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o c. s ) " r I o r o IP VOL. 8. OREGON CITY, OREGON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 9, 1874. NO. 11 ffl " ilft fi Ifffl ITTiTY iTvfr Jy A AjJ ft fty $ o o Tin; wii.i. of c;oi. BY AMOK Wl AM. Vll coeth but God's will! The fairest garden ilower Fades after its brief hour Of brightness. Still. This is God's good will. 11 'oeth but God's will ! The brightest, dearest day Doth swiftly pass away, And darkest night . Succeeds the vision bright. But still strong-hearted be, Yes though the night be drear lb w sad and long soe'er Its u'looiu may le, This darkness too shall ilee. Weep not yon grave lieside! Dear friends, he is not gone; liod's angels soon this stone Shall n.ll aside. Yes, Death shall not abide! K u th's anguish, too, shall go ; (). then, be strong, my soul ! When sorrows o'er the roll, l'.c still, and know "i'is God's will that worketh so. Dear Tjord itu line Thine ear unto my eall. (). grant nm that in all, Tins will of mine May still be one with Thine! Teach me to answer still, WhateVr mv lot may be, To all Thou sendest me, Or, good or ill : "All goeth as God's will. Chief Justice ISuchu. Krnm the New York Herald. When we related the grand and glo rious triumphs of Buchu, especially in Buchu financiering, we were not aware that the same potent article was useful in the manufacture of Chief Justices of the United States. Since then, however, a IJiiehu Chief Justice has dawned upon the aston ished gaze of an admiring world. L.Uce nianv of Buchu's best imper sonations. 'Chief Justice Buchu was born of New England parentage and then went West. The West isa grand ii .1,1 for the growth of Buchu. It h:is contribute.! to the country many orators . li- has li-.-ds of liuehu towns and nnt .i.l.i Bm-hu statesmen n inciers. and business men. It cities and bound them together iy Buehu railroads. Buchu bridges he rivers, and J icnu steam- p-u them. the Vv est lias world a Bucnn re- s;an un bolts ply u even given t ligioii mas a the with Buchu id ceremonies. marriages ta.it out of doctrines. dog There Buchu divorces are It is no wonder, then, so iiiui-!i Buchu the West s'lould also have given us a J.uenw C!ii -f Ju-tice, and that Chief Justice lViehu should be an honor to the whole Buchu family. o. 1 re r Ciiief .1 H-t ice liiiciiu ni.m e earlier man .inii" " . , i Buehus. At twenty-Uiree ue aa bid and already in a fair way of becoming a chief justice. As a ,.(.nrsi Chief Justice J became a judge lawyer, anil he i .idlre so long it is inv, should ever family that prompted the formation of the Buchn Savings Bank, in which the poor pnt their earnings and found the investment a terribly permanent one; the great Buc.hu Silver Mining Company of Utah," Limited, by which we extracted another indemni ty from England, and the Buchn Pa cific Railroad, which the Buchn Ring indnced Congress to build from No where to Nowhere, and make the people pay for twice over. We have not heard that Chief Justice Buchu had any interest in the outside con cerns of the Buchu family though there was a Senator Buchu in the fa mous "Buchu Silver Mining Compa ny' of Utah, Limited but he partic ipated in much of the Buchu legisla tion of the period. lie learned his statesmanship under Buchu tutelage so thoroughly, that one of its most eminent professors has since retired to an island, as peaceful as was Blen nerhassctt's before the insidious Burr found the abode of the doves. And so rapidly did he grow in a knowl edge of statecraft and diplomacy that he was required to take part in fram ing a new code of international law, and though it is doubtful whether he knows anything of the "Rules of Three, he is one of the putative fath ers of the Three Rules. This was the only training Chief Justice Buchu received for his exalt ed position, excepting that he was for a time the law adviser of the gov ernment. In this position he proved himself a Buchu lawyer of the first order. He gave Louisiana, especial ly, Buchu law and order, and showed the country how completely he be lieves in IJncliu State governments. In every respect he was an admira ble member of the Pacini family. As a matter of course Buchu was bet ter as an Attorney General than a wild lawyer from Georgia, who had never !e u ned anv of the Buchn mys teries of the period, and was incapa ble of learning any of the ways of a Buchu society. It is not such an easy tiling as some people may imag ine' to keep a Buchu house and give Bsichu dinners and balls ami recep tions to Buchn diplomats and Sena tors and R'M.resf ntatives ami adven turers. But Chief .Tnsftce Buchu is skilled in all the accomplishment of Buchu society. The representatives .i -I. - 1. ' - . 