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wORCE S T E R :
Free Soil Nomination.
For Congress,
IV. dis. JOHN G. PALFREY of Cambridge.
DR. BAIRD'S LECTURES.
Mr. Editor :—Perm t me to call the attention of
v our readers, and particularly of the younger portion of
them, to the Lectures on Europe by Dr. Baird. No
person, who has not listened to those already given, enn
have an adequate idea of the interest and instruction
embodied in them, and I venture to say, that years of
historical research, with the aid of the tourist and jour
nalist, would utterly fail ot giving us the life like pic
ture of any giv< n portion of Europe which can be oh.
tained from a single lecture of Dr Baird. Indeed, it is
information which we can get from no other quarter
short of actual travel, and, even from this latter source,
perhaps, ninely*nine per cent, of foreign tourists would
fail of obtaining as valuable information tn their hasty
travel through a country, as is imparled by Dr Baird in
one lecture. In order to undeistand the mighty drama
which is being acted all over Europe al the present
time, these lectures are unspeakably valuable. With
the large and elegant maps before you, he is enabled to
locate every historical event or geographical fact both
to the eye and the mind, so vividly, as not easily to be
forgotten. He lias maps of the piincipal cities, and by
his clear and interesting descrip ion, lie wa ks with you
through their streets, shows jou their palaces, their pub
ic buildings, sits down with you in the domestic circle,
calls a hack and gives you a drive all over the cities,
introduces you to court, goes with you to a princely
wedding, show s you the bride, her dress, and the, to us,
singular ceremonies which one is obliged to observe ere
the metamorphosis is completed. In a word permit me
to say, that every item of information he gives you, is
just that which you would wish most to know, and which
would be most useful to you.
I do not know but you may think me somewhat too
entliusias'ic in my language, and 1 do suspect myself of
a considerable share of it in regard to those lectures,
and 1 have only to say in addition, that if any one could
listen to the Gist two of the course as I have, and not
catch a little inspiration, and not go away with the full
conviction of having spent an evening most proGiab y
and pleasantly, I should not choose that man as my com
panion in a European tour.
I have written this solely because I do not wish a sin
gle one to lose this opportunity of listening to what 1
consider as decidedly the most interesting and u-eful
lectures I ever listened to in my life.
\our readers will notice that the tickets are only fifty
aud seventy-five cents for the remainder of the course.
The most interesting portions of Europe are yet tube
described.
1 sincerely hope that Brinley Hall may be filled as
literal'y as it was at the introductory lecture—w hich was
full- Listener.
The President ad Interim. The Na
tional Intelligencer, noticing the statement, gen
erally circulated, that Mr Atchison was the act
ual President on the 4th of March, makes the
following comment:
“This was of course intended for a jest by its
original proprietor ; but having been regarded by
some readers as a grave statement ot lact, we
take leave to say that Gen. Taylor possessed all
the power ot President of the United States at
any time after the legal expiration of the 3d day
of March. The President is required, it is true,
by the constitution, to take a prescribed oath be
fore he enters upon the execution ot his office ;
but he is the President of the United States from
the moment ot the expiration of the term of the
preceding President, and no man but he can, un.
der the circumstances, discharge any function of
President of the United States. It is only ‘in
case ot the removal of the President from office,
or ot his death, resignation, or inability to dis
charge the powers and duties of the said office,’
that -the same shall devolve on the Vice. Presi
dent, and next to him, in case of his removal,
death, &c, upon the President pro tern of the
Senate, should there be one, and, if not, then on
the Speaker of the House ot Representatives,
‘tor the time being.’ ”
American Slavery. The London Spec
tator of June 13th, remarks upon this subject:
The greatest ot all questions that await the
model republic is, how to abolish slavery with
the least infliction ot injury; and that question
should engage timely and earnest attention. Va
rious ways might be devised ; we incline to think
that the best would be gradual, self-developing,
and tending to remove the emancipated blacks
from the neighborhood of the whiles. No en
terprise more honorable or profitable could be
undertaken by the patriots of the American Un
ion—the leading statesmen of the western hem
isphere.
