The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1860-09-22

sufn OF SozOOs as per Dill OF particulars on ME.
I, Louis Richter, Clerk of the Court of Common
Pleas Of Vanderburgh County, certify hat the fore
rect copies Of the original allowances, the same
appear of record In my Office, in Order Book No. 3,
at page No. 695, and Order Book No. 4, pages Nos.
112, lss, 29i, and 296.
LOUIS RICHTER, Clerk O. c. v.C.
If thing is valued by what it costs, our
people have reason to place a high estimate
upon their courts of justice. Especially
should the Sheriff's office appear valuable in
their eyes. The ancients always represent
ed the Goddess of Justice as being blind
folded. No one can deny that in the allow
ance of bills our Goddess has evidently been
hoodwinked. But let us amplify little on
the bills published above.
COST OF SWEEPING COURT HOUSE.
We showed, yesterday, that for sweeping
the Court House and making Il few fires,
during two sessions of the circuit court,
Jack Welsh was allowed $4,000. By ref
erence to the bills above it will be seen that
Jack has been allowed $77.50 for perform
ing the same service during the sessions of
the Common Pleas Court. ONE HUN
DRED AND FIFTY-SEVEN DOLLARS
AND FIFTY CENTS paid in less than one
year for making few fires and sweeping
out the court room-and the county, too,
furnishing the brooms r'
1t will be observed, by scrutini zing the
bills, that Jack generally received pay for
two or three days more than the Courts
were in session as evidenced by the num-
| Der of days charged in the Deputy Sheriff S
bill. Bush, also, as bailiff, generally man
! aged to get in one or two days extra and
not unfrequently two or three nights. But
this fact is not to be wondered at when the
industrious habits and enterprising spirit OF
these gentlemen are taken into consideration.
Another remarkable circumstance connect
ed with Jack is, that his allowances
were always drawn by Sheriff Cav
lit, as is shown by the order book in the
Auditors Office. This, doubtless, can be ex-
planned by the fact, that the extraordinary
exertions necessary on the part of Jack to
keep the Court House clean, so employed
all his time as to prevent him from drawing
his pay. and it was received and receipted
fcr by the Sheriff so that Jack need not
lose a single moment.
STRANGE OVERSIGHT.
We have looked over the orders for the
September term, carefully, and can find no
allowances for sweeping the Court House.
Can it be possible that all that term the
Court House went unswept? Were our
ceanly lawyers compelled to sit in filth
which must have been the more uncomfortable
when in contrast with the cleanliness of the
Court Room during the June term-and
furnish themselves with water? We are at
a loss to know why Janitor should be EN-
ployed in June and none in November
There is a smell of Inconsistency in this
which is unaccountable-
DESPERATE RIDING TO FIND JU-
RORS
The celebrated travelling exploits of
Stephen A. Douglas in search of his moth
er pale before the laborious efforts of
our Sheriff in search of jurors. 1t ap-
pears that Gavitt-estimating the dis
LhuNC tldhClCu Dy tue dL1OuHt SHHI SGO-
rode some sir hundred miles to secure the
services of four juries, during two sessions
of the Circuit Court; and by bills above for
Common Pleas Court for three regular and
two extra juries, he rode near seven hundred
miles. Very laborious, this Office OF Sher-
iff!
WHAT THE HORSES COST.
The horse bills for two terms of the Cir
cult Court, as shown yesterday, foot up
$l99.25 For three terms of Common
Pleas Court, the horse hire amounts to
$l3s. .5Oi making in the aggregate THREE
HUNDRED AND THIRTY-SEYEN DOL
LARS AND SEVENTY-FIVE CENTS for
horse hire within less than one year. For