seeing crowds of children amuse
themselves with chopping off i nto'
heads of cats and chickens, in imita
tion of the dreadful scenes Of the guil
lotine which had then grown inire
quent:—"Even childhood had be
come inured to scenes of blood, and
imitated the most frightful tragedies
for sport."
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that, out of 167 condemned criminals
all but three had witnessed execu
tions,—a fact that shows how little
power there is in these sickening.
spectacles to deter from crane. Ac
cording to Mr. Buxton,—" It Is no.;
torious that executions very rarely
take place without being the occasion
on which new. crimes are commit.
ted." The testimony of Urn Ford,
who was largely acqualnted with
crinainalb, is the :.• me. An execu
tion," he says, "rnakettpo more im
pression than. the death of fly... ,
Executions are of no use. either for
punishing aim Innis or deterring oth
ers." " Every execution," said Dr.
Lushington in the House of Lords,
" brings an additional candidate for ,
the hangman." In 1822, John Lech: ;
ler was hung , at Lancaster, Pa:Jor
murder. The very same evening:
ono Wilson, who had been present,
met a weaver named Burns, with
whom he had had some misunder
standing. and murdered him.—was
seized by the officers of justice, was
handcuffed with the irons hardly yet
cold from the wrists of Lechler. An
Irishman. executed for forgery. was
even back to his family ; and whllo
his wife was lamenting over him, a,
young man came to her to purchase
seine forged notes. Forgetting her
grief.she wassellinghimsomew hen,
being surprised ty the officers, she
thrust the notescin her alarm into the
mouth of the corpse, where ttfe offi
cers found them. So much for the
exam* of her husband's fate. Con
tempt efdeoth. quite as'much as the
hope of escapiag the uncertain pen
alty, takes away ary l !
,uncrequently
the force of the penalty. 4 pit'
said to his comrade. while.( heY Fels ,
undergoing the torture of the wheel . ,
"Why do you make all this noise?—
Dl4 you not know that in our profes
sion wa were subject te one more
malady the , rust ofthe world ?"
The influenoe.ciftitSlast dying speech
es of notorious criminals goes direct
ly to faster a morbid *Waite which
leads to crime. An it paper
says that from 11 to 21 ix/Min/UN
copies of each of the penny namiti'Whi
of the executions of Rush, thelMan
n nes, Courvoisier. Good, Condor and
Greenacre were sold. Can it be doubt
ed that the tendency to crime Is stint
elated by such a flood of vile, exciting
appeals to the imagination? The eirlizt
of public executions are so greet and
their e4ecitllZO a lielous, Mitt Pri
vate executioos &v e now almost ev
erywhere taken ic place. Yet
this change does away with gist VET
publicity and impresavenaie of Ow
spectacle as a moral lesson,, which
was supposed to be the greet re ink
achieved by Capital Punishment,
filet, it is a chirnge that proves that
society is secretly ashamed of its own
proceedings. and it simply marksii
gradual approach to the complete ab
olition of the death penalty.
But the brutalizing influence of this
b ar b2rous mode of punishment is not
the sole .
-.-itson for abolishing it. It
is a punishm:'t ""' if inflicted on
the innocent in I.74taitti_
led
s h ßr a l l
perjury, admits of po . r vuress ; ta
there are pverwhelthing 1 ,,'00f3 that
it has often been Inflicted on the . 4 .! )-
nocent. Victor de Tracy said in tha
French Chamberm of deputies. in 1828,
that, within six months, eleven see=
tences of death were reversed by the
higher courts of France for errors et
fact. Fitzroy Kelly said in the Brit
ish Parliament that fourteen innocent
persons were hanged in England dur
ing the first half of the present cen
tury. Daniel O'Connell makes the
following statement.:--." I myself
defended three brothers who were ac
cused of murder. I saw the mother
clasp her eldest son, who was but
twenty-two years of age. I saw her
Wang on her t , Lowhq was not
twenty. r 'int when she
clung to then_ o ryoungest boy',
was but . They were
executed, anirtkey weie innoctnt !"
No wonder whensuch awful mistakes
continually occur; that the immortal-
Lafayette exelaiined in 1830 in the
French 'Chamber of Deputies,—" I
shall demand the abolition of the
death penalty, until I have the infal
libillity of human judgment proved
to me!" Or that king Louis Phil
lippe exclaimed,—" I have detestel
it all my life long !"
Not only is Capital Punishment
demoralizioz to the public mind; not
only are there frequentand fatal moll
takes in putting the innocent to
death ; but, also, it is as usel es s as It
is barbarous and unjust. Thelexper
iment has peen tried of dispensing
with it, and with eminent succes4.
The Empress Elizabeth abolishetit
in Russia, declaring,—"'Experience
demonstrates that capital punish
ment never made men better.' Her
succeswor, the great Catherine. adopt
ed this reform in her code of laws,
and remarked to the Count de Segur
—•' We must punish crime without
imitating it; the punishment of death
Is rarely anything but a uselem ter
harity.". In Tuscany, where the
death penalty was abolished for 20
years, the Grand Duke officitilly an
nounced that "all crimes had dimin
ished;" and Franklin stated that in
Tuscany only five murders occurred
in 20 years, while in Rome and vi
cinity, where the death penalty was
inflicted, sixty murders occurred In
three months.
Capital Punishment was abolished
also in Bombay ; and Sir Jamey
Mackintosh, in his farewell-address
to the grand jury, spoke as follows of
the result.:—"The murders in the
former period, in which Capital Pun .,
isbnient was inflicted, were as three
to one to those in the latter [period,
in which the law was abolished."
In the reign of Henry the Eighth,72,-'
000 criminals were executed, that is,
2,000 a year ; yet crime continually
increased. It is not the severity. but.
the certainty of punishment which.
deters. Meke the punishment too
severe, and it will not be inflicted.
When a theft of 40 shillings brought
death in England; within a space of .
two years 553 perjured verdicts were
rendered for thefts of 39 shillings and
11 pence. Jtiri will not convict
honestly, If the. natty is 'excessive.
In the State of ..I chigan, in which
the death penalty has been abolished
since 1346, a recent discussion has
taken place concerning the wisdom
of the .present law, in which Chief
Justice Cooley,- Judge Graves, and -
Ex-Gov. Austin Blair, nre in favor
of the abolition of Capital Punish.'
ment, while Judge Christiancy,Judke
Sutherland, and Judge Johnson Ara.
opposed to it. Statistics, carefully
drawn, are required in this ease to - -- ;
render an opinion safe. But sure I
am that, in proportion as men be- -
come truly civilized, they will feel
more and more sympathy with the
great Roman orator,: when he , el,'
claims :" 1 --Away with this cruelty':
from the State! Allow it not, 0
judges, to prevail any longer In the
commonwealth ! It has only the
fatal effect of cutting off so many of .
your fellowmetrin so cruet a manner,
but It has even banished from men
of the mildest temper, by the - famil
iar practiceof slaughter, the Bentimene
of mercy."
=CI
Heck, a German aged
forty-sic ,veani, was killed on Satur
day evening at Germantown, N, Y.,
by jumping from the cars while in
motion. He has a sister residing lu
Cincinnati.
—The wife of an Irish gentleman
being suddenly taken ill, the husband
ordered a servant to get a hem ready
to go for a •doctor. By the time,
however, that, the horse was ready
and the note to the &peter written,
the lady had recovered; on which he *
added the followingl)estscript, and
sent the servant pin "My wife ,hav
log recovered, you need not eeme.n
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