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Show Application for Bail. Williams and Sheeks, attorneys for Dr. Clinton, made application to the chief justice, yesterday, to have their client admitted to hail. The ground upon which the application was based was that the prisoner suflered from ill health, which was being seriouely aggravated by confinement at the penitentiary. They presented the certificate ol Drs. Benedict and FuW ler, to the doctor's condition. The district attorney opposed the udtuie a ion to bail, which he thought Has beyond the power of the court to irant. A number ol cases were cited whero persons indicted fur murder in the Bret degree had neon released on bond, the prosecution consent! tig thereto. The district attorney explained ex-plained that in all of those instances the defendants were urging their j cases to trial, aud he was unprepared I wiih his witnesses, hence he had consented con-sented to the acceptance of bail rut lit r than keep men in jail for unnecessarily unnecessar-ily long periods. The court, in denying thy application, applica-tion, said that under the statute he had no right to release ou bail in capital cases, except by consent of the district attorney. He also thought the prosecution ought not. to withheld its consent to the injury of a pri60U-er's pri60U-er's health. We understand Dr. Clinton is qu'ttu .ill, being; afflicted with neuralgia aud a disease of the kidneys. He dues uot complain of his treatment at the penitentiary, which is as good as it it possible to give in the place. His wne is permuted to remain wun anu attend him; but with the utmost leniency and best care that it is . possible to bestow in bis present quarters, his physical condition is not likely to improve rapidly. |