Show GLEAM GLEANINGS fiig FROH EXCHANGES THE tite deseret alphanet ALPHABET meets with a cold reception from some of the eastern journals the N Y journal of Com commend comment mere merc says we have a c 0 py of the despret deseret hews news the mormon alphabet which la it a part of the scheme orlain clr lir vied by the sainto to render their lihr community con inanity qu te is elusive an 1 to debar all gentiles and outside barbarians from frim a too critical ur veilla net of the tile workings of the internal machinery of the stale if it Aless diess rs hale hallock hale the editors and proprietor proprietors of the journal of com corn tace had taken a sober second tb thought ought it is 13 quite probable they would not hot have so far misconstrued the true intent of this Mor mormon mOr mon alphabet 2 if it was introduced to debar all gentiles and outside barbarians from a too critical surveillance of the workings of the internal machinery of the state dorsit does it that to provide a key to this Alphabet would utterly and most roost t effectually defeat buch such ade a derigi de sigi sigl the Th chekey ekey has invariably accompanied the pas razes sages or extracts printed in the new alphabet perhaps however this thib has not been closely observe observer as we should infer from their rendering in of matthew sixth chapter 3 as printed in the deveret news a few weeks since which is as follows to pronounce which would more tongui to ngut ngui than we are gifted with and the inference is that the writer of the article either designedly misrepresented the characters or WAS grossly deficient himself of plain common sense in either caseb case cage he might profitably adopt the advice gratis he has graciously raci to tob bestow estow eatow to the Mor mormon mons mong people which w when rhen hen transferred would read that he might t better devote his time to mastering the english ian lan language guage 1 than to cr critics iticia ing in such a blundering e manner a system of which he knows little cr cir nothing g WAS winiam biniam TELL a myth is ls a question qi estion that hda hoa been very satisfactorily answered by the journal of commerce in III answer to such logic as the following in the new york observer saxo Gram gramaticos aticus a chronicler of tte its tt the e century narrates that au an archer of at the loth cerit century liry tiry performed the same came feat which Is recorded ut willi illi iiii teli lell ID in the century cenni ry ergo eigo william tell la a myth 2 this thial to s truly strange reasoning to prove that the existence of W william wliilam illiam tell tle tie mountain hero whose very name even at this day stirs the Swit zera heart with the deepest deeff st emotions emotion of patriotism was a mere phantom of the brain that no such man ever in reality existed the evidence of the existence of the patriot of switzerland baa has always seemed to us so well attested that there was little room to doubt it but we live in an age of scepticism arid and tin unbelief belief bellef when men are fast receding from the li light liht ht of truth and turning unto fd bik bit mistaking darkness for light and light for darkness and the light that was in them if 19 becoming darkness dai dar kness and anti as they assume to deny the existence of tell the patriot that of luther the reformer peter the apostle 3 and jesus the savior may be readily classed with the fabled heroes of Alyth mythology for to this the world is approximating but tells nonexistence non existence says the jour of q f cony coin conf is not adde out from the flimsy logic above quoted no character 31 it continues of the and letb centuries is better attested in swiss history than that of william tell the ballads of the present day sun sub sung bung to his bis memory the annual festival on the blue lake of lucern in his bis honor and the bonu meats erected to him by those with whom be was all bear upon this point tells chapel on the Tellen spring the rock so 80 called because the swiss hero here leaped when he escaped from gessler was erected in the presence of one hundred and fourteen persons tho had bad known tell when living 2 Si sir lames james mcintosh visited the regions where the scenes reputed to tell are laid and after a close examination of history and an investigation of the traditions and legends among the swiss people became perfectly convinced of the existence of the mountain hero and of the truth odthe part that be he played in little swit afew few were the numbers bhe the could boast bout but every freeman arffman wa was a hosty hosts bot boi and arid relt frit ag as though hough himself were he be on whose whom sole wie arm hung bung victory THE washington correspondent of the joer jour com corn says there is no united states goye goir e artim e n t there is a federal constitution which gnas ivas wab was intended to create a government but bat I 1 it failed of its object in a very important E particular the thi theory of the constitution supposes con great reas ress to to be a perpetual or continuous body but it is liot vot BO so in fact and for nearly a year in evary every term of two years yeara congress Con greg gres does nut exist xii xit congress alone possess the war making prerogative ro active it alone kias as the ant aut use any mone yin the