Show A LEGAL ANECDOTE the round hound ta 61 ble e of last week has som something ethino ovel a column of pleasant gossip about washington irving in tile the course corn so of which occurs the following 0 anecdote i elated to mr living by the late ex president van tVan buien buian of the celebia ted bcd legal orator elisha williams of columbia county N Y lie ile wasa was a most graceful speaker and his voice particularly in ill its pat pathetic heti tones was melody itself all who ic member ogdan 0 t den hoffmans voice 10 lo le was called the flute by his follow fellow members of the bar of new boik can appreciate the mellifluous olga bigan of mr williams his power 0 over a jury was ivas as astonishing toll ashing ile he swayed them thein as with tile the wand of in an enchanter and it was very that if he failed to secure a vei diet for his client but on oil one occasion he did it in lucli bucl a ledi culous manner that a crowded court and grave judo judges 0 es on oil tile bench were convulsed with laughter at the burlesque bui buil lesque esquo of the result he was completely by an ignorant impudent unlettered pettifogger 0 who knew no law but somehow or othol had obtained the credit ci edit of shrewdness and the ic ie amon among liis his farmei noigh bols of being 0 laid to beat the case if we lightly was an act of murder mr williams william of couise on oil the ground of his power over the jui y was for the defense his peroration pei pel oration was exceedingly touching ing 6 and beautiful gentlemen of the jury said lie he if you can cail find this tin s unhappy prisoner at the bar guilty of the dime clime with which he is char charged e ed after the adverse and 0 arguments which I 1 have laid beffie you pronounce unco your fatal verdict solid send him to lie in ill chains upon liis his dungeon dim cou floor waiting the death which lie he is to receive at houi hands then than go to the bo bosom boom om of your families go lay your leads heads on oil pillows and deep if you can tho the effect of these closing words of the cicat legal orator was at alist thrilling but by and by the pettifogger c r who had volunteered to follow the prosecution attorney arose and said gentlemen of the joiy I 1 should despair alter the weeping speech winch which lias has been made to you yon by mr williams of saying anything to do away with its eloquence I 1 never 11 mr williams speak that peace of hian better than what lie he spoke it jest now knelt I 1 liccia him speak it a case of stealing down to hin hill then lio ho spoke it ablin in a case of lape up to E sopus and the last time I 1 heerd it before jest now was when them thein biggers was tried and convicted too they was for robbing van pelts lion hen aliouse over beyond kin kingston 0 slon but I 1 never knowd him to speak it so elegant and cn as what lie he spoke it jes jest t now 1 this was a poser I 1 the jury looked at A one another whis whispered together and our pettifogger saw at once that ho had pt got them lie ile stopped at once closing with tile the single 1 lemark emark if you cant see gentlemen of the jury that one speech dont answer all cases then els no aselt of my saying anything more inore I 1 and there lie he had made his case and they awarded him their verdict |