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THE STAR OF THE NORTH.
R. V. Heaver, Proprietor.]
VOLUME 9.
THE STAR OF THE NORTH
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TUB HUME ANGEL.
She dwell apart from early youth,
In gentle household ways ;
Contented with her mother's smile,
And with her father's praise.
Hers was "the grace ol quiet horn,"
01 fancies gay and pure ;
Of trusting love thai could obey,
And strength that could endure.
Beauty from simplest actions rose,
And harmony Irom strife;
So did her kindly spirit fuse
The elemrnte of lile.
Hers was (lie hand that freely gave,
The ready smile or sigh.
The cheek that true to feeling (lushed,
The bright and upward eye.
A stranger came, lie look'd and loved,
He whispered at her side ;
There fell a shadow on her homo
The day he claim'd his bride.
And well she kept her vows, she lurn'J
The prose of life to song;
But nil to high that strain for earth—
And it was hushed ere long.
She died, ere love was fully told,
As dies a flower in Spring ;
Kanh never lost, nor heaven gained
A faiier, sweeter thing.
Ay, hundreds like her live and die,
In Knglaud's household bowers;
And bU'ei-cd are the hearts that Icel
"Such angels yet are ours."
IIOMB WITHOUT A MOTHER.
What is home without a mother?
What are all the joys wo meet,
When her loving smile no longer
Greets the coming of our ieel?
The days seem long, tho nights are dreary,
And time rolls slowly on ;
And O, hew few are childhood's pleasures,
When her gentle care is gone.
Things we prize are first to vanish;
Hearts we love lo pass away;
And hnw soon even in our childhood,
We behold her turning grey.
lie eye grows dim, her siep is slow,
Her joys of earlh are pasl,
Ami before we learn to know her,
Sho has breathed on earth her last.
Oilier hearts may have their sorrows,
Oriels that quickly die away;
But a mother lost in childhood
Grieves the heart from day lo day.
We miss her kind and willing hand,
Her fond an earnest care;
And O, hnw drear is life around us,
What's home without a mother there?
" EXCESSIVE DRESS.
Tho consideration of dress as a mirror in
which it may be said to reflect tho moral
condition of the individual or the communi
ty, has never had much serious considera*
tion. More than two-thirds of our race are
Kke floating corks, the blind creatures of all
conflicting social currents, with little or no
consciousness of action as it should be regu
lated by moral principle. A plethoric influx
of money, from commercial and other pur
suits, is sure to breed the rankest kind of
luxury, which carries with it a vicious pro
pensity to e.vce'slve dressing, and this as
sumes so many morbid variations, as not
only to insQll art, to parody nature, but even
to expose that sacredness of personality in
woman which has been spiritually purchased
lor her by the religious growth of ages. Out
of brutal idolitary to fashion, or a degrading
concession to the carnal ties of the time,
woman but 100 frequently poison our social
atmosphere Ly immodestly robbing their
persons of that chaste and becoming drapery,
which is as ennobling to the wearer as it is
beneficial lo the beholder. The person of
eOlaiy woman has a moral dignity. a religious
import, which can only be vindicated and
maintained by being becomingly and mod
estly attired. Whether in the street or (he
boudoir this solemn truth should not be for
gotten. Men but little dream that, in wick*
edly stimulating a love of dress by their
overflowing pockets, and out of an insane
vanity for display, their aro busily engaged
in infusing poison into the moral roots of so
ciety, which must shoot forth sooner or later
into a forest of the most terrible and blast
ing evils and obscenities. Sensuality and
vanity are in every community interlinked
like two vipers, and are not only born out
of, but are perpetuated by a misapplication
of wealth.— Cragon.
Suictrf or SENATOR RUSK. —The dreadful
intelligence communicated by the telegraph,
that Gen. Thomas J. Rusk, the distinguished
Senator from Texas, has committed 6uicide,
will carry a gainful shock over the entire
country. No particulars are given, but as
tit health has recently been very bad, it ia
probable that it was under depression of spir
its, it not in a moment of temporary insanity.
"Gen. Husk is identified with the history of
the State he represented. When Tessa was
warring for her independence, bis eword aid
ed tier battles, and wben it was achieved, hia
counsel wis called into requisition, and he
was a member o( President Houston's first
'Cabinet.
Or Why are good husbands liko dfiugh 1
Women knead them.
BLOOMSBURG, COLUMBIA COUNTY. PA.. WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 12. 1857.
