Indiana American, Volume 19, Number 32, Brookville, Franklin County, 1 August 1851 — Page 1

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BltOOKVILLE, IXDlAtfA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 1, 1851,

Ujn to the 4th District

-fthc'ye Co- Whig.

."lennnris. j. .! ; his desperation to defeat Mr. me he did tWO Tears rrn m

'Tutor. F,!" I-1 . r . Van- Athant. rim. or nn.J

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..J i.nnnt?rfelters: and nropnTintr sn

72iiu . r to " r. tii. sUlare of the State, dirpptinir

ftwjtinf Attorney of Fayette Connty to

.-tai nolle pfs;ni against persons of this "(jfisficted inthat Coort. This matter rtmttanirerutfd two years ego; yet the .a! chiT !s s?sia re-Tamred hJ Mr Vaileolne,tV.js'nder,we give the facts of the

Wrts!a Tticwas t rice 01 rayette county, . .. ..3 t. Bullar POUTltv. Ohio, fnr nne.infr

1CSS WtlClftt m j - i f.

counterfeit moMy. A certain ur Kichardson,

,sfl 0f farft;f fc-ontr, being afterwards 111

ffam''H. l.."Siers 01 11 ouri learuea irom " - . . .1 . : : f ....

Jews! requested by Mr Mtlliktn, an Attorney it lint piace, and the Clerk of the Court to take llr!;tsii apprehend Price and bring him over. HeicuV.Nt! legality of the writ, and told

j, jj;::;i;a. tli? Clerk and others who nrged

hjmia ! msiwr, mai ne tnoognt to maise me

VTf n there should be a reqnsition from the

irernor. B?irg assured, however by legal

P5t'.es!ea list no requisition was nesessary, he

lock the writ, and on his way home, he again

taak counsel from Mr Sleith, an attorney at

that time it liberty, and was also informed

ibt Wir. that he had an undoubted right ti serve Ithe writ. Actir.g (has in good faith, he took to

his aid some fire or six individuals, arrested Mr.

Price, loci him oxer and delivered him to the

Seen in Boiler county. Dr Richardson and

iosi?ticf him in the arrest, were after-

vis indicted in the Fayette Circuit Court,

3!er the Statute of our State, for kidnapping

pwl'.entiary offence and employed Messrs.

Visum .ewman to defend them. Prior to

litis, it had generally been considered that

Statute only applied to kidnapping persons

eolcr, bat ia looking closely Into it.it was

and tr.at it would Dear a more general inter

relation, rjd would apply to the illegal taking f any person out of the State. That the per-

cna acted in good faith there was no doubt but heir ignorance ot tae law could be no defence

sen the trial. They were indicted, we believe, jtt the fall term of the Fayette Circuit Court. The following winter Mr Parker was a member kftre. Legielature, and, after consulting with SMr Newman in the matter, he introduced the

Mowing bill Into the Legislature; which, after oeirg referred to the Judiciary Committee, was repotted back and passe both Houses unanimous'?.

An .rt declaratory of the law In a special ciin Fayette Countv. approved, Juttmry 13.1S44. Whereas, it is reoaesented to this General

Arsembly that Sundry Indictments are now

rearing in the layette Circuit Court, against

i.nrt persons fr Hcnapping, and that paid ewnadid the act, for which they stand indicidin good fiiith, and as they supposed by legal s-.trority, by virtue of a writ issued from the cart of common pleas for Butler county, Ohio; h:ch writ sa;d persons had in their possession t tb lime of doing the act aforesaid; There-':t.

miction 1. Eeit enacted by the General A-wnblyof tlieStaleof Indiana. That if it be r 'e to appear to the satisfaction of the Court or Jotv, trying any of said cases, that an indictmeat tor i high crime or misdemeanor was pento Eatlar county, Ohio, against the person 6cear-ntwas the cause of the finding of ;acictraentsin Favette county; that a writ :t wij.d on said Butler County indictment, in the poesf ion of the persons who made ".uarrfsi, and that the arrest was made with jjfcatto tnrrender the person arrested to the r'"Taa!horty, for trial on such indictment 3 BJ-':'.-onty, aforesaid; then each of the ei! indicted or that may hereafter be indictii' Fayette, because of said arrest, under the 7 of this ?tat? against kidnapping, shall ""deemed guilty of violating the true intent '-: rr.esnire of sVid Statute, and shall go acquit 'FUDisnmettt: Provided, however, that judgest for costs may go as In other cases. L'nder this tct, a tta wa3 had, ev idence given a the Fayette Circuit Court, in wbiph it w

shown that the parties indicted acted in eood

'". under the writ issued in Rut!r pnnnir.

