The New York Herald Newspaper, January 15, 1855, Page 2

M@peeches of Messrs. Butler, Lord, Burr, Peabody, O’Conor and Brady. An adjourned meeting of the jodiciary and the Members of the bar of New York and Brooklyn, ‘was convened on Saturdsy, in one of the rooms of ‘the Court of Common Pleas, to expresé their sym- pathy and sorrow in the now too certain loss of their beethren— Edward Sandford, Abner Benedict and Henry A. Brady, Esqrs.—whe perished in the dis- aster which befel the steamship Arctic. At the fermer meeting sentiments of respect and sympathy were expressed in reference to the then undoubted fatelligence of the death of Samuel M. Woodruff, ‘Magq., another member of the bar. Amongst the members of the profession at the present meeting, we noticed Chief Justice Oakley» ‘te Hon. Judge Betts, U.S. Circuit Court; Hon. Jadge Ingersoll, U.S. District Court; Hon. Judges Ingra- ham and Daly, Common Pleas; Hon. Judges Buer, @ampbell, Bosworth and Slowen, Superior Court; Hen, F. R. Tillou, ex-Recorder; Hon. B. F. Batler, and Messrs. John Van Baren, James T. Brady, @harles O’Conor (Ex-United States Attorney,) James Lorimer Graham, H. Dodge, A. W. Bradford, Barrogate of the city; D. D. Lord, Wm.C. Noyes, J. Diekerson, Junr., J, W. Gerard, Hiram Ketchum, J. P. Joachimssen, associate United States At torney; Augustus Schell, Charles A, Peabody, Wm. ‘M. Evarts, H. F. Ciark, P. Y. Catler, C. P. Kirklaxd, Richard Busteod, B. H. Jarvis, Mr. Cornell, Mr. Poster, partner of the late Edward Sandford, Lo- renzo B. Shepard, ex-Distrist Attorney; Edward J. Burr, Joseph Bridgham, United States Commis- sioner; Richard E. Stilwel!, United States Comuis- sioner, and mapy others whose names we were ua- able to ascertain. The court room, which is one of he largest now available in the City Hall, was dereely crowded. On motion of Mr. Brews. F. Burien, Chief Juatice Oakley was called on to preside. On motion of Hon. F. R. T1.100, the Hon. Judges Betts and Ingraham were appointsd Vice-Presi dents, and those gentlemen thereupon took their stats beside the Chief Justice. On motion of Mr. Braproxp, Mr. Dodge was re- ques‘ed to act as Secretary. ‘The meeting boing now organized, Mr. H. Dodge read the minntes of the former proceedings. ‘Fhe Chief Jastise then calied on the committee appointed by the former meeting, to make their re- pat. Mr. B. F. Burien then rose and said:— Mr. President — With tae firat news of the wreck ofthe Arctic, the iact was made kaown to the mom- Dera of the bar of this city and of Brooklyn that mong her pasrengers wee four of their numbers. As to cheot trem, Mr. Samuel M. Woodraff, we goon learned lew repors of Captain Luce and his @mpanions, that thongh saved from immediate @esin, he bad been add<d, on the first day after the ivaster, so the long catalogue of thoze who bad al- easy perished. At our former meeting we gave to his memory the well deserved t-tbute cf our reapect, and to bis aflicted family and friends the arsuransa ef cur 8; mpatby intheir sorrows. The fata of the other three w en uncertain. According to the reo Bection of somo of tae enrvivors, Mr. Benedict, with bis wite, his companion in tuas fatal voyage, ‘and with some fifteen or twenty others, nad soured ‘8 place ip one of the boats of the Arctic, then na- | sccousted fur. This boat there was at that time geod reason to believe might ba picked ap by somo | ‘oue of tha numerous vessels coustandy travelling that part of the Atlantic. Btrong expectations were therefore very mataraly cherished, that ef the members of tho bar wiose fate was then anertaic, one at least might yet ehe returced in sifety to his family end frieuds. Ea regard to Mr. Sandford aad Mr, Brady, our feara at the time of cur first meeting greatly oat weighod our is. Yet in the midst of those feara the nope ‘wan still fondly clung to, that the same Almignty arm by which Capt. Lace and others had besn avatched from the very java of death, migut, per- bapa, have bien stretchea out to save them also fom a watery grave. It was therefore obviously Tin respect to all, aod cepecially ia the case of » Benedict, to wais fora time loag enoagh to ensble us to hear, not merely from Earope, bat fron otber Soper of the globe to ved from the wissiog boa’, or from pi 5 ht possibiy have been carris ‘o have assumod, at absolute necessity, that either of these, our brethren, still more,) that ail of them, had perished, ‘would have been worse than presumptaous; it would have given, before the time, to many hearts already pes and bieeding, but yet throbbing with hopes, faint, anew and still more fatal prog. Toe commitiee therefore waited until more than three | months had elapsed from the time of the disaster, before they feit themselves warranted to convene ir me of the bar. They could then longer delay the performance of the painfal assigned to them by the former meeting. the call issned daring the prosent hence, aleo, the present assemblage. Mr. Jastice, the friends and brethren over fate there so long hung the clouls of Hae et have gone whence they shall not retura— the land of darkness, and of the shadow of Let us reverentiy hope that befoze they the depths of the sea, they were eaabled it themselves to Him ‘ who sitteth above floods,” and that, when the waves and the over them, right hand to hold and comfort them. the most heedless observer that in the fatal accidents aud other disasters which have too painfuily miserable the year which has closed, and especially in that which took from our ranks, by a single blow, Fie “ile “5 2 E é = i E I mo than four of our number, fall of health and | and some of them in the very prime of their | i days, we have much material for serious reflections. heavy toils of our fessional life-the exac- ‘tens of busineas—the strifes and rivalries, and per- more even than a'l, the highest successes of the , are not friendly to such reflections, Tae event to teach us that is something more need- fal than wealth, more precious than learning, more desirable than fame, more important even than life Meelf. These are trite reftections, and I will not parsae them. Bat we shall not make the proper wre of this ooeasicn if we fail to read, bess ty? to despise, the lessons it conveys. these are among the thaughts personal to each one of us a3men, now forced upon us, there are others which we owe, as members of the pro- to memory of the dead. The places they filled in our ranks, and the qualities of and heart by which these places had been , entitle their memories to the homage of our t. It is to give utterance