The New York Herald Newspaper, January 21, 1858, Page 2

NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, JANUARY 21, 1858. TRE BERLIN HEIGHTS FREE LOVERS. Vistt to the Coleny—A Conventent Soctal Polity—The Social Kevotutiontst—Its Ideas of Marriage—Individual Sovereignty De- mar ded for Woman—The World to Cut for New Partners—The Family Denounced— Free Love a Doctrine of Spirttanti.m—Pas- stonal Attraction—Free Love Po cy—The Love Care. OUK SANDUSKY COKR! Sa wt. 9 1858, cotamunieation infortue sar the prosecu- tion in thi of the Berlin Heights fiee overs had béen closed, The proceedings were discontinued under an agreement, made with ene of the leading lights of the crowd should leave the movemé that the entire county. I eay crowd, for I do not know | by what name to designate euch a nonde script gathering of queer characters. Since my last [have been to Berlin Heights to see the free lovers | and look into their system of social polity. It is unlike anything in the heavens, upon the earth, or under the earth They sre not communists, for every person | sses and controls his own property—there being a t line between meum et tuum. They cannot be called associationists of the Greeley school, as they have no partwerships or goint stock organization. They are not a body politic, for they bave no compact, no laws, no rules of government, no officers, and no leaders, except seif-eiected leaders, against whom the humbiest individual cap revolt at any moment—his power being a moral power atone, Fach man and woman is his or her own law, aud each acts upon the do-as-you- please and-I’li-do-as.T please-itive prizciple. Indeed, the social pelity ofthe free lovers may be formuiized about thus:—Every person is his or her own boss; go in and win, but don’t tread ou my corns. And I am free to confess that on thisebasis of organization, or disorganization, the free lovers get along very well together. But the Gen tiles coulda’t appreciate their philosophy, and wouldn't ve recoucied to their boasts that they would soon buy out the entire county and set up an independent free love paradise; and the result was that outsife indig- nation swamped their enterprise ai a loss to determine how the free lovers are w be forced to abide the agreement made by one of their ex- guished lights to leave the county. There being no no one of their number had a right to make compa an agreementexcept for himself. Individual sovereignty, | | f their song, is incarnated in no | whicb is the pana, ort of moral ee!—difh- | one individual, and is therefore a cult to catch, and when caught is liable to wriggle out of your hand. ‘Indeed, when the free lovers were arraigned before the Mayor on’a charge of adultery, though ¢ body was morally convinced that they were guilty, acts could not be proven and the burden of the | nopy related to their doctrines, aad the prosecution a failure, except so far as it resulted in getting seve- ral of the free lovers to leave, I think, however, there | is no prospect of the others remuining permaneatiy. The hotel and farm, which were purchased by some (heir number, have reverted to the former | proprietors, because the purchasers were un able tw oe the second payments. A mii! | completed by two of the free lovers is still in ‘on, and thither most of the crowd have gone | the whole of them residing in a barn situated on the property. But as the movement is de- moralized, so far as a location on Berlin Heights is con cerned, it is probable they will leave voluntarily, as soon as they can dispese of what property they possess, and I am informed that some of the free lovers are now in New York city, consulting as to a future location for their colony, ‘All with whom I have conversed areas devoted to ther ideas as ever, and entertain no thought of backing down from their bold position. One thing I secured by my vieit to Berlin Heights, was a compicte file of the Social Reculutionist, the exonent of Free Love philosophy, the principles ot which’ are dis cussed pro and con with considerable ability in its pages. Some of the tree lovers are so enbtle in their sophistry that to successfully cope with them in argument requires 4 person of unt cuteness of intellect, intelligence and | ski debate; and as these qualities are possessed for | | the most part among the contribators, by those who are on the free love sige of the tence, they have their own way discussions, But the scope of the magazine is prodigious. Every subject, from Deity to Bloomer panta- | letts, is a legitimate ue of debate. Love, however, | is the Durden of discourse, and itis dished up in all its varied forms to suit the heterogeneous tastes of the | read pve Monogamic is presented for the anph } sophica! ventimentalist. The polygamicaliy also considered. The Platouic " lover as proper objects of public sympathy, and the misanthro- pic wretch who loves nobody is commented upon as an instance of the shocking depravity of our civiliza- tion, But the omnigamists—the {ree lovers proper— | whose expansive love spreads out like an inordinate blan- ket over the feather bed of universal man and woman. kind, are favored by having theit doctrines exalted to the | pinnacle of moral excellence. But as the magazine was | chiefly valued by me as an exponent of the free love doc: | trives, 1 have collated from its pages different extracts, which will give a clear insight into their peculiar views aud philosophy, and will enable the read- ers of the Hratp to sce how small a modicum of reason and common sense can be used as the basis of a modern reform, and to what extent fauaticiem, & morbid love of publicity and sophistry will make up for the almost entire abscnce of great principles First, I give you the opinion of Francis Barry, the origi- nator of the Berlin Heights movement, on marriage. tie stem of slavery. The right of another earnings constitutes of ve. Every farthing the wife earns belongs to the husband. In this respect the essential feature of chattel slavery, the wife | and the chattel slave stand on a level. They may wear | fine clothes and fare sumptuously every day, but in both cases the clothes they wear and the food they eat are the property of the master, and may be withheld at his plea- sure. © © * Either the husband or the master, in his | conduct, may be manly and pure; but if so, it is because | be is too good to exercise the power placed in his hands. Either the wife or the slave may be compelled to bear children against her will,and thea the mother and child | may be se by the man who owns them both.” | e readers of the Henaiy having been illuminated as | w what marriage is, they will be prepared to learn more fully the appalling situation of women in the opinion of | the editor of the Soefal Revolutionist, Mr, Jobo l’atterson the obscuration of whose ideas may be partially a for when it is known that the magazine was publ Dark county, Ohio. The editor saye:-— “T repeat that every grade of freedom bas ite own 1 conditions. The conditions of marriage de le woman the freedom she craves. She wauts the conditions of which at no time rob her of | iadiv sovereignty. Se oe must be sovereign through the day avdthrough the night must have her own room and her own bed at her own sovereign disposal. If sshe become, either by her love or by any other condi- tion, dependent upon any one mam, then 1 her individual at an end «he becomes the mere appendage the thing that she is now held to be by law Tsay if a woman is thus dependent apon any tn any condition growing out of love, * oce ma then is the #ocial freedom we are hoping for an ignis fatwus {fia this condition. her love must become the monopoy of one man, noone would be willing to love her, but wader cireumetances which would not be likely | Wo exalt another to the chief place, and drive the first from with a wrung beart and hence the old prozeas id be the result, and there is nothing rriage—and there is a hell in dictu! Still, however, the editor is not He thinks that something in the way of a neces-ar realise the full bean- | ties of a will appear by the follow. | ing extra that Hor eeley will be e out here and organize “Affectional freedom demacds facil and the frai movement: | ies for industrial al oF unitary home with a dividual. Ttie not neces. sary that such co-operation shall sink the individual Large hotels are, ina sense, unitary homes. Tndividuals sojourn or reside in them, and find their own employ ment, and yet are they as free as those who live in the isolated household. Unite many thus in one home; give each the control of bis own business, free at all times to | ©0 operate as seeme to thé parties concerned best, then would the unitary bome and industrial co-opera jon exalt , rather than depress the indivicaal. Thus located in the fra- terna) home. or in many of them accessible to each other, and woman independent therein, then may affectional freedom obtain and be wholly compatible with all the | rights and all the relations of humanity. love—tree love, if you please—would take the place of arbitrary yoke matching, and parente will not be robbed of rights in their children, nor children of righte in their parents. | Parties who may bave loved, but are not fitted to live as “husband and wife’ in a life union, may part quietly, and | still enjoy their children, if there be any. Marriage | makes a hel! for such now, and it does #0 by its arbitrary bonds —— knowe no such bonds.”’ A deciMediy useful idea, certainly, for men and women to marry in baste, and not Only repent at leisure. but se- | perate at will, But as the support of the babies born in the meantime is a matter of consideration, the editor sug gests how that difficulty is to be met, and thinks that «| man who would deserta wife would be apt, in the no | bility of his soul, to provide for the children. Ho says, to nome objector: — “You seem to be of the opinion that free love would de Prive the children of the care of both parents. he might be true, if pone would avail themselves of freedom but the ‘ineipled. Libertines may assume the garb of = tw cloak their lechery in; but nearly all that | We known to aconpt of free love, art sncn as | very well know would no more abandon their offepring in freedom than you Would. sir, under any circumstances. Thi« charge againgt treedom is a slander against the human heart, aud the man that makes it is either ignoraut, pre iced of dishonest. The father who now cares for his child because compelled to do so by law, is a worthy parent really! Such « momster would be a noble ak! to the mother and 4 great exemplerto the child. And so ‘ou would hang thia milleume about the mother's neck for life, curse a DUMErON Progeny with such a parentage ad call it hotly. Install freevom, and sach a man, if he show his villany, will be ‘ exorcised” from fatherhoot end ‘all the boliget relations of life’ till be learn to bea man [et a father oesert hie child, and the wilting re Duke of sovereign woman wll reach him more effectivety | in freedom than your laws now can. And yet you are afraid of freedom! The cowardice of injustice and tyranny cruel master in the South but is afraid of s despot of Europe but is afraid of freedom 4 priest but is atraid of freedom —cowards A who reade the abolition sheets will observe the similarity of the arruments used by the Free Lovers with reference to marriaye with those of the abolitionists with The extracts will indicate that | the Free Lovers fally appreciate the fact that their doc t are really the principles of the abolitionists and w' a ators. ca 4 S Wo thelr log eg! s¢ ' | pivot of ail she to | i# not a #ingle monogomist, fotlowing extract the editor propoass a Faery artes iene ¥ throw up their han t life anew when thay’ bane marriage when Dave 4 good pile to Commence cut for bew partners:— “Before free love can be fully actualized, we repeat woman must become self sustaining. This will be effected through industrial co-operation; and there seems to be nothing so very diffeult about this, where the parties that really wat lo secure independence for themselves and for each other. A few tried friends, male and female, may form a business firm or industrial ip, making no aistinetion On account of sex so far as dividends are con- cerned, “ Husbands’? may voluntarily restore to their “wives”? the individuality which marriage deprived them of, and make a division of their property, giving the wite an equal share, and permitting her to Pe ond with the husband or any other, as she may see fit ‘omun’s rights Meabs nothing unless the woman is permitted the right to co-operate with a business man who is not her ‘‘hus- band” if she wishes, rather than witha poor business man who is her “husband’’ And if she may thus co- Operate with another, she may change her business part- ners if she choose, and go where her business calls with- | out the let of her husband; and so woman’s rights cuts u marriage by the roots, and annthilates the isolated house- hold. What is bere specified as possible for woman's pe- cuniary independence, is at this moment taking piace to some extent, and will hereafter more and more. This is only the beginning. Free love is a re- seer principle. It has power to renew the ife and make glad the heart as no other has, The orthodox talk of being renewed in spirit, Aud what are the evidences of itY Long faces and long prayers; and they go on as before, giving the sanction the'r hives to selfishness and discord. Affectional freedom ‘Wil! mould the outer conditions, and the harmony without ‘will correspond to the ¥ within; and the dream of “brotherly love’’ will alf be actuatized under the aus- pices of this great freedom. — The crisis will bring pain, 1 admit; but such is the fate of every step in progress, and this is due to the oid error, aud not to the pew truth. We are just beginning to realize the regenerating power of this deareet of all freedoms; and few, as yet, if any, can mea- sure the sphere of its redeeming virtie.”? Strange as it may seem—but the idea of the family as the nucleus of society is an error, amd all the poetry that has evtr been written, of which it is the theme, is to go tor naught. Family ties and associations are selfish, and therefore false. Everybody's babies are just as dear to us, naturally, as our own. Whatan old ass the world is, to be snre! if anybody is unconvinced, let him read the following :— And this is the trouble with the opposers of freedom. They start from wrong premises; they wsume the ¢s- tablidhments «f despotism to be fixed and eternally true, and then it is an easy affair to prove freedom a falsehood. If our philosophy retuin the social system, which is based upon the family; then does it become an attorney for the Tam yet somewhat | family itself, set forever im its defevce. And ‘since the | famil} philowe ts necessarily allied to social despotism, so will thi= iy be found waving its piuwes in the popular war n social freedom, The dual tove relation has wrought } out its own conditions; and it is very true that while thes» obtain we cannot undo the despotism of duality and give freedom to sexual love without robbing other loves of their rights. Tae wrong here is in the despotic conditions, and the fact that they preclude freedom in any department of the affectiona! sphere ought to be some evidence to phi- losophical minds that there is something ra: tly discor- davt in the conditions themee!ve-. The despotism of du- ality, with the family and its isolated home, belong to a lower plane of humanity; upon a higher plane, the de- mand i- imperative for freedom of all the loves in the harmony of integral life. This freedom can only obtain under the conditions of freedom, aud science and exper- epee must establish these. Letsociety bo disintegrated and resclved into its individual elements; let woman gradu ate to a position of physical independence, that she may be morally and socially so; let her regard herself as the nd hold herown reom, and espe- let cially her own bed, sacred to ber own individuality her observe striet fealty to herself, avd not to aT our anti free love woman’s rights people most inconsis- tent!y urge; let each individual, male or femaie, secure the conditions of self sovereignty through the avenues of brotherly and sisterly co operation, with the opportuni- ties of Variety and change, let the ‘home’ represent the fraternal principle of our nature; then will ‘free love’ de consistent with the rights of every jove and of all parties.’ Most of the spiritualists have been fighting ehy of tree Jove, though 1 is a well Known fact that many of its lead- ing bgbts have been great sticklers for the doctrine of smritual affinities. One of the free love contributors to the Social Reuolutionist takes up the subject, and indicates to spiritualists where they properly belong in the mater of free love. He says:— “T aver, then, that free love is adocrine of spiritualism. I say of spiritualism, not spiritualists. Many recognize the facts of spiritualism who know little o° its philosophy; Dut will apy imtelligent spiritualist deny that the concur rent testimony of the spheres proves that their inhabitants are cottrolied in their love relations, not by arbitrary out- sive authority, but by the law of attraction, aifinity or free love’ {s ut not a conceded fact that the angels do not have to be bauled up before a magistrate to legalize their | marriages’ How supremely ridiculous the idea that the men aud women of Paradise live together on the cat and cog prineiple, because it would not be respectable to sepa- rate! They ot 80 generous there as to sacrifice their individual happiness for the good of the commanity. They are not so senseless there as to stay together and scratch and pull bair froma sense of duty to their children or other members of the community, when these other members are doing the same’ thing fi the same laudable motive. The fact that they break up false relations there, and form sew ones, js as wellestablished and is just af much a partof the spiritual or harmonia! philosoptyy az the doctrines of eud- loss progression. * * * The spiritual philosophy em- braces and endorses free love, but is not by any meacs the father of it: Spiritualism is’ of comparatively recent | date; free love is es old as the eternities. Spiritualism depends for its proof upon the testimouy of men: but the whole universe of God is a living proof of the principle of free love. © * ® The grain of sand, the glittering dew drop, the blade of grass, the tiny flower, the fluttering leat, the flying inseet, the crawling reptile, the warbling bird, every animal that roams the forest, every wheeling planet, every entity, from the atom which helps to form the infinitiss!oal animalcule to rolling suns and systems, is a witne jon of the truth that God is love. From atom to system affinity is the only rule of action. The relation which each atom bears to every other atom is regulated by the prin ciple of attraction, or the love which each bears to the other. *' © They come together be- cause they subserve their own happiness thereby; and when they no longer love, a stronger love attracts them, they separate and again ute with other atoms, never dreaming \t a breach of morality in the least © © Kach is an individual sovercign, controlled only by the inner law. Their are all for love; not & mercenary match among them. He wins who has the strongest power of attraction. The rights of property are scouted at, and jealousy is unknown, They hot only marry without copsulting the priest or pub- lic opinion, bu® they unmarry with equal facility. re om @ sense of duty "through out all God's univerte, ‘There are “unions for life:’” but love the bond and happiness the object in all eaves, Morality, conscience, duty, never enter as incentives to action. All are content to live out their own natures ac- | cording to their own instinets, never thinking of anything wrong in the arrangement. Beast, bird, fish, insect, atoms and systems — joyfally, unquestioningly, the jaw of their being. It ix left for man—wise man—to q\ tion the wisdom of his Maker. He alone distrusts the div nity of bie uature. Under the influence of a damning theology, or a conventional education, he pronounces him self totally depraved, and the glorious human body be- comes an unclean thing, to be curbed, crushed and cruc! fied. The best gifts of God a curse to him—the holest impulses of the soul take on the hue of evil to be subdued and eradicated. Shame on the ingrates to thus grumble at God's beneficence'—to thas disparage and ¢ ° | preciate their highest and purest faculties! * © © must think to order and love to order, and even some of our liberals who think themselves emancipated from theo. logical superstitions, are yet very much tainted with the old notion of depravity. “Spiritual love is pure, but love which descends into the body is depraved, they gay. Why, unless the bedy is depraved, an idea which they pretend to Giecard, but nevertheless retaln and build their prejudices upon it? Now, I believe that the creative energy has made the human body worthy of the spirit whieh inhabits it. It is just as pore, just as hefy, and is just as much,entitled to its righty. Any other view is are- flection upon Deity. * * * Wethen, asfree lovers, are as one with God, and in harmony with nature; and you, self. righteous Pharisees, who paaa by on the other side, are as far from the kingdom of heaven as your ancient prototypes were; you are outlawe—not we. You are at war with God, and endeavoring to thwart bie will. If conformity to the laws of God be a test of then are ye miserable einners—infidels, without faith either in God or man Go chastise your self consequence. “ Repent ye, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.” But the Free Lovers are not without their poets: and the pares, of the Social Revolutiomist contain several efforts of greater or less ability, in which free love is in. carpated in metre. Lg br The first is ‘by G0 Anonymous writer. secon d is the production of ire. Cordelia Barry, who, with her husband, were the founders of the Berlin movement — Our watchword Freedom '—on we march Where Truth points out the way; Free as the clouds ‘neath yon blue arch, all Truth bear sovereign «way. Free Love is mighty—'twill prevail. wind hearts ove ‘ roctbed and tora sweetly lead f e, With joys in Treetem bone The right to love—the right to ive We claim for every sou! To sovereign inan we never vive A woman to control HEART BRRATIINGS. *. ‘ * ‘ . My spirit chords are all attuned to larmony and joy— My soul's interior life is like a fount of blisses, Aur in the garden of my beart bloom fracrant flowers, Azure eyed and golden, like angels lying in the lap of heaven. A great deep love is my sonl—a wild, weet worshij pry Ls ma dum days bay sunbeams tn ight, And bringing with the — its holy. § A life so Soop, impaxsioned, thrilling singe That it seemeth pain to hold the biessedness #0 close ‘The surgiug winds are round me, and | fin My ribboned hat upon théterf and put ack the dark hair From my sun-kiesed brow, and standing up ercet, I let | summer breezes whisper through my strdying locks As darts that sweet, celestial charm—the airy humming bird— : Within the nectared cups of trailing vines J reach my quivering hands to utmost verge of heaven, And walk alway with white-browed wanderers there J lay my cheek familiarly to God's and breathe the aroma Of elysian lande; while through the chambers of my soul | hear the tripping fect of golden memories like pattoring Raindrops tivaling onthe loaves. Fair greening siew Float by me, and from their sunny banks. o'er arched With mantiing vinés «bose purple fruitings load the am- dient air? With perfumes equalling « Araby the best,” and scented Slopes, astir with fragrant lowers, whose charming beant; Only tolls of Heaven, and dewy lawns, whose veivet rf Ni is’ gliding feet, seems soft ue elder down. ochanted realms, dear ange! hauds asking lips the pearl crowaed re is set the holiest aca! ‘A oieped and circled S06 WOR ter, angel li unfettered true; Brouastous, free, devoled--devoted sill, and. abe , free, still, and sheening al! my pathway o’er With heaven hued days of bliss, making the retrospection sweet As childhood’s batmy dreamings. The charmed now Is like a golden bow, within, around above me— Singing me ever of the future, garlanded With rosy hopes, and w! into angelness divine— Futures that sball be more blest from being yet more true. It is said that it is but a step from the subtime to the ri- diculous, and an instance ef that the editor of the Social different parts of the country. In one instance the docu- ment fell into the hands of the lady’s husband, who wrote the editor as follows:— “I wish to informe you in regard to your missstake, you hay awoke the rong passinger this time. Sur, in the note which you addresst to my wife, it seams that you recog- nised hur as one of your infurnell, Devilish, hell Bound band. {should like tono who your Informant has ben, then I would setle matters with him in A shorte way. now Sur, lard my wife hay nothing to do with such A sistom of free just ism, nor eny afinity for it. I consider your click the most Contemptable, you meanContemptable out laws. it is wel! for you that you are out of my reach to night, since you lay insulted my wife in this shaim ful matuer. O you mean, black harted free lusters you. talk about reform, your sistom is to much like old Solo- mon and Jo Smith's. this looks like Progression dout it. Your minds never got as as awoman’s head. I will let you know that] am the hus ban of —— —— tho chois of hur early life and She is content their with, and wants nothing to do with such Jack agses as you are. ” B—. “ Lindoree the above sentiments of my hus ban as my