MURDERS AND EXECUTIONS.
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We have always been of opinion, that the publications oflong, and circumstantial accounts of murder, suicides, and public ex- ecutions, ,has very pernicious influence up- on society and have therefore refrained from filling our columns with such loath- some details. The following notice of a scene exhibited at the execution of an In- dim, in Lenox, Ms. which we copy from the Berkshire American, goes to shew con- clusively the demoralizing effect of such public spectacles.

 What group appeared at Lenox ! There were high (not high minded) and low, rich and poor, old men and young, black and white, and all the intervening shades of colour; the farmer, the mechan- ic, the merchant, the labourer, the gentle man-idler, and the student-men of all professions and employments, as well as those without empIoyment-and to crown the whole UOmen! yes, gracious heaven soft, delicate, tender-hearted females, who would faint at the killing of a chicken, went fifteen or twenty miles to see fellow creature put to death Wives went with their husbands, sweethearts with their loy- CTS What a spectacle On the back ground of the picture, was the unhappy victim, in the last agony of parting life; on the foreground, were billing and cooing like doves. The whole scene, as painters say, was in excellent keeping. For what could be more proper, than for those whose ! souls were united in the closest bonds of af- lection, to go % miles to witness the sev- ering of soul from body

 Solemn as the occasion was that drew together such crowd of spectators, some parts of the scene must, nevertheless, have been irresistibly ludicrous. Males and fe- males jumbled together in one common