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The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-06-19
THE Case of tweed.

From the ", 7. Tribune.
The decision of the court of appeals, I'M
animously proDouncing against the legal
ity of Tweeds continued imprisonment, on
the ground that having been tried on only
one indictment he could be sentenced only
for single term, was not generally antici-
pated by the public. The action of Judge
Davis had been sustained on review in
other courts, and there was an unwilling
ness to believe that the law provided nc
greater punishment for the enormous Of
tense of which Tweed had been guilty
than year in the penitentiary and single
small fine. But there is no doubt that
some Of the ablest lawyers who have given
study to this case were fully prepared fol
the unfortunate issue that has just been
reached. The prospect of it was one Of
the causes which made Mr.. OConor and
the governor so earnest in pressing tor ad-
ditional remedial legislation last winter,
and il was freely mentioned as reason
why a change ought to be made in the Of
fee of the corporation counsel. Mr..
O'Conor also, in writing recently of the
Tweed indictment, justified its monster
proportions" by the peculiar defects of the
law under which the counsel for the people
were compelled to proceed. We car
almost imagine that he must have forecast
the opinion Of Judge Allen, who says, il
delivering the opinion Of the court OF ap,
peals The indictment in this case is an
anomaly. and is probably without prece'
"dent, but it may have been justified by
peculiar circumstances of the case.
We have called the result of this appeal
a misfortune, and such undoubtedly in
some respects it is but there are also
many grave reasons why we should regard
it with the livellest satisfaction. AS
Judge Allen well says, neither the cause
''of Justice nor of true reform can be ad-
''vanced by illegal and void acts or doubt
"ful experiments by courts OF justice in
ANY form or to any extent. The con
viction of Tweed was obtained after extra
ordinary efforts, when the honest citizen:
of New York had almost lost hope of JUS
tice and confidence in juries. Public feel
ing was greatly aroused. and the severe
sentence imposed by Judge Davis was ap
plauded as q BETTING vindicatlon of The
long outraged majesty Of the law. ct i
must be evident now that the principle o.
cumulative sentences involved dangerous
precedent which, in times of popular ex
element, an INSCRIPTIONS or impulsivt
Judge might push to disastrous conse
quences. Better far that Tweed and al
the ring should go UNPUBLISHED than the
safeguards which the law has thrown
around individual liberty should be put il
peril, and the discretion of the magistrat,
substituted for the plain letter of the stat
ute.
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-06-19
From the N. Y. Herald.

The decision which the court of appeals
rendered yesterday, though not unexpect-
ed by lawyers, will give painful shock to
the popular sense of justice. The twelve
years for which Tweed was sentenced by
Judge Davis was punishment not dispro-
portioned to the deep turpitude of his Of
Tense. BY the unanimous decision Of the
court of last resort the sentence is
adiudged illegal, but in pronouncing this
judgement the court will be thought rath-
er to have condemned the law than to have
freed the prisoner from the hardship of an
unjust sentence. They have no doubt
done their duty, and the elaborate opinion
in which they have set forth the grounds of
this decision will command the assent of
the legal profession. But the ad-
minisra ton of justice must be regulated by
settled general rules and if judges were
permitted to deviate in exceptional cases in
obedience to their sense of equity the door
would be opened for making the discretion
or caprice of the magistrate the only meas
ure of punishment. The court OF
appeals shows with convincing clearness
that the conviction of as many penalties
as there are separte counts in the indict'
ment is contrary to practice and inconsist
ent with fundamental legal principles.
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-06-19

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The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-06-19

The World contains reports of lengthy
interviews with the judges from which we
clip the following:
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-06-19
From the N, Y. World.

