The New York Herald Newspaper, April 11, 1845, Page 2

entitled to entire confidence. (The|Dis; trict ‘here rose and reminded the Ceurt that there was clear testimony as to the prisoner’s to the house of deceased on Sunday.} There ia test that Mrs. Bodine did go over on Sunday. She was seet | shame. If in the letter be ‘hide the things;” Cireult Court, that. triads of thia kind a light nature convict, upon a! been well and advanced in some cases im a case of the Belore Judge Edmonds. thould be before a tribunal to which the accused can fly bat certainly not in ¢ Ihave said that the © Trial of Polly Bodine for protection against popular clamor, that might other- rag po { for conviction, must be Y Bodine for the Murder of Mrs. | wise sacrifice tha tageeent, “Am! the accused in this dance, 10 Order 10 oe ac and with the guilt of the pil D. NEW YORK HERAL y, April aa aaa George Houseman and Her Child. impassable Varzict boterena nes and those prejudices, und ‘onet elone: and iCany of the evidence ia reconeileabe | Ro ore tae a tT? tien "hotae, below Say thing at Wait’ hike words be hide the WRECK OF THE SWALLOW. LAST DAY. neither you nor | can for one moment allow them to with uny other by potiesis, itis nad-quale, Sod Ine BY | 09 Let in, Now, the inquiry is, whether witnesses have | writing” what were taose writings uniess the notes CHARGE OF JUDGE EDMONDS. cuter without violating our oaths. Let us beware lest soner is entitled to all the benef: of f Gravlished the fact that the crime could not have ben | whichtallasion hus been madey but on this I will the sacred fame o! justice be pollated by tho corruption of templating this subject, you must lock around, and | Col icq chat day. I: is show that she had been seen Ilustrated Weekly Herald. ‘The Courtroom was crowded to excess yesterday, and x there be any thing discovered by you that would give i p | ati Ga 7eur ome sion, with ee eee — the most intense interest appeared to aan Fie their oer ene egaieee ‘popular clamor-—iet you even ‘foreshadowing ofan) other hypothesis—any | by Mrs oat. oct important, Dares Vomit vee rbd riaice ovtdenier eet ne ee cue ‘The Weekly Herald wi.. oe rewJy for delivery & | at wait past ten o'clock, Judge Eoutsene rose and de. { 2 #0? that steru justice stands here aad that we are the thing that her accusers might Aave prestcd into ‘we #6" | ono, Pi Y' do’ mot mean to convey: the impres bh Hawsaninne: tring toe er 9 o'clock to-morrow morniag.” {t will contaia @ | Livered the following o Spee od berrier between ‘her and their prejudices, that seem to pera i deers of coursel, two things were thst it a not Zour perenne a amy to. eae ts? On 'Wednenlay or Thursday ints : a irst for her blood; an i ake the a| § dl je: en. As . of e crime. correct view of the wreck of the illfated Swallow ais to you without fading’ ia your Nourt’s ready teepipae, welt upon—ene is her condition of pregnancy —the ap, pected of participating ia, th for you to determine how far there was anything Unusual in that. She goes on board the bo: rrives at N. York— goes to Wait’s, and witnesses a1e produced who pretend to keep the run of her movements during the day. ‘here Cr some Semmes & ber urde on Monday, ve important. Io at ns it is pos thee! ithe’ Waited for the stage from an ea)ly hour, and that is set forth as a badge of guilt. On the other hand, it is said that it was necesse- ry to wait, a» the stege was in the bebit sing repidly down the bi'l, und might have passed on if it had not watched; b. sides, that st was her custom to wait for it, as on this occasion; therefore, that another circumstance, gnarked as a badge of guitt, is her crying out to Thomas’ the driver, not to clese the door of the atege. Whether this is to be regarded as a badgo of guilt, or conduct natu- toa women under the circumstances in which she placed; is for you todetermine. The tact of her over- paying her face, in her haste to get on board the boat, ia tlso Jooked upon as being @ badge of her guilt; and also, that she looked at the house as she passed along. The facts related by the witness are for your attention, but with the inference drawn by him you have votiing to do. ‘These are the circumstancea dwelt upon up to her arrival et New York on Christines day, are to be very care- folly weighed by you, as well ag all the conduct of the pri- goner, 9s all-important to coming to a correct conclusion, From thetime her son Albert traces her to Waite’s store, shejgoes out at 12 o’clock for haltan hour, returns egain ut half pest twelve, remains a short time, goes cut at 1, and remaina on hour anda half. Where was hen? Wasshe pawning those things atthe pawn kers? She went away in the afternoon at 4 o’cloek. Where was she the residue of that night? Thisisavery important question for you to determine in the matter.— And now mark me—ebout 11 o’clock, the watch belonging to the deceased, or one so similar as to be taken for it, is offered to a pawnbroker at the corner of Canal end Laight streets, n short distance from Waite’s store, where Mrs, Bo- dine was, by a woman resembling her. Between 10 and 12 o'clock, that watch is offered by afemale to Mr Adol- On Thursday night, in company wit father in his house, no cand.es burning, her brother-in-law came in, and after sitting afew moments, broke out rudely. and said every body thought it was Polly thet did it. Very soon after she leaves the room, and in a little while is not to be found; a search is made over the whole neighbor- hood, but they could not find her. The next morning at daylight, she is found at the steamboat fina ing at quarantine, four miles distant from her father’s.— She comes to New York, and nothing is seen of her until 8 o'clock at right, when she goes to an eating house, and rt bed, Before doing so, this matter is talked over, e herself informs the company that she was the si@er-in-law of the deceased; she goes tu bed, and in a few minutes word comes that officers are searching Wait’s store. The Judge here reca- pitulated) minutely the leptineny. os to the different movements of the accused, from her oat retreat from this house until her arrest. He also di ticularly on the motives to the commission of the crime which were not byany means clearly apparent, and concluded by saying— You are tolook atall e Oircum- stances collectively well aw separately; it is not enough to look at one und then at another separstely and distinctly, but you must take them and gravely examine them in connection. You are not to he satisfied by an examination of a separate link, for you must see that the whole chain of evidence is perfect, If anything is te be deduced from it, I have told you what is ‘your duty and by what rule you are to be governed. Your duty is im- perative, and you cannot neglect nor evede it without a violation of your solemn oaths, The question, gentle. men, it now in your hands. I have done my part, and I fervently hope that in this case you may be directed by Him who alone cen Fa ight out of darkness, and be enabled to make a tiue deliversnce between the people and the prisoner. The Jury here retired at half past two o’clock, and re- mained until about a quarter to twelve—when they sent a messege in writing \othe Court, which on looking over, the prisoner was directed to be sent for to Eldridge street There is, however, another difficulty an er against proach ofthe time of her confinement, which — must be on your ard, and thet teins danger manner in which she concealed her simefros, ge: fsa 6 arising trom sympathy for the. unfoituca'e condition of aud friends ; and upon these facts you ons mat ony thing ot the respoosibili y that rests upon me. ‘This case b prisoner or her relatives. Do not for a moment allow that you are to flad in her desire of sone ain hemes one gradually, slowly, bat surely on, till it is now ni sympethy to sway your judgment. One ot the counsel ‘tendio lege Keay rey i ry mapeny the gore. ly at its last point—that of being submitted to your deci- | Sid that he was surprised to see such, @ manifestation of round € y of this crime, Sain ae sion. ‘This is not like an ordinary case of trial upon an | #¥™pathy as has bren exhibited on this occusion. Gen. , (bing also in the coaduct of George oe pty indictment for murder,wheu itis tried before the Court of | teme, I am not surprised at it, nor do I think that I ever | mapver of carrying the money home, om ober Be Oyer and Terminer, at which