The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1859-05-17 00:00:00

AMERICA.

The trial of Sickles for the murder of Key bad termi-
nated on the 24th. Judge Crawford, in summing up,
entered steiutien into the instructions asked by the
Court and those asked by the defence. The former were
connerieed under four heada, and the latter under eleven.
Alluding to the ruling of the English judge who tried
Oxford upon the charge of shouting at our queen, lie
said that AIM ~,,, eels a man nuey be labouring under a
partial insanity, if he still understands the nature of his
act and its conssaluenees ; if he has a knowledge that it
is wrong viol criminal, end a mental power suffirient to
apply that knowledge to his own case, and to know that
if lee does the act lie will do vireeeg and receive punish-
ment, such partial insanity is not sufficient to exems•
hieu from responsibility for criminal acts ; that
the killing by means of a bull-t discharged
from a pistol implied malice in law, and was murder ;
but that if the jury had any doubt as to the case either
in reference to the hennicide or the questi ~,, of inaanity.
Mr. Sickles should be acquitted. The trial closed
on the 2:1:11 with a vereict of acluittal. The
jury were only absent about an hour. As the
words " Not Guilty" fell (nun the lips of the foreman
there was one wild, loud, thrilling, taieseiltuons hurrah
' sent up by the spectators ; cheer after cheer resounded
in the court•ruoin, and it was taken up by the multi-
tude on the outside and repeated. lists and hawker-
chiefs were waved, and there was one general rush
toward the duck. In the midst of the uproar the sten-
torian voice of Mr. Stanton was heard addressing the
Court in these words :—I move that Mr. Sickle,' be dia-
-1 charged from custody. Marshal Settler. —Conic to order
gentlemen ; come to order. This ix a place where there
I should he no noire. No one paid any attention to the
Marshal. Mr. Stanton (huffing over with excitement.)
I—ln the name of Mr. Sickles and of leis counsel I desire
to return thanks to the jury. Judge Crawford f who ap-
peared to be the only person re court not excittal.)—
Mr. Stanton wait till the verdict is recorded. Mr.
Stanton.—Of courae, your Honour, you moat excuse
excitement on this occasion. Clerk to the Jury.—
Your record is, gentlemen, that you find Daniel E.
Siekles ' Not Guilty?' The jury nodded
affirmatively. Clerk.— And so say you all?
Another affirmative nod from the jury. Mr. Stanton.-
1 now move that Mr. Sickles be discharged from
custsaly. Judge Crawforsl.—The Court so orders. Mr.
Stanton (turning arousiel.)—Now go it. Judge.—No
noise. The prohibition was unheeded. Mr. Sickles,
amid the renewed cheers of the audience, was taken out
of the dock by Captain Wiley and Mr. Brega. The for-
mer, who is one of Mr. Sickles most devoted friends,
kissed him at the moulted of Ida deliverance, and held
fast by him as they tried to make their way to the door.
It was slow work, for congratulations, earnest, loud,
and frankly expressed, saluted Mr. Sickles at all points.
Though strong emotion was exhibited in the swollen
veins eef Ilia temples, his eye was calm and steady, and
the effort which lee manifestly made to retain calinnesd
and composure was successful. His expression betrayed
no feeling of joy, but was rather that of a man who felt
conscious that be had run no rink, and the trial through
which lee hail passed could have no other result. It was
some minutes before Mr. Sickles could reach the jury-
box, which lay on his road to the door. The jury
evinced • desire to congratulate hien, and he stepped
over the forms to meet their salutations, which were
heartily tendered. The counsel for the defence also ex-
changed compliments and congratulations with the
jurors. Finally, by dint of much crushing and great
exertion, a passage to the door was effected, and as soon
as Mr. Sickles was recognized from the outside, the
cheers were again taken. Mr. Shaw, of the Herald. had
rushed down to the National Hotel as soon as the jury
returned. and jumping on the driver's box, drove up a
hack to the Court.house. All the leackinsn on the stand
and at Brown's Hotel followed leis example, and
there Man nearly a score of carriages at the City-hall as
Mr. Sickles CA1114: out. The news ran like wildfire
through the city, and from all sides crowds were hurry-
ing to the City-leall. The exciteiseent was as intense as
it VISA instantaneous. As Mr. Sickles stepped down the
stone stairs of the City-hall, surrounded and supported
by his immediate personal friends, lie was enthusiasti-
cally cheered. and loud calls were made upon I for a
speech. With considerable exertion, for he was fast
becoming faint, he was got into one of the numerous
carriages in waiting. lie the sauuie carriage were Messrs.
Graham, Wiley, and Brown, of New York. A move-
ment was made by the crowd to take the horses out of
the carriage and to draw it themselvea, but the move-
ment was detected in time and ;were:ALA. Finally, the
carriage drove away, followed by many others and by
an i tttttt ense crowd. Mr. Sickles; was taken to the house
of Mr. next door to his former residence.
Thousands of people were gathered in front of Mr.
M'Blitir's house and continueel to come and go through-
out the evening. It is said that Mr. Sickles will remain
at Washington for a week. The counsel of Mr. Sickles
at night were complimented by a serenade, and a large
crowd gathered in front of the National Hotel, where
Messrs. Brady, Stanton, Magruder, and Chilton briefly
returned thanks. The last named gentleman requested
the assemblage to forego their intention to serenade Mr.
Sickles. . . .

The overland mail from California and Utah reports
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that affairs in the latter territory were anything but
satisfactory. The ill-feeling had reached its culminating
point, and the people were on the eve of open hostilities.
DiffiTences also existed between Governor Cumming anti
General Johnston, touching their respective powers, and
there was likewise on open rupture between the Execu•
tire and the Judiciary. The Federal courts found it im-
possible to exercise their functions, the grand jury refit•
sing to tind bills, and using every other means to screen
parties ACCIP•CIi of murder and other crimes. Owing to
the excited state of the popular feeling, a detachment of
1,000 troops bare from Camp Floyd and encamped
near Trove. Governor Cumming loss issued a proclama-
tion, taking part with the Mormon sentiment.
The news from the western and southern wheat-fields
continues favourable,
at; jet there loot nothing tip-
peared to wile any !mullion. Everything pro-
mises the hest, and unless something unforeseen
to frustrate the well-founded calculations of the farmers,
this year's harvest will restore the prosperity of the
West. With their accastomed activity the merchants

of New York are counting in advancC upon this pro-
mised prosperity. The importations are c.mnnting tip
larger than ever before, and should, by any unfortunate
accident, tho expectations of the western farmer be dis-
appointed, there will he danger of a relapse here.
Al Havannah, on the 22nd, sugars were dull, at a
decline. A French ship had landed 475 coolies from
Macao. She was out 122 days, and 90 unfortunates
died on the paasai,ro. Of the remainder about eight died
every day from the time she entered Havannah har-
bour. Returns, it is said, by a New York paper prove
that from the period of the inspiration of the coolie ap-
prenticeship system, 44,549 Chinamen were shipped for
Cuba, of which number 37.775 were landed alive, show-
ing a mortality of 6.794—a little over 15 per cent.
The steam-boat St. Nicholas, while on her passage
from St. L"tlill to New Orleans, exploded her boilers
when near Helena, Arkansas, and about seventy-five
persons were supposed to have been killed, while many
others were more or leas injured.
From Mexico the report is that Miramon is victorious,
and had already commenced the work of alaughkr, and
was murdering peaceable foreigners indiscriminately.