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Street.
o***» mW«t, pajabla totha oarriara.
3» MaUad to Bubaoribara o&t’of tha City it BiX SoIUU
raa- tAmra i loo* DOLuaa' roi Bios* Monrea;
■ruii DoLiAia FO»'Bix Mo*ra«, lßTarfabl/ln as
-raid*for thetime otteed.y- 1 •f . ' ;
PKKSS. ',, ,
Mailed toBitaorlber». out of Ua'Gltr et Tuu Dot-
. ; WEEHiYPRESS.
Tib VimT tuM KrilT tt'seat to gufowribw*, ..
biaU (par &ntaa>< to ftdTtacOj) at. 93 00
Thro*Oopit«j .500
*T*u OoplM, ‘ ‘ *** -• 5 • <**’'. 13 00
Twenty Cob!m,<* by,' - ” (to one addreai); •> . . 20 00
Ttrttity Oopiw/ar owr/ “ '/to WdrWi of each
6a)»oTn>«r,)eMi.....l 20
t -‘yT ; wa Otefc ofTwentt-oae 5 - or-orer, w» wlUwad an
•xtAoopr to the Club; '
’ ' ;v irj* J Po«tm»<rtertf 3 **• T«qa«tBd to act u Aganti for
' T»Wja*Xfi ,! Po*s®^"; j ‘
. ‘ ;• FBESS. "„
in. ttroo for tka.OnllfoniU
5 finaiheoa ffioras
CJAMTJEL W. GBOOME; dealer In LEHIGH
andSCHUYLKILLCOAL, prepared txprtiilr for
j fam’lywo. Office No;BParquhar Building; WALNUT
> Btreet, belowTfclrd, Philadelphia . ei-et*
©A.M.UEIi HfiPBURN has transferred his
¥ZJ. Law Offloe frota Oerlisle,Penn*.ytoNo.7ll BAN
BOM ’tbatweßn CbußtotttaDd'Walnat,) Phila
delphia • He will attend to any.baslneto entrusted to
his care, in the r Courts of Philadelphia ' or in the In
terior of the Stated’/ •"* " • ' ’ (
• Philadelphia, November 24,-18£8.' ,/xi24-8m
ISAAC 'Ti BECFOBD, BRICKLAYER.
JL No. all Btrw‘, baok of H« WAINTJT St.,
near the Excb&ogft; residence Street;.
Haugen and Beaten built and repaired, and all hinds
or Brick £ - 1 *
' Orders byDeipatch Poet promptly attendei to. Best
of referenced " 1 ; ' ' nolß-2m*
rrUIE AJ)AMS EXPEEBS ,00., OFMOB,
t J. SJO OHMTHDT BTaaST, rdntirdh PAKCEW,
PAOKAffBS. MBBCHABMIE; BASK HOTEB had
BPIOIB, tithfr by'itit own LINBB. orln'oonnMtion
with other JiXPBKSS COMPANIES, to all the prlnMMl
TOWNS indOmH of the Unitedßt«te». •
J, B.BAHDTOM), . '
A LEX. XoKLNNEY, “''-T: - « 1
A ATTOBNBY AT LAW,
QBBBNBBURa, PA. -
*=■ Will In WestmoreUndi Armatrong tad la*
diim ootmtleil 1 t ■ iell-tf..
A BBAMS]'*
~ ATTORNEYS A* LAW,
_ LOOKHAVEN, PA.,
- .W&l attend promptly to all profewlonal bnalneu ej>
trusted to them. Special attention giren to the collec
tion of claim*. s <>« '■{ - - -
airaitawois
Got. Wo.'?. Faoker, Harrisburg, Pa.jL‘. A. Macke/,
President Lock Haves Bank? General D. K. Jaekmab,
Lock,Haven: Hon. Ai-Whits, Look Haven: Simon
Boott, Look Haven:. Bullitt Sc Palrtherae, Philadel-
Shla: McFarland, Evans, A Oo.v Philadelphia: Brans
s Watson, Philadelphia; Phillip M-. Price, Philade).
phia; Hon. A. V, Parflons/PhUsdelphia } Williamson,
Taylor, Sc . Co., 'Philadelphia:■ Tenor Sc • Davis, Phila
delphia: -Hon..James Burnside, Bellafonte, Pa.: J. W.
Q niggle. Philadelphia.;- J/36-tf
10 "w v""'
, IHAKWSB TKTB, 0( .-iSStOif fiUBB
OHANI Mid Importer ot HAV4HA-BXQABS.
(tiawl IBS W»l*nt etreet. Sftoond *tOTy, Kul*l7
LAUMAN & RABOKG—
Importers Wholesale Dealert la WINES,
BRANDIES, WHISKEY, GINB, wd FANCY LI
QUORB, No, 1017 MARKET Street', between Tenth end
Hl«vfatb streets. .
JfcTO,
FANCY FOBS.
We here one of the largest and finest Stocks of Goods
Is this line to he found in the cltj, all made
.; j . EXPRESSLY JOB OUB BALES,
Which wo areieUlng at the
LOWEST TRICES.
Warranted to be in all reipeots as represented, or
the.
MONEY. REFUNDED.
/ •J ; FOSTER A 00,,
jjvYßffiD Street,below Chestnut.
jgUEFALOROBES,
BY THE BALE OR ROBB,
GEO. F. WO MEATH S
416 AND 417 ARCH STREET,
Stationery
M p SB , ,B>?™«, » 00.,
No. 10 SOUTH FOURTH STREET,
BluiHK jiOOOCNX-BOOK MAHOFAOTDBEttS, .
; BQOHBELLBHB] A BTATIONBBB,
. A 0 0.0 UN T . BOOKS,
Of every description, on hand, or Bated and Bo and
to Pattern, suitable tor
MERCHANTS, MANUFACTURERS,
BANKSBS, BROKERS, INSURANCE
AND RAILROAD COMPANIES.
Warranted in quality, and at lowest prices,
FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC STATIONERY,
COMMERCIAL BLANKS, &0., AO.
JOB PRINTING, LITHOGRAPHY,
In all their Varieties.
PUNCTUALITY A SATISFACTION. GUARANTIED,
MOSS, BROTHER, & CO.,
noll-3m New No. 16 SOUTH FOURTH STREET,
>UA#&. BUOiLH , ANi> aXAWUMBiiX.
M. DOG AN, Blank Boot Manufacturer,
Stationer and Printer,'No. 100 WALNUT Street, Is pre
pared stall timcs-to-furnlsh, either from the Shelves
or nuke to Order-Book* of. every deeeription, suitable
tor Banks; Public Offices, Merchants, end other*, of the
beat'quallty'o?,English or American Paper, end bound
la various etyiw, la the moat substantial manner.
Orders for - JOB PRINTING of every description
Engraving end Lithographing executed with neatness
anadespMoh.
A general assortment ot English, French anft Ameri*
ran stationery.
Concerning Mr* Hogaa’s contribution to the Franklin
Xnatltnte, the .Committee say—“ This display of blank
boon for backing and mercantile use Is the best in the
Exhibition. The selection of the material is good, the
workmanship most excellent, Mid their finish and ap
pearance neat and appropriate.” . no9o»tr
Snilorins.
EO.' THOMPSON,
e TAILOR,
N. E. cor. SEVENTH A WALNUT STREETS,
(Opposite Washington Square,)
Qu always in flock a general assortment of'fabrics
for Pantaloons J This, particalar' Garment is made a
speciality, both as to style and fit. All those who have
experience! any .difficulty in being pleased elsewhere
are invlUd to call.
N B -.-English Paataloonery, of the latest Importa
tions, In groat variety. ‘ nolS-lm
Oenuemtn'o jfarnUljmjj ; <Sootts.
NEW THINS
A CRAVAT STORE.
Where gentlemen will find
'Atf XSDIXSI VAMJMTT OT -
- . • CRAVATS, NKOK-riES, SCARFS, AO., -
To Select from.'
Constantly receiving from
AGENTS IN PARIS AND NEW YORK,
The most fashionable styles, as soon as introduced.
-Also. alaTge sssortmeniof
. . . MEN’S FURNISHING. GOODS, AT.
GREATLY REDUCED PRIORS.
EBHLEMAN’ 8,
CHESTNUT Street, below Eeventh,
At the entrance of Jayne’s Hall.
Wholesale and Retail. - - n26*lm
WINCHESTER H GO., GENTLEMEN’S
FURNISHING BTORE /,
PATENT SHOULDER BEAM SHIRT MANUFAO-
- r v TORY,
At the Old ktand, No. 706 CHESTNUT STREET, oppo
site the Washington House. '
A. WINCHESTER will give, as heretofore, hie per
tonal supervlßion to the cutting and Manufacturing
departments. Orders for his celebrated style of Bhirts
and Collars filled at the shortest notice. Wholesale
trade, supplied on ; liberal terms. - - , - Jyg4»ly
JW. BCOTT, (iate of the firm of Win
• OBJisrpu A SoofrO . GENTLEMEN’S FURNISH
ING -• STORE • and SHIRT / MANUFACTORY, 614
CHESTNUT Street, (nearly opposite the Girard House,)
Philadelphia, •
j, W. B. wonld respectfully call the attention of his
former patrons and friends to his new Store, and Is pre
pared to fill orders for SKIRTS at short notice.. A
perfeot fit guarantied. COUNTRY TRADE supplied
With FINS SHIRTS and COLLARS. Jyltf-tf
Brokers.
IJI A. TREGO, BEAL ESTATE AGENT
l , ..=AND€ON7»y*SO*B I RIDBIS AVENUB, lint
door below Thirteenth street, attends to thepurobase
and sale'of heal Estate, Negotiating Securities, Renting
Houses, and Collection of House and Ground Kents, ana
Interest Monies. Satisfactory references gives.
oclO-Sm#
D R.OOBSON,
BBAL EBTATB DEOKRR.
Monty Loaned on Bond and Mortgage.
