Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 March 1884 — Page 3

THE BAB BOY.

, "Here, here,” said the grocery man to the bad boy, as he came in the back door hurriedly and bolted it, and hid behind a barrel, “what yon coming in the back door for in that manner, like a pirate of the Spanish main? My other customers don't sneak in through the back door and hide behind things. What ails you?” “S-h-li-h! If a man comes up from the street-car in about two minutes, with one qoat tail torn off, and pieces of umbrella frame sticking out of hisself like porcupine quills, his bat gone, and a scared complexion on bis face, and asks if you have seen a chubby-faced little boy, you drive him out doors, ’cause be isn’t responsible," and the boy pulled a coffee sack down off a barrel to cover himself up. “Who is the wild man you are expecting, and what have you done?” asked the grocery man. “Sh-a-sh! It’s pa. Aud if he got out of the car without coming through the •window, he is liable to show up here pretty quick. You see, pa has been trying to —make us believe he could see just as well as he ever could, and he has quit wearing spectacles, and gets mad every time anybody suggests that be can’t see very well. Ma says lie is ashamed to have folks think Ue is getting old. Sometimes I come in the room and pa snaps his fingers and says ‘hello, Bruno, good dog,’ thinking I am the dog, and when lie finds out his mistake he laughs and says it was only a joke, and he says lie can see as,well as any man in this town. 1 told him some day some persons would play a joke on him and convince him that he was near-sighted, and he said they might try all the jokes they wanted to on him. Well pa' is awful polite to ladies,, and for fear he will pass some lady that he knows, and not speak to her, he speaks to all of • ’em. ; Some of ’em get cross to have a stranger speak to them, but pa has such an innocent, benevolent, vacant sort of a ’look when lie smiles, that they go on, thinking he lias escaped from some asylum. Well, he was in a street car, and on the other side of the car was an old maid, with a png dog in her lap, curled up like a uaby. I see pa was getting his eyes sot on the woman and the dog, but 1 knew he couldn’t make out whether it was a baby she had or not, so I whispered to pa- that it was too bad to carry babies on street cars, poor little things. That was enough for pa. He bit like a bass.' He began to look benevolent, aud smiled at the lady just as though be lived next door to- her, and sire- looked sort of cross, but pa could not see that, and Jie smiled again and leaned over toward her and pointed to the dog and asked: ‘How old is the little thing ?’ Well, I thought J. should just melt and run r.glit through the perforated seat of the car. Tho woman said it was only eleven months old, but she looked as though she didn’t know as it was any of his business, any way. I tried to get pa to change the subject and talk with mo, but when he gets to talking with a woman that settles it, and he told me to hush up and look out of ttie window at the scenery. Then pa smiled again and got one eye on the lady and one on the supposed buby, which she had wrapped a shawl around, and said: ‘Little cne always been healthy, I suppose ?’ The woman snapped out that it had always been healthy enough, except when it was cutting teeth it bad a sort of distemper. The other passengers began to look at pa and smile, and the lady was beginning to blush, and I could see distant mutterings of a cyclone, and I pulled pa’s sleeve and told him I wouldn’t talk to strangers that way if I was him, but pa he punched me in the rib with his elbow, and told lire to mind my own business, and I went to the end of the car near the door so as to get out quick in case of an alarm of fire. Pa returned to the assault, and it made me perspire. ‘ls it a boy or girl ?’ said pa, and the lady’s face colored up and she pulled the strap to stop the car. Just as the car stopped pa got up, and in his politest manner he said, as he hold out his hands, ‘let me help you with the baby.’ Well, you’d a dide. You would have just laid right down in the straw in the car and blatted. When the driver opened the door I flew out, and just then I looked in and the dog had got mad at pa when he put out Ilfs hands, and had grabbed pa’s band, and was chewing his mitten and growling, and the lady called pa anold wretch, and said he dttght to be arrested for going around insulting unprotected females, and I saw lier umbrella go up in the air and come down on pa’s head, and pa yelled to somebody to take the dog off. The woman came out of the car on a gallop, holding the dog by the leg, and the dog had one of pa’s buckskin mittens in its month, chewing for all that was out. W hen she struck the street she told me to c 11 a policeman and have the old tramp arrested, aud I said ‘yessnm,’ r.ud she went off with the dog under her arm. I asked pa if I should follow his lady friend and get his mitten away from her little baby, that he was using to cut teeth on, and pa looked so mad, as he told me to go to gelionna, that I got off the ear - and came here, and left him picking pieces of umbrella out of his necktie, and explaining to the other passengers that he knew the dog wasn’t a baby all the time. Say, can you see how I was to blame about pa’s misfortune?” “I can’t see as yon are tp blame,” said the grocery man, as he dipped a quart of cranberries out of the barrel bejiind which tho hoy was hid; “your pa is one of those men that knows it all and don’t allow anybody to tell him anything. If he had listened to your advice he would have kept out of trouble. I think some men ought to have a boy for a guardian. But, say! How would you like to have some fun? I have got a big pile of potatoes in the cellar, and they are beginning t© sprout. Let’s i yon and I go down cellar ami pnll off our coats and just have a glorious old time picking those potatoes oyer and palling off the sprouts. Hurrah! Come on,” aDd the grocery man laughed and •.ran his tliinpb into the boy's ribs and started for the cellar. - “No, not any fun for Hennery.” said the boy, as he looked out to see if his pa was in sight. “I think too much ftm is .not good for boys, H yoawant your

