Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 May 1858 — Page 2

THE RENSSELAER GAZETTE, •—T —'— l RENSSELAER, IND. . V i WEDNESDAY, MAY 19, 1858.

REPURLICAN STATE TICKET.

• Attorney General, WILLIAM T. OTTO, of Treasurer of Stale, \ JOHN H. HARPER, of St. Joseph. Auditor of State, ALBERT LANGE, :.l of Vigo. Secretary of State, WILLIAM PEELE, of Randolph. Superintendent of Public Instruction, JOHN YOUNG,> of Marion. For Supreme Judges. first DISTRICT, HORACE P. BIDDLE, of Cass. V * , SECOND DISTRICT, ABRAM W. HENDRICKS, of Jefferson. _ THIRD DISTRICT. SIMON YANDES, , of Marion. ” FOURTH DISTRICT, WM. D. GRISWOLD, of Vigo.

SLAVE AND FREE STATES.

Modern Democracy requires but FORTY THOUSAND inhabitants to make a Slave State, but it takes NINETY-THREE THOUSAND to make a Free State; ergo, one Pro-slavery man is as good as two FreeState men a id two thirds!

TrpThe ptopritorn of the Commercial Telegram , at Indianapolis, are authorized to procure advertisements for the Gazette in that city. Lakins and his two sons are to have their examination next Monday. the "Shanghai” advertisement of Thompson & Son, in another column. has at last been admitted into the Union as a State, with two members of the House of Represenatives. oO”The Free-State Constitution of Kansas, recently framed at Leavenworth, was submitted to the popular vote yesterday. adjourned session of the Court of Common Pleas did not come off this week, Judge Boyer believing it would be illegal. have received the June number of“ Graham’s Magazine.” It fully sustains its. well-earned reputation. Now is a good time to subscribe, as the July number will commence a new volume. - 4 OCyWe have received the first number of the‘‘Bank Note Register,” a new Counterfeit Detector just started in New York. Judging trom the number before us, it is an excellent iWffi See prospectus in another column. of our farmers begin to fear that the continued wet weather will prevent them putting, in their seed corn. We think, should they be able to get their corn planted by the first of June, and the weather be favorable afjter that, they need not be greatly alarmed.

JUVENILE MAY PARTI.

The young folks composing the school of Mrs. Dennett gave a party to the young folks of the School of the Misses Johnsons. The festivities of the occasion were conducted upder the.auspices of the respective teachers. We are glad to see this exhibition of cordial intercourse between those having in charge the intellectual training of Our boys and girls, the future men and women of our country. And those only are fit to be placed in that posi- ' tion who can. themselves appreciate the beautiful and harmonious in nature. Children, of all others, should have their holidays, and be taught to look on the bright side of the great picture of nature, while their pure young hearts are yet overflown g with innocence. It is fitting that they be taken to the pleasant groves occasionally, w'th their teachers and their parents, away from the dull haunts of business,and be permitted to gather.swedt wild flowers on the green grassy lawns, to romp and frolic beneath the tall forest trees, and, when fatigued innocent amusements, to recline on the banks of the placid flowing Iroquois; and then our juvenile friends will return to their schools and their books with untold vigor, contented and at peace with themselves, their teachers and their friends. We love to gaze on the innocent it is happy—its joyful faee and speaking eyes, elastic steps and graceful movements, loVing voice and forgiving nature, tend to make us all happier and better men and women. We must not forget to* thank our young friends for remembering us with a fine cake, beautifully decorated with wild flowers, fragrant and embleinatic of peace and good will. The cake was made by Mrs. Babb, mother of the young Queen for the occasion. ' ; ' V 'ill ' ‘ ' ' I. e ' :

NUISANCE LAW IN MASSACHUSETTS.