to this sentiment ‘that the present mecting has been convened. To aid, so far as they might, in the discharge of this doty, the committee have prepared a siagle of a eral nature, with 4 brief prean- Bie, which they have instructed me to submit to the meeting. Wi erm sir, [ will read it. My. B. thon read the following: The loss of the steamer Arctic, by which ao hearts and homes in onr own eommunity and ‘were stricken and desolated, has agsin brough fhe members of the bar of the cities of New Brooklyn. At our formor meeting we expressed our thments of respect ani sympathy, im reference to o professional brother, sainuel M- Woodruff, Bsy., whose death was made too certain by the int F tt he, or were left upon the ovean to mt a lin saible, a more dreadful death, were al ad, if eapeeted brothers, Faward Sand Henry A. Brady, Faq*. In view whieh bas now convened us, it ix, th our Abner Doeendict the sad roality Resolved, That while we tow with humility and revo ‘enee to Hin whese hand has fallen thua beavily upon vurranks, aud heartily sympathize wi It who have teen called to share in this great calamity, we deem it ong privilege, ae well as our (uty, along with (it tributes of bonor to the memory of our brethren, publicly to express the feelings of sorrow aud coudolenee oocasiow by thelr death, Mr. Batler continned—Thore aro those present who will offer, and speak to, separate resolutions epreeaing the cuaracter and worth of each of the deceased. ‘or reasons which will readily occur to the meeting, the committee have instructed moe to the propriety of #0 far de; from ‘the bream’ A pe i pe A. we Mechowe na movers taking the question upon any py of them. 1 will no longer occupy ths attention of the meot- encroash on & province ie astigoed do not k y is not from tous Py ‘ee, bet eae am anwiliing to cipate the remark In their own feel; ings, oud » sir, | ptim of the pream te and resolution moved by Mr. Butler, ani taes | ‘hatin the death of Milward Saudfori, 1 | if life, the profession and the State have sus. vy loons thes we pub on rvsord our hoo and ominous suspense, are no more. | He was there with his hand | rightful catas | which bas called us together to-day is well | there |, or if we read merely to | r | tat also | life, 1 have never The rT A 8 E EH Gy g § i 5g REGGE cil sé i i é 3 stricken down. Ought we not, therefore, to take close of the character of such a man? It will add greatly to our respect of his memory to consider that he came into public life as aa adven- He came without business support—relying on bis own intrinsic s:rength to achieve bis fortane. From an early period of his lite he was afllicted with delicate », aud an extreme feebleness of consti- tution at last ended in regular disease. Mr. Sandford wasie gentloma who, in every senso of tne word, was succcesfal. He was successful tiret by his untiring industry. He wasalways busy—always ovcapied tn pursuits advantage:us to hisowa improvement ag aman. Even his relaxations were such a3 tended toatrengthen the powers of his mind. Perseverance ‘wus a vromibent feature of his character, He was never abashed by diffisutties or checked: by il sac- cess. He relied on his ows industry, avd believed all things possible with power exertion. He ae onward where others faltered and retreated, (r. Sandford was always remarkable for @ weld to hia profeasion, and this tuust be added as one of the instruments which tended to his su cess. 2 pos weased other qualities, too, of social and sterling worth. He was an agrecable companion, with whom one could ever be pleased, end feom whoes eradition one could always learn. i have designated him as standing in the first rark of the profession, and bis fertility of revources was one of those qualities which placed him there. I have kuown aole mou who weuld Jook to him for assistance in difiicalties, as one capable of drawing light from pare tires on the altar of jorisprudence. His fersitity of invention was caauen to demonstrate bim aman of great ability. is views were always clearly pre- sented—always forcible, astute, and ingentous, not | Only in separating thiegs between which the line was obscare, but 1m illustrating given subje:ts on the basis of sound logic. He took things in 8 natu. ral light, and pressed them with a sagacity waith marks the ability of an accomplisued lawyer. He ‘Was &@ man of extraordinary erndition for his years, and for the extent of time which ne devoted > his big agees pe There was no man of greater learoing. it is not always a mork of great ability to bs over- fruitfol in cages; bat tne erudijion of M-. Sandford and his knowledge of cases, as well a3 the great ler gta to which his researches extend:d, ware re matkable. In the management of biscises be was equally successful. Hachewing toe idie aad taking bold of t-eir solid parts, ha coaverted all to tha ta- struction of the mind. Mz. Prea deat, this erudition of Mr. Sandford was not of thas description whict could take aught awsy trom his streng’h of mtod, but it added to his honor. Itis notso mack fox me as for those who i closely witaessed nis efiorta to speak of him. His eruditlon oovid not have existed witnout indefatigabie labor and endarance, and tists energy waich belonged to him was another remarkable trait in Mr. Saudford’s labors. Karly in the morning and Jate at night he worked —the midaight oil and the noouday sun alike witnessed hie aoors. He left nothing unturned while an cbject was to be attained, Whett er in law or fact, in scientific or professiozal knowledge of his case, nothing escaped tim. He was thoroughly agqusinted with ‘mea and taings, and coald chan the attention of a seeting b; his eloquence and facility in the use of Isogua; He brcught @ question home at once to the feelings of our common neture, for bis early educa ion had made him familiar with the powers of language. Whether it was to dencnnce, to persnade, or to as- sa}, language with bim was never wantiog. Al can bear testimony to the unrivalled power and beauty with which bis discourses were clothed. Theee traits, with which Mr. Sindford avhieved sac- cess, are in the power of others to acquire, and in every sence of the word he was a model for the young men of the profession. It is no wonder that, porsessing sush facuities, Mr. Sandford found him- self marching forward in life as on a triampbal march. Nothing, perhaps, more resembvied his march than the progress of that very snip ia which he met his fate. We are told that in his list mo- ments his demeanor was calm, and we may qell rest