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Sgnbury, Dae. 2, 1B4S SELECT POETRY. THE SPRING OF LIFE, IS PAST. The following lines, from tho Louisville Journal, are above all praise surpassingly bi'Htitiful. the spring of life is past, With its bii.ldiue hopes nnH fears, Ami the anttim lime is comin? Wiih ils weight of tveary years Our jnyonsness is failiiis, Our hearis aie dimmeil with care, Anil joulh's fresh dreams of gladness, All peii.h darkly Ihore. While Miss was blooming near us In ihi; hetnl's first burst of spring, While many hopes could cheer 119. Life seemed a irloi inns ihing ! Like I lie loam upon a liver, Wli 'ii ih.' Inri .H jjiies ripjiling o'er, TIi"m.' hopi's have Hod loiever, To eoine to lis no mure. 'Tn sad yet sued Id !ilen To llie soil wind's ocnilo sw(;!l( Ai.d think we liear the innio thir I'hildliiind knew so well j To o,iz.' oul on llie even, And the boundless Iields of air, And we feel ayain our boyhood's wish, To roam, like angels, there. There are many dreams of gladness That cling ajound the past And from that tomb of feeling, Old thoughts come thronging fast; The forms we loved so dearly, In the happy days now gone, The beuuttlul and ihe lovely, bo fair to look upon. Thine blight and gentle maidens Who seemed so formed lor blies, Too glorious and too heavenly Fur such a world as ihis; Whose soli, daik eyes seemed swimming Li a sea ol liquid light, Ami whose locks of gold were streaming O'er brows so sunny bright. Whose smiles were like the sunshine la llie spring time of Ihe year Like the changeful gleams ol April, They followed every tear; Til''' have passed like hope away All their loveliness has lied Oh ! many a heart is mourning, Thai they are with the dead. Like the brightest buds of summer They have fallen from the stem Yet, Uti ! it is lovely death, To fade from earth like them ! And yet ihe thought is saddening, To muse on such as they And feel that all the beautiful Are passing fast away ; Thai ihe lair ones whom we love, Like llie leiidills ol a vine, Grow closely to raeh loving heart, Then perish on their shrine ! And we fan but Ihink of ihese In the soft and genile spring, When ihe trees are waving o'er lis, And doueisaie blossoming; For ue ki ow that wiiilei'd coming, Willi In cold and slmiiiy fky Ami the glorious beauty round us, Is biul.lieg but to die! I! UN TIN Ci AN OFFICE. BY JOE MILLER, JR. It was a sad day in Snooksville ; old Setli Smith, the Postmaster, was taken with an apoplectic (it. Every one fell sorrow- nil yet there were general guesses as to who would be his successor. The merits of the supposed candidates were duly can vassed ; but most people thought that old Ma'am bmith Seili's wite that was his widow she would be ou:ht to hav it. Pelei; Pap did not ajiree with this; had'nt he fought and failed for the paity? and what had Ma'am Smith done? Nothing! and should a fat oflice like that (the post master's receipts for the last ye-ar had reached 10, and business was increasing) should an ollice like that he given fo a woman who never was a "deleoate," and did'nt know how to electioneer? "Jus- lice," thought I'c lea-, "justic" forbids." j I'hedi.' waicast : IVIeg determined to apply lor the oflice, start immediately for Wash- J inglon, and settle the Imsiness at once. It was true old S th was not yet dead ; but people always died il apoplexy seized them, and therefore it was best to secure the first chance. Tie re was one didiculty which bothered him considerably : where was his petition, and who would sisn a recommen dation The peiition he could draw him self, but the signers there wag the rub- no one would sign his recommendation until Seth was dead, and many would re fuse until herwas buried; and yet thpre was no tune to be lost. But a good politi cian is prepared for every emergency. Pap searched his portfolio, there he found in one corner the very thing he wanted ; an old petition to the head bur gess to have the lamp post removed, to which l ap had himself obtained the signa tures of the leaders of the party, and some of the best men of the opposition. The petition was useless, the lamp post having been removed by a strong March wind, in a very summary manner. JJtit tne signa tures were just as good as ever. It re quired but a moment's consideration, and, by a brilliant mana-uvre, Peleg detached the paper containing the signatures from the petition, wafered them to his own, seized his carpet-bag and umbrella, and travelled. Arrived at Washington, Peleg jumped into a hack, and was rapidly driven to the post office department. Unfortunately, the postmastei had just gone owt to the Execu tive mansion to attend a' cabinet council.