Daily Kennebec Journal (Augusta, Me.)
November 30, 1870
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flails Jttnnfhc Journal. ArOTJSTA. WEDNESDAY MORNING, NOV. 30.1870. The New York Tribune trusts "those republicans who assisted in gaining the Democratic successes this tall will not fail to read the accounts which come from Kentucky of the manner in which the Ku Klux of that Conservative neighborhood celebrated what they feel authorized to claim as their victory. Whenever we want proof that it is absolutely necessary that the national authority should rest for the present in Republican hands, these worthies obligingly furnish it." The Woman Suffrage Convention held last week at Cleveland was a failure in point of attendance, but made up in wrangling what it lacked in numbers. The marriage and divorce question is a bone of contention between the East and West, over which they divide, and for which they find as yet no remedy or compromise. If they wait until they settle that question to the satisfaction of themselves and all the rest of mankind they will not be likely to ballot for the next century. The following is the estimated strength of the European Powers as regards troops, should they become involved in a war on ac count of the Eastern question Prussia, 600. 000, and Russia, 000,000; total, 1,400,000. On the other side it is estimated that England would bring against Russia and Prussia 150. 000 men; France, 650,000; Italy, 350,000; Austria, 500,000, and Turkey, 300,000; total, 1,050,000. The Augusta correspondent of the lioston Journal says that “at the lust session of the Council the record and evidence in the ease of Cleavcland was laid before them. The statute requires that the jury finding a person guilty of murder shall find whether he is guilty of murder in the first or second degree. The Council, upon their examination of the Tecord in Cleaveland'a case, iound that the verdict of the jury was that Cleaveland ‘was guilty of the murder whereof he stands in dicted.’ These arc the words of the record. The question then arose whether that amount ed to his being guilty of murder in the first degree. Being unable to decide, the Council then asked the opinion of the Supreme Court, whether Cleavcland is guilty of murder in the fint degree by the verdict The opinions ot Justices Barrows, Danforth, Tapley and Wal ton have been received, while the opinions ol the other four justices are yet to come in. These opinions will not be made public until all have been received, when the Council will take final action. It is highly probable that the verdict will not amount to murder in the first degree, but will be decided to “be in the second degree, which will save Cleaveland’s neck from the gibbet, and give him imprison ment for life.” The Detroit Post thinks that one very im portant point in the ease of the crippled vet erans ol the Ohio Asylum, in Gen. Schenck’s District, should be made prominent. “The inmates of Asylum are not soldiers; they are not in the United States service—they are simply citizens. Ongoing to the Asylum to reside, they did not join the army again. They did not sign any enlistment papers, or in any other way enter the United Slates ser vice. They are free citizens, just as much as though they were out of the Asylum. Any man of them can leave whenever he pleases. They are not subject to any orders by United States officers, beyond the obligation to obey the rules of the institution or else leave, just as every guest at a hotel or at a hospital is bound to do. Therefore the objection of the Copperheads to their voting is ail the more ridiculous. A soldier in the United States servic: may not be a voter elsewhere than at his fotmer home but suppose a Democratic editor, not entering the United States ser vice, but remaining a citizen just as he now is Should rent a house at Fort Wayne, or break up housekeeping and go and board perma nently with one of the officers at the fort, Would he lose his citizenship? Would he not be voter in the ward where the fort is Would he be disfranchised because of simply boarding on United States land? Certainly not.” GENERAL A'A’ll’.S. A great many Georgian* are going to Texa«. lion. Horatio Seymour is president of a cheese factory. The Spanisli press urges the total and im mediate abolition of slavery. A large number of iee houses are being built along the Hudson river. A Salt Lake man went down a well to see why a blast didn’t go off. He came up in a hurry. Weston the peripatetic humbug, has made a failure in his attempt to walk four hundred miles in five days. A state convention of bee-keepers is called to meet at Mankato, Minn., on the 14th of next month. John C. King, ot Hridgehampton, has cul tivated a turnip measuring thirty-four and one-half inches in circumference. “Is molasses good for a cough?” inquired a youth with a heavy cold. “It ought to be— it is sold for consumption,” was the reply. At the Mayor of Brighton’s banquet, lately, Mr. White, M. P., said Kngland had spent £2,000,000 more than Prussia last year in warlike preparations. The difference between a country and a city greenhorn is that one w ould like to know every thing, and the other thinks he can tell him. Gov. Claflin, of Mass., has pardoned Far rell and McLain, who in 1HC5 were convicted of robbery and sentenced each to 25 years in the State Prison. Xew York proposes erecting a grand palace of industries and arts of all nations, to be sim ilarly conducted to the Crystal Palace in London. The students in the Amherst Agricultural College are all to be provided with new mili tary caps, in order to