Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1871-03-07
Alexandra Gazette
JUSTICE SroRY's OPINIONS. recent

JUSTICE STORY'S OpINIONS.--At Il recent
sale Of Chancellor Kent's library, in Boston.
copy Of Story on the Constitution WAS bought,
on the fly leaf Of which was discovered this
curious note, in the chancellors handwriting
March Is, 1885 Judge Story called on me
at my Office in New York. He said that he
should write and publish volume of Commen-
taries year, until he had published twelve
volumes. The one now torthcomingis is on Eng
lish and American Equity Law, and the one
after that will be OFF Practice and PtenliMgs az
Equitv. The two last will be (i) Oh natural
and public law, and (2) on the Principles of in
ternational law, as adapted to modern society.
His greatest authorities on the Science OF Gov
ernulent, as he thinks, are Aristotle, Cicero
and Burke. In French translation OF Arsto,
tie on Politics, he found that Aristotle treated
of representative Government Of the People,
and said it would not do, and never could DO,
because the People never could be brought tor
any length of time to choose the most wise and
virtuous men to govern them. Whoever reads
Cicero de Republica would see the evils OF de-
mocracy as they are and always will be. lie
SAYS that Hamilton vas the greatest and wisest
man of this country He saw fifty years ahead,
and what he saw then is fact now. Next to
him in wisdom and sense, intuitive rectitude
and truth and judgment, is Ch. }. Marshall.
''He says all sensible men at Washington, III
private conversation, admit that the Govern
ment is deplorably weak, tactious, and corrupt.
That every thug Is sinking down into despot-
ism, under the guise ufa democratic Govern
ment He says the Sup. Court is sinking, and
80 is the Judicial Of every State. We began
with trst-rate men for judicial trusts, and we
have now got down to the thrd-rate. In
twenty-five years there will not be judge in
the u s. who will not be elective; and for
short periods and on slender salaries Our
constitutions were all framed for man as he
sh0uM I've, and not for man as hr IS aMt erer
aoai he. The Senate of the u. S. are dscour
aged There are 20 men in that Senate who
are as wise and patriotic as any Sages OF the
Roman Senate, and last year they sustained
the Constitution against the President and his
collared House of Representatives, and yet
Y,ubitc opinion remains unmoyed, and not shak-
en- and equally devoted to Tyranny and Cor
ruption Ifthe Senate had let the admins
traton 20 on this last winter, We should have
had war most certainly The Government
meant to issue Letters of Reprisals, and that in
modern times is war. Indeed the case of this
country, and the cause Of popular representa-
tive Government, according to liberty and JUS,
tice and wisdom, is, as Hamilton suspected anu
rather believed it to be, Il mere tynis Jutu!tS or
dream of the Imagination. He says Ch. }.
Marshall has finally come over to the oplnon
that the uppointtng Power includes the Power
of ,pn,ora1 and that the President ought not
and has not, according to the Constitution, the
Power in himself Amer. Rerir'r.
FORTUNES IN SCRAPS The odd junk
business is much more extensive than most
people suppose 1t includes refuse OF kinds,
cotton, waste, WOODEN rags, old newspapers
iron, tin, lead, etc, patiently gathered from
all quarters, insignificant i'll detail, but val
liable in the aggregate 1t is believed that
over $4,000, 900 worth of old material is an
nually worked over in New England, and that
at least S5,OUO, 900 worth of this peculiar
stock could at any time be thrown upon the
market by the Boston dealers. The amount
consumed bv the mills is astonishing, espe-
ciallv of shoddy Woolen mills could be nam
cd that purchase each year from $3;oo0 TO
$1,000 worth of the above stock, and thls
too, in addition to focks. Very many paper
mills have standing orders with the largest
paper dealers for thirty and fifty tons nt stock
per week. The Kingsley iron and machine
company receive and consume from sixty to
seventy five tons of scrap iron each week, and
the Old Colony and Ames shovel companies
stand ready to take all the old wrought iron Of
fered in the market The war in Europe seems
to have closed up the avenues for using large
per centage of the Mediterranean rags. and ;ls Il
natural consequence, they have all drtted here.
The Immediate effect on our market is to put
foreign stocks at the lowest quotable figure, while
domestics are, and are likely to be, Tor some
title time, drug. ESQ.,,
There are firms in Boston each holding $780,
900 worth Of foreign and domestic, patiently
awaiting Il rising and favorable market Inc
importation Of old junk grows IN Importance
each year. Old newspapers are brought from
England and find ready sale at remunel2itlve
rates; the rags from London and the Medlter-
ranean average more in quantity and better III
nualitv each succeeding year. 1t has been sup,
nosed that imported rags have been source OF
epidemic diseases in many instances, but one
of the largest dealers in Boston, who has been
in the trade fifteen years, states that ne has yet
to learn 4 single case Of sickpess occas!oneo py
the opening or bundling of bale OF foreign
rags. New England rags are worth more ana
will READILY bring from one to three cents per
pound more than those from any other section,
the reason being that an almost universal GUS
tom prevails there, among the housewives, OF
washing the rags before putting them Ill their
rag bag--so that time, labor and shrinkage are
directly saved TO the mills One firm in Bos-
ton receives over $500, 700 worth Of paper stock
Der month from the South, New Orleans being
the chief point of ofcollection. Scientific Ameri-
can.
An extraordinary fact is that connected with
tba movement of the enormous glacier OF Monte
Rosa in Switzerland For the last sixty years
T. has been in motion. and for fifty years 1t has
hesn steadily approaching the town of Iermatt
moving at the rate Of three feet week oufins IN
the spring months, and carrying WIN II ll
,oe mensa boHlders, masses of rocks, etc Its prog
ress bas been watched by the people. OF the tow. M
for S two @ generations with great sUetudf +, but ~
during the last ten years it mas cnangea ,in Ls"
recton. and the people of Zermatt are them
selves again. ,,
To dodge the Civil Rights the ticket: ISSUED su;h
for tho New Orleans Opera House are lnscrlo-
ed: Contract between the Opera. =; Assosa t;al
ton of New Orleans and the holder OF thls ieS OK
ct 1t is agreed and this ticket Is sold WIN t l,
Misunderstanding. that the controller shall nave