Martinsburg gazette and public advertiser. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1826-1833, 1826-06-29

EARL is dead, and that the sister IS IN e
very low condition.
PHILOSOPHICAL DEDUCTIONS.
Ro,v street Elizabeth Stubbs, lady,
the rubicuudity of whose visage bespoke
her ioviaI disposition, was brought up,
charged by her landlord, Mr.. Richard
Delany, with abstracting half sover-
eign, bis property, from the stay pot"
which served at once as the dulcs dscas
OF his manilepice and his excbequer.
1t appeared from the complalnant:s
statement that he had placed this
amount of his savings in hi, porcelain .
repository for security-an object
which, relying on the honesty of bis IN
mates, be thought amply obtained by
putting on the lid. Yesterday, howe
yer, having occasion to make some pur-
chases shesrepaired ito bis treasury, and
raised the covering,
"When lu The money was not there
"Because-it was away"
MIR. Delany's surprise may be concei-
we'd. but not expressed. The wife OK
his bosom and the defendant, were the
only persons who had access to the
room; Mrs Delany's probity was un-
questioned: besides she was sober, anG
Mrs. Subbs was drunk. Now Mr. De-
lany argued very logically that the IN
toxication cannot be produced without
liauor, that these hard times liquor can
not be procured without money, and
that as Mrs. S. had no money, when he
asked her for bis tent on Saturday, she
must, in order to have got tipsey on
Sunday, have acquired some since.
Merr, how? BY stealing his half So
verelng. Could any thingbe more con-
elusive?
Moral conviction, however, unfortu-
nately is MT legal proof. Sr. Delauy's
differences, though plausible, were not
sufficiently satisfactory to induce his
Worship to commit: and Mrs. Stubbss
who seemed fully aware of the value of
Falstati's opinion, Noting confutes
me but eyes. and nobody saw mes" a.
verrng that the money which thus en-
abled her to allow full action to her orr
gan OF Getdrunkativeness, proceed
from another quarter, the charge was
dismissed. A,r. Delany sorrowtully re-
marking that be ''was diddled any way"
We preoeive that an alarming sddi--
ton is making constantly TO our felons,
produced bv the new Stealing from
Gardens Act. a number OF cases OF
boys were lately brought to trial at the
Stafford Session for breaking orchards,
after undergoing long imprisonment
One case, however. was that OF a man
OF 70, and we thought that there was a
material difference between the COM
mission of the act by a boy or youth,
and by an old man of 70, in whom IT IS
,ndi' alive Of a confirmed predatory dis
position II appears, however, that in
this instance we Judge too several.
The .Nanchesisr Gazette says
This old man seemed to have the
intellect Of child, and the very sight
punishment fourteen days imprisoa-
ment,l TO which he was senteDceds
showed that, even in this case, the
Bench did not regard the act as evil.
dence of confirmed thievishness. The
old man was very deaf. 1t was shouted
in his ears, You are charged with steal
ing apples,'' oh yes,' said he, laugh
ing, 'the gardener caught meP The
Chairman Of the Sessions directed that
he should be told that, that was now a
felony. You have committed felony
shouted junior Counsel. oh no said
the old m an, seriously. never did in all
my life. Oh no, never did, you
have committed felony in taking the
appels' Take the appels" said be smi-
ling again, oh yes, itook the appeIs--
had them in bag, and the gardener
caught mel"
What satire we have here on our
Penal Law -mapufacture. Well might
this poor creature stare at being ter
med felon. 10 violate common sense
and the feelings of tre copitry IS one
way Of causing the Laws to be respec-
led!- London Chycnrcie.