, , .Oolleotlona promptly made.
' HOBBIfIIOWH, fA
mW4m !
4 DGUST BELMONT, ““
A BANKBR,
- 1 W BEAVER STREET.
-' hw YdlK, •
Issue* Letters of Credit, available to Traveller*, on ill
parte of the world. jsSQ-flni
Grokise k oo.j ;
gpSOIB AND EXCHANGE BROKERS,
No.4Ooouth-THIBD Str6et,,
): PBU.ADII.VBIA.
a ttoi to tka Bjuim an! Baoxns of SMladeljjhia,
M-ly • -•- ' -■
roxiiXLii.iT.:. w.H- aaoira. __ i.uun,n l
T|/f ANLET, BROWN, k 00.,
iVJ. BANK-HOTS. STOCK, AND DXOHANGI
BROKERS,
H. W. eojaar of THIBD.KHI CHKOTRUTWmta,
«' h;<-’ yytr.An«T.y»TA. . ,
QoUaaUoa. auA*? BA Draft* drawn on allarta of tta
Uottad Btatajfan* A* Qau4u, ontk* ttoat farorail*
Collections mod*, and Dntffrdrawn on England and
Inlifidt - •*
: Uncumat Bank . Notes bought. ' Land Warrants
fcotuht *od sold.• ;Deal«r*ia SpoMeand Bollix. Loas*
aoliloß'Oomßilwrton at
tk« Board of Brokara ia Philadelphia and N*w York*
. ~'■ ; ;
OAKUM. -A togo. Jtock of., Navy and
A merisan Navy Oaktim cm blind aud for sal* by
' .£r55T-, .■ * weaver; MW, ago.,
VOL. 2—NO. 107.
Retail JDt® ®ooii3.
QBEAT REDUCTION
OP FANCY BBT GOODS,
L.J.LBVY&OO.
Announce to the publto their Intention to reduce the
prloee of their Jail Importations and Jurchasea of -
IAKOT DR Y GOODS,
Including alt tholr Auotlon Purchases,
to less THAN *HB <JOBT OJ IMPORTATION, the
sales to commenoe on FRIDAY next, and continue
throughout the
Their object' Is to sell out as nearly as possible the
JALL AND WINTER GOODS which remain In stook,'
/and to acoompliah it they offer to the publio and their
customers the Inducement of VERY LOW PRIOEB.
FRENCH EMBROIDERIES AND LACES
Are Very much reduoed In price, many to half their
original cost.
FANCY SILKS which have been sold daring the Jail
at $1 are now 76 cents; $l6O qualities to $1 and $1.12.
All descriptions ofWINTER DRESSGOODS are marked
down below the cost of importation,
SHAWLS,
CLOAKS,
UOUSKLINR DB LAINES,
CASHMERES,
MERINOEB,
PLAIDS,
BATIN DB OHBNES,
ENGLISH, and
FRENCH CHINTZES,
Will all be reduoed In proportion to the Goods enu
merated above.
0. A. KITU,
800 and 811 CHESTNUT Street.
JJ E D HO TION.
THOS. W. EVANS & 00.,
BAYADERE VALENCIAS,
SATIN POIL DB OUEVRBB,
At the Greatly Reduced Price of 26 cents per yard.
£JLOAK CLOTHS.
BLACK AND COLORED BEAVERS,
FOR
LADIES’ CLOAKS AND RAGLANS.
Just received, and for sale cheap at
SNODGRASS AND STEELMAN’S,
dl-fit No. 62 South SECOND St., above Chestnut.
Fine, stock , <
DRY GOODS AT Pi
FIRST-CLASS I
Irish Poplins, Flannels,
Fancy Buka. B'ankots,
Lupin’s Merihoes, ' ' Counterpanes,
-Broobe .Shawls, Table Linens,
New style Cloaks Napkins,
Woollen Shiwls, Table Oovera,
Cloak Cloths, Sheetings,
Wool Plaids, t hlrtings,
Valencia Travers, Druggets,
Figured Herlfioes, Towellings,
Mona Be Lalnes, Muslins, Ac.
EYRE & LANDELL,
AStOE BEAVER CLOTHS, FOR LA
DIB3’ OLOAKB.
BIBBED TRIOO OLOTHB.
BIBB' D BBAVSB OLOTHB.
PLAIN BLACK CLOTHS.
OLOTH OLOAKB, BAGItANB, &0., *<J.
EYRE & LANDELL,
JVEW CLOAKS
11 OPENING EVERY DAY
AT TBH
PARIS MANTILLA AND CLOAK EMPORIUM.
FINE BEAVER OLOAKB.
RlOa VELVET CLOAKS
MOURNING CLOAKS.
HISSES* OLOAKB,
OPERA OLOAKB.
MfX’D BEAVER CLOAKS.
- The Largest Assortment In the City.
' -xTTira
PARIS MANTILLA & CLOAK EMPORIUM,
708 CHESTNUT STREET,
J.W.PBOOTOR & 00.
n2B
ADIES’ CLOAK OLOTHSI
Black Beaver Oloths.
Black Habit Clothe.
Pilot, and Pelting..
COOPER to CONARD,
B. E. oomer NINTH to MARKET Sta.
LACK MOHAIR
For trimming Cloaks.
B r own and Gray do.
Black Union Oloths, $1 25.
Black Halit Olotha, $lB7 to $2 00.
COOPER A CONARD.
nM 8. E. corner NINTH fc MARKBTBta,
Overcoat oloths.
Pine Black Dieskln*.
Side Band O&ssimeref.
Pane/ Cassimeres.
Boys* Cassimeres-
Sattlnete from 40 to 62# oente.
Velvet, Silk, and other Vestings.
COOPER & CONARD,
022 8. E oomer NINTH & MARKET Bto.
SALE OF BROOHE SHAWLS
\J AND CLOAKS !! i
Unprecedented Bargains!
We’ve had a perfect rush!
We?re Belling an immensity of Goods!
• Our trade's increasing!
Oar Mode of doing business seems to meet with gene*
ral approval 2! Namely—
«(To'"Have But One Prioe.”
*• To sell Oheip for Cash.’*
'‘Never to misrepresent Goods In order
TO EtPBOT SALES.”
« To deal fairly and justly, and wait upon all custo
mers with attention and politeness.”
« Thus to gain their confidence, and keep it by con
tinuing to do right ”
THORNLEY A CHISM.
We have now on hand
Excellent Long Broohe Phawls for $B.
Still better quality for $lO, $ll, $l2, $lB, $l4, $l6,
$l9, $2O, $22 and $26.
Square Broohe Shaws from $5 up to 111.I 1 1.
Long and Square Blanket Shawls In every variety.
Children*!, Hisses, and Gentlemen’s Bhawls, &o.
Good Black Olotta Cloaks for $3.
Every other quality and Style for $8 opto $lB.
A JOB LOT OP CLOAKS PROM LAST SEASON AT
HALF PRICE!.
Best B’ack Bilks for 600. to $1.60 per yard.
Rich Panoy Silks really beautiful.
Every variety of DRESS GOODS.
CLOTHS! CABSIMEBES!! BATTINETTB, &o.H!
Heavy Black Beaver Cloths, flue French do., &o , Jto.
Blankets. Flannels, Linens, and Muslins.
In fret so better stock of general Dry Goods can be
found than at
THORNLEY A OHIBM’B.
Northeast Coiner EIGHTH A SPRING GARDEN.
no!3*if
BARGAINS IN DRY GOODS.—
VJT 8. V. B. HUNTER
Hu REMOVED from No. 30 to No. 40 South SECOND
Street, where he Is now prepared to furnish the Ladies
with a frosh and wall-selected stock of
DRESS GOODS,
To which he Inviws their attention, being determined
to sell at exceedingly LOW PRICES-
N. B —A large assortment of Brooho, Stella, and
french Blanket Shawls. Also, a variety of Silk and
Cloth Circulars Constantly on hand, at the
“ CLOAK EMPORIUM.**
007-3 m No. 40 South SECOND Street.
tt)l)oIeflale Hra ®oolig.
TkRILLS & SHEETINGS FOE EXPORT.
MJ BROWN, BLEACHED, to BLUE DRILLS.
HEAVY to LIGHT SHEBTINGB,
UultaLl. for Export, for vole by
FROTHINGHAM to WELLS,
M South FRONT ST., t 86 LETITIA ST.
0016-lf
Bail? & brother’s
CARPET WAREHOUSE,
No. WO CHESTNUT STREET.
WE SHALL OPEN TO-DAY ANOTHER INVOICE
OP
ENGLISH
TAPESTRY BRUSSELS,
"OROSSLEY’B” CELEBRATED MAKE,
ONE DOLLAR A YARD.
Uurnflt bav.ro will find -oar .took fall »ad of froth
.tyleMsa PRICES VERY LOW. »°B-M
COaUfteH, JtfDßlra, &t.
J E. OALBVELL & 00.,
* ", 822 CHESTNUT Stmt.
Have received, per steamers, new styiel
Jewelry. Chatelaine .Veit Chains.
Splendid Pans, HalrPlns.
Trait Standi, Sagar BukEl,
- Jet Goods ana Vlower Vue*.
Coral, L»T»»adMoMlo Sots. . ,
Sola Agent. In Philadelphia tot the Mia or duties
ftodeham’a LONDON TIME-KEEPERS. nor 8
JS. JARDEN Jc BRO.
* ■ HAXOTAOTOMaS ATD UtTOXTUS or
SILVER-PLATED WARE,
No. SM Okeetnut street, above Third, (ap itiln,)
■ Phllidelphl*.
'Oonitanttv on hand and for eale to the Trade,
TEA BETS,: COMMUNION SERVICE BETS, URNS
PITCHERS, GOBLETS, OUPB, WAITERS, BAS
KETS, CASTORS. KNIVES, SPOONS, PORKS,
LADLES, Ao.. &e.