facilitate their progress in the study of agriculture. The Pensylvania State Senate is a tie from the death of a republican member of Phila delphia. An election is ordered to fill the vacancy. The Artesian salt well of Lincoln, Nebraska, throws a stream of brine six inches in diame ter to a hight over fifty feet. This stream has sufficient volume and velocity to turn a mill wheel. One of the largest cotton mills in New York is located at Schuylerville, Snratogff j county. It furnishes employment to 550 hands, male and female, runs 531 looms, 24, 000 spindles, consumes 2.000 bales of cotton a year, turns out5,980,400yardsofmanufactured material a year, and pays 8104,000 a year in They have just had a very successful baby fair at Oskaloosa, Iowa. The babies were divided into three classes, two for whites and one for colored. The mother of the success tul black children received a gold-lined silver goblet. TJie first prize, a *40 baby carriage, was given to a poor mother who had only been in the state a few weeks. A madman entered a house at Lake View, 111.,, the other night, and made a stirring im promptu discourse, in which he cxhsrted the inmates to save themselves from impending doom. He then proposed to assist them out of the world, and had injured several very seriously before he was driven front the premi ses. There is an elegant brick house in Ports mouth. N. II. which cost one hundred thous and doll. -s. It is surrounded by an iron fence, b it the owner, who died some time since, n er would make up his mind as to the desig.- of his gate. For several years the stone posts have been hung with pieces of rope holding an oid ladder, and the widow, who desires to follow out her late husband's wishes, renews the ladders as they get broken, and keeps up the jdan of the departed. The Hoswell Latlin Tragedy. Trial of the A erased. CHARLES W. WALTON, J., Presiding. Counsel fur the Slute, Thomas 15. Held, At torney General; Wm. Pehn Whitehoi sf., County Attorney. Counsel for the Defence, Kbkn F. Pii.l8di.rv Abtemas I.iBUF.r, and K. II. Jackson. Jury tiORIIAM A. CHANDLER Harrison Hanson. Oliver S. Edwards, uusiia li. Ei.etchkr. Isaiah Kohbins. Enoch li. I.each. Wilson M. Hattins. .John M. Pumiiiii. Hannibal J. Drake. Nathan Kimball. Hahtson Hammond. John Harrows. For'm'n (SECOND DAY—TUESDAY. The Court came in at 20 minutes past 'J o’clock. The Couft room for nearly an hour previ ous, had been crowded to its fullest capacity by spectators and persons who had been supf an attorney, hut the career of many a distinguished advocate will illustrate it. Isay then, we may expect upon this prisoner’s tes timony, a slender thread though it be, will be hung ii bold assumption of adultery, ns an es tablished fact in this case. Wc may expect the counsel to talk gravely to you and very atl’ectingly of the necessity of maintaining the sanctity of the marriage relation., the un sullied purity of the marital honor, lie may tell you from the Sixth chapter of l’roverbs that “Jealousy is the rage of a man, therefore he will not spare in the day of vengeance;” that there is always an implacable Nemesis that leads the footsteps of the adulterer to a mur derer’s doom. If such expressions, on their part were ap plicable to the case, we arc not here in behalf >f the Government to defend adulterers we ire not here to bring desolation upon happy homes, or to destroy any of the sacred in cerests of society; neither are we here to ountenance the doctrine of assassination, or private vengeance. We are here to ask you to protect society against all these crimes, by a iust and fearless administration of the law. We ire here to ask you that when a citizen ol Maine is charged with crime, lie shall be per mitted to go into the people’s court and be neard, as this prisoner is to be heard, and be punished only when found guilty by the judge ment of his peers. We are here asking that when an atrocious crime has been committed, the perpetrator shall not escape upon any false plea ot frenzy or temporary insanity, or any other plea in violation of law and evidence! We are here asking that no man shall be the self-appointed avenger ol his own wrongs, that no man shall assume to act, in a moment ot passion, it may be, as judge and jury, and condemn and execute a fellow citizen, un heard and untried, when a single word ol explanation might demonstrate liis innocence. Why, gentlemen, human laws are enacted and penalties imposed, for the especial pur pose of strengthening the power of self con trol. and of teaching men to control their pas sions in the community of bolding all men up to their duties and to a strict accountabili ty for their conduct. If a paroxysm of rage or lit of passion arising from morbid jealousy, or from any other cause can become legal insanity, who of us can be called sane? who would be responsible for crime? what would prevent all olfenders, from stalking unwhipped of justice? Where is our public security Who would be safe in bis life or his property. 