Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1856-04-26

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marablc instances on record of the Bnfateiing devo
ton Of wife to her husband, under the most try
ing and dreadful circumstances is given IN the ms
story of the Monroe tragedy in Coles county, I'M
nois. A. F. Monroe killed his fatherinlaw-E Filing
ton-in fight, in which Ellington struck the nrst
blow. Public opinion was so violent against Monroe
that the court and the attorneys for the defence
were oyerawed, and change Of venue, which was
begged by the prisoner, was not obtained. The at
torney of Monroe feared to apply for it. apprehend-
ing marderous designs on the part of the people:
The trial proceeded and the jury did not dare to find
the prisoner guilty of anything but murder in the
first degree. and he was sentenced to be hanged The
Governor impressed that something was wrong in
the case. granted respite of ninety days, and the
mob broke into the Jail and dragged Monroe out and
hung him. Amid all this terrible storm of infuriat-
ed public opinion though his wfe's father was the
victim in whose name the cry for vengeance was
raised, and he had been a fast man, having drank
hard and kept bad company, Monroe retained the
love of his " Mamie" to the last. When he had
been murdered by the mob she begged for his re-
mains, and had them transported to burial place,
a few miles above Newport on the Licking river,
and there with her child in her arms, stood the only
mourner by his grave. Three days before his death
she wrote to her husband as follows. The person
whom she mentions as Pole, is n B. Aulich, dis
tant relative of her husband:
CHARLESTON, Feb. 18th, 1856.
My Ever Dear Husband How miserable you
must be. My very heart aches for you. have not
given up yeti still have hope l am now at Mr..
Balls with Pole and Ma. Pole has been brother
to me and true friend to you. l intend to make
his home my home, wherever that may bel hope
a good ways from here-the farther from here the
better. would rather die tonight than stay here
among my enemies, for those who are your enemies
arc mine, and your friends my friends
As soon as I can make arrangements and get the
means, will leave this town, never to return. May
is we'll. Farewell, but hope not forever.
subscribe myself your true and devoted wife,
MAMIE MONROE,
And proud to own it.
The BAR AND THE BIBLE.-A correspondent of the
St. Louis Republican, writing from Jefferson City,
gives an amusing description of trial which recent
~ came off at that place, in which all the counsel
engaged rank high at the Missouri bar. Here is the
letter:
"a few days since, was serving as juror in
case of SANDER. Three Of our most prominent law
yers were engaged-onc for the plaintiff, the others
for defendant. The counsel attempted to impeach
the veracity of one of the witnesses-an old man
Mayhem. They failed entirely, and when the coun-
sci for plaintiff came to up the evidence said !:
"Gentlemen of the jury, the counsel on the oppo-
site side have cndeavored to impeach the veracity
and destroy the character Of the witnesses and par
ticularly of my old friend Mayhem. l must confess,
gentlemen, I trcmbled for my old FRIEND when the
senior counsel for defendant with his stern connte
nance, demanded OF the OLD man. Wnetncr ne hadnot
told different story his neighbors, and introduce
ed Mr.. Harris to prove it. But, gentlemen, he failed
utterly failed, and my old friend Mayhem came
out unscathed. Yes, gentlemen, like Daniel Of old,
out Of tie lions den aeithout hair Of his lead ha0-
ing been singed.
This excited the risblcs of those familiar with the
authority quoted; but some very broad grns were
seen when the senior counsel for defendant and
remarked to his hearers, "That his friend, the coun
sci for plaintiff had not quoted correctly the passage
from the Higher Law; that he had read and heard
much of Daniel, but that acas the first time lie had
erer heard Of his being in a lions den."
All was silence, however, compared with the roar
when the junior counsel made his reply In abiding
to the remarks of plaintiffs counsel, he said Ny
worthy friend the other side is not quite as fam-
liar with the volumes of the her law as he is with
those of Chtty and of Blackstone, or he would not
have attempted to release his friend Mayhem from
the lions den without having hair ofhis head snged
Unlike my senior have heard Of Daniel being in
the lions den; but until to day. never heard that
his roaring majesty made use of fire. My worthy
friend has, suppose mixed up the escape of Daniel
from the lions den with the passage of Neduchadnes
ear through the fiery tu'naee s'ho had not a hair
singed."