potatoes looked over you will have to hire somebody to do it. Sprouting potatoes is work, and you can’t make it pass for fun, unless you strike some fool boy shat don’t know yon are playing it on liim. Y'on old hypoerites think boys are fools. Ever since I turned grindstone for a man one© all the afternoon for fun, and got so tired 1 couldn’t walk, I have decided to pick out my own fun. When a man unfolds a scheme to me to have fun, and I see TTii a put up job to get me to work for nothing and C3ll it fun, I pas.s,” and the boy went out to see if liis pa got off the car.— Peck's Sun.

TOBACCO PAPER PULP.

A Peculiar Kind or Cigars. A correspondent from New York writes: While seeking information among retail tobacconists, a peculiar preparation of tobacco used for tho pmnnfacture of a certain inferior class of Havana was spoken of, and with some difficulty it was learned that a German merchant, who is not in that line of trade, had a box of peculiar cigars sent to liim some time ago from Germany as a sample, with a purpose of inducing liim to undertake putting them on this market. “Take a cigar,” he said, hospitably, offering a box half full of the “weeds,” and lighting one of them himself. “Yes, I did have some, such cigars sent me awhile ago, but I declined to have anything to do with them, as there was no profit in them. They could not pay duty aud compete with the class of cigars they would be expected to run against here. ‘Peculiar manufacture ?’ Yes, rather. The richest, oiliest, rankest tobacco brought from some of the West Indian Islands is first put througha process exactly like that of making paper pulp. Wbile it is in that state chemistry’s aid is invoked to entirely change its character. The elements that render it rank and offensive are eliminated from it; other essential oils and ethers are added to it. It can he made to. exactly counterfeit any tobacco iri the world, even the finest from the Yuelta de Abajo. “When it is just right, it is run out in a film, that gradually grows in thickness to a sheet, just as paper is made. Upon this sheet certain acids are lightly sprinkled in minute drops here and there, to simulate upon the perfected sheet the little spots and blotehr-s that you see in the genuine tobacco leaf. The color has already been attended to and regulated so that it will come out just right for any shade of cigar, from a Claro to an Oseuro, but now other essential oils are touched to the sheet in the most delicate way, to give the rich, oily gloss of sub-cutane-ous color, so to speak, that will he observed on the finest dark leaf. Finally the sheet goes between powerful steel rollers, upon tlie carefully matched surface of which are deeply engraved exact reproductions in the most delicate detail of markings of genuine tobacco leaves. When those leaves are cut out of the sheet, it requires the skill of an expert to • determine that they are not real. The remnants go back into the vat, and the leaves are, according to their quality, made into* cigars or chopped up into filling for cigarettes. By the way, how do you like that cigar you are smoking now?” “Very well.” “Good flavor? Burns well?—Holds well its tine white ash?” “To all your queries—yes.” “Well, that is one of the cigars 1 have described to you the making of. Take this knife and cut it open. Examine its wrappers and the filler carefully. I am not surprised to hear you say that it looks like natural leaf, and that you can trace the lines of the veins and fine stems in it. Of course you can. But tear a bit in two and look at its edge with this magnifying glass. Do you observe that its fibers are irregularly disposed of, criss-cross, just like this bit of paper that I tear aud put under the glass? A natural leaf does not tear in that way. Scrape it, and you will see that its fibers separate from their hold in different directions. Boahc it in water and it will become soft and pull apart like paper. It is simply tobacco paper. No, Ido not know that there are in the country any more of these cigars than the few I have left. Ido not think that-there are. But I know that great quantities of them are sold all over Europe, and that the exportations to South America are quite large. People there smoke them in preference to the genuine and good real leaf cigars, grown and made in their own countries. Well, perhaps they don’t know how the imported ones are made. A dealer need not feel it compulsory upon him to tell, and there’s a great deal of virtue in a label to the average smoker.”

