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National Republican., 1882-12-06
Police Court Notes.

John Rocker, John Kelly, Thomas Foster,
and Theodore McCannon have been sent to
the workhouse for ninety days each for vag-
rancy.
Frank Shaw was charged with being a sus-
picious character, but was released.
Henry P. Hoar was fined S. for assaulting
Officer O'Hara who arrested him for trying to
get into the Capitol while drunk.
When the cases against Joseph Harbour
were called his counsel waived an examina-
tion in the several cases where the value of
the stolen property was over S35, and the
petty cases were continued until next Tues
day.
Oscar Humphrey was charged with destroy
ing private property, but, as it proved he broke
the outside door of house to let a lady in who
belonged there and had been locked ont, the
ease was dismissed.
John Kent was sent to Jail for six months
in default of bonds to keep the peace toward
his wife, whom he had assaulted while drunk.
John Butler and Richard Stuart, two colored
boys, were sent to Jail for six months for steal
ing pocket-book from Mrs. White.
Harriet Rich was fined S. for stealing from
the lady at whose house she was employed as
a servant.
Sarah Kamp was sent to Jail to await the
action of the grand jury, having pleaded
guilty to the larceny of $50 from the trunk OF
Miss Blanche Washington.
National Republican., 1882-12-06
WHAT HIS LETTER REALLY SHOWS.


MacVcagh's letter shows that it is Arthur, not
DclSon who is resp insible for the failure OF the
fist ,lHr-ruutc triul.-ECpresS.
What one sees in that letter largely de-
pu."t upon the prrjudices Of the reader. The
EFJrc,S linds disCrrdit for President Arthur
and glory for Wayne AIacVcaGh. Tho Err
press brUthCr-iu-C Cleveland, the Courier, which
is able TO discuss Republican leaders, if not
measures, with far more fairness than the
EFprCSs itself, says this morning, in connection
with the stress MaCNcagh lays upon the anX-
lcty uf the star-routc people to have him re-
main in oiliCu
''it mNy lie that the accused desired to have
tr. Macy uagn remain in Office in the hope that
HcWoud continue TO exhibit the imbcciiity which,
according lO mis- own story, had characterized his
never too, much interest in he prosecution, mad
very !.taC To uO with its Imitation or progress,
orIaEc j. us lOng as he could, pat no faith IN its
uiuIHntC s.re"-s. ana sneak Il out Of all response
n'iiy Tor II nl inc first opportunity. From the
INST @ ST ireu tn regard II rs none ut ms tuueruI.
II Is ~ wonder that the prosecution OF lhr star
ruul" ring came to b. regarded u SORT o! farce"
So, according to the COUricr, this letter
shuwS chat il was Garfield and not Arthur who
WAS responsible for the irchrnrsS and pro-
crstnatun that bred in the public and Olli-
CluI mind at Washington belief that the gov
CrHmCnt had no case and were not in dead
earnest. Our esteemed brcthTcm-iu Cleveland
may settle this question between them. We
only insist that the instructions of President
Arthur, the conduct of the Attorney General
aud the removal of Star-route friends and
Cmissarcs from The public service show that
the present Administration is in earnest in
desiring justice to be done in this case at all
hazards.
National Republican., 1882-12-06
At the WhnrYes.

The following recent arrivals at the river
front have been reported by the harbor-
master: Schooner C. p. Stickncy, Captain
Ireland, 30i tons coal for Johnson & Bros
schooner Humphries. Captain Fields $4,000
feet lumber for Il. L. jackson; pungy Ida
Lee, Captain Davis, 25 cords wood for H. L.
Biscoe pungy Wicomico, Captain Greyson, 30
cords wood for II. l.. Biscoe; schooner
Brewster Captain jenkins, 400 bushels oys-
ters for market; schooner Charlie, Captain
Herbert, 400 bushels oysters; schooner Ban
ncr, Captain Chiseltine, 600 bushels oysters
schooner w. J. Stevens, Captain Evans
800 bushels oysters; schooner George A.
Traverse, Captain Mitchell, 254 tons coal
for city dealers; barge Harvest Home,
Capt. Dempsey, 27l tons coal for city dealers; !;
barge l.. Dempsey, Capt, Dempsey, 2S0 tons
coal for city dealers steamer Norfolk, Capt,
Shropshire, merchandise for j. ii. Johnson q
c, Johnson; schooner Coleman, Capt. Rupell,
700 bushels oysters schooner Stuart, Capt.
Smith, 700 bushels oysters; schooner John
Francis, Capt. Evans, 800 bushels oysters
schooner Def, Capt. Trader, 400 bushels
oysters; sloop Molly, Capt. Faunce, 400 BUSH
els oysters; slOop Strong, Capt. Strong, 200
bushels oysters; sloop Deca, Capt Shorty, 200
bushels oysters.
National Republican., 1882-12-06
IMPUDENCE.


