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T-i r ! business, vs. Samuel Frnntz, Philip Frantz, 1 Bernard Fiantz, Peter Meckes, Joseph Alie- i raose and Abraham Butz. partners in business. nett arose, threw on his dressing-gown, and de In the matter of the auditors report of C. H. scended to the parlor. He saw there a stranger, Heaney assignee of Samuel B. Keifer. of Jal1 Person' f aled. an easy and famii;ar a.tu- o: 01, t?i; u ,u o 1 1 tude upon a sola, with a number of the Morning Simeon Schoonorer vs. Elizabeth Schoono- Post inFhishand. The back of his visitor was turned ver 1 tt ' to Mr. Burnett as he entered. Rather surprised to Owen Rice attorney for the Heirs of Joseph j see a stranger conduct himself so like an old friend Horsefield, deceased, vs. Abraham Butz, Peter: of the house, Mr: Burnett said aloud, "Sir, may I Meckes and T erre Tenante. ; Same r. Same. Same vs. Same. Lawrence Serfoss vs. Peter L. Serfoss. Joseph Kemmerer 10 lhe use of John Mer wine, vs. Samuel Spragle and John H. Kun kle. Washington Overfield, vs. Timothy Vanwhy, Margaret Vanwhy and Elizabeth Vanwhy. William VanCampen, vs. Adam Mosier. John Felker, vs. Peter Woodling. Michael Kiser, vs. Jacob Neyhart. Jacob B. Teel, vs. Henry Reinhold and Le vi George. Overseers of the Poor of Stroud township, vs. tho Overseers of the Poor 'of Hamilton township. Overseers of the Poor of Stroud township, appellees, vb. Overseers of ihe Poor of Hamil ton township, appellants. MONROE COUNTY KEntnal Fire Insurance Company. The r.ate of Insurance is one dollar on the thousand dollars insured, after which payment no subsequent lax will be levied, except 10 cov er actual loss or damage by fire, that may fall upon members of the company. The nett profits arising from interest or oth erwise, will be ascertained yearly, for which each member in proportion to hi, her, or their deposiie, will have a credit in the company. Each insurer in or with the said company will be a member thereof during the term of his or her policy. The principle of Mutual Insurance has been thoroughly tested has been tried by the unerring test of experience, arid has proved huccessful and become very popular. Ii af fords ihe greatest aecuriiy against loss or dam age by fire, on ihe most advaniageous and reasonable terms. Applications for Insurance 10 be made in person, or by letter addressed lo JAMES H. WALTON, Sec'y. .MANAGER8. Jacob Goetz &ip-r John Edinper James H. Walton Edward Poslen Robert Boys Michael H Dreher Jacob Frederick George B.Keller Peter Shaw John Miller Richard S. Staples Jacob Shoemaker Balsar Fethermar JACOB GOETZ, Pieiident. JAMES H. Walton, Treasurer. Siroudsburg, January 31, IS50. STROUDSBURG, MONROE COUNTY, PA., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 7, L850. THE BEAD ALIVE. A Thrilling Sketch. The subjoined narrative, published originally in Chamber's Journal, is stated to be translated from a foreign newspaper. It is necessary to remind the reader that the island Mauritius, appertaining at this day to the English, was originally colon ized by the French, and that the population con sists in a great measure of persons of that nation, to whom, by a formal treaty between the two pow ers concerned, their ancient laws and usages were preserved without material alteration. About three or four months ago, the Sieur Clod omir Frenois, a rich merchant of the island, was found dead, and frightfully disfigured in his own habitation. His body was discovered lying on the floor, with his face mutilated by a pistol, and all doubt as to the cause of the catastrophe was dis pelled by the discovery of the fatal weapon by the side of the corpse, as also of a paper in the handwriting-of the deceased. This paper contained the following words : " I am ruined ! a villain has robbed me of twenty thousand livres sterling ; dishonor must "v portion, ana 1 cannot survive it. I leave my wife the task of distributing among my credit ors the means which remain to us, and I pray that God, my friends, and my enemies, may pardon my self-destruction. Yet another minute and I shall be in eternity. (Signed) CLODOMIR FRENOIS." ijreat was the consternation caused by this tragic event, which was the more unexpected as the loss alluded to in the note had never been made public. The deceased had been held in great esteem over the colony, as a man of strict honor, and was universally lamented. His at tached widow, after endeavoring faithfully to ful fill his last wishes, (bund her grief too powerful to mingle longer with the world, and took the resolu tion to consecrate her remaining