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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1868-04-29
AUCTION SALES,
RY COOPER LATIMER, Auctfencers,
- Late Clerks with J. u. Mcclure b yo,)
Southwest corner Penn. avenue and liSh street
r (Star Once Buildins.D


(Star once Bu,ldins.b
CEAECERY SALE OF vERY Valuable I'M.
sfk kkk VISIT VISIT AND Hs4s E2TE
r ALMOST DIRECTLY ON PENNsYLYANiA
fnskkkHTTfFp AND WEST OF THE NATIONAL
By virtue Of a decree Of the Supreme Court a, tina
District of Columbis, passed in chsnoery cause No
lo4s, stoneman ct nj VS. HaIdesty ct al, shall on
WEDNESDAY,, abe 9th day OF Hay, 1873, at i've
ociock 3 m. on the premises proceed to sell. at
was Of the estate Of the late Cornelius Mclean de-
ceased and being parts Of Lots numbered se zen az
and eight, lsl in ssuare No 2s4. in Washington
city, in said District, which has been divided into
inches on street north, and runs back IS feet 70
pub lie alley, with public alley on the eide of
ground and improved by q Brick Building The
second Lot fronts 20 feet inches on said street,
runs north LOO feet; then west IA feet IIL Inches
then north 80 feet 10 public alley; then along said
alley Is feet 81 inches; then l59 feet to said
to the beginning, containing about 5,5ii IS 100
square feet OF ground, and improved By Brick
Building. now occupied by p. Nermeren q ho' Ell
AND restaurant. This property Is In the square
immediately east Of Willard Hotel, 'Bd the sale
offers opportunity to those desiring to in est
in real estate In w ashDe toh.
Terms of sale: One third Of the purchase money
70 he paid In cash, and the balance in respective
with interest, to be secured 10y the bonds of the
purchaser. Oonveyancing and stamps at the cost
Of the purchaser. deposit of 500 each lot re-
1"'''' a. '''ne CLIO. Fl. WILLIAMS, Trustee
apl4 dads COOPER & LATIMER, Aucts,
10y COOPER LATIMEk, Auctfoneers,
- (Late clerks with Jas. q. Mcclure 4 Col
Southwest corner of PeRn'a avenue and 18th street
Star Once Building.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1868-12-02

sacrifice; Government q had mlten nve
or six per cent. in . day; on the Stock E1-
change the panic had been complete, prices
had declined ten, twenty. thirty per cent;
Erie had fallen to thirty-fve dollars a share !;
and in the midst of the panic and excitement
the authors of all the mischief had been ena-
bled to purchase back, at an enormous pro-
fit, all the shares they had before sold. and
indeed a great many more. They had sue
cessfully accomplished the first part Of their
bold game. They had sold an enormous
number Of shares at high prices for future
delivery, they had bought back these shares
at a large profit, and they had induced a
great many of the principal WaIl-Street
dealers and their customers to believe that
prices were going still lower, and in that be-
lief to sell large amounts of shares at low
prices for future delivery, and these con-
tracts to deliver Erie shares at low prices
the very combination themselves had pur-
chased and held ready to use whenever the
fitting moment should come.
The panic produced by the extreme scarcity
of money had depressed the price of gold the
same as the price Of everything else. The
comprehensive Erie combination, flushed
with money and success, proceeded to buy
up immense sums of gold, and then with
drew from the market the whole amount
purchased. as thew had done before with
the g~reenbacks. The immediate effect was
to make gold SO scarce that one per cent. a
day interest was paid for it, that the price
ran up four per cent. in two days, that the
whole export and import trade and the for
eign exchanges were brought to a complete
stop and many foreign merchants involved in
tremendous losses.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1868-12-02

