The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-08-21

in the way of mandamuses, injunctions,
writs of habeas corpus, attachments,
etc., are used with recklessness
and utter want of scruple that bid fair to
ruin some of the greatest business enterprises
OF the city and the State, if some means for
effecting a reform is not speedily devised.
The Erie war and the Susquehanna Railroad
war, in which rival bands of stock gamblers
fired away at each other with injunctions and
counter injuctions from different courts of
concurrent jurisdiction, until such ammuni-
ton being exhausted they actually came to
blows and bloodshed, are recent instances
that have attracted the attention of the whole
country. In the case of the last-named road,
matters come to such pass, that to preserve
the public peace, the Governor of the State was
obliged to interfere and take the matter into
his own hands, thus superseding the courts.
The precedent thus set is itself full of evil
augury for the future, but under the circum-
stances nothing else was to be done, and this
illegal assumption of power met with general
commendation.
The New York Times, which is the most
bipartisan, the most independent, and gene
journals of that city, gave, few days ago,
severe but just and perfectly correct review
of Judge Barnards conduct in the Susque-
hanna Railroad difficulty 1t showed how he
issued the writs of his Court, not from the
bench, but from the Office of the Erie Rail
road Company, and proved conclusively that
he was nothing more nor less than the paid
employe of Fisk and his co-conspirators.
This article touched Barnard to the quick.
and yesterday at the opening of the Court he
commenced TRADE against the present as
well as the late editor of the Times, stating
with regard to the supposed writer of the
article, that he (Barnard) had saved
him some five years ago from being sent to
the penitentiary for forgery, and then
asserted that the late Mr.. Raymond had gone
home drunk and fell down dead after attack
ing and misrepresenting the character of
Barnard, thereby implying that the sudden
death of the honored editor of the Times was
iudgmentfrom heaven on account of Barnard
This Judge also stated that hereafter he in
tended to make a personal expose of the per-
sonal character of his assailants; so we may
expect some highly edifying remarks about
the private history of the prominent New
York journalists from him ere long. AS for
the charge brought against the memory of
Mr.. Raymond, or the still more disgraceful
allegations with regard to the present edi-
tor of the Times, no one believes them and
no one will, except on better evidence than
the vindictive asseveration of a man of Judge
Barnards well-known character
York Judiciary is McCunn, who does the
dirty work of the Democracy, aud whose
recent conflict with the United States autho-
rites has brought him into notOriety.
McCunn has again distinguished himself by
ordering the unconditional release of the de-
faulting teller of the Tennessee Bank, refus-
ing to postpone proceedings, although he was
informed that the Governor had remanded
the man to the custody of the Tennessee au-
thorities on the requisition of the authorities
of that State.
These instances show in the most glaring
manner the magnitude of the evils of an cleo
tive judiciary, especially where the Demo-
cracy are able to obtain the control of the
political machinery. In this city we have
managed thus far to keep our courts pure and
unspotted by suspicion of the sale of JUS
tice, but the elective system which we have
as we'll as New York is an evil that may some
day master us as it has done our sister city.
The Judges of the New York bench WELD
power that ought not to be in the hands
of any man or set of men in
free country. They are their own masters,
and the masters of the people, responsible to
nobody but themselves, and perfectly willing
to sell themselves to the highest bidder. New
York submits to great deal in the way Of
official corruption; but it does not seem that
the present state of affairs can last much
longer. Already the Union Pacific Railroad
has been obliged to remove its Office to
another city, and other great companies are
preparing to follow suit; and if something is
not done in the way of reform, the Demo
cracy will be the ruin of New York, as it has
been the ruin of whatever else it has touched.
THE GETTYSBURG REUNION.