Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 June 1875 — Buskirk. [ARTICLE]

Buskirk.

The legi'latnre of California has passed a law forbidding tha making of any difference in the salaries of teachers on account of sax. The salaries paid teachof the same grade must ba equal. The army worm lias made its appearance in Southern Illinois,arid is making sad havoc with the corn. In one instance, they completely destroyed more than one hundred acres of corn while forty men were workinghard to prevent it. Ex-Senator James W. Nje, of Nevada, who for years stood in the front ranks of the publie speakers of America, an to be one of the most gonial gentlemen that ever lived, is now an inmate of a lunatic asylum, at Flushing, New York. His brain has been worn out by constant use, disappointment, worry, and excess, and has at last lost all strength.— One cannot help dropping a tear over this fallen greatness. Articles of association of the Chicago & South Atlantic Railroad were filed at Indianapolis, May 26, with a capital stock of §1,000,000. Seven hundred and eighty-five shares have been subscribed. The length of the proposed road is 230 ’ miles, extending from the city of Chicago, through the counties of Lake, Jasper ; Newton, White, Carroll, Clinton, Boone and Hamilton, to Indianapolis, Marion County, thence through Shelby, Decatur, Ripley, Switzerland, Dearborn, and Ohio ■counties terminating at or near Rising Sun, on the Ohio River. Frank Bower, J. Cavendish Robinson, Thomas J. Roe, Chicago; Lycurgus Dalton, John H. Piercy, Will A. Peele, jr., and Wm. O. Foley, Indianapolis, have been chosen as a board of directors.

The proceedings of the Pennsylvania Republican State Convention, says the Inter Ocean, were harmonious and great enthusiasm was manifested. Governor Hartranft was renominated by acclamation, and Henry llawle, of Erie, was nominated ior Treasurer. The resolutions favor protection to home industry, cheap transportation, free banking, and a safe and uniform national cnrrency, adj usted to the growing wants of the business interests of the country , equalization of soldiers’ bounties, and the speedy adjustment of all claimsarising out of the late war. A resolution was adopted unequivocally declaring against a third term, and another as clearly opposing the doctrine of State‘rights. The administration of President grant was endorsed.— A grand ratification meeting was held last evening, at which the prediction was made that the ticket would be elected by a large majority. President Grant has opened his mouth on the “third term” bugaboo, or rather, he has written a letter to General Harry White, President of the late Pennsylvania Republican State Convention, in which he most emphatically denies the charge that he was seeking the nomination for a third term. As a reason for not sooner answering this charge, he says he believed it to be beneath the dignity of the office which he had been “twice called upon to fill to answer such a question before the subject should bo presented by competent authority to make a nomination, or by a body of such dignity and authority as not to make reply a fair subject of ridicule.” In concluding his letter he says: “I am not, nor have I ever been, a candidate for a renoininaticn. I would not accept a nomination if it were tendered unless it should bounder such circumstances as to make it an imperative duty —circumstances notlikely to arise.” Now let our Independent and Democratic friends, and all others, give us a rest on •“Caesar ism.”

Mr. Baskirfe, of Indiana (it seems an absurdity to call him Judge, though he is at present actually rat ling in the seat of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court,) has announced that the distinguished tribunal of which he is head will not open the celebrated colored school case for a rehearing. lie says the court are entirely satisfied with the judgment rendered. No doubt this is true. It is safe to say that if the court had not been satisfied, and more than satisfied, die judgement would never have been reudered in the first place. It was because Mr. Buskirk was satisfied, and because he was perfectly willing to make a decision which gratified his known hatred of the colored race, even in the teeth of the Constitution of the United States, that such a disgraceful and iniquitous judgement was rendered. It has been only the significance of of the court that has kept the case from becoming on of the most notorious in the land, and its judges the most infamous. Taney’s offense was not equal to it, but his name came to be spoken only with contempt. But Taney was a judge, learned and talented, though narrow in his prejudices, and bitter in his dislikes. It is an excess of courtesy to speak of a fifth-rate politician like Buskirk as judge of anything but whisky. Ilis decision iu this case has no more moral force and no more legal significance than if spoken on the stump or when on a periodical spree in Indianapolis. If Buskirk’s jurisdiction could extend over the Union, he would have the biggest field for the contempt business that ever fell to chancellor. The scorn is limitless and chronic, is not confined to any party, and a disrespect to decency is shown when it ij not exhibited. —Inter Ocean.