)c Jeffcrscmian- THURSDAY, MARCH 31, 1859. Read the advertisement of A Shoemaker & Co's. Grand Gift Enter prise: in another column. Kot Dead Yet. -.In the immortal language(of "Danycl ,Wcbter," Tbe Stroudbburg Cornet Baud. nrc pleased toftate, "is not dead yet." Owing'to an honest difference of opin ion between tbe Leader and the Member.6 of tbe aforesaid Band, tho latter, we understand have placed themselves nndcr tbe leadership of Mr. William H. Wolfe, who served in that capacity a year o two ago. Mr. Wolfo is a good musician nnd under his efficient instructions, the Band uo doubt will amply maintain the enviable position to which they have at tained. Gone Astray. On Saturday after -noon a man having received a sum of money from tho Bank, sat down on . the step to count it, when Boreas rudely Matched a five dollar note on an Easton Bank from Lis grasp, and fled away with it, bowling in savage glee. Up to tbe time of going to press, the felon had not tceu apprehended, although diligent search had been made by our Borough Constable, for his whereabouts. It is perhaps unnecessary to add that diligent (carch had also been made by the boys in tbe neighborhood for the whereabouts of that "Bill." Last Tuesday afternoon was preg nant with events of stirring interest. It was in fact a time long to be remember ed in the history of Stroudsburg. "Cause WhyTr We were aroused from a gloomy meditation, to which we aro peculiarly huhject at this season of the year (proba bly owing to the close approximation of the first of April) by a subscriber's ten dering to U3 a year's dues. We, bad hardly recovered from the shook conse quent upon such an unparalleled trans action, when we were aroused by an im incuse commotion in the street, whieh called us to the office door, when wc found the cause of the row to be two. rival hand gflns, and a drunken man; and the main ingredient therein, to be one hundred and fifty jubilant urchins, of all ages, sizes, sexes, color, and conditions. We gave tbe oran grinders two cents each to ren dcrjtheujselvcs invisible; we gave the drunken fellow a pair of thick boots in consideration of which lie become invisi ble; we then gave oursolveB one glass of Ingor, and set down, fully persuaded that wc had established our claims to the title of a Benefactor to the human race. A new counterfeit $5 note on the Stroud-burg bank has just appeared. It id similar to the genuine note in the vig nette man feeding horses on the right, male aud fenalo uuder tree on the left; tailors on the right lower corner, farmers on the left; figure 5 on each upper corner. The note is a fair pecimen of workman ship, and calculated to deceive. JSaston Daily Tunes. Protect The Birds. Nothing can be pleasanter than to have these little feathered songsters making their svmtner homes in the vieiuity of your dwellings. Encourage them, then, aud put up a few boxes that tbey may find convenient places where to raise their little families. We do not suppose that any body in 3'onroe county is mean enough to kill one of these birds, but still it may do no harm to publish a section of tbe act passed April 21, 1858, for their protection. Thus w it. "That from and after the passage of this A-et, it -shall not .bo lawfal fpr any person within this Conmeswealtb to thoot. kill, or in any way trap or destroy " anyJSlse bird, swallow, Martin, or other insectivorous bird, at any season of the . year under the penalty of two dollar." Seduction of Postage to Denmark. We are reauetted by the Post Office 4 m Department to announce that tbe single rate of letter postage between the United KttPi and tba Kingdom of Denmark, bv tbe Brtmci&ar liiimburg mail, has been reduced from twenty-five to If teen ocnts; pre-paymcnt being optional, as hereto fore -sfibi reduction goes -Into elect imniedi- cdrate of German and Danish' postage to five cents the singl(fletter on American correspondence transmitted via Hamburg r lireaicn. Postmasters will note this reduction 'upon their tables of postage to foreign countries, anu levy posture jrccuruiugiy. -National Intelligencer Exodus of Slavi. - We learn- from Tie Ke&ulcGate City, Jh.it a drove of soventy fugitive slaves, tfrem the northern comities of Missouri, passed through Burlingtonr Iowa, last 'iiisd-ay morning, ob tbdr w.ay to the JJmwI of freedom. FOB JEFFERSONIAN. The Criticism on Cuba. Ma. Editor : I see by last week's issue of the Democrat, that Mr. Burrell, that terror to essayists, as ho would have tho