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VOL. XII.
BROWNVILLE, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, APRIL 23, 1868.
NO. 30.
BUSINESS D1KECT0RY.
DRUG STORES.
HOLLADAY & CO.,
; and Retail Dealer in
! DRUGS, MEDICINE, PAINT, OIL, &c,
1 j. xuiiuiiigf aim tJ..,
WM H. McCREERY,
I njo!esa!e and Retail Dealer in
I Drc. Books, Wall-paper and Stationery,
Corner Main and If t Sis.,
MERCHANDISE.
GEORGE MARION,
Dealer In
Pry Goods, Groceries f? & Notions.
Foot of Main Street tear Lev,
1S58-
Established 1850.
WM. T. DEN,
Wholesale and Retail dealer In
GENERAL MERCHANDISE,
Corn Planters, Plows, Stoves, Furniture.
CO XXISSIOS A SD roR WA rdiso merchant
Main tireei un i,eirc iuu i.-u,
Eioheti market prict paid for Hide. Peltt, Furt and
froiuce.lf WM.T.DEW.
G. M. HENDERSON,
Pcaler in Foreign and Domestic
DRY GOODS AND GROCERIES
Main bet. l.t and 21 Sti.,
CHARLES BR1EGEL
BEEIt HALL, LUNCH ROOM
AND LIGHT GROCKRT STORE,
Main Let. in and 2d 8ts.
J. L. McGEE & CO.,
DtaUr$in
GENERAL MERCHANDISE.
MclTiernon's Work, Main street,
PHYSICIANS.
J. W. BLACKBURN, M.D.
i PENSION EXAMINING SURGEON,
' Tsnders his professional aerrice to the eitizena f
Urewnfille and ricioify.
; OFFICE AT VITY DRUG STORE.
Sight call at his Uoaidence south side of Atlaa-
ie between 1st and 2nd ftret ts.
H. L. MATHEWS,
I PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON,
CITY
orricE
DEUO
STORE,
A. S. HOLLADAY. M D.
' Gra4uated in 1S61 ; Located in Brownville in 1856 )
; Piijiician, SurgtDa und Obsteirician,
; Dr. H. has on head complete sets of Amputat
, kg, TrejihiniDg an j Obstetrical instruments.
; Office: llohaasy t Go's Drugstore. F. O.
Y. S. Special attention girn to Uostelricsand
'AeJiMMesof women and children. X-44-lj
C. F. STEWART, M. D. '
I PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON,
OFFICE:
couth East corner of Ma.ia and First Streets
Dmci Uorw-7 to 9 a. M.and 1 to 2 and 6 to
ATTORNEYS.
DE iOKEST l-OUTElC
ATTORNEY AT LAW AND LAND
AGENT,
OrriCE In Sew Court Uoue Builling, with Pro
T.W.Tipton O.B.llewett J.t. Church
TIPTON, HEWETT & CHURCH,
Attorneys at Law.
las in McPherson sBluck, Main at. between 2d 3d
I.T.TH0MA8.
1. H.BUOAIir.
THOMAS & BROADY
Attorneys at Law & Solicitors in Chancery,
Ufflie over Dorbey'a Clothing Store,
WM. McLENNAN
ATTORNEY AT L.AW,
EBRASA CITT, KKBRASKA.
s. a. UAtcuixurox,
Attorcey and Counselor at Law,
Beatrice, Gage Co A'cb.
TERKIXS & OlLLE.SPIEr
Attorneys and Counselors at Law,
Tecunuith, Johnion Co., Atb.
. CHESTER t XVE,
Aitcrney at Law and War Claim Agent,
Pawnee CVfi, Xtbraka.
BOOTS & SHOES.
