PtiAtitkV*um Puilvaiiim =gni NOsimiciDAY NT SANDERSON & C O. I J. M. Moran, H. G Bicrra, Wax. A. MORTON, AISPOED SA.NDIDISON TERMS—Two Dollars per annum, payable in all eases in adVanee. - _ OF --S EICEOtrrEWEST COILIVER or CENTRE SW:UM. • • to letters on business should be ad dressedlo COOPER. SANDERSON& CO. prittvg. The Flag of True Blue. EY A PRIVATE SOLDIER. Hang the glorious banner out, Over every home and hill; With a loyal song and shout, By every gleaming heartfelt will; So let the glorious heavenly beam, All fill this passing hour, Round every Union heart gleam This fragrant glooming bower ; With all its stiring voices, Heaven gladly rejoices. The foe is striking hard, Upon their traitor bands; But in their castle yard, We snatch It from their hands; In forest and on sea, We show our daring fights; Our banner shall be free Though we march through rainy nights With all their crashing thunder We swallow up their blunder. And when our soldiers brave, Deal out their deathly stroke, .On battlefield or wave, Fight through battle's blazing smoke Our banners we'll uphold The Union soldiers cry, And save its every fold Though many brave ninst die; Thotfgh many a traitor scout Will try to fight it out. Rise then each loyal man And save your Nation's Ilag; . Your homes you too must sea n. On hillside and on crag And with your bravest soul, ;Go forth and let It yield; In earnest tones control The rebels in the hold; - Your heart which should be bold. I trust will o'er grow cold. Our flag which bends the hough, Is still within our sight; Though whirlwinds round it blow Will stand it through time tight; So let us every one Cling to the straining mast, While yet the winds rage on And hold the banner List, Tin storming traitors fall, And we land safely one and all. it aj. Misplaced Kindness There is nothing like an obliging dis position, I thought to myself one day, when traveling in a railway ear from Boston to Worcester, seeing a gentle man put hi t mself to considerable trouble to land another gentleman, who had fallen asleep, at his destination. "Pas4wers for NVe. Needham?" cried out the conductor; " the car stops but one minute." " Hallo !" exclaimed a young man in spectacles, at the same time seizing an old gentleman by the shoulders, who was sleeping very soundly, " here's Captain Holmes fast asleep, and this is West Needham, where he lives. Conic, get up, Captain Holmes, here you are." The gentleman got upon his feet and began to rub his eyes, but the young man forced him along to the door of the car, and gently landed Idin on the road -side. Whiz went the steam, and we began to fly again. The obliging young man took his seat again, and said, with a good deal of satisfaction to somebody near him : " Well, if it hadn't been for me, Capt. Holmes would have missed his home finely. But here, he has left his bundles," and the young man picked up a paper parcel and threw it out. " Well," said he, "if it hadn't been for me, Capt. Holmes would have missed his bundles finely." When we stopped at the next station a lady began to rummage under the seat where Capt. Holmes had been sitting, and exclaimed in great alarm, " I can't find my bundle." "Was it done up in a piece of brown Taper ?" I asked. " Yes it was, to be sure," said the lady. "Then," said I, " that young man yonder threw it out of the window at.the last stopping place." This led to.o, scene between the oblig ing young man and the old lady, which ended by the former taking the address of the latter, and promising to return the package in a few days, provided he should ever find it. " Well," said the obliging young man, "catch me doing a good natured thing again. What can Ido for that old wo man, if I cannot find her bundle ?" Whiz went the steam, ding, ding, ding went the bell, the dust flew, the sparks flew, and the ears flew, as they say, like lighting, till we stopped again at the next station ; I forget the name of it now, but it wonld be of no conse quence if I could remember it. An old gentleman started up and began to poke under the seat where Capt. Holmes had sat. "What are you looking for ?"I in- quired. "Looking for?" said the old gentle man, "why, I am looking for my bun dle of clothes.'" " Was it tied up in a yellow - handker chief ?"_ I asked. "Yes, and nothing else," said the old " Good heavens ! exclaimed the obliging young man, " I threw it out of the car at Needham ; thought it belong ed to Captain Holmes." " Captian Holmes !" exclaimed the old fellow, with a look of despair who is Captain Holmes The bundle con tains all my clean clothes, that I was to wear at my son's wedding to-morrow morning. Dear me, what shall Ido ?" Nothing could be done but to give his address to the obliging young man as before, and console him:44f with the promise that the bundle should bc re turned to him, provided it wa , tvcr found. The, obliging young man was in despair, and made another vow that he would never attempt to be obliging again. The next station was his land ing place, and as he went towards the door of the car, he saw a silver headed cane, which he took hold of and read the inscription on it, " Moses Holmes, East Needham." " Well!" again exclaimed the ohlig ing young man, " if here isn't Captain Holmes' Cane!" " Yes," said a gentleman who got in at the last station, " and the old fellow is lame, too. He will miss his stick.- "Do you know him inquired dike obliging young gentleman. "Know him? I should think so," replied the gentleman ; "he is my uncle." " And does he live in East Needham ?" asked- the obliging young roan. "Of course - he does. He never lived any where else." " Well, if it don't beat everything!" said the obliging young gentleman ; " and I put him out at West Needham, a mile and a half the other, side of his home." Siii" M. D. Conway, who some time ago attempted to negotiate with Mr. Mason, the rebel representative in Lon don, for the liberation of the Southern slaves, the Confederates to be recom pensed by the support of Northern Abo litionists for their independence, which proposition was repudiated by the Abo litionists, as soon as it was made public, has written a letter to the ..4nti-Slavery Standard, in which he says that these views were endorsed by Garrison Wen del Phillips and others who sent him to - England. 'We.quote the following ex tract from communication : • "I altlirm that I had authority to declare, on - behalf of theleading Abolitionists - who sent me here, that their slipport was given to thtsvar only boontuie sneer Of 'Mem 'odpat4on." - - 1 --.....--,----. —.-- -- - - :''''';!' 2, pl -, ;.? •-;*! lc; 71f171.. silt , 110rica ..:.. .,.,,:.,.•.:'..... .. -,. ~.. ... t . : . . l' —11 1 . .1 ....,1-... . , •„4.,., ~.L •..::„.•,.. „!. z :i.;;..... I'; .•':_,.l 1 -; .in ,f i .li, , Tiisq:•l , : - .. , .9il ,!? 7)i f 4,,T[3 , L : ... .. , . . . . . . . . . t 0 ' .0 .1 - .. .. ; .),-. . ._, -.3 .ac ~:.11,... :, i. 1..... ,, -,_..-- • • li . .. ..t : , •1' .I . .1 .i.i .11 ' - .1 - , , , •-,,, - --:' . or ,-- „ .. . .