Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1859-03-04

CASE OF FoRD.-0n Monday last, in
the Criminal Court of Baltimore, the
case of Ford, convicted of murder, was
taken up on motion to discharge him
from custody or give him new trial
This case had been taken to the Court of
Appeals on account of informality in the
rendition Of the verdict, and that Court
ordered a new trial, which Judge Stump
has refused to give. The following is
an extract of his opinion, delivered on
the occasion:
=" In other States there are acts of As
sombly providing writs of error in Grim
inal cases, but there are no such acts in
Maryland. 1t is principle of law that
every Court is a judge Of its own juris-
diction, and the Court cannot find any
act by which the Court of Appeals can
exercise any jurisdiction over it. This
Court cannot obey the procedendo of the
Court of Appeals, until it sees the au-
thority by which that Court attempts to
exercise its jurisdiction over it. If this
man should be tried for life the second
time, and be convicted, and hung by the
judgment of this Court, and it would af-
forwards appear that this Court had no
authority to try him the second time,
then the Court would be in peril of its
life, for doing what it was unauthorized
! to do. This Court will not try this man
again, until it knows that the Court Of
Appeals has such jurisdiction over it as
would justify it in proceeding to see
ond trial. The Court don't entertain any
jurisdiction over this petition, and does
not think it has any jurisdiction over the
case The Court refuses, therefore, to
entertain the petitions of the prisoner,
on the ground that it has no jurisdiction
as at present advised"
THE TURF. 1t is the intention Of a
Mr.. Robert Harlan, of Cincinnati, to
take three horses to England to contend
with the fast nags Of that country 1t
is said that those who know him think
that the American turf will be better
represented in Europe than it has been
by Mr.. Ten Brock Mr.. Harlan was
formerly a successful follower of the turf,
and proprietor of Rube, Sam Letcher,
Adelgitha, and Black Warrior. The
horses which he will take to England are
Des Chiles, Cincinnati, and Lincoln.
Ex- Ex-senator flanagan, of Indi-
ana, who died in st. Louis on Saturday
last, was native of Ohio. passed his
boyhood in Kentucky, and settled in In
diana, where he began the practice of
law. He was several times member of
the State Legislature, a Representative in
Congress from 1888 to 1897, Senator
in Congress from 1843 to 1910 and af-
forwards minister to Prussia. lie has
since resided in Missouri.
MAINLAND BANK NorEs Our WEST .-
The Cincinnati Commercial says:
/ w were SHOWN lcllcr from heSSrS.
McKim Il Co., of Baltimore, to Messrs
Evans & Co., of this city, saying that
bills of the Clinton Bank, Wcstcrnport,
Nd, have been received by them from
western correspondent, but that they
are ignorant of the existence of such an
institution, and do not buy its paper.
Ef'" Everett is not a newspaper writer.
and never can be- With all his immense,
talent he could not make daily paper
live six months, unless said paper was
sustained by means outside Of its legiti-
mate income. The same remark will APP
ply to Washington Irving, Longfellow
and all the other wcll-known literary gen
tlemen in this country. The least read
able daily paper issued in this country is
the one published at Burlington by SAKE,
the wittiesJ poetin Vermont. SAKE, is a
wit, scholar, and a man of genius, and
yet he could no more make a readable
newspaper than he could ovcrturn the
1 Pyramids.