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JIANDRICK. lITTSICIAN S SURDEDN. reqiectfull, tender. hi :,rofet.eional nervicee to the citizen of Friendetvilh and v t cth tt, pIy — OITICe inthe °Mee of Dr. Lee. Itoanin at J. Hanford', Ang. 1.18,9. PROF. MORRIS The Hayti Barber. returns hie thanks f o r the kind pao ronage that han enahl , ll him to get the bent rent—ha! ha • I burnt time to tell the whole !Kam but torn, end •er for ronmeeei , VIFTat the Old Stanit No loud laughing allowed In the abop. (April 13. D ENTISTRY AU those in want of false Teeth or other dental work Mould call at the office of the subscribers. who are pre. pared to do all kinds of work in their line on short notice. Particular attention paid to making full and partial setts of teeth on gold. silver. or aluminum plate ; also on Weetoa'e east composition ; the two latter preferable to an of the:cheriper anbaltinces now used fur dente/ plates. 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Thou standest like imperial Charlemagne, Upon thy bridge of gold, thy royal band Outstretched with benedictions o'er the land; Blessing the farms through an thy vast do main, Thy shield is the red harvest moon suspended So long beneath the heavens' o'erhanging eaves ; Thy steps are by the ftumees prayers attend Like ilium upon the altar shine the sheaves ; And %flowing thee In thine ovation splendid, Thine almoner, the wind, scatters the golden leaves. liiIII'PRINMI RIDE. • BALLAD 01 0810 Up hem his bed at break of day, Einipkins sprang in great dismay: The cool morning air with clearness bore, Like a herald In haste, to Snipkins' door, An ominous grumble, and rumble, and mar, Telling his hogs bad got out once mote, And Snipkins almost two miles away. And louder aid those sounds from far Thundered along the horizon's bar, And clearer yet to poor Snlpkine ear The clatter of grunting bogs drew near, Standing the listener's hair on end- As be thinks of the loci the sounds portend, And finipkins almost two miles away Away 1 And Elnipkins spared not heels nor whip, As on he node with compressed lip, And soon through the flush of morning light A " hogs" with bones In wretched plight Was seen to peas with all his might, As if he knew the hogs were treed, He hurried along at his rickety speed. Hill ruse and fell, and so did old Gray, And finipkins only one mile away. The first thing Snipklns taw the fence MI down in the road, and then the dense Mats of porkers, all out of their pens: Then digging Gray's ribs with his old boot heels, • He dashes down the road 'mid a storm of squeals, The runaway hogs checked their course be- Muse The sight of the master made them pause. Hurrah I hurrah! for the bold Snipkins! Hurrah! hurrah! for the horse that wins! And when the hogs are high and dry, Secure 'neath the roof of the old pig stye, Then, as we speak our Snipkine name, Let us think of Gray in a song to his fame; " Here is the 'boss' that saved the hogs, By carrying Snipkin' s over the logs, From Shipk.Wts' house two miles away.- —A jail to cost 4800,000 is being built at St. Louis. —The public singer that "draws the best "—a mosquito. —The potato crop of Long Island is said to be a poor one this year. —lntrenchments are the first care in war—retrenchments in peace. —ln Canada, a man aged 106, has just eloped with another man s wife. —Mr. Seward is to sail from San Fran cisco for China September lath. —The Kansas man who ate twenty seven ears of corn ftir dinner is dead. —An "Anti-Masonic Mass Conven tion " is about to be held in Illinois. —A Western paper says that General Grant as a failure is a great success. —Nearly one-half the type-setting on the Paris literary papers is done by wom en. —The annual catch of codfish on the Newfoundland banks is stated at 140,- 000,000. —Chestnut brown and dove color are to be the two colors most worn next sea -8011. —A St. Louis company has turned out 1,750,000 pounds of zinc during the past year. —Olive Logan is said to have discard ed chignons. The false hair trade is doomed. —ln Southern Kansas, a number of farmers intend raising a cotton crop next season. —The water power at St. Anthony Falls, Minn., is calculated to equal 10,- 000 horses. —Chief Justice Chase is visiting his daughter, Mrs, Senator Sprague, in Rhode Island. —President Grant was expected to at tend the Vermont State Fair, which opened September 13th. —Most of the sickness at the watering places is said to be caused by drinking tract water. —Omaha secured the two-headed girl in time to have it count two on the cen sus of the city. —lt is said that the census will show a falling off in the population of nearly all the Southern cities. —Laws, like sausages, cease to inspire respect in proportion as we know how they are made. —An Ohio murderer chazgesanmission fees to interviewing reporters, and may yet die a rich man. —Two hundred bales of silk recently passed through Omaha, shipped direct from China to London. —A Cincinnati . pr.per speaks of Chica go as " that fever - infected and hurricane persecuted