Weekly Council Bluffs bugle. (Council Bluffs, Iowa) 1857-1860, 1859-02-09
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With the Northern Circuit was agreea
bly surprised, AZ cat musing On sh
eysaSng 81 Ky arrival In shs anesens els
Of KoEk npon che eapriaisua moae j!
which shoae poweEful personagss ghs at
sorneys dlsEributsd their valuable "a
vors, by the entrancs Of ans Of the mos
eEaiRens iawysrs prassisEag In shas par
OF the soantFy, and tbs forthwith Eends
Of bulky brief In the QEown Conrt.--
The local newspapers, from which ] has
.. occasionally seen extracts, had been 10
some tEEae busy wfth the cass aud
kRss it shsrefoEe sa be, relatively 10 til
condition in life Of the principal peEsoE
Implicated, an imp0Esant one. Eamoi
had Aksi ghed the conduct Of the daFsnci
10 an sTainent leader On she eiseait--
since, one Of ogr ahlsst judges aea %
looking more closely at Ehs brief, / per.
eeiyed that gsaslamanas yaemss lh@a hssH
crossed out and mine substituted.
IS fou are not, sir, I believe, retained
foE Ehs prosecution In the uEuwn against
EEsrett? said Mr.. Sharp in his brief,
BUSINESS manReR,.
am not, Mr.. Sharpe"
60 To that case, Ebeg 10 tender you The
leading, brief fog tbs asfsuce. Ii waa
intended, as you peFesive, 10 plase il in
the hands of our great aisi pTius leader,
bat he viii be 90 completely occupied ID
! that court, that he has been compelled
40 decline IL, lie mentioned goa and
from what have myself seen Of you in
several cases. Aavs no doubt my an-
fortunate client will have ample Justice
done bin. AfT. Kingston win be with
yau." r..
thanked Mr. Sharpe for hls compIi-
rnent, and accepted his brief. As the
commission would be opened on the fol-
lowtag morning, 1 at oRse applied my
self TO q parusal Of the balky paper, aid
ed as read By the verbal explanations
and commentaries Of Mr.. Sharpe. Our
conference lasted several hours and it
was arranged tAat another SHOULD be
hsid early the next morning. as Mr..
shaEpe's othce, at which Mr.. Kingston
would assist.
Dark, intricate, eompassed With fear
fai mystery, was tbs case 30 suddenly
submitted to my guidance, and the few
faint CLEANS Of light derived from the
attorneys research, prsseisnee, and sa-
gacIty, served but to render dimly visi-
Die still profoundeT aud blaeker abyss
OF crime than that disclosed by the evil
dence for the crown. Young as / then
was in the profession, no marvel that
felt oppressed by the weight Of the res
possibility east apon nae. Happily the
ne4t day was not that Of trial for a.
Eoke With thrQbbing pQlse and burn r
ing hrRiH, and shoqI4 have been bat
poorly prepared for a struggle involving
the Issues Of life and death. Extremely
sensitive, as, under the circumstances, ,
must necessarily have been, to the aEdu- /
Gus nature OF the grave duties so unex-
P sctedIy degolved upon me, the follow |
Ins resume Of the chief incidents Of the I
ease, rs con6dsd to me- By Mr.. Sharpe, /
EllL ! thing, fully account 10 the gead- !
CT toF The nervous irritahility QRder /
which for the moment Iabored - !