• , ,' •1i ' - . VOLUME 65. pioallanouo. THE EXECUTION OF MULLER. Full Particulars of the Hanging of Mil ler—Shocking Scenes Around the Gal. lows—Confession by the Condemned Han. [From the London Times, Nov. 15.] Yesterday morning - Muller was hung in front of Newgate. He died before such a concourse as we hope may never be again assembled either for the spec tacle which they had-in view or for the gratification of such lawless ruffianism as yesterday found its scope around the gallows. - While he stood firm on the scaffold as the hang-man turned the last bolts beneath his feet, Muller with his last words owned his guilt. His quiet and almost instantaneous death cut short what might have been a full confession. The mere details, however, matter not ; enough, at least, was dis closed to show thatthe sentence of man kind was right. In the quiet earnest' words With which Muller bowed his head and said, " Ich habc es gethan !" " I did it !" and so, in speaking, went before his God, ha told enough to vindi cate man's justice. A great crowd was expected around the gallows, and indeed a great crowd came. The barriers to check the crowd were begun across all the streets which lead to Newgate as early as on Friday last, and all through Friday night and on Saturday and Sunday-a dismal crowd of dirty vagrants kept hovering round them. These groups, however, were not composed of the real regular habitues of the gallows, but of mere young be ginners, whose immature tastes were satisfied with cat calls in the dark, fond ling the harriers, or at most a hurried, scrambling throw of dirt. at the police when they dispersed them. It was dif ferent, however, on Sunday night. During the early part of the evening there was a crowd as much of loungers as of drunken men, which stood the miserable drizzle with tolerable patience, while the public houses were open and flared brightly through the mist. But at 11 o'clock a voluntary weeding of the throng commenced. The greater part of the rough mass moved off, leaving the regular execution crowd to take their early places. These were soon oc cupied. 1=2131512E1 For a little time there seemed some thing which was not alone confusion, but indecision in the throng till the dirty chaos settled itself down at last, and while noisy groups went whooping and wrangling away, a thick, dark, noisy fringe of men and women settled like bees around the nearest barriers, and gradually obliterated their close white lines from view. It was a clear bright moonlight night. Yet, though all could see, and well be seen, it was impossible to tell who formed the staple of this crowd that gathered to their sight so early. They were well dressed and ill-dressed, old men and lads, wo men and girls. Many had jars of beer, at least half were smoking, and the lighting of fusees was constant, though not more constant than the cries and laughter, as all who lit them sent them whirling and blitzing over their heads into the thicker crowd beyond. Occasionally as the rain, which fell heavy at intervals, came down very fast, there was a thinning of the fringe about the beams, but, on the whole, they stood it out very steadily, and formed a thick, dark ridge round the inclosure kept before the debtors' door, where Muller was to die. As we have said, as the showers came more or less heavily, so the crowd thinned and thickened in its numbers; but there was always enough to mark, like the line of a massive grave, where the drop was to be brought in. From this great quad rangle the sight-seers never moved, but from hour to hour, almost from minute to minute, grew noisier, dirtier, and more dense. Till 3 o'clock it was one long revelry of songs and laughter, shouting, and often quarreling, though, to do them mere justice, there was at least till then a half-drunken ribald gaiety among the crowd that made them all akin. Until about 3 o'clock not more than four thousand, or at the most five thousand, were assembled, and over all the rest of the wide space the white un occupied barriers showed up like a net work of bones above the mud. But about three the workmen came to finish the last harriers after the scaffold had been carried to the debtors' door, and from that• time the throng rapidly.iv.- creased in numbers. 111=1 Worse in conduct it couldn't be, though still night hid its ruffianism. Someone attempted to preach in the midst of the crowd, but his voice was soon drowned amid much laughter. Then there was another lull, not, indeed, of quiet, but at least a lull from any pre-eminent at tempt at noise, though every now and then it was broken by that inexplicable sound like a dull blow, followed, as be fore, always by laughing, sometime by fighting. Then, again, another man, stronger in voice and more conversant with those he had to plead before, be gan the old familiar hymn of " The Promised Land." For a little time this man sung alone, and at last he was joined by a few others, when another, and apparently more popular voice gave out some couplet in which at once, and as if by magic, the crowd joined, with tlic chorus of - oh my! Think, I've got to die." Till this again \ superseded by the sone of— Muller, Muller, le's the man. - All these vocal clihrts, however, were cut short by the dull, rumbling sound which, amid cheers, shouts, whoopings, claiming of hands, hisses, and cries of " Why 'wasn't it brought Out for Town ley r heralded the arrival of the dirty old gallows. This was for the time a great diversion, and the crowd cheered or hissed in parts, or as the humor took them. while the horses were removed and the lumbering black box was worked back slowly and with difficulty against the door of the jail. The shouts and obscene remarks which were utter ed as the two upright posts were lifted into their places were had enough, but they were trilles'as compared with the comments which followed the slow ef forts of the two laborers to get the cross beam into its place. At last this was finished, and then, amid such yells as only such sightseers and so - disappointed could give vent to, a strong force of police filed in and took their places, doubly lining the enclosure round the drop, before the foremost of the hungry crowd, who had kept their places thmugh wet and dry, since Sunday night. Then, as every minute, the day broke more and more clear, the crowd could be seen in all the horrible reality in which it had been heard throughout the long, wet night. All the wide space in front of Newgate was packed with masses within the barriers, and kept swaying to and fro in little patches, while beyond these again, out to St. Sepulchre's and down toward Ludgate hill, the mob had gathered and was gathering fast. Among the throng were very few women • and even these were generally of the women; class, and almost as ahondoned in behavior as their few better dressed exceptions. The rest of the crowd was, as a rule, made up of young men, but such young men as only such a scene could bring together— sha rpers, thieves, gamblers, betting men, the outsiders of the boxing ring, brick layers' laborers, dock workmen, German artisans mid sugar bakers, with a fair sprinkling of what may be almost called as low a grade as any of the worst there met—the rakings of cheap singing-halls and billiard rooms, the fast young " gents" of London. None but those who looked down upon the awful crowd of yesterday will ever believe in the wholesale, open, broadcast manner in which garotting and highway robbery were carried on. We do not now speak of those whom the mere wanton mischief of the crowd led to " bonnet" as they passed, or else to pluck their hats from air their heads and toss them over the mob amid roars and shouts oflaughter, as they .came from all sides and went in all directions,: WI sometime. even tkey fell within tire ali• closure round the drop, and were kicked under the gallows by the police. The propriety of such an amusement at such a time admits of question, to say the least, even among such an audience.. But even this rough play sinks into harmlessness beside the open robbery and violence which yesterday morning had its way virtually unchecked in Newgate street. There were regular gangs, not so much in