locality" —A few karts of green wormwood scattered in places infested with black snts, will dislodge those insects. —A Kentucky clergyman, sixty-five years old, is cuttings jaw tooth that re. places one he lost ten years ago. —Gov. Chamberlin, of Maine, is quite ill. He has item recovered from the wounds inflicted daring the war. MONTROSE, PA gltisCtlllinfOUS. DISTESGITISHED LAWYERS. Illeadniseences by Pot. Parsons. The following "talk" to his class by Prof. Parsons, of Reading, was taken down by one of his students. It will be found curiously interesting: I will begin with the greatest man I over knew, and one to whom the country owes a deeper debt of gratitude than to any except Washington. CHIEF JUSTICE MARSHALL I knew him but one winter, when I called on him was received with perfect kindness, and was cordially invited to call again. The tone of his voice plainly indicated that the invitation extended was meant as no mere act of politeness. I did call again and again, and each visit made me more anxious to call more fre- • quently. Chief Justice Marshall was born in 1855. He was the eldest son of fifteen children. His father, Col. Marshall, was a gentleman of excellent family, but no property. OA Marshall educated his children himself, as he wps too poor to send them to school. Chief Justice Marshall began with poetry. At the age of twelve he had copied all of Pope's Essay on Man. He could repeat much of Shakespeare, Dry den, Pope, Campbell and other standard poets. He wrote a great deal of poetry him self, but even at this young age he dis played that great sagacity which so dis tinguished him. He never published any of his poetry, At the age of twenty he entered the army, where he remained until 1781. He figured in most all of the principid en gagements in the South. While stationed at Philadelphia he at tended one course of law lectures. Dur ing all this time he was very poor. When he was returning home an innkeeper re fused him admission to his house bec.iuse he did not look respectable. Soon after returning home, in 1782, he was elected to the Virginia Legislature, where he was returned as a member until 1791. In 1788 he succeeded in securing the adoption of the Federal Constitution, which was violently opposed by Patrick Henry. The majority in favor of adop tion was only ten. In 1797 he went to Paris. In 1799 he was sent. to Congress, where his influence was almost boondlesa In 1800 he was appointed and confirm ed Secretary of War. He, however, nev er entered upon the duties of his office, for before he eonld do so there was a vacancy in the office of Secretary of State, and he had this position tendered him. He did not hold this office long, for in 1802 he was appointed first Chief Justice of the United States.) when this was tenuerm w•--• dent Adams he positively refused it, and urged the claims of ether gentlemen whom he thought more qualified. Final ly, however, his name was sent to the Senate and he was unanimously confirm ed. He knew very little "book law" when he was appointed. He had attended but one course of law lectures and had prac ticed but three years. This was the great , reason, when he urged so strongly the ap pointment of others. It is said of Mar shall that be never held an office that was not almost forced upon him. Soon after he was admitted to practice he married. He was still very poor. He said he did pay the preacher for marrying him, and that he had one guinea left. Of course be had to work very hard in his profession. It is probably more to his early poverty than to anything else that he owed those habits of indomitable energy, which were so characteristic of hint He was forty-six years of age when he was appoiuted. He immediately com menced to pursue a systematic course of the study of the law. He never became familiar with the books. In all the ranks of legal literature there are no books where there is so little authority cited as those containing his decisions. When a case was argued, and it was for the Judges to decide it, after thinkiug tor sometime, be would write down his decision, and, handing-it to Judge Story, say : "There, Story ; that is the law of this case ; now go and find the authorities ;" and, prob ably, there was no one more able to do this than Story. Story once said : "When I wish to reach a point in the law, I have to grope timidly from headland to headland, and feel satisfied ifat last remotely reach it." But Marshall,i'n an adventuresome and bold manner, puts right out to sea, and without difliculty approaches it. . One of the earliest of the great cases which have immortalized the name of Marshall is the case of Marbury vs. Madi son, 1 Cranch 137. In an able opinion he laid down the true principles which underline the fgundation of our Govern ment. He draws a sharp line between the powers of the different departments. For this he had been abundantly prepar ing himself in the Virginia Legislature, when the Constitution was before that body for adoption. I have spoken of Marshall as an able