Jasper Republican, Volume 2, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 December 1875 — What Gen. Henderson Said. [ARTICLE]

What Gen. Henderson Said.

The following extracts are taken from ex-Benator Henderson’s speech before the jury in the Avery case at St. Louis, and contain the language which gave offense to the President and for which the latter, supported by his entire Cabinet, ordered his discharge as assistant in prosecuting the whisky cases at St. Louis: What right had Babcock to go to Douglas to Induce him to withdraw hiß agents? Douglas was placed in his position to see that the revenue laws of the Government were properly enforced. What business, then, had Douglas with him? When an official goes into office he should be free and independent of all influences except that of law, aDd if he recognizes any other master then this Government is tumbling down. Wbat right has the President to interfere with Commissioner Donglass in the proper discharge of his duties, or with the Treasurer? None; and Douglass showed a lamentable weakness of character when he listened to Babcock’s dictates. He should either have insisted that his orders, as they existed, be carried out, or should have resigned his office. Now why did Douglass bend the supple hinges of the knee and permit any interference by the President? This was Douglass’ own business, and he stood responsible for it under his official oath. He was bound to listen to no dictation from the President, Babcock, or any other officer, and it was his duty to see that the order was carried but or to resign. Would that we had officials who possessed more of that sterner stuff of which the office-holders of olden times were made. Why do they not leave their office when they cannot remain there honorably ? Is it to continue that because a man holds an office at the hands of another he is to be a bonded slave? The intellectual and fashionable young men of New Yoik are generally wearing “the shirt-pin squirt.” This beautiful work! of art costs about twenty-five cents. It cohsists of a hollow breast-pin, connected by a rubber tube with a small globe filled with water and concealed in the pocket of the wearer. The pin is generally in some grotesque shape. When the attention of anyone is attracted to it, and he leans over to examine it more closely—whizz! fizz! a small stream of water proceeds from the staring eyes or gaping mouth of the pin-head straight into the face of the inquisitive person. It is a noble amusement. * Dr. Derby, an oculist from Boston, is making experiments on the Amherst freshmen’s eyes, requiring them to read across a room lines of different-sized letters, both with the naked eye and with glasses of various decrees of magnifying power. His object is to refute a theory of the Germans that the continued application to books necessary to a student’s life produces near or shortsightedness. The experiment will be repeated when the freshmen have become seniors, and, perhaps, annually, and cannot fail to be of practical importance.— Republican. _ . A grocery firm at Del Norte, Col., is doing »trade of $250,000 per annum.