one in regard to your dirty sect. Mrs. E—— B——.”” The editor says of the postscript :— “The note of endorsement is in the same hand as the rest. only smaller, aad it is uot likely the wife had auy- thing to do with it. ¢ ts probaly the wretched slave of a brntish * hus b vd From the forego:ng extracts it wil! be seen that the frao lovers make no cenrealmentof the fact of their prom's- cuous intercourse, and it will not be a matter of surprise when I state that the editor of the Social Revolutionist has published a list of persons of both sexes, in different parts of the United States, who acknowledge their libidinous prociivitios—the list being circulated ocly among those whose names are on Tlearn from the anuouncement in the Social Revolution- Fo that there are nearly two hundred uames on the variety ist. But the last and irresistibly convincing phase of free love vagary is the “love cure,” which may be set ‘down asa new pathy ‘A tong article upon this subject appears in the November number of the magazine, prepared by Mrs. Barry, the author of the blank verse poem, extracts from which t have given above. From this remarkable document I must cite some portions, Doctress Barry says, speaking of love:— ‘its denial brings drooping disease and death; death to all the sweet charms of the soul—death to the creative forces of the mind—death to the active energies of the --a gentle wife has gone down in sorrow to . because the deep longiugs of her spirit were Decavse the beart she leaned on gave kK DO ap=wering tokens o! and men of generous sou! and purpose high have sank in utterest aebusement without love to. purify and to save. Many otherwise beautiful, worthful lives; are forever debarred the ripening of a giorions life from this starvation in the affectional realm. s * ‘Toattain to noblest growth, ali of love that can come to our souls should be received with the same quiet acceptance as the flowers receive cew and suzehine, remembering that as flowers assimilate what they need so we can have only our own. The tree appropriates to its own upbuilding ail of the various ele- ments which goto make up its life: so may our souls gather to themselves all of charm, of fragrance, all of joy and beauty, eil of thought and growth, all of glad- some song,and radiant shine aud divinest living which the bright world can bring. The wants of mind and body may be supplied by this giving and receiving © all sources. charming child-iove, so trusting, W..s into the ever open portals cf my ; the appreciation sweet of minds of riper growth; and most and best and fullest, the reverent love my gonl can give from pure, unselfish manhood’s large ani Ce ee See make my spirit strong to live the better life. The loving trust dear children give me brings glad smiles to my wearied heart, and the touch of their Soft hands gives rest to the tired nerves; and other loves as well bring each their Diessing, leave each their memories. “From the great, noble souls who have given me of their thovght and love has my spirit gathered bM¥ssings, which the world can neither give nor take away; getting the earnest thoughls of cultivated minds, and growing my own soul ap to their ripened richness; drinking im the perfume of their glorious lives from the subtle aroma of their written worts, feeding sou! and body on each its own jegitimate aliment, and forever blessing the dear Gort that | was tree. ‘In the pleasant past of my brief life I have bad a friend —a dear, beautiful, loveful spirt—wbo poured out the wealth ot her love ou my soul like a very tide of glory, and whom { loved with nigh a mother’s fondness. “1 could sit by ber side or fold her to my heart with such a happiness, suet a bliss, as perhaps the world knows not of Opposites in temperament, and im mental un- folding, we came to each" other as positive and pegative, mutually acting upon and bless ing each other. Another, one { could not so love, who is not so of me spiritually, can, when lam weary or suf- fering, cure me by the gittof her magnetiom—tue touch of her hands. I simply hold a letter in my bands, and if it be a soul em rapport with my own, | feel the électne flash thrili my entire being; I receive a spiritual aud mag- netic good. | place my hands in another's. and the inter: change of magnetic aromas gives to each a wholler life, end as another bas said, each has given of his own sur plus to build anew what the others lacked, and isas much received by the giving a8 blessed by receiviag. The | spberes of some inspire us with a heroism and a purpose for the divinity of freedom—a living verifica: | till we feci their life is a part of us, a necessity of our being; though no word they give us, yet are our lives mace wholler by their presence, and even we cannot be ourselves—rounded into the largeness of eur deatiny— «nly as these needed intluences come, It is beautiful and weil. I trust nature, and have too deep a reverence for the divinity in my own sou! to thrust aside her clear eyed secing: for these other lives of souls not moulded like my own. So { must live my own life, be true to its holiest iwspirations, or I would not be true to God; and 50, while welcom: these other beauteous friendships, I yet more accept man and bid him be my friend as none others can; bid him be my lover, as the sun is the lover of the earth, and so let my soul receive of good all the sweet fates can bring me "" Heaven be sd! The system of systems is at last evolved. Allopathy, with its calomel, @ jallap and its depletion, was ever too severe for my delicate organiza- tion to bear. Homeopathy always seemed to me too good to take to be effectual. Against the lobelia and cay enue of the Thomsonians my stomach ever protested in a manner not to be mistaken; while the shiveriugs amid the wet sheets, the sitz bathe, the doucaes, half bathe and whole baths of hydropathy have too weil told how abhorrent were those aqueous ordeals to my sensitive nerves. Henceforth I leave them all; and under the manipulations of the love enre will I seek rmanent relief fram all the ills that afflict mankind. vermanent relief, did | say?’ No. I don’t want it—(ll not have.jt, Hereafter count the Sandusky correspond ent of theHekace ag on the sick List for the futare, Or, if 1 do emerge from the slough of one malady,] shall rush pell meli into the depths of avotiwer, and my life shail be a constant recurrence and alternation of hopeiess sick- hess and miraculous rejuvenation, under the inspiring and invigorating influence of the | One after another will the whole category of a! itstollow. Measles, tooth ache, mumps, corns. jaundice, hooping cough, colic, infty enza. chiibiains . boils. liver beg omg worms, and all else, eball successively seize upon this earthly tabernacle of mine. Gladly will I welcome them, if so be that loving arms entwined about my neck, if loving lips, implant: upon my fevered cheek the remedial kiss, if warm breatl surcharged with the electric arcimas of a health ——. power, waftea upon my palid face, ( soft toneh deleate fingers throwin, ‘k from my throbbing tem- ples the jetty locks—(Hold, I'm too fast)—the red bair that adorns my classic face; if heart a ‘a response t the outgushings of my loving spirit— if these, | say, will but kindle the flame of a heartburn which sball exist until this mortal estate shall cave in under the pressure of senility, then avaant, Hippocrates, and thy disciples, with your lancets, mer- cury aod Spanish fee! Get thee gone, , with thy emetics, for beating heart is to take the place of heaving stomach’ Hence, Hahnoman, with thy saccharine globules containing the infinitesimal parte of nothing ' Away, Preienitz no longer shall my teeth chatter with thy chilling processes. The love cure forever! Supreme Court. Before Hou. Judge Sutherland. Jan. 20.—Brown Brothers va the Michigan Southern and Northern Intiana Railroad Company —Motion for an or- der requiring plaintiffs to make their complaint more defi- nite and certain must be denied, with $10 costs. The complaint in this case alleges that on a certain day the defendanta were indebted to plaintiff in the sum of 200,009, and that tosecure the payment of that sum and the interest thereon, the defendants agreed to deliver and did deliver to the plaintiffs certain promissory notes, with- out stating the consideration of such indebtedness, or when or where or bow the defendants became so in debted, but as the agreement states that in case of any default in the payment of any of the notes the whole sum of $260,000 and interest should, at the option of the plain- Gils, become forthwith due and payabie. The Court waa of op.nion that the complaint is sufliciently definite, and therefore made the above order. APPLICATION FOR MANDAMU® AGAINST THE BOARD OF SUPRRVISORS. Mr. John F. Deviin applied. on behalf of the Mutual Life Insyrance Company of New York, and the New York Life Insdtance Company, for and obtained write of alter native mandamos to the Board of Supervisors, to compel them to reduce the amount of taxes imposed on those companies for the sears 1854, 1856 and 1856. The orders were made retaruable for the first Monday in March. —— Supreme Court—Spectal Term. Before Hon. Judge Davies. Jan. 19. —Applely ve. Farley.