Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1864-10-26

asked the judge, glancing around the
bar.
The thirty lawyers were as silent as
death.
Judge Mills repeated the question.
81 will your honor" said voice from
the thickest part of the crowd situated be-
hind the bar.
At the tones of that voice many started
half Nay from their seats; and perhaps
there was not heart in the immense throng
which did not beat somewhat quicker-it
was SO unearthly sweet, clear, ringing and
mournful.
The rifest sensation, however, was
changed into general laughter when
tall, guant, spectral figure, that no one
present ever remembered to have seen be-
fore, elbowed his way through the crowd,
and placed himself within the bar. His
appearance was a problem to puzzle the
shpinx herself His high, pale brow,
and small, nervously twiching face, SEEM
ed alive with the concentrated essence
and cream Of genius; but then his in
fautile blue eyes, hardly visible beneath
their massive arches, looked dreamy, al
= most unconscious, and his clothing 30
: extremely shabby, that the court hesitated
:, to let the case proceed under his manage
;, mcnt.
HAS your name been entered on the
=. rolls of the State ?" demanded the judge
suspiciously,
lit is immaterial about my name ap-
pearing on the rolls" answered the stran-
ger, his thin, bloodless lips curling up
= with fendish smile, I" may be
=, allowed to appear once, by the
! courtesy of the Court bar. Here is my
license from the highest tribunal in Amer.
:. e ica' and he handed Judge Mills broad
parchment.
!, The trial immediately went on.
In the examination of the witnesses
the stranger e2inced but little ingenuity
:, as it was commonly thought He suffer
NJ ed each one tstel his own story wlthou
:, interruption, though he contrived to maxi
: each one tell it over two or three times
=, He put few cross questions, which, with
! keen witnesses only served to correc
u mistakes
or The examination being ended, as coun
,s sci for the plaintiff he had right to tn
GO opening speech as well as the close but
=. to the astonishment Of every one, he de
:. clned the former, and allowed the defens
.. to lead off, Then shadow might hav
~ been observed to fit across the fine fea
~ lures of Pike and darken even the brigh
~ eyes of Prentss. They saw that the
j, had caught Tartar;" but who it wa
ha or how it had happened, it was impossibl
=, to guess.
Col. Ashley spoke first. He dealt tn
N jury dash of that close, dry logic whic
49, years afterward rendered him famous i
Lo the Senate.
9 The poet, Albert Pike, followed with
,r rich train Of wit, and a hail torrent
n. caustic ridiculein which you may be sui
neither the plaintiff nor her ragge
Ia, attorney we're either forgotten or lc
10 alone.
,bt The great Prentiss concluded for I'll
ho defendant with glow of gorgeous wore
,or brilliant as showers of falling stars, an
,,v with final burst of oratory that brougl
nd down the house in cheers, in which Il
sworn jury themselves joined, notwit
standing che "order oider!" of the benc
n Thus wonderfullysusceptiblc are the Soul
:, Western people to the charms of impassio
!, at ed eloquence.
,,;c IL was then the strangers turn. I
ne had remained apparently distracted du
w.t. ing all the previous speeches Still al
30, straight and motionless in his seat, an
:. but for that eternal twitch that came al
av went on his sallow cheek, appearing Ii
al mere man of marble. Even the di
ev, dreary, eyes were invisible beneath the
net. grey shaggy eyebrows.
.,n But at last be riscs--before the b
. of railing. not behind it--and so near
the wondering jury that he might tou
rad the foreman with his long bony 6ng
=. With his eyes half shut, and standi