Evening Star Newspaper, April 9, 1859, Page 3

= Wanton 02 2 tn iE ERR ee TF ETE cme 8s | | zawished her. ‘ond > vesolatlon and princi ves reoumedl om: the speaker now spoke 81 LOCAL NEW ed Seaton ot mariage mall wp ead oe far the act of the prisoner him frgin the dut; jusband consequences: aw. ZHE MADISON PLACE MURDER, hei er haat costa Seat. It was contended that at the time the was SHAS ir. Grabam M€re read from statute (circum committed the state of the ‘s mind was Trial of Daniel E. Sickles for the killing | sium datis.) It is the declaration of the Briteh such as perfectly exonerated him from conse- } of Philip Barton Key. | Par! it that adultery isadeadly sin It was | quences. Disease of the mind, as of the . | > consi, Lg giro pas and was @ most yee tifa oan | et Kee 0 Cximinat Count—T. H. Crawvorp, Judge poni: le by ecclesiastical pun! The | identical character. The ailfments of the mind 4 “| common law of Maryland did not for its | came on as suddenly and m [oerioaly, a gig the SIXTH DAY—SATURDAY. ishment. Here he quoted from Randolph | disemsex to the body. On this point was April 9.—As We stated in our second edition yes- Five States have ded for its punishment, | made to the first volume of Hale, page 30. terday the Court decided, just prior tothe adjourn- held t] The jury were not to be too savage on the one r for which be named, and that the punishme:. mient, adversely upon the request of the counsel for | Lp rns oe renee 2 . the defence that Samuel F. Butterworth, R. J. | husband Walker. and Geo. B. Woolridge should be placed upon the stand by the District Attorney as United The Court thonght there was noth! cireumstances of this case which would necessarily | make Ja the first ee. the coroner's ji within two Sy far as be knew, without the presene it for the United States; and he did not think the | law rights you in dealing with Key entered hand, nor too feeling on the other. The defence soeened that this cast ited an instance of un- Ph cere passion. ‘That is a passion in ion to the cause. As to this point of ungovern- able passion, pesecing. 4 killing to manslaughter, the speaker referred to instances as laid down in the law as found in Chief Justice Holt’s law re- ‘This jury were to pronounce on the value of the "s bed. If finding for the prosecution | the judgment would be that there was no pun! ment for adultery here. They would thus strike the deepest blow at the cause of morals. The term ‘‘castle.”’ in law, meant one’s home, not a in the | fortress in the literal sense; but as much a fortress for the security and of himself and family | Also to Foster's Reports, 200 and 291,/on the witnesses for the prosecution. as though a literal fortron. He who enters it in | same point. In murder the is in possession inquest held | the guise of a neighbor or friend and there lusts of his will; in manslaughter he bas no reason to ee copes, | for your wife or ter, is as much a tres; be out of it. Mr. Sickles did not act in cold = ‘bh enterii ‘inst your will, and the | blood. knew when he met Mr. Key that Mr. - f masa . | Key was about his house te make an th United States was bound by the action of the Cor- the house of Wlekice as bis hiced. | with bis wife. Hekavw tat me’ an apse | oner im summoning Butterworth. But it is said | sge-was thus as nearly connected with Sickles al- | a house but a few blocks distant from his mansion that Butterworth gave the affidavit a which the | most asthe Siamese twins. = to gratify his base mapa He hired a house in a isoner was committed. The evi shows | He held that if a wife consented away her vir- locality inhabited by blacks, and availed himself tat the time this melancholy affair took place | tye. the husband had the same right to defend it | of the legal fact that what would be seen there Batterworth was present. and ‘after it was over took the arm of the his arm, and retired ion of the Con: affidavit was a friendly act, to avoid the necessity of a thorough ouer. With far as the evi were not present when the homicide was commit- ted, and ‘so f: Jury is concerned. there is nothing to show that | d°: ht nish they were mot called in reference’ ta sume other | DNd's Fight to pu regard to as if against ravishment; that !f the adulterer can- | Was not seen at all. Mr. Key was armed with all isoner, or the pri took | not be re: lied by the wife, he can be violently | the thi necessary to carry out his adulterous the place. In the opin- band, thoug! . with his handkere pera rt it was not too much to say thatthe | Seelled Gy the Boatand, tough the Tater con- Pith whieh he could pect Inne, Ge totar dae Preliminary examination of the pris: leugsiust Ryan, whercin he Meld that the fudge a 0 tl le jnst R by erein » Walker and Woolridge, so | For it to the jary to decide whether the Trusband dence has gone it show’ that they | act of killing, in a similar case, was murder. man- slaughter. or justifiable cide; and that though the woman consented her chastity, the hus- offence against himself Sickles’s family. One of the items of the defence will be that Mr. Key was a man who was in the habit of ing arms. Mr. Sickles knew of this hired house; he knew of this 9; lass, and park, and club house, a conve- nient place 4o retire to when it was not safe for Key to be out. He knew when he saw Mr. Key there aras their being before the Grand was as perfect as to defend it agaiost his wife's | What he was there for. Mr. Sickles did not know matter instead of this. ravishment. He again reminded the jury that their | that Mr. Key was coming there, but when he saw THE RUSH THIS MORNING. finding for the prosecution might come back a vis- | him thiere he knew what he was there for, from This morning so great was the excitement with Teapect to seats, that by 10 o'clock every available sjuare inch w been taken, a with a ‘inacity nuequalled by anything we ever witnessed before In or out of Court. ‘Mens. bers of the bar came into Coart in regalar proces- on. bearing chairs taken from their offices with them. and whieh, in many instances. they were