BY JOHN B. BRATTON, VOL. 40. factual. - TBE DETROTIIED. Had I mot theo in thy beauty, When my heart and hand wore free, When no other claimed the duty Which my soul would yield to thee, Had I wooed thee—had 1 won thee— Oh, how blest had boon my fate, Bill thy beauty hath undone mo— I have fobnd thee—but 100 lalo ! For to one my vows wore plighted Willi a faltering lip and pale,— our cruel sires united* ~ Hearts were deemed of slight avail! v TPbU* my youth's bright morn o’ershaded, A; Thus betrothed to wealth and slate, -All Love’s own sweet prospects faded, I have found llico—but too laic 7 Lika the fawn that finds the fountain With the arrow in his breast, Or like light upon the mountain Whore the snow must over rest. I have found theo—but forgot me ! For 1 feel whal ills await, Oh ! *lis madness to have met thee— To have found thee—but too late ! JUDGE GENTLY 0 ! there has many n tear boon shod, And many a hour! bcon broken. For want of a gentle hand set forth, Or a word in kindness spoken. Then, O ! with brotherly regard, Greet every sub of sorrow, So from each tone of love his heart New hopes, now strength, shall borrow. JWfactUjiiTtoim. From Scotia Weekly i’aper THE VOLUNTEER COUNSEL, * TALK OP JOHN TAVLOR, John Taylor was licensed. when a youth of twenty ono, to practice n t Llio bar of this city. Ho wus poor, but well educated, and possessed extraordinary ge nius, The graces of Ins person combined with (ha superiority of his intellect, enabled him to win (he hand of fashionable beauty. Twelve monl hs u nor wards, (ho husband was employed by a wealthy firm of [he city to go on a mission as a land agent to the West. As a heavy salary was offered, Taylor bade farewell to his wife and infant son. Ho wrote bock every week, but received not a lino in answer. Six months elapsed, when ho received a letter from his emyloyors that explained all. Shortly after his de parture for lliV'West, the wife and her father re moved to Mississippi. There she immediately obtained a diveteo by an act of the Legislature, mirried again forthwith, and to complete the climax of cruelty and wrong, had the name of Taylor’s sun changed to Marks—-that of her second matrimonial partner. This perfidy nearly drove Tuylor insane. His career from that period became eccentric In the first degree. At last a fever corned him off at a comparatively early ago. At an early hour, on the Dili of April, 18-10, the court house in Clarksville, Texas, was crowded to overflowing. Save in tiro war times past, there had never been witnessed such a gathering ip Red River mnnty, while the strong feelings apparent on every flushed face, will sufficiently explain the matter. At the close of 1839, George Hopkins, ono .of the wealthiest planters end most Influential men of Northern Texas, offered a gross insult to Mary El lision, (ho young and beautiful wife of his chief overseer. The husband threatened to chastise him fur the outrage, whereupon Hopkins loaded his gun, wool to Elliaton’s house, and shot him in his own door. The murderer was arrested and bailed to answer the charge. This oocurronco produced in tense excitement, and Hopkins, in order to turn the tide of popular opinion, or at least to mitigate the general wrath, which at first was evident against him, circulated reports infamously prejudicial to the character of the woman who had suffered such cruel 1 wrong at his hands. She brought her suit for slun dor. And thiis (wo cases, one criminal and the! other civil, and both otU of the same tragedy, wore pending in (ho April Circuit Court for 1840. The interest naturally fell by the community as t'j (ho issues, became far deeper when it was known (hat Ashley and Pike of Arkansas, and the oulubra ted S, S. Prentice, o( Now Orleans, ouch with enor mous fees, had been retained by Hopkins for his defence. The trial for the indictment of murder ended on the Bth of April, with the acquittal of Hopkins Such a result might well have bcon Torsten by com paring (ho talents of the counsel engaged on either side. The Texas lawyers wore utterly overwhelmed by llio arguments end eloquence of their opponents. It was a tight of a dwart against n giant. Tko Slander edit wad sot for the h, ami Iho throng of spectators grow in number as well as ex citement) and what may seem a'rongo, llio current of public sentiment now ran decidedly for Hopkins. His money had purchased pointed witnesses, who served most efficiently hia powerful advocates. In deed, so triumphant bad been (ha success of the Itio previous day, (hat when the slander case was called, Mary Ellislon was left without an attorney they had all vVithdmwn. Tho pigmy pettifoggers dared not bravo again tho sharp wit of Pike, and llio scathing thundei of Prqntico. ‘iiavo you no counsel?' enquired Judge Wills, looking kindly at the plaintiff. ‘No, air, iboy have oil deserted mo, and I am too poor lo employ any more,’ replied the beautiful Mur) bursting into lours. 'ln such a case, will not soma chivalrous momhur of Iho profession, volunteer I' asked the Judge, glan cing around Dio ban The thirty lawyers was silent as death. Judge Mills repeated the question. ‘1 will,'your honor,' said a voice from the thick est part of the crowd, situated behind the bar. At the tone of (hat voice many started half from their seats; and perhaps there was nut t head in that immense throng whitfh did not beat something quicker—-U was so unearthly, sweet, clour, ringing and mournful. Tito first sensation, however, was changed into a general laughter, when n spectral figure, ilui nobody present remembered over lo have soon before, elbowed hie way through tho crowd, and placed himsolf within the bar. His appearance woe a problem to puzzle tho sphinx himself. Ills high, palo brow, and small, nervously twitching face seemed alive with the concentrated essence and cream of genius; but then his infantile bluooyos, hardly visible beneath thoir massive arches, looked dim, dreamy, almost unconscious: and bis clothing was so shabby that (ho court hesitated lo ioltho cause proceed under his management. _ , *, our nn . ni ? too l * onlorod on tho rolls of (ho Staled demanded (ho Judge suspiciously. •It is Immalor nl about my name being on your roll., 1 answered Hie .(ranger, hie thin, hloSdle.e lipe curling up inlo u hendleh aneor. •! may be allowed to appaer onee by tho oontlesy oflbo eourl and her. Hero a my license from (he highoel tribunal in America 1 and ho handed Judge Mill, a Jroad' porohmonl, Tho trial Immediately wont on. In tho examination of witnesses the stranger evinced but llttlo ingenuity,as wo commonly thought. Ho suffered each 000 to toil liis own story without interruption, though ho contrived to raako each (oil it over two or throe times. lie put a few cross questions, which, with keen witnesses, only served to correct mistakes, and ho made no notes, whioh, In mighty memories, always tends to embarrass.— The examination being ended, as the counsel for the plaintiff ho had a right to the opening speech as well as the close: but to tho astonishment of every poo ho declined tho furmer,and allowed the dolonco to load off. Then a shadow might havo boon ob served to flit across the features of Pike, and to darken oven the bright oyes of Prontico. They saw that they had 'caught a Tartar j’ bat who it wee, or bow it happened was impossible (o guess. Col, Aehly spoke first. He dealt tlio jnry a dish of that close, dry logic, which years afterwards ron dered him famous in the Spnalo of the Union. The poet, Albert Pike, followed with a rich vein of wit, and a halo torrent of ridicule, in which you may bo sure neither the plaintiff nor the plaintiff’s ragged attorney wore either forgotten or spared. The groat Prontico concluded for the defendant, with