National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1866-07-06

lesion, (lll.) courier learns from
gentleman who has been travelling
extensively in the southern part of
that State, that Il wide breadth of
land has been planted, which looks
splendidly, Notwithstanding the
backwardness of the season. One
planter alone has between two hun
dred and fifty and three hundred
acres in cultivation. There are also
number of gins ready to be put in
successful operation as soon as the
crop is ripe.
Here is what the Albany Erening
Journal says of the great MasSachu-
sets agitatOr:
"Wendell Phillips has an income of
100000 year. He sits under po-
lished mahogany, eats off beautiful
china and solid silver, and buries
his slippers in the soft pile of vel
vet carpets fit for the parlor of a
prince. He has never been known
to deny himself for the purpose of
charity. If, during the war, he
contributed to raise regiment or
support a soldiers family we have
yet to learn it. If he has made any
donation from his abundant wealth
to the fund for supporting the freed
men at the South, we stand ready
to record the fact upon sufficient
proof. This book worm philosopher
and theorotic humanitarian muses.
paneygrics of labor in an atmoS-
phere of daintest luxury, and com
poses eulogieS upon poverty with
all the surroundings of enormous
atfluence.'
THE CHILD MURDER AT MEDINA.
The account of the whipping to
death of child three years old by
it's father, clergyman, near Medi-
ma, awakened the greatest indigna-
ton of our citizens against the in
human father. The report was hard
ly credited, so unnatural and mons
trOus was the crime committed. We
blush to say it, but the most Sicllen
) ing and dreadful part of this un
parallelcd horror was not published
Lindsley's, chats the monsters
, name,) statement before the coro
ner's jury, given yesterday, is cor
roboratcd by other witnesses before
the jury. The body of the chill,
told more plainly and pat tically
. than words could of the e.. y
| punishment it had undergone. Sew
cral of the fingers were broken, anC
the blood had oozed from every
pore. To conceal the crime the faith
+ er tied the little ones hands behin'
= it's back and placed it in its coffin
While physicians were making
post norton examination of tn
body, he sat by, coolly looking a
: the proceedings. After while h
t spoke, and asked them if they ha
not carried "thiS thing about ia
= enough The physicians discover
y ed no disease about the child
e died solely from excessive and cruC
r, punishment. The little one woul
have been three years old next Al
gust.
The Medina Tribune says whc
f tile corpse of the child was take
L from the coffin scene was presen
II ed which made the stoutest she
u bitter tears. The hands, arms, hip
II thighs, legs and feet were lacerate
s. and bruised almost beyond descril
IS ton. 1t appears that the mother ,
lc the child died some eighteen montl
III since, and the father was married
T. a second wife some five weeks az
rs The father and family connection
s. of this man Lindsey are among Il
r most respectable in the countr
Mt but that shou d not screen him fro
a. the punishment which the gre
Ill crime he las committed deserves.
a. We az I'D that Lindsey jus
u. fies his I.o rid work. He thinks
III was h .uty to punish the chi
!. until its will was broken and
~ ~ obeyed. Lindsey was arrested y,
~ ~ terday and committed to jail in !
:. ~ bion. 1t was with the utmost dill
= Guilty that the officers who had hi
=. - in charge could keep the citizens
~ Medina and eighborhood fro
II lyHching the murderer on the sp'
w. ", Lindsey is a man about five tc
~ eight inches in height, well propC
~ toned, has black whiskers and da
VI complexion. He has the appci
u ance of a violent temper. AS to j
u character hitherto we know nothil
II, against him. He has a farm and
q reported to be a man of some meal
Il He has not charge of an establish
~ church, but breaches occasionally
is what is called a mission clerg
man.-Rocheeter (N. ~ Union.
cd A SIBERIAN WOMAN.-A gent
III, man who is engaged in the te
&c graphic expedition in Siberia, /
lates the following incident in !,
ter to friend in Cincinnati:
mn 81 met with a Korak woman
'h' about twenty-five years OF age,
er- the great Tundra (marked Keran
.'eS the map) who drove a team OF re-
NY decrs with a loaded slcdge fifty YER
MI in one day, and at night slept out
~ the snow, with no covering VIII
ne ever, except the clothes she h
lie worn during the day, and in to
to pcraturc 43 degrees below zero,
zee IS degrees below the freezing poi
1rt Think of that, We ctlcminatc lad
Der of America. That saw mys
IS. although even to me it seems ncr