- To the White House Pele proceeded, hoping lo nail the President and Postmaster General at once. The cabinet conference was long. Af'er amusing himself for five hours in examining the furniture of the President's house, paring his nails, and loll ing on the ottomans, Mr. Pap was inform ed by a servant that the President would see no one on business that day, the council having just broken up. The next morning he was early at the general post office, but was informed that the Postmaster General, together with the President and cabinet, had gone on an excursion down the Poto mac to Mount Vernon, so that day there would be no opportunity of making his application. Trie next day he was inform ed at the department that the Postmaster General could be seen at his private office. His name and business was required by the usher, when he was informed by the offi cial that if he wtild present his papers, he would be granted an interview by the head of the department in his turn ; there were C37 applicants for various situations, who had the preference. To Mr. Pap nlone World the (iliS audience be granted. Fur ther, that a message would be left at his ho tel when his presence would be required. Pap went to his lodgings and waited four days, sustained by hope. On the fifth, about three o'clock, a letter was handed him, requiring his immediate presence at Ihe department. lie chartered a hack, and directed it to take him to the post office. Alas! it was a hoax! When he arrived there, the building was closed, all the offi cials having left it for the day. On the following morning he ventured to visit the post office building; he found that the applicants were being rapidly heard, and he waited, hoping that he might be reached that day ; he was not, however. But the next morning his heart leaped within him as he heard his name called. He was ushered into the presence of the Postmaster General, who received him with great politeness. The conversation was immediately opened by the official. "How long since you left Snooksville. Mr. Pap ?" "About twelve days, sir." "Our old friend, Smith, was not dead when yon left ?" "No, sir yes," snid Pap, thinking from the tone, that the Postmaster knew Smith to he dead ; but suspected that Pap had hur ried oil' to Washington before his decease had actually occurred. "lie was dead, you say! that is indeed strange! We received his official return for the last quarter yesterday ves 1 that is 1 i. ' . r . his signature, certainly, Mr. Smith's ser vices to the party have long been appre ciated by the government. Pap was rather overwhelmed by this, but impudence carried him through tri umphantly. "Why, we thought he was dead, sir," replied he : "the belief wt.s very general, as you will see by looking at the signatures on my petition." "Ah! yes good men, too sound thor ough goers, most of them ; we know many ol them. Pin very sorry for the little mis take that has happened," said the dignilary, blandly, who expected to be "up for an office in (he people's gift," some day him self, and was, theuTore, too much of a tac tician to affront any one possessing the slightest party influence, "very sorry, in deed. Mr. Pap. The depart merit would have been happy to have conferred the office on one who comes so well recom mended by good men as yourself, Mr. Pap. In future, if I would be allowed to suowst, it would not be improper to defer making an applictton for an oflice rendered vacant by death, until these things are so uncer tain until an undertaker is engaged in (act, it might be left until the Incumbent's luneral had started from his late residence. Good morning, Mr. Paif-a happy journey ; "'"J;08"; articles of dress, and eagerly home " J begged her to choose anything she possess- Pap,on his arrival at Snooksville, gave I f ' bi" "."tide of value waa not what out that he had been oh Journey to Boston; I the ,'a W,she,d ?r ul? a"ep,V ? W? but (.(lice-hunters, seekino- to fill vacant i ?,lh heBr4,at;t difficulty that the impul sitiintimis m other toven. in n,. .,., t.o.i slve 'ede could be made to agree to let : : """"'J' also hi th lamp-post petition. Those of his own par ty, whose names were aflixi d to it, were in clined to wink at the affair for the purpose of securing Pap's influence; but the oppo sition w ere indignant. A lawyer was con sulted, who declared "that forgery was the fraudulent making oralteralion of a writing to the prejudice of another." The oppo sition declared that using their signatures to recommend a candidate of another party was terribly prejudicial to tlieir party atand ing. Mr. Peleg Pap, was therefore ar raigned, found gilty of forgery, and sen tenced to three years, at hard labor, in the county prison. As soon as he arrived there, the superintendent, who knew of his shrewdness, installed him in the situation of overseer ol the convicts in one of the de partments. When Ma'am Smith heard of it, she said that she "railly believed that that was the very ojfice Peleg Pap was hunting for from the very fust." JI NNY LIND. The N. Y. Home Journal give the fol lowing interesting verities concerning the domestic habits of the Nightingale : During her two years' engagements in London, Jenny Ltnd hired the suburban residence of a stout and worthy citizen, taking his furniture, his carriage and coach man, his servants and house belongings, of all descriptions on rent.