Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1868-04-28
THE ROGUE'S GALLERY!
TEINhrETZ's PARTNER.


troll, occasionally compel US to vary the char
acter of our exhibitions, hence the postpone
ment of our " Big Show" this week to give
place to the '' Rogues Gallery" It so hap
pens that the first subject we have for this
portrait gallery, is the loathsome partner of an
ignorant Dutchman, who is now serving
term in the Penitentary of West Virginia,
for forging the county bonds of Berkeley
county. The subject of our sketch escaped
the fate of poor Steinmetz, not that he de-
served it less than that unfortunate victim,
but because he is one of the High Priests in
the " Loyal" church, who by the cry of thief
against his partner threw the officers of tile
law off the right scent. Since he has had the
temerity to make a cowardly newspaper attack
upon US, in which he has shown himself an
adept in vulgarity, we think it but justice to
present him to the communityin our "Rogucs
Gallery" where we shall take pleasure in air
ing others of his clan before the summer is
over. But his case will suffice this week.
Hamlet is represented to have said that he
Thought some of natures journeymcn had
made men, and not made them we'll either,
they initiated humanity so abominably" In
its application to the editor of the Berkeley
| Union, the conclusion Of Hamlet has a re-
markable appropriateness, except that nature
did not entrust his creation even to a skilful
| journeyman, but left it in the hands of
botch, who has produced a nondescript that
seems to be cross between the human spe,
cies and nameless animal that is providen-
TALLY provided with its own means of self de-
fence, and which is so foul that contact with
it is insupportable. Unfortunately for the
community in which this luSus nature is To-
Gated, there is perceptible predominancc of
the nameless animal in his composition, rem
dering an assault upon him one of the most
hazardous of undertakings, and subjecting his
assailant to stencil that is not easily endur-
able. SHINING a skunk, it must be confessed,
would not be desirable occupation, and yet
in comparison with newspaper controversy
with lioke, it might justly be considered an
| agreeable pastime- 4 decent respect for the
oltactories Of our readers will not permit US
to probe below the surface, this embodiment
of corruption, for the mere puncture of the
| putrid cuticle will emit a slime sufficient to
stife a whole community, whose inhabitants
have not been reared in the vicinity of fish
wharf So much for that part of the creature,
which natures botch workman has made to
predominant. We now address ourselves to
the scanty provision of humanity with which
nature, or her botch, has invested the acccs-
sorry of Steinmetz; but here we shall fall for
man Of straw would furnish more suitable
material than this mockery Of an individual,
whose humanity is intangible. In courage,
he finds his counterpart in the timid mouse
that every noise afrights, and that lodges to
its hiding place whenever a shadow fits its
path; in intellect, he is a greater dwarf than
the pigmies who crawled over CULVER in
| principle, he is as bankrupt as is the COM
monest pauper Of funds; in decency, he is
| the perfect imitation of total restitution in
moral depravity, his name finds fit association
with those of Chapline and Steinmctz, the
latter of whom is now serving his term in the
penitentary, where the other two ought to
be; in politics, he holds communion with the
only party that would tolerate such combi-
nation of meanness; Of patriotism, he never
had a spark, and yet he is one ofthe "loyal"
shriekers, who goes for the Union because of
its advantages for gratifying his Butlerizing
propensties; as liar, he fills up the first
grand qualification requisite to be a success
full conductor of radical paper as lawyer,
heis foul blot upon the profession, and a
disgusting burlesquc upon its integrity. Fur
Their than this, we care not to follow him, but
leave him to wallow in his own filth, without
which his existence would be as precarous
as the life of a fish taken from its native cle-
ment. Pitiful uoke unfortunate Berke-
ley! we commiserate your condition in having
to be the abode of such conglomeration of
villainy.
If this craven spirited hybrid feels ag-
grieved at the above sketch, we have only to
suggest that our address is Charlestown, and
that we will be gratifed to accompany him on
an excursion outside this State whenever it
suits his convenience.
JUDGE CAUSE.-THE New York Inde-
pendent reads Chief Justice Chase ont of the
Radical party. 1t says it has reason to believe
that he would not accept the Republican
nomination for tho Presidency, but would
accept the Democratic nomination. Upon
this the New York Post remarks that there
must be something seriously wrong or rotten
in the Republican party if a statesman like
Judge Chase stands ready TO abandon it. It
cannot afford 70 dram cut su0h men.