®ltt Cnvtrr jPrmotrat.
Terms 51.50 per An num. in Advance.
S. T. SHUQERT and R H. FORSTER. Editor..
Thursday Morning, January G, 1881.
.IKFFKItSON DAVIS.
The Kx-Monthrrii Chief at Home.
A VISIT TO TIIE KX-cnxt EOKIIATF. EXECUTIVE
llls At'PEAKANCB AMI IMIinoSOrillCAI.
TEMPERAMENT — II K IMJMTSSES SI'MI'TEH
AND(!tiTTVSIII R(I—TIIE M AS ITIIOI T
A COI'NTRV Ills lIOI'MTI. VIEW.
fV|.>m l MrCliirn'. tsllrr I" lit' 1 Tim''-
Mississiuui ( it v, Miss., Dee. 1(1.
1 write on the open veranda of the
dilapidated summer that consti
tutes the most of the eitv. Beyond
the bar-room across the way, bearing
the inviting title of the " dew-drop,"
and the little warehouse ami station,
the hotel is guiltless of tenement asso
ciates ; but the air is balmv as a
Northern summer morning; tlie loses
we welcome in .June are in till! bloom
along the broken fence that once made
an enclosure about this resort of fugi
tives from Yellow duck when he sways
his deadly sceptre in the Crescent
City, and the laziest content prevails
among man and beast without reguid
to race or previous condition of servi
tude. I have learned to lo.>k with
contempt upon my thick traveling
blanket and the well-lined overshoes
buckled within. They seemed to be
quite superfluous luggage lat night,
when, after a long, hot evening, the
lightning and the tern|test danced the
racquet with a running accompani
ment ot young earthquakes ; but thev
may grow in favor as I journey back
toward the Pennsylvania mountains.
VISITING .JKIKK.UNON I V VI-.
A journey through the South for
the study of the currents of opinion
ami the present condition and proba
ble progress of reconstructed
State-, would be incomplete without a
visit to the one man who must stand
in history as the front of the over
thrown confederacy. A drive of five
miles through the sand and struggling
jiiues which skirt the Gulf Imy, exhib
its the same general dilapidation
among the old-time summer homes,
which were once the favorite retreats
of the elite of New Orleans in the
sickly season. Ihe shore of the bav
lias a number of palatial plantation
houses, but they have fallen into
the sweeping decay that marks them
as relies of an age that has gone. The
only one that seems to have In-en pre
server! carefully from the desolation
that surrounds it, is the Dor-ev place,
now the home of Jefferson Davis. In
a forest of green live-oaks, richly la
den orange trees, and a profusion of
vines and flowers, a large frame plan
tation house is presented. Jt is a
single story in height and has the reg
ulation pillars and broad verandas of
the aristoeratic Southern mansion.
There the ex ( 'onfederate President
lives with his nephew, General Davis,
aud their joint families. The ex-
of the ( on federate Court i* a
stout, motherly, cultured and genial
woman, and a daughter, a strongly i
marked copy of her mother, possesses
unusual attractions of troth person
and intellect. The house is furnished
with every regard for comfort, as the i
well-worn easy chairs and lounges and i
the hall arid parlor divans faithfully I
attest, aud the walls nre decorated i
with ancient paintings and modern j
bric-a-brac, while the wide chimney- i
(dare and capacious mantel tell how i
the cheerful pine fire sparkles when a I
chill or a stray frost silences the song I
of the mocking-bird and the blood-! i
thirsty serenade of the mosquito. Soon I
after I had been politely bowed into i
the parlor Jefferson liavis entered j t
alone, anil his greeting was the cordial |
welcome of the proverbial hospitality i
of the South. I confess to disap
pointment in the general appearance
of the man who stands in history to- I
day as the soldier-statesman without I
a country. I exjieeted to find the I
strongly-marked traces of a grievous
ly disappointed life, and severe civility j i
and studied reticence in discussing all
things of the past; but those who be
lieve Jefferson Davis to be misan
thropic in temperament and embitter
ed against the nation nud the world
greatly misjudge him. Nor is he the
broken invalid that he is generally j
regarded.
DAVIS IN CONVKKNATION.
