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Show CHABLES O'CONOE. The death of Charles O Conor, for many years the loading member of - the legal profession of the city of New York, is announced. Mr. O.Conor was a native of thi country, of Irish parentage, and won his way to the head of his profession by virtue of his great natural abilities and his untiring industry. A3 a statesman he would have taken a front rank, but he never dabbled in politics, although he held decided opinions upon public matters. He was an uncompromising state rights' democrat before and during the war, and it is doubtful whether he was ever fully reconstructed in his political ideas. During the imprisonment imprison-ment of Jefferson Davis, Mr. O'Conor volunteered to defend him if his case should be brought to trial; but fortunately for-tunately or unfortunately the party in power did not see its way clear to enter upon such a judicial examination examina-tion of the questions of the war as Mr. , O'Conor would have insisted upon had the trial of Jefferson Davis for - - high treason been commenced. Mr. Davis waa released, and O'Conor thereby lost the great opportunity of his lite as a corotitutional lawyer. During hi Career as a lawyer he carried to a successful conclusion some of the most difficult and important im-portant cases, and it is believed that he has received larger single retaining . fees than any other lawyer in this country. Jor the past few years he has measurably retired from the active duties of hia profession, though he engaged heartily in tho prosecution prose-cution of the Tweed ring suits in the city of New York. Mr. O'Conor was a devout Catholic, with liberal American Amer-ican principles, and an old fashioned democrat in his political views a man of the true Jacksonian type, without any admixture of tho American Ameri-can demagogue. In his profession . he was a believer in tho aduge that law is a Bcience as well as an art a 7 science in which energy and audacity auda-city succeed even in the most difficult cases, and his general success in punmine this policy confirmed ltd sound new. Later A dispatch from Fort - Washington hwt night brought the ' gratifying information that Mr. O'Conor is not doad, and that his health ia improving. |