The Hon. Wayne MacYeagh has given to
the public q lettcr-a very impudcnt letter,
which he wrote to President Arthur shortly
before he retired from the Cabinet. There
was no good reason why Mr.. MacVcagh should
not have remained in President Arthur's
Cabinet to prosecute the Star-route rascals,
especially as ii was the earnest desire and re-
quest of President Arthur that he should do
50. Mr.. Mac Veagh was credited with having
considerable knowledge of the doings of the
star-route ring, and was supposed to be quite
anxious that they should be prosecuted and
punished. Under these circumstances, when
main and finish the work he had begun, it
was pretense upon MacVeaghs part to
cndcavor to give out the idea that Arthur
did not really desire them to be brought
to justice, and for that reason he was COM
PEELED to resign. The letter he wrote to the
President was unCallcd for, and it was i'm
pertinent. Tho reasoning in it is illogical
and inconsistent. Many of the enemies of
President Arthur will believe MacVcagh, but
we have always thought the latter should
have remained in the Cabinet and completed
the prosecution of star-route thieves and we
believe now that MacVcagh was fearful that
he would fail in that work, and in cowardly
manner sncalled out of it, endeavoring to put
the blame upon President Arthur for his with
drawal. Fortunately, President Arthur has
given moro than one earnest of his intention
to let no guilty man escape, and for that rca-
son MacVeagh's letter will he received by the
reasoning public as impudent and unjust.
National Republican., 1882-12-06
AN EXPLANATION IN ORDER.


Mr.. Wayne MacVeagh has contributed
he declinedI'to accept President Arthur's invi-
tation to }cmain in the Cabinet. 1t would
now be in lordcr for him to explain how he
bccar1s, "a member of President Garfelds
Cabrtet. What influences were brought to
bear tJ'sICurc his appointment as Attorney
General * 1t is known that President Gar
field Offered tho Attorney -Generalship to
Judge 1folger, and that he declined the honor.
was picked up at the very last
mo thent, as was Mr.. James. 1t will he re-
membercd Mr.. Morton had accepted the head
of the Navy Department, but changed his
mind the day before the names of the
members of the Cabinet were sent to
the Senate, which made an opening at
the eleventh hour for Mr.. james.
The correspondent of the Cincinnati
Commercial charges that MacVeagh was np-
pointed to make friends of the cold man Cam
eron and his son Don," and not to please the
Civil-service reformcrs. The Cincinnati Com
nerCiai is not Stalwart authority. 1t had been
the home organ of Mr.. Garfield, and its cdi
tor had most close and confidential relations
with the late President. Mr.. MacVcagh has
rushed into print on several occasions to cX
hibit his bitterness and meanncSs toward
President Arthur. We repeat, it is now in
order for Mr.. MaCNeagh to explain by what
tricks and cOnjuratons he made his way
into the Cabinet. Was it to please the Came
rons or to humbug the cvil-servicc reform
crs? Certainly Mr.. MacVcagh had no posi-
ton at the bar to cntitlc him to be made At
tomGy-Gencml. We have had some very in
significant pettifoggers in that office, but none
SO small as MacNpagh
National Republican., 1882-12-06
A NE1GHBOR's OPINION.
p6iiddeiphid Record.


