Plymouth advertiser. [volume] (Plymouth, Ohio) 1853-1988, 1854-08-05
Corruption in High Places,


Corruption in High Places.
WASHINGTON, July 2l.-A memorial
containing serious and grave charges
against Justice Grier of the supreme Court
of the Uni ed States has been retired to
this judiciary Committee, aud from the
character Of the petitioners i, is feared by
The Judges friends, who are STEW and far
betW een,' and the sturdy believer in the
inallibility, Of the judiciary, that an i'm.
peachment will follow, and that the learned
Judge will be compelled to retire from the
Bench. Oar Judges are but men after
all, although they wear gowns like women.
Their virtue is in their gowns, and when
YOU take them eff they nre nothing but
flesh and blood. The questions coming
before the Supreme Court for final Judi
cation, from California and other places,
involving immense interests, make it an
easy Matter for wealthy claimants, often
combinations Of wealth, to approach some
Master Shallow on the Bench, to whom
the case will be referred, who makes up
n decision for the other innocent and con-
iidlng Judges to concur in, and he reads it
as the opinion Of the Court, and 'hath
lands and bseves."
Judges are made out Of lawyers, who
are not considered slow il. taking fees for
a legal opinion, and "proc,ice makes per-
fec,," although, It's snid, 'there is no per,
fiction here below" Another cry is,
that Col. Toucey, that pure and upright
man, that sincere and dlsnlercs.cd friend
Of the President. has commi ted an error,
IN altering bill after it had passed the
House, so as to conform to the wishes Of
i Railroad Land Company in Jfnnes ta
The charg"s against Mr.. Bayly of Vir>
glnia are exciting in these times Of con-
1asion and epidemic, and help to keep up
the alarm of cholera and corruption. -
Honest John Letcher's Committee on the
Colt extension are as Secret as the grave,
and the Chairman looks rs grave and
ominous as if he had found mares nest.
A Committee of Investigation can never
bring 10 light deeds of darkness where the
Committee are inevitably in the dark
themselves, and the witnesses are smitIen
with blindness, blessed with shor! memo
ries and legal consciences. All remem'
ber the formidable Committee raised and
sent on to investigate the great frauds ir
the New York Custom House, Of which
Gov. Poindexter was Chairman. Geo
Dwigh, was Secretary and Counsel of the
I Committee, and he conlrived to keep the
Committee occupied in ferreing out ex
travagance in tape, pens, and stationery
and III" grea frauds were overlooked en-
tireIy. Still the Committee lived we'll a
. the old City Hotel, drank good wine and
? sailed about the harbor with Edward Cur
It's the then Collector, who we'll knew how
} to amuse great men.
, Committees are always msled put or
9 a false scent. John Letcher is an homes
! man and an able lawyer. but he has new
. er seen the devil. He will delay but mo-
e preven, the passage of Colts extension
J. 1t will pass as sure as gun. The Ad
: minis,ra,ion are in favor Of it, Col. For
ney is in favor OF it, and it is favoril
II weapon with members who have been sho
at or expect to be, and in these know
e nothing times there is no telling how man,
= may be shot down in the dark. CORES.
If pondence N. Y. Herald
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., REFUSED TO DIE The Toledo Re
! publican tells story of a Frenchma
: who was carried to the cholera hospital i
# that city, in a collapsed stage. His cas-
was pronounced hopeless, ,and orders wer
n. accordingly given TO have coffin in read
a, mess. When the coffin arrived Of the hos
+ pital, the patient had consciousness
enough left to understand that it was in
f. tended for him, whereupon he went off in
er to a paroxysm OF passion, out of which h
h became decidedly better, and has bee
IS. recovering ever since. The coffin prot
ably saved his life.
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," SETTLEMENT OF KANzAs.-A letter I
" New York Tribune, dated Lexington, V,
says numbers Of young men in Wester
" ~ Virginia, opposed to slavery, are getin
" ready to emigrate to Kanzas territory,
III III assist in making it free State. This
.! VI an unlocked for aid, but as Western vi
e" ginia is strongly opposed to slavery, it
no! all unl kelly. The same sort of en-