1...,- f,1,! n ill ol me jjucuu pic .i.ni. about that, and even hinted at Buchn words on a silver tongue which reached the resident's ear. in regard to the exceeding merits ot Chiel J us- tice Buchn. It is not to be wondered it that even the words of Chief Jus- . . i i i i . . j. i. tice Buchu him sell suouiu ne poiem in the White House. All the Buchu family are glib of tongue and con vincing of speech. ho else but a S.-mitov Buchu could nave conv meed malleoli before he became a has been a Buchu 1 I A 1 . A 7 . tossioie i nai r.e K.f.-nir more than a ia- v. P. nt. n t neui-c i - i: ..lif to HP ansiice ..il ls elm. It itv of the Buchu the English people that the w a s w h o His of- if he dents, as. not ij .i men ir f imilv to be w illing to unoei i.i.- i--highest trusts, and to succeed in ham too. WlthOUL IU pi e.-.w ...... education whatever. There -.i i TMin for instance, blessed the world by the example and intbience of a great and good man without ever having been inside of a Sundav School. And there was the renowned Buchu, the great railway kin ' who taught the people the phi losophy of watered stocks, but too no stock in orthography and gram- mar And Buchu the banker, who be-an business with nothing and f tiled for a million, was a mere self made man. How, then, can it be ex i,.i Chief Justice Buchn should be learned in the law? ,.i.;. .f .nullification for his high ,,.. U not knowing anv law understood liw he' might be restrain ed from doing his duty by prece- leciions and statutes, wnere- beiiv restrained oy these - , 1 , T A thin 's he can onlv do right. At is characteristic c-f the Buchu fannly to always dare to do right, and m this, as in every other respect. Chief Justice Buchu is one of the most en lightened members of the family. It is not to be assumed, however, that Chief Justice Buchu sought af ter this high otlice. Ollices came to him to., o.vsily for there being any need of his seeking them. Few men, is we have said, know much of law at twentv-three. but at twenty-three the superior intelligence of the peo ple of Iowa found him out and made him a judge. President Pierce, with that sagacity he often exhibited in de tecting Buchu. even in the plainest forms, robbed Iowa of the prodigy and made him Chief Justice of Ore gon. But he was not known at that time as Chief Justice Buchu. In .leed the Buchu family had not vet Asserted its pre-eminence. Another decade passed before Buchu as an or- ftlor, statesman, ami nnaneier oegau to be felt in the land. In the mean time Chief Justice Buchu had got in a tl.o T'nited StatesSenate. where he scarcely did credit to the varied abil ities of the Buchu family. He was a mere Western Senator, who occa sionally exhibited a delicious Buchu modrtitv and sometimes showed the Buchu aptness for business. Busi ness has alwavs been the stronghold of the Buchus business and states manship. It was his aptness for bu siness which madeBuelm the banker, rich during the war that business aptness which enabled him to make a profit oufcof every dollar the patri otic people were willing io lend, be cause it was absolutely necessary the government should borrow. Ghoul Buchu would never have been able to go about doing pood if he had not possessed the Buchu aptitude for bu siness. Old Buchu, thraihvay king, " a pre-eminently a business man. It 'vas this business aotitude of tbe Bachu "Silver Mining Company ot Utah, Limited," was a good investment? Who else but Ghoul Buchu himself could have convinced the wicked peo ple of Wall street that Ghoul was a good name for a fair to middling Christian and a pious man. And, withal, no one b it a Buchu could bear himself with proper humility when ottered high station. Does anvb dv suppose that Attorney Gen- erai Juciiu n ai ui ine oi inc honor the President and people were doing themselves in naming him to the position of Chief Justice Buchu ? All the Buchu family though mod est, have a proper appreciation of themselves. From Ghoul Buchu down they possess a humility as re markable as that of Uriah Heep, and when the President ottered him the place, Chief Justice Buchu said, in the exact words of Uriah: "I thank von. Master; I mean, Mr. Copper-field." s a matter of course, we nave no intention of dismissing Chief Jus tice Buchu with a single article. A mini of his supereminent merits is entitled to more than one trilmte to his virtues. Indeed, so heartily do we go into the work of praising and exalting him, that we can not re frain, even now, from glorying in one of the great advantages of his evnlhition. It will be remembered, after the Buchu politicians of Louis- i:m:i had overturned a State Govern ment and set up a fraud instead, that ,,-iw.n th.