Chief Justice Shaw, of Massachusetts, recently decided that selling liquor in that State cbntrcry to law was a nuisance, and that any man or set of men would be justifiable in abating such nuisances. The work of abating these nuisances has commenced, according to the Boston Traveller of the 10th inst.; “Chief of Police Willey, on Saturday night, aS he was walking down Bridge st., East Cambridge, saw a man who was intoxicated go into a plaice where liquor is sold, and kept by one Dillon. Haying watched the place, and seeing the man come out so badly intoxicated that he could not get along without assistance, Mr Willey came to the conclusion that the place was nothing but a nuisance, and concluded to abate it. Thereupon he entered said shop, and after examing- the liquors kept for sale, destroyed them in a workmanlike manner. He next proceeded to a place on the same street, kept by: one Phillip Monahan, and there found four young men around the bar, with their glasses filled with liqvior, ready to he swallowed; whereypon he went through the ceremony of demolishing jugs, decanters, and their contents. Thence he went to a place kept by one Glasson, where people resort in the night time, and on the Sabbath, to spend their time, money, amd what reputation they may have, and in like manner destroyed the contents of the various jugs, &.c. There is a set of people in Cambridge who are peddling out liquor evey to school children, and the office of the Chief of Police is often visited by broken-hearted women to see if something cannot bje done to stop the ruin which is upon them- The remedy which the Chief has adopted is, he thinks, the only one that can be found. Prosecution after prosecution having failed, plain’y through perjured witnesses, the Chief o! Police has taken a course in accordance with the recent decision oLJudge Shaw.” 1 f The Boston Herald gives the following as the latest method'of putting the law in practice: j U “The proprietor of one of the most popular bar-rooms in this city was considerably astonished yesterday by a customer who walked into the place, took a stiff horn of brandy, and then, with the utmost nonchalence, smashed the tumbler from which he had drank upon the counter. He was walking out in the coolest manner possible, when the proprietor asked whether he intended to pay for what he had drank and what he smashed. The man replied contemptuously that he intended nothing of the kind, but would throw himself upon his legal rights, as illustrated in Judge Shaw’s exposition of the nuisance act. The knight of the toddy-st : ck was greatly enraged, and hinted something about his right to kick the brandy smasher out doors, whereupon that individual left the premises withour further argument.” At Rockport a salute of ten guns was fired in honor of the decision of Judge Shaw.

“A DARK AND FATAL FRIDAY.”

There is no flinching in Forney. His Press of the Saturday after the passage of English’s swindle is full of denunciation of that sherrre. From an article under the above caption we make some extracts: “This wicked deed of proflgate politicians will stir the moral sense of the country to its profoundest depths. It will awaken wide-spread indignation. It will call out emotions which have been stilled, because it was believed such a deed was impossible; and it will hurl into utter obscurity and shame those servants of the people-who have sought this opportunity to assist in a betrayal as wanton as lit was causeless and unnecessary. To see these men gibbeted and transfixed before the eyes of thejvQrld may be a melancho y satisfaction; and to this extent the black business of the blackest Friday that ever this century has seen may be full of compensation. . ' | *f *• * ■ * * * “But the great crime did not stop here. One wrong after another was tried, till at last, as if to mock at even the semblance of right, the so-called English, bill was proposed, the incarnation of treachery and of duplicity—a bill, be it understood, which differed from its precedents in this; that they were swindles, and this was a bribe; which, professing to submit Lecornpton to the people, did not submit it, according to its Southern expounders; and which, starting out in the preamble with a scandalous! misstatement, crowned, the whole proceed-1 ing with the declaration that if the people of Kanga & did not take it, they should tester in dissessions till it suited their masters to admit them! “And this is the scheme that was forced through yesterday—the black Friday of ourj century. “Well may the Senator from New York! cry, ‘Shame!’ upon the damning deed. “All h : story will ery'shame upon it, too.) The burden which this outrage att iches to the Democratic party cannot be carried without crushing it. Candidates for once will be compelled to speak out against it, and those who are silent will! pay the penalty of such acquiescence. “What Kansasjmay decide upon we are not authorized to say, but we cannot doubt that she will reject the bribe with scorn. Whether she does or not, the wrong done will be avenged, and the sacred doctrine vindicated. The Case has passed into the hands of the people of the States, especially those who have been insulted by their Representatives, as we have been by-eleven of our members from Pennsylvania, four of whom represent this proud metropolis, where there is but one sentiment, outside of the office-holders and office-seekers, and that fearlessly against the action of the Congress of the United States, in forcing an odious Constitution upon a prostrated people.” Hyde, oae of the Mormon apostles T boasts that if he lives ten years and thrives as he has been thriving he, will have “sons enough to make a regiment by themselves.” King and Queen of Prussia have just sent 1,000 florins tQ-the subscription: for erecting a monument to Luther at j Worm*.

