CURRENT NEWS.
i
. Forty deaths frcm cholera have occured in I
Memphis during last week.
The Queen of Spain is said to be writing a
woik of the Happiness of Nations.
English ladies arc adopting the fashion ol
Wearing belts with a small dagger attatchcd. ;
The gossips again talks of EDWIN BOOTH'S
marriage to a fifth Avenue lady.
Noah is probably the first person who
wont to sea for fear of being drowned.
General Sheridan has ordered that one
half of the Louisiana election Commissioner
shall be colored men.
A little boy in New York made a kite out I
of his fathers seven thirties—the rope broke j
—and he let them tlicker.
The N. Y. Times says that "every A men- '
can is entitled, as his birthright, to life, liber
ty and the pursuit as a plan of reconstruct- i
ioD."
A public man of 18C7 who holds to the :
principles avowed by Lincoln in 1860 is de !
nounced as a copperhead or rebel sympathizer
by the radicals.
Thad. Stephens declaicd in tbcßump House
that "the fragments of the old shattered Con
stitution struck in the kidneys of somo Sen
ators and trouble them at nights.
The latest story is that Wilkes Booth is
now the captain of a pirate vessel and the '
terror of ihe China seas. llow about that j
back bone in the Washington museum?
Kossuth has been unanimously chosen to j
represent the city of Waizen in the Ilungar I
ian Diet. The voice of the great orator may I
now be heard once more in defense of the j
rights of his native land.
Attorney-General S anbery, now at Capon
Springs, is in poor health, aud he will not re- j
turn to Washington for two or three weeks-
Pike, of Arkansas, charged with violatirg
his parole by "writing incendiary article*,'
aays he never gave or had any parole to
violate.
A Mr. lloreau, of Nobltsville, Indiana, j
who helped Robert Fulton build bis first j
steamboat, still lives, hale and hearty, at the
age of 97.
ThaddeusStevens is the latest LL D. The
University of Vermont did it for him. Tiie i
LL. may refer to Loyal League. The D. is j
obvious.
The body of Colonei D. A. Gilmore, late
Postmaster of Chicago, was found in the Lake I
yesterday morning, at the foot of Harrison !
street. His funeral will take place today
S'nce Stanton can no longer borrow car
nage horses from the Quartermaster's De-\
partment, he proposes to resume his profes. j
sion of the law, devoting himself especially to ;
"conveyances."
"A Carol of the Harvest, for 1807." by
Walt Whitman, wiil he published in the gal
axy for September. It is a iong chant cele.
brating the bounteous harvest of the present
year. Look out for a terrific yawp.
One M. Bureau is said to have fled to
France with §000,(100, abstracted from the
government funds HI Vera Cruz. The pecu
lisrity of the operation suggests the probabi!
ity that this M. Bureau bolouged to the
Frcedmen's Bureau family,
-
And now Pennsylvania University has
made Edward McPherson, clerk of the llou e
of Representatives, an LL D. The cullid
pusson, who sits broom in hand at the door
marked ' Fur Representatives only," comes
next in order.
Sir Frederick Bruce is said to have per
petrated the following conundrum: "Why is
an antagonist of Mr. Gladstone in debato in
the House of Commons like a telescope? Be
cause be (Mr. Gladstone) draws him out.
sees through him, and shuts him up."
Gail Hamilton (and Gail is a stiff Radical) j
says of Brownlow, that "the rcklessness
profanity and uucleanness of his speech are i
such that it is difficult to conceive of anv '
combination of circumstances which should
make it the duty of any man to propose or
support him as leader in any measure affect :
ing the welfare of society,"
Sioux Chief Big Mouth is very mad because j
the llou. Thomas Cave,an English M. I'.,now
exploring the far West, will not become his
son-in-law. The case differs from that of;
King Theodoras of Abyssinia, who only wants
to be si n-iu law to euino Englishman.
