Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-04-02
MASSACHUSETTS LEGISLATURE.
THURSDAY. March 81

MASSACHUSETTS LEGISLATURE.
THURSDAY, March 81.
SENATE.
Mr.. Bigelow of Worcester, from the Com
mittee on Public Charitable Institutions, re-
ported a bill in addition to an act to establish
the State Industrial School for Girls. 1t au-
thorizes the Trustees to expend any money,
donated or bequeathed to them for the purpose
erecting a new building or buildings, in or
der to provide additional accommodations for
the school. Under a suspension of the rules
the bill was passed to be engrossed.
Wednesday next was fixed as the day for
closing the session.
a resolve granting permission to place in
the hall portrait of the late Robert Rantoul,
Jr., was passed to be engrossed.
The Senate voted not to insist on its amend
ment to the Hancock House resolve, by which
the word Unanimous" was stricken out. Ad-
journed.
afternoon SeSSion.-Mr DRAWINGS substi-
tute for the Superior Court Bill was rejected,
and several amendments were adopted in the
original bill, and it was laid on the table
The Bils.-In addition to an act to regulate
the measurement of charcoal and concerning
the liability of assgnees for costs in certain
cases; and the resolve concerning the pro-
ceedings in equity between the Commonwealth
and the State of Rhode Island, were ordered to
be engroSsed.
HOUSE.
The Committee on County Expenditures re-
ported bill relating to the compensation and
duties of sheritfS.
In the orders of the day, the motion to re-
consider the vote by which the bill to establish
the Second Battalion of Infantry was passed to
be engrossed, was carried by 103 to S. The
bill was then refused engrossment by 81 to
104.
The bill concerning Faneuil Hall Marketwas
passed to be engrossed, l07 to Al.
afternoon SeSSion.-Bills to increase the cap
ital of the North Bank and Atlas Bank in Bos-
ton, passed to be engrossed.
The resolve for reseating the Representa-
tives Hall was rejected, and motion was made
to reconsider the vote.
The bill to establish q Board of Control of
Public Charities was referred to the next Gen
eral Court.
Leave was given to introduce a bill to incor-
porate the Massachusetts and Nova Scotia Sub
marine Cable Company
Mr.. Stockwel Ia former apprentice of THE
SPY office made speech in support of the
bill, which is said by the Advertiser to have
been particularly pointed and effective.
The STORY OF PARDoN.-An exchange
paper says that "Gov. Banks of Mass has not
pdluOucu d Illdu Ill Tic TlSOu IDlS year.
Mirabile dictu But has he pardoned one out
of it If not, is it owing to his stern sense of
duty, or to his insensibility! 1t is a wrong
thing-to defeat the ends of justice by releas-
ing from merited punishment so many unal-
terable rogues, who live by preying upon the
vital interests of society. And yet such is
woman these rogues are the very class of
men who seem most successfully to win the
affections of the fairest, most beautiful, most
indefatigable of the other sex. As wives, as
sisters or as mothers, they will beseige the
doorstep Of State executive to secure par
don for an erring relative, until all patience is
exhausted, all means of resistance to their
heart-rending appeals WORKOUT.
We know of an instance in point which
may be worth recording in this connection
An arrant scoundrel was once sentenced for
some years to the State Prison, for fraud
wholly without the shadow of an eXtenuaton.
His wite's petition for clemency was indignant
ly rejected but, day and night, that woman
haunted the gubernatorial path, like the tear
full ghost Of beauty in despair! She uttered
no murmur and no prayer; but she had love-
ly, modest, Madonna-like face and, turn his
eyes wherever he would, "his exceency"
caught sight of its speeches. eloquence bath
ed in grief, and filled with such a look of mex
pressible anguish that its mute peadings al
most drove him insane. The woman refused
all sustenance, and scorned all consolation, all
contributions, all menace, all overtures, all
fear, She wanted nothing but her husbands
liberty Upon his release or Ler own death in
seeking for it, she was immovably determined.
OF course she conquered! The governor was
utterly unable to withstand such an assault
upon the tenderness that lay beseechingly at
the bottom Of his better nature; and when his
wife and daughter, stirred up into active SYM
pathy with this spectre of fidelity, added their
tears to her own, he signed the pardon with a
heavy sigh at the act OF humanity.
The convict was released at noon. The fond
wife rushed tranticaly to the arms she had, by
her unseltish sacrifices, freed from the manacles
they deserved. The same night, the convict
was arrested for beating his wife almost to
death in fit of brutal intoxication Some
people said he was mad and some only said he
ought to be; but when the poor woman finally
recovered it was only to become the inmate of
a lunatic asylum. There she died and, for
tunately, she was never cognizant of the fact
that the being she SO idolized abandoned her
the moment she entered the institution to which
his cruelty had consigned her, for the attrac-
tons Of another female; and, strange retribu-
ton this latter subsequently murdered him, to
indulge in guilty passion with man whom,
of all Others in the world, he most detested !
N. Y. Sunday Times.