MR. SEWARD’S LAST SPEECH.

A PROPHECY. The following are the closing portions of • Governor Seward's last speech on the English proposition; Mr. President, let me try for a moment to lift this debate up from temporary, eph.emerial incidents, to the hight of the argument where The sixteenth century dawned on the decay, throughout Europe and the world, of a slave civilization derived from an early antiquity, and left as a legacy by the Latin or southern States of the continent of Europe on the fall of the Roman empire. But it dawned also upon the rise of a new and better civilization—the civilization of freedom; the civilization, since developed, of the German and Sclavonic races; the civilization of Germany and of England, of Scotland and Ireland, and Switzerland, the modern civilization of western Europe. The principle of the old Latin civilization wh'xh was passing away, was that labor must be involuntary; must be secured by fraud and force, and must be converted into property. The new civilization was based upon the principle of'the freedom of labor, that it must be voluntary, and that it should be not only a political power, but that it should become the ascendent and dominating political power throughout the world. While Spain and Portugal proved themselves competent to open the way of discovery at the beginning of the sixteenth century, and the one revealed Africa and the other America to the eyes of the astonished World, these two nations were, of all others, those whg were least fitted, least, qualified to inaugurate civilization on either continent. The Portuguese doomed Africa to remain in the perpetual barbarism with which she has been cursed from her earliest history, by establishing there the odious and atrocious slave trade; and the Spaniards doomed America to receive, and for a while to be incumbered with the civilization of African slaves, captured and brought there by the Portuguese. Our Constitution and our Union came into being seventy years ago, when it Wfls_necessary to decide between these two systems of civilization which wef-e found among us. The States which were founded upon the new civilization stand before you. Contemplate them; say whether the world has ever seen such States? You see also the States which were founded on the old declining civilization of the Roman empire. All new States have to elect between the two systems. We have a voice and influence in determining their decision. You are determined to force that effete and obselete civilization upon regions where it has never been known.

This question ought to have been dicided fifty years ago, in 1803, when Kansas was added to the national territory by the treatv with France, as pari of the Louisiana purchase. It was omitted then. Again, the question returned in 1820, and (hen it was well and wisely settled by dedicating Kansas forever to mpartial freedom. In 1854, you repealed the law; but the law of Kansas was written in the very rocks and upon the rivers of Kansas, as well as in the constitution of American society— All you have done since has consisted in" fruitless efforts to carry that ill-judged repeal into effect in defiance of the laws of nature. For what you have done heretofore you have had what the whole world received as an excuse. It was the action of the slave States, but it was not on their own motion; the suggestion came to them from Senators from the free States, and it was not in human nature that the slave States should resist it. ' So in 1856, when Kansas came here as a free State, under the Topeka Constitution, and you rejected her, you still had the show of excuse; for these same Representatives of the free States advised that the free States, as well as of Kansas, would acquiesce. But you are now, after having failed in these two efforts, persisting, without that excuse. Two of the Senators, one the leader of the repeal of the Missouri Compromise, the other, hardly less effective in that transaction, now remonstrate with you against the further prosecution of this attempt as impossible. Still another, from Michigan, remonstrates—l mean the late distinguished Senator from Michigan, now at the head of the Department of State. I do not say that he remonstrates in words, but I do say that the retirement of that eminent man from this Chamber, so suited to his talents, his genius and his fame, into a closet in the Department of State, under an appointment of the President of the United States, is a louder remonstrance than any words he could utter, if his constituents had allowed him to retain his place among us, the Representatives of the States. -That is not?all. Aj last a new voice issues from your own region, from the South, from the slave States, and protests against your further persi; tence in this mad enterprise, and admonishes you that it must and will fall. The cohorts are gathering in the South; the men of moderation and conservatism, who, as they have heretolore moderated in favor of slavery against freedom, will now be obliged,:,in consistency with their just and well established character, and their habitual patriotism, to mod 'r. te against you in favor of freedom, when the people demand freedom, and rise up unanimously against slavery. Sir, this whole controversy is contracted into a quarrel for revenge against these wise advisers. Instead of listening to their counsels, it results in this: that you will suppress their remonstrance, punish their authors as mutineers. Well, sir, that is a matter of small consequence to me. To me, personally, the future of these distinguished Senators and their associates in the House of Representatives is nothing, except so far as the political positions which they maintain in the country and before the world shall bear on the future of the country. I know not whether, hereafter, I shall be found laboring with them in efforts for the welfare of our country, or whether they will be found in your councils again, and laboringin your ranks. Nevertheless, lam sure of this, naineb’, that you will not succeed in discrediting and punishing them; for, either you provoke yourselves the defeat which the signs of the times indicate, Or, in lieu, you will con e down to 1860 under the influence of sentiments and feelings very different from those of 1858. A party in. power in the first year of an Administration, is bold and violent. A party going out of I