FVom Ike KnicJtci bother.
TUB WIDOW LBKOOJtI'S LAST LOAF.
BV NARY K. THROPP, OV VALLEY FORCE, PA.
r Calm und deep peace is this wide air,
These leaves that rodden to the fall;
And in one hesrt if calm at all,
If any calm, a calm despair.
"Calm on the seas, and silver sleep
And waves tlmt rwnv themselves in rest,
And deep calm in thai noble breast,
Which heaves but with the heaving deep."
'Tennyson.
It was evening.—a beautiful autumn even-:
ing. The red leaves yet danced, rejoicing
in the mild air; the yellow sunshine yet gild
ed the hill tops, and the aoft shadows were
creeping silently up the valley, as the gentle
widow Leedom, with her child in her arms,
wended her way homeward. She was tired,
for she had toiled all day in farmer Wood's
kitchen, and though it was Saturday even
ing, she had not been paid lor her labor.—
The kind hearted house maid at Farmer
Wood's had urged her to wait for her supper,
but she thought of Iter littlo hungry ones at
home, and she could not stay. She had no
eye for the glory of that superb October sun
set as she walked wearily on, her tired arnta
scarcely able to hold the little joyous creature
that laughed and crowed, and ever and anon
peered into her bonnet, lisping his sweat
toned " nvtmma, mamma." She thought
only of her expectant little ones, and the
means of obtaining bread for them to last
over Sunday. As she neared tlio village,
she seemed irresolute whether to enter it or
pass on; but a vision of her lonely, fasting
'children, rose up before her in imagination,
and she slopped, bar lips moved a moment
or two as if in prayer, and then quickening
her stop, and hurrying on like one who has
nerved herself to a sudden resolution, she
turned into the main street, and was soon
standing before the counter of the baker's
shop. The hakor was an austere man, but
it was not iu human nature to resist the
Widow's pleading tone and touching expres
sion as she falieringly asked him to trust her
to a loaf of bread fur a day or two. The man
handed the loal reluctantly, and was about
to insist no prompt payment, when a glance
at the widow's painfully flushed face and
embarrassed manner deterred him. Willi
scarcely audible thanks, she concealed the
loaf under her tattered shawl, and drawing
her babe closer to her bosom, hastened
homo.
"Mother'scome'. mother'scomo '."cried a
couple of young, eager voices, as she enter
[ ed the gate, and her seven year old Robert
and liis little sister came running to meet
her. Thoy were pretty children. Tho little
Mary inherited Iter mother'a mild blue eyes
and delicate complexion, and the boy his
father's handsome face and honest brown
eyes. Poor children, Ihey were accustomed
to being left alone, for the widow wont out
to work daily, and the night wBB always
welcome that brought thoir mother's loved
return. They had a thousand things to ask
and tell which fell unheeded this lime on the
ear of the sad mother, though she instinctive
ly answered them yes and no us occasion
required. She gave the loaf to Robert, and
taking litl|e Mary's hand, they entered the
house together. The table was already set
out by the little expectant housekeepers, but
I there was nothing on it that could be con
' sirued into anything eatable save a cup of
molasses and some salt. The mother cut a
slice of bread for each of her half famished
children, and sat quietly by nursing the
youngest while they ate it, lor she had no
heart to eat herself. She was very sermw
ful as she looked at those little dependent
beings and thought of failing strength, and
shading her eyes with her hand, the tears
stole silently down her pale, patient face, and
fell among the bright curls of the Utile uncon
scious head pillowed so peacefully on her
bosom. She had been sorely affiicted. The
husband of her youth had been etricken
down by a falling beam, while attempting to
save a siok child, that had been overlooked
in the hurry and panic from a burning build
ing. The child was saved, but he who per
illed Ins life for it, the strong, brave hearted
man had perished. The fruit of this union,
her eldest born, the pride of her heart, the
noble boy whose every movement and ex
praasian had been so many (miles of his
buried father, was a wanderer she new not
wither.