the crowd, itself within the barriers along the avenues which led to them, and these vagrantS openly stopped, " bonneted," sometimes garrotted, and always plundered any person whose dress led them to think him worth the trouble ; the risk was nothing. Sometimes their victims made a desperate resistance, and for a few minutes kept the crowd around them violently swaying to and fro amid the dreadful uproar. In no instance, however, could we ascertain that " Po lice !" was ever called. The rule was such robbing and ill treatment as made the victims only too glad to fly from the spot where they had suffered it, and who, if even then they ventured on giving any information'to the police, could hope for no redress in such acrowd. Such were the open pas times of the mob from daylight till near the hour of execution, when the great space around the prison seemed choked with its vast multitude. Literally, nearly lifty thousand people were cram med between the walls of this wide thoroughfare. Wherever the eye could rest it found the same dim monotony of pale but dirty faces, which seemed to waver as the steam of the hot crowd rose high. At last, when it was near tower& 8 o'clock, there came shouts of " Hats off!" and the whole mass com menced, amid cries and struggles to wriggle to and fro as the bell of New gate began to toll, not as it sounded in side the prison, loud upon the ear of the fast dying man, but with a muffled and foggy boom that never would have quiet ed the yells of that fierce mob but that they somehow seemed to yearn and listen always for any token of the lit scene yet to come. APPEARANCE OF THE SHERIFFS AND I=l About half-past seven o'clock, the sheriffs of London, Mr. Alderman Da kin and Mr. Alderman Ilesley, with the under-sheriffs, Mr. Septimus Davidson and Mr. De Jersey, went from the Lon don Coffee-house, in Ludgate hill, where they had passed the night, to the court house of the Old Bailey, where they re mained until a quarter to eight. There they were met by Mr. Jonas, the Gov ernor of Newgate, and by Mr. Gibson, the prison surgeon, and, forming them selves into a procession, the authorities Massed from the Sessions-house to the jail. The way lay through a series of gloomy passages, sonic of them subter ranean and dimly lighted, and over the graves of maleftilAors who had been buried there during the last thirty years. Emerging at length into an open court yard within the precincts of the prison they paused for a few moments, until a door at the further end of the court yard was unexpectedly opened, and Muller presented himself, attended by a single warden, on the way from his cell to the scafford. He was pale, but quite calm and collected. He walked with a somewhat measured pace, with his hands clasped in front of him and looking upward, with a touching ex pression of countenance. He was dress ed with scrupulous care in the clothes which he wore on his trial. Since then he had improved much in appearance and upon the whole, he was a comely looking young man. Without the slightest touch of bravado, his demean or, at this time, was quiet and self-pos sessed in a remarkable degree. EM=I From the court yard he passed with his attendant into the press-room, fbl lowed by the authorities. There he submitted. himself to the executioner, and underwent the process of pinioning with unfaltering courage. While all about him were visibly touched, not a muscle in his face moved, and he showed no sign of emotion. At this trying moment Dr. Capel approached and en deavored to sustain him again and again. Repeating in a docile and affectionate manlier words which the reverend gen tleman put into his mouth, the convict more than once said, " Christ, the Lamb of God, have mercy upon me." Dr. Capel repeatedly turned an anxious look - first on the prisoner and then on those about him, as if he felt that all his efforts to induce him to confess if he was really guilty were about to be una vailing. As the executioner was re moving his neckerchief and shirt-collar, on the arrangement of which some care had evidently been bestowed, the con vict moved his head about to allow of that being done more easily, and when these little articles of personal adornment were stuffed within the breast of his coat he remained callous and unmoved. The process of pinioning over Mr. Jones, the governor, approach ed the convict and asked him to take a seat, but he declined the oiler, and re mained standing until the prison bell summoned him to his doom. As he remained in that attitude b - lie could not help being struck with the appearance of physical strength whioh his figure denoted, and still more with his indom itable fortitude. Though short in stat ure, he was compactly and symmetrical ly made, and there were manifest indications of strength about his chest, arms, hands, and the back part of his neck in particular. A signal having been given by the Governor, the prisoner was escorted by the sheriffs and undersheriffs to the foot of the scatlbld, the Rev. INI r. Davis, the ordinary, leading the way, and reading as he went some of the opening verses of the burial service. At the little porch leading to the gallows the sheriffs and officersstopped. Dr. Cape! alone ascend ed it with the guilty limn. The clergy men at once took their places on the little line of sawdust which hail been laid to mark the outline of the drop which falls , and which, without such a signal to denote its situation, might easily have been overlooked in the dusky black of the whole well-wornapparatus. Close after them,, with a light natural step, came Muller. His arms were pinioned close behind : him ; his face was very pale, indeed, but still it wore an easy and, if it could be said at such a time, even a cheerful expression, as much removed from mere bravado as it seemed to be from fear. His whole bearing and aspect was natural. Like a soldier falling into the ranks, he took with a steady step his place beneath the beam, then looking up, and seeing that he was not exactly beneath the proper spot whence the short black link 9f chain depended, he shifted a few inches, and then stood quite still. Following hint close came the common hangman, who at once pulling a white cap over the condemned man's face, fastened his feet with a strap, and shambled off the scaffold amid low hisses. LAST WORDS OF MULLER-HIS CONFES- While this was being done, Dr. Capel, addressing the dying man, said, Muller, iu wenigen Augenblieken stehert Sie yor Gott ; ich frage Sie nochmals, and zum letzen male, Sind Sir schuldig oder unschuldig ? Muller—lch bin unschul dig. Dr. Capel—Sie siud unschuldig ? Muller—Gott weiss was ich gethan habe. Dr. Capel—Gott weiss was Sie gethan haben. Weiss er ouch dass Sie dies Verbrechen gethan haben? Muller— Ja ; ich hebes es gethau. The words translated are as follows : Dr. Caper said : Muller, in a few mo ments you will stand before God. I ask you again, and for the last time, are you guilty or not guilty? Muller answered: Not guilty. Dr. Capel : You are NOT guilty?— Muller : God knows what I have done. Dr. Capel: God knows what I have done. Does he also know that you have com mitted this crime ?