days to the ser vice of religion. Two months after the sad end of her husband she entered a convent, leaving to a ! nephew of the merchant, a physician, the charge of comPlellnS ,ne distribution ol the effects of Fre nuns among nis creditors. A minute examination of-the papers of the de- j ceased led to the discovery of ihe period at which I the unfortunate merchant had been robbed : and that period was found to correspond with the date ol the disappearance of a man named John Moon, long in the employment of Ftenois. Of this man, on wnom suspicion not unnaturally fell, nothing ! division of the merchant's property, Moon appeared I in the colony. When taken up and examined re specting the cause of his flight, he stated that he had been sent by his master to France, to recover certain sums due to the merchants there, in which mission he h ad been unsuccessful, and ho further ! if Clodomir Frenois, in his existing! averred that correspondence, had thrown any injurious suspi Cions on him ("Moon the whole was but a nretext to account for deficiennies nf which the. merr.hnnt himself was the sole cause and author. This 1 Jty. !' said l with tears in my e)'es. 'nothing declaration, made by a man who seemed to fear i wmcn man can do can now injure thee ; yet par- no nd whose circumstances H6 mamed to appearance the same as they had ever j 11 1S lo Prent the ruin ol not one but twenty hQe had lhe effect of silcilcir jf it did nol sat. families. And should success attend my attempt,, icf,.- do ov-,?- . ff.;. ,nn cji ; I swear that thv children shall be mv children. j great measuie, out of the public recollection. iwi 1 tus- vAiuuiuwio , uiiu me ciiiti 1 1 autu icii m 1 Tu: r 1 r - i . - . 1? 1 mugs remaineu jor a snort time m mis conoi tion, when one morning Mr. William Burnett, principal creditor of the late Clodomir Frenois, heard a knocking at his gate at a very early hour. Me called up one of his servants, who went down I and opened the door, and immediately returned ' r wilh lhe jntelliqence. that a stranner. who seemed desirous of keeping his person concealed, wished to speak with iMr. Burnett in private. Mr. Bur beg lo know your business with me " Fhe stranger turned round, and advanced to sa- late his host warmly and courteously. Mr. Bur nett started back, and uttered a loud exclamation of surprise and alarm. Well he might; for before his eyes stood his friend and debtor, Clodomir Frenois, whom he had beheld nearly a year be fore a mutilated corpse whom himself had fol lowed to the grave ! What passed at that interview between Mr. Burnett and his strange visiter remained a secret. Mr. Burnett was observed to issue several times, pale and agitated, from his dwelling, and to visit the magistrate charged with the conduct of tho criminal orecesses ol the colony, in the course r ,ul ,i,;i0Un T,mn wa rpoalincr himcpif VI I1IC UU.T, IHH wv.aa. . . w . . . . with tea, under the palm-trees of his garden, with a Circassian female whom he had bought some time previously, he was arrested and taken lo orison bv the officers of justice. On the follow ing day, he was brought before the criminal court, if oncoH nf rfilihinrr tliA Into fllnnttiir TJVrtnmc llio ctime being conjoined with a breach of trust and violence I , , . . 11 .1 c my iamuy to tneir places in society, ano 10 re- Moon smiled at the charge with all the confi.deemlhecredUofanamo on which bjot was uenceoiaman wno imu .1 mig i .ear 1 e 1 1 1 .t.: f tm 11 na hivnirr r o m n n r-n rw mm 11 tin rnn ncpn ' the crime, the accused replied that tho charge uwjo . 1 was altogether absurd ; that clear testimony was necessary to fix such a charge upon him ; and that, so far from there being any such evidence produci ble, neither the widow of the deceased, nor any one person in his service, had ever heard the pre tended robbery even once mentioned by Frenois during his life. " So you then affirm your innocence !" repeat-; ed the Judge, gravely, after hearing what the oth er had to sav. I will avouch my innocence," replied Moon. ! "even before the body of my late master, if that; be necessary." (Such a thing often took place under the old colonial law.) "John Moon," said the Judge, in a voice bro- ken by some peculiar emotion, " it is before your j late master that you will have to assert your in nocence ; and may the God of Justice make the truth appear." A signal from the Judge accompanied the words, and immediately a door opened, and Clodomir Frenois, the supposed suicide, entered the court. He advanced to the bar, with a slow and deliber ate step, having his eyes calmly but firmly