0 OFFICE OF THE STAR, ' • eII.i.EDSBERG. STREET} 'A FEW . DOOR • WEST OF MR: FORRY'S TAVERN: ADVERTISEMENTS Conspicuously inserted FOUR times for ON DOLLAR per square—over four times, MENTY-FIV crriTS-per-square-will be charged Printed and Published, at Gar VYSBURG, PA., BY ROBERT W. mmineronr. TIIE 01410. -"With sweetest flowers enrick'd From various L,rardcris with care." HOPE IN HE AV - EN. Mu.t.s Bitow.v.] In mercy bind this bruised heart, Thou Power, who made me smile and weep: Hush its wild throb—or hid it part— And endless sleep. ° Oh! , where's the hope for lofty winds? Those souls of oak who will not eravo— Nor bend—though rent by ruthless winds! Where!—ln the grave. Ins co-mates fly the woOnded deer; The 'mien hangs sicklr when she wanes; And wintry storms; tind hoar frosty drea r Strip autumn's plains. Rut there's a. rest for those who mourn; A hahn for bcy-ouns xvrong and riven; ; Alild dreams for eyes with anffnisli worn; "Fis—//ope in Heaven. SPEED THE PLOUGH. Speed the Plough! 0, speed the plough! The .sun is up, the time is now, Dtive on my boys, t :od speed the plough. Now the green blade, l ieciiing low From- the last dissolving snow, Tells the gladdened I hrnier how Heaven's aid can speed the plough. Harvest home: 0 hear the sound, And each jocund tale go round; The proudest. lord might envy now The merry titan who guides the plough., The merchant's gold the miser's hoard, The sailor's holm the so ldii,c,". o Td, The top's affected air, must how 'l'o the rattling looms and gliding plough. SECOMPICIM•1111111 3 . 1 / 1 = 110114 • THE 3115W,141 - 4:1.N Y. A NIGHT AMONG TILE WOLVES. "J'lie gaunt wolf, Scenting the place of slaughter with his long And most offensk.e howl, did ask for blood.' ‘"Fhe wolf—the gaunt and ferocious wolf! How many tales of wild horror are associa ted with its name ! Tales of the deserted battle-field—where the wolf and the vulture fi!ast together—a horrible obscene banquet, N realizing the fearlid description of the Siege NVIIOII - "On the edge of the gulph Tb,cre sat a raven dapping a wolf," amidst the old and st ilk:Mug corpses of the fallen; or of . 'the wild Scandinavian liwests, where the pease sinks down exhausted a mid the itrift.s--ocwil eerand-the-w144"---welf howl sounds fearfully a4 \ his deafening ear; and lean !brats and evil `e,ye-glither-Te-1 - around him, as if impatient Tor the death. oh the doomed victim. "The early settlers of New England were not unfrequently incommoded by tliutii. bers and ferocity of the wolves, which pr4hwl - aloud their rude settlements.. Tho hunter easily overrowered them, and 'With one dis-. charge of his musket scattered them from about his dwelling. They fled even faint the timid child, in the broad glare of day— but in the thick turd solitary night, far away from time dwellings amen, they were terri ble, from their fiendisl► and ferocious appe tite for blood. "I have heard of a fearful story of the wolf, from the lips )l sonic of the old settlers - of Vermont, perhaps it may he best old in the language of one of the witnesses of the " "Iwas a night of Januarv,.in the year 17—. We' hod been to a line quiltingfrol ahout two miles foul our little, settlement of four or five log-hintses. 'Twasiather late—about twelve o'clock, 1 should guess --When tile party tiroto.lip — The teWas ito moon—and a dull, grey shadow cr haze hung all around the horizon, while ore rhead a few pale and sickly looking stars gaye us - their all light, as they shone through a dingy curtain. There were six olus in coin pany—Harry Mason and myself, and 'four as pretty girls as ever grew up this side of the Green Mountains. There were my two sisters and Harry 'S sister and his sweetheart, the daughter or our• next door neighbor. She was a right dowry handsome girl—that Caroline Allen. I- never saw:her equal, though I tun no stranger to pretty faces. She was so pleasant and kind of heart—so gentle and sweet-spoken; and , so intellig ent besides; that every bodploved her. . Silo had an eye ‘ as blue as the hill violet, andler lips were . INt'e a red rose leaf in _June. No wonder