Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1857-04-30

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They doubtless supposed the intruder to
be some wild hunter Of the mountains who
had never before seen the interior of hall
of justice. Instantly the cause and object
of the laughter perceived it, turned his head
gradually, so as to give each laugher look,
his lip curled with killing smile of infinite
scorn his tongue, protruding through his
teeth, literally writhed like serpent, and
calculated its sap-like poison in a single
word
''Savagesw
No pen can describe the defiant force
which he threw into that term; no pencil
can paint the internal ffuore ofits utterance,
although it hardly exceeded a whisper. But
he accented every letter as if it were sep
arate emission of fire that scorched his quiv-
'ering ips-laying horrible emphasis on S
at the beginning and end of the word.
"Savages p
It was. the growl of red tiger in the hiss
of rattlesnake.
''Savagesp'
The general glare, however, was imme-
diately diverted by the advent Of the fair
prisoner, who then came in surrounded by
her guard. The apparition was enough to
drive saint mad hers was style to be-
wilder the tamest imagination, and melt the
coolest heart, leaving in both imagination
and heart a cleaning picture, enameled in
fire and fixed in frame Of gold from the
stars. It was the spell of an enchantment
to be felt as well as seen. You might tell
it in the flash Of her countenance, clear as
sunbeam, brilliant as an iris in the con-
tour of her features, symetrical as if cut by
the chisel Of an artist; in her hair of rich
auburn ringlets, flowing without braid,
softer than silk, finer than gossamer in the
|eyes blue as the heavens of Southern sum-
mer, large, liquid, beamy in her motions,
graceful swimming like the gentle waftures
Of birds wing in the summer air; in the
figure, slight, ethereal, sylph's or seraph's !;
and, more than all in the everlasting smile
of the rosy lips, so arched, so serene. so like
starlight and yet possessing the power of
magnetism to thrill the beholder's heart.
As the unfortunate girl, so tastefully
dressed, SO incompatible as to personal
charms, calm and smiling took her place
before the bar Of her Judge, murmur of
admiration arose from the multitude, which
the prompt interposition of the court, by a
stern order of silence" could scarcely re-
press from swelling to deafening cheer.
The Judge turned to the prisoner:
emma Miner, the court has been in
formed that your council, Col. Linton, is
Isick. Have you employed any other p
She answered in a voice sweet as the war
bic of the nightingale, and as clear as the
song Of the sky-lark:
''My enemies have bribed all the law
yers, even my own, to be sick; but God
will defend the innocent r'
At this response, so touching in its SIM
pie pathos, a portion of the auditors buzzed
applause and the rest wept
On the instant, however, the stranger
whose appearance had previously excited
such merriment, started to his feet, approach
ed the prisoner, and whispered something
in her ear. She bounded six inches from
the floor, uttered piercing shrek, and
then stood trembling as if in the presence
Of a ghost from eternity while the singu-
lar being, who had caused her unaccounta-
BILE emotion, addressed the court in his
sharp, ringing voice, sonorous as the sound
Of the bell metal:
"May it please your honor, will assume
the task Of defending the lady"
@'What, exclaimed the astonished Judge,
care you a licensed attorney?'
''The question is irrelevant and inmate
rial, " replied the stranger, with venomous
sneer, ''as the recent statute entities any
person to act as counsel at the request of
the party"
''But does the prisoner request it? % in
quired the Judge.
''Let her speak for herself" said the
stranger.
Il do" was the answer, as long drawn
sigh escaped, that seemed to rend her very
heart-strings.
The case Immediately progressed and
as it had a tinge Of romantic mystery, we
epitomize the substance of the evidence
About twelve months before, the defend
ant had arrived in the village, and opened
an establishment of millinery. Residing
in a room connected with her shop, and all
alone, she prepared the articles of her trade
with unwearied labor and consummate taste
Her habits were secluded. modest, and re-
firing, and hence she might have hoped to
avoid notoriety, but for the perilous gift of
that extraordinary beauty, which too often,
and to the poor and friendless always,
proves curse. She was soon sought after
by all those fre-aies of fashion, the profess
sion of whose life, everywhere, is seduction
and ruin. But the beautiful stranger re-
jected them all with unutterable scorn and
loathing. Among these rejected admirers
was one of character from which the fair
milliner had everything to fear. Hiram