- The only addi tion that die made to the usual service of the establishment was the attendance of an English chaplain, who, upon the open lawn of the garden, whenever the weather would any way permit, or otherwise ih the drawing-room, peformed the devotions of the English Church for the assembled household.- The coachman, Ma to the custom in England, had accommodations for his family in a wing of the stables; and his wife, the mother of two'or three younpr 4 ' fyn, was employed as "washer and tf T,- jjt While, with proffers of attention Sij ac quaintance from the rank and fashion of London, the fair Swede was unavailingly been at Washington, and the stofv of. vU..n.. ...r i..c.un ui s application for Smith's office was soon" ow.p ' lu worn in "Laf.lle du e town talk. Not oi.lv that, but it was RlK"nt. Her generosity and simplicity discovered in what manner he hstd used the .." " 'H'a.iiicauon ".V Know beset a kind o' tribute to her genius mid character which she consistently and tin- varyingly refused the family of the hon: est coachman were commonly enjoying the much sought privilege. While Duchesses and Countesses were being refused at her door, she was ofteneiit seated in the corner of the haymow, her favorite resort for every hour Of leisurej tending the coachman's baby, or teaching the older ones to read ! On this humble family all her every-day affections seemed to be expended. When away, concert-singing at Birmingham or Liverpool, she wrote to them daily as if to her own family, and with a tenderness of broken English which was as touching as it was curious. These letters were lent and shown to the neighbors and others, and the friend (of our own) who bad seen them and gives us (hose particulars, says that no damrhter could have written home more familiarly and affectionately. The coach man's wife still wear--, ttitelied to the sleeve of the calico 'own in which she works, and changed and re-.stiched carefully to every dress she puts on, a most costly dia mond bracelet, her parting keepsake from Jenny Lind! It would be a hard extremity of poverty that would induce her to part with it; The famous opera singer had been more than a year the tenant of Mr. C , and the staid elderly citizen had never seen her. He had his lodgings in town, near his place of business, and he Rent his clerk to Brompton quarterly to receive the rent, re plying, with a bluff disavowal of all know ledge of opera-singers, to such of his friends as made the natural inquiries of curiosity. Some question occurring, however, at one of these quarterly settlements which an agent could not very well dispose of, it be came necessary that Mr. C should call on his tenant in person. This stout land lord's account of his visit very ninth aimi- j sed his li'iends. He had expected an un comfortable degree of pretension and cere mony. The servant at the door showed his old master to the drawing-rnotp, and the next minute "Miss Lind" came running in from the garden, with dress unhouked be hind, hair not very smooth, (these particu lars are second-hand from the first narratorl and as cordial as the oldest friend he had in 1 1 oi. .. . i i. i.. v .... the world. She seized bun by his two hands, crowded him down into a large arm chair, insisted upon knowing why he had not been to see her during the long time she' had been in his house, and finally seal ed herself on the floor at his feet, to talk over matters. Quite overcome with this last condescension, the deep-down chivalry of the honest Englishman was aroused, and dropping on one knee, he declared that he could not sit in a chair while she sat on the floor. At this, the unci remonious Jenny jumped up, and taking Mr. C.'s two hands, drew him to a window seat, and squeezed herself (lor he is a very fat man) into the recess by his side "and a very tihf squeeze it was," added the old gentleman in telling the story. Here she pulled from her pocket contract and receipts, and pro reeded to bioiiiess, which v.assxm settled; and the landlord took his leave, delighted