that harry Mason lovid her—boy though he was—for we hack neither of us seen our seventeenth summer: "'Otar path lay through a thick 'fore& of oak, with here and there a talfpine rating its dark, full shadow against the, sky; with alLoutline rendered inTlistincf, by the thick darkness. The snow - wad deep--deeper a great deal Atran it ever failsof late years— but the surfiice was frozen strongly enough . to-bearour weight,-and we hurried . on over - the white pathway with rapid steps. Wo had not proceeded far before a low, long howl came to our ears . We all knew it in a mg. -Mont and I could feel a shudder Ihrilling the arms thal were folded close to my own, ti . sudden Cry hidst from the lips dud of us- 1 1 The wolves—the wolves!". "Did you:eyer see.a: wild wolf—anot one of your caged, broken down,, show animals, which are exhibited for sixpence sight;cllll - half price—but 4 fiarcr half - itaryud ranger of the'svuttry fore t,, howhng and hurrying aver the barren snow, actual) .one one ot God's , . • __,- 7 .-;' . - - . 4:. - .., •--, - --. .. . . . . . . . . , .• • 4 - , 4.' . 0 • ' ....• -- ....... • , . . • • ... • . _ ' IE 111 . . 1 . .. . , . _....- -.... . DUCIT AMOR PA TR LE PAOTYESSE LOYE,OF MY COUNTRY s LEADS ME TO ME OF ADVANTAGE TO 711 Y FEI.I.WW-CITIZENS." creatures which has such a frightful fiendish look, as this animal. It has the form as well as the spirit• of.a domon. "'Another, and another howl—and then we could hear distinctly the quick patter of fect 7 behind us Wa all turned right about, and - looked in the directiotrofthe sound. "'The devils' are after us,' said Mason, pointing to a line of dark, gliding bodies.] And so in fact they were--a whole troop of them—howling like so many Indians in a I pow waw. We had no weapons of airy kind; and we knew enough of the nature of the 1 vile creatures who t'ollowed its, to feel that it would be useless to contend without them. There. was not a moment to lose—the sav age beasts were close upon Os. To attempt ilight would have been a hopeless affair.— There was but one chance ofsuccess, and we. instantly seizell upoh it. "'To the tree--let us climb this tree!' I criCil, springing forwards towards a low botighed and gnarled oak, which I saw at a glance, might be easily climbed int o . "'Harry Mason sprang lightly into the tree, and aided in placing the terrified girls in a place of comparative securit% among the thick boughs. 1 was the last on the ground, and the whole troop were yelling at tny heels before I reached tire rest of the company. There was one moment of hard breathing and wild e•;cla mat ions among us, and then a feeling a calm thanklidness for our escape. '('he night was cold-and we soon began to shiver and shake, like so many milers on the topmast of an Iceland wh a ler. Barre was no murinurs—no complain ng among us for we could distinctly see the, gaunt, atterniated bodies of the ..wolves be teath us, and every now and then we could fee great, glowing eves, staring up into the t"PC where we were seated. And then their Fits—they were loud and long and devilish! " 4 1 know not how long we had remained ii this situation, for we had no means cif as ertaining the time—when rheard a limb &the tree cracking as if breaking iklown be wadi the weight of sonic of us; and a mo nent after a shriek went through my ears Ike the piercing of a knife. A light form vent plunging, crown through the naked bran :hes, and - fell With a dull and Leavy sound von the still - snow. 44 "Oh, God! 1 am gone!" "'lt was the voice of-Caroline Allen.