Years alter the boy had left her, when
Robert Leedom came often to see her in her
loneliness, and ventured to tell her at length
how he had loved her from the lime they
had played together at school, and how he
had remained single for her sake, and came
back always to the same old port that he
might breathe again the same air that she
breathed, and besought her to let him sustain
and shield her, to comfort her in sickness
and sorrow, she gladdened the honest sailor's
faithful heart by consenting to become his
wife. No wonder '.he young sailor loved
her, she was so neat in her habits, so gentle
and industrious; and her calm,sweet face and
holy eyes shone with "the beauty that dwelt
in her 6out. She had learned to love her
second husband, and had borne him three
fair children, when the sad news came that
the gallant vessel in which he had sailed,
was wrecked on the dangerous coast near
Abseoom, and in his generous efforts to save
others, Robert Leedom was lost. She bad
been a widow the second time only six
months, and now, as she thought of her ut
ter inability to support her fatherless children,
evert in the summer time, and saw no other
prospect belore her whichever way sbe look
ed, and knew that the cold, dreary winter
was coming gradually on, her heart failed
herutterly, and she could ouly weep. The
wondering little or.es tried by every endear
Trnth and Right God nfd our Country.
ing art Ihey could think of, to attract her at
tenlion, but in vain. Impressed by their
mother's mood, they ato their bread almost
in silence; and when they had finished, she
arose mechanioally, and laying her babe in its
cradle, put thenr to bed. She heard them say
their prayers, and bade good night, and God
bless them, carefully and tenderly as usual,
but with that subdued, spiritless tono that
emanates from a hear, without liopo. She
continued kneeling by their bedside long
after she had prayed with them, and wept. —
Bitterly she wept, but there was no pitying
eye to see now, no tender hand to caress,
no loving voice to soothe, as the cry from
her overburdened, despairing heart, "My
God, my God, why hast Thou forsaken met"
went up over the unconscious beads of the
sloepers in that hour of agony. No pitying
eye did I say 1 The eye that never slumbers
nor sleeps was there; the loving kindness
that said: "1 will bo a Father to the father,
leas," was about her even then, though the
knew it not. In the power of the Spirit
came the blessed assurance in answer to her
despairing cry, "I will never leave thee nor
forsake thee," and hor soul grow culm, all
her old trusting faith returned, and she arose
from her knees tranquilly, feeling that "the
Lord is a very pleasant help in time of trou
ble." She took down the little worn bible
liom the mantel, and as she read on through
the closing chapters of St. John, an expres
sion of peace ineffable, " the peace that
passelh understanding," settled serenely on
her sweet lace. I'utling the bible reverently
back, and took some mending from her
basket, and soon (lie clear tones of a hymn
aounded through the stillness of the little
cottage ; and "Hnw firm a foundation, etc,"
when pealed from lordly organ, and echoed
through valuted dome, never ascended more
acceptable to "Him who sitteth on the great
white throne."
But other eyes beside the All-seeing had
been looking in through the low cnscment at
the lonely sufferer, and now the sweet tones
of the holy hymn were interrupted by a
knock at the door. Tho widow opened it
and saw before her a travel-stained man,
who asked only for a crust of bread and a
cup of water. The widow glanced at the
loaf which still lay on the table, and then at
the sleeping children, and hesitated, but only
for a moment; there was somathiug in the
tone of tho stranger's voice that came grate
lully to hereout as the breath of spring over
violets, and she thought of hor own beloved
boy asking for charity in some distant land,
and sho hastened to place a chair and roach
him the loaf, trusting in Him 'who causeth
it to rain on the oarth whore no mail is, to
satisfy the desolate and waste ground,' for
bet orphans.
"My mother! my own precious mothet!"
cried the familiar voice in bruken tones, and
springing forward, site was caught and strain
ed to (be heating heart of her long lost son.
"Aly son! my son !" she could only murmur,
while he exclaimed : "I am rich, my moth
er, 1 have been to California, and have come
back rich beyond all I ever hoped or dream
ed of—my poor famishing mother! 1 am
just in time—thank God! thank God!" and
the mother and son knelt together in one
glad, earnest prayer of thanksgiving.