jurist. I will now speak of him as a man. He was remarkable and peculiar in his old age, when I knew him. He eared nothing for fashions. He had never changed the cut of his dress. His out side coat was peculiarly long and in the skirts had two large pockets; frequently he could be seen walking , up . Penn-. Sylvania avenue with a law bisok in each pocket, or his pocket filled with legal documents to overflowing. His peculiar eharacterstic was the car rying of a long green umbrella,which was his constant companion, not only when it was raining, but stuck under his arm when not a cloud was seen. A kinder man never lived. He was a model for the judiciary of our country. He was perfectly courteous in his manner, I never speaking unkindly to any one. But still he was a man with whom no liberties could be taken. Re_ was peculiar, even in his dignity . He had one arity which one could not fail to observe; be would looklong GOA intensely without winking. lklbre the age of the twe-boirr WEDNEODAY, SEPT. 21, 1870. rules it often happeeed that some boring lawyer would Come before the Court and speak for hours. When Marshall saw such a one, th►t cold, gray eye would be fixed upon bite, and he would wilt beneath that gaze.H. 'never loved to look very largely into tuthorities. On one occasion S— dined with the Judges of the Supremo Court at Marshall's house. A servant entered when they were seated at the table. He brought a basket of books, and handed s note to Marshall. The note was from Benton, who had argued a a case before him.' Marshall read the note to the company somewhat as follows : "Mr. Marshall: I send you such of the authorities as I now have, and will send you others soon." Marshall looked up and saw the basket, and exclaimed : "Good Lord, deliver us!" In Washington in those days it was a very fashionable amusement to pitch quoits. Frequently would Marshall and other members of the Court, after their labors were over, be seen out on the green, with their coats off, pitching quoits. My first and last impression were that he was a good and great man, and it was the happiest moment in his life when he could make others happy. His smile, his tone, his eye, all conspired to bring about the result. JOHN RANDOLPH, OP ROANOKE was a very different man from Marshall. I knew him well. His nephew was my classmate and chum. His name was Theodoric Tender Randolph. When I came to Washington Randolph came to see rue, having probably heard his nephew speak of me. Randolph was very tall and slim, and of a sallow complexion. He stooped somewhat. When he walked he made very long strides, keeping his feet paral lel, se if some one was in his way, and such person had better get out of it. His favorite gesture was to reach out a very long arm, with a long finger the end of it, and point it directly at a person. His voice had a peculiar shrillness. Really, there is nothing to discribe it. It was high, and, when he chose to make it so, soft and sweet. He did na. always speak in sweet tones, for when he had occasion he spake as "with a trumpet with a sil very voice." He prided himself upon his excellent English, for this he made the object of his study. He had a splendid English library, and it was his pleasure to study words and phrases, and phraseol ogy. He used to say he had studied the Bible more than other book—would that he had studied it to more advantage! He did so for its exquisite Saxon English. A phonographer might have published his words as they fell from his bps, so finely turned were his periods, and chosen were his words. He had not much im agintion. He had a very great power of reasoning, and bad a power of sarcasm which was blighting. Some one said to Benton. "lie mast have been among you like a comet frightening the nations, eli a u k iigiLg e , sti ß r Malianetary plague, shooting down agony an fear upon the members." During the winter when I was with him in Washington, an old man and a member of the House of Representatives died. He was a special friend. Quite a Young man was chosen in his place. He came on to Washington determined to win his spars. So not long after he had taken his seat., he in his debate made a fierce attack upon Randolpoh. Every one was filled with astonishment. When he got through Randolph did not. get up to reply, but kept his seat daring the whole of the debate. Several days passed and another topic came up. Randolph made a very earnest effort in behalf of the side he favored. As be closed his speech he said : "I would not, Mr. Speaker, hare returned to press this matter with so much earnestness, had not my views pos sessed the sanction and concurrente of my late departed friend, whose seat I lament, is now unhappily vacant." At these words he pointed his long arm and the long finger at the young member who attacked him several days before. The Hoarse roared with applause. On another occasion, a regular Down Easter had been elected, and came down to Washington several days before the meeting of Congress, and had gone into the adjoining States. When