a No payments yet made for the assessments of 1858.......b But one settlement has been made this year. Treasurer repor to have been robbed July, 1858, on his way to settle with the State. reported *Saidto have been stolen. LIST OF PARDONS, Granted by Governor Weller, for the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight. Grounds on which the Petition is based. Names of Petitioners known to Governor. Rape San Joaquin 10 years DECISION.-January 20.-The County Judge before whom the case was tried, is not satisfied of his guilt, and the DistrictAttorney, who prosecuted the case, says: "I now think he was not guilty, and ought to have been acquitted;" also, a very large! number of the most respectable citizens of Stockton have, in] their memorial, expressed the same opinion; and, after a careful examination of all the papers, I have come to the conclusion that the prosecution was gotten up to extort money, etc. The excited state of the public mind ope- Alonzo Rhodes, Amos W. Gove, A. P. rated, together with false testimony, toj procure his conviction, and being satisfied, from what we know of the facts attending the case, as well as subsequent developments concerning the parties prosecuting, beg most earnestly for Executive clemency in his behalf. Horton, II. T. Compton, Gray and Hickman, H. T. Huggins, C. B. Hall, F. E. Corcoran, G. A. Shurtleff, E. B. Bateman, R. Baker, A. McPherson, Jno. R. Hobbs, Jno. M. Neal, T. S. Strout, J. G. Jenkins, Geo. D. White, Chas. C. Kimball, and 168 others, among whom were the County Judge, before whom the convict was tried, and the District-Attorney who prosecuted the case. DECISION.-February 2.-This man has been imprisoned nearly five years. I have evidence of his good character previous to the commission of this crime, and of his good conduct whilst in prison. The Physician, and other officers of the Prison, represent that he is an old man, and that his health is entirely destroyed, and there is scarcely a hope of his recovery. He has already been punished sufficiently. A very old man, and in feeble health; has John F. MeCauley, E. HI. Pomeroy, Wm. Hicks, J. A. Reynolds, Amos D. Moore, C. Wesley Robinson, and 21 others, officers and guards, including the Physician of the State-Prisor, who represents that his health is almost entirely destroyed, and there is scarcely a hope of his recovery. DECISION. February 19.-The District-Attorney who prosecuted him, says, "that he knows that the prisoner was led into the commission of the technical offence by the persuasion and deception of one who was in the employ of the police of Oroville,| and that hitherto he had been a peaceable and law-abiding citizen. In this, the Justice of the Peace, whose office was entered, and a large number of the most respectable citizens, including the present District-Attorney, Sheriff, and other County officers, concur. His parents reside in the State, and are anxious to have him released, in order that he may be sent to his kindred in Pennsylvania, with the hope of reforming him. Let a pardon be issued, upon the express condition that he leave the State within twenty days from this date, and never return. That a violation of this condition shall operate as a forfeiture of all the rights and immunities conferred by these presents. This condition was afterwards annulled, in consequence of his severe illness. DECISION.-March 9.-In this case, a majority of the most respectable citizens of Oroville have applied for a pardon, upon the grounds that it is doubtful whether the woman died from the effect of the poison-no post mortem examination having! been made. It is quite certain that it was a mere mistake of a druggist's clerk in mixing medicine, involving no moral guilt. The jury unanimously recommended him to mercy. Let a par don issue. Grounds on which the Petition is based. Names of Petitioners known to Governor. mann, L. Granger, J. W. Burt, W. H. That he was induced into the commission H. Gaston, Thomas Wells, D. W. Cheesof the act through the persuasion of an old offender. The burglary consisted inj lifting the window of an office of a Justice] of the Peace, and disarranging some papers. Nothing was stolen. His parents reside in the State, and are anxious to have him released, in order that he may be sent to his kindred in Penn-| sylvania. The proof, on the trial, was not such as to establish the guilt of the defendant be-j yond doubt, and therefore the jury that tried him unanimously recommended him to the mercy of the Court. The patient to whom the dose was accidentally administered, was very dangerously ill, and the testimony of her attendant physician clearly established the fact that the probability of her death from the disease with which she was afflicted, was great and ex-] treme; and, furthermore, that there was a question as to whether her demise was entirely owing to the poison accidentally administered. The circumstances attending the termination of the patient's death do not exhibit| moral guilt on the part of Suder, but at most a misfortune. Patrick H. Harris, District-Attorney; J. The general good character of the defendant W. G. Dryden, Presiding Judge of Court during two years in which he has lived amongst us. The facts from the evidence,] that the defendant was out of his senses, from intoxication, at the time of the offence, and had been in the same condition for some time previous to the altercation at the ball, and the absence of evidence as to a previous bitterness be-] tween the parties, precluding the idea of an inception of malice in the defendant, in a state of sobriety. The absence of proof, that after the difficulty at the ball, and the mutual provocation then given, the defendant proceeded to provide himself with the weapon with which the offence was committed. A letter, written by one Frank Williams, in J. Heard, Judge before whom the case which he says that he stole the horse for was tried. which Scott was imprisoned. 1. We very much doubt the correctness of George B. Tingley, Charles T. Carvallo, the evidence on which he was convicted. and 10 Chinese merchants of San Fran2. Even if guilty, as charged, he has al- cisco. ready been punished enough. 3. He is young, and has always heretofore sustained a good character for industry, honesty, and integrity. |