Staunton vindicator and general advertiser. (Staunton, Augusta County, Va.) 1858-1860, 1859-07-08
NUMBER 81.
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..What man" says Wafpole, Fox is!
After his long and exbausting speech on
Hastings trial, he was seen handing ladies
into their coaches. with all the gaiety and
prattle of an idle gallant r. ~ + .s1nrto
Burke's melo-dramaticS trick was a COM
plete failure, when he flung the dagger on
the floor Of the House Of Commons, and pre-
duced nothing but a smothered laugh, and
q joke from Sheridan The gentleman
has brought US, the knife, but where is the
fork p H''"''ssl a'-s4' go
When Lord Erskine made his debut at
the bar, his agitation almost overcame him,
and bewas just going to sit down. cat
that moment" said he, Il thought felt my
little children tugging at my gown. and the
idea reused me to an exertion of which
did not think myself capable." rni
Lord Brohgham, speaking Of the salary
attached TO = rumored appointment to new
judgeship, said it was all moonshine. Lynd-
hurst, in dry and ~aggish way, remarked,
MAY it be 50, my Lord Harry; but have
strong notion, thatthoughi it be, you would
like to see the first quarter of it," an,
Pitt and Fox were listened to with pro4
found respect, and in silence, only broken
by occasional cheers,, but ftom the moment
Of Sheridan's rising, there was an expecta-
ton of pleasure, which, to his last days, was
seldom disappointed. A low murmur of
eagerness ran round the house every word
was watched for, and his pleasantries set
the whole assemblage in roar. ~
Cranning said Of Grattan's eloddence.
that, for the last two years, his public exhi-
billions were complete failure, and that you
saw all the mechanism Of his oratory with
out its life. Itwas like lifting the flap of
barrel-organ, and seeing the wheels; you
saw the skeletoncf his sentences without
the flesh on them and were induced to
think that what youeh had considered flashes,
were merely primings kept ready for tho
occasion. ~ @ 9fHg5ri
Mr.. Burke, on one occasion, had just ris-
en- in the House of Commons, with some
papers in his hand, on the subject of which
he intended, to make motion, when a
ronghhewn member, who had no ear for the
charms Of eloqucnce, rudely started up an
said. ''Mr. Speaker, hope the honorable
gentleman does not mean to READ that large
bundle of papers, and to bore us with long
speech into the bargain" Mr. B was so
swollen with rage as to be incapable Of ut
erance, and absolutely ran out ofthe house.
On this occasion George Selwyn REMARKED
that it was the only time lie. ever saw the
fable realized-a lion put to flight BY .,le
broying an ass. -.
A MAN ARRESTED FOR MuRDER. Cow.
MITTED TWENTY Four YEAKs AGo.-Aetri.
king instance of the certainty Of punishment
which sooner or later, never fails to follow
upon the commission Of murder, came to
our knowledge yesterday. 1t seems that
little over twenty four years ago, man DC.
med G. B. Ivey, residing 10 Roane county,
East Tennessee, conceived; dislike to
sister-in-lam residing in that county, and
murdered her in q deliberate and cold
blooded manner. He:was arrested for the
crime, tried, convicted, but owing to some
palliating circumstance connected with TIE
affair, instead Of being executed was senten-
ced to the pehitentiary for life. Shortly af-
ter his incarceration in jail, however. he ef-
fected his escape and made his way to Ar
kansas, where he settled on the Arkansas
river, and resided up to within few weeks
past. During his residence in Arkansas
a period ofsome twenty two years-he mar
ried highly respectable lady of that State,
became the father Of family, the owner Of
largo plantation, and was honored by his
fellow-c citizens with the post of magistrate
for term Of some ten years, and the du-
ties Of which position he discharged with f.
deity and to the general acceptatiou of the
citizens. He also became connected with,
and for Yeas was leading member Of one
of the prominent Christian denominations q 7
the day. Surrounded by his family pessce-
scd of an abundance of this worlds good,
and enjoying the esteem aud confidence % {
his neighbors and a large circle of friends
he lived in fancied security having long
since ceased to fear that the hand Of Justice
would ever trace him to his far remove
position from the scene of the murder he
had committed. But the appearance at his
home, about two weeks since, OF an Officer
armed with requisition from the Governar
of the State whose laws he had outraged ut
ofice and forever dissipated all his ASSURE
ces Of safety, and without resistance he
i ytciueu nltnSeit up u the omciah cuSt01 T
He arrived In this city last evening, ia
charge of the person who traced him out,
aud will be conveyed at once to Roane couu-
ty, taking to days train on the Memrl.is
and Charleston railroad. Memphis Bnlle-
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