treas treasury tirs tiry thus an interruption in the government machinery of bome gome nine months duration occurs i twice in ever presidential term this state of places the president in a quandary as to what measures to adopt relative to the nicaraguan difficulties A naval force is to be sent to nicaragua placed at the disposal of gen lamar U S minister to nicaragua but if the commander lends bis big forces even for the purpose of protecting american interests it will be war and subject the president to the charge of usurping the war making power A similar emergency occurred when the fever of groundless indignation and spec speculative tila tiia furor induced the president eident Pr to authorize the utah expedition had blood then boen been shed at whose hands would it have been required but mr buchanan Buc hanan banan failed to obtain this power tho thol in his special message of feb 18 be he recommended that it be conferred on him hi M the instructions to gen lamar are said to be of the most positive character he is instructed ted to demand from nicaragua an apology Y restitution and indemnity upon a non campli aice ance with which be he is to ask for hib his passports THE tile FRENCH we are reliably informed previous to the danish action against the st domingo government demanded rhe the concession of al all ail I 1 the gold and silver mines of the republic THE tile TRIAL of daniel webster a fugitive slave arrested in philadelphia april 4 is creating great excitement the court room was guarded by a large police force not U S dragoons THE tue TRIAL of 0 daniel E sickles commenced in earnest april 7 the jury panel was completed on the ath after summoning nim one hundred and seventy nine persons one hundred and sixty seven of whom had bad no hesitation in expressing their sympathy for sickles in the usual caution to them judge crawford told the jury to make arrangements ran range ments cements for a ion lon long iong 0 absence from their fa milles families ay on the part of the prosecution twenty eight 11 witnesses have been summoned for the ne fence thirty two four of whom are females sickles has a formidable array of counsel embracing some of the beat best criminal lawyers in the country there beema seema to have been an oppressive eagerness to serve the killer of key the sec see seducer ticer forty lawyers chiung huong volunteered their service services from new york city alone three of whom were selected the will be managed alone by mr othild district attorney of the district of columbia and successor of mr key mr J M carlisle belog being in attendance with the district attorney for the puarose of looking after the reputation of the deceased it is stated that several lawyers applied to mr buchanan Buc hanan banan for the privilege of assisting mr but were peremptorily refused the president intimating thai that be would not be dragged into the affair in any way in questioning the multitude of men who were summoned in this ibis case some singular replies were elicited daniel B clark dark said bf be had bad a fixed opinion on all such cases that he did not know whether be he could render an impartial verdict but if to justify the act would make him an impartial juror be he could be one the father of sickles and mr badioli Ba Bagi ioli oll father of mrs afro sickles sat in court together no women are among the audience the N Y tribunes washington correspondent gives a concise statement of the ibe gro grounds tines upon itou which the defense is 18 technically placed from which it appears that the homicide will not be formerly admitted by the defense bur but of course it will be readily proven by the prosecution se which will then rest the tile tribune correspondent continues rhe the evidence ot of keys key criminality with mr sickles tickles will thereupon be red by the defens defense enot noty howe bowe however very verp as a justification but as the be state ot of mini la in which the deed wa was done which ent bent key go so suddenly sy to tip tik account it will be contended that ur mr S eklem was la in a arenzy br bordering dering upon insanity In sanit nap not nut indeed to such puch ao an extent as to absolve him firma mural iti ity ity iry but bill sufficiently to make the killing in the first or third ol defre degre gr e upon this thi ground the ad of the on the point will be pres preb pre pressed seii seil when it is once in it will be made to bearne n te tio question of guilt or innocence in the judgment of the twive twelve men who are to didde ol 01 cide clde and will be more direct practically it will be used d as a though introduced ax as matter in mitigation ot or the ax ff nee charged chrt cd baving dealt with the ibe adultery dui dul tery ands and perhaps met the pose prosecution cution upon incidental questions of facts fact the defense w will III lii rest reit the district attorney will of course courses be permitted to evidence upon the point on behalf of the prisoners prisoner evidence bedrin beArin it noon ine the question of the dead mans mang criminality and the effect produce produced fl 4 upon ahe he killer killers yit lit mind blind by tte tie discovery of the facts and cd by the appearance of 1 I the dear bear ua LIA tow but further th ahn n this he be will 11 not noi 1 go 9 0 without a long along and a tough