GUdlog and platlog on all kind, of metal. aes-l,
IN PRZCES
MONTH.OF DECEMBER.
WILL OFFER TO-DAY
BATIN OTTOMANS,
IMPERIAL FOULARDS, Ac.,
818 and 880 CHESTNUT Street.
RIBBED AND PLAIN
OF SEASONABLE
LIB PRIOEB, adapted to
SALES, RETAIL.
FOURTH AND ARCH BTRBKTB.
FOURTH AND ARCH STREETS.
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ORACLES. A dally Scriptural text-book on an en
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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1858.
Literary Criticism.
THOUGHTS ON THE LIFE AND CHARACTER, OF
JESUS OF NAZARETH. By William H, Fußflias*
Minister of the first. Congregational Unitarian
Church in Philadelphia . Boston Phillips, Samp*
son, SCo Philadelphia. T.B.Pugh. *'
The position of Dr. Furness, os the representa
tive head of the Unitarian denomination in this
olty for over a third of a oentury, is calculated to
oommand attention for the present publication,
which contains the matured rofleotioDS of a culti
vated and transparently candid mind. However
muoh the publio may dissent from the author’s
general views, or from the tenets
sought to be illustrated in the volume just pub
lished, there oan be but one opinion entertained
in reference to the oatholio spirit of charity in
whioh they are put forth. The usually bitter
tone of the religious controversialist is altogether
absent, and the most bigoted opponent cannot re
sist the oonviotion that the author Is' thoroughly
slnoore in every word be niters. In his endeavors
to attain the truth—however wide of -the mark
those endeavors may he In the judgment of some
—Dr. Furness evinces an earnestness of purpose
and honesty of intention whioh carry great
with every unbiased mind, and preclude all,
doubt as to the praiseworthy motives whioh have
prompted the effort.
The present work is a oorollary to the three vo
lumes previously written by Dr. Furness; the
first, “ Remarks on the Four Gospols,” published
in 1838; tho second, “Jesus and his
published in 1838; and the third, “AHistory bf
Jesus,” whioh first issued from the press in 1856.
Dr. Furness writes with much vigor, and remark
able purity of style, very sensibly esohowing all
attempts at “ fine writing,” or wire-drawn dispu
tations. So far from adopting any set form of pb
lemioal argument, he seems to have specially
avoided doing so, and to have grouped his ideas'
together without referenoe to any pet plan.
Through the work, however, a unity of design Is.
o/eariy discernible, whioh oan be easily mode out
from the disjecta membra. We doubt not the,
volume will find abundance of readers, not merely,
in the religious world, but in seoular oiioles as ;
well. Without endorsing the speoial theological
views set forth in it, we oannot holp believing
that no ono oan rise from its perusal without
haring his heart touched with the divine reality
of Christ’s oharootor, and his whole being Btirred
to the performance of the highest duties of hu
manity.
LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF KIT OARBON, THE
NESTOR OF THE ROOKY MOUNTAINS. FROM
FACTS NARRATED BY HIMSELF. By Ds Witt 0.
Peters, M. D. lvol Bvo. pp. 634. New York : W,
R. C. Clark A Co.
Although the rodoubtable Christopher Carson ji
title-paged as a Nestor, whioh gives an Homeric
idea of venerable age, he is yet upon tho sunny
side of fifty, having been born in Kentucky, on
Christmas Evo, 1809- Those who have road tho
interesting narrative of Colonel Fromont’s Ex
plorations in the Rooky mountains are familiar
with the character of Kit Carson—with his bold
ness, sagaolty, perseverance, and fidelity. The
handsome volume before us, beautifully printed,
neatly illustrated, and ably written, gives his
whole personal history, which is as interesting os
that of Leatherstocking in Cooper’s American ro
mances. The wood engravings, executed by N»
Orr, from drawing by Lumley, are superior illus
trations, and the volume altogether has quite a
splondid appearance.
Bating the usual tendenoy of a biographer to
make the most of his hero, Dr. Peters has shown
judgment as well as talent in the authorship,of
this book. It Is brimful of adventure, and it is
written aslf the author himself delighted in the
roxnanoe of real life whioh he so spiritedly nar
rates. Kit Carson, at the olose of this Memoir, is
left actively engaged in performing tho duties of
Indian Agent In New Mexioo, and his activity,
shrewdness, seal, and probity eminently qualify
him for this position of responsibility and trust.
In tracing this brave man’s oareer Dr. Peters pro- •
Bents a sketch of a remarkable and extensive dis
trict of our oouutry, of tho Indian races who in
habit it,' and of the adventurous trAppbrS Bhd
hunters of the Far West. Yoar after year the
Indians are dying out, and, even yet more rapidly,
the whito men of whom Carson is the reoognisod
representative are also evanishing.
Here, to use Dr. Peters’ words, is Carson, “ a
man, who, for fifteen years, saw not the face of a
white woman, or slept under a roof; who, during
those long years, with his rifle alone, killed over
two thousand buffalo, between four and fivo thou
sand deer, antelope, and elk, besides wild game,
suoh as bears, wild turkles, prairie ohlckens, Aa.,
&o.', In numbers beyond calculation.”
As guide and adviser to the Fremont and other
explorations on the Rooky Mountains, the name
of Kit Garson will ever be remembered. He Is
reoorded, by those who have had dealings with
him, as a discreet and sober man, whose word
oould always be rqliod upon, who porformod tbe
boldest deeds without bolug a braggart, and in
deod was as reserved and undemonstrative as if
his life had been passed in village obscurity. We
oannot devote space to extroots from this bio
graphy, full of startling interest as it is, but
strongly recommend it as written with ability and
earnostnoss, and as abounding in adventures
whloh aro not only wonderful but true.
NEW AND FORTHCOMING ROOKS.
It has surprised us that no man of lottors has
thought it worth while to write a continuation of
Horaoe Walpole's famous Oatalogne of Royal and
Noble Authors. In the hundred years whioh have
elapsed einoe that work wqb privately printed at
Strawberry Hill, a great deal has been done by
noble authors. Among these are Lord Dafferln,
great grandson of the famouß Riohard Brinsley
Sheridan,
Who ran
Through each mode or the lyre, and was master of all,”
and who is also nephew to Mrs. Norton, the poet
ess. Two years ago, then aged thirty—having
previously been in aotual servitude, as one of
Queon Viotoria’s Lords in Waiting—this gentle
man started on a voy&go due North, in the schoon
er yaoht “Foam,” taking with him an Iceland
gentleman, as companion; an Irish surgeon, who
oould take photographs aud botanize; with valet,
oooks, sailing-master, mates, seamen, butoher, and
so forth. This party visited Iceland, where they
saw Heola and the Geyser; orossed the Aiotio
Oirolo ; foil in with Prinoe Napoleon, also a tour
ist ; went to Jan Mayen, and other Jtrange pl&oos,
as also to Spitzbergen, Norway, Denmark, and
b&ok again to England—accomplishing a trip of
somo six thousand miles, in less than four months,
and devoting himself, on his return, to making a
book of it, entitled “A Yaoht Voyage of Six
Thousand Miles—Letters from High Latitudes.”
It hos.run into a fourth edition in England, and
having road an early oopy of the beautiful re
print, to be published on Saturday, by Ticknor
A Fields, ef Boston, vre o&n say that a more agree
able book of travel we have never read. By the
way, gala’s “ Journoy duo North,” the latest tour
in Russia, published by the same house, has gone
Into a seoond edition.
Tioknor <fc Fields will immediately publish
“The Life and Times of Sir Philip Sidney,” with
steel plates. The new volumes of their House
hold oditlon of the Waver ley novels contains “The
Fair Maid of Perth, ’ with engravings after Molan
A Faed. This splendid edition rapidly approaeh
os its oomplolion. Longfellow’s now poem iB in
its 25th thousand.
Talking of Longfellow reminds us that a forth
ooming holiday-book, to be published by Rudd
and Oarloton, of Now York, will be a quarto
volume of photographs, oxeouted by Brady, from
original drawings by John W. Ebninger, Illustra
tive of u The Courtship of Allies Blandish.” This
will bo tho first work of the sort ever published in
this country. Mr. Longfellow has warmly ex
pressed hi B approbation of the work, and Mr.
Bry&nt, tho poet, has most enthusiastically be
stowed his disoriminativo praiso, in tho New York
Evening Post, of suoh of tho drawings as he ex
amined. Tho soienoe of photography allows the
reproduction of the original designs, even to the
minutest touob, aud a oharming work may be
looked for.
Bomo of our reodors may thank us, perhaps, for
tolling thorn that the Christmas number of Dick
ens's Household Words will he oallod “ A Houso
to Lot.” Wo shall probably republish it in our
Weeily Press.
Gould & Lincoln, of Boston, announoo a new
volume of “ The Aimwoll Stories,” with 40 illus
trations. It will be oallod “Jessie; or, Trying to
bo Somebody.”
The great gift-books of the season, most un
doubtedly, are Professor Coppee’s “Gallery of
English and American Poets;” published by E.
11. Bailor, of this oity; the illustrated edition of
Edgar A. Poe’s Poems, published by Redfteld, of
New York; and “Tho Stratford Gallery,” con
sisting ef 45 portraits of Bhakspoare’s female
oharaoters, desoribed by Henrietta Lee Palmor,
with womanly fooling and poetio graoe. The
dedloatlon, to her husband, (the accomplished and
popular Dr. J. W. Palmer, of New York,) Is quite
epigrammatio, viz: “To J. W. P., the most ex
acting and moat encouraging—‘ something between
a hindrance and a help.* ” It 1b published by
I Appletons of New York, who have also issued
I Dana’s Household Book of Poetry. We must in
oludo, In this mention of attractive Gift-books,
Harper’s Poets of the Nineteenth Century.
