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Xo Myth.
There are many Radical and Dem
ocratic journals which appear to
consider the candidacy of Grant for
a third term a mere myth, unworthy
of serious consideration. To all
such we commend an attentive peru
sal of the following communication,
signed " A Mississippi Democrat,'"
written to the Louisville Courier
Journal from Marshall county, Mis
sissippi. It is plain and direct in
its statements, and reads thus:
The question of a third term is
one which in the South, is attracting
considerable attention, and, however
it may be in the North, here it meets
with much favor. Misery, it is said.
loves company, and, on that princi- I
pie alone, the fcoutu views the acces
sion of Grant to the Presidency for a
third term as a step at least to a
greater centralization of power,
wherein alone their future safety lies.
Among us, long since, the liberty,
equality, and fraternity of a republi
can government has ceased to exist.
It is true that we are at liberty to
approach the polls and deposit our
ballots, but if the result conflicts
with the views of the Administration,
experience demonstrates that the
strong arm will feel no hesitancy in
setting it aside or declaring it exact
ly to the contrary. Equality, too.
does exist to a certain extent; but it
is the equality of degradation and
despair. It has pleased the minds
of the Northern people to pit the ne
gro against the whites of the South,
and to sustain him in insolence to
wards his former master, to teach
him that he is the pet of the nation
and entitled to legislation for his es
pecial benefit. In their efforts to
humiliate and degrade the white
people of the South they have tam
pered with the Constitution of the
ITnited States and strained its pro
visions with forcible constructions
until they have inquired its useful
ness to such an extent that no one
feels protection under its influence.
Its sanctity is at such a low ebb that
Alcorn, the apostle of negro suprem
acy, can without rebuke proclaim in
the Senate of the United States that
if constitutional limitations stand in
bar of negro supremacy and special
legislation for the negro, the Consti
tution must stand aside, and be ig
nored as has heretofore been the case
when demanded by party clamor.
The white people of the South,
while they have received many
wrongs at the hands of the President,
IT. S. Grant, appreciate the fact that
he as only acted in compliance with
party clamor, unwilling to impair
his own strength as the head of the
American nation, and to-day he
stands stronger among our people
than any man on the American con
tment. e look on him as the ex
ponent of power, and when he de
sires to exercise his power to
strengthen himself still further, the
Southern whites will readily lend
their aid to forward his ambitious
schemes, feeling that in his success
will be their triumph over those
who have, in their hour of trouble,
vilified and degraded them and taken
delight in placing on their necks the
heels of their former slaves.
The negroes, too, w ill be on his
side, for he is part of their religion,
and they have been taught by their
carpet-bag masters that their
sole political dutv is to vote as thev
are ordered from head-quarters, but
were they disposed to rebel, the hint
given by the presence of a few sol
diers would qnickly bring them to
terms, for thev have not forgotten
the policy of obedience to whatever
they acknowledge as authority. They
ate the tools of the carpet-bag ad
venturer, and the promise of Govern
ment patronage would bring him
also into the coalition. So you see
that the South being ready, all that
will be required will be a little
foreign war as excuse to levy
troops and make a few little
changes in the Constitution, and Mr.
Grant is President for the third
term. The present objective point
can then easily be changed into a
point of departure, and by the ma
nipulation of the same machinery we
can rapidly stride toward a strong
and enduring one-man Government.
As Lamar truly remarked in his
great speech, " signal guns of dis
tress are constantly being sounded
by the suffering South, and when
Grant sees fit to come to her assist
ance she will not inquire too closely
into his motives. All that they will
ask will be a recognition of their
equal claims to favor, knowing that
they will quickly take that rank in
positions of honor and profit to which
their statemanship and talents enti
tle them.
ToprLAit Ekkors. To think the
more a man eats, the fatter and more
strengthened he will become.
To believe the more hours children
study, the faster they will learn.
To conclude that, if exercise is
good, the more violent it is, the
more good is done.
To imagine that every hour taken
from sleep is that much time clear
gain.
To act on the presumption that
the least room in the house is big
enough to sleep in.
