Terre Haute Evening Gazette, Volume 6, Number 195, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 31 January 1876 — Page 2

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•liS%«««, iSlbeff noufe to any parr.cn o-oept lbrowner? as the Money Order Clerk,, j«r.

Jnf'XrEi

lias been instructed to pay

hereon except the busing manner pap?r. Return to thisofli-a aua rewarddaT—An amethyst ring

at 01

be miltably rewarded.

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T^F»A oS« Wtli° VJel IjHy*, ,'MI Kg liberally rewarded by St«°« S. it the market of P. Wya»t.

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twr—Gold bade .hearing the name ot ,Deputy Marshall Buckingham. lundbe rewarded by retninlug 1- to the Mayor's office. ftjfm

dST-La.ly'slurcape,

on Chestnut. Ke-

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Haley, on Chestnut street, between feixth and seventh streets.

WANTED.

TANTED—A Rot sors grinder to call at

this office. We haven't heard that lie a iin Italian Count, and he needn't count on it go much as upon getting some sclssora to urlhd. References and required. The scissors and YEgiven

GAY GAZKTTEKK say

cooiie, and, grinder, do you come qulcmy.

WANTED—Toknowathewhereabouts

omas Evanp, retired coal-opeia-

tor and Journalist.

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ANTED—Experienced millinery men have a trade In Indiana and 11liuois.by au old and established house, who are opening anew house in Iudlj»nupolls. AddresB Griffith Bros., Dayton, O.

W•ANTED—Everybodyprepared

to know that

Mrs. C. A. Beard Is to make boys suits. "Work promptly done and sat lsfaction guaianteed. PrloeB very cue a p. Call at the southwest comer ol lhlrd ami Swan streets.

ANTED—Board by a gentleman It: a

M.~ 1 1 A.l/1 A 1 nnA fll\M

private family who need a piano and mo willing to let the board apply towards paying lor same. The place mutt be centrallylocated. Address, stating terms and oeallty, Postofflce box 1902, city.

WANTED—A

purchaser for a Whe-ler

& Wilson Sewing Machine, It is a bargain. Inquire at inls office*

ANTED—Two gentlemen can obtain

VV'

tlrst-class board, in private lamliy, ^plying at No. 43 South FMth street.

\1TANTED—A GENERAL AGENT—For

the New Family and No. 6 and No. 7 Itolary-Hook, Lock-Stltch Wheeler & Wilson Sewing Machines. A good chance for the right man. For terms, &c., apply to J. T. Grayson, at Terre Haute House,

Vf,/'ANTED—Situations

by two girls, In a

private house, American people are lrcielTed. Inquire on South Second street letween Oak and Wilson, No. fc'C.

WsixthaED—Anorth

AN! position as housekeeper, by a experlced person. Apply at (he houte ol' Locust,ou Third street.

WANTED-Work,

either driving team

or working at any manual Jaoor, by a carelul, lndusirl- us and reliable man. Address through post office, or call at No. 12 North Fifth St. WM. CARTER.

WANTED—SituationandlightCity.

at work by

a man competent lellable. Ad(Jr^ss J.Y. Read, P. O. Box 6S-1

\irANTED—Washing and ironing. ApW ply to Mrs. Floriey East side of Twelltn street, south of Main.

iir ANTED—Every body to know that Vv Brunker'd Carminative Balsam is •ufal! o:e lor diarrhse, tlux, pain Mr con gwsil.on of the stomach, or etu,!oni morbus, children's teething ehc-lic, hiccups. sutnmei complaint, or cholera inrantum, Cures without debiiitating aire-/- all other itiniedies fall. Pleasant and nut a lo '..tiie, Inquire lor It at ycur druggls.',-.

waSte:s

F'ORthelora

Selllne I'rii'.O Paok-

aists.In tiie world. Single package, with elegant prize, postpaid, 2!5 cents. For other novelties send stamp. Address. 1*'. P. JLUCK, New Bedford,

MHKS.

O S A E

»7oRSAr'E—An account of Tuornim JET. Evans, formerly of lena Haute,an ex-coal dealer ai.d an embryo editor, now in retirement. A liberal discount for cash.

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SALE—Buggy for ale cheap, at L. Kussner's, No. 4S Ohio street

1/OK SALE—A merchant,, mill With three run of hurts. Is in a good wheat corti try. For particulars address, A, K. tialteman, 1611 Jack won street, St. L^uls, Mo. s/OHSALifi—

HIUI

Wheeler & Wilson Bew-

I* I UK Machine, almost new and lately put In perfect order and as good as new. It will be sold at a bargaiu. For prrtieulars nqulreat this office.

FOR SALE OB TRADE. :.UKSALK

OR TRADE—A -four-year oid

mure, young and la go.jd condition. Will be sod cheap or traded for a vacant lot In the city. For lur her particulars tn•iitlreof Wm. .Toab, corner ol Fourteenth

Sycamore str.ets.