CHARI.V5 tivt nirD"
COOT AND fcUOE MAKER,
U. I ' ,uours ueiow tbe g.mtheastcurnerof 2nd,
and ti,. k " "ierior bioch oi uoots ana cht.es
l&C tD.U;nil1 ni ability lor doing
'om rk done tfith Mrqtwet and dipatoh.
a. Robinson,
WX)T AND SHOE MAKER,
m , ' ern isi a. s.a street
U hii" lt melhoJ of informing the pnblio that
Idi.'. . I'1"' aortuent of Ueat'sand
oiei iligies'an.i rhiw-..
vMaiuAOUO O
Ker-00 Tk dune aeatness and dlspatchJ
ieisilSBf " wvi IHHH r, 1U.)U IUUU
M:a St
SADDLERY.
J. H. BAUER.
V.nnf. . "
Zy"Ess BRIDLES S COLLARS
oracr sjUBiaction gnarrantled
on aain fccr. 1f anj 2J t.. -
John w.middleton
u . . .
v . -uuiacinrer ana leler in
SNESS, BRIDLES, COLLARS,
Md lbes or every description, Plaateriaf
ir. Uash paid for Hides.
Corner Main and 2d Sts.,
SELECTED POETHY.
NomiDS to Do.
BT R. F. Fl'LLER
I beard a child complain, one day,
That he had neither work nor play,
Father! with face of dolorous rue,
I hare, he said nothing to do.
That cannot he, my little son,
Unless the work of life is done ;
And then, your past exploits to Tieir,
Wiilgire you qu;te enough to do.
What have I, fathor. to employ
My time? Why, all the world, my boy,
I'onsess the earth ! God'j mtndate given,
Earth, as the stepping-stone ia heaven I
-Flow can I, if I covet not,
Nor make my own another's lot?
By winding wisdom and the store!
Of history; tor those are yours.
The eye for beauty owns the land,
Ilowever. the p;per-tit!e stand.
The meek inherit it ; and thoy
Who do their duty, day by day.
Nothing to do t You have, my son,
A crown to win, a rce to run ;
A God to honor and enjy :
And eerve the age, immortal boy I
That little head of thine contains
Vast powers in undeveloped brains;
And, in the compass of thy brow,
A taightof knowledge latent now.
Father! be said, with sparkling eye,
Shall 1 be certain, if J try ?
Prayer give? a power that prevails,
A strength of Uod that fails.
A man in middle life I eaw,
In wealth, he had not labored for,
And suffering with vacancy
Of mind and ails of ennui.
With voice pathetical ha !ls
The friendly ear with lancied ills.
He travel?, restless as the wind,
But cannot leave himself behind.
His burthen, which he lays on jou,
I?, nothing ia the world to do.
Why.sir, you have a work, I'm eure, .
So long as earth has any poor.
To be the orphan's father, and
The widow's aid, with open hand ;
The poor to clothe, instruct, and teafh,
Here is a work within your reach.
"Nothing to do !' I hear him say ;
And ho is idle all day.
While his unrighe us mimmon pinahea
With want, ant starves his soul by inches.
He perishes ; as one of old,
When all that touched him turned to gold.
Gold was his drir.k, andg ld bis feed ;
But neither did him any good.
JOHN C. DEUSER.
; BIOVES, TINWARE, PUMPS.&C.
Oppoalf XcPheraon'a B'ock,
SHELLEBERGER BRO'S
r;vjrJBanw'acfurer Dtclenin v
Th'lTfn'Si HARDWARE, CARTES-
SOOLS. BLACKSMITH'S
aaaaaiBca-BrcwnTtU. Ke. -
J. K. BEAR,
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merchant's Union Express Company
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'rtersonEioc,5dlloor,lIaIIZntraJjct. 4
Duel Between Claj and Randolpn.
BT JAMES PARTOJT.
Mr. Clav was Secretary of Stata at
the time Mr. Randolph was Secator
from V ireiuia Jor n Uuidcv Adams
was President cf the United States.
John Randolph, too prone to believe
evil of all men, and especially of his pol
itical opponents, was persuaded tnat
Henrv Clav had trained the office he
then held by a corrupt bargain with the
President. He finely believed that Mr.