For what purpose u letter written by ox-
Attorney-G MacVcdgh to President
Arthur moro than year ago is printed Just
now ii is somewhat hard to conceive, unless as
q reminder to a forgctful public that its dis
tinguishcd author is still cxtant. There is
nothing in it that has not already dribblcd out
in the frequent confidential communings of
Mr.. MacYcagh with the public. Everybody
was long since made familiar with the reasons
which induced Mr.. MacNcagh to resign his
Office and abandon the star-routc prosecutions,
and this letter was long and tedious reticc-
ton Of them to the President. Nor is there the
rcmotc.t connection between the cpistol-
ary complainings of Mr.. MacNeagh
and the vigorous act Of the Prcsi-
dent in kicking out of prominent
Offices some star-routo sympathi2ers who were
among the jewels of the preceding Adminstra-
tion Mr.. MacVcagh did not demand the re-
mOval Of these or any other officials for OBJ
struc.ing justice, but he complained to the
PrgsiIcn, that certain newspapers in Wash
IugtGn have bCcn abusing me-" while they
have been a' steadily praising you" and he
asks the President to proclaim n belief in the
guilt Of thU accused in advance of trial. Mr..
.tIirrucN-GrnCral Brewster, on the other hand,
uttered no such pucrilc complaint as II prctcxt
sor IL IN: t"eLn duty, and made no such fool
demand upon the President of the United
States 10 throw The weight of his high official
authority into the scales of justice. These
-allc newspapers abused Mr.. Brewster much
moro mofuscly than they did Mr.. MacVeagh,
but lie did not run away from duty on that
account or convey to President Arthur the in
sultng intimation that the praises of these
newspapers would he construed into notice that
the Presidential Office was in sympathy with
the star-rOutc consprators On the contrary,
Mr.. Brewster and his associates went rcso-
lutply forward with the prosecutions, in spite
of the neglected condition in which they
found ticm and ifiustice miscarricd through
the perjury of Jurors the responsibility for fail
me rests neither with President Arthur nor
with his able and faithful Attorney General.
Wien the trials We're over Mr.. Brewster did not
sit down toinditca long and childish complaint
about the abuse of the newspapers in the in
tcrcst 6f the Star-rOutc cOnspirators, but he
marked for removal certain rascally officials
who had been making parade of their sympa-
thy with the defendants, and the President
promptly sent them adrift. If Mr.. Mac
Noagh's letter has any value as memoir for
political history it is in showing the contrast
between his feeble and distrustful conduct
and the virile action of his successor.
National Republican., 1882-12-06

publication of it, 1t seems to be intended as
Half Breed counter" TO the Stalwart blow
delivered by the President in dismissing half
a dozen of Hayes and Garfield ofice-holdcrs.
1t seems scarcely worth while for the Rcpub-
lcnn factions to be contcnding with each other
for the credit of a prosecution which has thus
far brought nobody to punishment but has
brought two prominent Republicans to
Indictment and three or four less prom.
incnt Republicans to dismissal. II is
not denied that the persons dismissed by
the President have interfcrcd to obstruct
Justice, and that these persons belonged to
the Garfield and MacYcagh faction. 1t is
hardly responsive for Mr.. MacNeagh to assert
that some persons who were last year inti-
mate with other persons who were supposed
TO he intimate with President Arthur were
much opposed to the prosecution of the star
route thieves by Mr.. MacNcagh. And If tho
object of Mr.. MacVeagh's appearance at this
time is not to publish this assertion, what can
that object be? Mr.. MacYcagh does indeed
also assert that his own action in the matter
has boen marked by the highest wisdom and
the purest virtue but as il is well known
that this is the opinion entertained by Mr..
MacNcagh of every one of his public acts, it
was hardly worth while for him to publish
letter for the purpose of showing that that was
the opinion he entertained last year of his
action in the star-route cases.
National Republican., 1882-12-06
IT IS wAYNE's wINsoME WAY.
Mcin An,L. LLo..nLl

The impudence of this communication from
a Cabinet officer to the President of the United
States is obvious; its absurdity can be hardly
less apparent. Mr.. MacVeagh was then the
Attorney-Goncral of President Arthur not of
President Garfield. 1t was the administra-
tion of President Arthur, and not of Presi-
dent Garfield. Whatever might be the result
of the star-route trial, the credit of success
or the responsibility of failure would lie with
the Arthur administration and the Attorney
General under that administration. If Mr..
MacNeagh had been really in favor of Wig
orous star-route prosecution, as he says he
was, his remaining in the Cabinet would have
been an evidence of like determination on the
part of the President, and not, as Mr.. MacVeagh
foolishly says, Il lack of sympathy with the
prosecution. But tho most conclusive proof of
the injustice of Mr.. MacVeaghs S charge against
Mr. Arthur and the emptiness of his own pre-
tense is found in the fact that the President
has proved himself to he in earnest, while the
prosecution under Attorncy-Gencral Mac
Ncagh is now looked back upon as gloomy
farce. In saying this VIC do not forget that
the President has made mistakes, and that
there has been at times too much ground for
a lack of confidence in the prosecution. The
removals which he ordered on Saturday should
have been made long ago. But there is good
reason to believe that these plunderers will
yet he brought to justice, which is a good deal
more than was expected when Attorneys Gen
cral MacNeagh was charged with their prose-
cutiOn.
National Republican., 1882-12-06
WHY HE FLED.