Here is a new book, to be published by Mason
Brothers, of New York. We holiove it will not he
issued for a few dayß, but an early copy has reached
us-. It is written by “Benauly,” (whoever he
may bo,) and is oalled “ Matthew Oaraby; a Nar
rative of his adventures during the autumn of
1848, among friends aha*strangers, In country and
town.” It is a'domestic story, of muoh interest,
winding up with a criminal trial, most graphio in
Its details, and also correct in its law. We give
tho book our full commoudation.
#rmn T. B. Peterson & Brothers we have a batch
of new books, their own publications. First, we
havo“The Modern Cook,” by Frnncatolli, pupil
of Care me, the Parisian cuisinitir, and successively
chef-db'cuisine to Lord Chesterfield; and other high
fashionables, finally being maitre-d'hotel to Queen
Victoria. This book, of nearly 600 ootavo pages,
with 62 illustrations, is tho most ambitious cook
ing* book ever printed in this country. It is almoßt
wholly European in its dUhorf, and il has roaohed
the",unwonted popularity of a ninth London edition,
from which this first American is reprinted. About
one;half the dishes here described aro now. Fran
oatclH, we are glad to observe, eschews the use of
sweet ohampagne in the first course at dinner, and
recommends Madeira,Sherry, and Burgundy as hav
ing the stimulating qualities whioh assist digestion,
leaving sweet ohampagne for the latter part of the
second course. One of his novelties is the intro*
duotion of the Russian mode of arranging the
dinner—with the dessert upon the table nt fita’fc,
and the dinner itself on the side tables. He sub
joins a -glossary of French terms, and a very op
piotis, Index. This is a Cook-Book of no ordinary
oharaoter—a standard volume ; for the ordinary
library.—A new edition, two volumes in one, of
Judge Haliburton’s Yankee Stories, has also been
issued by Petersons. This is the original work of
the Sam Slick series, and those who want a good
laugh will tako vory kindly to it.—Last of all, wo
have that surprising story, Wilkie Collins’s
(‘Dead Secret,” whioh e&used unusual excitement
in the reading world, while in weekly eourse of
publication in Household Words. Wo know no
work of rcoent fiction in whioh the interest is so
soon awakened or so long maintained. The rooder
gets exoited as he goes on, and anxiously awaits
the denouement. Tho book is handsomely
printed. We recommend every one to follow our
example, and oarofully tear out the wood on
graving whioh does duty as frontispieoe; it is
vory inferior. “ The Dead Seoret,” will have as
large a sale, we anticipate, as tho most popular
works of-Dickons, Bulwor, or Lever.
In a Hew York publication, intended to bo is
sued semi-oooasionally and entitled “ Pulpit and
Rostrum,” tho first number is a report of a Ser
mon by the Rev. T. L. Cuyler, very strongly anti
theatrioal. We have often wondered at the mi
nuteness of detail, respecting theatres and play
ers, given by olergymen who, it is olear, ought
soth&vo porsonal knowledge or experience of suoh
matters, and must argue on the morest hearsay—
than which nothing oan be more unfair. Mr.
Cuyler’B attack on tho dramatic profession was bc
fieroe that it has drawn down a foroible and able
roply from Mr. William Davidge, the comedian.
In this controversy it is diamond out diamond.
The preaoher merely declaimed ; tho responding
actor argues, and brings a groat array of authori
ties to support his views. He says that it did not
oome within tho limits of Mr. Cuyler’s “ convo*
nienco to admit that Saint Paul did not oonsider
it unworthy to admit a verso of Euripides into the
Holy Scriptures ;• that tho early Christian Fathers
wrote for the stage, and St. Thomas Aquinas even
asserts that ( those amusements were noeded for
the conduct of a woll-spent life’; that tho drama
existed at Romo, Athens, Jerusalem, Ephesus, and
other places, at the time of tho Apostles; and,
although they rebuked all other conceivable vices,
they said not one word against this form of amuses
ment; and that Addison, Milton, Dr. Blair, Dr.
Johnson, and oven Dr Milman, (the present Dean
of 6t. Paul’s, London;) actually wrote for the
stage,’’ In short, in the present state of the con
test, the actor has got his assailant’s head 11 Into
chancery.”
** Thoughts of Favored Hours, upon Bible Inci
dents and Characters, &c.,” written by Josoph
Copley, and published by Messrs. Lippincott, oon*
tains short essays, illustrative of the loading points
of religion, well adapted Tor chamber reading, and
very - *, <
Tho "Physician’s Visiting List for 1859,” pub
lished by Llndsay-and Blakiston, of this oity, is
so complete, oompaot, and well-arrangod, as to be
a necessity as well as an aid to practising medical
men. It oon tains an almanac, a table of signs,
with.an explanation of the mode of making en
tries, eto., a complete visiting list, diary or day
book, with printed hoads for every day in tho
year, so arranged that a physician, whether at
home or abroad, can tnako bis oharges at tho timo
of hiß visit, and have bis accounts for tho ourrent
year always in his pocket; a table of poisons and
their antidotes; a table for calculating the period
of utoro-gostation; Marshall Hall’s ready method
in asphyxia; pages for obstetric engagements;
pagos for vaoolnatlon engagements; pages for
general memoranda, eto., eto. It oocupies no
more spaoo than a pooket-book, whioh, indeed, it
is intended to supersede.
FromW. S. & A. Martien, publishers in this
oily, we have received “Noon Prayer Hosting of
the North Dutoh Churoh, Fulton street, Hew
York,” by the Rev. T. W. Chambers. It is a
highly interesting volume, very neatly and libe
rally illustrated, containing a striking narrative
of a moßt important phase of Revivalism. One of
tho obaptors, written by tho Rev. Mr. Daifield,
Jun., relates to the noon meeting in Philadelphia.
Some day, perhaps, the questio vexata of Slavery
may end. Meanwhile, with the liberty of speak
ing and printing enjoyed in this oountry, we must
expeot to find It disouseed. Messrs. Lippinoott, of
this oity, have just issued an ootavo, by Goorge S.
Sawyor, a member of the bar in Louisiana, en
titled “ Southern Institutions.” It is elaborate
and argumentative, and written with good temper
and marked ability. It was prepared for the press
as far back as 1855, and treats fully, analytical
ly, and comparatively of the history of slavery,
its present condition in the South, ond its politi
cal and judiolal attitudo in the United States.
A comparison botwoen tho condition of <( white
slaves ” in England and hlaok slaves in the South
is drawn—much to tho advantago of tho latter.
Mr. Sawyer doos not argue quite fairly when he
speaks of naval imprisonment as still existing in
England, where it was wholly abandoned more
than twenty years ago.
Another amusing volumo by “Doestioks”
Rudd & Carleton have just published, “The
Witohes of New York,” as onoounterod by Doe
sticks. This is a very entertaining volume. Doo
atioks paid a visit to eaoh of the female fortune
telling impostors who advertise in the New York
Herald , (a journal which delights to expatiato on
publio morality!) and has put his experiences into
a book. Uis descriptions of these impostors are
raoy and graphic, and well calculated to put un
wary persons upon their guard. This book, in
very truth, is a heavy blow at tho whole family of
fortune-tolling cheats.
“Sunshine; or, Kato Vinton,” by Harriet B.
MoKoovcr, is a roligious story, published by Lind
say & Blakiston. We do not think highly of this
speoies of fiotlon. This story, howevor, is as good
as any specimen of tho olass wo havo latoly road,
and we dare soy it will havo a large circulation.
The oharaoter of tho heroino is drawn with deli
cacy and discrimination.
Orittondon’s Induotive and Practical Treatise
on Book-keeping, published by E. 0. A J. Biddle,
is tho most complete work of tho sort wo havo
over examined—booause it is the most rational,
simple, and praotioal.v It givos the art of koop
ing mercantile aooounts by both single and
by double entry, with forms for every description
of publio and privoto business. Tho work is the
result of groat oxperienoe, and has gradually
grown to its present completeness. It is well cal
culated for reforonoo in the counting-house, aB
well as for public and privato instruction.
Cornell's Grammar-School Geography, publish
ed by Messrs. Appleton, of Now York, is one of
the best works of the sort, for advanced pupils, in
publio or privato sohools, wo have yot mot. It
oootains many maps and viows, with tho dags of
various nations, and opens with very dear trea
tises, with questions on each sootion on Mathema
tical and Physical Geography. Tho pronuncia
tion of natuos of pl&oes is clearly indicated, tho
standard authority being Lippinoott’s Pronounc
ing Gazetteer of the World. Tho vignotto illus
trations are little gems of wood-engraving.
Horo, underlaid by a pile of newspapers, are
two books whioh we lately received from Peterson
& Brothers. Thoy are published by the Applo
tons of New York, and as we read them with much
pleasuro, we oan cordially recommend; them.
Tho first is ” Tho Ministry of Life,” by Maria
Louisa Charlosworth, an English writer, we be-
Hove. It Ib a novol of society, without exaggera
tion of oharaoter or inoident, and the main in
terest revolves around a clorgyman and the
excellent woman whom he weds, of ooureo, in the
last chapter. The story has a serious tinge
throughout, but not overpoweringly. “Bertram
Noel,” the other volume, is a story for youth,
handsomely illustrated, and written by E. J. May.
This, also, seems to he au English book, and shows
the penetralia of English middle-olass society,
ending, as its fellow does, in a well-assorted mar
riage. A sequel Is hinted at, whioh we hope may
appear.
THE OOUBTB.
THE ALLIBONE AND NEWHALL CASE.
THIRD DAI.
[Reported for The Press.]
THCBBDAV, Decerabor 2,1858.
Quarter Sessions— Judge Thompson.—
The court was opened at 10 o'clock, and the jurymen
having answered to their name*.
