Show hanging on in an arbitration case which came off a few days since in this city wherein an au amount of several thousand dollars was involved the parties employed respectively the most able counselors that could be obtained in the territory to conduct the matter for them and to make it appear in its true light before the arbitrators P who were thorough business men and who 1 in addition to a competent knowledg knowledge 0 e of mercantile business and of the principles of justice and equity that should govern the actions of men had a fair knowledge 0 of the principles of law as understood der stood and practiced by the profession in these days after spending one day without making any progress the attorneys were so remarkably successful in the development of their peculiar gifts for mystifying whatever was presented for consideration and for delaying the progress of the suit to the detriment and expense of the respective parties the learned gentlemen were dismissed by their clients who wisely concluded that their services were not needed and that the case would not progress very fast nor be fairly investigated 0 while they were in attendance however there was not much progress made after the services of the attorneys were dispensed dispersed with before an adjournment was taken for some cause and on meeting again a counsellor for one of the parties was present and insisted as the story goes that his bis client should have bave the benefit of his services valuable or otherwise and as there was seemingly no way to avoid it his client having 0 concluded that he could not do without him the other party sent for his attorney when the we case proceeded and the arbitrators were doomed to listen isten to the forensic disputations disputatious of these limbs of the laWi davk till their propensity for garrulity was somewhat satisfied the earnest and fervent prayer of those who were sitting za in judgment to be relieved from the disagreeable necessity of hearing bearing their noise to the contrary notwithstanding the case was naturally very inflammable the principal if not cot the only question involved I 1 being 0 a quantity of wine brandy or some alcoholic mixture a great incentive to loquacity both parties virtually lost the case |