The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-11-12

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the black man in the South must be fair
and equal. The represen atives of the
South, by silence or by temperate express
Northern independent vote. They must
know that Republican microscope is
fixed upon everything they saw and do.
The prime mission is the salvation of the
Republic from the tendencies that mean
destructon.-Is it not an exceedingly sus-
picious thing that Mr.. Ambrose peremp-
torily refuses permission to examine his
books? And Is it not an extraor-
dinary thing that in persisting in THIS
lawless refusal he throws himself
on the protection OF the Court
What is the meaning of this2 A Clerk of
Federal Court, detected and exposed in
most flagrant fraud, appeals to the Judge
that appointed him for protection in them!
The man who of all men on earth, out of
self-respect and respect for his Court, should
be eager to expose the .'ffenses and punish
the offender, is appealed to to screen the
aw-breaker The Judge should know by
this time that the books of his Court are
safer in the hands of any other man than
in the hands of Ambrose, his Clerk. Why
is this Clerk sustained day after day in his
refusal to permit those books to be exam
ined? Are technical pleas, and petty ex-
cuses, and protracted arguments, and the
claws delay" and various methods of post
ponement to defeat the ends of public JUS
tice in this suspected Court? And is Judge
Swing who occupies peculiarly unhappy
position in this matter, to encourage and
protect his guilty Clerk in his lawless and
most suspicious refusal to let the truth ap-
pear touching his conduct
The Gazette says: On account of the
scarcity OF coal in Cincinnati the coal op-
orators put up the price. This sets the
miners going, who double the price of min
ing coal, and this sets going the cartmen.
leaders, and helpers of every sort. One lift
in prices, wages and freight creates MON m
tum for another. AS the miners and help
e's find it easier to pat up wages bv COM
bining and striking than to get bv working
they combine more and work less, and thus
the scarcity rises with the increase of pay.
Thus by the lack of the ordinary river sup
ply in Cincinnati the business of min
ing coal all over Ohio, for this
and other States, is dlsorean-
lied. As soon as a rise in the river shall
make the river towns Independent of the
interior all this sudden growth Of high
prices in every branch of mining and trans
parting and selling will have to fnll.-As-
suming the statements made to newspaper
reporters by Detective Newcome to be un-
answerabe by any COMMISSIONING which
Clerk Ambrose can make, they show that
his practice has been to cut deer in illegal
fees; that in Government cases he has
added, Systematically, 80 per cent. or more
To thn 1or ttny,y <,fn nd l,at iv%
irregular items he has added without any
assistant to his predecessor, Mclean. and it
may be presumed that he succeeded to
McLean's practices. But that can not
now be shown; for we have been
informed that Mclean Systematically de.
stroyed the papers, so that none now re-
main to show what his practice was in this
respect. By this it appears that Ambrose
inherited McLean's practices without in
heriting his caution. We mention this to
show that this practice of piracy on liti-
gants has been going on for more than one
generation, and that attorneys who assume
| to stand in place of their clients have per-
mitted them to be thus robbed-knowingly
permitted; for All attorney can not escape
under plea Of ignorance of his trade. The
affair is exceedingly discreditable to the
law profession. We repeat that the ex-
istence of this practice in the Office of the
Clerk of the United States Court and OF a
practice of much larger degree in the Of
fees of Clerk and Sheriff of the Hamilton
| County Court, isbecause Of the delinquency
of members of the Hamilton County bar,
and upon this sensational exposure, and
the public indignation aroused thereby,
they ought to be able to pluck up courage
and fidelity to make similar exposure
of the practices in the County Court
The experimental dam which Colonel Mer-
| Iill is building at Davis Island, below Pitts
burg and the showing which he has made
from experience in Europe that by means
of dams which can be set up when the river
falls, and laid fiat when the river is sufti-
cient without them, O river of six feet in
depth can be secured at all seasons have
attracted hardly more of general interest
than if the project was for the moon. The
plan would give all assured navigation OF
this great river, which is the main artery of
the continent of North America through
the whole year, save when DISTRACTED by
ice. And tfis at cost which is compare
lively small; which is not more than a
tenth of that of each Of the great trans
continental canals which have been gravely
agitated for during the last fifteen years.
This improvement would give security to
the whole river region from Pittsburg to
New Orleans against cual faminea
The German Papers.
The Volksfreund says the Gas Company
could make itself popular if it desired to dc
so and still secure big profit. It would
only have to declare that it would be salts