In arresting Trice, and were acquitted. We have girel he facts of the case as they transpired- It ;s cselesss to nnnl tn r, V.;l

ttll the truth; or to do iusti tn Mr Parkor.

u act would lose him the confidence of

party, and form an exception to the general cfhr?lhfe. From the State Sentinel, July 22J. Gcorje XV. JJinn asraia. J 'v'fP"atedly asked, why we make such trene opposition to the election of Mr. ... - '1 is ss,J there is no Democratic canMd tithe, Julian or Parker must be elec-

'-""Ppotition to Julian is political not personal, w.i. r . . I "(now Mr. Julian's course in the

r..- '? " e " that for the creditof

' would have been a thousand times

' " District had been unrepresented Kepbiic snd try Soa(hern paper

Si ru c,nocracy f Indiana with the Gidcij !, m8nd the evidencB t "tin this Dnrir, 7 Pint t0 the Fourth Congressional fepSlre" U !S a"eged lhatDemocra4 th. n eUrp0rang Ju,ian Congress, snd

inere.eWUo . ,.

of his father, went a gunning. The gun at the first discharge exploded and mutilated his hand . The boy returned holding up to his distressed parent the bleeding limb. In deep agony he said, O father, how sorry I am that I ever shot." When these treasonable Bhouta of triumph come, your opponent will say to you as Nathan did to the conscience-strieken David, "Thon art the man." On the 14th of May, 1850, when clouds and darkness obscured our National horison; when good men everywhere trembled with fear; when the patriots of the land who had immolated party ties on the burning altarof national existence and national prosperity, had gathered In solemn council to save the ship of State that was rolling In the billows of agitation; when eery member frem Indiana, with ona exception, and he the representative from the Wayne District, were favoring compromise and conciliation, George W. J ulian, on the floor of Congress, under the solemnity of an oath, In the discharge of a high office, in that sacred hall where were congregated the people's represe ntatives In national council, with the reminscences of th e involution all around him, with the stars and stripes of his country floating over his head, uttered these treasonable words: "I am willing to submit to wrongs already inflicted, but if further submission be exacted as the price of the Union, I would say to our Southern friends, take the putrescent corpse of

slavery into your embrace, and let your con

templated Southern Confederacy, encircle it amidst the hisses of the civilized world. During the last summer, I told the people I now have the honor to represent, that I would rattier see the breaking np of the Union, than the extension of slavery into our territories, either by the action or permission of the government. I reiterate that declaration here." When we heard these words fall from his lips, we then declared our opposition to him. There

lives not on the face of this earth any friend, either personal or political, who could ever obtain our vote after such a declaration. Rather than a few slaves be Uken to Utah, he would see this glorious Union severed. That flag which proclaims to the world that It is the embm of the "land of the free and the home oT the brave," torn in tatters; the nation plunged into civil war; the crystal waters of the Ohio run red with the blood of fallen brothers, and the beautiful cities and towns along its shores black and smoking ruins. Rhett and his confederates in treason would dissolve the Union because the people of California have prohibited the introduction of slavery. If they admitted it, then Julian by his own declaration, would have been for "breaking it up." Now where is the difference democrats of the Fourth District? Would you support Rhett? You would answer no. Will you vote for Julian? This is the question; answer it on the first Monday in August, Infhtnon. Whilst the columns of most of onr exchanges

are almost filled with denunciations of Southern secessionists, we ask them in sober earnest if any of the "fire eaters" of the South have said any thing more infamous than the foiling sentiments of the Rev. Parker Pillsbury, in an ad

dress on the Sabbath, at Danverse, Mass: "The Fourth of July is the most cursed day

iu an me caienaer. l ne day when Judas Ieariot betrayed his master; the risy when Jesus Christ was nailed to the cross, is more to be

honored and celebrated with firing of canon and waving of the hateful buntinff. than the 4th of

July. On the morning of the 4th of July we should clothe ourselves in sackcloth and ashes

during the day. "George Washington waded in blood through an eight years' war; he then went home and grew rich in selling his neighbors and stealing their hard earnings. "There is not a sterile hill top in Austria but that is more sacred to freedom than Bunker Hill and the plains of Lexington and Concord. The vilest mud scow that floats on the Danube Is a nobler craft than the proud frigate Constitution."

VOL XTX XO. 32.

TOE FARMER.

The Art of Making Cu ttingw. The art of striking plants from cuttings Is one which mainly depends for success upon preserving the vital fluids from evaporation, until the germ or bud from which a new plant is to spring can become sufficiently organized to maintain sn independent life, separate from the branch that bore It. For this reason, we End universally in practice, the employment of handglasses, or bell-glasses, the effect of which is to retain, in a state of uniform moisture, the sir which surrounds the cuttings; because evaporation can not go on to an injurious extent, in an atmosphere itself charged with vapor. Every one who has attempted to propogate

plants by cuttings, has. however, found certain practical difficulties in his way. He would easily succeed with Felargoniums, and Fuchsias, and China Roses; bnt when he attempted to deal with Apples or Pears in the same manner, he will probably have failed. Among the methods invented from time to time to overcome such difficulties, and to which we need not refer on the present occasion, is one by Prof. Delacroix, of Besancon, which appears to deserve attention, both for its novelty and ingenuity. This gentleman states that he, some years

milked than others, will give richer milk, and consequently mora butter. The morning's milk is richer than the evening's. The last drawn milk of each milking, at all times and seasons, is richer than any other part of the milk, and much richer than that when first drawn, which is the poorest. Farmer's Register.