satisfied that he met his death with heroic despatr and submission. He deserves the tribute of our giateful recollections. He deserves that we should | retain snd.cherish him warm ia our memories. Mr. Epwonp J. Burn secoaded the resolution pro- posed by Mr. Lord, aud offered the following: — Resolve, That in the death of Abner Benedict, Esq., the bar of this city has loat one of its most valued mem= } bers, and the community a citi t worth and vines; aud Chat this me with his ly and friends in their deep Mr, Bure said—One cf the melancho! this dey deplore is the death of our hig | friend and associate, the Inte Abner Ba: permit me this day, sir,to pay a tribute to his memory, abd to recailto this meeting the memory of evente and incidents of his life avd some of the characteristics of the man. Abser Benedict was a native of Orgnge county, in this State, bora ia the year 1505. He was the son of Rey. Joni T. Benedict, a Presbyterian clergyman, the brother of Adia Bene- dict, Esq., of Pennsylvania, of Hon, George W. Bon edict, of Vermont, and of . Benedict, Esq., well known by his standing at our bar, as also by his connecion with public iastruction. Ho was edacated at the Philosophical Seminary of P-ac- tical eience, established by the late Stephen Van Rensecliaer, at Troy. After graduating he de- voted binecif to teaching, and for a short time, as Professor of Chemistry and Natural Scieace. He soon, however, entered on the atudy of law tn this city, where be wae admitted to the bar in the ear 1832, and practiced this§ profession util his leath. He lett a daughter at schoolio Paris, and | four sons in New York. Mr. Benedict was a min of strong sense and sound jadgment; be possesed a mind of t independence. His oon lusivos were strictly his own, (borrowing no color from tne au- thority of mere name,) and, when formed, they Were aescrted with seif relying boldness, and main- tained with unflinching firmness, He was a souad lawyer and a 80» advocate; as a speaker he was Canes impressive, sentitious and forci- ble. Ineocial fife his wit and humor abounded, and, ther with the habitual use of the most expressive and purest Inglish, gava to his oon- versation a somewhat opi, matic and sen- titious chsracter; bat under the control of his characteristic kindness of disposition, his wit was always without sting, and hia hu- mor free from offensive raillery. He possessed great enorgy and determination of vharacter, and called them into requisition whenever the object seemed to him to demand their exercise. He possessed a re- | fined and cultivated taste, not only ia literature, inart. He was ‘nprotending, soeking no unearned reputation and waking no ostentatious dieplay of his intellectnal eadowments or of hiv pros- perity, Mr, Benedict's sympathies were of the kigd- est character. He ws social, hospitable, an’ ex. oeedingly agreeable as a companion, never fuiliag, notwithetanding bis brasque manner, to t ea: his intimates wits the same potiteness that be extended to hie mere gh pss and strangers. While it is one of the highest evidences of the meritorions | charscter of the profession to which we belong, that our clisnts, those who know us boss, have the greatest confidence in us, it may still bo proper to eay that the clients of Mr. Benedict united in a re- merkuble degree to their confidence in him asa ia vyer, their personal esteem (amounting almost to affection) for him asa man. Mr. Benedict was ua- aftectedly benevolent. The poor he never seat empty away, nor passed without leaving his mite. Many of us remomber him as one of tue original members of that excellent and nolscloss charity, the ; events we | { Prison Association of New Y Here he labored agsiduously in visiting dungeons axd prisons, and in extending aid to thore who, on being | berated from confirement, needed the atd of some kind hand to lead them in the ways of honest exertion, and se- cure them from temptations to crime. Vor these arduous lahors there could be no consideration, no reward, except that which springs up in every be- revolent heart from the performance of a beaeyo- lentastion. The kindness of Mr. Bonedict’s disposi- iton waa such that he could und anid at the close of life, as was said by another: of re reflections at that whole course ing hove, written soon after the lows of the Arctic, by one who was a | Jovaly raved from her, and who had knowa Mr. | Benedict well for more than twenty years, may not be cut of place on this occasion, a4 containing @ | brief summary of the chatagteriatios to which [ have i 3 2 ae iE § eal ‘ree i Hi fe Hl i Fi bead = it EE ft [ 5 3s g : ° 4 g for Europe the last children to the country to the morning that he Pert od with nestuess with which he prayed fc pever return, was remarked him, and seemed almost io which was so .n to make them. less. Very eolemn, alao, was the he spoke of them to his brother an: their departure from just before The days we spent togetber at one of the German wi tering places in August last, have left engraven on sy Memory many delightfal recoilections. Tae last of theee deys was the anniversary of the weddin; day of wy friend. On that ovcasion Mrs. Bevedi tonchingly referred to the twenty yoara of their married life, and stated, as if anxious to make me a articipant of those cheerfal memo per: aps the medium of communication with her absent and now c7phan children, that those years hed becn ears of happiness, and that during that time no eh word had beea uttered by her husband to mar their peace. What more exprevsive record could de left of the merit of the deceased than ia found in this touching testimonial of the h-art. The soot where reposes beneath the troubled waves the form of our sociate, bears no monumental tribate— the keels of burried ships plow the waves that roll over him, yet his memory shall not perish, it will survive whue talent shall command respea and mo- ral worth be treasored in our hearts. Mr. Cuanuus A. PEanopy seconded the resolation Cflered by Mr. Bucr, and then proposed the follow: ipg:— Neaicoy That by the calamity which has elad our country in mourning, we have been called to lament the premature death of a member of our boy, in the person of Henry Austin Brady, whoye fluelity, gentleness and purity of character, justly endeared him to his friends, and render bis removal and loss to us, as itis to them, a source of unfeigned sorrow. Mr. Peasopy addressed the meeting substantially as follows:—-Mr. President, Mr. Brady was not long amongst uz, His career was suort—too short for him to bave left any