On this page
- Departments (3)
-
Text (14)
-
Untitled Article
-
Untitled Article
-
Untitled Article
-
Untitled Article
-
Untitled Article
-
Untitled Article
-
Untitled Article
-
Untitled Article
-
Untitled Article
-
^TlTEPvATTJ IiS. ^^__ ^TtT F,?, ATTTRE.
-
Untitled Article
-
iftwip i&fecelfattea.
-
iWtsrdlaneous.
-
Untitled Article
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.
-
-
Transcript
-
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.
Additionally, when viewing full transcripts, extracted text may not be in the same order as the original document.
Untitled Article
THE COUNTESS OF RUDOLSTADT . [ Sequel to " Consuelo . " ] By Geokge Sand , wanda ' s di 3 toet . ,, « Y degrees , in a series of interviews ; always without -her ' confidents or witnesses , I unfolded to him the doee rL of which our order has ' niade itself the depositary and ^ ecratpropagator . I initiated him into our project of turi-^ ^ J regeneration . At Rome , in the subterranean cares teJat > 'rtfor oar mysteries , Marcus presetted him to the ? , tbrcn . and procured his admittance to the first grades of Irtiaasoary , bnt reserved to himself the revelation of the -TiboU concealed beneath these vague and eccentric
, fn-fflS 4 n 0 numerOn 3 interpretations of which accord so £ ell « ith the degree of intelligence and courage in the adepk ^ seTen year 3 * * ° - ! oired my son in all his iravels . Always qnitting a place one day after him , and arriving the grains subsequent to his arrival . n \ v * e were in Poland , on the frontiers of Turkey , and Albert , having gone through the successive initiations of freema 3 ?» the superior grades which form the last linS between this preparatory society and our own , was about io direct ai 3 steps towards that part of Germany in TTiiicn we were residing , prior to bis admission to the cacred banquet of the Invisibles , when the Count Christian ( je Rndobtadt recalled him home . This was a thunder-How to me . "
«< ' Are we parting ! ' he said to me , as he saw me weepjnc in spite of myself . ' Every time I have called from the depths of my heart , you have appeared to me . I shall still C » 'Albert , Albert , ' I replied , ' this time where you go I cannot follow . ' " lie turned pale , ana pressed close to me like a frightened child . The time had now arrived for me to reveal my « « I am not the soul of your mother , ' I said to him , after a short preface ; ' I am your mother herself . * " Why do you tell me this ? ' he replied , with a strange smile ; 'do I not know it ? Do not we resemble each other ? Have I not seen your portrait at Riesenburg ? Besides , do you think that I have forgotten you ? Dave I not always seen you , always known you V
" I felt sure that the time approached when Albert would bB regenerated or annihilated . I had seen in him a tendency to a cataleptic state , so I wrote to Marcu 3 : Never allow Albert to be buried , or do not fear to break open his tomb . ' Unhappily for U 3 , Marcus could no longer present himself at tho Castle of the GhnU ; he wa 3 forbidden to enter the states of the empire . He had been seriously compromised in an insurrection at Prague , in which , indeed , hi 3 inSneace had been more than suspected , and bad only escaped by flight from the rigour of the Austrian laws . " When Albert returned beneath that fatal roof , the air of which seems to carry with it a poison to the ardent spirits of the descendants of Ziska , his whole being received a terrible shock ; he ran and shut himself up in the chamber I bad inhabited ; he called upon me , and finding I did sot appear , he felt persuaded that I had die 1 a second time , and that 1 should never more be restored to his in the course of his present existence .
•• The superstitious fear which took possession of the minds of those about Albert , the efforts of his family to lead him back io Catholic submission , quickly succeeded in torturing him , and hi 3 excitement suddenly took the diseased form which you witnessed . " At last you came to Riesenburjr ; you surprised him in the greatest distresses of his soul . You * know , or rather you do not know , what influence you had upon him , even to the making him forgetful of all that was not you , to the givin <» him a new life , to the givin * him death . "When he before 1 tint all was over between you and him , liis whole strength abandoned him , he allowed himself to perish . Bat at last I learned that Supperville had been called in , and I flew to Reisenburg in spite of Marcus , who , seeing me determined to run all risks , exposed himself to the same dangers that he might follow me .
"We arrived beneath the walls of the chateau dis » uised 33 beggars . No one recognised U 3 . It was twenty ' seven years since they had seen me , and it was ten since they had seen Marcus . They gave us alms and dismissed us . Bat we met with a friend , an unlooked-for saviour , in the person of the poor Zdenko . He treated us as brothers , and took us into affection , because he understood how interested we were in Albert ; we knew how to speak to him in language which pleased his enthusiasm , and which made himreveal all the mortal sorrow of hi 3 friend . Zdenko was no longer the furious creature by whom your life had been menaced . Dejected and depressed , he came , like us , to ask irambly at the door of the chateau for tidings of Albert , and like us he was repulsed with vague answers , terrible to oar anguish .
" Master at last of all the secrets of Ztlenko , we learned ibat we coald introduce ourselves bv means of subterranean galleries and secrei passages into the Chateau des Geants . We followed Zdenko one night , and waited at the eatrance of tbe cistern , while he glided into the interior of the house . lie returned laughing and singing ; told us that Albert was cured ; that he slept ; and that they had put new ciothes upon him , and a crown upon hi 3 head . I fell a 3 if thuuderstrnck ; I understood that Albert was dead . I know not what passed afterwards ; I woke several times in the midst of a fever . Iwa 3 lying on bears' skins and dried Jeave 3 , in tbe subterranean chamber which Albert had inhabited beneath Schreckenstein ; Zdenko and Marcus watched over me by turns . ' The one told me , with an air of joy , that his Podiebrad was cured , that he would soon
come to see me ; the other , pale and pensive , said , ' All perhap 3 , is Hot lost ; let us not Iok the hope of the miracle which saved . you from the tomb . ' I could understand no more ; I wa 3 delirious ; I desired to get up , to run , to cry ! Ihadnotthe power to move ; and the afflicted Marcus , Eeeiag me in this state , had neither the strength nor the leisure to occupy himself with it seriously . His whole mind , his whole thoughts , were absorbed by another terrible anxiety . Ac last , one night , I think it was the third Of my crisis , I suddenly became calm , and felt my strength returning . I tried to collect my ideas ; I succeeded in rising ; I was alone in this horrible cave which a sepulchral lamp scarcely lighted ! I tried to quit it ; I was locked in ! Where were Marcus , Zdenko , and above all Albert ? Memory returned to me ; I uttered a cry , to which the icy jautts returned an echo so gloomy that the sweat poured torn my brow , cold as the damp or the sepulchre I
thought myself once more buried alive . "What had occurred ? what was still occurring ? I fell on my knees ; I Biretched out my arms in a prayer of desperation ; I called Albert with furious cries . At last I heard heavy and unequal steps , a 3 of people approaching with a heavy burden . A dog barked an-i panted , and quicker than they , scratched several times against the door . It opened , and I saw Marens and Zdenko carrying Albert , stiff , livid , in short , to all appearance dead . His dog Cynabre jumped after him , and licked his hands as they hung down . Zdenko sang , improvising in a gentle and penetrating voice : « Come , Bleep in the bosom of thy mother , my poor friend , so long deprved of repose ; come , sleep until day ; we will awake ftee in time for the rising of the sun . * " I threw myself upon my son . « He is not dead ! ' I cried . Oh , Marcus , yoa have saved him , have you not ? He 13 not dead ? He will awake ?'