Grafting Errrr IHonth In ibrVrar. The investigations and experiments of horticulturists, says the Marine Farmer, are continually bringing forward something new in the practice of the culture of plants and shrubs and trees. It was formerly thought that early in the spring was the only time to engraft; and also that It could only be done on the tree or stock while growing in the ground. Now people find it just as well to take up young trees, put them in the cellar, with sand or earth over the roots, and either graft the stocks at their leisure hours before the firs duringsome stormy day or winter evening carefully plucing them buck until time to set them out in the springer they cut the roots to pieces, of three or four inches In length, and engraft them in the same manner, preserving also in the same way, and

in spring fino by setting them out, that they will

spring up and prow as well as anv other trpe

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since, conceived me idea or Insuring the success It has also been found that trees may be engrafof cuttings, by putting the lower end iu water, ted successfully during every month In the year, and the middle in earth, a circular Incision being , Friend Cole, of the Boston Cultivator, in Jescri-

maae oeiween the eartti and the water. This ibing Mr Torrev's earden in Ooincv. which h

Secretary Corwin nnd the Clerks.

The Dayton Gazette relates the following

story of Secretary Corwin. Its humor Is char acteristic:

To a friend of ours who saw him the other

day at Lebanon, he gave a most amusing, and we doubt not, truthful account of the coudition

of things In the treasury Department when he entered upon the duties of Secretary. The Clerks, he estimates, were sici, on an average about half the time but It struck as somewhat remarkable that much as they were sick none of

them died. The fact was apparently at a glance that they did very little work for the public and

the inference wis irresistible that something

must be done for them. Accordingly, the Sec

retary turned physician, and began to prescribe

for the invalids. He issued an order that all

Clerks who were absent from their desks a cer

tain number of days, say two, on account of

sickness, should submit to a proportionate de

duction from their respective salaries; and that all who were absent longer, say one week would

be required either to dik or resign?

The prescription worked like a charm and in

a short time there was not a sick Clerk in the

whole department. A healthier set of men than

they are now, says Mr. Corwin cannot be found

anywhere.

was not attended with all the advantages he expected, but it led to the discovery of the following plan, which he distgnates a simple, economical, and certain mode of propagation. His progress is described in the following words. "My cutting is placed entirely under ground, so as to form a subterranean curve, of which the convexity is uppermost, the very middle of the curve being on a level with the surface of the soil. At this middle point there must be a good eye, or a small shoot. In this way the whole length of thecutting is protected by earth and the smaller end, instead of becoming the seat of dryness, which is always more or less injurious, becomes a passage for absorption. The bud, which, under these circumstances, is the

only part exposed to the air, bears, without injury, or rather with advantnge( all the causes of excitement. "Although I did not commence my experiments before the end of June, I have seen quite enough to satisfy me that the method may be of serious advantage. "Two drills about three inches apart were drawn parallel with each other, in a kitchen garden of indifferent quality! situated on a calcareous plain near Besancon. A hundred cutlings of Apples, Pears, Plnms, Apricots, Tulip trees, Roses, etc., almost all of this year's wood, were bent and buried in the manner described, with their ends In the two drills. They were watered a few ti.nes, and at this moment every cutting, in the open air, and exposed to the full sunshine, Is just as fresh as it was when planted. In most of them, the part exposed to the air (the bud) is the seat of active vegetation, especially

in the fears and Tulip-trees, the buds of which

ave already made some progress."

This idea seems to be a very good one, and adoption can hardly fail to increase thechan-

ces of successful propagation.

Gardners' Chronicle. Plnms nnil the Curealio. The Editor of this paper succeeded last year

in having an abundace of plums, where they had year after year previously, all dropped off.

ials of sweetened water were hung up in the

trees.and insects that stung the fruit were most-

attracted by the sweetened water.

The vials were soon filled with insects. The

ials were repeatedly emptied of the water and

nsects, and refilled with sweetened water, du

ring the time from the flowering of the trees,

ill the ripening of the fruit. The fruit did not

all escape; but the trees were well loaded with

sound and well ripened fruit, although much dropped off prematurely. These trees stand in a dark sand loamy soilj on a south-east expo-

ure, in a peach orchard on a hill one hundred

and fifty feet above the valley. Western Agriculturist.

amonsaeerh....

hodonotmeail ,

BA.tl -

,ft,j , "wum c ci y r'grded as an '

ere are thou-

endors any such

,0 -Vf' Parker u" m in Preferenc

"utucn, iransiy, inai regarded, and the Barn-

.""... will be

fthat.- """irmmphov wdf,er,ing?Mfiot'

Tli--.

im.i

U I.o .h " . ealed Gen- CasB wil1

f that 01 fmmph over the friends

who wss de-

every abol'l'n penny

foddrJi . mth90n, Pswsma-

" no,6t Rooster in crowing atti

,vt ethlBS ,ike thi8: Glor,ocs ti-

Mc... "U;'. JCLIAM SLKCTED. TH COM

nfi.. UD' GaSS asd Dics, WmrconB --a.. CD T

OUCLASS ASO Shiilds, and all

X!siRiBL, nnnn or Godforsaken , S" "n"NORTHIRN DOCGHPACEISJI"

. ' luemratslaksul that time you w MIS hew J :J L- .

who, contrary 10 me adviee

The Model Ilnvbnnd-

'Mrs. Smith has company to dinner, and

there are not strawberries enough, and she

looks at Mr. Smith with a sweet smile and of

fers to help him, (at the same time kicking him

gently with her slipper nnder the table,) he al

ways replies, No, I thank you toy dear, they

don't agree with me."

