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Show YOUNG BROWN S CASE,. The court has fixed young Arthur Brown's ball at 10,000. As a rule it is not good for newspapers to interfere in court matters, but it is fair to review court proceedings; and it seems to us that the bail demanded in this case is excessive, for the reason that no one has lost a cent, through what young Brown has done, and there has been no attempt to evade or cover anything up, and the young man has already been punished very much. He still has.the full confidence of those who have long known him, he has. a good place offered him; the men whom he wronged have lost nothing and have no desire to prosecute him, and with such lights as have been so far thrown upon the case, it seems excessive to hold, him under heavier bonds that would be exacted from a murderer. There is more to it This may be the turning point in the young man's life. If the fact becomes impressed upon him, that there is no redemption for him, that all his friends have dropped him, and that no one is willing to hold a friendly hand to him, it may be his ruin, while fair treatment may, after this lesson, be his salvation. It seems to us that a motion mo-tion to greatly reduce his bail should be made, and that the court should give the motion earnest and humane consideration. ' |