Jasper Banner, Volume 2, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 April 1855 — Speech of Kissane. [ARTICLE]

Speech of Kissane.

In the Court of Sessions this morn-! ing, Wm. Kissane, who was found guilty of forgery on the Chemical Bank, was called up for sentence.’— The Court room vra« crowded, and' many was unable to obtain admittance. , He wore a downcast look, and:.very pale aa fie made ins apperancc at the bar. When the; usual question was put to him why sentence should not be pronounced, he stepped forward, and with trem- ■ bling voice, said: “I fully deserve any penalty which! 'may be inflicted upon me. Two years ago I was living happy with my family in Ohio, respected by all.; But at one fatal hour 1 committed: that for which I am now to receive! my sentence, and my family to be' cast upon the world, who will shud- J der at the name I bear. Yet, it is; my fault. Had 1 paused and pon-i dered, 1 should not have been here, i andyou would have been saved the! unpleasant duty which you are corn-1 pelled to do. 1 must have been in a dream when I committed the crime. “But the law must be fulfilled. I can escape by the cars, as has been! testified here, and could sleep many nighla. in. the-woods without CQWT, but I can never escape the feeling of guilt I now feel. I bad hoped to have reached some distant- country where I would not have been known, and there lived happy; but fate and fortune has willed it otherwise, and I am here.” -

The Recorder then said: “You have been tried and found guilty, and if there is anything unpleasant, it is sentencing a man to a ceil of a prison. An individual who might have been a bright and shining light to all his friends, has become a total wreck, and I hope never, while I hold this honorable seat, to be compelled to discharge so painfull a duty again. Your course in life, up to within two years, has been one of industry and integrity. Alas! that one so young, and with such talent, could come to this!

“You are yet young enough to obtain, when you come from prison, an honorable profession. I had intended to have sent you to the longest term the law permits. But what you have here said—and 1 hope you feel it—has compelled me to alter my mind; and the sentence is: that you be imprisoned for the term of two years and six months in the State prison.” ♦ When the recorder had ended his remarks, Kissane thanked the Recorder for his kindness to him, and asked leave to remain in the City Prison until Friday, which was granted. He was then removed to the Tombs.

XT’ln a recent debate in the Eng lisTiHouse of Commons, Lord Goderich told a story —for the truth of which he vouched —of a young English officer, who, at the battle of the Alma, got frightened and was on the point of taking to his heels, when a tall sergeant behind him, seizing him by the jback of the neck, pushed him into i the thick of the fight. The gallant younggentJcman told the story to his ’Ws promoted or not don’t appear. The sergeant, who thus showed that he had courage enough for himself and his superior* i too, had no familydnfluence, and was! therefore certainly not promoted. -x ; 1 I—a Curious Advice a bolt. Settling a Husband. —Never marry a man until you have seen him eat. Let the candidate for your hand pass through the ordeal of eating soft boiled eggs. If be can do it, and leave the tablespread, the napkin, and his shirt boson unspotted—take him. Try him next with a pork spare-rib. If he accomplish this feat without putting out one of his eyes, or pitching the bones into your lap —name the yed-ing-day at once; he will do to tie to.— Times. Caution.—Some ctaution is requisite in passing our opinion updnstran- : r gers, a caution, however, which few of us adopt. At a public levee of the Court of St. James, a gentleman said tOjLord Chesterfield: ‘pray, my lord, who is that. tail, awkward woman yonder?, “That lady sir “ replied Lord Chesterfield “is my sisteri” The gentleman reddened with confusion, and stammered out, “No, no, my lord, ‘’beg your pardon, I mean that ugly woman who stands next the Queen?’ “That lady sir,“ answered I/ord Chesterfield,-calmly, “that lady, sir, is my irfr " '