with Jenny Lind, but not quite sure that he had been in full possession of his senses. Just before the celebrated singer left this residence, a lady who hd been brought in contact with her by tonic circumstance of neighborhood, and who had conceived a strong affection lor her, asked, one day, something as a keepsake. Jenny flew to her dressing-room and brought down iew- A 1 JoiiitiiiLi; l'lo nr. On the evening of the 7 th instant, a fatal ali'ray occurred at I Monterey, a small town iu Texas, near the ! upper part ol Caddo parish, (Li.) between j Ueuht-u It. Harrison and John Lester on I the one side, and John Collins on the other so says the Siretujiuit Gazette, which adds: "The difficulty originated in the follow ing manner : Harrison had just returned from a trip to Alabama with his family, and while getting off the boat at Monterey, (near which he lived), some game chickens, that he had brought with him, got loose, and Lester, who was in his employ, while ordering a negro to catch them, brought on a dispute with Collins. Collins, who was a blacksmith, went to his shop, and after preparing his gun, called to Lester to come down if he wanted satisfaction. Harrison and Lester went to the shop, and as the lat ter stepped in, Collins knocked him down with his tongs, when he was shot with a repeater by Harrison. He then turned upon the latter, and struck him on the head, and again turned and struck Lester, when Harrison shot him a second time. After receiving the last wound, Collins threw the longs at Harrison, wh'uh struck him just below the eye, and went down in his mouth, lie then took a sledge hammer, and, we are told, bent his brains nut. Les ter died instantly Collins lived until nest morning. They were all men of families. We were acquainted with neither of the parties personally, hut knew Mi Harrison from reputation, who, though wild, was much esteemed." WHATve commonly call a falling star is believed by the Arabs to be a dart launched by ihe Almighty at an evil genius: and, on beholding one, they exclaim, "May God transfix the enemy of the fuith." In manufacturing gold pens, the gold pav es through eighteen different stages before it appears a perfect pen. .i tho luflncflta .nt.olof r,f .,nhr ll.a I.a..a....1 C ledge ol the world. MK. KIMI'S IlLPORT ON CALIFORNIA. The following synopsis of the report of the Hon. T. Butler King, just submitted to Con gress, upon the resources of California, &c, we copy from the Journal of Commerce: The topics of which it treatsnre The pop ulation of ihe country; its 9frie.uHl!ral re sources; extent and production of the mine ral region; the commerce and navigation of California ; the legislation necessary for the territory ; and especially in regard to the dis position of the gold-bearing lands belonging to the Uniled States. The population of the country is now about 120,000. An accession to Ihe population by immigration, during Ihe year beginning at the next dry season on the !.-t of May is estimated at 2i0. 0C0. The nerieultural rapacities of ihe slate are vastly grealer lhan lu's 1-ern heretofore re presented. There is n vast extent of pasture lands, unsurpassed anywhere in the world, in verdure and richness. The will oals grow spontaneously all over the plains, yielding an annual crop nt tho rale of forty bushels, per acre. Any number of cuttle and sheep may be raised. Two hundred thousand head of cattle must be brought into the country du ring the next two years. The cattle were formerly killed for their hides, which was the chief article of export J and they were woith but S4 a head ; but now they are tvortll SCO or S30 a head. California is especially ndapted to wool growing ; a gentleman was about to import ten thousand sheep from Mexico with a view to go into that lnisincs. The futuie value of the vineyards is represented us very great. As to the commerce of the country, he es timates the value of imports, needed in Cali fornia from the Atlantic stales, fur t Ik; next year, at four millions of doliais iu flour, six millions in lumber, and two millions iu other articles. As lo the article of lumber, its pi ice is now ST5 per thousand, and cannot be lower, be cause il is below the cost of labor necessary for cutting and sawing lumber in California. It can be carried to California for $21 a thou sand ; and supposing it cost S20 here, it will continue to pay. The gold legion is described as extending five or six hundred miles from the south to the north, and from forty to sixty miles in width from east to west. It rises gradually in an inclined plain, from the Sacramento valley, to the elevation of 4.000 feet, at w hat are called the Foot Hills. Iletween these hills and