| Show badly hurt we vate learned today to day that ex associate justice ri P me curdy is suffering bring so severely from the injuries lie he received at the hands of private thomas hackett on Wed gay evening that lie he can scarcely turn over in bed the question as to whether judge mccurdy and all other peaceable citizens shall or shall nul nol bo be protected against such brutal usage by the civil law laws is of very great importance it is it a question as to the supremacy of civil or military law in times of peace the people themselves aro are supposed to make the civil laws for their own protection and under a republic republican au government it is surely ulry ury to ask ak a k whether the people should have any aily say in the tho matter if the thy civil authorities did not nob see to tho the protection ion lon of judge mccurdy and all ali other law abiding citizens by sli sil shielding them under tile the wing of tile the civil lawther law lawt they hey would be unworthy the trust reposed in them by the people |