Union County star and Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1859-1864, 1862-11-25
PUBl;SHLJ SEaI-NEEKLY.-
Tuesday Morning & Friday Afternoon.


A York State Editor, who has become
!ascin ated with the legal institutions OF ouI
old Keystone State, says II is worth something
TO see the law put on IFS dignity and a clean
shirt collar, in a country town, f0nr or five
times year. We like it. or course, there
is not the starch and ceremony attendant
upon the wigeed and gowned and powdered
Judges of the Asszes IN olden time, when a
Judge was supposed 10 be little more than
man. Sull there is dignity, or Solemnity,
or something, We hardly know what, in see-
ing one man or three men quietly slip from
the crowd to the bench and set the machinery
in motion by which men and nations rise and
fall. And there's kind Of hearty >elfSatiS-
faction in the tones of the Crier, as he calls
ont, "Hear We hear We, hear ye, all per-
sons bound to sue or plead before our Honor
able Judges now holding the Court Of Com
mon Pleas, Quarter Sessions, Oyer and Ter
miner and Orphans Court in and for the
body of the county of Union, may al this
time draw near and they shall be heard"
(He used TO say. in an under tone, God save
the Commonwealth and the Honorable Court
hut We suppose that Eow he thinks the Com.
sronwealih is old enough 10 take care OF her.
self; aud the CourI grants SO many Licenses
II is past praying for) So the people of the
rea.m doff their hats and draw near with be-
coming reverence.
Pretty soon the Grand Jurymen are called.
They walk into the box with faces as long as
. 1
And don't you know that there's something
grand IN being jnrypaR-ef the realm
particularly Grerr Juryman' With what
round eyed wonder do the little ones read the
Sherfi's noIice 10 The head of the house 10 90
up 10 Court aud do justice between man and
man. punish crime, and promote the public
weali And what grand idea the liltle ones
get of fathers consequence, from that very
hour! OF course, he must be a big man, or
the Court wouldn't want hin TO help them
try Law suiIsi Ani mark what quiet airs
your Juryman puts on, in view Of that dis
tinguished consideration - for you must not
forget that it is an honor, and So considered.
Many man has taken it in high duigeon
because the turn of he wheel didn't bring
his name inlo the Jury list. And why
shouldn't he The right Of ,riat By jury Of
his peers, is one of the dearest rights uf an
Anglo-Saxon; and the luck 10 be a Jury
man ought to be coveted. And how solemn
ly he kisses his wife and children as be de-
parts for Court, 10 be gone a whole week
a little age to themi And what fine stories
he tells them BY the old freight when he re-
turns, OF the sights he saw, and the tn lngs he
heard! And how l.tlie eyes open in wonder
al what the lawyer> sad 10 the jury, and how
the Judge snubbed the lawers, and how this
lawyer pitched into thai one, aud how the
father went TO pay 81 so, for the STAR &
CHRONICLE. and what he saw there! Yea,
verify! many a great mans first dream Of
greatness dates back to the old hearth at home
where he listened TO the story Of his fathers /
FIRST week at Court.
The Constables are an important spoke in
the Judicial wheel. They are the scouts, or
sentInels, thrown ont 10 reconuoiter and re-
port upon the roads, the bridges, the taverns,
&c. See them march up in row TO make
their returns. as grave as The Judge himself.
See how that slippery fellow looks down to his
feet and sp,s when the Judge asks him if he
Is sure there are no peddIers of forty rod
whiskey in his bailiwick, just as though he
didn't exactly know what he'd better say
about ii
The Tipstaves should not be overlooked,
for they are the most troublesome toads in the
puddle. How narrowly they eye your big
noisy boots, and how palronizingly they pa,
you ont he back and whsper-"A lille less
noise, there--ihe Court is terrible cross :"
They are always good fellows. if you keep
your place-otherwise, look ou, for a poke
in the ribs.
But Lawyers are the life of the Court
next to the Judge, the real running gears
the big guns of the concern. They are a
kind OF necessary evil. You can'i well get
on without them. You can always tell one
e'a' OIL No matter whether he has a case or
not, he is sure 10 be known of all men and
some women. Those having leasrIo do, gen-
|srally make the most fuss about it. All very
E5on learn the legal attitude and courtly prac-
|ce-bolh feet on the table, and foretnp stuck
p, while the owner is constantly talking or
aaking a noise just when some one is saying
fomething you want 10 hear. This is to let
!ou know that fine speeches and smart say
inss' are alike unimporant TO Mem-tney
know II all, now, and must attend to business,
smart chaps, they, r
men look over the audience, when the ,
''u'' IS iulI and in full blast. See what a
variety OF heads and faces, Isn't it fine
"s'i 'or The bumpologist, Read tho Jury if {
'an' ana Tell The verdict in advance. See how
ms man opens his whole nature IN \ crafty
advocate who reads hun ,hropgb and ,br,,oh i
His face is like putty on which van 49, |
any impression you please. And co. ha,n h
thai one draws back into himself and r..
out the most expert student of human pa,r,. '
While you think you read him through. Won '
don't know his alphabet. And there's ano,b.
ef class whose faces are expressionless, and ,
sho know and care little about anything ex- ,
eept to follow the leading minds in the Jury 4
loom.
But all this is foreign 10 our purpose. III,
Ike some speeches, touching everything bpt {
he case IN hand. We set out 10 say ,ba, N.