Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1873-07-17


institutions. Then, and not until then, can
we expect to be independent of the Northern
States. .-Agricultural Journal
EDITORIAL INKLINGS.
Trial Of the ModOc Warriors.
- The military commission for the trial
of the Modoc Indians under charge of MUIR
der, met at Fort klamath on the 5th, and
proceeded at once with hearing of the case.
Captain Jack, Schonchin, Boston Charley,
Black Jim, Slotuck and Brancho, are the
names of those implicated in the Candy mas
sacre. The charges against them are murder,
in violation of the laws of war. The speci6-
cations repeat the facts, which have substan-
TALLY been published heretofore. Three wit
nesses were xamined-Riddle, his Indian
squaw Toby, and L. D. Dyar. Toby swears
positively that Captain Jack shot General
Candy; Schonchin, Mr.. Meacham; Boston
Charley, Dr. Thomas; and that Hooker Jim
tried to kill L. D. Dyar also, that Brancho
knocked her down with his gun and tried to
take her horse. The testimony of Riddle
corroborates his wife's evidence.
The Case of WalwOrth.
- Walworth, the New York parricide,
has been sent to Sing Sing Penitentiary. He
was manacled, and received the same treatment
of nine other convcts who were sent to the
penitentiary at the same time. His mother
was on the same train, and took final leave of
him at the prison. Hekept up his spirits and
freely conversed with the lookers-on. When
he received his striped suit, he jokingly re-
marked that he looked as if he had got a
baseball suit on. It is said he will be put in
the shoe shop, and when he learns sufficient
of the business, will be made chief clerk in
that department.
The prompt trial, conviction and sentence
of Walworth, and the further fact of the
sentence being executed without delay, strikes
terror among the murderers now awaiting
trial in New York city. This is the first case
of murder that has been tried in the city
courts, under the new laws regulating the de.
grees of murder in that State and either the
efficiency of the law, or the manner in which
Judge Davis administers it, is we'll calculated
to alarm the guilty. The jury in the Wal
worth trial at first stood eight for murder in
the first degree, one for murder in the second
degree and three for acquittal. 1t is stated
that his counsel advise against the risk Of a
second trial, and only hope for his pardon
after few years imprisonment.
Murder in Charleston.
- The murder of Charles H. West, quiet
and inofensive young man in Charleston, has
created a great deal of excitement and feeling
in that city. The murderers, James A. DUFF
fus and B. L. Duffus, are brothers, who as we'll
as their victim, are young men-mere youths,
in fact. The circumstances, as reported in
the Ne,vs and Courier, are substantially to
the effect that on the evening Of the 4th in
stant young West was in billiard saloon as
spectator to game of billiards. While sit
ting in the saloon he was approached by the
Dufus brothers, when one Of them charged
him with having remarked at some previous
time that he, (DuAus) "looked like negro, "
and slapped West in the face. West arose,
and apparently wishing to avert a collision,
went to another part of the room. James A.
DuAus then approached him and fired pis-
tol, the ball penetrating Vests head, from
the effects of which wound he died an hour
after So sudden was the occurrence that the
bystanders were completely taken by surprise,
and the Dufus youths walked away, as though
nothing of serious consequence had taken
place. They were arrested, however, the same
night of the murder, having gone to their res
idence and retired to bed. Their family had
not learned of the murder until the officers
went to make the arrest. After being taken
to the guard d-house, the prisoners betrayed no
apparent emotion whatever, even after they
had been informed of young Vests death.
They were perfectly calm, and to all appear
ance, did not realize the magnitude Of the
crime which they had committed. Both of
them are young men, just upon the threshold
of life, and they scarcely seem to realize the
fact that by their rash act they have hurried
fellow-being into eternity, and plunged their
own family into distress and grief. They will
remain in jail until the next sitting Of the
Court of General Sessions, which occurs on
the first Monday in October next.
AS sequel to the unfortunate affair, the
mother of the victim died of grief FIVE days
after the murder was committed.
The Code Of Honor.
- In an article on libel suits and duelling,
the New Orleans Herald sums up the argu-
ments against such course of defense in the
following forcible paragraph, which would
transfer the mode of redress for injury from
the physical to the moral arena:
eff you are right and innocent, and can so
demonstrate, your defamer will be held to a
severer Judgment than any verdict for none
tary damages. Defend yourself not only with
facts, but with the proofs of your innocence to
be found in your life and character, as known