-11ullertyes ; I have done it. FALLING OF I'HE DROP. Almost as soon 'as these words-left his lips his kind spiritual guides quitted the platform, and the drop fell. Those.who stood close to the apparatus could Just detects' movement i tcalee so sli,ghtiln tkut 3t •ould s J WI , oiled LANCASTER, WRI)NESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 14, 1864. movement, but, rather, an almost im perceptible muscular flicker, that passed through the frame. This was 1l; and before the pecular humming noise of crowd had . died Muller had ceased to live ;though, as he hung, his features seemed to swell and sharpen so under the thin, white cap that the dead man's face stood out like a cast in plas ter. For five or ten minutes the crowd, who knew nothing of his confession, were awed and stilled by this quiet, rapid passage from life to death. The impression, however, if any real im pression it was beyond that of mere cu riosity, did not last long, and before the slight, slow vibrations of the body had well. ended, robbery and violence, loud laughing, oaths, fighting, obscene conduct, and still more filthy language reigned round the gallows far and near. Such, too, the scene remained, with lit tle change or respite, till the old hang man slunk again along the drop amid hisses and sneering inquiries of what he had had to drink that morning. He after failing once to cut the rope, made a second effort more successfully, and the body of Muller disappeared from view. Preparing-Food for Stock It is curious to remark that in the agricultural discussions which are had at the yearly exhibitions, the same questions are constantly recurring, yet no approach is made to a solution of them. It is "never ending, still begin ning," some holding one opinion very firmly, and another just as firmly the contrary. This is owing to the fact that so little care is taken to determine facts by accurate experiments. Opinions are made up on a very cursory observation of facts, and whether hastily or care fully men consider themselves bound to stand by their opinions. We find in the "Country Gentleman" a report of a discussion of one of these questions, at the annual New York State Fair. The question was as to the economy of "steaming and cutting food for stock." After a long interchange of views, the subject was remanded to the executive committee, with the re quest that, in their discretion, it may either be made the subject of another discussion, or of prize essays. One speaker on this occasion ex pressed the opinion that the effect of cooked feed on the health of animals was of great importance in the consid eration of the subject. That pork and beef made on cooked feed was flabby and inferior to that made on dry feed.— This seems to - correspond with a com mon idea that the firmest and best pork is made on dry corn, and that even old corn is to be preferred to new for the purpose of finishing up the fattening process. Any way of feeding, the same speaker remarked, that inter fered with the natural mode, was of doubtful character—the cooked feed was passed sooner than it should be, and on this account impaired the health, mid was injurious. A practical farmer, who had a large cutting machine of four-horse power, (lid not find it profitable to use it—he did not believe in cutting and steaming food for stock. He did not want corn stalks cut for sheep—the butts of the stalk had very little nutrition. His sheep wintered well on clean straw and corn-stalks, and it was more economi cal to have the food consumed dry and uncut; has one hundred and fifty tons of straw, and wants the sheep to eat a large quantity and tread all they can under foot. Another speaker alluded to the prac tice of Mr. Horsfall, the famous Eng lish dairyman. The theory that he had tslopted was, that feed cut and steam ed parted more readily with theorganic constituents, and the effect produced was remarkable. Under this process of feeding it was found, too, that the feed passing through the animal system was rendered in better order for the manure heap. But the practice of steaming feed had not been extensive. " Again, a number had used cut food, hay and straw, for ten years ; had fed daily without cutting for experiment, and believed fifteen or sixteen pounds of cut and steamed hay to be equal to twenty five pounds not so treated. The food by steaming is rendered sweeter and more palatable. Steaming mouldy straw re moves its flavor as if it had never been injured. Cutting and steaming in creased the value of the feed 33percent.; there was no great increase of labor by adopting this system. All , refuse mate rial about the barns could be worked up into palatable food. Had made an ex periment in feeding cattle and sheep on straw cut and steamed, with two quarts of bran per head, and they preferred it to the best hay. Had experimented with ten head of cattle, feeding five on cut and steamed straw, and five on hay, and then alternating ; end there was the greatest improvement with those fed on steamed food. In experiments, have not weighed feed and animals, but find that those consuming three bushels of feed require but two when steamed; they at first eat the same quantity, but after a little, 23 per cent. less. When steamed food is used for cows it im proves the quality, of milk, and gives a better quality of butter. Another experiment was related, in which sixty-four cows were fed, and a steaming apparatus employed ; had been cutting and feeding hay for some days ; hay was mouldy and musty, but by steaming it wasrendered palatable, and cows were well satisfied with it. Had it not been steamed, a large share of the feed would not have been eaten. Cows fed on steamed food Were healthier, were not troubled with constipation, and there was a saving of 33 per cent. in fodder. By cutting and steaming the feed, could keep eighty head of cattle where he kept fifty by the old method, and the prodtict of milk was increased one-third. Had never weigh ed stock nor feed while conducting ex periments. This last opinion is very much to the point, and would be entitled to great weight but for the concluding remark, that there was no method used to test its accuracy. In all this testimony, brought together upon an important question of farm economy, there are no facts brought to bear upon it, but only the opinions of several gentlemen whom we assume to be equally competent to judge, but who are directly at variance with each other. With no more light than that which these New YOrk farmers throw upon the matter we should be tempted, perhaps to go to the ex pense of the cutting and steaming for a large and profitable milk dairy near a city, where labor can be commanded, and the highest prices asked for food. But on farms generally, where a lead ing object in feeding stock is to convert the coarse material into manure, our opinion is, that these expensive opera tions will not pay. Twenty years ago an intelligent farmer who did not in dulge much in theories, struck what in my opinion, was just the right practice. For his laboring stock, :at breakfast and dinner, when the time for eating was limited, he provided ground food, rye or corn, and mixed it with cut straw. moistened with water. Thispreparatiorr enabled them-to get a good, substantial repast,in a abort time. At other timeit he thought it well to have them atibpir : leisure grind apd 'motatiosto" tbr duia selvirs: aDREss. To the /:kwaocraiic Citizens of Peian.slit- I have but waited thetardy move ments of our public authoritiesin col lecting the result of the election held on the Bth,ult., in order to discharge the in cumbent duty of calling your attention to the means by which a"majority of 20,081 votes (as I nowlearn,from offidial circles) has been recorded against us.