Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1830-05-25
St. Louis, November 90, 1899.

st. Louis, November 90, 1929.
Charleston May lS.-It is with no ordinary
feeling of indignation, that we learn, and record
the fact, that most gross and unwarrantable
outrage has recently been committed upon the
personal rights and liberty of one of the citizens
of this city. The circumstances which follow
are stated upon respectable and unquest,onable
authority They relate to matter which in
wolves the personal rights of every citizen, and
as such independently of sympathy for the indi-
vidual upon whom this outrage has been COM
mitted, cannot fail to excite the deepest interest
in the public mind. 1t is the case of Stephen
son repeated-but repeated with aggravation,
and upon one of our own ctizens-a respectable
and deserving man. The facts alluded to are
That on Sunday night last, about | O'Clock, Mr..
John Lazarus, on his return from the Eagle Ho-
tel East Bay, to his place of residence, was ar
rested and taken forcibly on board the schooner
Ohio, which vessel soon after hauled from the wharf
at which she had laid, and anchored in the stream,
where she remained. in consequence OF head
winds. for upwards Of thirty hours. From the
information gwen US, it appears that MIR. Laza-
rus was taken on account of some civil suit, to
be prosecuted in the city of New York. He was
also under bail here; and we understand that up
on trial of this very case, His Honor, Judge
Richardson had decided that he could not be car
ried beyond the Jurisdiction of our State Courts.
Measures are in progress, and will be active
" prosecuted to obtain redress for this fragrant
invasion of the rights of our citizens; and full
statement Of the case will, as soon as practicable,
be given to the public.
-se8Eess-
1t is understood that Nj. NJ. Moan has been
re- nominated to the Senate for the office of Sur
vevor of the Port of New York. which he has
held by the appointment of the President for the
year past; which nomination the Senate refused
a few days ago, 10y a5 votes to 80 to confirm.
Nat. Int
At meeting of Shipmasters and nautical men
held at the Tontne Coffee House, in New York,
on the evening of the eighteenth inst. commit
tee of twelve persons was appointed to draft
memorial to the General and State Governments,
on the subject of the application OF the United
States and State Hospital funds. This is mat
ter which the friends of mariners have right to
look into, nearly az it concerns their interests
1t is a worthy employment, too, OF Shipmasters,
to look into the management of trust which
they are generally above the necessity of sharing
the benefits of. personally, and in which they
act from laudabe regard to the interest of those
Of subordinas rank in lifa, who, from want of
are not so well qualified to look af
ter their own rights. ID.
go
From communicated article published in the
Enquirer, severely censuring the pro-
secutor and the Court, we learn that, at the Ma
val Court Martial lately held in this city, Capt.
HOFFMAN, of the Navy, was tried upon a charge
of INSTRUMENTATION, and sentenced to be dismissed
the service; and that the President of the United
States, within two or three days after the sem
tence, reversed the decision of the Court, and
restored Captain Hoffman, to his rank in the Ma
Wy. In the article to which we rser, the arrest
of Capt. II. is pronounced to have been malig
nant, his trial unfair, and the decision of the
Court AN unparalleled iniquity." ID.
-eSe-
From the Mobile CONNER cial Register of May
8, we learn that on the preceding day came on
the trial of the Indian Chief Iuskina, arraigned
before the District Court of the United States, on
= charge of stopping and OBTAINING the United
States mail. From the statement of the case, we
gather that it was rather frivolous affair; that
the Indian was deeply in liquor, hardly knowing
what he did, when he stopped the stage, and
that the driver might readily have passed on had
ne possessed all ordinary share Of animal courage
Since however the mail was actually stopped,
of some sort was proper. Tuskina
was convicted of knowingly and wilfully" OBJ .
'tructing the passage of the Mail, and was three. /
Ipon sentenced by the Court topay fine ofone
hundred dollars. And so ends the chapter. ID. |