Adams had said to Mr. Clay in 1625,
when the election of a President devolv
ed upon the House of Representatives:
Make me President, and 1 will appoint
you Secretary of State, and adopt you
as my successor.
Thus believinrr. it was hard for a man
of Mr. Raodoph's unscrupulous fluency
to avoid betraying his belief. Accord-
n?lv. in April. 1S26. in the course of
his wandering, sarcastical harangues,
after insinuating that Mr. Clay bad for-
ged a public document, Handolpn con
cluded with the following words, in refer
ence to a recent vote:
'Ater six hours' exertion, it was time
to give in. I was defeated, horse, foot
and dregoons cut up and clean broke
down bv the coalition of Blifil and Black
George by the combination, unheard
of till' then, of the ruritan with the
blackleg." ...
Blifil and Black Georere are two char
acters in Fielding's celebrated novel to
Tom Jones; Blifil being a sniveling hyp
ocrite, and Black George an audacious
robber. Every one who heard Mr.
Randolph ue these words understood
Blifil to be the Yankee President, John
Quihcy Adams; who was no Purrtanbuta
Unitarian, like his father before him
Black George could be no other than
Mr. Clay, who early in life was known
to have been a gambler, as most gentle
men of the' time were. The passage of
Mr. Randolph' speech relating to the
alleged for gery was as follows:
" A letter from the Mexican Minister
at Washington submitted by the Execut
lve to the Senate, bore the ear-marks of
having been manufactured by the Secre
tary of State."
On reading the report of this most
insulting and most unjustifiable speech,
Mr. Clav wrote a challenge and sent it
by his friendv General Jesup. General
Jesup called upon Randolph, informed
him that he was the bearrer of a message
from Mr. Clay, in consquence of an attack
recently made upon him in the Senate,
both as a private and a public man."
I am aware," said General Jesup.
"that do one has the right to question
you out of the Senate for anything said in
debate, unless you choose voluntarily to
waive your privilege at a member cf thai
body."
Mr. Randolph replied that he would
never shield himself under the protection
of the Constitution, and held himself ac
countable to Mr. Clay.
"I am ready to respond to Mr. Chy,1
said he, "and will be obliged to you it
you will bear my note in reply, and in
the course of the day I will kook. out tot
a fnendV . .
General Jesup declined bearing the
note, saying that he thought Mr. Ran
dolph owed it to himself to consult his
friends before faking so important a step.
Mr. Randolph seized General Jesup's
hand, and said:
'You are right, sir. I thank you for
the suggestion, but as you do not take
my note you must not be impatient if
you should not hear from me to-day.
now think of only two friends, and there
are circumstances connecttd with cne
of them which may deprive me of his
services, and the other is in bad health.
He was sick yesterday, and may not be
out to-day."
General Jesup requested him to take
his own time, and bade him good morning.
This was Saturday, April 1, 1S26. Mr.
Randolph immediately went to the lodg
ings of Cclenel Benton of Missouri, and
upon finding him, asked him bluntly,
without giving him any reason for the
question:
"Are you a blood relation of Mri.
Clay?"
'I am," said Colonel Benton.
"That," rejoined Randolph, "pots an
end to a request which I had wished to
make of you."
He then related to Colonel the par
ticulars of the interview with General
Jesup, and as he was taking his leave he
told Colonel Hentnn that he would make
his bosom the sole depository of an im
portant secret. He said that he .did not
intend to fire at Mr. Clay, but ment to
keep this intention a secret, and enjoined
secrecy upon Colonel Benton until after
the duel. In the course of the day Col
onel Tatnall, of Georgia, conveyed Mr.
Randolph's acceptance of the challenge,
which was couched in the following
terms:
"Mr. Randolph accepts the challenge
of Mr. Clay. At the same time he prot
ests against the right of any minister of
the Executive Government of the United
States to bold him responsible for words
spoken in debate as a Senator for Virg
inia, in crimination of such minister, or
tne administration under which he shall
have taken office. Colonel Tatnall, of
Georgia, the bearer of this letter, is
authorized to arrange with General
Jesup(the bearer of Mr. Clay's chall
enge.) the terms of the meeting of which
Mr. Randolph is invited by that note."