BARBARI.Y.-Seven cases of public whip
ping for minor ofenses, took place a few
DAYS since at Newcastle, Delaware. One of
the parties punished was an infrm old man
Of seventy, who suffered the additional in
Fiction of the pill0ry most of the rest were
mere bows. These seven persons were
dragged out 10 the public whipping post,
stripped to the waist in the chill November
air, and then, with the rabble of Delaware
looking on, was the majesty of the old slave
code-for it is nothing clse-vindicated. 1t is
painful to have to record such an event, and
to acknowledge that it could happen in the
enlightened America Of which we boast.
The law which permitted it is a disgrace TO
the statute book on which it stands it tar
nishes the vaunted escutcheon of our hu-
mainly, and should lie branded by public
opinion until the people of medieval Della
ware understand that they outrage the
sentiment of the whole country by per-
hitting the torture of the dark ages. The
mobs of the cities and the lynchers of the
backwoods are more mcrciful in their worst
moods. BY such revolving exhibitions the
young in crime are made more desperate,
and are absolutely encouraged in the career
from which it is the duty of wise men to try
to reclaim them it is an unmanly wrcaking
Of vengeance that does nothing toward the
repression of crime. Have the people OF
Delaware any idea what the world has been
doing for the last fifty years? The only re-
deeming feature of the affair was that the
sheriff was ashamed of his dirty task, and
made the punishment as light as he could
without violating the letter of the law
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1868-12-02
The Confederate COngreSS.

The decision that excluded military officers
from Congress was, probably, just, but in
many respects unfortunate. 1t accounts for
that extreme Intellectual degradation which
made the Confederate Congress a peculiar
stock of shame in the war, actually one of
the weakest and most inane bodies that ever
met under the title of a Legislative assembly
in historical times. 1t came, at last, to be
composed chiefly of two classes-mcn who
were never before publicly known, or old
politicians, too far broken down in their
fortunes to attempt new careers or t. be in
vited by the prospect of military honors-
This prospect, unfortunately for the South,
drew from its political councils too much of
it's best mind, and may be said 70 have
abandoned the whole government TO DR..
Davis and a few weak creatures surrounding
him although in later periods of the war.
some of the distinguished politicians who had
sought the field, either from disappointment
there or from resentment of what they sup
posed Mr.. Davis's disfavor, returned to
plague him and to assail his administration /;
but, u~nhappily, only after it had sunk al
most beneath reproach. Beyond this brief
and exceptional animation, the history of the
Confederate Congress is scarcely more than
that of the reflection of the will and temper
of President Davis-a mere servile append
age to an autocracy the most supreme o.
modern times.
1t is remarkable that this Congress, which
had lived SO dishonorably, giving so much
of imbecile and disgraceful record to the
Southern story of the war, should have fifty
expired in a weak and disreputable recrim-
nation with President Davis. Its last
official act was to raise a COMMITTEES in the
Senate to report upon a message in which
Mr.. Davis had reproved it for designing to
abandon the affairs of the Confederacy. and
to leave importat interests unprovidsd for
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1868-12-02
The Fairhayen and Lake Shore Rail.
road.

go
This bill, rather to the surprise of many.
passed both Houses and was sent to the Gov
ernor for his signature. about 3 O'Clock on
the last morning of the session. How it
passed is of no consequence now, though the
Free Press suggests that some may have
voted for it as a salve for heads broken in
other encounters. 1t seems that the Gov
ernor not having had time to examine the
bill before the adjournment of the Legisla-
ture, approved it on Saturday, the 2lst of
November. The question is now raised
whether he has the constitutional right to
approve a bill after the adjournment. Good
lawyers differ on this question. Article
| NJ Of the constitution, reads as follows ::
Every bill, which shall have passed the Sen
ate and House of Representatives, shall. be-
fore it becomes a law, be presented to the
Governor if he approve, he shall sign it :;
if not, he shall return it, with his objections
in writing, to the House in which it shall
have originated which shall proceed to re-
consider it. If, upon such consideration, a
majority of the House shall pass the bill, it
shall, together with the objections, be sent
to the other House, by which it shall like
"ACN ~ oit IL apPiONSN ~ -
majority Of that House, it shall become a
law. But in all such cases, the votes of
both Houses shall be taken by yeas and nays,
and the names of the persons, voting for or
against the bill, shall be entered on the jour
nal of each House, respectively. If any bill
shall not be returned by the Governor, as
aforesaid, within five days Sundays e1-
cepted, J after it shall have been presented
TO him, the same shall become a law, in
like manner as if he had signed it unless
the two Houses, by their adjournment. with
in three days after the presentnent of such
bill, shall prevent its return ; in which case
it shall not become 4 law.
There is no law nor custom. that requires
the Governor to return TO the House a bill
approved by him. 1t has been Il custom for
him to announce. by his Secretary, that bills
Of certain titles have received his approval.
1t is said that in the confusion Of the
stormy close of the session Of 1858, Gov.
Robinson accidently carried away a few bills
without his approval before the al journment.
He subsequently consulted several legal
gentlemen of high standing, and by their ad-
vice, approved the bills; but whether his
approval was ante-dated or not, we do not
know. No question has ever been raised in
regard to their validity. In the present case
the question assumes considerable inpor-
tance; the opposition to the road is SO strong
that an attempt to construct it under this
charter. will probably be contested in the
courts, and the validity of the bill will then
be definitely settled,
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1868-12-02