the Cirout Juge is assisted | ON to repeat it If she be innocent, shall we not has money in luis possesaion for three oF forr yes Nay in his deliberations by persons whom the law points sympathize with the sufferings that ‘bas. blanched | tht this is kaown to the hands on boar Bor ne goes out as associates with him en the beuch, but it | ber cheek and wested her form? If she be guily | kuow hehas it, and where he has thar mousy. lo, fy’ has been removed from a Court of that kind to | shall we not sympathize with the overwhelming toad | to New York, proceeds to the sao e aes the Superior Court, by whom it has been sent down | of guilt that addy iofinitude to tho suiticiency thus | Where he changes that money into gunstel Jt forme to try alone, and I have felt, during the waole pro- manifested before ua? Yes, our sympathy is due, but Jet | lars; carries the large bundie pro et the battery is of the case, the embarrarement arssing out of the | 20t that sympathy, prevent our sense of justice’ What | wuder his arm publicly exposed — Et veuse with tae litary position in which I etand towards it’ I bave en | ‘i@ht-minded parent ever chastises an erring child with- | sometime, and again at the steam! ee henatr! bebein deavored to discharge my duty in. regard tt ficfully; | hoy on achiog heart, and perhapes tearful ee? Aud be. | eSvayniod all ie ting by the man om Virginie. and in a paint i ¢ the real » further, 6 sympat which follows the truth and qustice of thecotse Titer have iaalt cases | Dlow of stern justice—the tear whieh ts then shed mokes | here lay exposed full three quarters of un hour, anil during escaped error is too much for me to hope or expect. Thave | the deed acceptable in the eye of Him whove peculiar at- | his passoge over to Port Richmond, wher he ‘oy t this consolation, however, that my decision and whole | ttibute it isto mingle justice with mercy, and whose ex: | down on a pile of iumber in charge of this V iiginis than action in regard to it, are subj igh tribunal, when | *mple it well becomes us humbly to attempt to imitate. | While hi went up the street and rae. ptm aened = calm end moderate and di’ ixcusaion may teat | We may. therefore, sympathize —our hearts moy ache | travels with it in a neighbens wogon, tits, Kamina) ine my proceedings in ths am, manner, and correct any | 22d our eyes fil, and no man will have a right to com- another, in which he Feet gg oi a9 oy Ris H errors into which | may have fallen. it willxet be my | Plain, provided the stern dictates of juatice—provided the | ney in broad duylight,to his house. i ies ld duty in this case to pronouace judgment. In ordinary | 4ndétes of our duty rre ebered, And while [ concede } @8ked that man ou his ee de xpetiag, 340 97 hat duty does devolve on this Court, and some oi | t© you and to myself the right to sympathize for the suf | one—did you not, in thus displaying your mie mibbery ome unsel have spoken as if it woul be so in this case | ering that may flow from our decisions, still I remind | Up "# & premium to the community to Gomme Ninety Ot It is not so, however. The judgment will be pro. | YOU aod warn you, that not for one moment | Your house? Now, we know the being owl La nounced in the Superior Court, if your judgment should |! that sympathy to swerve you from the sirict | petrated mostly with grest secresy. bed tly a robbery be oueot guilty. They have sent it to us merely for the lineef your duty, Strong as may be my feeling, I wil accounts we read this morning, pal ~ a y Sen ae decision of the question—is this defendant guilty, or not? | ‘#k2 care that no such considerations shall for an instant | bas been committed on board a s mag ose ot hepa Your verdict wull be transmitted by me to that Court, and | influence my judgment, and I believe I know myself well | have been contemplated a long time. | It wat tut Napell with your verdict, be it what it may, 1 have nothiog to | SNeugh fo be able fully to guard egainst that danger | ble thet one of the various thieves, whiclt Safest that chy 1o, abd its consequences are not to be regarded any | Which I share incommon with you. Having said those | should have seen and followed perey soak at hin further than as inducements to us to listea calmly | things to you, gentlemen, which, although something out Cape fern this money, @ ap rpc oh —to weigh with Jeliberation—to be careful. cautious | of he way, are yet material in this case, 1 will next cull | Until he arrived with it at his home ; and bilig \gherel and prudent ‘The fearful consequences that are to | You" attention to some rules that are to govern you in | of the precaution of removing the ew pin Aa tel flow from your decision, which ever way it may | thedecision of this cage. [The learned Judge then pre- | man Delure Jeavingy home, ight mr ie tthe cahiaet be, are to be regarded by you in no other light thun | ceeded at great length to lay down the rules which were | Watched about from day to day—have learney Gentiemen ov THe Jun ou the rocks\off Athens. guise from you, that | ent I shall not attempt to dis. upon the dischar, ly duty left me ia this case, with a Steamer Great Western ‘This steamer, with twenty-one days later news from Europe, is now due at this port. Teri oy Potty Bopins—! us Jupae’s Cuance. ~We give in our paper to-day a full report of the charge of Judge Edwards in the case ot Polly Bo- dine—a case which has attracted a degree of in- terest in this commuaity almost naparaileled. The charge will be read with great interest in a variety of aspects. The intense feeling excited by the case itselt—the fact that this may be regarded as the Judge’s “maiden” charge, and the intrinsic merits of the charge itself—all conspire to give it a more than ordinary importance. We have, there- fore,given such a report of it as no other paper in the city could furnish. We have not room this morn- ing to comment upon the remarks which the learned Judge thought proper to introduce with reference to tae conduct of the public press, but we have omething to say on this and other points hereafter. ‘The most intense interest is felt in the decision of the jury, as the scene presented in and about the courtroom, up till the time our paper went to press, demonstrated in a very extraordinary manner. Annexation ln Texas—Position and Designs " to 3 leliberate and care: ‘a ‘0 govern them in the decision caRe. the people, and saw w wo! jeave at an early hour in oe warning you to be deliberate and ful You arc hi ihe decision ef the cage, He first allu- | the people, a woman | There can be now no room for d e ismiss trom your minds, when you havi ded to the general ch: i the mornin; id profit by the opportunity? wad it i a | phus to be pawned; between 12 and 1, the spoonsfare lef prison—her presence bemg deemed necessary, os the loubt as to th y ave brought to aracter for intelligence of the mej ‘and pro! PP " y, it that doliberation and care, every consideration o! | "iy of the witnesses, He then proceeded to define and | ‘ery Temarl i } ‘ - joment thought of regardiny It will not be improper for me to auy | Hlustrate the rules of evidenoe—dwelling at great length | this case, no persen for a moment thought, 0! regerimne and the other articles are left at Schultenberg’s. This 1s half an hour afier 12 o’clock, and en,hour and a half alter 1 o’clock, during which the prisoner does not account for herself ; these articles being pawned by a femule in that interval. By what female? The person who did so must be the same; that is the inference to be dra’ these transactions were done by a person who name as Mrs, Henderson, of Bergen, New Jersey, astoher dress It is said in g of in the stage that morning, abe had on a black coat veil. Albert testi- tifies she wore a black striped velvet seane, © black dress and no cloak. Now, on her way up, she bought a green veil. She wore no veil at the steamboat. She had on a green veil, and at Adolphus’s sbe had a satchel, such is carried females. Now, {rom all these circum: nces, judge who that person was, for all these are im- portant us to the question of identity. At 4o’clock, she teft Waite’s to ge, os sho said, to Mrs. Strang’s to stay al! night. She did not stay that hight at Mrs. Sirang’s. That night the house was fired. Where was she thut night ? ‘The next morning, at early dawn, she was seen at the Quarantine ground, four or five miles from the pre mises, end going on board the