The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1857-03-28

he etreated at all by reason OF The heceness OF the at
tack by surrounding obstacles impedimeuls, then
the state of facts supposed in the prayer the instruction
The second instruction was granted
Mr. Dayidge for defence offered TO submit the 10 the
jury without argument
The counsel for prosecution declined TO accept the prop
osition.
Mr. Key commenced addressing the jury at 20 minutes
past H. M reviewing the evidence with great elearness
and power
He urged that had Lee really believed the charge he
made against Hume his would have been very diff
erent that he would have exchanged cards at the
Presidents House with person he believed to be pick
pocket that bad be believed the charge his the next
morning would have been the Of what it that
instead of arming himself to meet Hume, he would have
had him arrested as pckpocket and that he persisted
in the charge knowing that he mistaken because his
malice would not allow him to do Hume justice. He did
not retreat from the blows of Hume but the few PAGES OF
oor he went over was to give him opportunity to get
out a deadly weapon 10 make deadly attack.
Mr. Key closed at half-past twelve O'clock
Mr. Chiffon the part of defence next addressed the
jury commenting in his opening with severity upon what
he termed the relentless and vindctve in which
the prosecution had been conducted
Taking up the instructions granted by the court he con-
tended that the governments counsel had disclosed the
facts in calculated to induce the jury to decide in
manner different from what the court had instructed
them the law would justify them in doing.
Mr. Chiffon concluded his elaborate address going over
the whole ground of The law and the evidence at fifteen
minutes past two, p. m.
Mr.. Davdge followed for defence anmadverting also
with considerable severity upon the pursued by the
prosecution replying with little ability to the points
made by the district attorney He conended that Lee had
reason to expect visit from Hume the next morning.
he Lee being the injured party after having been slapped
three times In the face at the levee by Hume in the
presence the ladies he had taken there that in regard
the point made that ee would not have exchanged CARDS
with Hume had he really believed him to be pckpocke'
that Lee did not make the proposition to exchange cards
but did so at the suggestion of Major Lsly and II the ex
change of cards really anything Lee had right
to expect visit from some friend of Hume and not from
himself in person. that Lee doubtless viewed the card given
trick and that Hume not the person be rep
resented himself to be.
The gis of the he commended in this that if
the prisoner believed he in serious bodily danger he
justified, while that danger was impending over him,
to take means TO repel the threatened attack
He drew picture OF the different appearance presented
by Hume and Lee personally the perfect man, some
six feet two inches in height and developed propoona
bly,, and the other weakly man. ffy-fve years OF age
and argued that Lee seeing stick of that szo in the
hands Of Infatuated giant like Hume had to be-
lieve himself in danger.
Mr. Davdgs concluded at quarter past g. p. and at
halfpast Mr. Bradley commenced the closng argument
for government and in the outset expressed his surprise at
the remarks INDUCED in by the other side in relation to
| the course of the district attorney.
Mr. Key here and said that IL the other side were
dissatisfied with his course, they must remain So WAS II
be expected that public prosecutor should address
jury in milk .and-waer style when grand jury had
| brought in charge of murder
The counsel for defence here dscaimed any purpose Of
atribung to the district attorney any Intentional de-
parture from the proper limits ofjudical inquiry.
Mr. Key remarked soto voce resumipg his seat that
if they did not like his speech he would try and make
Mr. Bradley proceeded to group the evidence rather than
to take it in detail and argued that the defence had
ed by the question whether Lee could have escaped with
safety that he did not try disabuse himself Of his
regard to the age and feebleness of he was but
one year older than himself Bradley) and he by no
means considered himself old man. and that man
who could cock the pistol produced in court with
one hand was as strong as most men that Lee could
not have considered himself in deadly peril that he
could have Tended off the blow easily that had he thrown
up his closed in with Hume no harm could bave
been done there eight persons in the
ready to interfere and one Of whom had reached the
parties for that purpose when the pistol was fired and
that rereated to draw his adversary and give hin
self an opportunity to crafty his malice
On the conclusion Of Mr.. Bradleys mastery summing
up the court adjourned for one hour unti halfpas FIVE
D. give the jury opportunity to take refreshments
its reopening the given TO the jury who
retired to their chamber
The court adjourned at ten inmates before nine to meet
tomorrow Sunday morning. at ten o'clock It is inti-
mated that the jury will not agree
4 Cmcurr csunr--The court this morning sustained the
decision Of magistrate who had fined Thomas j. Jones
and Thomas H. Langley hucksters for forestaing the
( market by purchasing poultry during market houra
4 MRDrcAL coNvENTIoN-0ur medical gentlemen must not
forget that national convention is to be held at Phade
phia in few weeks to consider the important subject Of
quarantine regulations Several city and town medical
1 associations have appointed delegates.
MAIL poSrRAprs--A considerable number of mail con-
Il
anesday, when the annual letting will take place.
next w. - England States and the State of
| New York for which contracts -
about one thousand routes In addition to the above,
tracts will be entered into for carrying the mail upon six
hundred miscellaneous routes in the different States ana
Territories.
THE cAsAL-We learn that George Henderson, esq,
agent of the Cumberland Coal and Iron Company made
recent visit to dam No. s, and reports that the work
will certainly be so far completed by the first ofnext month
as to admit of the resumption of navigation at that time
The break which needed repair was six hundred feet In
length.
LAFAYETTE Sou AREThe ladies complain that they
not pass in the present style OF dress between the posts
lust put down before the gates Of Lafayette Squarewhie
the distance is already great that it will freely admit
| the passage of cove
NATIONAL HoTELThe report of the board of health Is
severely criticised by many prominent newspapers In
different parts of the country of them giving the
opinion of ply sicans who have attended sufferers that the
endemic was produced by mineral poison
TuE AoURpucT-We are informed that Charles A. HAIR
ding NJ d. has been appointed physician to the laborers
employed on the Washington aqueduct
The yAROur readers will bear in mind that the clo-
sing address at the third exhibition of the Metropolitan
Mechanics Institute will be delivered on Monday evening"
by Senator Douglas The first fair closed the 10th
of March, 1883 by an address The Nature and APP
pcation of Mechanical Power by Professor Henry and
the same gentleman delivered the closing address at the