JHr POLLARD MUaDER.-The general truth
If thc article in the Southern Opinion, on
account of which Mr.. Pollard was shot, we
have seen nowhere denied. He gave an I'M
manncrlv and scurrilous version of an affair
which was the common talk of a city. and
though he violated editorial decency in drag
ring the private concerns Of a reputable
f. milv into still more prominent notice, he
did only what is often done by a certain class
Of :. cnterprising" journalists. \ law
abiding community would perhaps have ap-
n,auded a little use Of a ~rawhide, or some
such minor discipline and called things even.
Not 50 among the first families of Virginia.
Youpe. Grant, a gentleman in their sense of
tho term. a soldier said to have done good
service in the Confederate cause, locked him
self into a garrett and from his secure perch
shoots lead the victim quietly sauntering
.,ono the street to his Office. The /" code Of
honor" is not appealed TO, no warning is
r;ven that mischief is intended, but Grant
outstrips the savage customs of the South
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1868-12-02

as the enemy approached and pressed unon
the capital. lie wrote "The CAN'T / Of
the Confederate States is now Threatened
and it is IN greater danger than it has heret1'
fore been during the war; Congress- ~
piled that it had finished its let's. 80
that it proposed to adjourn, and that whof'
ever culpability there might be for anv in
providence of the Government, itGid not -
at the doors of the legislative Department
1t adjourned on the 18th of March. ISG5
unwilling to witness the end which il -
approaching, and repeating the cowardicc Of
It's flight in 1862, refused to take any OH i,I
lot in the final catastrophe. Thus mcaul,
expired legislative body. remarkable in tic
annals of the world for its weakness and -
norance, whose record was a constant dc
gradat on of the Confederate name, and
whose composition and nature will aff,rd T.,
the future historian an especial study among
the contradictions and curiosities OF the late
war. G0IarV.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1868-12-02

BE-" oorneEed" BY gamblers and stock ope-
rators, in Wall street or elsewhere. The
difficulty now seems to be that the currency
is not elastic, and when : rich combinations
can manage to lock up fifteen or twenty
millions of this circulating medium for . few
days in New York city, especially at q
moment when the necessities of the ordinary
trade of the country are the greatest, COM
mercial transactions are very much hindered
and crippled, and business suffers in all its
departments.
We are aware that as a general propo-
sition the less government NEEDLES with the
money market the better. But the national
currency,-in fact all the currency-is now
the creation Of the national government, and
if there is too much or not enough OF 1T,
Congress can and ought to set the matter
right. Among other methods suggested to
prevent some Of the mischief resulting from
such panics as the recent one in New York
one is to make the national banking system
a general banking system in other words,
allowing any body of men to become a bank
corporation, who will comply with the re-
quirements imposed upon present organiza-
tons. These requirements make the bill
holders secure and as they do not add to the
volume of greenbacks, while they are redeem
able in greenbacks, they would not initiate
the currency at ali in the same sense as a
further issue of greenbacks would. If a
multiplication Of national banks throughout
the country, thus guarded, should not prevent
such corner =" as the recent one IN New
York, it would, at least, prevent such a
g corner from making much financial
trouble in the country and if the country
was 90 easy" it might complacently consider
the spectacle of the spectators in Erie de-
vouring each other.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1868-12-02