-ir wrontred opponents tele- o-i-imhed to Washington that they were coming to explain the situation, Attorney General Buchu answered, if nrtf 5n these words, to this intent : "Tlive vourselves no trouble. I know oil ..ii l' l. i vm settled everything. Ba- (III llil'i no ' - - . -J elm forever." Such knowledge in ri.;..f T.,ut;' is in valuable, and, in jiit. . . - - . ,.i;t;,i..l controversies, to say llOtll- iii" of suits afl'eeting the Buchu Loan and Trust Comnanv. the Buchu Sa the Buchu Silver Mi ning Comnanv of Utah, Limited, am the Buchu Pacific Railroad, it is de lightful to know that the interpreta tion of the law and the administra tion are in the hands of such a capa ble jurist as Chief Justice Buchu. . f x-'c r-v-r-TftTTi iW TTlAfSEI-F. It i'l.l.1 O V' mi 'iiit ----- is an error to suppose that a man be lon.rs to himself exclusively. No man does. He belongs to, his wife, his A Petition Agahist Hippie. 1 i The following petition is being ex tensively circulated throughout the State, and is receiving numerous signatures : To the Honorable Senators of the United Glares: Your petitioners, irrespective of party, upon information and belief, respectfully represent: 1. lhat John Hippie was recently elected United States Senator from Oregon under the assumed name of John H. Mitchell. 2. That said Hippie was formerly a school teacher in Butler county, Peiin. .While thus engaged he seduc ed one of his scholars by the name of Sadie Hoon, whom he was after wards compelled to marry, after the birth of a child. Said Hippie became a lawyer and practiced in Butler county, Pa. There he became acquainted with Miss Maria J. Brinker, a school teacher, whom he seduced, and with whom he ran away to the Pacific Coast, taking with him four thousand dollars in money which belonged to the clients of himself and partner.leaving behind his wife, penniless, with two chil dren. 4. That he lived with Miss Maria J. Brinker for a short time in San Luis Obispo, Cal., as her husband, representing himself as such. In June, 1800, said Hippie took Miss Brinker to San Francisco, where he abandoned her and left for Oregon, taking with him his daughter Jesse, the eldest child by his real wife. Up on his arrival in Oregon he repre sented himself as a widower from Pittsburg, and whose wife had re cently died in San Francisco, while on his w ay to Oregon. 5. On 'Feb. 21, 1802, said Hippie married Miss Mattie Price, of Port land, Oregon, with whom he lived in bigamy until lS(Ji), when his first wife, Sadie, obtained a divorce from him. 0. When said John Hippie ran away from Butler county, l-nn., he assumed the name of John II. Mitch ell, by w hich name he has been known since that time. All the witnesses are still living, and will substantiate the facts so far a -s each are concerned, when required. None of these facts were in Oregon when said Hippie, alias Mitchell, was elected to the Senate, otherwise he could not have received a single vote for his election to that high oilice. Our State has been disgraced, and an outraged people respectfully ask re dress at your hands. Your petitioners therefore respect fully pray your honorable body to .resent these facts to said Hippie, alias Mitchell, and if denied by him, that a Committee ot Investigation ie appointed, and if they are found tine, that he be expelled from the Senate, and the foul stain be removed from our State. Senator J. K. Kelly is respectfully requested to present this petition to the Senate. John Sherman. He is six feet one Maior J. B. Pond, she will leave for inch high, weighs 178 pounds, ineas- the East. After Denver comes ures 40 inches around the chest Topeka, and from there they will go i o-3 inMics around the hpa.1 or I to T.nviiworth We eommend the UlIU 4 AtJV-" V "'-- - more than Trumbull, less than Sum- lady to the people of the East for ner and the same as Ldmunds. her womanly traits, her noble char- Wonicn in Politics. . . . -i children. or his relations, or his creu itors or to society, in some form or other. Tt. is for their espyeial goo. and behalf that he lives and works mid thev kindlv allow him to retain r.f hi.s gains to i. i iti i li (in w'irv sidministeV to his own pleasures am wants. He has his body and that is all, and even for that he is answera hi a to soeir.tv. Tn short. SOCietV IS the master and man in tho servant and that is entirely according as so ciety turns out a good or bail master whether he turns out a good or bat servant. George Augutus Sala. One mav live as a conqueror, or king, or a magistrate, but he must die a man. The bed of death brings evfirv human being to his pure indi vidnalitv. to the intense contempla tion of that deepest and most solemn of all relations, the relation between the creature- aud the creator OW GRANT WAS K1SSEP INTO APPOINT ING A CHIEF JCSTICE. when the sitting O. A. Townsend in Chicn-o Tribune. The President long wavered be tween Judge Hoar and I.oseoe i ,on ic ing and had decided in favor of the attcr. who thought it over, and, like c i r . . . : anv voting man ionu oi an acme career, declined it. .Meantime the friends of Judge Miller, and Judge Swavne in person, had so pressed the President for the place that he declared, last July, that he would take no man from the bench, to the disturbance of its harmony. Conk ling's declination came so late that there was little time for further se lection, with the work on the nu.