Locomotive, Volume 35, Number 1, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 November 1855 — Page 1

JOHN R. ELDER, Editor.

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'The Chariota shall rage in the streets, INDIANAPOLIS, . ANOTHER MULR00NEY STORY. How Ielcr llothered the Lawyers. B"f SYLAVUS URIiAN, THK YOUNGER. . What it was that took me into the court-room f 1' ; ; whether unpleasant business or ignoble curiosity, need not be known even unto you, dear reader. The only fact which I wish you to understand, is, that I was there, and that while there, it became my fortune to meet once again with my old acquaintance, Peter Mulrooney. When I entered the court-room, there was quite a mixture of oval Irish and round German faces, outside the iron railing which forms the barrier to encroachments upon the dignity of the bar; and, judging from the broken heads and blackened eyes exhitQ d by many of the spectators, it was not difficultto surmise that the occasion which had brought them together was to obtain the plaster of the law for wounds which had lately been received in one of those spirited rows which warm -up so delightfully the old Celtic heat. But let me describe the scene. Within the railing, and running from it at right angles, were some teven or eight benches, crowded with quite a respectable number of witnesses, consisting of a delicate sprinkling of all nations. Parallel to the benches, but on the opposite side of the court-room, on elevated seats, sat tho terrible jury. The central space was occupied by a fair mahogany table, covered with green cloth, around which were seated quite a number of daintily dressed gentlemen',' who styled themselves Attonuys-at-law. Seated in the centre and rear, on an elevated platform, dominating the humbler desk of the clerk, were a couple of grave elderly gentlemen, with keen eyes . and placid faces, whose posts of honor jndicaated the judicial pature of their functions. The case, which was already up for hearing, was, as I expected, one of assault and battery. The facts, as they were dimly elicited, appear to have been these: The Irish, who were the defendants, had, some short time previous, been invited to wake one Mr. MoShane, at a short distance in the country, while, on the same evening, the Germans had been out dancing at one of their customary festival balls. These two parties returning homewards, somewhere in the small hours, met; and, meeting, fought; but, who began the affray, seemed as difficult of discovery as the Philosopher's stone. Just as I entered, the counsel for the defense was in the act of examining a slip of paper. Presently, he said to the clerk: " "Call Peter Mulrooney, if, you please'." "What do you expect to prove by him?"' said the attorney for the prosecution. ' ' ': ; "A great deal that may take you by surprise," responded the other with a smile. ' 1 ' "Ah, I dare say," said the prosecuting attorney, whom we shall call Mr; Bibulous. ',"1 dare say;' these Irish always hang togetlier." ' ,' '' "Speak your sentiments more plainly," said the other, with a laugh; "perhaps you would rather they should hang together." ' "I don't know," said Bibulous, who being of opposite1 politics to the Irish party in T , re garded them with no little aversion.-: . . "Peter Mulrooney, cried the clerk. , ... . . . "Peter; Mulrooney !" exclaimed the stentorian cer.; ' ' ', .- V '.: ;, - ' ,.-, ', ;' :, ' There was no answer beyond the quick .snuffling of feet, and an eager whispering, in which a touch of the brogue predominated. "Si lence !" shouted the crier. And then he called out again, at the top of his voice: "., . , "Peter Mul:rooney'!". ... ' "... ' .';..,"' '""Whist ! ye omadhawn !" said Peter,' who had all this time been standing quietly by the side of the other. "Sure, as I'm not a little gossoon lost in the crowd, there's no . nade to bellow afther me like a great bull calf.",. . . ... , ,', ; ,"Why didn't you answer then?'' said the crier, surlily. : . ' .'i . i- . . .','Arrah, betther manners to ye !" retorted Peter."Would I be afther disturbin' their honors in that dirty way; an' I agintleman of standing,' an' a tacher of the dacencies?" :, "You swear, Mr. Mulrooney?" said the clerk, proffering the book. y , ': : "Do you take me for a haythen?" said Peter, indignantly. ' "Sure it's not respectful to swear in a coort of justice." :-; i "But you must swear," said the clerk, sharply., "Did ye'r honors iver hear the likes o' that?" said Peter appealing to the bench. "A Christian man, an' a dacent lookin' man, too, barrin'. he has lost his crop of hair entirely an' put on a sthrange lookin' thatch" the clerk wore a wig "to make me burglariously an' fee-loniously swear before the face of yer honors, an' the gintlemen of the jury, an' the gintlemen of the bar. Oh ! but the vartue in me wont let me do that