Order being now restored, the counsel commenced interrogating the witness. "Michael, were you on your way to Illinois, from this city, on the 20th instant?" _Witness._--"Was I in Illinoi? and sure I niver was in me life; and if that spalpeen of an Agint beside ye says I was, he lies, bedad he does!" Notwithstanding the loud calls of "stop, stop," by his lawyer, he went through with the sentence, and stood, a thumb in each arm-hole of his vest, looking defiantly at me, and apparently ready for the next question. _The Court._--"Now, Michael, you must not be in such a hurry. Try and understand what is said to you thoroughly, before answering. I shall not permit any indulgence in the use of harsh names to any of the Government officers, or to any one else in Court." _Witness._--"And didn't they stop me, and trate me the same as a male thafe, your Honor?" _The Court._--"Well, that's what we want to find out; but you must not talk, only when you are questioned; remember that." _Counsel._--"I will put the inquiry in another shape. Were you a passenger on board the steamboat for Albany, on any night during the present month?" Mike remained speechless for a moment, staring at the Judge in the most penetrating manner. That functionary finally broke the silence, "Well, why don't you answer?" _Witness._--"And sure, your Honor, didn't you just tell me to remain spacheless when questioned?" _Court._--"_Only_ when questioned, I said." _Witness_ (to the counsel).--"I _was_ on the stameboat, and the Agint there knows it, so he does; and them other big feeling chaps there (pointing to the Deputy Marshals) knows it too. And I'd like to see 'em try to delay me in that way agin," at the same time looking fists, if not daggers, at those innocent officials. Here the patience of the Court, as well as the counsel, became well nigh exhausted, and it was suggested that Michael should stand aside for the present, as the same facts could be proved by another and more intelligent witness. The new witness went on to describe the affair from the commencement, including the detention at Albany. The cross-examination, however, showed that so far as any "imprisonment" was concerned, it was literally "false." It was shown that all had the "freedom of the city," while in Albany, having frequently visited some "distant" connections--_distant_ about two miles from the police station--and had been well boarded, away from the station, at the public expense. That in fact they could have gone anywhere they chose, a few hours after their arrival in Albany, or on any succeeding day.