The Camden Journal

PIRATES AND ROWDIES.

The N.O. Picayune, furnishes an account of the examination of Du Puytron in the Police Court of the second Municipality on the various charges of piracy, slave-trading and perjury. He was held to bail for trial on the two latter—the first charge of piracy, being yielded during the examination. The charge of perjury rested on Du Puytron's taking a Custom House oath that he was a citizen of the United States, whereas it was alleged he was a foreigner. A curious scene graced this part of the examination. Mr. Peyton, formerly a great whig member of Congress from Tennessee, but who has since transferred his rowdyism to the bar of New Orleans, acting as counsel for the prosecution, took up what purported to be the last will and testament of the prisoner, in which he describes himself as born in the Island of Madeira—and affirmed that the authenticity of the document had been admitted by Mr. Johnson, the prisoner's counsel. The latter interrupted him, and denied that he had made any such admission. Mr. Peyton repeated his assertion, and Mr. Johnson his denial.

Mr. Peyton. Do you mean to say sir, that I have misrepresented you?

Mr. Johnson. If you persist in imputing to me words I have not used, and a meaning which I disclaim and deny, you certainly misrepresent me.

Whereupon Mr. Peyton turned upon him one look of melodramatic ferocity, raised his hand and gave Mr. Johnson a very palpable slap in the face. Great confusion followed—the Court looked wild, the audience huddled and shuddered and the crier bawled like a bull calf. Mr. Johnson remained calm through the tumult—merely saying to the Court, "I understand perfectly well where I am." Mr. Peyton insisted that he meant not the slightest disrespect to the Court by the little deviation from the usual business of courts which he had felt it necessary to make. A queer child, this Baillie Peyton. A few days since in the trial of the famous Gaines case, the Judge decided a point of law against him, at which he was so incensed that he rolled up his books and papers, tucked them under his arm and sailed out of court in a blaze of indignation like a comet in dog days, leaving his clients to argue their own cause.

But the conclusion of the smiting scene is the best of all. Mr. Peyton is a great Clay man, and has evidently studied the Kentuckian's whole tactics—his retreats as well as his onslaughts. We extract the last scene—the mclasses thick laid on to heal the pepper and mustard—from the Picayune of the 5th inst. The blow too, it appears, is capable of being understood in a Pickwickian sense.

AMICABLE ARRANGEMENT OF AN UNPLEASANT DIFFICULTY.

The unpleasant occurrence which took place in the Police court of the Second Municipality on Tuesday, has, we are happy to learn, been amicably arranged.

At 12 o'clock, yesterday, Mr. Johnson, accompanied by Mr. Richard Hagan, entered the office, and immediately after, Mr. Peyton with Mr. Prentiss of Vicksburg, made their appearance.

Mr. Peyton then addressed the court, stating that he wished to apologise to his honor for the breach of order which occurred yesterday (Tuesday) and he availed himself of that opportunity of doing so. To Mr. Johnson, also he had an apology to offer, and he cheerfully made it here (in the court) where the insult had been given. The insult originated in a misconception on his part of the language made use of on the occasion by that gentleman, and he hoped the apology now offered would prove a satisfactory one.

Mr. Johnson replied, that to him the apology was perfectly satisfactory. Mr. P. then offered Mr. J. his hand, and a full reconciliation and a burial of the past seemed to be at once effected.