and in excellent spirits. On Monday last, however, he complained a little of indisposition, which he supposed was temporary. He left on the adjournment of the Court and proceeded to his house. That was his last appearance in any earthly tribunal. Mr. Webster then suggested that a meeting of the bar be called for some future day-say Wednesday next-to take such steps as might be deemed proper to attest their appreciation of the eminent services, legal and political, and the striking virtues, of their deceased brother.

Judge Shipman said: "The very high official position of the late United States District Attorney will justify the call for some public recognition of his death; but, aside from that, his very eminent public character and private worth require that the Court should recognize its misfortune in the sad event, and that there should be a more formal recognition of it than is possible now. The Court will, out of respect to the memory of the deceased, now adjourn, and the Clerk will enter this order on the minutes."

The Court then adjourned.

The United States District Court not being in session, no proceedings were had therein on this day.

GENERAL TERM OF THE SUPREME COURT.

HON. GEORGE G. BARNARD Presiding.

At the opening of the Court, Judge Pierrepont arose and said: "May it please your Honors, I arise to announce the sad news of the death of that eminent lawyer, statesman and patriot, DANIEL S. DICKINSON, United States District Attorney for the Southern District of New York. He died suddenly last evening at the house of his son-inlaw, Mr. Courtney, the Assistant District Attorney. On a more fit occasion, when the Judiciary and the Bar, and other mourning citizens shall have assembled to do honor to the memory of a patriot whom the nation will mourn, addresses will no doubt be made appropriate to the sad event, and expressive of the high appreciation which is generally accorded to the great virtues of the illustrious deceased. I now move that as a mark of respect to the memory of the late Mr. DICKINSON, this Court do now adjourn."

The motion was seconded by Wm. M. Evarts, Esq. Presiding Justice G. G. Barnard said that he and his associate Justices fully concurred in the remarks which had been made by the learned gentlemen of the Bar. Upon the occasion of the decease of so great a lawyer and statesman, it was eminently fit that this respect should be paid to his memory. The Court would therefore order an adjournment until

Monday next, at 11 A. M., and direct the Clerk to enter these proceedings on its minutes.

SUPREME COURT-SPECIAL TERM, CHAMBERS.

HON. THOMAS W. CLERKE Presiding.

At the opening of the Court, Major-General C. W. Sandford moved the adjournment of the Court in the following language:

I have just heard, with great regret, of the death of Mr. DANIEL S. DICKINSON, United States District Attorney for this District, a gentleman who has stood high at our bar, and has been a conspicuous man in our State and nation. He always possessed the esteem and respect of his associates, and his loss will be deeply felt by the profession. This is not the time or place to pronounce a eulogy, or to descant upon the merits or abilities of the deceased, and I will, therefore, simply content myself with moving that the Court do now adjourn.

Mr. John McKeon seconded the motion, and said that, as he understood a meeting of the Bar would shortly be held on the subject of Mr. Dickinson's death, he would refrain from making any extended remarks. Judge Clerke then adjourned the Court, expressing his entire concurrence in the remarks made by counsel.

SUPERIOR COURT-TRIAL TERM.

Hon. JOHN H. McCUNN Presiding.

Henry L. Clinton, Esq., announced the painful intelligence received of the death of the honored United States District Attorney, Daniel S. Dickinson, and, in a few remarks tributary to his great worth, eminence and distinguished public services, moved that the Court stand adjourned, as a mark of respect to his memory.

Gunning S. Bedford, Jr., Esq., seconded the motion.

Judge McCunn, concurring in the remarks made, fully appreciating the eminent worth of the deceased, and the loss sustained in his death, ordered the motion to be entered on the minutes, and the Court adjourned.

SUPERIOR COURT-TRIAL TERM-PART II.

Hon. SAMUEL JONES Presiding.

At the opening of the Court Robert E. Holmes, Esq., in a few words

announced to the Court the fact of Mr. Dickinson's sudden death, delivering a short but happy eulogy on the character, accomplishments and virtues of the deceased. In accordance with a custom which, he said, appeared to prevail almost solely among members of the Barthat of adjourning through respect for the memory of their distinguished brethren-he moved that the Court adjourn, as a mark of the deep regret felt for the loss of the distinguished departed.

The motion was seconded by A. S. Cohen, Esq., in a few appropriate and eloquent remarks.

Judge Jones ordered that the Court should be adjourned to Monday next, and that the Clerk enter a suitable record of the facts on the books of the Court.

SUPERIOR COURT-SPECIAL TERM.

Hon. CLAUDIUS L. MONELL Presiding.

At the opening of this Court, Thomas B. Barnaby, Esq., arose and said, that, although called into Court to transact professional business, he owned it his duty to apprise the Court of the melancholy intelligence which had just reached him of the sudden death of the Hon. Daniel S. Dickinson, the District Attorney of the United States for the Southern District of New York. Mr. Dickinson, he said, had held many high and responsible offices, and had won the respect and esteem, not only of the Bar, but of the whole community. He moved, that, out of respect for his memory, the Court do now adjourn.

