New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-07-15


iec,nal seasures stowec up ard au life Of ange
ard unusual topics and movement lie looks if he
Moved about m bis own mysterious SOLITUDE forever,
be.her III crowds alone; ike some strange child of
land bsihed 10 sunset beauty, musing ever warm
E,sIisu skcs, aid the bgriiig stars AMI gorgeous
bloom cf the har gng-garders Of his home. But his
mere oafonc T7e.'H1c Is nothing; aud therefore he
never impresses audience, especially pro-
fessiousl one, with sense q his greatoess till
he does something IL, he speaks or acts IN the
legal drama. We ste LO external symptom OF over
pOweYIg native Character no symptom o. anything
which would make You thirk that that man, by his
Grand movtmcnt, by his ba-isk eye. by ms upldCed
ann uigot str.ke dumb opposition aud palsy hate
And yet we latc seeu him when in battle has battle
that Of thoughts and words, standing right over
Iegal adsersary with ouistre,ched arm, with eye
burning black with smO;here1 FIRE, and face white
with deGfh-like psllOr, his form erect, his brow
more spacious and The dark curly locks on his tenn
PIES fd';erirg about and waving and uplifting, Ike
battle figs To aunt defiance TO the fee and then he
looked tue orstoIic sargod. He present his
thoughts bold aud bare as bleeding bones
but be prefers to give 1t forth as II
frt comes To him, embodied in beauty, aud
robed in splendOr. You can never listen
TO him ten minutes anywhere without being
walked up 10y some surprising imaginative analogy or
fsnClfu Illustration. Ia court or WITH an audience,
this warm imagery appcHIs. equally when 10 an IN
case he apOstToptiZes The spirt which leads
"the philanthropy Of two hemispheres to the icy
"gr8ye Of Sir John Franklin, or when 10 Faneul
Hal he cor jurcs up before the eyes Of a wildy-ap
plaudiIg political assembly vision beduteOus of 1.-THE
4 dark. eyed gnls Of Mex waug to the light guitar
" All NO II me, Allaua, for thousand years ana
by the vividIes Of bis conception aod the correspond-
ing intensity Of bis delivery causing the people almost
to bear with the mortal ear the long lament a OF the
daughters Of Judea over n ruined lacd, souLis the
most melancholy Of al the souow-s,ricken helds OF
earth.
How often have we seen the opposite counsel in
case utterly PUZZLED ard bottled by the strange way
in which CbOate seemed to be putting tue iacts 10 tue
Jury aid iniermpting him again aud again 10 VAN,
met and foiled every .ire by the reply " DO mis-
estate the facts? I'm oLly org11ng upon them and
the dscOmf,ted interTuper would Sink back despair,
utterably unable to detect precisely where was the
error vet feeug that nc had heard no such evil
deuct The fact wHs ChOate had the basis fact all
right lie only painting add iLhamihs II with ms
own oolCrs but the pants on his pallet were 10 MS
advessIies az the Ky Of Italy 10 the sky Of Sweden,
and they were brought on lis canvas III even more
perp'exiug ard bewderiug hue by the linPsssioned
leat Of his unbrided sensibdity
Brilliantly this capacity exhibited 10 tue case OF
Captain Martin, indicted IN the United 81 ate~ Ds'1ct
Court for casting away his vessel of San domingo
with the intent Ia procure tue insurance. Inc "oF,
erunent had been AT the cost Of sending special
agent to Hayt for evdetc", and he had brought with
him a black man from SGuOques Empire, called by
the swelling appellation OF " Duke Piuo . All Tue
other eyideI was manageable but his testimony
very uglV He swOre positively through an lnterpre-
ter that Owed down under water and examined the
lcgwood cargo Of the chip, aud her starboard bo",
and in the lat er be found great Smooth mole, not
rough enough for a rock TO have made, ana winch
evidently was the deathwOund OF the ship. All
the other parts Of the proof OF the Government
might be got over; ZONE OF them, ln1eed were
somewhat favorable; but that awful hole threatened
to swallow up case, captain, advocate, and all.