public believe he is, has clothed him self again in his rich and elegant attire of critic, lain off his hat and with hair combed aside, wbUkers brushed up, and directing knife and saw in hand, with all the grace of a French dancing master, has made his bow to the public, aud, like a butcher, must luetily calls out to the readers of that Journal to take a piece of tho Philomath whom ho fancies he baa so dexterously dissected. We will confess that when wo at first-beheld all this condescension and ostentation mani fested over the imaginary remains of our Milf, that diffidence caused our checks re pcatedly to become suffused with blushes at the vanity of (some) men. And in oon sequence of our Dot being in favor of un due parade were led to inquire into the cause of all this boisterous triumph, when we learned that it originated in the pub lication of an ensay on Cuba in tbe Jef- fersouian of the 17th inst. And by still further inquiry and investigation we feel compelled to take the following pxeep tions to this apparently ottentatious bid for literary notoriety : Mr. Burrell seems to be filled with stunning wonder and sur prise that two essays should have emaDa-. ted from me in succession; as be "had hoped" that each member would have been on hand to take his turn at tbe wheel." Now what does this critio mean by "wheel I" But I presume that he has reference to that instrument of punish ment on which criminals, in certain coun tries, are put to death by breaking their bones. It would seem that Mr. Burrell has got an imaginary "wheel" erected, and that he has turned executioner, and "had hoped" to break each member of our society in his order; and judging from circumstances, it would appear that be is greatly annoyed because ZtiV'wbeel" dou't seem to kill. This critio tells us that it is not remar kable tbat outsiders should "speculate as to the probable cause of tho thing." What does this critic mean by "the thing?" We might guess, perhaps, but is it not the duty of persons of his classical pretentions to he more concise in their language I Now how does'tbis critic know but that he is doing the Society gross injustice by inti mating that tbe two who have published their essays represent tho writing talent of our Association? For be certain ly does not know but tbat tbey are the most inferior members in this res pect; at all events he has no knowl edge that they were selected from the Ten, as this critic seems to intimate, as falling offerings in order to appease tho wrath of! this assumed literary god. Our critic next finds fault with the minute descrip tion givon of Cuba, and with tearful eyes arrives at the sorrowful conclusion that I have somewhat retrograded in gram matical construction since giving my first paper to the public lie further states that "it is very common with some authors to confound adverbs with adjectives," and quotes the following from me to prove tbat I belong to tbat claBs: "Cuba extends from longitude 74 degrees to near 85 de grees West." This critic tells us that the adverb nearly should have been used instead of the adjective near. Now, near as above used is not an adjective, but is an adverb. In evidence of which we cite Kirkbam'a grammar, which informa us that near is an adverb, and gives the following example: "The man lives near by." This settles the question in our favor. Again, "it is our pur pose to brifiy review and see a6 near as we can." Near in this sentence tbe crit ie calls an adjective. He seems to have no idea that tho manner in which certain words are used determines the parts of speech to which they belong. Our critic, like the Modes and Persians in regard to their laws, thinks onee an adjective, al ways an adjective. But Webster says, tteat near is oseaeioBally aa adverb,. 'and gives the followiog examples; "It is near twelve o'clook; the payment of such a bum would go near to ruin him." This, I think, favors us again. Soe argue tbat "Cuba must natural ly gravitate back to us, (figuratively of course.)" Here, as ridiculous as it may seem, I am censured for doing what he before mistakingly thought I did not do. This critic tells us that we should have used the adjective figurative instead of tbe adverb figuratvely. This undoubted ly would have sounded very smoothly on Mr. Burrcll's u cultivated ear. u But we muet, nevertbelss reject it. Figuratively has reference to or qualifies speaking un derstood, and it is therefore correct. "Cuba's exports, and Cuba's commerce," are forms of tbe possessive case which do not suit our critic. Our forai would justify us id saying, John Smith's cow, and John Smith's horse. But bis forts, (tho com merce of Cubs, &o.,) would compel us in order to be consistent to ssj, the "cow of John Susith.and the bor f John Smith." "The true value of men's epinions, how ever, great orsmaH," .