"' Madame , do not flatter yourself , 'said Marcus , -with * frightful firmness . ' I know nothing , I can believe in nothing ; whatever may happen , keep up your courage . Assist me , and forget yourself . ' 11 1 need not tell you what cares we bestowed upon the re-animation of Albert . Zdenko meanwhile , seated in a corner , played with Cynabre like a child , and continued angiiig ; he broke off sometimes to tell us that we wera tormenting Albert ; that we must let him sleep ; that he , * aenko , had seen him thus for weeks together , and that he Jfonld awake of himself . Marcus could not participate in tnis confidence ; but I would insist upon believing it , and I Was indeed inspired . "At length Marcus , who had been bending over the boly of Albert , exclaimed : Wanda , your son lives ! ' And Overcome by the intensity of his solicitude , he fell lifeless by the side of Zdenko .
" A 3 soon as Albert was sufficiently recovered , we issued Oije night from the grotto . At a abort distance from the Schreckenstein , we placed him upon a horse , and thu 3 regained the frontier , which , as you know ,-is at this spot Close at hand , and where we found quicker and easier means of transit . The connexion which our order entertains with the numerous lodges of the masonic order , secured to us throughout Germany the facility of travelling without being recognised , and without being submitted to the investigations of the police . Bohemia was for us the only perilous spot , on account of the recent outbreaks at Prague and the jealous surveillance of the Austrian power . " 1 "' And what became of Zdenko V asked the young Countess de Rudolstadt .
Zlenko almost ruined us by his obstinacy in insisting upon preventing our departure , or at least that of Albert , from whom ho worid not be separated , and whom he would sot follow . He persisted in imagining that Albert could not live out of the fatal and gloomy habitation of the Sclreckenstein . "I tried in yain to make some compromise with this SoartJian , so faithful and so blind , by promising to bring Albert back to the Schreckenstein , upon condition that he *? nld first follow him to some other place where Albert v ? , * ° S ° - J could not induce him ; and when , at last , naif by persuasion , half by force , we had obliged him to *» ow my son to leave the cavern , he followed U 3 weeping , ®? rmurine , and singing in a lamentable voice , beyond the jaines of Cuttemberg . Arrived in a celebrated spot where * KSa had formerly gained one of his great victories over a — —t * u tVllUCA IJ grtlUCU UUCU 1 UiSglCitl VlbldilCS UVC 1 ismund
% , Zdenko quickly recognised the rocks which ¦ fere she frontier , for no one has explored like him in his ^ agabond journeys , all the paths of this country . Here he l ^ pp ed . and said , striking the ground with his foot— 'Jfever of j ? 1 W 1 ^ Zdenko leave tbe land which contains the bones « nis fathers ! It is not long since , exiled and banished J l Podiebrad , for having misunderstood and threatened r ® ! j o ! y maidea whom he loved , I passed week 3 and «« nitus in strange countries . I thought I should go mad . reim-ned a short time since to my dear forests , to see S" "« sleep , because a voice had sung to me in my * oaiber that his anger had passed . 3 ? ow that he has ceased j Cnrs 9 me , you steal him from me . If it be to conduct £ "" » his Conauelo , I consent . But as for quitting my » 3 fn agMD > ? 8 for sp ^ frwg tna language of our enemies , eosi ; * : xtending my hand to them , aHd leaving Sohreok-£ lbivn ! j es 8 rted an < l abandoned , I will never do it . That flumiw . my strength ; and moreover , the voice of my % ni ! T fooidden me to do it . Zdenko mast live and u the land of the Sclavoniaas ; he must live and
Untitled Article
die singing the glory of the Slavonians , and their roisforwT ^ m . k ^ Mge o ] his P arents - Adien and depart ! Had not Albert forbidden me to shed human blood , you should not thus deprive me of him . but he will again curse me it l raise my hand against you , and I would rather never again seehimmore thansee him angry with me . Thou hearesfc me , O my Podiebrad ! ' cried he , pressing to his lips the hands of my son , I obey thee , and depart . When thou returnest , thou wilt find thy stove lighted , thy hooka arranged , thy bed of leaves renewed , and the tomb of thy mother decorated with evergreen palms . If it be in the season of flowers , there shall be flowers over her , and the bones of cur martyrs at tbe blink of the spring . Adieu , tynabre ! And speaking thus , with a voice broken by tears , the poor Z-lenko flew down the declivity of the rocks which incline toward Bohemia , and disappeared with the rapidity of a deer at the first dawn of da » . ^ Jr ^ l ^ ti'ZfJ ^ ^^ ™* ** *!*« .
"Albert was restored to the consciousness of life ; of his love for you and for me ; of his charity and his enthusiasm tor his fellow-beings and for virtue ; of his faith , and of his oesire to make it triumph . He continued to cherish the thought of you without bitterness , without distrust , or regret for all he had suffered for you . But spite of the care he took to re-assure us , and to show us his courage and abnegation , we soon saw that his passion had lost nothing of its intensity ; he bad only acquired move moval and physical force to endure it . " His health appeared completely re-established ; and other succour than that of my tenderness assisted him in combating bis unfortunate passion . Marcus , and a few
chiefs oi our order , initiated him with fervour into the mysteries of our enterprise . Ho found serious and melancholy joy in these vast projects , in these bold hones , and above all , m those long philosophical conversations , where , it be did not always meet with an identity of opinions between him and his noble friends , ho at least felt his soul in sympathy with theirs in all which concerned profound and ardent feeling , the love of good , the desire for justice and truth , " Albert was unaware of the disappearance of his cousin , Amelia . She had been imprisoned , at the request of her family , to conceal her shame , in the fortress of Spandau . Vie have just been able to effect her liberation . He determined to visit the Giants Castle to console his farailv for the death of his father . We had combated this project of Albert s with terror , but he had persisted unknown to hs . He departed one night , leaving a letter wnich promised us a speedy return . His absence was , indeed , short , but how was it filled "with Borrow .
