Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-07-21

In MEMORY OF Mr. CHoATE.-Much has
been expressed in speeches and resolves, and
by other methods, to make manifest the gen
eral regard for Hon. Rufus Choate as a man of
rare power and accomplishments. We have
seen nothing better than the speech of R. H.
Dana, Jr., delivered on Tuesday at the meeting
of the Suffolk bar. We quote the following
"The age of miracles was past. The great
destroyer had broken into our temple and
stolen away our vessels of silver, and our du-
ties must now be performed with vessels of
wood, Of clay, and of iron. With such broken
phrases we must express our loss. Such re-
marks might not do justice to the living.
There would always be learning, and ability,
and brilliant attainlnents in the bar of Boston,
But the age of miracles was past He spoke
for himself; he had no right to speak for 9TH
ers. He could not resist using a figure of that
element which tho deceased had loved and he
loved, When he was in his presence he felt
like the captain of small co sting schooner
under the lee of a magnificent Indiaman
freighted with silks, and jewels, and perfumed
woods, and aromatic gums, and not wanting
in means of defence if need be that they should
be used. He had loved Mr.. Choate. and all
had loved him. He then paid high tribute
to his abilities as lawyer, to his power before
jury, his wealth of logic, his nice attention
to, and happy exposure of, illogical argument.
Mr.. Choate, he said, was an unique combina-
ton of talents Daniel Webster, Jeremiah
Mason and others, had seemed like natural
productions of the soil but when he came to
Choate. it was like the richness of an eastern
city, with its towers and countless minarets
pointing to heaven, compared with the gran
deur of nature. He spoke of the poeticaI char
acteristic of Mr.. Choate 1t was not with him
an accomplishment which he could put off and
on ; but it was born with him, and was trans
lated with him. He loved Shakespeare, and
Wordsworth, and Milton. The Greek was his
favorite language of study. He was an accu
rate Greek and Latin scholar; and he once
told the speaker that he never let day pass
without making some classical translation
When his public duties allowed, he devoted
himself in his studies to the great problems of
the nature of the soul and of the nature of God
He believed in that fact expressed in his own
favorite language--fId me hepomena, aionia,'
('Things which are unseen are eternal.) 1t
was a characteristic of the mind of the deceas-
ed always to take hold of the first principles of
any subject which he handled. 1t was so in
his profession, and in the study of the great
problems of life before referred to. But he is
gone from us. We all look back to him as
great memorial. He stood before us as an ex-
ample in emnence, science, taste, erudition,
and very liberal accomplishment, and we pro-
foundly lament his departure"
man named sohn Denton has been ar
rested in Vernon county, No. for murder
committed under singular circumstances. He
had arrested man named Hardwick, who
murdered his (Denton's) father in Kansas
during the difficulties, but finding that he
could not be tried in Missouri, he handcuffed
him and started TO carry him to Kansas. Sub
sequently the body of Hardwick was found
murdered i'll the prairie near Nevada City, and
Denton, on being arrested confessed the deed.
He said he recolected the Kansas amnesty
act as he was on his way, and thinking that
iardwick would escape punishment, took
the work of vengeance into his own hands.
The morning after the French occupation Of
Milan, several journals that had been sup.
pressed by the Austrian government, reap
peared. One had been suppressed five years,
and in the last number had promised the
conclusion" to story, in the next. True to
promise, the next at the end Of five years,
took up the story where it had been left of,
and concluded it,
The husband and the father of Mrs. Il. M.
COPYRIGHT, Of Albany, all respectable people,
have been plunged into deep grief by the dis
coyery that Mrs. G. recently robbed family
who lived in the same house, of 500. Mrs.
Z. has hitherto borne an excellent reputation,
and the distress of her husband and father,
when she confessed the robbery, was painful TO
witness.