&c. Here our crit ic require apparently wiili'greattoDoerB, whether we "wean great or small men, or great or sanall opinions;" and declares that he cannot understand us, but bo fi nally very wittily arrives at the conclu sion that the word small is a small affair. Now, Mr. Burrell, we freely admit that the word is small, but your criticism upon it is smaller. "The slave trade which has been covertly carried on for year back, &o." In commenting on the word "back" as U6ed in this sentence he again grows witty, and inquires whether "we could not get the authors whole meaning without a back to it." This form of ex pres.Mon is used more or less by many of our best writers, and although it is not absolutely necessary in order to get the sense, it is said to be more emphatic. Tho verbs "freed" and "substituted," this critio says refer to the future lime, which is not tho case. They were used in tbe Dresent tense. I admit that our form of expression is somewhat at fault; but our critic is more out of order; and his cnti cita on this point is equal to attempting to whitewash a smoky wall with a strong solution of lampblaok. "Secessionist," in tbe manuscript was written in the plural, sn"3 "group" waa correctly spelt, but the type setter, made the mistakes, which in reading the proof were not detected. Now for a specimen of Mr. Burrell's pclling. In his criticism on capital pun isbment he spells grammatical, gramati cal. This is doing it up in rather short hand style. Animal, he spells annimal but this is reversing tbe process and great ly damages his new system of spelling. Further, I was informed by a person of undoubted veracity, who saw a part of Mr. Burrell's criticism in manusoript, that hein it spells dozen, dozzen, andsen tence, sentance. But the editor knowing that he bad enough grammatical sins to answer for, very kindly and sympatheti cally corrected his orthography. Our criticin taking his leave of ns makes up his mind that he is not suited with va rious minor things and threatens ourviews with demolition, but charitably forbears, as he would give us to understand, to de stroy us as yet, but finally assigns as a reason for arriving at this conclusion that it would require more time than he hat to ppare, and that the Democrat is too small a paper to spread himself in for such a purpose. Now Mr. Burrell, we have never intimated that we desired quarters, nor do we thank you for offer ing any. We have never wished for any thing more than that your criticisms should be conducted fairly, but this you are not inclined to grant, and indeed it is very questionable whether circumstances would admit of your thus acting,. even if you were inclined to do 60. I repeaf, that if Mr. Burrell had confined his criti cism to legitimate matter, I should not have noticed it. But inasmuch as he has done quite the contrary, and has made several unwarrantable attempts to make me answerable for his own errors, I bavo felt it incumbent upon me to attempt at least te show tbe absurdity in part of this critic's criticism. As most persons at all acquainted with writing know, it is a very easy matter occasionally to make mistakes solely.in consequence of tbe mind being engrossed in tho matter, whiob, for this reason, will not be detected at tho time of writing; and authors when reading their compositions at some future time with tbe intention alone of criticising the construction of tbe same, bavo often won dered how it happened that they did not detect errors of so gross a character, as they have sometimes found. An able and fair critio will treat cor rectly whatever he attempts to criticise ; tbe good "will not be unduly magnified, nor tho bad unfairly commented upon. But this critio has sought out with great diligence, every trifling mistake and has, in most instances, insultingly commented upon it; and when ho failed to find legiti mate matter for criticism, he has either ignorantly or intentionally asserted that to be erroneous whioh was correct. But in dealing thus unfairly I trust our critic has only succeeded in giving us s full length and life-liko likeness of Mr. A. B. Burrell; and