very great or very numsrons monuments of it. In early life he was atiracted, I am told, by an irresistible taste to liscrary aad re- tired pursuits, He shonned society aud the turmoil and strife ot life. As a scholar at school, a3 @ boy in the pursuit of his profession,asa young man extering upon it, these characteria:ica strengthened and grew upon him aad absorbed him to a great extent. In the brief hour allotted to a notice of this kind, very little can be said or done towards aa adequate commemoration of the virtucs of those whose memories we hava assembied to conor, aad particnloriy so in the case of oxe whove life has boon of this retired ond domestic charactur—s> retired, indeed, that} but.few of us who met him profession- sly alone krew very much of him. Those, however, who knew bim socially, those wo cams in coatacs with him otherwise than fa tha pra ‘tice of our pro- fession, formed impressions of htm which it is hon- ovable to avy Diem Der Of socinty to Nave left behiad bim. His taste for literary parsuiss havicg with- drawn bim, in a great degree, from the mors a:tive Jabors of his profession, and brough* him into those walks of it wbich are pursued quietly avd fa the re- tirement of the office, we saw mach fess of hin than of those more mesculise, and pert more heroic charecters of whom we tave beard this efseraroa, ‘Tbis hterary taste, that so absorbed bim from bis eerliest youth until he arrived at manhood, afforded hiro a)most the ov)y enjoyment he pai, and afforded bom 4 grest deal of evjoyment. H's delicate natare and fine taste prepared him when ne ariived at man! ood to commard tie silective ant esteem of opother; and in the lady who afterwards bacame his wife, he foond ample scope for the colt.vation and indulgence of his sflvecloos and tese3. He mar tied early. That early marriaze gave hitn more com plete and perfect power to retreat from nis professton and from the turmoil of society, az it provided him with amp’e means of hving, and azcordiogly he ursued a quiet life for some three or four years. ‘is quiet, so congenial to him, aud apparently so indispenseble to his happiness and almost to his existence, could not, it seems, bz allowed to con- tinue. In three or four years after his marriage, hia lady, who affo'ded him all the happiness and pleasure that domestic life is espable of, was spatched from him guddenly by the band of death. Overwhelmed by this misfortune, robbed cf almost his only sesource, his home made a place of mourn- ing and lugubrious and dreary beyond his power to bear, he yielded to the persuasions of his friends, and I betieve of his clergyman, and certainly to tne advice of his physictan, and took a trip abroad, hoping by change of acene and change of occupa. tion, to restore the equilibriam of his mind and health to his debilitated body. After remainin; abroad some months, he sighed still for home. He was dissatisticd to remain longer away fiom it. We all know the strengih with which, under certain cir- cumstances, the human heart covets the pleasure of mourning, avd insists on indulging in those feelings of gloom and saduess which more judicious friends advise it to sheke off'and avoid. Mr. Brady resiste | the persuasions of his friends, and resolved to ra- i salt H il i g ij z : F a 5 & — 5 8 5 = | turn to that home where hes had been happy in the omestic circle, and to his only child. He ad, as you w, arrived near homo, ard wis almest on the point of gras that child in his embrace, aoi re the scenes of his happiness and joy whea he was suddenly called to his final account, He has left friends who lament him extremely. I understand that those who koew him in the social and domestic circle felt the greatest attach nent to him, and, with the character that he was possessed of, well, they might. He went abroad, as I have said, with a view of alleviating the grief he bore ia his breast by absenting himesif from scenes calculated to remiud him of the source of that grief. Bnt, sir, how little did he imagine, a8 he pursued his homeward track, his mind continually thronged with the recollections of the ecenes he was hastening to revisit—how little could he have imagined that he was, in this sudden manper, to find not « partial, but a total, a com- plete, an endless remedy for that krief which had driven him abroad! How little could le have sup- | peeed that he was destined, with but four hoars’ notice, to be reunited to her waose absence had ] rendered ‘him miserable and made the voyage iadis- Deneable to his health and to his life. “Mr. Presi- dent, to detain you and the andience longer uj0n thia subject would be to do violence to the proprie- ties of the occasion. There are others whose mo- mory is to be further noticed this aftercoon—men who have spent lives, and long lives, among us— one of tbem aman very much advanced in life, for whom we ail ent rtained the most profound respect; a second Tg so much advanced ia years, bat man whose life was ¢o thronged wits g-bat acts and great evonta, that he lived to accomplish what any man may be proud of at the age of fone seore yours. _ Mr. O’Conor then easii—I second the resolu sion just offered (Mr. Peabody's), and at the same time T propoe the followin g:— Resolved, That in token of our respect to the momory of our deceased brethren, Edward Sandford, Abner Bene- diet, and Henry A. Brady, Eeqre., and of crief for their death, we will wear the usual badge of i. yurning for thirty days. Mu. Prestornt—The duty assigned to me of pre fenting the resolution which I have just offered it little mere than formal; and perhaps I might very well have satisfied myself wit Pinp-est per- formance of it. Tray, “ perhaps,” becanse I do not think the presen e of very deep-felt vesonat emo tion ia at all times the best sid to the delivery, in fitiing language, Of appropriate sentiments on ocow sions of tts Kind. It is my misfortune, sir, in rela- tion to this event, to feel more deeply thaia could be desirable on the part of any gentleman called upon to cxpress sentiments in regard to tae iadividaa’s who have possed from among us, or in reference to the sad event which has deprived us of their society, the public of their services, and which has scattered desolation throognout’ the land. My resolution, sir, refers to all tiree of the honora bie gentlemen and Tespected membors of our pro feesion, who remain to be taken notice of in this way by their breshren at the bar. I had the plea- sure of knowing them ail woll. With the worthy founs gentleman who bas been last spokea of (Mr. rady) Thad but a slight acquaintance—en: however, t> make me sensible of his merits, cause me to unite with the rest of the commanity in deploring his early death. With Mr. Benedict we wore all familiar. His worth and his morits are well known ¢o us, and have been weil and fall of by bis personal, able and talented frie 5 ir. Burr. was, however, my fortune—to be for twenty years gone down with him, they would find no fau't | with the exprearion might venture to say that i so rary Be, ty and eminent§worth cau secure to an individual, an a taney in the enjoyment of his domestic circle— ¥ was dear to bie heart and well calculxted to engoge and rivet his affections—enjoying the admi- pid i Gf all the members of his own lesion, and having attracted 10 himself, if no} ina larger msa- paving Sagerg least in aa équal measure, with any other man in the country, the esteem and admira- ‘Jon of there out of the profession. In the full tide of success in that profe for his 8} id abilities, the band of death in the rin which perhaps a strong: minded bo'd man like him might best wish to die—not stricken down by disease and left to dia @ lingering, peaccfol death, but suddenly called upon, in the folnees of temporal prosperity, in the fulness of health, surrounded with every blessing that is to be desired, to part with ali this and to go hence to that final Jadgment where the righteous meet their reward. a3 summoned, sir, he died as be bad lived. No fear blanched his cheek. No unmanly regret disturbed his last moments, bat he passed away with a conaciousuess that he had lefé sae men an unblemished name, that the ladustry of his life had ensured an ample compstensy to those who were ¢epesdent upon him, and that be had left to his country and bis coustrymen the examvle of an honorable, Isborions life, faithfuily devoted to the performance of bis daties in the most arduous of all profeavions, and that one which ealla for the highest degree of labor, and the reatest measure of unwavering fidelity. This fie the end of my friend, Eiward Sandford, it may be asked, “Why, theo, deplore his death 7” Why? I:may say with t:ath I do not deplore it for his o@n sake, for his was an end which eter: good and honest man may well desire may be his own. But, Mr. President, I deplore it for the sake of that omg family vhich is deprived of his protection. ceplore it for the sake of this community deprived of the services of decidedly one of its most valuable members, I deplore it forthe sake of hia pro fessional brethren who have enjoyed his acqaaint- ance snd his friendship, and who must pass through the remaining portion of their earhiy pilgrimage deprived of one of the brightest of their Seoompart ing sighte, and of one of the sources of pleasure which I, at Jeaat, and ail of my age-aud yond it, might well have counted upon,andcoanted Upon with infinite pleasure aud infi: ite satisfaction. In Edward Sandford thebench has lost a most diligent, valuable, ard skilfal pioneer; those engaged —and of necessity, in seeking jusative before your honors, hove lost one of the most fzithfal and’ reliable aud trusted champions that could be found withia the wide circuit of North Amarica; and we, sir, many of ua here, bave lost a much loved personal friend. This loss wo pal See but it is impossible to recall or to supply it. Wecan do no more than pay this tribute of honor to his memory; and’ in that tiibute of respe:t I with all my heart unite, coa- ecious that if J oould bat Gnd lenguage to express the depth ct my regard and the extent of my adai- ration, Edward Sandford would not be today with- out a fitting enlogy. Mr. James T. Brapy then rose and eatd: Mr. Chairn an—I beg leave to seoond the resolution which has just been offered, and [ am also instracted to propose to the meeting the foilowing resolation :— Resolved, That in tomiimony of our heartfelt aympathy with the bereaved family of the deceased, the ascretaries of this meeting transmit to them respectively, copies of the resolutiona passed at this ieating » Bigmed by the officers thereof. Mr. Chairman, however ineffectual any langaoge within my control may be to express woat I fel 19 Teferen‘e to the sed event that we have convened to deplose, it yet reeme to me plain thas if I soould temein silent on this occasioa, I might well be the tubject of dererved censure oa the part of move thoo one of my professional bretiren. Even at my time of life, Mr. Chairman, the loss of a friend is a fe jons calamity. {tbas been esid that after the age of thirty we make no new frieuds. {t certainly moy be said that after even that comparativel, youthfal period of iife we can afford to lose noae, Inust speak of Edward Sandford, and chiefly of him, beeause he was amongst the friends «hom I cne:- ished in my heart of hearts, I not only owe to him that gratitude which is due from every member of our much reviled, but stili honorable, profeasion—to bim who sustains or adorns it—bat I owe him in addition an unextinguishable debt of gratitude for a Personal rervice, great in its intrinsic value, and grea‘er still in its chivalric disiaterestedness. And yet, Mr. Chairman, I feel how incompetent I am at this time to say aught worthy,of the occasion or of him. I have not the feelings appropriate to the time. I see this assemblage, I see these grave faces, 1 listen to these resolutions and to the elo- quent remarks of the gentlemen who have prece ied me; but it ia still impostibie for my natave to realize that indeed Edward Sandford is no more. In this hall, Mr. Chairman, for many years so fuil of hie presence—in these chambers, where the tones of bie voice stil seem to linger, it is most difficult to understand that he be seen and heard no more. I am impressed, as you have been, with the sad, and what seems to be conclusive evidence, that he, too, has been engulphed in the ocean. I know that when that gallant ship went dowa, as if from offection towards her commander, she sent up a fragment of herself to presecve his life, and if she could but have known what gratitude to her might have proceeded from this bar if an tion had been made in behalf of oar departed friend, he, too, might bave been saved. Iam glad that onr brethren, o\der than mysoif at the bar, have done him the jnstive to acknowledge taat he stood ia the front rank of the profession. Even if there could be envy in our profession—and, thank (od, it is almoet entirely deatitate of that’ degrad im. , however contracted, could fail uulee~ no jealousy, Fe ceasing to him thia deserved meed of eer