steamboat at an unusual hour, and ea considerable time before it started. Wherehad she been during that niga cating the interval between 120nd2 o’clock on the day pre- vious, and during the residue of the time from 4 o’clock, ight and next morning? Now, she has of herself through her counsel, and 60 on the presumption that those person: ving seen her, are entitled to confidence; this it is you to decide. What account docs she give? The counsel for the prosecution seem, from a re- mark made by them, to think it was not preper to sllow her to give theJaccount she did give through her counsel, I do notso wu: tand it Inthe French courts it is cus- temary te allow it, and even question the prisoner on the subject, and in the English courts aho the accused is al- lowed to give his own explanation as they choose; and in this case I think it is clearly right to accept her expls- nation, with due allowance at the same time for the influence of her position, of her danger, and inducement and temptation to make a false tement. It is this— that being at that time in the condition of preg: nancy, Which she desired to conceal from her friends arents, that she came that night forthe pur- pose of getting rid of her difficulty, and avoid the shame attendant upon exposure; but, gentlemen, let me ask when that shame has been disclosed, and the birth of child removed all hope of longer eoncealment, does the reason for withholding from you the explanatioa an} longer exist’ The argument of counsel is that at thi time she must have been secluded in some of those haunts where facilities are afforded te mothers of committing crime against their own offspring, where she might get rid of the burthen she carried about with her That, if] understend it, is the account she givesof herself. Bat, gentlemen, mark me, if the purpose with which she went to this place was honest, was that of giving birtnto her child in the regular fulness of time, there can be no reason which could operate on the minds of those midwives whe were there to come forward and declare the fact; and the to me thatit is net done, is that she what took place. If her object was te give birch to her child in the fulness ol time, no witness concerned need fear to attend in this Court; but if her ob ject was of another nature, she would not be enabled to luce it in evidence. And, gentlemen, however our feelings may revoit at the turpit of that charge, you ‘axe not to allow it to weigh a moment upon guilt or innocence of this crime for which she is now en trial ff we belicve that a murder and robbery wos committed, in it to be regarded as the motive for setting fire to the house, andthe qaestion is, who fired it, and for what pur Judge's notes. The prisoner came into Court at twelve splcn, Nyt the coer room was crowde 4. a i jongst the crowd. Her appearance was really awful— Take a breathing corpae—as pele as death—and took 1 place beside her counse). There wes an impressive solemnity about the scene, tbat had all the appeerance of afunerel—the solemn stiliness of the Court-rocn—the intent f the spectators—the dejected look of the prisons itood alone in her place—a lone female, in utter age mong a crowded Court—the scene by the looker on can never be forgotten. On the Jury coming into Court, Tur Court said :—I have sent for you, gentlemen, because I want to know if you have egreed to your ver- dict 7 You sent me three memoranda—first when there, yould like to see my minutes. This | cannot allow. Ano- ther question, must the prosecution prove Mrs. Bodine to have been in the immediate neighborhood at the time of the fire, and next, can the jury render a verdict whieh may vary so asto the jury may find the prisoner either guilty of murder—of manslaughter—or a verdict of “ not proven,” or “ not guilty.” His Horor here explained the law in relotion to the dis- tinctions between murder and mansleughter, und that a verdict such as “not preven,” was not recog- nized in the law wers under the Constitu- a proceeded & read the testimony ot the k people in relation to Mra. Bodine’s identity on steamboat ; when he proeneten to answer from his notes some questions frem the jury on points intro- duced in evidence, particularly in relation to the on the wrist, and the circumstantial testimony. T! he continued, should be fully satisfied of the guilt prisoner as tothe actual cemmittal of the murder, to find a verdict of guilty. Mr. Granam and Mr. De Witt excepted to the ques- tion in relation to throwing the anus probandi on the pri- aoner, to show her whereabouts st the time of the fire, in the absence of offirmat stimony ; such a course being adopted on the part 6 prosecution, with a view to connect the prisoner with the murder. His Horon here directed the jury to retire, and ordered them refreshments and beds for the night. A Junon—(Mr. Ledgeberry,)—This looks better than we deserve. (Laughter.) Covrt—Weill, you have discovered a deal of patience throughout the case. The Jury theo retired. Tange O’coce, Fripav Moamixa.—The jury have not yet agreed. feeling in Texas in reference to annexation. The great body of the people are anxiously desirous of that consummation, aad Houston, Jones and the other leading men connected with the government, ure equally well-disposed towards the measure, il effeeved on the. principle of their retaining their public Jands and other resources forthe payment of the public debt in due course of time. Much ot the guas? opposition hitherto manifested was occa- sioned by the protracted controversies on the ques tion in this country, and the obstinate resistance which this measure encountered in various quar: ters. This irritated our high-spirited brethern ot the * lone star” republic, and they affected a greai deal of indifference which they really did not feel, and affected to turn up their aose at the very thing which they in heart desired. Besides, they very naturally and reasonably determined to set their faces against annexatioa on any other than equita ble principles, and cartainly to have asked them tc come into the Union on the condition of their de livering up their publie lands which would in that event increase so largely in value, was attempting to drive a rather hard bargain. But on fair and liberal terms they are quite willing and ready to unite with this confederacy, and such a union is not now very far distant. Mexico wiil most aseuredly give practical demon stration of her hostility. Almonte will urge the pre sent Mexican government to war measures cf all de- scriptions, in order to create a party for himself, and by that means reach the cheif magistracy of that Republic. We are prepared, therefore,'to see the Mexican Government placing an embargo on al vessels from the ports of Alleghania, and confiscat- ing the property of our citizens resident in Mexico. Perhaps they may go further. The character anc constituent elements of the present government of Mexico are such as to lead us to anticipate the most ultra measures. The men now in power. which they attained by the recent revolution pro- duced by the defeat and overthrow of Santa Anna, are quite ignorant of public affairs, and will of necessity be under the guidance of Almonte. He is ambitious, designing, and not remarkably pro found in his judgment. The popular favor of hi: ignorant and semi-civilized countrymen will be most readily acquired by the recommendation and adoption of a violent policy ‘with respect to this country, and as a matter of course he will en- deavor to turn that feeling to the best possible account in the fuatherance of his selfish designs. ‘That Mexico, whatever course she may take against this country can succeed, we need hardly say is not to be imagined. But a very great panic may be produced, should a hostile collision occur between the two countries. The duty of our go- vernment is, theretore, very apparent. Every pre- paration should be made for whatever emergency may present itself, and should the Mexican govern- ment undertake to interfere, in the slightest degree, with the rights, property or persons of our citizens, resident within their boundaries, the most effec- tual chastisement should be at once inflicted with the utmost promptitude anddetermination. There is, therefore, something a little more important for the administration to be occupied with just now, than the decision of the question as to which ot the Jones family 1s to blow the penny trumpet, and publish the advertisements of the departments. the consequences. i to yor, that this is one of the most extraocdinar to | and with much minuteness on circumstantial evidence, | this money a : be fonbstin the aneets of cba ra ican “The | certain and presumptive. This portion of the charge w« | ¢riiné as well as the prisoner. 