Bedford Independent, Volume 2, Number 31, Bedford, Lawrence County, 19 August 1857 — Page 1

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BEDFORD, INDIANA. WEDNESDAY, A UgQmIjI 1857.

NO. 31.

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baftlc detection, it was the duty of every man to do all in his power to thoroughly expose her. Dr. Uhl said ho would reflect upon the matter.— He did so, and on the following day told Mr. Hall that he would placehimself entirely at his disposal and at the disposal of the authorities, and engage in any plan which Air. Hall might project. The advice of the District-Attornev was that ho should go, and concealing his doubts and suspicions, learn from Mrs. Cunningham her full views and arrangements. % Upon another interview Mrs. Cunningham admitted to Dr. Uhl that the approaching confinement was a humbug, and “the unborn child” a myth, and offered him $1,000 if he would undertake the job of providing a child and assisting at tho “ aceouchment .” Whereupon Dr. Uhl apparently assented, and returning to tho DistrictAttorney reported. Tho latter functionary said he had a great many things on his hands—that these things worried him more or less, and that I therefore the sooner tho crisis was i reached the better. He then laid down this plan,. That Dr. Uhl should invent the fable of a California widow for a patient, whoso husband being away had been indiscreet and was ready to present her lord with a “responsibility” for which in law he was not responsible; that being scut for to go to California, she was anxious to bestow it upon any of those kind ladies who aro perpetually advcitising for “infants to adopt,” and was as anxious to conceal her shame as any lady might be to be sure that the “real mother” was never to “turn up” like Pillicoddy’a wife, mid reclaim the lost heir. This mystical matter was to be located near by in Elm street, jhat on any convenient day a child be “borrowed” for a few hours from Bellevue Hospital and sent for to the Elm street place of retuge of the distressed California widow by Mrs. i Cunningham; that the latter should be in travail fur a few hours, and then while in possession of tho “little stranger” suddenly be re»Y®*«A to a deligbvtl convalescent, with a rari{cty of minor dramatic touches (for , which the District-Attorney is said to bo famous) not necessary now to be mentioned. mi i ' _ _ • a. /"I '

one rocking chair, one roll of carpeting, five plain chairs, looking glass, crockery, caudle, matches, nursing bottle, one trunk marked “K. L. II.” containing bedding, pillowing, &c. It arrived, and was sent to the room a few minutes before Mrs. Cunningham, in person, came along to take a survey. She tound it all satisfactory, and sending the dispatch of the furni-, ture, Dr. de la Montagine proceeded to Bellevue in a coach—removed the child in its Hut pit al clothe*, and a nurse named Mary Regan for the oc- j casion. Tho child —a female one—i| the daughter of a poor woman in the hospital named Mrs. Elizabeth Ann Anderson, and was born about 10 or 11 o’clock Sunday morning. Dr. de la Montagnie arrived e.t the house No. 170 Elm street about 8J o’clock on Monday. In the meuntim*the furniture had been put in place, and a gentleman in the vicinity went to bed ns tho afflicted widow in case Mrs. G.’s messenger insisted on seeing the bona fide lady. Thus, all was arranged, | including a basket belonging to Mr. j I Hall, with a neat pillow in it, ready for the conveyance of the petite en~\ font.

Inspectors Speight, of the Twentyfirst, Dilks of the Fifteenth, and Hopkins of llie Third Precincts, had been selected to take charge of the police arrangements; also patrolmen Walsh, S. J. Smith, and Wilson of the Fifteenth. Just at dusk on Monday evening the patrolmen were at the station house. Inspector Hopkins was on the watch at the alley way leading from the rear of No 31 Bond street, into Bleeder street. Inspector Speight stationed himself in Bond street, to watch outgoings and incomings. Inspector Dilks selected the point of Burton’s theater as of surveillance. Shortly afterwards officer Walsh was sent to No. ID'bvElm street, to watch, and Sergeant tiinith brought to Burton's. \ About 9 o'clock inspector Snfeight saw a female come cmtt»f housas *No. 31 Bond 8»-—; ,n a “rki»h c ) ot u.j and a hood. She procc^j^ to the Bowery and to a down car. Inspector Speight also got ic Whilst there a friend came to him and is Mrs.-Cunningham, ? minting to the lady who hattaraerged rom No. 31 Bond street. The Inspector turned it off and nothing more was said. At the corner of Broome

