Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1863-10-19
THE DAILY NEWS
AGENTS:
A Renaissance.

kemlnIScences
Among budget of old papers now in
the Gold Hill News office, we find the
following rich sketch of an ordeal
through which a prominent Lawyer,
row of Virginia, once passed. We re-
publish it in our "spicy" department
merely for fun-for we have seldom seen
so much truth mixed up with genuine
mirth.-ED.l
BEFORE THE HIGH OLD COURT OF M
PARCHMENT.
The House of Assembly, in the name of
themselves, as representatives OF the "thcm
asses of the people, do hereby impeach
Jas. \. Hardy, Esq, of high crimes and
miSdemeanorS, for wilful neglect OF oti-
cial duties. and exhibit against him
the following articles of impeachment
ARTICLE lst. In the case of John Doe
vs. Richard Roe, he did wilfully and cor
ruptly decide for Doe.
ID. In the case of Smith VS. Jones, he
did corruptly and maiciouSly decide the
case for Jones.
3. DrunkneSS on the evening of st.
Patrick's Day, at two o'clock in the
morning.
18th. Disloyalty, in singing song
known as "Dixie's Land" and shouting
for jeff Davis, and damning the soul of
old John Brown, the Martyr and Pat
riot.
5th. In becoming a Class-Leader in
the Methodist Church South.
s. W. Brockway-called for the State.
Mr.. Brockwav, state all YOU know about
Judge Hardy and his conduct as set forth
in this Impeachment.
have known the respondent % years;
was the attorney. for Roe ads. Doe; it
was a suit for Divorce, "a mehSa ct thoro;'
| filed demurrer in order to obtain
a nonS,lit upon ''replication' to defend
ants Bill in Chancery, filed to procure a
..Sequestration" of the separate property
of tene SOLE" who had heen reduced
TO possession as " chooses iR action by
the declaration "rincuH n.atrimoni," the
relator doing business as a ''SOle trader
under the Act of 'forcible entry and de-
tainer." The plaintiff plead "coverture''
in ''rebutal," and set up mon ossumpSH'
on the ground of "non eoD,pms meat~s,'
and offered in evidence "reSpondeat
amster." and made 'protert' of ''g"ardi0n
ad EtieT' in sore teRuS." l then moved
for ''nOnSuit," and asked the Court for
a .uitkimus COram non Jtdice," on the
ground that the action 'qui TAM was bar
red by the Statute of Limitations IN the
reign of Ethelrad the First, and being
part of the common law, should be taken
..cupq qraao sails, or, at least should
operate as a "Sapena duces tecum." The
Court refused the motion, my client lost
his case, and my fee.
In the case of Smith rs. Jones, l was
the attorney of Smith. After the case
was tried l treated the Judge out of a
private bottle, and 1 asked him to render
a decision for Smith, as this was very
good liquor; the Judge said, Yer sir
ee, Bob !" and 1 replied, l will give you
half recover the Judge winked at me
with his left eye as he was putting in the
cork, and said, ''Brockway, you know me,
old hoss don't file any Brief, but go it
blind" I did not file any Brief, and he
decided the case for Jones. No, sir; I
am no enemy of Judge Hardy; so long
as he decided cases for mel was his
friend want a JUICE on my side; l
thought 1 could play Jim Hardy for a
Hat, and all the time he was playing me.
l wanted to get rid of him; and as it
would be a good chance for the Conness
Democracy to show their patriotism, and
would only cost the State about S60,000,
We thought we would impeach him.
Al. Dudley called: l have known Har-
dy % years he has been drunk all that
time, in state of beastly intoxication;
never was sober; drunk on the Bench
and off the Bench; weekdays and Sun
DAYS; morning and evening, and all
night; have seen him carried home upon
a shutter 200 times; / have been drunk
with him; we have been drunk together,
have been drunk seperate, have been
drunk at every house in Calaveras and
Amador counties; when he is drunk his
tongue is thick, his legs are Timber, his
reason is gone, he kisses the town pump,
makes love to a lamp-post, and on one
occasion demanded apology of the Liberty
Pole for running against him; he has
had the delirium tremens fourteen times /;
he is a drunken, good-for-nothins Naga-
bond; there is only one meaner man IN
Mokelumne Hill-and that's my brother
Bill.
Bill Dudley sworn: Have known
James H. Hardy % years; he is traitor,
rebel, and an incendiary;1 / have heard
him compare JEFF Davis to Jesus Christ,
George Washington, and General jack
son; have heard him sing "Away
down South in Dixie" when upon the
Bench; I heard him charge jury that
Jefferson Davis was Patriot and Phil
anthropist; heard him on one occasion,
when giving his charge to Grand Jury,
tell them the Union was played out, that
the Constitution was a humbug, that the
Stars and Stripes was an old woman's
rag, and that it was their duty to find a
true bill against every man from the
North, that Lincoln was Blatherskite