Mt. Vernon Republican (Mount Vernon, Ohio : 1854), 1857-05-19

              i 1 it f VOL III. MOUNT VERNON, OHIO, TUESDAY MORNING, MAY 19, 1857. NO. 27. 14 . 11 1 ASMS? HffRr A .V A A. x, II Jl A ! RELIGION WHAT IS IT ! 'TU nut to go to church to-.lnr, To look dovout and teem to pray, Anil ero to-murrow'i sun govs down, Be dealing icaudul through tho town. Not ovary sanotimon lous fnco Denotes tho certain region of grace, A pkii that scenis to scowl at sin, Oft voiln hypocrisy within. 'TU not to mark our duty's walk, Or of our own good deed to talk, And then to pruotlco secret crime, And so misepend und wasto our tirno. . 'Tis not for sects and creeds to fight, - And call our loul tho rule of right, When all wo wish is at tho best, To sco our church excel tho rest. 'Tis not to wear the Christian's dress, And love to all mankind profess, Then treat with scorn tho suffering poor, And fast against them close tho door. Ah, no I Religion iroans not this, Its fruit far sweeter, fairer is ; In heavenly soil alone it thrive?, And moro than blossoms where it lives. Religion 1 'tis the rule of life, The bond of lovo, the bane of strife, Its precepts this, " to others do As you would havo them do to you." It grieves to hear an ill report, And saorns with human vivos to sport j Of other's deeds to speak no ill. . But tell of good, or else bo still. And does religion this import 1 Oh t may our souls its in&uonco court I Haste, haste, the bright and blissful day, When the wholo earth shall own its way. Si) Jijteh'istljig Siol'lj. THE MISTAKE. A LESSON TO PARENTS. " I'll neverdo it, never, so long as I live ! " And the boy clenched his hands together, and strode up and down tho room, his lino features flushed, and his forehead darkened with anger and shame. "I'd ask tho minister's pardon, in father's presence, of course I would ; but to go before the whole academy, boys and-girls, and do this!" His wholo frame writhed at tho thought. " Ellsworth Grant, you'll brand' yourself as a coward and fool all the days of your life." " But father never retracts, and ho said I must do this or leave tho school, and go out on the farm to work ; and the wholo village will know tho reason, and I shall be ashamed to look anybody in tho face. I'vo a good will to run away." Tho boy's voico gw lower, and a troubled, uewiiuerou expression gamer ed on his flushed features. " It would be vory hard to leave all the old places : and then, never to seo Ncllio again : it would break her heart, I know it would." And his faco worked convulsively a moment, but it settled down into a look ot dogged res- clutionthe next. "I musn't think of that now ; though it's only ten miles to the seaport aud I could walk that in an hour, and get a place on some ship about to sail, before futher was any wiser. Some time I'd come back, of courso, but not until I was old enough to be my own master." Tho boy sat down and buried his face in his hands, und tho sunset of the summer's day poured its current's of crimson and amber into the chamber, and over the bowed figure of tho boy. At last ho lifted his head there was a look of quiet resolve in the dark hazel eyes and about the usually smiling mouth, which in youth is so painful, because it always indicates mental suflcring. Ellsworth Grant was, at this time, just fifteen; he was his father's only son, and ho was motherless. Tho deacon was a stern, severe man ; while Ellsworth inherited his mother's warm, Funny temperament. His father was a man of unswerving integrity and rcctitudo a man who would have parted with his right hand sooner than have committed a dishonest act ; but one who had few sympathies for faults indigenous to peculiar temperaments and characters ; a man whoso heart had never learned the hight and depth, and tho all-embracing beauty of that mightiest text, which is the one diamond among all the pearls and precious stones of the Biblo : "Be ye charitable." Lie was a hard, exacting parent, and Ellsworth was a fun-loving, mischief-brewing boy, that everybody loved, despite his faults, and the scrapes ho was always getting his neck into. There is no doubt that Deacon Grant loved his son, but ho was not a demonstrative man ; and, then it is tho sad, sad story that may be written of many a parent" ho didn't understand his child," and there was no mother, with hor soft voico and soothing words, to eomo between them. Ellsworth's last offonco can bo told in a few words. Tho grapo vine, which, heavy with purple clusters, trailed over tho kitchen windows of tho school teacher's residence, had been robbed of more than half its fruit, one Saturday afternoon, when tho inmates woro absent. I Tho perpetrators of this deed were, however, discovered to be a party of the school-boys, among whom was Ellsworth. '. Tho rest of tho scholars privately solicited and obtained tho school-teacher's pardon, but the deacon, who was terribly shocked at this evidence of his son's want of principle, insisted that he should make a public confession of his fault, bofore tho assembled school. In vain Ellsworth explained and entreated. His father was invulnorablo, and tho boy's haughty spirit entirely mutinied. f. " Ellsworth, Ellsworth, whore are you going 1 " There came down tho gardon walk, an eager, quivering voice, that made tho boy start, and turn round eagerly, as he stood at the garden gate, while the light of the fising day was flushing tho gTcy mountains in tho cist With rose-colored hues. A moment later a small light figuro, crowned with golden hair and a large shawl thrown over its night-dross, stood by the boy's sido. ""Why, Nollie, how could you I you'll take cold in vonr boro feet, among these dews." u ',' I can't help it, Ellsworth." It was a tear-swollert face that looked up wistfully to thfl