New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1852-07-17
CITY Intelligeuce,

CHARITY HOSPITAL The following is the week
report OF the Charity Hospital ending the 10th inst
Admit1ed 80 Discharged 2S6 Died 2of which seven
were from Cholera, two of stroke Remaining 1856
PLEASURE ExCuRsIoN.--The steamer Ophelia,
captain Warren Grice makes pleasure trip tomorrow
over the Lake to Masonve stopping at Lewsburg and
Mandeviile fine opportunity is thus offered to escape
from the sultrness of the city At Madsonvlle all sorts
of creative comforts by genuine poteness OF
mine host" Mckay are offered at the Madsonve hotel
EXECUTIVE OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES PARDON
The sentence of Auguste Vincent Roger, who was few
weeks since convicted of manslaughter in killing Theo-
core Cnampagne and sentenced to twenty years hard
DOT IN the Penitenty has been suspended by Governor
Waker and full pardon granted him. subject to the ap-
prevail OF the Senate at the next sitting the Legislature
The circumstances of this homicide were of the most
aggravated description Campaigne was man of feeble
constitution and in an alteration with Roger about
pecunary matter in which it was alleged that Roger did
not deal fairly with Champagne, the former received
slap on the face Instead of resortng the mode
Of obtaining satisfaction in vogue among his counryen
for Roger is Frenchman) he deliberately walked across
spacious room, seized sword, returned and his
sagonlst through the body Champagne entirely
enceess and physically incapable of contending with his
antagonist without the aid of Under these crcu-
stances chvarous Frenchman would have resorted
the dueo The crossing Of swords and wound however
slight would have satisfied his associate and have wiped
out the stain on his injured honor The turbulent spirit
of Roger required blooder sacrifice.
Well knowing the blackness of the crime which he had
committed and the legal vengeance that must inevitably
follow counseled by his fears he content to be
Tended by such advocates the city then furnished but
his purse must bleed to the tune of $4,000 and Mr.
Souc Senator at Washington be sent for in the
midst of the session. in order to bring the all the
influence OF his fascinating oratory this desperate
strait Mr. soue CAME and brought to bear in his de-
fence all the subety of willy advocate all the depth of
profound ogcian all the fascinating graces of Tana
in his high and pamy days But neither the subety of
MT sonl,: nor his fiery defamation the flashing of his
peculiar eye the shaking of his ambrosia lncks
could avail the confessed homicide jury of his own
choosing. deliberated the case of Roger and mo-
nounoed him guilty of aggravated nanslaughter In ac-
cordance with this verdict the court sentenced the con-
demned felon to twenty years Imprisonment
lie might have felt assured from previous lnowese of
Executive cemency that his conviction and condrmna
ton We're all farce Others had been in like desnor.te
extremity and had evaded the LAWS manacles fnrmi
oaoe list whose hands red with the blood of their
tbn msa %no naa committed every crime known to
the penal code from petty theft deliberate man-say
mig VINO mad sounded every note in the camut of crim
hay-had peen convicted sentenced and turned loose
10 noek at justice and prey upon society.
~ L."ser was Iicn merchant, and stood well upon
Change BUT he had need of golden KEY to unlock
MS prison bolts Others before him of low degree-a can
W OF an organized band of cut-purses house breaker
was arrested here as he got out of the Pen
elAry plck-pockets and plnnderers and yagabonds in
Vulnerable had, various pretexts no pretext at
been suffered to go UNPUBLISHED and unrepentant of
tner several offences. With such examples, q hope
6eamed on his shadowy future that akin certainty
mat he made extraordinary exertion to obtain the
Executive that he brought bear any Influences
not compassable by his brother felons of limited
means, would hesitate to say. Suffice it, that in
ant hour our easygong Governor consented his re-
lease and now offers him full pardon with the consent
Of the Senate.
That Senators will endorse the action Of the Cover
nor herein, we do not think The most submed creuli
would stop point short of belief in any such trin
with our criminal Jurisprudence Wemght be persuaded
that Nero was humane that Tarqun was humble or that
Apclns would not have delighted in a Ponipano-but
hat our State Senators will far forget their duties to