power, at the close?4f an Administration, is timid and hesitatifig. You will search the summits of thejrtibuntains in New Hampshire, the plainsbl Mexico, and the privileged courts of St-prunes, in London, to find a candidate in 1860 who was against the conference Lecojrrfltpn-Kansas bill in 1858; and then, if these Jpuiorable associates with whom I have labored for a short time so pleasantly, found remaining in your communion, I tliHiC f can promise them and you, you will comfr\to a much better understanding with therif than you have now, Mr. President, %vfajle I am’speaking I learn th%t this bill, of so much evil oir.tn, has passed the Hotfsasioi Representatives, and that the battle 1 tfim-e is ended. I confess to you, sir, that it produced on my mind, if some disappointment, no discouragement. I confess that I prepared tor the conclusion, and that when it has come, (for what remains to be done here is a matter of course,) it is to me. utterly indifferent. This I have known all t&e that this was to be our last defeat oar first victory. Either result would have been welcome. For Kansas, for freedom in Kansas, I have not so much concern I have about the place where I shall sleep Jo-night, although my home is hard by where I stand. Kansas, sir, is the tfliiiderella of the American family. She is buffeted, she is insulted, she is smitten and'disgraced, she is turned out of the dwelling, and the door is locked against her. These is always, however, a fairy that takes care of the young daughter, if she be the most Itonest, the most virtuous, the meekest and most enduring inmate of the domestic ci|jde;;

Kansas will live lend survive your persecution; she will live to defend, protect and sustain you; and Jhe time will come when elder sisters, arrogant, Louisiana, Virginia and Peisteylyania, will repent all the injustice they have done her. Her trials have not been imposed on her for nought. She has been madWto take the position, the dangerous and haz&doas position, of being the first to vindicate practically by labor, by toil, through desolation, through suffering and blood, the principle.that freedom is better for States and for the Republic than slavery. She will endure the trial nobly, and as she has beenjdu* first, so she will be the last to conteijfpi’sfnd to suffer. Every other Territory that-shull come into the Union hereafter, profiting by the sufferings and atonement of Wjgpias, will come into the Union a free Stated Sir, this unnecessary strife draws to The effort to make slave States within our domain is against reason arhl against nature. The trees do not spring: up from the roots and seeds scaitered by fine parent trunkk in the tores’ more naturatty that new free States spring up from the projected and seeds scattered by the old free States. New stars do not form out of the nebulas in the of and come out to adorn the;blue expand above us more naturally than new free States shape themselves out ot the ever-deve,§&tng elements of our benign civilization, Jafd rise to take their places in this greatssjhJitical constellation. Reason md hope in this majestic and magnificent process. Let, then, nature and reason an'l their heaven-ap-pointed way. Resisttjtfiein no longer.

A STRANGE STORY.

The New of the sth inst. condenses from the country papers of Louisiana some details thijft we should like to have seen published ini,full. The following mysterious affair, for instance, has the usual enchantment of ghosCtsstories and haunted houses for us, and we could wish to'see more of that “desolate house,” where a “monster” gets to be| affectionate, and of that grave-yard vvheref a big snake eats the mysterious victuals of^a:tomb-stone. The story comes from the Plaquemines Pilot. After speaking of produced by strange and supernatural phenomena at Mr. Landsman’s plq<?e, (Cheniere Ronquille,) the Pilot gives the following particulars, which certainly appear rather tough: “Imagine yourself in this desolate house, and when you are about to leave it you are caught in the arms of a monster, and held so tight thdt it is impossible to get away until it thinks proper to release you. It has not yet been ascertained whether this monster is mortal or spiritual, as it takes different forms; to-day it is one form, and to-morrow it is another. “And now comes the most remarkable of all. On the tomb of i gentleman lately deceased there is placed every day a clean plate with a dressed chicken on it, when from behind the tomb comes a large chicken in the form of a snake nine or ten feet long, with a monster head something ak n to an alligator, and commetpces leisurely to devour the delicately-prepared fowl. As soon as it finishes, it disappears. No one knows whither, and you s a e nothing but the plate and the bones, and eitpry day the same thing is renewed.” The Pilot thinks the sea serpent may have taken up his residence, there.