Ihe Sierra Nevada, n number of streams have their source, and take their course through the Foot Hills, westward. Mr. King examined twelve of these rivers, and found them all very rich iu gold; and the conclusion is inevitable, from all the facts that the whole qoailz plain, containing three thousand square, miles, is full of gold bedded in the quart, an.l some of which, disiute giate I fiom the quartz by the. to; rents, may be found in dust and lumps in the beds cf the streams. The whole number of foreigners in the re gion who are gold hunters, is fifteen thousand There have been but seven thousand Ameri can gold hunters. The Chilians and ihe So nora people came iu crowds, and have car ried off tweuly-live millions. Tho Americans have procured fifteen millions. The Chilians are expert diggers. The amount of gold already procured, is forty millions. But forty millions more will beproeured during the coming dry Season say from May to November. The tegular mining operations in the solid qnnrlz rock will soon begin, and can be con tinued dining ihe wet ns well as tho dry seu son. Mr. King estimates Ihe amount of gold which will bo procured from the 1st May, 1850. lill Ihe 1st .Vovember, 1852, ut one bundled millions. He recommends thai the lauds be retained as public properly forever and as a perpetu al resource for the public exchequer. To the woikeis and diggers of gold he pro poses to grant permits at tho rate of an ounco of gold for each pound. For the encouragement of regular mining operations, ho proposes to grant leases of a limited number of acres, lo perrons or com panies, at a small per rentage on the amount of gold procured. "I am too roon. to cive cp my Paper." A woman in Maine recently renewed her sub scription to a Fouland paper, with the re mark that "she was infinitely too poor to do without it." There is a great deal compre hended in this declaration. People even those who aro in straightened circumstances call dispense with many things lather than with a newpaper. How much has even ihe poorest saved by attentively perusing some one of the public journals w hich has been his daily or weekly visitant ! It should be a universally uduiilted tact, that a newspaper is one of the necessaries, not one of the luxu riesoflife. Every journalist in tlie -etiutry, by taxing his iiieinoiy a moment, could easi ly illustrate the trulh of the position uud in deed there are very few in e.iiy community whoso experience does not enable them to bear testimony to it. A newspaper is a mine of wealth lo millions, if they nevar saw one, would have reason to say that they were poor indeed. Lowell Journal. A Youmo Miss having been iuViled to a military ball, inquired with great simplicity, if all the ladies were expected to bare arm t These is in the workhouse al Yeovil, Eng land, a femal infant orphan, six weeks old, weighing only two and a half pounds. TlllAL OF 1)11. J. W. WEBSTER, For the Murder ef Dr. Parhmstn, befors the Iu rrema Judicial t'unrt. DR. WEBSTER CONVICTED. The Summing up of the Attorney General Speech from Professor Webster The Judge's Charge Verdict of the Jury The Prisoner Pronounced Guilty of Murder. Boston, March 30, 1S50. The excitement increases as this extraordi nary trial draws (o a close. The court room is crowded to excess, and tho most intense feeling prevails. Tho prisoner looks deject ed. At ten minutes past nine, o'clock, Mr. Clifford, tho Attorney General, commenced his closing argument for the government. THE SUMMING CP FCUl THE UDVEIINMKXT, BY ATTunSEV GENERAL C!.II'FOUD. In a cause, gentlemen of ihe jury, of the magnitude of the one now before us, I ex pected anil you expected that all that human power could do to exonerate this defendant would be done. From the tianscendent nbi lity of the counsel for the defence, I was not disappointed; but in a hope that I expressed to you in in opening, 1 am disappointed. I did hope for some explanation which would have saved the defendant ftom the terrible web which circumstances havo thrown around him. 1 hoped, as a man and a citi zen, in behalf of one who once stood so high in this community. I slated the course I should pursue tho outline I should fill up I drew no inferences, but 1 filled up the out line : and I know that these inferences must bo now pressing on your minds. This man, although he has been immured in a cell, has riot been the friendless man his counsel has represented him. Ho has been surrounded by powei fid friends, and has had every op portunity lo make an explanation of llie ter rible circumstances with which he has fpen found connected. Ho has had every facility ailoided him. The evidence before the Cor oner's jury, though secretly