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Address of Judge Ducr :n Strang preceding the Sen
tence uf Death.
The following is Judge Doer's address to Strang
when he pronounced the sentence of the law upon
him. It had a perceptible effect upon the prisoner,
and the whole audience, appeared deeply impressed
rith the awful solemnity of the occasion :
Jesse Strang! Hearken to what l shall say to
You have been indicted on the oaths ot the
Grand Inquest ofthe comity of Albany, as a princi
pal felon in the murder of John Whipple, to which
indictment ou your arraignment you pleaded Nut
Guilty, and for your deliverance put yourself upon
your country'. The jury selected from that coun
try, for your trial, have found you Guilty, and it re
mains only for the court to pass sentence of death
against you.' Have you aught to say why the judg
ment ofthe law should not be pronounced upon you ?
You say nothing. Nothing is to be said. The
crime for which you are to suffer is ol the deepest
dye—the circumstances uuder which it was com
mitted are of the most attrocious character, and your
guilt has been most clearly established. Bv your
own confession, you planned and executed die de
struction of the deceased, with the most deliberate
and perfidious cruelty. Not with the ferocity o
the tiger, but with the cunning of the serpent and
malignity of a fiend. Impelled by lust and ava
rice, you directed your subtle machinations to the
possession of the person and property of hts wile,
s an j | lav ; ng succeeded in one part ot your design,
ot. pllrgue d it with remorseless energy and unre
lenting perseverance until you had removed, as you
a- supposed, the sole obstacle to the accomplishment
j ,,f' {he other. You commenced by seducing this
weak) infatuated woman from her allegiance to her
husband—proceeding, beguiled her from her duty to
s i . , 1 family and her God, and ended her
rffirfwitli the murtler (if her husband ; ami badyou
escaped detection, you would probably have l ea i7.
t | ie gulty expectation that tempted you to these art
, 0 f complicated villainy. Hut the murderer seldom
cSefltnCÄ
1 him ; and a special Providence seems frequently to
discover him, when trusting to his artifices lie tllinKS
lm« , f TMs m ay have been he case w. 1
J««. Ytiu.probably imagined ta ,f y „u I
elude the vigilance of man, your S™ " "'
nue unrevealed ; or even, that it you could e. ape
punishment in this world, you would have nothin^
to apprehend in that which is to come. But justice
has been swift to overtake you, and you now stand
convicted, trembling and weeping before a tribun.i
of your fellow-men. How w.l you appear before
your God ? Perhaps you doubt that there is a God,
and from the selfish obduracy ot your conduct, as
well as from reports founded on your own conies
stons, which though not officially before u ,
frotu their notoriety reached our ears, we fear that
you.
most
the
for
for
jour heart has been long since hardened, and jour
mind darkened into Atheism ; that infidelity was
the source of an earl y and intense depravitj, and
the ultimate cause of jour last must aggravated and
heinous crime. You have indeed pursued jour cu
reer of blood, regardless of God or man. You bave
defied the powers of earth, and set at nought the
vengeance of Heaven. Reckless of your own fate,
you have not scrup'ed to involve in it, the temporal
ai«! eternal doom of others, You have sent a confi
ding husband suddenly to his account, and sought
the destruction, body and soul, of a treacherous and
deluded wife. And you have done all this without
provocation, without resentment, without animosity,
without passion ; but in cold-blooded malignity, and
from heartless calculations of profit to yourself. In
contempt of the divine command, you coveted your
neighbor's house arid his wife, and in order to oh
tain them, you have violated without compunction,
every remaining precept ofthe moral law.
If you had no dread of eternal consequences, and
deliberately resolved to hazard your own repute
tion, your peace of mind, and even your mortal ex
istence in the prosecution of your nefarious ends
had you no consideration, no Remembrance of your
friends ? Did it never cross your active, scheming,
restless mind, that you had honest parents and other
reputable connexions, whose good name would be
. 1 • , , . iit- i u
tarnished—whose peace would be injured, whose
l.ves might terminate in sorrow for your crimes ?
your heart were not of stone, if it could have felt
one touch ol humanity, that reflection would have
staid your murderous hands. If in the hardness and
sei sufficiency ot your heart, you forgot and despi
sedthem: vet, will not this Court overtook their
request, or disregard their grief ; but from respect
to their unmer ted suflenng, will.spare them the ad
dihonal pang of ordering your lifeless body for dis
section, and in the exercise of its discretion, direct
it to be delivered into their hands.