A Philadelphia despatch says that S'anton
arrived in Philadelphia yesterday, and that
tie will visit the white M >untains—possibly '
to invite those eminences to fall upon him and 1
cover him. A Washington dispatch says that
Stanton and Mrs- Stanton have left Wash
ington for a visit of a few weeks to B >ston
whe-e they will be the guests of Ilun. Sain"
nel Ilooper. The public have already been
given full reports of the little fellow's voyage
up Salt R ver.
The White Mountains will be a relief to the
eye of Stanton—everything looks so terribly !
blue in Washington.
Caligula made his horse a consul. It is
doubted if there was as much made out of
that horse as Stanton has made out of the
go/ernment stables in the past five years.
Thaddeus Stevens has writtn a letter to the i
Radicals of Pennsylvania that they may be ]
in danger of defeat in October "through 1
apathy." He means through Democracy.
The London cosnioplilian maliciously says
that Harvard conferred the degree of LL. D
upon Mr. Peabody, not for his learning in
the law, but?or his other "great gifts."
The Archbishop of Canterbury stated at !
a recent meeting of the Hawaian Missiun, |
that he knew few English ladies who could
bear comparison with Queen Emma, of Ilono- 1
lulu, in a knowledge of the English language
and literature.
&)tdemocrat.
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II.VRtKV SICKLER, Editor.
TUNKHANNOCK, PA.
Wednesday, An?. 2 1,1 SG7.
ADVERTISING AGENTS, EX*
' CHANGES, and all others interested, wil
| please note the CHANGE of TITLE, ofthis
j aper, from THE NORTH BRANCH DEM
; OCR AT to WYOMING DEMOCRAT.
General Sheridan, who, for some
| months past, has been playing the tyrant
! in bis military satrapy, was by order of the
President relieved from further duties in
j that department, and Gen, Thomas placed
' in command. Joe. Ilolt, has also been re
leived from his duties at Washington,
STRANGE ATTEMPT AT SUICIDE. —One
I ol the nio-t whimsical and unheard-of means
ot "shuffling off this mortal coil (< occured
lin St. Louis, on Wednesday. 24th nit. A
woman living in the lower part of the ciiy
| named Meyer, who, from ill treatment of
j her husband, had become disgusted with
; lite, attempted to make away with hersell
' in the following very unique manner;
She took a six pounder cannon ball which
i her husband had brought from Vivksburg
as a relic, and which had been lying on the
mantle piece for years, and having a rather
' indistinct conception ot the terrible effects
i of the projectile and the manner of using
J, at length hit upon an L lea. She went
, to Edward's grocery and purchased fifty
I cents worth of powder, returned home and
procuring a breakfast plate she placed ii on
the floor. She then poured the gunpow
; der upon the [date, and put the cannon ball
'on the top of the power. Having thus got
her artillery into position, and everything
in readiness, she then sat down over the
\ loaded plate, and with a burning taper in
j one hand fired tiie powder. The effect of
I the explosion may be imagined. The ex
; plcding powder burned and blackened the
| woman's lower extremities, while the ball,
| which she vainly expected to end her mis
eries, did not stir frcm its position. The
! unfortunate victim ofthis insane attempt at
' self destruction is lying in a precarious con
dition from the effects of her foolhardy at
tempt upon licr own life
|
A NEW HOG I)I*T:U*E, it is reported, has
' broken out among the hogs of South Mis
| soura, which is killing off nearly all attack
| c:d by it. At fir-1 the disease was snppos
t .J to be hog col! ra, but close observation
j shows that the symtorns and actions are
quite different froiii that disease. The an
imal lias much the appearance of having
I what i* known among farmers as the "blind
| staggers " A* iong as warmth and circula
tion are kept up, the anim il shows no signs
i of disease, but as soon as it is quiet and
inactive tiie suffering appears intense. In
many instances the eyeballs are turned
completely around and frequently burst.
The bog attacked generally lives from
two to three days. Ail remedies yet tried
have proved ineffective, and many farmers
are in dismay at the ravages of the disease.
