decided. For a time Mr. Cruger walked the room in a state of intense excitement. At length he sent for the landlord; that person soon made his appearance.

"Bullock," said Cruger, "have Jingle Foot well rubbed, fed, saddled and bridled within an hour and a half."

He then sent for General Haight, who was attending court at Angelica at that time. When that gentleman appeared, he said:

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General, I want you to take charge of my business during this term; put over what causes you can, and try the rest, for I am going to Albany."

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Going to Albany !" exclaimed several gentlemen at the same moment.

"Going to Albany, Cruger? What can you be going to Albany for?" asked General Haight.

"To prevent this county being disgraced by a Federal clerk," was the reply.

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Why, good heavens, Cruger!" said a gentleman present, "you can't reach Albany in time to prevent that appointment now."

"Yes I can. Jingle Foot will land me safely in Albany between this and Thursday noon, or I am mistaken in him; at any rate, he and I will make a trial to overturn the nice plans of these infernal Federalists," said Cruger.

He then gave the general some further instruction concerning his business, and in due time word came that Jingle Foot was ready at the door.

This was in the month of June. The sun was just going down as Mr. Cruger mounted his horse and rode out of the village. Night and day, over hill and dale, he pressed forward, stopping just long enough for refreshments and a little rest. Jingle Foot seemed imbued with the same determined energy as his master-seemed to gather fresh strength as he sped on his course. Such was his progress, that, just as the old Albany town clock tolled the hour of noon, Cruger drew him up in front of the City Hotel.

"Take such care of that horse as you never did of any other," said he to the ostler, who came forward as he rode up; and the noble animal was soon safe in the comfortable stables of the hotel.

At the appointed time the council of appointment assembled. As Allegany county was the first on the list, that body was in the act of naming the person recommended by the Federalists for clerk of that county, when Daniel Cruger, to their great astonishment, stood before it. He was not long in relating the true situation of affairs in that remote region, and matters were soon arranged to his satisfaction.

After resting a day or two at Albany, he again mounted Jingle Foot, returned to Angelica, and the Democrats of Allegany county rejoiced in the appointment of a clerk belonging to their own party, having learned a lesson that healed all dissensions among them. This is but one of the many circumstances which, during Mr. Cruger's political career, attest his almost superhuman energy.

In person Mr. Cruger was below the common hight; thick set, though not corpulent; well formed, having one of those figures which bespeak the true gentleman. He was graceful and easy in his manners. His conversation was refined and cultivated. Both Mr. and Mrs. Cruger possessed that hospitality which always filled their house with intelligent and pleasing guests.

During the session of the courts at Bath, their home was always the headquarters of the judges who presided. There Ambrose Spencer, Yates and Van Ness, rested from their labors in the court room; there, too, John C. Spencer, Elisha Williams, Samuel A. Talcott, John A. Collier, David Woodcock, and other eminent lawyers of the day, forgetting the collisions of the bar, were entertained by Mr. Cruger and his accomplished lady, while many an agreeable hour passed by enlivened by pleasing and refined conversation.

It was the custom in those days, when the presiding judge arrived at a county seat for the purpose of holding court, to receive him with public honors; and when the hour for the session to open arrived, the sheriff, in full uniform, attended by his assistants, carrying their badges of office, waited upon him at his lodgings, and escorted him to the court house; and in the court room every thing was conducted in the same formal manner. The dignity of the bench was sustained by the dignity of the bar, and the people were thus led to believe that justice, though incumbered with many formalities, was sacred and awful. Though those customs would not answer for Young Americamuch older now than at that time-yet a recurrence to them is not without profit and interest.

In the year 1828, Mr. Cruger sustained an irreparable misfortune in the death of his wife. She died at Syracuse, while her husband was a temporary resident of that place. Soon after this event, he returned to Bath, dividing his time between his profession and various other business matters in which he was engaged.

In the year 1833 he was married to Mrs. Shepard, a highly respectable widow lady residing at Wheeling, Virginia. Soon after this, he invested his property at Wheeling, and became a resident of that town. Here he lived in great respectability, occupying a prominent and honorable position in society, regarded as an intelligent and honorable gentleman. Early in June, 1843, while attending a meeting of the directory of the Wheeling Bank, he was stricken down with apoplexy, dying within a few moments after the attack.

