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fore iha period arrived he was app6jnled ts clerk ship, uader the Secretary oi the Treasury afthe v. s. and thence, tothe day of hIs death, was employed, suceessIvey, the Teasury-department, and in the capaciiy of Secretary of Legation, and Charge da6oaes, to the French court. In every public sts- alton which he held, he eminenty qualified for his official duties. With the constitution, the laws, and the useful institutions, not only of his country but ofthe several nations of Europe, and with iEe polit- cal relations and great interests, of each and all of them, no man, in tle U. S. was probably, better &C., quainied than MT. SheIdon.-But though possessedof the most inquest onah!e qualifications for eh prefer ment; he never sought it, and never aOished it. He aspired to erceence but not OMtcnrd distinction. His intellectual treasures were collected for use--not for exhibition. On every sbjectto which he diligeut- ly applied his mind, his Knowledge was not merely correct: It was, at once, comprehensive, and mnute to an extraordinary degree. But from a. lofty and delicate sense of propricy, which marked his whole department, he shrunk from vain, or useless, display of his requirements. He was, ,indeed, not less distinguished, by the native detcocy ofhis mind, than by his intellectual endowments. Very few men,
 among those, who distinguished by their talents and requirements, have been gifted with minds, of 1 higher order tsan his; and one, probably, ever
 "bore his f'cuIties'' more meekly.
 It must be very consoling to Mir. Shedons mourll-
 ing friends, to know that he has been honoured and
 mourned," in land of strangers that his useful hon.
 ourabe, and bameess life was closed, by tranquil ! and peaceful death; and that he has, probably, not 1 left persona enemy, behind hm.-SeIdom, indeed,
 has purer spirit eff the earth; and seldom have the
 purest left it. so entirely acithout reproach.
 Ertycct from q letter, gioing informatior Of Mr. 1 Sheidon's death.
 ! " He appeared, all along, aware of the little proba- "bIlity there was of his recovery; and frequently
 expressed to me, with perfect composure, his ex-
 ''peetation 1.-the fatal termination of his complaint |" He retained his reason, until the last and never dd
 Ga man bear up, under the prsssure of disease, and
 extreme debility, with greater fortitue, resignation
 " and patience, than Ne displayed" "His funeral
 'took place yesterday, tApr l8) and wasattendedby l (" all the Americans here (Nlarsees) )-by the Eng 1 |" fish Consul, and number of English and French 'gentemen. The American captains in port, show
 "ed their respect for.his memory, by hoistpg their l |" flags half mast"
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STATE PRISON.

The Report of the Directors of the Connecticut State Prison, which we publish to-day, will be read with interest by every patriot and phIlanhropis-by every ono who regards in any degree the honor and dignity of the State. New Gate prison was long blot upon character as humane people, as well as an almost intolerable tax upon our treasury But the latter should not be ntioneG comparison with the former. The accounts which have been given of the cruelty and wretchedness 10 which the prisoners were subjected in the old estabshment sufficient to make the stoutest heart ache. We recently heard the Rev. Mr. Dw ght, agent of the Prs. Dis. Society, state few particulars relative to New Gate, which appeared almost wanton injustice against Legisla
 tors believe. When his agency in this state, he visited the prison--which indeed he found to be prison, representing rather the abode of internal be- ings than of rational accountable men, One evening, in company we believe with the Hon. Martin Welles he drew near the small grate in one of the rooms which contained 30 convicts, and which there was sufficient upon the bare floor for all to stretch themselves comfortably in sleep. Thelr horrd inn precautions against their prosecutors and against each other together with the deadly stench which issued from the small apperture, were almost sufficient to make even the walls literally cry out against such system of prison discipline. These men, rendered furious by their hardships, required the most rigid treatment to render them in any orderly while attending their daily task and the raw-hde and the lash were not applied sparngly. Many of them will carry to their graves scars evidences of the lacera- tons they received for conduct such as any spirited man would have been guilty of under like provoca-, tons. It appeared be forgotten that these convicts were men, subject to like passions other people, they treated not only outlaws, but as venom ous beasts which nothing but the cruel treatment could restrain. No wonder their work did not cover the expenses ofther keeping-that they annually run the state in debt from to l00OO dollars mo wonder that when their term of service expired, they were like tigers let loose upon society. thrstng for human blood. But for the honor of humanity the picture is Teversed-a new and entirely different system of dis cipline has been prisoners are treated like men-they taught to feel that their keepers
