The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1854-08-26

The IRISH ABDUCTION Casa New
York paper, in an article on this subject, no.
ticing the sentence of the abductor to two
years Imprisonment with hard labor, thinks
that Ireland must have changed since the
days when, if a man fancied girl, and herre-
latons objected to it, he summoned AN armed
party of friends to his aid and married her
with perfect impunity Indeed, it thinks
there has been some advance in law and or
der, since the comparatively recent period,
some few years ago, when San Irish gentle
man was waited on by London Sherif's
officer, with narrow slip of parchment,
Technically called Ca. Sa) by which the
said myrmidon of the law was authorised to
take possession of the body of the said
Milesian, and it deliver into one of the
debtors prisons in London, described as be-
longing unto her Sovereign Lady Victoria,
by the Grace of God, and so FORTH there to
be detained until certain debt was paid
The Irishman, who had a stout shillelah in
his strong hand, acted impulsively and
knocked down the Sheriffs officer. For
such assault he was arrested, indicted, ar
raigned, tried, convicted and sentenced to
years Imprisonment in the Jail of New
gate. He made no complaint of the severe
sentence he only expressed somewhat
natural surprise that whereas, in the wilds of
Connemara or the bogs of Tipperary, the
knocking down of an arresting limb of the
law would have almost entitled him to a
of 1a}o IN facf
monial, the same conduct should be viewed,
by the law in England, as misdcmeanor.
"Sure," he exclaimed, there's no justice for
ireland in this. Time out of mind, no writ
could run in Galway or Tipperary. If we
caught any Latitat lowering around, with
the parchment in his pocket, it's to make
him ate leat) it, that we would, and warn
him, in friendly manner, that we d cut off his
ears the next time he ventured within the
barony. IT'S not equal laws there is in the
two countries, when they lock up for twelve.
month in England, for what I'd have had
round of dinners for doing inmy own country
across the Channel Bad luck to the Union
that did not make their laws like ours-but
ours like theirs"
The particulars of the late abduction case
have been already laid before our readers
The black feature of the transaction, a bottle
of chlorotorm, which was found with the
firearms in the carriage of the prisoner, no
doubt had its weight with the jury, though
the abductor most emphatically denied the
shocking idea that he had purchased chic
reform in order to produce insensibility, with
the horrible design of defiling Miss Arburth-
not" 1t appears, too, that there was legal
doubt whether the abduction was completed
or only attempted Weare somewhat amused
with the aaiuete with which Philadelphia
journal, in commenting upon this atrocity,
remarks that Ireland is a country Sin which
man who has young unmarried female
relative or friend, can certainly have little
inducement to reside The same remark
might possibly be applied to the city OF
Philadelphia, where chloroform, we hear, has
been used for purposes infinitely worse than
the abduction of woman for marriage
Communities, like individuals, are always
more keen-sighted to the notes in the eyes
of others, than to the beams in their own.
TURNING INTO MUrToS.-A correspondent
of the Charleston Is. ca STANDARD complains
terribly of the vast quantities of mutton
which the pleasure seekers at one of our Sui
phur Springs are compelled toconsume ane
which ought to give to that locality the name
of Mutton Springs. An old French gentle
man had been fed so necessarily on this sta
pie commodity of the table, that be had seri
Gus fears Of turning into sheep. Complain
Ing Of the want Of that decided improvement,
in his health, which he had fondly anticipa
ted, an acquaintance remarked to the disap
pointed Gaul, that he oughtto saturate him
self with the sulphur drink until his Skin
Should give oifactory evidence of the effect