New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-09-25

aas Cox dit."--a statement which those
who best know him will be the last t.
6oubt. The Jury we're for finding verdict
Of telonous assault" but the Judge said they
had no power to 60 beyond the law as he del7'
r.d IT to them" and under this Judicial coercion,
the imps RANT politicsl stabber, Cox was 'ound
0uilty of "coumon asssu t." fined $40, which
he paid sr ghipgIy, and was thereupon turned out
ooee sgain upon society to run as many more
Malay -mucks as unto him may seem meet or anus
ing.
10 another csse-one of those abominable sailor
board ng house business known as "Sbaogh'e
I" cases"-the same Judge decided that the keeper
of q boarding house who had knocked sailor
down, pinioned his hands behind his back with
ron hsndcufs tied HE legs together, and kept him
in that condition until he could be put on board
some foreign b,und ship, 30 that the boarding
house keeper might get paid some few dollars due
to him for the sailors board, out of the advance OF
wages made by the ships csptain-was onlg "act
" ing in defense of his clearly recognized rights,
and could not be punished. The Judge became ex-
cited about this case pulled up the sleeves OF bis
coat. paced the bench as though it were the plat
form of Fourth Ward primary election meeting,
aud delivered his pc ,uliar version of "the law
with surprising uncton. Never did he shine more
splendidly except il the case of the Brothers lay
lor of Chatbsm street, those celebrated counter
letters on bis first accession to his present exalted
stalon. This riQor toward sal or IN debt, If ap-
piled to other classes, might prove extremely aWk'
ward
Again, in the case of two more notorious ticket
swiL ders, named Gilbert and George l.. Ward,
JUDGE Russell delivered new theory of the statute
intended to restrain this crime, such as If it be
adopted, will render that statute entirely useless.
The Prosecution in this Gaze proved that GILBERT
was not regularly licensed runner or general emf
grant sgeut, aid that he had not been specially
ade agent by the owner or owners Of the line of
packet ships for which he presumed to act. The
Defense, in reply, set up a statement that Gilbert
had been commissioned to act as sub.agent by
some man who was Special Agent for the line of
packet ships in questions and on this mere asstr-
tion, 55acasaa by piece Of paper havog none Of
The characteristics of evidence, Judge Russell held
and decided that the case must be dismissed"
on the following srOuuds First that the Prose
cution would have to prove by positive evidence
that the man was not authorized act ia aUy legal
capacity, and secondly, announcing it as hisopnion
that any Special Agent for particular liue Of yes
sells could delegate bis powers to just as many
sLbordiuates as no pleased, even verbal delega-
ton of such power being sufficient! If such be
the law in this class Of cases, let all statutes at
tempting to restrain ticket-swindliDg be at once
abolished, to avoid the Disgrace of their remaining
cooperative and mere mockeries of justice on our
books.
The foregoing are but few samples of one
weeks claw" as interpreted by Judge Russell
the only difference between this worthy and Re-
corder Barnard being, that the latter dgnitsry is
more bold and audacious in his mode OF favOriDg
POLITICAL criminals sometimes going so far as to
quash an Indictment against them 10 one breath,
ak them up to sit beside him on the bench In an-
other, laugh and chat with them before the whole
Court in yet third, and adjourn business that he
nay 20 take drink" with them 10 a fourth.
30 b officers are worthy of each other, but our
present Recorder-uow Democratic candidate for
the Supreme Bench of this City-must bear of
the palm, so far regards the audacous and reck-
less eff ontery of his personal association en- terms
of familiarity and friendship with policy Dealers
emgrant-swindlers and the whole tribe of that
population marked down as dangerous in the
social calendar.
Thipgs in this matter have clearly come to the
worst and in our judgment it is absurd to suppose
that the people OF this metropolis will any longer
submit quietly to such atrociOus subversions of
justice. We have seen and daily see poor aud
rieudIess offenders treated at the Bar of the Gen
oral Sessions with merciless rigor, while criminals
of The deepest and blacklist dye, possessing either
Ward influence or wealth, are allowed to escape
urpuDsbed Such is the csber of Judges evolved
from the corrupt party machinery now in sway
and though TsmmaDy Hall has made great aud
d. cded improvement in selecting John L. Hof.
man as her present candidate for Recorder, it may
well be doubted whether her candidate for City
Judge will not prove cOngeDia successor to the
officers we have been describing. He his a par.
ticular avOrite with that class who call themselves
"ibe bhoys," and We noticed in the reports Of the
Democratic Convention that Mr. McCuDn was
present electioneerog for himself, aud that when
nominated, he was "borns from the room
ION the shoulders of his sdherents down 10 the
bar of the Coal hols," where liquor flowed copi-
ously for some hours.
We hope and believe that the Republican Con
veDtion, TO assemble tits evening, will give us eau.
didates for those most important Offices in every
respect quail fed and worthy to gil them. With