Alfred Coxe re-examined by Mr. Longhead.—l stated
yesterday that a settlement took place on September
221 with Mr Newhall, when’’ it appeared he hsd re
ceived ebout £52 000 on sterling Account from the hank,
and given £60,000; he was credited with the £BO.OOO,
and debited with the amount of his oheck, which re
presented the sterling accommodation he had received;
those two Items, when entered, would leave the differ
ence to his credit, which would be a balance in his fa
vor of from $lB6 000 to $140,000: I pare Mr. Newhall
no memorandum for the draft of £30,000, tho reason
being that Mr. Newhall had frequent transactions; the
bank bad accommodated him with other sterling ex
change before, which were paid for, sometimes large and
sometimes small amounts; wbena bill of exchange was
drawn by the bank and given to a person, the notes of
the parties were taken in two transactions I reool
lect, and for others there were only memoranda;
cannot say whether the amounts were large or small;
the two bills of exchange which Mr, Newhall got> on
July 6th and August 14th were not settled 'for until
Beptember 22d; the credit then given to Mr. Newhall
on those bills was from their respective dates up to
September let, when he gave the £30.000 bill nf Brown
& Bowen; Ido not recollect that I asked Mr. Newhall
to settle these accounts ; I think the first intimation of
settlement came from Mr Newhall to methat
£30,000 draft given by him on September Ist, was al
lowed on September 22d in the settlement: I informed
Mr. Aliibone of it, and he said it was all correct: all
the knowledge I had directly that Mr. Newhall had
actually furnished that £BO,OOO :bill to the hank
was its ,being handed to me by Mr. AUibone with
A'-request to send it to Peabody & Oo : do not recollect
whether AUibone said it was to bo credited to anybody;
I do not recollect the steamer that carried the matl in
which the £60,000 draft to Peabody was conveyed; I
think the letter was mailed on the 16th of September ;
I put it in the post office myself.
Mr. Thayer. I suppose the account of Peabody Is in
evidence ?
Mr. Longhead. I consider it so.
Witness to Mr. Longhead. The exchange sold to Mr.
Stuart, that I spoke of yesterday, was paid for by him.
To Mr. Thayer. Under date ot l4. there is a
credit to the bank of £BO,OOO in Mr. Peabody’s ac
count; I uodersttnd that to be for the £30,000 bill I
spoke of ss got from Mr. Newhall; in tbatacoount Pea
body credits the bank with the £50.000 draft, on the
2Sth of September; Mr. Stuart paid his bills of ex
change by checks, dated, I think, a few days ahead;
my belief is that those checks w*»re paid—how long after
I cannot say; I cannot say whether they were'paid
when duo; I know one was not paid for some time; I
think they were sued for; (the District Attorney ob
jected to ibis evidence as to Btuart’s transactions, but
the court admitted it, saying, however, that it did net
see its importance ;) the snit was brought by Mr. Ma
c&leßter; the settlement of sterling bills left a balance
in Mr. Newhall’s favor on that transaction in hJs gene
ral account; I do not mean that there was any inde
pendent account of these transactions, but simply a
balance in his favor on these transactions in his
general account; I settled with Mr. Newhall
in this way: Mr. Newhall had hooght of
the bnnk four bills, and had sold to the hank a bill
for £60,000, and one for ££0,000; I gave him credit
for the two bills he had sold, and charged him vrlth the
four bills bought by him: the matter was th6n closed
in Mr. Newhall’s general account by an entry in bis
bank-book to his oredit for the two bills. and he gave a
check for the aTount of the four bills; there rvas no
separate accountof this matter; it went In bis general
account, and the debits and credits would appear In his
bank-book ; cannot say that Mr. Newhall had In bank,
to his credit, money enough to take up those.bills, not
having had oharge of that account; I was prepared to
give him credit for the £3O 000 at aoy time when he
might come in after September Ist, to wbloh he vras
ontltled, and of course he was entitled on the 16th
of Seotember to credit for the £60.000 bill. The bill
for £60,000. sold by Mr Newhall to the bank, may have
been brought by Ur. Newhall; cannot recollect ex
actly by whom, it is so long ago ; Mr. Newhall fre
quently brought bills to me directly when he bought
thorn for the bank. He always paid for the sterling ex
change he had before bought from the bank; thona
tare of Mr. Newhall’s business, I understood, was such
as to require him to buy sterling exohange; so far as I
know, the bank did not lose a cent by any of the trans
actions I spoke oL
To Mr. Lougbead. By the last remark I speak only
of my knowledge; I do not know rajeeif whether the
bank has lost or is liable to lose ; tbo bank was enti
tled to credit for tbe first draft for £17,000, on tbe 6th
of July, unless time was specially given to Mr. New
hall; ha would ant be charged with Jfc as of that date,
unless he bought for oredit.
To Mr. Wharton Newhall was charged with hills at
9)4 and 6£ ; the £6O OCO drat sold by him was bouvht
by tho bank at 8 per cent., and tbe bank would gain by
To Mr. Longhead. Tho rate of on the 16th
of September was much higher than S per cent.; pil
▼a*e individuals drawing bills'uerer do command as
high a price as bankers.
Allen 0 Mitchener affirmed —t was employed in the
Bsnk of Pennsylvania from Slay 1,1840, to March SO,
1868 ; I was rt ceiving teller for the lastfew years; the
bank suspended specie payments on tbo 35th of Septem
ber, 1857 ; Wednesdays and Saturdays were discount
days ; daring tho last three or four y«-ars Thomas A’ll
bone was president; I think he was eleoted In 1852 or
’63. or thereabouts; Mr Newhall was a director of tho
bank while I was in the Institution; I cannot ssy whe
ther he was a director at the time cf A llibone’s elec
tion as president; he was a director iu 18-57; after the
bank suspended, September 26th, it did no regular
banking business; lam not positive whether a few da
posits were not received tho next day and returned to the
depositors? the bank W**-«lofiod for ordinary hanking
business, as 1 understood ; Mr. Newhall noted kb presl
deat pro tern duiog the yoar 1857. but I c&nnot say at
what time; Mr. Foil also noted as president, After Mr.
AUibono went home sick in October; Mr. AlUbone left
tbo bunk about the 6th of October; I am not positive as to
the exact day; he did not, to my recotlectlou. return to
the bank after that time; after Sept 25th, .1 received
current funds as receiving teller; they were handed
to mo by the note clerk, and I may have received
current funds in payment of debts due the bank, bat I
do not now recollect this; I had some of those current
funds in my possession about the 6th or 6th of October;
these entreat funds had been received In payment of
discounted notes, and for drafts and notes deposited by
Individuals and other banks in the Bank cf Pennsylvania
for collection; 1 cannot say that Mr. AUibone and Mr.
NewhaU came together to obtain current funds eo tho
6th of October; 1 cannot recollect that I ever received
instructions from Mr AlUbone as to those current
fund*; that is, I never had any orders from him not to
part with them.
Mr. Thayer. Unless it is proposed to connect uswlth
this we object.
Mr. Loughead. Ido propose most distinctly to con
nect them. I propose to show that Mr. AlUbone di.
rected this gentleman to take part of that money bodi
ly, and that Mr. Alllbone’s memorandum check, or
something answering that purpose, was deposited to
represent tho amount which was so taken.
Judge Thompson. That Is evidence.
Mr. Longhead. Please state that transaotlon of
October 6th—whether any instructions were given by
Mr AUibone?
Witness On the 6th of October, 1857, Mr. AUibono
handed to me a $6,060 check of Mr. Nowhall for which
he got current funds; he demanded the current
funds—
Mr. Wh&rton. Onr objection Is a very specific one,
and the question of the District Attorney was a very
Srecise one—whether any instructions were glvea by
(r. AlUbone on a certain point about a certain time ?
The question was asked hy my learned friend, who rep
resents the other defendant, whether it wss proposed
to connect Mr. NewhaU with thoie Instructions, and
the answer was, “yes, distinctly.” Of course, there
was no objection in law to that form of the question;
hut now, Instead of au answer being given to that ques
tion,the witness goes on to state what Mr. AlUbone did,
ho saylag nothing. That is a totally different thing.
Air. Longhead. No, sir I propose to show what Mr.
AlUbone said. I will ask Mr. Mitchener to state it.
Mr. Meredith. That Is exictiy what la not evidence
at all. It J§ of no consequence, unlossMr Newballwas
with him, what Mr Allibone said. The witness has
stated, not In answer to any question, that Mr. New*
hall gave a check for $6,000. Mr. Allibone, it seems,
presented that chock In Mr. Newhall'n absence, and It
vt as paid in current funds Now, what has Mr New
hall to do with that ? It is clearly objectionable.
Mr. Longhead. Yonr Honor will readily perceive
that there !s the closest possible connection. I pro
poso toshowby this witness,and Iso stated, that Mr Al
libone came and demanded from the teller—tbat is what
I meant by “ instructions”—the motor upon a check
of Mr. Newb&U’s. I connedt the two together. I
show that Allibone gies to the teller to get the
money upon a memorandum check of Mr New
hall. I intend to show by this witness that he
parted with that money reluctantly, and after retnon*
strance, upon the express understanding that Mr. New
ball would repay it. I propose to follow that up, and
Bhow that upon the same day he got, In the name way,
another sumof over $7,000 upon like security—that is,
upon these memorandums of Mr. Newhall which are
called checks—after the bank had sub pended specie pay*
ments and had oloßed. Iproposo to snow that the pre*
sldent and the director of this institution now npon
trial were taking the funds of tbe bank upon their per*
soaal responsibility, the one drawing his memorandum
check, and the other taking that check and getting the
money for it, against the remonstrance of tbo cusU dian
of the funds of the bank. If that does not show a com*
blnation, an agreement between these parties, I am at
a loss to know where the evidence of It is to be
fonnd. Ido not understand the oonrt to bare made
any snob ruling as that I can give testimony only of
whattheydid jointly together. A conspiracy is a com
bination to do a part cular thing; in this instance, it
Ib to cheat and defraud the stockholders of the bank.
