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Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1868-12-10

We recently published an article from the
Boston Post, the leading Democratic paper
of New England, commenting severely, but
dispassionately, on the mode Of Furnishing
criminals in this State. As showing that
this sentiment is not the result of 'sYankee-
ism, in the sense in which that word is used
by the advocates of the lash, we clip the
following from that conservative Southern
paper the Norfolk journal -
We see in most of the Northern papers
description of the whipping OF seven men,
both white and colored, in New Castle, Della
ware, on the 2lst inst, The cuprits were of
oil ages from fourteen to seventy. To the
honor of the sheriff be il said that he per-
formed his disgusting duty in the mildest
manner possible.
We dare say that some of these criminals
deserved a severe punishment, bur we totally
object to the mode. The tortures of the
whipping-post and the pillory belong to the
past, and we regret that they should be re-
tanned among the punishments recognized
by the laws Of any civilized people, save for
refractory criminals already in penitentiaries.
We trust that Delaware will speedily abol.
ish this kind Of punishment, and adopt some
mode less harbarous, and at the same time
more effective ftf tht purposes If iIsttce.
Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1868-12-10

A CORRESPONDENT, referring to the whip
ping question asks for ''the facts as to the
efficiency of our present penal system in
checking or diminishing crime. They will
probably be difficult to get, even by the plan
he proposes-comparison with other locali-
ties similarly situated,-the difficulty being
to find any whose circumstances are precisely
like our own. A better plan is to show the
experience of the past in other States, who,
after careful test, have abolished the ruder
system of punishments. The statistics Of
crime in Delaware have never been regularly
preserved; in other States they have been,
and by their experience we must profit, un
less we choose to disregard the whole pro
gress of the civilized world and throw our
selves in the face of its revolutions.
Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1868-12-10
The Two Routes from Norfolk to the
North.

BY the Annamessic route Norfolk is near
er in time to Philadelphia than she is to
Baltimore. The distance from Norfolk to
Philadelphia by this line is two hundred and
forty-seven miles, of which one hundred and
sixty-three are by rail, and eighty-four by
boat while though the distance from Nor
folk to Baltimore is only enc hundred and
ninety seven miles, yet it is all by steamer.
Subtractisg the eighty-four miles from Nor
ok to Crisfield from each route, leaves the
distance of one hundred and thirteen miles
on the Baltimore route by water TO be COM
pared with one hundred and sixty-three
miles on the Annamessic route by railroad,
which latter can be travelled in less time
than the former. NORFOLK journal.
Just so, Norfolk should have remember
ed this before the steamers ON the Annames-
sic line were withdrawn. For some unex
planned reason, however, during the contin
nance OF that line the sympathy of the whole
business community Of Norfolk seemed en-
tirely with the line which makes the cit,
tributary to its powerful rival, Baltimore.
Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1868-12-10
The HuKlux Ia tennessee

A special dispatch from NASHVILLE 10 the
Cincinnati Gazette says:-
An old colored man has arrived in the city
from Haywood county, who tells a frighfll
tale Of rebel prosecution and oppression,
He is pcaceahle citizen, owns II hundred
and fifty acres of land, and was quietly cul
liyating 1t with his sons. A few nights since
his home was attacked by KuKlux; a repu
lar battle was fought between the old man
and his sons on one side, and the masked
devils ON the other. At last, one of The
sons being shot in the shoulder, the old man
left the house, taking gun with him, and
took up position in the woods near by.-
Three times the KuKlux endeavored 10 sci
llre TO the house, but each time the old man
hired upon them and drove them off. The
result of the fight was that four rascals were
severely wounded The next day the old
man left with all his sons. leaving his prop.
erly and crops to 60 to ruin.
"A letter was received from one the civil
officers OF that county to-day declaring that
the colo.cd people there have neither perso-
nal protection or law, and if any refugees
return 1t will be nj the peril Of their lives.
Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1868-12-10

JUDGE KELLEY, of Pennsylvania, on Mon
day. presented in the House of Representa-
tives, at Washington, the proposition further
to amend the Constitution, as follows:-
Resolved (two-thirds Of both houses con-
curring), That the following be proposed to
the Legislatures of the several States us an
amendment to the Constitution of the United
States, which, when ratified by three-fourths
of said Legislatures, shall be valid as part OF
said Constitution, namely:
ARrIcLE.-No State shall deny to or ex-
clude from the exercise of any Of the rights
and privileges of an elector, any citizen Of
the United States by reason OF race or color
Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1868-12-10

