The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1843-12-18

prior to the compromise, being money advanced in the
Mr.. H. Maxwell. ...........I 100
MI prahan 90
$3.50
MARTIN PAINE, Treasurer.
NV YoRK, Dec. l5 ls43.
This bill we did not receive till Saturday last,
but we shall send up the money this morning, and
receive receipt in full, so that thus there shall
be no drawbacks-no difficuties-no litigious dis
position on our part.
II seems, however, that this settlement, salts
factory to the principals, has not been altogether
agreeable to other parties concerned. The lawyers
are not at all satisfied and accordingly to our sur
prise and establishment, we have received, through
our own counsel the following letter from the at
| torney of the lawyers employed on the opposite
! side -
New YoRK, Dec. a, lS43.
DEAR Sir
onrehecton cannot think it proper to call upon your
site party who has attorney and counsel through them
have never called upon or conferred with Mr. Bennett
about this business have idea of there being any
danger of misunderstanding to the intentions of the
parties OF course, suppose Mr. Bennett will without
settlement falls through, and the suit must proceed
think is not consistent with my duty to do otherwise
than commune ate with you the matter and leave you
to confer with Mr.. Bennett on the subject.
Yours respectfully,
II. BREWSTER.
]. A. MORRILL,, ESQ.
subjoin statement of fees due not for publication
Mott and others VS. BennenMr ID. Grahams Fee. $50 90
Chas oConnors do and for untaxabe services $50 90
$3.50 90
This is certainly very curious and surprising
affair. This new demand is altogether beyond our
comprehension We hardly know what to make
Of it, 1t seems, then, according to this remarkable
epistle that the Faculty and must go into Court
after ALL and if we cannot tear each others
character in pieces, for the very admirable purpose
of gratifying the pruriency of the public taste for
that sort of amusement, and at the same time sup
plying our good friends, the lawyers, with addi-
tional business We had settled the case with GER
tain doses of common sense-$5O doses, and $50
doses, of common sense but il now appears that
it is all humbug in us and the Faculty to attempt
to settle own difficulties, and that $3.50 dose
of law must be administered before the case can
be disposed of and settled!
Now let us examine this curious new bill. Here
is Mr.. d. Graham's fee charged, $3.50 But Mr..
Graham has already been paid fee Of $50 /; al
though, as it seems, Mr. Graham, never did much
in the business at all. His share of it consisted in
going through the ceremony of an introduction to
two members of the Faculty, with whom he had a
little conversation-the aforesaid ceremony of an
introduction having been effected through the agen-
cy Of our friend, Mr.. George p. Morris, of sc The
Mirror" and who, we suppose, acted in this kind
manner in generous requtal for the innumerable
puffs we have published of his Melodies and his
Sc Mirrors" Well, Mr.. Graham is very excellent,
worthy man. We should feel great pleasure in
him Gsn ,rie';tieraI of onr nnrse if we
thought 1t was all quite proper Mr.. Graham has
once before got money out of suit brought against
us-that one in which Mr.. Noah was the prosecuting
party Noah brought suit against US to recover
500, which he alleged we owed HIM. On trial on
the facts before jury, we believe there was YER
dict retuIned in our favor the finding indeed being
that Noah owed us, and not we him. But arguing
the case under the statute of limitations, it appears
that we were cast in his debt although in point of
equity and common sense were the party in whose
favor the case should have been decided. And we
recoect very well that Mr.. Morrison, the legal
gentleman employed by on that occasion,
brought information, on Saturday evening,
that the case had terminated against us-that we
had to pay about $s4OO-and that Mr. Graham was
determined to issue an execution Immediately,
less the money was paid that afternoon Well, it
was after banking hours, and had we net had the
necessary sum in our pocket, would no doubt have
embraced his opportunity of issuing an execution.
| This, we believe, was all the money Mr.. Graham
has ever got out of us. AS to this new demand,
we are very sorry that we cannot comply with 1t.
We cannot consent to pay him this money, because
we do not think that he is entitled to it according
to law. Neither do we think that they can con-
tinue this suit in spite of the principals Mr.. Ora
ham, therefore, had better take eur advice, which
we give with great pleasure, and attend to his po-
litica affairs, instead of endeavoring to get $50 out
of our pockets
And now, in regard TO Mr. Hugh Maxwell. 1t
seems that, for some reason or other, he wants
$3.50. This is still more inscrutabe affair than
that of Mr. Graham. Mr.. Maxwell has already
received $lOO-but that's not enough. He must
have S25Omore, or-the curious alternative again
this suit must be continued, whether the Faculty
be willing or not Well, Mr.. Maxwell is a very
worthy mana very worthy man-and a, re-
spectacle lawyer-a highly respectable law
yer. He made himself famous , one day IN the
remarkable conspiracy cases OF lS2b-consplracy
| cases which were, indeed truly remarkable when
| viewed in connection with events in the financial
I world of subsequent occurrence. In that day Mr.
| Eckford and Mr.. Jacob Barker were indicted and
absolutely convicted for allowing themselves to be
defrauded by an insurance company. They did not
take the money belonging to any insurance COM
pany, as very clearly, appeared on the trial; But
they allowed themselves TO be fieeced, and were
positively convicted for this unheard OF crime. If
they had waited only few years, they would have
found that dozens round about in Wall street attain
responsibility and eminence in the fashionable, Ii
terary, and religious world, by plundering banks
and insurance companies. But on these trials Mr.
Maxwell made himself quite famous, and subsisted
on the reputation then made, until he took new
start on the first attempts made to organize Tyler
party in this city, when he made famous speech
on the Exchange, after which, we believe his son
was appointed on a diplomatic mission to Russia.
He now wants $3.50 from us. Well, if he is very
anxious TO get il, in the present melancholy dearth
of legal business, and makes proper appeal TO our
charitable feelings, may be inclined TO dip our
hand into our pocket. But we question the legal
ity of the claim now presented, and we don't
mean TO accede to il until its righteousness be esta-
blished before court and jury-a rather ndef,