BsEysTs.-When Sherman army arrived
at Washington after its March to the
Sea- brevets were being Unfortunately
scattered through the army of the Potomac.
The jolly bummers, to show what they
thought of such wholesale promotion, imme
diately christened vile, bony sort Of herring,
that was freely caught by youthful Africans,
IS breres shad." The parody was an apt one
and showed conclusiyely what they thought
OF such cheap distinction, and the time has
nearly come when the country is of their
opinion. The telegraph announces every
little while that Brevet Brigadier General
Snooks, has started on an Indian expedition.
People who have not forgotten what a Gen
erals command should be, and thinking per-
haps of the exploits of Sheridan or Fitzpatrick.
watch with interest the result of the raid.
When the details arrive it will very likely
appear that an aspiring subaltern with q
long brevet, has sailed out with a Corporal's
guard to water the mules, OF perform some
other useful but not particularly brilliant
achievement. Time was when q brevet was
a mark of honor now it usually signifies that
the holder Of the title has more impudence
than his associates. Really meritorious Off
GERS, who have earned their honorary grade,
are almost ashamed of it, when they see
every garrison filed with striplings sporting
the eagles and stars that should reward only
years Of faithful duty, or more than one gal
liant achievement. The cost of the luxury is
no small item very many officers are to-day
doing duty as of their brevet rank, and
making corresponding inroads on the burden
ed treasury to pay for their borrowed plumes.
We would not disparage the services or
claims of the few whose military history en-
titles them to a higher rank than our little
army can bestow, but the present system has
got to be a nuisance which we hope General
Grant will use his best efforts TO abate.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1868-12-02

OF Great Britain. II he decides that -
possibility does attach, then . zined COM
mission, is to proceed to examine tho ela'"'
from each nation. II looks al ii for every
demand for compensation on our part there
would be an offset by way of Fenian inva-
|sione, or blockade runners illegally captured
that would speedily put the balance on the
wrong side. of the sheet. In the mean time
the English papers are jubilant, Secretary
Seward is disappointed, while our people care
nothing about the matter, being well assured
that Congress will not for a moment listen
to any such arrangements. Daniel Webster
fooled our cousins terribly in the Ashburton
treaty, but it does not follow that we shall
allow them to return the compliment in such
a barefaced manner as they propose.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1868-12-02

Mr.. EDITOR In your last issue of the
FREEMAN I notice the following. relating to
the doings of the Committee in the Legisla-
ture on the subject Of Reform 1T ought
to crafty the taxpayers TO know that this
committee. after careful investigation, re-
ported that every branch of the government
had been conducted honestly and with econ
omy. and they could find no place to recon-
mend retrenchment except in one small mat
ter connected with the management of the
State Cabinet"
To the above, as one of the minority of
that committee, we respectfully demur. 1t
should be borne in mind that the preroga-
tives OF that committee extended not only TO
the branches but to the body of the govern
ment itself. One can well afford, in a
% c0nrmendable effort TO diminish the ex-
penses Of the government, 10 be caricatured
ridiculous. 10 bear the modification of
friends. and the jeers and sneers Of those not
quiie so friendly, but no honest man can at
ford To occupy u false position before the
community. in the discharge of any private
Or public trust. For the present it must
suffice for me to say, that a careful examina-
ton Of the expenses of the government has
| NOT convinced me that it has been conducted
with proper economy, and that when the
taxpayers come to be made acquainted with
the facts. they will find more than one sinai
Mace ; for retrenchment and reform.
When the smoke of the recent Legislature
has cleared away, We will, if permitted, in
future number or number of your paper
appeal TO the judgment of the .' taxpayers ;
on the subject. b. II.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1868-12-02
The Currency Question.