-s.sage unfinished, and the Spanish matter taking up a good deal of time. In this period of indecision President was like a gunner on a fence waiting for game and see- in" none, the female hemisphere i f the " hite House, inspired hy the wife of the Attorney-General, charg ed upon the Presidential sportsman, took his gun and powaer-uasic away, and KISSED HIM INTO COMPLIANCE Mrs. Grant knew that there could b3 no mistake about it. The young la dies entreated Ulysses to unstring his bow. Happv as a clam at high- water the tall Oregonian found him self blessed with the baptism of total immersion, and he will take the seat of Ellsworth, Jay, Marshall, Taney, :ind Chase The appointment will be thought. bv a majority of public critics and members of the liar to soei.il intellectual and professional demands of the office, but perfectly in keeping with Gen. Grant s medi i,-r. r:inr, of appointments, it may l.e s.i id. however, of the of it lets no exceptional preponderance in the councils of the Supreme bench; and that, under Judge u imams, who o in ml est man. tin,, or uneoual temper, the harmony f ti.o Court, is ant to be continued. u, nconirements in the law and gen -.-.i l ;ter:itnre are ithout that undue which springs from con UtJincmi- i. . : o inferiority. lie IS N.-..t in the expression of his opinions: and acquaintance wuu tui i : i ., .f tnct find HU l- glVttS One the iue;i oi . g ' ;- 4 - -- . i i ,.-m ovriprifnceu. Chief Justice Avilliams ancestry is wholly Welsh, and his name is so common in Wales that it stands third in the list of common surnames for England and Wales, and is nearly as common as Smith and Jones. This Welsh element has been very com mon in our public life. Jefferson had it in the name as well as in the blood. Senator Anthony is half Welsh, ex-Senator Morgan the same, ex-Senator Poroeroy ditto, and Sena tor Sprague ditto. To look upon, Judge Williams is a large and broad but not stout person, of commanding height, rather loosely and roughly put together, with large bones, hands and feet, and plain black dress, befitting the localJndge of some 'State court. Barring his pioneer look, there is something nat urally judicial in his face, reposing features, and large, thoughtful re volving eye, over the wiioie oi w uicu seemes seated some invisible weight, n if his faculties and mental machin ery rolled slowly to their work, and were oppressed by the matter in hand. He has a good, fair forehead, and a large underlip aud mouth, which is the least inviting feature about him. His voice is deep and sonorous: He speaks right onward, slowly, like his look, but logically, and with increasing, but never dra fie weisrht am 1 interest. His con versation is dry and sound, with little niiedote and no laughter. He smiles occasionally, but never was a profes ....I wmiler in anv sense: and nlwavs struck me as a'liberal, charit able.'solid man, striving to get along, ami invariably commanding the con fidence and support of his associates from the Pacific coast. I presume i...t T .dml never have a chance to roll :d ten-pins with Mr. Williams any more, as hereafter he will wear a gown and be a luminary in oilice. I predict for him the growing confi dence of the country, and, in his own character a steady conservatism and emulous scholarship, which will rec oncile the country to his selection. POINTS OF CHARACTER. Judge Williams' wordly estate con ists of a new house, commodious and plain, befitting his oilice, which was iust finished at a cost of $20, 0(H), and had occupied only two or three weeks when in the fortunate receipt of a comm'suon whi.-h will give him 10,500 per annum, and a pension, if retired after ten years service, ne h is also investments in Washington real estate, which, if their promise b kept up, will yield in gross about sSi). (.)