The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-04-03

AT the openll4 "a Wv 1tutNa. etAtsI
circuit court yesterday ineFninS, Iudqq
]. ]. IaeisSon took OoQaalop 70 state q
the attorneys who wele present. thBt he
had received courteous Invitation 70
sttapa re banquet TO be giTep BY the
Bar Association Of Ohio County, saluE-
day evening next, and announced that
he specially desired 10 b present On
that occasion; but his wife was IN ices
Die health, aud his ofiieiOl duties keep
him away from his home Q large pRIt
Of his dme; and inAgInueh as he vas
only few hour0 away from his Aeiiae,
he felt Il % be his duty 70 retHfn e
PaFkeTsburg saturday afternaen Anl
spend the Sabbath With hil family, fnia
would necessarily preYen Nm tfQin ~
tending the banquet wA'ch ne apeals
Ths oid Judge spoke feehngly of BIZ
long connection with the bar Of the
state, and especially with the wheeling
bar, HIS tlrSt ofncial act as . United
States Judge was in this city on tnl
21at day OF August, 1864, be came e
this city aud qualified q. y. Morton
aa United States nlarAhal Of the pia-
trict, the bond being $2o, ,oo0, With 9eoFfe
W. Norton and Alfred CaldFgol ~
sureties. From that time 70 the fprel-
ent, he stated that he had made self
annual visits TO the city, ana hia 81,
sociationB with the Wheeling h9El eels
ing ali that long perlaa, which, cover
nearly thirty-hve yeeTg, had eeqp q
the pleasantest possible chafg terf
He recalled, IN a vivid ana a,eqialt
manner. his recollectlons Of the tlenI
distinguished members Of the bar 81
the city including General 1aRle
Wheat, Zacharlah Jacob, Daniel
Alfred Caldwell, Governor Stanton,
Daniel Lamb, and others, all Of Whem
had passed over the deep, dark IlVeE
and had entered that bourne Whenee no
traveller returns, and that he him1et
alone OF the older men was hst
and was permitted 70 remain among tle
living. Younger men had taken TIN
places Of those old heroes OF the pros
fesSion, and II was his pleasure 70 knew
and 70 highly esteem them es he aia
those Of the generation that had passed
away.
During the long period that he had
been offlclally connected WITH the Qhio
county bar, no instance had ever arleep
TO mar the pleasant relations which
should. exist between the court and the
bar. This statement he made with no
small degree of pleasure, and for this
reason especially, Il was his desire 70
attend the BANQUET TO which he had
been invited as a Especial guest.
The Judge then spoke, for several
minutes, upon the legal pFote don, statS
ing that 1t was, perhaBs tho greateae
and most learned Of al the professicnsi
that men succeed IN II by application
and effort, and that local bar esseriae
lions we're always productive ot good
,,,,r.-S aIaaaVs a ua1 q ftn
attorneys, and added that higher ana
holIer duties 10 his family alone pre-
vented him from meeting WITH his
brethren Of Wheeling at their cqmIhR
banquet. his feeling remarks, deliver
ed IN his blunt and foreetui manner,
were listened to with great carefulneS9
by all present.
The court records, which were exams
iped by an IntelliGancaT reporter. ahpW
that Judge Jacksop's flrSt term Of court
was held IN wheeling, September 9,
1851. There being no United States dis
trict attorney present, Judge Jeekqen
appointed Judge William a. Harrison.
district attorney, pro tempore, for the
term, and entered an order allowing
him 800 for his services
Colonel Jaaper =. Noon, who ct that
Hme was. and IL stlll. clerk Of the dis
.trict court, states that Judge. JaelSoIl'l 2
first regular term Of court was halo
at Clarksburg, August q, 1851. the sec
ond was at Wheeling, Septemher 8 g
above stated, and the third was held
at'Charleston, September 70, the same
year. General Wheat WRs appointed
United States attorney Tor the targns
at Clarkaburg and Charleston. Colonel
Banjamin II, Smith was appointed disr
trict attorney. by President Lincoln,
soon after the adjournment Of the
Charleston court, and ably hlIed the Of
Gee until soon AFTER the cloRe Of che
civil war, when he was succeeded BY
General N. Con, who remained In Of
ace Tor fourteentyears