If the monitor within your breast, be not already
awakened, or you regard not what is said to you,
listen, I charge you, to the still small voice ot con
science. It cun admonish you more potently, and
convince you more deeply, than can words from the
lips ol man. If you have not already begun to tool
that you owe your being to an Almighty and Eternal
Author, and that you have offended, not i.erely
j againsthuman ordinances, but against the immutable
; u vys of the infinitely wise and righteous Ruler ofthe
Universe— U'y ou do not already believe that your
accountability is not confined to this world, assure
as you still exist, you will one day know it ; and you
will soon know, that without the divine mercy, you
must meet eternal punishment—as sure as there is a
God.
God.
of
Prepare then, to meet him face fo face. Pray!
if you ever have, or ever can, for his mercy; for
that only can avail you now. Die you must—on
earth you can expect no pardon—from Heaven alone,
must you look for it ; and there may be mercy there, „
even for one so vile and wretched as yourself. But
it is to be obtained only from the infinite mercy of
the God whom you have denied ; through the merits
and intercession of the Saviour you have despised ;
am! by tiie influence of the holy spirit, whose aid
have rejected.—Full am! unfeigned n peutarice,
ts the only condition on which it is vouchsafed. But
your heart of stone must be converted to a heart of
flesh—you must be brought to feel, and abhor, and
to acknowledge your guilt ; and through penitence
and contrition, must your soul be purified. Be not,
however, deceived ; your onl y hope of pardon after
death, depends on the sincerity uf your repentance
before you die. For in the grave there is neither
repentance nor forgiveness. Neither can man veil
ture to assure you of pardon: for God alone can
read your heart. Improve then the time afforded
you. It will be long enough for every essential pur
pose of preparation ; but not for encouraging vain
and delusive imaginations, or reviving lingering re
grets, or fallacious expectations. From this instant,
consider yourself cut oft" from file world and all that
herein is; look only up on your entrance to the next.
And at your final departure, seek not the applause
of men, but humble yourself as it becomes you, be
fore an offended God. Affect not the character of
an heroic felon, but endeavor to behave like a Chris
tian ; and however contrite and penitent you may
feel, be not deluded into supposing yourself a mar
tyr or a saint, but remember to the last momeut of
your life, that you are a malefactor and a sinner.
The sentence of the law is, that yuu Jesse Strang,
otherwise called Joseph Orton, be taken lienee to the
place from whence you came, there to remain in
in custody of the sheriff of the county of Albany,
until Friday the 24th day of August, inst. on which
day, between the hours of 12 at noon and three there
after, you are to be brought forth by the sheriff' to
some proper place, to be by him selected lor the pur
pose, and there hung by the neck until you are dead
—And may Gud have mercy on your immortal sou!
E x tract S fromûeseiond^ofDr.Godman',
^ 0possUM _The hunting of the opossum is a
f it t with the country people, who fre
„^ut with their dogs at night, alter the
I ÖnfÄLvebeganrnfätheP^mmon fruits
j„ lts , nu#t delicious state. The opossum, as soon
^ j ie discovers the approach of hts enemies, lies
.| ectlv c f ose t o the branch, or places himself snug
separate from each other. The
goon H ann0UDCet he fact of his pre
o baying, and the hunter ascending the
t ,,e branch upon which the animal is
geat , an(J beg i ns t 0 shake it with great violence to
as ftnd cause h i m t0 w i ax his hold. This is soon
. and the op()SSUm attempting to escape te
another limb is pursued immediately, and the shak
| anotner I
vrai
a
ing is renewed with greater violence, until at length
the terrified quadruped allows himself to crop to the
ground, where hunters or dogs prepared to despatch
him.
Should the hunter* as frequentlj happens, be On.
accompanied bv dogs when the opossum falls to the
ground it dues not immediately make its escape,but
steals slowly and quietly to a little distance, and
then gathering itself into as small a compass as pos
sible, remains as still as if dead. Should there he
any quantity of grass or underwood near the tree,
this apparently simple artifice is frequently sufficient
to secure the animal's escape, as it is difficult by
moonlight or in the shadow of the tree, to distinguish
it, and if the hunter has not carefully observed the
s pnt where it Jell, his labour is often in vain. • i bn?
circumstance, however, is generally attended to,and
the opossum derives little benefit from Ins uwunc
tive artifice. _ . ,
After remaining in this apparently li.eless cdn
^Hion fur a considerable time, or so long as anyno.se!