FOR RENT OS SALE.

|?OU KENTORSALE—A good house of 9 rooms, suitable for boarding. uood «jut buildings, etc Apply on the preml^e8,dn Ohio, between First and Second treeta

FOR TRADE.

I^OIt TRADE—A vacant lot, KM leet., on Hohth Filth street, between Wilson and CrawfoTd streets, tor a iiousa and lot on Fifth Or Sixth street", between Ohio and Crawford streets, worth five or six tlious'und dollars, the difference paid in cash, inquire at this office.

f,OU TKADE^-Some town property In Cofteeville, Monteomc-ry oanty, Kan-t-n8. It is a store house and dwelling .ue-e. IMs valuable and clear of incumbrance. Will be traded for property here

Ten Haute. KB. MATTIK A. McMONI jLE. Sixth house east of Sixth (No. 76), south side of Cbostnut street.

FOR RENT.

|,AOJt RKNT—On the corner of First and 1 ,Mulberry, two rooms furnished or not iurnlnhed, ~wilh, or wltliout board. -Call on the premises aud see Mrs. R. Scott.

RENT—Houses In diflerent partH of of city. Also for trade, a touriyearold mare vacant lot orphtston. Inquire of Wm. Joab, corner of Fourteenth and Sycamore streets.

f'OR RENT—Dwelling house. West side t* Of Fifth street, second bouse south of Loctwt: tlfht looms, well, cistern, &o. Kent reasonable. Inquire at the St. Charles Hotel.

17OR RENT—2 7 octav«B rosewood Piano call soon at the Palace of Music, 48 Ohio ••'rrpt.

Dividend Notice.

rrustees of the Terre Haute Savings Bank have this day declared a pemlHimual dividend of lour percent, on all sums of two dollars and upward, which sU.\il have been on daposit fo.* six months nest, proceeding, and a proportionate rate ou lU-ceMiins that have be«u on deposit for iinvo mouths, payable to dojpsitois oa and Htitir January 27th. Dividend.- not drawn out will be drawn out will be cred

Uetl lu account and draw luterest irom .1 an nary 1st. JOHN S. BEACH, Sec'y •ie.rre Ilauto, Jan. 3,1875.

tireat Medical Book

Secreta for Ladles and

Oonts. s^nt free 1 two stamps. Address, 8T,

JOSKPH

0#m$t .musette.

WM, C. BALL & CO,, Frop'rs, vr J.'c. SAJLL SPENCER F.

EAXiL.

OlOo.r, Sontli i-ifili Street, near Main,

Tba DAILY O vr* is rublisbcU wory afternoon, the carrleru bOc per fortn.s..it. .ij rr.all ®S.OO p«e: ?oar fti.OCloi O nu.iui.b, £2.00 for 3 rm uthH, Tho W ZKXLY OAZETTE i3 lSBlied

Thursday,ah?! contains Ul! tlie^efit ina^ t&r of the sis daily jnsueH. The £BKI.T GAZKTTE ttie largest po Per P.r"'le^ Terro H»i'te,anl iKf.ohl lor: ue copy, oer year, ga six montliJ, $1? threa months, 50e. Ail sub.vcvlpllons mustbe paid for in advtinfe. No ^al)Cr0,dI ^'1,V tinned until all the arrearages ft e.paid, at no I

failure to notify a discontinuance end of the year will be* consll»-rt a engageineiii.

Address all lelters, WM. C. BAIX & CO., GAZETTK, Torre Haute, lnd

Moiitlny Ereuiiig, Jan. 31, 1876

FOUR failuros were reported Saturday. THE Ohio river and its tributaries are on a bender.

ANOTHER Cbarlis 3to?s has been found atTittln Ohio.

TWENTY million dollars of national bank notes have been redeemed tiiis month.

CONSIDERABLE spaca is given to» day to the speech nf 3). W. Voorhees in the McK.ee whisky case at St. Louis.

SPEAKER KERR haa announced himself in favor of Governor Hendricks for President of the U. S.

F. S. BARDETT Treasurer of State of Tennessee was removed from ofllce Saturday, having been found guilty after a trial of impeachment.

CONGRESS devoted itself to buncombe speeches on Saturday, nine of which were listened to, by anybody except the woary speaker, and which will never be road by anybody at all. The Senate \va3 not in session. __

THE casualties of Saturday, were the freezing cf a man and lib wife near Rockford, Illinois. The explosion of .'500 cans containing 2't pounds each, of powder, at Baltimore, which shook things up, but killed nobody, the suffocation of four men at a lime kiln near Columbia, Penn.

ANOTHER installment tiie Impress' this time—of the Expres-Howo-Mail-

Journal quadulateral

quarrel is given in to-day's GAZETTE, So far every line of this controversy has been publi-hed in the

GAZETTE

and the GAZETTE alone. We propose to keep it up if its burst every column rule in the paper. TheGAZ5TTK is a NEWS PAPER. Selah!

