Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1882-08-10

''Where have you been, sir, all dayp
| sent you to-day on perhaps the most
important duty ever sent you upon,
and here it is long after sunset and l
have had no report from you. What
have you been doing, sirP Have you
the return to the writ sent you to re-
cover?'
Il have not the return, General"
What have you been doing?"
''Only closing the Supreme Court of
the United States, General
Narrating what is stated above, the
General clapped his hands and laughed
with glee.
go to Mr.. Stanton and ask him to
do me the favor to meet me here at
once"
Mr.. Stanton came. think Mr.. Car
roll, who lived ct the corner of Seven
teenth and + streets, was summoned al
so. The corrected return was shortly
placed in the hands of the writer, with
orders to submit it to President Lincoln
and state what had been done and exc
cute his orders in the premises. Mr..
Lincoln called it 1.-The Capture of the
Supreme Court" and, approving the
proposed corrected return, ordered it to
be carried to Seward. He was always
on duty at those times, night and day.
He was, in his Office. Archbishop
Hughes, most devoted son of the Ro-
man Catholic Church and of the Union,
was with him. Mr. Seward said they
had had an anxious day, and requested
the writer to take the corrected return,
with note, to which an answer was re-
quested by bearer, to Mr.. Justice
Wayne, of the United States Supreme
Court. The papers were delivered to
Justice Wayne, and an answer was re-
turned. The President had full con-
stitutional right to call for volunteers as
part of the militia The writer never
saw the opinion. BY request Of Mr..
Seward he conveyed it to President Lin
coin first, and then to Gen tt and
Mr.. Stanton, and, " IFS re-
quest, returned it in the
state Uepartmen W. n
delightful-dinn r.
a tete closed the
experiences as .er
in Georgia in sex
perlence 4 the
day in Is Court
OF the was
closed HansiL-
ton, N
grs -[cse.
De ...4 count of '.Man
Friday of clothes de.
scribes pnduct and feel
ings OF ,fhis day. Moth
ing is m~- An the looks and
actions of sayages at first sight of civil
lied manners and things. An Austria
Ian settler describes the sensation caused
among the native blacks by some of his
| furniture:
Once when l had cattle for Goul-
bourne, bought twelve mahogany
chairs at an auction by jew, They
were ir-bottomed and excellent. twenr
| ty-four shillings apiece; the first ever
brought into the Blan Bush. They
were the surprise of Selma Qhe
| settlers wife), and the admiration Of
wonder, laughter and jabbering to the
| blacks for weeks afterward.
They would peep in and look at us
| sitting on them, and then disappear
| shaking with laughter, and initiate us
in fantastic style to the tribe. They
thought chairs a very ridiculous institu-
ton.
When / brought home a large looks
| ing-glass and they saw themselves there
in, half the tribe gathered and got .
sight Of it.
| The chief came forward and stood,
and leaped, and turned before 1t, won-
dering first In gravity, then bursting in=
to laughter at his other ''mine own self
Jenny. Cobon stupid doing like it mine
own self.'
He turned his nose from side to side
with bis fingers, and seeing the same in
the glass, shouted. snake light more.
| DO look at my nosen'