Baton Rouge tri-weekly gazette & comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1865-18??, 1865-08-17

paper OF the 3D.. ! 81 ?
The editor remarks that his CORE
spondent is a gentleman entirely re-
liable, and that he writes from San
Antonio under date of July goth.
The communication is as follows
I'm your paper of the gath inst,
/ observe an announcement of the
probable murder and robbery of the
Hon. John Perkins, Jr, of Louisiana,
This announcement may give unea-
| siness to many Of his friends in this
State and Louisiana. 3asn
"A few days since | received a
letter from Judge Perkins at Piedras
Negras, stating he had arrived there
| safe in person, but that he had been
| robbed on the road of two hundred
dollars in gold, and that his two
guides were killed"
Parsons AND THINGs.-Past all
doubt there are laws governing this
world of humanity, over which man
with all his sovereignty has no con-
troll. One of them very clearly writ
ten, is this: The man who lives by
violence, must die by violence. So
is the Almighty edict, that the ma
ton that lives by the sword, shall
perish by the sword. Notwithstand-
ing the well known existence of the
law from the beginning, coupled with
the fact that the world has existed
some six thousand years or more,
still the principal occupation and
amusement of mankind has been and
still is, "killing each other" to set
tie questions over which they have
no control. The great drama of the
French revolution affords a pic
turesque and beautiful illustration of
the fact. The very man who in
vented the guillotine lost his head
by it, and they who used it on others,
when they had the power, found
themselves under the blade towards
their latter ends. All the refined in-
struments of modern torture-the
exeresceuces of what is miscalled
Christian civilization have been
turned against their inventors and
discoveries. ..it ~ Ts..E
The Parish Prison in this city,
affords beautiful illustration. Years
ago when that building was erected,
the editor of this newspaper thought
it his duty to examine the plan and
watch the progress of the work. He
demonstrated with the Police Jury
and Parish authorities about an in-
quisitorial box, called a dungeon, in
the center of the building, from which
the air and sunlight of heaven were
excluded, and into which there was
no entrance except by trap-door
on the second floor of the building.
In doing SO, he not only called down
on his head the vengeance of the
| President and members Of that body,
but the malediction of the Baton
Rouge Gazette, at that time in the
employ Of the Jury as public printer.
/ This venerable old institution lam
pooned us as severely as the Knight
of La Mancha did the windmill, and
with like effect. We contended
then as we do now, that all the yir-
tuous public had right to demand
was security for the culprit, and
there was no warrant in this to ex-
clude from him fresh air and the
sunlight. The first man placed in
this dungeon died there with the
yellow fever, and the question to this
day is unanswered as to his guilt.
After the excitement was over with
the papers and it was found impossi-
bic to get the jailer or any of his
employees to go down to feed the
| prisoners or invite them out to be
hanged, a door was cut in the wall
which fronts the main entrance. In
the early part Of the war just ter