The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1843-12-07

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in ship at sea.
The cry last evening about sunset, q,
Raywah, N. j., soon gathered Two or
three hundred persons, who, on being
informed that little girl of three years
old, daughter of Mr.. Thorn, baker in
the village, had strayed away from home,
scattered themselves all over the neigh
borhood - and with lanterns and torches,
searched the meadows, fields and woods
in vain. No trace of the little creature
was had till about | O'Clock, when
woman, who had come home late, report
ed having passed, about shutdown, man
on horseback at Barnels Mills, near five
miles from Railway, having before him
a little girl, without hat or shawl, and
the description of whose dress answered
that of the lost one.
Immediately persons went off in the
direction named, and at about 2 O'Clock
in the morning, traced the horseman 10
his house, where The lost child was found
fast asleep in comfortable bed.
The humane individual, who had thus
cared for the little wanderer, stated that,
in riding along near sunset, he saw, back
of the Wheat Sheaf, about 81 miles from
Railway, the child in a field just about
entering a deep swamp, and looking
around and seeing no one near, ne dis
mounted, ran after it and soon found that
the little creature was lost, and could give
no account of herself He took her up
before him and retraced his way for two
or three miles, inquiring along the road
if any one knew where the child belong
ed; but gaining no intelligence, and per-
ceivng that the little creature was suffer
ing from long exposure. he FASTENED home
with the little founding and had her car
ed for as his own and under his roof the
happy parents received the little truant
unframed.
But for the considerate humanity of
this Good Samaritan, the little innocent
would probably have entered the dense
swamp; and there, overtaken by dark
ness, exhausted with fatigue and drenched
with the heavy rain which fell last night
would probably have persisted. ~ York
American.
AN IMPORTANT DECISION. man
named William Wilson was convicted,
before The Hartford County Court in Au
gust last, of the crime OF incest, and Sent
enced 10 two years Imprisonment in the
States Prison. 1.-THE prosecution was
founded on the StaIute law oil this State
which prohibits marriages and cohabila-
ton between persons within certain de-
grees of kindred, including the degree of
relationship existing between a man and |
his wife's daughter,' Such a marriage
had taken place, after the decease of his
wife, between defendant and woman al
lodged to be her daughter. by a former
husband. The counsel for the defence
contended, thai, on the decease OF the wife,
the affinity ceased, and consequently the
union OF the husband with the daug liter
of the deceased, did not involve the crime
of incest. This point was ruled against
the defendant, and his conviction follow
ed. The case was carried up, on writ Of
Error, to the Superior Court, and the de-
cision of the lower Court reversed, upon
that very point-Judge Waite deciding
after consultation with the Judges of the !
Supreme Court, that the affinity between
the plaintiff in error and his wife's daugh. |
ter ceased on the death ofthe wife.-Chris-
tan Freeman.
A BATTLE WITH A BEAR.---Start not,
reader, we are not going 10 give you a
long yarn about something that never
took place, but relate the circumstances
attending a skirmish that actual occur
red between two men and huge black
bear few weeks since in the town of
Sandgate, VI. The Inhabitants of said
town had quite number of sheep killed,
as they supposed by the foxes and one
Mr.. Sherman and another person, (name
not known to u.s. took their guns and
their dogs and went in pursuit of the
sheep sIayers. They had hot been out
but short time ere they saw bears
track. The dogs were Immediately put
Oh the chase, and but few moments
elapsed before they were heard TO bark
Mr.. s. and his friends pursued on in the
direction the alarm in shot haste" and
in a short time they were in The presence
Of large black bear q sitting on his hind
legs, feeling no doubt quite annoyed at
their presence and the saucy dogs. Now
comes the tug of war. Mr.. S. snapped
his gun at the bear several times, but it
did not take fire. The bear supposing
that they were poking fun at him made
towards them, determined on revenge
1t came so close that they were obliged to
defend themselves with their guns and
thus while preventing the bear from re-
ceiving them to its =" warm embrace" it
seized the muzzIe of Mr. SIS gun in its
mouth. Mr.. S. snapped his gun again
and it exploded, tearing off the bears jaw.
The other man fired his gun at the bear,
killing him instantly. Thus ended the
fearful combat with The bear. 1t Weigh