compelled to hold in their Lands the facts that had already come to his knowl- edge. Could he under these circumstances have acted in cold blood. If he was excited. was it a case of passion unduly excited? If Sickles was in any state of passion, was that too greata state of heat for a man who saw before him the person of the seducer of his wife? Me (Key) took a separ- ate house for the purpose of doing ta it his guilty itation on their own ae yt ha! ts. Mr. G. then took w present state of the American law with reference to homicide. Mr. Grabam ied to examine seven points of inquiry. enumerated by him: First, a3 to how far the Government is bound to make out a case against the defendant. It must be made out by proof and not by presumption. Juries cannot convict on presuniption, unless they believe the facts brought out in those presumptions. No ithin the rajl of the Court room bad nd the occupants adhered to them fore in or ow over their heads, Had Mr. S. any hand in originating © want uf space on the floor ——— them. | ution is cven allowed to go the jury upon ion? If he had first provoked Mr. Ki ‘The greatest diticulty was experie: by Deputy | the mere fact of the killing. Roctesamin his | then sire spibiseargn by Mr. Key, his case would Marshal Phillips, in providing accommodations | point the speaker read from: 2d Smith’s Court of | have been different. provocation originated for the vast crowd, and no pains were by him to dispense even-handed justice to all in this respects. as in other re PENING OF THE CoTRT. At 2t minutes past 10 o'clock. Judge Crawford | to show that the defence could stand before the came into court, and order was in some measure restored Mr. Sickles was conducted into the dock, and | tion*had never broken would recoil from convict- instantly greeted by many friends who had previ- | § ngs conecten. ‘The jurors, box, were then called. and all answered to their | to steal over the mind of th names. TRE OPEN ites te entirely with Mr. Key. Here an extract was read from 17 State Trials, Page 97, to show the state of mind necessary to coustitute a crime in such a case. In order to make out a crinfe, there must be will and inten- tion in the mind, but when the mind is transported by frenzy, it is utterly impossible that the will can exist. It has been asked, can the Ethiopian change his skin’ The s | Appeals page 62 and 6%, as laid down in the case 4 | oe Pie People agt. McKahan, The opinion quoted from was that of Justice Brown. Also in the same connection to page 70, jury even now and demand a verdict of acquittal. ‘Twelve Indians upon whom the light of civiliza- a man under the cireumstances in which this defendant stood, for even after the act of killing, when the light of reason was gradually beginning defendant, he ex- claimed in the agony of bis heart, ‘-he has defiled my bed’ ‘The sanity of the prisoner's mind is under all the conditions of the crime to be made ion. If he was who had been some time in their human the moment his eyes fell on the man who had betrayed him he would have been trai ted. at once, and he would become the creature of ING SPEECH FOR THE DEFENCE, his instincts, as he no doubt was. If the roca Mr. Graham arose to make the opening speech out affirmatively on the part of th ution. | tion was greater than human nature could bea of the defence to the jury ; comanenciny at 25 min- ent 2 Mgt part ¢ e prosec' z 4 ir, rd pry cas we leah pee babes p he ‘The law presumes f:om the killiag it acertain | he is equally unaccountable in all the circum- prisoner perity is the fire in which alluded to the friendship which had existed be- tween himself and the prise was now her great infnence which had spr over the fa the will which guided and the rod which pun- ished A few weeks since the body of a hun wi st fo tentions, the e: his neighbor. rashes upon hi intficted s ne ’ pity for the life which had been taken. They knew not how ight | oon of the oper while he paid a bigh tribute to its eloquence and ron pwer. by fr to that species of mercy which it was the duty of the prosecutin a case. He c ia which the examination of witnesses for the prosecution in | reepect to the heard as well at the time of in answer te of the District ssh w pous of ev quired if the weapons worn by Key that opera-glass and just as capable of carrying death as any used by the prisoner! Mr. Grauam complained of the course of the osecution in employing additional counsel, and that the nature of the case did not dema Why was this prosecution thus vigor- ously managed ’ Was there anything in the case requiring it to be tried as it had such aid tiou* erty holders sh and that the L counsel? Iu this case the Court had invested the jury with supreme powers he speake the decisions of this court had ever been such as gave juries the utmost of their rigits Here the speaker defined the crime of usurder as lid down iu Blackstone's Commentaries. He ask- ed the —— forth on God and ied. Luis face in his bands, and in this | position remained as the speech progressed. ] This owas to him a time for solemn and in the throes of death in one of the ne D Tulterer.. fet ¢ arisem abo ad him besiexing, with the most deliberate in- ve been markd@ by the same eyes which reyed the ak Dies of this d were here to deci riage bed was a murderer. tmost detestable character; far be it from the speaker to defend Lim before this or any other jury. If be- tween the act of thisdefendant and a murderer they could trace any similarity, it was for them to do so; the speaker was unable to do so. ‘The course adopted in eny here reper by Mr. terms, who cont that in the empaneling of this jury the prisoner at the bar had of his rights, especially through the enforcement | the a timi; of the property qualification, imam Caan } jurors were excluded simply because the misfurtune te be unfortanate. | The speaker here commented on the character | wing of the District Attorney, which, | isouer as a walking arsenal loaded with deadly | and the deed. Rom. 13:9; James 2 his errand of wickedness. in the his