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| doabt If there is in the South on,
man familiar with his country's history
for the last thirty years who is not proue
Of the career of Judah P. Benjamin LIZ
inquirlng for his chambers, l learned
from Middle Temple barrister that Mr.
Benjamin was regarded as TO-DAY The
greatest lawyer at the English bar. He
is in court all day till in the afternoon
then, until 7:30, receives the solicitors il
his chambers After this he goes home
to dine at his club in the west end. Hi.
only leisure is SUNDAY and an occasional
evening.
Short Of stature, thick-set. with 8
strong. bright eye, he is man OF simple
natural manner, relating his adventures
reverses aud successes with the charm.
ing ease, grace and naturalness, mingled
with subtle playfulness, characteristic
of a good reconteur.
He said, in talking of his adventures
after the fall of Richmond, that the con.
federate government left Richmond in 3
body. He and Mr.. Davis were togethe,
on their way to the trans Mississippi, de.
partment, and Dir. Davis left the party
to meet his wife, en- route. and it was In
her camp that he was captured. The
federals did not know that Mr.. Davi:
was in the wagon train which was trans.
porting Mrs. Davis and friend, and only
approached curiously to see what ii
meant. Mr.. Benjamin continued his
journey alone, and hearing of the cap.
ture of Mr.. Davis, gave away his saddle
and bride, and, securing an old tree,
threw over it an old sheepskin, and un-
der an alias, playing farmer, at length
reached the gulf coast. Here he took a
small boat, and coasting around until ar
irving at point near Key West, he en-
barked in a small sailboat, open and
without deck, for Nassau.
Here the small, quaint-looking black
and bright eyes glistened as this remark
able man related how, when the gulf
stream almost carried them out into the
open sea; when battling against a head
wind and out of sight of land for 100
miles was the distance), and ''with one
bushel of raw sweet potatoes to feed
three men," when almost without hope.
at the last moment the wind changed,
filed their small sail, carried them with
in sight of the Lighthouse, and enabled
them TO effect landing just at the ex-
IOiliOi VI tiIC DdudlllaS-
He landed in England in September,
1865.
June, 1866, he was admitted to practice
at the English bar; his admission was
granted by the Benchers of Lincoln's Inn.
in SIX months, instead of three years, as
the rules generally require, on the ground
that he was an old member of the bar of
country governered under the system
Of the common law, and the fact that he
was political exile.
He published his Benjamin on Sales'
IN 1863, having in the intervening years
supported himself by writing leading ar
ticles for the newspapers. The first year
he made about f300, the next year about
f400, "and in the fourth year." said he,
''my income was FL ,000 1t readily in
creased after that"
At the present rate of Mr. Denjamin's
income he viii in a few years, If he is not
now, be the possessor of vast wealth.
"My book gave me my practice, and
now, wonderful to relate, L have" said
he,' upon looking over my cases yester-
day, just one-half of the cases from the
realm ii. e., the whole of England, Scot
land and Ireland}, before the House of
Lords on the appeal"