This is the same Mr Smith that puts otMiis

wife's nightcap to make the "baby" stay with

him o' nights, but we are certain that this Mr

Smith is not of the great family of the Virginia Smiths In whose annals the "great John" and

Poe abontas figures.

O A fop of a fellow who was sauntering

about a country village, saw a pretty face at th

window of a house near which a little boy was

at play. "Bub," said he, "who is that fair lady

looking out?" "Sis," was the laconic reply.

Will you tell me if she is a maid or matron?

asked the exquisite. "She's a tailoress," an

swered the lad, resuming his play.

One hundred able-bodied lawyers are wanted

in Minnesota, to break prairie land, split rails

and chop cord wood. Eastern and Southern papers please copy. St. Paul Pioneer, June 5th.

visited a week or two ago, says Mr T. has graf

ted peach trees every month in the year excepting the winter months. Now if any one is disposed to try the experiment during the cold of winter, there can be no doubt that he would succeed. Why not as well as those stocks that are grafted in the house during the winter when the system is torpid? It would be necessary only to protect the junction of the graft and stock carefully from the effect ofsnow and water and the severe winds that we sometimes have in that inclement season of the year. We do not suppose that it would be advisable to do this work out of doors in the winter, but we mention it merely to illustrate the fact that we may en

graft every month in the year with success.

Illrgilimnle Children. The last Legislature of this State passed a law, which provides that children born out of wedlock shall be legal heirs to their mother, in precisely the esme manner, and to the same extent, as if they were not Illegitimate. The Hartford Republican suggests that the law is well enough so far as it goes, but it does not go far en ough. Inasmuch ts this class of children are very apt to have fathers as well as mothers, it thinks that they should be the legal heir of both parents. Connecticut paper.

Greeley s Letters from Europe. I ronrr, t'rntrol nnd Eastern. Ltons, Tuesday, June 17,1851. I came out of Taris through the spacious Boulevards, which, under various second eppellations, stretch eastward from the Madeleine Church nearly to the barrier, and then bend southward, near the beautiful column which marks the site and commemorates the fall of the Baslile, so long the chief dungeon wherein Despotism stifled Remonstrance and tamed the

spir.t of Freedom. Liberty in France is doomed yet to undergo many trials nay, is now enduring some of them-butitis not within the compass of probability that another Bistile should ever rear its head there, or that the absolute power and abject servitude which it fitly symbolized should ever be known there hereafter. Very near it on the south lies the famous Fanbourg St. Antolne, inhabited mainly by bold, free souled workingmen, who have repeatedly evinced their choice to die free rather th-n live slaves, and in whom the same spirit

HUQ ruies to-day. I trust (hat dire alter

native will never again be forced noon them.bi.

if it should be there are no Bastiles so impregnable, no despotism so fortified by prescription, and glorious recollections, and the blind devotion of loyalty, as those they have already leveled to the earth.

we whirled rapidly .by. The wagons on the side come nearer and finally shut tn the river roads were generally drawn by small horses. I between two steep acclivities, from which much judge the people are generally Industrious but bnilding stone has been quarried. Usewhere, not remarkably efficient, and that the women thes hillsides are covered with tasteful country oo the larger half of the work, house-work in- j residences of the retired or wealthy Lyonnras, eluded. The hay-carts were wretchedly small, surrounded by gardens, arbors, shrubbery, &.c. and the imph-ments used looked generally rudo ' The general effect is good. At last, houses and and primitive. The dwellings are low, small, quays begin to line and bridges to span the river steep-roofed cottages, for which a hundred dol- nd we halt beside one of the quays and are in

lars eacn would be a liberal offer. Of course. I Lyons.

speak of the rural habitations; those in the villages are better, though still mainly small,

steep-roofed, poor, and huddled together In the most chaotic confusion. The stalls and pastures for the cattle were in the main enlv visible to the eye of fuitli; though cattle there must

be and are doing the plowing and hauling

n. o.

A Catalogue of Crimes.

Clerical Elopement. A startling and mysterious affair occurred at the Reeordar's office in this city, a few daya since. It appears that an Episcopal clerivman

I 1 resioed in Canada West, had iusinoated himself

suspect they are seldom turned loose In sum-j into the affections of a married lady beloneine

ana '"si mere is not a cow to every third

cottage. I think I did not - a yoke of oxen throughout the day's ride of 811 miles. I was again agreeably disappointed in the abundance of Trees. Wood seems to be the peasants' so!e raliance for fuel, and trees are

: planted beside the roads, the streams.the ditches.