same." . . ' . ; . "Mulrooney," said one of the judges, striving to repress the quivering about the muscles of his lips his associate was stuffing a white handkerchief into his mouth "Mulrooney, you must be aware that it is always necessary for a witness to take an oath before he can be permitted to give evidence at the bar." , "Sure sir, I know," said Peter, innocently. "That is what the clerk requires of you," continued the judge, who added, with a faint attempt of gravity "you will also recollect that it is our duty to commit any one to prison for contemptuous behavior in court." "Long life to ye'r honor," said Peter, "sorra bit I'll disgrace myself by hurtin' the feelings of any respectable grayhaired gintleman like yerself, or ye'r honor's brother yonder, who is atin' his white hankercher to stop the hunger pain. Deed sir, I'd be takin' great shame to meself if I did." "Swear him !" said the judge, nodding hastily to the clerk, and sinking back in his well-cushioned seat. "Now. Mr. Mulrooney," said the counsel for his friend, "tell us what you know about this affair." Peter's story is a perfect rigmarole. He had been to his friend McShane's wake he had returned from it his friends got into trouble with the Germans, but as to how the affray commenced, his memory, clear enough before, became suddenly very hazy. All he could recollect was, that sundry of the Irish being soundly pummel

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led by the Germans, pummelled quite as soundly their antagonists in return. The cross examination now commenced, and, as Peter caught up nnd repell.d every move of the keen-witted attorney, the contest between cultivated sharpness and native shrewdness, became gradually very exciting. "Well, Mr. Mulrooney," said the attorney, "you say you left home in the evening, to assist in observing tins national custom 01 yours About what time in the e vening?" "Deed sir," replied Peter, with the utmost simnlicitv. "but that bates mo to say. 'Twas betwixt and betwane sundown and moonrise." "You are at least suie of that, I suppose," said the attorney, quickl;. "Och, by the powers'', that I am," said Peter, with a keen twinkle of the eye. "Have you an almanac, Mr. UIeru; pray see at what time the sun set, and the moon rose, on the eighth of April last?" "Sun set on the eighth of Anril," drawled the clerk, in his usual nasal tone, "at twentyfour minutes past six; moon rose at thirty-seven minutes past eleven !" There- was a sudden roar throughout the Court, like the surge of waves upon the sea beach; the face of the prosecuting attorney flushed crimson, while Peter Mulrooney looked the very picture of unconscious innocence.' "You must speak to the point, witness," said the Judge, with all the sharpness he could command. "Your answer is impertinent." "Troth, ye'r honor," said Peter, respectfully, ''it's sorry I am for that.1 Sure, 'tis tho truth I am tellin', by vartue of me oath." "What o'clock in the evening was it, sir?" said the prosecuting attorney, whose' red nose was now getting fiery. 1 t ; , , .1 . "Sorra bit I know," said Peter. . ' , "Think; fix upon some daily occurrence for your guide, and tell the jury if it was before or after." : . , "Oh !" 6aid Peter, after apparently reflecting a little. "It was afther tay." . , "Ah, now we shall get. at it !" said Mr. Bibulous triumphantly. "It was after tea, you say. Well, sir, at what hour do you usually take tea?" "That depends upon convenience," said Peter, with -an air of the most profound thought. "Sometimes we have tay for dinner,, an' some-, times we have dinner for tay." The attorney looked vexed.' "I want to know your usual hour of taking the evening meal we call tea. Is it four-five six seven or tight O'clock?" : ' ' ' i ' : ' f j '.'Yes, sir, that's the truth !" said Peter, nodding his head. . '-'Which of those hours?" said the' attorney, sharply. . . . - "If it 'ud ,be phasing ye not to be, afther bothering a poor boy, I'd be thankful," said Peter. "It's litllo'I know' about the one hour or the other, we dhrive the' tay time up ari-down the night SO." ; - -. - , ! ;' ,. :-: V' vi r ' ' The attorney bit his lips "Are you married, sir?" said he. , ,' , ., !.,,,,.,,, , ... "Oh, but that does be, bothering me entirely'; sure I .think so.",,,;',.:,.', . ,., ..... , . ..... ... , "What ! Don't you knowwhether you are married, or not?,',',, .,, ., ., Jl; - ;;Aisey aisey if , you , please sure , 'tis; . a throublesome question to answer any way, an' that's no lie,. Misthress Biddy. Connolly coorted an' married me wanst; but. sure it, strikes me I. must be a widdy now." ,...',,1.; ; "A widower you mean, I suppose.; Your wife is dead, then."., ' ,: ... :' . .. , t. ,.. . .. "Who? Biddy Connolly?,' .Troth sir, its my sarious opinion the fat ould woman is presarvin' herself for another husband twinty years foment US.",; ; .. . , . , "You are divorced are you?", said the . attor--, ney, looking significantly at the jury, as much as to say,. 