country? explained. and the difference between | state of facts exists. but the jury are not to make their verdict from these presumptions. The ey nif are to go behind the presumption aud ascertal hits: “* pro& | these facts exist. = Was the rule of malice nowa part of the criminal | jurisprudence of our country? [Here the speaker at id he | Fead from Mordridge’s case, seventh statute trials, or at the ge bap he } page 00, to explain the origin of this rule; also as pe i reer this point from First Blackstone, page 322.) ‘a = fe te in New York, this rule had been completely ex- re verdures green mantle. was | Hioded. If the District Attorney in his State were to prove nothing but the killing, the court would ones the jury to acquit him instantly on the spot. Unless, said the speaker, the jury tind the exist- ence of the fact presumed, they must acquit. Did | the will in this ease accord with the act, or was Mr. Sickles the mere instrument of his will. ‘The speaker would always contend that there | was no crime in the slaying of the adulterer. stances of the case. So long as Mr. Sickles did not originate his own provocation, bis act com- mitted under its intluence, is above the visitation of human law. _ Was the deceased im the peace of this commu- nity—was Mr. Sickles moved and instigated by the influence of the Devil? What an atrocious verdict that would be to say that Mr. Key was in the be ce of God when he went to the place of as- signa parent of friends; bad fortune the they are tried.” “The speaker here to share in his sor of n: the speaker referred to the first of Hale, page 30. to suow how far the mind must be atfect- ed to come under the signification of total iasanity; also to Erskine, in Hattield’s case, in the same work Upon the point of insanity, Mr. Graham pro- wear quote from Dean's’ M dcal Jurispru dence, pages 4-8 and 495, and discussed the vari- ous kinds of mania. moral and of an being to be the body of a contirmed ypened on a day when he the growness of his nature ; ise, to show astle Where was placed the jewels of | Whe, Sar a o : * | ‘n the prosecution proves the declaration of | Under what states of mind the man is irresponsible — in — mthes oan oe | the prisoner, that declaration is true till proved | for deeds done in that condition. If man’s will im and. in the frenzy of the moment. to false.’ Now the District Attorney proved that the prisoner declared that the deceased had polluted bis wife. ‘There was no evidence to prove that he did not seduce the wife of Daniel fr Sickles. and the speaker contended that this is maddened it cannot be contended that he isa free moral agent. The mind of man is not perfect for the purpose of human responsibility when either the reason or the will is dislodged Mr. Graham proceeded to quote from 510 of the same authority upon suicidal mania, and also from 574 and 375, and argued that the criminality aes depends upon the amount of will put nto ft. Without moral liberty there can be no responsi ras Now what moral liberty can there be eu- jeyed by that man who isdealing with the seduccr his wife? Free agency, the right of volitior The re bed. punishinent as was deserved. of th | Was so, and that the prisoner in a moment of pas- | sion slew him. | ‘The defence were not bound to show the deed, | although they would put it before the jury in all | ite disgusting details. The treachery of a friend | is damned enough; but wien that injury touches the wife of that friend, it is doubly damned. ‘The third question Was the heinousness of the crime, ax declared by the Bible, and as to how the 5 law esteemed the character of the crime of adul- | is denied the party, and he isacting without moral tery. It should be some recommendation to a case | responsibility. which could rest its warrant and its justice on the | [Acting upon a suggestion of the Court, Mr good book. Graham now gave way for an adjournment, at Here the speaker quoted from a chapter of Gene- | 10 minutes 3, p. m., having spoken for up- sis as to the creation of Eve and the expression of | Wards of tive hours with great power.) hty in giving her to Adam. Prior to the adjournment the District Attorney If Ker fad div led Mr. Sickles’s body in twain | rose to ask formal permission that the jury should y had bad | ne could ak Kew Micke! effectually done so than | have the Peviege (to-morrow being Sunday) of he did by dividing him from his wife. Algo the | Walking out under supervision. speaker quoted the admonition of the Savior in St. The Court assented. | Matthew, “What God hath joined together let not Mr. Stanton then si man put asnuder.** be allowed to attend ‘The speaker continued to quote from the Scrip- | row tures af various points to show how severe the | Judge Crawford said he had a great regard for laws of the Almighty were against the man who ; the Sabbath and for Divine worship, but {n view | conunits adultery, and to show that the fate of the | Of the fact that the jury belonged to different de- adulterer was long ago foreshadowed nominations, and would also in leaving eh be Reference was made to E:; fat. 19:16:22; | liable to come in contact with many petsons. . 224; | thought it not proper to act upon the saggestion. the wife or dang hter of some of them cudant. They ¢ whether the defender of a mar- ‘The murderer wasa nelling the Jury was Graham in severe been deprived gested that the jury might ivi ai - ntended had not been cotilined strict- pe lan he officer to exercise in conducting ontinued to comment on the manner District Attorney had conducted the questioning as to what witnesses | 5 ag What they saw of the occurrences | yj the homicide. hel ead | »the portion of the opening address | 14. Attorney, in which he spoke of the | a Cuntxe Marxet.