Congress met he made himself very familiar with his brother Congressmen, and did not hesitate to approach and speak to any of them. He came up to Randolph and said, "I've just been to Virginia and pass ed by your house." -rd be glad," - said Randolph, "if when you are in Virginia, or wheresoever I have a house—that you would always pass by it." Some one asked "Is he an aristocrat or a Jacobin ?" "No," replied another. "he is neither; he is an Ishmaclite." Every one's hand was against him or would be, were it not fur fear of him, and his hand was against every one. There is no doubt but that he was de scended from Pocahontas. He was most proud of this. No stranger could be in his company one hour and remain igno rant of it. lie was sure to bring it in cenversation some way. lie felt that old Powhatan was the lord of all Virginia, and when he died he left his regal n i ghts to his daughter, and when she died they descended to him, and that he was king of the whole land. There was a "screw loose" som.where in his mental compo sition. So long ago as when the first steamboat was put upon the Hudson, there was not business enough to keep it employed every . day, so frequently it would take excursion parties up the river. On one occasion quite a large party were on board, among them Randolph and a Mr. Schuyler, who was a very modest, shy man, respected by all. While the boat was going on its way, Randolph start ed up, went's few paces from a party of ladies and shouted out, "Mr. - Schuyler ! Mr. Schuyler ! 'willyou do me the favor 1 to come - here I" Mr. Schuyler left the larty and approached him. "Mr. Schuy er, look here ' -placing his band on his ear—"what do you see ?" "Nothing," re plied Schuyler., "liaok at that ear—what do you see?" ."Simply an ear." "Don't ,on see POcaliontas there? " In order for 15chuyler to, get away he finally amid, "I think /do see little of it." Kr. &him Jar related this to Parsons. ft is believed that the aboriginal descendants of the country left a peculiar mark upon the lobe of the ear, which always marked such persons. Ile made a visit to Eng land and behaved quite strangely while there. The English were at lose to ac count for his eccentricities. They ascrib ed them to three things—first, that he drank upon the sly, or was all the time tipsy; or that he was insane; thirdly, that it was due to American peculiarities. Our narrator was told this bye!) English man, when he remarked be preferred not to have him think it the 'latter of the Pochahontas married Rolfe— which is the same word as Randolph. Randor's grandfather had a perfect right o Rolfe's if he chose it. While in London he saw fit to dress in the Rand- olph clan. carried sward. pistols and dirk; bad his leg bare to the knee, just like an old Scot. Once at a theatre two young men, from his strange dress and other cause, smiled at him. He turned "Let him who smiles to them and said at tartan beware of the dirk," and at the same time brandishing the dirk. The Washington officials became very tired of him. They feared him, and in order to get rid of him, he was appointed Minister Plenipoteniary to Russia. He refused to accept unless permission was given to spend some time in Italy for his health, This was granted, as would any thing to have got rid of him. He went to Italy, stayed some time there—went to Russia and remained only one month ; then went to England and made quite a long stay before returning home. The reason why he left Russia was this: While be was there, and before he had been presented to the Emperor, some one undertook to teach him the presentation etiquette of that Court. It was very simple. The Minister was to enter the door and bow, at the middle of the room bow again, approach the Emperor and bow, and then the Emperor would meet him and enter into conversation. He was indignant at the idea of any one at ternptiing to teach him, and said, "Don't you think I know how without you show ing me ?" The day for his presentation approached. He entered the room and bowed very low—came to the middle of room, stopped, and bowed—he then came nearer, took off one gauntlet and threw it on one side of the Emperor and then the other on the other side of the Em peror—them he pitched his hat off in front, threw off his mantle—threw off his award and fell on his knees. The Em- peror was perfectly astonished, but being a well-educated man knew how to act under such circumstances. So he ap proached, lifted him up and conversed with him. His reception did not come up to his ideas, so, being disgusted with Russia, be left iu a month. He had an unbounded admiration of Marshall, who was the only man who could at all control him. When Marshall was 74 be was in the Convention, and an attack was made upon the Judiciary. i;nce andtriuMpllanWttl.:ll I. speaking of this speech, said: "It was a Gibraltar, and every answer was a pistol shot against the solid rock." Rand olph died of consumption. It is said that when he was lingering—after he could not speak a word—that he Wrote upon a