hoy's. "You sec, I haven't slept any, hardly, all night, thinking about you, and so I was up, looking out of the window, and saw yon going down the walk." "Well, Nollio," pushing back the yellow, tangled hair, and looking at her fondly, "you pee, I can't do what father says I must, today, and so I'm g"i"g off-'' "0, Ellsworth ! what will undo sav ?" cried tho child, betwixt her shivering and weeping, ' what will undo sav ? How Ions shall vou bo gone ? " "I don't know," evasively, ".I shant bo back to-day, though. But you musn't stand here, talking any longer. Fathor'll bo up soon, you know. Now, good-bve. Nellie." There was a sob in his throat, as ho leaned forward and kissed tho sweet faco, tlmt had only sccu a dozen summers, and then ho was gone. " Go and call Ellsworth to breakfast, will you, Ellen ? " said the deacon, two hours lator. " IIo isn't up stairs, uncle." And then, as they two sat down to theirs, Ellen briefly ro-luted what had transpired, 1 he deacon's laco grew dark as sho pro ceeded. " He thinks to cludo the confession and frighten me, by running off for a day or two," he said ; "lie will And he is mistaken." So that day nnd tho next passed, und the deacon said nothing more, but Ellen, who was his adopted child, and tho orphan daughter of Ins wile's most intimate Inend, noticed that he began to look restless, and to start anxious-ly at the sound of a foot-full ; but still Ellsworth como not. At last a strict search was instituted, nnd it was discovered that Ellsworth had gono to sea, in a ship bound lor some part of tho western coast of Asia, on a three years' voyage. " I hope ho will como back a better boy than ho left," was tho deacon's solitary commentary, but in the long nights Ellen 'used to hear him walking restlessly up nnd down in his room, and his black hair began to bj thickly scattered with grey. But the worst was not yet come. Ono November night, when tho winds clamored and stormed fiercely among the old apple trees in the garden, Deacon Grant a:.d Ellen sat by tho fire in the old kitchen, when tho former removed tho wrapper Irom his weekly news paper, and the first passago that met his eye was ono that tola mm how the ship , the one in which Ellsworth had sailed, had been wrecked ofl" the cuast, and every soul on board had perished. Then tho voice of the father woko up in tho heart ol Deacon Urant. Ue staggered toward kllen with a white, haggard luce, and a wild, fearful cry, " My boy ! Jly boy ! " It was moro than his proud spirit could bear. 0 Ellsworth ! Ellsworth ! " and he sank down sensciess, and his head fell into tho lap of the irigmenea cnuu. After this, Deacon Grant was a chanced man. I did not know which was tho most to blame, the father or tho son, in the sight of uod who jiuigetn righteously. But equally to the heart of many a parent and many a child, the story has its message and its warning. Eight years had passed. It was a summer time again, and the hills were green, and the lields were yellow with lior glory. It was in the morning, nnd Deacon Grant sat under the porch of tho great, old, rambling cottage ; for tho day was very warm, and tho top was wrapped round thickly with a hop vino. These eight years had greatly changed the deacon, lio seemed to havo stepped very sud denly '" M- xisn. nr1 ttm light wind tha stirred the green leaves, shook the grey hairs over his wrinkled forehead, as ho sat thcro, reading tho village newspaper, with eyes that had begun to grow dim. And every little while, fragments of some old-fashioned tur.o floated out to the old man, soft, sweet, stray fragments ; and flitting buck and torth Irom the pantry to the break lust ta-bio was a young girl, not handsome, but with a sweet, fiank, rosy countenance, whose smiles seemed to hover over the household as naturally as sunshine over Juno skies. She wore a pink calico dress, the sleeves tucked above her olbows, and a "checked apron." Altogether, she was a fair, plump, healthful-looking country girl. And while the old man read tho paper under tho hop vine, and the young girl hummed and fluttered between the pantry nnd the kitchen table, a young man opened tho sin til front gate, and went up tho narrow path to the house. lie went up very slowly, staring all about him, with an eager, wistful look, and sometimes the muscles of his mouth worked and quivered as one's will when strong emotions are shaking the heart. Ho had a firm, sinewy frame, of middling hight ; ho was not handsome, but thcro was something in his faco you would have liked ; perhaps it was tho light away down in tho dark eyes ; perhaps it was tho strength and character foreshadowed in tho lines about tho mouth. I cannot tell ; it wis as intangible a it was certain you would have liked that fnco. The door was open, and tho young man walked into tho wide hull. Ho stood still a moment, staring around the low wall, nnd on tho palm leaved paper that covered tho side. Then a thick mist broko into his eyes, nnd he walked on like ono in a dream, apparently quite forgetful that this was not his own homo. 1 think those low sweet fragments or song unconsciously drew his steps to tho kitchen, for a few moments later, ho stood in the door way, watching the fair girl as she removed the small rolls of yellow butter from a wooden box to an earthen plate. I can hardly transcribe the expression of the man's faco. It was ono of mingled doubt, surprise, eagerness, that at last, all convorged into one joyful certainty " Merciful man ! " The words broko from the girl's lips, and the last roll of butter fell from tho littlo hands, as looking up, sho saw the stranger standing in tho doorway ; and her rosy cheeks actually turned palo with the start of surprise The exclamation teemed to recall tho young man to himself. IIo