—The stands this morning were well supplied, but the demand was not as brisk a8 usual at the close of the weck. The sup- plies in the fish and vegetable departments were light—in the former, probably because of light draughts at the landings, and the latter because of the absence of numerous country dealers. The butchers department was well supplied, but the sales appeared to be dull. In the hay market the supply was moderate, the prices ranging from 75 cents to $1 percwt. The prices im the sheds re- ported : short step between the intention ery murderous capability. Mr.G. in- | terer hateth bis neighbor. Had Sickles a worse foe than Key. Had Key come to him and sunk | his stiletto fn his beart. he had nm merciful to j kim. He came to him in the garb of friendship, and com ted uuder that sacred social tie the most heinous and sneaking of crimes. Those citatious from the Bible proved that female purity nd | was not to be violated, and that it was plety to Heaven to defend it. Hf the prisoner goes to the judgment seat of God with no othersin than thatof defending his wife's parity, be will go as well recommended as an ene can appear before the great tribunal. What was the defendants compact with society. It was that he should yive up so much of his liberty as society should render him back If there is no other protection than a nasty action of damages, the wives of the ple were badly protected indeed. Letthis beso, and let the coins of the adulterer soothe white handkerehief— Was it an unballowed prosecu- uuain about as last re Beef. fresh, & tb. 10@ 15} Roll butter. Sait do.. -. §@10|Phil’a print Pork 5 been? That none but prop- pould be permitted to sit onthe jary. nited States should have additional « here congratulated the jury that i of acquittal j ase of the killing of an adulterer. Here the t sorard of | speaker read from a famous case. that of Man- uzhter | ning’s. to show that at the time when it was the purpose to make the royal revenue the largest. here existed an instinctive shame at burning the hand of the man who slew the adulterer of his wife. Also. frou 17th State trials. page 70. as to on, Was the adulterer,as be weut Dried beef. R@1s Chickens, ¥ pr... 50@75| Rhubarb, bunch. Irish potatoes, pk. 25@37|Cabbage sprouts Sweet potatoes... S0|Spinnach, peck. Corn, ear, % bbl, $4Q5| Ducks, tame, pr. Corn, shelled. Pheasants . 5 ‘The crime of nvang! laid down. Foster's Crown Law, | 180 referred to as to the latter cri z 5 the same point, and to show that it was the great- | Beans, & bush. Turkeys . - $14 who slew the man Who | egt st erlohes to seduce 8 man's wife, and had been | Rye, bus 251 30|Fish, cod, vw b.. . sas had ce ated the purity of his wife. Itwas sy regarded through centuries. ‘The adulterer’s | Oats 55| Do. black, & tb. . 12 perfectly immaterial how the deceased came to his | set brings bastards into a family, and puts the off- Do. flounders do. io death. “The whole question was as to the coudi- | spring of a man’s loins on an equality with has- Rock, bunch. 31 tion of of the defendant when he tok the | trds” ‘The act of the adu ; ‘ siPercht, de eee = life of th ased Think of the District Attorne ‘Apples. |Shad, pr ° so@75 Iu order to constituts the term malice. the jury | Court and hunting down pelt Dried do. Large Rock ..... sng ee had to fled the act to be the resait of a wic ~ . 7 ry . and depraved mind. Was the act of this defea- | arn ficlae out and compe! Peaches, q' Turtles... 34 dant in vindicating his family altar the result of a malicious min in defending all our rights not reach the ¢ times befall men right to throw ourselves in . to protect us. I ture that allows aman to defend himself against ‘The law cencedes that social laws must of natar an attack yield at times aa the buman breast by nature. extent, nature those eases the great council chamber of the heav- | «as was the power from whence that law 8 to the meaning of the vid rule that the husband who come He | uired if a man should not be as safe against the adulterer as the burglar. Yet he was | glay either. justified in slaying the burglar who entered bis | house, Iu this District there liad been provided | jn the fact, he will never have an 0} no protection agaiust the adulterer, and H was that the citizen was thrown on the law of self- | t this most horrible of high crimes. The ques- | turn its face against him for the enormity of his re burglar out that vied, 18 State Trials, 306. ¢ Bible that the greatest of crimes was that of adultery. Foster. 295. Reference was also made to East’s Commen- taries, to show that the provocation of adultery was too great for human nature to bear in the first transport of the passion on discovering the evi- dence of that adultery, and to show that no jury ‘dina general verdict ever condemned a man for certain | standing in defence of his wife. It's folly to pun- and in | ish a man for doing what be cannot help doing. ‘The fourth question was as to the reason of and ud ? an laws do not shield us One legal system did | ftp: case of certain wrongs whieh sume- When they do vot, we bave a | iustinets, the law is ouly the law of na- Bav Roans anv Strerrs.—Editor Star: Many thanks to the Star and its correspondent teenth street is now being repatred. Seventh street, however, remains, from H to Boundary street. in wretched condition. Are the ‘otticials” out of town orsick? tn either case, had not the business men of Seventh street better take upa colleetion and have it repaired on private aceount’ 1 merely make the suggestion, as it is rumored that all the Corporation funds are gone to pay the in- creased police force, and for their uniforms—not a farthing left; * more children applying than ean get admission into the public schools. and the streets in the central wards (that pay large revenue) can- not be repaired. or even cleaned. Our present Mayor was so strongly endorsed by the congres- sional orators prior to the election, | was induced to hope for a sure enough model administration. Let me request you to say that your correspond- to these instinets which are planted To s laws were our protection discovers the adultery can slay either the adulterer or the adulteress. He may pick from them and If the husband waits till hecatches the eee unity to result | defend his name from the infamy which pros thes Wasnineney Lee ing communication will give