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are not their enemies, that their punishment is no than strict justice requires, and no greater than
 they can bear and that the peaceful walks oi social
 intercourse are still open before them, requiring only their reformation the conditions of acceptance.- Like men, they feel the difference there is between cruelty and kindness; they not only obey their keep with cheerulness, but they study please them in every thing. So strong is this principle now among
 hem that for several months past not instance of corporeal punishment has been known in the prison. An anecdote will exemplify this. An old and harden ed offender, who had suffered severely New Gate, who came to Weathersfeld mad againstthe whole hu- man race, and whose proud spirit the most pun ishment could not tame, was humbled and rendered obedient and dociIe by kindness He had caused much trouble to the overseers, by his frequent and daring attempts to escape; in one of which he very severely wounded bis hand. The wound was dressed by the surgeon, and he locked up in his cell At 12 o'clock the warden like the good Samaritan bearing wlne and oil, entered his cell. The wretched man, racked with pain, and his eyes swollen with rage, kindly addressed, the state of his hand inquired nto and relief offered. The features of his face relaxed
 started from his bloodshot eyes and he enqured what this treatment meant, when he expected nothing but cold irons and the lash. Mir. PiIsbury replied, " Because you are a fallen fellow creature like my self accountable to the same God, and going with me to the judgment and otherwo of like import. All the terrors of NewGate had not conquered him this did; and he has since been ranked among the most orderly and industrious in the prison. Mir. P. once asked how he could govern so many men, of the character which convicts bear, rendering them obedent, cheerful, and comparatively happy. He replied, holding up BIBLE, "I govern them with ths." Here is the secret of the excellence of our new prison, and its fruit is apparent A Rev gentle man belonging Weathersfied, assured us few days since, that in the judgment of charity, not less than 20 or 25 of these heretofore desperate characters have been, not only to duty by the kindness they receive but subdued in the temper ofeir hearts by the spirit ofthe gospel.
 For political motives, the men who have been the most instrumental in getting up this prson,-among whom is the Hon. Martin Wels,-have been traduced and vilifed in the most shameful manner, and even the agency Mir. w exerted in this business has been urged reason way he should be rejected from the councils of the state, and his name plotted out from the lists of his brethren. But if Mr. Wells can pon, to the Connecticut State Prison of the fruits o his official labors, he has monument his praise in the records of the State as impershabe as the hiIls one that shall speak well for him to posterity, when the names of his vile raducers are forgotten amidst the mouldering ruins of time.
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COMMUNICATED.

Mr. SMITH
 The decease of MT. DANIEL SHELDON junior, an.
 nounced in your paper of the 9th instan is an event.
 which may well excite many and deep regrets, in the minds of all, who knew him, either personally by reputation. In the death of this gentleman, his friends and the public have sustained no common loss. The instance rare, indeed, in which any individual leaves the world, with higher claims to an affectonate and honorable remembrance, among those, who survive him.
 It is not my intention, however, to attempt regu-
 lar biography, even formal deineaton of the char acter, of this excellent and much lamented But
 justice to his memory, and to the public, we'll as the respect, due to the afflicted survivors of his family, seems to require, at least, slight and general pub
 lie memorial ofhis worth.
 Mir. Sheldon was one of those, to whose memory it
 is impossible to do imperfect justice, without em- ployng what is apt to be regarded by the world at large, the language of undeserved eul0gy. But have entire confidence, that, to those, who intimately knew him. nothing expressed of him, in this brief mo- tice will appear to partake of that character.
