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SATURDAY, MAY 1, 1869•
'On PRINT on the , inside pages of this
nurning's Gezzprz -- Second page :
Pastry, Religious and Miscellaneous News.
Third page : Petroleum Market, Markets
by Telegraph, Ricer and Railroad News.
Sink and Seventh raga :. Finance and
Trade, Pitteburgh Produce and Iron Mar
kets,,"Landing a Trout,"—a sketch, Mis
cellaneous News Reins, and Amuument
Directory.
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1:1. S. BONDS at Frankfort, 87*.
PETROLEUM at AlltWelliiiVif.
GOLD closed in Nevr York yeiterday
st 134.
Avrnouart Congress has repudiated
every existing treaty with tne Indians, it
seems to be generally understood that the
reservation policy, wlkich was inaugura
' ted by the Peace Commissioners, is not
to be abandoned. On the contrary, it is
'-`- 1 to be made fl cardinal point in the direc
tion of Indian affairs, by this Adnidnistra
tiort. , • •
AMMNVAIrNEWEL
The unfinished portions of the New
Lisbon-road, in Ohio, are to be completed
forthwith.
The Pan• Handle, or P. C. it St. L.
.Company, have offered substantial aid in
promoting the construction of a road from
Coshocton, Ohio, via Mt. Vernon to Del
aware and Marion. This road will be
constructed upon the line of the present
IV,alhonding Canal. _
IRREVERSIBLE FACTS.
The three Demo Credo Justices of our
Supreme Court appear to find no difficul
ty—certainly no scruple—hi overruling
the decisions of their two Republican as
sociates, which seems to Much the point
of Democratic' impunity in ballot-box
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stuffing, forged and fraudulent naturalize.
Lion Papers, and in other similar Demo.
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creHtic proclivities during an exciting po
ffitical canvass. The latestinstance of the
'alacrity of these Democrats on the bench
Ito do their level best for the excellent
party which it is their privilege to repre
sent, was afforded at 'Philadelphia, re
icently, where one of them overturned an
'obnoxious decision of last autumn, to the
;great satisfaction of his political friends.
If the opposition could, with the same
facility. blot out the black record of its
election frauds at Philadelphia last Octo
her—if it could so easily obliterati every
trace of the infamous practices which the
;subsequent investigations have exposed
by testimony so irresistible that even
Democratic candidates, whom those frauds
seemed to have elected, hive abandoned
their claims in disgust,--if the Democra
cy of Philadelphia can prize the flagrant
record of its facts as easily as they can
supply themselves, at an hour's notice,
with Judge-made law,—one might then,
perhaps, be inclined to believe that . the
party is really as immarniate as once was
the ermine in which our Judges were
robed.
A CONFLICT DECLINED.
Kentucky still groans over $e irrepres
sible conflict. It has been everywhere
else repressed, except in that State, but
there it flourishes to vex the saints of De
mocracy, to torment them with a peace
Which is not paace; and to provoke them
into a frantic and bootless struggle with a
higher Federal laW. Kentucky refuses
obedience to the Civil Rights Act of the
United States, of April Bth, '66. She has
declined to admit the testimony of negroes
in her courts, and challenges the direct
issue with the Federal • authority. Ken
tucky is very brave in this—but consider
ably mere' discreet than some peo
ple 'give her credit for. • For example,
one COALE; colored, on trial in a
Kentucky court for his life, offered negro
testimony in his defence, under the pro
visions of the Civil Rights' Lair. The
Judge rejected it as inadmissable under ex
isting State legislation. The accused was
convicted and sentenced to death. His
execution was appointed ter yesterday,
the 80th., . On the .preceding day, Judge
- BALLARD, of the U. S. District Court,
ordered a stay. of proceedings, for a re
"'vision of. the legal questicur upon the
validltref. a Federal law, before a Fed
, •
tribunal.,
From the way they talk in Kentucky,
the reader would natudally suppose that
they would snap their fingers at the Fed
eral intervention, and hang the don
damned l iege et the time ! appointed.