our citiztns , aknow- ledge of the quality of the water sapplied by the = ram Tas cop Sua chute ¢ re By Telograya i the Evening as — 9 Five a cute uintepartens tomnz. rae, | RACER Sagan ee | — wee ee gee amount of solid contained In the | feta sclected with care aud comprises eo | Miramen's Retreat frem Vera invest ef pal in the nay well kno somcey Caen Severe. ae by time mrtoy Pet gallon. |” LEXANDRIA AMUSEMENTS watt, | Srnct mime Mckane. “ bad " ‘ ” vn, Eg gon eh FOR FIVE NIGHTS ONLY, er City from Minton, ; JESDAY NIG. € April 5th. tid teive sows thet bis Noted SP Coa mg sawpa RM O10 4Nt cg akaiare IL- | | The Quaker City brings the Vern Crut mails of f ; A the Ist inst... contain Sraave Tiner tieak bridge teers totes powed RUSSIAN WAR Iteppears that Airsam, Se solid matter euspeoded © Alneolved. AND SIFGE OF SERASTOPOL, peared before Vera Craz with bis For comparison, the number of grains of matter | g= PO lh ene as above. of about 300 men, after ~ @imolved in a galion of water of various cities, is Doors open at te; pment cee tpl» ne ha Ereearatens — man he Foe beck ashi “Aqued 4th A in one from the city. The women lost (this aL rit sap genta ord U 53 v E: city had Res 4M oa to the shipping the Little Falls creek! ~ 528] ING HK 5 gralon New York..... 4.16 ALN a TATUAR\, AW uy tilt, Philadeiphia. $08 | BN Pan {snow oper! at their Passale, Jersey Cit 2 2.00 Several ing Picterae tot sence see earner see S| ——— ver, » Hempstead water Lon my) ee P —— transpired ‘Traftigar square well and fountain, London. 62.90 | ‘DHE MEMBERS OF THE ARLINGTON | Qaker cuy len Manhai , formerly used in New York....125.80 | ,5 Rie! Pape e Sh tk petro sa amnoe Rout “s ia hardly be supposed, that his retreat ‘The water of the Washington Aquedact is there- | give ther Third Grand’ Assembly on WE ia with a stronefeone oa fore now drinkable, and as the reservoir settles it NeEsDay VENING, Apripot , 1859, at ati B force was behind a the grows clearer and purer daily. Mall of the Franklin Fire Company. * ~n » {t was believed.) to cut bim off Particulars in fature advertisement, 1t* Gen Degellade was of pence, capital sate ‘that Wasnixeton Asvium—Friday last, Gilbert | \[OTICE—he first Grand Ball : “Ds wd goo i Ga, ‘s CLUB will bo given at Philhermone pa | Other bodies of liberal had surrounded the Cameron, Esq., contractor, formally delivered to ‘on the Mayor of Washington the new Washington gis capital, which, it was expected, would soon sur- MONDAY, May oth. her. z : Asylum building. and it was by the Mayor deliv- | See partieulars in future advertisements. hinister McLane arrived at Vera Cruz on the ist ered to the care of the Intendant, Mr. Jno. R. | —*2 = — — | ie ceria: and the ones ce Een commeatence Queen, so that now the Corporation tias entire pos- | GTS Eke bina Grand Assembly of Bho rome, seston. Since the occupation of the building by Mos ba EVEN! ikG May 2d, at F rranehin Baltimere Markets. orporation, rel vices ha’ T- all, corner of $ stroets, ickets Batti 1 9.—Plour banged, b> Sbrnel om the Member ib day by Various clergyusen, | Cents. See partiouiars in future advertise ard street $0.35" Dio $6 12,086 25 bea among them Rev. Messrs. Rogers. Morsell, and | ™¢2ts- : = Sp 7-coae" Wheat closed scarce and in better demand, but Greer. Last Sabbath, Rev. Mr. Morsell christened RAND MAY BALL Prices were white $1.65a$1.75 for five infants, two boys and three girls, their ages id w" IRE good to prime; red $i .40a%1 50 for fine to choice ranging rom one to three months. tig ha UN pas ah Sy AR. Ds Corn closed dull; white 76; yellow 80 nama jary Augusta Washington, Mary Eliza- 7 Provisions closed quiet; bacon sides 9jg; mess beth Kossuth, and Mary Jane Bradley: the boy. WASHINGTON ASSEMBLY ROOMS. k $15.50. . Wm. Oregon Carroll and John Kansas Henry. Nt ! Haat well cortcenes Poy bak ‘or tisemeut. Whisky closed dull at 25025 jc. the present time there are ten infants in the Aay- | or batticulars, see future advertisomeut. ap 6.tf < ae lum. Some of them are orphans—others have pa- rents living. To-morrow, at 3% p. m., Rev. Mr. Rogers will preach at the Asylum." New York Markets. ° New Yor, April 9.—Flour is heavy; State $1.958$5 25, Obio $6 4086 55; Southern $5 906 50 W beat closed with a downward tendency; Wes tern red #1 4Ua81 45. Corn closed heavy; mixed is nominal at 968S7c; ars k losed heavy, 378817 prime ‘erk ci | ae 7%, S12 Sas 2 wo se Lard closed firm at Ll alle. LOST AND FOUND. OST—On Tu pisht. a BRACELFT, con- sisting of gold band with medallion of black enamel. epame is encraved. A re- Tur Crown tx rue Covrt-Room —So great is | ward will be paid ‘the finder, desired, at 339 I the crowd of persons who assume the right to seat — sees 3 themselves within the bar of the Criminal Court | Q@TRAVED OR STOLEN—On W just now, without being entitled by any rule to | Soinck™ a enamaninta HORSE, wae ESR seats there, as that many members of the Wash- | mane and tail crop ae Has ginssy eyes, od fore | i} a Whisky closed dull at 26c. ington bar are deprived of their seats. The con- | 2% jue lore Joes little sprung. A liberal reward : ome is that more or less of the latter stand | HOOV BRS Meat House, corner 8th aud D sts. Financial. een the witness bor, and es 1ehee nen the | SP = New Yorr, April 9.—Stocks firmer; jury, completely obscur' the counsel in cause 3 i "7 . a Island from the view of more er leas of the reporters, | FUSERAY.—Came to the promises of the subscri- sole ans Saas “Michiges ae ber,on7 " s those reporting for the Siar among them’ None | ey loti, tod Sat okie BUBE ALD save a reporter comprehends the embarrassments | COW. The owner is requested to co: to the Liege a of ie helper eins — prove property, pay charges, take her from such a circumstance, whic’ ly interferes 7 with the intelligent and satisfactory discharge of | _®? BAZIL M. BURROWS. his duties. It is to be hoped. that the otficers of OR RENTAND SALE RENT AND SALE GEORGETOWN ADVERTISEM'TS. the Court will La due care that such an occur- = = * = renee may not in transpire. = v1 - . vines az GE RENT—The two-story and f Rk OF CAL ANT FIRE COMP4- meee ae : achas mad Bs = Vigilant Fire Company, heid April 7th, the following ith 8 x H uirs fAMOS HUNT, Potomae Imnranes Agent, | "Ried, Fe esimoeely adapted e ‘Southern New York Central 76; Penn. & 50%; Mil. and Miss. 7; Virgi G'sty. Sterling exchange Missou: Pouice Marrers.