The true Democrat., 1855-08-28

stormy passions, she could not recall it without a shudder; and yet she laughed wildly and geS- ticulated in an almost frantic manner more than once. As 1t regards the past, her whole mind Is in fragments. She remembers indeed "a mass of things, but naught distinctivelv"
 She has no definite relation to the external world, and l much doubt if she ever could have done So. l doubt if she ever could have been fully able to realize the relations of life and yet she told me of sufrerings, mental and physical, frightful to have been endured by any human creature. One case of deceit and per jury practiced upon young gir worthy only of fiend, and for which a day of retribution must come, if there is God experimenting the affairs of men, she told me. The cruel deceiver was one to whom she stood in relation. Her memory seemed preternaturally vivid in this case She told me the pity she felt for the innocent victim-the melancholy journey of the child to New York, and her death in less than twenty-four hours after her arrival.
 As she recalled all this it became more and more evident that these persons had maddened her. A vivid imagination, never rising to the ideal, had fcasted and mortified itself amid it's terrible experiences till she was irretrievaby mad, and that too in way that required the wlsest discrimination to be sure of the fact.
 Many might suspect her assertion, that she was the victim of q political conspiracy, to be sham, mere piece of atfectatlon-and they might think her violent paroxysms giddy mrth or mere freaks of eccentrclty; but she is insane, and probably was so long before she committed this crime, if indeed she did commit it. These people might not have died of poi son. Our scientific men are far too ready to give this kind of testimony. Chemical tests l |, man system is a grand chemical laboratory. v.- We cannot, indeed we dare not, affirm that se vcral causes may not call into action deadly chemical agents. Who shall say that the sto- mach may not generate fatal products; the liv- CT secretes sugar and the brain starch With these known scientific data, I know of no limit to be given to the secretons either ill health ful or morbid point of view.
 Before 1 left the prisoner, she gave me a message for the Governor, begging me to de- liver it to him faithfully, which of course I did not fail to do
 "Tell him there is a political party wis hing to put him out of office They wish to crust Myron H. Clark and John c. Mather: and if he commutes my sentence they will make po- lltlcal capital out of it; and 1 would rather die than be used as an instrument to ruin a good man. Tell him to let me die, as I wish.,
 The prison, as passed through, looked clean and orderly, and the physician in attendance modest and attentive to his duty One thing further must say--and the remark will hold good in other cases. 1 have visited many wo men lncarceratcd for crimes when they ought to have been sent to hospitals; and I felt the urgent need of disnitied matrons in our prisons, who alone should have access to this depart mcnt. No man should hold the keys to the prson-room of the guiltiest woman in the world. No man should be allowed to come and go at his pleasure. It is an indecency that must be rectifed Women-poor, lniser- able and guilty as they may be--alwavs com plain of this to me, and more might, perhaps more ought to be said in this article in this re- lation; but 1 forbear, in the hope that the hu. mane mind may be brought to consideration of the evil without more definite utterance on my part. Very respectfully,
 E. CAKES SMITH.
 Toy, N J., July, 1855.