Pcrfectfully Dreadful.

“Oh, I say, CliawLey, that was a chawming cweechaw you dawuced with at Mrs. Bullion’s t’other eve.” “No, Hawy, she was not chawming; she is a vulgah cweechaw. ” “Wy, we.tllv, .you don't say so, Chawlev.” “Y’aas; she asked me if Hiked oonundwutns, and. I told her that I had tried them in Paree, ,lmt I didn’t like them as well as fweid fwogs. And then she larfed—actually larfed. Just think of a society gyurl larfing.” “Pufi’ee dwedful, wasn’t if?” “Y’es; and then site usked me if I knew why Fweddie Simpson was a fount tin of humor, and when I said no she said it was because he was always having boils.” “Ob, Chawley, how could you ? Take me to a soda-fountain. I feci faint and need a stimulant.” —Essex County (Mass.) Statesman. A comparison of the cotton product of South Carolina for the most prosper-* ous mte-rebellion year, 1800, with that of 1883 is shown to be so much the more favorable to the latter year jas to seem almost incredible. The ere p last yeitr was larger than in 1860 by 114,815 bales, and in the manufacture of cotton products the increase had been from $713,000 to $7,963,000. The cedars of Alaska are better and infinitely more inexhaustible than the famed cedars pf Lebanon:

NASBY.

The Corners Exercised Oxer the Marriage of Fred Douglas with a White Woman — How the Meeting Eventuated. . t:y CoxFEDEufT X Roat>s (wich is in the State uv Kentucky), Feb. IP, 1884.* The marriage of Fred Douglas with a white woman wuz made known in the Comers last nite, in the paper wich Bascom subscribes for, for me to read in bis bar to the reglers. The Corners wuz never so agitatid sence the firm upon Fort Sumter. A nigger to marry a white woman! A white woman to marry a nigger! Ez Deekin Pogram remarkt chaos wuz now cum agin. He wuz now prepared for almost anything. Kernel j YfcPelter pinted to it ez the legit imit j result uv freeih the niggers, and the , nateral outcome uv Bepublikin triumfs, | It was nothin more than lie bed prose- ] side from the begiuin. Give the nigger his freedom fust, then the balot, then let him hold property, and wat wuz to prevent his m ary in white wimen, or white wimen maryin him V >. evertlieies he didn’t aupose the besoted Republikin party wood re-establish slavery, even with this afore their eyes. The liorible okurcnce oeasioned so much cornent that it wuz desided to hold a meetin to consider it. Tlie meetin-house wuz fnl and I took the cheer precisely at 8. After eomentin on the ontrnge ez its heiniositv demamiid, I showd that the sooperior race cood not intermingle with the inferior without debasement. and after yoosiu an hour or two to prove from the Skripters that- tlie nigers wuz the interior race, to which Joe Bigler replied that es it wuz in the Bible he’d beleve it, but he bed am es he wood on ,any less -testimony jedgin from the-ginerabaver-age uv white men he knowd at the Corners. ® "• Deekin Pogram then handid me, with grate solemnity, a series uv resolooshens which I lied vriten and given him to baud to me, owiu to his inability to reed in cousecootiv maner, wich run ez follows: Waiikas. Frederick Douglas, now uv the C.ty uv Wash.nton, a nizer; wioli notwithstnntlin holds a ctfis wich a white l iinoerat Shood be in the enjoyment uv, hez marled a* white woman, and W AREAS, Nacher hez sot the seel uv disapproval on o the mixin uv tlie two races, tlie one bein inferior and the other sooperior, and . ■ v Wal l EAs, Miscegonashun is a crime agin nacher; and one wich shood be sternly rebooted, r.o matter wher and how it happens, therefore be it Resolved, That the citizens uv the Corners enter their solum protest agin this mrriage uv a white woman with a niger, and demand uv the President ilv the itooui.id States the removal uv the sed niger Douglas irom his offis, to the end uv emlasisin the Governmental disapproval uv miseegenasheu wich is abhorenttu the Corner-. Joe Bigler ariz and asked the Cheer wat -misegenashun really wus, anyhow. I replied in a dignified manner that misegenashun .wuz tlie mixin uv the two races, the white and the kulerd. Mrs. Pogram, wich wuz present, aproved uv my definishen. “Very good,” said Josef, cainly, “ther is a gentleman present wich wil make some remarks on these resolooshens. I beg to interdoose to this meetin Mr. Simeon Pogram, wich yoost to be v. el known in this aecksliun twenty veers ago.” The Deekin fel in a swoon off' his cheer, Mrs. Pogram shreeked ez es bilin water lied bin poured down the backgtv her neck, and the awjence riz in astonishment. The niger was an individgle wich wuz born into this world uv sin and- sorer about thirty yeers ago; the mother thereof bein a likely weneli b’longiu to Deekin Pogram, and the bornin resulted rnjhe mother’s bein sold South, the baby bein sold to a planter adjinin, and the Deekin losin the most nv tlie hair on his venerable pol, Tlie niger bed the Pogram nose, tho ez ther wuz sum uv the mother in liim, he wuz rather an improvement on the Pograms proper. ■ ' Bcasely bed Simeon showd up afore that awdashus Bigler interdoost Pompey M’Pelteif, wich endicl in Mrs. M’Pelter faintin and bein removed from the house, and to finish it bo brot up another yaller man wich he interdoost ez "Washington Gavitt, a half-brother of Issaker Gavitt, al yaler uv various) shades. ■" . , 1 “There is others,” sod Josef, “near by wic-b wood like to bear testimony in this matter, but I won’t interdoose em, indivijellv, bv name. Enter mv children!” And throwin the door open there surged in a perceshu liv yeler young men and women uv al shades, from the color of a noo sadle up to them which wuz almost white, whiter than any uv us, ez we wuz, with our hands onwashed. “These,” sed Josef, “is al livin, brethin proofs that whatever may be the theoretical views uv the Corners op the subjick nv misegenaslien at the present time, it didn’t hold them views some twenty-five yeers ago, or es it clid hold the views, the practis uv the Corners wuz quite different from its theories. Ez these felo citizens and citizeneses hev, every one uv them, white and niger blood in various proportions in tlier respective veins, tiiere must hev bin considerable misegenashun in this immejit visinity some years ago. For instance. Simeon, Wich looks enuf like the Deekin Pogram to be his son, is only a quarter black, his mother wuz only half white, wioh shows that misegenashun extended back uv the Deekin’s time. And Issaker ” At this pint I iuterruptid him. “Ther wuz no dout but that misegena-Jien. in a modified form, did egsi-.t under our patriarkel iustitooslinns—” “Patriarkel means ‘fatherly,’ don't H ?” remarked Bigler. “Under our patriakel institooshuns, but it was not legalized as in the case under considerashun. It did Pot reserve sankshen nv tlie law. It-wua aot a acknolegment uv the ekality nv the niger, on the contrary, it wuz a proof of his inferiority. The niger was our bond mail and bond woman to do with ez we pleesed. But this man Douglas, a niger, has actilly marred a white woman—ac tilly maried her by forms nv law. ‘’l see,” said Bigler.- “I git the^bearing nv yoor ijee. Misegenashun to l>e made entirely rite and proper must be tempered with adultery. Es Douglas hedn’t marieid the woman it wood bev