NEW FRACTIONAL CURRENCY. —To meet
the demands of the pubiic, there will be is
' sued in a few weeks an additional curren
icy note of the denomination of 15 cents,
i The principal embellishment:. on the face
i ofthis note are an engraved likeness of
j General Grant on the right hand, and op
posite on the left of the note a likeness of
Lieutenant General Sherman. The back
of the note, like all other late issues o
Government money, will be green, with
(the figure 15 ou each side of the note.
The bronz: figures which have thus far
: been placed upon the various denomina-
I tions of United States currency, will be
' omitted on this issue, and for safety a pe
culiar kind of paper substituted.
When Sherman snubbed Stanton in the
; presence of the President, while his army was
marching in review up Pennsylvania avenue,
!he gave bis view of the status of the Secre
tary of war by calling him "nothing but a
(I—d e'erk;" and he said if the president, who
was, by the Constitution, the Commander
in-Cuief of the army, should order bun to
take a musket and stand guard lie would
cheerfully obey the order,but that ifStan'on
! ordered bitn to do any Hung, he would tell
him to >. o to a very hot place.
Not a single Jacobin, from Stevens, the
i high-priest, d iw n to the "creatures" whom
i Greelv so unmercifully lashed, even at
j tempt to reply to the unanswerable argu
i meuts contained in President Johnson's
late veto of the mote <•! y b il- '1 liey burl
epithets and billingsgate at the President
—act use him of being a traitor and Con
federate —but to bis logic and facts they
have no answer.
EVIL EFFKCT3 OF TOBACCO.- - That the
use (if tobacco must necessarily injure the
health ar:<i produce an early death, was ill
ustrated lat. lv in the case of John Thomp
son, in Salein, Indiana, lie was such an
inveterate lover of the weed that he was
known as ''smoking Johnny.,, He died
last week at the age of one hundred years.
A sad warning to smokers.
As island, one quarter of an aero in area
and covered with a heavy growth of bush
■ es and trees, twenty feet high, that had
I long been stationary in a pond at Tyring
i ham. Mass., floated the other day a full
I half mile from its original location.
I After the greatest amount of conflicting
I testimony, as to the fate of Dr. Livingstone
| it is now stated in England that the latest
. tntt lliger.ee from Africa indicates "ever
probability of Dr. Livingstone being still
alive." . r .
DELEGATE ELECTION.
The Democratic electors' of the several
Townships in Wyoming, County and Tunk
hannocß Borough are requested to meet at
the several election Districts on Saturday
the 31st inst., between the hours of two
and live o'clock, P. M, and elect delegates
to represent them in Co mty Convention, to
be held at Tunkhannock, on Monday, the
2nd day of September, 1807.
VIGILANCE COMMITTEES.
The following named persons arc chosen
as Vigilance committees :
BRAIN-TRIM ll. P. llill, Phillip Thomas, J.
It. Holmes.
CLINTON— S. S. DcCay, Frank Castle, Mil*
lon Britten.
EXKTKR— Geo. Sicklcr 2d, Lewis Whitloek
T. 1) Ileadley.
EATON— J.N Tilgrim, IFM. Benedict, Sam
uel Neigh.
FA1.1.5.-C. Sherwood, D. C. Post, A. T.
D witt.
FORKSTOK D. Fasset, Thus. P. Hitch
cnek. It. It dgeis.
I.R.MON—Elijah Wilson, Rob'tShales, Z. M.
Smith.
MEHOOPASY— A. K. Farr, Ilufus Decker,
Wm. Jennings.
M FTHOPPEN —A. Williams, S. H. JeukiDs,
W. 11 Cort right.
MONROE — W. F. Cairl, Daniel Morgan.
NortonL Newbeiry.
NORTH BRANCH— J. R Hurlbeit, N. G,
Finney, S. B. Valentino.
NOKTIIMORELA.NO— L. Avery, P. 0. HaW
field, A. O. Lutes.
NICHOLSON— Dan'I Decker, N. P. Wilcox,
J. R. Smith.
OVURFIE! n—Andrew Aqer, Riley Mott,
Alfred Mah n
TUNK. BOKO.— WRA. Piatt, John Stemples,
Geo ee I). Williams.
