Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 November 1885 — Its. Mission Not Ended. [ARTICLE]

Its. Mission Not Ended.

As long as the Democratic party chops open ballot-boxes in the North and prevents men from voting in the South on account of color, the mission of the Republican party is not ended. As long as three-fourths of the foreign appointments are filled by ex-rebel officers, and there are deserving Union soldiers, the mission of the Republican party is not ended. / *’ As long as the Democratic party endangers American labor by agitating freetrade measures, the mission of the Republican party is not ended-.-As long as the Democratic leaders in Northern cities corrupt the ballot-boxes and change tally sheets, the mission of the Republican party is not ended. As long as one vote in the South has the power in the Electoral College of three times as-many in the North, the mission of the Republican party is not ended. As long as Union soldiers are removed from office and men are appointed because of the part they took in the hanging of “old John Brown,” the mission of the Republican party is not ended. As long as Legislatures gerrymander States so as to give Democrats two representatives for the same number of votes that the Republicans get one, the mission of the Republican party is not dead. As long as a Southern paper prints in its editorial column that it proposes “to have the blood of any white hound -who will dare to vote the Radical ticket,” the mission of the Republican party is not ended.—Bloomington Telephone.

The saddle of Gen. Robert E. Lee and the squadron of gray-coated cavalry carried Virginia with a whirl. It is the story of the Cid-in politics. The amount ann'uaUy paid to school teachers in the United States is $60,000,000, an average of about S4OO apiece. ' i‘

Stories of Lawyers. Gen. Barnes told a story about a lawyer which is a legal classic, but which derived a great deal ..of novelty from a singularly humorous description of the hero. He said this lawyer was rather given to the bottle, and, in? deed, he was in the habit of going on protracted sprees. A great mafiy lawyers da I know lawyers who go on a spree when>they lose a case; find I have known some who go on a spree every time they got a fee, never knowing how long it might be before he got another. But there is something rather novel and original about the proclivities of Gen. Barnes’ hera He never knew when he started on a spree where it would end. It always began in San Francisco, but he very often sobered up in Virginia, Nevada, or Miltipas, or New Mexico, or somewhere miles from home. He was always prepared for it, however, and whenever he sobered up he immediately hung out his shingle and started practicing for enough money to take him back to San Francisco, which he always reached ultimately. The story is worth repeating, says the San Francisco Chronicle: He got on a “ bust” once, and when he came to the end of his tether he found himself sobering up in Carson. Having but one suit of raiment, he hung up his shingle out the door of his room in the hotel and went to bed while his costume was being renewed for wear. He was* in the depths of slumber when a knock aroused him. He requested the knocker to enter, and a Carson man in somewhat rough attire, walked in. “Are you a lawyer?" “Yes,” he answered, from the pillow. ‘Tv got a case for you.” He sat up in bed, drew the bedclothes around him in an instant, and assumed an interested air. “State your case.” “Well, you see I rented a field for grazing from a man, I put a horse on it and the horse died.” “Indeed! Well?” “Well! Hain’t I got a case against that man?” “Unquestionably. But, tell me,what didVhe horse*die of?” “You see, a rattlesnake bit him and he died.” “Ahem!” “Can’t I sue the man for the value of the horse ? He hadn’t any bizness to go and rent me a field with rattlesnakes in it, had he ?” “You’re right, sir, perfectly right. Do you want me to take up the case?” “Yes, of course." “Ahem! What—what amount—what fee do you propose to offer?” “Well, I haven’t got any money I’ll give you—l’ll give half the value of the horse ?” ‘‘Very good. What,r may I ask—what do you consider is the value of the beast?” “It wasn’t very young. It had been kicked by a mule and the gophers had nibbled at it, and it had fallen down a shaft, and it had been fifteen or sixteen years drawing quartz from a mill. Well it wasn’t —well I should say it was worth about $9.”

The lawyer gently laid down in bed and prepared to go to sleep. He gave one last look at the client. “Good morning. I am engaged for the snake.” A well-known lawyer in town had once a case which developed immense importance for a man who is now a millionaire, but was at that time poor. This was a suit brought against him about a piece of land under the Van Ness ordinance. The defendant had engaged to give the lawyer one-third of the property as a fee, contingent. In the District Court the case went for the plaintiff, but on appeal the decision was reversed and the defendant won. The lawyer took his third. A few days after the decision the client came in, looking troubled. “Look here, that fellow’s sued me again about that land.” “On what grounds ?” “An alcalde grant or something; I don’t know. I want you to defend me.” “All right.” “Yes, but I don’t want to put up any monev. How much will you take?” “One-third.” “One-third?” yelled the client; “Geeminy; another suit cleans me out.”

Generals and Lieutenant Generals. The office of Lieutenant General was created for Gen. Washington, in May, 1798, and March 3, 1799, this office was abolished. An act of Congress, approved Feb. 29,1864, revived the grade of Lieutenant General, and March 1, 1864, President Lincoln nominated Grant to this position, which nomination was promptly confirmed by the Senate. An act of Congress, approved July 25, 1866, revived the grade of General of the Army, a rank which, like the other, had never been held by anyone but Washington—and by him only from March 5, 1799, to his death, Dec. 14, 1799—t0 which grade President Lincoln immediately appointed Gen. Grant, with the approval of the Senate. An act of Congress, approved July 28, 1866, provided for one General of the Army and one Lieutenant General, the former officer to receive $13,500 per year, and the latter sll,000. When Grant received his commission in July, 1866, as General, the senior Major General in the army, Gen. Sherman, became Lieutenant General. When Grant resigned his commission as General, in 1868, Sherman succeeded to this grade, and Sheridan, the next officer in rank, became Lieutenant General. An act of Congress, however, passed in July, 1870, provided that the offices of General and Liutenant General should continue until a vacancy occurs, and no longer; so that when Gen. Sherman was passed to the retired list, in November, 1883, the office of General of the Army passed out of existence. Sheridan, therefore, though the highest officer in the army, holds the rank of Lieutenant General only, and when his death, or ment, shall occasion another vacancy, this grade, too, will expire, and the senior Major General will be the ranking officer of the army, unless Congress shall again make provision for the reviving of the higher grades.— Inter Ocean. ' Some of the responses one gets through the telephone are, holler mockery. - I ’