We print in another place some account
of the way the recent stringency in the New
York money market was brought about.
The financial panic which that ~stringency
caused called public attention to the fact
that the currency of the country needs to Be
made much less a fixed quantity than it il
at present; and the newspapers have since
been discussing with much earnestness som
old schemes and some new projects for sup
plying q currency that shall not be liable "a
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1868-12-02

Ma. RKyERDY JOHNSON, in the brief inter
walls of dining and winning that he has en-
joyed, has found time to assure the people he
represents that the Alabama claims are as
good as settled Great Britain would concede
everything that could reasonably be asked.
1t now appears that the basis upon which
negotiations are proceeding is that the
United States are not to call in question the
hasty recognition of the ~belligcrent rights of
the South. and the question of the liability
of England a. to the sailing of the Alabama,
is to be left to the King of Prussia, a mon
arch who cares very little about US, but is
most anxious to stand well in the good graces
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1868-12-02

A MANLY AsswER.-John Stuart Mills.
during his late canvass, steadily adhered t.
his former refusal to make any statement of
his religious opinions, or any defense OF
himself against the charge of Atheism. II
owe it to future candida tes, lie saws in his
manly reply to a friend who asked for '.some
means for defending him." not " - cncour-
age a practice the effect Of which would De
that, when no objection can be found 10 q
candidates character or political opinions,
attempts would be made to extract from
himself materials for raising 4 religious
prejudice acainst him
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1868-12-02

Attorney General Eyarts has forwulei 20
the President his opinion upon the operation
of the eight hour law. in regard To the com
pcnsation of employees. lie says the GOV
eminent is under no obligation to pay ten
hours wages for eight hours work, bat tina,
the matter is To be regulated by agrccment
as in private establishments.
The last thing in : Erie, Is Shas Aiessrs.
Fisk and Could managing directors have
gone to Clnada with $1,000. 900 of the tunds
Of the corporation
Jrpcx CoLLiMEE-rh address oc Judge
Barrett of Woodstock, upon the Lite and
Times of Hon. Jacob Collamer, read before
the Historical Society, has been published
by futile ( Co.. Rutland.
NEwSrAroRfAL.-D. l.. Miliken. formerly
OF the Brattlcboro Record and the HouSeh0id
will commence on the first of January. in
Boston, a new paper entitled The American
Homestead.
DoRMAN b. EATON, son Of Judge Eaton
of Middlesex. has received che Republican
nomination for Corporation Counsel of New
York. Mr., Eaton holds a very high position
at the New York Bar. and well deserves the
compliments paid him.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1868-12-02

and l. chesred BY ths crowd that dock to the
scene. When a Corsican proclaims q ven
delta the whole island is apprised of his
design and men are able to provide for their
safety. When a Malay, drunk with bang
runs a muck, he goes into the free, oper
street and gives his possible victims a chance
of escape. The valiant Southron, mindful
of the weapons his antagonist may carry
seeks safety up three flights of stairs, anc
when the deed was done cringingly begs the
officer that arrests him to see that he comes
to no harm.
This assassin the people of Richmond
have made a hero, and their mayor after &
~forcical examination has held him to bail fol
trial.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1868-12-02

Nov. ~. lSOS.
Geaera!J. VI. &chofeld, Secretary Of War:
SIR,-I have the honor to submit the re
ports of the Division, District and Depart
ment Commanders for the past year These
reports give a full account of the operations
and services of the army for the year, and |
! refer to them for details. | would earnestly
renew my recommendations of last year that
the control of the Indians be transferred 10
the War Department. | call special atten-
ton to the recommendation of Gen. Sherman
on this subject. 1t has my earnest approval.
1t il unnecessary that the argument in favor
of the transfer should he re-statcd; the
necessity for it becomes stronger and more
evident every day while the Indian war con-
tinues- do not deem any general legisla-
ton fer the reduction of the army advisable.
The troops on the plains are all needed.
Troops are still needed in the southern
States. 4 further reduction can be made in
the way already used and now in operation
where it is safe-namely, by allowing COM
panics to diminish by discharges without
being strengthened by recruits, and by stop
ping appointments of Second Lieutenants.
If it should be deemed advisable, the veteran
reserve regiments might be discontinued by
absorption and retirement of officers and
discharge of men, without detriment to tho
service.
Very respectfully,
Your obcdient servant.
is. GRANT, General.