His yet abundant locks and full
heard are deeply silvered, and his face
and frame are spare as they always
have been, but bis step is elastic and
steady and the hard lines of his
brow which nrc so conspicuous in bis
pictures, nre at once effaced when heT
enters into conversation. Instead of
impressing the visitor as a political
recluse who has no interest in the laud
to whose citizenship he will live and
die a stranger, he at once invites the
freedom of the plunter'* home, by
chatting without reserve, save when
his eoutemporaries are likely to las
criticised, when he adroitly and pleas
antly turns the discussion into inoffen
sive channels. He is yet the tame
positive man in all his convictions and
Jf purposes that made him the leader of
a causeless rebellion, lie well under
stand* that be east the die for empire
or for failure that must make him
alien to the country and the world, and
that he h*t; and he knows that he is
to-day the most powerless of all men
in the land to retrieve the fortunes of
those who followed him to bereavement
and sacrifice. Ho reads aright the
inexorable judgment that makes him
. execrated lor the Confederacy, while
his equally, guilty subordinates have
been welcomed to the fatted calf. Ilis
Vice President who followed the slave
empire afar oil' when doubt and dark
ness began to gather about it, made
haste to scramble over the ruins of
the Confederacy and regain the scat
in Washington from which he seceded
j with Davis to nid in guiding rebellion.
| Two of bis unnoted warriors have sat
' in Republican cabinets ; Is.'e's ablest
! lieutenant is the Kepublicuu minister
I to Turkey ; the man who marched the
first regiment of volunteers to ('harh s
-1 ton ami who served as Confederate
Senator until Appomattox became
I historic, died as the Republican Min
! istcr to Russia, ami Senate, House and
the Washington departments swarm
with men who were abreast with Jef
ferson Davis ill every effort to dis
i member the Republic, but Davis is the
i embodiment of humiliation while his
fellows go in am) out without displeas
ure. 1 heard no allusion to or com
| plaint of this injustice, but it is plain
ly evident that Davis entirely appre
cintes it and that he believes lie would
not be consistent with himsef ami the
grave responsibilities he assumed,
however mistaken he may have been
in a—inning tin in, if he did not delib
erately remain an alien to the govern
ment that he more conspicuously than
; all other- struggled to overthrow, lie
could not help the South or himself by
seeking or accepting restoration to
! citizenship, and he i- wisely content
with stubborn faith in the icetitude of
hi- lost cause.
suMi: it KM I NISI'KM 1-S or TIIK WAIt.
I have long desired to know tin* ex
act truth from tiie fountain of South
ern knowledge on the subject, in re
gard to several important events of!
the war, and I was ngreeably surprised
at the treisloin with which Mr. Davis
met my inquiries. Why Beauregard
was ordered to lire upon Anderson in
Fort Sumpter, his surrender wa
inevitable at a specified time without
assaulting the llag, has never been en
tirely understood. It was the act of
, madness, as it made division in the
North iui|K*ssib|c, and I have always
believed that the real cause of the
order to ojien fire was to unify the
South and end the threatening move
ments for reunion on terms. Mr.
Davis answered promptly and em
phatically that the order was given
solely bi-oaiisc faith had been broken
by the Lincoln administration in at
tempting to reinforce Anderson, and j
that the South needed no war to solid
ify its people. I think lie errs in un
derestimating the probable power of
the movement in the South lor recon
struction In-fore the war, but it i
cvidetit that in deciding to issue tin
fatal order tor the assault ujmu Surn
tT, he believed the Confederacy in
vincible and defiantly reseuted what
he regarded as a violation of the
pledge of the Federal government.
I hat act practically consolidated the
North, and thenceforth the Confed
eracy was a fearfully hopeless venture.
<>n another important (mint he an
swered with the same freedom. When
asked whether the aggressive move- j
merit of Lee that culminated at Get
tysburg was adopted ns purely military ■
strategy or the offspring of (Militienl !
necessity inside the Confederacy, he
answered that it was the wisest of
both military and political strategy,
but that it was not dictated at all by !
political considerations. He said that
the wisdom of the military movement
was proven in the recall of Meade
from Virginia ami the transfer of j
both nrrnies to Northern soil ; but, be
soberly added, the battle was a niisfor- i
tune. The chances were equal, as he ;
regarded it, for military success, and j
that would have deranged the whole i
plan of the government and impaired j
its resources for the campaign of that j
vtnr. As a military movement, Mr. ,
Davis says, the Gettysburg campaign
had the entire approval of and
there were no pohtu'iil divisions in the
South to dictate any departure from
the wisest military laws. I desire, j
also, to know, whether, at the time ot
the Hampton Road* conference lie
tween Lincoln, Seward, Stephens ami
others, Mr. Davis had received any
intimation from any credible source,
that Mr. Linculu would assent to the
payment of four hundred millions as
compensation for slaves, if the South
would accept emancipation ami return
to the Union, lie answered that he ,
had 110 surh intimation from any !
