New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-10-28

luesday last ~ Charlestown, Va. The following
is an extract from Judge Parker's charge =
the grand jury Of the Circuit Court of Jensrssn
county, before which the hnaI tial viii take
place:
Gentlemen Of the Jury-rn the state of exefte-
mel sent lnto Which our whole community has bees
tfsowH by Hit recent occurrences III thia countyI
feel that the charge which ! usually deliver %
granf jury would be entirely ont of place. Those
occurrences cannot but force themselves apOn
considerable porticn Of that time which vou Nm
devote % your public duties ss grand jury How.
eyer guilty the unfortunate men who are nov n the
ca,sdJ =. Jrsaee may prove Y be- st they caune
ee caiied upon TO answer to the offended laws of
| oul conmofzsealth for any Of the multifarious
sI.mes I'm with which they are charged, until Rrand
thesss aissr digentn inquiry shall decide that for
will not permit myself to give i've exnresaion 5,
& a,y ~ iose ieesinss which as ones spffnr 70 n
the at IN nsas Mmen rejecting upon the enornty 81
f @ aas E,s ~ whlcn those are involved who invade
py Iofce peaceful unsuspectinu prt,n,, n ors
common country, raise the standara a insnrrect;c,
ah,nnsss .l;a y, ana shoot down without mercy viz
INVASION must remember gentfsm.y ,nst w. II
minister OF justice, bound to execute n,s
1niy, and In tue very spirit Of Justice beyeeIf s
holds, that he Is innocent until he xIaIi 70 @ 4 !
guilty by honest, independent and ~ is 5,
fiaf jury OF his countrymen. md whe8 r es&se
un5n r1,y apon eyspv me T % %eGnal1s binding
L
| prosecution and trials of these ofienders -
In these cases, az in all others, you win b eJr
tolled by that oath which each Of you have tsIe1.
and in which you have solemnly sworn fhaA yge
viii diligently inquire into all oenses which nav
be brought to your oWIedge and that Won yriff
present no one through Ill will as well q NJ
yon VIII leave no one unpresented through fesr =
favor but in all your presentments you shall pEe-
sent the truth, the whole truth and nothing but e
truth" Do this, gentlemen and you viii have fuI-
hiied your whole duty. 60 beyond this, and II
of hat
| ton which you have sworn to make, act upon pre-s
ludice or from excitement of passion and Won win
nave done wrong to that law in whose service
| you are engaged. s3ssH
| As before said, these men are now in the Iar,s
Of Justice They are to have a.fair and, an impar.
ua tfla we owe it to the cause of Justice as well
as TO our own characters that such trial should
pc afforded them. If guilty, they will be sure to
pay the extreme penalty Of tIieir guiIt--and the
example of punishment, when thus inflicted 81 W
1ge Of law, will be beyond all comparison more
eihcacous for our future protection than any tor
ture to which mere passion could subject them
Whether, then, we be in public Or private rosi
ton, let each one Of us remember that d thc Isx
mas charge Of these alleged offenders the law alone,
through It's recognized agents. mnst deal with them
TO the last 1t can tolerate interference ~ nth
ers with duties it has assumed to itself true 10
herself, and true she will be, our commonwealt
| through her courts of justice will be as readv -
punish the oense of such interference as she Is tp
punish these grave and serious offences with which
she IS now about to deal-in case the ofenses u
PioNea W leEai testimony 10 nave been pefpetr0-
ted. Let us all, gentlemen, bear this in mind and
in patience await the result-confident that result
Will be whatever strict and impartial justice shall
determine 70 be necessary and propen
| 1t would seem, gentlemen-and yet speak from
| no evidence, but upon vague rumors which have
| reached me-that these men who have lately
| thrown themselves upon us confidently expected
.o6e ]o1ned by our slaves and free negroes, and
furled the banner of nsurrection and invited this
class of our citizens to rally under it And vet a.
