The daily press. (Cincinnati [Ohio) 1859-1859, 1859-03-10


The HAwHsvlLB TRAeEDY.--From long
article on this lkair in tho Louisville Courier,
we clip the fol owing
When Lowe Canie out of the widows house
and gave up his arms, IL was upon a solemn
pledge of the word of honor of his assailants
that he should no, be molested. He had hard
ly started for the courthouse, however, before
q renewed attack was made upon him, and re-
poated shots fred. He would then have been
killed but for the interference Of A. NJ. Mayo,
himself a personal enemy of Lowe's, but who
had too many of the instincts of tho gentleman
about him to permit such an outrage when he
was by. He succeeded in arresting the attack.
We learn another fact that places Judge
Stewart in no enviablo light. Judge Stewart
had possession of the keys of the jail he had
pledged himself, in public speech to the citi-
zens, to keep them; yet, in despite of this
pledge, he absolutely forced the jailor to take
them from him, and in less than half an hour
afterward the jailor was compelled to open the
Jail door to admit the assassins. Why did not
Judge Stewart keep the keys, as he had prom
ised; instead Of giving them to an ignorant
jailor, to be bullied by the assassins?
1t is stated that Withrow & Davidson, the
assassins Of Lowe, used the pistols of the un-
fortunate man who fell q victim to their re-
lentless and savage atrocity. And in the street
fight which occurred the day before the assas-
sination, no less than thirty-fve holes were
shot in his clothes. v
We learn further that Withrow, one Of tie
assassins, was indicted for getting in an i'm
proper way the money of drunken man, and
that it was through loves fundamentally that
the indictment was found. It stood for trial
at the present term, but the indictment has
been quashed since loves death, for some real
or pretended informality upon its face. This
too needs explanation.
We learn, also, that the report of the Grand
Jury was not their voluntary act, but was
forced from them by the assassins. We do not
know that this fact places them in any better
attitude before the country.
The whole atrOciOus villainy has been done
by some eight or ton persons, who have made
use of the Maxwell difficulty to wreak their
own cOwardly vengeance upon Lowe for past
difficulties, which they had not the manly cour-
age TO meet him singly upon. Many of the
citizens of Hawesville either stood cowardly
by, afraid to raise voice or hand against the
sickening brutality of the assassins, or fed from
the town.
1t is not a case of misled public excitement.
1t is nothing of the kind. 1t is simply a
town conquered by gang Of cowardly assas-
sins. Nine out OF ten of the citizens would
vote to hang the miacreants tomorrow, if they
dared. Heaven help such a community. ...,
The journeymen tailors of Davenport, Iowa,
are on "stfike' for the maintenance of their
present wages The reduction made by the
"masters" is as follows: For making fine coat,
price reduced from So So to IS and S. 90 on
pants, from 81 65 to l 45; on vests, from
81 20 to l 90. At these prices, it is averred
by the masters, an average journeyman can
make 80 90 per week; but on the other hand
the journeymen say, at is all a mistake, for it
takes man IL hours of hard work to make n
fpr xubsn nrlr fba
to pay one dollar one day and half to make
q pair of pants, or fifteen hours work, for
81 3d."
SMELLING IRON WITH BTTUMINOUs COAL.--
The st. Louis Republican, of a late date, says
"We have been shown letter from the super
intendent in charge of the furnaces at the Iron
Mountain, to the proprietors in this city, con-
veying the very important and gratifying in
telligence of the complete success of the trial
now being made in one of their furnaces, to
smelt the ores Of that vast deposit with the
raw bituminous Goals which surround our city,
and which have heretofore been generally sup
posed by Iron Masters to be entirely impracti-
eable."l ~ er-r.s az -
A few evenings since a murder was commit
ted in Newcastle, Va. A young man, named
Starks, went to the house of a Miss Polly
| Tucker and asked admission, but was refused
! He then went to the window and attempted to
enter that way. Miss Tucker threatened to
strike him with an ak. He laughingly told
her to strike away, which she did, cleaving his
skull open, from the effects of which he died in
six hours after.
ARTEsIAN WELL.-At Columbus, Ohio, the
mammoth bore in the State-house yard is now
| 1891 feet ga inches in depth, and the asser-
| ton Of the Cincinnati Press of to-day that
while az that depth symptoms of dampness are
discernible, the people above are dry, is said
| to have no foundation in fact. Several gentle
men of undouhted veraoity assure US that they
are not dry.-Cfty Fact, 8M. .r