Disguis : d , he panetrated into Bohemia , and surprised the soiitary ^ Zdenko in the grotto of the Schreckenstein . Prom thence he desired to write to his relations to make ihem acquainted with the truth , and to prepare them for the excitement of his return . He knew Amelia for the most courageous , though at the same time the most frivolous , and it was to her he proposed sending his first mission by Zdenko At the moment of accomplishing this , and as Zdenko had issued upon the mountain at sunrise , he heard the retort of a gun and a piercing scream . He rushed out , and the nrst object which met his eyes was Zdenko , carrying in his arms the bleeding Cynabre . To run towards his poor old dog , without thinkineof concealing his face , was
the nrst impulse of Albert : but as he was carrying the faithful animal , wounded to death , towards the spot called the Cave of the Monk , he saw running towards him , as fast as old age and corpulence would allow , a hunter eager to pick up his game . It was the Baron Frederick , who , hunting in the covert with the first rays of morning , had mistaken in the twilight the fawn-coloured hide of Cynabre for the hide of a wild beast . He had taken aim through the branches . Alas ! he yet possessed a just eye and sure hand ; he had wounded him ; he had lodged two balls in the flank . Suddenly he perceived Albert , and believing that he saw a spectre , he stopped petrified with terror . Xo longer retaining consciousness of any real danger , he recoiled , drew back to the edge of the steep path he had climbed , and rolled down a precipice , where he fell crushed upon the rocks . lie expired upon the spot , upon the fatal place where had stood , for many centuries , the accursed tree , the famous oak of Schreckenstein , called the Hussite , witness and accomplice of the most horrible catastrophes .
"Albert saw his relation fall , and quitted Zdenko to run towards the edge of the abyss . There he saw the baron ' s people hastening to raise him , filling the air with their groans and lamentations , for he gave no sign of life . These words reached Albert : — " He is dead , our poor master . Ala 9 ! what will madame la chanoinesse say V "Albert no longer thought of himself ; he cried , he called aloud . As soon as they saw him a panic took possession of these credulous servants . Already they were abandoning the corpse of their master to fly , when old Hanz , the most superstitious as well as the most courageous of all , stopped them and said , while making the sign of the cross , My children , it is not our master , Albert , who appears to u . It is the spirit of ih j Scbrekenstein , whic " i has taken his form to cause us all to perish here if we are cowardly . I
saw him ; it is he who caused the fall of monsieur Io baron . He desires to carry off his corpse that he may devour it ; it is a vampire ! Come , take heart , my children . They say the devil is a coward . I will take aim at him ; in the mean time do you repeat monsieur le chapelain ' s prayers of exorcism . ' As he spoke thus , Hanz , having several times repeated the sign of the cross , raised his gun and fired at Albert , while the other servants pressed around the corpse of the baron . Happily , Hanz was too agitated and terrified to see clearly . Tbe ball nevertheless whistled over the head of Albert , for Hanz was the best marksman of the country , and had he been self-possessed would certainly have killed my son . Albert paused irresolute . - Courage , children
, courage ! ' cried Hanz , reloading his gun . Fire , at him , he is frightened ! You will not kill him , the balls cannot reach him , but you will make him recoil , and we shall have time to carry away the body of our poor master . ' Albert , seeing all the guns directed against him , took refuge in the copse wood , and descending the side of tho mountain without being seen , quickly assured himself by the evidence of his own eye 3 0 fthe horrible truth . The crushed body of his unfortunate uncle lay upon the bloody stones . His skull was broken open , and the old Hanz cried in a voice of grief these terrible words : ' Pickup his brains and leave none upon the rocks , for the flog of the vampire will come and lick them up . '
' 'Yes , yes , he had a dog , ' replied another servant , « a dog which at first I took for Cynabre . ' "' But Cynabre has disappeared since the death of Count Albert , " said a third ; he ha 3 been seen nowhere ; he must have died in some corner , and the Cynabre we saw there is a ghost , as that vampire is who resembles Albert . ' " Albert could hear no more , but fled from the scene of horror . Four days after he returned , pale and overwhelmed with grief . " Albert had no longer any thought of quitting us . He resigned himself entirely to a philosophic life . We thought that he had triumphed over his love for you , such care had he taken to conceal from us his struggles and his sufferings .
iiut one day tbe correspondence of the adepts , which it was no longer possible to conceal frem him , brought into our Banctuary some cruel news , spite of the uncertainty with which it was surrounded . You passed for the mistress of Frederick , and appearances did not give the lie to this supposition . " My well-beloved friend , ' said he to me , ' this time you will allow me to depart ; the duty of my love calls me to Berlin , to protect she whom I love , and who has accepted my protection . ' "' Stay , Albert , ' I replied , ' and fear this passion which has brought you so much suffering . I see clearly that you live only for virtue and your love . If this love should perish within you , would virtue sjufficel '
" A . nd why should my love perish ? ' said he with enthusiasm . You think , then , that she has already ceased to be worthy of it ? Even if it were so , I should continue to love her , for the past is no dream to be effaced in me , and you know I have often confused it with the present to such a degree as to be no longer able to distinguish the one from the other . "Well , I should do so still ; I should love in the past that angelic face , that poet soul , with which my gloomy life was suddenly lightened and inspired ; and I Bhould not perceive that the past is behind me . I should preserve in my bosom the burning trace . The misguided being , the fallen angel , would still inspire me with such solicitude and tenderness , that my life would be consecrated to the consoling her for her fall , and in protecting her from the contempt of cruel man . '
"During the short and mysterious sojourn which Albert made at this period at Berlin , he found means to penetrate sufficiently into your proceedings and thoughts to re-asBure himself as to your position . He watched over you in secret , and returned tranquil in appearance , but more ardently in love with you than ever . For several months he travelled in disguise , serving our cause with activity . But having been warned that some intrigues , spies perhaps of the King of Prussia , were attempting to frame a private conspiracy at Berlin , dangerous to the existence of the masonic order , and probably fatal to Prince Henry and his sister , the Abbess of Q . uedlimbourg , Albert hastened to Berlin , that he might advertise these persons of the absurdity of such an attempt , and put them on their guard against the snare which seemed to threaten them . It was then you saw him , and though terrified at his arition showed
