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thn just as the court adjourned for dinner, and H,v i';oir near 'vnv ribeve'd, 'There Aver .", Thiee perntverr inning down abreast, nnd I oh

Served the middle one eXictiy rpthe man whom 1 had tOOiarknl rro-ii g l!ie bridge; I irnmediatelv f. Il serious on the subject. Kis person and appcaraiu c weie so ex-ict Iv the same that I could not discover nnv difference between them; so entirt lv Hiike, that I 'fit pe cutiar! v. Cross-examined: I do no! swear posiiu !v that he is the mm, but I say lie cx :rl!v resembles him. . -31. A tints Jcrlon. live with m father at Tiverton, near Fall River: about 3 oYlock, r. n. on the 20ih December, I m a gentleman coming frotn the hiidjir, :md lie was walking s vei f.i?!. that 1 said to my father, 5 f h m t f.i".n continues lo walk so ven fil . he will get to Ohio hefore night.1' I !h'!-i?!i! fi'n'ii hi dress t Suit U' n a nv.h i J i niis)t't-r, from Bristol, or the island. Hi ro-t appeafed to me t be a surtout or box coat, of a dark mixture, nearly black, and h was ra ther a tall mm. Although it was i: the dusk of the evening, and he was walking from nie, I had a view of hii'.iee, and observed that he had daifc eyes and hair. .r-. m - . vrof" examined. I nelieve it was la Col. II triiditi that 1 lirt rem. irked lie looked like a methodtst minister. atid it occurred -to my mind that it was Mr. Aerv. for I had seen him before: I believe I said at the time, '-There goes brother Avery," hot I will not swear it was him. lie had no whiskers, am! I have never snid he shaved them . ifsiuce that lime: I may have said sine that he shaved hi? whiskers, because I have heard it said that he did o after he was apprehended. I have observed that he looked very diffeiet.t at Bristol because he appeared pite nnd emaciated, as though he had biYl in his lest. 32. Gardntr Coil I am bar keeper at Lew tOi."s tavern, Fall River. O: the evening of the 20th December l ist fibrin J 'six o'clock, a gentleman came to Ihf; bar Hr.d said he wanted supper. lie did not come into H e bar room, but went into the siltit.g room, the door of which is opposite lo the bar. Supper was laid for him in the dining room, and he iitired thither. He wn a tail man, dressed in a brown or daik col.-vrtis -lrt-vift coat, 'and had on a fat fur tap. I do net think I could now recogiiZL' his feaui'es, for I did not particularly notice them. He appeared in a great hurry, and went out immediately after paving for his supper ! should not think Mr. Aver) dilfeis at nil from the man in height. He bio'l no horse with him, or I should have received pay for it. At the Bristol examination I saw a man fitting at the comer f the table who resembled the person I !pek (d, and tie was the pri soner. While he whs there the girl came- for a yl.iss of brandy for him, lor which he paid. Cross-examined. The girl who attended on him, was Margaret li. IlamIdey -he appeared to be about thirty- - Jive years of age. There was a pedler Til1 the at tne lime, named Alaen, but I dont think he took supper with him. I was not present when Alargaret r..Ifambley testified at Bristol. saw Mr. Averv, however, when lie was j brought to Fall River from Rindge, by: Cel. ifarnden; he had then spectacles on f.nd an outMue coat. 3o. John Borden. I live at Tiverton On the night of the 2Uth December, a-

bout twenty minutes nast nine. I washing a letter. She went that' day to

on the -road from Fall River, and saw j a rather tall man at a short distance aIn ad of me; we were then about half; way between Fall River and Stoney Bridge. lie was walking at about an1 ordinary rate. 1 have not seen him sli ce till I 'see him know. It could not have taken me more than ten minutes to walk from w here I first saw him to mv houv. and when I had lit a candle, I found it w as just tw enty minutes past nine. 31. William GijTord I nm the son cf Jeremiah Gilford, the keej er of Bristol ferrv. nnd remember putting inf. Avery acro-s to llio liristol side on the 21st of December, alter he had slept at cur house. 1 said to him. " mr. ATpry, I did i of know you had a meeting! on the island last night; and he repli-i cd, 11 1 had rot a meeting, but I went! to the island on some business of mv - own." I did not see him when he came - over from the Bristol side the evening before. I think he had spectacles on th.it morning, but I did not observe apv bundle or cane. Not cross-examin-ed. 35. Jane. Gijford. I am. the daughter of Jeremiah Gilford, of Bristol Fer - rv. and a sfsfer of the last w itness. I

saw Mr. Avery after he had come : have one too, and addressing me said, down sJnirs on the morning, of the 2!st'Mand you have one, for then we shall

of December last, and shook hands with him; I said, 44 Brother Avery, I did not! know von -was going to preach on the Island" last night;" and he replied, "I did not preach there, I had business with Brother Cook." He added he sorrv be could not rret over tho fer - ry the same night, because his family