FEDERATION OF NEW GRENADA*
A law was passed at Bogota, June 15th,
1857, which completes the division of New
Grenada into Sovereign and Federal Slates,
after the form of tho United States. The in
tegral States are Cauca, composed of the
provinces of Buenaventura, Cauea, Choco,
l'asto and Popayan, and of the territory of
Laqueta ; Cundinutnarca, of the provinces of
Bogoto, Mariquito and Neiva; Boyac, of the
provinces of Casanara, Tundaina, Junja and
Velez, with exception of the old canton of
Velez, which is apportioned to tbe State of
Ssntandor; Bolivar, of the provinces of Car
thagena and Sabanilia and the part of that of
Mompos which lies west of the Magdaleua,
and Magdalena, of the provinces of Riohacha
and Santa Martha, of tne territory ofGoadjira,
and of part of the provinces of Mompos that
is east of the Magdalena, with the exception
of the districts of Aspusica, Rrolare, Cunavis
la, Caremen, Convencion, La Croz Ocana,
Palma, Pueblo Nuevo, San AntoniH, San Ca
listo, San Pedro, andTeorana, which are ap
pointed to the State of Sautandor. These five
States are dependent upon New Grenada in
everjthing relating to Foreign affairs; in the
organization and service of the standing army
and the navy; in the National credit; in the
Naturalization of foreigners; in the National
levenues and expenditures; in the use of the
standard and escutcheon with the arms of the
Republic; in whatever pertains to the uncul
tivated lands tierras baldias that aro reserved
to the nation, and all other matter of legisla
tion and administration, the Slates may inde
pendently ordain anything that is in confor
mity with the regulations of its own Consti
tution.
In the individual Constitution of the Stales,
the gunronteos contained in Article bill of the
Constitution of May 21st, 1853, (except the
eleventh paragraph,) shall be declared funda
mental and irrevocable. Tho States shall send
toHhe Congresa-of New Grenada the repre
sentatives, which according to the general
basis of population odopled by the general
Constitution of the Republic, which have be
longed to these territories considered as one
provinco alone, and while the Constitution
and laws of the republic do not establish
some other arrangement, the number of Sen
ators for each will be three. The joint ar
rangements for the eleetionof one and anoth
er's functionaries shall be within the States.
The eleotiona of President and Vice President
of the Republic, Attorney General ef the Na
tion, and Magistrates of the Supreme Courts
ol Justice that ate held in these States, are
within the province o( the Genoral Govern
ment. For the public service ot the affairs
that the nation reserves to itself, the necessa
ry posts of employment shall be established ;
until such establishment,hr whenever there
after, these posts that ore to be established
are vacant, the despatch of national affairs
shall bo in charge of the employees of the
State, who are to be considered in this charge
as agents of the national government, and
thus being responsible for their conduct in
said charge according to tie laws of the Re
public. Whatever be tho- changes the pres
ent law may suffer, and however the con
stituent legislatures of tie States may alter
the dispositions ot the wonstilutions, in no
case sha'l the rights whhm the Republic ha
reserved to itself over the ways oi imeroccanic
communication be altered. The produots
and benefits that the Republic should obtain
ill virtue of auoh right, ate horeby irrevocably
appropiiated to the security of the national
debt. All New Grcnadiana shall enjoy in
these State* all the rights, guarantees and
benefits that, by the constitution and laws of
the said Slates are granted to those born with
in their respective territories ; and in case of
the adoption of a rc'orm of the constitution
in the fedeial sense, these States are hereby
included in all the deposition of the confed
eration, with reaped to the affairs of general
jurisdiction, provided that tbey do not restrict
the powers conceded to the States by the
present law.
The national Execut.ve power will convoke
for tho 15th of September next in every one
of the Stale constituent assemblies,composed
of thirty-five deputies for each one of the
Slates of Boyaca; Caurn, andCundinamarCa;
twenty-five for thai of Bolivar, and twenty
for that ofJMagdalena. The Kxecntive pow
er will divide the States into electoral dis
tricts, taking care that the population of each
Slate by the number of deputies assigned it
in the former temporary regulation. The
cities whose population presents obstacles to
the formation of a district of this class, shall
be enabled to compose (with the adjoining
districts that shall be necessary) electoral dis
tricts that give as many as three deputies,
according to the population basis established.
The election of the deputies for tho Constitu
ent Assombly, shall be luld on tho Jsth of
August next, according to regulations eslab
lished for the election of representatives to
the Congress of the Republic. It belongs to
tho first jury (or Board ol Inspectors) of the
| chief town ot the electoral district (which the
, Executive power shall designate) to make
| the examination ol the registers and to do
! cltue the election cf the deputies to the Con
i stituenl Assemblies, exercising the powers
| that belong to the juries and to the provin
j cial legislatures, set forth in the law of eloc
; lions, in all '.hereof that may he compatible
| with the present law. The Constituent As
semblies, as soon as organized, can examine
' and decide the reclamations that are made
i respecting tho election of their members,
j qualify them, declare the nullity of the regis
i tors that are illegal, and hold uaw exumina
: lions with valid registers, declaring the elec
; tion in favor of the deputies legally elected,
! and in conclusion naming them. The Na
tional Executive power, in the decree of con
vocation will designate in each State the
point at which the constituent assembly
should be installed, seeking to select the
place most central and best lilted for the pur
pose. The Assembly once organized, can
transfer its sessions to the place they may
deem the most convenient.