and Marion streets she gut out. Mr. Speight tarried on the car half a block and then doubled and succeeded in seeing her enter No. 190 Elm street. She soon came up stairs and presented herself at the door. She contented herself with looking into the room merely. There were lerriflic meanings heard from the inside room, caused by the pains of the afflicted “paternal’’ mother, and the basket I was delivered and taken oui. So quick wore her motions that officer Walsh, in the ohscurity, just missed her, hut followed into the Bowery with Dr. Montngnie. The doctor came close to her but could not see her face. He however, distinctly recognised the basket as the one brought from Mr. Hall’s house, and the one last seen in No. 190 Elm street. She turned into Bond street, and again entered So 31 Bond street, seen by both Dr. Montagnio and Inspector Speight, and patrolman! Walsh, carrying the basket. A messenger was observed to go to Dr. Uhl’s house from 31 Bond street about half past nine o’clock on Monday evening, in a great hurry. Policeman Matthews, of the twentyfirst, had been sent to Brooklyn, to watch Dr. Cat’.in, (the physician, it will he recollected, who swore on the trial to Mrs. Cunningham's rheumatism.) About half past ten o’clock both physicians entered, and in due time Mrs. Cunningham was “brought to bed.” A fictitious after birth had been prepared and a large pailful of Iamb's blood. The bloody sheets of Mrs. Cunningham’s bed, and the placenta, stowed away in a cupboard, completed this mock confinement, which had also been systematically accompanied with imaginary pains of labor.

Mr*. Cunningham, however, despite, her illness, arose from her bed to partake of a delicate lunch and then j went back again. Dr. Uhl left first, and rejoining the police, informed | them how the land laid. Soon after J Dr. Catlin left and was arrested by Patrolman Wilson, as ho was turning the corner of the Bowery, and taken to the Station-house. Inspector Dilks, accompanied by | Dr. Montagnio, ns a physician, then I went to No. 81, under and by virtue I of that section of the Metropolitan Police Act, which authorizes Inepcc-! tors at all houis of the day and night to enter any house wherein they have rcawm to behove a felony is being comipittod. They rang at the door. an ,l were admitted. Objection being j made to their going up, Inspector, PUks courteously said he had been informed by a physician that there | had been a birth of a child under ( curious circumstances, and it was his duty to inquire. They ad-[

The plan was given to Mrs. Cunningham, who Was highly pleased with it, ami became impatient for the denouement. Dr. Uhl asked her when it would be most convenient for her to become smother. Thursday, July 28, was the shortest tin.e for the “ordinary gestation,” (as spoken by Judge DcanJ under the theory of the marriage before the Surrogate, and so the Hrst week in August became the settled upon time. On the first day of August, Mr. Hall found it necessary to find another physician who should take charge of the child and care for its health whilst it was in a state of loan, and also to obtain the infant. He sent for his most intimate friend and bis own pergonal physician. Dr. de la Montagnic, of 1- islkill, and also for Gov. Washington Smith and George Kellock, of tho Almshouse, and to them confided his plans. The Doctor promised to lend his aid and came down to New York for that purpose. Governor Smith with District-Attor-ney Hall had an interview with Mr. Warden Daly, of the Bellevue Hospital, on Monday last, and examined Into the state of the “lying in” Ward. It was found favorable, the child would bo forthcoming. Dr. Uhl and Dr. K)e la Montagnic were then brought together by Mr. Hall at his office and after a consultation they started out to find fitting j apartments whereto might come the messenger af Mrs. Cunningham with a basket and wherein (in tho apartment and not the basket) the mythical widow of California has to reside. Elm-street was found to be par' icularly full of “apartments,” but there were none private enough except some in tho house of Mr. , a lager bier gentleman, of 190 Elm street. I)r. Dc la Montagnic being unprovided with baggage Mr. Hall lent him one of his wife’s trunks marked ‘ K. L. II.” which rendered necessary (lest suspicion being excited by the inmates they might impart it to the bearer of the child when she should make he appearance basket in hand) tho taking of a name corresponding to the initials. The name selected was “Karl L. Herwig.” A card with that name upon it was handed to the worthy host of 1. Elm street —rooms were selected and by 12 o’clock, noon, of Monday, August 3d, the first act of the drama of “My Little Adopted” was over. Tho denouement of this strange story now rapidly approaches. It was necessary to furnish the room in Elm street, for it was probable that a messenger from Mrs. U unninghara might come to sec 1 coraingly the District-Attorney ,c from his residents* a cart load o " podrxda furniture, of which the ,n ' cn lory is something like the following. “One sofa bedstead, one round taM« (