app , you so much courage afterwards , and expressed yourself to his friends with such devotion and respect for his memory , that the hope of being loved byi you once more sprang up in his bosom . He was then resolved that yon should learn the truth of his existence by a series of mysterious revelations . He was often ncsar to you , cnnoealed even in your apartment , during your stormy interviews with the king , without your being conscious of his presence . During thi 3 time the king ' s suspicions were aroused against the conspirators , and my son , the most innocent of all , was arrested and transferred to Spandau , almost at the same time with yourself , whose innocence was not less established . You passed several months in prison , not far from the cell of Albert , and you must have heard the impassioned accents of his violin , as he heard those of your voice . He had at his service means of escape , prompt and certain ; but he would not make use
of them before he had secured yours . The golden key is stronger than all the bolts of the royal prisons ; and the Prussian gaolers , for the most part discontented soldiers or disgraced officers , are eminently corruptible . Albeit escaped at the same time as you , but you did not see him ; and , for reasons which you will know hereafter , Lwerani was charged to conduct you here . Now you know the rest . Albert loves you more than ever ; but he loves you better than himself , and he will be a thousand times less miserable at your happiness with another than he could be at his own , if you did not entirely share it . Tbe moral and philosop hical laws , the religious authority under which you are each henceforth placed , permit his sacrifice , and render your ohoico free and respectable . Choose then , my daughter ; but remember that the mother of Albert asks you on her knees not to aim a blow at the sublime truth of her son , by making for his sake & sacrifice , the
Untitled Article
5 KT I- l f m V M Upon his lif 0 - * our desertion kill w ™ f ' v bufc your p i without y ^ Jo ™ ™» SIA t hourhas . come for you to determine . 1 ™ , M ? fi no A know your decision . Go to your chamber ; you w d i 5 ? h v 7 , dlff f ent dres , , J that which you choose win decide the fate of my son . hZv ? , * ¥ } of ^ tw 0 S . t 0 ai e nify my divorce from him ? asked Consuelo , trembling . " I was charged to tell you , but I will not ; I desire to know if you will divine it . " . The Countess Wanda , having thus spoken , replaced her mask pressed Consuelo to her heart , and rapidly withdrew . ' ( To be ContinuedJ of ^ ica , « Pon hi ^ rv ^ u .
Untitled Article
SINGULAR ROBBERY IN AMERICA . ( From the " Springfield Daily Republican , " ) . One of the most Bingular cases of crime , in its commission and discovery , that we have ever known , it now falls to our lot to record . We will state the caso without forma hty , drawing tho facts from the testimony given under oath . ' On the 17 th of March , Mrs . Lydia Andrus , an old lady of Russell , nearly blind , had a box taken from her room , containing 4 , 000 dols . worth of notes . The robbery was reported at the time of its occurrence . It cow turns out that Dr . Henry Andrus , a well-known quack , who has figured at this and other towns for a series of year 3 , was the robber , ne walked into the roomtook tho boxand
, , walked off with it . This was on a moonlight evening Before the box had been gone five minutes , the old lady had missed it and raised the alarm . At this timo tho doctor was not out of sight with his booty , when those around tho houae gave chase . His traces were followed , and the doctor perceiving it , " threw the box into a wood house he waa passing , and gaining a brook , he followed it down , and thus got them off the scent . He then took a circuit , and joined the pursuers as zealous as any of them . After having given up the chase , the doctor took his time to visit the wood-house and carry off the box . This he transferred to his boarding house , and burned up , saving the notes , and hiding them under the floor of the garret .
Some time after this , Andrus left for Connecticut , where he remained until the old lady , one of whose heirs he was , died . He then returned and on Friday last , visited Dr . De Wolf , of Chester , to whom he unbosomed himself , and whom he offered 500 dols . if he would assist him in a pro-P . sc ^ eme- . AH > ong the papers was one imon which the old lady had written her nams at the foot of a partlv blank page . This page Andrus wished Dr . De Wolf to fill up , over the signature , with an instrument , conveying to Andrus all the notes he had stolen . He told Dr . De Wolf that he could bring a witness to swear that he saw the old lady sign , the deed . The hue and cry raised on the discovery of the absenceof " the notes , was to be accounted for veyff&o him ! the ? r ^ angry at > ha ™* : con-Dr . De Wolf entered into this charming plot with a gusto that none can appreciate but those who know him / proraised all assistance , and managed to meet Andrus every night until Sunday nfoht . In the meantimeTA ! . u 7
thT h ii I br ' ? ? w ery s - tolen note t 0 his house > so Kmt-i «• IIX T ^ - t ! l em in tbe instrument . On Sunday night the last instalment came , and when it came Dr . De Wolf , who M a magistrate , had prepared a warrant , and an officer to execute it . As soon as mattersMreperfectly ripe . Deputy Sheriff Knox was called in and took possession . On Monday Andrus was brought to Springheld , before Justice Morton , when the facts wehave relatid TmnZh . The P"ao"er waa examined , and bound over in 1 , 000 dols . to appear at the Criminal Court in December next . He procured bail and is now at liberty . Here , probably , ends this singular case . Dr . De Wolf deserves much credit , not for heina honest , for a t » i » m ™
coma hardly be otherwise , but forthe adroit and skilful ™ SS- /! . i . ho managed t 0 get possession of and to restore the lost property , and and for delivering to justice an offender against the laws . Andrus has property , and it is believed that this is his first offence . We trust that ho has learned enough from it to ensure its being the last
Untitled Article
GENERAL SCOTT , Whig Candidate for the American Presidency .
Winfield Scott has been for more than forty years devoted to the service of his country . Born in Virginia , June 13 , 1786 , he was educated for the law , admitted to the bar in 1806 , and the next summer volunteered in b troop of horse raised in Petersburg , on a call of President Jefferson , to protect the coast of the Chesapeake after the shameful affair of the Leopard . The next May , 1808 , the army being enlarged , he was appointed a captain of Light Artillery , and ha 9 ever since served his country as a soldier with ever increasing renown , unlil his fame is now commensurate with the civilised world . No fields were more warmly contested , no laurels more proudly won , than those wherewith the name of Winfield Scott is indissolubly blended . They need not be named—the country knows them bv heart . '
But Winfield Scott is not merely nor mainly distinguished as a warrior . He has served with equal eminence as a minister and preserver of peace . The deplorable removal of the wronged and outraged Cherokees was conducted by him with a kindness , consideration , humanity and patience which prevented the effusion of blood , which else was inevitable , and which would have deepened and darkened the atain of perfidy which that enforced removal cast upon our national honour . In the winter of 1832-3 , he commanded the U . S . forces in Ghatleaton Harbour during the crisis ol
Nullification , when one rash , irritating . word from him , would probably have deluged South Carolina in blood , and might have led to the dissolution of the Union . His calmness , firmness and discretion elicited universal approbation . During the ' Patriot' troubles on the Canadian frontier , and again when the Boundary dispute between Maine and New . Brunswick threatened to plunge the two greatest free nations into interminable butchery , Scott was placed in immediate command , and succeeded in preventing bloodshed and restoring tranquillity and harmony .