MAIL CONTRACTS.

We copy the following from the letter of Mr. Colfax to the South Bend Hegister, showing the lowest bids on the different mail routes in this section: * “Monon (Bradford) to Rensselaer, daily, Isaac Helm, $195. “Rensselaer to Kankakee, weekly, T. H. and M. V. Rowe, $245. Service probably to be increased to semi-weekly. “Rensselaer to Iroquois, 111., weekly, T. H. and M. V. Rowe, $l3O. “Renssel er to Fraueisville, weekly, J. Walden, $144. “Rensselaer to Oxford, weekly, J. N. McConnell, $197. '*Winnemac. to ?1 c ■ • v-ille, weekly, J. Walden, $100.” We un lerstagd that the Messrs. Duvalls intend to run an opposition hack line between Rensselaer and Bradford the coming summer. _ 1 : ■ A lunatic once informed a physician who was classifying Oases of insanity that Ke had lost his wits by hatching a politician, whose course was so crooked that it turned his brain. i i f ;

An Adventurous Navigator.

In the early part of last year, a resident of Stanford, Connecticut, by the name of Charles R. Webb, who has spent a part of his life in a seafaring capacity, went to work and built himself a yatcht, twenty-two feel long, which he christened the Charter Oak, and in which he, accompanied by a man and a boy, started from New York, on the 22d of June last, for Liverpool. When only about a day out, his right-hand man, an old salt, was accidentally knocked overboard and drowned; and, fearing that he would not be able to find another sailor equally venturesome, and that he might possibly lose the lad also by desertion, should he return to port, he concluded to proceed on t he voyage without any other companion to assist to keep watch and steer the frail bark during his own occasional brief opportunities to obtain repose, than the boy referred to, who had never before been at sea. Although without the aid of a chronometer or chart of the English coast, Captain arrived safely at Liverpool, without a pilot, on the 27th of July, after a voyage of thirty-six days, in the smallest-vessel that ever crossed the ocean. The adventure was considered by nautical men the most skillful and daring exploit ot the age. Thousands rushed to see the»ChaTter Oak and its intrepid comma nder. The little craft was soon disposed ol for two hundred pounds, which amount, together with a passage ticket home for the Yankee sailor in one of the Collin’s line of steamships, was handed over to him by a number of strangers, who thus desired’to manifest their admiration of his courage and skill. Mr. Webb, not content, however, with what he has already achieved, about Christmas last, commenced building another yutcht, the Christopher Columbus, fortvfour feet keel and sixteen feet beam, which is now rapidly approaching completion by his own hands alone, and on board of which he contemplates embarking, in the course of a few months, for Southampton, the Isle of Wight and St Petersburg, with a view of giving the British Queen, the Czar of Russia, and probably the Emperor of France, a favorable opportunity of seeing what the Yankees can do in the way of boat-building, as well as in navigating the Atlantic.— New York Tribune.

{Correspondence of the N. Y. Tribune.

Prayer Meetings in the U. S. Courts.

New Haven, Mav 3, 1858. ; Sir: NejwHaven has been signally blessed. Hundreds have felt the trror of their ways, and have united with the Church. Two hundred students have already joined, and it is estimated that there are not more than twenty-five out of five hundred who are not deeply interested. But the most marked and striking exhibition of God’s power is to be seen in the glorious work accomplished among the; members of the bar. There is not a single lawyer who has not united with the Church; not only this, but they are the most actively engaged in spreading the Word of Life. Prayer meetings have been held in the Court rooms every morning and evening for a month past, and the able Judge ol the District Court (C. A. Ingersol!) has always had prayer offered up before entering upon the duties of the day, and has frequent” ly led in prayer. But on Sunday last a most remarkable meeting was held in one of the largest churches, crowded to its utmost capacity, in which three sermons were preached by three eminent lawyers. In the morning Judge Blackman preached from the text, “I was thirsty, and ye gave ine drink; I was hungry, and ye fed me/’, In the afternoon Mr. Yatcman delivered a touching and beautiful discourse. In the evenin'*Judge E. K. Foster, one of the most elo? quent men in the State, addressed the congregation from a passage in the Lord’s prayer, “Forgive our debts as we forgive our debtors.” It was a glorious day. «ji. l, s.