indicative of danger can be heard, the oppossuiß
slowly unfolds himself; and creeping as closely au
pw»l>le upon the ground, would lam sneak of if un
Pprce.ved. Upon a shout or outcry many one from
h,s persecutor he Immediately renews Ins rieath-l.kd
ness ; J' lÄ'
e . d ur . h » n,Hcd ' he ; 8t ' '
deceive any one not accustomed ti> lus actions. Inis
. . . J. ted as frequently as Opportunity is
^ u atte!nptin J to csc J ape , a 7, d is knoWD
w ^ tu the countr } fl) f ks as , J have long since
,, a j, e •„ , j 'possum"
!fe(1 witt) - rea diness by them to any on«
• V , h( ht fu act deceitfully or wishes to appear
, , . ® d
usua l haunts of the opposum are thick Woods?
alld their dens are generally in the hollows of de
d (rees? where t j le y pass the day asleep, and sal
ly * fort i, mos ,| y after nightfall to seek for food,
They are occasionally seen out during the day light?
espP " c j a [|y when they have young une* of considéra
b[e size> too large to be carried ill the maternal
pouc | 1> 'j'] ie female then ofi'ers a very singular ap-'
pearancCl as s |ie toils along with twelve or sixteen
' ubs llea rly the size uf rats, each with the turn of his
tad around rout of his mother's and clinging on
i er back and sides with paws, hands and mouth.
-j*|,;. circumstance was thought distinctive of another'
a
species, hence called the dornigere, bot it is equalijf
true of the common Virginia oppossum. It is exv
ceediugly curious to see the young, when the mother
is at rust, take refuge in the [much, when one or'
two of them may occasionally be seen peeping out,
with an air of great comfort and satisfaction. Th«
mother in this condition, or at any time in defence!
of her young, will make battle, bitting with much
teeness and severity, for which her lung canine
for teeth are well suited.
if taken young, the opossum is readily tamed ami.
becomes very fond of humane society, in a great de
„ lee relinquishes its nocturnal habits, and grows
troublesome from its familarity.—We have had one
thus tamed which would follow the inmates of the
house with great assiduity, and complain bv a whi
ning nuise when left alone. As it grew older it be
came misciieivous from its restless curiosity, ami
there seemed no possibility of devising any contri
vance effectually to secure it. The same circuttl
stance is frequently remarked by persons, who havö
attempted to detain them in captivity, and of all tha
instances which have come to our knowledge, where?
even a great number were apparently well secured
they have all in a short time enlarged thcmselvs and
been no more heard of. In some such instances these
animals have escaped in the city, and for a long tim«
have taken their quarters in cellar':, where theirpres
ence has never been suspected, as (luring the day they
remained concealed. In this way it is probably
that many are still living in the city of Philadelphia,
obtaining plenty of food by their nightly labours,
a
From, the Vagaries of Naturei
THOMAS TOPHAM.TIIE STRONG MAN.
Tojilmm was horn in London, in the year 1711,
and presented the most extraordinary instance of
human strength recorded in modern times. The
great proof he gave of his wonderful powers, was ia
pulling against a horse in Moorfield ; he next lifted
a rolling stone of 800 lbs weight, with his hands
ouly, standing in a frame above it, and taking hold
of a chain that was fastened to it. Dr. Hutton, ins
his " history of Derbyshire," gives this account
of him : When this second Sampson appeared
at Derby as performer in public at a shilling
each, he surprised every one by his feats. I his
wonderful man, in whom were united the strength of
twelve, could roll up a pewter dish of 3 pounds as
a man rolls up a sheet of paper ; hold a pewter
art at arms length and squßezö the sides together
like an eggshell, lift two hundred weight with his
little finger, and move it gently over his head, lief
broke a rope of about two inches in circumference,
which was in part wound round a cylinder of five
inches in diameter, having fastened the other end
of it to straps that went over the. shoulders, Lifted
an oak table 6 feet long, with his teeth, thohgb half
a hundred weight was to the extremity, and held it
in a horizontal position for considerable length ot
time. It is true the feet of the table rested against
his knees ; but as the length of the table was much
u-reater than its height, that performance requires a
^reat strength to be exerted by the mnscles of his
Foins, neck and jaws, besides a good set of teeth.—
He took Mr. Chambers, vicar of all Saints, who
weighed twenty-seven stone, and raised him with
one hand. His hand being laid on one chair, and
his feet on another, four people, (fourteen stone
each), sat upon his body which he heaved at plea
He Struck a round bar ol iron, about a y aid
qu
sure