TLNK Twp.—S ephen Wilsey, J. Flum
rnerfelt, Jas. Wagner.
WASHINGTON —John Melhuisb, Lewis
Cook.
WINDHAM—E. D. Fassctt, Ansel Gay, Ly
roan G.irey,
RI LES FOR THE GOVERNMENT OF DEMOCRATIC
CONVENTIONS, AC.
1. The Democratic electors of each election
district in this county, shall annually, on the
j last Saturday in August, meet at the place ol
holding their General and Township elections
and elect three suitable persons to serve as a
; Committee of Vigilance for the ensuing year,
whose duty it shall be to superintend all otli
er meetings of the Democrat electors of their
1 district.
At the same time and place, shall also be
elected two delegates to the County Conven
tion, who shall on the following Monday,
meet at the Court House, in the Boro. of
Tunkhannock, and after organizing by elect
ing one of their number for a'President, and
two Secretaries shall proceed to nominate
; such District and County Officers as are to be
Voted for at the ensuing General Ehctton
elect Conference for such District officers as
they shall nominate—appoint Delegates to
the next State Convention and a Standing
Committee for the County.
3. All County Conventions shall bo held
I with open doors.
| 4. AH candidates for nomination shall be
voted lor vita voce ; and the one receiving a
! majority of all the votes polled, for any tffice
shall he declared duly nominated,
i 5. The Convention shall keep a journal of
; all its proceedings which shall be duly pub
lished in the Dera cratic paper ir papers of
the County ; and any nomination not made a
conformity with the foregoing mles shall be
declared void, and the vacancy or vacancies
so occuring, shill be supplied in the manner
hereinafter provided.
G Toe Standing Committee shall consist of
nine Democratic citizens of the county, who
shai! hold their office for one year from and
alter the date of the election : and it shall be
I heir duty, (U; ing that time, to call all Coun
ty Conventions, Mas* and other meetings of
the [arty—to fill all vacancies in the Ticket,
occasioned either by the declination of nomt
nees, by a want of conformity to the forego
ing rules, or where the Convention shall
have failed to make a nomination, and also in
i case of special election*, where the necessily
; for doing so occurs after the regular time for
[ holding C unty Conventions—and to fill
I vacancies in the Committee Vigilance, occa
sioned by removal, death, or failure on the
part of the citizens, to elect them.
I 7. The Standing Committee shall annually
hereafter, in issuing.the call for the election
' of Delegates to the County Convention, cause
a copy of the foregoing rules to be published
in connection therewith.
8. These rules may be amended, or new
I ones ad led therein by a general meeting of
i the D> mocratic citizens of the county called
for that purpose by the Standing Committee
or if the same shall piss two successive Coun
i ty County Conventions without amendments
i and not otherwise.
L.C. CONK LIN.
Chairman Standing Committee.
WHAT THE "LAMBS" HAVE BEEN AT.—
A negro ravished a little white girl at
Brand} wine Hundred, Del., on the 9th.
x\ negro watchman is in jail in St. Louis
for ravishing two children aged eight arid
nine years.
Negro highwaymen arc bold and bloody
about Norfolk and Portsmouth.
A negroe committed a rape on a white
young lady in Christian Hundred, Chester
county on Sunday the 7th inst
Three negroes murdered the family of
Mr. Joseph Foster, of North Carolina, a
few days ago.
A brutal ferocious looking negro forced
his way into a car and took a seat in a
white lady's lap, A gentleman next to her
knocked the scoundrel down, the negroes
rallied for a fight and the car was quickly
cleared. The police interfered and stop
ped the proceedings of the violent negroes.
Infanticides prevail to a great extent
among the freed negroes. In Columbia.
Miss., nine babies were found in one
v. el.
Negro highwaymen are so plentiful
about Norfok, that the military have been
requested to interfere to put a stop to their
to their depredations.
Rev. Thomas U. Jones, of Pembroke,
Mas., a negro preacher, has been sentenced
to pay a tine for an indecent assault upon a
couple of white women.
