The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-08-26

laJer Jn6 successor OF Cne murdered
President was impeached for misdemean-
ors. Ten years ago military chieftain,
in whose character Santa Anna was COM
bined with the abnegation of Pizarro,
was chosen President. That means Grant,
and it is hard to tell whether the Aguar-
diente Mexican intends to be compli-
mentary or not. 1t says that during his
term of office the Vice President of the
country, the Secretary of the Interior
(or Hacienda), the Secretary of the Treas
ury, the Secretary of War, the Secretary
of the Navy, the Minister to England,
the Presidents Private Secretary, the
Speaker of the House of Representatives,
and whole potful of minor dignitaries
were all found guilty of publieor private
robbery. Some were imprisoned, but the
popular President Immediately pardoned
them. A public man in the United
States is rarely brought to trial, and if
he is he "pleads his privilege" whatever
that is, or submits his case to caucus of
his party or, in ecclesiastical cases, to his
church, and is, as matter of course,
triumphantly vindicated.
There is a good deal of milk in this
Mexican newspaper cocoanut, and it isn't
difficult to see how it came there, yet
spice of malevolence is visible through
out the whole article, which may have
grown out of a disappointment in the last
cattle raid across the Rio Grande, and a
permanent resting place of few Greas-
ers on the soil Of the Republic Of the
North.
We give the conclusion of the Aguar-
diente article in full as a final arraign-
ment of Republican weaknesses:
1.-TWO years ago the quadrennial election for
President occurred. Senior Tilden received a ma
jOrity Of quarter of million of votes; but the
party in power favoring his opponent, and threat
enng to use the army i'll avorol the latter, a COM
promise was effected, by which fifteen of the
purest men OF both parties We're chosen 10 decide
the question. These fifteen pure men proved their
superiority by voting i'll court exactly as they had
voted at the election. So pure were the fifteen
purest men found in SOdom! The self-gOverning
AngloSaXOns at the North are now investigating
this affa r, and uncoyering a mass of corrupt bar
gain and sale such As never disgraced the vileSt
pueblo of North or South America No, Senior
Lcrdo, if you wish to gain the sutfrages of free
| MeXicans you must hold up loftier eXemplar
than that OF the corrupt anarchiCal republic des-
potism of the North"
The GILDED AGE-ABoUT How IT WAS
! WRITTEN story of the "Gilded Age"
writes Charles Warren Stoddard to the San
Francisco Chronicle from Germany, was
written in this wise "Mark and Charles
| Dudley Warner were walking to church
one Sunday in Hartford Said Warner, Let
us write a novel; Mark wondered what
the deuce there was to write novel about,
but promised to think the matter over, and
proceeded 10 do so. From the voluntary to
the benediction his mind was deeply en-
gagged; probably he was never more devo-
tiOnal in his life. On the
way home it was decided that
Mark should begin and write till he got
tired and that there should be gathering
of the wives and Joe Twitchell, the clerical
chum, who has just gone over to summer in
| Switzerland with Mark and his family, for
the reading of the same He wrote dozen
chapters and read them to the domestic
critics. DO you catch the idea| said
Mark to Warner. Warner thought he did,
and took up the narrative where Mark
dropped it and spun on until he feltfagged.
So the story passed from hand to hand like
shuttle, and came at last to a conclusion.
Wherever ii tagged under one roof it was
carried over to another, where it took a
fresh start. The changes We're sometimes
frequent, chapter or two bringing the
writer to a halt, or in consequence of the
business of the book falling naturally
to one hand or the other-the love
making to Warner and the melodrama to
Mark. AS to the plot of the story, it was
never meant to have any; on the contrary,
the story told itself. The quotations at the
head of the chapters were furnished by o
marvel of linguistic lore, a resident OF Hart
ford, and each quotation is genuine and ap-
plicabe Many breakfast we had in the
big room in company with chosen friends,
and one of our special entertainments was
to watch the Horse Guards as they rode down
Portland Place, like knights in armor.
Punch and Judy was an old standby,
and it was immense fun to note the progress
of a Irritation between a one-legged sweep,
who had the monopoly of the crossing in
front of the church, and of an old apple
woman who sat on the curb by the church
yard gate. This sweep always addressed
Mark as Mr.. Twain as indeed many another
did"
A MANS FIGHT WITH AN EAGLE-Tho
Bakersville IN. C.) Republican of the 18th
inst tells the following: 'Last week, while
+. ]. Campbell was engaged digging wild
ginger on the side of the Roam about one
and-a-half miles from Cloudland Hotel, he
found the nest of grey eagle i'll fallen