..u uueu in rows or patches on some arable portion of the peasants' narrow domain. This planting is mainly confined to two varieties the Lombardy Poplar and what I took to be the Pollard, a species of Willow which displays

ry little foliage, and Is usully trimmed up so

The Paris Station of

at the eastern bnrrlor r ti,- r:... t ,las ,0 have but mere armful of leaves and

mo iiy j, received u u . . here another lesson in French Railroad manage-;ra.n?e't 'j18 t0p f " ,rUnk JV to fifty menl. I first bought at the office my ticket for' ? ' ""J "V, ''" ,hrou6h Chalons on the Saone, which is the point to1, . PtP'ar " "ke mam"r P"" which the rn i. rrl. ,. ferred as giving a large amount of trunk to lit-

vump.r.ea. i ne a is-; ... i1mj, .u. .... ,. .. . .

mrny exienoing inree feet

om the trunk, while the growth is rapid. uch are the means employed to procure fuel

tance is 243 miles: tb fr c..i..i...v cn i Bl,aa

But the display of my ticket did not en ,U m.'!""? 1,18 trunk' ile the growth is rapid

. enen ar

to enter thfinnBBniTii.' .:: i i

eiiiiiiu-ruuui, mucn less i ... .......

to approach the cars. Thn,,t, T ua l"uu "mveT w'ln 11,8 ,east Possible abstraction of

my baggage, by two radical retrenchments, to

iu ngui carpet-t.ags, i could not take these with me, nor would they pass without weighing. When weighed, I was required to p:iy 3 or 4 sous ,'cents) for extra baecaze. though

there is no stage-route in America on which

nit frrtn, i1.a ..... -1 . n..

... .no uoru ui cultivation, i nere are some side-hills so rocky and sterile as to defy .human industry, and thes were given up to brush-wood, which I presume Is cut occasionally and bound into faggots for fuel. Some of it may struggle up, if permitted, Into trees, but

they would not have passed unchallenged and' T , 'h W0'd fa'r,y justify ,he "'- been accouuted a very moderate allowance.-' I"1'0"0' FT' Fril MV8 Now I was permitted to enter the sacred pre- , ''l1""' " MoraM cincts, but my friend, who spent the morning i e , , with me and come to see me off was inexorably1 " pH"ed thrPl1ch 0 f"w vil,a"f' and no shut out, and I had no choice but to bid him a IT" , Ut Dijn' lho caPlta: hasty adieu. Fassing the entrance, I wa, TJlrgndy where its Parliament was held and shown into the .narim.ni r. iwhere ,ts Dl,kes signed and were buried.-

gers, while th, secand-clas, were driven into a 1,,e,rj Pa,aC8 "lands, though they have

separate fold and the third into another. Thus

passed away. Dijon is 200 miles from Paris,

and hns 2j .000 inhabitants, with manufactures

Here and henc?-

WtiwduM for Orchards. A year ago last fall I hauled a load of old rot

ten sawdust and threw it around my young ap

ple trees. My neighbor over the way Is one of those characters who plods on in the same old track that his father and grandfather did, belie

ving that they knew all and more too. My neighbor told me if I put sawdust aroand my

trees it would surely kill them. He said he put

manure around some of his trees, and it killed them. I told him I would risk it 'anv how.'

I put fresh stable manure around one row and

sawdust around the next; around another row I put leached ashes, and the remainder of the or

chard I manured with well rotted barn-yard

manure, and in the spring spread it well and

planted the ground with corn and .potatoes.

UThe result was, my trees grew very luxuriantly,

but the trees where the sawdust was grew the

best, the bark being smoother, and the trees had

a healthier appearance. I will state also, that

part of the orchard planted to potatoes grew greatly better than that part planted to corn.

The soil a clay loam. fPliila. Djl. News

paper.

Milk.

Cream cannot rise through a great depth of

milk. If milk is therefore desired to retain its

cream for a time, it should be put into n deep

narrow dish; and if it be desired to free it most completely of cream, it should be poured into a board, flat dish, not'much exceeding one inch in depth. The evolution of cream is facilitated

by a rise, and retarded by a depression of temperature. At the usual temperature of the dairy, at 50 deg. Fahrenheit, all the cream will probably arise in half that time; and when the milk is kept near the freexlng point the cream

will rise very slowly, because It becomes partially solidified. In wet and cold weather the milk is less less rich than in dry and warm; and on this account more cheese is obtained In cold, and butter in warm though not thundry weather. The season has its effect; the milk In spring is supposed to be the best for drinking,

and hence it would be the best suited for calves;