When the Assembly in organized, it shall
designate a citizen who may exercise provis
ionally the Executive power of tho State, un
til the Constitution is promulgated, and the
chief officer (Jefe Superior) is elected and
duly installed. In the present yeor, the elec
tion of Governors, Magistrates and Attornies
of the tribunal of the district, will be deferred
until tho assemblies of the States appoint the
lime and mode of holding the elections. The
provincial Legislatures shall ceaso the exer
cise of their functions from the lblh day of
September next. The provincial ordinances
shall continue in force in their respective ter
ritories, and the municipal authorities shall
continue exercising their functions, until the
constitutional assemblies ordain and establish
such as they deem best for each Slate. From
the sanction of the present law, the following
appointments may be considered to be for
election proceedings, the canton ol Velez to
the province Nocorro,the cantons of Chiquin
quira and Moniquira to that of Tunja, and
theso towns set apart from the province of
Mompos to that ol Pamplonas and Santa
Martha respectively. The Slate ofSantander
will be constituted on the 15th of September
next, and the election of members to the con
stituent assembly of said State, will be held
the same day on which the elections for
members of the other assemtdies are held ;
the legislative act of the 13th of May last,
which creates that Stale, being hereby re
formed on these points. From this outline
of the new Constitution, it will be seen that
the influences of our government are exerting
their "manifest destiny" upon our neighbors,
and will go on extending themselves like a
oircle in the waters until the entire continent
becomes studded with federated constella
tions of sovereign States.
E7" Tho following toast was drunk at
Lynchburg, Va., by tho "Hyena" Club on
the Fourth of July :
"Hoops and Ike Equator— Criuo-A'se and
the Equinoctial line—God bless 'em ! The
one encircles the earth and thp other tho
heavens !' J
|y \ young girl recently committed su
icide because her mother refused to give lier
a new bonnet. Corouer's Verdict—'Caino
to her death through excessive spunk."
Frum the Knickerbocker. |
An Adieu,—To H Lady Iu Iter Hoops-
She star is divine frotn its distance,
And, gazing at you from afar,
I've a theory about your existence
Extremely like that of the star.
Whatever the orbit they enter.
Astronomers hold it as sound,
That each star itself is the centre
Of a system without any bound.
Your way's like the course of a comet,
Requiring a very wide birth,
And whatever'* therein must fly fiom it,
If it be to the end of the earth.
To wonder ia certainly human,
And the only conclusion ia this:
That in such a whole world ol a woman
There ie eoinelhir.g more than a-mia.
My feara have lent wings to affection;
And so terribly great are your chartus,
I have said on the fullest reflection,
You can never return to my arms.
Love, at best, is a hazardous venture,
And 'twore folly to follow, a day,
An angel who never can enter
The straight and the narrow way.
So accept the farewell of a lover:
His heart may be ynura till be dine,
But his little Btltntions are over, [/se.
And he trembles at one of your sighs'.
Yet let me not call you cold hearted,
For I know your whole nature is warm,
And the process by which we are parted,
Is purely a matter of form.
From the It. Y. Post of Tuesday.
THE BURDKLL MURDER.
THE FIFTH ACT IN THE TRAGEDY.—
MRS. CUNNINGHAM ATTEMPTING
TO I'AI.M OFF A CHILD.—SUE IS AR
RESTED.
The general report that Mrs. Cunningham
whom everybody has supposed to It ivc been
pregnant lor months, was safoly delivered
of a child this morning, who would claim as
heir to tho Burdell estate, created u good
deal of excitement throughout the city,
which was ineroaped by tho announcement
that Mrs. Cunningham was under arrest, for
what cause was unknown.
Tho following statement of tho facts in
the ease, which were procured at tho Dis
trict Attorney's office this morning, and
elsewhere, by our reporters, will shed some
light upon the mystery, and disclose the
history of a crime almost without a parallel
in this city.
