The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1859-09-22
MOVEMENTS OF OCEAN STEAMERS
DEATH OF DIR. GRAHAM.

A telegraphic despatch from New Orleans an
nounces the death of DR.. Robert NJ. Graham from
the effects of wound received in shooting affray
with Mr.. Ernest Tolldane. The atfray grew out of
political difficulty. This is undoubtedly the same
DR.. Robert NJ. Graham who figured before our
Courts in the year 1854, the murderer of Colonel
Charles Lorug, of California, at the st. Nicholas
Hotel, under the most aggravated circumstances
Col. Lorng with his wife, occupied apartments at
the st. Nicholas, as likewise did Dr. Graham and
his iamily-their respective being contiguous.
On the afternoon and night of Tuesday, August !,
DR.. Graham, under the influence of liquor, created
considerable disturbance in the hotel, but in
duced to retire to his room, where he remained
quietly until towards daylight, Wednesday,
when he arose from his bed, and, wanting water,
left his room and commenced to ring the chamber
maids bell violently in the hall
Col. Lorng, whose wife ill, demonstrated
with him. and requested him to desist, but Graham
paid attention to his appeal, and at last Col. Lo
ring weat down to the office of the hotel to obtain
the removal of Graham. As he was ascending the
stairs, on his return, he met by Graham, and
alteration ensued, which resulted in the stabbing
of Loring. The weapon used was the long blade of
a sword cane which was plunged into Loring'S side
with great violence where it was twisted about and
hent before it pulled out A coroner's inquest
was Immediately commenced, which resulted in the
committal of Graham to abide the action of the
Grand Jury. The trial was commenced in the
Court of Oyer and Terminer, before Judge Mitchell
the Sd of October, 1854, and continued until the
evening of the 9th, the jury, at 21 o'clock the next
morning, finding verdict of manslaughter in the
second degree. He sentenced to the State pr-
son at Sing Sing, but was pardoned by Gov. Clark
on the 4th of March, 1856, after serving upwards
of year of his time.
Upon this affair the Times comments as follows
MURDER AVENGED AT LAsT.-The pardon grant
ed three years ago, by Gov. Clark to DR.. Graham,
that dangerous man has already converted into a
death penalty. In political quarrel touching the
origin and nature of which the telegraph is silent,
the murderer of Loring has been shot dead in the
streets of New Orleans. There is need OF super
natural argument to prove that the shedder of
blood shall sooner later be overtaken by violent
fate. Juries may acgut, may mitigate the charge;
Judges may contract the sentence to the narrowest
limits of the law and Governors may arbitrarily
the course of justice; but there is always the
hot and rebelous temper, of such reckless men to
ensure them ultimately the fate they have for the
moment avoided. Its the fury that impels them re-
entlessy upon their DOOM Indeed, the very i'm
scenes of violence, and to hazard and probable
| little regret or sympathy.
human skeleton found in culvert be-
| tween Petersburg and Richmond Va, ON the 14th
inst. The culvert was the line of turnpike, and
had been closed for thirteen or fourteen years at
! least An empty vial was found beside the body,
and the conjecture was that case of suicide, per-
| haps of murder, had been concealed there for all
| these years. EsE.E. rs
| THE HUssEY REAPING-MAoHIN Sept.
| l9.-ln the case of Hussey u.s. Mccormick, for the
infringement of the patent for the cutting appara-
| tus OF reaping-machine, tried recently before
| Judges Mclean and Drummond, decision was
/ uiv n of fho pla