it may be that weoughtnotto complaio, for it is but natural that a per son should use moat freely that whieh be has the most of ; "Out of the fullness of the heart, the mouth speaketh." J. LANTZ. The Republicans of Reading haveoar- ried that city at the late election by a majority of nearly One Thousandt and the Journal rejoices at the result with great exultation. Wherever party lines were drawn throughout the h'tate, The Republicans seem to have carried tbe victory -a cure indication of what is to come next fall and in I860, if prudence continues to guide our councels . "Talk about mean men !" said old Fox, "why there's tbat Bill Johnson, he's tbe meanest man I ever heard tell on Bill was a coBstable here. Why, des't you think he had an exe cution agaiwytij mo for a little matter of groearicrawl caaie out and levied on my oH waaot-'i ducks, and wanted- me to drive 'eaa up asd cat eh 'oa for him, and I told htm to catch tem himself; and -so-he chased Jem round the house and every time he'd eatcb a duek, he'd sit down and: wring its hc& ofi, and charge mileage." Sale at the Residence of the P. Barton Key The administrator's sale of the furni ture and household effects of the late P. B. Key, was commended at Washington on Friday, MoGuire & Co., being the auc tioneers The Star says that-at tbe hour, a number of carriages were drawn -up before the Key house on C. Street, and indoors a goodly assemblage, the ladies largely in the predominant, was gathered in the parlors or streaming up and down tbeetaircases. Some disappointment was expresaod by the ladies, in tbe fact that the house was much more plainly fur nished than was anticipated, especially the lower rooms. Tbh furniture of some of the upper rooms, however, made a mends in its solid mahogany respectabili ty. ' Mr. Kcv's chamber, fronting on C street, was furnished with rather Spartan like simplicity a plain bed, medium sized oheval glass, a small mantle clock, &o ., and the walls adorned with a single print hanny Ellsler. In the chamber above this, a curious group were overhauling tho contents of a imall - closet, which held the military f captain's equipments of the deceased a pair of old fashioned brass horse pistols a handsome sword, and on a lower shelf a hat box, containing tho well-remember cd "Montgomery Guards' cap worn by .hi so when;in command of that company. In a recess by the closet stood a fine n fle, with barrel sight. In tho nursery much altention was at tracted to a 'beautiful minature hou?c, some five feet in bight, and which with its tiny green blinds, carprted rooms, and curtained and glazed windows, must have been tbe marvel and delight of the chil dren for whom it was procurred. . Pike's Peak Gold. Mr. Wm. S. Wkh, fresh from Den ver city, has brought to Leavonwortb 400 worth of gold dust, whjch bo dug in twenty days with indifferent tools. Mr. Samuel Curtis, who left Feb. lb", tells the editor of The Olhma Republican that a miner, with rockers, will make from five to eight dollars a day during the Sum mer, and from eight to twenty dollars where water can be obtained from sluices The best diggings are on Cherry Creek, Dry Creek, Platte River, and Vasques Fork. Shot gold has been found on ban Vtain'8 Fork. The old Califoruians at the mines, are satisfied with their pros pectb, and all feel confident that great discoveries will be made in the mountains. Tbe English draggists are about adopt ing a hvxangular bottle with deep flut- iDgs, to put poisons id, which aro sold by retail. This is to prevent persons mak ing mistakes by getting hold of tbe wrong bottle. As an additional security tbe neck of the bottle is so contracted that but a drop at a time can be poured out. The very deliberate and cautious action thus produced will,' it is believed, deter any ono from taking overdoses of meai cine ; while it is difficult to imagine a case in which a person could pour out and take the wholo contents of one of these bottles in mistake for something else. All the governments of Europe are wantinirto borrow money. Austria want to borrow S30.0UO,000: England, 6:35, 000,000; Sardinia, 8100,000; France wants a large sum; and Russia, it is ex pected, will also be trying its credit to a larpe extent. About 5100,00U,UUU is the aggregate wanted by these different gov ernments to put themselves in a position to prevent ono being eaten up by the other. There was recently a duel in Napole on, Ark., between a doctor and a tailor. Tbe doctor shot the tailor through tbe leg, and the tailor shot tbe doctor through the extremity of tbe coat. They wore made friends upon tho ground the doc tor agreeing to dress tbe tailor's leg, and tho tailor to mend tho doctor's coat tail. Census of Louisiana. Official information, reported to the Legislature of Louisiana, gives tbe follow ing population of the State; Whites, 325, 007; slaves, 203,800; freo colored, 18, 864. Total, 646,971. 