—This waa a motion for « perpetual injunction to restrain the defendant fram prose- outing the work of grading Fifty-eigith stmet between avenves Fight and Nine, om the allegation that the con tract waa fraudulently made by the defendant under the jae Street Commissioner, and that it is therefore void. ‘The contract included the excavation of 12,488 cubic yards of rock, and involved a considerable amouut of money. It js also stated that no public notice was giveu inthe papers for the bids. Decision reserved, Canat Tonrs.—The total amount of tolls col- Jected on all the New York State canals from the time of their Vy %_until closed, during the year 1857, waa $2,045 Total amount iv 1596, $42,747,000; ' total 1857, $9,636,3890—showing a failing of from 02,000, from 1847, $1,590,330. And we notice, tor's report, that expend en the samé ast joat oxceed the expenditures of 1956 DF The Printing Binding Plunder. ADDITIONAL REVELATIONS—PROFITS OF THE PUBLIC PRINTING—COST OF A SINGLE WORK—MORE BAR- GAIN AND CORRUPTION. TO THB ED:TOR OF THE HERALD. Wasmyatoy, Jan. 15, 1858. I was perfectly well aware that my sketch of the trans- actions which characterized the acquisition of the public printing job by the firm of which Messrs, Steedman & Banks are the nomina! head partners, published in the Hera of the 15th, would create an intense flutter and excitement among the persons banded together in that sad, secret combination. My letter contained facts of an exceedingly occult and delicate description, and their unexpected appearance in the columns of the Hxratp pro- duced some such a degree of consternation among the guilty parties as would the sudden advent of a well armed body of police into an underground den '@f coun- terfeiters. There was hurrying to and fro and whisper- ing with white lips among them last evening and to-day, and the most anxious inquiries were at once set on foot to discover who was the audacious and adventurous indi- vidual who had been thus successful in prying into and letting out to the whole world their most jealously watched and important secrets. I understand that several quite innocent parties were taxed with the performance, as much to their annoyance as surprise, since they were al- most as much astounded by the appearance ot my letter as those moet deep!y interested in the affair, Meanwhile your correspondent, protected by and enjoying hig impenetrable incognito, took careful note of the effect produced by his revelations, and has already had reason to believe that he, by the aid ofthe Hgnatp, haa done the public @ most valuable and important servive, Anew light has broken in upon the minds of such men as Houston of Alabama, Clingman of North Carolina, Bocock of Virginia, and other high-toned Southern gentle- men, who now perceive that in this business they were beguiled by A. D. Banks, and were directly handed over by him to one of the most corrupting organiza- tions which has ever existed in Washington. It wiil not be surprising if some pretty sbarp interpellations are propounded to Mr. Banks by these and other gentlemen, and it is possible that the effect of my disclosures will be to initiate measures which, after all the intriguing re- sorted to by the parties, will rob them at least of therich spoils im view of which they have based their hitherto successful attack upon the public crib. The effect has already been to stimulate the committee appointed to in- quire into the profits of the public printing to direct their attention more scrutinizingly to the subject, and the con clusions they bave at once come to are in the highest de- atisfactory. 1 learn that in view of these gross the scandal and general demoralization aris- jug out of the immense profits of the pubic printing, they have pretty nearly resolved to report a bill (or the estab- lishment of a Printing Bureau, in accordanco with the sug- gestions and recommendations so cften put forth in the edi- torial columvs of the Herat. Thus, while your own course will receive a thorough and complete eudorsement, your correspoudent has the satisfaction of doing a little some. thing towards the good work. Honest people are just be giuning to find out that the Hera bas all along been telling the truth, and nothing but the truth, about these matters. They oughtto have believed it long ago; for if they bad believed and acted on the belief the parties in this last great plunder scheme would never have had the opportunity of engaging in aud carrying through this latest, most disgraceful transaction of the Washington lob lam not yet done with my revelations upon this sub- ject, and one or two others that are nearly related to it. While Messrs. Steedman, Banks & Co, are getting them selves into a fe the exposure to which they have been subjected, 1am quietly pursuing my inquiries, and shall thus be able to supply the House committee and the readers of the Hexatp with a further jount of interest- ing information. There are still some important aad in teresting facts, justifying your estimates with reference to the enormous profits of the public printer, aral going, therefore, to support the recommendation for the estab lishment of a bureau, by means of which these profits will be cut off from the lobby, and saved to the govern ment. Prondnent among these considerations is the fact which Inow allege, namely, Mesars. Steedman, Banks & Co, have lately offered to dispose of their contract for the House printing to Mr. Wendell for the round sum of $250,000, to be paid in short cash payments—they, of course, to be discharged from doing any of the work, or ring any of the expenses necessary to the perform- anc the contract, and to receive this sum in considera. tien of merely assigning over the job. Of course they mean to allow Mr. Wen tell a reasonable profit also, and the calculation upon which they based this offer, ther fore, must have contemplated pickings in the shape of clear profits from job to the extent of at least three hundred thousand dollars. This eaormous sum, actually in the grasp of one man, Qhongh really divided among the combination, will give the innocent public some little idea of the manner in which the treasury has year after eer been robbed by aset of gracetess politicians: An adcitional item will aflord a slight clue as to the means by which these enormous profits are made. I have reason to believe that in the estimate formed by Messrs. Steedman & Co. of the amount which Mr, Wendell might reasonably expect to pocket in the execution of the con tract, the cost ta Congress of a single work ordered to bo : :“The Surveys ef the Mexican Boundary ine,’ by Major Bartlett, was set down at $000,000! The work is to include the usual amount of lithographic pic tures of fossil remains, rocks and green parrots; the letter press is to be of the finest description, and the binding, in which Mr. Wendell has a hand, will, doubtless, be exe- cuted so astoafford the highest possible profit to the arties executing the work ich, when fuished, wiil of about as much value to the country as an old | file of Greeley’s New Yorker. This is the fattest job of the Steedman dispensation, and the one upon which they expect to make the largest profits; and im their offer w sell their contract to Wendell it was the benefits, advantages, and fat streaks ofthis work which were most temptingly insisted on. Mr. Wendeil had, of coarse, too much experience in the business not to confess the temptations of the job, and I believe did not demur to the estimate of its capabilities; nevertheiess, a hiteb has ensued tn the negotiations, whieh will now, uader the influence of my revelations, be probably yy until the parties negotiating feel a little stouter the legs. I believe Steedman & Co, do not now consi. der themselves so entirely safe in the possession of the printing as they did before the appearance of the Hera of the 15th, Tleave this part of the subject for the present, ja order to diverge upon ancther