fixed on the prisoner, his servant. A great sensation was caused in the court by his appearance. Ut tering shrieks of horror and alarm the females fled from the spot. The accused fell on his knees in terror, and shuddering, confessed his guilt. For a time no voice was heard but his. However, as it became apparent that a living man stood befoie the court, tho advocate for the piisoner gamed rniiraoa to sneak. He demanded that the identity of the merchant bo established, and the existence be explained. lie said that the court should not be biassed by what might prove to be a mere ac cidental likeness between a person living and one deceased, and that such an avowal as that of the prisoner, extracted in a moment of extraordinary terror, was not to be held of much weight. " Before being admitted here as a witness," continued the advocate, addressing the resuscita ted merchant, " prove who and what you are, and disclose by what means the tomb, which so lately received your body, mangled with bullets, has given up its tenant, and restored you to the world in life and health." This firm appeal of the advocate, who continued steadfast to his duty, under circumstances that would have closed the lips of most men, called forth the following narrative from Clodomir Fre nois : "My story may soon be told, and will suffice to es tablish my identity. When I discovered the rob bery committed by the accused, he had then fled from the island, and I speedily saw all attempts to retake him would prove fruitless. I saw ruin and disgrace before me, and came to the resolution of terminating my life before the evil day came. On the night in which this determination was formed, I was seated alone in my private chamber. 1 had written the letter which was found on my table, and had loaded my pistol. This done, 1 prayed for forgiveness from my Maker, for the act I was about to commit. The end of the pistol was at my head, and my finger on the trigger, when a knock at the door of the house startled me. I con cealed my weapon, and went to the door. A man entered, whom I recognized to. be the sexton of the parish in which I lived. He bore a sack on his sholders, and in it the body of a man newly buried, which was destined for my nephew, the physician, then living with me. The scarcity of bodies for dissection, as the court is aware, com pels those who are anxious to acquire skill in the medical profession, to procure them by any possi ble secret means. The sexton was at first alarmed at having mel me. 1 Did my nephew request you to bring this body.' 4 No,' replied the man, but I knew his anxiety to obtain one for dissection, and took it upon me to offer this body. For mer cy's sake,' continued the sexton, ' do not betray me, sir, or I shall lose my station and my family's bread.' " While the man was speaking, a strange idea entered my mind, and brought to my despairing bosom hopes of continued life and honor. I stood for a few minutes absorbed in thought, and then recollecting myself, I gave two pieces of gold to the resurrectionist, the sum which he ex pected. Telling him to keep his own counsel, and that all would be well, I sent him away, and car ried the body to my cabinet. The whole of the household had been sent out of the wav on purpose, and 1 had lime t0 carry into execution the plan wmcn ,iad struck me. The body was fortunately of the same stature as myself, and like me in com plexion. I knew the man ; he was a poor offend- ; er abandoned by his lamily. Fonr relic of mor ; . . j 1 and, when my hour comes, we shall rest together in the tomb, to which thou shall be borne before me At this portion of the merchant's narrative, the most livel? interest was excited in lhe court, and , iBsuueu even oy tears irom many oi me auaience. j 1 renis thus proceeded : ' the body them. This accomplished, I then jl biiwti iyy my viu tiiuo anu uibdobu took up my pistol, and with a hand more reluctant than when I applied it to my person, I fired ii close to the head of the deceased, and at once caused such a disfigurement as rendered it impos sible for the keenest eye to detect the substitution which had been made. " Choosing the plainest habit I could get, I then dressed myself anew, shaved off the whis kers I was accustomed to wear, and took other means to alter my appearance, in case of being subjected by any accident to the risk of betrayal. Next morning saw me on board a French vessel, on my way to a distant land the native country of my ancestors. The expectation of this scheme was not disappointed. 