234, of which New Orleans has $08,256,725. Tho as sessed taxe on the whole are 81, 308,593, of which New-Orleans furnishes $483, 554. A gentleman Cincinnati, a few days since emptied his pookets of a paroel of letters and papers which be bad accum ulated thera and burnt them. The next morning he discovered tbat among them was one containing five hundred dollars fir bills 'which he bad intended for the mail. Brave Girl. Jano Bonestecl recently shot a wild oat, and brought him down from a tree, near her father's house in the town of Matrol, up North. Tbe ani mal then grappled with her dog, when he joined in and pounded tho "baste" until he was dead. A Long Courtship. Married, in Ire dell county, by Jacob Fraley, Esq., on the 20th of January last, after a olose courtship of twenty-three years, Mr. Reu ben Barbour and Miss Sarah Thompson, both aged about sixty years. Iredell (.N. C.) Express. At a social party in Providence, a few evenings ago, a lady thrust from her a young man who attempted to kiss her, with such violence that he fell and broke his wrist. If you wish to ofier jour hand to a la dy choose your oppertunity. The best time to do it is when she is getting out ot an omnibus. 03" See advertisement 0f Dr. Sanford's LIVER JNVIG9KAT0R in another. column The Counterfeiting- Business. Some of the most astouuding develop ments'are being made at thepresont time in relation to the counterfeiting of bills and money in New York and Ohio, from which it would seem tbat in some sec tions of the country it is becoming a reg ular branch of business, as eagarly pur sued, and, within certain limits, almost as opeuly as any other branch of speculation in the North, or as tbo foreign hlave trade in the South or in Cuba. Books tire published giving full descriptions of cheap methods of imitating tbe precious metals. Alt the tricks of counterfeiters for sweat ing, boring, splitting, aud filling coin are here detailed with great exactness, and on payment of five dollars any one hah hecu admitted into one of their circles. fn ftinn sections ouite larcre bodies of J o men have eone into this business as the easiest and most literal way of making money. Only the other day a Glevelaud paper tells us that in that city a Metho dist minister of high standing was preach ing n funeral sermon to a crowded con- L'recation. when the officers of justice ar rpstnH him as a counterfeiter. All tbe implement- for carrying on a very cxten sim linsinnss of this kiud were found in his house. Finally ho. made a clean breast of it before the whole multitude, and told them that having been brought nn nn fintrraver. ho had durinsr tbe last T - tz i tj two years become conuected with a gang of this sort, and had been hard at work manufacturing false bank bills ou a large scale. The question naturally presents itself, What can those do who live by buying and sellini?! The losses of the retail a storekeepers are becoming every year lar ger and larger, notwithstanding counter feit detectors and every other precaution ta the East Indies tbe Kings and Princei have obeated so in the -coiuago that in Burmah every man who sella carries hi? scale and weights, and weighs all his sil ver as he receives it; and they have "be come excellent judges of the quality of sil ver, aud can toll how much it is adulter ated. But we seem about to have no ee- curity tbat our coins are what they 6eem Ages before the birth of Chemistry tbe alchemists were occupied in seeking some means by which all met Is might b transmuted into gold. It nover sccmeu to enter into their minds that the ultimate effect of all this would, if successful, be to transmute gold down in point of valu and importance to the avernge of other metals. It is so in all these modern at tempts of a baser kind to counterfeit, in stead of transmitting. It is ten times as injurious to the coaimunity a so much money abstracted or stolen, or so much lead openly mixed with all our coins. Tbe uncertainty, the time, the risk of buying aud selling, makes men avoid ex changes, except at much larger