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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
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Ciiief .1 H-t ice liiiciiu ni.m e
earlier man .inii" "
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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
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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
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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.
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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-
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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