The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1867-05-10

dan says he feared that they would give
him trouble in the work of registration
II was generally heretofore supposed thai
these were the reasons that induced Gene
raj Sheridan 10 depose the officers named
and this supposition is confirmed by the
official report.
The Northern Press ON UnderwOOd's
Charge.
From the New York Herald.
The charge Of Judge Underwood to the
grand Jury in Richmond on Monday is
without parallel. With its whining cant
of martyrdom, its bitter curses Of the de-
funct Confedcracy, and its foul-mouthed
abuse of Richmond, with its spluttering
poetic quotations, with its ecstatic APP
plauSe OF [Thad. Stevens, with all its an
gry and ridiculous rhetoric, this charge is
the strangest mixture Of drivel and furious
nonsense which ever diSgraced the bench
In getting himself up ambitiously to "act
well his part" Judge Underwood must
have had confused notion of taking fol
models Jcffreys, ParSon Brownlow, and
Robert Shallow, Esquire, justice of the
peace, and CoraIl and Custalorum, and
Ruto- Cprum, too. None but some o.
ShakSpeare'S queerest original characters
if revived to-day, could utter such far
rago of rant and fustian as this unprece.
dented charge. 1t is certainly unique
and additional pecularitieS of the occa
sion were the presence of five black mel
in the iury-boX, and the appointment OF
John Minor Bolts as foreman Of the grand
jury.
From the New York World.
J-nder,cOods Chdrqe.-It was our mis-.
fortune TO print yesterday one of the
most disgraceful charges to jury that
ever was uttered by an American judge
We mean the charge of Judge Underwood
to the grand jury at Richmond on We'd
pesdav. The majority of our readers may
have been tempted to smile at it, forget
ing that it was given to the world as the
deliberate, official utterance Of Judge OF
a United States District Court. Were it
labelled a stump-speech instead of judi
cial charge, one might afford 10 laugh at
il but, under the circumstances, the feel
ings it excites are contempt for the speaker
and unfeigned sorrow that such fellow is
permitted 10 defle such an office. n man
who can so far prostitute his position as TO
vengeance of his own babbling, who can
embody in what should be solemn charge
10 Jury praises Of an old party hack,
whose venom towards his opponents is as
notorious as his INSCRIPTIONS use OF means
10 attain his end, and can defame the en-
tire community in which his court is to
SIT. should have a seat beside the Fish
monrers' Gate in London rather than on
the bench in Richmond We choose to
repeat, in this connection, none OF the Ian
guage employed by this man. The publ
cation of his charge once, and simply as
matter Of news, is as much as any news
paper of self-respect can be expected
TO do.
Were all the disgrace of this judicial
charge visited upon the head of Under
wood alone, it would be an affair of not the
slightest consequence. His reputation
could not suffer, nor his notoriety be In
creased by it. But most unhappily he has
brought shame upon the entire bench OF
the country for to the people OF other
countries he is a representative OF Ameri-
can Judges. His position, remember, he
owes not to personal popularity, still less
to any recognition of his ability by his fell
low-citizens, but to the partisan Partially
Of "the blessed martyr Lincoln" lie ap'
pointed John C.. Underwood to be Judge
Of the United States District Court of the
Eastern District of Virginia, and it is not
likely that the incumbent will relinquish
his position until removed from II by death.
Ii is TO be feared that many will be
tempted to smile at the utterances of this
10 fnrUpfflnp
that they are the words of judge as well.
Herein lies the mischief. But the deed Is
done and We must try to endure Under
wood as We do Busteed and Butler or a
malignant epidemic. 1t is well to remem-
Der, however, that while the author OF the
remarkable charge to the Richmond jury
is a Judge, he is also only John G. Under
wood.
From Forney's Philadelphia Press.
The remarkable tone and temper of the
charge Of Judge Underwood, of the United
States Circuit Court, which met at Rich
mond day before yesterday, is not calcu-
lated to make the friends of Jefferson
Davis feel easy or comfortable. They have
made most unfortunate move in their
hQbedS corpus, which is to remove the
martyr iDsurgent far away from the oys-
tiers, Madeira, tenderloins, and comforts oil
Fortress Monroe, and into the jurisdiction
Of Judge whose only criminal accommo-
dations are those Of q southern Jail.
From q Washington letter In Baltimore Sun.
The principal topic Of conversation II
political circles here is the extraordinary
and remarkable composition which Judge
Underwood delivered as charge on Mon
day to the grand jury of the United States
District Court which convened in Rich
mond on that day. 1t excites general dis
gust, and meets with disfavor among ever
those whose political views accord WITH
those Of Judge Underwood; and it ELECTED
in public saloon, and in the hearing OF a.
least dozen people, the remark from
somewhat prominent Virginia Repubiican
that the sentiments expressed in the cnarge
would do incalculable injury to the EN-.
bryo Republican party Of that State, sno
that if they had been uttered from the
stump, the man uttering them would have
been withdrawn from participation in any
canvass as one whose iutemperance OF ex-
preston could not be tolerated.
The whole charge stands alone and with
out parallel In the history of judicial
proceedings. 1t conveys no instruction to
the minds Of the jurors as 10 their duties
but Is, from beginning to end, . political