Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1867-05-09

Chief Justice Cockburo's charge to tn

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Chief Justice Coekburn's charge to the
Grand Jury in London: fan extract from which
we lately publshed) in which he@maintained.
the supremacy of the civil law, the nullity of
all military tribunals to try civilians, &C., is
highly iauded in the N. Y. Tribune; while, as
the Baltimore Gazette remarks, this very
charge is stern4eondennation of all those acts.
Of q similar character, in thiscountry, that the
Tribune, in its excess of partisan zeal, has
either coonniyed at or advocated forsthe past
six years. ;,
large warehouse in Norfolk, used for
storing building materials and naval stores,
was entirely destroyed by fire yesterday. The
high tide reached the lime stored in the build
ing. The building was owned by A. A. Nc
sCullough. The amount Of insurance is un-
known.
It is said that at Fredericksburg, on Tues
day, a number of tents occupied by men OF the
u. S. Burial Corps, engaged in rcmovingth the
remains Of Union soldiers to the cemeteries,
werc blown down, during the Storm, and total
" destroyed.
Awoman was burned to death in Baltimore,
yesterday, whilst attempting to light a hire in
ajstovc by pouring in camphene oil.
Strawberries are beginning to be brought to
the Southern markets. Prices as yet, very
high.
JUDGE UNDERwooD's C~HARGE.-The Wash
ington correspondent Of the Baltimore Sun, in
hisletter, ofyesterday, says:
"The principal topis Of conversation in pollt-
ical circles kere is the extraordinary and re
markable composition which Judge Underwood
delivered as a charge on Monday to the grand
jury of the United States District Court which
convened in Richmond on that day. 1t ex-
cites general disgust and meets with dlsfaVor
among even those whose political views accord
with those Of Judge Underwood and it elected
in a public saloon, and in the hearing OF at
least a dozen people, the remark from a some
what prominent Virginia republican, that the
sentiments expressed in the charge would do
incalculahle injury to the embryo republican
party of that State, and that, if they had been
-ulUGSISu~ iIuu5 CUC 5SLuulp3 EluC mdu ultClluS
them would have been withdrawn from partl-
cipation in any canvass as one whose intern
perauce of expression could not be tolerated.
a parallel in the history of judicial proceedings.
ItcoEveys no instruction to the minds OF the
jurors astotheir duties, but is, from beginning
to end, a political harangue, evidently con.
ceived in the most malignant and abusive
spirit. Instead of instructing the colored peo-
pie, who now fol. the first time occupyth the high
and responsible position of grand jurors, The
Judge attempts to inhsme aud excite rheir
minds by villiicatlon of the people of Rics-
mond, and devotes no little space to a fulsome
euIogy OF Mr.. Thaddeus Stevens. What Thad.
Stevens's opinions and policy have to do with
the grand jurors of q United States District
Court acting in their official capacity, is a ques-
ton that no brain but that Of Judge Under
wood could possibly solve
Some persons may be curiousto see what the
New York Herald says about judge Under
woods charge" Here it is
The charge of Judge Underwood to the
Grand Jury in Richmond on Monday is with
ont a parallel. With its whining cant Of mar
and its foul-mouthed abuse and illusions ITO
the awful and atheistic past Of Richmond,
and one building OF everlasting granite" that.
stood unframed amid the great conflagration
with its splutteriDg poetical quotation with
its ecstatic applause of ''the leader and father
of successive Congresses, " acknowledged to be
80 with "a Difference which neither Clay, Fox,
the Pitts. nor even Cicero had ever known -
with all its angry and ridiculous rhetoric, this
charge is the straneest mixture Of drivel and
furious nonsense which ever disgraced the
bench. In getting himself up ambitiously to
''act we'll his part, Judge Underwood must
have had a confused notion Of taking tor mod
Shallow, Esq, Justice Of the Peace, and Co.
ram and Custalorum, and Ruto- Corum, too.
None but some OF Shakespeare queerest ori.
ginal characters, if revived to-day, could utter
such a farago of rant and fustian as this un-
precedeuted charge