Some further correspondence the place
between the parties, relative to the cor
rectness of the report upon which Mr.
Clay's action was founded. Mr. Ran
dolph admitted its substantial correct
ness. He acknowledged that be did ap
ply to the administration the epithet pun
tanic diplomatic blacklegged admin-
stration; but he peremptorily declined to
give any explanation whatever as to the
meaning or application of. those words.
Owing to several causes the duel did not
occur until exactly one week after the
challenge, during which the friends of
the parties did all that was possible to
promote a reconciliation, but in vain.
Colonel Benton had been for some
time estranged from Mr. Clay, owing to
political diuerences, but on rnday even
ing, the night before the duel, he called
upon his old friend and political chief,
to show him, as he says, tnat there was
nothing personal in his opposition. The
secret had been well kept, and no one
in the house knew of the impending
event.
"The family were in the parlor,"
Colool Benton related, "company pres
ent, and some of it stayed late. The
youngest child, I believe James, went to
sleep on the sofa. Mrs. Clay was, as
always since the death of her daughters,
the picture of desolation, but calm, con
versable, and without the slightest ap-
arent consciousness of the impending
event."
When at length, the family and the
company had all retired, Colonel Bentcn
approached Mr. Clay, assured him that
his personal feelings towards him rem
ained the same as formerly, and that in
whatever, concerned his life or hon
or, Mr. Clay had hi? best wishes.
The Secretary of State responded cord
ially, and at midnight they parted. The
next morning Colonel Dcuun called up
on Randolph, chiefly anxious to learn
whether he siill retained his intention
not to fire. He told him of his visit to
Mr. Clay the night before of the la'.e
sitting the child asleep the unconsci
ons tranquillity of Mrs. Clay.
"I could not help thinking," added
Colonel Benton, "how different all that
might be the next night." '.-
Mr. Randolph quietly replied, as he
looked up from writing in his will:
"'I shall do nothing to distorbe the
deep of the child or the repose of the
mother.'
A few minutes after he sent his man
servant to the United States Branch
Bank to get nine pieces of gold a scarce
commodity at that day, as at present.
The man soon returned, saying that the
bank had no gold. Instantly, the mas
ter's shrill voice was heard, exclaiming;
1 "Their name is Legion! and they are
litrs from the beginning? Johnny, bring
me my horse."
A few minutes after he was at the
bankcounter, asking the state of his ac
count. Four thousand dolMrs was the
amount of money which he bad in the
bank, and he asked for it. The teller
took up some packages of bank notes, and
pclitelyasked him in what sized cotes he
would have it.
"I want money'," roared Mr. Randolph,
The teller, a little puzzled, eaid. "You
i want sUrer?" ; I
"I want my money" replied the irrita
ble Senator.
The teller then, lifting some boxes to
the counter, asked him, in his politest
tone:
"Have you a carl, Mr. Randolph, to
put it in?''
"That is my business, sir," said . the
Virginian,
At this moment the cashier came for
ward, ascertained what Mr., Randolph
wanted, and gave him the nine pieces of
gold, which he coedescended to take,
and returned with them to his lodgings.
There he gave Colonel Benton a note,
requesting him, if he was killed, to feel
in his left breeches pocket, and take out
this gold. Three of the pieces were for
Colonel Benton himself, for a seal, aod
the other six were to be divided among
two other friends, for the same purpose.
It was about sunset, in a thick forest,
on the Virginia shore of the Potomac,
that the antagonists met to decide their
difference by exchanging shots. A pistol
was handed to Mr. Randolph, loaded
and set with a hair trigger, and it was
accidentally discharged, while the muz
zle was pointed to the ground. Rand
olph was exceedingly mortified at the ac
cident. "I protested against thathair trigger,"
said he.,
Mr. Clay instantly remarked: ''It was
clearly an accident," and every one on
the ground! confirmed the assertion.