 In describing personal qualities superiatives are, in most cases ncorrect But there can be no danger of e%aggeration, in affirming, that Mr. Sheldons mind was east in of; Natures finest and most perfect moulds. The intellectual and moral elements of his character were so happily blended and proportoned, that it might justly be said of him, (ifn were not Zoo much to be said of any an) that nothing was Iet to be desired, in the constitution of his mind. The re- markabIe and uniform mildness,an refnement ofhis manners-he perfect amlabeness of his disposition the purity and bamelessness of his Ifehs extraor- dnary intellectual endowments-and his very exten- sive attanments, in the various departments of all b era and useful Knowledge, distinguished him. in the sphere, in, which he moved, and would have dstin- gaished him, in any sphere of the accom- pLisied, and most estimabIe of the age. No sub ect, worthy of Investigation in science, letters es- capped his attention; nor was there any branch of learning, either useful, ornamental, which he had not successfully cultivated and lamarized Not on- y was he Ca schslar, and d ripe and good one;' but in the language of Mir. Burke respecting his lament ed, and only son, he was "a FINISHED man."
 Mir. Sheldon, had scarcely passed the years o infan- cy when he entered upon of liberal studies, which he prosecuted. with extraordinary success and in which he displayed an early maturity of mind, al- most unexampled. And hese studies, mind, like his, could never, amidst all it's subsequent pursu sconsent to abandon. At the age of Sireen, he examined, candidate for adm ssion to the bar of this state; and though legally inadmissb!e being under " full age" he received from the court, ceru fcate, declaring his proficiency in legal science, be sufficient for the practice of the aw and emitting him to admission. without further examination, when he l should attain the age of twenyone years. But be- !
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in Bethlem, in consequence ofa wound upon his knee received from an axe George ID. Kassen. Esc. aged e3, worthy and respectable member df society
 In this town, on the 10th inst MT Daneil E6rd aged about 80.
 Al New-Hayen 10th inst. Mrs Jane c. Adams, O. ged I2, the amlae consor of Mir Charles Adams one of the editors of the New-Haven Chronicle.
 "Virtue and pey cannot save us from the grave"
 [Comm.]
 In New-flaven, May 23, Mrs Elizabeth Ann Morse, aged 6l, widow of the late Rev. Dr.. Morse and grand daughter of the Rev. Samue1 Finley, D. D. formerly President of Pnnccon College.
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AMERICAN EDUCATION SOCIETY.

MT. Cornelius, the Secretary of this excellent nst- tuition, has for several weeks past been pleading the wants of the Society the friends of well educated ministry, in the city of NewYork, and with success as great as that which crowned the efforts of the off, cers ofthe Missionary Society it that place in Sep tember last. The church in Beckman St. under the pastoral ofRev, Dr. Spring, has voted to carry 30 young men through all the stages of an education at an annual expense of $75 each,-the sum usually appropriated by the society to it's benefcares. This noble example has been followed by the church in Laight St. (Rev. Mir. Cox's which has voted to ed ucate like number, at the same expense. The Cen. tal Presbyterian Church has also voted to supply funds annually, in the same ratio, for the support of ten pious young men, preparatory for the miDistry. Here is provision made for the education of Seventy ofthe church for the service of the sanctuary by three churches in one city; and when like chariabe zeal shall spread into all the churches in land, there will then be no want of missionaries for the hea then or for the supply of destitute places at home.- Should the question be asked, where will suitable candidates for so great charity be fouud 1.-the an. swer is, they are already ound tn the fruits of-Sab bath School instructions and reVvals of religion and the same means will continue to supply them, n num- bers sufficient to employ all the funds which the church shall bestow for their education.
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ELECTORS OF PRESIDENT. &c.

