Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1830-06-03

.Lurors. Our readers were sometime since III
formed that a man named Holmes, a citizen as
we believe of Philadelphia, had been killed IN
New-Orleans by one Of the city guard. The guard
has been tried; aud the following from the New
Orleans Argus, will show how much the jury re-
garded the oath they took.
Criminal Court-Yesterday came on Tor trial,
in this Court, the case of the STATE Us fhn'PPe'
one of the city guard, for the killing OF the sailor
Holmes, which created so much excitement SIX
or eight weeks ago. The evidence went very
clearly TO convict Philippe; the principle iacts
are. that Philippe with other guards. mel Holmes
on the levee,i in a state of intoxication; Holmes fell
against Philippe, when the latter pushed him on,
Holmes stumbled against him a second time and
second time Philippe pushed him Oft. Holmes then
put HIMSELF IN a boxingattitude-upon which PHI
ippe drew his sword, and with 3 wounds killed
him. Judge Grima summed up the evidence,
and charged the Jury, if they believed 1t, they
must find the prisoner guilty Of manslauthter.-
The Jury retired, and after some time, MIR. sea
man Field, the foreman, came into court, ana ell
quired of the Judge, whether, IN case the jtiy
should bring the verdict of guilty, the prlsof'er
would be condemned to work at hard labor. Ire
Judge read the law, which answered in the aiiir-
native but informed the juryman, that this was
no part of his duty; the jury must hnd a true
verdict agreeable to the evidence, and the court
would decide the punishment. In about hive
minutes the Jury returned a verdict of not guilty.
This decision astonished the whole court room.
and a general burst of Indignation was expressed.
The Judge, in liberating the prisoner told him
that the Jury had acquitted him, but that he was
strongly impressed with the belief ofhis guilt, and
that the jury had been guilty of a most culpable
indulgence.
SmusgAng.-The Liverpool Times of April
Is contains the following statement. The pro-
minent fact is one that should, with other consi-
derations, induce our Government to look out
for a portion Of the hundred and fifty tons of
Yorkshire cloths.
Some facts have recently come to our know
ledge, from which we infer that the exol bitant
! duties imposed by the government Of the United
States, on British manufactures, are producing
the same effects in America, that the exclusion
of French silks produced in this country. A
we'll organized and most extensive system OF
smuggling has been introduced on the Canadian
frontier, which will doubtless exist so long as the
present tariff remains part of the law of the land.
Ape-son has recently been in this country. offering
to introduce English goods into the United States,
across the Canadian frontier, for a premium Of five
per cent. and we have been informed that, the
week before last, not less than $50 tons of York
shire cloths were despatched to Canada, from the
port of London, in one ship, to be introduced IN
this manner. This is one of the methods by which
the tariff has been rendered useless to the Ame-
rican manufacturers Even if Congress had not
imposed those absurd and ruinous duties on wool,
iron, flax, and other raw materials used III the
American manufactures which at present exist,
this circumstance would have been sufficient to
defeat their attempts to force manufactures
With such frontier as the U. States possess,
smuggling never can be put down. A hundred
thousand men could not guard the thousands of
British America. Even in this country, snug
Cling exists to an immense extent, IN spite of the
coast guard, and in spite of the host of CUSTOM
houss officers and excisemen, who are continual
lv on the alert. On the coasts of Kent, Sussex,
Hants. and Dorcetshire, almost every laborer is a
smuggler, and hundreds OF men may be made to
turn out, at any time, for a battle with the reve.
nue. officers. The Americans have as great dis.
like to exorbitant duties as other people, and will,
in a few years, become as inveterate smugglcrs
as any that exist in Europe. 1t requires some
time to organize a perfect system Of smuggling,
but, when once the habit is established. it can on
ly be eradicated by a complete change in the law.
-ea5s69nS
SCHULTZ RANGE, Va. May God, 1880.
To the Editors of the National MteHiga1cer.
GENTLEMEN: 1t is with deep distress l inform
YOU that my revered father, c. ScHuLTz, departed
this life on the 9th day of this month, steady in
the religious views he had long cherished, and
after a severe illness of twenty-nine days. In re-
gard tc that attentive friendship which you have
always seemed to bestow upon my deceased pa
rent, | perform this duty towards you.
am, gentlemen, respectfully yours,
MARIA NJ. SCHULTZ.
We had no personal knowledge of the citi-
zen whose death is announced in such fliai terms
in the above letter. What is spoken of as our
50 attentive friendship was, therefore, nothing
more than that civility with which we endeayor
to treat the world in general, when we come in
contact with it. Mr.. SCHULTZ was undoubtedly
a learned and able man. Although we could
not concur with him in his religious notions, and