— This majority is made up frpm all the votes stated to have been given in the districts at home, including those by proxy, and all those given in the ar mies—negro votes and all—in every form of returns, lawful and otherwise. There have been at least two palpable forms of fraud practiced by the sup porters of Abraham Lincoln, in order to make up this majority, and thus se cure-him the electoral vote of the State. Fictitious ballots have been placed in the ballot-boxes, answering to false registries, the same as has been repeat- Oily proven to have been the case in our elections heretofore ; and, secondly, the suffrages of the volunteer soldiers have not only been over-awed and per verted.by corrupt partisan officials, but the returns themselves, in many cases, have been tampered with and trans formed. In reference to fictitious votes, who believes that the city of Philadel phia has to-day, or ever had, 99,000 voters legally and properly registered in her various wards and. precints And yet that number of votes had been counted as thus resident—giving near 12,000 Abolition majority in a city that not many years since burnt an Aboli tion hall in open (lay, as a public nui sance! The late attempt to exercise the right of suffrage on the put of the volunteer soldiers, has proved a signal failure— farce I would call it, but for its various melancholy concomitants. The doubts entertained by many as to the wisdom and propriety of this measure, prior to its adoption, would seem to have been fully realized. It is impossible ever to secure a fair and full distribution of tickets, so as to allow a free choice to the voters in army service. The expenSes of the attempts made to do so, are almost beyond belief. On the part of this State, they will reach at least 530,000; and the two political organizations expended fully as much wore. The system will always he liable to great abuses, and roust ever he un equal in its operation, and unfair in its results. Certain it is, that the privilege of voting given to the soldier is a mockery, when the very man against whom per haps, he would like to vote, has the most despotic control over those who rule that soldiers' every movement, -and could send him at a word to the front of battle and to death, if he refuses com pliance with their behests. Until the volunteer soldiery have the power of choosing their own officers,' tin right of suffrage for other purposes can never be properly carried into effect in the army. Had they beep fairly and freely left to their own preferences, can any sane man doubt, hut that there would have been about the same proportionate di vision of sentiment expressed by the soldier in the late elections, that was manifested by their fathers and broth ers at home? It is this army vote, (not to speak of the other frauds, i which has given our opponents their recent beggarly tri umph in Pennsylvania. Beggarly in deed—when it is recollected that it shows a falling off of from forty to fifty thousand in their majority, within the last four years Such a victory, and so obtai lied, betokens a spee,ly downfall as a party, to the ad v( wates of negro equal ity in our staunch old Common weath. Rer , dhrtions nerri• go bovkwarrlx. It is worthy of remark here also, that a change of twenty-five thousand votes properly divided amongst the larger• States, would have defeated Mr. Lincoln altogether. It was our duty, fellow citizens, to have rescued the constitution at the late elections, if we could. - The effort was gallantly, but unsuccessfully made. And now, in view of all that must in evitably transpire within the next four years, I feel honestly, more like congiat ulating you as a political party, on hav ing escaped a fearful responsibility, than offering explanations and condolence over a defeat. After entailing a weight of suffering upon this country, from which nothing but the most radical measures can ever relieve it ; after hav ing forced into operation a financial system, which is but the mask of ruin in that regard ; atter so mis-managing the unfortunate civil war now upon their hands,.as to leave scarcely a hope of sav ing the Union—it. is but right that the Abolitionists, and their instrument, Abraham Lincoln, should remain in a position to feel the first fruit of their own wickedness and folly, and meet the curses and condemnation of an outraged and suffering people, when the impend ing clouds shall mature intQ storm and darkness. Our plain duty, fellow-citizens, both as a party and as patriots, is to maintain our noble organization in all its power and activity. It now comprises up wards of two hundred and seventy-six thousand freemen—the bone, sinew and brains of the Commonwealth. Every hope of an ultimate re-union of the States, and of restoring the Government and laws to their original purity and vigor, lies in the progress and ultimate triumph of the Democracy. We must still continue to act as the sentinels of freedom, and vindicate our time-hon ored principles before the people. In stead of disbanding our clubs cud asso ciations, let us increase their number and inspirit their action. Hold, at least, monthly meetings. Gather if possible, and organize a Democratic association in every school district, and boldly can vass on all proper occasions, the meas ures of our corrupt and imbecile rulers. Expose the secrect leagues and banditti like gatherings of our opponents ; and hold up to merited scorn those who, in midnight assemblies, and under kindred darkness conspire to rob and ruin our country, and at the same time to de grade our people by plotting an affilia tion with the negro race. Let us, as a party, march steadily on our accustom ed paths, employing neither stealth nor secrecy ; they are unworthy of freedom, who are afraid to defend it in open day. Allow me, in this connection, to add a word, also, in behalf of the Democratic press of Pennsylvania. Always but too poorly rewarded, now, when nearly all public patronage is in the hands of the fanatics, and the expenses of printing greatly increased, it becomes the mani fest duty of every faithful Democrat to support and strengthen his lopar, paper, and to discriminate in his patronage, if compelled to do so at all, in favor of the Democratic press of our own State.— There is a culpable carelessness in this respect, in many of our public men, which is a very proper subject of repre hension, as well as of remembrence to those who suffer from it. Under ordinary circumstances, fellow citizens, I would deem the present duty of my' place fully discharged in this hasty reference to the late election, and the sequent suggestions which I have ventured upon. And in what I further undertake at this time, it is possible I may be charged with traveling some what out of the sphere of my appoint ment, and with entering upon a field of inquiry that is beyond its usual limits. But as my purpose is manly and upright, and, I may add, patriotic—l feel 'I may safely rely in these times, that the spirit of liberty will secure me at least your indulgence. On, or about the Ist day of September last, forty-four substantial and reputa ble citizens of Columbia and Luzerne counties, in this State, were seized by military authority and hurried with in decent haste, at the bayonet's point, into the depths of a distant and disused military fortress, as a place of confine ment. One of them, in a letter to his relatives, in simple words that must touch every honest heart, thus de scribes their imprisonment: " Onr treatment was hibuman. When first taken and incarcerated in this cell, not a stool or bench to rest our weary limbs on; rota_ cup, or.laiife, or fork' or plate; and WWI few indPTenscalls itcidOlf 3 s.Werff Par; chased at exh Oroitant-pAws attended Ndth l'exiitiosul delay. "Forty-four of u.s 'one cell, without even a separateplaoato attend to the calls , of nature, it is no wonder that one of our number was soon laid in his last resting place, and many others prostrated by disease.