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MORNING NEWS.
BY JOHN M. COOPER.
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THOMPSON, EDITOR
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Important Decision or the Supreme
■Court of Pennsylvania, Relative to Di
vorces by the Legislature.—Judge Coul
ter, of the Supremo Court of Pennsylvania, on
Monday delivered tlio opinion ol that ttibunal
in the case of Jones, vs. Jones, in which a hus-
bnnd resists his wife’s divorce grunted by the
Legislature. The Lodger says :
“That decision in fuct establishes that divorca
by the Legislature for causes within the jn-
risdietion of the Courts in divorce cases, are
vnconstitutional and null. The effect of this
decision Hvill he to invalidate seven-eights of
the divorces granted by tlio Legislature since
I8'J0\ The practice has been very loose, ami
divorces have been granted whe ro tlie reasons,
have-been ' frivolous, und the causes alleged
such ns were entirely within the the jurisdic
tion of the Courts, if application lmd been
made to them. The constitution of tlio State
restricts the power of the Legislature in di
vorce cases, to causes not within the jurisdiction
of the Courts, These tribunals have authority -
to grnut divorces a vinculo matrimonii i.u cases
ol impotency, bigamy, adultery, wilful deser
tion for two years: and, savo incompatibility of
temper, these are almost the only causes for
which n divorce would he sought The Legis
lature, howdiver, have divorced parties without
regard tb the fuct whether the 'Courts have au
thority to divorce for the alleged causes.”
The act of the Legislature divorcing Mrs.
Jones, it seems, was passed after her applica
tion to the Courts, on the ground of had treat
ment, had been refused. The Legislature not
having on tho fuce of die act. expressed the
cuuso upon which it was granted, the mutter is
now thrown open for judicial inquiry.
Judge Burnside, however, dissented front
tho opinion of the majority of the Court from
beginning to end.
[From the London Mercantile Guzetto, Jnn. lltli.]
Interesting Decision as regards the new N(le
gation Laws—Important to Ship Owners —
Tho goverment, it appears, are still hulling be
tween two opinions with respect to the ndmis-
,fion of Foreign built ships for the British reg
istry. The bungling act of Parliament vyliich
repealed the Navigation Laws leaves the mat
ter of duty or no duty, upon the manufactured
article, a doubtful point. It is snid tho gov
ernment would willingly avail themselves of
the “goods manufactured” clause, in tlio table
of Customs’ duties, to secure tho duty of ten
per cent, on foreign lnii- ships; but that,
another part of the same officinl document ap
pears to justify the claim of the ship owner
to the free importation of Foreign ships for
British register* It will he seen, however,
from the following paragraph, from our Fa-
Sfhr^hani Correspondent, that the troublesome
question is still an “open” one with her Ma
jesty's free trade advertisers :
Favkusham, Jan. 10, 1050.—A short time
since ft .foreign built vessel, which hail received
sonto damage ut sea was sold in this port to some
person ut Whitostttlile; tho purchasers having
had the.vessel repaired, applied to the officers
of Customs at Faversham for the grant of a Bri
tish register for the said vessel, conformable to
tho new Navigation Act. Tlio matter was,
therefore submitted to the Board of Customs
in London; tho officers of Customs at Favur-
shamontortainingadouht if the original portions
of thu vessel were not subject, to a duty 10 per.
cent., tho vessel being‘a manufactured urticle
not otherwise enumerated.’ Tho order of the
Board of tho Customs is, that a certificate of
British register may be granted, ‘provided the
parties give a written undertaking to pay the
• duty should it be hereafter decided that, tlio
same is chargeable.’ The board having taken
more than a week In the consideration of this
question, it is evidently regarded us being of
uonsideralde importance, and that it is not yet
decided."
The Irish Catholic Colony.— A lute Irish
paper stales that the Abbot of Mount Mcllcruy,
county of Waterford. 1ms purchased 4,000 acres
of rich land near the Mississippi, about 400
miles ft ottrSt. Louis, at 4 shillings per acre, and
that on tlie 4th of February, fifty of the Melleray
monks, and six young priests, tire to sail from
Yonghall for New-Orleans, on their way to the
npw purchase. About forty females from the
town and neighborhood of Cappuquin, some of
1 in the same ship.
Mr. I’olk.—The Washington Union states
that the Hon. Lucion B. Chase, of Tennessee,
is preparing a history of the late National Ad
ministration. An impartial book of the kind
would be of value.
whom are wealthy, will sail
ESP At a mass meeting held in Philadelphia,
to aid in the erection of tho Cathedral of Sts.