profits, to pay for all this. Unless it can be broken up, our whole ourrency will becouie de preciated incalculably. But there is a worse depreciation than all this indicated in the exteusion of coun terfeiting operatiou-; it is the depreciation of moral character among men ot sufficient mechanical ingenuity and intellectual en tertainments to render. them most danger ous to the community. The social posi tion of many of these operators makes them doubly dangerous aud doubly dele terious. Sometimes we build great 1 for tbe future of our country from the in creased education of the masses. But let us not be bliod to tbe fact tbat mere in tellectual progress, without proper train ing in the habits of moral an J social vir tue and conformity to law, will only tend more rapidly to demoralize and deroy, rendering those who possess these advan tages nioro ingenious and therefore a more dangerous race of piokpockets, and counterfeiters. Who would wish to see a razor in the hands of every rund man ! Yet such is koowledge and skill to the unprincipled. There are times when virtuo and reli gion seem to carry their triumphs into the highest quarters of publio as well a private life, so openly and powerfully that all begin to hope a new era had dawned upon mankind. But, on tho oth er hand, Buch glimpses of life, public and private, as are sometimes seen arc not flatteriug to our progress in virtue. Th revival of the slave trado in the South, and tho progress of frauds and counter feiting at tho North and West, nil in de fiance of tho laws cquolly of God and man, shows that law as lata has not that power on the public conscience it ought to po!seS9, and must be brought to possess, to insure tuc perpetuity of a free govern ment. Unless children are instructed, iu the sohool-houe and at home, that law and right are to be respected, that not in genious merely, but honest and true wajs of making money aro alone to be sought unless spocifio instructions ou these points enter iuto pulpit teachings, tbe leason will have to be enforced iu other and steraer methods. The negleet of education is not the remedy to be tbo't of, but the additional instructions of whioh wo ppeak are loudly called for. Phila delphia Ledge. . A Smart Spell. A gentleman in North Chester, Ver mont, two or three wcoks sjnee, offered as a prize a copy of Webster's Unabrid ged Diotionory to one of tbo scholarb in all tho publio sohools in town who should "spell all tbe others down." Seven schools wcro accordingly represented, and about a dozen teachers and a large crowd of spectators were present when the trial took place on tho 25tb ult. But ono tri al was to be had on a word, and the uo- lortunate wno misseu must tage nis or her seat. Eighty scholars contested for the honor and tbe prize, and after five hours trial, five pupils remained standing, and tbe enthusiastic audience soon raised tbe needful to purchase each a oopy of the great Unabridged. . Duck Egg. The Adler notices a large egg, measuring 81- inobes in length, and 0 inches in circumference, laid by a dunk on the farm of Wm. Hen a er, of O ley township. Reading Times. Suspected Murder in Warran County, K. J Wo stated iu our last, that tho Wtie oi -ar 1 1.1 W..I I!ni4 inrf- a yOUng Ol. Xi.lCiergJfiuau B.au uisu denly, under auspicious oircumstances and tbat painfal reports implmatiirg? tbo nuabanu, were in circumuuu. moik&. to say, that there appears to havo beetf sufficient foundation for those reports The unfortunate lady was the wife of tue Rev. Jaaob S. Harden, and her death occurred on the morning of the 9th inst. Tbe Hnckettstown Gazette says : Tbe careuts of tho deceased suspected that their daughter had come to her death? bv foul means, and accordingly a post mortem examination of tho body was had by Drs. Blackwell, Cole and Glen, who ioon becamo satisfied tbat the deceased bad died from the effects of poison. Az Coroners Jury was immediately summon ed, and the State's Attorney, Joseph Vliot Eq., proceeded to the examination oi witnesses. Tho Rev. Jacob S. Harden, husband of the deceased, being subpoenaed, testi fied, under oath, that his wife had told; him on the night previous to her death that she had swallowed arsenic three or four times, and that he was impelled to do so because Of difficulties existing be tween her mother and himself. Witness also stated that before he received this iuformatiou from bis wife, the bound him by a solemn obligation not to divulge this statemeut to, any