To argue that whatever remedy
causes one to feel immediately better
is good for the system, without look
ing forward to" the more ulterior
effects.
To eat without
continue to eat after it has been grat
ified, merely for the sake of gratify
ing the taste. J
To eac a hearty supper for the
pleasure experienced during the brief
time it is passing down the throat
at the expense of a whole night of
disturbed sleep, and a weary waking
in the morning.
Protection Tactics.
Speaker Blaine has accepted a re
nomination for Congress, and has
published an address to his constit
uency, the substance of which is a
bid for the support of the Protection
ists in the next National Eadical
Convention. The great iron and
steel organizations, and the woolen
and cotton associations, united, form
the mam support of the Radical par
ty. Therr allies are the National
Banks and the great railway corpo
rations, which, if they can be
brought to center on any individual,
are powerful enough to make him
the candidate of that party. These
bodies, acting together, can, beyond
any reasonable doubt, controf the
next National Radical Convention.
Their pecuniary interests are so
bound up in placing before the peo
ple their strongest candidate that
they will not risk Grant for a third
term. Nor would they prefer Wash
burne, as he is a Western man, too
much opposed on account of the in
terests of the region he is identified
with to favor the protective system.
As the time approaches for prepar
ing for the Presidential campaign
the conflicting wings of the domi
nant party will soon be at open vari
ance. The farmers throughout the
West are a well-organized body, and
the policy most opposed to their in
terests in the continuance of the
protective system. They will not
yield their opinions on that question.
They have gone too far to do so.
The Grangers have instructed t eir
members upon the fallacy- of a high
tariff benefiting their interests. The
manufacturing States are attached,
from interest, to the system which
has so largely increased their wealth
at the expense of the agricultural re
gion. A candidate who is in favor
of diminishing the subsidies their
industries have received through
discriminating duties, cannot expect
to obtain the popul r vote where
manufacturers of iron, steel, wool,
and cotton form the loading indus
tries of their inhabitants. United,
the Radicals would have a difficult
task to elect their candidate divid
ed, as they are on the tariff, success
seems impossible.
The West needs cheap transporta
tion for ito grain to European uar
kets. The present facilities through
our country are not adequate to the
cheap movement of the crops of the
west to the markets of consumption.
During the present session of Con
gress there was an opportunity of
giving the Western States cheap
transportation. The Dominion ten
dered us a Reciprocity treaty, under
which an extensive canal system will
connect the Lakes with the Atlantic
rit the St. Lawrence river, and give
our produce an advantage in trans
portation that would have largely in
creased our shipment to Europe.
That measure was opposed by the
protectionists because it would take
from the tariff many articles that are
prohibited, owing to the high duties
charged on their importation.
The leaders of the Protectionists
in the House opposed tiie adoption
of the treaty with such energy that
the Senate did not conclude it. Mr.
Kelley even attacked the right of the
Senate to make a treaty of Recipro
city with any nation. He contended
that to do so was to interfere with
the right of the House to raise reve
nue for the purpose of carrying on
the Government. Whatever influ
ence, if any, his arguments may have
had on the question, one thing is
self-evident that the matter has been
delayed and with it the fishery ques
tion between ourselves and Great
Britain.
In 1S."4, when the United Slates
possessed a House and Senate of far
greater ability than those of 1873-74,
a treaty of reciprocity was concluded
with Canada, which resulted in great
mutual advantage. The negotiation
of another on the same principle but
more comprehensive in its scope,
would be of immense benefit to both
countries. It should have been ac
cepted on our part without unneces
sary delay, but there was a fear of
offending certain political interests.
Its ratification might have influenced
the next Presidential election ad
versely to the Radical party, and
"Pig-iron" Kelley's assertion served
as a pretext to delay action. Speak
er Blaine in his address declared his
opposition to the treaty. Ho is in
favor of killing it, not, we opine, be
cause he doubts the constitutional
right of the President and Senate to
make it. but because, like Congress
man Kelley, he fears the benefits re
sulting from free trade between
Canada and the United States for
productions of the farm, etc., may
teach the people what they have al
ready felt to their cost that a pro
tective tariff, is an ingenious system
to rob the many for the benefit of
the few. Examiner.
