New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-04-15
NOT GUILTY.

reviewers aud pOFle- hnl'ts orc "ofu as Staooiun!
as paIetots or neck tee, quarrel seething up to
the murder point-the murder thrown in-u "a
difficulty" This, however, is clearly an abuse of
terms, for nothing is 20 easy as disembrailing or
disembow cling q man when the weapons are 30
handy. Suppose they dub this specially Of the
Sunny South " a facility" Would it not read well
to cay that's facility occurred between General
Stump and Senator Lump, in which the former
"sabbed the latter and the latter shot the former,
leach mortally7" We leave out particulars as to
the arms, the weapons being of course elegantly
understood.
But taking the crimson vocabulary as it stands,
We learn from tn, Ueekly Gazette and Comet of
Sunday morning April 3, 1859, and Of Baton Rouge,
Louisiana, that difficulty occurred there, ending
with only one desth-as it appears the dead msu
had no opportunity of returning the compliment.
The survivor is Mr. j. +. Moore; the gentleman
who was revolved into the next world was Mr..
G. o. Dupuy. The Comet in brsndishing its Sun
day tail, reveals the following pebuosties on this
subject: Mr. Moore had been out to dine Now
dinners are poultices to the mind They relieve
the morally acrd and the intellectually acid. They
are the bonns bouehe of diplomacy, and the suariter
in n,odo materialized, Of the peace-maker. Men
love their neishbOrs as themselves at dinner. A
drive after dinner is the gliding to the refined gold.
Happy he who can dine and drive. But Mr.
Dupuy, according to The Comet, was not happy,
for he got into an alteration with Mr.. Moore
both gentlemen in bugges Buggy No. 2 fred
into Buggy No. /. Buggy No. l tried to escape,
but was several times fired into and finally dis
patched by Buggy No. 2. Dispatched finally and
astheticaly by being stabbed twice. the revolVers'
wounds not immediately efectiDg their purpose.
These facts The Comet says, were judiciany estab-
lished, and not controverted.
After such an expose Of the business, all that
| remains is an account of the trial. The accused
had two lawyers the Hon. A. S. Heron and A.
NJ. Dunn, eaq.; and our old friend of Hidalgo
memories and Cuban glories, the Hon. Pierre
Soul6, was employed to aid the District Attorney,
]. d. Stuart esq. The Comet mentions noticeable
fact that, in reference to prosecutions for capital
odenses, an alarming want Of public confidence in
| laws and courts Of justice is shown by the EN-
ployment of additional counsel to aid the prosecut
| ing attorney; for though it may not spring from
private motives Of revenge, but desire to have
public Justice administered, railways awakens sym.
patty in the mind for the prisoner, going far to
defeat the end desired. The Comet assails great
L" criminal lawyers" as accessories to crime, and
rays we must return to the primitive forms Of trial
| by Jury or abolish it altogether. Where is the
| murdered man-where the crimnal-the weapon
of death-the witnesses of the deed This is all
{" the Jury wants. Honest people, with common
"sense, discriminate between right and wrong,
$50 express themselves d,ily." The peribelion of
that Comet ought to be further north.
The Comet also mentions number of ladies who
attended the trial. 1t is dubious whether to say
they "graced or honored" the Courtroom. 1t
teaches them that they ,hould "be governed By no
Northern or Eastern fashions" We think-nsy,
we tmidly insinuate-that there is no danger of
this for if the gentlemen have the manners of the
twelfth century, spite of all the amenities and i'm
proyements of the nineteenth the ladies' will iu-
bbe the spirit of the society about them. Sweet
Comet don't hint that ladies go to the murder trials
here. They 90 to Stewards, which is one block
above the Court-houses-no lower down, upon our
veraciiy
But now comes the termination. The Jury re-
manned out three hours and then, like good fel-
lows, returned verdict of Not Guty. The
applause which followed this announcement was
promptly checked by Judge Beale, and one of the
eFeryescing gentlemen, NJ. Louis Sanchez, was
arrested aud sent to prison for twenty -four hours.
Rather hard this. Here is N. Sanchez entombed
for day and night for merely approving of South
ern ju,tics--for merely saying that the Jury was
right in deciding that one man in one buggy may
shoot and then stab aud kill another man in another
buggy.
The affair moreover, was illustrated by an Elder
Brutus scene. Mr.. Moore, senior, was the priu-
cpal witness against Mr.. Moore, junior. &c In the
struggle between 6iAl (paternal y affection and
"kis duty, he came off nobly as the Roman" To
such crushing straits do young gentlemen who
sport revolvers and bowie knives reduce the pster
familias. But the creamins joy of the citizens
was not reached BY applause simply. Cannons
were fred The belching Threats of the thirty
| two Founders roared forth their ecstasy at the
resull-tle innocence and beauty Of shooting and
,tabbing!
Finally, when Night, colored goddess, had
wrapped Baton Rouge in her gentle gloom; when the
star dimpled heavens revealed their glsries; when
| the passion and perturbation Of the day of
sadness and terror were over, and the soft
poetry of the soul had its sway, then a band of
serenaders assembled in all their suayity and sonor
| ity, and serenaded the-Jury Serenaded the glo-
rious twelye who after three hours incubation