The Courier from Muscatine, Iowa • 2

TILif EivLY COURIER WEEKLY COUltlKH. EDWARD H.THAYER, Editor. THE MUROER OF SILAS FERRY FOR BEINQ A DEMOCRAT-THE MURDERER, WHO IS AN ABOLITIONIST, IS TRIED BY TWELVE OTHER ABOLITIONISTS, SELECTED BY AN ABOLITION SHERIFF, WH08E NAME WAS ON THE PRISONER'8 BOND-THE' JURY, IN THEIR VERDICT. DISOBEY THE INSTRUCTIONS OF THE COURT -THE CRIMINAL IS FINED S500, WHICH FINE. IS PAID BY ABOLITION SYMPATHIZERS WITH THE MUR drawn tho regular jurors, and whoa the panel bcoumo exhausted, tulosmea wore selected from tho bysUndors by theShoriff.

The jury, when mado up, was so partisan in its character, that Republicans who, had hot been privy to llioarrangomonts, openly expressed their disgust at such a wicked pro. cot-ding. Twelve Abolitionist nlc majority of whom wcro of Iho bluck-est dyo, composed tho jury. And although the prisoner was being tried for murder, yot during tho four days tho trial continued, tho jury wtfro a). in to Government basJIe, it ru no unfortunate as to not pos- hub ftiUU 10 vuy uur, iruuuuui, 1 lam SrlU ft codoiu wilh a ve gcanool Frco to do as an usurper dictates, or clwo rot in a prison houso.

Froo to think, wo talk to suit the party in power, and, it may bo, frco to vote, if, wo voto as Mr. Lincoln dictates. Yes! Freedom Who is safe sinco tho President has taken this last, fatal step Republi cans, do you think you uro? 'Do you not Know in ui using power they bavo stolen from tho people, novor discriminato betwoen friends and foes You may rejoice to-day to neo some political opoiient dragged to Iho st-alTold but to-morrow your own body may dangle from that self same ropo. Tho chalieo you this duy put to your neighboi-H lips, tomorrow may bo returned to your own. When tho Constitution is laid itnidonnd tho luws ignored, by ono ou helped elovato to power, you have no moro ussur-unco that you ill be exempt from tho destruction of your rights and bus fo who did all ho could to doieat Iho usurper.

Tyrants know only op1irciHiou, and when securely cscoimed in powtr, their blows fall upon all who huvo not a friend at court. Republicans, in your exultation over Mr. Lincoln's whole-salo suspension of tho great writ whioh haa.klujBbeen considered tho bulwark of Iho American citizen's freedom, remember that many of those who placed Danton, Robespierre and Mural in power, were among tho first victims of these tyrants' bato. i DEPUTY PROVOST MARSHALS. We hftvo said aomo disrd things bout several of theso officers, but we now repent And take it all back.

Wo now say to those Marshals to go on with thoir work and help swell the Democratic vote noxt month. Gen' tloman, you are doing good acrvico for the country, but not intentionally. Tbe only regret we have is that somo of the bravo and noblo soldiers who have bled on the batllo-fiold and suffered ia tho hospital, are tnado the instruments to bring about tbe do atrucllon of tho abolition party. Put when theso soldiers considor that 44 man proposes but God disposes," we trust they willsoo that their sufferings at the hands of these Proyost Msrshals, though for the time hoing painful to boar, yet Are undoubL' cdly for tho good of the country. Let us explain.

These Deputy Provost Marshats'are prowling all over the country arresting all iho sol-dicralhey can find and hustling them off to somo military post. It matters not that tho soldier has his dischnrge In his pockol, ho is hurried off without an opportunity to be heard, and after lying in jnil or under guard A few days, his case is examined into, and is sent away, to reach his homo the best way he csn. Theo soldier thus dealt with, and Jtsoir of sovcral instances of the kind, At once go to work to defeat the parly which is responsible for the acts of such miscreants. These victims of a Provost Marshal's search for fire dol-fiiri, aro getting quite numerous, And wo are glad to know that they Are doing good ervlce for the Democratic cause. Tb frl Abvlitlp nOs 4rrtU4 to com 8 IkdUaol, Wrr e-mnly, turewj mil bmil lb lm on bf Hiurdij lll.