Mitchel at Bermuda. A letter receiv
ed in Washington from a gentleman in Bermuda
says:
I had the melancholy pleasure a few days
since of seeing Mitchell,'the Irish patriot Poor
fellow 1 He looks sad and weary worn—rarely,
il ever smiling, and apparently always absorbed’
in brooding over bis desperate fortunes. Ido
not think, judging from appearances, that he can
outlive the summer. He is but the shadow of
what he once was, and in habits, tastes, and tern
perainent, the mere apology of the frank, lively
Irishman 1 knew him to be two years since.
His treatment, in all other re
spects, is rigorous enough; though this I am
free to believe, is less galling to his proud spirit.
. than the knowledge of his fallen condition. He
says little, though evidently thinks much—
thoughts that partake of passion, rather than ol
meekness, or as intended to conciliate revenge.
It is the powerful incentive of retribution which
seems alone to keep him alive.
Jewish Emancipation. The English pre
n.ier has, in accordance with his previously ex
pressed intentions, introduced into Parliament
his new bill for the removal of all the remaining
disabilities of the Jews. It is similar to the bill
rejected at the last session, but it is thought that
ttie measure will now be successful.
EF Judge Crunch, of the highest court of the oisiricl
of Columbia, has decided that Mr. Bain is entitled to a
patent as well as Prof. Morse. This breaks up the odi
ous teiegra] b monopoly I
POLICE COURT.
Wednesday, March 14.
Dennis Quillahan was convicted of assault and bat
tery on Mary Mulhearn on Tuc-day, and fined one dol*
Jar and costs £4,03, which he paid and was discharged.
Mary Mulnearn was convicted of being a common
drunkard for six months past, and sentenced to the work
house lor sixty days.
John Fogarty was convicted of selling spirit at retail,
and sentenced to pay a fine of £2O and costs, £4,71, in
default cf which he was committed to prison.
Thursday, March 15.
Albert Owen and les wife Elizabeth, were convicted
of being drunk, and sentenced to pay a line of £1 and
*°sls, £5,29 each, in default whereof, they were com*
milted to prison.
Friday, March IG.
John Hartshorn of Shrewsbury, alias John Sweat,
Dr Sweat and some half dozen other aliases, for being
drunk, pleaded guilty, and was fined £1 and the costs,
$5, H, which he paid and was discharged.
O’ Major B. B. French, president ol the Magnetic
Telegraph Company, writes that a printed copy of the
inaugural of President Taylor was in the bauds of a
gentleman in Philadelphia at 12 o’clock noon on Mon*
day, one hour before it was delivered by the President,
and long before a copy of it was seen in the telegraph
office in Washington !
O’ The Springfield Republican does not seem to
have entire confidence in the reports of that original
Taylor paper, the New York Herald, of the doings at
Washington. Ii cautions its readers against relying on
its statements, and closes by saying “if you read that
paper at all, read it as an infidel reads the bible.” We
trust the editor meant no equivocal comparison in that
remark.
E? New Way of Doing Good !—The man who,
in any way, contributes that information by which we
may avoid the numerous ills of life,or adds to the cheer,
fulness and good natuie of the community at large, is a
real benefactor, and desi rving of public patronage.
And, as it is a settled point, that all the animal creation,
from instinct, up to men, are constituted and disposed,
by the Divine Creator, for recreation and amusement, it
becomes a matter of the first importance as to where
how, and when our amusements are so timed as to de*
velope the health of the body, as well as the growth ol
the mind. And, now, if you have not attended the
lectureajof Mr Sunderland, remember his last one is
given in WARREN HALL to-night, where multi
tudes have been amused, astonished, and benefitted
during the past two weeks. Go early Q.
O Mr. Sunderland lectures, on Religion to
morrow evening, at Brinley Hull. See his advertise,
ment.