If, as the decision of Justice
Allen very aptly shows, the rule contended
for by the prosecution were accepted, a
justice could fine a prisoner on one COM
plant by successive fines of $25 to the full
extent Of his property, or imprison him
for life life by terms of six months. n
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-06-19
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The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-06-19

Of the technical language used. This act
has always been construed in favor of the
subject and the citizen, and the reading
must be the same whether the benefit of
it is invoked by the purest and best citi-
zen of the state or the greatest sinner and
the one most worthy of condign punt sh-
ment. The law is no respectOr of per-
sons, and suffers no man, be he guilty or
innocent, to be deprived of his liberty ex-
cept by due process Of law and the writ
of habeas corpus is as available even to the
guilty and he whom the popular voice
would condemn, as it has proved against
commitments by the king in council" 1t
is declared to be available as remedial
writ to all persons in custody under impris
onment alleged to be illegal, except such
as are held by virtue of the Judgment of a
court of civil or criminal jurisdiction COM
petent to pronounce such judgment The
court of Oyer and Terminer was not CON-
petent to pronounce the judgment under
which William NJ. Tweed is now held, and
therefore his release has been ordered.
The writ is thu" alike protection against
encroachments upon the liberty Of the cit
izen by the unauthorized acts of courts and
Judges, as against any mere arbitrary ar
rests"
The late James T. Brady used to say
that every man was presumed to know the
law except the judges of the supreme
court. and the legislature had to establish
a court of appeals to correct their mis-.
takes. 1t never corrected one more con.
spicuously arbitI airy and inexcusable thar
that in the Tweed case, for which Noah
Davis is responsible to the people of the
state of New York.
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-06-19
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The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-06-19
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The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-06-19
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Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1875-08-20
Onthe wrong Foot.


The Brooklyn Union discloses the con-
tents of one page in the history Of Dun
can. Sherman & Co., which ought 70 DC
verv eenerallv known. Hitherto the ne
,,,f,;cor nsr,v has had to suffer very ma
teriaIlv from the coilspsing OF oanks
wbicb have been managed by Repnbli-
- directors, or have been faEoEAale 10
49, Admiuistration, or which during the
War held loyal position and supplied
funds for its vigorous prosecution. When
the Freedman's Bank went down, and
when Jay Cooke & Co. and Henry
Glews & Co. collapsed, the Democratic
press of this country improved the oppor-
tnnity, not so much TO denouuce their
reckless financiering. as to influence the
public mind against Republican rule and
political financiering. The wild gam
bling and speculation, were credited 70
the influence of the Republican party,
because the managers happened to be
Republicans or were loyal during the
war. Over the failure of Duncan, Sherman
& Co., they have be en- strangely silent
We have not learned from them that
their fall is due to the corrupling and
demoralizing effects of Republicanism.
They have omitted TO charge the lOsse 8
of fdepositors and customers TO the Ad-
ministration. They preach none OF their
customary sermons on the frauds and
corruption, of the Republican partly
not even a word on Graniism. The Brook
lyn Union explains the reason why they
have failed 10 take any partisan adyant-
age of this failure. 1t appears that the
house of Duncan, Sherman 6 Go. has
never had Republican proelivities since
The war. They ere cottonsspeen-
lators then, as they have been since. an d
this being the direction of their sFmpa-
thiesy their Interests were with The South
and with English hostility to the North
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1875-08-20

There is very cheerful tone in the
democratic circular calling upon the
people to form Allen Clubs, in imitation
VI =, the Hayes Clubs. The tone of victory
Tbo \ ~, IN IN the Democratic air just now.
,,ae ~ Aaai wave is not as terrible "a Il
bov =, S,nl ci, the name of that bareiooted
wy at ealiipolIs was Bill Alien
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1875-08-20
Roehester Races.

Between fifteen and twenty thousand
persons were at the Driving Park
August 14--to witness the great free
rail- race, which brought on the track.
Goldsmith Maid, Lulu, Nettie and Amer
can Girl The betting was four to one
on the Maid, and with her barred, fifty to
forty on American Girl against the field.
as Lulu broke up badly on scoring
first heat was won bV noi 'zos-- af-
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1875-08-20

