The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1851-03-24
From the Boston Post. March IL.
The Boston Outrage..Last Case.

The examination of Joseph X. Hayes, superin.
tendent of the fremont Temple, was concluded
Yesterday. After hearing the arguments of the
counsel on both sides, the Hon. B. F. Hallett, u
5. Commissioner, held the defendant for trial, and
after announcing his decision, made the following
address to Mr.. Llnt, U. 5. District Attorney:
Mr.. Attorney These labOrlous Investigations
which have occupied some twenty days n this
court room, are now brought TO close and here
my duties terminate. still more ardIous service
viii be required of you IN the conduct of the cases
ihatwiil pass to a higher tribunal, and which,
doubt not, Will be rendered with the firmness and
ability with which the duties of the prosecution
have been discharged 10 these preliminary exami.
nations Seven OF the parties arraigned have been
held for trial, one has been discharged upon hear
ing, and TWO upon your motion for cause Under
the circumstances connected with these arrests
the Importance OF securing the pa rites implicated
before they should move beyond the reach of pro.
cess, and The difficulty of finding the witnesses
and asceraning fully the nature of the testimony,
until brought to the test of examination under oath
think it due to the conduct of the prosecution to
bear my testimony to the sound discretion and act
i've efficiency with which the several cases have
been prepared, and the truth elected. The parties
have all been defended with ability and Zealand
If the examinations have been prolracted, it has
arisen from desire 10 give full aud fair hearing
TO the defence, that all matters pertinent 10 the
issue might be broueh out, and the decision in each
case carefully and deliberately formed.
crime so daring and so unknown before, as the
y
torcble entry into court room, by mob of roters
some OF them armed with dangerous weapons, at
| midday, and in the midst of this populous city ;
indicating combination and conspiracy of no in
considerable extent to resist the laws by violence
demanded the most prompt and energetic action in
vndlcatlon OF the public peace and the supremacy
| OF the laws. And though but few of the large
number shown by these Investigations to have been
actively engaged in, secretly melting to this out
| rage have, thus far, been detected, and the most
guilty, at least morally, may escape leaving their
instruments to suffer the penalty of the overt acts
they have melted; yet we may hope that what has
been and will be done, will give ample assurance
to the public, and warning to all offenders in like
cases, that such lawless acts cannot go unpunshed
| These cases have much higher bearing than mere
individual acts of awlessness, because they are the
manifest result Of combination to resist the laws,
and to prevent their enforcement in all like cases.
| Ia this view it concerns both the State and the
Unon, because successful forcible resistance to any
law in its operation, and its prostration by combl-
nations and violence, tend directly the overthrow
OF all law, and the insecurity OF all the rights and
immunites which every citizen holds, and can ouy
hold, under the general protection of the constitn-
| tion and laws of the land. n \
All the matters presented to the Commissio
having been disposed of, it only remains for me to
adjourn this court without day, and i, is adjourned
accordingly. :
Having given bail in $4,000 for his appearance
for trial, Mr.. Hayes withdrew.
| The patience, fairness and firmness displayed by
Mr.. Hallett the Commissioner, in conducting these
examinations, have been very generally admitted
and commended The prompt and decisive man.
ner In which he gave the parties in the first to
understand that they were in court of law, and
not in an abolition convention, was followed by
very favorable effects, made manifest in the mod
in which the subsequent defences were conducted
| ->>s
DECLINE OF THE CARNIvAL.-The delightful
old carnival festivities of Europe fast going on
of fashion they are in Mobile and New Orleans
where the talk of cotton and railroads destroys al
of the past, and leaves people rest, except in III
future. The clever correspondent of the Philade
pha Bulletin thus deplores the desueiude in Pari
3 of the good olden time:
Alas the beyday of this grand church festivs
Is gone forever from Paris its masks are torn, an
It's dominos, wells, peasant hats and other disguise
are hanging, mohearen, ia the garret of the habel
oasner or nave found their way 10 the old clOthe
| shops, kept by the descendants of Abraham unde
l. the shadow OF the towers of Noire Dame. We n
q longer meet in the streets open carriages. full
f musical jewellers IN motley who throw candy XII
ses at the bye passers, sing songs which are not til
3 psalms OF David, and make the Iabble laugh
h their rude but pungent wit. One is no longer i
: danger of becoming the unconscious butt of pra
n tlcal Joke, imagined by some volunteer harlequin
n exercising his temporary profession on the publ
: promenades; of finding a mouse in his pocket, {
the skirt of his coat pinned up to the collar, or dra
&c ging after it the half of newspaper, or his HI
~ :, covered with flour. These carnival pleasures,
highly relished by our amiabs foreiaihers, are d
:, - MED TO us, their sober ofisprng. The day
~ of chivary have passed away, and those OF though
= less lroIic and noisy merrim-nt Will soon join the
~ in The silence of forge,iuln-ss, Carnival is no long
n carnival at Paris, Vienna, or Dublin; even
" Rome, it is dying off in spite of all the encourag
men,s and largesses of the government. The mo
ern world is reflective, analytical and terribly Civ,
# to criticism fun and folly fly before it and lea
J the arena free TO politics and commerce.