Though I cannot show that these men went bodily to
gether. I can show by tbeir separate acta that combina
tion, I can show by their separate acta that that agree
ment was made between them j that they were using
the opportunities of their places as president and as dl
ireotor for the purpose of doing that which the bill of
ndfetment charges; that at the very time when they
wore notifying the community by placards, that cheeks
would no longer be paid, thoy were obtaining money by
one making and the other drawing checks. If that
does not show a conspiracy or combination, I am at a
loss to know what does.
Air. Meredith. May it please your Honor, the testi
mony as given by the witness is that Mr. Allibone pre*
sonted a check drawn by Mr. Newhall on the bank,
which be paid—not a memorandum cheek at all, but
a ebook from the fnmls of Mr. Newhall lyiog 1° the
bank.
Mr. Longhead. There Is the mistake. It Is not
“ which he paid”—the witness is stopped.
Mr. Mereailh The offer is to show that ho paid that
to Mr. Allibone, who pr“Bent*d It, in curient funds
Now, unless a conspiracy is to be made out by the fact
of a depositor in tho bank drawing a check on it, and
another person presenting tho check and gettieg pur
ulent for it, I think it Is impossible to see how this
shows any connection at all, oxorpt that Mr Allibone
had possession of Mr. Nenhall’a check, and that Mr.
Allibone wont aud received tho money from the paying
teller. Yonr Honor, of course, will decide whether
this testimony is competent.
Mr Longhead. This is the receiving-teller, not tho
paying-teller—not the man to pay oheokß.
Judge Thompson. If the bank had closed so as not
to honor ohecks drawn by depositors, and Mr. Newhall
drew a check which Mr. Allibone undertook and endea
vored to obtain tho money of tho bank for, it would
show such a connection as might
Mr. Meredith. 17111 your Honor allow mo to r&y an
additional word ? I omitted, perhaps, to notice an ob« j
servation of the District Attorney on the subject of |
di awing checks. I suppose yonr Honor cannot but be i
familiar with the fact that probably there wore more j
checks drawn on the B&uk of Pennsylvania immediately !
afrer its failure than on the day before, because every I
depositor who could sell his deposit and who wanted the !
money would of coarse draw a check for 1 t.and that check .
would pass from hand to hand and ba in any
hand to whom it might happen to coroo. As your ■
Honor very well knows, there la nothing iu the Btrp- |
page of a bank which prohibits the depositors from
drawing their cheoks. The stoppage depreciated the
checks in depreciating the credit of the bank, and, of
course. If they bad occaaiou to use their deposits, they
mtißt dispose of their checks. Therefore, it appears to
mo that that suggestion of tho District Attorney is not
entitled to anything like the force which he supposes.
Mr. Loughead After the admission of the testimony
the defendant wDI be at liberty to show that it was a
legitimate transaction. ....... ..
Judge Thompson. I understand that this was the
6th or October, and this check was drawn after Septem
ber 25th, when the bank bad suspended.
Mr Longhead. Yes Fir.
Judge Thompson. Then, I think it is ovldence.
Mr. Michener continued. On the 6th of Ootober, Mr.
Allibonu came to me, and demanded of me money for a
check of Newhall’s for $6,000, and I paid it; I remon
strated against the payment at the time; lam the re
ceiving teller and not tbe paying teller; the mosey was
TWO CENTS.
handed over to mo by the note olerk; I can’t say I re
fused to puy tho ohook, but I objected' to it, on the
ground that 4b® officers of the bank and myself had
stated to depositors and others who had notes for col-*
lection, that ourrent funds only would be received in
pay ment for thoß® notes, and that they would be paid
with funds the notes were paid in; AlUbone said he
tttuat bavo the money, to the best of my recollection;
he said It wouldbe returned in current funds: I lefttbe
bank In March, 1858; current funds had not been re
turned at that time for that check; Mr. Newhali’s
check for $7,310.63. dated October 5, 1867,1 paid also to
;Y r *«!!£ oxie ’ tlie beßt of “yrecollection; Ithfnk
the $9,000 was paid in the morning, and th© other after
wards; there was no conversation In relation to that
second cheek that I now recollect; no remonstrance,
that I recollect, on my part; this money that I paid
was recetvtdfrom the discounted notes, 4-c; there was
more money tr.an that received from discounted notes •
I can’t recollect positively thst I saw Mr. NewhaU about
the bank that day; I saw him there almost every day;
lam pretty positive about the date of these checks; I
can’t recolleot positively that I spoke to NewhaU about
these checks ; I think I spoke to him once, but never
got any reply ; neither of them was redeemed up to the
time I (eft the bank.
Q. Wore any more ourrent funds given to Mr. New
haU after that? ‘
A. Yes, sir.
Mr. Wharton. Was that in Mr. Allfbone's presence ?
Witness. No, sir. -
Mr. Wharton. We object to that, unless the defend
ants %re connected in some way, by cheek or otherwise.
Mr- Thayer. There is another ground of objection
There is not a word about this lost matter in the bUI of
particulars. -w
. Hr. Longhead. We shall see about that. I am not
bound to give in a bill of particulars, time, place, and
'circumstance. •
Mr. Wharton. My objection is irrespective of the
bill of particulars.
Judge Thompson. The objection as made by Mr.
Wharton is a good one.
Mr. Longhead. On that point I have a word or two
to say. I understand that Mr. Wharton objects to my
question.
Judge Thompson. I have overruled the question.
Mr. Lodghead. I should like verymuoh to'say a
word or two on that question before the court decides
Judge Thompson. -1 thought you had stated every
thing you desired.
Mr. Longhead. No, sir; I had stated nothing.
Judge Thompson. I understood you to ask this wit
ness whether Mr. NewhaU had obtained any of the
money at any other time
Mr. Longhead. Yes, sir, whether he obtained from
the reoeivisg-teiler the money which had bsen in the
receiving-teller’s drawer at any other time, and If So,
under what circumstances.
Judge Thompson. If that is to be connected with
air. AlUbone in any way, it is evidence, the same as the
2®* i ?„ u .* ** ** was merely money obtained
by Mr. NewhaU himself, it c&nnot be given in evidence.
Mr. Longhead. Ido not know that I shall directly
connect Mr. AUibono with the receipt of that eum of
money; but I respectfully submit to the court that
this is c 'mpetent testimony in this stage of the-cause.
I have shown that those two defendants were intimate;
I have shown that one was acting as president of the
bank for the other; he was transacting the executive
business, knowing theaffslrs of the bank. Ihaveshown
them, in one transaction at least, of a similar kind, get
ting money. And now I askthe court toadmittestimony
to show the individual acts of each of these defendants In
teference to these sums of money. 1n order to trace oat
by their conduct the common conspiraoy, one combina
tion between them, at least, having been already proved.
It is for that purpose that I put the question. I pro
pose now to prove that the defendant NewhaU obtained
a lavge sum of money from the same fund from which
Allibnne had before obtained the earn I 'have already
proved on Newh&lt’s check. I propose then to enbmit
these facts to the jury as jndges of tho facts, whether
they do cot plainly establish a combination between
them. They knew that there was in the bank this fund
of correct money. They went into the bank and ob
tained 513,000 cn Newhatl’s check, not drawn the day.
when the panic came, as Mr. Meredith intimated,
but drawn at least ten days after the failure
of the bank. Mr. AlUbone drew that $lB,OOO.
Now, I offer to provo that it was not Mr. AlUbone
who went the next time, bnt Mr. NewhaU who went
and got $16,600 of that money'whioh was lying in the
drawer, from'the receiving teller. I propose toconneot
the two together in this way; it was a special fund;
they had made one attack upon ft; one conspirator had
got $13,000 of it on one day; and on the next dar, or a •
few days after, the other went to get $16,000 of it.
Tf that does not connect them; if that is not evidence
by which the jury may infer this combination ; if that
is not what Judge Eing speaks of In the case cited by
me in my opening, when he says proof is
those single acts which appear to move from one, but
which, in reality, when scrutinised, ohow the combina
tion of-more, then I am at a loss to know how we are
to follow those seoret conspiracies, or how we are able
to trace them out.
Judge Thompson. Ido not think it is admissible In
tbe present aspeot of the case If yon had shown that
dti’-ing the time when Mr. Newhall was left president of
the bank under Mr. Aliibone’s appointment this thing
had taken place, ft would be admifslble lo evfdenoe, be
cause that might be a fact to show that there was a
combination, that there was a placlngofMr. NewhaU in
that position to enable them to do this. It would then
be connected with Mr AlUbone Bat that Mr. NewhaU
took somebody elie’a check—a separate, distinct trans
action—and asked the teller for tbe money, does not
seem to me to be In any way connected with the acts of
Mr AlUbone.
Mr Longhead. Your Honor misapprehends. I pro
pose to show that Mr. Newhall went with his own
check.
Mr Brewster. That is still worse.
Mr. Longhead I agree that it is still worse, and
therefore I urge ft
Mr Brewatoi. It is still worse for the purposes of
your offer If he went with hi« own check. That is en
tirely disconnected with the other defondant.
Judge Thompson. I thick it is not evidence unless
you connect them by some kind of tie
Mr. Longhead, well, I will ask the witness, Mr.
Miohener, if he recollects Mr Newhsll’s acting as pre
aidant of the bank alter tho $l3 810 63 was obtained by*
Mr. Ail'bonf.'
Mr Miobensr. Ido not reoollFct It. • - ■ '
Q. Had you any conversation with Mr. Alllbone in
relation to those transactions with Hr. NewhaU ?