Tb red, I tare, did eel eufttrmnrltiA ill bus-4d. OrimMssd Kn tbipkr. Th truth Is lb llltloll nMt lt any nibuiMm rf tbir ilrbot, Piofi fnt rulf miil tion Srut lb sck ih'lr pHr, snd I null difTl (ult la rsrrf throveb tb nM Brtninh Itusi nut Ut Is Ublo. tr-rUnn grvwi tb Hnjf. I iidllli thrlf rMt ift-nling forre In Ih ltl, tbf Inifwrllns Uo.

Julian, frifl ladlnflt Nwt rolTd fflt HufeM Is lb srtny ehrist ikitnd rirlsd fiyiliiliei MM bf for iibllrllnn br ib.nl-df-irf gpnilpmes pr nothing Io Uisiiiflsnl eftb n-ldlsrf. Tlis iMn dretlnM flu-lng lltf upon frord Msg willing, tnt lb Mb ef fr In glv ttf ihnSrtiiie and lb ipiinn rrTlmntli. Will ll Truant IhId trttnl It in wil In? It do IA f.n nop In ibis "eruitt rT" I It filling le en iiU Si ylb ng, rif mtnl lb rriftOtl unlit IhsPoiilh lt tiiOJ to tb condition, tf lrlnd snd rlndf A ffej'lt'en bsnlktriti)fd lm th CNnndian r.r.irht I ris 1,000.000 Jf bf dirtet UtslluA fuf th ti prt of Ih MlliUft. wronga, upon hearing of tlio loo. crutio victories in Ohio, Pennsylvania and IndiuDfl, declared I uao ratiuu IIAVI UEABO OF THK DtlTKAT OF kVKUY NoaTUEBN AttMV THAN HUCII NEWS." The drcat of every Nortluirn army I Posmblo! Had rather eoo tho rivers red with blood tho bravo men of tliu North wcltonng In thoir, gore an innumerable host of now rnado widows und orphariH old men despoiled of their sons the couso of tho North rretricvably lost a victorious army invading our own lirooides, laying waste our cities and villages, nnd tarrying ueath and OeMirucuon to millions of homes 1 Mr.

Purvin, tho "Christian Legislator," tho black man's friend, had rather seonll ihis, than to hear that a majority of the people of Ohio, Pennsylvania nod Indiana had voted tho OemoenUie ticket We wonder if tho soldiers in the army and Uioho Hutu-re whohavo sons battling for a CoiiHiiiutionul (jov-eminent, are sulixflcd that a man who will allow hui-Ii a heart-rending suuti-moot to cHcupu bis lijs, is tho man who will muko'" a prudent, careful, CHRISTIAN Legislator." Men of Muscatin6 county, will you tied it man to mako your laws, who rather than see tho majority rule, would have the armies of tho Union defeated, nnd thecausoof constitutional liberty fur ever destroyed, and tho fctalci of the North overrun by a rebel foe Iet each voter answer tho quchtion for himself. i ANOTHER "FIRE BELL IN THE NICHT." JtmnsoN likened the Missouri question to Cro bell in the night." Ho a ya it kwakenod and filled mo with terror. I considered it kt onco as tho knoll of tho Union." As dismal as must have been the sound to JmiasoN'e ears, of tho dis cussion of that momentous question, yet how much moro startling to the entire country most be that docroo which by Kiccotive authority, sue ponds all over, the frco Slates tho Writ of Habtat Corpui The fire betl io the night" is awoolest music to the etrsngo and unnatural revcr brkllons proceeding from this last act of the President, Tho storm-clouds may sail very low the night may be dark, dismal and dreary and the "fire boll" may wkke from deepest slumber a people who may look out upon ft conflagration wbicb throatens to' swkllow up ft whole city and though the Ulns of woo and ilosola lion told by that bolt carrios dread and consternation into a hundred thousand homes yet tho destroyc city conveys but a meagre idea of tho kwfut result growing out of the President's last wicked snd altrocious vio lation of both the Constitution and recorded oath. A city laid in ashes, may in lime be rebuilt. A community of bank rupls may by perseverance end io dotry, regain Iheir tost fortunes, Put the liberties of a great people once lost through tho usurpation of military despot, can never be regained save through ft sea of blood and over hecatomb of noblo dead.