source, but that if such proposition had
leen made, he could not have enter
tained it as the Executive of the Con
federacy. He said that he was the
sworn Executive of a government
Mounded on the rights of the State* ;
'that slavery was distinctly declared to
be exclusively a State institution, and
that such an issue could have been de
cided only by the independent assent
of each State. Somo of them, he
added, would have accepted such terms
at that time, but others would have
declined iu and peace was, therefore,
impossible on thai basis.
DAVIS HOPKKL'I. OK TIIK SOUTII.
Mr. Davis discussed the present at
titude and future prospects of the
South with manifest interest and great
candor. While he i not and cannot
lie a factor in attaining any desired
political results for the South, he shares
the hopes expressed by the great mass
of the more Intelligenl Southern peo
ple, that all the difficult problems will
yet he wisely solved by gradual ad
vuucemeiit and final harmony of nice"
1 and section*. lie was unreserved in
expressing the belief that u civil service
in the South that would insure fidelity
to government and people, could not
fail to end partisan or sectional issue*
between the South and the Garfield
administration, and unite both North
and South in the pi emotion of the
material interests of the whole -coun
try. Hi* discussion of the relation*
of the two sections under the present
political aspect, was thoroughly philo
sophical and Htuloxrnunliko, and while
he will remain the one adjudged
stranger to the Republic, he hope* yet
to sec the South prosperous in common
j with a prosperous North, and the scars
i "I war ami the bitterness of sectional
I dispute healed forever. Next to a
Southern Slave Confederacy, In In
lie vex a tree I iiiun the best govern
ment for the Republic. A. K. Al.
♦
AlI Sft I. Vlt MFN.
Among the Greek* the successful
| athlete was crowned with laurel* and
I loaded down with wealth mid honors.
W lieu Kgcnetns, in the ninety-second
Olympiad triumphant in games, en
tered Agrigentum, his native home, he
was attended by an e-eort of three
; hundred churiots, each drawn by two
white horses, and followed by the pop
ulu'-e, cheering and waving hauuers.
Milo six lime* won the palm at both
the Olympic and I'ytliian games, lie
is -aid to have run a mile with a four
. year-old ox upon his shoulders, and
| afterward* killed the animal with one
blow ot hi- fist, and ate the entire car
j enss in one day ! So great was his
| muscular power that he would hind
a cord around hi- head and break it
by the swelling and pressure of the
veins. An ordinary meal for Milo
wa- twenty pound- of meat, a* much
bread, ami fifteen pints ol wine.
l'olydamus, of The—alia, wax of.
colo—al height and prodigious strength, :
and, it is said, alone and without
weapons, killed an enormous and en
raged lion. < )m- day. it i- recorded,
he seized a hull hv ii* hind fret, and
the animal e>m|x-d only hv leaving
the hoot in the grasp ot the athlete.
The Roman F.oqieror Mnxiniiuu
wax upward of eight feet in height,
and, like Milo, of (Volutin, could
-fjoeze to |xtw(h r the hardest stone
with his r- and break the leg of a
borne by a ki<k. His wife's bracelet
served him a ring, and his every
day r< past wa* sixty pound* of meat
and an amphora ot wine.
While a prisoner in < iermany, Rich
ard I. accepted an invitation to a box
ing match with the son of hi* jailer.
He received thefir-l blow, which made
him stagger, hut recovering, with a
blow "I In- fit he killed hi- antagonist
ou the spot. Topitam, also an Kng
lishmaii, born in 171<f, wax posse,--<-1
of astonishing strength. Hi* armpits,
hollow in the case of ordinary men,
were with hint full of muscles and
tendon*. He would take a bar of
iron, with its two etui* held in hi
hands, place the middle of the bar
behind Ins neck, and then heud the
extremities by main force until they
met together, and then bend hark the
iron straight again. One night, see
ing a watchman asleep in his Ixix, he
carried Ixitli the man and hi* shell to
a great distance, and put them on the
wall of a churchyard. Owing to do
mestic troubles, he committed suicide
in the prime of life.