1 hy fine be attention which it has excited—the romauric interest tha: | aPe obliged to cmit, as we desire tu give the comments on | the fabrioation of evidence by 4 criminal, for eA sted. we have felt in every step of our progress, shows us that | the evidence in full, they being the most interesting to of fastening the crime on others, Such has ee, ii We have, by our laws, but three crimes puaish. | the public in general] “The next question to which I | 9ccurred. Now, take the position of Mrs. Bodine, who able with death—two of them are involved in this matter | Will call your attention is, what is the crims on | 88 in the habit of going from that house and ae —murder and arson. A murder, it is alleged, has been | Which you are called to decide? It is plain. | by night and by doy, and say af in all that you can find, committed upon s woman and an'unoffending cuild—araoy | !y defined in the statute—“ ‘The killing of humen | 20thing like @ folution of the difficulty of the commiseion has been perpetrated also, for the purpose of concealing | being without the authority of law, by poison, shoot | “this crime. You are not at liberty to disregard the that crime ; and in addition to all, we have robbery. Thre+ | 0g, stabbing,‘or uny other means, or in any other man | Tules of law and evidence, but in that evidence, as well as crimes then have been committed, ot heinous magnitude | ner, is either mu: ansloughter, or excusable or | Ut of it, you are to look at any circumstance connected and under most atrocious circumstances, according to the | JiiStifiable homicide, according to the facts and circum. | With the innocence of the prisoner at the bar. | The rule allegations of the prosecution, and all, it is aificmed, by » | #ances of each case. Now, killing, unless it be man- | i# 8 sound one, and one which you are not at liberty to a female—one in the prime of lite—a tender female—one | slaughter, or‘excusable or justitiable homicide as here’ overlook— Where the coucurring circumstances Point bound to society by those ties of parent and child which. | fer provided, sholl be murder in the following cash at the offender, the circumstences ere strengthened by in ordioary inatances are calculated to form a strong ad- | “When perpetrated from premeditated design to effect the | the absence of any other agente.” in this o1 ih monition against the commission of any sch offences — | death of the person killed or any human being” ‘This | fence have endeavored to make out other agents, | The ailegation then is made, that these great crimes have | Presents the whole question. Are you satisfied that Mra | Was seen on Sauday night walking slong 1 ot ee oa been perpetrated under such badges of attiocity by afe | Houseman was killed, and that the killing was perpetrated | the house of deceused : it was a very usual thing fot male, and you are called on now to pronounce judgment oy the prisoner at the bar, from premeditated design to | People to do so ; it was a much frequented road. He upon that, and not on direct evidence--positive evidence of | ‘fect the death of the person Killed? ‘There aro three | & bundle, too, bit what it was we know not ; nor has any any one who saw it, but to test the accuracy of the great | things te be made out in order to determine that question. | evidence been given to brave Anes hive. Wee #07 thing principle that pervades our whole jurisprudence-—tha' | First, the death ; next, that there was a death by violence, | taken belonging to the deceased, but those articles which has for years and years past, and must for years to come— | 2nd then thet the violeuce was inflicted by the prisoner. | Were dignified by the name of jewelry. So much os to the question of the reliability of circumstantial evidence | [0 reference to the death the law has laid down, and before | the man seen onthe road, But there was another person Aud { know no case—I have met with none in the course | 1 0 into that I will explain what is meant by the corpus | Seen. We have the testimony of @ clearheaded, calm, of my reading and experience that compares with ths | “elicti, or “body ot the offence.” It means not merely and intelligent man—one disconnected with the family case in reference to the importance of that porition. W: | the death, but death by violence. The counsel erred in und unbiased by report, that on Monday aiternoon, as he have occupied a good deal of time in the trial of this | *aying thatthis must be made out by direct evidence. 4 | W8 Tiding slowly on horseback, be saw a man and » cause. But I de not m the slightest dogreo regret it. The | Part of it may be may be made out by circumstantiai evi. | Women close by, and coming from the stoop | of magnitude of the question presented to us, in reference | lence. They are wrong even in saying thatthedeatb | ‘et house, and that they perted in the middle not only to the prisoner, but to the public, justifies thatex- | ™Uust be proved positively and distinctly. Forinstance,» | f the yard. Now, gentlemen, who was that tension eftime. On ont or two occasions, int!e cours: | "an is thrown overboard and the body may not befound-- | ™en, and where was he? Is it net extraordinary of the proceedings, I suggested that this cause might have | ‘here may not be that certain evidence of thedeath. But | ‘hat of the numerous witnesses—the whole neghborhoou been disposed of in ashorter time, butonacarctul re | that question does not ariee in this case; there is entire | —Whe bave been brought upon the stand, not one has view of the case, I do not well know how counsel could | Certainty of the death. Now, in regard to the violence, |; | Pecu able to say who that man was, or where he is,and have occupied less time consistently with a faithful anc '# the peculiar promise of ths moral circumstances to rat- | Who the woman was, if not Mra. Houseman. The Impor- conscientious discharge of their duty. Nor do I regret | i#fy you whether the prisoner st the bar is the guilty per- | ‘@uce of having evidence of this point produced, of hav- the time occupied by the counsel in their addresses t. J #00; but before you come to that inquiry, you must br | i2¢ the man produced, is obvious, for then he could ex you. We have had something like forty issues to ex- | first satisfied by independent circumstances, adequate ané J plain to us who that woman was—whether it was Mis amine end decide—each of them as distinet as if it hac | ‘ndependent of the moral circumstances, thut there was: | Houseman, or whether the prisoner was participator iv been a separate cause; it had been necessary not only tha Killing by violence. ‘The question thea presents itself, | ‘he crime or not ; yet upon all this, as to who he was, or counsel should brivg to bear upon all ofthese questio:s: | Ws the death here by violence? Unfortunately, very J What or where he is, we are left completely in the dark their accuteness and experience, but that they shouls | much of the difficulty which we now encounter st thi | But I mention this to you for the purpose of cautioning sift out from the immense mass of what we must conside | st#ge of the case, srises from tho very inadequate man- J YoU to allow any mystery as to this person cloud your the cheff—the real grain in which an action is J ner in which the physicians discharged their duty. Hac minds in any way as to the guilt or innocence of the pri- tobeexpended. ‘The cause has been well andablytried | (hey made a judicious, active end scientific post morten | Soner. That is not the sort of doubt the law means, for on both sides, and the industry, talent and ability of coun- | ‘mination, they could have increased in a great exten J the doubt that is te exist on the question must bea ree sel have rendered yourtask and mine much easierthar | the evidence of the guilt or of the innocence of the pri- J sonable one, as to the guilt or innocence of the accused. it would otherwise have been, But again, there is another | #Ner, and it is greatly to be regretted that this was no | These are all the agents that I have been able to discover