The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1853-06-29
LOCAL MATT K S.


guilty, with recommen dation to mercy. The
judge, in pronouncing sentence, said
"You have been indicted and convicted for steal.
ing three pairs of gaiter boots. 1t ia very dis
tressing thing for the court to boy of your age
in this situation, and others standing about-your
companions, who may see in your their own fate
if they do not change their course You do not
seem to show any contrition and shame for the
condition in which you find yourself The proba-
bility Ia, If you do not restrain yourself now, you
will end your career on the gallows. The proba-
bilities all that way. beg you and those boys
to take notice of what say. What can you ex-
pect will become of you either in this world the
| next chap hardly out of petticoats, who ought
to be in the nursery instead of running about In
| this way. This is not the first time similar
charge has been made against you. | feel it my
duty TO pass rather sentence, as well for
your good as for the example of those chaps around
| you. have observed them during the trial, stand
| ing about with eager The sentence OF the
court s, that you be imprisoned in the county jail
| Tor nine months and pay fine of one dollar"
| The young offender then remanded.
Painful, indeed was the spectacle presented
bright, intelligent-ooking boy arraigned at the
bar of the criminal court, found guilty, and then
sentenced to the prison house; his father being a
| voluntary and distressed witness Of the proceed
| ings. May the example have an enduring and
beneficial effect upon juveniles who have already
| commenced similar career of crime, and prove
| reformatory to the youthful convict himself
MARRIAGE JAIL.-Joshua Anderson, who was
several days ago arrested at Badensburg, brought
| to this city, and committed to prison on the charge
of killing slave recently near Williamsport, Ma
ryland, and who is now awaiting the requisition
of the Governor of that State, yesterday mar
ried in Jail by the Rev. John Scrivener a local
elder of the Methodist Church. The bride was de-
sirous of having bridesmaid, and the groom
groomsman; but being assured that such ar.
rangements were not actually required in such
delicate matters, the knot tied in the presence
of two of the Jail police.
Mr.. D. H. TEsBs, of this city, was severely in
jured several days ago. While riding over the
Badensburg turnpike his horse becoming un.
manageable, he jumped from the buggy with
view to escape personal DANGER but after his feet
struck the earth he fell backward, and thus sus-
tanned conclusion of the brain DR.. w. H Ber-
ry is his attending physician. There symp-
toms yesterday which seemed slightly favorable
to the condition of the patient,
CHANGES IN THE DEPARTMENTs.-We have been
informed that DR.. Gilchrist, of New Hampshire,
is shortly to take the place of DR.. Harris as chief
of the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, and that
Messrs. William King and William Platter, the
clerks in that bureau, have been notified by the
Secretary of the Navy that their services will not
be required after the 30th instant. There are, we
learn, to be other changes in the navy bureaus
and in the Department proper. large number
OF clerks in other Departments have been similar
ly notified, while there will be curtailment of
clerical force in several of the Offices.
AcoIDENT.-Yesterday morning Mr.. Edward
Hansell, messenger in the State Department,
was thrown from his wagon, in front o. the CITY
post office; his horse having run away He was
considerably bruised in the forehead and the
vehicle shattered to pieces.
"A CHEAP AND PLEASANT EXCURSION to Piney
Point, Old Point, Norfolk, and Cape Henry, can
be enjoyed in the splendid and swift steamer Bal
timore, leaving Washington on the evening of the
second Of July and returning on the fifth.
Graf WITH THE CoNDUCToR.-'It's not often
man loses any thing by kindness. know little
matter of that sort saved my life, and perhaps the
lives OF many others at the same time"
"How was that?'' asked we of our friend Raw
lings, the model conductor.
"Why, we had an Irishman on this road watch.
ing tunnel Ii was warm weather, so he used
to go into the tunnel to keep COOL rather think
ne used TO take little liquor when he was lone
some; any way, be laid down on the track one
day to listen for the He fell asleep and yerv
imprudently got his head cut off by the express
train. Well, there the last of that Irishman.
There the DEVILS own row in his shaptv when
we took the poor fellow up, and we got away as
soon as We decently could, for you know it's not
agreeable to be surrounded with distracted fam
lily when you're neither q doctor nor a nurse nor
a preacher Somehow was always sorry when
passed that place; of course felt as i-not exactly
the same thing-but just as bad might happen to
me some day, and then there'd be another row in
family. | told my wife about it, and she sent
the family some little things. The widow of the
dead Irishman was a Catholic and as was then
on very fast train, would sometimes take up the
old woman on Sunday and carry her to church at
Martinsburg. | somehow thought it was a satisfac.
ton to her to go to church. for she had but little
chance in the world, any how. certainly did not
expect to get any thing for it in this world, and
expected they had so much scored against me in
the other, that il wouldn't amount 10 any thing
there.
"That was during the summer. One night the
next winter 1t was very cold, and the mountains
were covered with snow; We were running to make
time, when, on turning a curve, the engineer saw
a waving light on the track, and we soon heard
some one ahead shouting. | was then out on the
platform. The engineer Stacked up and stopped
the engine, and we got out and went ahead in the
dark to see what was the matter There il was
large landslide had fallen across the track, near
the shanty Of that old Irishwoman. She had built
up large fire and watched for the train, for the
curves were so sharp that we might have been
upon the slide before could see it. So when
We run up, there was the old lady, with her calico
cap, swinging the chunk of ire like revolving
light house, and there were the little Irish carry.
ing brush, like 80 many little beavers She had
watched all that night in the cold. But for her. in
another minute we should have run into pile of
dirt and stone as big as Barnum's Hotel | should
have got a spit ticket" certain, for / was on the
platform. What would have become of the pas
sengers and train you can guess as we'll as can.
We expressed hope that the old widow had
been properly rewarded
"The passengers made up about eighty dollars, the
company afterwards gave her shanty rent free.
the brakemen and engineers bought her a COW.
and she made out very well. But when handed
the money to her that night, she said: Gentlemen
and ladies, Pm thankful, and may ye nver know
the want of what ye give me- But what did
was mostly on account of him, there He was kind