l.nw nnd Widowhood. The report of a case is before ns, in which two of the Judges of Pennsylvania have presented opinions directly adverse upon a question of no small interest in itself, but more directly so in view of the terms employed by each in the delivery of his opinion. The case is that of the Commonwealth vs. Stouffer. A testator devised his real a.id personal property to his wife, provided she remained a widow for life but, incase she married egain, she was to leave the premises. The widow married again, and an action ensuing, Judge Lewis held that such a devise is a conditiou in restraint of marriage' and void. This opinion Jndge Lewia enforced by the following pertinent remarks: The principle of reproduction stands next in importance to its elder born correlative, self-preservation, and is equaly a fundamental law of existence. It is the blessing which tempered with mercy the justice of the expulsion from Paradise. It was impressed upon the human creaation by a beneficent Providence, to multiply the images of himsel f, and thus to promote his own glory and the happiness of his creatures. Not man alone, but the whole animal and vegetable kingdom are under an imperious necessity to obey its mandates. From the lord of the

forest to the monster of the deep from the ser

pent's subtlety to the dove's innocence from

the embrace of the mountain Kalmia to the descending fructification of the lily of the plain, all nature bows submissively to this primeval

law. Even the flowers which perfume the air

with their fragrance, and decorate the fields and

the forests with their hues, are but curtains to the nuptial bed. The principles of morality,

the policy of the nation, the doctrines of the

common law, the law of nature and the law ot God anile in condemning as void the condition attempted to be imposed by this testator upon

his widow. The Cheif Justice differed with Judge Lewis and the two jurists are at this moment candi

dates on the same ticket for the Supreme Bench This has added something to the general interest of the question. The Chief Justice reversed the decision of the lower court, and encountered the opinion of Judge Lewis with among others, the following sentiments: "I know of no policy upon which such a

point could be rested, except the policy which for the sake of a division of labor, won Id make one man maintain the children begotte n by another. It would be extremely difficult to say why a husband should not be at liberty to leave a homestead to his wife, without being compelled to let her share it with a successor to his bed, and to use it as a uest to hatch a brood of

strangers to his blood. Baltimore Sun, 3d.

we waited fifteen mlnnl.. .i,:.u T ...

isfied mirii, ,v- a 7. of Cotton, Woolen and Silk

by this train. and but three or four F.n.licH.n more extensively cultivated

.Ciuik. -, -.i t. . than farther Northward. of these the two with whom I scraped an ac- w . . r.

oua ntance were irninw . r ' " " " ouniiw iinere

afewmilesfromraris. The. a 'n,her Cha!ona the Marne) before 9 P

take their places in a portion of the train which M ' j" bUt ,e" hUrS frm P8ri''- "

was to stop at Fontainbleau, and so we moved t".fll reaoy to taKe us iorlhw.lh to off. Lyons, out French management was too much

The European Railway carriages, so far as I for us. Our baggage was all taken from the

have yet seen them, are more expensive and less outside and carried piece by peice into the

convenient than ours. Each is absolutely di- Depot, where it was very carefully arranged in

vii.ed into apartments about the size of a mail order according to the numbers affixed to the

coch, and calculated to hold eight persons. several trunks, &c, in Paris. This consumed

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.... in mi, ij-i.vu seais wnere an Amen- " umrr pn o- inn an nour, llioacti half as

can car of equal length and weight would hold many Yankees as were fus-ing over it would

at least fifty, and of the thirty-two passengers have had it all distributed to the owners insid

one-half must Inevitably ride backward. I be- of ten minutes. Then the holders of the firt lieve the second-class cars are more sociable, three or four numbers were let Into the baeffsee

and mean to make their acquaintance. I should room, and when they were disposed of as many

have done it this time, but for my desire to meet more were let in, snd so on. Each, as soon

some one with whom I could converse, and he had secured his baggage, was hustled into an

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1 '""3 ouu i,,,Sii!.iiiiirii are api 10 enngr to ominous aesmnea lor ine dosi. I was amnnv

me nrst-class places. My aim was disappointed, the first to get seated but onrs was the list om

My companions were all Frenchmen, and what nibus to start, and when the attempt was made.

was worse, all inverate smokers. They kept the carriage was overloaded and wouldn't start!

putt-puffing, through the day; first all of them, At last it was set in motion, but stopped twice

then three, two, and at all events one, till they ,0T thrice to let off passengers and barrage at

all got out at Dijon near nightfall; when, be- .hotels, then to collect fare, and at last, when we

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ore i naa time to congratulate myself on the nBa got wiuun a lew rods ot llie landing, we atmospheric improvement, another Frenchman w'rt cheered with the Information that "L Ba-

got In, lit hiscigar, and went at it. All this tea n est parti!" The French may have been

was in direct and flagrant violation of the rules better than this, but its purport was unmistuk

posted up in the cars; but when did a smoker "bin the boat was gone and we were done. I

ever care for law or decency? I will endeavor had of course seen this trick done before, but

next time to find a seat in a car where women ' never so clumsily. There was no he In for ns

are fellow-passengers, and see whether their however, and the amount of useless execration

presence is respected by the devotees of the ob- emitted was rather moderate than otherwise

noxious weed. I have but a faint hope of it. , Our charioteers had tak en good care to obtain