So m the war with Mexico—he did not merely conquer those he was sent to fight—he won their esteem and admiration . While this country resounded with his victories , Mexico thought only of his humanity , his stern repression of armed license , his protection of the conquered people , and his constant anxiety for peace . If Mexico were now a part of the Union , her conqueror as he was , he would receive the vote ofall her States . Could anything more thoroughly attest his wisdom as a ruler or bis worth as a man ?—New York Tribune .
Untitled Article
W . A . GRAHAM , Whio Candidate for thb Vick-Presidenct , William A . Graham was first known to the nation in 1841 , when he was chosen to fill a vacancy in the U . S . Senate , and served through the memorable XXVIIth Conpress . He was not re-elected , because the Legislature of 1843 3 was of adverse politics . In the vehement struggle of 1844 , he waB chosen by the Whigs to breast the shock of the Texas issue as their candidate for governor , and carried the state over an able and popular opponent by 3 , 153 majority on a larger vote than was ever before polled . He was re-elected in 1846 by 7 , 859 majority , and declined a third term , retiring to private life . In 1850 , on the accession of Mr . Fillmore , he was called into the Cabinet , to fill the post of Secretary of the Navy , which he still holds . — ¦ Tri bune .
Untitled Article
Shocking Brutality , —One of the moat daring and revolting of those crimes which have for some time past been becoming more numerous in this country , and for which the mildness of the law scarcely provides an adequate punishment , was perpetrated on Wednesday last , at Oakenshaw , tear Wakefield , on a public highway , in the broad open daylight , on the person of a girl only fifteen years of age . The name of the girl whose , person . was so wantonly outraged is Jane Stakes . She was walking along the road towards Wakefield , about twelve o ' clock at noon , when she observed three men approaching her ; two of whom spoke to her and passed on , but the third seized her , and at the same time , making use of threatening language , threw her into a ditch by the road side , where he succeeded in violating her person , his comrades in the meanwhile looking on at a
distance of only a few yards off . When the villain had accomplished his purpose , he robbed the girl of a half-crown , and ran away , but as a pursuit was soon instituted , he arid his companions were shortly after captured and brought to the ; police station at Wakefield . On Friday , the three prisoners , ' named Isaac Marsden , Soloman Tankard , and Richard ! Tankard , coal-miners , were brought before the Mayor and other magistrates , at the Wakefield Courthouse . Marsden was charged with the rape and robbery , and his companions with having aided and abetted him in the commission of the offence . The facts , as given above , having been distinctly proved , the prisoners were cautioned in the usual manner , and asked if they had anything to say in defence ? Marsden and Solomon Tankard had nothing to say , but Richard
Tankard made the following statement : — " I wet this young woman , but I left this ere Marsden before I lit on the young woman . I ¦ Walked on the road right away down the cart road to the railway bridge over the cart road , and I thought he wor a fearful long while a coming , and I looked back , and seed him a coming between three and four hundred yards off , running down the road . I walked down the right away , and when we had gotten happen half a mile further who comes up but some men . They shouted' hey ! stop them chap 6 , ' and one of them took hold of me , and said he was going to take me . I said , ' If I ' vd done ought wrong , I ' m willing to go with anybody anywhere that you mind . I ' ve nought more to say . " The prisoners were then committed to York Castle to take their trial at the ensuing
assizes . Narrow Escape of Bishops Selwyn and T ? breli . — The marvellous escape from murder of the Bishops of New Zealand ( Dr . Selwyn ) and of Newcastlo ( Dr . Tyrrell ) was mentioned on Thursday at tho meeting of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts . It appears that the two prelates were on a visit to one . of the Polynesian islands , when they wore set upon by the natives , and , becoming separated , were in the greateBt poesible danger . They and their crews were surrounded by the nativeB , who were full of ferocity , and who were eventually subdued by moral resolution rather than by pbyiioal strength . The Biihop of Newcastle had stated that he had never experienced daring the course of his life two hours of » uch extreme mental agony . —BeWs Weekly ife&enger .
Untitled Article
GRE ^ T THUlNDER STORMS . Terrific Stobm and Waterspout—On Monday evening last the north was visited with an awful thunderstorm ; the lightning and thunder were terrific , the rain fell in sheets , and great damage has been done to the crops . The Spinning-moor branch of the Clarence Railway has been washed away for as much as a mile in length , in some places the embankment boing ten feet high . The earth , sleepers , and rails were carried over the fields , forming a wide-spread mass of desolation . The storm was so violent that the driver and stoker in charge of a coal train were glad to stop and seek shelter , and , while under cover , they thought they heard a train approaching , nnd went to look after their engine , but were met by a mass of water and earth coming upon them so as to prevent their rcaohing tho line . They describe the water as coming down like a
cataract , and breaking up tho line of embankment , and so vast was the torrent made by it that a body of water six feet deep rushed down the cutting through which tho line passed , carrying everything before it , sweeping away the heavy rails like strawB , and leaving marks of its course high up the banks on each side of the line . There is no passenger traffic on this branch , or tho consequences might have been very serious . On tho branch leading into the York , Newcastle , and Berwick line , near Perry hill , the flood met with a temporary check in tho embankment , but it soon yielded to the torrent , and was carried away over the fields . The gardens in the neighbourhood , in thp course of tho current , wore all washed away . The mail was stopped , and had to seek another route in order to get on the main line . Several hundred men are now employed in repairing the damages .
Thunder Storm at Ross . —On Monday night , about midnight , tho lofty spire of Ross Church , Herefordshire , was dreadfully shattered by lightning . It is still standing , but shakes in the wind ; and the work of repair will be one of much danger , requiring a large outlay . Tho height of the spire is about 204 feet . The olectric fluid passed through the body of the church , but did little injury there . Awful Thunder Storm in Staffordshire . —One of the most awful storms known in Staffordshire took place on Tuesday afternoon . The premises of Messrs . Moigh and Son , large manufacturers at llanley , were twice struck by lightning . It came down one of the tall chimneys into a
room where two men were working , killed one on tbe spot , leaving only a blackened shapeless mass , sent the other out at the door as with a blow , leaving a little boy within a yard of the man killed unhurt , tearing off a great part of the roof , and filling the room with the sulphur and du 3 t . It also struck a steam-mill adjoining , tearing the roof , and enteringa room only just left a few moments before by one of the men , filling that likewise with sulphur and duet . The scene was most appalling , women and children screaming , the men pale and aghast with horror . Two other manufactories were struck , but without such disastrous consequences , and some houBes damaged .
