New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-06-15
VOLUME Kill.
Neh Orleans 1ailp Grsstsnt
FRIDAY MORNING, JUNE Ii, 1860.
gofaI gntelligente.

telegraph went into operation yesterday at noon.
BY this we mean that all experimental beltapping
and useless messages were stopped, and the whole
grand apparatus cooked and primed, kept perfectly
quiet in expectation Of any fire or police business
that might be telegraphed to it. -s
The intelligence of some people who read the
papers was refreshingly manifest. They crowded
the central office at u o'clock to see the telegraph
8ago into operation and were not little non
plussed at seeing everything remain perfectly
quiet, and the operators loafng around as thoug
they never expected to have anything to do. The
crowd doubtless expected to see the whole appa.
ratus start off, like the machinery of cotton mill.
The firemen and the town generally waited
during the remainder of the day and night, in
anxious expectation of fire, inst to hear how the
bells would ring by telegraph. Last night the
anxiety was intense, and had fire broken out it
might reasonably have been attributed to incen
diarism, resulting from desire TO hear the bells
ring by telegraph.
Police messages Travelled over the wires freely
and clearly The only message Of public interest
received at the central Office was from the Third
District, announcing the death of one Dupuy, at
Collins plantation, from sunstroke.
VERY Coon, CONSIDERING THE WgArnER.-Mrs.
Bridget Handley, residing at No. liz Dauphine
street, yesterday morning gave birth to three
bouncing boys. The boys and the mother, and
likewise the father, were doing as well as could
be expected last evening.
THE ORLEANS CoTToS Pass FigE..-The follow
ing are the final and correct particulars of the fire
of Wednesday afternoon: 1000 bales Of cotton be-
longed to Messrs. Wood 4 Low, and were insured
in Boston. The other 1000 bales belonging to
Messrs. Rotchford, Brown & Co. were insured in
the Merchants Insurance Company of this city.
Loss on this lot about $4,000; the building and
machinery s25 ,o00-insnred in different offices in
this city. 7."5 5.5. An
HIS LAST DAy.-Matthew Hughes will to-day
render up his life, in expiation of the murder of
young Hyams. He has for some time been re-
ceving religious mnistrations, and says he is re-
signed to his fate and fully prepared for it. He
has written to the Chief Of Police letter, in which
he claims that lie was not murderer at heart
had nothing against Hyams, and did the shooting
solely under the frenzied influence of liquor. This
letter will be made public after his death.
| CoRoNER's ISouEsrs. The following are the
latest of the inquests held by Coroner Beach and
his indefatigable deputy, Mr.. Soraparu: -
| On the body of Bernard Wonder Huer, aged one
wear, who died on board the steamboat Maria
Denning, of bilious fever
| On the body Of Elias Rifle, aged thirty native
| Of France, found dead in house Toulouse
street. between Leyee and Chartres. Verdict, apo
plexy.
| On tfe body of Francois Chrysostomus Chalette,
aged thirty-seyen years, native OF France, who
died at his residence Main street, between Rob-
ertson and Claiborne. Verdict apoplexy. The
deceased, it is said. was the lover of the slave
midwife Omer Taggert, whose murder, by Joe
Smith, I. m. c., was his account; and it is said
that Ghalettes fatal apoplexy the result Of in
cessant drinking begun at the time of the murder
| and kept up ever since.
| An inquest was held yesterday on the body OF a
man in the First District who died of sunstroke
his name we did not learn.
| FIRsr DISTRICT CouRr-tTadge Utnt.--The Court
was crowded yesterday TO hear the sentence OF
death passed upon Eugene Pepe, or adams, con-
yicted Of the murder of Michael Dedinger. The
doomed man looked cool and unconcerned; and
the spectators being breathlessly silent, Judge
Hunt, in most solemn and impressive manner
delivered the sentence as follows:
! Eugene Adams you are here to-day to receive
the sentence of the law under conviction for the
murder of Michael Dedinger.
/ 1t is proper on this solemn occasion to declare
that you had an impartial trial by jury OF y0ui
i countrymen5 that yon enjoyed and exercised al
the rights aeG9fdca by law to an accused; anG
i that your defense conducted with great abi
4 ity by learned, experienced and eloquent counsel
But your convictien was inevitable: it was the re
suit of the cleaFest fullest and most conclusive ev
/ dence of guilt it was i'll the course OF public
Justice and in the order OF prevalence. The evi
dence in the case has been reported by the news
papers faithfully and in detail, but the Court fol
the more easy and ready appreciation of the sent
ence of the law, will make brief statement Q
the prominent facts
Michael Dednger kept eoaeehouse at the cor
ner of st. Andrew and Laurel streets. On the Stt
Fl April, 1853, you went there to take drink. 1oi
behaved in disorlerly manner. breaking somt
of the glasses. Dedinger told you he would no
allow you to lin that way; and he laid his hand
upon you gently and lawfully, and put you out o
the house. In few minutes after, you passed il
front of the coffeehouse where Jacob Dednger
boy of fourteen years OF age, the son of the de
ceased, was playing at marbles with another boy
You trod upon Jacobs heel, and he looked up AM
saw that you bad long knife in your hand, ant
were going towards the harroom He was alarmed
and ran to warn his father against you. This wa
about o'clock at night. The doors of the coffee
house had been closed but not fastened. At TIL
same moment that Jacob ran TO his father, yel
broke the glasses of the door St. Andrew street
and passing rapidly round to the door on Laure
street, pushed it open, and rushed fernciously npo
Michael Dedneer laying hold of him with on
which you bore in the other. He then also la
hold of you. When thus elinched together, yo
suddenly let your body drop, and fell, causing hin
to fall upon yuu, and yea then gave him a secon
fatal stab in the side. He struggled with you ant
| with the aid Of his daughter the knife was take
from you. He rose and walked five or six steps
and tell dead.
II Michael Dednger was unarmed; he was in hi
own house, and in the midst of his own family; h
had given you no cause Of proyocation, and hat
only maintained towards you his right to his pro
perry and to the orderly and peaceahle Rianage
ment of his coffeeh0use. His wife, and daughter
and son, and an old named Crap, were th
wretched witnesses of this savage action. Whe
N Dediager fell dead, as if transformed into q will
beast, in figure as well as in spirit, you ran ava
/ on your all-fonrs-on your hands and feet.
4 An attempt was made on yaHr part to prov
4 that there had been a contest between you an
the deceased, and that when he put you out of tn
house hethrew you down with great violence; bsl
it was b complete failure; the testimony intrN
| daced by you not commanding the respect and be
| Lief Of the jSry..
| UpGn the evidence ahare stated, the Jury cor
csaded that yoa had been instigated to the honcid
hy wicked aad depraved spirit and thai TIL
facts attending tle killing shaved heart regard
less OF social duty, aud fatally bent upon the de
struetion of the lRe of fellow creature aud the
accordingly returned verdict against you.
The law of Louisiana for the purpose OF gsvin!
: security and protection to human life, provide
thai whoever shall commit the crime of muras
shall be ent of forever from society, either b!
death OF by Imprisonment at hard labor for life il
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