vanced up-stairs preceded by tlic two “ladies”—one being an aunt of Mrs. Cunningham, and tiio other a nurse. The ruom in which Mrs. Cunningham was “confined” was the second story front room; the same in which Hr. Burdell was laid out for his funeral, and which he occupied as a bed room in his lifetime. The buck; room—where the murder was com-! milted—had been newly papered and! painted, and was set out for a lunch. As Dr. Montagnic and Inspector Dilks were entering, one of tho nurses .id, “Here arc some gentlemen who wish to come in.” Instantly her voice was heard saying quickly, “Shut the door, don’t let them come in here.” Hut Dr. Montagnie and Mr. Dilks entered and made known their business. Tho child was found lying very sweetly asleep by her side, and was unmistakably the child taken from Bellevue and delivered to Mrs. Cunningham in Elm street. It may be here stated that tho child was marked with lunar caustic in the arm-pits, on each ear, and a new string, capable of being identified, tied about the navel. On ibeing examined, the string was also found, but, of course, the lunar caustic marks will not be found visible for a day or two. The officers with the District-At-torney now came in. Mr. Hull was| apprehensive that, when discovered,; Mrs. Cunningham might attempt to kill the child, and Inspector Dilks therefore immediately proceeded to take it away from her. She resisted,! speaking of it as “her dear baby,” “Don’t touch my baby,” and address-, ing Dr.'Montagnie and others, said, distinctly: “TAis is the child of Harvey Burdell.” Dr. Montagnie and Mr. Hall now leave No. 31 Bond-street, and taking the child with them, return it toils mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Ann .Anderson, in Bellevue Hospital, 1 be Hospital clothes, which were found, in Mrs. Cunningham's-house, and which she wore when removed from Elmstreet, having been changed by Mrs. Cunningham for near and coetly garment*, its mother returns thanks for the exchange. " ♦<miay Mn. Cunningham, Dr. Catlm. “At i mfh?ur. and the mid*

mjj saw speaker and others of BP VL who expected apBa and to ihare the IB Mormonism with Some ladies who their seats evinced a* if ducowertcd w point ip the speech. After Iv ” 'Nte destroyed, hr said Hs M(i would bo the HardMflfUNfiftk, which, though u small •finRB'Vlitnbers. would be rather bardteoigest, and so on through the Iist tfle weaker churches. He deli vend a hieh-wroucht eulogy npon Store Arnold Deagtna is notes as plaintive aft Imws of the djtns swan of Ms native swamps- ThiAotnouss

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ELDER FAWSlt ON THE “SPEER* - Kfhan Spike, of llornby, (its written a letter to the Portland! Transcript, describing the doings of N the Elder in Hornby. _ We do not gee r how any one can resist the Eldfer’s legit: Elder Phine-aa Fawsil preached agin it last Sabberday. It was a great aputbust of the Elder’s, an’ gin comfort to many. I do suppose that Elder Fawsil, when he’s fairly waked up, is about as teogh a customer, as 4he devil ever wraafsd with* I don’t really epose he’d be a bit mere afeered of Beelaebub, or even the Old Boy himself, than I should be of a yerlia colt.' Ton orter hear him talk of the divH—jest as essy and famillyer se. ihonga tts knew he*d got the eriltsrt' lender Ills*thumb, an’ was aartki ha Sad halt of bin whar the hair was