vein, whieb, though not so deepas the other. aiforde a rich yield of scaudal, and offers some more strit illustrations of the wile-spread corruption which prevails in avd about the federal capital. I refer to the secret influences through which Mr. Boteler obtained the binding of the Senate, and the intrigue connected there- with, in which the general incorruptibility supposed to belong to gentlemen of the South receives an unlucky blow through the conduct of aSouthern © * * * Cheva lier Banks has already given us one illustration of the fact that the high «p'rited chivalry are not all proof against the seauctive influences which act upon our Northern political cheraliers dindustrie; and if the performances of Chevalier Pryor and others of the same stripe should be thoroughly sifted, other in. stances would doubtless be exhibited. In the matter now referred to 1 am im the possession of facts which go to show that even the high and dignified * * * is tainted with the geveral corrupting influences of the lobby. These facts constitute a sécond highly interesting and important chapter, connecting iteelf by a link with that already re. ed. lated. ‘The printing of the House and of the Senate are not the only fat jobs about the Capitol. The binding is another, the profits of which are also considerable; and it was at ‘one time the thought of the (bio and Virginia combina. tion to go in for that also, The lucky recipient of the Se. nate binding, however, as I have alrgady said, is a M Boteler, of this city, who is underst tohave also a of counection with Wendell, thongh of what sort I a: le tosay. Boteler 's neither an administration man nor a democrat, but on the contrary, since the organization of the Know Nothing order has been @ violent red moutbed }eading member of that party in Washington; and the ¢ rcumstance tLat such @ man obta'ned from a democratic Senate so large a slice of the pati which ts suppored to be the peculiar reward of the fai h- fal, is in itself sufficient to excite a series of curious laqui. ries. Happily am able to explain a circumstance which, to the cninitiated, must inevitably seem abstruse; but the explauaticn, as I bave previously remarked, involves another exciting expo’ ional and lobby ia ue “7 appears that some time since, Mr. Roteler and the Hou. © © ¢ © # © &© © © ® from the State of up together in certain mysterious, honest business transactions, the ** * * wore mized but no doubt result of which w: siderably in Boteler came a member of * 7,0 0668 U8 ee while Mr. Roteler became, through what Mr. feller would probably call a “ remarkable coincidence ,”* a candidate for Senate binder, To overbalance the fact that he was a violent member of the opposition, be had that “ little bill” against * * * * * * « © aad negotiations are understood to have been commenced on that basis. Boteler offered to cancel his little bill, or the largest part of it, in consideration of receiving the very comfortable job he asked for, and matters were thus partially arranged, when Mr. * * * conceived hi notions of the profits he ought to derive from the job in juestion, and advanced his estimates. Major Heise, of the , Was then called in, and told confidentially, without pnt Ly cat og fe he might bave it if he would consent to divide the profits, It is said that * * * went bitneelf to Major Heiss and made the offer, and the only bright spot about the whole transaction appears to be that the latter indignantly declined entering into a bar; ) aod threatened to expose the attempt to tamper with his integrity. It seems almost impossible to conovive that virtue of such refreshin, should oxist in this hot bed Of corruption; Dyt the old stagers here will cer. tainly say that Major Hee mast have had a more cogent reason than sheer honesty for rejecting Po end offer. However, reject it he did, and Boteler came in took the prize. He will, probably, first learn from this letter how near he was to yi entirely through the inees of an honorable and chivalric Southern Sena . “To encourage all valorous ghomest) hearts, and sta them honorable examples,” ae old Froiseart would way. 1 feet bound to add, on authority derived froma source very near the White House, that Major Heiss did inform the President of the » which had been made to bim, and that the cond chivalric Senator received a severe rebuke from ‘uptible and im. partial chief magistrate of the While on the ject of the distribution of the public that Dug. Wallach, the editor of as a sort of general gossip and toad-eater of every administration which comes in power, has received a small aop, to the extent of about $15,000, for advertising, among the few odd hun. dred people who look at it semi-occastonally, the letting of the mail contracts. [In virtue of this gratuity, it is suppos- able that the little Sar will be enabled to sing hosanna to Mr. Ruchanan for the ensuing three years and odd months; and thoug! f fird no fault with ths ‘dispesition of the pub: ce palroaag*, | feel Vouud to remark the singular ballugt. nation of who have anything to adver- tise. The columns of the > afford an illustration of the fact business men it most profitable to starved, obscure and uninteresting sheets Tt must be understood, however, as a matter of charity, for none ing) could live a week without it, e thank sity of being indebted to one of either evil. close my letter hastily, in order to reach the mail, but Pheer afi anngrarre rae sly a trans- actions of lobby during the present winter. facts, when grouped together, will compose a startling picture of the state of things here, and demonstrate the necessity of some more measures than have been hitherto taken in order to restore the Washington body politic to a sound Leer In the manne, the —- and exposures ¢ HeraLp accomplish more, perhaps, than the most rigidly constituted and conducted investi- gating committee. PETER J. JAMES: , Of Western Tennessee. PUBLIC PRINTING —CARD FROM MR. H. H. ROBINSON. the Cincinnati Commercial Jan. 18}. We clip the foliowing from the Enquirer Friday. Those who are familiar with the “points,”’ will be amused to observe the cautious use of the English by Mr. Robinson. He writes as daintily around the “ é ‘as he would step among rotten eggs. It is very certaiu— indeed we pretty much know—that no other of the “‘blow- ers and strikers,” who proceeded from Ohio to W: a ton to take charge of the spoils incident to the public = ing, cau assert their innocence of all sins of know! *. even in terms as well picked as thoee used by Mr. son. We imagine that there will be still further devel. opements through the Hrrap’s Was! correspon- dence. Some “sore bead” will surely further eauity that portion of the public which is “waiting for the Bre bp it Ss oeuie bags much eee ged A confidence, y those who ought to know enough ‘ery good uessers, that the author of the sensation letter in the ‘ALD Was no other than the individual named in that epistle as ‘“‘the late fillbuster editor of the irer”” < York Herat, mixing my: ap with the Congraenioeal printing at the federal ters being paraded in the Commercial flauins poll as if there were facts involved which should startle the country—I deem the matter of sufficient importance for a brief reply. far as I was then, or am now, or was at any time, concerned, beyond advising and urging Mr. Steedman, of Ohio, to become a candidate, and advocating his success, 1 bad no interest of any character, direct or remote, in the contest. I had no offer of an interest in it from any per- son, and asked for none. All allusions, therefore, to m; having been (to use the words of one of the correspond: ents, copied in yesterday’s Commercial) ‘cheated, taken in and done for—ehiselled out of fair expectations,” &c., are simply slanders, coined by a fertile brain to create tak and make mischief. My opportunities to know the facts were better than either of those letter writers, and I assert that if “bargain and ecrruption”’ were used to carry Mr. Steedman through ; if momises of “‘a slice’ were given; if bad faith was ob- served at the Jast, when the contest was over, to any one, T was then and am now profoundly ignorant of any iu- stance of either. The whole batch of slanders is, in my judgment, the cojnage of a lotof Eastern and Washing. ion cormorants, incensed at their defeat by an energeto and talenied Western democrat, worthy of the success he accomplished. ‘The Enquirer, so far as I know, at no time, before or since the election, had an interest, or was promised an toterest or expected an interest in the profits of the office. ‘The coupling of