Litchfield enquirer., 1878-01-03

~~~ NS~-@~ other hand they refuse to comply with the iPlAin4requiEements of their ehasteF =foFbiddins discrimination against branches, such as the Kansas Pacific. All this is done to enable the Ring to declare heavy dividends on the so-cal. led stock owned by Gould and other specula- 
 This stock, it will be remembered, repre- sents no cash actually paid in The money received from the first and second mortgage bonds, and through the land grants, built the road. Through one of the rascally tricks that marked the operations of the Credit Mobilier, the government bonds were not made payable, either principal or interest, till their maturity, thirty years after their date. The plan of the Jay Gould crowd, now owning the stock of the road, is to divide all it's net earnings after paying the interest on it's first mortgage bonds ; to realize all they can from sale of their lands; and, twenty years hence, to throw the road, sucked dry, upon the hands of the government when the enormous amount of their bonds, principal and accumulated interest, comes due. These speculators further intend to force the Kansas Pacific railroad into insolvency, by H. legal discriminations against their business, thus cheating the government out of the mon- ey it has advanced, and which is only secured by second mortgage on that branch.
 It is to put stop to these swindles and to obtain some security for the government, that bills are now pending in the Senate Every thing purchasable in that body will no doubt be bought by the Ring, and we shall look with much interest for the final action of the Senate in the matter. There is no doubt of the duty of an honest Congress in such a mat ter, but previous experience hasmade the gen. eral public very suspicious of Congressional action regarding Pacific railroads.
 There seems no doubt that preparations were actually made for a coup PetGt by the French Bonapartists in favor with McMahon. The President, however, denies any knowledge of such project. The Republican papers affirm that the Bonapartist General Douai conferred with several generals with reference to a coup d'etat that the troops at Versailles and else where near Paris were provided with large supply of cartridges; and that many officers drew up their resignation, on receiving orders to be in readiness to march. The retirement of Gen. Bressolles, and the dismissal of Major Bordere, also show how nervous all France was on the subject of a coup detat. The facts of this matter seem to be these: General Bressolles called the officers of the garrison in- to his room and communicated to them instruc- tions which seemed to indicate a coup Fetat. He also made speech to them about how the orders were to be executed, saying: Tn case of insurrection or commotion, if the insurgents resorted to the stratagem of placing women and children their front in soldiers must fire notwithstanding. M ajor La Bordere hereup- on protested and resigned his sword" !" There is talk among Republicans Delegates of i'm peaching the late ministry for these treasona- ble projects when the Assembly reconvenes.
 The Maryland court of appeals has decided that negro cannot be admitted to the bar in that state. Even the Democratic papers of Maryland call for the repeal of law so mani festly unjust. 1t would be far better," says the Baltimore Gazette, ito demand that the hands of the attorneys should be clean than that they should be white." And if it is SC manifestly wrong that a negro should be ex- cluded from the largest of the professions, what justice is there in excluding women: Says the objector, No one will employ either black or female attorney. Why encourage tbap fn fr,Iiflo he, Nffar them admission to the barr" Simply because it is their right. Moreover, colored clients would perhaps have more confidence inlawyers of their own race Women might often pre- fer to entrust their affairs to legal adviser of their own sex, especially in cases where they are suffering from the injustice of law impos- ed on them by male legislators, and male public opinion. All that is asked is, not that anyone shall be compelled to employ colored, or female attorneys, but that colored or fe- male attorneys shall be allowed to offer their services to such as prefer them
 Spanish affairs are always an enigma A short time since there was news of an interview
 
 ''the Young Spanish Pretender" This must have been queer meeting. When Isabella | then an infant, came to the throne of Spain 1T l 1883, there was civil war of six years dura tion between her adherents and the elder Dor Carlos who claimed that the Salic law, reject ing females from the succession to the throne had been adopted in Spain. This war wa, characterized by all the atrocities which dis grace all Spanish wars. In 196O' there wa, another Carlist rising and, from '72 to '76 there was very seriousf fighting along the north ern border, between the present Pretender ant the regular government of Spain. These war. nave been carried on in such cut-throat fash ion, that the ex-queen must have made up he mind to turn against her own son before she could have made advances to Don Carlos That such was the interpretation given he conduct in Spain is evident from an order O the French government, last week, drivin. Don Carlos out of France.
 The 'Nation" takes the following effectiv, ''bird's-eye" view of the political situation al l Washington 'If anybody not Democrat had predicted at any time during the Presidential canvass oi last year that in nine months after MT. Hayes's inauguration, his attempt to reform. the civil service would have become an object of mild scorn to the heathen, that Conkling who was so ludicrous an object as Presidential candi. date at the Cincinnati Convention, would have triumphed over him in the Senate on Custom House questions; that ConlSling and Blaine would have openly become reconciled in blair view of the intelligent Christian public, anG ! have entered into an alliance in defence of tn, very abuses denounced in the Cincinnati plat form and that large numbers of Republican papers, headed by the New York Irt6stae would have pronounced this not undesirable state of things for the Republican party, ant have advised the President to submit to it what would have happened to him ?''
 An annual tax of two mills on the dollar ol all theproperty of the state for common school is now provided by constitutional amendmen in South Carolina This amendment received nineteen out of very-twenty votes cast. | of l1r .>G -loII,