11 one may plead an outrage upon his feelings as a husband in justification of a great crime another with equal right may plead a seriout injury to his person or property. If the citizens of Hallowed, on the night ot tins tragedy had assumed in violation of ai law to act as judge and jury, and had hunt, this prisoner over the bloody scene, who o them would be allowed to gome in and plead they had only meted out to him, that justice which In had claimed to have meted out to another. Tin moment we allow ourselves to travel one ste[ beyond the limits of the law into the field o speculation, we are tending towards the al o tition of ad law and a reign of terror. It is unnecessary to remind you, that eon sequences ot the greatest moment will follow the verdict which you will render in the case The prisoner's future destiny may lie deter mined by it. The public are anxiously look ing to you to say to them by your verdict, liia: they may go from their home and return am lie down at night feeling thax the majesty o the law is around them and that the protecting arm of the Government is over them. Coun sel will not fail to make those appeals toyoui sympathies which as men with all the feeling that make men good ami true you will find i hard to resist. On the other hand, yon will not fail ft be warned by the prisoner's counsel agaiws any feelings of prejudice against their client If we felt called upon to speak of either wi should warn you, alike, against both sytr. pithy and prejudice; we would not have thi prisoner convicted upon prejudice nor ae quitted upon sympathy. We know that you will remember you oaths and determine the issue between th« State and the prisoner according to youi evidence. We know that you will stand man fully and fearlessly and pronounce such a ver diet as you believe to be just upon the law and the evidence, regardless of the conse quences to the prisoner or the Goverment 1 lie responsibility resting upon you is a grav. and a solemn one; the duty imposed upon yoi is a most important one,but we believe, weknov it to be a responsibility from which you wil not shrink,—a duty which you will not leav, lightly unperformed. The opening of the ease by Mr. White house occupied about an hour and a quartsr and closed precisely at 12—noon. I)utir( the delivery the very large number of listen ers gave the closest attention and maintainei almost perfect silence. The prisoner ilii(\n ed calmly and at timesjalmost unconcernedly His wife was in the court-room, closely voile* and listened absorbedly. At the close of the opening address, on mu tion'ol' the Attorney General, governmen witnesses to the number of twenty-nine wer called and sworn, and excused by the Cour until 2 1-2 o’clock, 1‘. M. The Court—On consultatien with the conn sel both for the prosecution and defence, have concluded to come in at halt past ninei the morning and continue in session nati half past twelve, which will be tlfree hoars i the forenoon. Then adjourn from half-pas twelve to to half past two, giving two hour recess; coming in at half past two, and con tinuing in session uatil rite adjournment- fo the tiny. Addressing the witnesses the Court said You must all be prompt in attendance durin the hours of session, for I do m>t know at whs moment you may be needed. If any of yo should he absent, when your name is caller unless by leave of the court, yon will b liable to a line, lor it will be contempt c Court. The Court, then, at the suggestion of th Slate Attorney, gave notice to witnesses wh had been summoned but not sworn nnd migl not be needed, that it would be required them to he in constant attendance. Adjourned to 2 1-2 J’. M. AFrunxooN. The Court came in nt 2 :15, ami the prison* was attain placed at the bar; a few motnenl subsequently the jury came in, in eltarge c officers. The court room was densely packed, an scores were unable to gam an entrance Amongthe spectators were at least 2lf0 woniei Within the bar was a few square feet of stant ing room, and that was all. Not a partiel more than was absolutely necessary for tli convenience of the counsel, sworn witnesses members of the bar and reporters for the pres: .James K. Knight, having been sworn, test fled 1 live in Hallowell and my business barbering. I was employed by Mr. J.atlin i an assistant and was in bis shop on the nig! of the 19th of September lust. I left the sin a few minutes past eight, but afterwards r turned. 1 found the shop closed and the ligh out. 1 should say that this was not far fro a quarter past On stepping into the sin I locked the door after me and lighted a Ian and stopped near one of the mirrors and coh menceddressing uiy hair, as 1 was going to party that night. Had been there 1 shou think somewhere between three and four mil utes, when 1 heard a noise at the hack doo I jumped towards tlw centre of the lion and I saw two men the next moment. Tin were Hoswell and Tallin, and lloswell w; in his shirt sleeves, and J.aflin was cot ing in back to. Heard lloswell st •T have got you, you son of a bitch They wore near the doorway. Saw th Tallin had his left hand clasped on lloswel right wrist. I grabbed up a spittoon at thought to throw it, Igit don't know the re son why 1 didn't. Tallin was on the inn side of the inner door which leads from tl back shop to the front, and Hoswell was the out side toward the backdoor. As Tall lurned to one side I saw that his throat w cut, or at least a severe gash in his throt Also saw blood running from his lip. dropped the spittoon and jumped to the do and hallooed murder. Think I jumped ba and took the spittoon up a second time. A1 Kendall came by me and I turned to sec w it was. Next time 1 looked toward the do where Hoswell and Tallin was, saw that Tafl had turned around—was kind of staggeri in, face to. Mr. Towles then stepped by i and told me to go for a doctor and I wei Towles is the City Marshal of Hallowc Then went for Dr. Hawes whom 1 found the apothecary shop, nearly opposite. Tc him to go over to the shop us soon ns could for Mr. Tallin's throat was cut. Th ran and called Dr. Nutting, but found light in his office. No one being there, I i to Dr, Cole’s and told him what the mat
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