The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1859-03-19

Telegraph NcwSs sses
WAsuIse1os, March IL.
The President is still inclined to call an cx
tra session, though heis opposed by most OF
the Cabinet, especially by Secretaries Cobb
and Thompson. lie told Senator Gwin late
ly that proclamation would be issued call
ing session on the 22nd of August. Mr..
Holt made this positive condition of his
going into the Cabinet. Several Senators
are here awaiting the decision.
Mr.. Gwin leaves town to morrow, but will
learn the purpose of the Cabinet before start
ing.
The examination of the Sickles case by the
Grand Jury has taken new turn, and may
OCCUPY a week or more. Il is the wish of
the counsel of Mr.. S. to have a pro forma in
dictment from the Jury and to leave the facts
to be developed before the Court. Such was
also the public expectation, but the course
pursued BY one or two Of the Jury in assum-
ing dictatorial position and becoming pros
ecutors have aroused counter feeling, and
the Jury have now determined to investigate
the whole case.
Mr.. Butterworth's case has been enquired
into. Senator Gwip, Governor Walker and
others, were examined to- day and fully cor
roborated Mr.. Butterworth's statement. 1t
is said that the Grand jury are almost unani-
nous for exoulpating him.
New YORK, March 1.-THE body of Hon.
Mike Walsh, ex-member Of Congress from
this city, was found thie a. m. in the area Of
building in 9Th avenue. He had been rob-
bed and murdered.
Another account says Mike was found dead
at the foot of the steps with his neck broken
supposed to have + lsn while in state Of
The Lesson OF Murder.
We have caused to be collected from our
files llst of the known homicides which have
been committed in this Christian Metropolis
during the fourteen months commencing with
the lst of January, 1858, and ending with
the last month. They number forty-two in
aIt, beside the many instances in which muir.
der was medleated and attempted, but not
accomplished. We shall not infict the ghast-
ly catalogue on our readers, since the lesson
thence derived may be acquired at second
hand. Suffice it that twenty eight out Of
these forty-two homcdes were committed
under the direct and palpabe inspiration of
Alcoholic madness. The perpetrators were
either drunk, or frenzied by q long debauch,
or fighting in grogsheps, often about pay
ment for the liquor they had just swallowed.
In onecase, a bartender, being involved in
| a quarrel with q customer, chased, pistol in
hand, that customer into the crowded street,
and fred, missing his intended victim, but
shooting an estimable and widely known cit-
| izen, who, with his wife, was on his way to
church, that being Sunday evening. In the
| fourteen cases where the Coroner's inquest
did not trace the crime directly and palpably
! to the rum cask, jealousy was three times as
| signed as the cause--and We need hardly re-
mark that jealousy seldom msnifests itself
in murder under the inspiration Of cold wa
ter. Two or three OK the remaining casea
were accidental or justi6able; in several, no
clue to the perpetrator, no explanation of
| tho circumstances. was elected. Ii lie GER
tainly within the truth to assume that Intox-
cating Liquors are the impelling cause of
three-fourths of the murders perpetrated in
| this City and elsewhere that not fewer than
twenty-five human beings are each year
butchered under the influence Of Liquor in
| this City alone, while throughout the coun-
try, the number can hardly fall below FIVE
hundred.
! And this, though one Of the most appalling,
! is by no means the only, and is far from be-
ing the most nsual of the malign results OF
the manufacture, sale and consumption OF
Alcoholic Liquors. The thieves, burglars
and other criminals who infess our City are
nearly NIL liquor drinkers--many of them
drunkards. They gather unobserved in the
low GROCERIES, to concoct roberies, and again,
after their crimes have been committed, to
divide the spoil, and make merry over their
success. Over eight thousand public pau
pcrs are nearly oil graduates Of these semi.
nares Of vice, or the unfortunate widows and
/ - uho ~ !,
Liquor Traffic could be annihilated to-mor.
row, more than One Million Dollars per an
mum of the sums now pnid for the detection
and conviction Of criminals and the support
of paupers might be left in the pockets from
which taxation now wrenchcs it. We NIGH
dispense with large portion Of our Police,
and with at least one OF cur Criminal judge
if we could only be measurably rid of Intox
icating Liquors. II they could not be OBJ
tanned at any price, and all public provision
for the relief OF the destitute were utterl,
abolished, there would be far less suffering
from want and restitution than there now is
Nay; free us utterly and irrevocably frou
the curse Of Intoxicating Drinks, and We vii
gladly consent to live without police, ant
without the protecting arm OF the Law, as
surcd that there will be fewer crimes ant
outrages committed than there now are.-
IN. Y. Tribune.
CHiLpREs's QuKsrIoNs.-lf question i
asked, on a subject beyond their comprchen
sion, say at once, "You would not under
stand that, my dear, until you are older."-
Ii it is wrong, say that it 10 not . prope
question. If your treatment of your chill
dren 10 reasonable, they will eperfectly sat
isfed with your word; and you must not al
low them to tease you with more questions
If, on tie other hand, you do not know tn