SATURDAY'S-crimes consisted of, first, tiie theft of $1G,000 by the city Treasurer, of Covington, Ky., and his escape. Second, the chopping olTof her husband's head, by a woman, at Rapids City, Illinois. Third, the suicide by drowning of a banker at Buffalo. *I?ourth, the ehooting of hi3 '-vife'a paramour, by a drunken husbaud, at Louisville, aud fifth, the robbery of a freight train on the Pennsylvania railroad.

State Senates.

.\fnat por^ona periiitps, imagine that the membership of State Senate varies in something like proportion to the population of the States respectivly. It goes however by quite a different lulaif indeed there maybe said to be any rule at all, where there is such incongruous diversity.

The largest State Senates in the Union are those of North Carolina and Indiana—50 members each. New York has i!2, Pennsylvania, 33 Massachusetts, 40 California and Iowa, 40 'Georgia requires -11 Senators Virginia, 4:. In sixteen States the Senate numbers between 00 and 40 members in nine between 20 and 30 in five (Deleware, New Hampshire, Nevada, Nebraska and Oregon), less than 20. The smallest.

Senate i*lhat of Deleware, 9 members, agtkiQSt Little Rhody's J(i. In the popular branches New Hamshire leadsofl with 341 Vermont and Connecticut come next with 241 apiece then follow Massachusetts with 240 and Missouri, with 200. In nine,states the membership of the House is more than 100 and less than 200 in six it is the even and symmetrical 100 The smallest House of all is Dsleware's— 2!.'

B_m___raira_TOOT

AT a meening the other day, the nominating committee of the Boston Fiee Trade Club selected Prof. A. LPerry of Williams College William Culleu Bryant David A. SVelis and Prof. Sumner of Yale College, to act as an advisory committee. Their replies to the in.' vitattons tended them are interesting. Mr. Bryant says he shall be "proud to be honeredln sucha way." Prof. Perry writes "After more then twenty years of hard work in the cause of free trade—much of the time amid great discouragements and even obloqy—it should be strange indeed if I should refuse my name and efiorts now, when the day of final success is suraly dawning, to any organization that promises to further the good cause." Mr. David A. Wells accepts and says: Give the people the truth, and they will be as earnest as earliest in opposing all attempts to restrict the fredom of trade as they have been in the past, in opposing all attempts to enslave tho person, or shackle free speech. Prof. Sumner writes: "I think your movement is just the proper one to be made jkt this time, and I hope that a similar club will be made all over the coun* try.

MKDIOAI. INSTITXTTB, St. Joseph. Mot

EARTHS

I.ORETS, a substltute,lor the common privy are bet

ter than water closets can be used in anv

FAVINVNLIFL.. A.

ici ""uuuusea in any room—Splendid ror Invalids. Bend for clr. i-tilflr. WATCI1

BREEZK,

Agents, tO.atate St. Chicago

The younger half

of thegeneratieu now on the stage is free from the dogmatic prepossessions which have hitherto made discussion impossible. These young men. however, need training and development in sound, economic doctrines, and those things your club can give. ... I do not anticipate along campaign on behalf of free country. Nowhere else in the world do the dogmas of protection come into such flagrant contradiction with the accepted doctrines of the people and common sense, I expect that those dogmas will simply melt away under the effect of enlightment and right reason.' It is impossible that this great question of tariff reform shall not assume the first place in future political campaigns.

Why ia a lady,s deshabille like the milkman? Because it is a morning wrapper,

SUMMED UP.

An Interesting Point in Hie Trial ot* Mr. Me-

Jfrc-

FIEUMUi IN

Briiiiant Argument for iho 1

Within the court-room were, bosides those directly interested in the cause, many dignitaries and prominent eitiZ3ns^ professional and business men. Of course every seat was occupied. It was the general remark yesterday afternoon and last evening, that so grand an effort as that made by Mr. Voorheo) yesterday was never before beard before a jury iu St. Lonis. Col. Broadhead was also highly complimented. AP.OUiXKNT OV IIO-W 11, SV. VOOUHKES.

May it please the Court: Gentlemen of the jury: If anybody has supposed that there would bo anything attractive in the display of my humble powers here this morning he will be entirely disappointed. I have come here, gentlemon of tho jury, as one plain man, I trust with an honetst heart in my breast, to talk lo twelve others of the same kind about a, matter of the gravest and deepest possible, importance.

This is a case, gentlemen, of most estr?.ordinary character. You doubtless have served as jurors before, in your various counties, on the trials of men charged with crime. Some of you have gray haira in your heads and have had large experience in the transaction of affairs in the administration of justice and in tho upholding of law. But, gentlemen of tho jut v. vou navot- wow caned upon to try such a man as is on trial here. You have never been called before to judge one of the foremost and most honorable men yon ever knew, whose character has stood for more than one third of a century without blemish. You have never been called npon, I say, to try such a man as that before, for a low, degrading crime. That, to start with, is an extraordinary feature in this case. The law presumes a man to bo innocent, it i3 true, but the law presumes a great deal more in this case than in an ordinary case for where a man has lived his threescore year?, whoso spn lias gone up and crossed the meridian line and is sinking toward its resting place in the West, who, during his entire career, has had no stain put upon him—hag lived an unsullied and unblemished existence until it is noarly time for his Father to call him home—this is a fact, u®t merely a presumption, but a fact iu the case that no jury can disregard.

