Thibodaux minerva. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 18??-1858, 1854-03-18
Affairs in the East.

4 forcementS OF troops to the South Eastern iron
tier. -
GREEcE.-The instruction in Greeceis grow
ing more and more formidable, and great excite
ment prevails among the population.
PARDON OF SMITH O'BRIEN.-Lord Palmer
ston has announced that the Queen has granted
q pardon to Smith O'Brien, the Irish exile.
NEW York, March 8.-The very latest intel
ligence brought by the Atlantic was forwarded
from London, on the morning of her departure.
Advices had just been received from the East,
stating that the Emperor of Russia had issued
another ukase directing a new military levee OF
nine men per 1000 of the population, the con-
scrption to continue until the 18th of April.
/ The Russian feet bombarded the town of
Batum, on the Black Sea, and Rustschuk, on
the Danube, the latter on the 10th February.
The Turks were taken by surprise, and had one
steamer wrecked, and six small verssels DAM
aged. fts{5 {Iti 80
/ FRANCE EXCITEMENT ON THE BouRsE.-The
Paris Bourse ON the goth was excessively crowd
ed, and much excitement prevailed. The funds
| gave way IF. 45 confines.
Conviction and Suicide Of DR.. Gardiner,
/ The Washington correspondent Of the Char
ton, sentence and suicide of DIR. Gardiner:
The conviction, sentence and suicide Of Dr..
George A. Gardiner, all occurring so suddenly
and unexpectedly to-day, produced in the city
deep sensation. This was the termination Of
the second trial of DR.. Gardiner on the indict-
ment of perjury. The trial continued sixty five
days, and was ably and perseveringly managed,
both On the part of the prosecution and the
| to be, at least unprejudiced, as regards the
defence, and gave to it the widest scope. 1t
was the general opinion, so far as any had been
| expressed, that the jury would again disagree,
| and that the Government, wearied out, would
! dismiss the prosecution.
| DIR. Gardiner retained the same impurturbili-
| ty and equanimity and gentle department, that
has SO much marked him during the history of
of this case, to the end. An incident oc-
CURED, however, during the trial, which
tended to prejudice his case, A deed or miss
ing title under which he claimed, and which
was alleged to be forged, disappeared in an un-
accountable manner, from among the papers
before the court, and was last seen in the hands
Of DR.. Gardiner, according to the! testimony
adduced in relation to its loss. DIR. Gardeners
appearance this morning at the opening Of the
court was tranquil as usual. ~. sa.r.I e ~. flt
| The jury had been out from o'clock yester-
day till 10 this morning. When they rendered
the verdict Of 'sguilty," his countenance and
manner were much changed, and he appeared
deeply agitated, notwithstanding the assur-
ances Of his counsel that a bill Of exception to
the testimony against him would be sustained
by the Circuit Court. After the sentence to
ten years. Imprisonment in the penitentiary, to
| take effect from the date of the adjournment Of
| the Circuit Court, had been pronounced, he was
taken into custody. In an hour or two after
wards he was found to be in eonvulsions or
l Anls. - - but
it was too late He soon expired, having, as
appeared from the symptoms, taken strychnine.
An inquest was held upon the body this eve
ming, the result Of which will be published to-
morrow. i,...,, -..7.ss "a. l.. BE-. f,,5l -, :
His brother, I. Carlos Gardiner, was under
indictment also for forgery, and his bail this
| evening surrendered him. Another indictment
for forgery was pending against Dr. George A.
Gardiner, and was to be tried at the next term
of the Criminal Court The Government had
enjoined a large portion of DR.. GARDENERS funds
all that they could find, to-wit: $4,000 In
the Troy Life and Trust Company, and about
| $1,000 in this city. The suits for the recovery
of these funds are still pending When DIR.
with him only 10000, and left for his Brother,
then in Mexico, $4,000 more. tits not known
certainly that he had other funds than those
which the Government has put under injunc-
ton. But it is generally supposed. that he re-
ceiyed and held, under a contract with Mears,
as his agent, one half of the amount Of Mears'
award, which was over one hundred thousand
dollars. e'-t 5-. -. 5ss. - .1''!
| y. GARDENERS own award amounted to $248, 0O0
But one-fourth of this had been assigned to Mr..
Corcoran. for Mr.. Corwin, who had bought q
fourth interest in the claim, while it was before
the Board of Commissioners, and Mr.. Corwin
had, upon his acceptance Of the post of Secreta-
ry of the Treasury, sold out his interest to Mr..
George Law. 1t is not known that Mr.. Gardi-
ner paid more than about ST., 600 to his counsel,
| and he had recovered ST., 900 for the fourth of
an interest in the claim that had been paid in
| his trip to Mexico in pursuit of testimony re-
quired by the Board. It is not known that he
paid more than ten or fifteen thousand dollars
on account of debts said to be due by him in
Mexico. There were, probably, about $780,
600 remaining in his possession, of which the
Government have laid their hands upon about
1920, 900. 4 .7ssseg ...z.a. i,aa-F 81 II ~. ~ ~
DR.. Gardiner came to this city from Tampico,
where he had been employed as an assistant
surgeon in the hospital of our army, during the
Mexican war, and after his alleged expulsion
from his silver mines. He had won the conf
dence Of the medical corps, and Of the command
| ing officers at that post, who gave him the
strongest letters Of recommendation to persons
here, public and private He was recommended
foran appointments Of assistantsurgeon. His de-
pertinent before the Board Of Commissioners was
such as to convince them Of his veracity and in
tegrity. His voluntary return from Europe to
| meet the charges against him, and the general
| tenor Of his conduct, seemed to imply his inno-
cence, and, though it might be the opinion that
his claim was exaggerated, the fact that it was
| On absolute invention was not assented to, even
after the report Of the first commissioner which
| the Government sent to Mexico for the purpose
Of visiting his mines. l.5ti : urge tsa g 8,
- The termination Of the matter is not without
useful moral ,,ses .agn .r,'
| z OVERLAND TELEGRApH TO SAN Francisco
The n. Y. Herald, recently states that it has
received the Senate report and accompanying
bill, making conditional grant Of the right Of
way and two millions acres Of the public lands
to Hiram O. Alden and James Eddy, for fhe
construction Of an underground telegraph 0ftwo
wires. from some point on the Mississippi or
Missouri river to San Francisco--the company
to have regular working stations at intervals Of
every one hundred miles along the entire route
the land warrants for the two million acres Of
land not to be issued till The telegraph is COM
pleted and thenih consideEa ton ofeight thousand
words per Fl month on the line, Without chargs 70