Not a bit of it. Kentucky valor is tem
pered with Otte enough of wise discre
tion. The Governor at once reprieved
• the man for thirty days. KentuckY rings
with indignant surprise that the Federal
Court should intervene in the case, and
with the menace that, no more delay is
- to be" granted after this reprieve
expires. We shall see. We respect Ken
tneldast raior, bet we have a profound ad-
Atirtatos ter. Xatinkleadiscretton. The
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Federal Courti Will adjudicate upon the
matter in due time, and until then the
man's life is safe. Whether he is after
war& hung or discharged, will depend -
very much upon the Federal interpreta
tion of his legal rights.
The Governor of Kentucky shows a
statesmanlike wisdom in declining the
conflict of authority, which the inconsid
erate hot-heade of some ,of his people
would precipitate upon that Common
wealth. He defers to the obligations of
his own official oath, to uphold the Fed
eral Constitution and laws, and awaits
patiently that ultimate decision which
will have his implicit obediende when it
is rendered.
SOUTHERN FOLI4,IIOAL PROS..
The elections in the unreconstructed
States are likely to be defertedimtil after
the crops shall be laid by; say in Septem.
ber. This willenable the laboring classes
to take an active Interest in the canvass.
The Virginia Conservatives will make an
earnest effort to secure the assent of the
President to an earlier date for the elec
tion in-those States, but probably with-
out success.
Virginia politics are rapidly simmering
down Into a square contest between the
radical and the moderate Republicans.
The former have nominated Wsm•s for
Governor, and will support the complete
text of the proposed Constitution, while
the latter have succeeded in securing the
co-operation of the formerly rebel ele
ment, in favor of WALKER as the candi
date, and accepting the Constitution with
out its three offensive sections. *Hr.
Wer,Kim was placed in the field some
weeks since, by a Convention, which
certainly represented all the prdeal_
rn
Wiido of the reconstructed'rebels o the
a/ ,
State. These were content to a t
suffrage as a fact. accomplished, and
make thebest of it. . With them, wer e
few citizens who have always been loyal.
to the Union, but who doubt the exk
diency of aught like a harsh policy. to l -
Ward even the unrepentant" among their
people: The *Convention which I sats
week at Richmond represented the x-
Verne le ft of the rebel wing—that porti n
t.
of the people who find`-nothing but e.
malty to recx:omniend their ‘stibmisai l on
to the new order of things. Bat they o•
recognize the necessity, and pledge the -
selves to the support of .the Walker tick
et. There were some malcontents in tab
Convention who breathed a sullen It:L
ance, and who may yet decide to abs 'n
altogether from attendance at the pile.
It is more , probable that they will ultlinstte
ly subside lute theltallier party; and tract
to the results for their more effective in
fluence in shaping the future poll of
Virginia.,
On the whole, ft Is now clear enou h
that the new Constitution, exclusiv of
the clauses referred to, will be adopted
without any effective opposition from
,any quarter. It is equally probable that
those clauses will be rejected. In either
event, a State Government will be organ
ized, Congressmen elected, two Senators
choien, the Sllth Article ratified, and
the Old Dominion, purged, renovated
and pretty thoroughly reconstructed, will
be ready in December next, to resume
that place lathe sisterhood of State which
she spat upon eight • and a half years
before.
Tne political tendencies in Texas and
Mississippi all point in the sane direction,
and similar results may be looked for.
The popular feeling, in those States is
quite tomilmous upon one point—that
they have been out of their practical rela-
tions to the Union quite as long as is
good for them, and that all questions
which reconstruction may not finally set
tle should be adjourned until after their
recognition as Sigel,. '
The next session of Congress will close
up the open questions as to these, three
States. Only the Georgian business will
then remain for adjustment, and, when it
'Comes to that; anti that only, the pressure
for its settlement, in some such practical
way as will not surrender too much of the
Federal position, : will prove Irresistible.
After :that, agidn, broader concessions,
toward all the once-rebel Slates, may,
from time to tine, be 'suggested by the
progress of events, and especially by the
advancing loyalty of their several popu
lations.:: • , •
THE PERIL OF THE_ REPUBLIC AN
The organization of the Republican
party was not an original movement, but
an outgrowth of an earlier one, having
for its ultimate object the extirpation of
slavery from the soil of the United States.
As was natural, this earlier movement
had respect mainly to the moral , k and re
ligious aspects of domestic servitude.