SAMUEL H. FITZHUGH.

His Peculiar Characteristics.-Contradictory Traits of his Character.-His Independence. His Firmness.-Born at the Hive, in Maryland.-Enters Jefferson College. His Popularity with the Faculty.-An Interesting Incident.— Troubles with Ridgeway, the Kentuckian.-Call me Ridgeway, Sir, not Ridge.-Fitzhugh insists upon "Ridge."-Incurs the Hatred of Ridgeway.-Scene in the Ball Room. The Insult.-The Manner in which Fitzhugh Resented it.-Pulls Ridgeway's Nose.-The Result.-Fitzhugh Graduates and Commences the Study of the Law with Judge Howell, at Canandaigua.-Is admitted to the Bar.-Removes to Wheeling, Virginia, and Commences Practice. His Marriage. Early Death of his Wife.-Removes to Mount Morris, New York.-Enters the Practice. -Is appointed a Judge of Livingston County.-Character of the Bench and Bar of Livingston County.-Judge Fitzhugh on the Bench.-The Perjured Witness.The Arrest.-The Scene in the Court Room between two eminent Lawyers.— Fitzhugh enters into a Partnership.-Fitzhugh's Learning.-His Literary Taste. -His Favorite Authors.-Did Shakespeare understand the Art of Budding Flowers? - Proof that he did.-The Quotation. -Judge Fitzhugh's Love of Fishing. Singular Fishing Excursion.-Meets a Strange Fisherman.-Fitzhugh's Disgust at his Manner of Fishing.-The Reconciliation.-Amusing Incident at Geneseo.-A Cup of hot Coffee out of Place.-The Garrulous Lawyer.-Fitzhugh's Witty Reply to him.-The Wood Thief.-Amusing Anecdote.

WITH the life of Judge Fitzhugh there are connected many pleasant recollections. He was a scholar of fine attainments—a lawyer deeply and thoroughly read in all the learning of his profession. He possessed a strong native intellect-clear and forcible reasoning powers; his education was enlivened and vitalized by association with men of varied acquirements. Thus, he was a man of no ordinary mind; while his manly nature, his generous and high-toned impulses, his sincere and chivalrous sense of honor, his blunt but disinterested honesty, constituted him a gentleman by intuition.

It is true, that there were dissimilar features in his character, an abruptness in his manner- certain ex

tremes in his disposition, which on a slight acquaintance were difficult to reconcile; but when those traits were thoroughly understood, they rendered him attractive and pleasing. Singularly independent in his nature and judgment, he was not easily influenced by authority, numbers, or popularity. If a man, an idea, or sentiment pleased him, he did not stop to consider the popularity or unpopularity connected with the man, the idea, or sentiment; he adopted the one as a friend, the other as a pleasure. There was not force enough in the universe to coerce him into a measure; but a friend could lead him by a hair. If there were in his character many blemishes, they were counteracted by many excellent qualities. With him, hypocrisy, smooth-lipped deception, honeyed treachery, soft and fawning deceit, were loathsome and hateful. Finally, he was one of those men who, like Mark Antony, spoke "right on."

Samuel H. Fitzhugh was born at the Hive, Washington county, Maryland, February 22, 1796. After a thorough preparation, he was admitted into Jefferson College, Pennsylvania. This institution was then very popular with the southern people, and many sons of the rich planters were the fellow students of young Fitzhugh. His frank and sunny nature rendered him a favorite with all the students, while his studious. habits commended him to the faculty.

During his first year in college, an incident occurrred which exhibited his character when smarting under an insult. There was in the college at that time, a student by the name of Ridgeway, frɔm Kentucky. Large and powerful in person, haughty and overbearing in his manner, he was frequently engaged in collisions and broils with the students. This person had conceived a dislike to Fitzhugh for his straight out and independent nature; and because he insisted upon calling him Ridge, instead of Mr. Ridgeway.

"Fitzhugh," said he, one day, "my name is not