()(). exclusive of his residence. Like a large number of men from the Pacific Coast, he has cast his whole money and credit in Capitoline real esta'e; a )d I may mention that asso runted with these California!! is Clarke Ingersoll. formerly of Peoria, III., who is said to have above 6200,- 000 in property on Connecticut avo nue. which goes by the name of Honest Miners' Camp." The fra ternity is composed of Chief Justice Williams : Senators Stewart and Jones, Messrs. Sunderland and Hill ver, of JSavada, Sargeant, txornam and others, of California: Roscoe Conkling, A. G. Cattell and Ingersoll; and they rate their investments at about 8000.000. The English Minister has been induced to build his permanent Legation amongst them, the investment amounting to loO.OOO: and the two houses of Stewart and Hillver, iust completed, have consumed 8100,000. acter, her resolute determination and unflinching courage. She has brav ed many dangers to escape from her thraldom. She has a storv to tell. and she tells it well. The people of the East will be charmed with her acquaintance, and entertained and delighted with her lectures. Speculators and Producers. pec millions of prostrating THE WIFE of the new Chief Justice is a hand some and animated woman, born in New England, nutured and wedded in Iowa, unhappy in earlv life, divorc ed ; ami while a music teach at Port-. land, Oregon. Judge Williams, who, it is said, had befriended her in Iowa, met her by accident, and. being a widower, married her. I mention these matters because the extraordin ary promotion of the husband will give them publicity, and for the purpose of saying that Mrs. Williams has re turned her husband s chivalric kind ness by devotion to his interests more efficient than women in public life have it in their power commonly to accord. President Jackson was married to a ladv whose first husband survived; and the celebrated Mrs. Madison is said to have kept a board - mg-house in jmiaueipnia, w mere net future husband took up his quarters. Polj gamy. of an give int nlreadv and capable of higher performances; ;( n;4m and the evolution principles than he has yet had i opportunity to show. I can gi you an exact PHrSICAL SKETCH of Judge Williams, taken from meas urements in the year 18G6; and as he is in all essentials unchanged, you can tret a good avoirdupois and linear r,t ti.a man. He was born March 2G, 1823, and is of the age of The nineteenth wife of Brigham Young has given two lectures in Denver, both fully reported in the Denver papers. The JSews closes its report of the second lecture as fol lows : The lecture was listened to by the andianee with bated breath, the words sinking deep into every heart and evidently leaving a lasting lm- nression resrarding the llllamies OI I o u ..... the horrible system under which it was her misfortune to be raised Mrs. Tonne tells facts that have come under her personal observa tion, and her storv is one which il lustrates the condition of thousands of plural wives in the land of poly- L'amv. After the lecture a large number of ladies and gentlemen crowded around the lecturess, and, taking her by the hand, wished her success in lier undertaking and mission. All were highly pleased with her person al appearance, her quiet demeanor and unassuming manner winning her maoy friends. She received all kindly and cordially, and, although a novice in the matter of receptions and public handshakings, passed the ordeal very creditaoiy. Mrs. Young will remain in Denver until Saturday, when, with her corn- Damon. Mrs. Uoos, and nor agoni, From the San Fransisco Examiner. When we take a survey of the com mercial and industrial condition of the country, it is quite apparent that there is a great excess of speculation everywhere, and deficiency of pro ductive industry and legimate com merce. Commerce and industry suf fer severely from this want of equi poise. When we consider the vast aggregate of the annual transactions in such a financial centre as all street, the turning over ot lrom one to five thousand millions per annum concentrating there, for purposes of speculation, the money of the country that is needed by the peo ple to foster productive enterprises, and when we come to reane u..ii this constant manipulation oi sucli an enormous bulk of the circulating ind ill 111 dose not add one dollar to i... rvil e.ilth of the country : but nn thf eontrarv retards the general progress; bv using the very sinews of productive industry lor nonprou-.iu tiv lmninsps we are convinced of tho. creat evil and peril t all our sources of genuine commercial am industrial prosperity. Could the great producing millions, the active bone ami sinew ol the United estates be made to fully appreciate, feel and recognize the cause of the money panic that has recently shocked the country, turning thousands of hon est toilers out of work and sutlermg of all kinds their humble homes, not a speculating drone would dare to show his face to the laboring masses of our large cities. If