- - TheTnnr - Trr,*rl' its v -spolte-vagnin+—Therc was a horrible dizziness and confusion in brain, a - - —tbr the whole was at that time like an ugly, unreal dream. I only remember that there were cries and shiAlerings around me; perhaps I joined with them—and that there were smothered groans, and dreadful howls underneath. I+--Was -All- over in, a Moment. Poor Caroline She was liter allo:,aten The wolves had a fright retist and they became raving mad with the, tast ed blood. W hen come fully to myself—when the horrible dream went off—and it lasted but a moment—l\struggled to shake off the arms of my sisters,'whidi were clinging a round me, and could Plinve cleared myself, should have jumped du o.aMong the rag-• inn animals. But when a_econd thought Caine over met I knew that anyattempt at res'cue would be useless. As forpoor Ma son, he, was wild with horror. He iad tried to tallow Caroli . she ••. I, but he could not o his terrified sister. - His t it constitution‘ auk frame, were*-tintilikto s ithstand the dreadful trial; and Wairioil close by niy side, with his hands firmly clenched and his teeth set closely, gazing down upon the dark, wrangling creatures below, with the fixed stare of a maniac. It was indeed a terrible scene. Around me was the thick cold night—and below, the ravenous wild beasts were lapping their bloody jaws, and howling for another victim. , The morning broke at last; and our frightful enemies fled at the fist adVauce of day-light, like so many cowardly murder.-' ers. We waited until the sun had risen berife wp ventured- to crawl from our rest ing-place. We were chilled through—eve ry limb was numb with cold and, terror— Fi4oor MaS'on was,delirious, and raved wildl about the' dreadful things he had witnessed. There were bloody stains all around the.tree; and two or three long locks of dark hair were trampled into the snow: "We had gone but a little distance when •we were met by our friends from the Settle 'Frient., who had became alaerried at our ab 'Sence. They were shocked•at our wild and frightful appearance; and - my brothers have oftentimes told me that at first view we all seemed like so many crazed and brain- Sfiicken creatures. They assisted es to ; fetich hoMes; but Harry Ntason never recovered fully from the dreadful trial.- 1 - 10eglected his busineSs, his studies, and his' friends, and would sit nlonelde,liTitirs together, ever and anpn muttering to him= self aboin, that horriyie night. He fell to drinkin! , soon after, and. miserable drunkind, • before age had whitened a hair in his head. - • "For ply own pyt, I cenfoss I have ne ver 'en..irely overcome the -terrors of the we; landholly circumstance whielif have endea vored to describe.,Ve 'thought of it. has haunted me' like my own shadow; and, even now, - the whelp,seeite conies at tittles frt.slity NX7' tNI:; ba: VClig betbre me i►i mv;drCams, and 1 start tip with something or the same coelings or terror which I experienced when; more that► hall a century ago, I passed A N irr AmoNu THE NV OLV " MATRIMONIAL ANFITOTE. 'rho Rev. Mr. G—, a respectable cler gyman in the interior of the state, relater the following aneedotd.—A. couple canie to him to be married, and alter the knot was tied, the bridegroom addressed iii in with— "I low much do you ax, Mister!" "Why, replied the Clergyman, "r gen, orally take whatever is otictred me. Some times inure, sometimes less. I leave it to the bridegroom." , "Yes, but how much do you ax, I say," repcnited the happy man. " I have just said," returned the clergy man, "that I left it to the decision of the bridegroom ; some give me ten dollars ; some live• some three; some two; some one; and some, only a quarter era one." • ".3 quarter, ha?" said the bridegroom. "Wal, that's as reasonable as a body could ax.—Let me see, I've got the m o ney,"— lie took out his pocket book, there was no money there :• he fumbled in all' his pock ets, but not a sixpence could he fi n d.— "Dung it," said he, "I thought I had some money with me, but I recollect n e w, 'twas in my other trowsers pocket. Hefty, have you got such a thing as two shillings about "Ale !" said the bride, with a mixture oC shame and indignation, "I'm asionisl►ed at ye, to Come here to.be married without money to pay for it ! known it attire, I would'►it a come a step with ye ; you might have gone alone to be married for all me." ‘.Yes, 4likponsider, Hettv," said-ihtr bridegroom, in a soothing tone, "we're mar ried now, and it can't be helped; if .you've got sick a thing as a couple of shillings—" "Here, take 'em," interrupted the angry bride, who during this speech, had been searching in her work-bag ;''and don't.you, " said she, with a signitidant motion of her linger, "don't you never serve inc rich - a anither trick."