Mr. Randolph, it seems, had changed
his mind, and was now determined to
direct his pistol so as, if possible, to dis
able, his antagonist without doing him
any serious injury. He comes to thi3
determination after hearing that Mr.
Clay objected to the shortness of lime
allowed by the seconds for firing, say
ing that he did not think he could dis
charge his pistol in the time specified.
Randolph misunderstood the remark, and
considered it imdicoiive of a determina--tion
on the part of Mr. Clay to inflict a
fatal wound.
"He has determined," he wrote, in a
pencilled note to Benton, "to get time to
kill me. May I not then disable him?
Yes, if I please."
The men were placed. The pistols
were discharged. Both were remark
ably well aimed, and each bullet
came within a few inches of its mark.
Colonel Benton instantly went for
ward, and offered to mediate between
them. Mr. Clay waved his hand, as
though putting away a trifle, and said:
"This is child's play. 1 demand another
fire."
Mr. Randolph also demand another
exchange of fihots. While the pistols
were loading, Colonel Benton took Rand
olph aside, and implored him to consent to
an accommodation, but he found him
restive and irritable. He evidently re
gretted having aimed at bis antagonist;
and he now explained to Colonel Benton
why he had doue so. He declared that he
had aimed below Mr. Clay's knee; "For,"
said he,"it is no mercy to shoot a man
in the knea, and my only object was to
disable him, and spo;l his aim." He then
added, in his most impressive manner;
"I would not have seen him fall mor
tally, or even doubtfully wounded, for all
the land that is watered by the King of
Floods, and all his tributary streams."
The men were placed a seccond time,
and the words was given to fire. Mr.
Clay's bullet passed through Randolph s
coat. Kandolph raised his pistol, dis
charged it in the air, as he did so, said:
"I do not fire at you, Mr. Clay."
Wnh those words he advanced, and
offered his hand, which Mr. - Clay took
with the cordiality which became him.
"You owe me a coat, Mr. Clay," said
Randolph, gaily.
"I am glad the debt is no greater,"
was Mr. Clay's happy reply.
The parties now all returned to the
city with light hearts. un reach
ing bis lodgings, the eccentric Kandolph
took the nine pieces or gold from his
pocket, and said, to the three friends for.
whom he had designed them:
"Gentlemen, Clay's bad shooting'
sha'n't rob you of your seals. I am go-
iug l..'.-, - um. for
you."
And so he did, taking great care, too,
to get upon them the correctMirmorial
bearings. On the Monday after the
duel, the antagonists exchanged cards,
and they remained on terms of civillity
during the rest of their lives. Seven
years after, when Mr. Clay was in the
Senate, and was expected to-deliver an
important speech, poor Randolph, who
was near his end, went to the Senate
Chamber to hear once more the voice of
the great Kentuckian. As Mr. Clav
rose to begin his speech, Randolph said:
"Help me up, help me up." I came
here to hear that voice." . .,
When the session was over, Mr. Clay
offered his hand, and they had a , brief
but cordial interview.
Educational Department.
CT. 2w. M'KENZIE, EDITOR.
Pxatr, April 13th, 1SG8,
The exhibition of the primary depart
ment of the, normal school took place this
evening. Owing to the unpleasant state
of the weather but few were in attend
ance, and quite a large number of the
children were absent on account of the
rain. .
The exercises were short but enter
taining; the little folks generally per
formed their parts well. " The Casket,"
the children's paper, edited by Bliss Me
lissa Pariah, was well read, and had some
very pretty little compositions in it.
Much credit is due to Miss Huntley,
the teacher of this department, for her
untiring efforts to train the children
properly. Prof. Martin will take charge
of this department next term. Already
about forty students are pledged to at
tend, and we are confident that success
will follow his efforts.
If a young lady wishes to encourge her
lover when he gives ber a squeeze, the
best thiDg she can do" is to re-press him.
m
The Bridgeport soup house was closed
because considered a 'bounty to bummers
and paupers from abroad. ' ' -
"None dut the brave deserve the fair."