Governor Geary, upon learning of the
nigger victory in Tennessee, ordered a sa
lute to be fired at the cxpencc of the State
It seems to us that decency, at least, under
the circumstances, should have prompted
him to buy powder with his own money.
Their patriotism, however, never takes
money out of their pockets—it only puts
it in.
A Western paper thus hits of a popular
but disgusting fashion:
"The attention of the police should be
directed to Pant A. Loon. He's tight on
the streets daily—awfu! tight."
TAX-PAYEES READ.
Expenses of the Pennsylvania Legisla
ture.
IIARRISBRG, August 15. —The accounts
lof the last sesion of the Leg : slature have
• been audited. A careful examination of
the books in the Auditors General's office
shows the following to have been the ex
penses:
Senators'pay, milleage, and sta
tionery $34,477 00
i Members' pay, mileage, and sta
tionery 107,508 45
The legal allowances lo each person was
81000 for salary, $25 for stationers, and
15 cents per mile circhila for traveling.
The thirty-three senators and one hundred
members, therefore, received an average
jof §1075 each (or 101 days (from January
j 1 to Apiul 11), or about 810 04 per diem.
I • Rev. E. E. Bailey received S3OO from
j the Senate and Rev. Jacob Kennedy S3OO
j from the House for opening the daily ses
| sions with prayer, being at the rate of #3
j per diem.
! The thirty-three senators liad twentv
t nhie regular officers, seven pages, twenty
five women, and four reporters who drew
pay. The officers drew $28,893 80, or an
average of S99G each; the pages drew
81270 50 or slßl each; the women $921
■or S3O each; and the reporters SBOO, or
#2OO each,
The contingent hill of the clerk of the
i Senate was but $632,44, as acainst the
' contingent bill of the clerk of the House,
which was $ 1000.
The one hundred members of the House
had sixty five regular officers—thirteen
pageS, women, and four reporters, who
I drew pay. The officers drew $57,530,78
!or an average of SBBS each ; the pages,
2359 50, or 181 each ; the women 1240,
i and four reporters 200 each.
The members ajnl officers availed tbera
! selves of the privilege of franking docu
ments (postage paid by the State) to the ex
tent of 9250, with other bills not ascertain
ed.
i The entire work of the session was the
passage of fifteen hundred and fifteen pri
vate laws, seventy three public laws, and,
I fourteen resolutions.
The House appointed a number of inves
tigating committees, the expenses of which
j were as follows:
j William S. Gregory, chairman of
j committee to report upon ex
empt pioperty in Philadelphia $1,893,00
Advertising meetings of commit
tie " 867,64
George W. Mooney, clerk to
committee 819,85
$,080,49
Edward G. Lee (chairman), and E.
\V. Davis, William M. Worrell,
James Subers, and William J.
Donohugh, committee to inquire
into the lottery business in
Philadelphia $G60,00
Jost-ph It. Matthews, clerk to
committee $289,98
$949,93
Samuel Josephs, chairman of com
mittee to ascertain whether the
Atlantic and Great Western rail
way had made discriminations iu
freight charges $445,00
Joseph T. Chase, member of com
mittee 445,00
George W, McKee, do. 455,00
Alexander Adaire, do. 445,00
A. Muckley, do. 445,00
George B. Bcmus clerk tocommitee 825,00
William J. Ovens, sergeant at-arms 427,10
sjWO
William B,Wadded, chairman of
committee to investigate certain in
reference to an Alleghany county
liquor law $375,00
I Three witnesses 104,30
$477,10
R. A. Colville, chairman of com
i mittee to asseitain whether the
Pennsylvania railroad made dis
crimination in freight charges $225,00
N. B. Pennypackcr, member of
; committee 225,00
O. S. WoodwarJ, do. 225,00
iA. D. Mark ley, do. 225,00
George A. Quiglcy, do. 225,00
Luke V. Sutphiu clerk to committee 363,40
; William J. Ovens, scrgeaut-at-arms 272,50
$1,760,90
! William B. Bood, chairman of
committee to inquire into the run-
I niug of locomotives over the paved
streets of Philadelphia $381,60
George De Haven, member of com
mittee 381,60
William J. Donohugh, do. 381,60
George W. Ghegan, do. 381,60
George A. Quigley, do, 381,60
John W. Bolleau,clerk of committee 741,60
William J. Ovens, sergeant-at-arms 109,00
2,749,60
I George (). Diese, chairman of com
mittee to investigate fast freight
transportation system, and M. S.
