Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1841-09-21
From the American Sentinel

IEOlH tHe American
We have read the proceedings in the
case of Desbrow and Henry, who were re-
Gently arrested in Rock county, Wiscon-
sin Territory, charged with passing conn-
icrleit money, and are astonished that VIM.
n. Seymour, the Supreme Court Commits
sioner, should have discharged them
The editor of the Milwaukee Sentinel says:
From the examination which took place
before Justice Storrs there can be no doubt
Of their guilt, and one of them at least is
an old offender The discharge was
grounded on some alleged informally in
the mitmus, or in the manner Of executing
It. This system Of hearing upon a writ OF
habeas corpus before a Supreme Court
Commissioner, upon mere form, without
reference TO the merits Of the case, is high
~ dangerous to the peace and quiet Of the
country. If the commissioner in the abb
sence Of the judges has not the power, he
should be vested with power to make out
a new commitment, and keep prisoners for
trial. He ought at least to have remanded
the prisoners, Zone Of them said to have
been an old offender till the next Court.
1t was high exercise of power for the
commissioner TO discharge Desbrow and
Henry, upon a defective commitment, i'm
mediate}y after they had been committed by
Justice Storrs, rho, ii appears from the pa
pers had carefully heard the whole testinso-
ny and ac0S satisfied ofMeir guilt. The
Milwaukee Sentinel justly remarks:-'To
frequent repetition Of just such opera
tons as this, may be attributed the melan-
choly and traglcaI scene recently enacted
little farther down the river. The peo-
pie Of that section are intelligent, upright
and moral, and have as high an opinion Of
law and order, as any in the United States
but they aoU not allcays for6ear. When
they see horse thieves, counterfei.ers and
pundercrs of every description, continual
ly escaping from justice through some le-
gal technicuAty, they have good reason to
doubt the efficiency of our laws, and when
they at once come to this conclusion, they
will assuredly resort TO other means 10 pro-
tcct themselves, their families and their
property. That there is something radi-
calIy wrong in relation to criminal often
ccs, in this Territory, there can be no
doubt.
The Last Leap. The Buffalonians are
getting upa Sam Patch atiairupon grand
scale. The barque Detroit, captured by
Commodore PERRY, at the famous battle
upon Lake Erie, having been condemned,
is now fitting up for final plunge over
the falls on the 18th Of September. She
is to be properly decorated, furnished with
a crew Of wild animals consisting Of all
sorts Of varmints," and made every way
an acceptable sacrifice to the "god Of the
winds and waves" The Buffalo CONNER
cal says:
The present affair promises 10 be an
interesting one to those who have a curl
osity for such spectacles. The once
staunch and noble vessel which bore
the RED flag of the brave Barclay,
through the pcrilous fight, now, after
lapse of more than quarter of century,
is destined to sink amid the thunders Of
Niagara-a fitting end for the proud war
ship, whose worn and battered hull should
not be left TO rot ingloriously amidst the
lumber Of dock-yard. The sublime SEN
tments Of the powerful stanza of Holmes,
written with reference to the glorious old
ship Constitution, may be almost LITERAL
~ illustrated in the rushing exit of the
doomed vessel"
Nail to the mast her holy Gag,
Set every threadbare sail,
And give her to the God of storms
The lightning and the gale