consideration that impels usto look uponthisexpenditur: | the case. They did not even make a memorandum of th } and! now proceed to enquire whether the concurring of time as justifiable and proper. There is nothing the | ¢X@mination such as it was. They made no inquiry J *ircumstances of this case points out the offender, and } more strengly marke the distinction between acivilized | Woether there had been strangulation or suffocation— § Will meation them in the order in which they occur, all aud barbarous state of society than the estimation in | Wether poison or some narcotic drug had been admin. | of which are questions for you to pass upon One of the which human lifeisheld. Tribunals before whom a ques. J istered—even their examidation with respect to the mark firatto which I shall allude, is the letter of prisoner to tion involving the life of a human being comes, cannot be | °%Violence was imperfect and unsatisfactory. They havi | her daughter. On one side it is alle¢ged that it was wri. too gusrded,too cautious,and too carefal in examining tha: | ‘ett us, therefore, in that state of uncertainty in regard tc J ‘en for the purpose of keeping her away from the house question in’ all ite{bearings, And here Imust say that | | {€ couse of death that is very much to be regretted, bot! Jf of George Houseman, that by her absence an opportunity ewe it to you, gentlemen of the jury, to render to you by you and by me. Under all these disadvantages, w: | ight be furwarded for the commission of thecrime ; she this public expression of approbationon accountofthe un- fate to inquire into the cause of that deat! had been, it appears, more in the habit of sleeping exampled patience with which you have discnarged you: | Th only conclusion that the Bhralens come tc | With the deceased than Mrs, Bodine, and it is duty. Ihave seen many trialsthat have occupied much § *# that the wound on the broken aim was the J seid this letter was written to secure absence. time and attention, but I confess in noother case have] § Se#ult of violence before death. That is the certai: § On the other side it is averred that it was dictated seen such patience on the part of a jury as has been ex | evidence we have. They leave it for you to determine § by the natural anxiety of a mother, lest her daughter hibited in the course of thistrial. From that unweariec | Whether the other marks of violence had been inflicte: J should expose herself by waiking through the mud, care und attention, I augur the best results. ‘With y before or alter death. Whether the witnesses could have ff the weather being very When you are asked to decision the world at large must be perfectly satir | Telieved the doukt which now surrounds the ligature: believe that that letter was written to facilitate the erime fied that it is a decision made upon the pures § (oUndon the arm of the deceased, I know not. But ii § DY the prisoner, there are two things to be dwelt upon : and safest foundation—that of careful end. patient | the ligatures were put on before death it becomes a ver; J One, that the letter was folded and left unsealed, and examination, and honest disposition on your part. ‘The | ‘portant inquiry what where they put on fort If afte: ff placed in the hands of the baker's boy, and it may be sppreciation of human life, 1 have said, ia that which ay § 0¢8th, the question is equally important, not only in re. # osked, if the crime was contem ae it not extraor- pears above all other thingsto guish a civilized fro: jereades t6 01 delictuim, bat in reference to th« @ dinary that it should be placed in the hands of a stranger, a barbarian state of society. In every case where life has moral circumstances that would fix that would ffx thx J a it might be read, and has been, as evidence, ogainst the been taken, and when by the policy of dur lew life can yet guilt upon some person somewhere. So in reference t § Writer? Again, the next ground of imputation is the again be taken, courts cannot be toe careful-—juries con. f at child’s skull—all of which was gone except the: hearing of screams on Saturday night ; that fact is intro- not be too guarded. It is@ sad mistake for any onetosup | Ptce @ corner, if I may so call it—how it came to bx J duced to show youthat the deceused came to her pose that we are ministers of vengeance en counsel | Preserved with the scalp, and bleod upon it, we are lef by viol and fuither, that the death occurred on in the progress of this cause, have talked ofthe prisoner’ “Btirely in the dark, end you are to aetermine from the f Saturday night ; and observe, if those screams were “atoneing” for theforime, they did not, properly regard the | °Yidence, whether the child came to its death by suffoca heard inthe direction of George Housemau’s house on object of the law. Man cannot atoneto his {cliow for hi: tion, by violence before death, or whether this violence, § Satarday night, that bring: re home to the pri- be ‘What! atone to us forthe violation ofthe law o: | °! which some evidence is given, was inflicted after deat! J soner, Who was left in charge, and the last seenin the his Maker? I know of nosuch atonement. “Vengeanc had occurred. On all of those points the physiciai i deceased woman’s eevee? on Saturday might. On th: is mine,” saith the great Creator, “and | will repay.” Th. J "2 2° satisfactory solution of the questions which they § ther hand, itis contended that the shouts arose from power to take vengeance has never yet been confirmed | present. ‘Then comes the evidence as to screams being J tome other source; that there was a crazy man passing upon man. He eo thus regards the ministers of jus | 2€9rd, and the appearance of blood. A number of wit- # by at the time, and also that the testimony is not to be tice, lays a sacrilegious hand upon the attribute of th. || 2¢##e8 have given testimony on that latter point, and it i depended upoa, from the peculiar manner and genera! ivi ity. We have no right to take ve nce, and that § £0 ber ited that the | cone boge did not produce how ff 4emeanor on itaud of the woman whe testified to the tion is not for one moment to have weight in J those articles on which blood was represented ae having 9 privat One circumstance must be borne 1m mind, and inds But for the welfare of society—for the pre | 0&0" discoveree. A chemical analysis whic 1 that is esto whether sho related it at the time Servation of order—forthe maintenance of the mnpremac} shown beyond doubt whether that was blood or no § parties ; if she mentioned it at the time, it would be ofthe law, and the protection of the weak against the have been satisfactory. The next point for yout: §{ F'rong inét for your examination. She sayn she did— but Strong—ofthe timid geieet te colnet. ie bat eect, | consider and determine is the position of the bodies. Dy J there is no evidence to whom. How far these things are ed necessary that Ji! tenhould be taken. It isthat neces. | the bodies lie under the bed, and wasthe fire applied t« caiculated to uhake her testimony as prone to gera ity alone thet can justify it, ond the vengeance ie to by | te Ded alter it had beon placed over them? If go, ther § tion, is for you to consider and weigh at a proper time— taken of a higher wats ‘the ‘cerannee is not to u. | the conclusion is inevitable that tee fire had bean applie’ The next badge of guilt alleged b: ecution is that but to him thet Pacue, Wa. Dioula, - thers for the purpese of covering up the murder already com ff the prisoner slept at the house of the deceased on Satur- idea that any atonement is due to us. Dear onlt mitted. If, on the other hand, the bodies lay onthe to; 9 (ay night; that she was the last person who was seen in Ra wala that ¢ the. Deneerer the society, in whic) | °f the bed, and the fire was applied andernesth or at the meccempeny, and possessing the last opportunity o! Ha ee a nor ue eee es, ipeticl | side, the inference that the death was accidental i strong | committing the offence if she pleased; and {rom the infe and pursuits of happiness may require atour hands some 9 or than in the other circumstances. But the counsel for J tence attempted to be drawn by the prosecution, that she such sacrifice. There are some additional considerations 4 t® prosecation was very right in saying thet in passing did go. In reference to that, in the first place, that war gentlemen of the jury, which it is my duty to present to yn that