—N. - Y. Con. cllation. SWgENY'S Chair Factory at the-corner F.den eacl Wilks streets Fell's Point was entire y estroyed by fire ou,Satur ay riKiltti` - about seven o'clock.-Ball. Gctz. 4 0101 COUNTERFEIT DOW. Every thing on .earth that is of any sort Of importance,-is apt to be counterfeited.— Even Lorenzo Dow, whom one would sup pose as difficult to counterfeit as Perkin's check plates, has not been able to escape the general mistlnlune. He has issued his manifesto against a certain pseudo-Dow, who professing to be the veritable Lorenzo, is going about the country and deceiving the people in his name; and he cautions all manner of persons throughout - the United States , to be on their guard against the said counterfeit.—N. Y. Constellation. Case of Distress.—Good morning, (said a citizen to a traveller) why are you going on lbot, have you no Jacks to ride upon?— Answer.—Fur the most part we have; but we have lent them to the masons to ride upon until after - the election. . A NEW LEGAL ,CASIk the 'Marine court, tWolitiabS erne laW haviiikr some dispute, a few days since, one pulled other's nose. The pulled com plained to ie Court !iirthwith, against his act of violence, on the s part of the pulice, , the Judge called ujkin severaLbystandep, who declared they did not see the act done; the nose was bloody, but the Judge geclaiell al lowing the pulled to spea4 .throtip,h his nose. am here," said he, "tbdeCAd&law ac cording to tesihnonv, andio'there is no tes timony, before the i_;Ourt as tithe act being posttvely done, the Court rules that your nose was not pulled. Let it be entered on • the. minutes accordingly." • .AURORA BOREALIS,—We had last evening one of most curious displays of nor thern light that we ever saw in this latitude. Notwithstanding the appearance . ot the moon, they was a. thin sheet of light red)lif bling she muslin, spreading up from the north, oc asionally breaking away, then as suming me fantastic shape, and then join in a' and covering about one quarter of the whole visable heavens.—U. S. Gas. young man, not twenty years 'of age, of respectable parents, has been arrested .in Georgetown for breaking open 'and robbing the office ola canal contractor of several hundred dollars. The money was found sewed up in the collar of his coat, and . he subsequently confessed hiS guilt. Joseph C. Melchor, late EditOr and pub lisher of the "Chillicothe Evening- Post," has been tried in the CourtofConiman Pleas for Ross County, fur, .';stabbing with inteht to, kill," found guilt, by ti.jurY of twelve of his fellow citizetisi . and sentenced to con finement and hard labor for ) threw years,. in . ,the Penitentiary of Ohio. Mr. Melchor, (('apt.. NVoo&ide,) is a :Jacksonian. The difficulty between them originated in the selection elan individual to succeed the pre. sent Postmaster orChillicothe, whose , pun. islitnent" was determined-31r. Nlelcher preferring one, and Ca pt. \VOodsido anoth er.,—/fuys. Eugle. PROGRESS OF i►IORMONTSXI. The. Editor of the Painsvdie Ohio Ga zel to says: .11arris, one of the original Mor mon propinks,arrived in the village hug Sat urday, on his ‘i'av to the "Holy De says he has seen Jesus Chi ist, and that 'he is the handsomest man he evcr did see.' De has also seen the Devil, whom he :de scribes to be a very sleek haired fellow, with four feet,"and a head like a Jack Ass—LA 11.i.50. -. NR: one, we pr6suthel ' Froin the 'York Republic!,;ln or April 9.G The body of a young woman, supposed to have been droWned, wa.. found at M tisser's Fishery, in •ChanetTord Township, on tho 14th inst. She had on a calico froCk, lace boots, white cotton stockings, fastened With elastic garters, With silver clasps, and on her linger two rings. one of gold, the other a metal unknown. She had no head dress. There was nothing about her person to give any clue to her name. Thc Poiaf (7.