given, was laid before his counsel, that they might be pre pared for his defence. I have withheld no fact from his counsel which could bear on his defence. lie waived an examination be fote another tiibunal in this building, whero he had the fullest opportunity to oblige the government to show the charges against him. He did it not only without tho advice, but against the advice of the ablest counrel in this commonwealth. I put it to yoa whether an innocent man would have refused sbch an opportunity to explain and save iho charac ter which he has labored sixty years to earn? Would ho have suffered such a character to have been blasted for a moment 1 j They bring the testimony of Dr. W. P. G. Morton to shake the testimony of Dr. Keep, who swears positively, and gives his reasons, fortified by the opinions of three other pro. fes-ional gentlemen iu the same liue. They biing (our ilnesses to prove their n'tW of IV. Parkman. They might have brought fif teen as vol. aiul lha ou!v reason Hiey did not was, that it would have required Pr. !' to be in loo many places at tho same time. It would have required him, in short, to be ubiquitous. They, therefore, selected live Mrs. Hatch swears she saw Dr. Parkman at a time which is not at all inconsistent with I ho indictment. I come then, first, to the testimony of Mr. Thompson tho biological witness, as we may call him ho depends for the time upon a clock, which we havo shown i0 be no guide; but I will adini', if you please, that he did see a person who looked like Dr. Parkman ; he did not meet him ; he saw him cross the street; doubtless, ho may have supposed that he saw Dr. Parkman, but this is readily explained, by supposing that he saw some some person resembling Dr. P. Mr. Wenlworih swore that be saw Dr. P. in Court street ; he was walking with Mr. S. H. Kussell, w hom we have brought on the stand. This was the only time that ho walked with Mr. Russell; and Mr. Russell swears thai wh"ii walking wilh Mr. Wmlworih, they saw Dr. Paiknian ; but he does r.ot now re member the time ; he is sure it was not on Fiiday. I submit that the witness stands impeached. Why does ho keep the know, ledge to himself, while the search was going on ! 3lr. Lleiiauu s testimony, iiku Uhodcs's, has this peculiarity he has two facts to remember first, what time he called on Rev. John Wells, and the fact that after he came from him ho saw Dr. Parkman. He. had not spoken to Dr. P. for three years. He did not pass next to Lira. I submit, he might have mistaken a perSon having Ihe general appearance of Dr. Puikman. The circumstances which ho says struck him, were certainly not very remarkable. Dr. P. you well know, v as much likelier to bo walking arm in arm with an honest labor, ing man, iu his every day coat, than with tho professor of a college v. lmm ho thought a swindler. Mrs. Rhodes testified that she saw Dr. P. at a quarter to five o'clock, or at five o'clock. From the almanac which I take, it could not be introduced in evidence, it will appear that, at four of that day, it was rather late for very distinct vision. Mrs. Rhodes said she bowed, and the Doctor bowed to her. Is it anything uncommon for a gentleman to return a bow to a lady who may have mista ken him ! One pregnant fact in regard to this testimony is, that Mrs. Rhodes, though a parishioner of Rev. Francis Parkman, said no( a word of what she had seen, till her daugh ter came back from Lexington, on Tuesday. Another pregnant fact is, that Dr. Parkman was walking with a gentleman. Where is that gentleman 1 Why no voice from him 1 If Dr. P. was roaming about under aberra tion of mind, ibis gentleman could have taken rats cf him. Mrs. Grsenough's testimony wis very considerate ond conscientious. I wish a'l the test had bsen as careful. Sha states thai sho is not coi fident and positive that it was really Dr. Parkman which she saw. The learned Attorney geheral went into a very entertaining and Instructive dis cussion of tho subject of proving personal identity, nnd related many anecdotes ol sin gular mistakes in recognizing individuals. But if this Tark man alibi, as it is called, is admitted, it does not shake the case, Whersi was Dr. Webster that day Ho was thersi in his laboratory, dinnerless and alone, Iho whole afternoon. Ho might have murdered Dr. P. before two o'clock, or ho might again havo enticed him there, and murdered him before four o'clock. I come to the testimony of the idenlity of llicso remains. If the cir cumstances which prove ihe identity are slight, they are many. If they are in each weak na a thread, together they are strong as a cable. It is in tho order of Providonce, that there could not be such a striking resem blance ns