Washington telegraph., 1850-05-29
EUGENE ARAm AND THE CRIME OF MUIR

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man who had until that time been the
envy of many os the scholars of his age.
| The person had mastered all that was
then known of the natural sciences, and
he was a n antiquarian aud philologist had
become so famous that his opinion was
considered final Oh any point under dis
cussion. He was not wealthy, for schol-
arship was not more productive than it is
now; and yet he was not in want His
freside was adorned with wife who had
been the companion of his youth, and a
large and promising family swhlch
would probably have reaped the benefit
of his self-denyng existence, but for the
events of his life The name of this man
was Eugene Aram. 1t will be remem-
bered that we speak now of the historical
being, not of the hero of romance. We
have little doubt that the simple facts of
the tale disclosed by the strange career of
this man would be found far more poetical
and make deeper impression on the
mind, thar does the touching love-story
which the ideaity of Bulwer has woven
into the tangled web of life of perhaps
/ his most brilliant creation. The quiet, re-
tired scholar, lost to the vanities of the
| world, had, however his own ambition,
| the intensity of which alone was a crime
| He was anxious to be handed down to
! posterity one who had advanced the
knowledge of his kind. and at great
| sacrifice of ali that vulgar minds hold dear.
had advanced far towards the completion
of a pathological work, a portion of which
is said to exist, monument of rarely
united qualities of brilliant and patient
industry of the scholar. A season of
trouble came over his household he could
find no relief beyond it for the country
was state of similar difficulty. At this |
time man in possession of much money |
disappeared after having heen in |
company with Aram. Suspicion was |
aroused and the scholar was examined; |
but their being a universal prejudice in |
his favor. he was discharged without diff |
ficulty. Years rolled on; another king |
reigned. and additional progress was made !
Iou1ards- ~, l,e,. .,------ sssO 5r~"r re'oh'
until its end was in sight. At this time
Aram was again arrested on the old |
charge, arraigned, tried, convicted and !
executed. His defence of himself on that |
trial, (or the barbarity of the Euglish law
denied him council,) will remain subjec;
of admiration as one of the greatest efforts
of man strong in intellect struggling
against fearful odds, for the preservation
of his existence. Ii drew tears from the
audience, and attracted the commenda-
ton of the judges, at the same time they
instructed the jury to disregard it.
One hundred years have rolled by, and |
the world has, within very short time, !
learned to think that Eugene Aram was
guiItless of murder. Attention has been |
called to circumstances which have con-
victed two of the most powerful minds Of |
the day, (Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton, and
we, think, the learned Sergeant Fon-
lanque, ,)that judicial murder mas COM
mitted on the day I'm August 1749) when
Eugene Aram was executed at York
There is little doubt that Aram and an
accomplice robbed the missing man, and
it is now almost certain that the murder
was subsequently committed by House
man, (as Bulwer calls him in his novel,)
the accomplice in the murder believed to
have been committed by Aram; and that
although bad man, with high acquire
ments engrafted on evil propensities,
| Aram was not blood stained.
TAKING THE CENSUS will
| you please inform me of the number of
inhabitants in this house!'
"Sir'
| 1.-The population in this mansion.
"Well, there is eight in the room over
head
"Are they all adults!'
| "No: they are all Smiths, except two
boarders."
| "Smths; black or white smiths ma
| dam?"
''I'd have you 10 know 1 don't live in
house with niggers."
| Il didn't allude TO color-I meant their
calling
20, that's it. Is It, Well if you had
been here last night you would have
found out for they were calling the watch
as loud as they could scream"
| MADAM, merely wish to know how
many people you have in this house, and
what thay do for living"
eyes, yes, now | understand. Well
let me see, there are the two Mulineses
they are one"
| "That makes two, madam"
| "Wel, if you know best, count EN-
yourself"
sIt is my business to Inquire, madam
| wv ell, you udu peltei aet0hu w ~ 'f'N"'
| and don't bother me"
| "Madam, I am out with the census,
and
"Well, you act out of senses. l should
think to come into my house asking such
foolish questions"
cit is in accordance with an act OF
Congress, madam.
well, you tell MIR. Congress, or what
ever his name is, that lie acts very foolish,
sending you round, axing such shalier
| and sillv nupstiOns -