Delaware State journal and statesman., 1862-12-02
Superintendent Of Water Works.
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PROCEEDINGS OF CoUNoiL.-The Council met
on Thursday evening
Mr.. Honingsworth reported that new plates
had been ordered for city drafts, making greater
number of notes OF a smaller denomination.
The monthly statement OF Aquia Prichard for
October, was reported correct.
The committee reported than the wharf at the
foot of Fourth st had been properly repaired.
Ii was also reported that the building over the
Fourth st. Market house had been insured for
$1,000
The committee on Fire companies reported that
under the existing law the donation Of $500 could
not be made, but they recommended luau OF
that amount on the Company giving lien on
their property, similar to the one existing sor the
previous loan OF $500.
Various lills were read aud referred
a communication was received from I. g.
Gayley, asking whether the ground at the corner
OF Sixth aud King streets could be proclred for
the erection OF Il school.
A petition was received from Mr.. Mills asking
the extension OF water pipes to supply six frame
houses on Lord street
A petition was received from Pusey, Jones, y
Co, aud others, asking that the gutter on Poplar
and Water streets, should b1 covered with iron
plates.
On motion of Mr. Day, an orliuance was read
iist and seeona time, providing that every
person who shall dig y privy well shall get "A
permit for the same, and when 1t was completed,
get certificate Of its proper depth from the City
Commissioner, for which said officer shall lie paid
fifty cents md for the neglect to do 81 a pen
atty Of S25 is imposed.
On motion Of MIR. Hayes the ordinauce chang.
ing $500 appropriated for the paving OF beds of
streets to the repairing and cleansing streets, wai
read third time and passed.
Mr.. Chandler stated that copies Of the Ordi'
uauoes Of the cities OF Hartford and Cincinnati
had heen received, and his motion tho thanks
Of the Council were returned aud the clerk
e directed To acknowledge the same.
r Ga motion Of Mr.. bay. n row OF tagging atonci
was directed to he laid across llth ST.
The ordinance ordering the further issue o
S5O 900 in small notes, was read a third time nn,
. passed.
A number ol bills were reported correct an,
orders directed to he drawn.
Adjourned.
A Scene IN CouRT.-When tie Court met las
L Tuesday morning, at New Castle, James II
c Booth, arose aud said: lour honors ma
IT have observed that | was engaged yesterday il
taking notes Of testimony, and | was surprise
Z last evening, by the Chief Justice remarking I
n me that the Attorney General did not recognz
Is ue US counsel in the case before the Court. ha
-, spoken to him few days previous when he sal
"a lie would consider the matter, aud from wha
- afterward passed, | was led to conclude that h
had no objections to my b,iug employed.
10 therefore examued the pleadings, the bill
= indictment, and on my suggestion the first hi
Is was disposed Of by the entering of nulle prose
Il. qui, and Il second one found, and proceeded
II prepare to take part in the case.
. Attorney General Wooten said he had not il
IL timated that he would consent to the propostir
IN OF Mr.. Booth that he had never recognized hi
m as counsel in the case, and that he did not NO
recognize him.
- Judge Houston expressed his surprise at Il
lg proposition, and said that 10 the better days
rb the court the taking of "blood money" was III
known, aud a proposition Of the kind would II
have found the least favor. He said the Attorn
General was an officer OF the Court, and it W
yn his business to see that justice WAS dispensed III
,ie that the accused was not improperly and unjust
convicted. He Lad been applied to on one
Gu two occasions when he practicei al the bar
he prosecute in capital cases. but he immediate
al declined such propositions In one OF two cas
in our Courts, within his knowledge, other cou
~ sci than the Attorney General had been emplOye
ell in one Of the cases that officer had declined
tie act, on account Of connection by marriage wi
- the accused and the other case was where t
20 Attorney General employed counsel to ass
IS him
ch Chief Justice Gilpiu concurred with Jud
no, Houston, and also alluded to the duties of
Attorney General and the cases referred to, a
ol remarked that in no case could he consent
)ur counsel taking part in prosecution whose
sis depended GU the conviction OF the accused
Judge Wooten cOncurred with the opinions
pressed by the Chief Justice and Associate Hot
ge ton, and expressed his views at some lenl
he against the piopriety Of an attorney taking pi
49,, against any one accused, who received mont
hu especially for that service
Mr.. Booth made one or two explanations, a
would have made a third one had he not be
checked by the Chief Justice After this he Il
I'VE the Court room, and did not return throught
H. the day, which was we'll, for the allusion by 4
ng' Gordon to the men who had sought the conv
"a tion of the prisoner so earnestly that they h
'n- put their hands iuto their pockets to raise bio
'nt money, and thus convert the Court into one
Is persecution instead Of prosecution, would hr
sounded very unpeasanty and the observat
lor Of Mr.. Fisher that he had rather his right a
rs should forget its GINNING, AMI Ills tongue clea
of TO the roof of his mouth, than that blood mon
zen should 90 into his pocket, was such as to nn
Of every one connected with the matter alluded
blush with shame.