am told they are unable to obtain single recruit
The following is the commitment Of tile insurrec-
tionists and the warrant to the sheriff to summon
eight justices to examine the facts with which they
stand charged: Ss8sss
| State of Virgieia Jefferson county, to wit. To
the Sheriff. Court and to the keeper OF the iail of
said county: These are to command yoa, il the
name OF the commonwealth of Virginia, forthwith
1 to convey and deliver into the custody Ut TIE
keeper of said jail and to receive and safely keep
the bodies of John Brown, Aaron G. Stephens and
| Edwin Coppee, and Shields Green and John Cop
land, negro, and charged before me, Roger Chew .
justice OF the peace for the said county, on the
W. McGinnis, and upon the free admission and con-
fession Of said parties, made in my presence and
nearing that they and each of them did feoniously
conspire with each other, and with other parties
unknown, to make abolition insurrectiOn and
open war against the commonwealth Of Virginia
by making an armed attack upon and numbering
her citizens, at certain place called Harpcr'a
Ferry; and then and there to riot, the l7th 18th
and 18th days of October, 1852 did feoniosnly and
of their malice, kill and murder with firearms.
called sharpes rifles and revolver pistols, Divers
citizens of the commonwealth. and Fountaine
Beckham. George w. Turner, and Thomas Boorley
free white persons, and Luke Quinn, q soldier of
the United States government also Haywood
Shepherd, free negro and did there and then fe-
loniously conspre with divers slaves belonging TO
citizens of this commonwealth, in the county nf0He-
said to me unknown, to rebel and make insurrec-
ton against the government and laws Of this COM
| monwealth, that they may be examined for the
said OffCnSe before the examining nni
and otherwise dealt with according to law. Given
under my hand and seal this 10th day Of October,
1 1859 ROGER CHEW
The final trial will take place at the present
| term, which will commence in few days. The
Jail is well supplied with arms.
FEARFUL AND FATAL EXPLOSION or POWDER
MlLLs.-Duponts Powder Mills, near Wilmington.
Delaware, exploded on the morning Of the 2lst
with terrible destruction of life and property.
The following dispatch gives the main particulars:
Wilmington, Del. Oct 22.-The explosion Of
Dupont's powder mills, on the Brandywine, yester-
day, occurred while men in the lower yard were
employed in loading powder dust at the press
room, to be conveyed to one of the other mills to
go through another process. one-horse cart
stood opposite the press-room door, partly loaded,
when the press-room blew up with loud crash.
The composition house soon followed. minute
or two later the glazing room went of. and two
rolling mills followed simultaneously, being five in
I'LL. seven men were hlleu, ana one OLQer Hau
| his arm broken. The wind vas nearly N. w. and
high at the time. 1t deadened the sound in the im-
mediate vicinity SO much that the men in the upper
yard did not cease work on the instant. Two Of
the men were blown into the Brandywine, one into
tree, and the headess trunk Of another blown on
the opposite side of the creek. OF the others,
nothing could be ascertained. A strange feature
of the explosion is, the horse was not killed. al
though standing in proximity to the pressroom
when it went off.
The cart to which he was attached, and which
was partly loaded with powder dust, was thrown
about in fragments and the horse was entirely
stripped of his harness, his hair singed off one eye
put out, and one leg broken, yet after the smoke
and dust cleared away, he was found Iimpng
about the yard exhibiting all the signs Of painful
agony which he suffered. To relieve him, he was
immediately killed. The Coroner visited the scene
of the explosion but could learn nothing, as the
witnesses all killed.
Their names are VIM. Moran. f. Dougherty,
Sweeny, Jacobs, Zebar, John Walsh and Michel
QDonnel.
THE GREAT EAsrERN.--Among the intelligence
; by the Anglo Saxon we find the following partcu-
lars of her recent trip from Portland to Holyhead:
The Great Eastern left Portland at o'clock, on
the afternoon of the sth, and anchored at Hoyhead
at p. NJ, on Monday, the 10th. The distance run
in the As hours is computed at something $50
miles. The average speed for the whole trip " as
little over 13 knots, but during greater part Of
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