Indiana State Sentinel

The New Albany Bulletin of the 21st Dec., in noticing the execution of Fields, in Crawford county, for murder says: "We also learn that a petition signed by 1700 men and women, of that county, was presented to the Governor praying a change of his punishment to "Penitentiary for life"—but their prayer was not heard."

We are authorized to say, that after all the exertions for the purpose, extending down to within barely time to get the communication from Indianapolis, only 125 names were procured and forwarded to the Governor in favor of a change of punishment, and that among these there was not found the name of a solitary female in favor of the slayer of his own mother.

We ask the New Albany Bulletin, as an act of justice, to give this an insertion in its columns. We extend the same request to the papers which have copied the Bulletin's article, and among the rest to the Salem News, the editor of which, while he had charge of the Bloomington Herald, denounced the Governor for the exercise of a similar clemency, and where the prisoner had not murdered his mother.