Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1859-04-14
MIR. SICKLE'S COUNSEL
, The following sketch of the lawyers engaged

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will be found of much interest
The broad figure and easy manner of Robert
Guild, the prosecuting attorney, and the ruddy
complexion and sharp eyes of his colleague in
this case, James M. Carlisle, are we'll known to
frequenters of the court. Equally well known
is the careful attentive watchfulness of the hard
head slightly covered with the yellowish-gray
hair, and pale features of Daniel Radcliffe, who,
spectacles on nose, is reading the jury-list as
though he were reading the men instead of their
names. The bland-looking gentlemen who asks
Judge Crawford if the court will give time for
the former to put in legal shape an exception
made against the decision Of the latter, is Mr..
Philips of Alabama, now domiciled in this city.
He is a lawyer of great force and tact, and has
the general management of the defence. Close
to him, and to the right Of Radcliffe, is T. F.
Meagher, who by the way, says that Phillips
face has a strong resemblance to that of Charles
Phillips, once celebrated as as orator Of the
pyrotechnic order, and lately deceased. y Mr.
Meagher, Junior counsel, very attentively watches
the proceedings, now and then making note
which probably the ears of the court will hear
before the case is brought to a close. Who is
that full-bodied, fresh-faced parsonage, with the
sleek whitish hair and mobile expression about
the mouth That is Mr.. Chiffon, of Virginia,
who has high repute for effective jury eloquence.
Near him is Mr.. Magruder, also Virginia
lawyer Of note. Between the Virginians-in
the stylish blue surtout coat-that rather plump,
full-breasted person with the well-cut features,
crowned with wig which seems to have been
rubbed against the dollars made by the head it
covers, is John Graham, the noted New York
criminal lawyer, and eldest son of the famous
David R. Graham. The gentleman before us is
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ness of his invective or shall say legal vivaci-
ty? AS counsel for Sickles in his suit against
the Herald, two years ago, Mr. Graham applied
the scalping knife somewhat vigorously to the
proprietor of that sheet. He is the same Ora
ham who some years since, gave Bennett cow
hiding on Broadway.
On the other side Of the table, next to the
district attorney, is one whose expansive fore
head, impending brows, and flowing beard would
make fine study for a painter. He is Edwin
Stanton of Httsburg He is the leading adviser
of the defence, and is among: lawyers Of prorni-
nence accorded high position for sagacity. pro-
fundity, and black-letter lore. On Stanton's
right is head-one that might be called bul-
bously MASSIVE negligently covered with pro
fusion of black and silver curls, some of which
very witchingly lap over the forehead in a I3y-
ronic manner. The brightness and playfulness
of the steel-blue eye shows the rapidity and vi
vacity, the force and fervor of the mind that
speaks through it with an intelligence whichits
owner has the rare giftef putting into most suit
able and telling language. In New York, every
man, woman, and child, almost, knows that ro-
mantle looking head to belong to James r.
Brady, and there is every reason to believe that
he will acknowledge it here. Brady is a small
man, narrowing downwards from his forehead
which gives him the appearance (no doubt in
tended by Providence of note of admiration!
He deservedly has great reputation in New
York. His jocosity is somewhat less than his
stability, and his force Of eloquence only yields
to his rigidity of logic, when occasion demands
that the sternness Of the latter should put the