removed his hat. " Ex-cuso me," he said, with a bow of instinctive grace, " but can you tell me, ma'am, if Deacon Grant resides here 1" "0! yes, sir, will yon walk into tho parlor and take a scat ? Uncle, bore is a gentleman who wishes to see you." And in a flutter of embarrassment, she hurried towards the door. The gcntlcmt n did net stir, and, removing his silver spectacles, tho deacon came in ; and tho two men looked at each other, the oldoi with some surprise, and a good deal nf curiosity in his face j the younger with a strange longing earnestness in his dark eyes that seemed wholly unaccountable. J"Do you know me, sir?" he asked, after a moment's silence, and there was a shaking in his voico. "I do not know that I over had tho pleas ure oi meeting you ueiore, sir," said the oca' on. ' But horo a change came over the features of the girl, who had ocfp watching the stranger lliiuimy mi iud uiiiu. a tbuvi luo lgI1L ol long buried recollection, seemed to break up from hor heart into her laco. tier brcathcame gaspingly between her parted lips, her dila ted eyes were fastened on tho stianger ; then, with a quick cry, she sprang forward. "Uncle, it is Ellsworth 1 it is surely LUsworth !" 0! if you had seen thatoldman thenl Hi chocks turned ashen pale, his frame shivered; be tottered a few stops forward, and then the great, wild cry of his heart broko out" Is it you my boy, Ellsworth?" " it is l, lather; nro you glad to see mo f " And that strong man asked the question with a sob, and a timid voice, liko that of a child. " Como to mo I como to mo, my boy, that I thought was dead, that I havo seen every night for tho last eight years, lying with the dark eyes of his mother under the whito waves. U 1 hllsworth, Uod has sent you lrom the dead: Como to mo, my boy ! " And tho old man drew his arms around his son's neck,, and leaned his grey head on his strong breast, and for a while there was no word spoken between them. " You have forgiven me, father ?" asked the young man ut lust. " Do not ask mo that, my boy. Jlow many times I would hnvc given everything I possess ed on earth to ask, 'Forgive mo Ellsworth ?' and to hear you answer, ' Yes, father.' " So there was peaco between those two, such peace as tho angels, who walk up and down the hills, crowned with tho royal purple of eternity, tuno their harps over ! "And this this is Nellie? How she has altered 1 But I know the voice," said Ellsworth at lust, as ho took the girl's hand in his own, and kissed her wet cheeks, adding very tenderly : " My darling sister Nellie." And at hist they all went out under tho cool simile of the vine, and there Ellsworth told his story. The merchantman in which ho had sailed from homo was wrecked, nnd many on board perished ; but soino of the sailors constructed a raft, on which tho boy was saved, with several others. They wero afterwards rescued by a vessel bound for South America. Hero Ellsworth had obtained a situation in a largo mercantile establishment, first as a clerk, afterwards as a junior partner. Ho hud written home twice, but tho letters had been lost or miscarried. As ho received no answer, he supposed his father had never lorgiven him for " running away," and tried to reconcilo himself to the cstrangomcnt. But he had of late, found it very difficult to do this, and, at last, ho had resolved to return to his home, havo an interview with his parent, and try whether tho sight of his long-absent son would not soften bis heart. 0 ! it was a happy trio that sat under the green leaves of tho hop-vino that summer morning. It was a happy trio that sat down in that low, old-fashioned kitchen, to tho delicious dinner of chicken and fresh peas, that Nellie had been so long in preparing. And that night three very happy people knelt in the old sitting-room, whilo the trembling voice of the deacon thanked God for him that was (lead and ' nlivo again." The Siale ltofonn School. The Ohio Stato Journal gives the following account of tho provisions inado for tho State Reform School, and tho idea upon which it is to be conducted : The law appropriates 10,000 annually to the city of Cincinnati, for which they are to keep ono hundred boys, being thoso of the worst class of juvenile offenders. Five thousand dollars is also appropriated to tho same city for.tho support und safe keeping of fifty girls ; and live thousand dollars is appropriated to tho nnino city for tho erection nf a temporary placo of confinement for tho fifty girls. Theso places are designed for tho safe keep ing of the most depraved and vicious classes ot young persons. Another provision of tho bill appropriates fifteen thousand dollars for tho purchase, in some favorable locality, of one thousand acres of land for a farm, and ten thousand dollars for tho erection of buil lings, the purchase of agricultural implements, and other necessary articles. It is not proposed to build ono largo building upon this farm, for the accommodation of the persons sent there; but tho plan is lo build several small houses in which the persons on the farm shall live in plain dwelling house style ; the purpose being not to give it tho appearance of a Farm Prison, but of a Farm School. This Fartn School is designed for the accommodation of tho better class of juvenile olfenders. They are, of course, to bo under a proper discipline, and will be mado to work, and will havo instilled into them the habits of industry and cleanliness, aud the principles of religion and virtue Inducements will behold out to the inmates of tho institution at Cincinnati, by which they may be released from their confinement and sent to tho farm. All such as bchnvo themselves well, and givo unmistakeablo evidence of having reformed, will bo promoted to the farm, whilo thoso who aro sent to tho