A recent number of a "health"
journal says. " Gne of the strongest
arguments against the paper curren
cy nov in circulation is that it
spreads disease. Thousands of per
sons annually die from smallpox ta
ken from money that passes through
their hands." 'This is dreadful, and
after reading it I feel disposed never
to touch another dollar of the money
aain. But other persons are differ
ent I know that the statement will
appear incredible; I know people
will scoff at the assertion; I am aware
i.f T mikfl mvself liable to a charge
r tir,tn mendacity, and yet it is
Ul 1-o"1 . . -r 1
an absolute truth that I can lay my
hand on a recfciess-uevu ot a m.
...i .-ii -tiiflr Ins clothes with all
WOO Mill """" Til
the paper money he can get and take
iuAnc with the epidemics. It
may seem strange that such toolbar-
diness suonm extt, auujc.
r ,-r, irrmld indulge in it if he had
a chance. Some men are born so
that they face death without a shud
der. Max Adler.
Sound Democracy.
From the San Francisco Examiner.
We hail with pleasure the nomina
tion of Michael C. Kerr, in the Third
District of Indiana for Congress, on
the Democratic ticket. Mr. Kerr
represented that District in the 39th,
40th, 41st, and 42d Congresses with
pre-eminent ability, and was a candi
date for Congressman-at-large for
the present Congress, and beaten by
but a few votes. He did not care to
return to public life, but his constit
uents would not allow him to remain
out of it. The capacity already
shown by Mr. Kerr in his public ca
reer, and the boldness which he has
at all times exhibited in taking posi
tion on the questions that have agi
tated the country, and the ability
with which he has maintained hrs
views, mark him as a man of charac
ter and talent. His speech before
the Convention which nominated
him, a full report of which we have
read in the columns of the Conrier
Jovrnnl, is a thoughtful and able ex
amition of the questions which are
just now of peculiar importance to
the people. The currency and free
trade are the pivot questions upon
which our interests depend, and
these two questions Mr. Kerr handles
in a particularly lucid and forcible
manner.
Referring to the depreciation of
our currency, he says the most vital
ly important subject of practical
statesmanship now demanding solu
tion in our country is the currency.
It is not a question of the payment
of bonds; it is not a sectional ques
tion; it is not a question which
should arouse passion; it can never
be settled wisely except under the
guidance of reason, without unfre
ternal bitterness, and upon the prin
ciples indicated by the universal
experience of commercial nations.
The vast importance of its right set
tlement no man can estimate, for the
currency of a country directly and
most materially affected almost every
interest of the nation and the people,
every effort of labor, every reward of
toil, the success of both private and
public morals. In all respects, this
great subject was always fully un
derstood and appreciated by all the
fathers and founders of our institu
tions, and by almost all our rulers to
1861. This is most impressively and
honorably true of the Democratic
party ever since its primitive organ
ization, because, during its long,
wise, prosperous, and glorious gov
ernment of our country, it never for
a year or a day, in pea'e or war, in
prosperity or adversity, suffered the
currency to be torn from its only
safe and sureanchorage in the princi
ples of the Constition, the accepted
currency of the world's commerce,
the solid, enduring, and perpetual
basis of gold and silver. There
never was, and never can be, a good
national currency that does not rest
upon the sure foundation of intrinsic
value, of money whose value is fixed
by the labor it costs to produce it;
of money created under the injunc
tion " that in the sweat of thy face
shalt thou eat bread."
Pull of these convictions, wise in
the then past experience of the world,
ind faithful to duty, our forefathers
imbedded these principles in our
Constitution, and cherished the fond
hope that they had thereby forever
secured their posterity against the
evils of an irredeemable paper cur
rency. They declared in the Con
stitution that " no State shall make
anything but gold and silver coin a
tender in payment of debts. That
is our constitutional basis, and it
precisely coincides with the conclu
sions of universal experience, and of
science, and of sound morality and
natural law. And that wise prohi
bition, in its true intent, spirit,
and purpose, applies as well to Con
gress as to the States. And so, prior
to 18G1. it was construed by the com
mon judgment of the country, by-
Jefferson. Madison. Jackson. Web
ster, Clay and other great statesmen
and rulers. So it should be constru
strued now, and must be in the fu
ture before any financial safety can
be fully established. So it would be
now but for the bad statesmanship
and great wrong of theRadical party.
lhe vigorous manner in which Mr.
