Republican Herald

From the N. Y. Courier and Enquirer.

UNITED STATES CIRCUIT COURT.--At the opening of the Court, yesterday morning, Job J. White, the seaman who was last week convicted of an assault with a dangerous weapon upon Joseph Andrews, a Portuguese mulatto, on board the schooner Kenduskeag, in the harbor of Santa Cruz, was arraigned, and sentenced to be imprisoned at hard labor for the term of one year, and to pay a fine of ten dollars.

White is a tall, well built fellow, of about 25 years of age, with a countenance of intelligence and firmness, but free from any mark of sensuality or ferocity. Though dressed in the coarsest sailor's garb, one would judge him to be calculated for a master spirit among his fellows. On the occasion of his first commitment, he displayed remarkable address in the cross-examination of witnesses; and on his trial his demeanor, though modest, was that of one alive to his rights, but prepared cheerfully to abide the issue. While in Court, yesterday, he sent to the reporters' table a sheet of foolscap written over in a very clerkly hand, which turned out to be a poetical dream, wherein our prisons, courts, and ministers of justice are treated of in a strain of playful satire. The following, with a few verbal alterations, is his account of his trial:

"On my right hand a group of jurors sat
And listened some time to a lawyer's chat.
When he had finished, a ugly negro came--
A Portuguese, and Andrews was his name.
He listened to an oath--then kissed the book,
And told his story with a savage look.
It made the blood within my veins run cold
To hear such lies and contradictions told.
Then two men came up, and under oath
Made the first a lie--else they were liars both.
The lawyers then for Uncle Sam and me
Made speeches, eloquent exceedingly;
But having done, they took a softer strain,
Forgot their rage, and were good friends again.
Last, rose the judge with a majestic air,
And as he pleased, discussed the whole affair.
He told the jury to enforce the law,
And punish some to keep the rest in awe.
The obedient jury to their room retired,
And found a verdict as the judge desired
So I was done for--miserable sinner!--
While the Court adjourned and went to dinner."