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■ \ '•>j/n{rsroMMHBBS I m i n>;t< >n, A Mm. Iii;iii;v; Vo* ai 1 Ml ki . ■ [ i i I vdu \> r *iW '-ill 1 1 ro. The f jHHHHj < '"in t In r.- < >:itinue(i^L^HHHHH| two-wccks allowed ■ ■ \i■ • ■ ’• i. .ii ! 'in'i'llally I' i■.V->i m-i:i"I.- "■ !•>• fiI ■ I' lii" i.Tin one fur4^S§|§P|p| against Mr. Keel, kcep#r of» t#Sf| yard on tlic west side of til* irilkh between the Orchard House and the] I University. From the evidenc* on 1 the trial it appeared: that the tanysrd ] had not been kept as cleanly as it J ought, and that unpleasant odors bad 1 ] been sometimes emitted within the « two years next before the filing of the' < information. Verdict of the jury, j 1 fine of $o5. —Order of the court that the offensive matter be removed, i. e., j < the nuisance abated. Informations < were filed against the liquor sellers j without respect to persons, under the j i law of 1353, for nuisances—against | a number of persons for gaming at. ] ten pin—against jjajrsons for obstruct- ] ing streets and alleys, and upwards of j i twenty against Regulators for riots, i On account of the miserable character of our courts formerly, the want of ability and disposition to render justice and protect the injured, many preferred to suffer without redress, ' rather than undertake the humiliation of seeking it in such wretched mock J tribunals. Before Judge Hannacamo ! upon the Bench then) was a general disposition to shun ths CircuitConrt, 1 and very little business was done in it except that which was unavoidable, and of which that court had exclusive jurisdiction.. Business of which the 1 Common PlMs Court had concurrent jurisdiction, was commenced in that ■ ! court. But Quick’s court, though not as bad as tho Circuit Court, turned out to be a farce, and business decreased in the Common Bleaa Court. ' is jtnvr increasing in this court. can *<Wr approach it with an tf will ha in reality a court of justice.

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THE BIRDKLL MURDER!!

Mn. Cunningham re-arretted.—Fic-iilio ten child-birth.—Abounding diedo»t*ret. Public excitement about the great Burdell mystery —almost dead through lapse of time and lack of interest—ms revived yesterday with tenfold vigor. Mrs. Cunningham re-arrest-ed! "Why? Where? How? Has there been another murder, or has the veil been lifted at last from that uoparsalleled tragedy for which Emma Augusta Cunningham was tried and acquitted? How is it that she was again aarrested? The Times first announced the fact, and the people rushed to the Times for the particu-

lan. It will bo remembered, ' lat shortly after tne conclusion of iho trial of Mrs. Cunningham for murder, a rumor prevailed that she was with child by Dr. Burdell, and that in duo time a living pledge of the union would be produced. The rumor was not traced to any direct source, and was not generally believed, until her counsel, Judge Desn, in concluding his speech before the Surrogate, m July 2, used the following langua >, as appears from the Times’s repoi of tho follow!ng day: "If il were true, that in the rdinary gestation, a child should be born to Harvey Burdell, then not only all the tics of blood ami nature, but all the dictates of humanity, demanded thaat the Court should lean in favor of that jMoeent unhorn child, rather "ThstT Tn*favis of those who have no dxrtei claim upon the property, lie would, say nothing of the consequences decree of oastardy in advance. With the consequences we have now to do,” etc. Thv»' 'mjno--~'-nywt*. however, . cnfven r authoqpf,; t0 that Mis. Cunningham was cnrirnlf, and as she soon after began to appear in public it was noticed that her form gave corroborating evidences of tho probabilities outlined by the learned Judge,] her counsel,