—10 w 'me to impress npon the minds of your readers the filet, that taking—up the potatoes intended for seed next year, before they are ripe—that is, before they are full grown, and exposing them to the sun iOr a month or six weeks, and at plantinfr, time, observing the eye-end and placing it upward, will secure without any other trouble or expense, a crop ofeve -ry-variety-tif-tfarpottt444,--44i„x weeks earlier than the same variety 'of the potato, if al lowed to glow ripe, will produce. To PRODUCE: EARLY CABIWES.-A wri ter in the Domestic Encyclopiedia gives the following method to produce early cabbagek —ln the spring, as sniiiiiirtre sproths on the cabbane stalks have grown to the length of a plant fit for setting,.cut them out with a slice of the stalk about 2 inches long: and if the season permit, plant them in a gar den, and the usual care will produce good cabbages. To ,resetyve. CuiuM6er pl ants from bugs the_stalka of onion which have been set out in the sprinfr, and stick down five or six of them in each bill of cucumbers, and the bug will immediate ly leave them. It would be Well after a few days to renew them, but one application has frequently been found to be completely effec tual. The common chieves or styes will have the same effect with the onion. If this method fittls, catch the bugs and kill them. Fires lighted in a. garden in the evening will destroy a great many insects. ANTI-MASON UJ. WILI'I"PLESEY'S REPORT, ox thus Abduction and Murder of Wm. Morgan. [Concluded from No. 48 of Vol. of the Sian.] Orson Parkhurst, the person who drove Platt's carriage, containing Morgan, trove_ Rochester west ward,- ro4 soon as the outrages beoune a matter of mild icinvestigation, was found to be absent. No truce of hint could be fbund; and attoinpts wore made to mislead the. coin mittees, by'representing .thatho had gone to Michigan, and other places, widely different from the place of his actual con.. , cealment. The most diligent inquiries were made respecting him for months, arid even years, and all hopes of penetrating the concealment which screened hint, were nearly abandoned, When his place of residence was discovered, in August, 1829. Prompt, efficient, and secret measures were immediately taken, to secure his attendance as a witness, and ho was unexpectedly arrested in the eastern part of' Vermont. Ho had supposed that all danger of finding him had passed; and he was living in the fancied security, that if any danger of this, kind threatened him, ho should,. receive timely information. .I to was regularly advised by Ida Rochester brethren of all that transpired; and twice during his absence, George Ketchum, a pen sioned agent of the Fraternity, had visited him.— Twice, also, hadle left Kis place of residence, and at each tone, spent some months hiding in anotli er State. Ho was brought as far as Albany; in the mean time, the—fraternity- at Rochester had become suspicious of ,the true state ofthe case, and sent on to Albany, ttiat4o must u at all events, be )abst2cted from the person having. him in charge. "Possessed of these instructions, agents were em. ployed to keep a Vigilant watch; and when he left Albany, in charge ofthe. agent of the state, ho was tbllowed by an agent of. the fraternity. ' He was thus pursued westward, nearly two hundred miles. At . Montezuma. an unknown person came on beard the canal boat hi' which Parkhurst Was, just at night. He did not give his .name, and no ono knew him. That night, the unknown individual. and Parkhurst escaped from the boat, and no tit!: ings have been hoard of him since. Parkiturs'i. was himself-a mason, and Wits hasips ''. , t,o o the• trfil truth, would have been a most importaiit'l 110;1 It le believed, that his testimony would ha e dis. closed the agency of soreral parsons in Iti , Cli, liter in the conppirety . ,_ against whriM no proof had hithertAtibitlfAnd They had (hereon) a deep stake in his absence. , , • '4. . . The driver Of the stage west, on the morning when 'was I carried through 'Rochester, might, by his testimony, have, throWn some light upon the subject. Heals() Ipfl the place, and when at wngth it was ascertained, in Augtist, .1829, %viler° he - was, moasurei - were -taken to secure his attendarieb as a witness. Although thous mea: sures were taken with every precaution of secrecy . yet, by some minccountable means, lu;_becume in-' formed iifftWiii; and Red just beforeltie officer '0. 