The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1849-05-06

Court OF Oyer and Termlner.
Before Judge EdmOnds, Aid Adams and Downing.
ALEXANDER JONES, FOUND
MAY 5-Alexander Jones. the negro fou nd guilty Of
arson in the degree Thursday last brought
up this morning for sentence He put the bar,
and ask ed the utual question had he ANYTHING TO saw
why sentence of death should be passed upon him
The convict muttered something but 80 indistnctly
we could not catch his words. His honor the Judge
then proceeded to make remarks previous to pass
ing the He said the crime Of which the
Wet had been found guilty was that of setting fire to
dwelling house in the niggt time to which the law at
ached the penalty of death and the duty of the
pronounce the sentence Of the law upon him.
Eight of The jury had recommended him to mercy but
1t proper to admonish him that the court could not
unite in that recommendation The jurors who had
joined in the recommendation were doubtless influenced
by the evidence Of his previous good character
but facts have since to the knowledge of the
court which If known the trial the jurors would
not have Joined in the recommendation 1t seems there
three fires in the vicinity the night you at
tempted set fire to Webb's House, and that week
before another attempt made to fire the pre-
misses and there isgood to believe that you
implicated in those incendiary acts. The crime Of
which you ha been is one of the most afro
cious crimes known to laws ii is much more afro
cious than the crime Of murder in the the life
of only one person is aimed at moreover, the crime
Of murder is mostly committed in the heat Of passion
and generally preceded by motives Of revenge but
the crime of which you have been found guilty is cooly
and deliberately planned, and the lives Of numbers of
innocent and unoendng people placed in the most i'm
minent danger under these circumstances the court
cannot unite in the recommendation of the jury
can it hold out the slightest hope to you for mtga
ton of punishment The sentence Of the court, there
FORE is that Friday the 22d day of June next you
be hanged by the neck until you are dead
The warrant for his execution was then read, and
given to the Sheriff. and the convict removed by
two three officers. The court then adjourned The
Circuit Court opened and Judge Edmonds pro-
ceeded with theejury calendar.
VIcroRY OF THE BLACKS OVER THE SpANIARps
AT HAYTI.-By the arrival of the brig Silenus we
have dates from the island OF Hayu to the 10Th OF
April. Accents had been received at the Cape Of
battle Mt AZu between the Haytiens and the Domini
cans in which the latter utterly routed with great
loss The battle is represented to have been holly
contested and the Haytiens did not altogether
cape, losing it is said, from to two hundred. OF
the Dominicans three four hundred killed,
mostly in the battle number Of women and children
in Aqua (Which town fell into the possession of the
conquerers) also slain The accounts however, do
not represent that there was any general plumber of
the town indscrimnate slaughter of its inhabitants
might have been feared from the undiscipned state
of the conquerng ARMY large quantity of provisions,
five thousand stand Of arms and many prisoners. fell
into the hands of the Haytens, From Azua, Sooque
continued his march for the city of st Domingo which
tiago and the whole Of the Spanish part of the island
passenger from the Cape gives curious account of
that portion of the Hayden army which started from
that quarter He says that they barefoot with
out sleeves tails to their coats not cent in their
pockets, mouthful to eat OF course, on their
march they obliged to live by forced contribu-
tions upon their countrymen until they reached
the frontier 1t is actually stated that the Command
ing General before starting sent on board one Of the
vessels in port to beg few biscuits to put in his KNAPP
sack. The monopoly law, it is now thought very
cunningly devised scheme OF Soloque TO prevent the
merchants from meddling in politics, by setting them
by the ears among themselves as to the division of
coffee, sc. SOoque is shrewd manager, and is per-
haps better head of the Haytien government than
Of his more ignorant and brutal generals, to
whom the authority would probably devolve in Of
his death displacement Boston Traveller, May L.
| ANOTHER TRIAL FOR MURDER IN New ORLEANS
Jose Fuentes was yesterday tried before the First
District Court, Judge Mel Henry presiding for the
| murder of free man Of color, named Manuel
Ducre, by stabblng him IN the abdomen, on the
night of the 18th November last in the fish marke ct
Of the First Municipality, of which wound he died
| In two days after, In the Charity Hospital. The
proceedings in the case, in detail, are not of sufi
cient interest to demand publication. The testi-
mony was clear and direct, and Its general purpor
may be gathered from the charge Of the Judge to
| the jury, as follows
II the evidence satisfies you that the deceased was
free man Of color and in the market house. with fish
for SALE and that the prisoner white person. applied
to him to purchase, and offered a certain price took
same or without the consent of the deceased and
that the deceased took the fish back Offering no vio-
lence and that thereupon, the prisoner drew knife
from sheath, with blade about six eight inches
in length and stabbed the deceased, of which wound
he died in few days-it is murder That it is lawful
In all cases where the punishment denounced by law is
DEATH for you to qualify your verdict, by adding
thereto-without capital punishment and that it would
be the duty Of the court to sentence him to hard labor
| for life in the State Penitcntiary.
| For the defence the only evidence was, that the
| deceased used highly offensive and contumelious
language to the prisoner. This was proved by the
State witnesses. The fact, however, had no weight
upon the Jury, who brought in an unqualified YER
dict OF guilty. For the State, Attorney General
Elmore and District Attorney Reynolds; for the
defence, Messrs. Frost and Upton-N. o. Delta,
Apr,l26.
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