Morning journal and courier., 1883-01-12

adopted by the executive council in counting
 the votes for members of the Legislature of
 1880. In this way question which threat
 ened to disturb the peace of the State was
 brought before the court for orderly arbitra- tion and adjustment. It has been said that
 MT. Morrill, did not write the letter, but that
 is a small matter. He at least approved and
 signed it, and it was his unsullied character
 which gave it weight and force.
 ] Prof. Francis Bowen, of Harvard, brings to
 notice an almost forgotten translation of the Bible by Charles Thomson, who was secreta-
 ry of the Continental Congress and published
 his work in 1908. Thomson was distin-
 guished teacher of Latin and Greek in Phila-
 delphia, and he spent the better part of
 twenty eight years on his version of the
 scriptures. Prof. Bowen has been examin-
 ing the book, and it is his deliberate iudg-
 ment that, in many respects, it is better than the revision of 1881. Thomson anticipated some of the changes recently made. He printed the texts in paragraphs and the songs 1 and poetical citations as poetry in lines of unequal length. He also omits the passage in the first epistle of John concerning the
 ''three that bear record in heaven,'' '' and he prints in brackets the doxology at the close of the Lords prayer, mentioning in foot note that in 'tmany ancient manuscripts" it is not found.
 Judge Seymour D. Thompson recently de- ivered an elaborate address before the State Bar association of Missouri at Sedalia. The rroy, rk oF oII
 Failure of the Law" as shown by the wide- spread distrust of the administration of jus tice. Judge Thompson said that two views are entitled to thoughtful attention. First, whenever an atrocious crime is committed the real or supposed criminal, when arrested, un- less protected by 8 strong police force, is more likely to suffer death by the hands of the mob than at the hands of the law Sec ond, if dishonest merchant swindles his creditors, or faithless trustee betrays his trust, there is no real or sturdy effort to bring him to justice, but 8 miserable spirit of compromise interposes the single inquiry, "How much can we induce him to give up ?" Foremost among the causes producing the "failure of the law" the judge declared, 'tis the indifferent standing of the legal profes- sion," and this he attributes greatly to lax methods of admission to the bar
 Secretary Lincoln's crushing report to Congress concerning it's useless waste of money on alleged rivers and harbors contains some rich reading. For Port Clinton, Ohio, $6,Oo0 was appropriated. The entire cus- toms dues collected there for 1881 and 1882 were $6O.25! Eighty thousand dollars was appropriated for Michigan City, Ind, the prime benefit of which ''accrues immediately and directly to the owners of the dock prop. erty." Congress gave $15,0oo for Cedar Creek, Mich. This creek will barely float saw logs to it's mouth It has no other busi- ness. Oldtown Greek, Miss, had 5000 l voted for it's improvement. Examination | showed that all the water in the stream | would How through box twelve inches l square! Bayou Terrebonne received $7 ,OOO. l The 'bayou" is just eleven feet wide at the l site of the present operations. Farther up l it is much narrower. The Coloosahatchie ] was given $5,0O0, but the engineer says that | ''the principal advantage expected from this | improvement would arise from the partial 1 drainage of the adjoining marsh lands''