short. Bat I wm goin to mj su(ki» of this foot Mfmint of him. The Elder had laid daoan string fonts apd proved 'em *8. Fuat—Speertopalira if the works of Satin. Seeood—It’i the to* jinta, worked by odd force ao’ vjtuUed super Carbonic electric Buid.’ >^-. Third—(Thii pint I didn’t ef egntolly, he not epeakin very log!-" 1 bly—but it «u ithefr Mesmerism or Morroonism, but it dpo’t matter much, as which it was, he proved it.) Fourth—Its Aonymill Magnitudes. Fifth—(This pint, nyther, I can't verbunkum; but it‘was some kind of a bug—taounded nothin like Jean. Sixth—Ef it war spirits, they wsr evil spoerits. ' • ui no speerha, no The discourse w us Scrip ter hearing pm iheMfdlwbMm sn* hystericalUwkw— M- hT|J%V learned aa km jfk'. air I dtjMmL. a into him, he'd him' ififit S||> MJSfaMBB nobody can ScderwtanL, jd4rPg «»I kiasraeaowv in* itw ; «fE^T (fc 3»s!K.rr

syren* c-shorted »• .horns dlsorrtfil long snd load, iAfcehidf of free r4BI gion, tyfcfedty, free oqtwtter »ovoreighty Wwrilg'e to foreigners, and every other free sortof thing except free niggsrs, free apftfch, tad mont. 1 This Miwe Stephen jgjtald Douglas recoptly made a ipNf|), ,p« you know, at Springleld, In which he states that it ia a measure of the Administration, and hia own favorite policy to destroy ‘“fret squatter aovereignty” in Utah, and with it to destroy the proscriptive Mormon church. “Old Buck” send* Gen. Homey with un army of 2500 troops, ostensibly to proscribe and destroy a whole terrifewry and a large church, a largp portion * of them foreigners!!! & > Ths Judge, Am., muKold Ben nnd Sol, and Dave, Bob, Tom, Dick, and Harry, tag-rag and bobtail, the same i who cried Amen at the speech at the “triangular grove" in favor of squat* ', ter sovereignty and freedom of reli- • gion—now, when Douglas end tho

wife were

“Te Lffitte V*ck Bonj."

*")>•»“ At *« pi« <*• tojPi went on on a target about porit —said It was pis'n—that ef the dlvS ever got aout of the pesky hogs he’d got in agin naow. in the abape of whisky sweetened with strucknine. lie then tuk up the meejutns, an the way he made their feathers fly ia a solemn warnin to nil wrappers. Ssid thsr wsnt a second hand chaw of terbacker’s difference atween ’em an that cro Simeon Magog spoken of in Scriptcr. Then he struck aout into about the allmightiest pea-roarashun ever heern in this aubloonary spear. ■ lie actooaliy seemed to take the divil right up by the tail, an shake him like a cat would a mice. I bea»-> much of a poick an don't run muc 1, to imagination, but—I swan to man—I eenjest thought I could hear the old critter holler, as the Elder whanged and cuffed him about. Ef I war in his place, I’d think twice abaout it afore I'd go smcilin around agin within the Elder’s reech.”

RV GOTLEIB.

Administration propose to viohitu the ' very same principles thus advocated, faiy s a trading army, itself odious to | true democracy, the mta**«gffV)f( wretches *«re now equally reifldy to cry ii Dili*,of thef Ephesians,”. •> £■*w I> TJ|ie. Deril. himself. wtt*v »JU_..hir' wealth and influence and prospect of

“Chon, you reklcmcmbcr dat liddlo plack bony I pyed mit the bedler next veek?”

Those who were bought up by bench : warrants at the past term, uniformly plead guilty. The country now ex -

honor in this country for a long time to come, would be afraid if not ashamed to hazard such political “phantastics before high heaven.” and a pco-! pie boasting of their intelligence.— Can there be imagined a more capricious, inconsistent, contradictory, time serving, pharisaical, lying swarm of hypocrites and traitors to their country and the cause of truth, than ihese bogus political leaders, or a worse gulled, benighted, political bedeviled, and pitiable pack of domogogue-rid-den hewers of wood and drawers of water, than the poor disciples of the latter-day spurious democracy. The lenders have but one principle or ruling passion, the love ofot-i flee—i. e., the loavey and fishes. Hut the poor deluded twit ales in the ranks of the paity, get neither honor, emolument, nor gratitude. Neither: have they the consolation of serving 1 their country. They serve the office seekers at the expense of themselves and the public good. They implicitly and blindly follow the bell weather ifj he has but 1) for Democracy branded on his rump; no matter what his course or destiny. As an old squire j low down in Indian Creek toward Buena Vista says when half drunk, they know no North, no South, no East, no West. This is literally true. An advvnture of this same old squire is in point. Having taken two large a dose of bad whisky, alias spirit of bogus democracy, at the last Presidential election, on his return homeward he got off his animal “for medicinal purposes.” Ppon remounting his horse, his face happened to be the wrong way—hut progressive democracy never stops to consider or know North from South, or Kastfrow West—the march of the squire was right onward. A kind Republican neighbor met him, who know the cardinal points of the compass, and endeavored to convince him that ho was going [ from home. The democratic squire I pushed on gesticulating ns if fighting j a nest of yellow jackets, shouting “1 'know no North, no South, no East, no West, —G—d d—n the nbolishioners and Black Republicans—Hur rah for Perkins and Buch-(hic)-liun-(hic)-nnn.