He was first in our profession, and he would have stood foremost amongts lawyers in any country, and, I think, in any time. We miss him every our lives. We mies him from the honorable daties of the age We miss him from the in- tr lleotu: enoounters incident to the dis charge of those duties, and we miss him in the intervals of leisure so delightful to us the bappy fraternal associations which we should always cherish and maintain. We shall long continue to miss him. Toere has been no instance in my memory where the loss of any lawyer has occasioned 60 large a void; acknowledged by the ublic at Jarge, acknowledged by tne jnnior mem. pers of the bar, who were always #0 certain of aid when they applied to Mr. Sandford for his great personal rervices, avid acknowledged by his ag320i ates, nore of whom could be so eminent or solearned that ve Bi gd not derive important ald from his cooperation. | will spe.k a .ew words about some of the prominent characveristics of oar frieod. His ees gd ‘wae at once electrical and comprehensive. le raw any subject tuat was presented to him ata glance, in all its general bearings. He applied him- self to its investigation with ao emount A diligence and persistent industry never surpassed aod vat seldom equalled. He seasoned atmvelf all i winutest details actil, be»omivg master of the sub- ject, be presented it with that g-eat clearness of thought, and ease and facility of expression for whien [| think I am justified waying he wes peculiarly preeminent, 1 never have heard frm the lips of Edward Sandford in any of his mest abstruse and complex arguments to the bench, or in addresses that he mace to the jary, one siogie sentence that was in- volved, intricate, or not capable of being underst rod by the cullest comprebension. He was emphatically avseful man. He was, too, a ready mon by organi- as well as hed Cet ‘al Ges Cy? . en- gage in avy provers! employmen' might be presented to him. Here we discover one ‘Ot the errors of his mental construction and of his life; for if he had discrimynated more intelligently—and his position would have justitied the discrim' in the rey and characier of the cases to which he applied his inteliectual powers, he would have ac- quired equal fame and more fortune with less labor and better health, It has been well Ea the learned geatioman who cegetcos me, that he was to the bench a most tant; but even here his prodigious continuons in- vesticating labor presented a copiousness of cits- tions and references that made the very fecundity and abundance of the results of his labor less valn- able than they might have been under other circum- stances, He left no source of law wacxplored from which he bring thetaintest light to illamine the path of the tribunal before which his dusics were discharged. I think I have stated those qualities of our friend in this general way, in » manner which will be received by the ‘ofession as true. I believe that the younger mem- ra of the bar who bad an opportanity co avail themselves of the aid of My. Sandiord, in the inves ie asain i E tt He | z ie a i! it i 5 | fi i : il 3H it ai 5 i 4] ft 1 i yl En ee 2 38 ii ts F 5. i i i af e: E ue ie F 4 : F ie “Es 3 E 2 i | ES TEEEREe i Z E é i =e i is Caee in the incident an exhibi- ticn of that discipline which made him what he was. Ieee in it the predominance of the intel- Jectual over the physical man. I see, and regret to see in it, the want of that sanguine characteristic of temperament which fag have led bim to make & greater effort for his him to save itfor our There was nothing of fear in the man’s death. His aub- mission to fate was calmly reasoned, logical cou- clusion against the doubttul chances of | Va aN ers or boats, and folding around him this deliberate reault of the best jadgment which he could exer- cise under the cisoumstances by which he was sur- ronaded, he went down into ihe realms of eternity with a cold dignity not inferlor to that of the fallin; Caxar. But he wert down full of honor and fall the appreciation of whut was once said by a distin- gu'shed lawyer ond statesman, in language #0 beau- tiful that I msy be pardoned for stepping aside to read a few lites to you. He no doubt bad nad his attention called to this exquisite passage in the ob- servations of the great Webster on the great Story, when the latter departed this life:— Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It in the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together. Wherever hor temple stands, and 40 long as it is duly honored, there is 4 foundation for social security, the ppenesel happiness and the improvomant and progress of our race, and whoever labors in this edi- fice with usofulnese and distinction, whoever cleara its foundations, strengthens its piliars, adorns its oatabla- tures or contributes to raise its august dome still highor in thosky, connects himself iv name and fame and cha- racter with that which is and must be as endurable as the frame of human society. 1% ia moat gratifying for us to know that, by his labors, our departed brother assisted to maintain, and ars capacity, to adorn, the tem le 50 well described in the eloquent words I have just quoted. It is our intention to cherjsn the memory of that departed brother. It wad cur wish that an elo uence greater than that which may fall from any lips to-cay could be employed to rehearse his merits in the terms of which they were deserving. [a these days, and in the places where we perform oar duties, the gift of eloquence, rare in itself, is rarer of exhibition, besanse it i t suited to tre practi- eal charactsr of the times ; and wherever the germ of it may be fonnd to exist in onr commupity, it is likely soon to be extinguished by the nature of the raqubrensente that professional duties present. There is, a8 my brethren «f the bar will excuse me for faying upon this ccvasion, one voice tuat may bo silent Lo ha: ; there are lips that may not move ia this assembiage, from whisk I had hoped to hear a enlogy on the deceased. I anticipated tre pleasure repent & presentation of his virrnes in diction, that would not have been nnwor by in @ funeral oration over Cicero, if he had died in the seaate house on the of his Jast oration against Oataliae, I know that it would have been deligh\ful to ua if we could have heard a deliberate and thorough exami- nation of the intellectual apd mora! character of the deceased emanating from that source—from him who yet survives vigorous ip physical and intellesta- al health, biipging the classic polish of « highly