bin al rite, I spore. Parson,l’m delited.t** no wher we are on so important a question. Thar we may be logikelly rite, I move tlie adopshen uv this addishnel resolooshcn: Resnief.i, 'I hat the corners hez no objepkthun to the mixin uv the races now or hereafter. pervidin it is done ez the Corners her. always did it, without the saukshen of marlagro- , ■— '■■■ :—, —_j He put tin* nioshuip the nigers all votid lor ijt, and it wuz carried. And then Bigler remarkt that ez awful ez this act trv Douglisses wuz, he didn’t think The Corners need hev any seer uv any uv her nigers wan tin to rnarv any uv her white wimen, or any niger wimen wan tin to mary cny uv her white men. The nigers uv both sexes lied enuft' to j do to take keer nv theirselVes, without j loadin up with incumbrances., Es they ! shood. lie wud favor a law, in the inj trest of the nigers, forbidin that sort ;uv thing. And then he adjerned the meetin sine die. It is curious that we Dimoerats eant .together far tlie pui-pus 1 nv resolvin - ou a simple mater like this, but that incarnashen uv infernalisin, Joe Bigler, shel arise and put us to open shame. AY ho nos liow many sores, parshelly heeled, he opened when he gatlieresd them nmlattoes, quadroons, and octoroons together that nite! Half the white men uv the Corners cimr to Bascom’s the next day with their faces disiigered and lackiu in tlie article uv hair, It is a dangerous spbject to interdoos even BO years after the close nv the war and the doth uv the patrigrklo nistitoo-

PETROLEUM V. NASBY,

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hi i Anti-Ylisegenashunist.) —Toledo (Ohiot Blade.