ELECTORS OF PRESIDENT, &c.
 z Sylvester Norton, Hartford County. Rufus Hitchcock, New-Hsven do. Moses Warren, New-London do. Charles Hawley, Fairfield do. Daniel Bacon, Litchfeld do. R. Taintor, Windham do. George Pratt, Niiddlesex do. Walter K. Kibbe, Holland do.
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@AR RE7D D
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In this town, on Thursday, 9th inst. by Rev. Mr. Carroll, Mir. JASON WHITING to Miss SARAH CLARK.
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Extract of Letter from the County of On
 tariO.1
From the National JoMynai. TO THE PEOPLE.


 THE REAL STATE OF THE CASE. Written before the rejection of Mr. MalIarys amend
 ment to the Tariff Bilkl,
 It seems to us to be nighttime that the people should understand ifhe true situation of the question respecting an increased protection on Wool and WooIen Goods, now pending in the House of Representa- tives.
 Argument is exhausted and there is, after all. very great reason to fear, that nothing but an imperative expression of public opinion will cause any measure whatever,o ,on this sub- ject, to be passed at the present session.
 The real and sober truth is, that Jackson member was elected Speaker at the com mencelnent of the session;
 That the Speaker. by the rules of the House. appoints all Committees;
 That on the Committee of Manufactures. he appointed Mr. Mallary of Vt. MT. Steven son of Penn. MT. Condct of N. J. MT. Moore of Ky. MT. Stanberry of Ohio, MT. Wright of N. Y. and MT. Martin OfS. c. s
 That fue out of these seven members of the Committee, viz: Messrs. Stevenson, Moore, Wright, Stanberry. and Martin, are open and avowed friends of Gen. Jackson;
 That Mir. MalIary and Mir. Condict, and they alone of the Committee, are friends of the Administration
 That MT. Mallary and MT. Condict were members of the last Congress, and both vo- ted for and supported the Wollens Bill of the last session;
 That Messrs. Stevenson and Moore were also of the last Congress, and both voted o. gninst that bill.
 That MT. Wright of N. Y. (not of Ohio) and Mir. Martin, and MT. Stanberry. are now members, and are all three Jackson men |; and the two last named gentlemen are un- derstood to be decidedly against protecting tariff; @
 That the bill now before the House, was reported by this Committee and that of the Committee. .fue members, viz: the .fue. friends of Gen. Jackson, agreed to the bill; and that Messrs. Mallary and Condict. the two Administration members, were against the bill
 That the provisions of this bill are such. that in the opinion of the most intelligent farmers and manufacturers, no rational man can be expected to vote for it; these manu- lecturers and wool growers all agree, that this hill would injure both. This is the lan- guage of those interested, from New -Hamp- shire to Washington, and from the sea to the Mississippi;
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And calmly turned thee homeward, uapursued By aught save Iond respect. Hast thou forgotten
 AGNES. No. But the rOsesl
 Well! To-day came With my kind kinsman to thy house. My Agnes, Thou hast been cOy-but 90 far only coy As maids may seem who love found hope Even in thy shyness, sweet! and when thy mother To our frank Profer yielded frank consent, flew to seek thee. AGNES. Wellfe
 LEWIS
 And found thee here Asleep; thy fair head, all for heat declined Toward one fair shoulder; thy small pretty feet Resting upon the silent wheel: the thread Llstlessy hanging from thy listless hands; And over all such softness, such repose, Such innocence, such beauty! In the easement jar of fresh flowers mixed their sweet breath With one far sweeter,--and leant behind thee, And stole- E AGNES.
 LEWIS.
 Aye; but not alone TL- roses. Tush that was an after thought,- A token. From those rosy lips stole A balmy-dost thou doubt me, Agnes? Say, Shall Irepeat the theft, and shew thee a AGNES. No! No, no.
 LEWIS. Well then, dest thou confess the pledge Is won?
 AGNES.
 Aye, aye, .a.s
 LEWIS. A
 And thou dost not repent thee Of that same forfeit play? Thou dost not wish The words unsaid!
