New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-12-01
A JUDGE RECOVERFD.

it was bowed down with anxiety and grief
| The Genius of American Freedom and the
Goddess of Justice had COMO carefully over
the whole Bench, had taken a census of the
Courts, counted carefully, and at least twice
over the whole array of jurists who wear the
ermne and hold the scales. and-there was
one Judge missing. The country was "out
one Judge. And at q time when it could
hardly afford to spare q Judge. Diligent in
quiry revealed the fact that the missing Judge
was of the Court of Claims, and close and
searching investigation disclosed the fact that
it was Richardson who had disappeared. The
news was broken to the country with gentle
ness and consideration through Washington
dispatch Then the country remembered-rc-
membered dimly, with moist eyes-that Judge
Richardson when last heard from was travel
ing somewhere in the neighbOrhOOd OF Hong
Kong or Hakodadi. and that he had been seized
BIZ some heather and idOlatrOus officials and
turned back upon his course on account OF
some absurd prejudice against him akin to
that which found expression in this country
some years ago in the patriotic watchword
"Put none but Americans on guard" 1t was
always Judge Richardson's way to do sudden,
abrupt and unexpected things. He was up to
il from the start.
When this Great Minister of Finance bulged
into the Treasury Department, he did it with
n suddenness that made the average citizens
head swim. Mr. Boutwell, went out, and sud-
denly Mr.. Richardson, who had been discoy-
cred in Massachusetts by Mr. Boutwell, and
taken to Washington, and had been lying
perth in the Department bounced IN like a
bull into Il china shop. And then how abrupt
he was in resuming specie payments IN sums
of five dollars or less. The first thing any
body knew, silver quarters and ten-cent pieces
were iinging through the land; the next
thing anybody know, the jngling ceased. lie
was always just that sudden sort of states
man. How freshly we remember the sharp
surprise he gave the country when oil
at once he dropped the whole system OF
finance, wrapped himself IN ermine, and scootcd
gracefully into the Court OF Claims To q seat
on the bench OF that tribunal. And then last
Summer. when we supposed he was serving
his country in lofty and beautiful manner at
Washington. there came, like lightning out Of
a clear sky, the Intelligence that hc had been
nipped up aud treated with indignity by pig
tailed ilolafors in far-off land. Since then
there Las Dtcu uoJnilG ucdlu llo4h h4'i'
Within u day or two he has been missed. And
the country has been in Il state of mind about
him. And now he reappears. Sudden, abrupt
unexpected, beautiful. He takes with great
calmuess tho intelligence that the world has
been anxious about him, and remarks in his
quiet way that he has only been around the
world on Il little vacation trip and did not ex-
pect 10 return any sooner.
So the country RECEIVERS Judge, and Richard
son sits once more on the bench of the Court
of Claims. He was always eccentIic-Richard-
son was-but we do wish he would give us
little fuller notice when no starts to go round
the world again, and prepare us in measure
for his mysterious disappearance and re-
appearances. The way he has gone on for the
past two years is altogether too rasping to the
emotions. "