1 knew John Moon was the man who had robbed me, and who now stands at the bar of this court, and that he had formed connections in this island which would in all pro bability bring him back to it, as soon as the intel ligence of my death gave him the promise of se curity. In this I have not been disappointed. I have been abundantly fortunate in other respects. While my unworthy servant remained in imagina ry safety, I have been successful in discovering the quarter in which, not daring at first to betray . , . , . me ujijjeiiiam.c ui eiuii, ue juuyeu hid wuuit; ui the money. 1 have brought it with me, and also sufficient proof, supposing his confessions of this day to be set aside altogether, to convict him of the crime with which he stands charged. By the same means," continued Clodomir Frenois, with a degree of honorable pride, in which all w ho heard I mm sympatmzea, - win t oe enaoieu to 1,1,11 otupaiinztju, win i ue eimuiuu 10 iusiuiu left by those who bore it before me, and which, . . Dleasa' (joci. J shall transmit, unstained, to mv children's children." John Moon, whose guilt was. thus suddenly and strangely laid bare to the world, did not retract the confession which he made, in the extremity of his terror, and without separating, the court sen tenced him to confinement in the prison of the colony. The news of Clodomir r renois reappearance spread rapidly, and the high esteem in which his character was held led to an universal rejoicing on the occasion. He was accompanied from the court to his house by a dense multitude, who wet corned him with prolonged shouts. It would be vain to attempt any description of the feelings of Ins wife, who had thus restored to her the oeioved being for whose sake she had quitted the world, She was released from her ecclesiastical vows, and rejoined her husband, no more to part tin tne grave really claimed one or the other of them as its due. "I hope you will be able to support me," said a young lady while walking out one evening with her intended, during a somewhat slippery state of the sidewalks. " Why yes," said the somewhat hesitating swain, "with a little assistance from your father." There was some confusion, and a profound silence. T&r, e-graphic. Well, wife, I dont see for my part how they send letters on them ere wires with out teaiing 'em all to bits. Law me, they dont send the paper, they just;send the writin' in a fluid state, you fool ! Oh iha-'s the way, hey Burying Alive. The Edingburg Quarterly Review thus explains phenomena that are generally supposed to indi cate a return of vitality after sepulture : ' In the midst of exaggeration and invention, there is one undoubted circumstance which for merly excited the worst apprehension : the fact that bodies were often found turned in their cof fins and the grave clothes disarranged. But what was ascribed, with seeming reason, to the throes of vitality, is now known to be due to the agency of corruption. A gas i3 developed in the decayed body which mimics by its mechanical force many of the movements of life. So powerful is this gas in corpses that have lam long in the water, that M. Devergie, the physician to the Morgue at Paris, and the author of a text book on legal medicine, says that unless secured to the table, they are of ten heaved up and thrown on the ground. Fre quently, strangers seeing the motion of the limbs, run to the keeper of the Morgue, and announce with horror that a person is alive. All bodies, sooner or later generate gas in the grave and it constantly twists about the corpse, blows out the skin till it rends distension, and sometimes bursts the coffin itself. When the gas explodes with a noise, imagination has converted it to an outcry or gioan ; the grave has been re-opened ; the position of the body confirmed the suspicion, and the la ceration been taken for evidence that the wretch had gnawed his flesh in the frenzy of despair. So many are the circumstances which will constant ly occur to support a conclusion that is no more substantial than the fabrication of a dream." Surgical Opcratiosa by Doctor ITIolt. We find the following brief report of an opera tion by Doctor Mott, at the New York University a few days ago, in Noah's Sunday Times ; A young man had a tumor growing out of one of his nostrils. It came, in time, to fill the whole cavity, and was as large as a hen's egg. It was so large, and so extensively and firmly attached that it was impossible to pull it out with forceps, as is done with polypi. The worthy professor put on his considering cap and studied out an opera tion, and then, to make sure, he performed it on a dead body. Satisfied