We have heard much about the facta in this case, but one great fact in it is YVm. McKee, 34 years in the city of St. Louis and State of Missouri, without blot or stain upon his life. His life has not been a life of seoltislon either his life has not been lived in obscurity his life has not been lived away lrom temptation. Ho has lived a public life. He b3s lived as an exponent of views, of policies, of parties and of party politics. Connected prominently with the press of the country, with everybody interested in seeking out the defects in his character or the vices in his life drawing thei attention of the entire city, and of the entire State of Missouri,"for more than one-tbird of a century, to bis daily walk and conversation. And at the end of that time, whan his hour of trouble and peril comes on him there conies aroundf him, with their loving, upholding arms, such a class of men, in nnmber and character, as I never before saw Gathered around a man in his trouble and his difficulty. And if you and I should sometime he assailed by the poisonous tongues of self-confessed perjurers, liars, thieves and suborners of perjury, may God givo us as good a standing before a lury of the country as he has had here.

Gentlemen of tho jury, I want to call your attention in opening my remarks to another point—a danger that always exists in cases of conspiracy.

A conspiracy, when sustained by the testimony of men who tnrn State's evidence, as it is called, is the moat dangerous accusation that can be brought against a man and Ijmay submit to the court that the reason why, in my. judgment, the English rule on a subject of this kind ha» gone farther than the American rule, is, that growing out ol large conspiracies in 'England, the best heads in that country haiye

FALLEN ON THE BLOCK.

Conspiracies there against the Government were easily asserted and sustained by co conspirators, which cost the noblest men of the world their lives. The consequence is that I do not know of a single case since 1688, now neaily two hundred years, in which, by the uncoroborated testimony of co-con-spirator, a man has been convicted in

the

English courts. A co-conspirator is a competent witness, the court will tell you, and I will tell you that is to

say he

is competent to tell his story.

But the courts in England and America tell you that unless the word or bath of a man who says he himself is a thief and a perjurer is corroborated, and not corroborated by another of the same sort,but by testimony that comes

from som&BGund

and reliable source,

verdict based upon such testimony would bo unsafe, dangerous to liberty and to life, and ought not to be rendered in courts of justice.

I UUjt.W IU II IB.

UNITED

STATES CIRCUIT COURT.

J-

by Mr. Voorhoos.

THE EVIDENCE FOR THE I'KOsE I'TIOX THOKOUtilti'.Y SIFTED.

Dictionary "Woids" IJiongiit to Bfnr in Speaking of the Witness?".

From the St. Louis Globe Democrat. Unusual interest, as was anticipated, centered in the addresses of lion. Diuiel V/. Voorhees and Colonel James O. Broadhead, iu the United States Circuit Court yesterday morning. Long before the hour of opening court, and the doors were swung «jar, a dense crowd had gathered in the hall, ready to make a rush to secure seals. The desire to hear the speech of Mr. Voorhees wti3 intense, and could scales of seats have been made, the prices would have ranged high. Indeed, one prominent citizdn remarked on Friday night that he would like to invest a $50 bill I© be insured a chair within the courtroom on the occasion of Mr. Voorhees' address to the jury. The Marshal and bis deputies were nuahle to control the mass of men crowding and elbowing their way into the room and the aid of tho police was invoked. By this means, something like order was secured, and maintained,although the crowd remained throughout, catching what they could of the speaker's language, as the words—eloquent, argnmentive or bit-ing—c-ime to the listeners over the transom or through tho cracks in the door. Two men obtained a standing position ontsido and close to one of the doors, where a brokon pane of glass gave them the advantage of sight and hearing, rendering them the envy of hundreds of others debarred such a glorious privilege.

And why, gentlemen of the jury? You allow dishonest men to have their word in court and to tell their story, and then, under the laws as they now stand, close the mouth of the defendant, have him sit dumb in your presence, so that he cannot utter any word of explanation or of denial, and tho rulo will be reversed. Rogaes and thibv 03-and scoundrels will prosecute the honest men prosecuting them. And the men who have plundered the Government, who have mauraded the Troasury, will hava their say in a court of Justice, and every man in this wholo community will be at their mercy. Why not? Answer me in your own minds, what safety there i3 for auv man from the high'dignity of the bench itself on down—what safety is thero, I say? Do you tell me that the obligation of an oath rests upon one of these wretches? The obligation of an oath has been resting on them for the last five years, four years of which t.hoy spent in breaking every oath they had takeuj violating every duty, plun deiing their Government by thoir own confession without remorse and without conscience, and without dread, until exposuro came. Their repsntence is the repeutanca of the thief with tho rope around his neck, when there is no escape and yet vou are asked to bolie vo them.