There is a John Cook, a bi Methodist rburrh. whri memBer'of the ictliodist church, who resides about two miles from our house and a William R. Cook, also a mem ber, who lives near. Lioss-cxaminca. 1 slept in a room adjoining my fathers, and heard hia say it was half past nine o'clock. 3G. Mrs. Harriet Hathmmy 1 resid nt Fall River and knew Sarah AJ. Cor nell. She boarded with me. Tlv last time I saw her alive was on th evening of the 20th December. S -changed her frock, putting oit a begone than she usually wore; and havin; fetched her cloak and calash, she wetii

was SICK.

out saying, she was going to Joseph (occu red there fci cause her ill health. Durfees, and should, perhaps, return-She did notsH.ite what it was, but I beimmediately, but that, if shedid no!, she'gah to have sorrie doubts. Maria Cor-

should be home by nine o'clock. I

waited up for her till ten, and then, meetings, "whilst l knew her. (This went to bed leaving a light, and thelyoung woman sustained thi? painful ex-

door unfastened. The next morningjaminatron with au u iaflfected modesty I heard from Selh Darling that she had 'and firmness combined, which won the

been found dead. She worked at Mr. ; respect of every one who heard her.) Anthony's mill the usual hour of leav-j After .she had' resumed Iit seat being w hich is half past seven, but omside her mother, she replied to a ques-

that evening she came home much ear-jtion of the counsel in the following her. She had been unusually cheer-! words: "I will never go there any ful throughout that day. She had more I know some very disgusting boarded with me three weeks, during;things which took place there, between which time no one had visited her. ! i.a minister and ,a church member, and delivered her trunk and hand box tojthat minister too a married man." John Durfee, the key of which was j" And now," said the witness, much af found in the pocket she had on.. Ijfect.-d, you know as much about it as should know (he comb she usually wore I do!"' from its having lost two of its end teeth, The Court then adjourned to Mon-

comb produced arid identified. I

have seen in her possession three let- the Jury, consented that they should ters; one pink, one straw colored, and'walk out during Sunday for exercise, if

one white, letters produced. These appeared to be the same: she never. th.'t I know, read them aloud in the house; no other person boarded with me. Mie was not in the habit ol being out in the evening, except on sibbatl

and class meetings. I never saw theier; 1 was present at the examination at conlo;,tof her trunk or band box before I Bristol, as one of the committee ap

her death, and I am not aware that she had a pocket book Li oss-examined. I saw the letters lv- - j ipg in her lap, and 1 think 1 could swear these are the same; I noticed that (he direction on the white letter was written in a larger hand than the others. I saw her with them about a week hefore her death, and said something con cerning them to my daughter Lucy. l-uey Jlg-'nawny I nm .the daughter of the last witness. worked in the same mill and in the same room with the late Sarah Maria Cornell; on the afternoon of the 20lh of December last, she informed me of her intention to teave work earlier that evening than usual, as she had a particular engagement, nnd she accordingly left at halt past five; she had been remarkably cheerful that day, for she was generally very sad, and held little conversation ; she was particular so on the Tuesday preceding the Thursday on which she died, for the expressed fears that she would not be allowed to leave the mill early enough on Thun-day to fulfil an appointment she had in the evening; but she added, ' I am determined to go. whether they will permit me or not.' On that evening, about five minutes be fore she went out, she came to my window to comb her hair. 1 know this to be her Comb, produced but it was not bro'ven then. I knew her a week before she came to board at our house: l!he came on the 1st of December, and the. reason she assigned for changing, was that she wished to be more retired; I did not know her situation at that time. On the afternoon of the Saturday following the day she came to my r other's, I recollect her "having rccci the post office to enquire for one, and on her return, she held ii up and showed it lo me; it was written oh white paper; I afterwards saw the writing inside, which was not more than tuo or three iines, but did not read them. It was marked one cent postage. The white letter produced and identified. 1 also saw her with two other letters, I pink, and the other yellow or straw colored; I