Peter and Paul, Logan Square, about $6,000
oro subscribed.
Parly Colors in Prussia.—Tlie reactionists
Berlin wear black and white cockades.
Tlie Don ocrats wear black and gold. It is
forbibden to wear simply the red color ol the
Republicans. A correspondent of tlm Boston
Traveller says, an Irishman who wore a pair ot
red glass studs was stopped by n police and
asked torentovo them. “Why?” heinquired.
“Bocnuse they are red.” “But is not black
ulso one of the democratic colors 7" ho further
inquired. “Certainly,” snid the officer. I hen
why don’t you tuko oft your hat, for that is
black !”
Sun ok N Death.—Mr l’ere Ringgold, aged
75, of Kent Island, Queen Anne's county, Md.
was suddenly choked to death, on Saturday
week, while eating.
Cholera.—Tho steamer United States arriv
al, Louisville from New Orlenns one day last,
week, had five deaths on board from cholera
during the trip. They occured among some
immigrants on deck.
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 0, 1850.
Congressional Election. — At the elec
tion held in this city yesterday, for a Represen
tative in Congress, to fill the vacancy occasion-
in thu first Congressional District by the res
ignation of tho Hon. Thomas Butler Kino,
tlie following vote was taken :
For Hon. Jos. W. Jackson— 7fil
For Hon. W. B. Fleming— 350
Total vote— 1120
Jackson's Majority— 402
Marine Bank.—At an election for Directors
of the Marine Bank, held yesterday, the follow,
ing gentlemen wore re-elected:
Edward Padelford,
Elias Reed,
George Hall,
Charles F. Mills.
Aaron -Champion,
Octavus Cohen,
N. B. Knapp,
Irish Jasper Greens—At an election held
yesterday nt the Drill Room, tho following gen
tlemen were oiectcd officers of the above nam
ed company.
John Deveany.—Captain.
John Murphy.—1st Lieut.
James Doyle.—2d do.
Philip Kean.—Ensign.
Wc are pleased to learn that this popular
corps, is in a flourishing condition. It numbers
ai present about fifty five, rank and file.
Concert.—By reference to our advertising
columns it will he seen that the Concert of M.
Rkisinger, which was announced forlast night
will take place nt Armory Hail This Evening
This is tlie only opportunity our citizens will
have of hearing this distinguished violinist.
The Nicaragua Question.—English Na-
vaU Movement.—In the Englsh [tapers by the
last steamer very l ittle is-said about tho Nic-
eragua question. The United Service Gazette,
however, we may remark, takes occasion to
reiterato tho announcement it made a few
'weeks since, that Rear-Admiral Hornby, Com-
mander-in-Chief in the Pacific, had been or
dered to proceed from Valparaiso, with all the
men-of-war he could collect, to Nicaragua, and
pluee his squadron nt tho disposal of the Bri
ll **§ tish Charge d’ Atlkires, for the protection of
British interests against the designs and en
croachments of lhe Yankees in that quarter.
The same journal now states that Vice Ad
miral Lord Dundonnld, Coinmundcr-iti-Chief
in the West Indies, will also assemble all the
ships he can get together on that station, and
proceed to the' Mosquito shore vyilh the same
view. .
'Phis does not look much like peace with
the United States.
Mad. Macali.ister was greeted on the oe
casion of her benefit, lust night, with a crowd
nd house, a large portion of the audience being
ladies. The feat of the Sleeping Arab was not
less marvelous than beautiful, und drew forth
rounds of applnuse from the astonished specta
tors.
Mus. Niagara Miller, as she is called, fig
ures conspicuously in tho newspapers, her
whereabouts seeming to bn a puzzleing ques
tion among editors. Wo had a report a few
days since, that she was residing with her par
amour, at a private house, in Raleigh, N. C
The Standard, however, denies this statement,
and states that Major Miller, the husband of
Mrs. Miller, had boon at Roleigh. and called
to see the woman reputed to ho his wife, hut
who proved to he nnether woman. Tho lust
that has reached us on the subject, is from the
correspondent of the Richmond Times, who
states that Mrs. Miller passed through Lynch
burgh, Vu., on the 27th .Tati., under the assum
ed name of Mrs. Wit.n.lAMS, in company with
a man by the name of Georoe Williams. She
was recognised by n gentleman who had
Poligamy at the Salt Lake.—The New
Orleans Delta publishes a letter from the Salt
Lake, the capital of tlio Mormons of Deseret,
in which the writer confirms the statement, pre
viously made, that, under the M u nion martial
law, a man may have as many wives as he can
support. He says the successor of Joe Smith,
is n man by the name of Brigham Young.