Nominations. The following nominations were
sent to the Senate yesterday Z. Ring, for Surveyor
of the Port of New York ; Mr. McGaughey for Gov
ernor of M inesota Territory.
Hon. Chas. W. Rockwell ot Conn., has
been nominated to the office of Commissioner of
the Customs—a new office created by the organ
ization of the Home Department. *•
From California. The New York Tri
bune publishes two letters received by a mercan
tile house in that city, from their agent in San
Francisco, who is] said to be “a man of sound,
cautious, and reliable character.”
The writer says he ctme to San Francisco
with a cargo bought for $9,000, at high prices at
Sandwich Islands and he had sold it tor $35,000.
That he had sold $300,000 worth ot goods, at
large profits, in three months; and he urges his
friends to come out there, as there is gold enough
tor everybody. On the new placer men were
getting S7OO per day in some cases, and of such
purity that it scarcely needed washing.
The Norfolk County Railroad Pro
jects. The Legislative Committee on Rail
roads, on Monday, discharged themselves to the
Senate, of the various petitions for railroads
through p'rts of Norfolk county, towards Woon
socket, R. 1. The Committee report three bills,
which they hope may settle this long contested
question to the satisfaction of the greater part ot
the persons interested. One bill incorporates
Otis Pettee, Edgar K. Whittaker, and others, as
the Charles River Branch Railroad Company,
with a capital ot $300,000, t 0 run from the Wor-’
cester Railroad at Angier’s Corner, in Newton,
or from the Brookline Branch, through Newton
and East Needham, to Dover, passing near New
ton Centre and Upper Falls. Another bill in
corporates Samuel Frothingham and others, as
the Medway Branch Railroad Company, with a
capital of $76,000, to run frorh the Norfolk Coun
ty Railroad in North Wrenthan, through East
Medway, to Medway Factory Village, with lib
erty to use the Norfolk County and Providence
Railroad tracks, and to transfer their franchise to
the Norfolk County Railroad corporation The
third bill authorizes the Norfolk County'road to
build a branch from Bellingham towards Woon
socket, R. I. About all the contestant’, it is
said, are satisfied with the decision of the pres
ent committee.— Bost. Cour.
Russia, Feb. L ThTnew Krem
lin, or Imperial Palace at Moscow, is almost fin
ished, and the numerous domes which surmount
this vast and magnificent edifice, have just been
gilded. The style and the profusion of ornament
with which the fronts are covered, recall Ithe
splendid dwellings °( the ancient Grand Dukes
of Russia. In the interior of the palace is the
enormous ball of St. George, in which in placed
in the centre a colossal equestrian statue ol that
saint fighting with the dragon, and in the niches
aie placed eighteen emblematic figures, repre
sen tng tie eighteen provinces conquered by
Russia. The hall of St. Andrew, (the hall of
the throne) >» decorated with ba, reliefs in mar
ble containing episodes in the Russian History.
A , lexander is o* porphyry covered
with architectural ornaments which are reflect
ed in the immense mirrors ol which the ceiling
is composed, fne new Kremlin at Moscow will
be without contradiction one of the most curious
palaces which exist in Europe.
Lotton The Mobil? Tribune no-
PanJ r u 11 Of a San,|,le o! wild ‘rom
anama. It was procured from a tree growing
upon the mountain about four leagues from Pan
ama. Ihe cotton is of a very fine and silky tex-
I T t 6 r aS ° ne year old - about twenty
hve high and tlnrfy feet across near the top.
Fhe body four teet from t!.e ground, measured
bur niches in dian eter.
Massachusetts Legislature.
'Thursday, March 15.
Senate. Petitions presented and referred—Ol ihe
Bank of Barre, for an t xtension of lime for paying in its
capital stock.
An Order of Notice was issued on the petition of the
Selectmen of L; nn, for a city charter.
Orders adopted —O,l motion of Ml Biooks, instruct*
ing the Committee on the Judiciary to consider the ex
pediency of al eriug several sections ot ihe charier of
the city of Worcester.