No: none but the flrarc can lire with
some cf them.
'What's the matter with your daught
er?". 'Oh, she's only, in fits about her
OUtfit." . - j; -
School Houses.
Make your school houses pleasant and
attractive. If we should be called on to
describe the kind of a house we first
went to school in, most of us would des
cribe a little dipgy building, standing by
the road side, or in some forbidding nook
of creation, unsheltered or unprotected,
around which the flocks and herds would
a a
congregate, to find shelter from the
scorching rays of the sun, and the drowsy
tinkling of the sheep bell or the monoto
nous clang echoing from beneath the
neck of old crumple-horn or mooley as
she gravely re-masticated the delicious
morsel croptfrom the neighboring mead
ow or pasture field, would be about the
description ; and as our fathers did, so
do we any place is good enough for the
school house.
We have only to examine the location
of our school houses to find the above
description verified in hundreds of in
stances ail over our land. It is really too
bad that men will be so thoughtless in
this respect.- We form our characters in
a great degree at school ; the impressions
we there receive are lasting. If the sur
roundings are forbidding in their char
acter; if the place is repulsive and
gloomy, we are apt to imbibe the spirit
of the place, hence the boys and girls
attending school in a forlorn, dilapidated
building learn to be rude and unrefined ;
and we instinctively shrink from passing
such a school house at noon or recess, for
we are sure to be saluted with shouts
and rude words, and receive some un
couth epithet as cognomen from a dozen
brazen-faced, tow-headed urchins. But
how different the sensation in passing a
neatly painted building, surrounded by a
well built fence, enclosing ample play
grounds, ornamented with shade trees,
with all the conveniences arranged in
proper order, A silver-toned bell swing
ing in a tasty little cupalo, making music
in the air.
What a feeling of grateful gladness
pervades the heart as we pass such a
school house. We ; know that many
happy hearts are there, while respect
and politeness seem to shine forth spon
taneously from every act of the sholars.
True, every district may not be able to
build such a school house; yet there is
no earthly necessity of herding our chil
dren together in places hardly fit for
sheep pens ! Make the school house at-
traeiiva
gentlemen of your sons and daughters.
1 m p m t
Influence or Newspapers on
Children.
A school-teacher who had enjoyed
the benefits of long practice of his
profession, and had watched closely the
influence of'newspapeis upon the minds
of a family of children, states as the result
of his observation that without exception,
those scholars of both sexes and all age3
who have access to newspapers at home,
when compared with those who have not,
are :
1. Better readers, excellent in pro
nunciation, and consequently read more
understandingly.
2. They are better spellers, and de
fine words with ease and accuracy.
3. They obtain partial knowledge in
geography in almost half the time it
requires others ; as the newspaper has
made them familiar with the loca
tions of important places and. nations,
their government and doings. ,
4. They are better grammarians, for
having become familiar with every varie
ty of stile in the newspaper, from common-placed
advertisement, to the finished
and classical oration of the statesman,
they more readily comprehend the mean
ing of the text, and consequently analyze
its construction with accuracy. r -
5. They .write better, compositions,
using better language, containing more
thoughts, still more expressed.. ,
From these mple facts three import
ant things can be deduced :
1. The responsibility of the pres3 in
supplying literature which shall be both
healthful in tone and likewise under
standingly expressed.
2. The absolute necessity of personal
supervision of a child s reading by his
parents.
3. Having once got a gocd, able paper
no matter what the price, don t begrudge
it a hearty support.
Renoials from OQce nenrj Claj
the Author of Tenurc-of'ORlce BUI,
From the Frankfort Commonwealth.
.