THE DEMOCRATIC HOWL over the untounu-
Cd and desperate idea which tired their
heads after the election, that possibly Grant
might apostatize, has yisibly subsidized. We
never felt concerned in the matter as we
never doubted the man whom we were prob
ably the second paper in this country to
name as the proper person TO become the
standard bearer of the Republican party in
the late contest. But even amongst those
who did not then agree with us, there is
growing feeling Of confidence in tae brave
General whom the Nation has chosen as it,
Chief. Gen. Boynton, an earnest radical
republican, the Washington correspondent
Of the Cincinnati Gazette telegraphs that
paper as follows
In spite of General Grants reticcncc,
enough has leaked out concerning his views
of the political situation, and the relations of
parties. to effectually check the prediction
that Grant would disappoint the Republi-
cans, which slipped so glibly from conserva-
tive lips fortnight ago. He has talked
freely, regarding political matters, with sew
eral prominent Republicans, and while, OF
course, no portion Of this conservation can
be published, it is not too much to say that
these persons have been struck, both with
the clear and comprehensive view which thu
new President takes of public affairs and
policy, and also thoroughly satisfied with
the earnestness with which he supports the
general features of Republican policy The
gentlemen thus satisfied are Radicals.
Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1868-12-10

phase which will certainly be gratifying to
the public, who have lost interest in the
show as it has been managed After the adj
journment of the United States Circuit Court
on Friday, the counsel in the case were re-
called, and the Chief Justice announced that
the Court was divided, he, fChase) being in
favor Of quashing the indictment, and Dis
trict Judge Underwood opposing it. This
division was certified 10 the Supreme Court
Of the United States. before which the ques-
lion will he arolled
Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1868-12-10

THE PILLORY AND THE LASH.
When the representatives of the Ameri-
can Colonies declared their independence
Of the British government, they assigned as
their reason for proclaiming the causes which
led to the separation, ga decent respect for
the opinions Of mankind. Ii the opinions of
mankind" arc deserving of this respect, GER
tainly the opinions of our fellow countrynlen
are entitled 10 even more consideration.
Now 1t is fact that outside this State
there can scarcely be found single individ-
ual who approves the peculiar methods here
resortcd 10 for the punishment Of criminals;
that but few can be found who will
consent even TO apologize for them, while the
great mass Of the people openly condemn
the pillory and the whipping post as relics
Of barbalism which are shame and dis
grace in any civilized community. Every
other State that has used these instruments
Of punishment has discarded them, and Del
aware now stands alone in clnging to them,
To-day throughout the length and breadth
of our land millions of people will be read
ing in Northern newspapers the story of
our shame, for such we regard any account
Of Saturdays proceedings Thousands of
people in our State do not however, so re-
gard it. 1t is useless to appeal to them on
the ground that this is a barbarous custom,
not in accordance with the advancing civil
zation of the age, Tor they have on hand d
stock Of what they consider arguments Il
meet such assertions.
We hold then that throwing all these ques-
tons aside that "a decent respect for the
opinions of mankind" and especially those
of their fellow countrymen, requires that
the people who advocate the pillory and the
lash, as proper agencies.for the reformation
Of criminals and the prevention of crime
shall demonstrate that the exceptional sys
tenn Of punishment in Delaware results il
an exceptional exemption from crime in The
State.
The assertidnthat this il true, that iher,
is less Of thieviug and similar crime here il
frequently male; but it is without the sha
dow Of a foundation in truth, and the numbe
OF crimes is as great, in proportion to on
population, as ii is in places where NOR
humane punishments are inflicted. Ciimina
business in our courts steadily increases, an
for the last two terms the Grand Jury ha
i urgently recommended the establishment
d additional terms for the trial of Grimm,
y cases, while the papers are full of account
! robbsries &c, taking place all over the Sta,
;, Ifthen we are unable to show pcculii
: exemption from crime as the result Of the.
e peculiar methods Of punishment, prop
|, State pride and regard for the opinions
e our fellow men requires that we should abe
!, ish the pilory and the lash, and try son
lie method less repugnant to the feelings of Il
people of the whole country.
Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1868-12-10
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,.
HORRIBLE AFFAIR.

AN INSANE MAN ours HIS MOTHERS THROAT.
PHILADELPHIA. Dec. 9.-Hugh Craig was ar
rested on charge Of cutting his mothers throat
early this morning while in bed. Hugh Is a COM
positor, twenty three years old, and has recently
given indications of insanity.
He was found in his bed with hands and cloth
ing bloody Mrs. Craig was removed to the hos
pital in a critical condition, with some hopes of
.o,,;n, hort
Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1868-12-10


The Supreme Court of California has decided
that the electoral vote of that State belongs to
Grant. Majorities don't amount to much IL the
digger Slate.-Cecit Democrat.
That paragraph was evidently written
that false inference might be drawn from
it, which should serve the writer's purpose
as well as lie. Tue facts Of the case are
that there was mistake OF single letter in
printing the name of one of the electors
on the Republican ticket, Nobody prescnas
that the Republican electors did not receive
a majority of the votes, but the Democratic
Secretary of State refused to issue his certiti-
cate Of the election on account OF this mis-
take. The Supreme Court had TO beappeal-
ed to make the fellow do his duty. If the
Democrats had had their way majorities
would not have amounted to much in the
1iprpr State
Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1868-12-10
WILMINGTON, DEL:
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1868.