Bussed to be enacted —Bills concerning Alien Passen*
gers; to alter the name of the Hopkinton High School;
to incorporate the Boston Musical Fund Society.
Reports of Committees.—Mr Motley, from the Com.
mittee on Education, to which was referred the memo*
rial of Harvard, Williams, and Amherst Col'eges, re
ported a bill establishing a fund for educational purpo
ses. The bill provides that as soon as the school fund
amounts to one million of dollars, a second shall accu
mulate, to be called the Massachusetts Fund for Public
Instruction. This fund is limited to £759.000 ; the pro
fits accruing from £500,000 are t > be divided equally
between the three Colleges, one halt of ihe sum that
each College leceives to be applied to a reduction of
tuition. The profits on the balance ,£250 000, are to
be applied to the Normal Schools and oilier educational
purposes. The division will commence «ben the fund
lias amounted to £750,000, in the proportion) of two
thirds to the Colleges and one-third to the Normal
Schools.
Passed to be enacted —Bills authorizing ihe towns cf
Dennis and Yarmouth to regulate a fishery in Bass riv
er ;to protect the Trout fishery in Marshpee river; em
powering the County Commissioners of Barnstable to
lay out a highway and build a bridge across navigable
wateis in the town es Dennis.
'The bill extending the time for constructing the Barre
and Worcester Railroad, and for changing it. name,was
ordered '<> a third readidg.
'The House took up the bill concerning the election of
Representatives in Congress, and Sectors ot President
and Vice President ot me United Stairs.
Mr. Hopkins of Northampton, moved to recommit,
with instructions to report a bill providing that upon the
first election lor Representatives lo the General Court,
those having the hghest number of votes shall be de
clared elected—that upon the second trial for members
of Congress and County Commissioners, the highest
number snail elect—and lo report a resolve proposing an
amendment of the Constitution, that the highest number
on the second trial for senators, Governor and Lieut.
Governor, shall also elect.
Messrs Kinsman of Newburyport, Brigham and
Schouler of Boston, and Waters of Millbury, addressed
the House in favor of the original bill, but in opposition
to the amendment.
Messrs. Hopkins of Northampton, and Griswold of
Greer field, advocated the amendment.
Friday, March 15.
Senate. Passed to be enacted —Bills, to authorize
the towns of Dennis and Yarmouth to regulate the fishers
ies in Bass River; to authorise the County Commission
ers of Barnstable to lay out a highway and construct a
bridge in the town of Dennis; to protect the Ti out fish*
ery in the Marshpee river.
The Senate was occupied all >he rest of the day in
debating the resolve in favor of Zebulon Paine for being
wrongfully imprisoned and then rejected it, 17 to 21.
House. Passed to be enacted— Bills to establish ad»
ditional terms of the Court of Common Pleas in Essex
county; concerning the Probate Court in Berkshire; ced
ing to tho United States jurisdiction over certain land in
1 ruco. Resolves in favor of the 'guardians of the Dud
'ley, I’unkapog and Troy Indians.
'I he orders of the day were taken up and a loug.de.
bale ensued on the subject of the plurality law.
The debate lasted until five minutes ot two o’clock
when, w ithout taking any question adjourned.
Horrible Murder and Aitempted Su
icide. Baronne-st was yesterday afternoon the
scene of one ot the most horrible tragedies ever
enacted in our city. The victim in the case was
a beautiful girl about 17 years of age, who is
supposed to have been murdered by a man nam
ed Joseph Bradley, Captain of the scr. Friend
ship, and who, after committing the deed, made
an unsuccessful attempt upon his own life. Mrs.
King, landlady ot the house in which the events
occurred, states that Bradley and the girl had
occupied apartments in her house about a month,
passing as man and wife. She further states that
they were lying on the bed most of the time
during the tore part of the day, (yesterday) and
were on the bed at about 12 o’clock when she
went out to do some shopping. She (Mrs. King)
returned home about 2 o’clock, or a little after,
and soon after entering the house she heard a
moan proceeding from Bradley’s room. She
went to the door, and opening it she saw Brad
ley lying on the floor in a pool of blood, and saw
that the woman was also lying on the floor dead.
