Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 May 1858 — A Judge’s Opinion. [ARTICLE]

A Judge’s Opinion.

Hardesty, a young man of Boone county, Kentucky, as we have already announced, was tried and acquitted, a few for killing another young man nauiea Grubb, who had seduced his sister. Hardesty told the seducer that he would: give him six months in which to make his choise between marrying the girl ajttl being killed. The six months expireij, and Grubb not having mari ried the girl, Hardesty met him, and on sight, shot him. The etiiitence showed that Grubb way armed also, in expectation of the attack, but was shotj in the act of drawing his weapon. The triitwas ended last Thursday, and the verdiqt of thtj Jury was, not guilty. The follojwing is the substance of the judgment prohouneed by Judge Nutall upon the verdict of not guilty by the Jury in behalf of Hardesty: . i “Sir: You havf beenlndicted by a Grand Jury of your country upon a most heinous crime. You have put yourself upon your country and your God for deliverance. You have had a fair/jind impartial trial before them, and they have both pronounced you not guilty, arid #9-say I.' It may not be proper for me to express my sentiments, yet, nevertheless, ! will do it. Young man! had T been wronged as you have been, I would have spent every I had on earth, and all thiut I could, have begged -and borrowed, and then-starved upon the track of the villain , but I would have imbrued my hands in his blood. Go hence without delay. You aie acquitted!”— York Tribune. Confession.—sailor died recently, in Texas, and on his death-bed confessed that he was one of th£ msew who murdered Mrs. Alston of South Carolina, forty years ago. Mrs. Alston wife the daughter of Aaron Burr. She sailed from Charleston for New York, iri a brig, aijid on the trip the crew mutinied and murderfe'tt'iill the officers and passengers, Mrs. Alston being the last one to walk the planki— The sailor remembered her look of despair, and died in the greatest agony of mind. '!§ | Hon. John L. Robinson Insane.—VVe are much pained to Teurii, by the Craufordsville Review, that H;«k Jaini L. Robinson, the present United States Marshal for Indiana, is insane. This is truly lamentable, and v. ill sadden the hearts of many of his friends throughout the State. The Review is unable to give the caqgjf. of the misfortune.which has befallen him.- Goshen Democrat. . ... —jb? O^7"A few; days Hinee, a. farmer, living near Galena, Illmois, Carrie,l a laud o: potatoes to that placebo sell. The highest offer he could get was- ten cents a bushel, and, rather than sell jtjjysm at that rate, he tipped them into the Fever river. The result was that he was lined fourteen, dollars for obstructing navig.rtum. l ft5”A Wasbttlglrin letter-writer remarks, that the the i»quiries~of the meaning of the English Kansagj-bill, and whether it submits the Constitution to. the people,- the answer is like that given by the showman, when asked by the little bys which was the liontfifcl which tbft-tiger: “Just asyou please, little boys; yeu.fnye paid your money, and ■C|in take your eh^feib.” ■ -j Prespejnj has-bad the. reputation of being quite .It clear and forcibleave, itW, and certainly though 1. t models of literary skills are plain, intelligible documents. 1 Yet huge puzzle into which Congress was tbriAvn by the member from the Second District of this. State proves tint the “President’s English” is very hard to understand. 0//'The Louisville journal says that the difference between the two" great parties in relation to Kansas may be briefly stated. One of them demands the submission of the L-coni.pton Constitution to the people, and the other the submission of the people to, the lieeompton Constitution. A Quartette.—Our pen recoils from the duty, yet it is our province to record the voiting fact, that a white woman, ifi lenburg county, Virginia, became the mother, a few days since, of four children, two of whom were of her own color, and toother two black.— Richmond South. oi?"The Fourth Ward, New York, which lias just excluded the Bible, from its schools, cast 2,112 votes lor Fernando Wood, to 525 tor all others; artd-every fourth house in the Ward is a grog-shop, gaming-house or brothel, and some are all three. ~~ ■ * * * 'Printers with nino children are to be exehipted from taxation in the State of New York. ’ Very safe legislation that. We would like to see the printer who had anything to tax after.feeding nine children. “ Cumming, Mr. Spurgeon, and Mr. Gough recently each made addresses in Bnghton England. The krigton papers say that Mr. Gough’s oratory was far ahead of both Cumming and Spurgeon.? OCrA boy ten years of age, who was lately committed to the Dumfries prison for forty days, for stealing six turnips, humr himself from an iron bar in his cell. When (cut down he was dead. London chemist professes to have discovered a ffbid that wHI dissolve any known substance. Can’t our fire-eaters send over and get some of it to dissolve the Union with]—Louisville Journal. CkC Wm. H. English is just now reported to have made the worst bill that ever cheated a country. But bis father made a Bill every bit as bad, we guess. about your Blue Lick water and sea bathing! There is nothing the Lord ever invented for health equal to a virtuous woman. iKr a young girl confined in" the Essex, Mass., jail was delivered of twins on the 30th ult. A rathpr remarkable case of “jiil delivery/'

most capacious pocket-book we have heard of in a long time seems to have been stolen from a young lady in Newark, New Jersey, the other day. The Mercury says: “Her pocket-book, containing a small sftn of money, a green silk umbrella and a roll of unbleached mus.in, was stolen from her by the assailants.” Richmond Enquirer of the 9th inst. says that on the 6th ilnst., in the presence of two parties, and the counsel of the Association and the proprietor of Mt. Vernon, a contract was formally entered into before a notary, for the purchase of the* home and grave - of Washington, including two hundred acres, for $200,000. college has now three hundred and fifty-five pupils, all of whom are orphans, and the number of applicants waiting (or admission into the institution is over two hundred. I -,4 0/7“Those people who turn up their noses at the world, might do well to reflect that it is as good a world as they were ever in, and a much better one than they are likely ever to get into again. - •! —- » 1 ■mim- ’ ;■ 0O“It is stated that the subscription in Italy and England for Oiisini’s family exceeds a million of franks. 0/rA committee of citizens of St. Louis has been charged with providing for the erection of a monument to Colonel Benton of that city. citizens of Cleveland are going to erect a monument in that city in honor of Commodore Perry. j/ (£s”The National Demrcrat at Indianapolis hoists the name of Stephen A. Douglas as candidate for President in 1860. 0/7”The National Democrat, at Indianapolis and the Journal, at'l'erie Haute, have hoisted the Democratic State ticket. 0/j’Senator J. J. Evans, of South Carolina, died at Washington, a fews days ago.