this establishment, therefore, with the other falsehoods in those letters, is only in character with the whole batch, My going to and stay at Washington had no connection with Congressional printing. I remained just so long as was necessary for the object that took me there. If otaer gentlemen named by those correspondents as having been thrown overboard, had no more interest in the matter than | had—aod I am quite certain that they had not—then the public will readily piace a proper valW on the whole. H. H. ROBINSON, Affairs In Washington. (Correspondence of the Press | be Wasnineton, Jaa. 19, 1853. Public Lands—Contested Election Cases, We. The House of Representatives are fixed on having all the information obtainable of the operations of the land sys- tem@f the government, from its establishment to the pre- seut time. Not only is the Commissioner of the General Land Office called on for detailed statements of the lands owned by the United States in the States and Territories, and their value, but all that the government has ever owned, either in consequence of deeas of cession from the States, or purchase from foreign nations, or extinguish ment cf Indian titles; what has been the cost, how much has been given away in land grants, and to’ whom, &. This is valuable information, wi ought at once to be spread before the country. In the case of Whyte, contesting the seat of Morrison Harris, the Committee on Elections have refused to autho- rize a special commission to proceed to Baltimore to take evidence. The contestants, therefore, must take testimo- by under the election law If avy unfairness or fraud on the part of the magistrates before whom witnesses examined can be shown, then it is admitted by the committee that justice demands of them, out of the usual course, to take the matter in hand and give it a thorough and searching investigation, it may be by the committee asking of the House for power to hold iis session in Baltimore, or the appoiutment of a special committee for that purpose. The case of Brooks contesting the seat of Davis is a pe- cular ope. The demurrer of the latter, that there was euything upon which the committee could initiate action, has been overruled, and the charges of the former, that there was no election, and that the ex! of the po: pular will was prevented by fraud and violence are cou- sidered serious enough to require investigation. But, as Brooks has disclaimed any right to the seat, and alleges that Lis remonstrapee is only of a citizen looking to the purity of the ballot box in his own district, shoul be, under the election law, be competed to ipcur expense in the taking of testimony and carrying on the contest, or should this be done by the House? This is yet undecided, but the jmpression is that the House ought io aesume the responsMility, and I think that such will be the decision of the committee. The steam frigate Colorado bas been put in commission, and 1s now fitting at Norfolk as the flagship of the Home Squadron to relieve the Wabash. Neither officer ot the Mediterranean nor of the Home Squadron Deen designated. this city with ‘Army and Navy Chapiains rmy avy ns. {Prom the Philadelphia Bulletin, Jan, 19.) Another meeting was held on Monday evening, at ib pursuance of a movement inaugurated by Dr. L. D. Jobnson, ot hrm City, to effect some radical changes in the present inefficient and imperfect eystem of military and naval chaplaincies. Lieut. Wm. B. Whiting, U.S. N., was called to the chair,and Rev. Dr. Cooper ap- Pointed Secretary. Dr. Jobason then, in a speech of much jorce and earnestness, explained the t lamentable deficiencies in the facilities afforded the army and navy for Teligious instruction,and the means which should be adopt. ed to effect a reform. A memorial to Congress was then read by Rev. Dr. Edwards, of the West Arch Street it has been printed, and copies were distributed at the adjourninent of the meeting. Among its suggestions are the following — The memorialists would pray your ho crease the number of ehaplains authorized forthe army and for the navy. upon the prineiple that a Christian government Should Curish adequate religions instruction tothowe who, in kovernment service, are deprived of i. To require that no per fon shail be eligible to the otfiee of Chaplain who shail not Produce formal and offivial testimonials of hia good religions iastical standing, and of his qualifications for the -s ot his office. like appointments to the chapiainey of morable body to in- th To retire upon a feasonable salary such chapising now in commission as may be by reason of age or infirmity disabled fom effectiv To require of all chaplains, to either arm; = of the service rendered, together on! or navy, stated (th statistical and that an abstract or vessels, and to speure to.cach chaplain oo designated ell Proper facilities for the stated religious instru for the conduct of divine worship among them. And your memorialists will ever pray. seconded He bad been very much surrounded by “ fighting men” all bis life. His commanded the frigate Sam- son during the ee ‘an army command out West, Present meeting, his nephew, Pe Bente sen nde ae . BRawRen requested him to read it, as he (the Chairman, pared it as @ text for him to Uons the negligent manner in the chaplain a United sailed, acted; the tittle ini contrast shown by a Mr. Warriner, (since a teacher of mathematica, nay , &e., and aj devoted- z adieu wate sae a ee ju heir meal hours, when he would sit down wi them in their messes, and perbaps aig 3 A chaplain is only on of ships, 80 that there is but one in a squadron, although there may be many othes vessels in the same squadron ‘no leas reqiiring the Dr. Brainerd made a cay speech. He By 4 Bhar oon BM made a strong eggs Lang Cog Vickers, of Britieh in the Crimea, Keg, ‘Thomas ton then made a short speech, after Which the nm- morial was adopted and the meeting adjourned until next ‘Thursday morning. vi — Svrcroe OF AN AcTRESS.Mra, Craft, an actress, and wife of Profosgpr Ceo, leader of the ‘orchestra of Fe) have akan WRb intent fo de ve. ht es oe ut! performed oni fore aoe ae @ vi y, and it ae think that hor exiatence has been fo suddenly and ribly terminated. Her nati was in London, and belonged for a eeason to the 8. Lanie theatre. —— Scarica Warat i Canapa—The Toronto Co- Joniet, in a statistical article on the grain crops of Oanada than st (bushels, and that no. etitien oxist, un: y yn pat emey ag | by the Grand Trunk Railroad, for the jon of this produce. This oecurrence, a0 for. tonate for the United States, is the means of locking ap in Canada for the present some ®wo milhons sterlin. worth of produge, for which there seums to ve ng oulict Robin- | The a Smith Murder Case in Philadelphia. VERDICT OF THE JURY—SCBNES IN AND ABOWC {From ‘The expe verdict mornjog in the case of Thomas W: with the murder of Richard mense crowd comparatively few were enab! ‘o gain mission to the court room, and the majority wore excluded strove to gratify their curiosity by clambering up to the windows, or staring at the privileged, who were permited to {oe Numerous rumors were in cirqulation as to the z probable | result of the case. Tho ne it was said, last night stooe eight for acquittal, while the other four jurors were diviced upon the propriety of a verdict fixing the crime of the prisoner at some inferior je of homicide. It wag also rumored that at daylight this morning the jury stood eleven for acquittal against one for a verdict of man- slaughter. The crowd, in short, tried the case over |, and warmly diecussed the question of the proba- bility’of a verdict at all to-day. ‘ had an arduous task of it to Keep the passages 0 the room free from obstruction, Inside the court room the scene was exceedingly imte- resting. iuconvenient apartment was crowded, as usual, and a very large number of females, who had ne counection whatever with the case had worked their through all obstacles to obtain seats. The prisoner stood outside the dock conversing with a wumber ot friends.aa- til within a short time of ten o'clock, when he took hie place in the dock, aud Cee his face in his hands r¢ into his usual condition apparent indifference. Smith was by her brother, as she has been singe the commencement of the trial. She was ¢: - ingly pale and oureworn, but her countenance had a - sant and hi 4 heroic lady was as much am object of attantion as her unfortunate brother. opening of the Court the juay made their Sepearance and all eyes were fixed the jurors, but their faces Bore no indication of what the ver- dict was to be. As soon as the