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terminated with "I dont want you; shew me the others." Mark the plural, reader! Two are better than one at any time. So Spicer was added to Kelly, and both delivered up as sacrifices to secure impunity to the greater rogue. Else why not take him along with the other two? "I had reasons for it," said Limbrick. These reasons are so apparent, so repugnant to our feelings, and so appalling to humanity,, that we forbear to enlarge further, than by concentrating the whole essence of his murderous "reasons" in two words; viz. MORE BLOOD!!!

Our readers, who are "strange to the ways of town," will naturally enough desire to be informed of the precise points upon which those five hellish villains were convicted, and of those grave "reasons," which obtained for them their pardon, and accomplished their enlargement. These it is our duty to give. We shall come, at the conclusion, to this advice: never engage in any thing unlawful, though your employer be ever so generous; fall not into habits of intimacy with strange or doubtful characters (first ascertain who and what they are)—do not let any one dodge your heels at night or by day. These