Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1854-02-06

}. - s eaD VOL. XI., NO. $50.
Ifatuated devotee Of Juggernaut is better
off than defendant in the District Court,
who lives on the Mississippi. The lat
ter must make an expensive pilgrimage
for beg his way 10 Milwaukee, before he
can enjoy the satisfaction of being crush
ed to death under the car of justice
But the devotee of the India god be-
liieyes he will enter paradise; but no boz
dy in this region. believes that Milwau-
kee lies on the road to Heaven, and does
not wish to travel in that direction un-
less temporal considerations impel him.
Your private opinion may be that Wood
is scoundrel. think of him as the
jury did, that he was an innocent man.
But this makes no difference; what
wished to show, is, that an Aristides, or
the hottest martyr, may be indicted in
Milwaukee by malignant enemy, and
be utterly ruined by expensive transits
across the State, to defend bis character.
And here | ought not to forget the lum-
Der indictments and suits, the star and
turpentine" prosecutions in that Court
From the sequestered sources of the
Kickapoo, Chippewa and Black rivers
fountains as hidden as those of the Nile,
poor lumbermen have been found by the
timber agents-the Administration is de-
termined to destroy these caterpillars.--
In the rough attire of the woods, with
their boards unshaven, they nave been
dragged from their rude huts, and re-
lquired to appear in the polished and
fashionable city, where the District
Court attends to their cases at its leis-
ure. Some three or four persons--in-
dustrious young men without means,
who have been guilty of p!undering go
vernment timber near Warmers Mill,
have to-day been dragged to Mineral
Point, for the purpose, l suppose, of
hearing before a Court Commissioner
Should bail be required of them, to APP
pear before the District Court, they can
not give it-they have not the means to
appear there. Should they be impris-
oned, it will kindle an excitement that
will set the whole pinery in blaze
The timber sentinels will be compelled
to flee for their lives. The bold lum-
herman would not dodge fair trial, but
he will never consent to be trans ported
to the other side of the State for hear
ing. In many cases, the lumbermen
found no difficulty in bri5ing the tim
Der agents by giving their notes; on
these they have been sued in Milwau-
kee-judgement was entered against
them for the amount of the note with ex-
emplary costs by default Of course.
The Infamous lawyers fee bill-the
shame Of our statutes. the disgrace of
our State, was no doubt the moving cause
of many of these suits. The District
Attorney is entitled 10 this bonus, or
gets it in some way. and thus the stat
utes of civilized State, hold out bride
to an INSCRIPTIONS prosecutor, to hiss
the officers of the law upon its unoffend-
ing citizens! He that hath eyes to sec,
let him read this hideous deformity un-
repealed, on pages 674-5 of our stat
utes. These two leaves, like the leaves
of the Upas, have distilled poison thro'
our whole judicial system-they have
corrupted and degraded our Courts and
had power, l would rend them from
our statutes, though our whole system
should be rent asunder, in an attempt to
eradicate them. You yourself sent me
a report, / think it was, Of some COM
mittee of Congress, on the abuse of the
lawyers fee-bill in the United States
Court. In those Courts, party is al
flowed to tax lawyers fee-bill, if the
law allows it in the State Courts. Pres
colt Hall District Attorney in one Of
the Districts Of the State Of New York.
had in some cases taxed lawyers fee
bills to the amount of $500! These
were cases in which the United States
were party; and thus it came to the
knowledge of Mr.. Whittlesey, one Of the
officers Of the Treasury; and he expo.
sed the villainy of the lawyer who clai.
med, md of the Judge who taxed the
bills. Judge Belts who has long worn
the judicial ermine allowed the charges
though in violation of the laws of New
York, by which the charges were to BE-
governed. Have | not Justly declared
that this institution corrupts and demon.
Ializes both court and bar? In fact,
know of an action Of ejectment brought
in the District Court of Milwaukee a.
gainst Mr.. Alfred Wood of Fairplay foi
forty acres of wild land, and Wood was
not in possession--he only had tax ii.
tie, and yet they elected him by proxy
he paid about $40 costs, of which The
lawyers fee-bill was the largest item.-
To recover this bill must have been the
sole object of the suit. The land wa.
open to the possession of the plaintiff
Wood could hot have afforded to defcnt
an ejectment in Milwaukee for trac
of land worth less than 6 or 700 dollars
4 Such are the bitter, bitter fruits that oul
people are compelled to eat from that ia
tai tree, the lawyers fee-bill. Wher
they have swallowed it, they vomit W
their possessions. 1t. is tho continue
instigstor of law-suits---a standing ant
sinister bride to unpYincipled and hun