farm in tho first placo, and who continue in their vicious practices, and becomo unruly and violate the regulations of tho farm, will be sent to the institution in Cincinnati. So, by having the two places of difl'eront grades, one will serve as an incentive t" good behavior, and tho other as a torror to him who docth evil. Terrible Scene at ii Wedding in n Church. Tho Lincastor (Pa.) Express, of April 20th gives an accouut of a terrihlo scene of excitement in the Episcopal Church in thut town, on tho day previous. Tho houso was crowded to excess, to sco a couplo married, and a bench in tho gallery gave way under tho weight of the crowd standing upon it, when somo one cried out that tho gallery was fulling, and an awful sccno ensued. The Express says : Ono young gentleman was so terribly fright-ncd that ho quito forgot the lady he had es corted to tho church, nnd me do a break thro' tho nearest window, carrying with him tho entire lower section of sash, lie was quickly followed by a couple ol ladies, and others were prevented from leaping out by thoso on the inside who had presence of mind sufficient to see that thcro was no real dangor, except that which aroso from the panic. Several ladies got out of ono of the gallery windows, descending on tho vestry roof, and from thence into the church-yard. A number of ladies lailitcu, w nicn, wnn mo screaming aim pray inc. tho rattling of blinds and broken glass, presented a frichtful spcctncle. Thoso under the gallery supposed to do tuning, maue a rusn in the direction of the pulpit, ovorturning and slightly damaging tho baptismal font, and car rying away me oauisier in iruut ui iua uiu col. (fc7 A voiinn (armor living near tho town of Knox N, Y., ran away on 8unday with a voune lady by the name of Hunt. He left the house while his wife and two children wero absent at church. In his hurry to de part he loft his pocket book in " his other pan- f . .. xl 1 I- U tatoons." un examining me pw&ui uuur. h was found to contain $268, four love letters, and a lock of Miss Hunt's hair, done up in a true lover's knot. (Sir Isaac W. Stuart, Esq., who was the owner of tho famous Charter Oak, Hartford, Connecticut, has caused to be manufactured from. tha wood of that tree an elegant cradle, and has presented it to Colonel Samuel Colt, for the use of his infant too, THE UUKDELL JUIHDLII TJtlAL. Now York, for somo timo past, has again been in a rago of excitement about tho Bond Street Tragedy. On Tuosday tho 5th of May inst, tho trial of Mrs. Emma Augustus Cunningham, alias BunOKLh, was fairly begun. Tho Time), in giving an abstract of tho testimony, said : Tho first witness called was Dr. Francis who described minu'.ely tho position nnd character of tho fifteen wounds found on tho body of Dr. Burdell, and also of the mark of a ligature around his neck. The muik, when he saw tho body (which was on the morning af-tor tho murder) was distinct on the front and on either sido, and disappeared altogether before reaching tho posterior part of the neck. This gave him tho impression that the ligature had been applied from behind and that tho neck had been drawn backward. It had been said that tho wound under tho arm must havo been inflicted by a left-handed person. Such had been tho Doctor's impression at first, but reflection had brought him to doubt the propriety of relying upon such an cpmion. Hannah Conlan, tho next witness, testified to her residence in the house of Mrs. Cunning ham, and to tho circumstances of interest in tho case, before and after the murder, the same as when sho was before tho Coroner's Jury. While testily nig concerning the unpleasant relations oxisting between Dr. Burdell and Mrs. Cunningham, she added, what she said sho did j not recollect at that time, nnd that was that after the lady who camo to hire the house had retired, Mrs. Cunningham camo to tho kitchen and asked what tho lady's business was. Hannah told her Doctor Burdell was going to Lit tho houso to her, when Mrs. Cunningham said the Doctor might not live to rent the houso or sign the papers. In his opening speech before tho jury, tho District Attorney said : They must not forget that, whether she was the wife or mistress of the murdered man, sho was alike guilty of tho grossest infidelity to him. He had made up his mind thut life was to him useless so long as he had this shadow by his side, nnd he had mado up his mind to let tho house. She heard of it ; and tho very night before tho murder sho camo down before one of her domestics and said, " Hannah what was that woman doing here ?" " Looking at tho house." . "Is she going to take tho house ? " "Yes; slio was looking all around ; she has been in tho kitchen." ' Is Dr. Burdell going to let this houso to her ? " " Yes j it looks so." Tho man of the world could not have said what now fell from her lips. " Before to-morrow night ho shall be a corpse (or ho may be n corpse or before to-morrow night ho may be a corpse.") And that very morning, to tho boy who had swept his room, sho had said tho Doctor was a passionate man, and might not live another day. And on that very superstitious Friday, which we all dread so much, educated though we may be, on that superstitious riday,wU'u',h nns the day Ueloro tliv deed Was to to signed which was to turn her out of tho house, thoso threats are uttered. And on that night the deed was done. On tho very day when this newly found tenant comes to inspect the house, tlio deed was done. The Doctor was a regular man. His incomings and outgoings were regular. But there was another highly respectable man in thishouso(Mr. L'llnuui,) nnd she guins from him the knowledge on that very morning by a pretence about having a fire in ns room, that ho would not bo in till midnight. Her own household sho would