DONE ON BOTH SIDES.

Lake Wakatip Mail, Volume II, Issue 106, 4 May 1864, Page 6

DONE ON BOTH SIDES.

Mrs. Emma Goodwin, of Noble county, Ohio, started from her home to go to Pennsylvania to visit some relatives who reside in Greene county, in that state, leaving her husband and two small children, aged respectively about five and seven years, and a hired girl, at home "to keep house." Her husband amply provided her with funds to pay her way before her departure. About the same time Mr George Taylor, who resides in the same neighborhood, and who was able to rejoice in the possession of a handsome wife and two intelligent little " pledges of affection," started West " on business," but somehow or other he took the wrong road, and arrived in Wheeling about the same time as Mrs. Emma Goodwin. They remained at one of our hotels over night, passing as man and wife, and the next morning took a Pittsburg train. It seems that, after two or three days' travel, they brought up at Cleveland. Arriving just before meal time, after a hastily prepared toilet, they passed to the dining-room, and were seated near the head of the table— Mrs Goodwin immediately opposite her husband, and Mr. Taylor immediately opposite his wife. It seems that a day or two after Mrs. Goodwin left home, Mr Goodwin took it into his head to attempt to seduce Mrs. Taylor from her " sacred allegiance to her lord," and induce her to elope with him in her husband's absence, in which it seems he had but little trouble in succeeding, neither of them ever dreaming that their companions were just then committing a similar act. The scene that ensued after the mutual recognition at the Cleveland dinner table was neither tragic nor ridiculous, as might be imagined; but, like philosophical people who fonnd themselves in a very bad spell would do, they quietly, and, as if moved by some secret understanding, withdrew to a private room, where they arranged that each man should take his own wife, and go back to their homes and children, and try and live wiser and better men and women in the future.— Wheeling Register.

SCENE IN CHINA.

The following account of a recent crucifixion in China is by Mr James Jones of Amoy, who witnessed the execution on the 28th October, The victim was a well known thief, whose principal offence was that of stealing young girls and selling them for prostitutes. On his trial before his judge he refused to criminate himself, although repeatedly scourged until his back was raw. If a female witness fails in giving satisfactory evidence in a court of ju tice, she is beaten with a leather strap across the mouth. His wife, desirous of sparing her husband, refused to give evidence, but after two or three applications of the strap her courage gave way. She confessed his guilt, admitting at the same time that two hundred dollars of the money so derived was hidden in the sea near the beach. Officers were sent to search, and the dollars being found in the place indicated, the prisoner was sentenced to decapitation—deemed by the Chinese the most severe of punishments,, because they imagine that if a man leaves this world minus any of his members, he appears in the same condition in the next The culprit therefore prayed to be crucified instead of being beheaded. The cross was of the Latin form, the foot being inserted in a stout plank, and the criminal, standing on a board, had nails driven through nis feet, his hands stretched out and nailed to the cross beam. His legs were fastened to the cross with an iron chain, and his arms bound with cords, and on the cord round his waist was inserted a piece of wood on which was written his name and offence; a similar piece ou his right arm contained his sentence —namely, to remain on the cross day and night until he died; another on his left arm had the name of the judge, with his titles and offices. The criminal was nailed to the cross inside the Yamun in the presence of the magistrates, and then carried by four coolies to one of the principal thoroughfares leading from the city, where he was left during the day, but removed at night inside the prison for fear of his friends attempting to rescue him, and again carried forth at daylight in charge of two soldiers. He was crucified at noon on the Wednesday, and Mr Jones conversed with him at five in the evening. He complained of pain in the chest, and thirst. On Thursday he &lept for some hours, when the cross was laid down within the gaol compound. No one was allowed to supply him food or drink, and during the day there was quite a fair in front of the cross, people being attracted from a distance, and the sweetmeat vendors driving a large trade. On Saturday he was still alive, when the Taotai was appealed to by a foreigner to put an end to the wretch's sufferings, and he immediately gave orders that vinegar should be administered, which he ex- | pected would produce immediate death, but the result was otherwise, and at sunset, when

the cross was taken within the gaol, two soldiers, with stout bamboos, broke both his legs and then strangled him. Mr Jones says that all the Chinese with whom he has conversed assert that crucifixion is a modern punishment ; and looking at the similarity of passages in the execution with the narratives of the New Testament, he conceives the idea may have been introduced through the Jesuits.