terwards casually saw the contents ofj himself to be the same, asked if he these, but did not read them. These' knew a person of the name Ephraim two colored letters were produced nndK. A very. He denied any knowledge identified. When she showed them of him, and then said must search the to me, I remarked that one of them ap-i house. At this nloment the lady who peared to be written in a hand more sat in the room, and whom afterlike a lady's than a gentleman's; but wards found to be Mrs. Mayo, got up,

sh? replied they were both written by, one person. Upon- some rule of evidencc urged by the prisoner s counsel, which we neglected to note, the admisS'on of this last answer was objected to, and the court ruled it out. When she showed me the colored letters, she broke open an envelope in which they were sealed, and put the white, one in with them. The day before her death saw" her with a pocket wallet; one. of the girls tame to borrow some money of her to buy an apron of a pattern she had just seen: Maria Cornell said I will all have them-alike." She said if 1

would wind a bundle of yarn for her to the one have Hamed.'to be open. that evening, she would make the a- On looking in, observed that there was prons, which she said she should bave,a low fire on the-hearth, and a light time to do whilst her loom, which was stand before it, with a candle on it, the out of order, was being repaired", wick of which was ignited as if it had

l Crass-eTamined. I saw the string withithat instant been blown out. enter-

which she was strangled; never saw

1 vmkJ&Kftfi7' m "rrni n m 1 1 1 t t mimr mi

string o.'that size used for hangirrgjyp the h:Vr:ioii"Ar(!f lrrm. thehariiess ofthc looms Direct resumed. 1 know from observation, and her own communications to :ne that she was out of health, and was -o confidential as to tell me that her illiess was of a kind that could nfllict fenalesonlv. I knew that hcrperiodicI appearances were wanting, but did iot infer her real situation; I thought she had taken cold, and asked her why h: did not take medicine, and she relied she had taken pills of Dr. Wilbur, vie afterwords said she had hot been I sinee she-went to the Thompson ,amp-mcetiug,and that something had nell never went out evenings, excent to jday morning, having at the request of co' slant !y. accompanied by sworn oflicers; and the officers were sworn accor dingly. -.Seventh Day. Monday. May Harvey llarndcn. 1 live at Fall Rivpointed to investigate the circumstances attendant u;i the death of Sarah lViaria Cornell. .On the Saturday evening of the first week of the examination, 1 called at I rain Smith's store, reipjesting :iim to let me have what was rem aining of a ream of letter paper whicn hud been h his store on the 8th o' December. 1 received this paper. (L'roductd.) There is moie here than I received. 1 think 1 received nine half quires, and o.'ie whole one. At the the lime Smith handed me the paper, he had the half sheet 1 .wauled in his hand. (Half sheet produced and identified, by the pencil mark kk half sheet," written on it.) I produced it to the Court at Bristol? a,id 1 there compared it with the other half sheet of paper, (Letter on halr'sheet produced.) 1 found them agreeperfectly. I examined the pieces with a microscope. The fibres of the paper pass from one part to the other; in the water maik there is a very striking resemblance with the paper at Smith's In some sheets there is no ditlere.ice: the water mark is on ly oh one side of the sheet. The half sheet I produced in Bristol was left in court. 1 knov this memorandum, (produced, written "C quires, 14 sheets and i half.") 1 arrested Mr. Avery after he left Rhod-: Island, in the town of Rindge, N. Hampshire, just above the Massachusetts line, at the house of a genllern::n named Mayo. (The witness sketched its style and appearance.) It was a large two story house. There were six persons with me; one of whom. (Air. roster) accompanied me into the house; the other five remained outside at different points. I went through the house into the room in which the family live. 1 would here remark that this room was in a poicii built on the one of the house instead of bark as is usual; and thai the front of the porch .was parallel with the front of the main building, although thrown back perhaps six or eight feet, so as lo give a window in the end of the main building into the front room. When I 'entered, enquired for captain Mayo: af-iand, on one of the gentlemen declaring went out into another room witnout a light, and closed the door after her. I very soon heard a pcr.on who came to the house with me,and whom had told to be careful and sec that no one left it, rap on the window with his lingers, took the only light there was in the room, and passing through the same .door ..by which MrsMayo had gone out, found myselfin almall room back of a front room, with '-'a door opening into the' same front room. entered and went through the front room into the front entry, and from thence up sfairF. On arriving at the bead .of the. stairs, discovered the doof oppning into the chamber over the front room opposite ajed but law no person. there saw a

