The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1866-09-27
Correspondence Of the Clarion.

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koSCtUSAo, Miss, sept 10, 1850.
NJ Etidr As Your Factions correspou
dent, a Jackson Boy" inumates that
could only have seen, at one o'clock in en-
morning 50 few persons on S. Charles street
as Described IN my letter from New Orleans
| would hrst, inform him that do not keeI
such late hours, and, secondly, that 10y refer
ence To the New Orleans Crescent, Of the I'd
he viii end that am not only sustained in
my assertion, hut that the editor goes still
further but TO the extract;
That gaily dressed throug who are wont
10 promenade on Canal appears, ms Artcmas
Ward would SAY, 20 have been "passin
away the cating-houses and ice-Oruam sl-
looms are silent and deserted, and the res.
tlumteurs, TOR want of better employment.
fold theirarms and shrug their shoulders IN
front of their stands; Il ensen't pay to wait
at corners in expectation OF treats. and, in
fact. We walked, a night or tro siHoc through
he business part Of Canal sfftUt, az q rdib8'
early hour IN Rocrtpiag, teiihoat a,0fiHg a NI-
glo prolaeiddcr You can sometimes ride seat
ed in the cars with mo orinolne 60 order You
up or make afraid aud we can say that we
have rode right royalty from Que end of the
town TO the other with one of these yellow
couveyanccs all to oursclt"
Our Circuit Court has been of unusal in
tercst since my last First, we had the case
of the State against John NJ Robinson, for
the killing of George j, Wilson, IN lSd2--
This was ease which was tried at the last
term of the Court, and in which the jury
failed 70 agree. II was argued again for the
State by the District Attorney, Capt. a. T.
NJ Turner aud Jason Niles, Esq, aud for the
defense by Hon Il $. Hudson and j. r.
Hcmpill Esq Both parties discharged
their duty with signal ability, but the iurt
again failed either 10 convict or to set the
prisoner at liberty, after being kept out
three days and three nights upon the case
4 change of venue to Madison county has
been granted in this case
The case OIL. w. Shillcut, of Holmes Co,
for murder was called, but some material
witness being nbseut, the ease was continued
to the next term of the Court.
One Prince Stuclly was placed on trial for
larceny, for taking his sister-in-aW's cotton,
on the ground that IL was Government cot
Ton. The defence argued that the prisoner
was excusablc, because the appropriation of
cotton was a free tang and
that individuals were just as well entitled
to il ms Government "Cotton Agents, and
that the prisoner had repaid his sister the
value OF the cotton, Ac,, bnt the District At
torney could not see it in that light, and so
told the jury; upon the jury retiring, so did
the defendant, leaving his bondsmen TO set
tie the matter with the State.
Among the many important cases tried at
this term of the court and one which excited
the most feeling in the community, was that
IF the State against DR.. T.. X. Hughes, n selt
botanic doctor of this county,
for malicious Islander Tho case occupied
nearly the whole of Thursday, concluding late
AZ hight The offence was committed 10 the
prejudice and injury Of Miss Ellen GnsscoCk,
! highly respectable young lady, an orphan
girl, whose mother died several years since
md whose father, Archibald GlasscOclS, one
If the oldest settlers aud most respectable
,itlzens 0fthis county was biutally murdered
II April 1866 by some OF our conscript cayal-
" on the pretended ground of his Unionism
He was opposed to secession, IL is true, bnt
10 the South on the contrary, he gave up his
sons 10 our army. two OF them lost their
lives at Murfreesboro aud one at Grand Gulf
One son and this daughter Ellen are. all that
remain OF once numerous family.
The evidence went to show that Miss
Ellen. and her brother lived on their own
place aud had employed one Gober, a young
nan who lived in the family before the war,
a. aid in making the crop this year Some
.ine last spring there was II falling out be-
5ween Gober and his wife, the result was a
separation between them and n notice from
Mr.. GlasscOck to Mrs, GOber that she could
40 longer remain under hisroof Gober con
.inued to work upon tile place. Shortly
lftor this disturbance reports began 10 eircu-
ate derogatory to the character of Miss FL
en-, connecting her name with that Of Mr..
iober, until they finally eliminated, in Au-
gust, in her being charged with giving birth
o an infant and numbering IT, In all these
'eports DIR. Il. X. Hughes, Mrs fiober, his
liece, the Duncans, his aunt and uncle, ana
he Hughes family generally seemed the Ouly
4. X. Hughes figuring most
Onlthe pretenee of betjioHdiRg Miss Ellen
md riHdicaing himself as he expressed it,
lnd from rhdt the court failed to elicit from
he defendant, the evidence went to show
hat DIR. T.. X. Hughes pursued the young
ady with iiendish pertinacity unknown
before. tried to have her Indicially arraigned
or the reputed crime and left nothing nm
lone to fisten the charge upon her. The
ionng lady aud her relatives became justly
Indignant at these reports, cost what 10
night, il was determined that the matter
honld be cleared up. Three learned ply
icaiis were called IN who pronounced the
eport a malignant fabricationi the best
'itizens Of the neighbOrhoOd met together,
Investigated the report and as a result of
heir investigation published to the world a
ard dcnouncing DR. w. X. Hughes for Sian
lering Miss Ellen Glasscoek now, the State
axes np the ease and jury Of twelve men
rot only triurnphantly vindicate,l the char
'ctcr Of the young lady but yindioates the
majesty ofthe law by the conviction Of the
prisoner at the bar.
The prosecution was represented by the
district Attorney, Col Sol Calhoun, by
Judge X. s. Hudson and Capt. Geo. i. NJ.
Turner the defence by Jason Niles, Esq. The
which wins very thorough and
was conducted by the District
Attory, and tire jury addressed by Capt
Turner. more eloquent and forcible ap-
zeal ia behalf Of Injured innocence more
powerful demand for Justice % the reputa-
ion Of maligned tDrphan. has not been
ieard before IN onr Court House. The speak
n took mp the chain Ofevidcnce against the
PRISONER and dissected IL in q most mastery
manner, showing the hide0usDess 81 the plot
o ruin the character Of the yOnng lady, and
hat. too, under the guise Of friendship
The speaker, while very courteous in IAN
,uage, was very severe on the prisoner, but
rot more 30 than pdblic sentiment endorsed-
IN this mastery effcrf Capt Turner has -
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