of its practicability, he be gan : First, he made a straight incision from the inner corner of the eye to the mouth, through the upper lip; then he dissected the flesh from the bone, so as to turn all the fleshy part of the nose over upon the other side of the face. This done, he sawed through the bone, and by a nice piece of carpenter work, laid open the whole extent of the nostril. The tumor was now exposed, cut loose, and easily extracted, and the patient got well without any disfigurement but a line where the fleshy parts were reunited. This was an in genious, bold, and successful operation. Crime in New York. A Sad Picture. Mr. Matsell, chief of the police of New York, has addressed a letter to the Mayor, in which he gives a fearful picture of the progress of crime in the commercial emporium. Ho says : " I allude to the constantly increasing number of vagrant, idle, and vicious children, of both sex es, who infest our public thoroughfares, docks, &c. children who are growing up in ignorance and profligacy, only destined to a life of misery, shame and crime, and ultimately to a felon's doom. Their numbers are almost incredible, and to those whose business and habits do not permit them a searching scrutiny, the degrading and disgusting practices of these almost infants in the school o vice and prostitution, and rowdyism would certain ly be beyond belief. The offspring ofalways care less, generally intemperate, and oftentimes itiimor al and dishonest parents, they never see the inside of a school room, and so far as our excellent sys tern of public education is concerned, (and which may be truly said to be the foundation stone of our free institutions,) it is to them an entire nullity. Left, in many instances, to roam day and night wherever their inclinations leads them, a large proportion of these juvenile vagrants are m the dai ly practice of pilfering whenever opportunity of fers, and begging where they cannot steal. In ad dition to which, the female portion of the youngest class, those who have only seen eight or twelve summers, are addicted to immoralities of the most loathsome description. Each year makes fearful additions to the .ranks of these prospective recruits of infamy and sin, and from this corrupt and fes tering fountain flows on a ceaseless stream to our lowest brothels to the Penitentiary and the Slate Prison. . Reports have been made to me from the Cap tains of lhe 1st, 2d, 3d, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 10th, 11th, and 13th, Patrol Districts from which it ap pears that the enormous number of two thousand nine hundred and fifty-five childred are engaged as above described in these wards alone. And of these, two-thirds are females between eight and sixteen years of age. This estimate I believe to be far short of the number actually thus engaged. Astounding as it may seem, there are many hun dred of parents in lhe city who absolutely drive their offspring forth to practices of theft and semi bestiality, that they may live lazily on the means thus secured selling the very bodies and souls of those in whom their own blood circulates, for the means of dissipation and debauchery: The report of ihe Colleclor of San Fran cisco, which has been received at Washington, htates the receipts for duties from the 12ih to ihe 30ih November, to be $113,000, expenses $10,000. He pays $29,000 a year for four rooms in which to transact custom house business. No. 25. K? Men talk of the silver cord of friendship of the silken ties which bind young lovers together of the pure effection of husband and wife as if it were durable as adamant, and as pure as the love of angles. But a hasty word, a thoughtless ac tion, or a misconstrued expression, may break lhe first ; a slight neglect, some inconsistency, or a trifling favor denied, may sunder lhe second; and even the last may be destroyed, or the green eyed monster may find some entrance, and blight the fairest flowers of this sweet earthly paradise But there is a love which neglect cannot weak en, which injury cannot destroy, and which even jealousy cannot extinguish. It is the pure, the holy, the enduring love of a mother. It is as gen tle as the breeze of evening, firm as the oak, and ceases only when life's last gleam goes out at death. During all the vicissitudes of this chang ing world, in sickness or in sorrow, in life or in death, in childhood's halcyon days, in youth's untroubled hour, or manhood's vigorous prime, the mother clings with the same unwearied affection to her child. It is the same amid the snow and frosts of Siberia, the