Lecompton South.

The following resolution is from a Kentucky paper, giving an account of the State Convention of the American party recently held at Frankfort: “ Resolved, That the recent course of our distinguished fellow-citizen and Senator, the Hon. John J. Crittenden, as well as that of the Hons. Humphrey Marshall and W. L. Underwood, in reference to the admission of Kansas into the Union under the Lecompton Constitution, meets our hearty and unqualified approbation, and they deserve the thank# of every patriot and lover of republican institutions for the noble stand they have tftHen in defense of popular rights and in behalf of truth and justice, in opposition to frau|J jhnd injustice.” Here Is a feather clipped from the Memphis E |Je: “If John J. Crittenden is a Black Republican, piere are ten in the South of this political faith to one attached to the fallen fortunes of that Free Soil Federalist 1 , James Buchanan. The country indorsed Mr. Crittenden’# substitute for the Lecompton swindle, and it didn’t indorse the President.”

A True Freeman.

Stephen D. Dillaye Bent three kegs of powder to this city last night, directing that thirty-two guns should be fired in honor of the passage of the English swindle. Th> Washington Artillery was deputed to waste the powder. Previous to the application of the match, for the first time, Julius Seidel, a member of the company, a German, and one whose heart scorns slavery and its defenders, stepped up to the gun and hung a piece of crape over it. The captain pulled it away. Julius put it back. The captain pulled it away again. Julius again restored it. Thu captain removed it once more, when Julius once more put it back, and intimated to the captain that if he disturbed it further he might expect to be knocked down.- Whereupon he subsided, and the gun was fired with the crape hanging over it! Julius ought to go to Kansas—he mny be, wanted there. Such pluck as his is not to be lound every day. He knows what freedom is, and how to stand by his principles. If we had plenty of Julius* >s the country would be safe, cheers for Julius Seidel, and three more for the crape on the gun!— Syracuse__sournal. OCrThe St. Paul Alinnesotian publishes a list of eighty-four ol the lakes of Minnesota, which vary in length from one to eightyfour miles. Many more were omitted because they had no names.

A Modern Borgia.

A correspondent of the News furnishes the following particulars in regard to the atrocities of Mrs. Phebe Westlake: Mrs. Phebe Westlake, formerly of Ulster County, whose maiden name was Irwin, aged about forty-five years, died at Chester, in Orange County, N. Y., on the seventh inst.; no doubt irom the effect of poison taken lor the purpose ot self-destruction. Phebe had lived in Chester ten or twelve years. Site was industrious, and knew how to do all kinds of woman’s work, and was able and willing to do it well. Withal she was professedjy pious. She gained friends in the best families in Chester, and when any of them needed help they thought it a loss if they could not get Phebe. About twenty years ago, we hear, her husband died suddenly. A f&per of arsenic was found in his pocket, and upon a postmortem examination arsenic was found in his stomach. It was supposed he had committed suicide, and no further action or quiry was had. Four or five years ago, Mr. Pelser, who kept a hotel in Chester, died of erysipelas. He was a widower, and had but one daughter at home, a noble young woman, who before that time had peen affianced to Mr. Hiram Colwell, a wealthy and respectable drover, well known in Orange county. She and her father’s assistant, Mr. Heard, thought it best to secure Phebe as cook in the hotel, and they did so. Shortly after Phebe came there, Miss Pelser was' taken sick with some strange disease that her physician couliTnot understand. Her only sister, and her husband, Mr. Clark, were sent for, and came from the South, and took the management of Mr. Pelser’s business and property at Chester. From that time Phebe was left mainly to nurse and care for the sick and dying Miss Pelser. She lingered and died under circumstances to induce strange suspicions, but no one suspected her faithful nurse, Phebe. About the time of her death, Mr. Colwell received an affectionate letter, while he was at the West bringing cattle, purporting to come from Miss Pelser, but at that time wli n it is known she could not write, requesting him, among other things, to remember Phebe for her k ndness to Miss Pelser. Last fall Piiebe was employed as a domestic in the house of John B. Tuthili, a respectable merchant of Chester, in view of the prospective confinement of his wife; who was the only daughter of the late Francis Tuthili, Esq.—little Miflha, as all who knew her, and many knew and loved her—called her. She was confined; her babe' never knew life. Some unusual symptoms attended her case. Dr. Smith, her physician, said they indicated poison; hut yet they might be the convulsions which sometimes attended parturition. Phebe was.her nurse, and she could not be suspected. Martha d.ed, and