card "Remorse;" this idea has generally gotten abroad. The truth, however, is that he was attended during his illness by a man by the name of R. Morse, and be, fur some purpose, wrote his name. He was a man of immense knowledge, especially of little things not generally kuoWn by other people, He once said he could bound every county in England, tell all of its towns, in what part of tile country they were, name the course of every river, and the counties through which it flowed. • I Our narrator dined one day with Mi. Otis. It was past the hour named. All the company had arrived; still dinner was kept waiting for Randolph. In he I came, abont a half hour after the time. I Dress in those days was peculiar; no one thought of going to a dinner party with the clothes he wore every day. He came in with his buckskin pantaloons all spat-! tered with mud; he had on high-top boots; still retained his hat; had his rid ing whip in his hand. He made no ap ology to Mrs. Otis—merely said : "As it was a pleasant day lie bad lengthened his ride." He sat at Mrs. Otis's right, while our narrator sat to the right of Mr. Otis, at the other end of the table. During the dinner he called out to our narrator in a loud voice: "Mr. P—! Mr. P-1" "Sir!" Mr. P— replied. "Was it ign orance on the part of you forefathers, or what was it, that led them to put Norfolk south of Suffolk ?" In England, Norfolk is where the north folk live, and Suffolk where the south folk live. Mr. P. did not know it at that time. When he came home he found, after diligent inquiry, that Suffolk was named first—it was settled by immigrants from Suffolk, who gave it the name of their old home, as did the Norfolk people who after wards settle Norfolk. wit. PINCKNEY. not Colonel Pinckney, of Virginia. The way our narrator became acquainted with 1 Pinckney was this: While be was Alin- I later to England, he went. there ; ho had I a letter of introduction to him and lost but little time after his arrival in present ing it. After belied returned to Wash ington, our narrator sought him in ac cordance with his invitation. He was the greatest lawyer I ever knew, says our narrator. He had an excellent memory. It was naturally weak, but he had system atized his knowledge—linked it together so that one part would support the other. He began life a poor boy at Havre de Grace. He went into a lawyer's office to sweep his floors. He would spend his spare time in looking into the books. He cultivated quite a fondness for legal sub jects. Friends let him have money, and and he studied law. He was at once very successful. He had an immense command of language and of an thorities. He had great sagacity in resorting to just what he wanted. He never used a superfluous ci tation, hut if there was all in the range of legal literature anything he wished to use in his argument, he had it It was a dis puted point who was the stronger in log ic, he or Webster. In rhetorie he was far ahead. He had all or Choate's elegance VOLUME XXVII, NUMBER 38. of language, but a great deal more ele gance of delivery. As a legal orator be had a mysterious power, not frequently called magnetism. He had an attractive manner of delivery, securing and holding the attention of his hearers until he brought to bear the pow er of subduing their minds. Webster op posed him in his last case—a patent ques tion, involving something about a part of a cotton-loom. There could be no drier subject in all the range of the law. His argument covered two whole days. There was no time during the whole of it when the Court House and all the ways around it was not crowded full of the elite of Washington. -He had a_peculiar charm of gesture which attracted the attention of every one. He would not confine him self to one spot, but in the course of his argument he would move about before the Court. - Let him talk upon what sub ject he would—you could not help listen ing, being convinced. As a man, he was perfectly - kind and courteous toward all, but he had one weakness which swallow ed up all the rest. He was the vainest person alive. He was vain of his vanity. —While I was in Russia, I and another attache were sitting in his parlor, waiting for him to come to dinner. He came in after along while, black and dirty as any man. Without sayingtt word he walked up to the sofa, jerked off his hat, threw it and his sword down. At last Mrs. Pinck ney returned, and asked, " What is the matter?" " Matter! I have been insulted, Madam! That is what's the matter." At this, our narrator says, my sword and that of my friend, as if by magic, leaped from their scabbards, to avesge the insult. I ventured to ask "How r Turning to me he said : "Sir! Is not a man of my name, my position, my country, insulted when he get up at 8 o'clock to pay homage to a little girl (a Russian Princess) ?" I ven tured to suggest that we were invited at l 11. "Can a gentleman dress in less than 1 three hours ?" He used to bathe every day, and after bathing he would throw a thin gauze ov er himself and have two body