Glowingstppeala'. 'Wein made to 'the con
science. Powerful arguments were ad
dressed to: selfishness Itself, The effect
was prodigious. The momentum of the
movement was susceptible of measure- '
ment by the magnitude "and `-formidable
ness of the forces brought Into requisition
to resist its march, and turn it backward.
It was inevitable that such an agitation,
conducted in a country ruled by popular
institutions, - should lap over - Into the
realm of politics. ' The evil under debate
was political as well as moral. It •had
managed to find a sort of shelter in the
Constitution; and by ruins of the politi
cal -influence with which it had become
armed, had succeeded • in surrounding
itself with I fictitious halo of iacredness
that imposed : n the credulity of millions
of citizens.
The Re, i1,., e ub ( 1,1 party 7 I P 3. 01 P, 'lg l u'
ized, P anii w Apical to , by innampildied
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through it so defined, as to bring it as
fairly within Constitutional timitations
is any other party whatsoever. It con
templated no revolutionary measures;
demanded no change in the organiclawe;
called only for that which'each voter had
a right to urge and demand; and this was
the territorial restriction of domestic ser
vitude. So far as,it had extended, It was
not proposed totouch it; but the resolu
tion was invincible to prevent it from
going farther. Herein was not only due
reverence for law, but an, unsurpassed
practical wisdom. If the pernicious in
stitution could be effectually circum
scribed, the augmentation and diffusion
of population would' reduce it to conipar
ative insignificance, and, l by stripping it
of political importance; expose it to ulti
mate, if not to swift ,decay.
If any man or woman supposed; from
this definition of the political end tei be at
tained, that the Republican party Was not
actuated by. , a profound abhorrence of
sl&very, and by an irrevocable determi,"
nation to do all= hat it lawfully could do
to undermine and destroy It, he or she
was strangely mistaken. In its procla
mation it halted where the Constitution
commanded, and not because its convic
tions would not have carried it farther.
The men who gave the party its mental
Rower and moral impulse, were of the
of d anti-slavery school, having their vis
ions purified from all obstructions, and
thir vows recorded on high that the giant
iniquity against which they had taken up
arms should fall to rise no more forever.
Imbued with ate • invincible enthasirm,
therinspired their .co-workers with large
measures of their own temper. \
The Rebellion which the slaveholders
inaugurated and maintained, not simply
to preserve their prescriptive right tti hu
man chattelism, but to bring the political
institutions of the country into harmony
with the, social forms prevailing' in the
Southern States, by the establishment of
a monarchical or imperial \ government,
made occasion for the war power to come
in, and, by a blow, 'to demolish slavery.
:a
What anti-slaverrmen of all ' des an
ticipated would require many years of
laborious effort went down in instant,
as if smitten by fire from heave .
,
1 What remained was to co orm the
Constitution sand the statutes to the im
mutable justice the sword h decreed.
The Fourteenth Amendmen and , the
Civil Rights act went a lon way W-
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wards that end. The 'Fifteen , Amend
ment, now pending, will com lete what
is yet unfinished. This will ring the
end which the Republican 1 aders and
masses alike had in view whe they en
listed in the momentous n ertaking.
The Fifteenth Amendment already
linen ratified by the Legislatu of Penn
sylvania, so that here, as in a sjority of
the States, it can only incid ntalty be
come involved in popular disc salon. A
judgment thus solemnly aw ded, must,
from the very nature of it, be, eld to be
irreversible.
Nor is there now, If there w former
ly, any reason to doubt as so—the ulti
mate ratification of the amendment by a
sufficient number of States to make it
indisputably a part of the fundamental
law, and as legitimate and binding as
any other portion thereof. This result is
unmistakably foreshadowed by the elec. -
eons held this spring. A year may elapse
before the work shall be finished, but the
completion of it is as certain as any fu
ture event whatever.
It is apparent, therefore, that the dis
tinctive reformation for the accomplish-
I
meat of which the &publican party was
created approaches Iblfiliment. Conse
quently a large number of earnest, able
and influential men, who, during many
consecutive years, gave their best
thoughts and energies to the Republican
movement, feel a sense of relief, and are
inclined to retire , from active ,participa
tion in politics. !These men did not en-'
ter the political arena'to' Enbserve per
soma ambitions; to gain the honors or
emoluments of pliblic statione; but to vin
dicate natumilustice, denied to millions
of their countrymen, and to purify the
republic from the odium under which it
rested of tolerating 'the - vilest' Britain of
oppression upon which: the sun ever
shone. These great ends attained, they
are content to put off the weapons of
political warfare; and to alloW theta to be
taken up by who : ever will., "., What they
did was well done, and neither by forea
rm subtlety can be reversed. Slavery
cannot be re-established; and the ballot
once given to the blacks, caste is doomed
to absColute annihilation.
