Weekly hawk-eye and telegraph. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1855-1857, 1857-02-25


howiin sloqasnes bstwixt The pzis0sG and
her lealhcs.robea counsel, ~ It III dssa,t tho
Of the twain was chem ON trial. As Tor the
stranger, liz seemed not 10 pay tho slighsest
attention to his opponents, bntremsined mo-
ti0nless, with his forehead bowed in deep
thought or slumber. IS
When the proper time came, however, ne
suddenly sprang to his feet, crossed the bar,
and took his place almost touching the jury.
He then commenced in q whisper 50 Wild,
so clear, so unutterably ringing and distinct
as to fill the hall from doors to galleries. AT
the outset he dealt pure logic, separating and
combining the proven facts. till the whole
mass of confused evidence, looked transpa-
rent as globe Of glass, through which the
innocence Of his client shone, brilliant as q
sunbeam and the Jurors nodded to each
other signs Of thorough conviction; that
thrilling whisper, and fixed concentration,
and the language, simple as child's, had
convinced all
He then changed his posture, SO as to
sweep the bar with his glance, and began to
tear and to rend his legal adversaries. His
sallow face glowed as a heated furnace; his
eyes resembled living Goals and his voice be-
came the clangor Of a trumpet | have new
er, before nor since, listened to such murder
GUS denunciations 1t was like Jove's eagle
charging flock of crows; it was like Jove
himself hurting red-hot thunderbolts among
the qnaking ranks of a conspiracy Of inferior
godsi And yet in the highest tempest of his
fury, he seemed calm; he employed no ges-
sure save one--the flash of a long, bony fore
finger direct in the eyes of his foes He
painted their ,yenaity and humanity mean
ness, in coalescing for money to hunt down
| q poor fricndless woman, till a shout OF stitied
rage arose from the multitude, and even
some Of the jury cried :
Shame r.
He changed his theme once more. his
| voice grew mournful as a funeral song, and
his eyes filled with tears as he traced vivid
picture of mans cruelties and woman 8
wrongs, with particular illustration in the
case of his client, the one half ofthe audience
| wept like children But it was in the per-
Grafton that he reached his zenith, at once of
terror and sublimity His features were
| livid as those of a corpse; his nerves shook
as with palsy; he tossed his hands wildly
towards heaven, each finger stretched apart
and quivering like the fame Of CANDLE as
he closed with the last words of Hiram Shore
-"rell my mother tha5I am dead and gone
to hellr' His emphasis on the word hell
embodied the name and ideal of all horror
it was the wall of Unreasonable despair
No language can depict the effect on us who
heard it. Men groaned, females screamed,
and one poor mother tainted and was borne
away in commissions
The whole speech occupied but an hour.
The jury rendered verdict Of 'Not Gull
ty," without leaving the box, and three
cheers, like successive roars of an earthquake,
shook the old court house from dome to cor
ner-stone, testifying the JOY of the people.
! After the adjournment, which occurred
near sunset, the triumphant advocate arose
aud gave an appointments shall preach
in this hall tonight at eight clock. He
then glided off through the crowd, speaking
to no one, though many attempted to draw
| him into a conversation,
At eight @ clock the court house was again
thronged, and the stranger, according to prom
Use, delivered his sermon. 1t evinced the
same attributes as his previous eloquence a,
the bar; the same burning yehemence, and
increased bitterness of denunciation In
deed, misanthropy, revealed itself as the
prominent emotion. The discourse was 6
TRADE against infdcls, in which class the
preacher seemed to include everybody bu
himself; it was a picture Of he'll, such a!
Luciler might have drawn, with u world il
flames for his pencil. But one paragraph
pointed to heaven, and that only demonstra
ted the utter impossibility that any human
being should ever get there Great West
TERRIBLE TRAGEDY Persons Killed.
On Monday of last week, in Chesterfield Co. Va.
FIVE persons, four black men and white lad
were let fall down into the Black Heath pits b,
the machinery giving way. and all were fatal.
injured. Mr. oh Atkins was at the ''pit head,
seeing to the safety and due order oil everything
He remained there until the men had descended
about half way, when he turned from it, bu
had hardly done SO, before it was obvious by tn
stoppase of the engine, that something wa
wrong. 1t was soon discovered that the Gag
which contained the men, had by some mean
or other, become detached from the rope, an,
fallen down the shaft Il distance of about three
hundred feet. Three of the men were Instant,
killed, and one survived about ten minutes, ant
the other about 80 minutes.