The famous Hcnndrrlx-rg, King of
Albania, who was born in 1114, was a
man of great -tature, and his feat* of j
sword exercise have never been equaled.
On one occasion, with a scimitar, he
struck his antagonist such a blow that
it* force cleaved him to the waist. He
is said to have cloven in two men who
were clad in armor from lo ad to foot.
On one occasion the brother and
nephew of a certain Ralhthan, who
had lieen convicted of rrucltir - * townrd
the Albanians, wore brought to him i
hound together. Transported with
rage, he cot them in two with one j
stroke of hi- weapon.
Maurice, fount of Saxony, the hero
of Fontenoy, inherited the physical ■
vigor of his father, ami was especially j
noted for the surprising muscular j
power, or "grip," of hi* hands. On !
one occasion, needing n corkscrew, lie •
twisted a long iron nail round into the
required shajte with hi* finger* and
opened half a dozen liottlcs of wine j
with it. Another time, when stopping
at a blacksmith shop to have his horse
sh<*l, he picked up a number of new
hor*c shoe*, and with hi* hand* snap
ped them in two n* readily a* if made
of glass, much to the disgust of the
smith.
It' history is to believed, Pharyllus
of < rotona, could jump a distance of
fifty-six feet. The exercise was prac
ticed at the Olympic games and form
ed part of the course of Pentathlon.
Strutt, an English authority on games
and amusements, speaks of a Yorkiah
jumper named Ireland, whose powers
were marvelous. He was six feet high,
and at the age of eighteen leaped,
without the aid of a spring board, over
nine horses ranged side T>y side. He
cleared a cord extended fourteen feet
from the ground with one IHHMHI,
crushed with his foot a bladder sus
pended at n height of sixteen feet;
and on another occasion he lighllv
cleared a large wagon, covered with
an awning.
Colonel Ironside, who lived in India
early in this century, relates that he
met in his travels an old white-haired
man who with one leap sprang over
the back of an enormous elephant
tlauked by six camels of the largest
1 breed. A curious French work pub
lished in I'uri* in 1745, entitled "The
Tract* Townrd* the History of Won
der* Performed lit Fairs," mentioned
nil Fngli-uuin, who at the fair of St.
Germain in 172-1, leaped over forty
people without touching one of them.
lii our own day we are familinr
with many remarkable exposition* of
strength and endurance. Dr. Win
ship, with the aid of straps, lifted a
weight of .'5,.!)<) pound*, and with the
little linger of his right hand could
raise hi* hodv a considerable distance
from the ground.
♦ - ...
AN INFANT I'll FNOM FN A.
► e.tn till lll*.
One of the most remarkable instan
ce* of childish precocity known of
late year- ha* recently appeared in
Pari*. The child which i* French
burn in the neighborhood of Porig*
iicux'in t fctohcr, and thus scarce
ly more than three year* old, i* named
llerihc < iuiileinand. The parents are
poor and ignorant vine dre-ser*. who,
| struck when she wa* only eighteen
month* old by the fact thut she had
j extraordinary intelligence and a pro
digious memory, took her to the school
teacher ot their village, and lie amused
hiiu-ell bv cultivating her astonishing
talent*. In a year she had made such
progress that her parent* made up
their mind* to reap some advantage
from it. and brought her to Pari*.
She know- not only how to'read and
write, but the four rule* of arithruc
(ic, and solve* the little problem* that
are given lor without ever making n
mistake. Moreover,she know* the first
act of "Alitalia," which she repeat- in
her little silver voice from end to end
without missing a line. And finally j
| one can a-k her whatever piece he
• hoo-e- troiii "II Trovatore," "Rigo
letto, "Faust," and "La Jtiivc," sh<
. will -ing it to him at once in the most
Herniate fii-hion imaginable. Nulli
ing could be funnier than to hear he
cou out the "('aro nome" from "Rigo
l< tto" in Italian. A lid yet, a- wa
-nid, she i hut little over thrit' vear
old. Not only d<x-* she look older
hut her certificate of birth, atte-ti-d hv
ail sort- of authorities each more offi
rial than the other, prove* the fat
beyond rjiir-tioti. The chihl has beei
carefully examined by physician* fot
any ahnormal development of tin
brain or -hull, but iliey xav that ther>
i" nothing of the Mrt, aud that it -ini
plv i" a very well dcveh>|ied hea<i
We n-ked her malinger what lie in I
(tended to do when she would lie fiv<
or six years obi, when what i* now
-urprixing in her would no longer Ix
extraordinary. "Oh." said he, "I
have an engagement with h r parent
for five years, all the same, aud I an
quite -lire of making a good thing o
it. A* she grows older I make her ex
i rei-cs complicated. She ha* ju-t re
cited to you the first act of ' A thai in.
