Responsibility Of A Slave.--trial For Murder

was recently tried for the murder o another - a woman - and acquitted on the ground thot the hlows which caused deat] were given by order of the mistress. - The court very properly decided tha whatever unlnwful act a slave may com mit in the presenceand bycommand ofii. ownet, that the owner and not his nstru ment is to be held accountable. A slave should no more be held accountable to the law for the crime in such cases ihan theknifeor hatchet with which a murde may be committed. We are gladtosee that doctrine established. - A. 8. Stand ard. (CMr. Geo. Thomson, one of the Missouri Prisoners, is about publishing a Oberlin a work of 400 pages entiiled "Prison Life nnd Reflections," contain ing a narrativo of his imprisonment, anc the events therewith connected.