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THE COURIKK. -i HtRPQbSHtmtH & ViU A SPICY LETTER v1 5 i- V t i Uf l is &-- 9s The following is an excerpt from a personal letter written by Major G. W. Johns, formerly of this city and now of Leavenworth, to a friend in Lincoln. Majors Johns is 7G years old. He held an important "position under President Mann, dishing and Evarts, or J. Q. Adams or Holt. They were dolts in comparison, mere pretenders. Of all the offensive asses old Tilden was the most conspicuous. He seriously recom mended in his last paralytic dajB an ap- Our Dressmaker, Pierce, and spent many years in Wash propriatioti of eighty million dollars for ington as clerk of the committee on coast defense in order to support the claims. He knew personally many of Monroe doctrine and to reduce the sur the leading men of the nation since the plus in the treasury. Ihe coast defense days of Pierce. He was, years ago. an was a New York city job, and ho lugged important factor in the politics of Ohio, the doctrine in to support his argu He was at one time a newspaper man. ment. This was the last of the doc He is known as an independent thinker trine until Cleveland got back from hiB and a man of positive ideas. His letter ducking expedition to play off his jokes gives a characteristic view of the Mon- on congress and monkey with the Latin MADAMOISELLIMARGONNO.T roe doctrine and some of the nation's great men: "When Mandenon gets regularly settled at his desk up stairs in the White house I hope and trust that hts own sense, and the providence of God will impel him to overthrow some of Cleve land's past folly, particularly that of the so-called "Monroe doctrine," which Webster and Buchanan kicked out of politics fifty years ago (1826) as wanting cause, conditions and application any national relation that we sustained, or were liable to sustain towards other gov ernments. But the modern asses, tilled of thistles. must bray. I do not think Cleveland Europe adverse to tho social policy of was drunk when he sent in his war mes- this government, in the faceof the Mon- age to congress, or he would not have roe superstition, and John Qulncy made such a d d fool of himself. He Adams never squeaked, because he probably saw clearly that neither he, knew the Monroe doctrine waB a farce, nor Olney, was any composition writer played after a comedy of politics. How to contend xith the Englishmen. Hence could they menace the safety of this he mocked anger, indignation and baste, government? Bosh! It never waB men- Is it true that this country has never aced but by Jefferson Davis, who only tad more than eight expert writers who asked to be let alone! and "enjoy the could be left to a contention with Eng- fruits of honest toil." Fair enough! lish diplomatists and keep even on their syntax? It has been so stated, and I doubt mo not that it is 6o. If old Van Buren be admitted, it would be nine, but he was cut off by sejection and given no charce; if Pinkney. of Balti more, be added, it would be ten, but he got homesick, then got drunk and re- It is wha the Spanish mongrels of Cuba want, to be let alone, to be inde pendent of authority, to be clear of the Paramount. And the objection in either case was and is that neither would pay excise and impost to Washington or Madrid. Both resolvec against taxes the most selfish and impracticable con signed, before Canning had a chance to sideration ever proposed at a X road's get his metaphysical pen at work on him. It was tbe opinion of Story that Pinkcey had some greater intellectual gifts than even Webster; but while Story and Webster both drank like the d I, they didn't drink together! They dif fered in opinion and judgment, and Story having given a solemn judgment against Webster's argument in a case of a S10.000 fee, when Webster was broke, they were less friendly and unpreju diced on account of it. If Woodbury and Grundy, who were reckoned as the Blaine and Bayard are thought to Le modern miracles in diplomacy. Both overpraised, and both spur'ou. Blaine walked in a vain shadow, in tire im 6 1 ic iest of his bureau of South American republics. He invoked tbe ghost of the0' Monroe doctrine and feil over into Jts Model restaurant in the Salisbury grave exhausted. He disquieted' him- block. Twelfth and M streets, hereto self instead of the ghost, and was ridi- fore conducted by Mr. Scott, is giving culed for his pains. Even Ben Harri her undivided attention to the work of soa went back on him, glad to get rid of making this the most popular restau hiaa. Bayard.tbough a thoroughly decent rant in the city. Mrs. Pyle has a most Ban, Jacks spirit, pith and illustration desirable class of customers, and the in his desk cosaporitioDs. He writes as patronage is steadily increasing.ri It if he was afraid of the Englishmen, easy of access from the business ponot6 which, bo doubt, hew. They knew no cfUiBcity an J the appointments and . . . "... ... . ctt i. . service are all that could be desired. trick ef those writing masters Webster, Table board by the week, ?3; ti ket good Everett, Marcy, Buchanan, Horace for 21 meals, f3J30. mongrels of Spanish Venezuela. Now, when Canning and Rush and J. Q. Adams were setting up the propos ition of Monroe for a paragraph in his message to congress (intended solely for the advantage of Adams' chances for the presidency) Dom Pedro had em barked at Lisbon for Brazil as her em peror. Iturbide bad left Paris for Mex ico as her emperor, and Monroe wel comed the embassador of each. Two new empires acknowledged before the ink was sanded on his doctrine Dale Owen landed his colony at Now Harmony, and old Rapp established his at Economy, each with codes from Will return from New York Mon day, March 16, where she bought a large line of exclusive patterns of &RS.SS GOODS 9 - At prices much less than their value. The goods will be disposed of at very low prices, We solicit a trial of our dress maker and can assure you of the correct style at moderate prices. ERPOYiStmW & 00 Nothing in This World muster or in a county court house. It ekes of treason, felony and rebellion and ought to be putdown in every instance, ;n every modern instance at least. Jefferson Davis had a trivial grievance that the Cubans have not. We stole his niggers and refused :o give them up. We neglected to enforce a constitutional provision. Fourteen states nullified the fugitive Blave law, that was bis griev ance. But be still had three million likely niggers, good property. The sup erintendent of the census of 1860. a two legal draughtsmen above others, be South Carolina editor, statician and added, there would be one dozen as ex- 'capable gentleman, estimated that for amples, but neither was employed in tbe (the ten years from the passage of the state department, and though no one fugitive act of 1831, there escaped year could dispute with them standing on jy not more than 100 niggers, and of their legs, nor criticise their diction, or these there were not more than ten re their bills, they might not have made covered each year under the law, and the same perfect show as letter writers that the annual loss to the south was and liars for the state. It is one thing not'in excess of forty thousand dollars! to talk, another tiding to write it out. This was accepted as correct an estitr ate as codld be given. What trifle waB this lues to'provoke rebellion on! But it was a mote exasperating grievance than the Cubans ever had.' MRS. PyLEPS RESTAURANT. 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