- Four of their number have recently been brought to trial before a military Con - mission, and three of them sentenced to heavy fines and imprisonment, upon charges clearly cognizable in the Civil Courts of the State and of the United States. With the question of the guilt or innocence 'of these men, (and I be lieve them truly innocent of any delib erate infraction of law,) I have in this place; nothing to do: It is the startling fact that forty-four men, of good , repute in their respective neighborhoods, some of whom had held places of high pub lic trust and honor, should be seized by soldiery, in the heart of this peaceful and loyal State, dragged off to a noisome military dungeon, and there kept for months, without being confronted by an accuser ; one of them in the meantime dying, as is believed, from suffering thus; another becoming blind from his confinement, while most of the others still continue shut up in Fort Mifflin— a damp, island fort, constructed more with a view of resisting a bombardment, than anything else! A brave old name desecrated : - a fortress associated with many proud recollections and memories of our forefathers' struggle for freedom. turned into a Bastile for the uses of modern tyranny! This is not all, nor in my view the worst of the case—if it is to be establish ed as a precedent : These men are being drawn out, one by one, to be tried before a tribunal unknown to the Constitution —called a Court Martial, in which they are denied the privilege—priceless in a freeman'Ei estimate—of a trial by a jury of their peers, and of the vicinage ! I should not impliedly impugn your in telligence and love of freedom, fellow citizens, by offering here, any elaborate diseussion of this sacred right of trial by jury, No work of tyranny so stirs the inmost depth of every freeman's heart, as any attempt at infringement of this precious principle of liberty, which has come down to us untrammelled and un impaired from the days of Magna Char to to the present moment. The very idea of a Military Conanzi.lsion sitting in the - ffeart of our faithful, law-abiding old Commonwealth, to try anything but simply breaches of military law and regulations, is monstrous and unbear able. Our Legislature fairly humbled itself to subserviency, in passing laws punishing any resistance, by word or deed, to the conscription laws of Con gress ; and Congress in its turn has piled enactment on enactment—now endors ing our gracious President's proclama- I ions of martial law, and next restrain ing them—but all the while pointing to th, roorts as the proper tribunals to try the class of offenses newly an- Jounced—shall I say, CREATED, by both President and Congress—Lord and Mas ters of a submissive people! subunit, fellow-citizens, whether it is not the duty of the two hundred and seventy-six thousand Democrats of Pennsylvania, to inquire into this alarm ig violation of those great principles of human rights, which even no monarch on the throne of our English encestors since the date of Magna Charter, ever yet invaded with impunity ; and no ad ministration of our Government ever be fore dared to infringe, even in the sligh est degree ? The fate to-day, of these men of Columbia county, if innocent, may be ours to-morrow. Besides if it really has come to pass, that the old laws of the land require enforcement by bay onets, and the...new - ones introduced, and obool to hr introduced, need the same illustration and support, it mustat least be interesting to the people to know it, and be prepared to yield up gracefully all those cherished principles of civil freedom baptized in the blood of our fatli'it:lsf of the revolution, and bequeath ed to us as their inestimable legacy ! True, we had the boastful announce ment of the Seciretary of State at Wash ington that the suspension of the writ (i f hobcos corpus placed every indepen dent heart in the land under his gaoler ship ; and we had also the practice of Secretary Stanton's satraps In various places in other States, showingthe same grand estimate of his powers; but that military commissions and secret trials, WITHOUT JURIES, were to be substituted forproceedings in the civil Courts of the country, in cases clearly defined by stat ute law as belongingexclusively to their jurisdiction, is a state of things which coukt, not have been fully contemplated by the people of Pennsylvania at the late election. We really seem to be fast reaching the condition of the German Baron of olden time, who, in order to provide the means for maintaining his castle against assailants, mortgaged it to some neighboring Shylocks, who seized and appropriated it themselves, before the Baron's defences were completed. Or, in plainer words, in conducting what appeared at the outset to be a pro per struggle to sustain the powers of the Constitution, and the supremacy of the laws over the Southern States—we are now sinking the same vital principles here at home! Who is responsible for this position of affairs so far as our State is concerned ? The new Military Commander of this Division, with his own fair record to preserve, and a bright ancestral fame in memory, cannot be acting a voluntary part in them. The Governor of Perot sylvania disavows all prior knowledge of the original proceedings against the Columbia county-prisoners, and all re sponsibility in the premises. The Judi ciary, if applied to, would probably be disinclined to enter into a conflict with the military authorities r in which would simply be illustrated, that the President and his Cabinet ministers are the Lords paramount of our destinies, both civil and military! Tht•people can allow—canpexpelitate, this position of our liberties if they de sire. They have the power—the awful power to prove recreant to themselves; to become the exeCutioners of their own rights—their own happiness, and their own , ilory illustrated in the past. Yes: if tiny so elect as a people, they may, in cowardly supineness, allow themselves to be covered with the pall of a despotism as dark and dismal as ever shrouded any of its victims in the old world; and finally fill the latest of those ignoble graves of National freedom, that lie in dreadful warning along down the great pathway of time! In behalf of the Democratic State Central Committee of Pennsylvania C. L. WARD Chairman. Towanda, Pa., Dec. sth, 186-1. DEFAMENG THE PRESIDENT.—WIE. J. Freoburger was arrested yesterday after noon, charged with cursing President Lin coln.—Baltimore Sun of Saturday. The above we print as a characteris tic item in historical record-now being made up in this last half of the nine teenth century, and in " the great modern republic," the United Stateff - of America ! The reader will please not commit the error—natural enough, we admit—of supposing that the little " local item " above occurred in the do minions of some autocratic tyrant, or far away back in the dark ages. The arrest "for cursing- President Lincoln" was made on Friday, December 2,d, 1864, in this our own "happy land.) , " God bless Abraham Lincoln !"—Age. • ANOTHER COAL OIL LAMP EXPLOS ION occurred in Baltimore on Sunday day night, in the parlor of Mr. Eincros;, resulting in the death of a daughter of his, aged about five years. Four other children who were sitting around the table were slightly burned. If our Lan caster dealers in Coal Oil do not take particular care in selecting their stock, we may have accidents of this kind to record here this winter. Much of the Coal Oil now being used in this city, gives unmistakable evidence of unfit neas for illuminating purposes. tar The Earl of Derby is, rendering Elonierle into English' : blank verse. ICwill be 1404 Tem, Uo doubt. NURSER ; 49. .. i Tobacco and-Tobacco gmoker. Chemistry of the Weed--tffeets otsmok. • , inie.