I listened to the District Attorney's argument which he made here yesterday, and if these witnesses are to be believed, it would amount to something but if they are not to be believed, what does it amount to? And will my di tingulshed, nhli and kind-heart-ed friend, Colonel lii.i ihand, in the close, tell me what additional guarantee there is now that Fitzroy and Engelke and Conoannon and the rest of tho wretched tribe ill! tell the truth now, more than when they were stealing tho Government's money, when they were breaking their oaths which they had taken, when these distillers were making false returns every month? You heard this man, C'oncannon here, say over and over again, "I am ou my oath, now," but did that carry any additional weight to your minds—his saying that he was on his oath? Did it convince you that he was more liable to tell the truth now than when in that public office, violating every law of the country and committing perjury morally and legally every hour of his" existence? How can you, art gentlemen, say when a self-conlessed pnijnrer leaver off lying and begins to tell the truth?

All nations havo had their tesis of truth from the days of Israel down to the present hour. All organized Governments have had their oath to administer to their citizens for tho purpose of laying a blind obligation upon the consciences of witnesses to tell the truth, by invoking the presence of Almighty God, in one form or another, and appealing to that sense of the hereafter which assails the soul of every man wfnui he comes to commit a crime.

IiVKJtV SUfiH TK.ST

as is known to American law has been applied io these men and failed. What more can you do? Where is

Lho

ditional blinding obligation in this court? On tho contrary, instead of their being additional blinding obligations on lham now, to tell the truth they havo tho terror

punishment

hanging over thom and they are buying their peace. They may sit chore and swear until they are as purplo in the face as ripe grapes, in saying Ihey have no expectation of favor, leniency or clemency, but they lie when they

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law iiself holds out a promise of a pardon to a man whom tho Government accepts as its witness. Tho old rulo ot law, aud 1 believe it has never been changed, is, that when the Government consents to accopt tho poor penitent words of a thief upon the stand, the legal presumption arises that he has some light to an abatement of punishment.

So, gentlemen of the jury, when you come to look at the attitude that these men occupy toward each other in all the conspiracies, the danger is that the thieves, perjurers and robbers, by getting the lirst word in before the court, will become the prosecutors of honest men, and even they are called "the Government side."

Well, I have a word to say about this Government. The District At torney said yesterday that he .spoke for the Government. Did he? Then I suppose we have got to the spectacle of the Government coming in here with a thief to the right, and a thief to the left, thieves iu front, thieves bringing up the rea.t, to swear down a man as honored as anyone in the broad State of Missouri, because they see fit to bring their accusations against him. And I will show you why they have done so before I have tioue. Is that the Government of the country? I stand for the Govern ment, gentlemen, but the governmentjthat I stand for ia not a govern ment supported by the testimony of self-oonfessed pluuderers of the publie treasury. The Government that I stand for is a Government of honest people, We have more than forty millions of population, and a large portion of tbe American people are honest, and not thieves and plunderers and because these men, to purchase their safty. willi ropes arountheir necks, see fit to hurl an accusation against a man like William McKee, do they become the Government? Are they the Government? No! in tne name of decency, common honor and respectability, I repel the mputation upon my Government that it is represented here by the Fitzroys, the Concannons. the Engelkes, the Thorpe, aud that class of the refuse, offal and outscourings of creation. Never! What have they done that their word .should weigh against this man's? What have they done for their Government, to maintain its honor or build up Its prosperity? If William McKee could stand before you and utter his denial of these charges, which would you believe? And he has done this, gentleman, iu a former tiial. But in the impolicy of the law at this time, wheu the flood-gates cf perjury have been opened and lies innumerable have fallen from the lips of every scoundrel who sees fit to go into the District Attorney's office and put his poisonous tale in the porches of his ear, instead of allowing the accused the same right, he has to sit here without beiug permitted to utter a word. I saw lately, with great satisfaction, if your honors please (turning to the courts, that within the last few days the Judiciary Committee of the House of Representatives has agreed upon a bill which allows that oue mau may speak for his in nocence as well as others may speak for his guilt iu the courts of the country. In the State of Missouri, gentlemen, you have a law vvnicb aw lows men to