bc i which had 'been4umbled,a1i'd round by placing my hand in it, that some one had recently left it. then went into

a bed room at the back of the chamber, and found no one there, then retered into the front entry" chamber, and there saw Mrs. Mayo stTMidiog in the other front chamber. then went into Ukctj while she passed me into the en try chamber. searched that cham ber, and then two smaller rooms at the back of it. After this, returned into the front entry chamber, and thence went up the garret stairs, which led from it. On entering upon the stairs, found there was trap door over them at the garret floor; turned it up, but to no purpose, then returned to the entry chamber, and from thence into chamber in which first made search, but did not find Mr. Avery. (The wit ness entered into some further descriptions, and deposed.) On arriving again I in the front entry below, discovered that the door info the front room was not entirely closed, though distinctly recollected that when passed up it was shut. then placed my hand against the door, and found there was a gentle pressure on the other side, and in withdrawing my hand, the door would return gently to its former position. opened the door with one hand, holding the candle in the other, and behind the door discovered Air. Avery. He stood quite motionless, and, from his appearance, was more agitated than any per son ever saw. He had on either a surtout or pea-jacket and held in his left hand a cap, which have no recollection of seeing afterwards: When he left the house, he had on both a peajacket and surtout. Since had last seen him, w hich was two weeks, he had let his beard grow, except on the front part of his face, (witness described,) which very materially altered his appearance, presented my hand to him and said, " Mr. A Very, how do you do?" He attempted to speak, but his utterance failed, then took him by the hand and said, do endeavor to suppress this agitation; you need fear no personal violence you shall be kindly treated;" and requested him to step into the entry where there was more air. He did so; and then said, suppose you cannot legally take me from this place without a precept from the Governor of New Hampshire, replied had no such a precept; but supposed had a warrant sufficient for the purpose, which procured froiri a Justice. He then stated that his counsel had told him he could oe lateen irom no state without an ap plication to its Governor. told birr told him;

by a reference to the laws of Newslfm;s Hampshire, found it otherwise; that if

he would go into the other room would show him the precept; and that if should fail of convincing him that the arrest was completely legal, would leave him and go without him. After some further conversation, the precept was read to him by Mr. Foster, the deputy from Fitz William. Mr. Avery was satisfied of its legality, and said he would return with me lo Bristol. then mentioned to him that the precept directed the Sheriff to carry him before some Justice in that county for examination. To this he demurred, and wished the privilege of returning without lhat ceremony. consented that it should be waived if he would sign a request lo that effect, together with an agreement that he would hold the Deputy harmless for disobeying the pre cept. He consented. We left Cap-

tain Mayo's between eleven and twelve i'ia of the. Chancel'nr of the Exchequer, and went up to the tavern in Rindge, that it was utterly impossible, ctmsi-tent where Mr. Avery shaved, having pre-Jw'lb the stale of the tinanceA, to onnt viously expressed a wish to do so. Hisjl the pmposed reduction, caused Eail face then appeared as it had done at jGry on tbe following morning according Bristol. (This witness brought Mr.' to established enqueue, to wait on thu

Avery to the line of Rhode land, where he delived him to the agent ap pointed to receive him by that atate, on Friday, January 25th. Lross-examined. Heard the state ment made by the prisoner's counsel at Bristol, offering sureties for his appear ance at the March term of the Supreme Court of Rhodeisland. (This witness was cross-examined at length as to the proceedings of the Committee of Vigilance at Fall River, as whose appointed agent he had acted in arresting Mr. Avery. I to be cntinued.J Mr. Jones'1 Widow. It happened to Mr. Jones, worthy man, to die, and after few months, left for propriety's ike, Mr. Wilkin, paid a vinit to ths widow; and remembering Uudibras' rule be made known hit business at once. The widow Jones was flattered with ber neighbor's good opinion, but . Mr. Smith had c.lled two or three weeks pieviously, and she had engaged to marry him. Mr. Wilkin bore his disappointment like a philoso pher; but when Mr. Smith died, he look occasion to call on the widow on the next day after tbe funeral, and renewed his offer. The widow felt giateful for sympathy for the loss of one husband, and the offer of another, but neighbour Walteis, a distant relation of her late husband had, walking to the grave with her, extorted from her something like a promise. Mr. Wilkins knew the value of a promise, and waited patiently till