servants i throw flue salt him. He had heard, he said, "salt would preserve the skin." It was true that his complexion was fine, so much so that there was a rumor spread that lie painted. This was not true, for our narrator has time and again seen him plunge his head into a basin and give his face such a rubbing that no paint in the world could remain on it. He paraded his efforts in making this show. He liked to such rumors of himself. He was 54 when in St. Petersburg and 60 when in Washington, though he looked like 30 when he went into company. He was not rely fond of society, and would not re main longer than ten o'clock at a party oftentimes. When he came out he would say, "Let us go home and have a chat," which our narrator was most willing to do. When he got there he would begin to unmake himsif. He was laced in every .is'e)tha ofilird4,liXibeiratiiii:lta mense piece of silk, about a yard and a half square. It was folded diagonally, corners turned in, and that filled with a long piece of padding, or, as it was com monly-talled, pudding, which was made for that purpose. It was then folded and drawn tightly around the neck, his more than ordinarily so. His whole dress was faultless and beautiful, as well as most fashionable. The only thing that troub led him was his thin hair, though he was not bald. After he had all his tight clothes off he would fall back into his chair and tell his servant to bring him a glass of "peach drink," which was no oth er than most excellent punch, made with old peach brandy. He would turn to our narrator and say: "Mr. P—, will you have a glass of peach drink ?" "Yes, I think I will." There we would sit nod talk until very late. On one occasion I told him I would like very much to hear him in the Sen ate, and I would be glad if he would let me know when he was going to ' speak upon any question. He replied • " do not know that I will have much to say this term. Ido not know of any topic which will come before the Senate upon which I will be likely to speak, unless the Senate gets into a confused, chaotic state, and will need me to setthem right." Our narrator once told Webster of this, who did not. like him. He said; "It was all exactly so, only he was a great fool to say it." After a night's hard study he would come into court, and in discussing a ques tion, would in the course of his argument say: "I think' your honors will find an authority for—that—in—the Brat of East, about 604—yes—I should say about 604—and on the right hand side." While lie knew it, having Just exclaimed. All this was done for effect, in order to make the populace think he knew not only the law, but knew the location on the page. It was generally supposed that he died from over-exertion in the cabs in which he was opposed by Webster, though knowing his habits of life as I did, I do not think that was so. I sat up with him lute during the night before his at tack, and had promised him "Cooper's Spy," which bad just dome out. and which he was anxious to see. The night of his attack I took it to him remained late, and left him reading it. The next morning I came down to breakfast late, and was asked by the landlady :—" Mr. Pi —, have you heard from your friend Mr. Pinckney ?" I replied "No! is there anything the matter with him?" " I was told lie was dead." 1 hurried over to his house, and was at once admitted to his room. I found him very low, having been stricken down with apoplexy. I approached him and said, "How are you, Mr. Pinckney ?" -I scarcely know; I feel a little weak —after you left me, I had something of a fit, and fell into a dreamy state, and when I woke this morning I felt weak and found physicians around me." He said be had sat np reading the novel very late. He criticized the book with his usual intellect and cor rectness, showing that his mind had not at all been impairect The family, who had been sent for, came that evening., I stayed with them until after midnlght, when I left birn'alntost insensible. Nest day when I called I fblind him entirely , so. He lingered a favr , dals in this state and then died. It was true he was attacked the day af ter Webster's speech, but I should say bia lacing contributed much to his death. Although he was the greatest lawyer of his age, his name is saircely known. Such is the evancescence of legal fame. A lawyer who mingles in politics will be spoken of, as Holt and Mansfield, but better lawyers than.,they will, soon be for gotton. 