A. No, air.
Cross examined by Mr. Brewster.—The checks I have
spoken of were handed over to the assignees of the
bank when I left; they wore both dated on the 6th of
October, X 867; I took a memoranda of the dates; tbe
signature to the checks was T. A. Newhall; I don’t
know to whom they were payable; T don’t think they
were payable to the order or any one; they were made
pavabl® to bearer; they were cot memorandum checks,
they appeared t»be drawn regularly; they had not the
word memorand on them; my report refers to the date
of tbe checks as well as to the date of their payment;
they were paid on the same day; we had two receiving
telt“rs; Mr. Newhsll’s acc unt was kept by Mr. B:ay;
I did not consult bis acocnt or see it that day; I don’t
know he had any balance to his credit at that date ; I
handed over these checks to the custody of the assign
ees about the beginning of the year; I handed over
everything in my hands belonging to tbe Institu
tion ; l don’t remember if there were any other ohecks
except ohecks of our own bank, which were mark
ed good; I have no doubt there were checks
drawn by other parties .besides Mr. Newhall; there
may have been a dozen or not so many; all the
checks that were handed over to the assignees were In
a bundle, and were not counted by me at the time;
tho checks marked good were received as a special de
posit, and were kept as a security for some matters in
my hands.
To the Court. These were checks and notes that
were brought to the bank by Mr. NewhaU after tbe
bank had suspended but were not put to his credit on
the borks of the bank; I have no recollection or any
other check that was paid in current fund* after the*
bank stopped payment; there may have been some
others that wore paid; I recollect Mr. W. P. Newlfn
did get somo current foods for his check, which he af
terwards returned in current funds in a few days; It
may be possible that Mr. AUibone got funds on
Mr. Lockwood’s check; I do not reoollect it; I
recollect that Mr. Fell instructed me to give Mr.
NewhaU $lO,BOO, and he left $lO,OOO in uncurrent
funds; I don’t recolleot that any other person, got
currentfuods. except parties who left notes for collec
tion, aud they, of course, were paid in current funds;
I recollect making payments to Mr. Walter for collec
tions In current funds: I understood them to be for
collections ; I recollect sir. Oox coming to me in rela
tion to something that was deposited in Baltimore; I
don’t remember the note ol the Schuylkill Navigation
Company being there for collection; I say there were
some funds deposited fa the ordinary way; none ef
them remained more tb&n a day or two after the sus
pension; after that, I can’t recollect that any funds
were deposited ; I don’t recollect any ohecks beingpald
after the suspension; Mr. Fell got no other money fa
payment of the deposit of nncurrent funds by Mr New
hall, except what was paid Newhall; there were no
ohecks either drawn or paid after the suspension, that I
recollect; what the other teller did 1 can’t say; I
have not been active at all in this proseoutiou; the
District Attorney had me before tho Grand Jury: the
District Attorney sent for me, and I went to his office :
I don’t think I was ever there but once; I have not
written to him on the subjeot; I don’t know that I
could tell anything by the examination of Mr. Look
wood’s account; I don’t know that there was anybody
present when Mr. AlUbone got the motley on Sir. Lock
wood’s check ; the transaction took place at my desk.
To Mr Thayer. I understood that after the failure
of tbe bank, efforts were made to set it going again. I
do not know that there was great anxiety to get in all
the notes of the bank. I know that they were anxious
to get in all the debts that were doe to the hank. I
don’t know the fAOt that they get in a large snm of
their circulation. They got it in »a payment for debts;
wbatHmonot I esn’t say They allowed payments to be
made in notes of the bank that were due to the bank.
Mr. NewhaU brought In some several thousand doUars
to deposit, which was made a Bpeclal deposit It
amounted to $43,000 in the whole. He brought this
sum to deposit in tho notes of the bank and ohecks.
The checks that I have spoken of were not drawn
against that fund that I know of. Those ohecks were
not eba ged against Mr. Nowhall. I supposed that they
wore charged against his account. I don’t know that
ho had anything there tohla c eiit. fAcconntshown
witness.] Have uever seen this account before. It is
not in mv handwriting; have never mado it; don’t
know anything about it at all.
Mr. Thayer. Do you know what transactions are re
ferred to in that account?
Mr. Longhead. I object to that. The witness says
be does not know anything about it; he never made
that memorandum; it Is not his account at all, and I
object to his being questioned about it.
Ur Thayer Do you know Inwhosß handwriting ft is?
Witness. TnMr Steelwagen’s, I judge. He was the
general book-keeper of the Bank of Pennsylvania.
To the Judge. The $26,000 mentioned on the ticket
handed to me was composed of checks marked “ good,”
and Bank of Pennsylvania notes. What the oheoks
were I do not know.
Mr Thayer handed the witness two checks, one for
$6,000 and $7,310.03. both dated Ootober 6th, 1857,
and signed “T.\A. Newhall ” >
Witness. I think those are the checks for which I
gavo current funds on tho6th of Ootober; I have so
dcobt of it.
Mr. Longhead. I object to those ohecks going to the
jury now Let them come in their proper place—in the
case of the defence.
Mr. Thayer. These are the Identical checks.
Mr. lougho&d. That is a matter for the defenoe.
It will be for them to show how and when they got
these checks.
Mr. Thayer. They have been brought here to-d-iy
by the assignees of the bank. They belong to the
bask.
Mr. Longhead Then you oan Fhow that.
Mr. Thayer. But they were drawn against this spe
cial deposit, on account of which there was da© to os a
very large amount. ... . ,
Mr Lougheid. Yon are not on the witness stand,
my friend. We do not want your statements made in
that way. ......
Mr Tusyor. We do not wish to allow your mis
statements to go. t
Mr. Loughead. We shall pnt you on the witness
stand when we want your testimony, sir.
Mr. Thryer. I propose to offer these two cheoks in
oridonco, may it please the court. The witness says ho
holieves thot-o were the two checks which were handed
to him for the current funds.
Mr Longhead If it is understood that they come
hero as the property of the assignees of the bank, and
are produced by them, I have no objection to the checks
going to the jury at once.
Mr. Thayer. That is bo. The assignees have simply
lent them to us for the purposes of evidence.
Mr. Loughead. The faot of their being produced by
tbe defendant would leavo another inference.
Cross examination of Mr. Michener continued. The
figures on the ticket—sl6,ooo and s26.ooo—wore made by
me : I believe these to be the amounts of the Pennsyl
vania bank-notes and checks deposited by Mr. Newhall
In the bank; $26,631 30 represents bank-notes and
checks deposited by Mr. Newhall, aud for the $l6 3861
gave slo,*oo in current funds, by Mr. Fell’s direction:
tbe bank notes and oheoks mentioned on thattloket
were not credited to Mr. Newhall in bis general account
to my knowledge; If those sums were passed to New
hall’s oredtt, and the funds paid on accountof them were
charged to him, there would be about $l9 000 in his fa
vor : after deducting other matters claimed by the
assignees, there would be abouts9,QQO,
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Mr. Thayer. Here !• an account made out hr tbo
general book-keeper of the bank, which we are willing
to put la. .
M will_.be time enough when you
come to the deduce.
Mr. Thayer. I will reserve it.
-*vs- B ji oXa r , ’ Da i t,on tontlnued Do not remember any
other director drawing cut current funds : do not re
member Lawrence'Geisaa doing so; there was some
thing paid to the hands on the new building part In
current and part In Bank or Pennsylvania notes f Ne w
ball was not acting as president jno tuna, at the time of
this transaction—the receipt of the current funds, nor
atthetlmeof paying the checks; largy tmoouter.f the
discounted notes were paid in PenneyWaaia Rank b:l!s:
no depositor of notes for discount claimed current
funds who did not get them; anyly><iy taring a .dis
counted note falling doe la the b*ni w<*s allowed t S, p iy
it fcy a deposit if he had one there or by
nia Bank bills; do not know of a large amount of de
posits being paid In good bills receivable; I have
no knowledge of any such transaction; the oersoo to
know it would be the note-olerk; neither of Newball’s
chocks for $6 000 or $7,310 was. redeemed in current
fonds up to tbe time I left the bank; Ido not m**n to
say that Newhall bad not money enough there to pay
them; Ido not know anything about that.
Be-exammed by Mr. Longhead.' When Miv New
ball brought the $26,0p0, he at first desired to have a
credit on it, and I declined doing so without first asking
some member of the board in regard to the matter; ;n
?■ .? r two he said he would make no deposit, but
! ea 7? It as a special deposit—that Is, something In my
bauds to be called for by him; the $lO 000 I under
stood to be collateral security ror the $lO 800 in cur
g Ten 10 hsm j 1 ,hin * nothing was said as
to that being paid beck in current funds; osnuot tell
the rate of discount of the Pennsylvania Bank notes
tnen; It varied verv much and was constantly ehsng
lng every dsy; neither MiL AUibone, when-he pre
sented those two ohecks. nor Mr. NewhaU (fbfrt'di,
ever said they were to be pUd cut of the'special depo
sit: cannot recoUect whether the special deposit was
before or after these cheeks were exchanged; the $lO,-
fOO of esrrent foods were got -by Afr-NewhaU about
October 16th: Mr. AUibone was then sick at home; Mr.
FeU wasactirg president; I do not recollect the date
when Mr. AUibone left for-Europe; I.did not visit his
house after he was sick. . - ' .
-To Mr. Wharton. 1 1 cannot savpositively, bnt my im
pression is. that the check of $7,300 on the 6th. of Oeto«
bar was paid by me to Mr. AUibone.
Air. Longhead. May it please the Court, the next
piece of evidence that X desire to offer Is a certified copy
of the record of the District Court of the city and
county of Philadelphia, of December Term, 1857 No
-2443. in the case of John Pickersgill to Son against the
president, directors, aod company of the Bank ef Pen*
sylvanla. It is certified to be the fail and entire record
up to this time.
Mr. Brewster. That fs objected to.
Hr Longhead. X invite the attention of the court
to the copy of the instrument on which the suit was
brought.