7 riVed.tol.aro' A idin; ' &:,the intbrinatiwr that-might TERMS OF THIS PAPER—t' ODOLLAR• 'per annum-9-payable heli.yteaxiy No subscriptions taken for less than six morale,* tiunb disccaiTintiTd - until all rittearageit IRO paid, unless at tho•option'of the Editor—and a failure' to notify a' iliscontinuance will be considered a 1 1 new cogagonient, and the paper forwarded as- H,Corti.n S‘TERNIS-42 PER ANNUM. VOL. 2.---NO. 4. have been derived from his testimony was entire. ly lost. Isaac Fflrwell was present at Sol C. Wright's, on the cn ening of the 13th ofSeptenther,when the Marty was ti are with Morgan; and as they re: nreiued at that place several hours, and procured an accession to the number of the conspirators, his testimony was exceedingly important., Heiliow- ever, with the assistance of members of the ma sonic fraternity, so skibblly avoided the process that way issued to compel his attendance, that the publie prosecutor only succeeded once- in getting him rehire a grand jury. After that, ho forfeited the bonds which lie had given flr his appearance to testify on trialt'and not all the constantexert ions of vigilaiat officers were sufficient to discover hint again. 'For many months, he was secretly flying from county to county, and as the approach of courts rendered new exertions to secure him pros bable, hiding in Canada, without the jurisdiction ofstate process. Just previous to the last special circuit, held in Niagara, county, the prosecuting officer oftlia t county ascertained that he had gass ed through Lockport but a short time previous._ and supposing that it was his intention tovisit his tit in ily, who resided three Miles from that place. he sent an officer there to secure him, Farewell did not visit his family, though he had not seen them for many months. It was subsequently as. cod:tined, by an appearance so open, and that he was taken I) v..the wife of Solomon C. Wright, and smuggled off to Canada the same night, without, - evelpheing pt,rmitted to visit his own house, or ti ietbrth his wife that he was in that vicinity. These are not the only instances of witnesses abscond ing or being secreted, but if all were to be enu merated, the detail would be found to be too tedi , olls. There are circumstances existing in Tela. Linn to some of thew, which leave-the irresistible presumption upon the mind that they were hired, at. a heavy expense, to leave their holism & their business, in order that their testimony mightnot place the reputation, the liberty, and the lives of some members of the fraternity at hazard. Edward Giddies was told, i'fhe would leave the country to save his friends, any amount of money which he should demand was ready for him, and had been furnished for the express purpose. An extravagant sum was offered for his property, if ho would go, by a mason, who said het was au. thorized to make the purchase, and that the money had been furnished by the grand ledge for the pu r pose. The conduct of masonic witnesses on the stand after their attendance had. been secured, is also worthy ofa few remarks. With very few excer. tions, they manifested an .evident reluctance to testify. In some other cases, they testified with obvious and palpable falsehood Some ofthem exer cised aviece of casuistry,in relation to their judicial oath, which is not a little remarkable. It seems that those implicated had argued themselves into the belief, that there was.no greater sin than the breaking of a masonic oath; that if • they told the truth in relation to the out rage, they should di. vulge a secret which they were tnasoiiically bound to keep, which would criminate themsofves; and that, therefore, their only course was to testify that - atri ey — rn ow notriiig — iiimuttliWiraTr".."Strange as is the infatuation manifested by this reasoning there was not wanting a counsellor of