SAYINGS AND DOINGS IN COUNCIL

(From the Evening Star.)

Our jottings in St George's Hall were very unceremoniously and prematurely cut short ! yesterday afternoon, by an unseemly and discreditable interruption, which will appear from the sequel. In the meantime, we give | our readers the benefit of the few notes taken previous to the occurrence of which we have so much to complain:— Mr Vogel, seeing the hon. member for the i Taieri (Mr Rennie) in his place, said he would I with permission of the house, ask the hon. | member what steps he had taken towards supj plying hon. members with really good poultry i in accordance with the understanding arrived at the other evening. He (Mr Vogel) was : aware that he was somewhat out of order in ! intercepting the motion for adjournment, by 1 proposing a question without previous notice, j but as it concerned most deeply the only matter of importance yet brought before them—»to wit, the refreshments—he had no doubt the house w uld so far indulge him. (Hear, hear, from all sides of the house.) Mr Rennie could assure the house that he had not been unmindful of the wishes of hon. members, while studying domestic economy on the banks of the Taieri. He had now much pleasure in presenting a good fat hen, and would move—" That it be received and ordered to lay on the table." Mr Vogel would second the motion. He hoped that, in addition to poultry, a good fresh would no longer be a luxury unattainable by town members of that Council. Mr Dick had much pleasure; indeed, he might say very much pleasure, in being able for once cordially to agree with the hon. member for Waikouaiti. (Hear, hear.) He (Mr Dick) would yield to no hon. member of that house in his gusto for new-laid eggs, and if the country ever asked his services in the matter of eggs it should never ask in vain, as his greatest weakness was a very strong propensity to suck. Mr Brodie rose to a point of order. It was not customary elsewhere for hon. members to make every subject a personal one. They took their seats in that house for the good of the country, and what did the country care about hon. member's gusto for eggs ? Nay, more, what was it to the country if that hon. member or any other man—hon. member, he meant —proficient even in the art of sucking eggs, should also set up to teach that amiable accomplishment to his or their ancient maternal progenitor ? What, he would ask, had the country to do with that ? All he could say was, it was not customary elsewhere. Mr Dick'resumed. But he supported the motion, more especially, out of kind consideration for his most pertinacious and untiring friend, the member for Waikouaiti himself. (Hear, hear, and laughter.) Hon. members might laugh, and cry " Hear, hear;" but he could assure them he was guiltless of the enormity of a joke. It would be in the recollection of the house how that hon. member had i last season beaten the bush from Dan to Beersheba, and could find nothing but " mare's nests." He now hoped that hon. member's very laudable efforts would be rewarded by finds less savoury and more useful. (Applause.) A whole host of hon. members here rose and assayed to speak, but were brought to their seats as the Speaker rose from his. The Speaker very much questioned if, even under the Privileges Act, the house had the power to order the interesting specimen of the feathered bipeds of the Taieri to " lay on the table," or, indeed, to see its order obeyed in that particular respect, even if it omitted so precisely to define and limit the locality of the mysterious operation referred to. However, hon. members had the option of Mr Sewell in their hands, and it was certainly not his (the Speaker's) fault if they had it not at their finger ends, and so he would throw himself upon the House. Mr Brodie: Oh, don't! I assure you it is not customary elsewhere. The Speaker thought the only course open to him was to take the sense of the whole house—it was but a small matter and might easily be disposed of. (Loud cries of " No, no!" followed by sundry thundering knocks at our bed-room door—we had retired for our siesta —and the unseemly intrusion of one of our very diminutive atteudants, roaring out at the very top of his voice, for "Copy.")