Lincoln telegraph. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1836-1846, 1838-07-12
FALsEHoop AND iMpupENcE.

FALSEHOOD AND lMPUDENCE. -sa
The LIN COLIN PArRtot says, 1.-THE speech of Mr..
Bond cost the people tsOenty seren thousand
dollars. The daily EXPENSES of Congress Is
three thousand dollars. Mr. Bond consumed nine days
in making his famous speech" This is wickedly false
because il is attempt 10 make the pebble believe, that
Mr. Bond consumed the whole time of both Houses Of
Congress during lime etitire days. The Patriot must
think MI Bond most spirstirrng orator and that his
speech the most effective and mastery delivered
III Congress- he could the Senate chamber to be
deserted by the members Of the Senate for nine whole
days tl s Ie.f r t
But the Sttenictit is false in another particular. III
the delivery Of his speech Mr. Bond occupied OILY
portion of the morning hourthat Isl what time lie could
obtain previous to Twelve o'clock, at which time the
House passes to tie regular business orders of the
day. Mr. Bond probably spoke from twenty to thirty
minutes each morning of the nine days Is 1t not inn
pudenty insulting any cofhuhty, to attempt to palm
upon it such nonsense and garing alsehood for truth!
1t quite enough for you, MIR Patriot to attempt to
mslead the people by sbphstry; without resortng to
fasehood.
Benton; CamJrelcng Wright &c MAY spend as much
ofhe peoples money they please in trying impose
.
contrary to the expressed wishes Of the people and is all
right They are the stars that guide your destiny and can
not err'But when meber oile Opposition during
the morning hour takes little time to ex pose the wreck
less career Of the dominant party and the proaigatc
waste Of the peoples money during the last nine years
lie is met by such modest hints of duty as the dove from
the Patriot Praise and attery are always grateful To
the ear 6 tyranny. But just censure All! that is qnite
another affair and cannot he listened to- The Patriot
does hot complain Of the in which Mr. Bonl
ecmed the task he Undertook. Not word is said
ngainst the reasoning and facts of the Speech which has
given the DEsTRUcTvEs much annoyance; but the
whole difficulty is that Mr. Bond was so wastef of the
peoples money as 10 take time to make speech
Da the tools OF power exper, stop the
representatives of the people by such seHselers camour
We learn from the Ellsworth Statesman, that Mrs
Nancy II Kcf Of Bucksport, and formerly of St George
was tried in Ellsworth. before the Supreme Judicial
Court, the charge of causing the death Of her husband
in the month of July last. Th circumstances in the
case, brought before the Court we're, briefly these:-
Capt Kef master of a coasting vessel, and in the
month of July last she went with him to Boston while
there she shopping she cooked the
dinner, and after eating, her husband Was taken sick
vomited freely, and continued in feeble state during the
remainder of the passage, and grew after getting
home. The Or was called in, which she warmly oppo-
pofed saying he would never get well, and he found the
symptoms such as would indicate poison When his
wife gave him Cruel he would Immediately vo,nt, but il
others prepared it and gave it to him. he found no diff
Guilty in retaining it in his stomach. lie continued to
grow and died in few days, all his symptoms las
well as the circumstances showing very conlucvey that
his wife must have administered to him large quantities
of arsenic.
The contents of the several cups from which she had
turned something into the Cruel at different times was
handed to DR. Gay Of Boston, who analysed them ~
four or five different tests, and found they conald arse
nic A young by the name of Peabody lived in the
fmily and suspected Of being rather too intimate
with the defendant; and after her arrest, her ring and
her husbaud's watch were found in Peabodys trunk But
Notwithstanding the evidence was strohg the Jur,
brought in a verdict of Nor Guilty.