The Writ of llitru Cmrpui every where suspended I For what reason Are nono of tho Courts la the Und ny longer to bo trusted 1 Jltve the Judges all become corrupt, and has the virtue ol all the people solllod down epon the shoulders of military satrsp ftlonet Hoe placing star or an eagle epon ft blue ooat, clothed the wearer with ft knowledgo of al the law Dor the commission which so Ignorsmns carries In bis pocket hene him to judge ft people, diiltn golshod for their Intelligence and wis dom It it posniblo that all the learning fend the eiperlcnre of tho Courts can be dispensed wilh kt the beck of ft singto individual We, in ft land of freedom and said to he frco- men possessing ft judiciary reputed to be stainless nnd without ft blot or blemish and yet deniod the privilege of Asking one of these JuJgf to pas upon tho legality of tho arrest am imprisonment of cither A rilispnor eoldierf If freemen, wherein does our freedom eiilf Free to have onr limbe manacled JOHN A. PARVIN AS A "CHRISTIAN LEGISLATOR." In that very complimentary notico which thu Journal a low days fclneo gavo to John A. Parvin, tho abolition candidate fur Statu Senator, there may be found the following express-ion: do not nt teller mn Io bl idt with. know lit) will prouapruJetil.eanfut.t brla-(Ian Wo are glad Id know that Mr. Fur-viu it ho highly esteemed by tho organ of thin city.

Nor would detract a firilo iolu from iho fume of any Christian Legislator," let hi politics ho what they may. Hal is iho evidence tleur and HBtUfitc-tory to nil, that Mr. I'urvin would, dually inuko such a "Christian Legislator white man would like to elected Wo know llmt Mr. Parvin has wopl time und timu again, over tho sufferings kit I trials of, thu poor Africans. With eloquent tmguo ho bus Iuul for tho freedom of Southern shvc, ud ho ha pictured their wrong ho vividly, that orator and udiencu havo all been bathed in tears.

Thoso who haw heard him on tho stump, will renumber tin! fullowiog utliclic do-trillion of slavo moihor giving freedom to her children, by plunging tho knifo to thoir tienrla. tory told by Mr. I'urvin, may bo found io iho "Constitution Debates," rago 70, nd rendu as follows: Who can rd lb thrill eg asset at Clnclanavi a Urn yrar ainta.aaJ nut tym-ralllui lib 11 yT but fsarltM lv other, filnrr lb llr with ar Hula children during lb elJ and moUinanl mihi of lb ytr, in rder to rj-- frm lb s-w-l UiBitkK of a mo eloth-d In tbt Imajr bltOod, and wboelalrood brr bilt 0b r.ach. with br ehildn-a lb hmiM of a a a ti i rrkaJ, iml itr sar wn am wiiowta in a4 paraull, um ch'thrj with povtr to rrl br, ktid Ub bf wilh hr rblMrrk. Mk lntoUrT.

Wblfanhdo? Tbr i wy mtl tear ft oa to ayro-palbita with lb it (of woman. aparlly forkn br kll. To btr chil.lrti from Uitt rttndd Urk to tUvtrjr, hMr bit e.i. ad Ih.l Ullb foliU Wllb tb upldilj ef lb.Khs tlar Iba Intel liimmnl (nil iuoa ar blUra to lb bran" Though all tbia 1 mero romftneo, and though the arenca thua palholl oaIIj dcacribed, never occurred, yet we can ftjrcialo the furling of tho orator who told tho alory doubt- hm it waa told to him. We here aue In Mr.

