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Ff" We Have Seen A Statement In Sóinè Oper That The Trial ...

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Parent Issue
Day
8
Month
December
Year
1845
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Public Domain
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ff" We have seen a statement in sóinè oper that the trial of Polly Bodine haè een nbandoned n New York city, ónacount of the difficulty of getiing jurors vho hnd nötexpressed an opinión. Some 000 hnd been summoned withrtut su'cess. The N. Y. Commercial saysj "This, trial of Mrs. Bodihe sëéms dös'ned to bring vexation ahd pingue with it .vherever it goes, to sny nothing of the x pense. The very general prevalence if n formed opinión bh the subject of her uilt or inno'cence, makes it nlmost imio.ssib]e to get a jury; this créales a neessity for bringing in talesmen, not by he dozen or score rhereiy, but by the ïundred; this sets the sheriff 's officers at vork running ddwn victims, and this sets he victihis tö running away. We hear hat there was a fearfnl time, yesterday, nlong the whole line of Bleecker Street, yhich thé SherifF and bis depuliesmade he scène of their operations, commencing at Iirondway and summoning every male adult without distinction or meicy. Rut before the ofïicersgot fa r, the news of their ápproach ugot wind" at the other end of the street, and such fi scampering' of tailórs,' shoemakers, bakers, grocers; cabinet makers, harbers, Sec. átc, has hot, jeen seen on this island since the days of Diedrich Knickerbocker. Somehidthemselves in their ovens, some under their beds, but n majority, as the boys say- "sloped" without hats, shoes or coats.ttA recent work on State Prisons has the following notice of the Rhode lsland State Prison at Providence. "At the hour I last entered this prison l foui.d all the convicls, save one, dilú gently employed at their tables in readng, spelling writing and arithmetic. t never saw a better ordered school, or a more sfudious class of pupils. No person [not informed) could have imagined these 'o be State Convicts, or the apartment to bo the working room of a State peniten tiary. I may reniark here tliat. in tho evcnt of insubordination ind vicious obstinocy, corporal punishment issanctioned by the inspectors, and privation offood nnd water is the penalty ofwilful transgressors. But though severe measures nre snnctioned they are seldom resorted to. The niosi difficult suhjects to hold in control nre rc-commitlod convicts from other State prisons. 1 he.nrd a religioua service herc, nppropriate for the class for whrse benefit it was held, by a clergymnn who voluntarily givesa partofSunday to this ofRce n the prison." (CTIie pnpiilatio of Nhw York is npwrds o1 S70.000. Of iliis ntirnbor more tlmn one fonrth. or 95.303, are nntives of Grcat Urnain. The liürtber of Alions is 61,061, or one ekh 6f Ihe who'lp. OJIn New York city are 273 clertrymrf, and ihpir coinppnaiion includinrr salaries, nua iisi! of real f stiité U $255,b4$, or rnrly a 'lnuiniitl dollars enríí. The nuiuhpr uf' (Inirrlips is 172' their Cö'st, ot #27,720 ecch. ttT'arnir Ving, of M on Una been appointed by the Governor lo be' Associate Justice of the Snpr'eñie Coiirt,and IVesidiiig .u]ge of the Sécónd Judicinl Circuit, in placö of Alpheus Fclch,resigned.

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Signal of Liberty
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