The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1846-06-11

He believed that there was motive which zaotusHsd the
and he left the once the Courier and Enquirer
Doctor and Col Webb pulled together in the ha
ness and fought the same bse-both Mr.. Webster and
Mr. Clay were lauded by them Notwithstanding the
course Of the Courier Mr. Webster was actually recon-
mended a. Vice President Of the United States Mr. W.
demned Its Recommendation to elect Mr. Webster after
impung such charges against him he next related the
teries Of Iniquty" by Dr. Bacon which was criticised
ny inc COURIER Engnrer and which provoked the at
squabbe in which the editor rot the worst n Il, 81.
went ON to say that the Courier auded the of
lnaauiy" and in long speech Of nearly two hours
lars Of the controversy between the parties as he
ed to introduce in evidence In the Of his address
he took occasion to read another letter from DR. Racon
which was written against Colsnel Webb in the Tribune
containing he continued lbels; but this was not
port his position when he oTed read the origin j ar
tice from the Courier which the defence alleged TO be-
the tetsvima bei imputed lunacy Dr. Bacon
as was alleged. This article from the Courier 4 FL.
qurer dated June H. in relation to the Myssries
cism on DR.. Bacon's work
Mr. HALL here said this had reference to the pre-.
sent suit The charge was specific against Col webb,
charged him with being brbed and there is no con.
nexion between il and the libel Mr. H here cited au.
cases, from the books.
formed part Of the sesa nasmuch the alleged u
bel was criticism upon it. After some argument
Inc court sustained the oDecton OF plain
tif the ground that the declaration did embody
refer to criticism in the Courier.
The evidence was then gone into. The alleged libel
having charged the attacks upon Mr. Webster from the
Courier and the plea Of justification having been found
cd proof from its columns. the documentary evidence
wa. put in, and series of long articles We're
read, which condemned MIR Websters political
course in the Cabinet on the Ashburton treaty,
and generally politicianwhose had devia-
ted from sound wing principles Some of the articles
took to task the Journal Of Commerce and the Tyler
administration These were read by DR.. Bacon. The
first Nj DAT
10th July, ls4l; 18th, dos 2oth do a2d, do 23d do.
1912; 18th August, dol 9Th September do; 9th, do.
The Court here adjourned this forenoon at 10
o'clock.
Before Chief Justice Jones'
Wesley IyuesdoIe ct al Tkomss UnderAiLL
This was action for money had and received.
The amount claimed was about 81 000 The defendant
formerly a broker in Wall street, doing business
under the name Of John T. Smith & Co II appeared
that year ago last fall Messrs William James Curry
agents for the bank of st. Clair, Michigan The
bank sent their bills to Messrs Curry get them cashed
the defendant knowing that the Currys the agents
of the bank applied to them to know if they would give
him some Of the paper and that he would get cashed
better terms than they could get from the banks They
gave him bills to the amount Of about $l3 O00 for which
be got cash He paid back portion of it, leaving the
above balance behind In l845 the bank failed, and
plaintiff appointed asignees and the present
ton 10 brought in their for recovery Of said ba-
lance The defence technical and the Jury found
verdict for plaintiffs for $4,000 For plaintiffs, Mr..
BUSHNELL; for defendants Mr. Waite.