—Before Justice Clark.—John Robertson, (colored.) was arrested by officer Boss E anaes % 3 31 north A street, Capitol or at his office, i xd and was charged with the larceny of a shoulder of 512 7th street, near Gad Fellows’ Hall. | £28 for an ie pureen ar Sucsont aie tate pacon; also the larceny of two shad. from Danicl ap + st* =n 4 _______ | stoned red at the bers who had cot O° Leary and Edward Miller. He was committed MS FOR RENT at No. 40 Missouri aye- | te reel at the siacm of fire on the night - to jail for a further hearing. the houss formerly ocenpied by Mr. Wm. | OL Apr! 5 and be r A nice young man was arrested on Thursday by | H The Rooms are very dexirable, having % & frm | Bie peng nee § will not go to any otticer Ecklot! for throwing stones and profanity | ® southern exposure, and will be rented furnished or | Bre beyond Market strect weet, after night, unless in the steact:” Me sefused Geter ian seme wok Ap 9-5 her's house ia on fire or in danger of fire. unfurnished, with or withont board 5 order: the Justice christened him --Baltimore rowdy who {OR RENT—A FRAME HOUSE on Massa- ap 9-6t | CHAS. A. LITTLEJOBN, Sec. refused to give his name."’ He began to show + NOTICE —L =% chusetts avenue, between 4th and 15th streets, OT y Some of his skill in escaping from justice at the of. | Containing 6 rooma, with pumpin the yard. Rent whOTICE.— LICENSES. — All Persons, tice, but it was not successfal in this case—one of Sorgetown expire om thedith i Vare hereby $12 per month. For particulars inquire on. the the officers laid him on his back and the handeufts Cee Oe ee eee carat | aonliea pcompllt sovenow seoeaaremaiitar were put on his Wrists. He was sent to the work- will subject themscives toe fine. JAS. E. BUN AWIN. Dealer in Batter house for sixty days, where it was ascertained that = re M. LAIRD, Clerk. his name is John Dorrity Georgetown, March 26, 1853.—mar pho ES, on 19th T. W. Lewis, profanity; fine and costa, $1.94. RIME MERCER POTATOFS. - Inguire of Just arrived he 1 ace SEARLE Feast BR ates pply to JOHN C. JOHNSON, No. 97 Water or on board t Bp e-8t Disappointed Tuizves.—A nomber of skilful members of the light-finger fraternity arrived in this city just previous to the commencement of the Two commodions BRICK 331 and 353 1 streot, fronti Pranklin Squarc. laquire at vessel. : the office of J. 8. HOLLINGSHEAD, Esq, oS vivort.x See OE RUOES ee Sickles trial, and on the first day several of them of eth ana Es 8, oT at 401 6th street, Getwaen UBA IS TAKEN.—Received thie day, 5,000 appeared at the City Hall to reconnoiter. The re- | Gand H. Rent $352 month. “ass | C Havaca Oranges ; 100 M. do.; 2.000 sult of their reconnoissance appears to have been ZNT—A t Cocoa: ; 50 bushels J, utatoes; 30 the sudden departure of most of them. The ar- | Fy REN TOA feo busiels Swort Pianting Roots; 24000 dozen Eats e : all of which is now for amie STER’S, next door, rangements made by the Marshal for the preserva- Deides ont Weekiankon a =|, store, corner lar under the kitchen, sit tion of order in the court-room are very wufavura- Sd streets. Apply at Mr, ble to the operations those pickpokets designed to | _®P7-9. ____,_____| 4. ~ pees oe ee make. Butas some are yet hanging about the ‘OR RENT—The HOUSE No. 386 C, between DAL ME wake Rk, city, it would be well for persons in places of pub- Mand 45, sta, Inquire at No, 415 C st., below | PROF) SIONAL NOTICE—{ would hereby lie resort to look well to their money and valua- | 34. ic Sp3008 | SP, cette te Sr aa vo rd ge bles. FOR SALF— or2new FRAME HOUSES, on | and atall times, unless onally and next to the corner of Wth and O_sts., con- taining 4 and 5 rooms each. ‘Perms: 2100 cash; lalance in notes payable 6, 12, 1. and 24 months, it. Inquire on hepremicns, or of B. W. of I4th and F sts, = J. W. REED. —Tho tw BRICK DWE: ed Basement and AccIDENT IN ALEXANDRIA .—Last evening, about six o'clock, Charles Wilborn, aged ten years, son of Henson Wilborn, fell from adray, which Le was driving, and broke bis neck ‘be unfortu- nate lad was jolted from the dray by the wheel passing over au uneven portion of the street. an street first di Union eid oor ride @ ap 7st is BES ‘BURROUGHS. “apes “bi DEN Bi'RovoMS. S$ G.A.SAL’ 1,000 BASES Atak ay sects ont Sp 7-6t _H. NEY. $2,800% R_SALE. a BOND, secured by 6 Attic, No, 115 G: - treet, between Congress and of trust on real Saxe or Stocx.—Yesterday, James C. McGuire | Hicii'streets, containing nine rooms, with gas apd | tmesthe amount. ‘Title indisputanle, ‘Nidreas & Co., sold 2,909 Corporation of Washington | water on the premises. Both the house and location | Box 525 Georgetown Post 3 ap7-st* are desirable as a private residence, ‘Oesession given the 15th instant. Apply to D. ENG stock at 1033;2103X; also, 5,000 Corporation of 1. pera ie tea teach. a _ all & CORPORATION OF GE $1,500 Re Wanted, at co 7 Alexandria stock at 50% Georgetown. i “apT-2w ° x ranted mere 20 NT" SSIDENCE ed h will bo paid in par funds. Ap- ‘THE PRICES OF Fisu, at the wharf in Alexan- tent ton West oon asacepaaeera, oul be ply to EY. ap 5-6 dria, yesterday, were—shad $14 to $17 per hun- dred ; herring, $10 to $10.50 per thousand. for.rent on or betore the istof May. The house is finished in the best style, containing 9 rooms, with bathing and gas fixtures complete. Apply t OFFUTT. No. 49 High st. api F°? RE rable 4-story BRICK DWE - JSE, No, 332, in. perfect order, conta’ water, bath-room, cas through- out, with beautiful back lot, recently ocenpied by Major Eastman, U.S. Army, and situated on nort ROPOSALS IWILL BE RECEIVED BY o undersigned Commissioners ited ‘Corporation of Georgetow! the loth « the poration ret April for grading, rraveling, curbing and guttering ‘ayette street from Bridge to Ist sts, AS phy oho NO. L. KIDWELL, Com joneers. Warten Retorns.