A Terrific Thunder-Storm burst over the New Forest on Monday night . In Southampton the whole of tho day on Monday , the weather was exceedingly sultry , and at times the heat was almost insufferable . Before dark lightning was seen from the west and south-west , It increased in intensity towards midnight , when the flashes succeeded each other very rapidly , and were remarkably vivid . The weather also was squally , but no rain fell within a dozen miles of Sonthampton . In the heart of the forest , however , the rain fell in torrents , so much so that many of the carriages of the up-Dorchester night mail train had several inches of water in them when they arrived at Lyndhurst , No ram fell after the train left Lyndhurst . The lightning was of the sheet kind occasionally . Southampton water and the whole of the New Forest was lighted up with intense brilliancy by it .
Untitled Article
EXECUTIONS FOR MURDER . The two brothers , Michael and Peter Scanlan , who were sentenced at the High Court of Justiciary in Edinburglron the 14 th ult ., underwent the last penalty of tbe law on Monday morning at Cupar , tne chief town in Fifeshire , within which the deed for which they suffered was committed . The two culprits , it will be recollected , were lriBh labourers , and were employed at the Hill of Forthar Limeworks , in the parish of Kettle . Near this place there is a small village or hamlet , called Hilton of Forthar . In this village they lodged . Adjoining to their lodgings there lived an old woman who kept a small huckster's shop , with whom they were in the habit of dealing for meal , bread , and other articles of food . This old woman , it was suspected , had some little money by her ; and the brothers Soanlan , along with a man named M'Manus , who turned approver at the
trial , entered into a compact to rob the old woman's house on the evening , of Sunday , the 15 th of April last . They met about midnight to accomplish their nefarious purpose and M'Msnus alleges that he remained outsido to watch and give warning , and that tbe Soanlana entered the house by a small back window . Tbe old woman , it seems , was awakened by tbe noise , when one of the Scanlans knooked her down with a threelegged stool , and , by repeated blows , eruelly murdered her , by smashing in her skull . At their trial the prisoners manifested the most callous indifference . After their condemnation they were more subdued ; but still their conduct , as a whole , was the reverse of what ought to have been expected from persons in such a situation . They were regularly visited by Mr . O'Byrne , a Roman Catholic priest from Kirkaldy ; but they declined to receive the visits of any of the
PreBbytenan ministers of Cupar . They both asserted their innocence to the last . On Sunday they were visited by Bisdop GUles , from Edinburgh , and Mr . M'Kay , a priest , at whoso hands they reoeived absolution . Two petitions were sent to the Home-oflice on their behalf ; but Mr . Walpole in reply wrote to Provost Mitchell on' Saturday , stating that he had examined the evidence in their case , and could not , consistently with his duty , interfere with the due course of law . Calcraft was sent for from London , to perform what is called in old Scotch acts the office of "dooraster , " and he arrived some days previously . The event created great excitement in Fifeshire generally , where there has been no execution for the last twenty yearB . The scaffold was erected at an early hour on Monday morning , and by the time fixed for the execution , an immense crowd of people was collected in the streets of Cupar , many of whom had come from great distances . Around the scaffold , a company of tbe 42 nd Regiment from Dundee , and a body of the 7 th Ilussars from Edinburgh , were stationed , along *! th a large party of
special constables . Bishop Gilles was early in his attendance upon the prisoners on Monday ; and , in the course of the morning , the brothers made a formal declaration in his presence , and that of two other persons , to the effect that the statements in Michael ' s second declaration , at his apprehension , implicating several individuals as being concerned in the murder , were false ; but that they themselves were innocent of the murder , and knew nothing of it . About five minutes before eight o ' clock , tho van which was to carry them to the soaffold , erected at the boundary of the burgh , drore up to the prison door . On arriving at thiB place they came quiokly out of the van , and rapidly ascended the steps of tne scaffold , with a firmness of manner truly surprising under the oiroumBtanceB . The priests and the two culprita then knelt , and B \» hop QWeu offered up a prayer . The brothers ' then embraced eaoh other , and afterwards shook hands with the executioner . The werd was then given , and the drop fell , and both appeared to die witqout & struggle . , The utmost stillness pervaded the crowd during the whole preoeedisgs , which did not ocoupy more titan a quarter of sn hour ,
Untitled Article
. The present month ofjJuly will have five Wednesdays : on the 2 nd , 9 th , 16 : h . 23 rd , and 30 th . The Russian Flbe , t . —Letters from Elsinore , of the 29 th ult ., state that tho Russian fleet had left for the North Sea . Inauguration of the Great . Exhibition . —Th's picture , which is painted by Mr . H . E . Selous , is now bsing exhibited at i , Trafalgar-square . Royal Academy Concerts . —The fourth and last concert of the season took place on S-tturday last in the Hanover * SC | v are Sooms- Til £ lre was a very crowded attendanse . INew v \ ork by Victor Hugo . —Victor Hugo is in treaty *«!» M . Dulau , of London , forthe publication of a work , entitled "Napoleon le Petit . " Australian Emigration . —A company is about to despatch ¦ in American ship of 1 , 000 ton 3 burthen to Australia ence every fortni ght . tho i ? AcH . Aoaiw is tub Pulpit . —On Sunday morning ; , «; % ' ' Ach'l'i preached in a temporary Italian church , '"^"" ^ largo audience
J ^' ^ ry . TTnn AT ""• J * " * jiU tlUUlLIIUtr * rniinrf •;!?"« £ TEAMEI ! Sivx .-Information has come = ^^ , ff aKaxai % . S ^ S = S ^;^ S Ocean Screw SiimiKRs .-The Peniu « ular and Oriental Company ' s screw steamer Formosa i , i ! S % * utbampton S ^ Xgf . eStenS 1 Ve aUeratiOn 9 < *> * herjft Institute op AcTUAniEs .-On Saturday afternoon the annual general meeting of the modern and fellow Sf the Institute of Actuaries was held at the office of thp inqfihi tion , No . 12 , Chntliam-placo , BlackSm Sloane , the special pleader , who , with his wife , was convicted , in February , 1851 . at the Central Criminal Court , of cruelty to Jane \ Yi b .-od , his servant , died on Tuo-- - aay morning , after a lengthened illness .