Nor are the old Republic= leaders
alone in deciding that their work is ac
complished, acid that they are hence at
liberty honorably to rest from their la
hove, The nett adMinistration at.WaSh
ington heibetittiwe4 Conspicuous reOgni
tion upon oily one • "of thesnmen..Mr.
Jens( JAY, Niflio worthily wears a name 11-
"Austrioils in'-the hieterylif his country: So
pregnant an ignoring of the old Republl
can"chlefs could not have happened, had
the contest been„progreesing/ plo maims
wdiild have demanded their' accustomed
leaders, , and ordinary prudence would
have constrained'compliance with , the
popular reqiiiiithin. -
HotititlesS, a law and. ;younger eet)of
men stand ready to take the places of the
Prominent Repuhlicems whO , , are, now
turning to seek repose from the fierckitir
nations in which they;; have 44red ,1 ° ,. r
ten, or, twenty, or thirty '
years._' : A re
*Be new menableworthily\to weaF r:
Imultl_ ~es they covet?. . Will th 4 ma*
cog ,I,Peir voices, and - Vout,'-alXo,ch
.:iicandince In . theiringgeitiOnallad c 'ai , '
I
peals as they did in the leaders 'under
whose guidance they t went through all
the vicissitudes of the great and protracted
struggle? What are tb be the fresh is
sues, consonant with the questions now
closing, and intended to supplement
them, by which the trad itional enthusiasm :
shall be maintained, and Republican as
cendancy perpetuated? These are inter
rogatories which occur to all reflecting
members of the part}, and answers to
them must be had in practical ways.
These questionings, ho7ever, and the con
dition of facts which produce them, reveal
the peculiar peril which at this Moment
besets the Republican organizatlon..
That two political ties must always
exist in this country, in every other, is
certain. There is no prospect or even
possibility of the disintegration of the.
Democratic party. It may, and must,
from time to • time, change' its rallying
cries, and the special points of attack and
defence. Constituted essentially of igno
‘ rant or vicious masses, it cannot do oth
erwise than reflect their passions and pre
judices. So much is not in the least
doubtful. But, can and will the Repub
lican party under the new inspiration and
leadership be kept up to that genuine love
of Liberty for all men which has been its
glory, and through which it won themost
memorable victories recorded in political
annals? To come down from the emi
nences of moral questions of the utmost
grairity to topics purely of 'polities' expe
diency; to the payment' of the public debt
and the development of the national re
sources, impOrtant as these latter topics
unqUestionably are, is a descent likely to
be followed by large abatement; of enthu
siasm. ,
Clearly these latter topics are next in or
der, as growing out of the necessities of the
case. While the war lasted every effort
was required to reinforce and sustain the
armies. After_ the War closed the recon
struction of the Union necessarily fol
lowed, with the obtainment of equal
rights for all classes of the people; and
these ends are nearly realized. The moat
pressing concerns now up for considera
tion are those of finance and national pros
perity. If the men , who now hold lead
erships are competent to the positions
they occupy; if they perceive accurately
the ground upon which the party stands;
and must maintain, and if they shall -be
found capable \of devising brciadlind com
prehensive schemes, adequate to the oc
casion, and if so presenting them as to
secure popular acceptance, the Republi
can party will go on to additional tri-1
uraPhal • which will increase its claims'
upon the gratitude of the country, and
•the applause of the friends of political
amelioration throughout the world.
For the Pittsburgh Duette.
'•NO MISSIONARY 'NEED APPLY.,"
Sir Samuel Baker is going to head an
expedition to explore the region of the
Upper Nile. It will be underthe auspices
of the Egyptian government, and its ob
ject will be not simply to discover but also
to open up obstructed navigation, develop
commerce and to try one of Sir Samuel's
pet schemes for imgating and reelaiming
large desert tracts. L _
He means to go well
appointed. He will hive a steamer car
ried in sections over the portage, and in it,
proceed, wittnoth flags flying, to "The
Albert N'Yeriza," He will have astro
nomical instruments for latitude and
longitude, meteorological instruments, a
medicine chest, a medical man or two,
and something cheerful for hot weather
and wet weather, as the case may be.