Mr., Frederick Everett, the prisoner a. i
hogs TO be aFr&igaed for the grigAGfuI
orims Of murder, had, wlth his father,
CaPtaIn Anthony Everett, resided for
several years past At Woodlands Manor
House, the seaEof sfFs. Eleanor Fitz-
hugh, a rich, elderly maiden lady, amt
10 the first, and sisGer by marriage TO Ihe
last named gentleman. A generous, pi-
on, htgh-mInied person Mr.. Pitzhugh
Was represented 80 AaFe been, bat ca
ssemciy sens live wtthal On the score of
family" The FItGhughs Of Yorkshire,
>he Was wont 10 boast, "came IN with
iAe CuHqueror ;" and any branch of the
glorious tree then frmly planted in the
Sol! of Eng and sRAs degraded itself by
~ altIaace Yith wealth, beauty, Or
worth, dwelling without the pale Of her
narrow prcjqdIces, was ipexotably cut of
from her alf cti0as, and, as far as she
Ras aals, trom her memory, Ona--the
OF these oGenders-had been
Mary Fgzhugb, her young, falr, gcaEle,
,uI only sister. In utter digdain and
,ijght Of The dignity Of ancestry, she had
yhpsvn to unite herself 70 "a gentleman of
b. uane of Mordaunt, who, though po.-
,essed of great talents, an unspotted
laTc, nHd, for his age, high rank ip the
,IYii serg &c VI the EAST india UGmpnBy,
misfortunc--a trader
Tor hIs grandfather! This crime against
leE "house" Mrs. Eleanor Fitzaugh re-
solved never Ia forgive; and she stead
ly returned, unopened, the frequent let
.ers addressed so hcr by her stsIcs, who
0ined IN her distant Indian homo for a
-epowal If The old sst9gIy Ioya which
Ia1 watched over and giaddeReJ Der life
'rol IRI4Asy tQ woEauhQud. 4 long
Ill Rae--a siieaee Of many years-sua-
,eoda4 broken u last By the sad an
lDaLcement that the unforgiyen one had
OUg since found an early grave in Il
foreign land. The letter which broaght
he intelligence bora the London post
marx, and vas written By Captain Ever
III: to WHOM, il WAS stated, Mrs. Elean-
9r Fit3hqgh's HstaF, early widowed, had
been united rq seooad 4gptiaIs5 and by
Ehom she had borne q son, Frederick
Everett, now nearly twenty years Of age
The long paut-up affection Of MEs. Riiz-
lngh for Der once idoliEsd sister burst
'orth at this announcement of her death, /
md, as some atonemeAs for her past s1n-
ia! obdurRCy, che Immediately invited
he husband and son of her laag-loxs
Mary - Woodlands Manor House, 10 ha
lenceforth, she said, she hoped their
nome. Soon after theiF arrival, Mrs. I
RigEhugh made will--ths family prop
zriy was entirely at her dlsposal--FeVa-
LHg O former one, which bequeathctl
.he whole OF the real and personal psop-
srty 10 q distant relative whom she had
never seen, and by which all Bas devils
cd to her nephew who waa immediately
proclaimed sole heir 10 the FiExhugh es-
states, yielding yearly rental Of az
least El2,00o. The will also provided,
In the event Of Frederick dying child
.ess, that the property Should paxa % Gls /
father, Mary Fitahugh's second bus
band. ~s4 s
Some years after 40 wens 10 sesida /
With bis aunt, Frederick EveFs&e became
acquainted with Lucy UaErings0H-shs |
only child Of DIR. stephen Carriagton, /
j respectable retired merchant Of mod
argEs 1eaes, residing within few miles /
oi Woodlands Maaor- H0Rss~-aad a /
warm attachment was ia she oonsss NJ /
time formed between them. The at least /
saeit eonsent and approval of Mr.. Car |
siagsan and his fair danghtoF secured,
Mr. Eyar#kts junior immsdlasslY dis 1
closed his matrimonial projects to bis |
father and aunt. Captain EYeaest re-
eeiseS the aunouncam snt with . sarcas-
sid pEaile, hagdly remafking, that IL Mira. |
Pitxbazh was satisfied, hs had 20 ohise-
ton to Offer. But, alaai no soonss did
her nephaw impart his passion for tha
daughter Of 4 mara merchant to hts
auns. Than yehemsnt soFfana DC inaia
aang gabuka broke from her lips Shs
would ratheF die than consent and
shoald hs persist ID yielding % such
grosa inflammation, sha would nas enlY
disinhegit baE hanish lam from her
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