sir air struggle I 1 iggi 1991 with his pin pen opponent 1 what bear bearing they will aak k haa has baa mr Sickle Sick lead leaa sd C conduct in early yo nuwt t or in litter days dayi his general moral character iven iren even his proclivity to vice vlee a 0 the very spectra the indulgence of which by mr key ke he bunh punched hed to so speedily speedia grant that they can be proven what have they to do with the state of f mind 4 in which the accused committed the crime ch charged t aged they are no pi pirt rt of the res gestie geita yon you have no right to rahe rake a new issue under the pretence predence pre tence of introducing rebutting testimony we have not felt it feces sao gaio taio to prove a good character you have no right to inn ing attempt to prove a bad one when such proof has no bear inn ink upon the fact of killing ity its if how however evers evert the evidence touching these points Is admitted bitted to give rive which it Is understood that thai a large number of witnesses from new york tork are to bein be in attendance the defense professes meg mes ses seg to be ready to meet and overcome it mr sickles and hii irlen irien Js howe bowe however very verg feel sanguine of buccini in the exclusion of this species of in this statement it would appear that the course which things take if not the result of the trial must depend upon the rulings of the judge upon matter of evidence 2 on the morning of the ath at the call of the clerk stand up daniel E sickles mr sickles stood up tip in his box the clerk then said daniel E sickles look on the jurors while blie bile the indictment is being bein read the indictment was read as as follows 41 DISTRICT or OF COUNTY or 01 washington TO WIT the jurors of the united states for the allot cilot y aforesaid upon heir their oaths present that manlel E S ackles ckles late of the county of aforesaid afore said sald ten nen tle tie cienian nian not nut having the fear of god vohl before his eye eyes but being moser moved and seduced bv by the instigation of at the devils devil on the vie twenty seventh dav day of february in tit the year of our lord eighteen hundred and fifty nine with force and arms at the coun bouny y afore aforesaid in and upon the body of one oue philip barton key la IR the peace of go GA goland land rand and of the he said united states then andt and there bere being felune u and of his hit mailo malice aforethought did make an ao assault sault kautt and that the said daniel E sickle a certain pistol pitol of the value of two dollars then and arid there charged with gunpowder and one leaden bullet which said pistol he the raid bald daniel B E his right hand hantl then and there had and held I 1 then and there ly wilfully wilf uly and of hs his malice sto sio did discharge ll charee and shoot oss off 0 to o against and upon the said philip barton key and nd that the said daniel E Sic sickle kless kleps with the leaden bullet aforesaid out of the pistol pisto to aforesaid then and there by force of the gunpowder gun xun powder aforesaid by the faid raid daniel ddniel E sickles discharged and hot off as aforesaid afore saM then and there wilful wilfully lyp anund and d of 4 ils ma malice dl tit strike penetrate and wound w him the paid philip barton key in and upon the letl lefi ie ide of hirthe said philip birton key a little below hi tenth rih rib of himy him thresahl the said raid philip barton key giving to hlin him the said philip barton keys key then and there with the leiden bullet a nf fore said sAld so doaa us aforesaid discharged ard shot ont out of the pistol aforesaid by the said daniel E sickles in and upon the left side aide of b himy m the sald said philip phllip barton key a little below the tenth rib of him the sall sal sali philip barton iiii ilir tun ton keys key one mi rial flat wound of the depth of ten ton and nd or of the breadth of half sin fin inch of which said mortal wound be he the said paid philip barton key koy then and there instantly died and so the jurord aforesaid u on the oaths do say that the said dantel daniel E H sickles him the said philip philp phiip phlip brt biram n key ker in manner mann r and form farm and by the then and there feloniously wilfully and of his in malice a licea t did kill and murders murder against the norm form nor for m of f the statute in such case made and provided and against the peace and govern government ment mont of the united slates states ROBERT attorney for the united states Is after the reading of the indictment the clerk said dpn this thi indictment the prisoner has bern born arraigned and on his arraignment rias lias plead d not guilty and has sas put pat him eif elf upon iris his country that country on represent and this indictment you are to try district attorney aull opened the case cage for the prosecution with an and effective statement mt of the occurrence at the close of chica the judge said it was waa usual here to have bare the openings on both sides made before any of the evidence was presented but he presumed the cot coi tinsel insel forthe for the defense would prefer to reserve their openings op ope enins niri m till the case for the prosecution was closed 11 the witnesses for the united states were called into court and the testimony tea for the prosecution se was presented the |