Dr. Uhl has been iu attendance with Dr. I
Catlin, of Brooklin, upon Mrs. Cunningham, j
Dr. Uhl has been led to believe that Mrs. C. !
was soon to bear a child. Bhe had present- j
ed all the external appearance of one about I
to be a mother—as he expressed it, "grow- 1
ing larger and larger every week." But Dr. |
Uhl remarked about a month ago, that as j
yet there was no positive evidence of preg- |
nancy, and told her that under the circuin- J
stances lie thought it his duty to make a
medical examination. Mrs. Cunningham (
appeared very reluctant, and put the matter
off from time to time. Finally sho told him ;
plainly that sho was not pregnant at all; I
that she had been playing a game, and lie !
(Dr. Uhl) must help her out with it.
Dr. Uhl, previously to this time, had had j
confidence in the lady, but this bold propo- j
sition took liim completely aback. He im- j
mediately consulted counsel, and upon legal i
advico stated the whole matter to District !
Attorney Hall. Air. Hall told him it was his ,
duty to carry out the matter in order to do- '
vclop a great crime, and supply the proof
for the criminal's conviction. Dr. Uhl finally
consented.
He told Mrs. Cunningham that he was J
acquainted with a California widow, who '
was, he feared, about to be confined, and it
would be necessary to dispose of the child
altogether, as the lady was going to join her
husband in California.
Mrs. Cunningham was delighted. It was 1
arranged that neither party was to know j
anything of the other. The "widow" was '
to be confined at a house in Elm Street, and ;
the infant to be taken thence to No. 31 bond
street.
Mr. Hall then imparted the matter to T)r.'
De la Montagnie, and engaged him to assist
in the counterplot, whenever the critical
time should arrive. Yesterday morning Dr.
De la Montagnie went to Hellevue Hospital, j
and, with the consent of Governor Daly, sc-1
lected a babe of Elizabeth Anderson, a beau
tiful little blue-eyed girl, born on Saturday '
last. The mother kissed the baby, ami con-1
sented to part with it on condition that it,
should be well taken care of and returned 1
within 24 hours.
Dr. Uhl visited Mrs. Cunningham by ap-1
pointment at half past three o'clock in the
afternoon, and told her he was prepared to
carry out the thing at once ; that the Cidi
foruia widow was about to be confined at,
190 Eltn street, and she must be prepared
to receive the little stranger with proper cer
emonies. Then she said sho would be con- J
fined that night, if ho would produce the)
child by nine o'clock. Ho was to come !
over and let her know a quarter betore nine j
and sho would send a woman to bring tho
child in a basket.
No time was to be lost. Mr. Uhl hired a
room of a respectable lager beer-seller at
No. 190 Elm street, and immediately set
down suitable furniture from his own house, |
including the basket for the baby. Dr. Uhl j
took possession of the premises, and ho
harJly got possession when Mrs. Cunning-1
lunn was seen passing the house and eyeing |
it closely. t j
Policemen were now judiciously posted,
and everything was arranged. Tho greatest
difficulty was to procure an "after-birth,"—
Dr. Montagnie immediately posted to Belle
' vuo Hospital, and succeeded in getting what
ho wanted, as well as tho assistance of au
intelligent Irish girl, named Mary Ragan,
who was to act as nurse lo tho fictitious
widow. A physician was also engaged to
lie in bed with a night cap on, and do the
groaning for tho "widow." This party ar
rived at 190 Elm street just in season.
Officer Win. B. Walsh, of the Quarter Ses
sions, was posted in the street opposite, and
Inspectors Speight and Ditkes in Bond street.
The physician who was to personate tho
"widow," assisted Dr. Montagnie in certain
operations necessary to give tho child tho
appearance of a new-born babe, and then
went lo bed. Some private marks were al
so made upon tho child's head, with nitrate
of silver. A messenger was sent to 31 Bond
street.
Shortly after Capt. Speight saw Mrs. Cun
iiiiiglinin leave her home; followed her into
a Fourth Avenue car, where Bhe was recog
nized by the conductor and some passen
gers, who spoke to Capt. Speight about her.
She was disguised iu a quasi nun's dress.—
Tho Captain followed her to Elm street,
until she disappeared in tho Utgcr beer sa
loon. He then returned to his post. Iu a
few moments Dr. Uhl enme out and asked
the officers opposite whether they had seen
the woman leave the house. She had pass
ed out so quietly that they had failed to per
ceive her.