Mr.-Brewster. If your Honor Trill glance at the first
page of thatreoord you will see that the suit la now
pending, now at issue, and tho last entry, I perceive, Is a
rule for a commission to take testimony. I am at a loss
to understand that the record of a pending suit can be
evidence of anytb'ng Inthisinvestlgation. If this were
the record of a judgment, it would hardly be admissible;
*t would be open to the objection that it was res inter
altos acta. But here this 1b not even the record of a
judgment. It is merely the record of a pending salt
between parties entirely distinct from Ihoßc who are
connected with these'proceedings, and cm amount
to nothing except the affirmation of a claim upon one
side and the denial of It upon the other, 'because ybur
Honor wiU see that there is a. copy filed by the plain
tiffs and an affidavit of defence on the other side. That
can under no circumstances amount to anything but
evidence or a demand and refusal, and that is all it Is.
in point of fact There is no recovery—nothing that
would make it conclus've. If it were proposed to show
by a witness that there bad been such a demand and
refusal, of coarse I should object to it r it would hare
no earthly bearing on this allegation.
Mr. Longhead. I offer th : s record in evidence to ahow
that the bill of exchange for £50,000 sterling, which
your Honor saw yesterday, which was endorsed by tbe
cashier of the bank to George Peabady A Co., &od by
them endorsed over “ without recourse,” ie now in tho
hands of third parties, and that. they have sued the
Bank of Pennsylvania to recover the amount of that
bUL I offer the entire record,- because if I offered
anything less I should be probably met by the ob
jection that if was not tbe whole record.. I offer
it not for its contents; I do not propose to read to
fbo Jury aay of it contents; I simply off* r it toes
tsbish the feet that suit has been brought sgricst the
biuk by the ho'der of that bill of exchange for the
amount of it. That this becomes material evidence
for the Commonweal th can be readily p-r**elved It
has been shown that the Bank ot Pennsylvania obtained
credit on Peabody’s account for that hill upon whioh
Newhall had previously obtained a credit from the
bank It was sufficient for the bank at the time to be
credited with it in Peabody’s account: but that did not
relieve the hank from detomd by the holder of the bill*
It passed array from Mr. Peabody, aod aulfc has been
brought to reoover it from the bank as endorser It
becomes important, In that view, tosher* that although
this transaction was apparently eloged it 'ls ret really
open, and that the hank is still liable fer the bil Pay*
tnentof it has been demanded. The feot that the bank
reriets is no answer. It is in tbehsuds cf third parties,
and soit was brought In tha name cf those Dirties who
now own and hold the bill.
Mr. Thayer. It i«emi to me, may it pleas* your
Honor, to boa very plain matter thattte simple bring
ing of a suit between third parties eaunot be given in
evidence in a criminal canse to prove anyvfaet what
ever. There would be very great doubt, indeed; whether.
In case judgment had been given a record of a salt be
tween third p*rtles could not be given, in evidence for
anything at all. Tbe brlnsivff of a suit dots not prove
anything. It does not even prove that the party bring
ing tbo suit has the note or bill. Anybody can bring a
suit; it requires hut the ncratoh ef a pea to do it; and
a party wbo was dlaposed to make evidence might accu
mulate any amount of it he desired by bringing suits and
then offering the hrlnglog of those suits as testimony.
Unless they can show some connection on onr part with
this suit, what have we to do with the fact that A. B.
has brought a sni t ? Year Honor knows very wel Ith at all
that is necessary, in oraerto bring a suit, is for an at
torney to write apr© ipe and carry It iato tbe Prothono
tary’B office. Are weto be told'that tf-foyfeWof the
400 members of this bar chooses to write a praecipe is a
ease between third parties, and to lodge that in the
office of the District Court, evidence can be manufac
tured against us in that way ? If they could ahow that
we had anything to do with this suit, if th<y could
connect na with the bringiogof it, this offer might have
some plausible ground to stand upon. Bnt even if
there had been judgment in the suit, there would be
grievous doubt whether a record ef su?h a transection
could be given In evidence the record being between
third parties.
Your Honor ruled out the book of the minutes of the
board of directors upon greunds much less strong than
those which aro objected to the record of this suit; and
your Honor said, in effect, that the board of clrectors
could not mike a record of their proceedings which
would be any evidence against us. Now,-1 say that no
attorney can make a record in the District Court which
will be good evidence against ns. Tbe thing itself is
an ex parte proceeding; it Is res inter alios acta / it is
something that we have had nothing to do with. It is
not a suit in whioh there has been judgi'Jent, and the
/act of bringing tbe salt c&rnot he alleged to prove any
thing whatever, because it Is a thing which, from its
nature, any cun may do, and, therefore, from which
nothing esn be inferred.
Judge Thompson. Ido not think the record is ad
missible at present for the, purpose for which it is
offered. I suppose the most that can be inferred from
the fact of suit having been broeght upon that bill fs
that the bill, for some reason, was not paid; bnt I
think it would be too strong an Inference to hold that
the faotof a bill (which might have-been, for aught
that appears, entirely fairly drawn) not having been
paid would'form any part of the conspiracy. To allow
proof of the mere fact of the non-payment of the bill, or
of bringing suit upon it, as part of a conspiracy, seems
to me to be giriog too large a scope to this kind of evi
dence. 1 think the mere fact of suit having been
brought in the Dlstriot Court upon this bill is not evi
dence tending in any way to aoy combination, and for
that reason I overrule it as evidence.
Mr Longhead. I wIU call Mr. Churchman, prove
another link in the chain, and then renew the offer.
Charles W. Churchman affirmed.—l produced yester
day the £50,600 bill of exchange; it Is cow io my fire
proof; the bill was sent to me by Wm C. PickersgUL &
Oo , of New York, as agents of John Pickersgill &
Son’s, of London, for collection : there was a protest
for non-payment, which is in the possession of Mr.
Pickeragill’s attorney, Mr. George M. Wharton
Cross-examined hy Mr. T*»aver.—l am acquainted
with the house of Boston Bo Co., of Manchester, the
acceptors of the bill, and have been-for some time,
about eighteen years; their commercial standing has
always been of the highest character; they have a
branch at Bio Janerio,at Pernambuco, and at Bahia;
it is a house always considered as one ef the first houses
at Rio Janerio, where X had correspondende with them
for many years; they are yet in good credit: I wee the
first person who introduced Mr NewhaU to that house;
;he had very large lm&ineas relations with them; I
knew it only by the communications of tbe parties to
me; I know the fact from conversations In my presence
at the time, and by frequent correspondence; I know
the character and coarse of their business transactions;
they shipped him cargoes ot coffee, and he shipped
them cargoes of llonr.
Mr. Longhead. I shall object to going further into
the relations of these parties at this time. This may
be very good matter ordetence. but it Is not matter ot
cross-examination. My question to tho witness was
simply whether he had the bill of exchange, and who
were the present owners. I asked him not a word
about Boston & Oo . or their business, nor is that
germane question I put or the answers I eli
cited.
Witness (to Mr. Longhead ) You did not understand
me as testifying to who are the present owners of the
bill ?
Mr. Loughead. X did moat assuredly.
Witness. No. sir. I do not-know who the present
owners of the bill are.
Mr Irfwghead.. Then you only spoke as to who are
the present holders of the bill?
Witness. That is all.
Air Longhead. That answers my present purpose.
A holder is as good as an owner for the purposes of this
prosecution. *
Judge Thompson (to the witness.) I suppose you
would accept payment of it.
Mr Loughead. Not on tbe face or the bill
Witness. I would take the money, but not Bank of
Pennsylvania notes.
To Mr. Thayer X do' not know, personally, that
John PicketßgUl tb Sous, of London, are the banker* of
Rostron 6c tan; I know they ora intimate friends In
their business relations.
Mr. Thayer I should prefer, before continuing the
Cross-examination, to see the protest.
The Judge. I see no objection to that.
Mr Longhead. Mr. Wharton can produce it in e few
minutes
Tbe court took a recess for fifteen minutes; and. on
reassembling. Mr. Thayer resumed t e cross examina
tion of Mr. Ohurchman—l was instructed by Mr
PickerfgiU that, if the bank would submit the * cermet
to arbitration, and settle Mr Newhall’* account, suit
would be stopped; I understood them to mean the
general account; Mr Pickersgili said that, fullr be
lieving that Mr. Newhall had no intention to commit a
fraud on the bask, and that the bill was drawn r».r ihe
benefit of the bank, if the bank would pay what it still
owed Mr. Newhall on h!s account *(to be decided if
deemed proper, by arbitration) the suit should be
stopped; this was last September, long after toe bring*
lug of the suit, whioh was commenced in January; the
reason I did not mention it to the assignees was that,
au assignment having been made r I eupposed the an
si gnees had no power to make such a compromise; Ido
not know, personally, that Mr Newha'l had made large
advances to Rcstron Co. at the time of that draft;
Mr. Hooker told me so; heisofthe house of Bostron
* Go. .
Mr. Longhead. I objeot to that. Mr. Booker is the
person to testify to that This is not evidence.
Judge Thompson. Of course not.
To Mr; Longhead. Ido not know of my own know
ledge of any suit, for I was never in the prothonotary’s
office; the tenor of my principal’s note was that suit
should ho stopped; I onplojed counrel (Mr. O. M.
Wh.rton) to brio* .nit. on hsh.U ot my principal; I
think mv instruction* to hand over .tho acceptance for
collection wore shout tho 9th or 10th of Jauutry.
To Mr. Brewster. Mr. Wharton has been my counsel
for some years, and his employment by me was long be
fore the commencement ef this prosecution
The protest was shown to Mr. Ohurchman by the
District Attorney, and identified by him.
Mr. Loughead. I presume that now jay learn-d
friends will not objeot to the admission of that record
in evidence
Mr Brewster. That is a very violent presumption.
Judge Thompson. That seams to be superseded by
living testimony.
Mr. Loughead, We consider the protest in evidence
with the bill. We offer It. „ , ~
Mr. Brewster. I speak, of course, only fer my cli
ent. I axu not aware that tbe certificate of a firet?a
notary is evidence under our aot of Assembly. O- Tta li
ly it is evidence of nothing more than the mere fact ef
protest. .
Mr Loughead. That is all I offer It for.
Mr. Brewster. As to the notioe, or any other RV.tSff
it is, of course, not evidence.
Judge Thompson. .Certainly °tt.
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