question you are to recoliecc that no remains § "0t the first night she slept there. On the Thursday and Goa before coming ‘she merite of thie dokef T must warn | 2 the rope were found. It wasa little extraordinary i: | Friday previous she slept there too, in the absence of her ou against two evils from which you, the prisonezat th: that fire had been the result of aceident—if the bodies hac § daughter. She might os well have done it on either 0} Bar, end the public may eufter. Oxe is the influence oi f !in pon the top of the bed—that no vestige ofthe ropr ‘hose nights as on Saturday; besides, her brother was vopuiar prejudice, I regard it 8 my solem duty upon thi: } ‘hat bound the together was anywhere to be found. | expect » and was only kept away by the extraor. occasion to warn you against that influence. As But if, on the ether hand, the bed was taken down, and its § dinary state of the weather which delayed his passage a ofthe extent and character of this popular prejudi different parts thrown on the bodies, and fire then com fj Week. She had, it appears, contemplated going to New state that I have at this moment in my pockets thr ing | municated, what more natural than the inference that J York on Saturday morning, and accordingly made her leiters in reference to the result of this controversy. In J Re Tope liad boen removed to pave the way for the cen. preparation on Friday evening, packed up the clothing all cascsof atrocious crime the public mind will be ex- | “gration! Another consideration—was there fire in that | !or her son which abe had washed. As usual, she went cited. It is averred here that these groat crimes havc J “0ve? One witness testified that when he put bis hand § on Bal been perpetrated—perpetrated under circumstances ofun | "it, li was warm. But the other parts of tho room were J home on paralleled afrocity, and it is therefore not at all wonderfui | Heated by the fire thet had been burning, and thesagacit; J by the outer walk. thus exposing herself that the community has been excited, “Tho preservation, J ofthat witness—displayed also in other instancer—canno | the neighbors. It was notorious to all the family of the lives of our wives and children is involved in the | 0¢ to much admired when he placed his hand within the f theton Saturday night she had gono.and slept with Mrs. question now before us. ‘The extent of the excitement | ste and found that the ashes were cold: And yet » [| Houseman, and bi Mrs. Yan Nome to take her has been demonstrated not only in the dificulty ef pro. | !@2g¢ body of smoke had been seen iasuing in the course place. These occurrences are recapitulated by me for curing @ jury on Staten Island, where the taco should | ofthat evening out of the chimney. Did it pasethrough the J the purpose of asking you whether the opportunity was properly have been tried, but by the exhibition which | Move? ot did it pass up the Que of the chimney through used by her for that purpose. But there are some circum this Court-room has presented from day to day, rince | 2¢ fire place left open? There is no evidence whether § *ences which require attention in connection with this, the commencement of the present trial. What has p there was any fire-board. and one is the fact of the window being open on Sunday caused this intense feeling? Not merely the notice of the | _ Mr. Granam —I belicve it is in evidence that there was J I the offence was committed on Saturday meee it is crime alleged, but 0 the highly improper con worth eS marae aan i da window was leftopen duet of the public press, und I feel it my duty as a minister the whole of Sunday, and algo the testimony of the wit- ofjustice,standing here within her sacred halls,toentermy | Couvrt.—There is not any evidence of that. You are brttice tps rpnmete te emg ere mh Sunday, at protest against the injurious consequences resulting from | to determine those points, gentlemen. Then comes the in in: that course. OnSunday last Isaw in one ofthe papers of chis consideration of the question, whether that front door war bad bin ae tee by. ipeutoner Galkeae ote city—and I instance it on this eccasion only for the pur | actually unlecked or not. This is one of the circum } ig averred that this po Fo is not entitled to mach con. pose of informing you of the extent cf this prejudice, in | stances which willenuble you to determine the corpus sideration,forthe manner in which it was given—from the ne ot the most | delicti. Itis remerkable(that the bar of that front door, in- | rulationship of the witness to the prisoner—from her atrocions articles in regard to this very trial that could be { steah of being found in its usual place standing in @ cor- J strong Gadlee: to save her sister, and that sheis influenced penned by soreal math acd T vantare Greny fiat he 8 pds AN toy cy Ae Bo A Part of the t by astrong bias to statea fact which it ienot inthe power could pen such an article, could, without an: cul: » Was found by e Houseman ofthe house mor? ispro other find aan in the situation of the defendant now ontrie. | Ifthe guilty person’ had ercaped by that front door and | {erie that tes eoidiy or the. sent jor mit ler. 6 a e jury, rts New Yorx Pirotace.—The ‘Wall street press” seem determined to give the pilots no quarter ; they abuse them, let them de what they will. We- really believe that they will next find fault with this hard-working class for kissing their wives and little oneson their return to their firesides from a peril- ous cruise at ea. £ The Courier & Enquirer of yesterday made a characteristic attack upon these meritorious men, because our Legislature has seen fit, inits wisdom, to throw open the pilotage of this port freely to the world. No one, however, would care for the at- tack if it had not uttered one or two wilful false hoods. It says:— In wae this, we moy, state, that rome week or twu ‘ago, w York pilots, sccomingone of eur most in io the law. tules—no" ifon a cruise, we percei' pier we are at liberty to meke our own bargain with er, and if our terms are not complied with, we can leave her to her fate.” This statement must appear ridiculous to every one. What man would utter the sentiments thus expressed? They may exist in Wall street, for all we know to the contrary, but we are sure no pilot ot New York ever harboredjsuch in his thoughts. We should like to have the names of the two pilote, and the packet captain, who were engaged in the conversation referred to; and we have no doubt but that the New York pilots themselves would also like to have them. We believe that we should be justified in offeriag a small reward for their names in order to place the matter in its true light before the public. But all this abuse of our pilots will nt avail much. The law, throwing open the pilotage, has passed the Legislature, and received the signature of the Governor. Itis now in force, and so far, has worked well. The New York pilots continue the business in the same way as before; they pilot vessels in and out; they cruise to the same distance —oene and fifty miles and more—at sea; and they move along precisely in the same business-like maaner as if no law had been altered, or no unmi- tigated abuse heaped upon them. In the creation of new pilots, none but citizens of this State wil, be countenanced, and only those who have served aregular apprenticeship to the pilots now in exis- tence, willreceive licenses. Let us see if anything better than thiscan be introduced. Pe That is an importani question, for if we believe it was oles such & purpose, we are called — to be- lieve 'y_ committed the murder. ‘as Mrs Bodine in New York or at Staten Island at that time ? Was she where she might have committed the erime o: was she ae a hth eA: ~ of — the juestion of ident: pertant, an ave pur- fonly by itself in order to impress your minds with the necessity of weighing the testimony with great caution and care. It is a dangerous species of testimony unless weighed well, although in some cases circumstantial evidence as to identity may be very satisfactory and con clusive in any sensible mind, but there ner | be evidence of identity so slight and weak as to be itled to very little consideration. What kind of evidence is produced here? Cohen, with whom the chain was pawned, is very well satisfied that the prisoner was the person who did 80; he has no doubt of it; and you are to observe that his situation and business