“Yah, vot of him." “Notings, only I git sheated burdy pad.” “So?” “Yah. You see in de rural place he isK plint mit bote legs, unt ferry lame mit von eye. Den ven you gits i on him to rite he rares up pehint unt kicks up pcforc so vur ur as a chachmulc. I dinks I dakcs him a liddle rite yeatertay, unt so sooner I gits stradnle his pack he gonsmcnce dat ray, shust so like a vakin poem on a poatsteam; unt ven ho gits tone, 1 vas so mixed up mit eferydinks, I vints minczelf zitlin arount packvards, mit his dail in mine ban’s vor de pridlc.” “Veil, vot you going to do mit him?” Oh, I vixed him potter as cham up. I hitch him in te cart mit his dail vero his heat ought to pe; den I gife him about so a tozen cuts mit a hitecow; he starts to go, put so soon he see te cart pefore him ho makes packvards. 11turdy soon he stumble pehint, unt sits town on his hunches, unt looks like lie burty shamped mit himzelf. Den I dakes him out, hitch him de rite vay, unt he goes rite of shust so good as anypodys bony.”

pccts that the law is to be enforced with certainty without severity. You will in a few days receive some new subscribers from this and the adjoining counties of Greene, Drown, and Owen. Your independent course in matters generally, meets with almost universal approbation. The people do not like an editor who is afraid of his shadow. You have no doubt observed the speeches of U. S. Senators Douglas and Trumbull in Illinois, in reference to the course of the Administration as to Kansas and Utah, and Governor Walker’s demonstrations. They go to disclose still more and more the extraordinary and miserable inconsistency and misrule of the sham democracy * You recollect that an old hackneyed renegade ami swell-tub orator was imported from the swamps of Illinois in the last campaign, by “Judge Wbeugha” and “Am,” that the bogus leaders might have the benefit of his whisky eloquence nt the “triangular” grove. This great spouter made n stirr'.ig appeal to the bogus democracy, the latch string of whose cabin he said he had found hanging out, and into which he had ventured without a special invitation, after carrying crout in one hand and Irish potatoes in the other, for General Scott. He took n violent heaving and setting at Native Americanism, Ignorant disciples who never saw a newspaper except a straggling campaigner, appeared tube sc1 riously affected hy the speech, aided no little by bad whisky, and the rueful countenances of the “Judge" and “Am,” and others, elders of the sham democracy.

