Edwardsville spectator. [volume] (Edwardsville, Ill.) 1819-1826, 1825-08-13

yet these emotions must yield 10 the pa
Eamount duty of protecting this whole
community. We have reflected on your
case-we have paid most respectful
regard TO the recommendation OF the ju-
ry---we have also considered your youth
full years, and have mligaled your pu
nishment as much as all these circum-
stances would require. --The sentence
OF the court is that each OF you here the
Judge named the prisoners for this fe-
lony be imprisoned in the state prison
for the term OF seusn yearS--that Tor The
frs, three calendar months of this term,
you be put into solitary confinement, and
for the rest Of the period, to hard labor.
Before you leave this place, let me re-
mark that in all probability yon will be
made to suffer much, whatever impress
sion your good conduct hereafter may
make upon the Executive. Before |
leave the bench it may be proper to
make few observations Oman evil which
aiflicts this whole community. 1t is
duty which | owe TO the situation hold.
i appears that the keeper oil the house,
where those young oen spent The even
ing, dealt out to them seven glasses
each. The most deplorable masses OF
human misery, are in great measure
to be ascribed to the gros-shoh. We
see the tendency OF such places in the
fate of,hese young men. l here pu, the
question emphaiically--is there no re-
NEEDY? How many of our citizens must
lose their lives how many Of our young
men mus, be consigned TO the prisons Of
their ,country? how many afflicted fa-
Tiers and broken hearted mothers must
follow their youthful offspring to the
place Of punishment, before some remc-
ay can be found Surely j, is not un-
reasonable TO expect that no more IL
ccnces should be given. The commu-
nifty will look in vain TO the laws for pro-
lection, SO long as this practice of grant
Ing numerous licences are INDUCED in
any great or unreilecting extent"
We have endeayored to give the lead
iag thoughts and the most spirited ex-
ptessions of this excellent sentence, but
We know very well how feeble our at
tcinp,s are to give due justice TO his Ho'
nor. Ii was the most feeling, eloquent
anu appropriate sentence we have heard
fora long time. Some of the prisoners
appeared somewhat affected, but il was
nothing of very uncommon degree.
Their mothers, sisters and other friends,
in the adjoining benches, exhibited The
deepest symptoms OF sorrow Tor their sad
and melancholy fate.
Uydrohao6ia.-AL London paper states
that several persons at Brighton, Eng
land, have been bitten by mad dogs.
One of the number was Mr. White, a
surgeon. This gentleman does not be-
lieve that the disease called Hydropho-
bia can be communicated in the way &C.
nerally supposed, and has resoIutcIy re-
fused to adopt any Of the precautions re-
commended in such cases; and his
wound, which was in the arm, has been
suffered to heal. The dog was secured,
and subsequently died in his keeping;
exhibiting the various SYMPTOMS oil fly
,drophobia.
Mr.. White, in reference to this case,
0ys-' That a bite from any dog, dying
under similar circumstances, can infuse
aspcci6c poison in the human system
let it be called BY any namc-l deny. l
have, in the minds Of medical friends,
staked my life on my opinions; | have
every confidence, short of bIgory, in
their correctness; and, with (wha, others
have been pleased to term) the most
dreadful Of human maladies presumed
10 be hanging over me, feel competent
10 declare that imagination will, at leas; /,
have no share in the result"
THE MURATs Within few days
two sons Of the late king Of Naples,
Achilles and Napoleon Murat, made at
the Prothono,ary's Office of the Court
of Common Pleas of Philadelphia, the
necessary Declaration Of their intention,
preparatory to their becoming citizens
of the United States. We believe that
both those gentlemen intend to settle in
Florida. They are the first members OF
the Bonapartc family, who have officially
recorded their intention TO become cl,i-
zens ofthe u. States. We do not recol.
lect that any Of the illus'rious exiles from
France, or any part Of the continent OF
Europe, who have taken refuge from the
politically troubles OF those countries,
have recently taken any steps to evince
a wish to incorporate themselves with
the American family. 1t is pretty gene
rally knownthat, in Philadelphia in 1872,