He is a very shrewd fellow about 45 years of
age, and is belter off tlmn any of tlie rest of the
saints, as he has twenty-six wives. Others
have eleven, five, three and two. The same wri
ter says that the only tie that binds these people
together is bigamy.
Caetureof a Slaver.—Captain Marson
of ship Rome, which arrived at N. Y T . on Satur-
lny of last week from Calcutta, via St. Helena,
states that when he left tho latter port on the
14th elt. a slaver with five hundred slaves on
board, prize to an English war steamer, was in
the offing.
[Correspondence of the Morning Nows.]
MILLEDGEVILLE, Feb. 1.
Tom Pain’s- Birth Day.—The admirers
of Tom Pain in New York celebrated his birth
day on Tuesday. At 11 o’clock, they fired a
national salute of thirteen guns on the Battery,
and distributed a lot of pamphlets entitled
Common Sense. At a quarter before 12, they
fired two guns in honor of the admission of
Oregon and Iowa, and one for a general rev
olution throughout tlie world. As soon as this
was done, a general salute of seventeen guns
for tho remaining States was fired, and then
they formed a procession, and marched up
Broadway.
BP" American Steamship Enterprise is at
tracting much of the attention of the English
press. They complain of the inadequacy of
the system of steam communication now main
tained with the Pacific and West Indies, by
mentis of tho. steamers of the Royal Mail Steam-
packet Company. Tho Avon left Chagress,
with $1,200,01)0, for Southampton, about the
same time as the American steamer Crescent
City for New-York. The former vessel only
reached hoi 1 destination on the 10th of January.
Tli e advices by the Crescent City were received
at Liverpool on the 24th of December, thus
exhibiting a difference in time of at lenst l(i
days in favor of the latter. The London Times
says:
“Should the company wait, till 1852 ere de
ciding upon the necessnry stops to place the
new arrangements in operation, it may he safe
ly predicted that hv that time the necessity for
any British line of steamers at all to the West
Indies and South America will have entirely
ceased, for the whole of the traffic will have
been diverted into American channels. Two
years more of steam navigation on its present
footing will effectually give the Americans such
a preponderance and advantage as will effect
ually negative any subsequent efforts of tlie
West In lia Mail Company to recover their
lost position.”
This will probably he the result whether the
company wait or not.
in senate.
The Senate mot pursuant to adjournment.
The Senate re-considered the journal of yes
terday so far ns relates to the passage ol the
Bill of the House of Representatives, to amend
an act to incorporate the South Western Rail
Road Company, and for other purposes.
The special order being the Report ol Reso
lutions (from tho House of Representatives)
of the Committee oil tho State of the Repub
lic.
On reading tho 8th Resolution us follows:
8th. Resolved, That in the event of the pas
sage of tlie Wilmot Proviso by Congress, the
abolition of Slavery in the District ot Columbia,
the admission of California as u State, in its
present pretended organization, or the continu
ed refusal of the non-slaveholding States to de
liver up fugitive slaves as provided in the Con
stitution, it will become the immediate and im
perative duty of tho people of this State to
meet in Convention to tuke intj consideration
the mode and measure of redress.
Mr. Chisolm, moved to amend by inserting
after the word Congress the following—Soutlt
of 30 deg. 30 min. known as the Missouri Com
promise line. The Senate adjourned till 3
o’clock, P. M.
THREE o’clock P. M.
The Senate convened pursuant to adjourn
ment. Messrs. Joseph E. Brown, Hon. Presi
dent, and Long, addressed the Senate, upon
the amendment offere*! by Mr. Chisolm, pend
ing the discussion. The Senate, adjourned
until 0 o’clock, to-morrow morning.
FEB. 2d A. M.
Mr. Edmondson, reported a Bill to incor
porate the Ellijay Turnpike Company.
Mr. Stoll, reported a Bill more effectual
ly to protect purchasers at Executors and Ad
ministrators’ Sales.
Also, a Bill for the protection of bona fide
purchasers of negroes and other moveable pro
perty.
The Senate resumed the consideration of the
amendment offered by Mr. Chisshn.
Mr. Clark, moved an adjournment which was
lost.