—Cigars, Pipes lust '2teersehsums. _ - . One of the most interesting andnovel! of all the speculations on the use of to tacco was submitted to tlie - British AS sociation for the Advan cement of Science at its late session, and the information. afforded will be well received by that large class of persons who indulge in the use of the weed. Dr. Richardson' first' contrived an automaton smoker, into whose mouth - pipes, cigars and meerschaums were placed, and the smoke from them being caught and collected, enabled him to determine the products of the cornbustion. These he determined as, 1, water ; '2, free carbon; 3, ammonia; 4, carbonic acid; 5, nico tine 6, an empyreumatic substance of a resinous bitter extract. He says : "The water is in the form of vapor, the carbon, in minute particles suspend ed in the water vapor, and giving the eddies of smoke their blue color •, the ammonia is in the form of gas combined with carbonic acid ; and the carbonic acid is partly free and partly in com bination with ammonia. The nicotine, he says, being a non-volatile body, re mains in the pipe; the empyreumatic substance is a volatile body of an am moniacal nature of the composition of which the Doctor confesses himself ac quainted, but which we have ventured to consider as resin. Whatever it is, it is that which gives the smoke of tobacco its peculiar odor, and determines the flavor of a cigar. It adheres powerfully to woollen Materials, and when concen trated has a mostobnoxious and intoler able smell. The bitter substance is resinous and of dark color, probably having an alkaloid as its base. It is not volatile, and only leaves the pipe or cigar by being carried along in a fluid form." The varieties of tobacco are innumer able. Simple tobacco that has not undergone fermentation yields very little free carbon, much ammonia, car bonic acid, little water, a small quantity of bitter extract. The Latakia yields the same products uniformly, the Turk ish generally more ammonia, Havana all these products. Cavendish varies considerably in its constituents; pigtail yields all very abundantly ; the little Swiss cigars yield enormous quantities of ammonia, and so dry the mouth; Ma nilas give very little. The Connecticut tobacco is comparatively mild in ta'§te, from the absence of the bitter extract. The water vapor of smoke is not in jurious, but the carbon in it settles on the mucous membrane and irritates the throat. The narcotic effect of tobacco smoke, if received into the lungs, re sides in the carbonic acid ; the ammo nia causes dryness, a biting of the mucous membrane of the throat, and an increased flow of saliva—experiences familiar to smokers. Absorbed into the blood, says Dr. Richardson, it renders the fluid too thin, causing an angularity of the blood corpuscles, suppression of the biliary secretion and yellowness of skin, quickening and then reducing the action of the heart. In young smokers it produces nausea. It is doubtful whether all these effects are to be traced to the carbonic acid. If so, most of our mineral waters, so freely drank, are dreadful poisons, instead of being reme dial agents asthey are generally esteem ed. The empyreumatic substance seenis to have little effect except in giving the peculiar taste to tobacco smoke, and af ter a while of making the breath of smokers unbearable. " Nicotine is rarely ever imbibed by the cleanly smoker," says Dr. Richardson. It af fects only those who smoke segars by holding them in the mouth, or dirty pipes saturated with oily matter. When absorbed, its effects are injurious, such as palpitation of the heart, tremor and unsteadiness of the muscels, and great prostration. It will not, of itself, pro duce vomiting , it is the bitter extract which is the cause of this, impercepti bly swallowed and taken into the stomach.. HOW TO SHORE The method of smoking makes all the difference in the world. Those who use the clean, long pipes of clay—as did our old Knickerbockers—feel only the effect of the gaseous bodies and the free car bon. Wooden pipes and pipes with glass stems are injurious. Segars should never be smoked to the end ; otherwise they are more injurious than all. Dr. Richardson says they should be cast aside as soon as one-half is smoked, and always smoked from a porous or absor bent tube. Pipes are much less hurtful than segars. The best pipe is a long clay pipe ; next to this, the meerschaum is the most wholesome. Dr. Richard son says, the perfection of a pipe will be found in a meerschaum bowl, an amber mouthpiece and a clay stem. All at tempts at pipes to condense the oil have thus far failed. Every smoker should be careful of the manner in which he smokes. A short foul pipe is very un healthy. The fashion of the meerschaum has largely prevailed in this country of late years. The material is now imported in blocks, and manufactured here into va rious forms, some very handsome aid costly. The prices range as high tts thirty-five dollars. The proprietor of a good meerschaum thinks as much of it almost as of himself. If it is well color ed, which is the result of absorbing the oil of the tobacco, it not only becomes beautiful in his eyes, but the smoke is said to be sweeter to his taste. The cigar dealers assert that, notwith standing the heavy tax on tobacco man ufactures, the demand has in no way fallen oil, but the contrary. The Pacific Railroad—Progress of the But few, if any, of our citizens have a correct idea of the progress which has been made in the construction of the Union Pacific Railroad from this city westward. We recently made an ex amination of the work, in company with Peter A. Dey, Esq., chief engineer of the road, and we frankly confess that ,we were agreeably disappointed both as to the quantity and quality of the work which has been done during the pres ent summer and fall. The masonry is first-class at all points, and the graduation is in keeping with the magnitude and importance of the road, which is estimated to become the great highway of nations. Arched cul verts, stone abutments and piers for the bridges, wide embankments and cuts— everything is in harmeny with the gen eral character of the work, the greatest of modern times. From Omaha west to the Elkhorn River—a distance of eighteen miles— i the earthwork is heavy, and on this portion of the line the maximum grade is 60 feet to the mile. At the Elkhorn River the Platte Valley commences— and thence, for a distance of 500 miles, the graduation of the road will be ac complished with less expense than upon any equal distance of railway line ever constructed in the world. At no point, for the distance we have named, will there be a cut or a fill of five feet—and what is equally important, in the man agement and working of the road, there will' not be a dozen curves, and the av erage grade will be less than five feet to the mile—the maximum not exceeding six feet. From Omaha to the Elkhorn River the graduation will be performed chief ly with picks, shovels and self-loading carts—and on this portion of the line the work will be continued during the coming winter at all the heaviest. cuts. West of Elkhorn the compa ny are using patent excavators drawn by eight yoke of oxen each. Three'of these excavators average half a mile of grade per day. Already some twelve or fifteen miles of track have been made ready for the ties and iron by these ma chines which, we 'are informed, work admirably. The heavy work on the first eighteen 'miles -will be nearly or quite - finished bythe first of May next; and there is every prospect that the iron-horso will the Loup fork 'of the rlatti f et tolumbue, eigbdeen miles West of this 'city, by the irst'OrNovern-, beitiext.