More than this, the company is to be
altogether select. He will have men that
can reckon, men that can tell all, about
the rocks, mines, soils, roots, herbs, trees,
springs, and ail the rest, and that can
write a whole library when they get*
home; men to shoot his game, cook his
dinners, Interpret his elequence, carry las
dispatches, and make themselves useful
puerility, but no missionary need apply. •
There
t cust be, in such cases, some prin
ciple o discrimination, and what is more
reason le than that Sir Samuel's troup
should be thoroughly purged of all mis
sionary views? They go to look after
the rivers, lakes, fruits, flowers and the
dry sand of that clime of mystery. Keep
out those vinegar-faced interlopers whose
Interest in the fauna of those localities
might extend to the genus to which they
themselves belong! ,
No missionary need apply! ,
- Meanwhile the missionary packs his
knapsack slips his Bible into his sidb
pocket, picks out a few trusty men, who
think none the less of biro because of his
philanthropic infatuation, and sets out
from the other end of the continent, laid
soon the whole world Of litters is glad
to follow his every step. They hold their
breath When the rumor comes that evil
has befallen him, and when, from the
depths of the African wilderness, there
issue broken syllables of tidings of him
ae still a living man, there is not a tele
graph in Christendom, on continent or
island, or under the tides of the ocean;
that does not tell the story.
Any body may apply when the mis-,
slimary makes up his expedition to dis-.
cover new fields, of victory, for thn
Christianfaith. AstritutinitmetetirologY,
geology,' hotani, inedleal science and
ethnology may all send their represents,-
tives;.or, if the offer is net c appreciated,
ho will, in la' hurable way, represent
themall himself.
Alas for the narrowlnizidet higi - Ary of
modemt Give Us science
and art and commerce to expand the
minds' and enlaxge the views, of. men , l
Let these evangelical exClUslies learn a
lesson from Sir Samuel, and his select
fellow-adventureraf •Zh
A CLERanter of Woleott,t Vermont,
has patented , a globe' made of .trtrong linen
paper, in sections, which Wide up so GC
to appear like a folded sheet of thick ,
paper. By means of a steel spring it t
sprung into shape, on the ()ever of a com
mon atlas, so that, in all respects; It is a
perfect artificial globe for common School
use., The inventors have the machinery
made to manufacture these globes as an
attaeinnentio the "ordintz e reetqedels
At moo *lava tt vac * wit** the,
lettehtof every ockaart-
MIITIIR HOMICIDE TRILL,
THURSDAY MORNING.
Court opened at 8% o'clock.
Mr: Riddle began his argument by re
minding the jury of the unsuppressible
nature of muraer. The substance of his
opinion is that it will out. He auoted
Hamlet to prove that guilt will write
itself, upon the face of the guilty party,
and insisted that it had so written itself
on 'tthis villain," "his blood-stained
hands and adamantine heart." The
speaker's sentiments in this convincing
argninent were given with considerable
sound and fury. The "bleeding hearts
of the bereaved parents" had appropriate
and noisy mention. His argument
appears to bechiefly made up of hard
names, so I shall stop trying to follow,
and 'ieport what it is very unworthy ,
of the gentleman to speak, on so solemn
an occasion.
After freeing his mind on the appear
anceimd behaviour of the prisoner dur
ing the trial, and calling him all the foul
epithets in the calendar, the eloquent
gentleman referred to the Magtia Charts
of our rights, which, of course, requires
that, the "severest penalty of the law
shall be meted out to this monster, that
demon, that fiend."
The gentleman dealt largely in may
have been% might have beans, could
have donee, and all the possibilities of
prisoner having committed the crime
which the Commonwealth has so sig
nally failed to prove. In going over the
testimony, Mr. Riddle took a flying leap
from the blacking box to the letters.
Not a word about the shawl ! He
blaCked the prisoner's face, went
through that mysterious performance of
washing it, and then stepped right on to
the letters, without a word about the
shawl. As Mr. McJunkin is the "big
Indian" of the proseention, it is probable
that this shawl, this large shawl, the
shawl with the long fringe, has been re
served for his use. We, therefore, expect
to see this good looking, elderly gentle
man, in all the dignity of drapery, pour
ing his terrible anathemas on the pris
oner's devoted head.