The officers next repaired to No. 31 Bond
street, where they learned that Mrs. Cun
ningham had gone out, but hud not returned,
and that a man with a while hat iiad gone
in. [This was Dr. Cutler, of Brooklyn, who
was assisting Mrs. C. iu good faith ]
Dr. Montagnie at once went to the corner
of the Bowery and Bond street, where ho
met Mrs. Cunningham, in tho nun's dress,
with a large basket in her hands, in which
he hud placed the baby. She went into her
house.
It had been arranged between iter and Dr.
Uhl that she should send in urgent haste to
his house. Accordingly he had appeared
and went.
11c soon came out and walked down tho
street. The officers then went up, by tho
District Attorney's directions, rung the bell,
and entered. The were met by two women
at the door, who informed them that Mrs.
Cunningham was very sirk and could not
bo seen. They found her in bed with tho
baby by her side—one of the "nurses" giv
ing her warm drink, from a dish over a lamp,
from time to timo.
Dr. Alonlagnie asked if that was Dr. Bur
dell's baby. Airs. Cunningham replied,
"certainly, whose else could it be!" The
officers at lengtii told tier that she must be
arrested, that the game was played out.
She was apparently under tho influence of
opium, in order to create artificial paleness,
One of tho nurses was taken to tho station
house, and the other remained at 31 Bond
street with Mrs. Cunningham in charge of
the officers.
To-day affidavits were submitted before
Justice Flandreau, and warrants were is
sued for the arrest of Airs. Cunningham, her
nurses, Dr. Cutler und others.
(HUMPING THE STATE.
OFFICIAL CORRESPONDENCE.
JUDGE WILMOT TO GEN. PACKER.
Totcanda, July 14, 1857.
HON. WM. F. PACKER,
Tear Sir: —l propose to spend some time
during the Summer and Fall, in canvassing
before the people of the State, the princi
ples and issues involved in the pending State
election.
Party meetings bring out only that portion
of the people to whom the call is made, and
the addresses are necessarily all on one side:
whereas it is desirable that the whole peo
ple, so far as may be, should hear both sides
fairly presented before them at the same
time.
If it should meet your views, I propose
that we canvass so much of the State as is
practicable, in company, addressing alter
nately the same meetings. Should this meet
your assent, please so inform me at your
earliest convenience, so that we may ar
range the times and places of meetings, or
der of speaking, &c., &LC.
Very respect fully.
Your obedient servant.
D. WILMOT. !
GENERAL PACKER TO THE DEMOCRATIC STATB
COMMITTEE.
J f'illiamsport, July 18, 1857.
HON. C. R. BITKALEW,
Chairman of State Committee:
Dear Sir —l have received the enclosed
letter from one of the opposing candidates
for the Gubernatorial office, and inasmuch
as it proposes a plan for the conduct of
the campaign which has never before been
practiced in Pennsylvania, and as the suc
cess of other candidates, besides myselt is
involved in the election, 1 have thought it
my duty to submit the communication to
the judgment of the State Committee rep
resenting the Democratic party. If it is
thought to be a proper mode of conducting
the canvass, 1 shall cheerfully accede to the
proposition.
Respectfully vours,
W.M: F. PACKER
REDLY OF THE CHAIRMAN OF THE STATE COM
MITTER.
J'kiladetpkia. July 23, 1857.
HON. WM. F. PACKER:
Dear Sir —l have laid before the State
i Committee tho letter signed D. Wihnot, da
j ted the 14th instant, and am authorized to
say to you that iu the opinion of the Corn
miltee you ought not to accede to ibe propo
sition it contains. The reasons tor this opiu
ion I will proceed briefly to state :
Tho slavery question, which it is proba-
[Two Dollars per Anaan*
NUMBER 31.
Ma your opponent proposes tt discuss, has
very recently been thoroughly considered
and passed upon the people of the Com
monwealth. The lato Presidential canvass
involved tho whole subject so fut ns U was
proper for consideration by our people, and
we can perceive no utility in its re discus
sion Rt this time; nor any other good reason
for reopening debate upon it. The position
of our party is well understood and requires
no vindication, at least by any extraordinary
proceeding like that proposed.