'‘Blossom ami bough lie withered in one blight.” Mr. John B. Tuthill’s family being thus broken up—lor little Martha was all lie had—he went to board with his brother and partner in business, Mr. Charles S. Tuthili, and Phebe was duly.transferred to that establishment as cook and maid of all work. On the Ist of April last, .Mr. Fuller, s~ clerk in the TuthUls’ store, took possession ot Mr. John B. Tuthill’s house, under an arrangement that Mr. John B. Tuthili was to board with him. Mr. Fuller had no family but his wife. Piiebe was tliYis thrown out of employment, but still she was retained tem > porarily between 'Mr;-Tut hill's and Mr. Fuller’s. Phebe did many 'cts of kindness tor both Mrs. Tuthili and Mrs. Fuller, and carried delicacies to and from them. _ On the 6th day of April last Mr. Fuller had provided for dinner a can of preserved corn and beans. They were not all eaten at dinner. Phebe was at Mr. Fuller’s. After tea, and alter Mr. Fullexuhad gone to his business she suggested to Mrs. Fuller that the corn and beans might spoil, and they might as well eat the little there was left. Mrs. Fuller consented, and Phebe brought up two small plates ol corn and beans, one of which slut ate herself, and the other Mrs. Fuller ate. ;That evening Mrs. Fuller was taken sick, With symptoms indicating poison. She died shortly after. No one could be suspected. Her husband loved her. lie had no one else to love. Phebe was kind, obliging, assiduous and affectionate, and remained by Mrs. Fuller to the end. Who could suspect her!

Alter the death of Mrs. Fuller, Phebe remained temporarily at Mr. Charles S. Tuthill’s where both the brothers were per force brought into the family. Some ten or twelve days ago both the Tuthills and the wife es Mr. Charles S.; also a Mrs. Derrick—an Irish woman with whose husband Phebe had had some difficulty about porteraf?e were taken sick with symptoms nearly akin to those of Miss Pelser, the little Martha and Mrs. Fuller. They have been all treated on the hypothesis of poison. The brothers Tuthili are out about their business. Mrs. Charles S. Tuthili is doing well, and Mrs. Derrick is still dangerously ill. Suspicions began tonhieben about Phebe. List Monday she was taken violently ill with the same symptoms. On Friday morning she died. In her last agonies she said, “She had sprinkled a litt oh John B. iuthill’s toast; that she knew there was poison on the window sill near where his soup sat and it might have blown in; and that she sprinkled a little arsenic on Mrs. Fuller’s corn and beans,” and further said not. The grave has closed over Phebe and her victims. No more of the tacts will probably ever be known. Her motives must be left to conjecture, and imagination must fill up the table of horrors.

A Daughter of the Regiment.

The beautiful fancy whiciit forma th* fllea of Donizetti’s opera, has suggested to more than one military corps the adoption of "the child of a beloved comrade deceased. The must interesting instance of which wo hawheard is that of the adoptiou, by the New York National Guards, of the daughter of a deceased officer. The regiment, one thousand strong, ure regularly taxed $1 each per annum, and the surplus, alter providing for her support and education, is invested to 1 " fyrm her dowry. An exchange paper says: “The young lady, now about 16 years old, has grown up beautiful, intelligent and accomplished, and is well off, and doubtless she looks upon her gallant guardians with all the love, honor and enthusiasm that Marie did on the brave SuTplce and the gallant 21st, in the opera. ’’