SWEAR IN THEIR OWN INTERESTS on both sides of a civil EUit. If corn, hogs, land or rails are involved in litigation, you may go before the court and tell your story but if some man say9, "I saw Mr. Mclvee on the corner of such a street, and he said to to me," and he goes before the grand jury and makes an ex parte statement any time while yon

foriuatauce, and comes into court here and tells the same "story as a witness, you are not allowed to deny it so that all I can do hero this morn ing on that pomt is this: Mr. McKee and I have been c!o3e together I have fill the pulse of his very heart in this matter, and I know that he is r.n innocent man, Hs can tell me, and he has charged me this message to you, men of Missouri, that this is not true that these accusations are f. lsel that they re9t npon private malice and upon reasons that I will point out to you as I go along. But, gentlemen of the jury, you have no right as jurors, on questions of public policy, to put to death, to destroy—for a verdict to a man of stainless honor and high sensibilities your verdict here could not be any more important, even if it reached the very life of thedefendant. If the scaffold loomed up in the distance it would not be more important to a man who has lived and lived alone for his reputation and for his character, and now, as the shades of the evening of life are falling upon him, he lias said tome, with deep emotion, that one of th9 joyous exclamations of one of riis ancestors, who had just passed away, was that for 200 years there had never been a theft iu the

McKee family, or a woman who lost her honor. To such a man, gentleman of the jury, your verdict is of the most, vital importance. It couldn't be more so if it assailed the citadel of life itself.

Let us go now to another point. Mr. District Attorney, whom 1 regret not to see here' this morning, complained yesterday that we didn't join him in denouncing this conspir acy. Well, I will help him fome. Or all the rogues' roosts or robbers dens that I have ever known iu my life, iu all the range of my reading of history in this land and other lauds, I have never known so black, so infamous aud so damable a con* spiracy as has been (level oped here on Ihe part of men who come, with their smooth e..te riors, their watch-chains, their diamonds and their broadcloths, to that stand, and, with shameless and brazen frontjiay, "Yes, I am a thief and the next comes and says, "Yes, I am too, audi am a purjurer but so is somebody else It may be you, it may be me, it may be any one but the advantage, at last, gentle men, we have over them is, that whilst they say they are thieves, we say we are not. What more can we eay? What more can we do? Not denounce this conspiracy! Why, gentlemen, here are men who, from their appearances, have hail the advantages of early education. They have had the advantages of good so ciety and good traini.i^j, perhaps, in early life. Take thin man Fitzroy and Eugelke, and the rest of them that came upon the stand. What excuse have they for turning out to be thieves? I only say this to show you how infamously bad they are.

When Mr. District Attorney Dyer said that they were thieves aud con spirators, it didn't half express what I think on the subject.

THEY ARB NOT ONLY THIEVES, but thieves heaide whom the horse thief, born of poor, illiterate parents, perhaps, who received no schooling or traiuing, who never heard the church bells riug, or saw their spires kissed by thesuu on a Sunday morn ing, who never attended any Sunday schools, who had no moral or religious training—take a horse thief of that kind who turns out to prey upon your Western prairies, and to plunder you of your stock, and I have so much more respect for such awayward, unlettered, untained mis erable being as that, than I have for one of these men who had these advantages, and who, with cold-blood-ed purpose, went into a systematic nlan of plunder and of larceny that I have not language -to express the comparison.

The one steals from a low, humble, unaided stand-point in life. The other have had their advantages, and went into it in a cold-blooded, deliberate manner. Why, I have a thousand timet more respect for the Modoc Chief who fought for his own spot of ground in the lava-beds, and even assissinated the officers out there, than I have for a single one of these men who in 1871, or any time since, deliberately coined their souls to perjary and plunder, the subordination of petjury and spoliation and burning of public documents. Such a picture of crime has never been drawn in this or any other country as that which they draw for themselves.

If the government is satisfied now with my leeble denunciation of these conspirators, let me say what the next trouble is. It is that you (turning to Colonel Broadhead) come in here with these men, you sit down with them you call them "the government," and you ask that these double-dyed villains whom I was a6ked by* the District Attorney to chrracte/ize—ihat not merely William McKee, but the whoie city of St. Louis and the State of Missouri, or any other place in this broad land, may be placed at their mercy: that statement of character may be made a carcass for them to pick at aud tear and rend wiih their l'oul perjuries. It is you who are on I rial as much as he, and all this community is on trial, for no better or brighter name is there in the Directory of the City of St. Louis to-day than Ihat of William McKee and, if you will allow these buzzards of the- atmosphere of fraud and crime to tear aud rend him 4o pieces, everybody else will ba at their mercy. Aye, the high and honored name oi my friend, Colonel Broadhead, himself would be no more safe than that of auybody el9e, if priva'e malace, pique,spite or revenge, or interest should prompt these men with their venal, corrupt tongues, to assail them, Aye, gentlemen I denounce them and when Mr. District. Atcrney Dyer was denouncing them so furiously on yesterday, the only logical conclusion about h's remarks would have been thi.«: This is an e» nermous conspiracy of crime, and the criminals are the blackest on the calender of crime. Their names will be gibited through oil years in infamy and then, he should have said the testimony of such men as those ought not to be received by any jury. He ought to have said it is an insult to ask, you gentlemen of the jury, to find

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So, gentleman, I hope that some sort of a falcon of justice may come into your minds from this bench,and instruct you that unless the waters come from the pure, unpoisoned fountain you are not to drink them, and unless the testimony comes to you from an unsullied source you may say, however this case may be, whatever there may be in it, there is one thing that is not in it, and that is the legitimate proof on which we will jeopardize the life or liberty of a fellow citizen. And when I speak of life, I speak of that life which goes out when a man is blighted in his name and fame. You will see that If yon set a precedent of that sort it will leave every man's household, name and person at the mercy of men that you would not (rust in any transaction ou earth.

