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Show Arresting Innocant Eaves droppers. During the past dnj or two we haye heard several complaints of gentlemen gen-tlemen being snatched up by deputy U. S. Maishids, and roughly hustled into the Marshal's office, threatened and abused, and finally, after being forced to listen to rude lectures by some of the officials of that establish-' ment, set at liberty; and this occurs because gentlemen passing along the street are attracted by the noise in the grand jury room, and inuocently look in at the window. It is ail very proper that the actions and deliberations of the grand jury should be kept secret; and no gentleman would care to pry into the secrets of the inquisition; but it appears to us the Marshals could perform their part of the work of preserving pre-serving this secresy much more effectually, effec-tually, and with less officious harshness harsh-ness than they manifest. The jury room is next the street, and a person passing on the sidewalk would naturally natu-rally turn his eye3 in the direction of a window on hearing laughing or talking on the inside. We are a.-eured by some of the parties who were arrested ar-rested on Monday evening, that until informed by the Marshals, that they had not the slightest idea the grand jurors were in the room. It would be infinitely more proper for the ofik'frs to caution strangers who paw tue jury room not to look through the windows than o arrest and annoy innocent men; or a sign-i sign-i hoard put up in some conspicuous place, warning strangers, would have the effect of preventing cavesdrop- |