the. an. premo court, a royal arch mason, to advise theta, that if they were implicated iii tho affair, they might safely swear, that "they knew nothing a. bout it," instead of protecting themselves from answering at all, on the ground that it would criminate themselves. Certain it is, that many witnesses, to whom circumstances almost uner ringly pointed, as having a knowledge of; or being implicated in, some portion of the transaction, did. come forward and solemnly make oath, that"they knew nothing about the affair." Some others, who did pretend to give an account of their knowledge of the transaction, testified in such a way, as to leave an impression upon the mind of every au ditor, that they had not satisfied that part of their judicial oath, which required them to tell the:whole truth. No man, who heard the testimony of Hiram Hubbard, Ezra Platt, Solomon C. Wright, & some others, could believe for a moment, even from their own statenients . , that they had disclosed all they knew of the affair. The evidence that was ex.' tracted limn witnesses of this character, with ab solutely wrung from them, so reluctant did they appear to disclose. Witnesses, on several instan ces, came into c:ourt...with.theitown couns - 4, a cir. cuinstance unheard ofin courts ofjustice before, to advise with them what questions they were le.. gaily bound to ft enswer. They would frequently refuse decidedly totinswer a. question, , even,after its propriety had been argued by their own coon. eel, and decided by the court, and continue in such contumacious conduct until the order weaved. out for their commitment,. and then their arm pew. would give way, and a reluctant answer would be forced from thorn. Some ot them,oemorst determination of purpose, or having more impor. taut secrets to conceal, stood out in. their refusal to answer until the lasti• lei March, 2829, Isaac Allen refused to answer a question, before the grand jury of Monroe county; the jury reported him to the court, which' determined, after solemn argument, that the witness could not protect him. self from answering the question. He, however, still refuised, and walecommittetlfor the contempt. In June, 1829, Eli : Bruce was taken Before the g'rand jury ofGenesee county, on a habeas corpus, as a witness, and he refused to be sworn. At a special circuit, held iu June last, at:Lockport, in Niagara county, Orsumus Turner was called ass witness, on the trial of Ezekiel Jewett, the keeper of Fert,Nilfgara at the time of Morgan's confme meetthere; The three following questions were successively put to Turner, as ik witness:: "Was • the defendant ono of the persons consulted with, in relation tetieparating Morgan from lie Wends at Batavia, aiemetios of suppressing . thettentem• plated fnibli cation of a book concerning the secret of freemasonry?" "DO you know that the defen dant, Ezekiel Jewett., was applied to for a•phice, in or about fort Niagara, for the purpose ofconfining William Morgan?" "Was you ever present when the subject of preprint( a place at fort Niagara, or at any other place within the county ofNiagarti. for the confinement of Morgan, was discussed in presence of defendant?" He successively refus ;to answer these questions; and lie was !intone. fed, tot this centinriaciouti conduct, for he first. contempt, to thirty &us imprison t, and r ee2so! fine; and fiir the two last, tothirty days impriion. meat, fbr each contempt. . On the same trial, Eli Bruce and John Whit. neyoeerp ,ca,lied as witnesses, and successively : refuscia to.be sworn. Bruce was sentenced to thir.,- ty Alas imprisonment, for this contempt; & Whit• nev to like imprisonment, and also tom a fine or ft2.'so. These individuals, aro 'all /iabiW tinder the laws-0611e state of Now'York, to hie fertherlntri. ished for their crinteuipts, after conviction upon an indictment, by imprisonment for one year each, and by a fine 0ft52.50. Itie evident that no slight cense could have induced them to take thiwurtie, • and inti Oct themselves o to ch.punish All . • , . roman rAGE.I
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