Pftrvin, the man of iympalhy and afToction, and our heart ihi linful to go out towarda hint aa una who rn himnrlf, far th wronp done 10 Olhcl Tbii aolfwtcrilleing and rhrinlian like fi lling Ik again chwrvablo in Mr. I'arvin'a dirralioa that I do not na re where man wa born, or vhal br th ed'if of At4 lUi, If he haa 1 a heart thut can fwl anollior'a baa inlellicnre, A wt it m.in tint 4 brother. ThU ie rery lino wnli mniit, nod though inUndc 1 to only rintiraro tho eotntcd man, yctahowe the workihK the mind of the "Christian I.rgiiUtor." Tbia hi-Utian filing towards tho rolnred rare vxiale in all of Mr. I'ur vln'e ublio adiona and dpelaratiuna. He taught arhool once and kgainat hie will he waa eornjx'lled to turn out ft colored Ikij but he Inform if "I wrro that ailuation now, I ahould atand againut the neighborhood, veutd Inch tK toy, oa Id all tk rr Uar Ary chw.

We ought eaamcrftU other Instance. of aim! lar thararter, but we have mentioned enough for oar present rnrpoo. Now to ho Christian legislator' where legislation la necesnry ftir white persons, there Is something fine npre skry beldrs sympathy for the por Afnfaw. To have Ono'l feelings com pleH wrapped tip In favor of negroes, and hate no heart for white brethren, ie not exactly what is required of A Christian Legislator. Last October, Muscatine county had morn than IIiifitrn brave and gatlnnt soldiers in the Federal army.

Yet In that very month of October, this Christian Legislator" whose feeling are ao carried way at the recital of the black tuao'a, DERER. On tho thirtieth day of April last, an headed man, a resident of this county, and upwards of sixty-three years of ngo, was uttacked in tho streets of our city nnd murdered, bocauso ho was a Democrat. Tho murderer was tried by an abolition jury, packed by an abolition Sheriff, lifted by an Abolition Clerk. Tho jury found the murderer guilty of merely an usiuult to commit great bodily injury the Court fined him Five Hundred Dollars, and the uboli- tioniiU of this city mudo up Iho tino and releuscd tho culprit. Iklow will bo found tho history, in brief, of this whoio tratiltaction.

Silus Firry, a Justico of the Ponco and member of tho Hoard of Supervisors for this county, visited our city on tho 30th day of April, IMid, tho same being a Thanksgiving day set apart by the President. No sooner had Mr. Ferry Arrived, than lm.wua.jicL Upon David Prosser, an abolitionist in full communion with his party, who for hours followed hi intended victim, until be thought he had received tho necessary provocation, when he drew a revolver and threo timos coolly And deliberately shot At this old man, who carried no Arms And made no resistance. Tho following is tho sworn testimony of L. Ferry, tho son of tbe deceased "Mr.

l'roaxr wott arm tbtilrwt with mndu talking to Utbrr: I Ufl lbm opfit Mr. Kculingi; bofurt Ibal f.tb bd told l'rver that Uj would not talk politic, for thry ceuld est and wUbul to evnlinu frtfkd. Wbll I iu gB. falbnr want to Wd't yard to hllch np hi tram; whta 1 mturntd, biand Mr. Fro.

wr Ing-ibor; fatbtr bad ca borx brldlad, and i'mcttr Milttlng him to put lb ballar wa an tr-gumcntbviwMs my fibrad Frmwr. I'm- itd tbtre wa but on loyal Terry in lb bally I falbs told hisj tl waooto J'r-Ht thvn aald Ilrowa wa bettor nan iba any yrri falbsr laid It wteala Profr-r atd It waKi fatbsraald Ita'lnti rr ar ia -you tr a a-o liarj' apo mS wtsar tiappoa i rowtr can laay wbalb af aa kit him with k.j upo tbia, irMr Uppd back aum li ar aigbl yard 1 btard Ui rpn ef pluol, U-'H forward, and it Trnitar iboal -j twk mora i tb lrl I law of Prr Wal lhcorerof lblrl by Mr. Kuling') laiuar was iiiij una jiar VI g. Thkt this nun Prossor acted as the agent ofothers, there can be no doobl tun no was instructed bow to proceed, Is every hero manifest, lie make no Attack until he provokes the old man to strike him, and then ho draws A revolver, which rai not hii eirn, end which he hss carried tl day, and stepping bkek "ix or eight paces, tkkes deliberkto aim And fire threo times at tho harmtess obi gro ttcman, ooe ball taking t(Tecl io th groin, and subsequently at the jxuf morfrm examination, this ball found embedded io the socket of the hip joint. Ten days after receiving the fatal shot, the old man die.