A few days after this public announcement of “contingencies”—this “casting beforehand shadows,” Dr. Uhl -was sent for by Mrs. Cunningham to wait upon her. Dr. Uhl had been her medical adviser previous to the date of the murder, had attended her during the inquest, and was a prom inent witness in the three investigations which grew out of the raui dor and the claim for the property. — Dr. Uhl accordingly went to sec her, 1 and was by her informed that she was eneie nit by Dr. Hurdell, and expected to be confined nbout the middle of August. Sho asked him to become one of her medical attendants upon the areouckm rnt, and Dr. I hi consented. In a few days he culled again, and advised with her about her condition. Upon pressing some certain medical inquiries, his suspicion hecame aroused. Up to this time Dr. Uhl bad rsther favored the idea that Mr*. Cunningham was entirely innocent of the charge of murder. He visited her again and his doubts about her “interesting situation” became al-1 most certainties. He immediately laid the matter before David K. Wheeler, Esq., his counsel, who di- | rcetly told him it was his duty to go . to District Attorney Hall, and make > a necessary affidavit. Dr. I hi then called on Mr. Hall—this was about the date of Jnl v 10—and stated the facts, asserting however, that he would not make an affidavit, as he did not wisH his professional delicacy or confide nee to be at issue. Mr. Hall told him that if such a thing was contemplated by Mrs, Cunningham, it was n very serious felony, and referred the Doctor to that section of the Revised Statutes which say;—“Every person who shall fraudulently produce an infant, falsely pretending it to have been born of- parents whose child would be entitled to a share of any personal estate, or to inherit any real estate, with the intent of intercepting the inheritance of any such real estate, or tho distribution of any such --personal property from any person lawfully entitled thereto, shall, upon con viclion, bo punished by imprisonme nt in a Htato Prison not exceeding to r» years. ’ >Ir. Hall further argued with the Doctor that ho might have it in his power to frustrate the crime or prevent it from being an undiscovered mysterv; that under the strange circumstances nurrounding this woman arad her world-wide notoriety, and the unfortunate results which might flow £o the community if her crime should

last week's Independent, Henry Ward Beecher speaks of the recent death by accident of three of his nephews. The two sons of Dr. Milliard, of Indianapolis, killed at the Marietta Uailroad accident, and the son of Prof. Stowe, Beecher sayg of the sons of Dr. Dullard; Nobler, truer, more gentle and amiable natures never were! Obedience, kindness, gentleness and unswerving truth were to them a law of life. Just a moment before the accident one of them said to a gentleman by their side, “Oh, in a few moments more, and wc shall be at home.” They were, indeed, nearer home than they thought. They have found their 1 mother, who, for many years, Las watched ami waited for them in Heaven! There has been a remarkable history to the family whose name they bore. Their groat grand-father, at the age of 105, died by accident, being choked to death. Their grandfather. Dr. Artctnai Bullard, of West Sutton, Mass., at about 80, fell from a Imy loft and broke his neck. Their uncle, Dr. Jcsso Bullard, was drowned between San Francisco and the Sandwich Island, some six years ago. Another uncle, Rev. Artemas Bullard, of St. Louis, was last year killed at the railroad disaster, at Gasconade Bridge, Missouri. And now these dear young men are by the sudden violence of a like disaster, called early homo.

Dasokuois Preaching.—Three men were hung at St. Louis, a few days ago, and each expressed his strong conviction on the gallows as he was going immediately to Heaven, and that the crime lie had committed had been the means of bringing him to tho Savior. The minister who gave them this idea, no doubt did it with the best intentions, but the propriety of such teachings may well be questioned. Men arc usually taught that it is living virtuously and religiously which gains immortal happiness; but if men arc to reach the same re-' ward through the coramision of crimes, and the greatest of all crimes be tho immediate instrument of their salvation, the question arises, w here is the merit of a good life in respect to tho 1 hope of the future? If it is preached that crime may be the moans of saving, is not a very strong inducement held out to commit it, and may not I murder come to bo regarded by the reckless, as the readiest means of taining it, at the end of an ill spent life? Such preaching seems to be dangerous to society mid promotive of crime. —Madieon Courier.

This whisky spooler drew a frightful picture of what ho said the country would bcif the doctrine of Native Americanism was carried out against foreigners and Catholics. Ho argued that if ono church was proscribed another would bo, until the strongest church swallowed the weaker ones lie wont so far in the exuberance of his fancy os to anticipate the order of the destruction of the churches. He said if the Catholics were destroyed, the next would be the Mormons.— Considerable *ympa>hy was here man

“Aro you fond of Itogg't TjI> * said a rather verdant lady to a shepard. ‘Yes I likes Vm roasted wf salt on cm,' was tlio response. ‘No—but 1 mean have you read TaletT •Noa,’ said the bumpkin, ‘our hogs aro all white or block—I don’t think thorn is a red one among ’em.’’

An Irivnan, on being asked which was the elder, ho or his brother, replied; “I am the oldest, but if my brother lives three years, we shall both be of an ag«.”

Fine growing weather