White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1857-11-26
MI. Fillmore at Home.

A correspondent of the New York Observer
"A religious paper-who visited Lexihgtsn,
Ky, at the meeting of the Presbyterian General,
Assembly, and Travelled leisrrcly hemswud.T
thus describes an interview he had with Mr.,
Fillmore at Buffalo:
On Monday morning, before leaving the city,
availed myselfof the few moments leftto me
to visit the mansion Of ex-President Fillmors,y
and its estimable and honOred occupant, who ],
had last seen in his apartment overlooking ths,
bay ofNaples. As I entered his library, found
him searching for the birthplace of Aristotle in
an ancient Atlas. find that much Of his time
is taken up in literary rssearches-for which his
late extended tour has given him an increasing,
zeal. I was exceedingly interested in many
things he stated which ordinary tourists do NOT
see, some of which might advert to without
b-eech of the law of social prOpriety. N
Mr. F., being a lawyer, directed his attention
to the modes of administering justice in the
courts ofthe continent. In Paris he obtained
permit to attend criminal trial, for spectators
are rot allowed there in tho court room, a. Ia
our country The counsel has nothing 20 do
with the examination Of witnesses; this Is done
by the Judge; they may barely suggest inquirssr
but cannot ask single question. Little chill
dren testify without being sworn. Though they
now have the trial by jury, they know nothingof
the "habeas corpus" 50 advantageeusly and full
" enjoyed in England and America. Mr.. F..
remarked that he never so appreciated its valns
as he has since his visit to this continent. In
Southern Italy the old forms of despotism still
bear their original and cruel features. A per-
son in high positions brother of . leading
lawyer-in King BOmba's dsninions, hean .
tap at his door at midnight. He is infofmed
that he is TO go with the police, who are in wait,
ing. lie simply has time to announce hiG fum-
mons to his halfaroused wife, to glance at his
little one, and he is off, placed in close car
rage and blindfolded. He Is driven he knows
not where-through gates and grating doors,
and down many flights of steps, and there shut
up No reason is assigned. He is utterly nn-
conscious Of any breach of law. He may have
thought reform desirable. Three years he abides
in his dungeon home. lie Is in the same way
borne back and released, with the friendly conn.
sci to Ay the country in three days, AZ he would
be taken up andpunished if found in the king.
dom after thattiHe. r.- - s-F r.
The party of the Tuscan Minister offered Mr..
F. fine opportunity Of seeing large number OF
the old nobility Of Rome. These are men and
women who claim to have che veritable blood
Of Scipio Africanus and Fabius Ma1imus In their
veins, and they look with profound cOntsnpt
upon an English patent that dates but three or
four centuries back could not but think that
this "ofium srn digniiGts" Of our retired ex-
President, who once served his country % well.
must afford far more real and rational enjoynsnt
than can possibly be experienced from all the
eclat, patronage, power and turmoil connected
with the Chief Magistracy.