Mr. Riddle dwelt with unction. on the
mysterious circumstance of the prisoner
having been fifteen minutes in his room,
on that night, without being undressed.
The gentleman got back to "the words of
the poet" in due time, and from them
glanced over the pistols and gun, took up
the Dispatch and meandered through
that wonderful subscription of one year,
which extended from - early 111 the spring
of 'BO to the summer of 'Olt
In concluding his argument, Mr. Bid
dle demanded the life of :the prisoner,
and the nrcesectiting uncle and aunt sat
complaciently, and nodded approval!
When will the - race be civilized?
C. McCarer'.iiess, Esq., made the closing
speech fel . the defence. His refutation of
the theory that the prisoner did the
stiooting three years ago was complete.
His three' ristold were all examined
elnaely ; none of them would carry the
I large minute revolver balls that the
Commonwealth held were used in the
shooting both at Mr. McCandless' and at
Mr. Btoten's. The barn burning was not
so clearly disposed of as the evidence
warranted. The blacking box was better
handled. A - new feature was brought
up, one which had not appear
ed in evidence, but which he appeal
ed to as within the knowledge of
some of the jury, viz : that the banks of
Muddy Creek, all along in the neigh
borhood in which prisoner must have
crossed it to go to and from Mr. McCand
less', from Mr. Graham's, are always soft
and will receive and hold such marks of
footsteps as would make it easy to trace
him if he had passed that way, and ar
gued that, from the diligence with which
Squire Graham and his son had sought
testimony against the prisoner, as shown
by their testimony, they would certainly
Have discovered his tracks on Muddy
Creel bad he made any that fatal night.
Cerixt adjourned.
- AFTERNOON SESSION.
1 ,
Reporter inquired of Mr. McJunkin
if there was any legal process by which
he could be arrested and confined in the
Oornmon jail or anywhere else for a few
days. He thought not. Other counsel
agree with him, and so he will speak
against the prisoner.
•
Air. McCandleas continued his argu
ment,-and took up the point of the sup
posed attack on Isaac Brannon. Mr.
Graham testified that Taylor started for
church after the family. They were
riding, he walking. They. got to Mr.
Allen's when the moon rose; Taylor, it is
claimed, was by the peach orchard be
fore the moon rose.- The peacharchard
is a half mile farther from Mr. Graham's
than is Mr. Allen's. How did he know
that Brannon would be passing there at
that this, and how did he know that
there would be an opportunity to &hoot
the girl on that evening? He had been
'at work all day hauling lumber. How
could he have made his calculations
so nicely? The man Who did the
shooting had evidently been lying in
wait; had had time to lurk and •hide and
'embrace his opportunity. How could
Taylor have known to have his gun con
oealed for that particular time? and what.
assurance could he have had that he
could accomplish any such purpose on.
:that evening, and he at hie - regular day's
work day after day? He had no time to
I,concoot and.carry out such a plaie.. The
difficulty or impossibility of getting that
;gun out of the house that 'evening in
time to commit the miirder, or . of
ing it so concealed that ..he could- get it
without it showing signs of damp. The
improbability of getting it back into his
room; he must go, in bright moonlight,
and carry that ladder; back and.forth, set
ir z ifp against thebouse, open that door,
• put the irtm,in among, boxes and lumber
in the dark, close that door, button it,
carry the ladder back, go in and up, and
across through that long, dark lumber
room, get the gun through the window,
in the; dark, carry it to his room, and no
one in the room below hear him.
In the house that night were six
guests besides the usual family. How
could he do all this while andh
a family, old and young, were in the
bustle of coming home from church, and
getting ready for bed ? In farmhouses
people do not . go from . the common room
each to his own chamber. 'On a bright
night in Autumn, how could he bevel:lone
all this and no one see or hear him?: 'Hot
could he have got froth Graham's tense,
round by the peach orchard, down to
McCandless' by.the time that murder
was committed? He could not have •
- done it. 'The testimony of the Common
wealth proves an atibi.
In this report I follow:the progress of .
