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HOrrfd deed.-A more extraordinary instance ofsheer wickedness has never fallen under our observation, than is re- corded in the Cattsl.ill (N. NJ Secor- der, of man by the name of Morris Welsh. 1t proves how infinitely further human, or human nature goes, tlaan the boldest writer of fiction dare invent and put in his book. This man came home one evening intoxicated, and commen- ced beating his sick wife. lie then de- liberately took his infant child, four days old, and, one by one. broke the bones of its fingers and arms. struck Ii on its head with his fist, and at last threw 1t into the firel The child was discovered to be missing, and the suspicious oftbe neigh DOTS were excited. Search was made. and the mutilated, half burnt body of the child was found concealed under the floor of the house. Some difficulty was experiencedinaP Welsh When he found it was intended to ar- rest him, he armed himself with an axe and retreated, threatening to kill any person who came near him. He was pursued, however, by the whole neigh borhood, and finally taken.

 Such accounts are horrible; and yet it Is right that such things should be known, were 1t onlY to show 10 what an extent the depravlty of those may go, who are brutalized by intemperance. 