The votes for the several managers did not widely differ.
The highest, 114, was given to Mr.Bingham; the lowest, 105, to Mr.
Stevens.

The latter was failing in health and was considered by many members unequal to the arduous work thus imposed on him.

The Democrats presented no candidates and took no part in the election of managers.
The aggregate ability and legal learning of the Managers were everywhere conceded.

Mr.Stevens in the period of his active practice held a very high rank at the bar of Pennsylvania.

General Butler was in the profession of the law, as in all other relations, somewhat peculiar in his methods, but his intellectual force and his legal learning were recognized by his friends and his enemies--and he had a full quota of each.