Richmond daily times. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1853, 1853-01-11
From the N. Y. Tribune.
BADGER.

This iron heeled Old Fogy is nominated for the gu.
preme Bench to fill the vacancy therein existing and we
rather hope his nomination will be conf rmed He is
lawyer surprising Abilities and in the main we believe
an upright man Judge. Mclean be ing once aske
whom he considered the abest lawyer practciec before
the Supreme Court, answered "George f. Badger -
Yet Is Mr. Badger by no gre at man. But it is
by no means necessary be great man in order to be
great larger Mr. Badgers qualifications for the place
TO Whch ne Is nominated are tough hard wiry mental
organ zaton great cleaness and dstnctness of
tlon method exactness and the strong grasp of mind
with good knowledge OF the law He is eminently
clear ana logical IN statement and argument and admit
ting bis premises you very likely to find yoursel
forced to go with him 10 his conclusions.
lie is trained prolemic, and plunges into conrover
sy with as good will as New Foundand dog springs
into the water He is theologian sort ofay
preacher of Epscopacy, and ON one ocrasinn E;r1s
walped the clerical robes off the Bsh p of his Di5
cess indeed nothing suits his better than to WELD
the club OF augmentation for the mere satisfaction and
delight OF knocking the brains out of an antaoonsf
As statesman he IS OF no account and as a politician
detestabe He lacks breadth and OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Of
view and catholic round about essential to man
OF affairs His mind in the rut of the law so long he
lore he came into public life that he always gets ont of
gearing whenever he is wanted fora pull out OF the beaten
track His nature is gnared and stubbed and refuses TO
bond to new FORMS 1t lacks hexbty and elasticity tn
degree that units him for genial association either in
public private life. In all satesman-l like onaes hn
Is the abtipodes OF Mr. Mangum, bis colleague who is
generally as right and as wise Mr. Badger wrong
and perverse 1t is indeed wonder how he ever found
his way into political life ALL He ought never to have
been translated into the sphere of politics He has not
single agreeable or winning qualification as public
man. Wrong headed. Grabbed, ntolerant dogmaic Il
nyeterats in his prejudces dctatoria and unnannefy
In his department. we have often wondered how he
got into his present position Some degree of accowmo.
dation of mind popular ideas or tastes Is
usually necesssaryto enable reach political posi-
ton IN this country. He born for q sayadriver and
could never be more agreeaby occupied thar in w al
ing the lash overa lazy negro cotton plantation
hazlns after fugitive On the whole, we don't kneIn
and cannot imagine genuine and spotess evan.
pie OF the breed Hunker
Yet Notwithstanding all this we don't hnk Mr. Badger
would make bad Judge.
CLEANING FROM THE CEssus.-It seems at first vi Nv
singular that the deaf and dumb the blind the insane and
idlotc, should bear certain permanent popo,to 70
tue rest of the population has been ascerta med Nv
enumeration OF the people, that they do So But it ia
not more extraordinary than the wonderful daptaton to
each other 81 the sexes showing by their substantial
equality that poygamy unnatural institution which
ought not especially within the bounds of the United
States to be tolerated. it sby the Mormons this late
day. >'
As TO the deaf and dumb appears by the Census that
the white mutes amount to 909 while the colored are
only 632. OF which 489 slaves making one deaf mute
among the whites to 2l5l persons of the free coofrd
to 3005 and among the slaves, one to G552a sinon
lar diversity The blind exist in similar proportions In
all they are e70 OF which 1897 white 1705 are col.
ored and lall OF these slaves. Blindness prevails
most among our foreign population which has been at
rbuted to home Sickness change Ct climate and hard
ships known to occasion insanity, if they do not blind
ness
The number of insane persons almost equal to the
other TWO classes put together 1t is a. 763 of which
-
being one to 1880 among the whites one free coored to
l3as and one slave to 1l0l0a remarkable exemption
from this calamity in that unfortunate class
There are 1906 idi It's; of the whites ii $50 free
colored 1866 slaves lo40. This is one white idiot to
1874 one free colored 1885, and slave to Os9-a
considerable difference in their favor though not SO great
as in the case of the blind.
NO state is without its paupers the whole number of
whom is 1892 about equally divided between Amer
cans and persons of foreign birth The annual expense
OF these is 2954,s 500 dollars The total exnenditre nr
the poor In England and Ireland in le4s was Ooo
and for the space OF seventeen years the enormous
Of $4a6 ,600000
There We're in year, ending in June 1885, about 81.
ooo persons convicted of crime about half of them OF
foreign births The whole number in prison on the 1st
of June about ZOO
About eightysix millions of dollars are invested in
churches one hall OF which owned in Massachusetts,
New York and Pennsylvania The largest and most val
liable are IN Massachusetts, There is church for about
average 38l. -
Inc real and personal estate of the inhabitants of the
United States on LIST June 1850, was about yenteen
millions of dollars of real and six Thousand mil
lions of personal estate. $3.50