The Railroad from Paris to Chalons passess their pay for carrying us, sometime before, Bnd

through a generally level region, watered by we suffered ourselves to be taken to our pre.lrs

tributaries of the Seine and of the Saone, with tined hotel in a frame of mind approaching

a range of gentle hills skirting the valleys, gen- Christian resignation. In fct, when I had erally on the right and sometimes on either been shown up to a nice bedroom, with clean

hand. As in England, the track is never al- sheet and (for France) a fair supply of water

lowed to cross a carriags-road on its own level, and had taken time to reflect that there is no

but is carried either over or under each. The accommodation for sleeping on any of these soil is usually fertile and well cultivated, though ' European river boats, I was rather glad that we

not so skillfully and thoroughly as that of had been swindled than otherwise. So I am

England. There are places, however, In which still. Bnt you'msy travel the same route in a the cultivation could not easily be surpassed, hurry; so look out! but I should say that the average product Ws rose at 4 and made for the boat, deterwould not be more than two-thirds that of Eng- mined not to be caught twice in the same town, land, acre for acre. There are very few fences ! At five we bade good-by to Chalons-sur Saone, of any kind, saves slight one inclosing the Rail- ( pleasant town of 13,000 pesple,) under a way, beyond which the country stretches away powering sky which soon blessed the earth as far as the eye can reach without a visible wi'h rain a dubious blessing to a hundred

10 itie cnurcn, and In the absence of her husband

about two weeks ago, they eloped across the) river to Ogdensburgh, A few days after th woman came on to tSis city, where she was found by her injured hui-band, and forthwith arraigned before the Recorder to answer for her conduct. Finding her not in a very penitential mood, and discovering among her effects some very objectionable correspondence with the reverend Feduccr, the exasperated husband returned home with his little daughter, whom the nnfaithful wife had taken with her. A few days after, the woman left on the first boat for the West. The parlies are all represented as belonging to the higher ranks of life, well edeated and of very genteel appearance. Further developments in this singular affair are expected to transpire in a few days, until which time it is deemed Improper to announce the names of the parties connected with this transaction. Oswego Pallidinm.

Wednetion nnd .11 u r.l or in Michigan. A despatch from Chicago, dated the 25tb,

gives us the following shocking particulars:

A girl named Ellen Stade, residine near

Belvidere.in Boone co., Michigan, on last Saturday went out to ride with a merchant of that town, Semuel L Keith, who had previously seduced her. After riding about the country for several hours, Keith took the girl to his store and kept her locked up there two days. On

Wednesday she was removed to the house of

Dr. Woodward and an abortion produced by

him, canting her death. The Dr. then fled but

was atrrested on Saturday evening. Keith left

mme.iately after the arreslofhisaccomnlice and

has not been heard of since. A reward off50f is offered by th citizens of Belvidere for his apprehension.

ETTlie Franklin Democrat Brook ville Ind.

of the l?th inst , tikes from the Tribune threefourths of a rolumn of original matter, and with the exception of perhaps a dozsn different word s.

nserts it in his Locofoco sheet as editorial.

Some mealy mouthed people wonl l c 11 that an act of appropriation we give it its true title downright thieving! The mm who would do

it, woulJ no more hesitate to tw ist monldy

bread-and-molasses our of the hands of a hungry, squirming picsninny than he wou'd to steal the puckerin' string from a pair of fivo-cent-calico Bloomer breeches Madison Trib

une.

t errible Tragedy. The Palmyra Mo Whig publishes the follow

ing extract from a letter giving an account of a horrid murder perpetrated at Hannibal Mo:

"We have a German in prison, guilty of the

murder of a young lady, whom he loved. Briefly, the circumstances are these: The

prisoner was a servant in the family of M-

Scholten.and became enamored of his daughter.

He declared before, as the te.itimonv shows, that

he intended to make a declaration of his love

snd if not received, he wonld shoot the lady

He msde his declaration the Indy indiVnant'v

repulsed him. He went and got a double-barrel

gun, came into the house where the lady and mother were, told her he had a present for her, pointing to the gun. Said she, you are not coing to shoot m, surely. He replied, 1 am firing one barrel, and afterwards the other, the loads taking effect in the head, scattering her bruins all over the room . The young lady was beautiful and accomplished. The prisoner made a sham attempt to kill himself. He is quite young, and a very innocent looking MIow." A young mirrieo woman, the wife of a car. maker residing in Humphreysvlllo, and recently from Springfield, eloped on Satnrday with a man named Wright, also an inhabitant

of the former place. The woman is young and pretty, and has no children.

landmark, the crops of different cultivators fair- people on a steamboat with no deck above the ly touching each other and growing square up guards and scarcely room enough below for to the narrow roads that traverse them. You J the female passengers. However, the rain will see, for instance, first a strip of grass, per- soon ceased and the sky gradually cleared, so haps teu rods wide, and running back sixty or that since 9 o'clock the day has been sunny

eighty rods from the Railroad; then a narrower and delightful. stripof Wheat; then one of Grape-Vines; then! The distance from Chalons to Lyons by the

one of Beans: then one of Clover: then Wheal ?aone is some 90 miles. The river is about the

Old nnd Nrnr .ehol.