take caro of. There was her paramour sho would take care of him. She would also take care of her daughters, her boy, nn (artful child,) tho other children and tho cook. In tho wholo an nals of crime, whenever they put their finger on a bloody murder they would never find so good an opportunity prepared as was pro-pared by this woman. One domestic was gone, and the other must bo got out of the way. Uh," said this lying woman, on the stand before tho Coroner, " 1 rung the bell for the cook to come up to tho pai lor, and the cook camo up to the pailur and received lier orders tor tho next day, and then 1 sent her up to bed." But the cook will say, " Mistress, you cumo down to the kitchen a very unusual thing with this paramour of yours, and you ordered me to bed." But this artful woman knew that if sho told that story herself it would bo a strong point against her. Hie family being thus disposed of, sho has this deed ready. She had onco stolen his safe key; she hud stolen his pistol ; and she had adaggcr of her own. Sho watched his coming in. IIo (tho District Attorney) would show to them that tho situation of that house utterly excluded the ilea of any olh r person having come into it that night. Tho basement and back door were locked and bolted in the morning when the boy came, and on tho front door was a wonderful lock ; ingress there was impossible. But at night they say it is pos sible) that an enemy may havo tracked his stops an enemy who could havo stabbed him iu the lonely streets of Brooklyn with far less ik. IIo opens the door nnd goes in his shawl is found folded in tho chair in tho hull his shoes were flung oil'. Tho physicians would tell them that which would contradict popular ideas on tho subject that every atom of mortal injury dono to that man was dono in the very hi. lest possiblo spneo ol time. W herevcr ho was struck, whether in the hall or before the fire, this ono damning fact would come out, that whoever struck that blow was a left-handed woman. Was this a left-handed woman ? Sho was carefully watched in prison to see whether sho were. Her domestics swear that sho was. Ho would have a diagram of tho room to present to them. Ho assumed that sho was standing behind the door, and that she with her left hand stabbed him to tho heart The learned counsel On tbo othor sido had intimated that they would contend that this might havo been a homicidejustifiable manslaughter. But was there anything in these blows which would show tho action of mere spasmodic passion ? No, gentlemen, the fifteen wounds on that body speak not the blows of spasmodic passion, or of self-defence. They show the blows of revenge, of hatred, and of malice that when even tho life blood was ebbing tho stabs wero repeated "to make assurance doubly sure ; " that the discarded paramour, this victim of hate and revenge, this victim who died in fulfillment of bloody threats which bad not yet cooled away from her lips, was dead, Whoever did that deed was probably covered from head to foot with blood, blood upon the dead clothes, blood upon the dead walls, blood upon the dead metal. Thero was the safe, which she had once before robbed, found next morning not with the catch down, but with the catch up, showing that it had been entered. And when he was found next morning, he was found with his limbs regularly stretched stretched by the band of some one who had ability to remain in the bouse. Ue had fought. no doubt, with tho desperation of a whole ar my ; and ho fought with a wholo army of hates and revenges-Heaven hath no race like love to hatred turned, Aud bell no fury like a wuiimn scorned. By every hypothesis that could bo given lo this case, sho must have dono the deed. Thcro was in tho rear of that room a solitary watchor a sick man whoso evidence had not yet been given to tho world, which would show that there was no haste almut that deed. There lay the dead man ; and there sho stood alono with him. Ho mndo no charges against others ; she was indicted ulone, and alono she stood here. Thore lay the body carefully and decently laid out ! Who but a woman would ever harbor in her mind tho thought that persons would take that man to be cither a suicide or a man who had been murdered by some one who camo in and escaped ? Who but a woman who had the pass key to leave by the other cntrnacc, would leave' that dead man's head so near to the door that the door could not swing without coming iu contact with it ? Tho N. Y. Times says that during tho speech of tho District Attorney, Mrs. Cunningham sat listening, and apparently not seriously discomposed by any of tho unfavorable declarations made concerning her. REPUBLICAN LEGISLATURE. As this body is being charged by certain Lo- cofoco editors with having prolonged its ses sion to an unusual length, it may be well en ough to remind theso gentlemen of facts as they appear on record. It might be well for them to remember that the Loeofoco Legislature of 1852, commenced its regular session on the 5th day January of that year, and closed on the 3d of May follow-iug, making a session of four months, lacking two days I That this samo Loeofoco Legislature commenced its extra session of that year, on tho 15th of November, and closed on tho 14th day of March following, being a session of 4 months, lacking ono day. That the next and last Loeofoco Legislature, being that of 1854 commenced its session January 2d, and closed May 1st, making another session of 4 months, laking 1 day while this outlandish Republican Legislature commenced its first session January 7, 185G, and continued to April 11th, a period of only three months 't and four days, and commenced its extra session January 1857, and continued to April 18th, a period of only three months and 13 days, or less