It so happens that Henry Clay was
the author of thi bill. In 1S25 there
was a lengthy discussion in the Senate
of the United States upon the power of
appointment and removal. The constit
ution, it will be remembered, is wholly
silent on the question of removal. To a
pending bill, Henry Clay offered the
following amendment:
"Be it further enacted. That in all
instances of appointment to office by the
President by and with the advice and
consent of the Senate, the power of re
moval shall be exercised in concurrence
with the Senate; and when the Senate
is not in session the President may susp
end any such officer, communicating his
reasons for the suspension during the
first mounth of the scceeding session,
and if the Senate concur with him, the
officer shall be removed; but if it do not
concur with him, officer shall be restored
to office."
This amendment covers the whole
ground assumed in the tenure-of-offioe
law. It is that law in condensed from.
It contains every principle of that law.
Mr. Clay supported his position by
the following arguments, amoung others:
It is legislative authority which creates
the office, defines its duties and may
prescribe its duration. I speak, of course,
of offices not created by the constitution,
but law. The offi:es coming into ex
istence by the will of Congress, the
same will may provide how and in what
manner the office and officer shall cease
to exist. It may direct the conditions on
which he shall hold the office, and when
and how he shall be dismissed. Sup
pose the constitution had omitted to pre
scribe the tenure of the judicial oath,
could not Congress do it?
But the constitution has not fixed the
tenure of any subordidate officers, and
therefore Congress may supply the om-
mission. It would be unreasonable to
contend that although Cangress. in pur
suance of the public good, brings the
officer and the office into being.a cd as
signs their purposes, yet the President
has a control over the officer which Con
gress can not reach and regulate.
The precedent of 17S9 was established
in the House of Representatives against
the opinion of a large and able minority,
and in the Senate by the casting vote of
the Vice Presipsnt, John Adams. . It is
impossible to read the debate which it
occasioned without being impressed with
the conviction that the just country, then
at the head of the government, had great,
if notdecisive influence in establishing it.
It has never, prior to the commencement
of the present administration, been sub
mitted to the process of review.
No one can carefully eramine the debate
in the House of Representatives inl6S9,
without being struck with the superioyity
of the argument on the side of the minor
ity, and the unsatisfactory nature of the
majority.
Daniel Webster agreed with Mr. Clay
in his position, in the following language
used by him on the occasion;
"I think, then, sir, that the power of
appointment naturally and necessarily
includes the power of removal, where no
limitation is expressed, nor any tenure
but that at will declared. The power of
appointment being conferred on the Pres
ident and Senate, I think the power of
removal went along with it, and should
have been regarded as a part bf it, and
exercised by the same hands. I think
Legislature possesses the power of Tvfll
i 6 iJrrmm,uuranon, quauncat-
ion and tenure of office in all cases where
the constitution has made no express
provision on the subject. I am, therfore,
of opinion, that it is competent for Con
gress to decide by law, as one qualifica
tion of the tenure of office, that the in
cumbent shall remain in place till the
President shall remove him, for reasons
to be stated to the Senate. And I am
of opinion that this qualification, ' mild
and gentle as it i, well have some effect
in arresting the evils which beset the pro
gress of the government, and seriously
threaten its future prosperity."
This view was sustained by tho Hon.
LThomas Ewing, of Ohio:
. Mr. Ewingjpoke at length upon the
buestion of removals, maintaining that
the constitution does not confer on the
President alone the power cf removal
that it is a matter cf legislative provision,
subject to be vested, modified, changed,
or taken away at their will; and Pres
ident, in conjunction with Senate, as part
of the appointing power,"
These authorities settle conclusively
that Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, Thom
as Ewing, and others were heartily in
accord with the Congress of the United
States in -their comstruction of the bill,
and were equally as Radical in thsir
opinions.
In a suit before the Judicial Court of
Main, one item in an offset . Recount: was
for loafing in defendant's shop, at the
rate of fifty dollars per annum.".
A Story of Paris.
A Paris letter tells the following story ..
cf a Twelfth Night fete in that city.
A wealthy family in the aristocratic
Boulevard Malesherbes were amusing
themselves in seeking the King's portion,
or the ring in the festival cake, when ft
lady of .the company says to the hostess:
"I wish m portion to be given to lha
poorest little boy we can find ia ths
street."