COPIAH COUNTY.

Mr. Hoar’s Esthuate of the Hulldozers— The lialf JSot Told—Mr. Tiye Inter- . vie wed. —_—u— l —- L [WashiDgtou Cor. Chicago Tribune.] Senator Hear, Chairman of the committee to investigate the Copiah County election murder, returned this morning. He is not disposed to talk of-the investigation until the committee shall have agreed upon its report. He says, however, that the committee acted wisely in holding the investigation in New Orleans, as it would have been dangerous for the witnesses to have testified in Copiah County. Senator Hoar says that from the testimony of Louisiana Republicans it is evident that that State is Republican, by from 20,000 to 30,000 majority, but the election machinery is so controlled by the Democratic StateCentral Committee that the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments to the Constitution are practically nullified, and the majority returned for the Democratic candidates is regulated only by the whim of the committee, which prepares the “returns” beforehand, and sends out-statements of the number of votes required from each district. Senator Frve, however, talks very freely of Copiah. He said that it would have been useless to have endeavored to have held the sessions of the committee at Hazlehurst, as there is but one small hotel there, without accommodations, blit that the determining reason was the fact that the 150 respectable Democrats who organized a club to prevent Republicans from voting, and to resort to murder if necessary, still patrols the county and maintains a wign of terror there. “Why,” said Mr. Frve, with the greatest possible indignation, “the half has not been told. I had never supposed that it could be possible for such a state of things to exist. There is no republican form of government in Mississippi. ” Mr. Frve said that the Democrats under oath, men called respectable, leaders in society, bad said that it was justifiable to kill negroes if that was fieeessary to prevent them from securing the majority, and that it was the duty of the intelligent minority to cru-h the ignorant majority by all possible means. There was no dispute of the essential facts of the Copiah outrage, and it is only the Democratic members of the committee who attempt any ex- j planation of it. The Only explanation i which the bulldozers of Copiali Count j* made was that they shot and whipped because it was necessary to intimidate the Republican vote to put the minority in power. Print Matthews, who was murdered, i was not the bad man that the Demo- j crats tried to paint liim. On tlie con- ; trary, he arid liis family for fifty years j have been the leading family of Copiah '"Collffty: 'Tuey bave been among the ‘ wealthiest men, owned large planta-! tions, were the leaders in business enterprises, built churches and schoolhouses, and were men whose character and bravery whites admitted. The white men respected and stood in a.we of them, as they were always ready to take their lives In their hands for their j convictions. The colored men loved j them. The trouble uas not of recent j origin. It dates from the beginning of | the war, when Print Matthews stood i by the Union and remained a steadfast Union man to the end, being too lame to be conscripted. He made a speech after the ordinance of secession was passed, and some of the witnesses wffio i denounced hiffi as a bad man admitted ( on cross-examination that jfiis villainy ; consisted in the fact that he made that | Union speech. ■=? “The situation,” said Mr. Frye, “is : bad beyond the power of language-to describe, and the pitiful thing is that | this great Government is too weak or too contemptible even to protect tlie poor witnesses who will go back there, mauv of them doubtless to -be killed.” i Thk unit rule is dead. It had a res- ; urrection once after being killed. But j nothing can revive it now. Everything | promises well for a representative con-i vention. containing a large proportion ; of independent men, and for a wise nomination. If there is any virtue in the methods by it is to be made up, the convention of 1884 ought to be one of the best, if not the very best, that has met since the war.— New York Tribune. Fob Sale —The owner, having retired froin business, desires to sell seven - mules. It is a bargain. Apply to W. j H. Bamum, Hartford, Conn. — Chicago j News. ' • v The vision of Springer pasting in bis hat all references to tho “Morrison boom” is said to chill the marrow of the author of the horizontal tariff.

LIGHT ON THE STAR ROUTES.

The Story of the Prosecutions Retold by Mean. James and MacVeagh. Ex-Attorney General MacVeagh’s Reasons for Retiring from President Arthur’s Cabinet. Before Mr. Springer's House Committee on Expenditures of the Department of Justice, ex-Fostmaster General James and cxAttorney General Wayne MacVeagh have been rehearsing their brief experiences as Cabinet Officers, and telling what they know about the star-route frauds and star-route prosecutions. From the mass of testimony elicited and wired from the national capital, we compress into a column the pith of the dual narrative.

As Told by Mr. James.