I appeal to you then, gentlemen, whether, when a man ha3 lied to you over and over again, or deliber® ately lied once to you in your ordinary affairs of life, do you ever take his word again unless he is corroborated by somebody else? I will try William McKee, then, upon that rule, and that rule alone! I will risk all Ihat he is and all that he hopes to be upon that rule, and upon tnat rule alone!

If a man has deceived you, if he has lied to you, you will never, in your dealings with him, again trust him, unless he can have some neigh bor to corroborate him who has not deceivvd you. aud who has not ad mittcd himself to be a thief and a perjurer.

Let us nowr move along a little further. We see the general nature of this case—the general character of the defendant, and the character of the men who come here to as3ail him. On the one hand towers up a name that, of itself, is a great fact in the case. On the other hand come names that will rot in the memory of all a he br-ve witnessed these court proceedings. It- wojikl seem to me to be enough if that issue alone were to remain before this jury.

But I intend now, with your permission, and by the blessing of God, to come to these men, these perjured men, and in detail to show that not merely by the

ISPAMV OF TH13IR COKDUCiT HERE, but by their testimony itself, they stand hero not. to be believed for a sin gle moment. Not to be believed even against one of the lowest of their confederates One of the most polluted villains of their confederacy is to be entitled to better credence t'han theirs before a jury, and how nanch more in the case of a man who has stood in tha very locus of public observation, as McKee has, aud has been able to call to his aid, after a third of a century spent in the city ef St. Louis, the testimony which you heard offered the oth er day!

Let us look at this evidence now in that view for a while. They dwelt upon the testimony of Megrue. Well, Megrue came here as the prime mover in this fraud, and do not be mistaken as to what this frand implied. It implied not merely the stealing of Government revenues, but it implied all tho perjury and all tho forgery, and all the destruction of payors and numberless, nameless felonies beside, In order to carry it out and make it successful.

He came hero prepared to embrace that^chemc his mind had given| its consent to every detail of this vast conspiracy—everything that was necessa-. ry to brioe Government officials, and to organize this conspiracy—indeed, he says the plan was already arranged when he came, and he came here as the man to rnn it.

Well, wheu he came here, let us see what kind of scenes took place. He came to organize, or, perhaps, to be more accurate, to run the organization already made.

Now I am not a person lo deal in imaginary scenes, but I will picture what actually took place, and what we know must have taken place by the nature of things. They would gather together, they would surround a common center in great privacy and secrecy. Imagine what the purposes of these men wetel Imagine ibis council of thieves, over which sone thief, prominent as Satan was amongst the fallen angels id hell, presided upon that occasion. There they plotted, there they assigned to each one a subordinate part, there they declared the dividends and divided the spoils. Was William McKee among them? I be« his pardon [turning to Mr. McKee], with his grand face there looking at me, for having even to argue such a supposition, that he, after withstanding temptation, after going through life as he did without reproach, a very Aristides in probity, in honor and integrity—that he wuuld stoop bis honored head down to such a circle as that which I have but laiutly -described! Was he there? Who would know belter than Conduce G. Megrue, if he was there? He would know it well because he was prime minister of the mischief. He came and organized the plan and ran it. Aye, gentlemen, from 1S71 to the fall of 1872 Megrue was here managing it. He then left, but tho King went on the conspiracy went on until 1S75, about four years—a little more or less does not matter exccpt in the breath it takeiB to utter it in even terms 6ay four years this vast conspiracy settled di wn and held the business interests of this city ns it wero in a vito. Now, is it not strange, gentleman, that if William McKee, a man of bi3 prominence, was iu that that there is no letter, no telegram, no scrap or paper, to show it? Nothing but simply tho unsupported words of individuals who, as I huve shown to you. are not entitled to the ]e«-st credit.. Isn't that singular? Mr. District Attorney Dyer though says that we admitted the conspiracy here that the conspiracy was by the simple oaths of the conspirators, and that the same oaths that prove the conspiracy, which we admit, now prove the connection of the defendant. Instead of that bein» true, the very opposite is the case. A conspiracy established by documents by the cart-ioad, so much so that it ia only necessary to

call your attention to ESOELICB'S TESTIMONY, who stood there, smooth, smirkiug-fac-ed creature that he is, and when lie wa:s asked by my associate counsol, Judne Krum, what he would havo done •'if Macklot Thompson had come up ar. testified to putting illicit whisky innhi3 rcctiliyiog establishment," said h. ''would have denled it.," Ayc of eov.s:, he would, lie thought ior moment that he would haye had -his oath in his o\i case, as he bis had here against