Kerr has sounded the old Democrat
ic slogan of hard money and free
trade is extremely inspiring in these
days of weak adherence to those
grand old principles.
The ways of the wicked are vari
ous, lhe way it is managed in Oak
land, California, since local option
has carried the day, and no liquor is
sold by retail, is something after this
fashion:
Thirsty Customer Mr. Barkeeper,
what will five gallons and a gill of
your best whiskey cost?
Mr. B. $30 25.
T. C. Cheap enough. I will take
it.
Demijohn is handed down. T. C.
takes a nip, smacks his lips, and in
forms Mr. B. that on the whole he
thinks he will not keep the balance,
and suggests that Mr. B., always
readv for a bargain, offers 830 10 for
it, which offer T. C. accepts, paying
the 15 cents difference.
You see he "sells short" on Bour
bon, "seller 15."
One should not be downcast at
failures. They are often far better
for the student than success. He
who goes to school his mistakes, will
always have a good schoolmaster,
and will not be likely to become
either idle or conceited.
' Why don't you get down and
lead that horse? that is the way to
keep warm," said a gentleman to a
bov one cold day. "No," replied
the American youth, "it is a b-b-bor-rowed
horse, and I'll ride hip if I
freeze."
COURTESY OF BANCROFT LIBRARY',
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA,
TIIE BROOK.
BY TES.VYSOX.
With main' curve my banks I fret,
liv manv a nehl ninl fsillnw
And many a fairy fore-land set
With willow, weed and mallow,
I slip, I slide, I gleam, I glance,
Amontr my skimmiinr swallows.
I made the nettled sunbeams dance
Against my sandy shallows
I chatter chatter as I How
To join the brimming river;
But men may come, and men may go,
Hut I go on forever ever 1 go on
forever !
I wind about, and in and out.
With here a blossom sailing ;
And here and there a lustv trout,
And here and there a gravlimr ;
And here and there a snowy llake
U pon me as I travel ;
With many a silvery water-break
Above the snowy 'gravel.
And out again I curve and flow
To join the brimming river;
tor men may come, and men may go,
But I iso
on forever ever 1 tro on
forever 1
I steal by lawns and grassy plots,
I slide by hazel covers ;
I move the sweet forget-me-nots
That move for happy lovers;
I murmur under moon and stars,
In biambly wildernesses;
I linger by my shingly bars,
1 loiter round my cresses
And out again I curve and How
To join the brimming river;
For men may come and men may
liut I go oil forever ever I go
forever 1
go.
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The Liords Prayer in Verse.
Our Heavenly Father, hear our prayer,
Tuy name lie" hallowed everywhere;
Thy Kingdom come, Thy erfect will
In earth, as in heaven, let all fultill ;
Oive thisday 's bread that we may live ;
Forgive our'sins as we forgive;
Help us temptation to withstand ;
From evil shield us with Thy hand.
Now and forever unto Thee"
The Kingdom, power and glory be.
Wait Until I Curl My Hair.
A Salem, Ala., preacher has, ac
cording to a Southern exchange, been
telling his congregation a strange
yarn. We hope he preached "to the
marines;" but his audience was col
ored, and he himself the hue of
ebony. The negro is credulous:
He said that a young man, living
in one of the many towns that he
had visited, asked a young lady to
accompany him to church on Sab
bath day. She replied pettishly,
that her hair had not been curled,
and that she would go to the bad
place with her e3 es wide open before
she would venture to church with
her hair uncurled. And she went
not, at th t time; but the next Sun
day, having got her curls adjusted,
she ventured out and listened pa
tiently to the sermon until its close.
