Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1865-07-22
1aE NARY HARRIS YEkpICT.
Opinions Of the Press,
From the New York Trisune ~
The Acouitt,r

rather better educated, and moved. pern az
In E!tie higher circle than she did. They
| they came together, Were very fond OF each
otner, and had an understanding, il no: pos
| iuye engagement, that they wsze IN due time
1 70 be married.
So far, there is nothing peculiar or distress.
ing In the case of these young people. Most
gnis nave beaux-we mean one apiece--or
wish they had And if ..the course of true
love" had only run rs it too often won't thew
would probably have been as happy fT az
humdrum, and as uneonspisueus as the most
OF us.
But Mary, being mainly out of sight, in time
was out of mind. Burroughs, tired of his en- :
gagement (or understanding, wrote less fre-
quently and less feryently; finally became &C :
quainted with another, whom he found more
attractive than Mary, wooed, won, and was
married-not 10 his earlier love. Hence disap-
pointment, jealousy, bitterness, revenge and
mur-but no, we must respect the verdict, and
say, insanity.
We reject the hypothesis that Burroughs
sought to entice his atiianced into a den of in -
fanny. 1t is not clearly proved; and there was
no rational motive for such an act of villainy.
there is no suggestion, no hins, that he ever
said or did anything that Miss Harris should
nave resented throughout the years of ther
nnreserved intimacy and her undoubting af-
1ecuon. That must be a most supererogatory
scoundrelism that would thoroughly respect
her mafuen purity under such circumstances
yet afterward seek, by an anonymous note in q
disguised hand, to lure her into a den Of shame
Who could fail TO realize that innocence would
be alarmed and repelled by such palpable en- .
ucements or infamyl
Burroughs jilted Mary Harris, and she sho.
him. Had she Tilted him, and he had therefore
shot her, nobody would have adjudged him
guilty OF insanity. But she is a woman; and it
is virtually adjudicated that a woman who
shoots the man who has heen faithless 70 her is
necessarily insane. We don'tsee it, ~
Yet there is rough, .'wid Justice" in this
and kindred verdiets. Cur laws are made by
men, and they are not just to woman. They
ought to punish the conspirator against female,
purity severely; but they do not, because too
many of our legisle tors and iurists are liber
tines. That is rather blunt way of stating il:
but 1t is the fact. This city is full to-day OF
dens OF lewdness, each of them a perpetual
snare snl l tor fen female innocence Every woman
Tor man) who makes a gainful trade Of minis
terlng TO others lechery should be felon by
statute; every one who conspires or aids tS,
deprive the girl OF her virtue should be pun.
lshed at least as severely as burglar, forger
or a highway robber They are not so punished,
because 1t is to many magnates inconvenienc
that they should be. Yet the wrong is felt,
though not redressed; hence the rude exeuation
effected by such verdicts as that which has ius
acquitted Miss Harris.
From the New York Times.l
Photography Viewed in the Light Of So
A.if,nxo.ea Siai eli m Science.
the Mary Harris trial. we find in Yesterday
evenings papers an account of the arrest of a
foolish young fellow for meddling with female
affections by way of advertising to furnish
husbands and wives at the moderate price OF
Is cents. (Some Of them would be ruinously
dear ever at that tigure) Well, in spite Of tho
thousand times exposed humhug Of this ad.
vertising dodge, there are females whose
withered hearts are set pitt pat by such fun
merry; and in this case a sweet damseI, who
owns owns up to to the age of %, tmore likely .o,D
ROCHESTER, N. Y, July IA, 1866.
X. o. N.-Sir IL have read your advertise.
ment You can send me the photograph Of
my future husband, as am .,Ixious to know
who the fortunate man is to be. / enclose the
Is cents, expecting you will send the picture
by return mail. send lock of hair-age 80,
eyes dark brown or hazel, height feet ia
inches. Don't disappoint me.
Very respectfully, &c, MRS. -.
Now, in this ridiculous old female and the
Jeremy Diddler to whom she writes, the pub.
lie will take no interest-one is fool, the other
a knave, and there's an end. But, in view OF
the late disgraceful farce at Washington, to
pose the smart young man sends the picture OF
that future husband" and suppose, reader,
that picture should be yours (for we are SO
hesr q ypa
er's demand that you patch up the broken
heart OF a forty -eigLt year old sister by a sum
you know nothing about her--never heard OF
her 1t won't do; she may come down from
eS ne1ric Sn, S.,n sh pistol. abe nay Ssiay a
cardium with conical bullet, and you may
die. as you ought to, under the circumstances.
w hat thenl The gentle and lovelorn forty
eight year old Chloe may be indicted, and some
district attorney may bring her to
trial. The trial is hardly begun, when tits dis
first, that you must have promised TO
marry her, else how could she have had pos
session Of your portrait! Secondly, that she
must be rabdly insane, else how could she fan
cy such an ordinary looking fellow. Thirdly,
that since s'there Is a method in madness" and
any woman in her right mind would have been
glad to get rid of You. And, to amplify and
make the most of such points against You or
rather against your memory, you will find
vii ind nt-kl
at hand: or if they should fail here, change OF
venue to Washington will secure tnen
From the Baltimore Americana
The Mary Harris Trial.
The reports of the trial of Mary Harris, in
Washington, for the murder Of A. ]. Bur-
-oughs assert with curious unanimity that the
verdict rendered was that of acquittal, precise-
y as everybody e9pected. 1t may be true that
expected the jury to be governed in
their decision more by their sympathy than by
the law and the testimony. But why such ex-
pectations! What right was there to presume
that twelve intelligent men should declare a.
deliberate murderess to be not guilty of proven
crime! Nobody believes that the defence OF
Miss Harris was clearly made out. Those who
were most gratified by the introduction Of that
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES not stultify
their own Understanding by trying to con vince
themselves of the 'insane impulse" and the
s'moraI justification" SO freely harped upon by
the counsel for the defendant. .sItis impossible
said the District Attorney, sto acquit this wo-
man on the ground OF insanity. II you want to
not on such nonsence AS insane impulse" More
over. it was not proved and it is not presumed
that Burroughs had criminally wronged the
girl or assaulted her honor. Had such been
the case, there would have been some color
ing for the action of the jury 1t was
shameful betrayal, but women
have been deceived and betrayed in all gener-
atoms. The rupture of plighted troth is an
old story-old and yet ever new--but as des-
picable and wicked, and as blighting and
runous as ever. 1t deserves the several pen
alties, but up to the present time it has not
been supposed that breach of promise would
Justify the commission of homicide. The YER
dict Of the jury stamps the application Of the
ast degree of punishment in this world as O
lifting one for such an injury. 1t is an assur-
ince to every woman who deems herself ag-
yrieved III the same way that she may have
'ecourse to the same remedy, and nat only
obtain popular favor and sympathy, but enjoy
from the penalties prescribed by
he law II this is to be the precedent for the
weaker sex, the ''gay deceiyers'' who otrifie with
heir affections must blame none but themselves
fthey find themselves suddenly launched into
he circle specially provided for such treach-
rOus scamps in Dante's Inferno. They GER.
ainly have sufficient warning. If the mnrdei.