cute vated mind to ado: n the bench, which bis genius and Jabor bave done so much to make distingaished. But we have been favored with such tribates to the memery of the deceased, from those who will net spurn the name of baviog been his competitors at the bar, as would make our departed brotherfeel proud, if anything occwring on earth conid be cught to his notice. I hope, however, that some- thing more erduring thon words may be hereafver employed to perpetuate the memory of our deseased friend; and, when the stone which is thus to be appropriated shall be p'aced where it attract and gratify the gaze of t-ose to whom we desise to trenamit the example of Edward Sandford, 1 hope that the pen of him to whom I haye jast now refer- red, may be employed to farnish & suitable insc: tion for the monument, in the language whic! Ciceroepoke. Until that happy moment arrives, I trust I may be excused for referring to the deceased in that Jap; Mees as having | be‘onged to those to whom would tly apply the weil known line of the ancient poet— Quigne sui memores alios feeere merendo. Mr. Wm. M. Evarts moved the following: — Resolved, That the proceedings of this mooting, signed by the officers thereof, be published under thoir di- = 8 rections, Carried unanimonsly. The President then inquired if any other gentle- man desired to address tue meeting. No response Ko cr » the Chief Justice declared the meeting adjourned. Court of Common Pleas. Before Hon. Judge Daly. Jan. 12.--Floyd T. Ferris and A. Morton Ferris, against John F. Seaman and Ann S, Seaman, his wife—This suit, which has been on since Mon- day last, was yesterday closed on both sides; the re- spective counsel willsum up on Monday. The ob- ject of the suit isto recover damages for an alleged trespass committed by the defendants and their la- borers, upon property alleged to belong to the pisin tiffs. Both parties are owners of adjacent tracts of land, near —— Dayvel Creek, and fronting on the road to Kingsbri ‘ On part of the front there iaa valuadle le quarry; on this, the de- fendants blasted and q d marble to ere:t a dwelling house on their Jand, cup by way of jucation, tito the property sel ol wu pro; on whisk foo was committed. The’ ax complained of are 1d. Several surveyors were exomined on both a'des, to prove the boundaries of the respective parcels. Witnesses were called b; Messrs, Wm. Fullerton and F. R. Coudert, conuse! on the partof the plaintiffs, who testified that the; had run the boundaries to the courses distances in the deed, and that the acts of trespass comp)ained of and anmittei, were committed within tuch boundaries. They also testified that the point of beginning of plaintiffs was described in the deed thue—« Inning at a point on the east side of the 6ld dock;”’ while the last point of jants, on the creek, was‘‘at a poiot thirteen ahd a half licks on wag scribed a8 Pi the wi tract-—defendants’ land being the northerly part of the same tract. Deferdants’ counsel contended that the poixt men- ticned in the deed, ae the point east of the old dock, (in Plaiarifis’,) and thirteen and a baif binks, east (in Gefexd nts’) were not one and the same; and that by changing this point on the creek, » diff cent Mich would brtog tae fend arid upon ‘eithts which wo og tne land quar upon in the boundaries of defendants. | " “Crashed Out.” Naw Onveans, Jan. 5, 1855, James Gornon Benyerr, Esq. Sim—In the political articles ef your journal, I often meet with the expression “crushed out,” en- closed within qootation marks. Indsed, the expres sion ia now generally adopted by the press, and is commonly attributed to the present Attorney Gene- ral of the United States, who, in his noted letter to the Boston Post touching the democracy cf Massa chneetts, is thought to have first used the word in this compection. 1 ef rig) to Greens, eegenioe for sell $52, page 9, ine cui prove poem, entitl “The first Age,” you will fad the faowiag peneance, omnes ~- Ken ofa ae “He rested, trembiing, of the ocean, his fetlocks leved by tts flashy foam, snd looking out upon it, sobbing, in search of a safety which the as the land, denied. in the race of life, the unfortunate, busted by its ills, with hope crash- ed out, stand npon its atmost verge, | find no joy beyond, tll death strikes them through, to and he forgotten.” be number for A oril, 1852, of Graham, was pub lished long before the Attorney Generai’s | 5 | Does the Attorney General read Graham? Most troly, yours, &c, Pua Tayra. | examined the subs‘ance particularly tilt ‘The Mesquite Tree and tte Gum. Naw Yor, Dec. 20, 1854. Guvrimmn—Your note of the —th inst, in which you request informetion conceraing the mes- quite tree and ite gum, wae duly received,and F with pleasure avail myself of the first leisure mo: ment to reply to your interrogatories. ‘The tree commonly known ia this country'as the “mesquite,” was first discovered by Dr. Edwin James, formerly assistant surgeon in the United States army, while attached to Col. Long's explor- ing expedition to the Rocky Mountains, thirty-six years ago. It isa variety of the acacia, which ia found so abundantly in India, Africa, and other parts of the East, ard posscasos many properties in common with other species of that group of planta What the exact geographical range of this tree is, ‘we are as yet unable (with a great portion of our ter- ritery unexplored) to define; my own observatiomm, howerer, warrant me in awerting confidently tha. it is only indigenous to the great plaits of the Weet and South, extending far beyond the limits of most other varieties of trees, and it would seem from ita locality to have been planted by an All-wise Provi- dence with special reference to the wants ef the oo- cupants of a section of country suited to the growth of ne other tree. Botween the twenty-sixth and thirty-sixth parallels of north latitade, within the Lig snes: and hundred and third meridians longitude, found everywhere, often coustituting vast woodland, and is, indeed, al most tne only sylva of the section. It is also found in vary many the Rocky Mountain range and the Pacific ocean ; but it appears to floarish batter and to ob- tein dimensions in the vicinity of the Gils river than in any other looality I have heard of west. feta tinyae the parallel of thirty-three un, of degrees, ry the direction 1 have travelled,) the trees gradually become smalier and smaller, until at last (a mere bushes, and finally, om arriv- ing te latitude of thirty-six degrees, they en- Te po pir hical range of the mesquite Wistert Matty