Mr. McCandless' argument and gtve my
own convictions of the testimony. After
a careful attention to all the evidenee,
feel that the Commonwealth has 4116-
ProVed its own , charges. When , th e case
opened, I though it a mere for_ ,m that his
guilt 'was beyond doubt.* When :the
'Commonwealth closed its evidenee in ,
chief. I felt he woe innocent, that some
lover's ravings had been painted with an
undreamed-of meaning by the tragedy
which had followed, a tragedy 'which he
had never anticipated. Mr. - McCandless
mud have eurprieed bla• friends
by , the; ability -of. hie argument.
IL Wee %bac tlg ompso eal.- igaueluaive.
Both, Ate and Mr., u have ac-. '
quitted theumelliee grandly; have 1001 , 841
tiZitiftepantk
very, very ably, Butler ham alms been
proudiiftter bar, and has reason so to. •
be. The counsel against the prisoner in
this case would do very much better, and
appear to much better advantage, if they
were laboring for a conviction under any
other than a death penalty law. Mr.
Greer, the District Attorney, appears
like a fish out of water. His instincts
evidently tend to growth and progress,
and when he got up' yesterday, and in a
voice all alive with quick sympathies,
and all the higher principles of Christian
civilization, and went to urging the en
forcement
of that old Jewish code, he
stumbled, and hesitated, and repeated -
himself, as he would not have done if he
had been assured in his convictions of
the wisdom of the law he felt it his duty
• ..-
to enibrce. '
Mr. McJunkin opened the closing ar
gnment at twenty minutes to five o'clock.
His manner was solemn and impressive.
He began with an addresa to the jury on
their especial duty. •
He feels that the public would - rather
take to its arms the most bloody- crithi
nal than rally to the aid of the outraged
and violated law. He assumed that to
repeal the law of , the death penalty, •
*mid be to repeal the Bible, and depre
cated the flood of infidelity which must _
break in upon us when the old, the good
and the ancient law shall be set aside.
He quoted the old texts and told the Jury
all about cleansing the land of blood,
by the blood of him that shed it.
"For ten long, weary days the defendant •
has been fleeing from the avenger of
blood, fleeing to the city of refuge. If he
be guilty, God grant that he may not en
ter there." He defended the "stricken
parents" and urged that it is necessary
for them to sit in Court facing the andi- • ;
ence and jury, asking vengeance, because
at home they must meet those marks of
blood, the blood of their child.' [Suppose
that all folks in such cases remove per
manently to.the Court House of their
county.] There was a dead hush in
the house as he drew a most
touching picture of the scene of the
murder, and drew tears from the afflict
ed mother, but failed utterly to move
the father or the sister, who remember
ed
..
and swore to the let ters which are re
lied upon to heal the wounds of this af
flicted family by a sticking plaster of
blood.- He went carefully over the tes
timony, assuming the guilt of the pris
oner,
and appeared as if he were fully
convinced of the correctness of his ver
sion of the dark and bloody code. One
might mistake Mr. Mal unkin for an old
Scotch Covenanter divine, :by the impres
sive manner in which he spote, of the •
great danger of breaking' the Sabbath. • .
This part of his sleech would make a
good tract.' .
(hurt adjoarmili at - tilt and a half
o'clock,
Artbit Injured.
Yesterday, about noon, an old. wall,
connected with Sawyer's soap factbry,
corner of Stephenson atzeet• and Fifth
avenue, fell down. Mr. W. C. Wall, the
well known artist, who was passing the
place at the time, was struck by a. por
tionof the falling debris, and quite, se
verely injured. He received a severe
gash on the forehead, several cuts on the
head, and was considerably bruised upon
other parts of the body, He had just re
covered from a severe illness, and was
out, we believe, for the first time in
many weeks when the accident occurred.
It is likely he will be confined to his
room for some time again, but no serious
consequences are anticipated.
SHOULDER BRACES.
