The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1859-03-23

the eye; the full heart streamed out of his
face. In five minutes Pixies wit seemed
the foam offolly, aud his finest satire hor-
rible profanity, when contrasted with the
inimitable sallies and exterminating sar-
casms of the stranger, interspersed with
| tests and anecdotes that filled the forum
with laughter. j. ia 4.a sas.
Then without SO much rs bestowng an
allusion upon Prentiss, he turned round
short on the perjured witnesses of Hop
klns, tore their testimony into atoms, and
tives that all trembled as with ague, and
two Of them actually fled in dlsmay from
| the court house.
The excitement Of the crowd was be-
coming tremendous. Their united life
and soul seemed to hang upon the burn
hing tongue of the stranger. He inspired
them with the power of bis own passions.
| He saturated them with the poison of his
own malicious feelings. He seemed to
have stolen natures long hidden secret Of
attraction. He was the sun to the sea of
all thought aud emotion which rose and
fell. and boiled in the pillows as he chose.
But his great triumph was to come.
+ His eyes began to glance furtlvely at
the assass Hopkins, rs his lean taper
fingers assumed the same direction. He
henmed the wretch with q crcuinyalia-
ton Of strong evidence and impregnab!o
argument, cutting off all hope of escape.
He piled mp huge bastlons of insurmoun-
table facts. He dug beneath the murder
er and s.anderer's feet lit hes Of diem
mas, such as no sophIstrv could overlap,
and no stretch Of ingenuity evade; and
having thus, as one might say ,impounded
his victim, and girt him about like a scor-
pion in circle Of fire, he stripped him
self to the work of massacre. t.e.f ,a
Oh! then it was a vision both glorious
and dreadful to behold the orator His
actions before graceful as the wave of, a
golden willow IL, the breeze, grew impet--,
uous as the motion of an oak in hurri-
cane. a.gia Ja..i 6t,B @a nu.Id $500
His voice became a trumpet filled with
wild whlrlpools deafcnlng the ear with
the crashes Of power, and set intermin-
gled all the while witha sweet undersong
of the sottest cadence. His face was as
red as d,unkard s-his forehead glow
ed like a heated furnace, bis countenance
was haegard like that of a maniac; and
ever and anon he flung his long and bo-
ny arms on high, as if grasping after
thunder bolts.
He drew a picture of murder in such
APPALLING colors, that in comparison, hell
itself might be considered beautiful. He
painted the slanderer so black that the
sun seemed dark at MONDAY, when shi-
ming on such an aceursed monster, and
then fxidg both portraits on the shrink
ing Hopkins, he fastened them there for
ever. The agitation ofthe audience near.
" amounted to madness. .ta .1fHa EaGHs
All at once the speaker descended from
the perilous height. His voice walled
out for the murdered decd and hving--
the beautiful Mary, more beautiful every
moment as her tears flowed faster till
men wept and sohbcd like children 81.
He closed by q strange exhortation to
the jury. and through them to the by
ISLANDERS. He advised the panel after
thy should bring in verdict for the
/ pa. ntiff, not to offer violence to the de-
fendant, however richly he might deserve
it; in other words "not to lynch the vii
lain, but leave his punishment with God
This was The most artful trick Of all, and
the best calculated to insure ven. eance. q.
The jury rendered verdict of fifty
thousand dollars; and the night. after
wards Hopkins was taken out Of bed by
| lynchers, and beaten almost to DEATH
AS the court adjourned, the stranger
made known his name, and called the
attention of the per pie with the announce
ment-John Taylor will preach here this
evening at early candle, light. sores 81 s
The crowd all turned out, AMI Taylor's
sermon equalled if it did not snrpass the
splendor Of his forensic effort. This is
not exaggeration. | have listened to
CLAW, Webster and Calhoun--to Dewey,
Tyne and Bascomb-but never heard
ANYTHING in the form of sublime words
even remotely approxmating to the elo-
auence of John Taylor-massive as a
mountain, and wildly rushing as ceta-
ract of life. And this is the opinion of
all who have heard this marvellous man.
+ WHEN man gets to the top of bill
by honesty, he deserves to be taken by
the neck and hurled down again, if lie is
orhonood tn turn ahout and look Mt the