The question was then taken on the amend
ment which resulted as follows.
Yeas.—Messrs. Anderson, Blackshire, James
E. Brown, Chisolm, Grubbs, Thomas Johnston,
McRoe, Andrew J. Miller, James A. Miller,
Murphy, Quartcrman, Wofford and Wood.
Against it, Messrs. Bailey, Augustus Beall,
Boyd, Joseph E. Brown, Bryan, Clark, Clay
ton, Dunham, Ebcrioti, Edmondson, Ferrell,
lotidon, Hines, William Jones, John Jones,
Leonard, Long, Love, McBee, Moscly, Napirc,
Purse, Rawls, JohnW. G. Smith, James R.
Smith, Ira E. Smith, Sperlock, Stell, and
Turner. Tho Senate adjourned until 3 o’clock.
The Senate were engaged the afternoon in
reading bills of the House and adjourned with
out taking tho vote upon the ndoption of the
report of the Committee on the State of the
Republic.
house of representatives, Fed. 1.
Bills Passed.—The House, met pursuant to
adjournment.
The Bill to incorporate a Banking Company
at the Town of Fort Gaines in the county of
Early, to be knoyvn as the South Western
Bank of Georgia
A Bill to amend the Garnishment Laws.
Also, A. Bill to prevent the running freight
trains upon all Rail Roads in this State, upon
the Sabbath day.
Also, the bill of the House to amend the 2d
and 4th sections of an act for the education of
the poor, approved 27tli Dec. 1843, so far as
to designate those who shall lie entitled.
Also, a bill to protect females against slun-
der.
A hill to alter and amend an net to explain
an act to regulate escheats in this state and to
appoint eschentors, pnssed 31st Dec. 1816, ? f >
fur as to allow bastards or natural born children
to inherit from their mothers, under certain cir
cumstanccs therein specified.
A bill to prevent lumber measurers from be
ing tlie clerks of agents of lumber buyers or
lumber mills, and for other purposes!
Also, n Dill to authorize the stockholders of
the Bank of Milledgeville to increase its capi
tal, to $500,000.
Also a hill to authorize tho Governor to sub
scribe for stock to the amount of $20,000 in
the Milledgeville and Gordon Rail Road, with a
provision that snid Roud is to carry all freigh
for the State free of charge.
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A London loiter of tho 11th inst says :
“A liue of ocean steamers is about to he es
tablished between Hamburgh mid New-York.
The first vessel of this lino is the Helena Sic
ilian, <if 1400 tons; she is iron built, and has
extensive accommodations for second mid third
class passengers. The owners expect to reap
it rich harvest by conveying emigrants nt very
ow rates.» The Slomnn will leave Hamburgh
the 6th of April, and will sail tinder Gor-
rtan colors. It is expected she will make tho
passage in 22 days.
known her as Mrs. Miller, when she immedi
ately left her hotel, and took passage for
Liberty.
From the first we have had a suspicion that
this unfortunate woman, for unfortunate she is
in any view of her case, is tlio victim of a
specios of insanity. Her previous good char
acter, would suggest such a belief, which is
not a little strengthened by her very indiscreet
conduct nt the time ofniul subsequent to her
singular elopement. YVould a woman in her
senses come hack to the state where she is so
well known, and at tempt to elude the vigi-
lanco of the public in the neighborhood of
.her former homo, where she is likely to be re
cognised by every third person she meets?—
YY'e think not.
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The difficulties of Austria appear to he just
beginning. It is hard to say which of its pro
vinces, or what section even of its metropolis
is the most disaffected. Hungary and Lom
bardy each require a huge army, even to raise
taxes and execute tho laws. Vienna is as full
of * rebellion as Parish Bohemia insists on a
geper^ite Constitution. Croatia is even more
menacing than Bohemia.
Austria now lies bound in tyranny, in mean
ness, and in crime. Nothing can be hoped
from her dynasty, but obstruction, falsehood,
and treachery. She lost Germany by the im
becility of Metternich, and betrayed Eastern
Europe to Russia by the still greater imbecility
and guilt of his successors.
J3T The steam ship Philadelphia (says the
Philadelphia Bulletin of Monday) was sold on
Saturday, to Messrs. Howland & Aspinwall, (
if New York, to be placed by thorn on their
ihagre* line. The price given ia zaid to bo
$3o]^(KPov*r her origins) cost, about $190,000.