 AGNES.
 No.
 LEWIS.
 Nor these token-fowers Unstolen
 g No, no.
 LEWIs
 Now blessings thee, love! My frank and noble love And triple blessings On that sweet theft of mine
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Morris .Academg.

THE SUMMER TERM lR ths Instit1tion vii commence on Tuesday, May 13th J. D. CHAPMAN, PrinsipaI.
 Litch6eld, South Farms, April IS, 1893. AA
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And thOU uu8t stEdIgHtWdy TIse1 7 And with the frown of outraged modesty @ Bending thy virgin brow, frown that lent New nobleness to beauty, bade her keep The bauble, and walked forth. Deridingly Isabel laughed, and Kinloch loudly urged His precious privilege; till thou didst pause, Waving them from thee with such awful charm. Yet geStle, as in that old Masque divine The lady who defed his ribald crew
 And vanquished Comus. Then-iorget not this. Beseech thee, sweetest! !-thou didst strongly VOW Who touched thy p,might claim thy hand tso sacred Seemed that mute pledge to thy young purity,)
The ladies' garland. [volume] (Harpers-Ferry, Va. [W. Va.]) 1824-1828, 1828-05-17
MIR. THOMAS MOORE.

g thought Thomas Moore, when frs. knew,
hn, as delightful person as one conl. IMAGINE
tie could no, help being Interesting one una
hS sort OF talent has THIS advantage in Il, that being
OF description ineligible to all the Dos,4s,yr IS
equally sure of present and future fame | never
received visit from INN but fel, as if had Seen
taking with Prior or Sir Charles SeaIcv. lis &C.
qntlltance with Lord Byron began BY taking al a
dAti' W TN me 1t commenced ~ as {, .Iant a VA,
though OF different sort. i,iai ct!; Us III oinra
OF rs iihc Blue StocH.ur. as unwortl, Of So great
W. nc came to sec me, saving was ser, much
III nc right and an intercourse took ;,lIcc y hch
might have enjoyed to THIS tlay, hat! he valued Ills
real fAtne as much as did! in,eal ~ assume no.
uhg N SAVING tins, either dispenser Of reputa-
hoii, OF as = man OF undIsputcd reputation myself
I'VE 100 much out of the worIl, ana differ too
plainly with what IS in it, to pretend 10 be either
or the other
VT Moore was lively, polite, busting, full Of
a'hth'Nes anu acqmescences. into which he con
uFed 70 throw a sort Of rougilenng Of collia!ity
IKE the crust Of old port 1t seemed a happiness
10 HIM to say yes" There was ius, enollgh Of
'he iF'shman IN him to flavor his speech ard man.
heF' ne was Lttit particular, perhaps, in-h;y o.
.hoePt, oht not more than became "a poet : and
ne appeared to me the last man in the world ID cut
ms country, even fol- the sake of Nigh life. As 10
rs person. al the world knows that lie is as lntle
OF stature, as he great in wit 1t said tia, ain
'iius'rlonS parsonage in ft of pla, fulne,s once
threatened TO put hn into the VINE cooler pro.
position which Mr. Moore tex 70 be more royal
t,'ah pohte. Spanish gentleman, whom met On
inc comment, and who knew him ell, sad IN IL.
energetic Engiis',, uhch he spoke none the worse
Tor wrong vowel or 50: No". there's .ltocer~.
Thomas UooaT; look upon .uo9err as al active
niue men Tins IS true He reminds lis Of those
acUre little great men who ahonn 50 mark ably
IN ClaFendons history. Like then. he would have
made an excellent practical partisan, and would
nave done 'H'n good Horseback, and little Irish
,'Ef''hR' would nave seen far play with bis good
living, aud kept his look as juvenile as his split
HIS forehead is bonny and fnII Of character. with
pumps Of wit, large and rI,itant enough to trans
port pfreno"sist His e, are AS dark aud fine
as you would wish to see undega sci ..iae lravss