Mr.. Wayne MacVeagh was very busy writ
ing letters in the autumn and early winter
OF 1881, explaining the cause of his retirement
from President Arthur's Cabinet
What MacNcagh seems specially anxious to
impress upon the country is his claim that he
exhibited no undue haste in the manner of
his retirement.
He will have considerable difficulty in i'm
pressing this belief upon the American people.
1t is easy to conceive why he refused to re-
main in the Cabinet until the star-route prose-
cutions were disposed of. lie had no conf
dence in his own ability to convict the star
routers, and he sought to place the odium of
the failure to convict upon the new Admins
tratiOn. His impudent letter to the President
shows this, and his " letterto a friend, +" which
he has since seen fit to make public, is further
proof of it. The whole thing was a cunningly-
devised scheme on his part to do injury to the
new Administration, and whatever may be
the result of the star-rOute prosecutions, he
will be compelled to bear the odium of his
hasty retirement from the Cabinet before the
star-routeTs were brought to trial.
National Republican., 1882-12-06
Garfield Enir EchOes.

Yesterday the stationary fixtures used in
the Rotunda and Statuary Hall at the Capitol
for the Garfield Fair were sold at auction, but
nominal prices being obtained. Gen. Dunn,
formerly Judge-Advocate General, bought the
Pagoda for $5s.
Andrews portrait of Garfield is now in the
parlors Of the Spencerian Business College,
and the Students of that institution believe
they can raise the amount required by the
artist by January l.
Some ftho members of the Iowa committee
alege that the votes for the diamond earrings
We're not fairly counted, and it is said an in
vcstigation will be made.
The ladies of Illinois that are members OF
the Garfield Fair Association are invited to
meet at the Ebbitt House Thursday, Decem-
Der z, at $3.50 p. IN.
National Republican., 1882-12-06
TOO LARGE FOR HIS CLOTHES.


WAYNE MacVeagh's letter lust published,
giving u history of his connection as Attorney
General with the star-rOutc cases. il not calcu-
his action in the final days Of his Cabinet con-
nootion. Mr.. MacVeagh, as subsequent his
tory with reference to those prosecutions has
proved, assumed too much with reference to
the probable attitude of President Garfield's
successor From the moment of the fatal
wOunding of the President, Mr.. MaCVeagh
seems to have been content in setting up his
own dignity and with cOnCealing himself be-
hind it to the extent possible. In other words,
he from that moment withdrew from the pros
ccutiOn of the star-routc conspirators upon
the assumption that Gen. Arthur was
virtually already President, and that it
would not become him to do anything
TO embarrass the new Administration
in the matter of those causes His position
was not such as to become him or any
man in the high office which he held. Until
the opportunity occurred for him to resign
his office, and until he was duly relieved from
a discharge of its duties, it was for him to
proceed as if the bullet of Guteau had never
been tired-at least TO the extent possible un-
der the general disturbance brought to the
conduct of public affairs by the act of the as
sassin. So far as the succeeding administra-
tOn might be concerned, whether the attor-
-gcneralship was to remain as then or not,
he had no justification in making. much, less
in acting upon, any other assumption than
that the purpose and the desire to punish
offenders against the government would re-
main unchanged. Mr.. MacNcagh's letter only
serves to give additional emphasis to his vanity
and wrong suspicion
National Republican., 1882-12-06
limited states NJarshal,s Sale.

BY virtue Of mn execution, issued out of the
Columbia, and to me directed, will sell at public
sale. Tor cash, Mt the courthouse door of said
ID strict on THUKSDAY the 1fth day of De-
oember 1882 at y o'clock M, all the 1 right g. title.
lowing ,s,iiDed property, to witt Suhlot No. 10,
in SQUARE 29i, situate in the, CITY 0l washington,
prOvements thereon. attached June To- 1857 and con-
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National Republican., 1882-12-06
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Tho right title claim. and interest OF the defendant
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inthe one iron pRuer, one botCittinE machine two
drill pirsses lot Of sho ting and pulleys. and about
Cisht tons wrought and east scrap-irop and one ilg
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10 sal sly execution No 127ii Rt law in fnvor of the
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G. H. UENRY, United States Marshal,
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National Republican., 1882-12-06
ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-FIVE rs.