than three months nnd a half. Thus allowing tho two sessions of this republican Legislature to be the shortest of any held in tho State, by any Legislature since the year 1818, or for the last nine or ten years. Tho session of 1850-51 continued from December 2d to March 20th, just four months lacking seven days. That of 1818, from Dec. 4th, to March 2blh, nearly four months. Tho abovo stubborn tacts, wo copy from the Xcnia 'Torchlight. They nre a perfect and completo answer to tho senseless clamor of the Loeofoco press of tho Stato, about the waste of time, and tho length of tho session. Wo have read every day for a fortnight in tho btalesiuen railing accusations against the Republican Legislature, and Aave been treated to a daily promise in the same paper, of a scathing reviow of its enormities ; but as yet, no hill of particulars has been filed. As we said when tho session closed " wo would not defend all that was dono, or that was left undone by the Legislature," yet we aro well assured that, tako tho session as a whole, it will bo found upon examination, to havo been one of tho best Legislatures that has been in this eity for many years, whilo the moral tone of tho members was such as to command tho respect of all good men. 0. S. Journal. Anecpote op the Late Mh. Zimsiermanm. Tho Elmira Gazette states that when Mr. Zimmcrmann, tho millionaire, who was killed by the accident at Hamilton, left his family iin Pennsylvania for the West, ho was for a long timo entirely lost sight of. In tho mean timo a younger brother, by frugally takinsr care of his earnings, was enabled to start a coach lino between Spruce Creek and Wil liamsburg, consisting of a four-wheeled vo-hicle and two horses, which ho drove him self. Several years ago a gentleman stopped at Spruce Creek and des'rod to bo driven to Williamsburg, but thero being no other pas senger, tho proprietor of tho aforesaid "lino" at first objected. Ho nevertheless consented, and when tho stranger got out he handed, him instead of tho usual fUre three dollars a threo hundred dollar bill. This opeued the stago proprietor's eyes to tho importance of urn passenger; and ho soon discovered that he was no other than his brother Sam. Sub sequently tho now wealthy banker bought his poorer brother a farm worth$5,(XX), in Illinois, on which he now resides. Olp Psai.m Tunes. There is. to us more of touching pathos, heart-thrilling expression in some ot tho old psalm tunes, feelingly displayed, than in a wholo batch of modornism. Tho strains go home, and tho "foundation of the great deep are broken up" the great deep of unfathomablo feeling, that lies far, far below the surface of tho world hardened heart ; and as tho unwonted, yet unchecked tear starts in Hio eye, the softened spirit yields to their influence, and shakes off the load of earthly care, rising purified nnd spirit uallizcd into a clearer atmosphere. Strango, inexplicable as sociations brood over tho mind, "like tho far- oil' dreams of paradise," mingling their ch iste melancholy with a musing ol a still subdued, through moro cheerful character. How many glad hearts in the olden time have rejoiced in these songs of praise how many sorrowful ones sighed out their complaints in those plaintive notes, that, now cold in death, arc laid to rest around that sacred church, within whoso walls they had so often swelled with cmuiwn.Mtdwochl. The Better Lnnd. Our relatives in eternity outnumber our relatives in timo. The catalouo of tho living we love becomes les, and in anti cipation wo sco tho perpetually lengthening train ot tno departed ; and by their flight our affections grow gradually loss glued to earth nnd more allied to heaven. It is not in vain that the images of our departed children, and near and dear ones, are laid up in momory, as in a picture gallory, from which the ceaseless surgo of this world's cares cannot obliterate them. They wait there for tho light of the resurrection day, to stand forth holy, beautiful and happy our fellow worshippers forever. Fbom Utah. Advices from Salt Lake of Fchr. 25th, have been received at St Louis. The Legislature passed an act organizing the militia of the Territory, and schools have bsen opened to teach infantry and cavalry tactics. J ho IJcsoret Aeirt contains an arti cle intending to prove that the Federal gov ommncnt has no power to appoint Territorial officers. This would work as if these deluded people were prepared for the worst. Ourgovern. ment will bod tbem to be ugiy customers. ROMANTIC INCIDENT. Somo sixteen years since a young gcntlo-mun in New York city contrived a while to pay his addresses to a beautiful girl thcro, the daughter of an obstinate Pearl street merchant, who was opposed to the young man visiting his daughter.- Ho persisted in his endeavors to win tho young lady, and at last ho was forbidden to enter the old man's house. Still, the lovers contrivod to meet, occasionally, afterwards ; and 'at tho expiration of somo six months, matters having been previously so arranged, tho girl consented to marry the youth. Ho did not seek the for-tunc, for he was in employment, at a handsome sularly, as principle book-keeper in an extensive jobbing house, tni his pecuniary prospects woro very fair. But the parents were obdurato, nnd ho was driven from tho house. At the end of a twelve month they agreed to bo married, and nil tho requisite arrangements wero mado ; the evening was fixed upon, and even tho chaplain had been engaged ; hut on tho morning of tho day proposed secretly for tho nuptials, tho wholo plan was discovered, and tho match broken oil' porcnipto-torily by the absoluto authority of tho parents.Time passed on ; the daughter was sent to a distant part of tho country for a while the young man was disappointed and disheartened, and left New York for tho West, where ho remained for two years. Meantimo a person to suit the tastes of the parents turned up a man of considerable means, but old enough to be the young girl's father, and the match was arranged, alter a long persuasion, between Emma and this man, and she wedded him at last. Threo years subsequently the young man found himself in New England, where lie settled and took a wife also, and somo dozen years passed away, with their thousand and ono changes of place, of circumstances, and of lortune. 