IF THERE BE man living who entirely
understands the merits of the present con-
troversy concerning the Erie Railway Com
pany, who maintained during ths Mexican
war a clear idea of its character and pro-
gress, and who mastered the Schleswig-
Holstein question, he should be elected to
the vacant presidency of Harvard College.
He is competent to fill the post.
Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1868-12-10
HE,STER VAUGHN.

Whather Tie miserable Young woman.
xyhose mama heads This article is entity of
tho crime Of winch she was convicted, and
for which she has laid IN prison MANY long
and weary months, under sentence of death,
we do not pretend to saw, Our convictions
of her innocence are not so strong as appear
to be those of many philanthropic men and
women who have given much attention to
her case. much less are they in accord with
those of the Philadelphia Jury, which so
hastily pronounced the friendless rirl guilty
of the murder of her infant with that premed-
itation and malice necessary to constitute
the crime of murder IN the first degree. We
cannot INIT feel that to have visited on her
the punishment of death would have covered
the fair name of Pennsylvania with gnomy,
but the telegraph brings us the welcome in
telligence that the danger of this is past.
Our object in referring to the subject is to
| EXPRESS our surprise and regret at the tone
and temper of some of The Philadelphia pa.
pers in relation to the recent efforts of GER
| Tain Ladies' and gentlemen In New York who
have investieated The casc tn nrorure a re.
mission of the sentence Of death. These
neon,e arc denounced az .Ganat;cs y ;mne,
,i,ont ,,termelIers . .Sc and ,b;s actior
;s denom;nsted an uttemnt IN instruct ,ba
covArno, or pennsvlvan;a in tho ne,f,r.
m,,co of h;s autv
Nav ,his il mi only nj, wrong I'm, u /;
,, ~ ,t;, ;..s:.. -,
thu course of the papers who show this tenn
ner Human sympathy is not bounded h
, 80, H.. a;,;,a,, ~ NJ, VII. H..
Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1868-12-10
THE COLE-HISCOUK CASE.


GEN. COLE ACQUITTED.
ALBANY, N. Y, Dec. 7lh.-General Cole is ac-
quilted. The Jury came into Court about eleven
o'clockthis morning and stated that they couldn't
agree. They believe the prisoner to have been
sane Mt the moment before and the moment after
the killing but were in doubt as to his sanity on
the instant of the homicide The Judge said
they must give the prisoner the benefit Of the
doutt. Thus instructed, they acquitted him.
Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1868-12-10

Is NEW YORK, Judge Sutherland has dlscharg-
cd from the Bloomingdale Lunatic Asylum, the
cratic Commodore Meade, "a brother to the Gen
eral.) who WINS recently sent there by his family.
There is a great awakening OF public interest in
the matter of con6ning supposed lunatics, and a
decided feeling in favor Of having mere careful
Fand tettti guarded hrss upun the subject.
Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1868-12-10

CONGRESS met Monday. The session will
be very important one as the problems now
demanding solution are of the gravest char
acter national legislature ever faced The
financial question will take precedence Of all
others, unless the proposed constitutional
amendment, settling for ever all the vexed
questions which have agtatcd the country
for years, be first taken up. We hope it may,
and that the States will see how much can be
gained in settling on a right basis these ques-
tions which will be, 'agitated, whether con
seryatives like it or not, till they are thus set
tied. Let us have peace.
Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1868-12-10

THE CoNsrIrurloNALIrY ofthe legal tender
act is under test before the Supreme Court
at Washington. The arguments pro and
con, are very elaborate and will probably
occupy several days. Judge Curtis, of Bos-
ton, and Attorney General Evarts, are coun-
sci for the Government, in behalf Of the law
Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1868-12-10

The LOSS of the steamship Hi5e'''is, OF
the New York and Glasgow line, is the
latest serious accident. She is reported to
have foundered seven hundred miles west
of the Irish coast, on the 25th of November.
The crew and passengers escaped in five
boats one of which was soon capsized, and
two others have been picked up. The fate
of the remaining two is still uncertain, and
the loss of life cannot be stated.
Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1868-12-10