ThelRepubhcan voters OF Ashtabula County arc
requested to meet at the usual places Of holding
elections in their respective townships on satur-
day Aug. sist. 1875 between the hours Of four and
7o'clock p. m. 10 elect One Hundred and Seven
Delegates 10 the Annual Nominating Convention
TO be held in the Court House s. r.s-esr
Tuesday, theafz.r ~ o. Avgus' t .s
fa7s s. ss f1s election r. tae oiEce 0l isaaTasa .a
7lrs Probate adge Eres sure, Gers Arfltr
esaa.y Bifloior.
5.a :. ssis Convention win be eho-
ssn on a basis Of one Delegate to each 40 voters
or fraction Of 20 OF more, given for Secretary Of
State in 1914, and VIII be spportioned among the
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1875-08-20

alta recent Cotton Convention one of
Its members, Col. Bridges, of North Car
DINA, protested against selling land 50
tbe negroes and poor whites, and said
they didn't want any forty acres and
one mule farms" at the South. 3.,-
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1875-08-20

The President of San Salvador Is no
mincing matters in dealing with the per-
petrators of the atrocities at San Miguel,
where the ignorant Roman Cttholics
instigated by the Bishop and priests,
rose in body to plunder and murder
foreigners and "heretics" Fifty of the
rioters have been shot in squads on the
highroad by the Presidents order, and
the priests who instigated the outFages
and gave authority to the rioters to
plumber and murder, provided part of
the spoils were given 10 the Church,
were compelled to witness the execu-
tons. It is agreat pity the order " as
not reversed and the priests executed in
sight of their ignorant tools. zl.. IL.
(ZeneL16d Herald
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1875-08-20
length amid

aezEas i.s }laid geI length amid
as ayzC1rement; Netti e third, and
1he Girl fourth. The third heat was won
BY Lulu in 2:151E, length and a half
ahead Of the N aid, Nettte third, Ameri-,
can Girl Just saved her distance. The
fourth heat and race was woa, by Lulu
in s,17, leading the, Maid BY head only,
American Girl third and Nettie last
These are the best four consecutive heats
on record, and Lulu has taken the place
of Goldsmith Maid as the queen of the
trotting turf The time in full is as fol
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1875-08-20

Nine. Nilsson has been compelled to
decline the liberal oferof S100, 600. for
one hundred nights, made her BY Max
strakosch, OF New York, on account of
indispositlon. sheis now in Paris. %
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1875-08-20

In accordance with the above call the Republi-
can electors of the county Of Ashtabnla are re-
ouested TO meet at the usual place OF holding
elections in each township, on Saturday, tne zikl
seven O'Clock D. m and elect BY ballot forty-seF-
aen DELEGATES apportioned. as follows: = ~.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1875-08-20

We have pressed the Cincinnati EHqWir-
ar. Inter Ocean, and other imitation sheets
10 explain how the Government would
proceed to get more irredeemable green
scrip into circulation 50 as to benefit the
epoor man." If It buys bonds with new
issues. how win That help sDoor men"
who have no bonds for sslef Poor men
can get all the ersenbacks they want now
y they have anything to give IN ex-
ehage f0g. then. Bnt the EHqainsr is
equal to the task. 1t replies Let the
Government stop taxation for few years, ,
repeal the whisky tax for instance, and
supply the deficiency by more green
backs until they become "cheep and
abundant" OF course, this would be ad-
ding lust so much to the national debt,
10 say nothing of knocking down the
value on the whole currency to ten or
twenty cents on q dollar, perhaps. when
gold would be quoted st five hundred to
seven hundred. The next step would be
Reputation of the greenback, as worth
less, and in that way they would be paid.
Then the State banks would be revived
10 fill the vacuum, and we should have
again thirty seven different kinds of wild
cat and blue-pup currency, and every
man would carry in his pocket 1ROEp-
sons Bank Note Reporter and Counterfeit
Detect0r 20 find out how much the stuff
was worth. This Is the inevitable of the
Ohio Democratic scheme OF currency
watering and imitation.
Chica0O Tribune
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1875-08-20
u.DubIIcan District Convention.