£©'“ The great Kentucky lawsuit, Philips
and others vs. the heirs of Mrs. Francis Pope’
involving property to theva'ue of some $2,000,
000 has been decided, by the Court of Ap
peals, in favor of the plaintiffs and against the
heirs of Mrs. Pope.
Rejections by the Senate.—The Wash
ington correspondent of the New York Tri
bune'says that the rejection of James Watson
Webb, the’newly appointed Minister to Aus
tria, has been determined on by the Senate.
Mr. Johnston, of Pennsylvania, who has been
nominated Consul to Glasgow, is also to be re
lucted on tho ground of habitual inebriation.
A very good ground, if a true one, we should
think.
A Chaplain at Last.—A telegraphic des
patch to the Petersburg Republican dated 1st
inst. say, that on that day the Rev. Mr. Gur-
Let,ob the third vote, was rt-elected chuplain
of the House, by a large majority. This in
third month of the session only an informal or
ganisation has Wen rfievred.
Abolition Blasphemy.—A pamphlet recently
published in New York gives the following ex
tract from the speech of an English abo
litionist clergyman, the Rev. Mr Stowell, who,
speaking in reference to Bible arguments in be
half of slavery, which he could not controvert,
said :
“Give up tny advocacy of abolition ? Nev
er ! 1 will sooner, Jonas like, throw the Bp
hie overboard, execrate it as the Newgate Cal
endar, denounce the Almighty as a slaveholder,
and Dis angels and apostles as turnkeys and
slaved rivers.”
A Rev. Mr. Blanchard, in Cincinnati, in re
ply to the remarks of Dr. Rice, who held up
to tie abolitionsts’ imitation tlie example of the
“angel of the Lord,” who advised “Hagur.
the slave of Abraham, to return to her mas
ter,” said, “Well, if the angel did so advise
h. ,1. think ho was a ruffian.”—Richmond
Rep.
VW A correspondent of the Baltimore Sun
recently arrived in the U. S steamship Erie
writes—
During our stay at Gibraltar, where we had
to lay four days wind-bound, we had the oppor
tunity "f seeing some of the improvements
making by the English in tlie efficiency of their
navy. They are. having all the ships fitted
with propellers, to make them more efficient
in time'of war. The vessels at Gibraltar fitt
with them, were the line of battle ship La
Hogue, the frigate Arrogant, and the sloop
Encounter; tho two latter being new and beau
tiful vessels; they left the harbor in fine style,
against a head wind, and passed out tlirou
the straits, while we had to waif for a favorable
wind. Let our legislators at Washington look
tn this matter, nnd learn what they have
prepare for should our navy have to meet their’
(the English) again on the sea as enertiies.
Marriage of Priests.—A paper is about to
be established in France, under the direction
of two priests, whose object is to popularize
tho idea that the celibacy of the clergy is an
evil, aud may be thrown oft’ by common con
sent, as it is only an ecclesiastical regulation
and not bassed upon principles of divine right
of faith, or of-mortality..
[Correspondence of the Morning News.]
NEW YORK, Jan. 31, 1850.
It appears as though we should never hear
the last of the Astor Place riot. A poor
woniunhus just petitioned the Common Council
for remuneration for the loss of her son, who
was killed during the riots, alas! what could
remunerate her for such a loss. She is a
widow and was dependant upon him for sup
port. Her claim was ief*rred to a committee
but there is no chance of her getting anything.
Col. Durgeo, of the 7th regiment, National
Guards, who fired on the mob, lias applied for
seventeen muskets lost, broken or injured at
the riot. It appears that each man owns his
own musket or other arms and pays a tax for
the same as personal property. I presume
that they will not bo permitted to be even pe
cuniary sufferers after their noble conduct oa
that memorable occasion.
The neighborhood of the Emigrant Com
missioner’s Office presents daily a melancholly
spectacle, in consequence of the pauper emi
grants that are arriving daily, having not
wherewithal to procure shelter, and the public
charitable establishments are so full, that there
is really no room for more. Consequently they
are sent to the prison nightly, and sleep like
so many pigs. It is surprising, however, the
number of houseless wanderers we constantly
have in this city. Dtfflng the past six months
o less than 21,620 persons have been furnished
with lodgings in the different station houses.—
Can we estimate the amount of misery in this
single fact!
A number of bigoted individuals are endeav
oring to stop tho sale of Sunday, newspapers.