,The value of these appliances to human health,
and to promote and extend human life, can
scarcely lie over estimated. When we contem
plate the vast number of individuals who hive
acquired the habit of stooping, and look at the
many crooked and ill-shaped persons, the useful
,
ness of these appliances are forcibly suggested to
our minds. And it la not merely to those who. -
suffer in the cepriYation of health that wespejk l
thousands of others who are apparently, secure
.In its ealoymentWould be compenaitted :thou-
sand times by the constant wearing one of these
useful, we might say necessary, Artie es of hu-
man apparel. The narrow and contracted chest
Is as much a subject for pro per physiological
training u is the maintainin g and keepine ,the
stomach and other vital organs.in a healthful and
proper condition, to ditty perfcirm their_appro
uriate finitions.'Every one understands, with
ont 'a
newspaper Omonithin, that if a leg or arm
be broken, an artery severed, or a rapture any- •
where shows itself, that these are objects worthy -
of our deepest care and solicitude. Then why not,
when you Observe the human body becoming
incurvated. the chest contracting into an hour
glass shape, and the other vital powers sinking
'to decay—why not seek out a 'remedy that will i
correct these groeing evils, which not duly con-
cern your present ease and comfort. but likewise
the Lustre prospect of yourself and those of
your immedtate kindred Who will one day occupy • i
your places in Itfe?' The cost in money ie a mere
trifle. The remuneration to the health and
strength can hardly be weighed in the inure bal
ince. it ought to he remembered that 'he spinal
column to not oily of primary importance' to the
physical, but likewise to the mental well being. ;
The health of the human body Is as much region
sable to the - pesitto.n of the organs., aid their be
big in place, as it is to physiii and due regulation
of diet ind regluhn. We have known persons.
hundreds df them, with narrow and hollow 1
chests who scarcely took in air enough to vital
ire half the bleed,' 'speedily restored 'to Death . = 4
;.,without an ounce of Medicine, so called, by the
lute of one of the Shoulder Bracel: We have
known others who have enlarged the capacity of
the chest aamuch"as six cr seven inches In ,;.•
cumterence by the same means, and who can
doubt their utility in &liaises where the tenden
cy to consumption or any other of the diseases of
the respiratory organs are at allimednent.
- These Braces are sold and applied at, also all
other mechanical appliances. at DR. KEYSER'S
NEW MEDICINE STORE, NO. 18I'LIRERTY
STREET, TWO .DOORS FROM ST. 'CLAIR, t=.
AND. AT: HIS CONSULTATION ROOMS,
No. 1002K1IN STREET, from 10 A. It. until '4
OP.M.
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COMMON SENSE
. • -
Rules the mass of the people, whatever the mis.. r F
named and misasithrop'c philosophers may
- say to
the contrary. 'She a them' a good thing, let' its ''.:::
merits De clearly demonstrated, and they, wlll not
hesitate to give It" their atilt cordial patronage. e.
The masses have alieady retitled the judgment of ;''•j
• a physician concerning theylitues of ROSTRT-
• „
•
TRH'S arnitras, as 'may bekin - in the immense
cuantitteiicif thhi,edielne that are u
m annu ally sold
. . • .
In every section of. the land..it irriew recognized t r ;
as greatly superior to all other remedies yet de
vised
..:
for diseases of the dlgeative organs,. such as
diarrhoea, dysentem OPPeltsia, and for.the via. .5
rious fevers that arise. front the derangement of
tho,,e particles of the syStem. Hostetter's name- `•
is rapidly: hecomlng a household word, from
Tilatne.to Teias, from the shores of the Atlantic
to the Pacific. These celebrated STOMACH. t
BITTERS have doubtless created as, much sense..
tlonlis the Community be their remarkable eves
as a'nyother medicine extant.' it is isfact that in'
thenitnds of man persons a preludice," exists
against What
b arlstudied patent medicines; but.
' why should thii prevint your resetting, to an :sr
, fide tbatiediuch in array of testi zonf to i'up
Port It aiIIUISTRYTAR'S STODIACII BITTERS,
Physicians vreicribe it; why should you di card
It? Judges; itistally 'considered men of, talent,
have and do use trill thelilitarilee; /thy should
yonleject ft?' t 'Cinot Tont:prejudice ,usurp your
reason, to the eTeriattitig Injury of your health.
. it hi the only preniratiod or the kind that is re
111 ilakie in all amide,' kid Ifis'itti*iiiii .worthy or
the coostitenition of 'the JitHiiiiiir.- ortiiStiTitag.
'to bliiiiinfto the tatter aigieestife'll*' thift'er-
Atiets;•4ol ialltdathirtilitititilai Unto or ilia.- -
47 Pa Indliteties.
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