A ccording to the recent Aunnal Reportsof

the Old Srhool and New School Presbyterian Church in the United States, the former body numbers 23 synods, 134 Presbyteries, Ifl candidates for the ministry, 237 licentiates, 2,027 ministers, 2,675 churches, and 210,306, communicants: members added within the year on examination, 10,652; by certificate, 7,892.

I " The New School Church numbers 21 Synods,

104 Presbyteries, 1.4S9 ministers.UO licentiates, churches 1,579, communicants 140,060: added within the year by profession 5,699: by certificate 4,203. N. Y. Journal of Commerce.

JA little boy on coming home from a certain church where he had seen a person performing on an orean, said to his mother

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In summer It Is best suited for cheese, and in -un, mammy, i aU - autumn for butter, the butter keeping better, &7 o the fun-aman pumping music out

again; then Grass or Oats, and so on. I saw vey little Rye; and if there were Potatoes or Indian Corn, they were not up sufficiently high

to be distinguished. The work going forward was the latet Weeding with the earlier Haymaking, and I saw nearly as many women as

men working in the fields. The growing crops

were generally kept pretty clear of weeds, and the grass was most faithfully but very slowly cut. I think one Yankee would mow ever more ground In a day than two Frenchmen,

but he would cut less hay to the acre. Of course in a country devoid of fences and half covered with small patches of Grain, there could not be many cattle: I saw no oxen, very few cows, and not many horses. The hay-carts were generally drawn by asses, or by horses so small as not to be easily distinguished from asses as 'Kiulrraril mean. I ).""""'. rampart or fi'rllficd work, (hence our F.ni;lih hulvrark.) The rampirt ' loipsro rrmnred, the ntv ninrrvv it. but

the name is rrtat.ied by ih. ample strrrt which tn-lt it. place. OnriJafrrry at New-York illustrates this

origin or a name.

Horrible MrRnra A telegraphic despatch, which we received yesterday from Boonville, ssys: "Waller G Chiles, senior, of Glasgow, was murdred in his own house by an Irishman, on the 12th int. Murderer drowned." ...f1' l"0"'8 Times. The A Hedged .Hex lean rinim Frnntt. A correspondent of the N Y Herald discloses several new facts with regard to the much talked of Mexican ctaim. The claim he ssys was for damages incurred by being expelled fromsilv er mines in San Louis Potosi. opon the approach of the American forces in 1846. The

award, Interest, amounted to $42S,758; of which W W Corcoran was paid, assignee, tl06.1S7,and Gardiner the balance. In 1844 Gardiner was a Dentist at the city of Mexico, and very poor; in the same year he is alledged to have been disturbed in great mining operations in San Louis TotcM. His c'aim for loss and damage is understood to have been $ 1,600,-

' 000. Hon. Waddy Thompson of South Caro- ! lina, was Consel for this claim. It is said there

size of the Connecticut from Greenfield to Hartford.butit is sluggish throughout, with very low banks until the last ten or fifteen miles. After

an intervale of hnlfamile to two miles, the

land rises gently on the right to an altitude of

some two In firi. hundred feet. ihi. uToni. rnvrr? i

. , . , , ,, .... , .... - j were also several other distinguished counsel, and checkered the whole distance with vine-1 . t.

and ihit they received ten per cent, each, on the award, or about f 15,000 each. One of the rumors is that Mr Corcoran, the broker, advanced $27,000 to enable Dr Gardiner

yards, meadows, woods, &.c. The Poplar and ; the Pollard are still planted, but the scale of j cultivition is larger and the houses much better thnn between Pnris nnil Diion. Th t,tlrut i

. , . , . . , , , to prosecute the claim, and thus became owner (mainly in meadow) is much wider on the left v

, , , ,, , , . . . , ' VI UHC uuaii'. i ui mo ..lain, . ,r e SCO OV HIS hank, the sveil beyond it being In some places , '

sesreely visible. The scenery is greatly ad-; . , . , . J .n.j.nn. ... .......... I . U.t I ..

.. , . ... .no diiiuuui mas anaiiicu iu iiidi v ru I iciliau as mired here, and as a whole may be terme.I pret- ; ... . . , , , ir j assignee. Cm. Atlas, ty, but cannot compare with that of the Hudson, 6 , or Connecticut in boldness or grandeur. There' O0ur fellow-townsman, Henry C Moore,

are some craggy h ill-sides in the distance, but I Es, was recently elected Chief Engineer of the have not yet seen an indisputable mountain in Central Railroad Company. Mr Moore is an

France, though I have passed nearly through it excellent engineer and an accomplished ge ntleiu a mainly southerly course for over five hua- man. The Company will loose nothing from dred miles. having secured bis services. As we approach Lyon, the hiils on cither , Counersville Democrat.

than that of the summer. Cows lees frequently 01 M 010 "P"-