Seal peee 500,000 square 1) BD oper: ties, some of which will be enumerated in Re ne- nel, renders it available, and I have no doubt it is destined to become highly important to the fatare i er of a large section of oar new territory. It watree of e.ort, scrabby growth, tne stock averaging from four to fifteen inches in diameter, and seidom attaining a heigot, ingens, ite top, of more than twenty tect. The limbs are short, crook- ed and thickly studded with 'ong sharp thoros; the leaves pinnated, and th: leaflets are long and ellip- tical; the barks derk gray, resembling that of the peach tree; the wood coarse grained, brit- tle, and the heart, which constitates nearly eu- tee tree, somewhat like the darker varieties of ma- ogany. it pace readily, even when green, with a bright, cheerfulflame, leaving @ residue of coals almost as perfect in form as original wood, making a very hot fire, and is, indeed, the best fael I have ever seen, hickory not excepted. It brpecaepi durability in an eminent deg-ee, and is, in consequence, mah used for building and fercing, in Southern Texas and Mexico, Ag an evidence of its lasting A Seeger T have seen pleces of the wood, ina pertect state of preserva- tion, embedded in the stones of an eld rain upon the Nueces river, in Texas, which mast have been exposed to the weather for scores of rs, a9 many of the stones bad beoome disintegrated, and crumbled away with age, while the wood re- mained round. The miesquite is often found upon very elevated and arid prairies far from water courses, bu’ will, I be- lieve, only grow upon sou of the first uality and #0 well fa this fact establisned, that the mesqait ves or“ flate,” as they are called, are sought after ia western Texas as the mo t desirable spot for culti- vation, and they have thus far proved ex .eedingly productive, The trees stand at wide intervals, upon ground covered with a dense carpe’ of verdure, and a stranger, ou approaching one of the groves, cannot resist tre impression that he nas @ peach iy before him, so striking 1s tre resemblance. The blossoms put forth in Jane, and « fruit spneers in tha form cf @ long, slender bean, from Which the Mexicans make a cooling and pleasant beversce, These beans ripen in Ssotember, when they fall to the gronnd and aff rd sustenance to wild horses, Ceer, antelope aud turk-ya, The pod is highly seccharine and nutrisions, and is used for fcod mee vatives of the plaian, as well oe those west of the Rocky Mouvtains, Toe ladiaus upon the Coloraia and Gila rivers pulyerise and press em into. cakes, which are said to be very palatable, They make most excejlent forage for horses and mules, and there are many iastances where they bave sustained those of the California emigrants from-pe rishing npon some of those long and tiresome “jornadas,” or sandy and barren deserte, towarde the Pacific. A tree very similar to the mesquite, called the “' carob tree,” is found ic the south of a. It af- fords & bean like the mesquite, which ts imported under the name of the“ Alquaroba bean.” It is made ure of tor food in Spain, and is there called matitnted the only f of the Pegiish carsiey 01 ouly forage oy cal horses during the war of 1811 and ‘12. The species of acacia from which the gum arabic of commerce is obtained (the acacia vers} ie ahi withered-looking, iow tree, with a crooked stem oe! oo ees quite. ‘The gum of the mesquite exudes from the trunk and bravches wherever there is an abrasion in the bark. It is also produced when a cut is made with asharp instroment, in the same mavper as the sap is drawn from the sugar maple. 1t commences exad- ing in July, and continues until the last of Sep- tember. It is, at first, in a semi-transparent and nearly fluid state, but s>0a bardens by to the sun and air; and if there is no rain, (and there ig seldom any at this season,) it forms the bark ia lea a6 large as a hen’s ogg, can bo col- lected in large quantities, and I it will eventually become an ii article of com- py) Ya all the purposes of the gam arabie e shops. Specimens of the gum which I collected last su m mer, were submitted to Dr.John Torrey, who has Sak ie Eee upon the sub- ject, whic! irom sO tinguiehed & source, Will'be read with titerests—- sf “The collection of his expedition to the ted to that it con- tained, I pu’ in the ‘‘Annale of the New York Lyceum of Natural History,” in 1827. 161-254.) The mesquite wes found to be anew species of the genus prcsopis of Linnaeus, to which I gave the name of Fp onrpawi and a figure of the plant accompanied the ¢ ‘The emi- nent botanist, Mr Benthom, who has made a specisl study of the leguminosee, considers the section algarobia of Prosopis as a distinct us. His “Flora of North Ame- views were adop! In tre myself; ao that the ams there decribed oF algarodl ere descr: aa “a ia rT ‘6 and Gray, H. N. Amer., 1, cg more other ¢ are Datives of weetern coast of South America. All of a long, compressed , Which is filled with s sweet, nutricious pulp, CY) nite pods used food by Major Long’s party. They comstitute, ‘ako, & mest valuable fodder for animals, “Por several yoara I have known that sgum allied to gum arabic exuded from the trees, Specimens of ago brought to me by diffarent tra’ fexico and Western Texas; bat I never a supply of it from you afew dava ; pyved request I ‘submitted. it to examination, aad com- pared it with the well known gum arabis. “The mesquite cr aigarbia gum is intermediate im appearance between the darker kinds of Fo where they were wounded. were long from New I = arabic end cherrytree gum. Portions of it, ever, ere almost Colorliss, and have the roughish surface and cracked stracture that belong to the better kinds of gum arabic, a that you sent ™ was probe not gat! with care; for some of it has pirticles of attached tor Inuaps, oF dlasem‘nated through thea, ‘On testing the solubility of tre ‘in cold water, 1s dlmeived as ready gt aril, and the maci- » though of a brownish tint, was deatitate of iltcrasan or other enplesonnn Bren it strongly adhesive. Whon the sointion ie poared inte # sballow vessel, and left to spontaneous: suepoention, & leaves the gam in haba gn og bril- = piates, having al! the qualities of the origi- “fe Soon cannot be gathered without a small Portion of dirt being ontengled in it, the would be to dissolve it, in water ahd. let tk pe antelatccing Loxo SaxtEwonBaker, the who was convicted for a in the clerk yy conteeoed | at ee fh, Mz lerk, bi fi imprisonment in the State p Rng Ad Be leaves ihe pate prison be will be 68 years okd-—im the year 5. et