amount of stock held by each respectively, at the time of contracting said debits.'

The act incorporating the Baltimore Flint Glass Company provides, that no stockholder shall be liable in person or property for the debts of the company.

The acts incorporating the two other companies, one for the manufacture of shot, the other of iron, contain no provisions in regard to the personal liability of the stockholders.

INTELLIGENCE AND MISCELLANY.

Obituary notice of the Hon. Bushrod Washington, late one of the Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States.

This distinguished judge died at Philadelphia, on Saturday, November 26, 1829. The following notice of his life and character is taken from the Boston Daily Advertiser. It is understood to be from the pen of one of his associates on the bench.

The death of Mr. Justice Washington is an event, which cannot but cast a gloom upon all the real friends of our country. He was born on the 5th of June, 1762, and was of course now in the sixty-eighth year of his age. It is well known that he was the nephew, and we have a right to say the favorite nephew of President Washington. The latter bequeathed to him by his will his celebrated estate on the Potomac, Mount Vernon, which was the residence of this great patriot during the most brilliant periods of his life, the delightful retreat of his old age, the scene of his dying hours, and the spot, where by his own order his ashes now repose in the same tomb with his ancestors. To him also President Washington gave all his valuable public and private papers, as a proof of his entire confidence and attachment, and made him the active executor of his will. Such marks of respect from such a man, the wonder of his own age, and the model for all future ages, would alone stamp a character of high merit, and solid distinction, upon any person. They would constitute a passport to public favor, and confer an enviable rank far beyond the records of the herald's office, or the fugitive honors of a title.

It is high praise to say, that Mr. Justice Washington well deserved such confidence and distinction. Nay more. His merits went far beyond them. He was as worthy an heir as ever claimed kindred with a worthy ancestor. He was bred to the law in his native state of Virginia, and arrived at such early eminence in his profession, that as long ago as 1798 he was selected by President Adams as a Justice of the Supreme Court upon the decease of the late Judge Wilson, of Pennsylvania. For thirty-one years he has held that important station with a constantly increasing reputation and usefulness. Few men, indeed, have possessed higher qualifications for the office, either natural or acquired. Few men have left deeper traces in their judicial career of every thing, which a conscientious judge ought to propose for his ambition or his virtue, or his glory. His mind was solid, rather than brilliant; sagacious and searching, rather than quick or

eager; slow, but not torpid; steady, but not unyielding; comprehensive, and at the same time cautious; patient in inquiry, forcible in conception, clear in reasoning. He was by original temperament, mild, conciliating, and candid; and yet was remarkable for an uncompromising firmness. Of him it may be truly said, that the fear of man never fell upon him; it never entered into his thoughts, much less was it seen in his actions. In him the love of justice was the ruling passion,-it was the master-spring of all his conduct. He made it a matter of conscience to discharge every duty with scrupulous fidelity, and scrupulous zeal. It mattered not, whether the duty were small or great, witnessed by the world, or performed in private, every where the same diligence, watchfulness, and pervading sense of justice were seen. There was about him a tenderness of giving offence, and yet a fearlessness of consequences in his official character, which I scarcely know how to portray. It was a rare combination, which added much to the dignity of the bench, and made justice itself, even when most severe, soften into the moderation of mercy. It gained confidence, when it seemed least to seek it. It repressed arrogance by overawing or confounding it.

To say, that as a judge he was wise, impartial, and honest, is but to attribute to him those qualifications, without which the honors of the bench are but the means of public disgrace or contempt. His honesty was a deep vital principle, not measured out by worldly rules. His impartiality was a virtue of his nature, disciplined and instructed by constant reflection upon the infirmity and accountability of man. His wisdom was the wisdom of the law, chastened and refined and invigorated by study, guided by experience, dwelling little on theory, but constantly enlarging itself by a close survey of principles.

He was a learned judge. I do not mean by this, that every day learning, which may be gathered up by a hasty reading of books and cases. But that, which is the result of long continued, laborious services, and comprehensive studies. He read to learn, and not to quote; to digest and master, and not merely to display. He was not easily satisfied. If he was not as profound as some, he was more exact than most men. But the value of his learning was, that it was the key-stone of all his judgments. He indulged not the rash desire to fashion the law to his own views; but to follow out its precepts with a sincere good faith and simplicity. Hence he possessed the happy faculty of yielding just the proper weight to authority, neither on the one hand surrendering himself blindfold to the dictates of other judges, nor on the other hand overruling settled doctrines upon his own private notion of policy or justice.

In short, as a magistrate, he was exemplary and able, one whom all may reverence, and but few may hope to equal.

