The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1853-11-23
For the Ledger.
The Lancaster Court House.

II seems very strange that the good people
oi Lancaster will remain satisfied with their
nconvcnient, and in many respects uncom-
Portable Court House, when their neighbour
ing, and other Districts are tearing dow.i old
Sty'e cdifces, and erecting buildings, at once
elegant and altogether convenient TO every
department of tho Court. While York,
Chester kershaw, Sumter, and many other
! Districts have drawn their thousands of
of dollars from the public Treasury and ex-
pended thcm in putting up Court Houses
quite on a new plan, Lancaster, with n Court
House inconvenient and cracked seems not
To know that her right to the public crib is
as good rs any OF crs: and that she is rs
much entitled to good Court House as any
district in South Carolina We have seen
few Of The Court Houses, and hesitate not
in saying that the Cour. mouse in Lancaster
IS one Of the most .nconvcncnt and uncom-
Portable to the Reach, Bar, jurors and specta-
tors in the State. The large window at
the back of the Judge exposes that digniti-
tary either to cold winds or burning suns. ex.
c"pt when the consideratc Sheriff, with
constabie's staff or borrowed walking cane
and raiiiety trap Eoise, like that made by
schoolboys with stick in running 10y line
OF palings, brings down the Venetian blinds
to n fiat. The side lights of this window
like the face of haifforgoaen modcsty, are
| covered with aiscant pattern of faded baize,
which resembles cast-of veil, picked up
for service during Court week. Some Of
the Bar doubtless remember having seen
Chancellor leave his disagrceablc position,
and place his chair about the middle Of the
| room for ease and comfort and there con.
duet business of the Court
1t is very uncomfortable. we should say, for
The Bar, at least, of a bright evening, when
the sun is shining full in the face of him,
who my be addressing the Court, in otic.
ing the L,wers dodge and blink under the
effect Of the hot shot from old Soils binding
artillery, We are forcibly reminded Of Judge
Buffers remark about the examination of
law Students when applying for license
"b0bbing up and do,cn, Ike Hnis dogs hun-
ing IN high grass" The seats for the Bar
are, and have always been insufficient to ac-
commodate those usually in attcndence.-
! At last Court near one half dozen Of LAWYERS
F:oHi ncighboariag Districts could oaly find
| seats back the Bar among clients md spec.
tators. Another very great Inconvenience is,
the railing to fence of in!ruders is so near to
the range Of seats for the Bar--the tables are
so closely wedged up one against the other
that two very important effects are produced
or rather barred oui, to wit fYsiIy-for the
lack of space "no ground and lofty tum
bling can>be indulged in by the Bar in rom.
'cdfiHg before the Jury-secondly all Law
yer, who may approximate the corporosiiy
! 1T Jack Falstah, are efFectuaily barred out
from the practico-------of locomotion, at
least, in the Court House. Whether this
stint Of space, and Strengthened motion by
sympathy with contraction, have had any
thing to do with rendering the Bar, emphat-
ically the Bachelor Bar Of Car olina this dc.
ponent saith not--but this he testifeth that
the seats Of clients aud Lawyers are 90
squeezed in, that the client is often tenpted
to do what in some places is regarded great
impOlitcness, to usurp md occupy the seats
(too few at bcst) appropriated to Lawyers.
AS for the Jury, there is only one thing
to add to make the accommodations for them
superlatively iaconyenisnt, and that Is
to make their rooms either in thc story be-