the actua sufferers bv such 'financial tornadoes were to realize at once the fact, it would go very hard with the Cookes, the Clewses, and tho rest of the spec ulative gentry. The year just verging on the past has been one of unprecedented ma terial activity and success for the Mple of this Union. With forty people we have naa no epidemic. No devasta ting Hood, or nre, or lornauo, or earthquake, has swept or shaken the . . i lit t-- land, destroying actual wealth. e have been blessed with abundant harvests. We have something short of two hundred million dollars worth of cotton for the world to consume ; and we have, in excess of our own wants, at least one hundred millions in value of breadstuff's to sell to other countries ; and in order to handle and transport all this surplus we are supposed to have eight hundred mil lions of circulating currency, which does not circulate, because the so called money centres lock it up or use it to bull' and bear paper scruti ny, which restricts its" handling to a fw utterly unproductive, persons ; and the result is what we have seen during the last two or three months, namely, abundance of real wealth, myriads of human beings needing it, and more than sufficient currency to handle and move it, if that currency might be applied to its proper pur pose. But it is not so applied ; for the curse, blight, and mildew of speculation, has settled upon the financiers and is found in all the financial centres, . snl a perfect pandemonium is createa in me at- tempt to acquire ricin- wnuouu j in ductive industry ; ami in us sonu prosperity withers, decays, ana aie. With the incoming of the present Administration, speculation became, as it were, the genius ot the nation. General Grant came into power pooi , lie will go out fabulously rich. He inaugurated Wealth as the nation's idol." The Almighty Dollar he has made to assume the duel place in the Temple of Liberty. The reign nf illegitimate speculation and pub- s .... - 1 - iw. ..lnn.lor was established bv nis ,..,ft,- To become wealthy thro unlawful means has been held crimi nal only in the detection, lhe en tire war was not only a carnival of blood but a carnival of theft not theft practiced by the victors upon ii. ,..,vw,,n;hed while thev were U1U lilli.j..- ) - ---- overrunning the conquered country i..,t theft, bv the war party upon n, Inderal treasury and upon each i...- After the bloody conflict ceased, and robbers retired upon f i,,-r ill-trotten gains, the honest peo nip of the country saw the idolatry nf wealth begin ; and then were de ..i,-l the innumerable schemes fr.r facilitating the acquisition of luxurious independency, which men ;ti,nni. morals and controlling an onormous irredeemable paper cur rencv would be likely to devise. When the Presinent of a great re public proves himself mercenary anr soulless, dabbling in stocks and gold speculations, and identifying himsel with paper securities, it is not to be wondered at that his admirers are to Vie found among men of the stanq of Jav Cooke and Henry Clews am the other speculators and stock sharps of the monev marts. An im moral government is omnipotent for evil. Short roads to wealth, has been Grant's motto. The laws of po litical economy have been derided and disregarded. Common morality has been practically unknown, while its precepts nave been constant in the mouths of our Christian states men. Venality has flaunted its mere tricious apparel in the public streets at noonday, and found millions to bow to it in obsequious deference because tue monster was clothed m purple and fine linen, the insignia of great wealth. The spawn of all this las been speculation, and specula tion has brought the country and the honest working population to their present distressful state, while the corrupt and speculating class are lol- ig in ease and indolent luxury. The honest portion of the people must panse awhile and reflect upon this, and then reform it, as they may by united action, or the country must shortly take a retrogressive di rection. The honest tribes must step to the front; the speculators must drop to the rear. Productive industry is the only truly honorable mode of acquiring wealth. This truth must be instilled into the minds of the growing generation, and acted upon by their elders. If not, we shall rue the day when ti:e producers yield to the speculators, as the worthiest and most respectable class in the country. Chiet Justice Williams. President Grant's New Justice. The Pall River (Mass.) Xews, (Re publican), admits that "the nomina tion of George H. Williams of Ore gon, does not meet with the enthu siastic reeeption generally accorded to Presidential recommendations for high offices, when vouchsafed to men