—The Chief of Police having noticed the accustomed assembly of colored ind!- viduals in the immediate vicinity of Theatre Al- ley, and their frequent disorderly behavior, di- Vv mar St-td mis RIME WHITE MERCER. POT. TOES.— rected a strict enforceinent of the law in order to | side G street north. between 12th and 13th, west ’ ; break up the disorderly gatherings. Consequently, | Apply toPOLLARD WEBB, No. 320 (24 ators) | Of pane Witte Marner POTS TOES wish Virginia Bolden, John More, Sophia Bragden, | 7th street, between SP6-6t_ | be sold at reduced prices. Apply to ARNY & 7 SHIN 0. 51 Green street, - mar 2 and Henry Stewart, all colored, were arrested for | being out after hours. and this morning were fined Ss D ROOMS TO RENT ud F sts., No. 452. $3.15 each. Four lodgers were accommodated. “VERAL NISH on 13th street, botween AP 5-e03t* SS = ns {OR SALE—LOT No. # and part of Lot No. 9, in square No. 377, together with the improve- splendid stock of Spring and Summor Dry Goods, ts thereon. For terms apply to Mich’! Nourse BRICK BUILD- building, ioe house and stebling; altogether pos- Havine just RETURNED from the North with a n ment would now cail the particular attention of the ladies | or Joseph W. Nairn. sessing every convenience for a fret- confec- of Washington and vicinity to examine my stock. | ap 4-1it* NN Wan H. NOURSE, Guardian. | tionery establishment. Posccemon Ne ammedi- 1am daily in receipt of fcosh_supplios, and do su- — 5 “XC = ately. Apply to ARNY & SHINN, No. 51 Green fieit an early call, F. T. Mappox, WOR RENT, SALE, OR HANGE For | street. ‘mar 2 No, 349 7th st., 3doors below Brier Bde: the northern part of the city—a small E on the Island, corner of G4 and F ts. containing 6 rooms. Ape! to A.G. FOW- © right, and inquire for Mys, Gard- | 1.ER. Pension Office, or No. 367 New ¥ 2 talner ot Livereertand. Beit i nue. between 1th and loth sts. ae aps-lw Northero Liberty Market. OGGSWELL’S NEW MEDICAL SALT fe sale in Georgetown by R. es T, ‘Saas "'W. Sothron, . Barnard & Co., and J. W Br sur from Coughs, Colds, Bronchitis, SNT—Handsomely FURNISH 17. Asthne, or Peel any ung discase. Wean be und Liteon in the aecnad or third story im the ae een. ——_—— — = al ad ap 6-' 9th street, No. - 5 ai j tone On Oth etree NORGE WILLNER, Fr, © HARVEY & CO. ax & Ricaplalinc tah lavas joven 2 truth, mar 3i-2w Paperhaning Store. . 0. 325 Penn. test , Costive- | = = Seonare Ueamel Demir, that co of floes the | COR, RENT—Ore of tho most cligible BUSI NESS STANDS on Penn. avenue. Inquire of M. SNYDER & SON, Banker: skill of our most eminent [eae eae = Dr. Sanford has been for a long time one of the eminent physicians of New York, and, itis said. LLDING HARDWARE, CU tnd PLATED GOODS, Xe., ke., which they > advance most of his cases were treated with’ the Invigorator JUST RECEIVED, are ofering to huyere at @ wety sunell, sivas with such invariable success that he has been in- IASES 9’ Ww NNETS, over factory prices, and feel satt hey Teast ecee atmermtiene ea ver ie | HO.casns SrA GSN sa Aci fla'cap outer ais ke Beto who are troubled with detitity, hentinona, nor, | erst choice, at S Persons in want will consult their own in- . it will afford as sure in showt Bargoodascven if persone de not want to buy. n't forget the No.—25 Penn. avenue, be- tween 6th and 7th they might save physicians’ bills and days, perhaps yours, ofeuaring. Sold by all Draggiste. . mar -2wr sts. Weoppinc Caxes, very pretty and very cheap. 10,00 mar 28-2w F. L. HARVEY & Co. Ice Creamand Water Ices, at 5 per gallon, at fall and exal — a - the Philadelphia Confectionery, corner 12th and F ~ = —— PUA NFIELD ACADEMY, mar 22-Im* PRING MILLINERY. tfall Z Near CaRuisie, |i ‘Those in want of Pennies, for change, McDONALD’ would respectfully in Twenty-sixth Seasion commences May 2d. - mers that she ber limited to 25 lads, for whose improvement ergies of the Prineipal are constantly exeroised. btain them on application at the coun- ¥ tire expense (five months ter of the Star Office. NG ND ICLES, to witch ss! av item at- of the public generally. Sr y Wwe Hovsxs ane CLearep or VERMIN _1 "B. Ga_-Hovarkl ates teaates to nent A: ae sat vk Oo wil be at Kirkwood And Gardons presorved from the. ravages of in- | if! remson py T-3t* afternoon » URN tsand worms, by Lyon’s Magnetic Powders and Spa it Ts = anise Pisinficld, Cond count S, Farewell to sloep when bed -bugs pro: Miss S.F. HANEY & SIST! a will open on McKENNEY & |.ANSDALE, Or rats and mice (confound them) p' Saturday. April 9th, a Jaome assortment AGFNTs FoR THE s Prof. Lyou found a piautin the interior of A: PRING MILLINERY, to which the PARK FIRE INS. CO. N. ¥.—Cash ital the powdered loaves of which is certain. death te the attention cf the ladies. DRESS- supplies $30,110, nearly; and corres; fatha, &cr A, small amount Of the powder weal [ed ee Rea Ben eee ereeE gees, Sci™irascs equiiably sdjusted and promptly y ee nt i a ei 5 0. enn. avenue, we al reserve a garden of plants, and rida house of all | {ithrand ath stroete, int Wane rm : “e . hese annoying pests. It is free from. poison and i pprentic>s wanted, EMPLOYMENT. ap7-st* harmless to man! Pp a iud and domestic animals. It is 7 : . > = sons wanting good’ Cooks, Ni or : need ention the condition of the Eastern rv ECOND GRAND OPENING OF SPRING Pocoene way ae aS defense. The law, by not providing for this great | tiun to be contemplated was whether the husband | ¢2“ not mention t 1 le in preserving crops than guano m S LD other service would do to call at our mitt y lanaeif! ‘ . | Branch roads. and the road from Cottage Hill to w. Many worthless imitations are Ly ‘7th street, near D. there'was nothing revelationsry te itt We cigns | ome) of the commission of the adul- | tne old race course. I feel fully pers that in |- ‘only genuine 1s siuod E. LYON. ae Cait An: 320 assume that when a right is given by the law of aobe ees God. even when not expressed : | wae e exercise that right was acting on the principle of | the very door of truth to justi self-defence 1A was a