—Yrom the Omahas fk (121reb,)Ro. .pubtican, Oct, 21, • Amino= - • • • L. • :=%,334.44ir 5 e itiu ;54 W . sraxt - Ammusszapra ! , liatiand• cants fOreadt` lion.. u; Tr 16 - ?a . i.lA &Snarl , -:asmatotroc& Ind - other ilferi Halt Third column, -• QuarterOOlWati. . B.=zitase •lLF‘Ni i i'Egi4 welttvoim.,;. Bnsi 7ear,. ... . EWA. AND larTiiataßGlS-•• I . ' , Executors notices.: %mow Administrators. notibee ';;;„4.09 Antion . ee& —9OO- Auditors' Other 0- Notices;" MTV - lines, 'or lean,' three Healtlithlncts of Woolleis. - A lady's -toilet now tells of wohl- 1 - -Wool of every grade,.pile of every Style, ,born the silvery Cashniere, the /uatreus Alpaeca, and the Merino,, to thy ex quisite soft wools of. Improved mutton breeds. The garb of pastoral Simplicity, once worn by 'mute emblems- '-of gentleness and innocence, now adonis the impersonation of beauty .:and purity ! From hood to hose, ffpfn bal moral to baize, excelling these soft tex tures in blooming beauty, and radiant with charms that cotton cannot give, the belle of the present day stands forth a living example of the superior health fulness of wool as an article of clothing. Is this not suggestive of amore glowing picture than that drawn by the An nales d'Hygiene ? It says : In England, where the children go half-naked ; where the servants do their work in the morning with their arms naked up to their shoulders, and where the women are always lightly clothed, pulmonary consumption exists in enormous proportion. In London one fourth of the deaths results from plithisis. The same authority says that this dis ease has only prevailed in France since the women wore their hair "a la Titus," their arms naked, and bosom in a great degree uncovered. It would be a difficult task to describe the present style of woollen goods, and combinations of silk and wool, and other mixed woollen fabrics, made for woman's wear. It issaid by merchants and manufacturers that twice the quan tity of woollen goods used ten years ago is now worn by ladies. In the summer, gossamer webs of barge and barge de laines are worn, and found to be cooler and more comfortable during the heat of summer, and under the exhaustion of exercise, than cotton goods. •Flan nels are multiplying rapidly—plain, figured and striped, and increasing in beauty and softness. Hosiery, formerly black, is now made into a multiplicity of styles and a variety of colors, intend ed to please the eye, as well as to promote the comfort of the wear er. Balmorals, the gift of the ma tronly Queen Victoria, show won drous ingenuity in many hued shades of beauty, and save the delicate texture of dress from the contamination of the sidewalk, without exposure of garments of ghostly hue, stainless to be sure, but cold and colorless. Then there are the de baizes in great variety, mixed goods, but cheap and serviceable ; the mousse line de laines of American manufacture rich enough for daughters of princes ; lustres of silk and wool; poplins of sim ilar material, but heavier and dearer; Coburgs and other Merinos in rich variety ; and cloaking cloths, light, soft and tine, of long wools ; or else heavy and coarse, with a soft fur-like nap of extreme length ; or perhaps a close-tex tured, solid, flue fabric, of the best Me rino. These latter goods are of every imaginable style, the prevailing ten dency' being to soft, lustrous, long-wool ed goods. As civilization and education advance, and people learn the principles of hy giene in the school of experience, it might be expected that such a clothing reform would be inaugurated. Hence, with the thick soles and high boots, and other improvements, in place of various barbarisms of female dress, have come in these healthful and beautiful frabries, intended for the clothing of ladies ; and health and fashion have for onee'joined hand in hand. What has thus been oined let no Parisian milliner recklessly and profanely put asunder! In such an era shall-man be arrayed in sheep's clothing, and the prophecy of the poet of a hundred years ago will be fulfilled : "Then rigid winter's ice no more should wound The only naked animal; but man With the soft fleece shall everywhere be elotIt• ed," Fourteen Ways by Which People Get Ist. Eating too fast, and swallowing food imperfectly masticated. 2d. Taking too much fluid during 3d. Drinking poisonous whiskey and other intoxicating liquors. 4th. Keeping late hours at night, and sleeping too late in the morning. sth. Wearing the clothes so tight as to impede circulation. 6th. Wearing thin shoes. 7th. Neglecting to take sufficient ex ercise to keep the hands and feet warm. Bth. Neglectingto wash the body suf ficiently to keep the pores of the skin open. oth. Exchaniing the warm clothing worn in a warm room during the day for the light costumes and exposures iri eident to evening parties. 10th. Starving the stomach to gratify a vain and foolish passion for dress. 11th. Keeping up a constant excite ment by fretting the mind with borrow ed troubles. 12th. Employing cheap doctors, and swallowing quack nostrums for every imaginary ill. 13th. Taking the meals at irregular intervals. 14th. Reading the trash and exciting literature of the day, and going crazy on politics. Brevity. It is said of the three most influential members of the Convention that form ed the Constitution of the United States, that in all the debates of that body no ono of them made a speech of more than twenty minutes. We have good authority for stating that Alexander Hamilton, though reckoned among the most diffuse orators of the day, did riot occupy more than two hours and a half in his argument on the trial of a cause; and his rival Aaron Burr, notmore than an hour and a quarter. A judge who Was intimately acquainted with Buri and his practice, confirmed this state ment, adding that within his knowledge this advocate repeatedly and successful ly disposed of cases involving a large amount of property in half an hour. • Indeed, said he, " on one occasion he. talked to the jury seven minutesin such a manner that it took me on the bench half an hour to straighten themotit."! I once asked him : "Col. Burr, why cannot the lawyers always save time and spare the patience of the Court and Jury by dwelling only on the most int.& portant points in the case? To which Burr replied : " Sir, you demand the greatest faculty of the human mind, selection." • He is well known to have been one of the most effective advocates in his time, and in this matter, if nothing else he deserves to he studied and im4 itated. We refer to a single foreign example,) an eminent English barrister ' • : " I asked Sir James Scarlet." says. Buxton, "what was the secret` of hit( pre-eminent success as an advocate. • He said that he took care to press home the one principal pointof the case ; without . much regard to others. He also said that he knew the secret of being - shint. " I find," said he, "that when eitj ceed half an hour, I am always - doing mischief to my client. If i• drive' intq the heads of the jury unimportant MO= ter, I drive . out matterbleinore . tent I had previously lodged therni" ) We commend this' reason for it, not only ton,'l;tit r qnife' as urgentlit to'lawyens bers of Congress.
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