of eminence and high abilities for acquirements in the department of knowledge fitting one for the office. Mr. -Williains certainly cannot be considered a brilliant man or a lead er at the bar. His nomination ranks quite well with that of Borie, Stew art and Robeson, some of the Presi dent's selections, which the nation accepted with a wry face. It is hard for the lawyers and judges of the nation to stand by and see a man who it is thought would make an indiffer ent justice of the peace, placed in a life office, and the highest in pidu.ua honor of all in the gift of the nation There cannot fail to be some revul sion at this step when one hundred men are passed by, any one of whom would fill the office well, and give atisfaction to the Bar and Bench, as well as to the people." TheTuskegee (Ala.) Xecs says : General Grant has outraged the public sentiment of the country in many respects, but in no respect has ie set it at dehance more snameiniiy than in his appointments to high and responsible offices. The Macon Telegraph says : The oress of the country is either significantly silent on this nomina tion, or denounces it unsparingly. ho administration journals rarei attempt to apologize for it and it has j few or no defenders. The Norfolk (Va.) Landmark asks: Will the Senate confirm this man ? Can the memory of Marshall, Taney, and Storey be forgotten.' can tue most important branch ol govern ment be prostituted to the degraded evel of party rewards i Can thesneet anchor of public liberty be ham mered down into pin hooks, where with to fish for personal aggrandize ment? These are pregnant questions which we submit to the JNortnern members of the Senate as eminently worthy of their immediate consider ation. The Opelika (Ala.) Observer says : flmnt has appointed a fourth-rate Oregon lawyer to fill the chair of the Chief Justice, which was once occu pied bv a Marshall. This is such a . " - ii .. r display of lavoritism mat iuikici shuts out the hope that Grant would show a more patriotic spirit after the election for a second term. The Pittsburg Despatch says : One of the most unfortunate nom inations made by President Grant, since he entered the W hite House, is that of Williams for the Chief Jus ticeship. The people had a perfect right to expect from the President some proof of ability in the man he . . would nominate as successor oi Chase. Unlike the petty postmaster- ships, or foreign consulates, that are parceled out upon the recommenda tions of district politicians, and usu ally go to the applicants having the largest number of names on their pe titions, the headship of the l ederal Judiciary was conceived to be of im portance necessitating clear evidence of worth on the x,art of the man el evated to it. At tiest, the J3ench is not a fair prize for politicians; and among the most ardent partisans we doubt if there would be many who in sist upon applying too closely to the Bench the motto: lo the victors belong the spoils," Much less should it be looked upon asa toy wherewith the appointing power is privileged to test the force of personal favorit ism; least of all, should the Chief Justiceship of the United States rank among the perquisites of the White House, to be disposed of without re ference to the exiectations of the people. And. whatever Mr. Grant might have done with lesser offices Twith regard to this there is no excuse for indiscreet action, as the senti ments of the public were conveyed to him in forcible and abundant measures for months before Mr. Wil liams was chosen. The strong point against Mr. Williams is that wldle he was judge of an Iowa Court full fifty per cent, of his decisions were re versed on appeals to a higher tribu nal. This is a bad record. Moreo ver, it is a record that cannot te overlooked ; for. in fact, it is the omj- record Mr. Williams has, as President Grant has decided to ap point Attorney-General Geo. H. Williams Chief' Justice of Snpreme Court. Mr. Williams is a citizen of Oregon. He served as a Senator from that State from 1865 to 1871 ; and failling to get re-elected, he was appointed by General Grant one . of the joint Commissioners to negotiate the treaty for settling the Ala bama claims, and afterwards Attorney-General of the United States. Oregon is a new, sparley settled frontier State, having a smaller pop ulation than an average Xew York county. We have sixty counties in this State and the Bar of every one might furnish as capable a Chief Justice as President Grant has selec ted. A practitioner in the courts of Oregon is not called on once in five years to try a case bearing any re semblance to tle which form the chief business of the Supreme Court. It is self-evident that Mr. Williams cannot be a