The ex-Postmaster General produced a printed statement of star route investigation and the alleged frauds brought to his notice by Senator George Spencer. Before the witness was. made Postmaster General he was called to Washington by Whitelaw Held. Together they called upon the President. James waa then informed that he was offered the Postmaster Generalship. Star route measures were talked over. The President said there was something rotten in the Postofflce Department, and he expected the witness ’to ■ “put his plow in beam and subsoil it. On March 9,1881, the President again brought the matter to the notice of witness.' 'He said He expected witness to cut -off frauds. If, upon investigation, he found any persons guilty, they would be turned over to the Department of Justice. Witness proposed to call Mr. Woodward Into the inquiry, and this met the approval of the President. John Swinton, one of the editors of the New York Sun, suggested the name Of A. M. Gibson as Inspector, and he was accepted and put to work. . Here witness entered into a lengthy narrative of the details of the work of Gibson and Woodward, all of which gre familiar to the country. Witness suggested to the President that civil suits be first instituted against the accused. The President thought criminsf-suits should be begun. The Attorney General warned the President that criminal suits might strike men in high official position and turn the political tide to the Democrats. Witness said Dorsey called on him to denounce Gen. Brady,_and demanded nis removal. Witness recommended Brady’s removal to the President, who took the matter under advisement. After concluding that Brady’s resignation would not be demanded, the President reconsidered, consented to it, and witness asked for it Brady immediately handed it in. Then Dorsey began to hedge. He cringed and crawled, and his brazen effrontery disappeared in his pleas for clemency. The story of Rerdell’s confession was rehearsed, and was directed especially at the alleged “deplorable character,” Dorsey. Witness related that upon visiting the President with ■William A. Cook he found Dorsey and Attorney Ingersoll in conversation. Cook warned the President that "something awful” was about to happen. James said that Bliss, Gibson, Woodward, and others retained in the case did not fix their own salaries. "Right here I want to say," continued the witness, "that what I say of the other Postoffice officials Includes Gibson.” The statement of the witness closed with the assertion that “had the President not taken the step he did against the star-routers he wouldn’t have fallen by the assassin’s bullet.” “Why da you state that the assassination of Garfield was the fruit of the star route prosecutions?" ihquired Mr. Stewart. "I do not state that," replied witness. “That's the inference drawn from your assertion. I think yon need to explain your situation.” Witness said he wouldn’t make that assertion because he didn’t know it. From ttte character of the newspaper clippings found upon the person of the assassin at the time the deed was committed it was plain that his head was turned by press accounts of the starronte prosecutions.

Mr. MacVeagh’s Story.

Ex-Attorney General MacVeagh testified that after President Garfield was shot he considered it undesirable to complicate the starroute cases, and he de-ired to do nothing to complicate the President who would succeed Garfield. He wished his successor to go in as little embarrassed as possible. “I had," said Mr. MacVeagh, “several conferences with President Arthur as to the general subject of the prosecution of the star-route cases, and he expressed a desire that 1 remain and continue responsible for the prosecution, first as Attorney General and subsequently as leading counael for the Government, but I felt 1 could not do so." Explaining the talk he had with President Garfield in tfie political effect of the prosecution of the star-routers. Mr. MacVeagh stated that he warned the President that it would strike some of his high political friends, men prominent in his election, who held letters from the President which he wouldn’t desire to have made public. Witness explained the great gravity of the step proposed, as there was at the time a division in the Republican party, and be thought the prosecution might hazard its future. Among those high in political position referred to were Dorsey, Brady, and Kellogg. Witntss told Dorsey’s attorneys that papers had been found in the department which needed explanation. He also told Dorsey that there must be an investigation by the Grand Jury, as he conld not be Injured if innocent. He said the matter caused Garfield great distress, but he consented. He was made aware of all the steps taken in the investigation, the issuance of warrants proposed, etc. He stated that it was not Garfield’s desire that the matter be settled by judicial investigation. Witness dwelt upon the efforts of Dorsey to of Rerdell’s affidavit waa referred to. The grounds upon which Dorsey demanded the removal ot witness were that he was generally a bad man. Witness entered into an account of the circumstances of his leaving the Cabinet He said it was attributable to President Artliur’s sympathy with the star-routers. Witness cited the intimate relations of Arthur with Hugh Hastings, George C. Gorham, and other friends of star-routers. They supported Arthur before the assassination, and.were cordially, received. afterward. He thought the gentlemen had great' influence with Arthur. Witness didn’t desire to remain in the Cabinet. He suggested to the President that he had better have another Attorney .General, as the citizens of the District of Columbia believed if he remained it was merely to administer to a dead man’s estate. Mr, MacVeagh testified that he] did what he could to oust District Attorney Corkhill, bat President Arthur was set in his desire to have Corkhill prosecute Guiteau. The ex-Attorney General’s testimony nqxt turned upon the subject of salaries paid to the Government's attorneys in the star-route prosecutions. The testimony on this subject tended to throw the rest onsibiiity upon Attorney General Brewster. In fact, fie explicitly stated that Mr. Brewster first recommended the payment of Slot) a day to the attorneys. Tfie only account witness * passed upon really was $2,5W to Attorneys 811-s and Brewster prior to the appointment of the latter as Attorney GtneraL He recon.m ndpd. however, that these two genmen should tie paid ffl.ooo and fS,(JOu, respectively, for services from the middle of December to the Ist of January; Mr. Bliss first suggested iIGO a day, and it was , insisted upon by Mr. Brewster, who wiote sev- ! eral letters upon the subject of salary, and insisted uion tue settlement of his Gill before he i entered upon the duties of Attorney General, aa he did not want to.pass upon his own bill. "Was not ti e .-a arv of sioo per day unreasonable?" inquired Mr. Stewart, of the comiiiitt-'e. "Not for a short time," replied the witness. "It might tie unreasonable if it should run a year or two years. For l.Vj days it would not be an excessive salary."