1' rom the time of their separation tho original lovers had never met. Tho young man became the father of three little ones ; and then lost two of these, which bereavement was soon followed by the death of his wife. Time flew by ho had been for-tunato in his business, and resided a few miles out of Boston, in a cottago surrounded by the comforts of life, and in tho enjoyment of his dear little daughter. Ono day ho was returning homo in tho afternoon, and upon entering tho cars ho found them to bo full. IIo sought a seat, and found ono occupied by a lady about thirty years of ago, beside whom he sat down, and tho cars soon moved out of tho depot. As they entered into the light, ho suddenly turned to the lady, and cxcluimcd, " Madam ! Emmc ! is this you?" Ho didn't know exactly what ho said, but it was a fact that ho was on the scat with the girl whom he hud really loved, and whom he had never seen sinco the cruel separation. A mutual explanation quickly succeeded. Our widowed friend ascertained that his former intendod was now on her way to the north, upon a visit ; that she had been married nearly eleven vears, hail but one child living, and hav husband had been dead over two years. Ho pointed out his pretty cottago as the cars passed on but did not leave tho train. He proceeded forward, renewed his acquaintance, found tho lady her own mistress, proposed to her again and we record the fact with no ordinary degree of pleasure, that within threo weeks the lovers were actually united in marriago in the city of Boston. Mauyi.anp FitATERNiziN-a. Tho Norfolk (Va.) Argus thinks that "Maryland, by position and interest, is not to be classed among the Slave States. Her politics show that her press is fast bringing nlwut a fraternization between her nnd tho Free States so called. On cachside of the Bay her peoplo are sound, but North and West of Baltimore, there is but a shade of ditl'erence lictwcen tho inhabi-tauts of Maryland and Pennsylvania. It is through Maryland that most of tho slaves now oscapo from Virginia. Hor laws on this subject nro wholly incll'ectual, and public opinion will not tolerate ono that is worth a straw." If Maryland will hurry up that "fraternization" her past shortcomings will bo overlooked, and s.io will at onco be received into full connexion in tho church of Freedom. Febdin'o Time. In England tho hour of lining indicates precisely the rank. The Queen dines at 8 o'clock, p. m. ; the higher nobility at 7'. ; tho ordinary country gentle man nt 6 ; tho professional and higher class of merchants and manufactures at 4 and 5; the shopkeepers at 3 ; clerks at 1 ; working- men nt 12. A a man rises in social import ance, his dinner hour advances. Somo men of humblo origin and great luck havo eaten their way from plebian twelve all down the hours of tho afternoon, nnd ended a glorious career by solemnly dining with loyalty at 8 ; spendid reward for tho labors of a lifetime. OT A correspondent of the Columbus Ga- tdte, who went to Iowa to better his condition, after describing some of the trials, conveniences and troubles of the emigrants, gives the ollowing list of prices at Eddyvillc, in that State : Corn, per bushel, from 50 to 75 cents ; hay 5 cents a pound ; straw or fodder out of the question not to bo had. Meat, oh 1 scissors. I oor cattle, oh, Moses, limes lecal tender; and as soon .as tho Land Ollico ocns, coon skins and beeswax will be I .and Ollico currency. It's "pop goes the weasel" here, now. From the N. T. Evening Tost. An Epigram. srrr.EME court asd the questios of color. Prnjr why should Ssmbe, In our eouru, Fare worpe than l'at or Snnnoy T for though he In aoolored man, Our Justice, too, is Tant'j. Sinso TnnoT dies llins rnthloily Poor Sambo's rifrhia attack, Wht mercy may wo hope for from Attorney-Ucnoral lack t (fir There is something true, fanciful and sweet in the following epigram on Slumber, from the Italian : " Sweet it dumber it li life Without in sorrow, tin or jighin j Death without the fearful strile, The mortal agony of dying, ' fttr Tho man who is too poor to take a pa. per has bought a slab-sided dog, an old shot gun, and a twenty shilling gold watch. He educated his children In the street, and his shanghais board on hu neighbors. , (jir Many a true heart, that would have come back liko a dovo to the ark, after its first transgression, has boon frightened beyond ro call by the angry look and menace the taunt, .the savago chanty of an uniorginnj sprit. The Lu lid fever. The following paragraph from the Philadelphia Enquirer gives some striking illustration of tho prevailing land fevor. To prudent mors it is sufficient to noto these facts. Thoro never was land speculation, in this iountry yet, which did not result disastrously. 