Now I am going to make her learn i>
backward*. A* soon as she ix foui
year* old I am going to begin to hav
her taught mathematics!" And tin
Imby • playing with nu India rubbci
doll, listened to all thi* without ap
[rearing in the least frightened by a
future thu* hri-tling with ciphers, will
incomprehensible phrases, and even,
(e rhaps, with algebraic formuhe.
Thi may all be very well for a
year, for two year*, pcrhapa for five
hut in the end thi* poor little brain
cannot fail of breaking down under
such a strain. It simply mean* mm
itigiti* in the niorc or les* remote fu
ture. We have a Society for the Pre
volition of Cruelty to Animal*. Whv
in the world not have one for chilli
hood a* well ? Meanwhile, licrthe
(iuiileinand go*-* on earning a thou
sand franc* for pareuts and many
more for her iniprrwsario, a sort of
italinn Rarnum named Pcmarn.
A lilch M*n* Whim-,
fffl® th I# tl h'fi Ttlffllh.
Home few weeks ago a well-to-do
burgess of Vienna died, leaving the
whole of his property awav from hi*
natural heirs, and to the son of a |
retired Austrian general with whom
he had lieeu personally unacquainted
during hi* life, u|>oti the s<de ground, i
duly set forth in hi* will, that the
Christian name of the young gentle
man in question wa* identical with
hi* own. When the legatee, after
proviug the will, visited the testator's
dwelling, accompanied by a legal offi
cial. in order to take possession of the
property lieqienthcd to him, his atten
tion was first directed to a fireproof
-afc a* a likely repository of securities.
Upon opening the safe, however, it i
wa* found to contain nothing hut <
to craps of paper, cut up very mall
with scissors, and consisting chiefly
of old envelopes. A further search
through the room*, however, wa* re- I
warded by the discovery of bank note* <
to the amount of 40,000 florin*, crura- i
filed up into a ball aud hidden in a
corner liehiud a curtain. Other 20,- i
000 florins were presently found in a I
photograph album, containing some I
two score portrait* of pretty women in <
fancy costumes. Behind each one of
these photograph* were concealed hank i
notes corresponding in value to the de- I <
ceased gentleman's appreciation of the j
ladies' respective charm*, a fair beau- j I
ly's attractive merits being appraised j
at 2,000 florins, while those of a hand
some brunette were rated at .1,000. i
The notion of looking liehind these :
portrait* wa* suggested by marginal
note* appended to each on the page*
fif the album in which they were in
• y >rao<la indicated
the intention of the deceased to make
hi* testamentary dispositions-in such
sort that each several ehurnier should
inherit the sum hidden away behind
Iter eounterleit presentment. Fortu
nately for his heir, thin eccentric pro*
ject hud hever been advanced beyond
it* valuation stage,and thus the prize*
originally intended to be awarded to
beauty ultimately fell into the hand*
of an infantry lieutenant.
MAItKVINO FOIf I,OVK.
The tnan who marries for love ha*
Kent-rally the vital tenqx-raniciit—in
eonihative, xaguciou* uud independent,
and take* a general view of every
thing. A Ji< of indolence and xtui.'-
nation ha* no charm* for one whore
hiood is warm and who*e hope* art
high ; he like* to he in the thickest of
the light, giving blow* and taking
then: ; watching the torn of event*
with cool no* and forexight ; pleased
:at hi*own independence and *trnggle-;
i eager to show the world what he can
I achieve, and tht; context ron-o-all the
i -trengtb ami manlinex* of hi* nature.