BRIEFS.

Newfill, X. C., claims a storm of rod rain last week. A coi'v of John Eliot’s bible was sold in New York on Tuesday for $950. Six thousand tean guesses at Cincinnati realized 81.50 Q for flood sufferers. Is the, Congregational Church at Grlnneit, lowa, a pew is named for Wendell Phillips and is tet apart for colored people. Gustave Hauck. of Philadelphia, tried to hang, shoot, ami down himself because Selempe Nennerowicz married another fellow. Senator Brown, of Goorgia, pays tho largest real estut • tax in Atlanta. He owns S4CO.COO worth of property in th-J city alone. As an evidence of tho recent remarkable growth of Texas, it Is stated that the Btate hah now sfxiy-four ofganizcd counties in which no vote was polled at the last Pres idcntlal election. ' a ■ Ths Southern Dir.mac argues that dfe mound-builders were dinwned by floods.

LEGAL.

Important Decisions by the SuSupreme Court of the United States. : The Issue of Legal Tender Notes Again Declared Constitutional by That Tribunal. A Habeas Corpus Denied in the Celebrated Georgia Ko-Klnx Cases. A decision has just been rendered by the Supreme Court of the United States in the longpending legal-tender case of Augustus D. Juillard vs. Thomas S. Greenman, brought before it by * writ pf error in the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. The question presented by the case, as elated by the court, is: "Whether the notes of the United St itea, issued in time of war under an act of Congress declaring them to be legal tender in payment of private debts, and afterward in peace redeemed and paid for in gold coin a* the Treasury, and then reissued under the act of 1878, can, under the Constitution of the United States, be a legal tender in payment of such debts.” The court is unanimously of the opinion that the present case cannot be distinguished in principle from the cases heretofore decided and reported under the names of “legal-tender cases," and all the Justices except Justice Field, who adheres to the views expressed in the dissenting opinions in those case*, are of the opinion that they were rightly decided. The court holds, therefore, that Congress ~~had power to Issue obligations of the United States in such form, and to Impress upon them such qualities as currency for the purchase of merchandise and the jjayment of debts in accord with the nsages of sovereign government. The power (as incident to the power of borrowing money and issuing bills and notes of the Goverment for money borrowed! of impressing upon those bills or notes the quality of being legal tender 1 for the payment of private debts was a power universally understood to belong to sovereignly in Europe and America at the time of the framing and the adoption of the Constitution of the United States. Tills power of making notes of the United States legal tender in payment of private debts, being included in the power to borrow ..money and to provide a national onrrency. is not defeated or restricted by the fact that its exercise may affect the value qf private contracts. If, upon a just and fair interpretation of the whole Constitution, a particular power or authority appears to be rested in Congress, it is no constitutional objection to the existence or to its exercise that the property ° r contracts of individuals may be incidentally needed. "Congress," the court says In conclusion, “as the Legislature of a sovereign nation, being expressly empowered by the Constitution to lay and collect taxes, to pay debts, and to provide lor the common defense and general welfare of the United States, and to borrow .money on the credit of the United States, and to coin money and regulate the ralne thereof, and of foreign coin, and being clearly authorized, as incidental to the exercise of these great powers, to issue bills of credit, to charter national banks and to provide a [national currency for the whole people in the form of coin. Treasury notes, and national bank bills, and the power to make the notes of the Government a legal tender in payment of private debts being one of the powers belonging to the sovereigns in other civilized nations, and not expressly withheld from Congress by the Constitution, we are irresistibly imjieUed to the conclusion that the impressing upon the Treasury notes of the United States the quality of being a legal tender in payment of private debts is an appropriate means, conducive and plainly adapted to the execution of undoubted powers of Congress, and consistent with the letter and spirit of the Constitution, and therefore, within the meaning of that instrument, necessary and proper for the carrying into execution of the powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of tho United States. Such being our conclusion in the matter of the law question, whether at any particular time in war or peace the exigency is such, by reason of unusual and pressing demands on the resources of the Government, or of the inadequacy of the supply of gold and silver coin to furnish the currency needed for uses of the Government and of the people, that it is, as a matter of fact, wise and expedient to resort to this means, is a political question to be determined by Congress when the question of exigency shall arise, and not a judicial question to lie afterward passed npon by the courts. It follows that the act es May 3i, 1878, is, constitutional and valid, and that the Circuit Court rightly held that the tender in Treasurv notes reissued and kept in circulation under that act was a tender of lawful money in payment of defendant's debt to the plaintiff.” The judgment of the Circuit Court Is affirmed.