great, or even a good awyer. During his six years in the Senate he made no mark, which pro ves that he has but moderate vigor of intellect. Conkling. who was so much talked of, would have been thought a bad appointment : but Conkling is at least the equal of Wil liams as a lawyer, and altogether his superior in force of talents and gen eral ability.0 The bestowal of so great an office as the Chief Justice ship upon so undistinguished and mediocre a lawyer as Mr. v llliams, is a piece of indefensible personal favoritism. It is a reward of the Altoraey-Generar s service and servili ty last year in furnishing official opin ions to sustain the outrageous action of Judge Darell in Louisiana. Mr. Wil liams will make about as capable a Chief Justice as General Grant is a President. This is the highest com pliment any intelligent man can pos sibly pay him. Avtc York World. Not. Dancing," but Capering a Little. Mrs. Jane G. Swisshelm explains her view of the Credit-Mobilier reve lations with the following anecdote: Looking over the reports of the Credit-Mobilier committee, I have been strongly reminded of a church trial which took place, many years ago, in the Covenanter Congregation of Pittsburgh. A large number of the members had met in the house.of an elder where some son of Belial was present with a riddle, which he began to play in such fashion as to put "life and mettle" into the heels of most of the company, when there was a general moment of reels and "strauspeys." Of course the offen ders were "made to stan' 'Wi'a gic het face before the hoi ytjan." or, in plain English, were brought before the session to givS satisfac tion. Dr. Black, the pastor, asked one Scotchman if he had been pres ent on the occasion of the dancing, and he owned that he had been. "Well did you dance?" "Na." "You did not dance?" "Xa, I did not dance ; but I caper ed a leetle." Very few of the honorable gentle men brought up for trial have ever danced in the Credit-Mobilier ring ; but most of them have capered a lit tle. None of them, were ever brib ed by Mr. Ames or had any of his c stocks "placed in their hands," but somehow a little of it got into them, without being placed. It is strange that so many of them "lost money by getting stock out of their hands when these same stocks were really in them. Strange, too, that rthey ose their losses so very philosophi cally ! If Mr. Colfax for instance. had been a Johnny hteei, Deni on getting rid of a few millions in the shortest possible time, he could not have been more indinerent aoout tne paltry 8500 which he gave to Mr. .mes for no consideration. The Sun's Crust. O a judge. Thesedncerof a girl 12 year -old was compelled by her relatives to marry her at Monticello, Ut week in the same house and on the ramenight that the seduction took place. Professor Charles A. Young caused o considerable discussion ct the Amer ican discussion at the American sci ence association's meeting at Port land, lately, by some unique thoeries regarding the sun. The eruptions 0 which are continually occurring on its surface render probable the sup position that there is a crust of some kind which retains the imprisoned gases, and through which they force their way in jets, with great violence. According to Prof. Young, this crust may consist of a more or less contin uous sheet of descending rain, that is, a downfall of the condensed vapors of those materials whiclqwe know, from the spectroscope, exists in the snn. The continuous efflux- of the solar heat is equivalent to the supply that would be developed by the con densation, from steam to water, of a lavor of about five feet thick over the whole surface of the snn, every min ute of time. As this tremendous o rain descends, the velocity of the falling drops would be retarded by the resistance of the denser gases un derneath; the dwps would coajesco until a continuous sheet would be frmp7l- and these sheets would XnaSrm a sort of bottomless ocean, resting on the compressed va pors beneath, and pierced by innum erable ascending jets and bubbles. It would have an approximately con stant depth, because it would turn to vapor at the bottom as rapidly as it rrrew at the surface; though .probably, the thickness of this crust would continually increase at a slow rate, and its whole diameter grew less. In other words Dr. Young would regard the sun as an enormous bubble, o whose walls are steadily thickening and its diameter ever lessening, in proportion to the loss of heat. South Carolina people are threat ening to impeach Governor Moses for the alleged reception of bribes asd for farming ouiihe State officea. O . O COURTESY OF BANCROFT LIBRARY, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, O i a T TTVnlT A