jurors were seated, the Crier of the Court, by order of Judge Allison, announced that perfect silence must be preserved, and directed the officers of the Court to take into custody auy person who should make any demonstraticns whatever upon the rea- dering of the verdict. Mr. J. 0. Tobias, the Clerk of the Court, then addreased Mr. ‘Theodore Fsling, the foreman of tho jury, as fol- lows: Cierk—Gentlemen of the jury, haye you agreed uy your verdict? sd " 7 - Foreman—We have. Clerk—Thomas Washington Smith, stand up and hole up your right hand: Geutlemen of the jury, stand up. Prisoner, iook upon the jurors; jurors, look mn the pev- soner, How say you’ fo you flad Thomas Washingtom Smith guilty of the felony of murder whereof he stands indicted, or not guilty * Foreman—Not guiity, on the groundof insanity at the time of the commission of the act. Clerk—Gentiemen of the jury, hearken tothe verdict as the Court have it recorded. You say that you fina Thomas Washington Smith not guilty of the charge at the Ume of the commission of the act, and so you say all. Jurors—We do Alleyes were directed to the prisoner at the moment the verdict was announced; but Ke betrayed no emotow whateyer, and before the jurors bad resumed their seate he had sat down again and buried his face in his hands. Miss Smith controlied hor emotions and made no display of taeling. There was au evident desire oa the part of some of the persons present to applaud: but the strict er- ders of the Court kept them in check. As soon as the verdict of the jury was recorded, Mosars. Brownand Thayer, counsel tr the prisoner, stepped fer- ward, and Mr. Thayer read the following PETITION OF MISS SMITH. To the Honorable the Judges of the Court of Over and Ter- miner of Fhiladelphia County:—The petition of Mary Btize- beth Smith respectfully, showetls that her brother, Thomas Smith, was Intely tried in this court upon an ta ging bim with the homicide of Richard Carter, S been acquitied of the said charge by a jury of his country, upon the ground of insanity at the time’ of the killing of ihe said Carter. Your petitioner further shows that she is the sister and nearest relative of the said Thomas Wash. ington Smith, and that ste is desirous that her brother should be placed in auch circumstances that he can receive the care, Supervision and attention of herself and his ofher relations amd friends: she therefore earnestly aad respectfully = Honors to make an order for the delivery of ine male ‘homas'Washington Smith to your petitioner, upon her giving security Remy wg AD your Honors that the said Washington Smith shall be restrained by seclusion or other- wise from the commission of any offences, in conformity with the act LS oo tha: made aud provided; and your petitioner wili humbly pray, &c. MARY E. SMITH. Mr. Maun said that he med the Court would fix — time for hearing this app! jon and deciding upon it. Judge Allison remarked that the petition must take ite usual course. Time must be allowed for hearing tesei- mony it the case, if the Commonwealth has any to offer, and for deciding upon the application. He would suggest uext Saturday morning. Mr. Brown oom that there was a strong necessity for placing Smith where he would receive immediate care and attention. His condition is such that he requires prompt and careful attention, and unless he receives this neces sary care he may be delivered over to a worse fate than that he has just been released from. If death should ee- sue, it will be the fault of the Commonwealth, which is throwing obstacles in the way of his receiving prompt at- tention. He now stands before the Court an innocent man, but with the malady he is afflicted with superadded to his innocence to make him an object of kindness and con- sideration. If there were any good reasons for this delay, be (Mr. Brown) would not objeot to it, but there were none whatever, Mr. Thaser urged that his client had been confined twe months, and that hts mental and physical heaith were much impared by this confinement. Judge Allison said be had no desire to keep the prisoner confined any longer than is neceseary; but matters of this kind should not be acted upon out of their regular order. If the commonwealth had uo objection to immediate ac- thon, the Court was ready to on; but if there was any evidence to offer, adelay would perhaps be o . Mr. Mann said the ink was scarcely dry with the verdict was recorded before this petition was offered. It looks as if everything was in readiness and arranged be- forehand. There isa ty in conducting these things and the commonw may be ready to to mor. row or nextday. Medical men should be examined, and if Smith is @ raving maniac he should be sent to the lusane Asylum. If he is Gangerous, he should be detained; a bond will not prevent crime. Mr. Brown took exception to the remark of the District Attorney, that there had been a pre arrangement. The defence i this case had been as free from pre-arrange- ments as representative of the commonweelih bad ever been. They (the defence) took their jury fairly, they tried the case fairly, and they acquitted the prisoner fairly. He put the matter on the score of and asked what fered enough to make a sanc man mad. We demand now upon what reason you would again consign him to the penitentiary? We stand upon the law of humanity and npon the peculiar rietios of the cage, and that's our pre arrangement. ‘e ask tie Court w make ita de- cision. ludge Allison referred to the verdict of the jury and to the act of the Assembly in such cases, and said that to act now would be to manifest indecent haste. The Court would fix Thursday morning at 10 @clock for the conside- ration of the application. Mr. Brown—In what custody will the prisouer romain meanwhile? Judge Allison—tIn the same custody. Mr. Brown—Not in a cell? Judge Allison—The sheritT has the care of the prisoner, ‘and he will pay r attention to his wants. The Judge further remarked to Mr. Brown that the case had been conducted fairly upon all sides. The Court was entirely satisfied with the verdict, as the evidence fully justified it. Judge Ludlow reminded the counsel for the defence that the act of Assembly made it diser with the Court to deliver the prisoner either into the custody of his friends ‘or to send him to the State Lanatic Asylum. It wag neces- sary to hear the reasons of the Commonwealth, and ume ‘was necessary for this. Judge Allison then thanked the jury for their long and close attention to the case, and complimented them the tairness of their verdict. The jurors were then The Court took a recess for a short time te be cleared, and a great aaeun of per- the room, and jo @ carriage, which was iy driven © Sactee a a, where be will be confined rt takes some action upon the petition sister. of the late was tl » bal for vociferous cheering, which continued ‘ts, long 2 be —_— remained in sight. hearty cheers. We learn that friends of Sanith 10 prosecute the divorce against his wife. ‘Theatrical, Musteal, dc. Broapway TuraTee.—The , elegant horses, sprightly gymnasts, kagacious - astonish- ing acrobats, ferocious beasts, en and fairy spectacle of ‘Cinderella’ may all be seen this evening. Niwto’s Garpen.—Dan Rice will this evening give bie personal superintendence to the of his ox- cellent corps of equestrians, admirably trained tame rhinoceros, comical mules, &c. pleasul ers will mise this show. re-seek, lated to render them popular. Berton’s.—Sbakepere’s comed, Se repeua scight, Mecors nth rey to. \ favorite characters in it. Lavra Keene's —Wilkie Collins’ new drama entitled « The Light House,”’ is to be for the first ime in this country to night. Misses Keene and Thompson, and Messrs. Wheatleigh and Burndtt are in the cast, which ia otherwire good. Ammricay Mcsrum.—Qnite a sensation has been among the frequenters of this establishment by the drama called the ‘Pioneer Patriot,” which is to be re- Gas” ‘The “ Queen's Page’ is announced for Gro. Connery, axp Woon's Mineraris.—All who desire to enjoy ng Ay A do so by seeing those favorite performers, ) Holland and Geo, Christy, in the com- cality entitled ‘New Year Calis,’ which is the closing piece for to night. a Sutanssten.— The immense ouembiaree hed Broadway afford the best possible proof of popu- larity of the whimsical sayings and doings of Messrs. R. B. ond G.S. Buckley, Siter, Mulligan, and others of the pe Tue Ravan Brorimrs, though last on the lis@ are among the very first in the estimation of amusoment seekers. Dan's genuine original, Reaence of Old Virgina,” whiek he will exhibit te oight, is wort doybie the pave of al- mised