The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1869-04-07

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SUPREME Court Thursday, April c.
The Court met this day at 10 A. NJ. Pre-
sent-Chief Justice Moses and Associate
Justice Willard The docket was taken up
and the call Of cases from the First Circuit
commenced.
IL. ID. Lesesne. Executor, and Adele P
Allston, Executrix, Ds. Benjamin Allston.
Appeal abandoned.
Continued. John Grey ads Robert Hun
ter. Struck off. N. A. Pratt rs. Charlotte
Kelsey ct al Appeal abandoned. A. B. Jar
Wis ads. A. Betancourt. Struck off. G. T.
w. Wetzell ads. William Stratton. Struck
off,
1t was ordered that cases ON the docket
involving the validity of contracts for the
sale of slaves, be heard on the 2lst inst.
and taken up together.
The Court adjourned at II NJ, to meet to-
morrow, wednesday, at 10 A. NJ
LORD BYRON AND THE COUNTESS Gu1c-
c1o11-We have received from Messrs.
Bryan 4 McCarter, copy of work which
has excited considerable attention in the
old world-''My Recoll ections of Lord By
ron and those of Witnesses of His Life''-
republishe ed in New York, by Messrs Har-
per & Brothers. The most that can be said
of these recollections are that they endow
Lord Byron with attributes which few or no
mortal Eaen ever possessed. But these
exaggerations can be readily excused, when
one reflects, that between the ostensible au-
thor and the subject there existed at one time
an affection which, if not hallowed by reli-
glon, was yet possessed of great strength
bond, in fact, which left its marks indeli-
bly, craven upon the heart of the Countess
Gniccioi long after Byron was dead, and
even long after age had tanned ''the hey-day
in the blood" But if, ignoring the enthu-
siasn with which the great poet is made
unnaturally perfect, is looked upon this
work solely as literary production, we
cannot fairly deny its merits or refuse to
accord it the praise it Justly deserves-it is
graphic, brilliant defence of Lord Byron.
AS literary composition it is written with
all the ease and elegance characteristic of
Lamartine. Everything that relates to the
amours of the poet is referred to with great
delicacy, while no opportunity is lost in
making the most of every good or vrtuous
act he performed. The book broadly
hints, with that comical but not unnatural
display of self-appreciation characteristic of
many women, and perhaps of large ma
jority Of the sex, that the poet never truly
loved woman until he met Madame G..
There is something charmingly refreshing
in this conceit, for the fact is notorious
that Lord Byron was incapable OF constancy
in his affections for the pentler sex How.