Bradley was found to be living, and Dr. Meux
was called in and dressed his wounds. He was
at this time perfectly insensible, but became
conscious before 4 1-2 o’clock. The scene pre
sented, in the room where the bloody work had
been performed, was the most horrible we ever
looked upon. The girl, with outstretched hands
as if she had supplicated lor mercy to the last,
lay in one corner of the room in a gore ot blood —
her hands, face and throat mangled in the shock
ing manner; and in another corner laid Bradley
presenting scarcely a less ghastly spectacle. A
knife and razor, with which the terrible deed
had been committed, lay upon the floor as if to
complete the picture. It was found that she had
received five wounds, all apparently inflicted
with a knife, and two of them mortal. Her
hands were cut in several places, as if she had
attempted to defend herself against the knife
She also received a large gash across the chin.
Bradley was stabbed in the left side ot the ab
domen in different places, ami his throat was
pretty badly cut. The wounds in the abdomen
are very serious, and at the time we left the spot
the doctor thought there was little chance of re
covery. The cause which led to these terrible
results is supposed to have been jealousy. The
name of the unfortunate girl is Fanny Daley
but she has also been known as Fanny
and more recently as Mrs. Bradley.
A jealousy on the part of Bradley appears to
have existed lor several days, and we believe'
that a difficulty, which resulted in blows took
place on Sunday last. Bradley is in charge of
the physician, Dr. Meux, and if he recovers
will be dealt with according to law.-AYio Or
leans Picayune.
Capt. Bradley, was ready to sail i n the Friend
ship lor California, but had provisioned the ve/
sei for a three year’s cruise, and had borrowed
money on the credit of the voyage. The girl was
a prostitute, 17 years old, and the captam, who
have lived with her about a month, was j. nlou9
Prom the Aeic Pork Organ.
TRADE IN RIDDLES.
FROM THE GERMAN, BY MRS. ST. SIMON.
Nine persons Basle, down the
Rhine. A Jew, who wished to go Schalampi
was allowed to come on board, and journey with
them on condition that he would conduct himself
with propriety, and give tfie captain eighteen
kreutzers lor his passage. 8
Now, it is true something jingled in the Jew’s
pocket when he struck his hand against it; but
the only money there was therein, was a twelve
kreutzer piece, lor the other was a brass button.
Notwithstanding this, he accepted the oiler with
gratitude. 'For he thought to himself, “some
thing may be earned, even upon the water
tbe e ßhine‘ any “ "' an Wh ° baS gr ° Wn l ich u P on
During the first part of the voyage the passen
gers were very talkative and merry, and the Jew
with ns wallet under his arm, for lie did not lay
it aside, was the object of much mirth and mock
ery, as, alas! it is often the case with those of his
nation. But as the vessels sailed onward, and
passed Fhusingen and Saint Veit, the passengers
one after the other, grew silent, and gazed down
the river, until one cried:
“Come, Jew, do you not know anv pastime
that will amuse us? Your fathers must have con
trived many a one during their long stay in t> le
wilderness.”
“Now is the time,” thought the Jew, «t 0
shear iny sheep!” And he proposed that they
should sit round in a circle, and propound very
curious questions to each other, and he, with
their permission would sit with them. Those
who could not answer the questions, should pay
the one who propounded them a twelve kreutzer
piece, and those who answered them pertinently
should receive a twelve kreutzer piece.
1 he proposal pleased the company; and hoping
to divert themselves with the Jew’s wit or stupid
ity, each one asked,at random, whatever entered
his head.
Thus, for example, the first one aske l—“ How
many soft boiled eggs could the giant Goliath
eat upon an empty stomach?”
All said that it was impossible to answer that
question,and each paid his twelve kreutzers
The Jew said, “One; for he who has eaten one
egg, cannot eat a second upon an empty stom
ach, ” and the other paid him twelve kreutzers
The second thought, “Wait Jew,l will try you'
out of the New Testament, and 1 think I shall
win my piece. Why did the Apostle Paul write
the second epistle to the Corinthians?”
