The true Democrat., 1854-11-01

kept, he was one of the hands in the Coving- ton rolling mills. He is tall athletic looking man, of rather mild countenance, but said to possess an irritable and violent temparament.- Can. Enq., Oct. 9.
 ACQUITTAL OF WM H. BoLEs, ON A CHARGE OF MURDER.-On Thursday morning week, in the Kinds county (Miss.) circuit court, Wm. Il. Boles was tried for murder, acquitted and set at liberty. The homicide was committed in Vicksburg, in 1846, both the victim and the prisoner being intoxicated; the former almost stupid and the latter phrenzied. The case is the most singular one on record in this country, and we copy the following from the Kinds County Gazette:
 Boles was arrested, and at the ensuing term of the Warren county circuit court, tried, con- vcted and condemned. He made an applica- tion to the Supreme Court for a new trial. which Warren court, he had his trial moved to this county. When arraigned for trial before this court, he was found without counsel to repre- sent him. He was too poor to pay lawyer, and so little sympathy was felt for him by the
 
 volunteer their SC vices in his behalf. His si- tuation was one of extreme peril, and he knew not where to look for pity. At this iuncture, Hon. Amos R. Johnston undertook his defence, and was subsequently, assisted by Gen. s. A. D. Greaves. At this tra as at the former one in Warren, he was convicted His inde- fatigable counsel obtained for him new trial but the verdicts of the juries who held his des- n 1nyy1 m fhnIrh 1, %l H times has he been tried. At each successive conviction, his able counsel, who worked for him without fee or the hope of reward, warded oil his execution by successful appeals for new trials, until at length, at the present term of the court, his heart hailed, for the first time, the welcome verdict Not Gualty!n'
 And now, acquitted but not justified he comes forth again to mingle with his fellow men. Death and absence had reduced the witnesses against him from many to one-ard that one himself prisoner, awaiting trial for an awful crime. By the ingenuity of his coun- sel alone has the life of Boles been saved from the penalty of the violated law The grand jury, in their indictment, preferred two charges against him-one for the killing of Donahoo, the other for killing a man to them unknown The district attorney was forced to select one of these counts under which to prosecute. He chose the latter. Boles' counsel then proved by the solitary witness for the State, that the name of the deceased was Donahoo, and upon this proof the jury were instructed to acquit him.
 Imagination Is not strong enough to depict the intensity of joy which this verdict must have carried to the heart of the prisoner; nor is 1t possible for the mind to conceive the horrible suspense, the indescribable agony which he must have suffered during the long days of his dreary imprisonment. Eight years, each one of which was to him an eternity, have rolled their slow lengths away, since his arrest.- Three sheriffs, who have successively had him in custody, have paid the last great debt, whilst he has lived on within the dungeon walls. Of the various jailors who have fed and guarded him, some have died, others have removed- Battles have been fought, and victories won flood, fire and residence have swept the land the halter has encircled the necks of its vic- tins within the walls of the very jail in which he has been confned-the grave has also claim ed its tenants from the cells around him. and yet he has lived! Lived through all that "hope deferred which maketh the heart sick,' lived, with the knell of death ringing con- stantly in his ears, and the scaffold constantly rising to his vision. He has lived, too, to see a strange revolution in public sentiment. The same people who, eight years ago, would have turned from him with abhorrence, now look kindly upon him. They feel that eight years of unceasing anxiety, of inward torment un- utterable, have atoned-if anything can atone! for the crime he committed. But the con- duct of Boles, during his imprisonment, has done more than time in ehecting this change. His deep penitence and accomplishing submis- sion have gained for him the sympathy of those who have known him during his imprisonment.
 THE BITTER B1TTEN.-During recent trip one of our popular steamers from this port to New Orleans, several little fancy games with cards occurred, one of which we deem worthy of notice. It was evening, and rather proms- cuous company were gathered around card table in "Social Hall" near the clerks office Several games of poker, .euchre, etc., had come off, and the players were about leaving the ta- ble, when very genteelly dressed individual, who appeared to be too nearly intoxicated to know exactly what he was doing, offered to bet any person present $25 that he could "cut a Jack" the first time. A verdant specimen ot the natives of took him up. and the stakes were deposited in the hands of an accom- plice of the challenger, but whom of course he "never had seen before." The cards were then shff1ued and the later parsonage took out iack-knife and cut the whole pack in two 1T the middle He claimed that he had thus wor the bet. by cutting Jack the first time. The stake holder decided that he won the bet fair. ly, and handed him over the money. None O .I IL