temperate and joyous region of our own, fair land, amid the arid sands of Af rica. Governor Johnston and the Mission to Russia.. A correspondent of iho Philadelphia Ledger, at Washington, has revived the oft-exploded lie, that Governor Johnston is seeking an ap pointment under the general government. This base falsehood, got up without any foun dation, whatever, has been so often refuted, thai we had supposed no tool of lorofocoism could be found, degraded enough, to give it currency again. Tho story now runs, accord ing 10 ihe Ledger's correspondent, that the Hon. TOWNSEND HAINES, late Secretary of Slate, has been at Washington for several days, importuning the President to send Gov ernor Johnston as Minister to Russia. This letter was dated on Saturday last ; and the truth is, that Mr. Haines was at his home in West Chester, (where he has been ever since he left his post at Harrisburg.) up to Monday morning last, when he took his departure for Washington, and could not have reached there before yesterday morning. This shows very plainly lhal these slanders upon Governor John ston are, altogether, sheer, malignant fabrica tions; and that there is neither rhymo, reason, nor probability to sustain them. The cause must indeed be desperate, that requires such a system of tactics to support it. While the President could no where find a gentleman belter qualified, in every respect, han Governor Johnston, to discharge ihe high and responsible duties of the Mission alluded to, we know that no position, however honora ble and distinguished, could tempt him to quit the Gubernatorial office before the expiration of the term for which he was elected. Harrisburg Telegraph. machine for Cleansing and Assorting Wool. A Washington letter writer mentions, as an illustration of the influence which inventive genius exercises upon manufacturers, that some gentleman in Boston, a short lime since, em ployed an ingenious American mechanist 10 devote some study to a mode of cleaning and separating into different qualities the wool from the River Plaie. The attempt was success ful. The machine was produced. The wool was thrown imo ii and thoroughly cleansed and divided into three kinds : good, better and bear. and is thus turned out assorted and cleansed and ready for market or manufacturer. The wool costs six cents a pound, and the first sort produced from it is wonh forty cents a pound. JLady Miners in California. A young man from Maine, wining 10 hi friends from California, says thai his party found, neat the Sacramento, and almost thirty miles from an' other diggings, two intelligent and beautiful young ladies, with no attendant except an old grey-headed negro, whom they had enticed to accompany them, and who is the servant of the father of one of them. The eldest of these girls was not twenty. It seems their imagination had become excited by ihe gold stones ihey had heard, and they had de termined to try their hands al making a fortune. The old negro was past work, and was left in tho camp during the day to look after the house hold affairs, and keep watch while the girls pursued tneir mining operations. v ncn tne party reached their camp, lhe old darkey was alone in it, hut the girls camo in cunns the day, and received their visiters hospitably. They expressed no fear of being molested or robbed, and said that they should leave for home when they had accumula'ed S 10,000 ; hey had already gathered $7j000. J bey wero fiom Florida, and the youngest ran away from school to enter upon the expedition. Connecticut and Usury. The people of Connecticut have probably the simplest, cheapest, and at the same time most effective Iaw-tysiem 10 be found in ihe Untird States. A deed can be drawn in five minti'es, and when drawn by a lawyer generally co&ta rom ihirty-seven aud a half to fifty cents, in cluding tho blank, and justice's fee for certify- ng the acknowledgement. Yet there is never any question as 10 ihe meaning 01 the deed, becauso ii tells its story in plain English. In several other respects Connecticut legislation has been more enlightened than thai ofiis neighbors. Tho usury question is a case in point. At lhe lat sesaionofihe Legislature an aci was passed limiting the foffciture in ease of usury 10 the usury itself, including legal in- erest, but leaving the principal as inviolable. This was almost equivalent to a .repeal of the aw ; for very few would turn knave lo avoid he payment of interest whereas for principal 1 " ... . .1 l.l :il .. anu uueresi u'geiuer, many wuuu wtmita character, co iscieuee, aud Heaven 'Itae-lf Journal of Com.