Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1872-01-02

without payment. Can anything be more
cruel or unjust?
beg leave to add that anu the owner Of
one full bond of one hundred dollars and its
accompanying certificates and further, that
charged no commission for my services.
Il. H. MILLER.
.Nn"i,w. Dec 20. ISL.
''DRUSN. 1t is astonishing how people
shrink from calling things by plain names. In
the antcbcum times, When colorcd indlvld-
uai hcl ped herself in the store-room or the
smoke. house to sugar or meal or meat, it was
a> Stealing They pleased themselves with
the idea that by calling it taking the sting
was extracted from the delinquency, and they
thus contrved to keen on hand supply of gro
cericS and to continue their attendance on
meeting at the salue time
4 man who spends his life gambling vii. not
tolerate the word gambler as applied to him
self; he calls himself IA sporting man. A
horse.doctor is u veterinary surgeon. \ corn
doctor is a chiropodiSt. \ barber is a pro
fessor OF hairdressing. An oldclothes man
knocked at our door once III New DIRK hotel,
and introduced himself as a rag factor.
We have reputation now called "a compro-
mise based on our ability to pay This is
very pretty phraSe--gives peach bloom to
| bad crg: but words will not make thing right
or wrong.
Soak was very good fellow. but would get
drunk With the sensitiveness Of a gentleman
! for he was Il gentleman he never would admit
it to himself He sometimes called it by one
name. sometimes by another He regarded it
a> Il mortal afront to have it said of him that
he had been drunk lie never lost his
good humor if you spoke Of his being tight;
! He lallcied that his vice was half redeemed "
giving il this plquaut aspect.
Ouce he was very drunk he could walk;
! but his brain was completely muddled he ar
! ticulatcd with difficulty: and he vomited lin
/ secret. The next morning some Que said.
! Soak you were very drunk last night. He
rose up in great wrath and looked so threaten.
ing that his friend begged his pa1don--he had
meant no offence.
No offence, said Soak. TO call man
drunk Do you think am hog? was not
/ drunk did not take but twenty -one drinks
! which you know is nothing to me.
! There was pause and Soak saw there was
/ feeling Of incredulity amongst his friends: al
though nothing was said.
! He resumed II was not drunk only took
twenty one drinks. | confess, ielt my liquor
my stomach was out Of order, and it Hew luto
! my head but was not drunk
Triple eyes twinkled ihc was u great way.
:'Nobody thought you we're drunk. Soak; you
were in a measure on the border land; it was
what call compromise based on your ability
To drink
'.Exactly said Soak, Il thank you for the
phrase: il was compromise based on my ability
to drink. Drunk indeed No man shall call
me drunk )"
a comlromis, The continued to nurnlnr
~ himself! based on my ability TO drink. 4
very good phrasc-a very good phrase. Triple
is Il good fellow Rrhmond Enq"irrr.
TIE SAMPLE MERCHANT CASE. AS Judge
| .ndcrwoUd,S decision in releasing Mr.. Barrett
under writ of habeas corpus has excited con-
siderable comment. we have been at some
pains to ascertain the grounds upon which he
based that decision, which were as follows -
Section >. article Of the constitution OF the
United States says The citizens Of each
State shall be entitled 10 all privileges and
immunitics Of citizens in the several States
| 'nder that clause the United States Supreme
Court, in Ward VS.. The State Of Maryland
held that any discrimination, as to trade, be-
tween resident and non resident merchants by
State law was repuSnant and contrary TO the
constitution Of the United States.
Under the Virginia statute Of '70-'Tl, sec
ton l0l. approved February is, 1911 IT is de,
cared that Nothing in this act with regard
to sample merchantS) shall be 50 construed as
to prevent any resident merchant mechanic or
manufacturer from exhibiting specimen OF
his goods. wares or merchandise anywhere in
the State
While the resident could exhibit his goods,
etc, the nonresident could not without paying
a special tax. Scetlon ~, OF the act March
a, ISL, says 1.-The specific license tax on
| every person other than resident merchant,
mechanic or manufacturer Tor the privilege OF
selling by sample, card, description, or other
representation shall be 500, and any sample
merchant permitting any one else to sell under
his license shall pay fine of $50 for each Of
fence.
The city ordinance Of Richmond gives the
mayor the sole power to say who shall sell by
sample in Richmond, with no appeal from
his decision and then goes on to say that the
ordinance does not apply to resident commission
merchants They can sell, under the ordl-
nance, by sample without taking out a "saul-
pie merchant S license
Judge Underwood decided that both the
State law and the city ordin ance, under the
decision of Ward VS. The State of Maryland,
were repugnant TO and in contraveution Of
the United States constitution, because they
Disseminated between resident and non-resi'
dent traders and in favor Of the former; because
they abridged the liberty Of the subject, and re-
strcted Interstate com merce. Under the i.
S. habeas corpus act Of 1861 amended in 1869
it is made the duty Of the federal Judges
whenever petitioner for the writ claims that
he is restrained of his liberty in contravention
of the United States constitution and laws, to
pear that the prisoner is so held, it is the boun-
den duty Of the L. S. Judge to discharge him
from custody. In accordance with this law
Judge Underwood discharged Mr. Barrett
R'hm"nd E"q"i"r.
1t is stated in the Washington Chronicle that |
1t is supposed, in wc-informed quarters, tina,
Mr.. Colfax has no insurmountable repugnance