living being, except it was to sas'e his oirn life ! Several other witnesses were examined",, the burthen of whose testimony went strongly to criminate the husband of the deceased. From the facts sworn to by the mother of deceased, derived from in formation imparted to her by her daugh ter Foroe time previous to her death, tho conviction was forced upon the minds of all who heard her testimony, that the Rev. gentleman in question was a most consu mato villain, and it wan more than suspec ted that he bad been at least accessory to a horrid murder. The examination of witne3fes continued from Wednesday of lat week uutil Moo evening lat, during which time, by a mosst unaccountable and criminal overtigbt, the Rev. gentleman remaiued at large. On Tuenday morning he was missing, and the utmost excitement pre ailed in tbe neighborhood ben tbe fact becan.e known It'was soon ascertained that a disguise had been purchased for him at Wnhing ton the previous eveuing, and on the fol lowing moruing he had fled to Ashbury which place he reached in time to get ou the early morning traiu of tbe Central Railroad for New York. The fact of his escape was telegraphed to various stations along tbe road, and a Melainotype like ness of him sent on to the Chief of Polico at New York. The verdict of the Coroner's Jury has not been made public, but we understand that the J ury are unanimously of opinion, from the evidence adduced, that the de ceased was foully murdered. Governor Newell has offered a reward of 8500 for the apprehension of Jacob S. flarden and his delivery to the jailor of tbe county of Warrau, and his couviction of the crime aforesaid. Description of Harden. Jacob S. Harden has been a clergyman of the M. Episcopal denomination, about five feet five inches in bight, about 22 years of age, blue eyes, face slightly pimpled, commu nicative and quick in motion. Up to the hour of putting our paper to press, nothing has been heard of Harden. It looks now as if be had made good bis esoape, and it is possible that he may not bo beard of for years. The Trenton True American adds a few particulars in rela tion to this painful case, which add to its: interest. It says of Harden, that He entered the M. E. ministy two years ago, on trial, and had not been received into full connection. His age is only twenty-two years, and he married a very e.timablo girl about six mouths ago. His parent reside near Blairatown, War ren Co., near the Paulina' Kill, his fath- ir being a respectable farther in that neighborhood. v.. It is said that a young woman, with whom be eujoyed some intimacy before- his mani ace with his wife, was at bis- house on a visit, and that the crime was- concocted between them. The woman, it is said, purchased the poison, and, at tho proposition of Harden, it was taken in a dose of salts, he at the same time also ta king a dose, but uot compounded with the poi.aon. Who made tbe mixture is not stated, but it' is said, and, probably, with truth, that it was tho combiucd act of both. Hardcn's story is, that his wife, in consequcuce of a difficulty between her mother and himself, destroyed herself. i A Correct Portrait. Col. Forney continues to pitch into tho late Convention of offioe-holders, and says the people were indifferent to it because "of a double feeling of contempt for its managers, and a full foreknowledge of its policy. Nobody expected decent, much less Democratic action. The great body of the delegates did not come to reiterate principles, but to earn wages. They did not voto the wishes of tho people, but thanks to their masters. They had most ly Leon clocted as office-holders, or by officer holders; and, although they might bavo averted defeat from a gnat party by somo unexpected concession to truth,, tbey dared not to perform an act of mag nauimity, which, while it would havo woni for tbem tho applause of a surprised and gratified people, would have lost them their places, and the nruiles of an Admin istration which uow stands a reeking in famy before the nation." This is what may be called a clear statement omphat io and true. Murder of a Baptist Clergyman and Ms Wife. Harris, Marquette Co. Wis., Marck 26, 1859. The Rev. Jonathan Post, a Baptist preacher and his wife, were killed yosterday by their son. The murderer ii about 30 years old, and has been insane for several years, but was thought tob harmless until. this oeeurrenee. He made no-effort to escape. &
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