! lie win* the rexpect of hi* fellow* liv
id* own worth. He often bring* home
plcaxunt xorprixc* for hi* wife and
children. ou may rerognixe hitn in
| train* loaded with parcel*, which he
iootl iiatnredly earrie* in jx-rfect tin
concern of what other* think —a new
Mm net, muxic, hook*, a xct of fur* f<u
hi* wife ; while in another parcel the
•vheel* ola i art, a juek-iu-the Ixtx, a
101 l or *kipping-ro|x- intrude through
lie paper ami xugge*t the tiurserv
He never torgetx the dear one* at
lorne; the humanizing intluenee ol
that darling rl-cheeki d little fellow
•vlio ealll him father bring- a glow of
rapture of the purext pleasure earth
mid* ; for tin* mail who ha* never felt
i tiny hand elaxp hi* will alway* laek
•omething—he will be h-- human,
e** hie-*e<l than other*. Thi* ix tin
lohle, the hone*t, the only forin of
il'e that impart* real contentment ami
oy, that will mak.- a death lied glori
ous, ami love see peace through it*
ear*. It i- *o purely unselfish, m.
endcrlv true, it *ati-tie- the highest
mxtinct*, it stimulate* men to the lx-*t
Iced* thev are capable of. Jiv study
ug how to live, w<- must know how to
lie; and the finest life i* that which
nlnixter* to ot he r* need* anil increase
the joy* of iliom- dc|*enduul oil ti,
Uioui we love, and who hxik to u for
upfxirl. solace and light, even a* the
arth i* revivified hv the son; for
celing i- life, the pulsation of delicious
yinpaihv, the spring in a desert, the
naiina from the xkie*.
A rittxtiDrg ArromplHhmrat.
Ifid you ever see a I'iitsburgher get j
i Hake of -not off hi* face? He never j
üb* it ofT. To. rub off a flake of
*xt disclose* the stranger. It l-o
cave* a streak of black half an inch
vide in place of the flake of soot as
•ig a* a three cent piece. Thi* i* not
hi improvement The I'iUsburghcr j
o the manor Ixtrn blow* it off", lie is >
m adept at the art. If the flake*
icstle on hi* nose he protrude* his j
mder lip, give* one vigorous whiff, '
and the obnoxious Pittsburgh snow
hike leave* bis face without a mark, j
If it lights on either of hi* cheeks. !
he -mouth is puckered and stretched
iround in the direction of the smut I
villi the unerring accuracy of a gar- 1
len hoe. It is astonishing what al
nost inaccessible portions of the face j
ind head can lie reached by a native
iiurgher in thi* way. I have seen one
who could pull a black flake off the
lack of hi* neck. Sometime* the
beauty-spot will nestle in behind the
left ear. where it i apparently secure !
iruin a blow a* a calm centre ; hut the
native simply gives it a puff clear
around hi* head from left to right;
;be current passes over the left ear,
arom* on the right and comes hack
and pick* up the wanderer and blows
him away. They pntf these sable
flakes in any position a* easily as a
weekly jiaper puff* the summer circus.
flow the Supreme Court Is Opened.
To liegin with, there is a degree of
dignity and stately bearing about the
court and it* members which perme
ates even to the most humble attache
There is a quiet in the court room
which recalls the Habhath of the
Covenanters. When one enters the
involuntary feeling comes on thai the
room is set aside only for the contem
plation of the colter side of life, and
woe to him who jibe* or jokes in the
presence of the court. •The court is
opened in about this fashion : At 12
ojplock (noon) the Justice* come in
from the consulting room and take
theii seats on the bench. Away to
the left of the chamber i seen a beau
tiful officer, whose business it is to
catch the first glimpse of the advanc
ing Judges. Then comes three raps
with a ponderous gavel, by the same
officer. This is meant as a signal for
the audience to rise. Then, with the
Chief Justice in advance, the Judges
enter from the right of the chamber.
To the rear of the Justice* seat is an
aisle. In the centre is an arched
entrance for the Chief Justice.
Through this aisle the Judges file and
take positions on the right and left.
None enter until the Chief Justice
makes a glooefhl obcipaaee u> the
siandiagDipdieuce, Then the Justice*
tfdtfe neat*, a stroke of the ggvel is
made and the an%nee seats itself.
The opening of the court (alls upon a j
voutbful official. It Is alter ihc'tdd
English ibirt, "Oye* j Oyex," ate,, and
i
e conelude* wiili the word*, "fb.d biers
It the honorable Hup.-erne < ourt." The
I i court i* now ready for business, The
I J Ju-tiee* are clad in blu' k *ilk gowns
* > with an eecleiu*tic cut. In the dis-
i- patch of busincxx the Chief Justice is
I j quite expeditious. He i* always ready
* : with a reply to a question, ami crni
> fieritly satisfactory. The Justices on
* the bench n*siiuie different attitudes.