All the rest be managed adroty and aptly; but when
the second day OF h ument 10 the Jury he came
20 tina, pnt, he didn blink At all he rose right at the
wall lie told the jury ia get terms that they need
not think he afraid of tina dark duke butiDg MS
black head among the loysOod fahomS' deep under
water aud toen al at once he opened his whole arma,
ment il such double brOadsite Of eloquence, and
Eoftn and at he rllIie1 PIug
himself into hOueycOmb. Aud then taxing adyant-
age Of f. iciOus circumstance ia the captans con-
duct, to w.t. that he did not fly when accused, he con
cuCed with slngularly noble, SIMPLE ana scflPiurdl
burst, which ia Ike SOME grand ttun'
pet choral to crown his lyrical grafton.
Gentlemen Of the jury the accused man pausei, he
did not fly, for he turned bic eyes VPdrd aud he was
thinking Of the sublime promise, when thou ROe.t
through the fire thou SHAFT not he burned aud through
'tbe deep waters they snail not oveifip" thee AUG,
sewing tbese words, the great advocate sank mo Ms
seat TIE jury acquitted the Captain ana the eX-
ueuses of the expedition the BarOne Pine to AmeIi-
ca were charged by the Government, We presume, 10
pre' aud los, as pleasure tAcutsloL 10 boS'oH vi
The ducal diver.
The extraordinary snluence and dction which Mr.
Choae possesses, Is dIawI from al the resources oi
literature, and mems talk, common ana uncommon
from the Bible and the newspapers, from some Hoeilc
sihnza ana from the chat o our streets; from books
the people love aud books they never heard of Snpe
words, lcDgeeged words, all mixed up and stuck
together like bizarre mosaic, showing foith some
SPLENDID storv in all it, infinite variety of hue-.
over all his work, sero comic cast IL perceptlole'
Ia marine criminal case he had been making loity
flourish usheriug la upon the stage OF ms thoughts,
Ike the motley cavscades of circus IN one grant en-
tree Can't Parry and the English crown, eternal SHOWS
aud the ROYAL enterprise OF new empue, aud Heaven
Knows what else. in the most singular bat striking
iuxtapoelton his whole manner dlsnlhed, iefvem ana
ioty M the extreme-wheu suddenly he gave the odd
est wildes; countt stroke Of sentiment We ever heard
even from him. 10y turning to a leading witness who
had testified against Inn, and who had sald IN cross
nj ult al e
Policemen If the whaling cltyOt New Bedi pri-tThlhg
rght 10 him. he brought dom rOars OF laughter 90 ms
devoted head and utterly demolished the weight OF hls
evidence by shouting the sarcastic aud funny Ia.
Quny: Pray, what opiulons do the p0hcemen OF
New. Bedford hold on these things wonder
what the policemen of New Bedford think oil the
great, newy-dlsCOVcred, tranquil sea ehcfchug sue
1" North Pole i'
Once, in IA cheap case, IN a Criminal Court wden he
wished to tell the jury that the Circumstance that the
defendants assigned IN insolvency paid but smail
dividend although the defendant had been very
wealthy man, WAS NO evidence of fraud on bis part
because ar estate turned suddenly into cash, by an
sssigute Indifferent to the interest OF the owner would
waste ana net nothing like Its Valae he contrvled to
hken the property melting away uLder that assignee
management, to the scattering OF magnificent mirage
under the noon day heat; aud TsLg higher aud higher
in his mood as he the twelve pair of eyes before
him, stretching wide We well remember how, IN load
and peang accents, be swept IN glory through the
climax Of ms Imagery AMI Argument by tins astonishing
companion of the dry.gOOds man bankruptcy. So
" have heard that the vast possessions OF Alexander
the Conquerer crumbled away IN dying dynsstles IN
" the unequal hands of MS weak ears.
The peIoratiOu of one Of his arguments, as we row
recall from emory, alter au interval OF nine years,
vas AL affecting illustration of the tender and beaut-
IA traits of his speaking. II was an argument To
single Judge, sitting without jury to hear libel foI
GNcrCe. Daniel Webster Oh tue other side, anu
he supported tie husbands petition fol divorce on the