GLADsToNE--The Liverpool Albion says the
speeches delivered by Mr.. Gladstone in his fort
nights vigorous campaign in Southwest Lanca-
shire, printed IN solid minion, aud made up In
consecutive newspaper columns, would Ill six
pages--occupying So or 81 columns-of the
Times. When it is considered that each speech
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repetition of argument or language; and that
they were delivered with matchless tnency with
out the aid Of notes or memoranda, though occa-
sionally entering deliberately into statistics, IL
Will b. admitted tbat thsy arc tire most rerrark
be spTethts eytf deliyefEd.
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Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1868-12-10

WE REGARD with interest the controversy
now going on amongst our Eastern Shore
exchanges as to which Of the many beauti-
full and enterprising towns on the Eastern
Shore shall become its Metropolis. We
look on it with impariiality but not with
Indifference and call their attention to the
fact that let what place may, be the ''me-
tropolis" OF the Eastern Shore, this rapidly
growing city of 10000 inhabitants must
from its position always be the chief city of
Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1868-12-10
MASSACHUSETTS,.

'spEAcoN" ANDREWS CONVICTED.
PLYMOUTH, MASS, Dec. 9th.-The jury in the
case of s. NJ. Andrews has returned verdict Of
guilty of manslaughtets,and he has been sentenced
to twenty years IMPRISONMENT.
Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1868-12-10

In Pere Ia Chaisc." His funeral was very plain
and unost-ntateus only ten or Twelve carriages
aud his forty servants on foot. The papers state
TINT he left n much smaller fortune fhsn nnd heeh
expected. Only eieren hundred millions IF francs!
His will, written twenty years ago, Is folio oil
Last week pbtained permission from the Presi-
dent of the .'Cummission DIES Monnaies Of des
Mednilles' to vista the Mint, hoping 10 pick up
enough scraps of gold and silver there to make
a plating for what fear is leaden leiterl We
were met at the entrance by on official and our
permit examined. Passing in we found ourselves
In an engine room, very dirty place, with stacks
OF crucibles lying about, and gloomy, snllcn
looking engine with two walking beams ike
Hudson River steamboat, Mt one end. From there
we entered the ronph-work-roOm," where q
number of machines were rolling out gold md
silver Into strips of three feet long, by two inches
wide. On the other side OF the same reom were
other machines through which men pass d these
stips. They would go In whole on one side and
come out like lace work gu the other, while n
shower Of silver counters" fell into vessel
placed below to receive them. Thence we passed
TO the furnishing room" where these "countcrs"
are fed by man Into the top of tube, from
which they drop, one by one on y plain surface
are drawn into cavity by steel finger, stamped,
popped out, and brushed away by another finger
into tube winch contiucis The finished coin TO
TO the receiver, below. The attendant Informed
me that the machine tor striking Napolenns,
cOlueu lb,uUU francs an ubhrl TupW way VI
making money! There are also coins for several
c.her nations made here. Egypt, Greece, etc,
| which are too poor to have n mint Of their own.
| This finished the working department
We then visited the Museum, which contains q
very fine collection Of coins and medals of I'LL the
French dynasties from the earliest times, II fine
Spanish collection and some beautiful medals
the finest of The reign of Lolih, Phillipe. A mar.
BILE bust of the first Napoleon, by Canova, cast
| OF his head, taken alter death, models of the ma
chimes we had seen in the work sh,rs and small
bronze copy Of the Colomne de la N.ste Vendome
was much disappointed In It, alto I ther. 1t has
not the neat and orderly air, that I icmcmbei
about the Mint in Philadelphia, aud was NOR,
like foundry than anything else.
| Ispent Monday Mt Versailles, and among ii
pictures. can give you no IDEA of the ertcat o
| this collection. For four hours we walked h,
them, with hardly pause, and there were still
several rooms into which we had not looked
when the clock struck four, and the official
shouted "On fermcr" l could not help recall
ing to mind the answer of the British Ambassado
who. when Louis XIV asked him n there wa
anything like this in England, answered, IN
Sovereigns victories are celebrated every whcr
but 10 his own Palace" Among the other inter
esting objects are Louis sleeping chamber, IN th
same state that II was, when he occupied IT,
| DELAWARE
Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1868-12-10

1.-THE following letter, which has been kindly hand
ed us for publication. was written by DIR. Benry
Gibbons of Cal forna to his mother in this city. We
have no more careful descriptions Of the sceaes
which it refers than embraced in it, The strict
ly personal matter contained in the letter, which
have omitted, convey De gratifying intelligence that
none Of the Doctors relatives there, who Of course
have many relatives here and IN Philadelphia, suf-
fered any in person seriously in property. Eps.
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