I Justice Miller ' ink* down in hi*chair,
and hut little cutl be seen but the top
[of bis bead; *o also does Justice
Jiradley. I lie Chief Justice sits erect
" mo*t nl'the time when not hearing an A |
" argil men I, bu*y in consulting a caleu- *
* dar. Judge Harlan i* the most strik
■ iug in anpearanee of any of the
! Judges. Ho is tall, will built aii'l
- j sits erect.
f TIIK llt IS If KKVIJLITIOX.
ll were it not for the occasional acts
I of individual vengeance and brutal
; ' violence, such a* the H-*ax-iiiutiou of
, L.rd Mountmorre*. the presentattitude
"t t he Irish |H'op|e, a. dcscrilx <1 in a
' abb- ( xtraet of a Hubliu letter to the
* • l/nidon / unci, would coiiituauil the
. undivided sympathy of our owncoun- 1
j try, 1 bat letter, published ye* lead ay
, in our foreign despatche-, wa- not in
: tended by tl.e writer to stimulate sym
paluy for the Irish cause, or to excite
, admiration for (be resolute frout j.re
, M-iited by the |x ople under the
j. : mice of their leaders in the Land
i league; but it is sure to have that
, effect wherever it is read bv Ameri
cans wlm recall to mind the early
l resistance to Jiritish misrule in the
I ! American colonic-. I fie substance
, al, d point of the litter i* that the
f Iri-b Jeople, to give concentrated fori •
, to their resistance to the evils and
i oppre-siotis of which they complain,
; have improvised an interior govern
_ meat of their own, which, in many j
re*|M-. Ls. i- more potent than the gov
i eriiineut authorized and supported by
I 15riti-b law. In the language of' the
letter writer, "It* code is clear, its
. executive absolute, it* machinery
, complete, ami it- action uniform.
1 here i- a government tic facto and a
government!/' jurt —t lie former wield
ing a power which i* felt and feared
, and the latter (meaning the iiritish
vice-regal government , exhibiting
only pomp, hut little reality of power."
I his <lc jacio interior government is
deserilied a* having it* magistrates
aud courts, in which di.-putcs are set*
tied, to the exclusion of the regular
law courts ami magistrates; as levy
ing tax--, which are promptly paid,
while the taxes under the law cannot H
r
markets aud fairs aud doing other
' act* in the nature of local government:
; and a, in fact, lacking hut the one
J great attribute of a national armv to
make it equal, if not sujierior, to the
government of the Jiritish Viceroy.
All Americans ought to he able to
understand that, and if the tie facto
rule were free Iroin acts of murder ami
i other violence to the person, they M
i -hould In- ready to regard it with keen 1
j fellow feeling. Leaviug" these oat, it A
is our own Revolutionary experience fl
over again. It requires no recent fl
study of our own history to remember
how petition after petition, and appeal \ I
U|hmi appeal, were sent by the Aineri- i B
ran colonists from 177(1 to '74 and '7" \ ■
for redrew* of the hardship* and griev- j ~fl
ancea inflicted on them by a govern- • I
ment which turned a dead ear to all H
; their prayers; how their appeals were
couched iii terms expressing the very
humility of loyalty, iu onler to get
| justice by anything short of armed
rebellion ; and how, instead of getting
redress, they were met by delay*,
words and threats, aud then by flee
aud armies, with soldiera quartered
their houses. Our resistance f*gan
wars precisely similar to some of
in Ireland at this time. There w' 1
loyalists in those days who
aud some of there with reason, nm
" terrorism aud social r
was popular feeling of this
induced ltcujamin
wards L'nunt Jtumbord, to fly mw
Massachusetts home to
alside in Europe. • His cast? is
of many. Recollections of
enable us to make a better
the word " terrorism " in*
it eontea flaahiag to u* over
under the sea. The
Revolutionnut every man
ban who to
agent under the stamp
ed (and flrat of all h<
phial the D<m-imporM^E^flß|^Hß^9Bi
they refused to
ing to their own
home producu
goes of tea ' .-'X
at Jersey's
down
and mu^H|^BtsßMj^^Bßj^BHH
and fc^Huß^^^BHß^mHßMSflH
ting B
the
ilies
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