Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1858-11-05
TR1umrHs or SoIrnor.-One of fha

AS ~
greatest ieats of science has been ac-
chieved in New York by the analysis
of the entire body of Mrs. Stephens
for the purpose of detecting the pres
ence Of arsenic. The case connected
with the analysis is one which, did
the parties interested move in d prom
inent sphere of life, would produce
intense excitement. % =.
A few weeks since a man named.
Bell was arrested for attempting to-
shoot his brother-in-law Stephens
On the examination Bell denied moth.
ing, but admitted that he came over
from Ireland for the purpose of shoot
ing Stephens, who, he averred, had
been guilty of poisoning his sister,
Mrs. Stephens, and had attempted
the seduction of another sister. UP.
on this Stephens was arrested for the a
murder of his wife whose death oc-
Cured more than a year since. The :
two sisters of Mrs. Stephens were *
anlined, and they testified hat Ste.
phens, during his wife's last illness, =
administered to her large doses of
suspicious powders, and large doses {
of laudanum, and would suffer no one ,
10 administer medicine 10 her bur
himself; and it was shown that twice
he had bought arsenic for the pretend
ed purpose Of poisoning ats. One
of the sisters, Sophia Bell, also testif-
ed to improper advances made by
Stephens during the life time Of his
wife, and Of offers of marriage imme4
diately after his wife's death. These a
t facts the sisters dare not make known
through fear Of Stephens, but they
+, did hint at them in letters to Ireland,
and their brother-one Of a number 4.
who compose a highly respectable
family in IreIand-hassened over 70
avenge the wrongs done his nameand
5 family by Stephens.
The analysis of Mrs. Stephens
body, which has occupied a number
= Of weeks. and the skill of the bests'
chemists, and attended with great ex-
= pense and intense application, COM
pretely confirms the story as to the
presence of arsenic.
! The analysis is very elaborate and
intensely interesting in its details to-
; scientific men, and of great inter-
est to the world at large, in show
ing how infallible are the tests Of sci-
ence, and how it's dumb mouths do
j, utter evidence which cannot be shak- z
en- Or c~ontroverted. Portions Of tho
body Of Mrs. Stephens were in a good
g state of preservation, a fact, we sup
pose, attributable to the presence Of
$ arsenic. The analysis concluded by
p giving twelve tests, which, combined
n cannot be initiated by any ether
known su distance. On the strength 4
of this testimony Stephens was held
10 bail on the charge of MURDER
[Cleveland Herald.
UNsoUND SLAVE SrATEs.-The dis
tinguished secesSionist and ~fre-eaterrs
Mr.. 1ancey, of Alabama, has come
10 the conclusion that several of the
Slave States are stunsound ON the
goose question" Mr.. Yancey thus
speaks Of them in a letter written in
h reply to Mr.. Pryor, of Richmond,
. who, not long since, published his
J. reasons for refusing TO co-oPerate
y for a dissolution of The Union:
To be candid, ] place but little
trust in such States as Delaware, Ma
ryland, Tennessee, Kentucky, and
d Missouri. In the first, Slavery is bus
a nominal institution, and anti-slaverY
ideas prevail to q large extent. In
y Maryland a Freesoiler is an honored
Representative in Congress; and in
the great issne of 1856 that State
8 separated herself from her sisters and
= voted for Fillmore. Tennessee has
. long maintained a Freesoil Senator
ID in Congress, and a large minority now,
sustain him there. In the Methodist
Conference her delegates voted A.
y gainst striking out the anti-slavery
!, clause in her discipline; while she
maintains on her Supreme Court
Bench and in the chair Of Law Pro-
fesSorship in her University who
openly declares "Siayery to be a NOR
|. ri, social and political evil"
20 In Missouri, Benton was upheld
when unsound on this issue; was sent
to the House of Representatives
when ousted from the Senate because
of his anti-slavery ideas; and now
|. the ST. Louis district is represented
e by a Freesoiier who was a candidate
Tor reelection upon the Emanc;pa-
> ton platform. Surrounded as she al
y most is, by FreesOil Territory, her
Slave owners are emigrating in large
numbers TO Texas, and will soon 49,
$ hera prey to Stewards Abolition sys-
l. tenn of legislation. In Kentucky,
!. Mr.. Clay's Emancipation and Coloni-
. cation idens are bearing legitimate
j frnit, and Mr.. Crittendeh holds pow
E erfgi sway ever The affections
4 Of its peoples and il is hardly 10 o.
doubted but that Mr.. Crittepden eas
k joined with the anti-si4very Amerl.
can party Of the North would carry
q kentucky. ! may well DO accused
$ then, if | said in private correspOS.
dence (what / frankly confess
would have hesitated to make q mat:
ter OF public discussionl that ! only
, hoped for an effective movement il
the Cotton States.
e When Morrissey and Heenan with
their hackers arrived at the fighting
: ground, in Canada, about a dozen
$ Canadian constabulary appeared near
I the ring with their neatly vanished
; bludgeons, and Sin the name or the
) Queen" commanded the croP-eared,
one eyed, head.shaved crowd to dis.