Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1871-09-19
nnR CIRCUIT COURT.


has been fitted up US a very cOmmOdOus COurI
. Room, pending the reconstruction of the dis
mnutlcd Court House Judge Thayer Mel
vim Of Wheeling, having exchanged circuits
with Judge Hall, is holding the court, and il
gives US great pleasure, IA pleasure enhanced
! BIZ long aud bitter cxpcrisnco) to testify to
the dignity, paability aud ability with which
he ellis tho high aud responsible position.
The general business of the Court has been
Of an undressing character, being almost
exclusively confined to the Chancery Docket,
( The Grand Jury, with Mr.. George W. EchcI.
berger as Foreman, was in session for two
days, and found eleven indictments, all We be-
licYc, for misdemcanors and statutory often
ses The case Of Sralcy and Others against
O.burn mud Others, came before tho Court on
Friday, on motion Of defendants, to dissolve
the Injunction, restraining the Board Of SUI
poryisors sitting at CharlcstOwu, from e1er'
cising the functions Of the Office. The in
junction granted by Judge Stuart Of the I'd
Circuit, uganstthe Stalcy Board having been
Appealed FROM, cannot be heard until the
next sitting of the Court Of Appeals, in Jan
uary; hence II the county machinery is to be
Sc; in motion, at all, the present fall, it must
be by dissolyiug this injunction ngnins! tho
real Board-that Of which Mr. Logan Osburn
is President, The case was ably argued by
Mossrs. Green and Hunter for thc'Board aud
Mr.. Faulkner for the Stalcy party, and it
must have astouudcd Judge Melvin to learn
the Infamous devices to which the radicals of
this county have from time 20 time rcsorci
to retain the power Of the County and the
county purse in their own hands. The argu
mcut Of Mr.. Faulkner was marked by his
usual ability bu, very clearly indicated by its
explanatory aud apologize tone, the conscious.
ness that the claims Of his clients could rest
not upon the broad foundations Of right or
popular will, but on the merest aud thnnest
Of legal bubbles The argument of the case
was continued on Saturday.
Besides our own able and full county Bar,
we noticed in attendance Judge Parker of
Frederick, Major Moore of Clarke, Mcssrs.
Faulkner and Blackburn of Martiusburg, and
Mr.. Stanton Of Wheeling, As tho business
Of our Courts returns to its old channels, We
hope to welcome still others whose faces were
familiar in former aud better days.
DErALcATIoNIN a GEoRGIA PosTOrFIcE.
The Washington correspondent Of the New
York Tribune, in letter dated September
l4th, says:
Mr.. ScmmCs, late Postmaster at Atlanta,
Georgia, was here few days ago, cudeavor.
ing to relieve himself from the charge of en-.
bczzling Government l'ostoiicC funds to tho
amount of $50, 900, for which he is now un,
der indictment. His accounts having pre-,
scented acoufuscd aud suspicious appearance,
special agent Of the Department was sent
from here to investigate Mr.. Semmcs trans
actions, whcni it vas discovered that the money
including postal order funds, was shor, to the
amount above stated. While here Semmc,
said he had no money, and could not under
stand where tie missing funds had gone =
Ills ignorance did not acquit him, and he viii
be tried next week. His own papers and nc
counts will convict him. A special agent j.
in charge Of the Office.
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