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added a little more discredit to what was already not 

 deficient in that respect. On the 10th of December the 

 Erie Company sued Commodore Yanderbilt for $3,500,- 

 000, specially alleging in their complaint the particulars 

 of that settlement, all knowledge of or connection with 

 which the defendant had so emphatically denied. 



" None of the multifarious suits which had been 

 brought as yet were aimed at Mr. Drew. The quon- 

 dam Treasurer had apparently wholly disappeared from 

 the scene on the 19th of November. Mr. Fisk took 

 advantage, however, of a leisure day, to remedy this 

 oversight, and a suit was commenced against Drew, on 

 the ground of certain transactions between him, as 

 Treasurer, and the railway company, in relation to 

 some steamboats concerned in the trade of Lake Erie. 

 The usual allegations of fraud, breach of trust, and other 

 trifling, and, technically, not State prison offences, were 

 made, and damages were set at a million of dollars. 



" Upon the 8th the argument in Belmont's case had 

 been reopened before Judge Cardozo in New York, and 

 upon the same day, in Oneida county, Judge Boardman, 

 another justice of the Supreme Court, had proceeded 

 to contribute his share to the existing complications. 

 Counsel in behalf of Receiver Davies had appeared be- 

 fore him, and, upon their application, the Cardozo in- 

 junction, which restrained the receiver from taking 

 possession of the Erie Railway, had been dissolved. 

 Why this application was made, or why it was granted, 

 surpasses comprehension. However, the next day, 

 Judge Boardman's order having been read in court 

 before Judge Cardozo, that magistrate suddenly revived 

 to a full appreciation of the views expressed by him in 

 June in regard to judicial interference with judicial 



