Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1859-04-22
Tne announeement by Brady, One Of sickles'

THE announcement by Brady, one of Sickles'
counsel, that If he had the sole management Of
tho trial. he would insist that Key was killed in
the act of adultery, within the full meaning of
the law, has led to some considerable, well as
able, speculation among the newspapers, as well
Us among the counsel for the persecution
Brady's fdea was to prove standing adulterOus
intercourse between Key and Mrs Sickiesi for
he held that Key having hired house for the
express purpose of meeting the wife of another
man, and she having met him, they were literal
" in n state of actual adultery all the time, and
that consequently it was not necessary to catch
them in the act to justify the killing of the ndul-
tercr
These views, in connection with the FIVE pro
positions which the defence offered TO prove,
struck Mr. Carlisle as being of the greatest i'm
portance, and he has spoken at great length
against the adnissbity of the testimony offered.
He held that the parties should be caughti1 tug
rante delicto to justify the killing, and that
under any other circumstances, it was murder.
He also held that Sickles knowing his wife TO
be confirmed adulteress, and that thus she
was more dead to him than if in her grave, and
that, consequently, he was not bound to defend
her Keys presence waving the handkerchief,
on Sunday, as a signal for outrage on Sickles
wife, was, in Mr. Carlislc's opinion, no incite-
Inent to the deed; for Mr.. Sckles was already
aware, since the night previous, that he could
not be outraged. Mrs. Sickles was beyond
outrage in being an habitual aduteress.
The administration journals are publishing q
statement 20 the effect that the charges of fraud
in ST. Louis concerning the election of Rep
resentative to Congress last fall, are unfounded,
because, as these papers assert, more votes were
cast Mt the recent municipal election than in the
Congressional election of last year.
They do not, far as we have seen, bring
forward any figures to sustain their assertion;
and as proof that their statement is incorrect,
we present the following results of both cleo.
tons:
VOTE OF LOUIS FOR CONGRESSMAN, 1853.
n.l Espcs poet An' 1855 5Sss
PoR NAYoR-April 4, 1853.
Plley ..s2G7. wyman. 1922 Bogy. ....SsGa. 1929
Showing falling on from 1883 Or..............2oss
From this we ascertain that instead of more
votes being cast at the last election, there were
2Oss votess less than in 1853. The St. Louis
Republican says that "lhe American Free Soil
erS wenIoSer 10 the Blnck Republicans, whlch
will account for FTley's gain Blnr's, and
Wyman's decrease from Bucks vate. last fall
THE letters exposed in court constitute quite
feature in this mornings Geographic continu
alton Of the Sictles trial. 1t seems that the
frail sisterhood are interested-and, like tho
preacher who said don't do as do, but do as
say" commend an adyisatory extract from the
book called white Lies" for tho consideration
of the counsel for the defence. We doubt the
proPriety of counsel placing any more depen-
dcnce on white lies than my other kind-and it
strikes US that just now they Juggling in a
good deal of trashy as well as extra judicial
etufF for jury effect. Judge Crawford seems to
have relaxed his incipicnt rigor wonderfully
these few days back. The transitions from
grave to gay" and from the sublime to the
ridiculous, give quite a farcical phase to the
Sickles trial.
Tue Eastern portion of the State is all alive
and ut work. II is only here in the Northwest
that e fatal torpor and stupefaction Of political
death seems to prevail. md is fortunate cir
cumstance indeed that it appears to be confined