THE FTVE-PFK-CENT. LAND CASES.

A decision was aho rendered by the court in what are generally known as the 5-per-cent land case* —viz.: The State of lowa and State of Illinois agiinst Noah C. McFarland, Commissioner of the General Land Office. These were petitions for writs of mandamus to compel the Commissioner of the General Land Office to make a statement of the account between the United States and States of lowa and Illinois for the purpose of obtaining what sums are due said States under the acts providing for their admission to the Union, which authorized the payment to them of 5-per cent, of the net proceeds of the pnblic lands lying within their limits which should be sold by Congress. The question presented by the cases Is whether er not pnblic lands located by the military bounty land-warrants come within the scope of the setg, above mentioned — that is, whether such lands are "lands sold by Congress.” The court holds that "Under the act of March 3,1845, relating to the admission of the State of lowa into the Union, or the act of April 18, 1818, for the admission of the State of Illinois Into ti e Union, by which 5 per cent, of the net proceeds of lands lying within the State” and afterward "sold by Congress," is reserved and appropriated for the benefit of tho State, the State is not entitled to a percentage on the value of lands disposed ot by Congress in satisfaction of military land-war-rants. The writs of mandamus prayed for are therefore remsed and the petitions dismissed. THE KU-KLUX CASES. A decision was also rendered in what are known as the Ktt-Kltix.«ssea, which stand on the original docket under the title, "Ex parte, in the matter of Jasper Yarborough and others," They are petitions tor writs ot habeas corpus to release a number of persons now imprisqned under judgment of the United States Circuit Court for the Northern District of Georgia, rendered after the trial and conviction of the prisoners for the offense of threatening, beating, and otherwise intimidating colored voters at an election in Georgia for members of Congress. The principal question presented relates to the constitutionality Of the law under which the prisoners are held. Justice Miller, speaking for the court, after deciding that the offense set forth in the indictment is fully covered by Secs. 5508 and 6520, Revised Statutes,"says; Th it a government whose essential character is republican, whose executive head and legislative body are both elective, whose most numerous and powerful branch —the legislature—is elected by the people directly, ha* no power and no appropriate laws to secure this election from the influence ot violence, corruption, and fraud is a proposition, so startling as to arrest attention aim demand the gravest consideration- If this Government is anything more than a mere aggregation of delegated agents of other States and Governments, each of which is superior uyjho General Government, it must have power to protect an election, on which its existence depends, from violence and corruption. If tt has not this power, it is left helpless before two great natural and historical enemies of all republics—open violence and inaiuions corruption." He asks, if it be not doubted that Congress has powers to provide laws for the proper conduct of elections for Representatives in Congress, Are suen powers annulled because an election for State officers is held at the same time and place? and replies: "These questions answer themselves, and It is cnlv because the Congress of tue United States, tnrongh long habit and long years of forbearance. has, in deference and respect to the States, retrained from the exercise of these powers, that they are now doubted." The rule to show cause in this cane is discharged and the habeas corpus denied.

CHIPS.

A charity ball at Jilnneapofia was attended by only twenty-live couple*. An Ohio physician la preparing a medical lexicon in forty-two languages. SsxAnoß Farley, of California, is said to have nearly lost ois life by the baneful effects of hair-dye. A bkakeman at Pittsburgh, who was knocked off a car by striking the when of the Western Union Telegraph Company, baa brought suit for s2fl,oco for his Injuries. Ekjhteex thocsaxd homesteads hare bees ante red in Florida during the past year.