Suburban- Artizak ScnooLs . —Tlio promoters and friends oUhe NortlvLondon School of Drawing and Modelling met together at ^ soiree , in the l'brarv of University College , ?«« -n ? £ Pheed » t » he d = ro al of tbe manasfng committee by tho council of the University . Arwsvendbhs Benevolent and Provident Inhtitutiox . —Un Tuesday evening the friends of this institution . lined uru Highbury Barn Tavern , Islington . Mr . L . wild occupied tho chair , supporced by a larce number of the friends of the institution . Crime and Outrage in Ireland . —A few days a » o the no * act to continue a former net for the bettor prevention ot crime and outrage in Ireland was printed . By this 3 tatute the act 11 th and 12 th Victoria , cap . 2 , is further continued until the 3 lst of August , 1 S 53 . The New Copyhold Act . — The new act to extend the
Provisions ot the acts for the commutation of manorial riguts , and for the gradual enfranchisement of lands of copyhold and customary tenure , passed in the late session , has just been printed . Rain at CmswicK . —The amount of rain which fell at Chiswick in June , 1 S 52 , was 4 inches 09 hundredths . This is more than lias fallen in any corresponding month for at least twenty-six years . Nearly an inch and a ' half Ml on one dny , the 9 th . Catching a Balloon .-A few weeks ago a b . illoon fell near the Greenwich , turnpike , upon the Greenwiuii-road . A working painter caught hold of ono of the ropes to keep it down , and ho was dragged up by the rope , so that those in the car had to pull him in , or he must have fallen some sixty or seventy feot to the ground .
Tue Gaii-jtxe Murder at Hull . —A paragraph , copied lrom a local journal , has been going tho round of the press , stating that Snape , one of the men now awaiting his trial tor this murder , has made a confession . This is not true , and Mr . Groaves , tho prisoner ' s attorney , has formally contradicted the statement . " Parsey ' s Compressed Air Machine . —On Friday last , the 2 nd instant , Mr . Parsey ran his small experimental engine , worked by moans of compressed air on the Eastern Counties Railway , at tho junction near Cambridge , being the second exporiraent by permission of the proprietors ,
Caution to Furious Drivers . —In consequence of the repeated iiccjdcnts arising from tho unnecessary speed at which the light carts used by butchers and other tradesmen aro driven through the streets , the " commissioners issued orders on Saturday for the police to summon all future offenders before tho magistrates , or at onco to take them into custody . In all cases tho penalty of 40 <\ is to be strictly enforced . Irish Industrial Exhibition for 1853 . —The Royal Dublin Society , who hold their triennial exhibition of manufactures next year , have just had placed nt their disposal by Mr . Dargan , the Irish railway contractor , the sum of £ 20 , 000 , to give to the undertaking a character of unusual importance , ' nnd to render it available not only for his native country , in whose industrial history his own life forma so remarkable a chapter , but for the products and ingenuity of the United Kingdom , and of portions of tho continent .
Cross , the Southampton jeweller , who ran away a short timo since with about £ 2 , 000 worth of watches , plato , and jewellery , which he had just obtained from London , Birmingham , and Sheffield ' houses , made his escape from England in the Indian and Cape of Good Hope mail serewstcamer the Queen of the South . A police-officer has been sent in purautD of Cross , in the Hellespont steamer , which left Plymouth fov \ he Cape about a week after the Queen o ! the South , and there is not much doubt , that after a chase of 6 , 000 miles , he will be able to catch him .
Untitled Article
Private Hanging Private ha . ngin 3 is provide . ' , by a recent act of the Indiana Legislature . The Americas Exhibition . —The stock tor the erection of the Crystal Palace at New York , 200 , 000 do ! s . it is said , has been all subscribed for , nnd the palace will be opened in May , 1853 . ' The Giieat Exhibition . —The Piedmontese Gazette' of the 29 th ult . states , that the medals and recompenses awarded to the Tuscans at the London Exhibition would be solemnly distributed at Flovcnce on the 27 ( h . Marriage of Fanny Eelsler . —Mddle . Fanny Ellsler , tho dan . seuse , is absut to be married to Dr . Hahn , a physician of
Hamburgh . In her marriage agreement she has stipulated that she retains the name of Fanny Ellsler . ' Running tub Czar off the Rail '—The ' Presse' of Vienna states that the engineer who was driving the train when the Czar nnd his staff , returning from Berlin , were thrown off the line , has been sentenced to banishment to Siberia . The punishment has been commuted to imprisonment for a stvovt period . , An Amazon . —There is now living at Frankfort an old woman who served in the free corps of Schill . She afterwards served in the war . of independence , during which she was twice wovrodud without h ? r sex becoming known . She still receives a pension of 100 florin b from the King of Prussia .
Scarcity of , Seamen . —There is great complaint on the part of tbe New York shippers , relative to a scarcity of seamen . The California trade , it is supposed , is the principal cause of the scarcity . The European packets find it hard to g <> t men enough to work a sbip , even with offers of additional compensation . Moke Woman-Flogging . —The ! Vienna Gazette' of the 29 th ult . contains the following'sentence of the Vienna court martial ;—' Catharina Kreted to fifteen stripes with rods , three weeks' imprisonment , with one fast a week , for having offended the police by word and deed . Steam Navigation of thb Po . —The ' Milan Gazette ' of the 27 th ult ., states that Baron de Bruck , director of the Lloyd ' s Company at Ttfe'te , Chevalier Czoernig , and Colonel llolinari have gone to Pavia in order to take preliminary measures for the opening of steam navigation on the Po . Railway Murobs . —It has lately become the practice on the Austrian railways to place a looking-glass on the top of the locomotive , inclined in such a way as to enable the engine-driver to see the whole train reflected , so that he can at once stop in case of accident . This plan has just been adopted on the railway from Brussels to Antwerp .
Asiatic Exhibition . —A letter from Batavia , of the 24 th April , states that tho governor-general of the Dutch possessions in India has issued an order for a General Exhibition to be opened at Batavia , in August . 1853 , of the manufactured productory of the East Indies . Thii will be the first time that a thing of this kind has taken place in Asia . The Japanese Empibe . —The area of the Japanese empire is said to bo 2 CG , 000 square miles , which makes it larger than France and England put together . The population is reckoned by the American writers , and probably without exaggeration , at thirty millions ; less ciri'ized no doubt , than the Chinese , but a good deal more hardy and tvarlike . Piedmontese Deserters . — The Cagliari journal , the ' Sariinian Indicator , ' of the 24 th , publishes a despatch of the Minister of War , General La Marmora , to the governor of that city , announcing that eighteen Piedmontese deserters , now serving in the Foreign Legion in Algeria , had implored the King ' s pardon , and askea to be
re-admitted into their corps . They drew the most piteous picture of their d stressed condition . A Polish Heroine . —A few days ago an old lady and her daughter were issuing from the Rue Neuve Saint AugU 3 tin on to the Boulevard , when a carriage came up suddenly on the mother , who had reached the middle of the carriage way . In another minute she would have been beneath ihe feet of the horses , had not her daughter- sprang between them and her , and thus saved her . The young heroine is a Polish woman , the Countess K . Iwijan JEAtouar . —A tragical event occurred a few days ago at Genoa . While a couple , who had been married the day before , wero walking in the Piazza dell Annunziate , which was full of people at the time , tho rejected lover of the lady , a man of the age of fiftj -three , suddenly fell upon her in a fit of jealousy and stabbed her , though not dangerously . Ho then immediately pulled a razor out of his pocketand cut his own throat with it . He was taken W the hospital , where he died two hours after .
