Daily gazette and comet. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1856-186?, 1860-03-28
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debate - Etcha1ge .
Let the criminal live to receive
the certain punishment that was
decrecd in the beginning. rlace
him within prison walls, where n
ray Of hope can never enter to
promise him u return to society. a.
which he has forfeited his natural
rights Let not the perdoning
power roach such. II IL does, the
very bonds of society are loospnrd,
and all restraint ia torn away from
the basest passions Of the human
mind Imprisonment Cor life. ia
Che only compromise tu ho made
between the fire aud brimatone
school ul thoologiane au one hand.
and the hnmanitariana nn tho other.
TuF puisoNiNa ArFAtp The last
wv 'PiHlfN'p w lllS lhlllflH pHNl w
New Orleans. Is from the Delta ne fol.
lows. II gives ne pleasure to state
that no further deaths have taken
place among the victims IT the POI
Roaing ALA, IN the Fourth Diat,iet,
the particulars of which We published
this morning.
Mr.. bemlev aud his wife, their two
daughters, Mra. Young and her two
daughters, Miss Salie Hall. Mics En-.
ily Searles, Mrs Mckee and her two
daughters Mis-. Phelps and her son.
and Mica llulnos, (not Boullgnv. "a
VIZ had Il tlis morning all lid fair
TO recover from the effects of the poi.
son SO 'teachcrdusly administer, It.
Mr.. Lemlpy and wife have recovered
most of any but their daughters nre
still quite sick, and 80 are Mrs. Phelps
and her sou and young lady guest.
All are under the very best medi
cal attendance aud Il will br happy
thing indeed II al escape The death
which had been so hellshly planned
Cor them.
Mrs, Young aud her family are via.
ttors from Nickshurg. aud Miss Rul.
nes Ia u visitor from Baton Rouge.
The news Of their sickness and mar.
row eecspe from death will create n
sensation among their relatives and |
friends 1T home.
ES.Alderman Phelps ia at preser,
in Mexico, II is sad thing for his /
family to I've stricken down 40 cruelty
during his absence from home.
Coroner Beach and Chief Adams
went uptown this morning. TO CON.
tinue their researches into the mystic.
ry of the poisoning
nsn- Many anecdotes have lately |
been published of the celebrated |
and eccentric Mr.. Potter. who.
either from want Of ability or will.
was seldom known TO pay his nc.
tors, aud who, under all oircum.
stances. preserved n oalmncss and
indifference 10 duns which was
highly amusing M well astonishing
The following anecdoto, though
stranger 10 the public generally, is
aa old acquaintance to- actors. One
day n member 10 the company
came in great distress Go Mr.. Pot.
ter. aud said with tears in his
eyes, MIR. Potter, | have been
with you three months and YOU
have not paid me cent am
very poor and deeply in debt for
my board. My landlord says if
don't pay him to-day, he will put
me in jail "Well. my boy," an
severed Potter, oooiiy, you know
II he puts You in jail you 'front.' hare
30 pcy board"
GRrMDLrRs. III You find a man
disposed 10 complain of the cold
ness of the world, YOU may I've sure
that he has never brought any.
thing into the world TO warm il,
but is personal lump Of ice set
in the midst of It. II you find n
man who complains that the world
Is all base and hollow, tap him,
and he will probably sound base
and hollow. Aud so in the other
way kind man will probably find
kindness all about him. Tho mcr.
citul man as n general thing, will
obtain mercy, He who has always
had kind excuse for others who
has looked at the brightest side of