The Mountaineer. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1859-1861, 1860-08-18

- 80 ~ - 4 ~ 49, W - NtCl1IIy In N
York ;icr the special. committee Il ~ co I.
mon Council, appointed to recoiSe ~ ~
Dassy, have been counting up ne 49,, s.. y,
the affair. On the 18th tlicT had ~. \.
first meeting. the session being s,, sasIt
The aggregate bills. as prassntSd idns " 3.
$l25, 600. of which over 500 Do1 ~. 49, y "
Metropolitan hotel bill. By sbar,, "a e.. w
ing, these bills, Il was found could " 49, ~.
down 70 : los, 600 Az the latter ss,,..
y was accordingly decided to snhn,;t 49, 49,,
"a the Common Council, for the usua 49, \
ton IN such cases, which win il 4, o,s ~.
their payment by tie conptroll.r NJ +.
remains 10 be seen, heweyer. whetb.. 4 e
comptroller will give his warrant an ny nv
payment Of the bills, the appropriation b. y.
cover the expenses being only $50 OOO q
Tins NuRDEa MAx1A. The iollo,s
melancholy picture is presented by NJ ~
ork exchange There must 81 so,,' !.
evil influence IN the air spreading m,,r5ss
Gus eentagion, for murder las become ~;
Edemlc. Besides thc home trapedie. II
have recently appalled, our CITY tI'e ~, %Is
graph brings Us intelligence Or othcrs. ~.
petrated az the same time III yarions mn.
Eof the Union. Every day brings rs g ~ y
cord Of fresh murders and attemn,s \, =
murder, and ii ISL noticeable cbaraet.r
isle Of the present bloody mania M,
women and children are tic most ireo,ar.
victims, Many Of these crimes are ihs
elects q sudden passion, and others no
doubt the results of D reeondite ipsapitr
but still it is lamentable 10 confess that ~
equal number are perpetrated from tha
base lust OF greed, and are planned r.
the calculations Of 4 ruthless sclfshn.Ss
ms spite of our boosted civilization and
the spread Of education and enlightenment
II may BE fairly questioned whether secret
Ecrllne Of an atrocioHs nature has sIlmin.
ished since the time when Jack tIaIla
made II q penal offence to learn ID read
and write. What IS to Sc done 10 arrest
tue cyilg Hanging has proved ineifectus
a, nor can II Dc shown that tile abolition
Eof the gallows has proved more success.
fut II civilization as popularly under
stood,.conld teach a man. 10 overcome Inc
base ieal. Of poverty, 10 cuancipate him
self from bis thraldom 10 pelf and his "a.
wardly subserviency to false convention
aiitles, empty pretensioHs and false az.
pearances;if, I'M "a word, instead OF teach.
ing q refinement Of cgotism, civilization
made men brave enough to.bc hollest ard
truly independent. there would be fewer
murders 70 report
Hicks TlIE MrRDERER: Albert W.
Hicks, the pirate, was executed on Bed
loe's island on July 18th, So numerous
Wure the steamboats, aud craft Of every
kind that The water was hardly visible
from the gallows, which was erected about
ten feet from the shore. IL Is estimated
that no less than TWENTY-FIVE thousand
persons witnessed the execution. III will
be remembered that. In the latter iaaft az
March. the sloop Ii A johnson was
stranded, aud, under circumstances
that gave rise to suspicious that those
on board had been murdered, and tho
ship abandoned The strange conduct Of
Hicks led TO his arrest and subsequent
trial. Tie case attracted unusual inter.
est, for the reason that no bodies were
found on board, thus rendering the charge
Of piracy the only one that could 81
brought against the accused, though Il
was evident that murder had been com.
mitted. After the conviction Of Hicks.
for piracy, he confessed that he had nIur.
dered Captain Burr and two young men
named Watts, who were on the vessel al
the time. The cnlprit has made colfes.
sion, IN which he gives the full details Of
his participations in nearly one hundred
murders Phc Pacific coast Of Mexico,
California and South America, appear 10
have been the principal theatres Of his
crime, and there he has been engaged
alone, or with Others, in robbing
and numbering simply for plumber, Be
Ing excessively aYaricious, the love Of
money secnst to have been the oyermaster
i1ts passion, and To obtnin which, he has
always been ready Il resort to the most
desperate means. He also certifes to
having had q hand in the slave trade, aud
relates q case where bis vessel was chased
by British cruiser, when, in order to e.
cape the consequences Of d capture with
slaves on board ,thennbappy creatures were
all gotten upfrom below, ranged ia the
waist Of the vessel, their feet secured 70 s
the ships chain, which, with the anchor,
was then let so BY the run, and the
whole let go to the bottom Of the ocean
The MuRprRKR RnEY. Jacob Riley
who murdered his sister in-laM and mo
thersin.law, at Brownsville, Minnesota,
on the 10th ult., committed suicide, BY
shooting himself 10 his own house. on the
18th. He has been secseted in the yiet
nifty ever since the murder.
DEsTRUqrlrE FRE New Orleans pa.
pels of july 18th, state that thirty
three buildings comprising the best por.
ton Of the town Of Dallas, Texas, wers
burned on the 18th. Loss from $500, 600
Y $500, 0e0, barely covered BY insurance.
ASorHKn .FIRE IN Sins SlSc. On ST.
turday the Iith, 4 FIRE was discovered IS
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