When the congregation had been
dismissed she moved toward the
door, but fell, on reaching the por
tal, with her head to the pulpit. As
she fell her clothing cracked like
Chinese crackers exploding, and on
examining her face it was found that
her eyelids were completely gone.
She was dead, but it was impossible
to close her eyes, because of the loss
of the lids. When her friends
crowded around her to raise her up
they found themselves unable to
move her. The sequel showed that
it took twelve strong men to lift her
from the floor and twelve to put her
in her coffin. It also required the
united exertions of twelve ministers
to preach her funeral an exceeding
heavy job doubtless. When t e last
sad rites were being observed, the
lid of the coffin suddenly raised of
its own accord, and something "about
the size of a black cat, but which
was not a black cat." leaped out.
And as this creature jumped from
the coffin to the floor it cried aloud
to the petrified audience, "Wait! wait!
wait until I curl mv hair! "As I ex
pect to answer in the day of judg
ment, said the sable divine, 1 saw
this scene with my own eyes, and it
was just as I have told it !
"An effeminate man," savs a re
cent writer, " is a week poultice. He
is a cross pet ween taoie-ueer
einerer-pop, with the cork left
and
out.
A fresh water mermaid found in a
cow pasture with her hands filled
with dandelions. He is a teacup full
of syllabub; a kitten in trousers; a
sick monkey with a blonde mous
tache. He is a vine without tentrils;
a fly boiled in oil; a paper kite in a
dead calm. He lives like a butter
fly no one can tell why. He is as
harmless as a penny's worth of can
dy, and as useless as a shirt-button
without a hole. He is as lazy as a
slug, end has no more hope than
last summer's fly. He goes through
life on tip-toe, and dies like cologne
water spilt over the ground."
Looking for Them. Recently a
negro preacher and doctor in Mem
phis, Tenn., was approached by a
darkey of the commoner sort. The
fellow asked the doctor to go with
him and he would show him where
he could get a trunk full of money.
The doctor went and near the Orphan
Asylum his guide halted and explain
ed that the reverend gentleman was
to take off his boots and stockings
and go barefooted to the point named.
while his new found friend carried
the boots around to the place by a
circuitous route. The doctor has
given up the search for the trunk
and is looking for the boots.
A schoolboy being requested to
write a composition on the subject
of " Pins," produced the following:
Pins are very useful. They have
saved the lives of a great manv men
women and children in fact, whole
families." "How so?" asked the
1 .1 X 1 A 1 ,1 ,
puz.z,ieu leaeuer. Ann me uoy re
plied. "Why, by not swallowing
them." This matches the story of
the other boy, who defined salt as
"the stuff that makes potatoes taste
baa when you don t put on an v.
A Good fellow.
Scribner for June..
We wonder if the "good fellow"
ever mistrusts his goodness or real
izes how selfish, how weak, how un
principled and how bad a fellow he
truly is. He never regards the con-
sequences of his acts as they relate
to others, and especially those of his
family friends. Little fits of gener
osity toward them are supposed to
atone for all his misdeeds, while he
inflicts upon them the disgraces, in
conveniences and burdens which at
tend a selfish and desolute life. The
invitation of a friend, the taunts of
good-natured boon companions, the
temptations of jolly friendship, those
are enough to overcome all his scru
ples, if he has any scruples, and lead
him to ignore all the possible results
to those who love him best and who
must care'for him in sickness and all
the uuhappy phases of his selfish
life. The good fellow is
NOTORIOUSLY CARELESS
of his family. Any outside friend
can lead him whithersoever he will
into debauchery, idleness, vagabond
age. He can ask a favor and it is
done. He can invite him into dis
grace, aud he goes. He can direct
him into a job of dirty work, and he
straightway undertakes it. He can
tempt him into any indulgence which
may suit his vicious whims, and re
gardless of wife, mother, sister, who
may be shortened in their resources
so as legitimately to claim his pro
tecting hand regardless of honora
ble father and brother he will spend
his money, waste his time, and make
himself a subject of constant and
painful anxiety, or an unmitigated
nuisance to those alone who care a
straw for him. What pay does he
receive for this shameful sacrifice?
