Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1859-11-30

Of his direct leadei / have shown you
also, the "falsc andmslignant counses."
in behalf Of this sal enterprise, emanat-
ing from those in place, power and pc.
sition. 1t might hive been your prodi.
gal son borne away and seduced by such
counsels, as well al my young client
Do with him IS you would have your
own child dealt by under like circum-
stances. He has hen stolen from the
principles of his ancestors and betrayed
from the teachings Of his kindred. If
he was your own handsome child, re.
pcutant and coufesing his wrong to his
country, what would you wish jury Of
strangers to dc ? That do yourselves.
BY that rule guide your verdict and
the poor boon of mercy will not be cut
off from him. He thought the country
was about to be convulsed, that the
slave was pining for an opportunity
to rise against his master; that two
thirds OF the laborhg population of the
country, No tn AMI South, would flock
to the standard OF revolt !; that single
day would bring ten, filty-yea, humid
red thousand men-to arms in behalf of
the Instruction of slaves. This is
in evidenced. Who are responsible
for such terribly false views /! and
what kind OF a visionary and dreamy
mind is that which has SO fatally enter
tanned them? That the prisoners mind
is plant to the impressions, whether tor
good or for evil, by which it is surround
ed, let his first interview in his prison
with Gov. Willard, in the presence Of
your Senator, Col. Mason, bear witness.
His error was placed before him. His
wrong to his family and his country
was drawn by patriotic, and, at the
same time, an afectiouate hand. lis
natural being at once asserted its sway.
The influence of good, and not of evil,
once more controlled him as in the days
of childhood and now here before you
he has the merit at least Of loyal citi~
zen making all the atonement in his
power for the wrong which he has com
mitted. That he has told strictly the
truth in his statement is proven by every
word of evidence in this case. sur
render into your hands the issue Of life
and death. As long as you live more
important case than this you will never
be called upon to try. Consider 1t,
therefore, in all its bearings. I have
tried to show you those facts which 60
to PALATE the conduct Of the prisoner.
Shall l 60 home and say that in justice
you remembered not mercy to him =
Leave the door of clemency open, do not
shut it by a wholesale conviction. Re-
member that life is an awful and a sa-
cred thing; remember that death is ter
rible-terrible at any time, and in any
form.
Come to the Bridal Chamber, Death,
Come when the mother feels,
For the first tine her first born's breath
Come when the blessed seals -
That close the pestilence are broke,
And crowded cities vail it's stroke;
Come in consumption's CHASTITY form,
The Earthquake shock. the Oceans storm !;
Come when the heart beats high and warm
With banquet song, and dance, and wine,
And thou art terrible The groan,
The Enell, the pail, the bier,
And all we know. or dream, or fear
| OF agony are thine
But when to the frightful mien Of the
grim monster, when to the chill visage
of the spirit Of the glass and scythe, is
added the hated and dreaded spectre of
the gibbet, we turn shuddcring from the
accumulated horror. God spare this
bow and those who love him. from such
a scene of woe.
From Pixies PEAK-Mr. Ford, for
mer proprietor Of the Eureka House, in
this iy, who went to Pixies Peak last
spring, returned on Monday evening,
having spent the season in prospecting 10
and about the new mines.
He brought with him some 800 pounds
of quartz rock, containing elegant speci-
mems of gold, silver, copper and lead,
from Fisk, Dallas, Kansas, Burrows,
CRASHED, New York, Forks, Roberts,
and other leads. The Dallas lead he re-
ports as being the richest he ever saw,
yielding gold, silver, copper and lead in
large quantities. He thinks the quartz
from that lead will produce about $40
worth of silver to the ton, and from
$50 to $40 worth of gold.
Mr.. Ford also exhibited to us some
splendid specimens of shot gold. taken
taken from the South Park diggings, on
the South fork of the South Platte. At
the time these specimens were obtained,
the miners were making one ounce per
day to the hand.
1t is generally known that silver is
never, or rarely at least. found in a clear
state; nevertheless, Mr.. Ford brought
with him variety of small nuggets OF
pure silver. Although he did not dis
cover any quicksilver, he has no doubt
tina. it exists there in large quantities, as
the gold found near the surface gave in
dications of having been acted upon by
that metal.
Mr.. Ford has had much experience 10
California m ming, and he thinks the
Pixies Peak region will prove far richer
than that. He says he saw more quartz,
and that of richer quality, in ten miles
square, at the Peak, than he saw from
Sonora to the mouth of the Columbia
river. The geological appearance Of the
two localities is similar. The rock in
the new mines, however, is much easier
worked, six stamps doing As much exc
cution as ten would in California.
Mr.. Ford proposes to take his speci-
mems on to New York, have them as
saved, and ascertain the prOpOrtiOnAte