The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1859-05-18
NJ 49,

sof the third judicial district, New York, on the
s25th ult.. granted stay of proceedings in the
case OF Mrs. Hartung, who was to have been
executed in Albany on the 9Th This appli-
cation for new trial will be argued at the gen
seral term in the third district, which commences
this week. 1t is doubtful, however, whether
counsel will be ready before several DAYS of the
term have elapsed. 1t is probable that if the
supreme court should decide adversely TO the
application, that an appeal may be then taken
TO the court OF last resort, in which case the final
decision may be postponed several month At
lall events it appears likely that the Hartung
case will not be disposed of before the trial Of
lRhineman, indicted as an sccomplice of Mrs.
Hartung.
The grounds Of application made by the coun-
lsel of Mrs. Hartung, were as follows:
81. The statement made by the prisoner to
sheriff Brayton was not q voluntary statement,
land should have been excluded 1t was made
10 the sheriff of the county, and after she had
been arrested, and while she was in custody;
that she was aboring under the influence of fear,
lis manifest from the inquiry she put to the ssler-
lift, What do you think they will do with me?'
''2. The court erred in permitting the letter,
said to have been written by the prisoner, to
be read in evidence, because there was not suf-
sfcient evidence Of her handwriting
3. The court erred in permitting this ques-
|tion to be put TO the witness professor Porter:
In your opinion can physician. from a mere
post mortem examination Of the exterior surface
and of the indications Contamination which he
discovers determine with any degree of GER
tainty the precise period of time when such an
inflammation was caused?
Il is submitted that the defendant is entitled
Ito new trial for the irregularities and improper
conduct Of the jury: l. In procuring copy of
The revised statutes and in examining for them
selves what the law of this case was; 2. In hold.
ling a written communication with the Judge
without the knowledge of the defendant and her
counsel
The district attorney, Mr. Courtney, in his
argument said, if there had been anything IL
legal in the case, or if there was any reasonable
doubt OF the legality of any Of the proceedings,
he hoped the judge would grant the writ of
error. n. Y. Commercial Advertiser
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The following is from an article by well
Informed correspondent of The National Intel
|gencer:
According to late Liverpool statistics, at
will require only a slight increase in the con-
sumption to absorb the probable excess in the
supply for the remainder of 1859. The chances
seem very favorable that the stocks on the Ist
of January. 1860, will be reduced below the
VERY small stocks on the 1st of January, 1859.
THE stock in Great Britain March "a, 1852 was
100000 bales, against 450 900 same date in
h 858; at sea, same date, 286 OOO," making
the visible supply for Great Britain 81 SIG, 900
bales" On the gath of last March it was esti-
mated there was remaining in the interior of
our cotton growing States, supposing the crop
Ito be 100000, (generally the present esti-
mate, $50, 900 bales; which would leave an
excess over the actual and estimated receipts
of only $4,000 bales. At the same time the
manufacturing interests of Great Britain "con-
tinue most encouraging. The exports of goods
and yarns for February Officially were S19.-
100000 against S13 800, 600 in 1858, and
1914 GOO. 900 for the same month in 1857"
Besides the above causes, the reduced stocks
.eyery where, the general and great falling off
Iof the receipts at the ports, the inferiority of
the last picking, and the apparent inadequacy
Iof the supply to the demand. there are other
causes now operating for the encouragement of
the belief in higher prices during the next three
months.
In The foreground we place the solution of
the difficulties between France and Austria bv
Ia congress which may to lead to the contnu-
lance of peace in Europe; and next, that all
the cotton made last year is now needed for the
manufacturers at home and abroad, but chiefly
fin Europe; and, lastly the unpromising state
of preparation for the next crop: the season
not only being backward, at least fortnight.
but the planting of cotton prevented by frosts.
rains, and freshets overfowng the low grounds;
land the height of the water in the Mississippi
and its tributaries threatening inundatons, as
the last year For these reasons an extraor-
dnary fine autumn, like the last, will be re-
quired to mature crop as large as the present
one. Such good fortune is scarce to be ex-
pected. o
A lady whose unusually bad temper is ira
ced on a countenance Of great responsiveness.
having been rescued from wolves, in Iowa, by
an athletic Indian chief in fit of romantic
gratitude offered to marry him. whereupon the
savage turned and fed into the depths of the
forest, and has not been seen by white man or
woman since.
A number of graves have beer found in Mo
|nongahea county, Pa, containing human skel
Ietons eight feet in height, and various orna-
,ments OF exquisite workmanship.
AN ACT to grant certain powers to the mayor
Iand trustees of the town of Shreveport
SECTION l. Be il enacted by the senate and house
of representatives Of the State Of Louisiana in gem
eral assembly convened, Thatthe mayor and trustees
Iof the town of Shreveport shall have the power to
abolish the Offices Of clerk treasurer constable and
collector of said town. They shall have power to
create such and similar offices by ordinances, and to
elect or provide the Of eleeting persons to
perform the duties Of the same and may fix the duties
obligations and responsibilities Of those who may be
elected to such offices.
Sec 2. Be it further enacted de- That said mayor
and trustees shall have full power to determine by
ordinances, when, where. to whonl andin what man
|ner the taxes of said town shall be paid.
See. 8 Be it further enacted, DC. That said may
or and trustees shall have full powerto fix the penal
es for violations ofthe ordinances of said town. pro-
Ivded That in no case shall the penalty exceed $lOC
fine and twenty days conhnementin the parish pris
lon and such penalties may be decreed, at the suit of
said town by the mayoror justice Of the peace thereof
Sec 4 Be it further enacted, &c, That said mayor
and trustees are authorised to acquire and hold prop
rtv outside of the corporate limits of said town. to be
used as hospitals pest houses and cemeteries and to
make and enforce ordinances for the government of the
same and they shall have power to quarantine boats
nd 9TH of and frpipht