The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1859-05-07


would appear to advantage in that style Of
dress.'
Perseverance exclaimed my wife, as
colored with Indignation at the idea, and
laid down the last of the stockings, prepara-
tory to seeking her nightly rest.
She never calls me Perseverance,, except
when che is astonished or indignant; and |
knew bv the tone Of her voice that it would
be useless to pursue the subject at present.
So winding up my argument and the little
wooden clock that graces the mantel, l
add essed myself to slumber, while that
murmurine aspiration foated on the mid
night air, from wife's half open lips
sOh dear | wish was rich ?
From the New York 1-ibune.
NOT GUILTY.
Customs beget words. In the South
West, where reyolvers and bowie-knives are
worn as gracefully as paletots or meek. ties,
a quarrel seething up to the murder point
the murder thrown in-is "a d!ftculty.'-
This, however, is clearly an abuse Of terms,
for nothing is SO easy as disembraining or
disemboweling a man when the weapons are
so handy. Suppose they dub this specially
of the Sunny South "a facility Would it
not read well to say that sa facility occurred
between General Stump and Senator Lump,
in which the former stabbed the latter, and
the latter shot the former, each mortally 2
We leave out particulars as to the arms,
the weapons being Of course elegantly un-
derstood.
But taking the crimson vocabulary as it
stands, we learn from The Weekly Gazette
and Comet of Sunday morning, April 3, 1859,
and of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, that diff
Guilty occurred there, ending with only one
death-as it appears the dead man had no
opportunity of returning the compliment
The survivor is Mr.. j. F. Moor ; the gentle
man who was reyolved into the next world
was MIR. G. Q. Dupuy. The Comet, in bran
dishing its Sunday tail, reveals the following
nebulosities on this subject: MIR. Moor had
been out to dine. Now dinners are poulti-
ces to the mind They relieve the morally
acrid and the intellectually acrid. They are
the bonne bouche of diplomacy, and the
suartter in modo materialized, of the peace
maker. Men love their neighbors as them
selves at dinner. drive after dinner is the
gliding to the refined gold. Happy he who
can dine and drive. But Mr.. Dupuy, ac-
cording to the Comet, was not happy, for he
90, into an alteration with Mr.. Moor both
gentleman in buggies. Buggy No. , fired
into Buggy No. /, Buggy No. l tried to es.
cape, but was several times fred into and
finally and asthetically by being stabbed
twice the revolvers' wounds not immediate
ly effccting their purpose. These facts the
Comet says, were judieally established, 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, Esq; and our old
friend Of Hidalge memories and Cuban glo-
ries, the Hon. Pierre Soulc, was employed
to aid the District Attorney, J. D. Stuart,
Esq. The Comet mentions noticeable fact,
that, in reference to prosecutions Tor capital
offenses, an alarming want Of public conf
dence in laws and courts of justice is shown
bv the emnloymcnt Of additional counsel to
aid the prosecuting attorney; for though it
may not spring from private motives of re-
venge, but desire TO have public justice
administered, it always awakcns sympathy in
the niad for the prisoner, going far TO de-
feat the end desired. The Comet assails
great criminal lawyers as accessories to
crime, and says we must return to the prim-
tive forms of trial by Jury or abolish it al
together. NWhere 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,
so express themselves dnilv.' The pcrlhe-
lion of that Comet ought to 90 farther
north.
The Comet also mentions number Of la
dies who attended to trial. 1t is dubious
whether to say they 'graced or honored' the
Courtroom. 1t teaches them that they
should 'be governed by no Northern or East
ern fashions.' We think-nay, we timely
inslnuate-that there is no danger of this; for,
if the gentlemen have the manners of the
twelfth century, spite of all the amenities
I'd improvements of the nineteenth, the la
dies viii! imbibe tho spirit Of the society
about them. Sweet Comet, don't hint that
ladies 90 to the murder trials here. They
90 to Stewards which is one block above the
Court-houses-no longer down on our ver-
;!cItv.
But now comes the termination. The Jury
remained out three hours, and then like
good fellows returned verdict of Not
Guilty. The applause which followed this
annourccncnt was promptly checked by
Judge Beale, and one of the effervescing
gentleman, NJ. Louis Sanchez, was arrested
and sent to prison for twentyfour hours.
Rather hard, this. Here is NJ. Sanchez en-
tombed for day and night for merely ap-
proving OF Southern 'justice-for merely say
ing that the jury were right in deciding that
one man in one buggy may shoot and then
stab and kill another man in another buggy.
The affair, moreover was illustrated by an
Elder Brutus scene. Mr.. Moor, senior, was
the principal witness against Mr.. Moor, jun.
Tor. ''ln the struggle between tilial (pater-
nal?) affection and his duty, he come off
nobly as the Roman" To such crushing
straits do young gentlemen who sport trevolv-
crs and bowie knives reduce the pater-fam-
ilias. But the creaming jay of the citizens
was not reached by applause simply. Cam
mons were fired! The belching throats of
thirty FOUNDERS roared fourth their
ecstasy at the result-the innocence and
beauty of shooting and stabbing!
Finally, when Night, coored goddess, had
wrapped Baton Rouge in her gentle gloom
when the star dimpled heavens revealed
their glories; when the passion and pertu.
baton of the day of sadness and terror were
over, and the soft poetry of the soul had its
sway, then band of serenaders assembled
in all their suavity and sorority, and sere-
nadod the-Jury! serenaded the glorious,
twelve, who, after three hours ncubation,
brought forth the verdict: then a fierce
firing, and a fiercer stabbing, of man trying
to escape, is as innocent as the laugh Of
infancy or the breath of Spring. ssThe Jury
in the case of The State vs.. j. F. Moore de-
SIRE" through the Comet, "to express their
thanks to those citizens of Baton Rouge who
were kind enough to relieve somewhat the
monotony of their situation by a serenade
on Sunday night"
One Country--one Const,tution--one
Destiny. Hail Columbia!
Cy A down easter strayed into the
square in front of the City Hall, Phila del
phia, and planting his brogan firmly in front
Of the bronze statue of Franklin, looked up
ward to the benigant face of the old philos.
opher with great apparent interest.
4" What old feller's likeness is that ?''
asked he Of bystander.
"That sir, is the statue of Reniamin