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toned. The girl being suspected was i'm
mediately apprehended, but denied having
any knowledge of the transaction. The jury,
however, before whom she was tried after
giving her cause patient and impartial hear
ing returned verdict of guilty. 1t is fortu-
nate for the girl that she is not slave-the
penalty i'll that case would, under an act of
Assembly, be death-as it is, her punish
mcnt, will be confinement in the Pcnten-
| tiary.


| 1f"idnchoiy ccUrrrnce.--Thursday the
l4th OF Oct. boy about z years of age, the
son of Mr. Ladd, Holderncss, N. II. living
near Sandwich line, went from home in the
afternoon, and was seen with some other chill
tlren about sunset, near dwelling house
distant about three quarters of Il mile. He
probably, soon after set out to return home,
and being alone, and the night coming on, got
bewldercd and strayed into the woods
Finding that he did not return, the family
early in the evening went i'll pursuit of him,
assisted by some oftheir neighbours. Their
search proving wholly fruitless, they next
summoned to their aid larger party, and
secured the woods toa considerable distance.
They continued search, reinforced by NUM-
bers from other towns, till the Thursday
night following but all in vain. Nothing was
heard of the child, and the patience and per-
severance of the company, rs VIC may well
suppose, was pretty nearly exhausted. But
as nothing is 50 agonising to the heart of a pa
rent as such dreadful uncertainty the fate
of child-more distressing far than even
the positive assurance ofhis dcath-the COM
pany, with feelings alike honourabie to them
, and consoling to the bosoms Of the afflicted
parents, agreed, at their solicitation, to con-
tinue the search one day longer. They did
so-and in the afternoon Of Wednesday the
child was found b. Col. Shepard, of Hol-
derncss, in the woods not more than half a
mile from his fathers house. He had ap-
parently been dead about "A DEMONSTRATING
subsstcd as long as he was able, on the leaves
and hcrbage in his reach. The little circle
around him, within which, as struggling nature
gave way, he had laid himself down to his
last sad and silent reposc, bore witness to his


feeble attempts to support life by pluckine


every green thing within its narrow limits
Concord Register.