'the fame of a great lawyer is only written as in running water. CALHOUN I knew well. Ile was a charming man, but I will nut speak of him, nor of 'Fal well, who was the leading lawyer of Vir- ginia in his day DAN! EL W EBSTE R. My acquaintance with Webster was be gun in the court-room, where we often met. He was forty years old when he came to Boston from New Hampshire. I was at that thy , twenty-three. Just about this time the Spanish claims came up. But I must explain them: Our merchants claimed twenty millions of dollars for losses suffered during the Na poleon wars. Spain admitted their claim so far as to let us have the Floridan, and pay us also five millions of dollars besides, This sum of money was to be divided among the claimants. Three Commis sioners were to be appointed, before whom the claimants were to be heard. Our narrator was employed by the Bos ton merchants to look after their claims, which were immense,-in fact, the larger part of the whole sum. They desired Webster to be with him, and they ap proached him on the subject. He ex pressed a willingness to go to Washing ton, They arranged the fee and put the agreement in writing. If the sum recov ered was so ho was to have five per cent.- We went on to Washington. When we got to Philadelphia he was approached by , the merchants there, and asked to repre sent them. He asked me if I thought the Boston merchants would object? I told him I thought not, unless the inter ests comflicted, if, so, they would. He desired me to ascertain. I did so, and found the matter as I have stated. Web ster then bargained with them. He re ceived $2,000 in hand as a. retaiuer. The - next day he spent this $2,900 in buyinga silver service. He was in Washington three years in looking after these interest. At the end of the time he got possesion of the money. I called to see him. Be said : "Was there not something said about a maximum for my fee ?" I said to him: "Yes, a great deal was said about it and written too." (3'420,000 was the max imum fixed.) "Mr. P—," said he, "the calculations are long and tedious; just let me give checks for ninety-five per cent. of the whole amount ; we' can ar range the calculation very well." We can first put the account into the hands of an accountant. and he can figure it out in a whole day, and make it all plain." "Well, the truth of it is Mr.P—, !have spent the 820.000 lung ago. Now you LcAry v'ererilfectelf a 'a° Alai well, that this is a brand snatched from the tire, and get them to take 95 per cent- He got about $60,000 out of thoseiclaims. He then began to bnild and elegant house, but soon found himself hopelessly iu debt. He did not seem to know that money was money. His income was large. but his expenses tigreut deal larg er. He remained in Hides almost all the remainder of his life. He did not do much business, but still his income was large. He once told u friend that it av eraged $20,000 per year. Ile grew to be amazingly indifferent to money and debt. His clerk, nn attorhey once practicing in his office, said to him: " Mr. A. sent me to tell you that your note would fall due in a day or two: "Very well, sir." said he. "He told me to tell von that he wishes it paid." "Well sir. - von have done so." , "But he wishes me to say to you that it shall be paid!" "Well, sir, you have done as he told you. Tell Mr. A. when the note is paid he shall please to let me know it." His will is a phettotmnon. It is drawn up in a masterly nianto and it is just such a will as he should have made if he possessed in addition to his residence half a million to support it. Of his greatness there eatmot be the slightest doubt ; but it was the "neatness of power and not of learning. He would never study a case unl..ss it interested him. He was not a s:,sietnatic thorough ly read man. Jle teeth! read a hook rap idly and know mitre of it than most per sons who studied it The use Coleridge's phrase, " Ile could read it with his thumb and feuetinpr." He fell into a great passion for quoting Latin sentences in his speeches. He did this in imitation of the members of the English Parliament. who never consider ed a speech finished unless they put a Latin phrase into it. He knew very little about Latin. When we were on our way to Washing ton, the means of travel were not then as now. We had to go in stage coaches. I put a copy of Horace into my valise to while away the hour as we journeyed. I was reading it one day, and he asked me what it was. I told hint. lie said," Alt ! that is just the proper hook to bring; let me see it." I handed it to him, and ho could translate no four consecutive lines in it. Prof. Gelton used to supply him with all of his Greek quotations. He had all the elements of real great ness, but some follies also. Ile only serves to illustrate the Greek maxims, which I will not give, for two reasons: First, You might not be able to translate it ; and Second, I would not be able to render it in Greek ; so I will give you the transla-, tion: " There never was yet a very great man without some very great folly annex ed to him." This is true of all the men I have ever known, except Chief Justice Marshall, and I will close with him as I began, say ing, "he was one of. the greatest and kindest men who ever lived." —"Poor Napoleon ! " exclaims every body. Yet he is said to have sent to En gland more money than Fisk and Astor combined can call their own. —The peanut crop of Virginia this year is estimated at 400,000 bushels, while Tennessee raises 300,000 bushels, and Georgia and the Carolinas from 150,000 to 175,000.
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