Sihoolboy, a story of a King, who a hunting expedition, was extremely thirsty when he came to the base of a crag,.down whose face trickled in slow tlrcps, iii apparently clear stream of v,-ator. He held his cup, anxious for a drink, until, by 3low degrees, it v,as billed but ju3t us he wbo about io o-arry it to bis lip?, his falcon, with a blow upon his armdasli1 t'i water out of h:s cup lie was angry, but held hia cup again, and it filled again in the same slow way, and again he was about to carry it to his lips, wheu the bird flew and settled upon his hand, and knocked tha cup down again. In an angry fit h3 struck the falcon and killed it, and called to his page and told him to go up to the fountaiu on top of the crag nd fill it. When his page went up thero he found an enormous serpent lying dead in the spring, hi* venom sweltering, distilling and mingling with that flowing water which would have caused his life to have been destroyed had he drank of if and in his agony of remorse for killing lh faithful bird that had preserved li own life, either by accident or providence, he wept bitter tears.

Mr. McKee. He would have denied it and committed peijury. lie was ready to do it that didn't trouble him at all.

Well, but says Judge Krum "You could not swear in your own case" "Well," says ho then, '-f don't know what I would have done, because when I found that there was documentary evidence on the subject, I knew the jig was up," and thc-n down he r-ame and then my friend, Mr. Kobt. McDonald, who carried his theology perhaps a little too far, told him that "(Jod Almighty could not save him."

I think God Almighty can save him, and I hope he will, through the mercy of that all atoning blood that has been shed for us all but nothing short ot that ever will. The grace of God and the love of bis Son may embrace, and does embrace all it embraced the thiet upon the cross—it embraced the Magdalen—it embraced the wretches of Judea eighteen hundred odd years ago, I must differ in point of theology with my friend, Mr. McDonald, for I think it can even embrace Bernard H. Kngelke, but nothing short of that can.

Gentlemen, you are going directlv, so far as wo are concerned, to taLa this ease. I never in my life approached or conducted a case iu which my very heart his clasped in its protection my client as in this. I know his feelings. I know the circumstances that surround this case could he explained very easily if he were only allowed to testify. He came to St. Louis in 1S-4J, when your town did not contain more than 20,000 people, and he has been identified with its growth, prosperity and renown ever since and during all that time he has lived a blameless life* Have yon no more pride, then, gentle-* men, in the character of an oid man. who has thuscoutributed his life to Ihe honor of your State and city, than to thus strike him down and send him ii disgrace to his grave on testimony ot this kind? Gentlemen, a good character is not won in a day it is not won by a single act. A good character is the result of long, patient self-sacr-fising vigilance of one's own conduct. •A man in order to have such a character as Mr. McKee has disclosed to you here, must have kept a close rein upon his conduct. There must be no slip of any kind. It becomes a second nature to such a man to be vigilant and careful of his conduct, who has lived such a life as tbis defendant has been shown to have lived. Do you think a man who has lived thirty-four years in your city, who has livedjsuch a life as thai is iikely in his old age, with competence and plenty to band himself with young, profligate, reckless^ perjured scoundrels? Why it would rend apart every atom of his ..moral being. It would subvert all the elements of his moral nature. For the third of a century and more ho has been building on a sura foundation of moral rectitude, and each little brick? that he .brought to the structure day by day, and? year by year, was of the same material, until the fabric was reared to proportions which you Bee it has attained by the testimonj? which has been adduced before yon.

Gentlemen, the defendant is entitled to the benefit of a reasonable doubt. If such a doubt exists in your minds, it is your duty to give hi:*n tho benefit of it and in case of doubt,

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character settles the quostion at once, I commend him io you with all his hopes and with all his sense of honor. Send him to his family, gentlemen, in peace say to the country that whenever a conspirator, self-convicted and self-confessed, undertakes to testify against an honorable man without some outside evideuoe, from a pure source, yon will not convict. Publio opinion asks no more at your hands, Say to the country that this Govern-ment,-when it asks to convict ono of its own citizens to strike him down and bathe his home in sorrow and gloom, shall do it by only'pure and upright evidence, and that yon canuot join yourselves as instrumentalities of human destruction with those men who have been here upon the stand.

I thank ypu, gentlemen of the jury, and I am done. Col. llroadhead followed Mr. Voorhees, and closed the argument. His speech was plain and unpretentious," and consisted largely of reading the testimony of the jury, making a concise and connected story of it, and dwelling upon oxplaiDing its various points, He placed particular stress upon the fact that the defense had freely admitted the existence of a conspiracy, proven, too, by the evidence of accomplices, but when the same kind of testimony was brought directly against their client they pronounced

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terview with McKee, as extremely improbable, and considered it absurd that McKee should tell a stranger that he would use his influence with Collector Maguire to have the seized goods released. After Col. Broadhead finished the court adjourned. The jury will be instructed Monday morniug, and the' case given to them by or before noon.

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