The motion having been seconded by Mr. Boardman, Judge Monell remarked that he had, a few moments previously, heard of the death of Mr. Dickinson. The shock, he said, had come to him with the greater suddenness and force, from having seen Mr. Dickinson within a very few days in apparent full vigor and health. He had known Mr. Dickinson long, and at one period intimately, and had always entertained not only the greatest admiration for his talents and learning, but the highest esteem for his goodness, affability and urbanity. Mr. Dickinson had filled many high positions of trust and honor, and was always distinguished for the ability and fidelity with which he had discharged all their duties. Upon the death of such a man it was eminently proper that every respect should be paid to his memory. The Judge concluded by ordering Mr. Thomas Bennett, Clerk of the Court, to enter an order, adjourning this Court until Monday morning.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS.

Hon. CHARLES P. DALY Presiding.

At the opening of this Court, Augustus F. Smith, Esq., addressed the Court as follows: May it please the Court, since coming into Court I have learned to my great surprise and regret, that Hon. Daniel S. Dickinson died last night, after a very brief illness. In common, probably, with many members of the Bar, I had no very intimate relations or associations with Mr. Dickinson, for the reason that but for the very brief period of twelve months he has been a resident of the city of New York, and practising here among us. It is now but twelve months, I think, since he was appointed to the responsible and diguified position which he has filled to his own credit, and to the satisfaction and benefit of the Government which he represented in that office. Mr. Dickinson, however, not being known to us so much as a practising lawyer in our midst, was known to us by reputation. His reputation was not confined to the southern portion of the State, where he practised for so many years, but reached us, not only as a lawyer, but as being connected with prominent political parties, from all parts of the country. Mr. Dickinson had been at one time named for the most distinguished position to which the suffrages of the American people can call any man. I am not able, sir, to speak from personal knowledge of him, further than I have now done. It is unquestionably appropriate that the Courts of this City and State should extend to him and to his memory some appropriate appreciation by an adjournment, if the Court approves, and that there shall be such an entry on the minutes as shall show what has been done in view of the bereavement which has befallen us. I move, your Honor, that the Court do now adjourn.

He

Amos K. Hadley, Esq., seconded the motion for adjournment. had known Mr. Dickinson for twenty-five years, and ever found him to be a man of ability, learning, and great purity of character. As United States Senator, Lieutenant-Governor, Attorney-General, District-Attorney, and in all the public offices which he has filled, Mr. Dickinson discharged the duties with honor to himself and complete satisfaction to the public, and sustained as high a reputation as any man in the country. He was called away full of honor, but at a ripe old age, with the esteem and love of his fellow-men.

Mr. Brewster, in the course of a very effective speech, said that, during the whole career of Mr. Dickinson, it was worthy of remark, that though he had filled many high offices, and taken part in very warm political contests, he had never been charged with the commission of a single impure, corrupt, or unjust action.

Judge Daly, in answer to the motion, replied as follows: I have also

known Mr. Dickinson for more than a quarter of a century. I was associated with him in the Legislature nearly twenty-five years ago, and the intimacy there, or which began immediately preceding that period, has been continued, so far as could be, in the different course of our different lives. I knew much of his character, and am, therefore, able to appreciate the justness of all that has been said respecting him. He was a distinguished man, and deservedly distinguished. As a lawyer he was remarkable for his acuteness, for more than the usual share of legal learning, and for his untiring industry. To the close of his protracted life he filled offices not usually held by men of his advanced age, and fulfilled their duties with the strength and vigor of youth. He was, as the seconder of the motion has remarked, direct and outspoken, and, like all strong and earnest natures, he very frequently brought himself into collision with those who differed from him in opinion. He filled important public stations, such as the Lieutenant-Governorship of this State, the representative of this State in the Senate of the United States, and the distinguished legal offices which he has held subsequently, in all of which he was distinguished by his great private integrity, by his disinterested regard for the public interests committed to his charge, and by the great influence which he exercised, whether appealing to his fellow-citizens upon great public questions, or addressing those Legislative bodies to which the disposition of them was intrusted. The same earnestness of character, the same strength of conviction which marked his whole career pervaded his public speeches; and he was, therefore, as the same speaker has remarked, distinguished for his earnest eloquence, for his impressiveness, and for his power in working conviction in others. The convictions imbedded in his own nature were impressed upon his words, which kindled by their eloquence, and animated and influenced those to whom they were addressed. He was, as the same gentleman has again remarked, during nearly the whole of his life, associated with one political party, and the earnestness of his character was manifested by his fidelity and zeal in upholding the political views of that party on great public questions. He was particularly earnest, and especially as a Senator of the United States, in his constant opposition to all the public measures which he thought might exasperate any portion of the country and bring about the calamity of civil war or national separation. He was, therefore, known, and perhaps as prominently known as any man in the Northern States and sharing the Northern interests, as a warm upholder of what were regarded as the rights of the South. Apprehending, as I have frequently heard him express, that the course of public measures would lead to a conflict with the Southern States, and possibly to civil war, he was opposed to nearly all the measures which have precipitated the recent course of events, guarding and defending the interests of the Southern States in those rights