The honor of being considered a
"good fellow" with a set of men who
would not spent a cent for him if
they should see him starving, and
who would laugh over his calamities.
Wiien he dies in the ditch, as he is
most likely to die, they breathe a
sigh over the swill they "drink, and
say, "After all he was a good fellow."
This feature of the good fellow's
case which makes it well nigh hope
less, is, that he thinks he is a good
fellow. He thinks that his pliable
disposition, his readiness to do other
good fellows a service, and his .jolly-
ways
ATOXE FOR ALL HIS FAULTS.
His love of praise is fed by his com
panions, and thus his self compla
cency is nursed. Quite unaware that
this good fellowship is the result of
his weakness; quite unaware that
this sacrifice of honor, and the honor
and peace of his family, for the sake
of outside praise is the offspring of
the most heartless selfishness; quite
unaware that his disregard of the in
terests and feelings of those who are
bound to him by the closest ties of
blood, is the demonstration of his
utterly unprincipled" character, he
carries an unruffled or a jovial front
while hearts bleed or brake around
him.
Of all the scamps society knows
this traditional good fellow is the
most despicable. A man who, for
the sake of his own selfish delights,
or the sake of the praise of careless
ar unprincipled friends, makes his
home a scene of "
ANXIETY AXD TORTURE,
and degrades and disgraces all who
are associated with him in his home
life, is, whether he knows it or not,
a brute. If a man cannot be loyal
to his home, and to those who love
him. then he cannot be loyal to any
thing that is good, there is some
thing mean beyond description in
any man who cares more for an-thing
in this world, than the honor, the
confidence and the love of his family.
There is something radically wrong
in such a man, and the more thor
oughly he realizes it, in a humilia
tion which bends him to the earth in
shame and confusion, aod better for
him. The traditional good fellow is
A BAD FELLOW
from the very crown of his head to
the sole of his foot. He is weak as a
baby, vain as a peacock, selfish as a
pig and unprincipled as a thief. He
has not one redeemed trait upon
which a reasonable self-respect can
be built and braced.
Give us the bad fellow who stands
by his personal and family honor,
who sticks to his own, who dare not
treat his friends while his home is
in need of the money he wasts, and
who gives himself no indulgence of
good fellowship at the expense of
duty ! A man with whom the approv
ing smile ot a wife, cr mother, or
sister, does not weigh more than a
thousand crazy bravos of boon com
panions, is just no man at all.
hat he Might See. The Utica
Observer says that if the vision of
the imprisoned Tweed took a broad
er scope he might see, perhaps, the
scenes in w asuington, where bhep
herd, a later" Boss" of fuller growth
every whit as corrupt as his proto
type, and far more sordid and sel
fish still basks in the sunlight of
Federal favor. He might see this
unpunished rascal junketing at Cape
May with the President of the Unit
ed States, and realize his own great
error in not allying himself earlier
with the regular organization of the
Republican party.' He might see
Tremain, who assisted (for a retainer
of Slio.OOO) at his conviction, howl
ing a hoarse appeal in the House of
Representatives in behalf of the de
graded and debauched Durell, of
Louisiana, and he might learn how
the men who had turned the Federal
Treasury over to thieves were elevat
ed to the bench or reserved for for
eign missions.
Not so Sure. A spinster was
heard to remark that she had faith
that " God disposes," but it is not
so sure that " man proposes."
The Congressional Gag Law.
The New York Sun has the follow
ing in relation to the Act of Congress
under whose previous charges of li
bel against news papers may be pros
ecuted in the Criminal Court of tho
District of Columbia.- The Sun says:
.Neither in the title nor the tpxt i
there anything which, to the casual
and unlearned reader, would convey
the serious and alarming import
which lurks in its provisions. There
are two sections only of this Act,
which, taken together! work th mis
chief ; but in neither does the word
press occur.