A joint canvass by caudidulcs tor tho Gu
bernatorial otlice has never been conducted
in this State, nor, I believe, in any other
Northern one, and may well be questioned
on the grounds of public policy. If the
practice be once adopted, it will doubtless
I continue, and party nominations be uniform
ly made with reference to it. No party will
venture to select n candidate for this office
who is nut qualified for the stump; and ap
titude for debato will ticnce come to be pre
j lerred to administrative ability. In short
I the result will be to confine nominations to
| the class of talkers, and to exclude all oth
j ers. A rule of party action which Would
' prevent such men as benjamin Franklin,
Simon Snyder and Francis 11. Shutik from
' lillittg the F.xecutivtJ chair of lhiState,must
be a bad one, and to be denounced rather
than adopted.
We believe there is a considerable pub
lic opinion against the propriety of execu
tive candidates appearing at all before pop
ular meetings to solicit votes. This was
first practiced by Win. F. Johnson in 1818,
I and has been to some extent followed by
candidates stnee. Tito good results of it
' are not obvious. It did not originate with
the Pemocratio, party, nor has it over re
ceived any formal, popular or party sane,
lion. It tnay therefore he considered an
open question iri future practice, and at all
events, as forming no part of the duty of a
candidate imposed upon him by his nomt-
I tion.
While your opponent holds the office of
President Judge, there is a special objection
to the acceptance of his project. The pro
priety of law judges taking part in political
meetings is denied by our party, and is
opposed by sound public Opinion. By t>o
act whatever ought we to sanction, or be
come participants, in a prostitution of the
judicial character. Nor will a resignation
now made altogether remove this objection.
Your opponent has intentionally held his
office until within three months ol the elec
tion, (rendering it impossible to elect a
successor, the present year.) and if a resig
nation should now take place, it would ob
viously be with the intention of resuming
the office alter a defeat for the post which
lie aspires.
The proposed mode of conducting cam
paigns may possibly be suited to some of
the Southern and South-western Stales,
where it lias been practiced, and where
population and political conditions differ
from ours; but its introduction here would
be against solid olijections. and without any
conceivable good. It is, therefore, a propo
sed "Southern aggression" upon the prac
tices and politics of parties in Pennsylva
nia, which cannot be at all accepted or per
mitted.
ft is well that the question has arisen
when we have a candidate capable and fit
for any discussion before the people, and
when the decision can be placed, \Vithout
embarrassment, upon public grounds which
control it.
I am. very respectfully, your obedient
servant,
C. R. BUCKALEW, Chairman.
GEN. PACEER TO Jl'OGt WILMOT.
IVtlliiißifpo't, July 2T. 1857.
HON. D. WiLMor:
Dear Sir —Your letter of the 14th instant
was duly received; and as it proposed a
plan for conducting the Gubernatorial cam
paign which had never hitherto been adop
ted in Pennsylvania, and as the interests of
other candidates were involved in the result,
I did not feel at liberty to accede to your
proposition without first consulting the
Mate Committee to which the Democratic
Convention has on its part specially confi
ded the couttol and management of the
canvass.
You will receive herewith a copy of my
letter to the Committee, as also their reply,
bv which you will percehe that your sug
gestion does not meet their approval, and
that, for reasons stated at length, I ought
not to accede to your proposition. It is
therefore respectfully declined.
I am, vours. truly.
\VM. F PACKER.
1 he way they get Rlth out West.
The Newburvport Herald relates the ex
perience of a friend, just returned from the
West. He says:
'• Here is the whole story. We complain
of hard times, and go West to better our con
dition. If we would live iu a log or mud
house with one room and no fleet. steep ou
straw, go barefooted, wear the cheapest and
coarsest clothes, and deprive ourselves of
all the comforts ot life. anybody might squat
upon two acres of common pasture and with
the same labor, be as rich in seven vears as
upon any half section of land in Kansas,
and if there were hundreds thus squatting,
they could get up a land fever, speculate ui
lots", and have the prices go up as they do ui
the West.
What peop'e save in the new Stales, they
crush out ot then.-elves, and that they do
anywhere. All the Hiwaages they here,
lis the privilege ot Itvnefas aean, and har-
I uirr their children as tnestn as htMaaa nature
j will bear, with uebodv to find fault with it,
white here, living in the same manner, the*
would separate item the masses, as miretr
as the gypsies do. If any of our people wish
to learn practically aboat this matter, let
thcia take a view ot lite basket makers whe
drive into market froui !tew Hsmpehyi.
and theu go home and live with them a
luouth ut the buck part of Parrungten, and
I they will be saved the tro to
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