Wayne MacYeagh once but for a very
short time Attorney General of the United
States, has seen fit to deliberately trcspass
upon the personal respect and honor of the
President by publishing a copy of his letter
to the Executive dated November s, 1881.
For personal and unblushing conceit the
letter outgushes even that of Brewster pub
lished on Monday but for its sublime ego
tism it beats anything of the kind published
in modern times. The personal pronoun, in
one form or another, occurs just one hundred
and twenty-five (l25) times in this model
effort of Philadelphia's model reformer
Is the sChoolmaster abroad?
National Republican., 1882-12-06

tache; Senior Don Jose dc Pedroso Scull, at
tachc S13 Fifteenth street.
Senior Don Arturo Gclpi Y Lafont, lieuten-
ant.colonol and military attache, and Sonora
do Lafont, New York city.
Senior Don Emilio Ruiz del Arbol, captain
and naval attachc, and Sonora de Ruiz del
Arbol ~ Fifth avenue, New York city.
National Republican., 1882-12-06
NOT THE ONLY HONEST MAN IN THE WORLD
Scranton Republicdn

The situation shows that Mr. MacVeagh dis
distrusted President Arthur's sincerity when
he invited him 10 remain and prosecute the
star-rOute cases, but he must now see that he
was mistaken, and that he was not, as he sup
posed, the only honest man in the country.
Justice will be moted out to the star-route
ring and that too, without the assistance of
eX-Attorney General MacVeagh, who thought
when he shook the dust of the Cabinet from
National Republican., 1882-12-06
HE is ONE OF THE GREATEST LAWYERS
SINCE THE TRIAL.
E,,eDi

The duties of public officers obviously do not
end with the death of the source of appoint
mcnt, and when public interests unquestion-
ably demanded action, Mr. MacVCagh's pas
sivity could not be defended on the pleu that
his successor was not in accord with that de-
mand. His duty was plainly to make the most
of n cause which his late superior had deemed
of So great importance. In further .justifca-
tion of his contemplated resignation Mr.. Mac
Ncagh alleges the hostile attitude of the Wash
ngton press toward himself its defcrential
tone to the new President, and its influence
upon the body Of citizens, whence jurors were
to be chosen. Obstacles of this character, we
repeat, would have been incentives to an ag-
gressive man, and that Mr.. MacVeagh SUR
rendered before them is indicative of an un-
suspected deficiency of courage.
National Republican., 1882-12-06
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IF HE LIKES IT, ALL RIGHT.
CyOriOnofi Enp,yrer

Cincinnati EnQuircr.
There appears on tho surface no particular
reason for Mr.. Wayne MacVeagh rushing into
tho newspapers with his letter to President
Arthur touching the prosecution of the Star
Route cases, unless, indeed, to widen the
breach between the Stalwart and HalfBreed
factions. The letter is almost year old, and
certainly ought not to have been resurrectcd
for an event of so little consequence as the
dismissal of a few officials who are alleged to
have been in sympathy with the defendants
in the star route cases. Still, if Mr.. Mae
Ncagh wants to keep the water muddy that is
his privilege.
National Republican., 1882-12-06
BY THE WICKED PARTNER.
Cincinnati Enseffe-


Acknowledgement Brewster's charges against
Marshal Henry are these:
1. He is responsible for much of the OPP
posing sentiment to the case of the govern
ment that was exhibited in court and out of
court during the trial" d.
Responsibility for the sentiment of other
people is a vague charge, not easy to prove
or disprove. r. .,IgtI
2. His negligent and irregular conduct in
selecting taesman." .....
This is vague. Was he required to select
talesman to convict? 1t is said that the
jurors accepted from his talesman gave their
voices for conviction,
g. Tho public interview that he was
guilty Of"
This interview, which we reprint appears
to be Marshal Henry's answer to the attacks
of Bliss on his integrity. He had "a right to
make such reply to such an attack.
In the matter of sentiment adverse to the
prosecution, it may be remarked that the con
duct of the prosecution for d long time created
the impression that it was not sincere.
National Republican., 1882-12-06
A TRIFLE PLAIN.
-s..s M al.

The remarks that Mr.. MacVeagh rose to
make were sufficiently plain Commercial.
They wero plainly n very feeble defense of
a dishonorablc act. MacVeagh's cowardice is
only equalcd by his mendaoity.