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 tho 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 dignified 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.

Amos K. Hadley, Esq., seconded the motion for adjournment. He 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 asso-· ciated 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 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

interests,

which he considered were guaranteed to them by the Constitution. But when the Southern people broke loose from the Constitution—when, without cause or pretence of complaint, they raised their hands against the Government of their fathers, declaring for separation and a distinct national existence, Mr. Dickinson, with the same consistency of character, the same manly earnestness and the same love of country, that had previously influenced his conduct, took his ground, at the very outset, against them, and upon all occasions raised his voice and exerted his influence in strengthening the hands of the Government in its efforts for the preservation of the nation. It is not very easy now to measure the extent of the influence of such a man, or what it accomplished in that perilous crisis. He encountered then, as he had encountered before, strong personal opposition, from men with whom he had been politically connected during the principal part of his life. But with the instinct which springs from love of country, with the high view it enforces of national duty, and from the strong convictions of his reason, he repudiated all personal and political considerations that conflicted with the great duty before him, and from the beginning of the contest to the close, brought his great powers, his earnestness and his eloquence, to the task of overcoming the arguments of opponents, possibly as sincere as himself, and of convincing all classes of the duty of standing by the country in its hour of peril. This alone, apart from his high professional abilities, in the important legal offices he has filled, would be a reason for paying this public mark of respect to his memory; and the time of any tribunal is well employed in drawing attention to the example of such a life. To all this must be added genial private qualities which make his loss sensibly felt by friends and associates, especially those friends no longer looking forward upon life, and whose views of it are more influenced by the contemplation of the years that have passed than by the expectations of those that are to come. I shall, therefore, direct the adjournment of the Court, in compliance with the motion that has been made, as a proper tribute to a man who, regarded in every aspect, professional, public or private, has been so useful, so honorable, and so prominent a citizen.

During the delivery of the address, his Honor was much affected.

COURT OF GENERAL SESSIONS.

Before Recorder HACKETT.

Information of the death of the United States District Attorney having been communicated to the Court by Assistant District Attorney Hutchings, the Recorder, as a mark of respect to the illustrious dead, adjourned the Court.

MARINE COURT.

At the sitting of this Court, Judge Gross presiding, Mr. Joseph Bell, Assistant United States District Attorney, in a few words, moved the adjournment of the Court in consequence of the death of Mr. Dickinson. He spoke of Mr. Dickinson's painful illness, and of his own personal relations to him, and said he did not feel himself equal to the task of eulogizing the private or public character of so great a man under the circumstances.

Mr. Edward Patterson, in some appropriate remarks, seconded the motion for adjournment.

Judge Gross, after expressing his entire approbation of the motion, and the sorrow felt by the Bench, the Bar, and the country, at the loss sustained in the death of Mr. Dickinson, ordered the court to be adjourned till Monday.

FUNEREAL OBSEQUIES.

Brief funeral services were held on Friday evening, April 13th, at the residence of Mr. Courtney, preparatory to the removal of the remains for burial at Binghamton, which removal was effected on Saturday, April 14th.

He was interred at the cemetery of the village of Binghamton, Sunday, April 15th, and the following account of the reception by his friends and fellow-townsmen, and the last sad rites to his remains, has been selected from the columns of the Binghamton Republican:

THE VILLAGE IN MOURNING,

The Court House, whose grim outline at all times presents a solemn and imposing spectacle, to-day had that effect heightened in the highest degree. The four massive Corinthian columns were covered with crape, from the base to the capitals; and floating streamers of the same material were flying from end to end of the massive structure. In the cornice of the arch appears the words: "WE MOURN THE Loss of our DISTINGUISHED FELLOW-TOWNSMAN:-PATRIOT, STATESMAN, Friend :— HON. DANIEL S. DICKINSON."

There

was not a block in the whole village that did not exhibit some token of bereavement, and scarce a countenance that did not betray