nigl.1or Wallers died, nnd procured an appointment to walk Co the grave with tbe widow. As he whs eoinir :ilnni

the mansions of the dead, Mr. VVilk,in9 renewed bis petition a little too late . Deacon Holmes had called to comfort her and the family. n the very day of Mr Walters' decease, and had iakn nn. poitunity lo offtr himself with he con. solation. Mr. Wilkin began to think that there was a change of his. nol succeeding in his views of making the lady Mrs. Vilkin9. but not io omit nnv ' " f (opportunity, hs. while thy were leturn ing from the burial, whimpered int-j tho widow s ear, thai he hoped .-he would remember his offer should any thing happen to the Deacoo. Powerful tones of Birds. It is difficult to account for so small a creature as a bird making a tone as loud as some an imals a thousand limes ils siz;; out arc-, cent discovery has shown, that, in birds the lungs have several openings com? municating with correspoudingair bam or cells which hll the whole caviiv 0f the body, from the neck downwards, and into which the air passes and repasses in the progress of breathing.. This is not all; the very bones are hollow, from which air pipes are conveyed to most parts ol the body, even into the. quiil-i and feather: this air being rarificd by the heat of the body, adds to their levity. By forcing the air out of the bdy, they can dart down from the greatest heights with astonishing volocity. No doubt the same machinery forms the bases of their vocal powers and at once solves the mystery. Garl diner 3 Music of Nature. During the American revolution,.. While General Reed was president of Congress, the British commissioners offercd him a bribe of K),IK)J truinea. tr, desert the cause of his cou ntry. His repiy was, uentlemen, I am poor, very poor; but your king is not rich enough to buy me." A deputation of33'J persons, from different parts of England, in favor cf the immediate emancipation of nero slavery, within the British dominions. met in London on the I3th of April. They had a meeting with the ministry on the subject. Resolutions w ere passed, declaring that all persons held iu bondage in his Majesty's dominions, ought to be forthwith emancipated, and that the people of Knghnd will cheerfully bear the expense necesary to make a fair renumeration of the West '"'J' planters for the loss of their EIGHT DAYS LATER FItOM EUROPE The packet ship New-York, Captdia' Hoxie, arrived yesterday morning from Liverpool, whence she sailed n the 1st May. The Editor of the Courier and Enquirer has received by thi -conveyance, London dates of the evening of the 30th April, and Liverpool of the 1st. ult. We learn from these papers that the British Ministers have unexpecterily found themselves in a minority io the House of Commons. Sir W. logiiby having introduced a resolution that the duty on malt be reduced from 20s Qd. to 0s. the quarter, it was carried by a majority often, in a house consisting of 31 4 members, the numbers being 162 to 152. This result notwithstanding the rfeclaraKing, r.nd lender bis resignation, which wa not received. Ministers then deter. mined on adopting the line of conduct 'leveloped in a debate which endued. If they have carried their motinn, (which was to come before the House on the evening of the 30th) declaring, that the reduction of the duty on malt and other reductions which would naturally follow such as that on the house and windowtax could only be supplied by a general tax on property, and would occasion an extensive change in the financial system which would be inexpedient, then they have retained their places, and it may be presumed that their defeat on Sir W. iogilhy's motion was a consequence of the thinness of the llovse, pot much more than half the members being present. It is evident, however, whatever may be the strength of the Ministers in tbe House of Commons, that they have become extremely unpopular throughout the country. Too much has been expected from a reformed house of commons. Relief from severe taxation, and, a diminution in the national expenditure, which the ministers have found it impossible to bring about. The amount of the public debt and the entire financial systern of England, is so forced and unnatulal, that if it be touched with a rude hand i he whole fabric must crumble into atomi, and hence lord Grey hat not dared to, coald uot introduce, those measures which the voice of the people and their necetsitiea culled for. We thouhi think that a change in the cabinet would ensue werp