gave him facilities to know he marked the femele tor a giv see if she was the same female a short time previous redeemed another chain there. On the other hand, itis alledged that she was in his store only four or five minutes, during which time Cohen was engaged in making out the ticket and dupli- cate, and eounting the money, and #0 occupied es not to have time to ebserve her sufficiently to know her, and it is for you to say how far he had un unity of know. ing the prisoner. Hartis eaveny ive, but in his case there was nothing of a peculiar kin 3 in that of Cohen, to awaken his attention. But there is one thing to be bs megioh in the case of Hart, and thet is that when on the stand, being called upon to point out the person, he pointed out the wrong person; and Iwish hereto remark that an objection was made by counsel to my repeating the observation made by wit vess. if] am tosit here asa judge, and hear an answer from a witness and not disclore it, I would be unworthy of my position. We are not sitting here for conviction, but fo ascertain the truth, aud we are to recollect that counsel for prosecution, or engaged in defence of the risoner, are liable to look at the evidence very different iy from the views of the,court and jury; and [hold it es my duty to state what the answer was. He first pointed out the wrong person, and then corrected himself, snd you are to consider this. Adolphus pretends he identifies the same mn who was in his atore, on the Sunda: afterwe in the Tombs, and says that Mrs. Bodine is not much altered sins it. If you are satisfied from ell thiagtestimony of the identity of the Prisoner, that she it was who pawned these things whieh were part of the property of deceased, and in her possession when alone, you have got one circumstance entitled to very much weight at your hands, and in parsing on it, you must take into consideration not only the alleged slight oppor- tunity of Judging which these witnesses , but also the faculties of judging of persons possessed by them. good deal has been said es to the cha- racter amd reputation of these witnesses, and | sincerely regret that counsel have felt it necessary to as- sail any porticnlar denomination of our citizen*; and | know of nothing in the cheracter, habits or religion of the Jews calculated to call upon us to disbelieve their teatt- y more th justify moment, the act of passing a wholessie condemnation on any class, in this case, Nor do | see, in the business of @ pawnbroker any such demoralizing influences as would disqualify them of fere tibility. 1can conceive it ible that « man of this kind might be the receiver of stolen goods, and afford facilities te thieves and rogues of con- vesting their booty into money ; in that sense the business might bedemoralizing; bu'gon the other hand, I can ime- gine a great benefit couferred by a pawnbroker; and that iyyabd fethapetpevegted fo vina, trrourigres 10> 'y, and pethaps from crine, through such in- strumentality. And I know of nothing that would justify usin joining in that condemnation men follow that calling. One consideration to be attended to is, that this property was found in her possession. Now, stolen y, found on a man, is not conclusive evi dence of his guilt, and must be examined in regard to ciroumstacces. If I find ja pocket book in the street, there is no ut of my dishonesty ; but if 1 om founc converting its contents to my own use, that is some proot of my guil’, Two further considerations, in a to identity, are entitled to attention ; one is the facility thot was given, and the peculiar and extraordinary mode adopted at Staten Island, by the officers, to identify the prisoner. When the person arrived, it is said she was dressed up to look Jike the mn described by the wit. nesses. If no such preparation hed been made, it would have been far better; we should not then be in the dark ; and it is for you to far the preparation made in the dress of the iF impairs the evidence of Tue Frremen.—The Croton water has done that which the authorities utterly failed to accomplish; ithas effected a very marked reform in the fire de- partment. Since fires have become less frequent, the fire companiesjhave got rid, ina great measure, of the gangs of rowdies who tormerly acted as vo- lunteers, and they are now getting into a much more orderly and more efficient state of organiza tion. jThe promptitude, energy, courage, and zeal for the preservation of the property of their fellow-citizens, manifested on several recent occe- sions by several of these companies, entitle them to the highest commendation. Commenctat anp RaitfRoap Bank, Vickssure.— A large and respectable meeting of the stockhc] ders and creditors cf this bank was held at the Astor House last evening, to receive the propos - tion of the assignees, in relation to the rettlemert and liquidation of the liabilities of that institution. Zebedees Cook, jr., Esq., was appointed chairman, and Walter R. Jones, Esq., secretary. Mr. Thor. ©. Robins, of Vicksburg, one of the trustees «f the bank, explained the situation of the bank, and the proposition made to its creditors. He stated that the creditors of the bank must be leniently dealt with, and that it was necessary to give them time to meet the demands of the institution against them. On motion of Mr. THomas TitEeson, the Presi- dent of the Phenix Bank, seconded by Mr. Wins- LOW,it was Pouiticat, Movements.—It is said that Genera Dix has paesed through the city en route for Wash- ington, where he will take up his residence to sv- pervise Governor Marcy or any body else, and di- rect the appointments of President Polk in the northern States, if he can. He has plenary powers from Governor Wright and Mr. Flagg, to restore the Van Buren and Benton office holders who are out of place, and if Mr. Polk declines to act as Gen. Dix desires, he is to be threatened with the hostility of the Albany junto. order that you may be on your guard He who could manifest fuck a thirst fo: J otrried offthe bar, he must have gone round tothe rea’ | th Yact ef her Menag eatel ciao alee hee as uch a disregard for truth, ought not for ar. J 904 thenthrown it awey. It was found there entirel hroughout community that has any regar.. | the house was robbol. ‘Theseare thecircumstances trom | on gunday, is Matilda Rorke. she dove not pretend to for morality, virtue, and justice. Vastly much of the pre | which you areto determine the corpus delecli—that there | puye beer able to distinguish her features rUistanee, jndices in this case hes been produced by the careleranes. | wuaa Killing here, and that it was by violence, Ifit wa | out che knew her by hee size, her form and ; of the public p Over and over again in the progress } & tots violence, it was murder, and if a murder, looking out of the wind of this trial have I seen statements made in reference to J ‘hen it becomes Noh, ikortant te inquice whea it was af wood from ard to the kitchen. it as wide from the truth almost as the Heaven is from | committed? Was it in the day time, orat night? A gentlemen, ba’ tA ‘and looked out of carth. And yet the public at large takes ell this as true, J portion of the ordinary opporel worn by thedeceared in | Window, and you are and pronounces a judgment upon it as if it were evidence } the day time, a colored trock, was found on the body. — § jy Tieridence before you of re Those who are thus connected with the public prese | Thatisa piece of evidence to be weighed by L mmo Fe] cognize snother at fine distal the: ny physical —who are permitted to come within our halls oj | the question of the time when the murder was impossibility. But when this is alleged to bes > ated justice for the purpose of reporting the proceeding | But if committed in the day time, then what day? Sunday | ‘mPoseibility, But when this is alleged 1o be fabricated therein, have a solemn duty to discharge, not only | cr Mondey? Wasitin the night time? Ifso, wi tt Esmeamtelagy itches aid-00y-ohe did. et ge turtione Carte to themselves and the Conrts of which they may | The deceased, it is — shown, was aliveon ¥: Evang alaatee onw het aunt, the ptovid oA she tells it, and be eonsidered members, but to society at large, they are on the alternoon of that day Matilda Rourke left her wit! in § be! there was any intimation thet acrime had bound by the most solemn convictions not to report any | the peiveee. On Monday at 9 o'clock she was