I don’t think they are likely to succeed, how;
ever. One or two efforts have been made by
members of the Common Council, in days gone
by, to accomplish it, but I am happy to say
the majority possessed too.much sens* to favor
so illiberal a measure.
A curious case of death has occurred in the
city Hospital. A man was in the habit of
wearing tight boots, which produced erysipelas,
The Bill to "prohibit Sheriffs and their De- and after lingering some time ho died a few
puties from becoming directly or indirectly pur
chasers of pioperty at Sheriff's Sales, to vacate
all titles taken or held by them for property, so
purchased, and to make penal tho violation of
this act.
The Bill to repeal, so far as the county of
Chatham, an act to empower the Inferior
Court of tho several counties of this State to
order the laying out of public roads and to the
building and keeping in repair of public
Bridges, approved, Dec. 4,1799.
The Bill to prevent the running of freight
trains upon all Rail Roads in this State on the
Sabbath day.
The Bill to amend an act to revise and keep
in force an act entitled an act to regulate the
licensing of Physicians to practice in this State,
assented to 24th Dec. 1825.
The Bill to amend the laws of this State so
far ns relates to tho advertising of Estates by
Administrators, Executors, and Guardians,
where they do not exceed one thousand dol
lars.
The Bill of the Senate, to designate the holi
days to be observed in the acceptance and pay
ment of bills of exchange and promissory notes,
and to disallow the three days, commonly call
ed dnvs of grace, on all sight drafts, bills of ex
change drawn payable at sight.
The House, adjourned till 9 o’clock, to
morrow morning.
Tho Bill of Senate to change tho time of
holding the election for members of Congress,
of this State was passed.
.The Bill to authorize the Governor to sub
scribe for 5,000 shares, of $100 each, to the S.
YV. R. R. Company, which made the order for
to-day (1st) was on motion, made the special
order for YVednesday next.
Also, A Bill to complete and furnish the
Georgia Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb, and
to appropriate money lor the same, and other
purposes.—Also
The Bill to provide for survey and sale of all-
unsurveyed and unsold Islands in the Chntahoo
chee, Ocmulgee and Flint Rivers in this State.
The Bill to sev,ivc and amend an act to in
corporate the Madison and Macon R. R. Com
pany, and to define the powers, privileges,
and liabilities of the same—Assented to, 29th
Dev. 1847.-J—Also,
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days since. A warning to dandies who sacri
fice comfort to appenihnees. 9
Capt. Cook has sailed in his bark for his ori
ginal destination. On the day of his departure
the testimonial of the Merchants was presented
to him. The sum collected was $8000, and
$5000 was given to the Captain, $700 to tlie
Chief Mate, and $100 each to the seamen, &c.
The man Crowe has been fully committed
for trial, for the murder of YVhite,-in Pearl-st.,
mentioned in my last letter. It was proved on
the inquest, that he, and not his clerk, Cassin,
as was at first supposed, fired. The deceased
broke inqt tlie rear window,buton Crowe’s mak
ing his appearance, fled, but lie gave chase and
fired, the hall entering his hack, producing in
stant deuth.
The subject of flogging is the navy in excit
ing much attention at the North just now. YVo
are shortly to haven meeting at the Tabornncle,
at which some of our most distinguished citizens
will speak. A man who was formerly in the
navy, named YVilson G. Haynes, is the great
mover of this business.
The Drury trial is still in progress; the evi
dence of his having sent tho torpedo is his own
admission to Thompson and ‘Bristol Bill,
which was overheard by tho officers, who wore
concealed in a closet of the room, hut whether
’or not, out of his own mouth shall he he con'
detuned, remains to be proved. Tho defence
opened yosterduy, and the design evidently hr
to blast the character of YY^urner, who, it seems,
has behaved in a very shocking manner to his
wife; leaving his family, and going oft’ with
other women, &e. They lived very unhappily
together, and since tho occurrence have again
separated. Counsel evidently wish to convey
the idea, that ho sent tlie torpedo himself, with
the view of destroying his wife and son. But
this idea, however, is too horriblo to bo cn-
tertuined for one moment. A curious scene is
piesented in Court daily. Drury’s wife and
daughter, a beautiful girl of 17 or 18, are sitting
near the prisoner; and YVarnor’s wife and son,
are also present, the latter’s wife testifying
against her husband, and blackening his charac
ter before the community, so that we have il
lustrated here, woman in two phases of her
character: the one clinging to tier husband to
shame and dispair—brav ing everything—in or '
der by her presence in the hour, of trial, to »>"
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