Quay, George De llaven, William
'B. Waddell, and L. Westbrook,
members 1,408,25
J. L. Anderson, clerk to committee 350,10
Two witnesses 21.90
Expenses 250.00
J. L. Anderson, clerk 495.20
! Three witnesses 76,23
2,504,3
John D. Sturtevant, clerk of com
mittee to ascertain whether any
j corruption attended the election of
! United States senator * 100,00
Two witnesses 68,64
163,64
An exchange well says, "ont of every
dollar the laboring man earns, about sixty
1 cents is taken indirectly to keep the indo
! lent negroes, to maintain military despot
isms over eleven states, and enrich Aboli
; tion officials. This is why our poor men
are kept poor, and our laboring men com
! [ilain of hard times. It is the high prices
and high taxes that takes their money, and
it is the negro Bureau, military depotism,
and abolition officials, that made the taxes
high. To get rid ot these; Radicalism
j must bo voted out of power."
j QgT Subscribe for the Democrat.
: THE MODEL JUDGE OF PENNSYL
VANIA.
GEO. Sir.VUSWOOD, L, L; I).
rKESIDKNT JUDGE OF THE DISTRICT COUET
Foil JHE CITY AND CO., ©F PHILADELPHIA
BT DAVID PAUL BROW*, HBQ.
The Hon. George Sharswood was born
on the 7th of July, 1910, and was gradua
ted at the University of Pennsylvania, on
! the 31st of July, 1828, with the highest
honors, delivering the Greek salutatory,and
manifesting a scholarship, af which his un
ceasing industry had given an early ear
i nest. In the month of August, of the same
year, he became a student in the office of
i Mr. Joseph li. Ingersoll, and after a severe
1 application to his studies, was admitted to
practice on the fifth of September, 1831.
j Even after Mr. Sharswood's admission,
i lie still blended his classical with his pro
fessional duties, besides giving some at
! tention to the modern languages and it
may be truly observed ofliirn, that it has
seldom happened that such young sbould
j ers bore so wise a head.
lie was not deficient in genius, but his
! great quality consisted in rigidand in defati
j gable labor. He was a model for a stu
j dent. Always thoughtful, yet alway cheer-
I ful ; modest and retiring in his manners,
! yet in a moment of exigency not deficient
|in just reliance upon himself. We do not
! think he could ever have been an effective
l advocate. The turn of his mind was too
I tranquil to enjoy or to endure the tumult,
i agitation, and excitement of jury trials. —
But in an argument to the court in banc,
i upon a point of law, few men of bis years
i would have been his equal—cool, calm, col
• lected ; 1 c had ('.ill control of that abun
j dant stock of know! Ige which untiring
i perscvercnce and iud .-try had enabled him
j to accumulate.
After remaining at the bar some five
I years, with about the usual share of pro
fessional business, but with bright hopes
j him, he was elected to the
Legislature on the 10th of October, 1837,
i where, it is sufficient to say, that he justifi
j(d the mo t sanguine hopes and expecta
tions of his constituents. On the 9th of'
1 October, 1838, lie became one of the Se
| lect Council, and on the 29th of June, 1841
; was appointed Secretary of the investiga
ting committee of the stock-holders of the
Bank of the United States. On the 12 of
October, 1811, he was elected again to the
1 Legislature, and continued in that body by
another election, on the 11th of October,
1842,. Scarcely had his legislative servi
ces terminated, when,on the Bth of April,
j in the year 1845, he received the appoint
' mi nt of Judge of of the District Court for
j the City and County of Philadelphia, and
j on the Ist of February, in the year eighteen
j hundred and forty eight, became its Presi- ,
d<-nt. On the 14th of October, 185 Bun
der the new Constitution, he was elected
by a large majority to the same judicial
position, which lie had previously held from
from the Executive and Senate of the State
lie v as commissioned on the Ist of Decern
her, 1851.
