The Van Buren press., 1874-02-10
NO. III
soILED ERMINE.
Il Batch Of Notorious United States
Judges Held Up for Inspection.

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"Gath, y in his last Washington letter
to The Chicago Tribune. writes:
While the New York Courts are send !
ing Sheriff Brennan to jail, and Iweed
serves porridge. like whist Sister q
Charity, on BlackwelTs Island, United
States Judge Basteed whom Senator
Spencer alleges to have been corrupt 40
a Tammany Captain. General, writes TINS
10 the judiciary Committee: All !
want is to be personally on the spot y
confront ny accusers. That was all the
grace asked OF you before when ! was
investigated. Let me sec them before
me Which means that b'ao ex-
poets te' say iou re an3the. TAna
1 know where And you have more
shame than / 80 the worse for you.
Busted ia an old Tammany shyster
turned carpet bagger, who has become
very rich in bankruptcy outrages AMI
nsver stays in Alabama day after he has
gathered his swag and closed his court,
He lives on Long Island, near New York
Colonel Hughes. late and credltahla
nomination for United States Judge in
Virginia, reports that the celebrated
Judge Underwood, lately deceased, was
without any ncety OF scruples. What
judge can well be who buys coniiscat-
ed house in the community oil the home,
less rebel he has turued out. aud walks
to his court surly, anl frieudless. aud
old +?
United States Judge Sherman, who re.
signed in Ohio, after long aud solitary
communion, is said to have been very
sensible Of his modification. This nom
nation was mere nepotlsm, and pubic
life has no lesson more distinct than that
an eminent man wants least OF all kin-d de.
pendants in Office
United States Judge DelaIiay, OF KAN
sas, was long while giving up the court.
house key Where else could he take
his liauor9 Caldwell sent homo, and
Pomeroy shot at, and ingalls, somewha.
out Of confidence, decided the Judge Ut
last.
Durell complete success in setting up
the Kellogg Government gives that unl-
ted States Judge forsi,ude. Senator
Carpenter will no longer presumably take
his friend Warmoth's part and berafe tho
Judge. The committee sent to investl
gate him appeared TO be of powerfully.
incisiye couviyiality But what kind OF
Marshals and District Attorneys mus.
we have when we have such men ON the
Bench
In Texas we see the spectacle of'a
State which is the only one in the South
with the spirit to make an insurrcction-
having navcr been snlJngated in the re.
bclion, but defeating the Union troops
on land aud ws.er--ibrosn into uproar
by three political judges, giving a de
cision against the prop'iety OF al elee.
ton which viii throw them Out lhis
election was held BY authority Of tho do
frated Republican Governor, whose
Bench now disallows il, taking up
Mexican's appeal whom the grand jury
refused to indict, and so majority OF
50,000 is to be pushed to the brink or a
nav rebellion The invidual whom, pre-
sumably, this may benefit, is j. W. Elan
agan, the United States Senator who
stood up the other day with his green
back roll ofsaary grab, and said Thar
it is Get it who cam! Flanagan's
term expires next year. Besides being
an ornament to his species, he appcarsto
be lover OF peace for Texas.
The Chief Justice Of Arkansas, failing
| to have the Governor elected by his own
party expelled by his vote on The Eensh,
has ceased TO edit the official organ and
be public printer, all the while in the
same crmine Meanwhile, in the Western
District Of Arkansas the United States
Court has become factory for vouchers,
mileage, etc, on the Federal Treasury,
and this was one Of the most damaging
charges against Attorney General Will
iams
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