we have brought here, without pro ducing so perfect a conviction as if we hail brought the entire mortal remains of Dr. P. before yoa. I approach this subject rever entially I refer you to the long labors of that conscientious matt, Dr. Keep, to produce) a set of teeth for Dr. P. to wear at tho open ing of that college, founded by his munifi cence that this very set of teeth should re main to reveal the murder of that founder of the College; and Id Vindicate the law, I re gard as the finger of Almighty God. That, from the smouldering remains in the ashes of ihe furnace, Iho pieces should be fished out, from which, that true son cf science, Dr. Wjmrui, should reconstruct the very jaw which bears tho unmistakeablo peculiarity of of Dr. Paiknian, is a wondeiful providence Looking ;.t the person iu the culprit's dock, himself a devotro of science, I havo beeti di-pnrrd, in sickness of heart, to nsk : Il.r ilnr-i-ud bridge then vaniU-rM urp, To I rii. U3 i-n'y ilurkiit.Fs unci ilirputr t" Xu science has vindicated what this false) son of science has debased. Scientific mcri have appeared here, who throwing away alt feelings of clas, havo given themselves to' llie search of truth, as truth. Let the results strike where they may. They havo restored the body, so ns to show where each minuto paiticlo of bene fits, and to show that these were parts of the same body, and in no part dissimilar to' Pr. Parkman, and bearing soma most striking resemblances. 1 nbw, gentle! men of the jury, como to consider the hy pothesis set up for the defence. I shall a sic you, first, lo consider whether any one of them, in itself, is such as the law requires to be excluded by tho facts in tho case. I ehal then ask you to consider whether they da not conflict with each other. What were) these hypotheses, Dr. Webster had been com pelled, in order to avoid suspicion, lo admit that he did meet Dr. Parkman at the time, we specify, and he claims, which our evi- ence contradicts, that ho paid him money. Thus far they admit; all beyond they de ny, and rush in hypothesis, lhey say lie iiiiuht have committed suicide, ho might havo been tubbed, or some other thing might have been done. We are not here lo con sider possibilities. We might suppose that Dr Holmes killed Dr. Puikman in Iho lecture room, or any other extravagant supposition. But we want a hypothesis which has some thing to support it. Tho Case first seems to rest upon the supposition that he was mur dered outside and brought into li e college) for destruction, or, pcihaps, to get the re ward ; but it is an absurd supposition, be cause, iu the full strength of tho word, they say, this accounts for tho dissecting room be; ing open ; but this must have made the work very expeditious, for il was Friday night that 'lie dissecting room door was open. Another, that Dr. Faikiuuu had gone roaming about for some time, and that he was brought in theie, murdered, after slander began Id breathe that Dr. Webster was ihe guilty man. How coult Dr. Webster remain in such a' community as his. with all tho sympathies vr the University in his favor, when his inno cenco could be established by confirming such a hypothesis. I think that open door had something to do wilh the remains; tut it was iu connection wilh Dr. Webster, whosi, whereabouts was not accounted for till 6nw o'clock, though his daughter usually break fasted with him. ft has appeared wilh vUh facility Dr. Webster flitted back and forth between Cambridge and the Medical College, It has been suggested that the remains vrersj carried to the Medical College for the pur. pose" of getting tho reward. If they were so carried to get tha reward, why was" such pains taken to destroy ilia identity 1 If it was Littlelield who was looking out for llm reward, why did he finj nothing that could be or has been identified? Tho points ly which the re.Ti.iins are identified were a'l discovered by others. Dr. Wtbsler's lh t daughters were here, and their testimony r-.-maikably confirms that of Mr. Lltlicfield -' They put their father away from home just when Littleficld makes him at the college, and Liitlefieid puts him away from the col. lege just as they put him at home. There i nothing but a good piece of dove-tailing be tween them. Suppose Dr. Parkman to hate beeu murdered in the college, or out of it, and brought into the laboratory for a conceal ment or any other purpose, then, I maintain, tha! either Dr. Webster or Mr. Liulefieli must have known it. . . Could a man be roasted in Dr. Webster'f assay furnace, in which he never mad st fire, and such a man as ha not hava known it 1 We nnht as well com, jno titi court
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