ID all those varied and highly honorable
and responsible employments, it may be
justly said, that he manifested the most
abundant capacity and fitness for the du
ties imposed upon him. But he more es
! pecially shone in his judicial qualifications.
Take him for all in ali, at his time of life,
no bench in I'ensjlvania has borne a more
tsni'ilemished, more competent, or more
exemnlary incumbent, lie is a man of kind
liberal, and honorable feelings, just such a
man as you might suppose was born to be
| a judge ; and if he holds out as has begun
i and Heaven and his constituents continue
him to his "three-score years and ten," we
arc mistaken or he will furnish the best
practical proof of the folly of legislating
judges out of office, at the expiration of
sixty years.
I Since his presidency in the district court
Judge Sharswood has been chosen Profes
sor of Law in the Pennsylvania University,
where lie is an invaluable acquisition.—
Ai •art from this duty he engaged in deliv
ering a course of elaborate lectures before
the Commercial Institute. And when it is
remembered that the court in which he
| presides, sits ten months in a year, and is
continuously and laborously occupied dur
ing all that time, in every diversity of trials
' certainly no better commentary can be re
-1 quired upon his exhaustlcss patience and
; energy of Character.
j But to glance from the mental to the
personal —Judge Sharswood is about five
feet ten inches high, with a slight stoop of
| the shoulders, attributable, probably to his
\ studious pursuits throughout life, lie has
a benevolent face, an even temper, great
patience, and that—without which every
thing else is nothing—uncompromising
honesty. The honesty of a judge, how
ever, is hardly necessary iO be referred to,
as without it, no man is to be considered a
judge. He is only a pageant in the temple
, of justice.
Judge Sharswood may be cited in sup
port of our theor , . h;' judges—all other
I qualities being equal -taken from the bar
i before tliev have been extensively engaged
in practice, generally discharge their du
ties more satisfactorily than those who are
hackneyed in litigation, and therefore take
partial or prejudiced views of a case. Un
less the opt isite sides of the issue exhibit
great inequality in merit and strength, we
defy any man to perceive, from the deport
ment of the judge, to what result his mind
inclines. This is a great virtue in a judi
cial officer —nothing is so unbecoming in
authority, as to descend from its high call
| ing into the arena of professional disserta
tion. and advance gratuitons opinions, and
join in a conflict between outposts before
the mind entirely grasps the merits of the
j controversy. Counsel may be less obser
vant of what they say or do, but a judge
! should permit no word to escape bis lips
; during the progress of a trial, that may tend
! to bias the jury, or throw reproach upon
I one party or the other. Words, as we have
! elsewhere said, are things, and judicial
! words are verv operative, if not controlling
i tilings, upon the minds of the "sworn
1 twelve," who, having for the most part but
I little in themselves, look anxiously for the
least glimmering of it that maybe shed
' from the bench, and sometimes even con
vert that light into darkness,
J udg Sharswood puts his cases, of course,
very fairly to a jury; he seldom intrenches
upon their rights to determine upon the
facts, and when he charges upon the law, |
he does it with great clearness, precision
and cogency, and so as to be comprehend
ed by any man of the most ordinary intell-,
igccce. Ii is are not only perspicfous, but'
the language in which they are clothed is
so plain and unaffected as to prevent all
equivocation or misapprehension.
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(en subscribers, with S2O, we will give a
choice of one of the following works, worth
$5 each. "The (heat Rebellion," by J. T.
Ileadlv, a finely written and complete his
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and sunk to the bottom of the ocean, it
would have been better disposed of. It
has been used to perpetuate anarchy, and
to obstruct all the operations of legitimate
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IIARMONV. —The Black Republicans are
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Do the people agee with them?
All those too lazy or too proud to work
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for the Presidency, as he is in favor of tak
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