His dovotd wifo Is wilh him several daughter And one ion aro sent for nsofAcr ton it in tht FtJtrat army, wh cannot tomt and the little group of moornori gather around the coflio And lake th last look kt tbe husband and faihr who offered up his life as a victim of Abolition LaIo. The murderer is brouglhcfor Msgistrate, and 1a held ia tho ol 13,000 to Appear for trial at tb June term of the District Court. The AMitionUts make bis case their TWy.W of lhi leading oo this city many of whom have uq Aequaintatiee wilh the priaoorr, bit whj come to hit rescue, becuak shot end killed A copperhekd -elgg iho bond. On that bond kpposr th names ol II. It.

II 811KIUPP, nd C. 8. POST F.K.DEPUT CLE It K. The trial cf David Prossrr for lb murder of Hllas Ferry, commenred 0 the 8lh day of June. TbetwecO.

rors we bare mentioned, Assist bj the Conaty Judge, had prfrlrm), lowed to separate at eueh adjourn ment of tho Court, and go to their meals and their lodgings, unattended by any bailiff, and that, -too, when during the trial tho Court Adjourned from Saturday afternoon to Monday morning. It will bo aeon that tho Sheriff and Deputy Clurk wcro each interested to the extent of 1.1,000 in tho acquit, tal of tho murderer, and consequently they would leave no etono unturned to cmpahcl such a jury as would by their verdict, relievo theso officers of any responsibility. Tho Shoriff bad taken a greut interest in tho case, and on several occasions bad publicly do- clured that it wss no crimo to kill copperhead. If bo could new make up a jury that would bo of hiswsyof thinking, hr thought he might succeed in having enough copperhead killed off before October, to secure )il re-election. Tlonco we find Lira laboring earnestly to csrry out big part of the programme.

It will not do to say that the prisoner' Attorneys select the jury. Though la A murder trial the defendant is entitled to twenty peremptory challenges, yet All these challenges nay be exhkustad, thrice repented, and tho jory not be ao abolition one, unless tbe person cklling the jurors intentionally put Abolitionists io the box. Tbe Sheriff knowing how meny challenges Are Allowed the prisoner, can, After the regular panel is exhausted, say precisely who can make ep the jory. When the Bheriff under-stands, as be did In this ease, that the challenges tarn upon tbe political proclivities of the person challenged, be is enabled to caIJ to tbe jury boi onoogh DomocrkU to tneke op the number of peremptory chkllengos, sow And then calling men of tbe right stripe, so that tbo eppnranct of unfairness msy not be eherged against him. Yot whsn a person considcrg that this county is very nearly equally divided politically, It Is difficult for hlro.

to believe that a Sheriff can -fsfrnfiVfiiifiy select twelve abolitionists to try a murderer, espcciAlly when upon that murderer's Appeerkno bond, Are tbe tsmes of twenty Jin leading' aboliliooisU of ibkt stung county. The jury rendered a verdict to the effect tbst the defendant of kn Asssult wjtb intent to commit ft greH bodily lojary." This verdiot was ao contrary to evidence, and so flagrant A violktioo of Uw, thkt even tho Judge who presided At the trial, we Aatoninhcd, kod In bis rcmArk me Ie to the prisoner when sentencing him, he kdmlntslercd to the jury severe rebuke. Ooreommunliy.how. vcr, wm pre pkred for such ft terrain-Hion of the trikl, knowing from the ginnln tht the aboUiionisU bad hpproved of the mordsr of Mr. Ferry And that tbey would succeed cleAf.

Ing him from the moshoa of th law. Now lot os lookfttiM) verdij-t of joy. Tbe counsel for the prie-onr WMbin, to mske some show of def.nes, put io lbs pie a that tho deaUi of Jlr. F.rry Uy from ef fW A4MI4 tlMH tb Corl charged the jury if woUal wm iilhnrtb ik. itath rtrn a Jxtii tg (nam n9liy of either MUHDF.K of MANSUUKniEftHjf murJeri(U ty Iho shot malicloaglyj of fMv if there ws, mUe IntheJudge'i "m.rk.to tho prisoner, be say si teKS1.