The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-02-05
From the Cincinnati Chronicle.

Henry S. GEYER, SENATOR ELECT FROM Mrs
soURI.-ln May last, sail friend to US the other
day, happening to be detained in ST. Louis to
await the completion Of some business arrange
men,s, and not knowing we'll how to dispose OF
my time, ] sirolIed up to the Court house, in
hopes of seeing the M0ntesquiens, who were at
that time IN custody on charge Of murder.
was led there not SO much by desire to hear the
arguments of counsel, as by curiosity to see the
men whose case was exciting much interest in
the community. In this was disappointed, as
the parties were net in court. As was standing,
however, IN the courthouse, earlv in the after
noon, the Sheriff courteously invited me to a seat
within the bar, which accepted. Some one,
whose name did not learn, and which felt too
little interest in to inquire, was making long
winded grafton for the prosecution the question
OF admitting the prisoners TO bail, in which he
consumed the whole afternoon. Near me was
seated tall, elderly man, with plain matter-of-
fact looking cOuntenance, and as | should Judge
about sixty years Of age. There was nothing
striking in his manner, dress, or personal appear
ance--nothing, indeed, to indicate, that he
anything more than one Of those men you would
be likely to meet every day in crowd, or pass
IN the street without bestowing second thought
as to who or what he was. He sat near the able,
with his body bent forward, whirling his specta-
Giles between his knees, and apparently giving no
special attention to the proceedings Of the court,
to anything else. that was going on around him.
vister of the courtroom, led there by the same
curiosity by which myself had been drawn.
The argument OF the prosecution went on, con-
Stunning the whole afternoon, and was not COM
pleted when the court adjourned. The following
morning visited the courthouse again. There
stood the prosecutor still urging his point with
determined perseverance, and there sat my neigh
Dor Of yesterday, still twirIing his spectacles.
About noon, after having spoken many hours,
the prosecutor concluded. As he did so, the Judge
observed that as the defence might wish to occupy
some time to reply, the court had perhaps better
adjourn Then 1t was that my neighbour Of the
spectacles rose and for the first time discovered
my mistake in supposIng him nothing more than
an unnierested Ioiterer like myself HI addressed
the court. lie said there was no necessity for an
adjournment-a he wished TO say, he could say
IN evenly minutes. He then proceeded with his
brief argument. There was nothing like elo-
quence IN what he said; but there was strong
common sense that let pathway Of light through
all the inircaces with which the question in
voved, riveting the attention, aud carrying con-
vction to the minds Of all resent. He spoke
court adjourned. felt that had been in the
presence of strong man, and turning to some
one me, with curiosity had not felt before,
! inquired the name O.: the gentleman who had
last addressed the court:
That" replied the stranger, that is Henry
S. Geyer.''
"Wel. said l, che is pretty considerable
man, isn't hei"
Yes, sir, was the reply. We think SO, and
We think he ought to be in Tom Benton's place,
in the Senate"
Yesterdays telegraph announced that he is in
Tom Benton s place in the Senate