The servant was dispatched on this
freezing night, and not far from lha
house he found a ragged urch'n tremb
ling with cold and hunger. He brought '
him' up, was ordered into the saloon,
where a thousanJ lights glittered, and a
sparkling fire gladdened and warmed
him. He drew hi3 portion which tha
benevolent lady had promised, and as ;
luck would have it, the little fellow forcd
the "ring," (bean3 they use in P r s in
stead), and, of course, he was "Ki- g "
They i K shouted out that, be car a Kit s',
he roust choose a Queen. H na a k d
so to do. and looking around the co p ny
he chtse the very lady who had ) roused
to cede her portion of the cake. He was
asked why he chose her; he said :
"I don't know: she looks the nost .
like mother."
"Mother! whose mother?"
"My mother; I never knew her, tut
was stolen away from her, and here ia
herporriit."
With this he drew from cut his rag
ged coat a likeness, which proved to ba
that cf the very lady herself, who, xa
Italy, had her child stolen from her. and
now he turns up, a poor little ragged Sa
voyard, dragging along a miserable ex
istence in Paris, while his mother, by an
intuition, perhaps, felt that in the air
near to where she was was one so dear
to her.
Freddy was mourning over the loss of
his knife, and I attempted to ccnscla
bim by telling him that I thought it
must be sorre-where.
Of course it is soxnewheri, evryfing
is somewhere, only blooms when they're
busted.'
The same little philosopher, when ha
was three years old, wa3 questioned by
his eldestMbrother in the following fash
ion: .
Freddy, did God make you up ia
heaven?'
Yes,' was the unhesitating answer.
Has He got plenty mere little babies
up there?'
Yes,' said Freddy, again.
There was a moment of silsnce, and
then the question
Well, how did He get you down here?'
'I don't 'member,' said Freddy; 'I
guess I was arleep most of the way!'
The Corporal.
A wedding party recently went befcra
the Mayor of Fontainbleau, who refused
to perform the marriage ceremony be
cause the bridegroom was drunk. Ia
spile of the entreaties of the bride and
the relations on both sides, the civic funct
ionary obdurately insisted on a postpone
ment. Four days later the same coupla
attended as before, presented themselves'
again, but the would-be husband was in
no more decent condition than on tha
former occasion. Thereupon the Mayor
waxed exceeding wroth, and addressing
the bride, said: "And you, too, mademois
elle, are you not ashamed to come hera
to ask me to marry a man in this dis
graceful state?" "May it please your
worship," said the blushing young lady,
I would much rather bring my man
before he hav had his glass; but the mi
fortune is that when he is sober he won't
come." What the Mayor said and did
after is net told.
In a western village a charming well
preserved widow had been courted and
won by a physician. She had children;
i aw
among them a crippled dot, who caa
been pelted, and, if not spoiled, certain
ly allowed very great "freedom ia de-f
bate." The wedding day was approach-
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kiiOwTuey were to hava a n8w father
Calling the crippled boy. tha said;
'George I am going to do something be-
for long that I would lika to talk about
with you, '
Well, ma, what is it?"
"I am intending to marry M. Jones in
a few days, and "
"Bully for you ma! Dai JJr. . Jnu
know tf?"
Ma caught her breath, but failed to
articulate a response. '
An ingenious collur, who is known aj
a man of few words, end who is vary
provident of them, hit upon the following
plan to save expense in paiaun? ail tha
letters cx "shoe shop:"
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A diminutive attorney, named Elsa,
once asked Jekyll, ,4Sir, I hear jcu hava
called me a pettifogging scoundrel?"
"No, sir, I never said you wera a pet-
tuogger or a scoundrel; but I did say you
were WtU Else."
A dry-goods clerk relates- that a. styl
ish young lady requested to sea soma lav
ender kid gloves and was shown several
different shades of that color. Baicg a
little puzxled by the variety, she icgen
uosly asked, "Which cf those pairs ara
the iavenderest?"
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lika it, is carrying cffth8 cattle in Iowa.
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