11a! ia! 11a ! here s. a pretty witness, tor you !" ' "Divorced ! not a bit of it," said, feter quU . ; "Separated then ?"., f ; . . : ,. ,. , "That's it !" said Peter, and theiibursting out into, a low rich laugh, he added, "Oh . by the mortial, but it was , glad I was when Michael Connolly cam back from his shipwrack, and aised me shoulder of my mathrimonial desaver." "When you reached , the house of . the late MeShane, what did you and your party do?" "Wint in, sir!" said Peter, with the utmost simplicity. - - , ... . "What next?" '.' ,'.., ' ,," . "Gave Dinnis MeShane as dacent a wake as ever was seen in ould Ireland." ., , "JSTow, Mr. Mulrooney, you have told us you were present when this riot took place. ; I wish you to state distinctly who began it." : "I'd like to know, av it plase ye," said Peter, humbly, as he smoothed the crown of his hat. "I'd like to know,- av it av a wise an' a understhandin', jintleman like, yerself, if ye can, tell me when two dark clouds come thegither, : an' strike ligtnin', which of them sthruck tirst?" ., "This is no answer. Clo'uds cannot be compared with two parties of drunken men.". "I think the answer quite pertinent," said the attorney for the defense, with a smile, -"for both clouds and men appear to have been charged with the fluid. ., "Ah, ha !" said Mr. Bibulous, nodding sig niGcatly at Peter; "Ah, ha! the man is no fool, lsee!" ' - "I'd be sorry to conthradict yer exparience,' said Peter, smoothly; "an' sure I'd like to re turn the compliment, but for the vartue of me oalli ! "What kind of a piece of road was it where this affray took place;" said the attorney angrily ; ti .1.. i io .. was ii siraigm or ciookbu; "Natherally it was as straight and purty a piece pf road as ye'd like to look at; but circumstantially, it was as crooked as a jintleman that has lost his temper, said Feter. "How do you make that out?" "Sure 'twas the liquor that made the differ ence." "Oh ! then, you confess to your party having been drunk "It's my sarious opinion that it was them Garmans that was batin about like a wrack at say; an' that my frinds behaved themselves like dacent people, but its not aisy tosav.",

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like the lightnings." Anmm, ti, 4. "When you were at McShane's did you eat and drink?" "Sure, sir, what did we go there for? Would ye have us starvin wid the hunger, on an occasion the likes of that?" "Certainly not of course, certainly not. Now please to tell the jury what the refreshments consisted of." "Oashins of atin and dhrinkin," said Peter, boldly. "Never mind the eating, what kind of drink had you?" "Poteen," said Peter, "with the thrue flavor of the pate about it." "Poteen ! Poteen 1" said the lawyer, as if affecting ignorance of the liquor. "Pray, Mr. Mulrooney, will you oblige me by explaining what poteen is?" "Arrah !" said Peter, slyly casting his eyes at tho rubicund nose of the questioner, "as if ye uidn t knowr ' The prosecuting attorney, with his obnoxious nasal organ growing redder and redder, turned to the Bench and gisticulated vehemently. What he said could not be heard amid the storm of laughter. "Si-lence !" shouted the crier. "Witness," said the judge, absolutely snorting in the effort to maintain a becoming gravity. "Witness, this cannot be allowed any longer. What is the reason you evade a direct reply to the question? Answer him; he must be answered." ' ' " "Troth, sir, I'll dp that thing. The raison? Sure I supposed it was makiii' fun of me he was." , . " 1 "Why should you suppose that?" said the attorney fiercely. :i - " "Bekase, as I looked at ye'er Veshuvius of a nose, I thought ye must be well acquainted with the crater. . , . The judges fell back and exploded; the prosecuting attorney sunk into a chair as if a tenpound shot had fallen suddenly upon : his head; the auditors were almost purple in the face; and there stood Peter, looking all about him with a sort of inquiring wonder upon his face, as if utterly unconscious of any cause for such a noisy outbreak. " .... "Have you done with the witness?" inquired the' counsel for the defense. , - . - it "Let him go," said the Attorney, sharply. "I can do nothing with him." ; ' ! '"' . Teter's eyes now fairly twinkled. , As he left, the box, he drew down the corners of his mouth with the most sovereign contempt. , , , "Augh 1" he muttered, "It 'ud take a dozen little red nosed men to bate ' Pether Mulrooney, aythcr wid the tongue or the shilelah, I does bo tliinLin'." . ... . .. -i 'The Power , of the Printing Press' : But even as the concentrated force of public opinion j Or the'expression of live thought; it is an incal culable ''power, trom Hs own lips thousands take truth or error. ;1i It lines the humblest cot tages with , its cheap libraries. ,, They will . as soon go without their breakfast as without the daily paper; and so wide is its scope and so rapid its movement that people half-way up to Albany will read a report of this meeting before we are. half out bed. And if itiicngenders evil, it is. the only vehicle through which, the Remedy, can be poured into the world. And then Sir, just consider its power as a money -interest.' We are hardly aware, many of US, of the amount of cap-' ital which is employed; of the amount of wealth imbedded in ' stereotype and electrotype plates alone crowded in the vaults of great publishers as a merchant crowds the hold of his ship, ; ' 1 . 