But after all, it is as a man, that those who knew him best, will most love to contemplate him. There was a daily beauty in his life, which won every heart. He was benevolent, charitable, affectionate, and liberal in the best sense of the terms. He was a Christian, full of religious sensibility, and religious humility. Attached to the Episcopal church by education and choice, he was one of its most sincere, but unostentatious friends. He was as free from bigotry, as any man; and at the same time that he claimed the right to think for himself, he admitted without reserve the same right in others. He was, therefore, indulgent even to what he deemed errors in doctrine, and abhorred all persecution for conscience' sake. But what made religion most attractive in him, and gave it occasionally even a sublime expression, was its tranquil, cheerful, unobtrusive, meek, and gentle character. There was a mingling of Christian graces in him, which showed that the habit of his thoughts was fashioned for another and a better world. Of his particular opinions on doctrinal points, it is not my intention to speak. Such as they were, though good men may differ, as to their correctness, all must agree, that they breathed the spirit of an inquisitive Christian.

He was a real lover of the Constitution of the United States; one of those who assisted in its adoption, and steadily and uniformly supported it through every change of its fortunes. He was a good old-fashioned federalist, of the school of the days of Washington. He never lost his confidence in the political principles, which he first embraced. He was always distinguished for moderation in the days of their prosperity, and for fidelity to them in the days of their adversity.

I have not said too much, then, in saying that such a man is a public loss. We are not, indeed, called to mourn over him, as one who is cut off prematurely in the vigor of manhood. He was ripe in honors, and in virtues. But the departure of such a man severs so many ties, interrupts so many delights, withdraws so many confidences, and leaves such an aching void in the hearts of friends, and such a sense of desolation among associates, that while we bow to the decree of Providence, our griefs cannot but pour themselves out in sincere lamentations. S.

Trial of a Deaf and Dumb Person.

[The following account of this curious trial is translated from 'Hitzigs, Zeitschrift für deutsche und ausländische CriminalRechts-Pflege. Berlin, 1828.' Some notice of this trial has already appeared in this country, but it is believed that the present is more full and detailed than any which has been hitherto published among us.]

A young man named Filleron was brought before the Court of

Assize, at Paris, in August, 1827, charged with housebreaking and petty theft. Deaf and dumb from his birth, he had never enjoyed the advantages of education, and had neither kindred, friends, nor any regular occupation. Abandoned by his parents, he was received into the Orphans' Asylum, and afterwards transferred to the Bicètre, from which he ran away. Since that time he has lived in Paris entirely isolated, without a home or any means of support, except what he received from the sympathy of some other deaf and dumb persons. M. Paulmier, the successor of De l'Epée and Sicard in the direction of the Institution for the Deaf and Dumb at Paris, was employed as interpreter, and it was surprising, with what ease he made himself understood by the prisoner, without the assistance of the signs adopted in the Institution. He also understood and explained the meaning of the prisoner with great facility Filleron entered the hall with a wrinkled brow and a vacant countenance, and having thrown a careless glance around the assembly, he remained motionless. The president, with the assistance of M. Paulmier, asked him his name. This is the only word of which he knows the letters. He answered by signs that he was called Filleron, and signified with his fingers that he was nineteen years of age. The president desired that he might be asked where he was born. M. Paulmier, by motions and gestures, endeavored to convey to him the idea of a child in the cradle and at the breast. Filleron made signs that he had come from a great distance, and that his father was a mason; and raised and lowered his hands several times to imitate the motion of the waves. M. Paulmier explained his meaning to be, that he was born on the sea-coast. M. Paulmier then inquired of him his place of abode, by laying his head on his hand as if asleep. For answer, Filleron scratched his hand as if afflicted with a certain cutaneous disorder; by this, M. Paulmier understood him to mean, that he lived in the Bicètre. The bill of complaint was then read, which charged, that Filleron, (after he had run away from the Bicètre and had come to Paris,) by creeping under a door and breaking a pane of glass, had effected an entrance into the Orphans' Asylum in which he was educated, and had stolen the clothes of one of the young men; that three days after he again entered the Asylum by jumping over the wall, and after having eaten in the kitchen, had purloined a coal-scuttle, three copper stew-pans, and an apron. articles were delivered by him to one Letertre, a well known deaf and dumb cook, who invites customers by blowing a trumpet. Letertre had deposited the articles with a wine merchant, who, having his suspicions awakened, caused Filleron to be arrested. The president desired M. Paulmier to make Filleron understand that he was accused of theft and housebreaking. M. Paulmier imitated the motions of a person who takes away a coat and runs

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