Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1858-07-10

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, glowed like a heated furnace; hi
, eyes resembled livid Goals, and hi
voice became the clangor Of a trum
pet. ! have never. before, nor since
listened to such murderous deunci
atlons. It was Jove's eagle charg
ing a flock of Crows; twas Jovt
himself hurting red=hot thuderbolt!
among the quaking ranks Of a con
spiracy of inferior gods. And ye
in the highest tempest Of his fury
he seemed calm; he employed NJ
gesture save one-the flash Of {
long bony finger direct in the face
; Of his foes He painted their ven
ality and unmannerly meanness, ir
coalescing for money to hunt down
a poor friendless woman, till a shout
Of stitled rage arose from the mul,
titude, and even some of tie jury
cried-'' shame!"
lie changed his theme once
more. His voice grew 1nournful as
a funeral song, and his eyes filled
with tears, as he traced vivid pic
ttre ofman's cruelties and woman s
wrongs, with particular illustrations
in the case of his client, till one
half Of the audience wept like chill
dren. But it was in the Deroration
that he reached his zenith, at once,
of terror and sublin1ity. His fea-
tures were livid s3 those of a corpse;
his very hair appeared to stand on
end: his nerves shook as with pal
sy; he tossed his hands wildly to-
wards heaven, each finger stretch
ed apart and quiyering like the
flame Of q candle, as he closed with
the last words Of the deceased Hi
ram Shore--''Iell my mother that
[ am dead and gone to hell !',-
His emphasis on the word he'll en-
bodied the ideaJ Of all horror: it
was a wall Of imlneasurable des-
pair. TO language can depict the
effect on us who heard it Men
groaned, females screamed, and
one poor woman tainted and was
borne away in commissions.
The whole speech occupied but
al hour
The jury rendered a verdict of
mot guilty" without leaving the
box, and three cheers, like success
i've roars Of al earthquake shook
the old court house from dome to
corner stone, testifying the joy Of
the people.
After the adjournment, which
occurred near sunset, the triumph
ant advocate arose and gave out an
appointment: + preach N this hall
to-nig ht at s O'clock lie then gli-
dcd through the crowd speaking
to no one, though many attempted
to draw him into q conversation.
At 5 O'Clock the court house was
again thronged and the stranger,
according to promise, delivered a
sermon. It evinced the same at
tributes as his previous eloquence=|
of the bar; the same. compact lo-|
gic, the same burning vehemence,
and increased bitterness Of de-
nuncia55..on. Indeed misanthropy
revealed itself as the prominent
emotion. The discourse was a tiade |
against infdels, ii which class the
preacher seemed to include almost
every body but himself; i was a
picture Of hell, such as Lucifer
might have drawn with a world in |
flames for his pencil. But one
paragraph pointed to heaven, and
that only demonstrated how great |
a change must be wrought before
any sinner cen hope to get there. 81
THE CHANeE5zoF A QUARTER OF
i CENz "A man named Bar
mum was last week pardoned out
Of the ConneticutState prison, al ter
a confinement of twenty six years.
The wonderful changes and inven-
tions Of the last twenty-five years
are, he .@aYs, all new to him, and
are looked upoa by him with about
the sz1ne degree. Of wonder as il he
had lust arisen --oln he dead at =,
a sleep Of a quarter Of a century
He never, until Saturday lsa@:t, saw
q printing prs, a railroad, or d
train of cars. He was taken to the
depot at New Haven to see the ex-
press train come in, and was much