The following is the Act, entire, as
we have received it from Washington:
Ax ACT conferring jurisdiction up
on tJie Criminal Caurt of the District of
Columbia, and for other jmrjyoses. Be
it enacted by the Senate and House
of Representatives of the United
States of America in Congress assem
bled, That the Criminal Court of the
District of Columbia shall have jur
isdiction of all crimes and misde
meanors committed in said District,
not lawfully triable in any other
court, and which are required by
law to be prosecuted by indictment
or information.
"Skc. 2. That the provisions of
the thirty-third section of the Judi
ciary act of 1789 shall apply to courts
created by act of Congress inrthe
District of Columbia."
The effect of the first section of
this Act, so far as the press is con
cerned, is to give to the Criminal
Court of the District of Columbia
jurisdiction over criminal prosecu
tions for libel. q
The effect of the second section is
to authorize the Criminal Court of
the District of Columbia to send into
every State and Territory of the Un
ion, a warrant requiring the arrest
and rendition of any person charged
with the publication of a libel in the
District of Columbia. The publica
tion may .be costructive as well as
actual. If the publisher of a paper
in New York, Maine, Utah or Cali
fornia should semi a single copycf
his paper containing the alleged
libelous matter to one subscriber in
the District of Columbia, he would
be liable, according to this law, to
be indicted by the Grand Jury of
the Criminal Court of the Dis
trict and on a warrant issu
ing out of that Court, or from
one of the Judges of any court cre
ated by act of Congress in the Dis
trict, to be seized in the State or
Territory where he resides however
distant put in irons, and carried to
Washington, there to lie in jail until
his case should come to trial before
a petit jury of the Criminal Court.
Bail he might offer; but withithe
modern doctrines controlling bail
and since even a judge like Suther
land has been known to require bail
in the sum of thirty thousand dol
lars on a charge of misappropriating
one hundred and seventy-five the
right to give bail is an uncertain
reed on which to lean.
Such is the scope, and such con
sidering the learning and capacity of
those who contrived it must have
been the design of this Act. It sub
jects to the authority of a Court not
of the most exalted rank, located in
the city of Washington, existing
in the polluted atmosphere of the
Capitol and its lobby, presided over
by Judges appointed by the Presi
dent; it subjects, we say, to such Sk1
narrow and dangerous authority the
whole press of the United States.
Ax Affair of a Pair? He was
young, he was fair and he parted his
hair, like the average fool, in the
middle; he was proud, he was bold,
but the truth must be told he played
like a hend on the riddle. But aside
from this vice he was everything
nice, and his heart was so loving and
tender, that he always turned pale
when he trod on the tail of the cat
lying down by the fenderr lie
clerked in a store, and the way that
he tore off calico, jeans, and brown
sheeting, would have tickled a calf
and made the brute laugh in the face
of a quarterly meeting. He cut
quite a dash with a darling mous
tache, which he learned to adore and
to cherish, for one had said, 'twould
kill her to see the thing perish. On
Sunday he'd search the straight road
to church, and sat 'down like a young
tabby cat, with the saints in the far
amen corner. He sang like a bird
and his sweet voice was heard fairly
tugging away at long metre and wOq
speak the truth when we say that
this youth could outsing a hungry
musquiter.
She was young, she was fair and
she scrambled her hair like the aver
age folio of the city; she was proud
but not bold, but the truth must be
told the vfny she chewed gum was a
pity; but aside from this vice she
was everything nice and the world
much applauded her bustle; and the
cgay bully boys, being charmed by
the noise walked miles just to hear
the thing rustle. She cut quite a
swell, did the nm chewing belle,
and the men Hocked in armies- to
meet her; but she gave them the
shirk, for she loved the clerk, who
sang like a hungry musquiter. She
hemmed and she sighed and chaw
ed, until her jaws were both
broken; then she walked by the
store, while he stood at the door
awaiting some amative token. She
raised up her eyes with a pretty sur
prise, and tried to enact the proud
scorner; but to tell the plain truth
she grinned at the youth who loved
the devout amen-corner.
Collins Graves, the man who road
in advance of the Massachusetts
flood, says he would have swept his
lifeless corpse onward to the hungry
sea if he had thought the poets
would tackle him in the style they
have. Milwaulcee Sentinel.
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