'Why, Sir, in this very city there is hnest treas-. lire, under ground; not diamonds, not ingots, but treasure worth far more than any Said, to' have been hidden b': Captain KiDD.':' Genii, imprisioned in little boxes,' that at the beck of the publishers start out with a power more potent than that of the spirit described in the - 'Arabian Tales.' Surely, then, the press does indeed constitute the 'fourth estate;' and if it were not, uk I have observed, so democratic, I should say that to it belongs one of the great diadems of the world. , ... .,- ..,, 'And thus, Mr. President, the third phrase of the printing-press, in the age of steam and electricity, assumes the most momentous interest. ior no body can study this .wonderlul lnstru--ment without discovering that' mainly; on the whole, it, is a agent of great and beneficent uses. , - - - , . 'I shall not enter,' now, into an abstract argu ment to prove that this is the case, by showing that freedom and intelligence, virtue and religion are linked indissolubly together; and that old Milton was right in what he said about truth being left free to combat with error.' But a priori, I should believe that the printing-press, in the age of steam and electricity, must be the agent of the highest uses the best ends, because, Sir, I believe that there is no great action of the natural or social world, permitted by Providence, without . these ends. There was truth in the old conceit that the stars are mated - with human destiny, and that distant planets reflect aspects of this earth. There is truth in the concep tion that every great movement of being and of power involves the purpose or uod in regaru 10 humanity. ; . 1 ' Do you think all these splendid vehicles of communication were matters ot pleasure and profit, of commerce and the custom-house? 1 see a Providential purpose levying on these rail-roads and telegraphs to do its tvorJc, and far out on lonely seas it hangs its signal-lanterns on the bows of your steam-ships. And almost the first thought the comprehensive and most glorious thought which the printing-press awakens in your mind and my mind and in the mind of every man, is that of great and beneficent uses. "All its appurtenances are quickly translated into this meaning. Human measures are defeated, methods fail, but God's own purposes never; and the processes of His eternal righteousness and truth run in the iron grooves of the printing-press. , 'And so, Mr. President, it is the moral interest of the great power that is represented here to-night, that lends to the occasion its most suggestive aspect. It is the fact that the power wielded by this Publishers' Association is so much power working, on the whole, against the

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NO 1. wrong nnd the falsehood that are in the world. I look upon these great printing-offices and factories of books as so many moral encampments, and upon these ranks of working men and working women asindeed a vast army arrayed against huge Redans and Mabikoffs of evil. Gentlemen of the New York Publishers' Association, I thank you for those munitions of war, those embattled hosts and yonder glittering signals of success. Women, bending over your work, toil on, for it leads to a result well worthy the spirit and the true mission of women. And you, my brethren, with rolled up sleeves, remember it is a moral wide, a final conflict in which you are engnged. The rumble of the power-press is better than the rattle of artillery. The click of composing-sticks is more inspiring than the clank of armor, and every lipe, more sure than a ballet, and shooting noiseless as the summer air, shall hit the mark, though it be thnnusaad years ahead. Advance, battalions! for with everyforward step the old wrong and falsehood of theworld grows weaker, and is made ready too pass away.' From the Wavorly Magazine. Will Young Bullion ever be Rich? It has become very much the fashion, now-a-days, to say, "Oh, Young Bullion will be rich when his father dies;" and to understand, thereby, that young Bullion is sure to be rich one of these days. But the proverb concerning a "slip between the cup and the lip," holds good in this case as in all others, and young bullion may die before old Bullion does, in which case he would never become rich in this world's goods at any rate. Nor is his chance of living so much greater than the governor's, (as he terms him) as may at the first glance be imagined. Suppose old Bullion to be fifty-five years of age young Bullion twenty-five. Old Bullion is a bank director young Bullion is "one of the b'hoys;" old Bullion turns in every night at ten young Bullion is "on a time" till 4 a. m. Balance of health is in favor of old Bullion. '' Old Bullion takes a glass of brandy and water, and don't eat anything before going to bed young Bullion- devours oysters, woodcock, broiled chicken, at . horrible indigestible hours, and drinks champaiene, brandy, and Scotch ale,, till he blesses the man that invented soda water, when he wakes up next morning. Balance of health in favor of old Bullion, again. : . Old Bullion goes down to the bank in an omnibus about 10 a. m. ; About the 6nme time young Bullion is going it with a fast horse to, "the great race," incurring the danger of being run over, of being runaway with, and of running over somebody ' else arid getting spilt. Balance of safely in favor of old Bullion. ,If old Bullion should receive a challenge, ho would forthwith have the sender bound over to keep the peace; if young Bullion receives one he "goes out" and runs the chance of a bullet in his thorax. ! ' ' ' You don't find old Bullion promenading very' often the gout won't allow it; young Bullion is all the time on a tramp, over sidewalks under which are. steam engines, across streets where runnings over are frequent. 1 Old Bullion don't go travelling young: Bullion is on the move all summerj'and steamboat blowings up and railroad collisions are frequent now-a-days. , Balance pf safety still in favor, of old Bullion. ' Old Bullion is never out After dark; young Bullion, 'like 'cats, travels principally at night, and stands a very fair chance, in the present' 1 state of society, of having; his head and a slung shot acquainted some night. ; ' , , Old Bullion has against him thirty years and, the gout; young Bullion has the risk of late hours, champagne suppers,' fast horses, "pistols and cbffee for two, "street crossings, boiler-bursting,! railroad smash-ups, and fractured oraniums. c; So the chances you see, are'not so very much in young Bullion's favor, after all. . Fluency in Conversation. Roll an empty : barrel down hill, and what a rattling noi e it makes!, , So with an empty carriage over the. pavements. So also with an empty head. When it contains but a few scattering ideas, every body ' can hear them rattle.' You almost see them,' when the fellow who carries such a head passes by you. i Have you not such an individual in your mind's eye? ,We have. His name may be : Dick or Jim, Bill or Joe; but he is the same everj'where; he wags the same tongue, shoots forth the same idea. ' He thinks he is wise but every body else thinks otherwise. Had he real ' knowledge, he would talk less, -and say more. Generally, a, man of sterling talents talks butvery little,.. yet every word tells.- Addison was a person of this description. He was always embarrassed in company. Some of our best living authors; men of genius and talent have been noticed for their paucity of words in common conversation. , Yet men know scarcely more tha.n twice two make four, are always rattling off words and pass for persons of some consequence. They utter sentences without meaning, and words that would puzzle an editor to understand. An incessant talker we always avoid. In his presence wc fell about as happy as on tho brow ; of a cataract, only there is some sense to the, latter. In an office or store,' what is more trying than a person with the gift of gab? what but a struggling musician under your window, or a-' fiddler in your garret? Saltpeter and Lead. The materials of warfaresaltpeter, charcoal, and lead having advanced since the commeccment of the war, in the former instance to upwards of 10 per tun, and in the latter from 3 to 4, this progressive , rise has produced a somewhat corresponding effect on the opposite side of the Atlantic, and has alaeady begun to tell upon prices. Since the arrival of the Baltic, lead at New York advanced from 3d. to 3 1-2 per lb. The stock of saltpeter in America is small, consequently the upward . tendency of price continues, although Congress, admonished by the deficiency of material during the revolution, as well as in the war of 1812, has for some 20 or 30 years past appropriated 820,000, about 4000, per annum for the purchase and storage of saltpeter. This precaution is alleged to be expedient, as the most prolific mines on the tributaries of the Ganges are under the control of England. London Mining Journal.