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The Daily Dispatch: February 25, 1862., [Electronic resource], The latest Rage among the "Swells" of Baltimore. (search)
Hustings Court. --Hon. Wm. H. Lyons, Judge, presiding. The Court, not having been in session on Saturday stood adjourned until yesterday by operation of law. The Grand Jury appeared pursuant to adjournment; and, having heard the evidence in a number of cases, indicted Alticert L. Drayton, Joseph Heller, James P. Neagle, Wm. McDonald John Harper, and John Williams, for felony. The Grand Jury then adjourned until the 5th day of March. The trial of Albert L. Drayton was proceeded in, and resulted in his conviction. The term of his imprisonment in the Penitentiary was ascertained to be two years.
ion of his colleague. Not only was he surprised, but astounded and agonised beyond description by this motion, made by a colleague without consultation, in a matter so vital to every interest of the country. The people of the country had shown themselves entitled to reciprocal confidence, and he never would consent that they should be shut out from the public deliberations of their representatives. At some length, and with great earnestness, he opposed the motion of his colleagues. Mr. Lyons, of Virginia, said that he entertained the highest respect for the judgment and patriotism of the gentleman from Tennessee, but that he had matters to submit to the action of this House which he could not, and would not do in open session, and he therefore concurred in the opinions of Mr. Swann, that the doors should be closed. Under a rule of the House requiring the doors to be closed upon motion of a member, seconded by another, the Speaker ordered the hall to be cleared of all but