ine! one’s house as an a ‘This is am important point. ylar not protected it is proof tha tw protect defend on fessiy kill in law. under thx your family against such an offence, not provided | for by human law action a man could defend binwelf against the , eq jt tothe level of an ac: adulterer. He would show that this dirty defence quoted the record of the was ne defence. ‘There ar. tuches the ur. the right of a eat, ‘The relation of the wife to the husband makes her actin dishon Law thus desi hiuas bor it is well man" Because of ber weakues she is put under 5 ulechos obighan offence against tie bosbend as yourself to the extent of killing. To | # self against its violation, is acting on | swung open to the adul r the ee iple of self-defence iterer ¥ ter, except When In the act, t y hax 80 dee! ‘The husband is the wife's protrector, mas- | "> ter-moral owuer. ‘The strong arm of the husband must step ie to ES set her ayalast her own frailty net as much as agal We might | tery. The rule redaciig Cee crime tomanslaughter ll that was required was on and circumstances leadi. the ki oe. | Where was the man who did not contemplate re aggravated crime surely to enter | the honor of his family, as it passed from yenera- ulterer, than to do so as a bur- | tion to generation, with the same loyalty it he r if society has | would contemplate the honor of the crown in you ia the enjoyment uf your Wives, | passing from father to son? Let the saime loyalty society devolved on you the rigbt | that attaches to a nation’s queen attach to the queen of every family. Should every door be Let the wgis of the law extend to the circle of every family, We were made in the image of the great Creator. Man was made to walk erect on the face of the earth. ‘The last question was. what was the rale which lowered the crime to manslaughter, which redue- October or November next, when the County Su- visors ** Iny by their crops,"* the road repairs for ie spring will be promptly attended to. You know that our Levy Court is a large, pon- derous, and highly dignified body, and it is abso- lutely wrong, and unconstitutional, for any of the common people” to attempt hee eg them from the assessments of the value of lands in the county, or the modes of road mending and making as pur- sued by our gra % Why, sir, the idea is monstrous; and there are some few who even go so far as to state openly that our ou come be raised by assessing our lands at their value, and creating a school fand to learn poor boys and girls to + read, write and cipher.’” Why, sir, you will not fail to see at a glance if this is done we are all ruined; the boys at. twenty-one, if called on to vote. would be enabled to read their tickets, and might Se a vate © ew eames Oonge R.T.B. Wasuixoton Co., D.C., April 6, 1859. * Note —The increased expenditure of the Cor- poration for an increased police force has already proved 8 very wise one, we apprehend. We never before knew the Washington police so efficient as at this time.—Star. Bvsingss.—This morning the business locali- ties presented quite a lively appearance. The by human law, to | jin; If you can blame- defence of yourself under buman divine law you can thus defend It will be said that by a civil aloft the Earl of War Wick, (1020) as to the meaning of the law as con- sidered in connection with E> priveilgions cler- gium, or “benefit of clergy” On this point still further, the speaker referred Page 373, and Foster, 288, w A. But in the ease of show that with reference to this poiut the punish- or child, the case is differ- . jyeut for manslaughter a merely nomjnal. At | this time it was the province of jurfts to y v . { verdicts, Hence, it inust bbe evidence poring him one of petit treason. ‘The ee tes of slaying an adulterer would not guated that act of insubordination to be punishable at all at common law. at two p. tn., @ short recess was taken, the Judge feticing from, the beneh, and the ta + oner from the dock, under charge of bailiffs. “The ‘b- buzz of conversation was great while the Judge “was absent. said that +‘ Prailty, thy name is wo- |" : tain relations to which the law at- catest responsibility. It may not be | brother to slay the sed: i the open vivlence of his neig LATER SECOND EDITION. | seduces a wife commits ax) BAt the return of the Judye, (the prisoner stitt be- —— oan os thougit he ‘ing out of Cvurl,) the ergumeat of Mr. Graham vertis ‘he it can be ordered threugh any merchant. owder kills all insects ina trice, ‘Ss, the 9th of fpr 8 wil open, jut Pills are mixed for rats and mice. for genera! inspection, = com late assortment of SPRING an SUMMER BO: . Voss zi "DEALER IN Sample Flasks, 25cents; regular Ssee oqpagt i felt L. NN. BTS. of the x ; om FINE G ROCERIES. - . . | Intent * Wash- 600: r, Also, the Mesias Weteee lena ington and teluityare most respectfully invited to | ALL. DS WARRANTED mar 22-imeow he TO BE EXACTLY a3 ‘ESENTED, eee Ear st R. C. STEVENS. REPR MARRIED, PRIcE REDUCED ONE HALF! AND DELIVERED PREE OF CHARGE Jn Philadelphia, on Teerstp morning, -Apul 7th Tok MS ‘MEDICAL SALT, THROUGHOUT THE CITY. . - Oo. 285, PM’ bona hor Washiogtos 2 SCE her arch, INFLAMMA! ORY DISEASES. Corner of Tenth st. and Pennsylvania av. ter ofthe late Zohn ‘A. Bender, Bieq., of Fallndel- ONLY.O ‘OLLAR! _*p 51m =inee =v Sashes er ste Cc mic Packae: —A lary es WW = = " = _ tr Se Aeotionm: ¥ jat7-tf F° Sg § Borsist Peoot! TRON GFAND OPENING DAYS able for bankers aud mere! hf HE BILLIARD Hi uated on the north- t at M. SNYDER & SON, MRS. R. G. ETCHINSON T Sant or ee ee ere Oo | kre ing j 2 ‘ on ¥ = Pa Vill open on | be opensee MAkW © FISHER, T TO DENTISTS. Bayi stnrous ‘of the Iargest ‘assortments MMENSE STOCK HE Adverts ee RENTAL INSTRU ieee I ‘OF FANS Teiite Sod mockason), ge, by, Cheval p : bs haven zo forte cing ati Mise COP Bae oor team: | apa. neewenaninand wits | RoW se it espa ge ga TI * = = Point Lace Collars, GHAWLE BORDERS * : 4 a my ot es BR he ne | _ap 5. WELLS. EDW. CLARK, To ERE ¥i n. avenue. — EE 2 td cryin EL eet ane fe Ten Lae . tJ os FRANCIS’ 490-7th strect