Attkmpt to Shoot a Gendarme . —A letter from Ravenna of thn 30 th ult ., in the ' Opinione , ' ef Turin , mentions the arrest and subsequent escape of a man for having attempted the life of a ge « - darrao by firing at him with a pistol , the shot , however , not havias taken effect , owing to the ' gendarme ' s cuirass . The culprit was locked up in the prison of St . Vital , but contrived to make his escape in the night , together with four corporals and a Hungarian soldier , to whose guard he was entrusted . The fugitives had not been arrested . : Edgene She . —A medal has been struck in Belgium in honour of Eugene Sue . Underneath the buBt of the popular novelist is this inscription Presented by the Liberals of Belgium to Eugene Sue ;' and ou the reverse , ' Bull of Clement XIV ., 1773-Eoict of Louis MT ., 1764-Maria Theresa , 1773-The Juif Errant , 1844 . ' In the middle of these four inscriptions is a flash of forked lightning crossed with Eugene Sue ' s pen , the whole surrounded with these words : ' His pen vanquishes the hydra which defied Rome and kings ; ' in allusidn to Eugene Sue ' s exposure of the Jesuits . The Piagl'e It is stated that mueh apprehension is felt at New Orleans of the approach of a new disease which U called the plague , and is now said to be prevailing in come of the West India Islands ,
A disease called by the same name has made its appearance in some partB of the west . It is said to be like the cholera , but more fatal . Whether it is the same disease as that which' goes by the nume of plague in the east is not stated . ' 1 ' he ' Boston Medical Journal alludes to the subject as follows : — 'It is certain , from the accounts received both hero and in England , the true plague has been introduced into Madeira , nnd the work of death has been really appalling . The question was frequently agitated—will that ' dreadful disease ever reach this continent ? There 1 b reason to believe It will ; the wonder is why It has not already . Our commercial intercourse ia very extensive with various parts of Africa and the Asiatic shore of the Mediterranean , where this great scourge is never dead or dying , but simply reposing from « ne period to another , like a fatigued giant , to gather new strength for a renewal of ^ - ^ , slaughter . Should it come , it may be hoped there will be &unf-r"V" * ¦ > more science and a stronger barrier of medical skill ttsJSw ^ sna _\ V ' / " v disarm it of its terrors than hasbten exblbUedintroploaVwBMrtegr ^ TrJiSsi ' s X or in the filthy scourge-inviting region * , of Moslem tmm , * HllM ~* V : - ^*\ , ' j York Tribune . f \ r ? ' , c !^ y " .-S >" V ilS £ llf r-l'i !
^Tltepvattj Iis. ^^__ ^Ttt F,?, Atttre.
^ TlTEPvATTJ IiS . ^^__ ^ TtT F , ? , ATTTRE .
Untitled Article
IRELAND . TEE ORANGB ANNIVERSARIES , ¦ The Irish government has addressed a circular to the magistrates and other local authorities , " strongl y urging them to take all precautionary means to prevent political displays on tbe forthcoming 12 th of July , and to forbid the erection of arches , the marohing in processions , or anv other manifestation which might be calculated to lead to a breach of the public peace . Tho Earl of EnniskjHen a ' 3 " Gr . md Master of the- Orangemen of Ireland , " has addressed the followingcircularto the various district masters of the Orange Society : — Florence-court , June 26 th 1 S 5 ° Dear Sm and Brother , —Iti < of tho utmost importance thiitthe brethren throughout the country should , at this season be reminded that any processions or manifestations contrary to the c . vistinz laws would be now peculiarly injurious to our good cause ¦ anil although the great mass of Orangemen have always s ' own themselves most obedient to all lawful authority , \ etmuch mischief might result from the indiscretion of even a law . Our most gracious and beloved Queen has but just issued a proclamation , uttering a firm voice that the Church of Rome shall not indulge with impunity in those processions airi displays which are not only offensive to Protestants , but fbrbid . den by the law , and , therefore , there is need of increased vigilance on the part of all those who have influence with our body to exert themselves to ensure that the peaceable anil loyal ilemeanonr which lias always distinguished Orangemen may still , without a single exception , prevail throughout the country at the ensuing anniversaries . Hoping that you will feel the importance of those suggestions and that you will , without delay , take such measures as may seem needfulfor carrjing them out , Believe me , dear Sir , and brethren , Your faithful brother , Ensiskiuen , G . M . ~—~ rn ~ . » w
STOPPAGE OF A TESANT-RIGnX DEMONSTRATION . A letter dated Nevrry , Saturday evening , states that a meeting of the friends and supporters of Mr . Sharman Crawford ' s Tenant-right Bill was convened for that day at Wnringstown , midway between Banbridgeand Lurgan . The assemblage congregated was far more numerous than on any of the preceding occasions , comprising thousands of farmers and labourers , and an immense number of Catholic priests . Mr . Sharman Crawford waa also in attendance . As the proceedings were about to commence , intimation was conveyed to the leading parties that the authorities had received information on oath that the meeting , if permitted to go on , would be likely to lead to a breach of the peace , and that they had therefore determined to prevent its taking place . Consequently the Tenant-righters and their leaders had to disperse , and the " great causa" met with a heavy blow and great discouragement thereby . There was a large body of military and about 400 police in attendance , to enforce , if necessary , tho orders of the authorities , and disperse the meeting if any attempt was made to hold it . CAPITAL CONVICTION OF A RIBANDMAN . At the Louth Assizes on Wednesday one of the party concerned in the murderous assault on Mr . Eastwood was found Guilty . Sentence , was deferred ; but no doubt is entertained that the extreme penalty will be awarded . The Attorney and Solicitor-General prosecuted .
Iftwip I&Fecelfattea.
iftwip i&fecelfattea .
Iwtsrdlaneous.
iWtsrdlaneous .
Untitled Article
^ s THE SUR GF FREEDOM . . 1 bitted m mi ¦ —
-
-
Citation
-
Northern Star (1837-1852), July 10, 1852, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1686/page/3/
-