Ihe Jew said—“ Because he was not in Corinth
otherwise he would have spoken to them.” So
he won another twelve kreutzer piece.
When the third saw that the Jew was so well
versed in the Bible, he tried him in a different
way. “Who prolongs his wgrk, to as great a
length as possffile, and still completes it tine’” .
“The ropeinaker, if he is industrious,” said ihe
Jew.
In the meanwhile they drew nigh to a village
and one says to the other, “That is Bamlach
Then the fourth asked—“ln what month do the
people in Bamlach eat the least?”
The Jew said “In February, for that has only
twenty-eight days.” J
The filth said—“ There are two natural broth
ers, and only one ot them is my uncle.”
Ihe Jew said—“ The uncle is yoiir father’s
brother, and your lather is not your uncle ”
A fish now jumped out of the water, and the
sixth asked, “What fish have their eyes nearest
together?”
The Jew said, “The smallest.”
The seventh asked, “How can a man ride
from Basle to Bern, in the shade in the summer
time, when the sun shines?”
The Jew said, “When Ire comes to a place
where there is no shade, he must dismount and
goon foot.”
Ihe eight asked, “W hen a man rides in the
winter time horn Bem to Baise,and has forgotten
his gloves how must he manage so that his hands
shall not freeze?”
The Jew said, “He must make fists out ol
them.”
Ihe ninth was the last. This one asked,“How
can five persons divide five eggs, so that each
man shall recieve one, and still one, remain in
the dish?
The Jew said, “The last must take the dish
with the egg and he can let it lay there as long
as he pleases. b
But now it came to his turn, and he determin
ed to make a good sweep. Alter many prelim
inary compliments, he asked, with an air of mis
chmyous friendliness, “How can a man fry two
trouts in three pans, so that a trout may lie in
each pan?” •
Noone could answer this, and one after the
other gave him a twelve kreutzer piece.
But when the ninth desired that he should an
swer it himself, he frankly acknowledged that
a way eW " h ° W troutscoulJ <‘W<l in such
Then was it maintained that this was unfair in
the Jew ; but he stoutly affirmed that there was
no provision for it in the agreement, save that he
Who could not answer the question should pay
the kreutzers, and he fulfilled the agreement by
paymg that sum to the ninth of his comrades who
had asked him to solve it himself. But thev all
mem grateful for the amuse-
ment which had passed an hour or two very
pleasantly for them, laughed heartly over their
loss, and the Jew’? cunning
Now as it will be no difficult matter to compute
what the Jew gamed, we leave this for the rea
ders to de,merely putting them in mind that the
price of his passage was eighteen kreutzers.
Spate Prison in New The an-
nual report ol the Inspectors of Prisonsol New
York exhibits a decrease in the number of eon -
victs, as compared with the previous year of 55
at Auburn, and 71 at Sing Sing. “The phjsic
lanof the prison reports,’ writes the Albany cor
respondent or the Courier, “that, from a careful
investigation of convicts under a long term of
imprisonment, he has been irresistibly led lo the
conclusion, that five years is the longest term
which a convict can pass in retirement and be
restored o the world with ‘a sound mind in a
sound body. Ihe mind, like the body, in tho
absence of proper exercise, loses its tone and
strength. Convicts despair of “seeing out a long
sentence. b "
lie thinks that after long termsit would be
more merciful to retain them for life than to re
turn them to the world, incapable of self-control.
I he cutler shop sent most to the hospital, the
ador shop least. 227 ol the pnsoners confess
heir guilt; 187 deny it; 356 think they have
.ieen benefited by the imprisonment. Among
the ‘occupations’ of those sentenced to Auburn
I find 16 sportsmen, 10 speculators-1 in 3 are
unable to read; 1 in 2 left or were deprived ol a
home before th ay were sixteen years ol age.”