A Republican nominating Convention for the
district composed of Ashtabula, Geauga and Lake
Counties, viii be held st the Court House In
Painesviie, on Wednesday, the 18th day Of Aug.
fs7s. at O'Clock, P. NJ, to nominate one Senator
to the State Legislature and two Common Pleas
judges for said district.
The number Of delegates TO each county is aP-
portioned as follows:
Ashtabula ........... 81
Geaega ..--.--.... .--.- q
lake.
The Primary meetings viii be held on S15GI ISltf
Aug 2lst, 1875, al such hours as I,,1a3e Ihe a.
Committeeman Of each county may - - 49, -, =
the usual place Of holding elections IN each toWh
S-tF J. T. ScoFIELD,
W.P. SPENCER,
j. o. CoEVKRsK,
District COMMITTEES.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1875-08-20

The association for. advancement Of
Science met at Detroit on Wednesday
last The body is di vided into sec.
tons, and the papers submitted haYe
order according to their division On
Saturday last, the fourth day, the first pa
per read fIom section A. was by HProE
LeOnard, of Iowa City upon The Pas
sage of the lows Meteorite," showing
fragments. This is popular subject and
we therefore, allude.t to It more fallY. 1t
fell on FEBRUARY 10th last The sky was
clear. The district in which It was seen
was four hundred and fifty miles long
and two hundred and fifty miles wide,
length running from southwest to north
east and the width nearly east and west.
The meteorite looked like cylinder, or
like very much elongated horse shoe.
1t had the usual tail, and exploded some
what like the bursting Of d rocket. Tt
separated into several fragments, some of
which were subsequently found in the
earth. 1t left train of inky black
ness, though the meteorite was itself in
tenseiy brilliant Some noise was heard
when it fell. The fragments weighed in
the aggregate Eve hundred pounds, and
must have been not when they fell, for
they melted the sp ow when, they were
lound- The observations 4 on this ;mete-
orlseare claimed to be the most complete
on record. -.,r-.-., -.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1875-08-20

we noticed last week, that the mana
gers OF the Winnebago Co. Fair Of III
had invited his Excellency, JEFF. Davis
TO give the annual address a protest has
has been entered against this step. The
rebellion record Of the gentleman is dis.
tasteful to the protestants, 9 if the engage.
ment is not Withdrawn they threaten to
withdraw their patronage from The fair.
The prospect is that it will be With
drawn 81 biAg" 2l- ri
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1875-08-20
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Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1875-08-20

They are taking the State census in
Massachusetts, according to which Bos-
ion has a population of $4,000. Worces-
ter $1,000, Lowell $4,000, and Fall River
5000. The total population of the! State
is about /, 100000. an increase of 2OO, 900
since 1870 The aggregate products man
ufaciured during the year ending May L
1875. amounted 10 1906. 900 One asa.ast
s5f7, ,OOO, 900 IN 1855
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1875-08-20

REV. CHAs. G.. FMNEY, ex.president of
oberlin College, died at his residence, in
that place early on the morning of the
9Th, ofdisease of the heart, aged SO years.
He was in the enjoyment of usual health
up to the evening before. He retired at
8 O'Clock but!failed to sleep, and feeling
his own pulse, remarked to his wife, that
if he were feeling the pulse Of any other
person, and found it SO low, he should
think they were dying. The deceased
has filed an important place. in the min
istrY during his life.
He was born in Warren, CT, Aug. 90,
1892, and at first intended to pursue the
practice of law as his profession. In 1924,
however, he changed his purpose and
entered The ministry, commencing his Ia
bors as an evangelist. He followed this
calling for eleven years, and created q re-
viyal excitement throughout the .. s.
In 1885 he accepted Professors hip in
Oberhn College, and in 1887 became pas
tor of the First Congregat ional Church
in the same place. He also continued to
preach in New York and other places
until 1s4S, when he went to England and
remained there three years, during which
time he resumed his old revival work
with great success. In 1852 he beca me
President of Oberlin. and remained in
that position until 1865, whenhe was sue
ceeded by the Rev. ]. H. Fairchild, who
now occupies the chair. As an autho: he
was scarcely less widely known than as
an evangelist, his works having passed
through numerous editions. Among the
most important of them are Lectures
on Reviyals," (SSO of which four teen
editions were issued; Lectures to Pro-
Tossing Christians" 1885 ''Serm ons on
Important Subjects" CsS9) and ''Lec-
lures on Systematic The ology," Qs47Gi