Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1837-06-07

bidders for the term of seven years; and
every person or persons so offending a
second time, upon conviction of such
second offence. shall suffer DEATH
The kidnapper in the present case was
Lohu Whalen, an old offender, and The
case was that of his own apprentice boy, T
whom Whaley had sent to the house of
Michael Milman, in Dorchester county,
MARYLAND, formerly notorious as the scene
ofthe atrocious murders committed by the
celebrated kidnapper and murderer, Joe
Johnson, and the She-demon, Patty Can
non. The boy was in this horrible den
in chains, ready to be shipped off with a
number of other kidnapped blacks, where
two Sussex gentlemen, who were in pur-
suit of their own servants found him and
. restored him to freedom. WhaIey was
tried last October in Sussex, at the Supe-
rior Court, but was acquitted, the offence
having been committed in Kent county
his guilt being clear, however, the Court
bound him over for trial in Kent. On the
trial at Dover, the case was proved by
great number Of Witnesses, to be ola most
outrageous and aggravated character, so
much so, that WhaIey's counsel did not
attempt 10 argue the facts to the jury by
whom he was found guilty on the whole
indictment, almost Immediately Con
sidering the atrocious character of the Of
fence of kidnapping, the crueIties and
even murders which it frequently involves,
and the difficulties Of conviction, we have
always regarded it as a crime which mer-
tied the utmost severity of the law. In
the present instance, there was not
single redeeming circumstance-the man
was an old offender, he had robbed under
trust, for the boy was his own apprentice
confined to his. care and keeping by the
law, and the court had a right to view it
as case which would warrant them in
. going to the utmost extent of the law
t They did not however 60 to the utmost
extent Of the law, as their sentence goes
: little beyond the miwimum fixed by the
; act of Assembly. The "four hours -
[ pilIory is an exaggcration, of course
The sentence was one hour in the pilorv.
; sixty lashcs, four years imprisonment,
+ Ohere is no solitary Imprisonment in this
+ state though the law in this case directs it)
+ a fine of Sl5OO-and the sale for seven
years, which is an affair altogether nomi-
nal. Such is the explanation of this
: rather severe" sentence inflicted, not
| by the Hon John NJ. Clayton" but by
the court, composed of Chief Justice Clay
| ton and associates Black and Layton, and
; prescribed by the letter Of the lac.
! THE article closes with narrative Of q
> banditi of kidnappers, who for years have
y carried on their business, associating with
it murder, the necessary accompaniment
! on the borders of Delaware and MARYLAND
r In future, talk less about kidnapping in AT
v rlca, and inhumanity and misanthropy in
s heathendom, and more about them in oul
y own Christian America.-ED. TEL
= The PLAGUE.-We mentioned the
II other day, among other items Of news
II from Europe, the alarm created in London
q by the speedy death Of two laborers, EN-
{ ployed about the London docks. and thu
sudden illness of some others-supposec
d or at least feared to indicate the presence
II OF the plague. The suspicion is one o
; fearful moment, not only to England bu
l. 10 US, and to all the world, and it behove
> US 10 inquire whether there is need 70
- unusual measures of precaution. Tn,
y subject has been noticed in Biackwood'
% Magazine for April, from which we quot
: the following remarks.-N. Y Spec.
10 While England sweIs with faction
a. France with faction, Germany with fac
II ton, SPAN with faction, there is an enc
= my IN the wind that may yet summon tn
u restless mind of Europe to Steiner lessons
! The plague is declared to be extending it
re terrible circle round the Mediterranean
VI In ConstantlnopIe, all seems horror
Vi there 1t has ragged with unabated fury 70
J" SIX months, and the city is depopulatine
hour by hour, from the double effects {
= Death and fear. Seventeen thousand {
the Greek inhabitants have fed-the Al
= menIan patriarch has lately delivered Fl
teen thousand passports in the course Of
lew days and the general population ha
e, been thus diminished by upwards of on
lst hundred thousand since last Senemhe,
X, From this centre of death, it has snrea
in Westward on both shores. 1t is said t
he have reached Salonica on the North. an
60 lunlS on the South. How long i, ma
-, De kept out of Europe in general, is
We question of extreme anxiety.
~ Our perpetual intercourse with III
81, 81 Mediterranean ports, our criminal disrt
- gard OF precauton, the still more crimina
We avIdHy of our commerce for gain in a
cI quarters, and at all risks, render E. nplan
It more liable than any other country 10 thi
Is Is, most dreadful of all scourses. Nothin