8 solid is the prosperity of our country now that this may be less so ; but that thcro is t bo a reaction cannot bo donied : . '. Tho fever prevails to a far greater cxtcne than most persons imagine. We havo heard of several counties in tho interior of the State, in which from ono hundred thousand to threo hundred thousand dollors have been raised by agonts or others, and sent westward for tho purchase of lands. In some cases old farmers have gathered their families, sold thoir property, and directed their footsteps to Minnesota, Iowa, Kansas or Nebraska, and a belief that they would speedily secure a large fortune. In others, farms and other property have been mortgaged, and the money raise in this way has been invested in laud warrants, and with a similar expectation. Tho reader may well Jmagine the evil results of this wild and speculative spirit. Already, bitter fruits have been realized in various instances. Tho whole thing may bo regarded as a lottery, in which tho chances of receiving a prizo lire as ono to a thousand. Tho New Hampshire Statesman informs us, that in one of the valley towns in Grafton county, Conn., no less thun $110,000 have been collected within a single year, for the purpose) Of investment in Wnxtnrn lumla Tim mncf of it was remitted by men who did not emi- Hi.ue, uui merely lor speculative purposes. Other towns have followed the fatal example. A desire to make largo gains, or in other words to "make haste to becomo rich," has so bewildered somo persons that no ordinary prosper-. my ui an siuisiaciory lo tneiu. Cutiiiijr a lnsl. Some cotempory, who has a rather lively senso of tho ludicrous, tells tho following mirth-provoking story of a traveler, who quartered at a tavern in Yankeeland on Sunday not long since : He prepared himself to attend church, but not possessing a very important chattel, a watch, and being particularly desirous of cutting a dash, he applied to the landlord for tho loan of one. Tho landlord, possessing a very powerful alarm watch, readily complied with the request, but previously wound up tho alarm, aud set it at tho hour which he supposed would bo about the middle of tho first prayer. The dandy repaired to the church ; he rose with nil the grace of a finished equis-ito, at the commencement of- the first prayer, and stood playing very gracefully with'tho. borrowed seals, when suddeuly he jumped as if he had discovered a den of rattlesnakes ; tha whizzing of tho alarm commenced. The people started, the dandy made a furious grab at the oll'ending watch with both hands outside tho pocket, and tried to squeeze it into silenco, but in vain; it kept up its r-r-r-r-r, ami it seemed as though it never would stop 1 Tha sweat lolled oil' the poor fellow, ho seized his. hat and making one ellbrt at the door, hurried off, with his watch in ono hand and his hat in the other amid tho suppressed laughter of tho whole congregation, The New Game Law or Ohln Is now in force, It took effect on the ffrst day of May. It is unlawful to kill any doer or rabbit, or kill or destroy the eggs of any q ail, patridge orphcasant, wild goose, duck, turkey, snipe, etc. Tho killing of robbius, larks, thrush or cat-birds is prohibited at all times of the year. Birds of prey, crows,crow-blackbirds, and rod-headed wood-peckors, etc., are not protected. The intention of the law is to protect tho various kinds of game during the season of their increase, and other birds at all times. Boys who are out with a gun, and have a good chanco to shoot a robin or meadow lark, should remember that it may cost them a fine, besides its being a very mean thing to kill such birds. tVn. Commercial. The Murderer's Fate. Simon Dillon was tried in Bowling Green, Ind., a few days ago, on a charge of murdering his son fifteen years previous, andacquit--ted for want of evidence to provo his positive guilt. Facts wero given, howovcr, that convinced all who heard them that ho wns a murderer. After his acquittal he quailed deep the "damning draught," and left the placo for his home, some miles distant, of which he was tho solo occupant. His neighbors know noth ing more of him until, ono day last week, their attention was arrested by tho blaze of light from his burning house. They reached the placcjust in timo to hear the cries of the wretched man, who perished in tho flames. The supposed murderer met his fato. Kansas TmRiTonr. A patent has just been issued from the General Land Offico, to Walter Lowrie, Esq., Attorney of the Board of Foreign Missions of tho 1 resbytcnan Church. for a reservation of land on the Missouri river, adjoining tho town of Iowa Point, in Kansas lemtory, containing about one quarter sectionbeing ono of the reservations granted to that association by the Iowa Indians, in the 7th article of their treaty of 17th of May, 1854. This is the first patent issued by the Government for lands in tho Territory of Kansas. Star. (jiT The General Assembly of tho old school Presbitorian Church will meet at Lexington, Ky., on the 21st nf May. On the same day lho now school General Assembly will conveno in Cleveland, O. The indications aro ; pretty strong that the new school brethren-will have pretty sharp quarrel about the late action of lho Home Missionary society touch- ins aid to slaveholding churches, and the sla-very question in general. Religion Tclescop. . Immcsse Advance op Wraith is Onio. . In twenty years, Ohio has increased its valu-" ation from $30,000,000 to $SilO,C00,00O. Tho " clemonts of freedom, havo given her a gigan- tic progress, whilo Virginia, tho mothor of. Ohio, is prnsressing liko a snail, backwards. The debt of Ohio $15,000,000, wh'ch wV once very burdensome, is now lut a trifle compared to her imioenso rcsourcos. fe!T The pantheism of the East reprcent man as snow flakes exhnlcd from a boundless 1 ocean, and whirling over its surface till aba ' sorhed in its bosom ; but Christ says that wt are God's children, made in his image, to grow , more and more like him forevor. . (Sir "Jane, what are yon putting that beer on your doll's frock for?" "to dye it rod. ' pa." " What makes yoo think beer will dye J-it;red?" "Why rp said yesterday that it was beor that made your nose so red, and I thought" "Here, Botty, take this chili, to the nursery." V