found to } yeen committed. ‘These things I inention to you, that you thing but the truth. But the geval desire isto punish, | be dead—at which moment of time intervening between I have to reviow all the olrouestabcas which are Med and uatil that may be accepte! to their readers, and | thesetwo periods was the murder commi'ted? Thie asimportant. The next evidence is that of Mr.ini Mrs the more horror they can cram into their statements, the J question as to time you must keep coneteutly in view in | Byrhenk who saw her on the aftorn more greedil are tl ey received, andthe greater is the | order to determine the question of the party to T ‘ime Mrs. Bodine should have sale of their sheets. How fara desire of that kind may | which your attention is next to be called. Ifit be foun) day, « female, they then thought have influenced them ia this case, it is not for me to say, | by yen that the murder was committed im the day time, it } they don think now it was but the danger is apparent, and they cannot be too cau- {will be at once seen that it would not be safe for you to } stadces have shaken their '; and they did not look tious in guarding egainst it. Itis press—it is | find any one guilty of it who could have committed | to closely ae to oe certain, Dut these four persons all the articles thus published in our n ers, that have Pit duri the night time. The question as to they saw Mrs. Houseman on Sunday. Now, gen'l tended, to ‘produce that popular prejuiice webich tue the time when the offence was committed is in 2} thivot poing seen on Sunday aronil important te this cose, marked this case from, inning to end—which hea im- “ A bein it sire’ fmprpe be Py Hoan tha evditary (or various reasons; in the first place, brcanse the accuse- jurisdiction. To the persons who could write such arti- Sar Sil i pas meats a eae ; ‘aw nig od if you are sat thet, and t cles as that I have alluded to, what is the life of a human were thn cae i Ae soote eign Aga ecm soner was the last person who was with’ her on Saturdey Axpany Exxction.—This election resulted on Tuesday in the choice of John Keyes Paige, the democratic candidate for Mayer, by the annexed vote :— Aprit 1845, cial and Rai! Road Rank of Vicksburg,and now a. signee ee bend f vg to arrange the claims be- tween the stockholders and creditors, by am their interests. Meret eae On motion of Mr. Titngson, seconded by Mr. McJimesry, it was Resolved, That a committee of three stockholders be appointed to proceed to Philadelphia, to confer with the assignees of the U.S Bank, and Girard Bank, and other creditors and pe of the Vicksburg Bank, with 4 view to carry into fall eftect the measures proposed by Mr. Robins. ‘ oo se geal oe Thomas Tileeson, Z. Cook, jr.,and John Rankin were appointed. On motion of wir, R. H. Winsuow, seconded by Mr. Sistarg, it was Resalved, That the President and Directors of the Com mercial and Rail Road Bank of Vicksburg, be respect juily requested to reinstate the Transfer office in the city Paige’s Maj... 97 Humphrey’s Maj... 624 The Common Council stands as last year—9 de- mocrats to 11 whigs. Navat Movements.—-The Alleghanian brigs Somere and Lawrence, sailed from Pensacola last Monday week, with sealed orders—supposed to be for the coast of Mexico. The Falmouth was to sail soon. Cuanag or Hova.—The steamboats Knicker- bocker and Rochester, will on and after Tucaday, April 15th, leave for Albany at 7 o’clock, P. M., in- stead of 6, as heretofore. : : elt en the circumstances of ofiNew York,in accordance with their original pledge a: | °¢i0g in comparison with the attainment of th night, and f 7 witnesses. I have thus dw ; F ili y rowd of human beings tike tire, and a recess for a (ew minutes was accordingly tak- | (Shi: 0nd se possessed of an tunity of committing | case at length, because much of the weight of this case — A eutered into by William Prescott, ita late President. purposes? In aSteRa EU neEs ed ate conten | aereanCine 'y tak- } the crime, you are fully justified in requiring the prisoner a upon them. On what occurs | Mogse’s Macnxtic Tetaaarn.—The exhibi- ZEBEDEE COOK, Jr., Chairman. Waxren R. Jones, Secretary. The money article, in this day’s paper, gives the particulars of the proposition made by Mr. Robine and also shows the condition of the bank at the date of the last report. Ava, Wearmer.—Tuesday and Wednesday were remarkably cold days here, at Boston, Philade!. phia, and Baltimore, ft is found that the fruit trees are injured no man misses it, andto such persons what is t #Judge Eomowns continued—When I left off, gentlemen alerts s mm rd ee Saaeee to have been perpetrated. Bi t when it itis to the aum that they are pressing their con | we had approaches§the question of the guiit of the pri- | cf view, i Mrs. Houseman waa alive on Sundry ithe aie. Pisce HE oa a Beis ton th aneecek: ast te woner at ee bee im Feference to whiok ony ae some | gation ‘is done away with at once, und therefore, in re- it — ie jo considerations worthy of your attention, in addition to | fv no shelter for the poor, se frlendlessa, d the unfortu Ff ‘hose I mentioned before ; one is, that one single cireum- of comaltet vot y ‘crpe bg 4 nate sgainst ig Bee ys of ae prejudice: } stunoe is not alone sufficient for the purpose of convic- | ix very material. Now, as to its being Pit) on thn produced, there ‘isan e cs all ieee ac | tion, A man was once convicted of stealing, on the | Sunday, you will recollect that the old the we know not how soon it may be onr lot to fall under tht § ground that the mirsing money was found in a place te | Honseman’s, as well as Mr, Van Name, attempt to give ou oloody axe. But there is protection anda shield, Thes | which he alone had access ; but it afterwards turned out | account of Mrs. Bodine all the day on Sunday, from the are to be found SEE ape bd grog jvries. The law ba shat a magpie concealed the money there. So with the morning until she went to bed at night, except! juring the under the constitution placed mo here with aa inde } mon of whom | have spoken already, who was convicted | brict interval of her going over to Mes.Houseman’s. Now. pendence of tenure to iy ra for ee pur’ f ot stealing a horse, fiom the fact that he was on the high- | you ara to satisfy yourselves whether the alibi, as it is Be? My ay Rad). an as = way with the horse in cher e, and yet the real thief had, | culled, is made out as to the whole of Sunde; LS oa one torch into the community ani sclected you a. fares a iven him the stolen animal ond escsped. | lievo tho crime was sons SF ag oo Naanete Jurors to pas upon this giestion. It is qecause you ore upons there mu then you are to ask ie the teste mingling in the wor! ‘ge, and may yoursalves of the viotims of that very prejulice, pe ery of R sister, of a daughter, just ne from the time the pi jer Wwnde here en Monday, until her return, must depend much of your deciswn ; because if she wes converting the stolen property into money—-it it be the case that she returned that night and fired the eae is oer vio! CO side—you ure to see what m it ia en 0. ie proceed! -oF-Wednes day and Thursday are also material ie rr it she advised againat offering a reward for the discovery of the criminal. On one side it is averred she did so. knowing that a reward would induce those who sige ie tion of the telegraph will soon be closed. Spexp.—The steamer John Marshall arrived yes- terday, in twenty days from Norfolk to the Battery. Disrvrrp Trertrory.—The territory between Towa and Missouri is to be left to the Alleghanian iperior Court for arbitration. her to fasten the guilt upon her. On the other averred that if she was innocent it would ba patutal for her to want to havea high reward o' that the guilty person might be found out. The inference would be very netural that her interest required her to eg a very different advice from this. About that time came the letter to Wait, by the bands of fon, and to her paramour, both persons likely to Barcrion mx Portianv.—No choice for Mayor in Portland on Tuesday. ‘ Crmourr Courr.—The civil eallendar which we publish, it will be perceived, will he taken up this forenoon ircumatance is not to convict | Saturday, credit of th See fee Neve geben ieee | Seer abcstes cum 2 o 0 a » and it has therefore f sustain the guilt of ¢ ec cused persees Perhaps we may, ris Boek ii Aprontment ny THE Parsipenr.—Col. Polk, to be Naval Officer tor the Port of Baltimore. i