The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1883-02-24

his office $685. sinecure, defrauded liti-
giants out of as much more by charges for
transcripts that were never made, ''has, says
the New Orleans Times-Democrat, 'had his
wings clipped by the sundry civil appropria-
ton committee, who have inserted clause
fixing his salary at $1,000 per annum, and
placing him under the jurisdiction OF the
Attorney General" 1t may reasonably be
wondered why this fraud is not addressed, or
impeached, out Of Office, or turned over to the
AttorRey-General on account of malfeasances
committed. While he is Clerk he will collect
the fees of his office and, unless the Attorney
General proposes to relinquish all other OFF,
cial duties and see that Mr.. Mckinney pays
them over, he will never be aware how that
public servant will contrive simply to add the
$1,000 to the rest of his spoil, and go straight
along, keeping the surface of his official
stream without ripple. Nor, perhaps, would
he il he should relinquish all other duties, for,
with all the moral elements calculated to
adorn and dignity his station, we have never
heard Attorney-General Brewster squarely
accused of having cut his wisdom teeth. The
thing for Mr.. Brewster and the Government TO
do is to get this greedy parasite off the keel of
the ship of State and put an honest man in his
place.
PERSONS who carry their sensibilities about
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make tender means over the injury, are usually
interesting. OF this class is the English adj
ventures, Mrs. Langtry. That she keeps
herself in secluded way for the better prac-
tees ofwomanhood, and has habitual thoughts
truer to herself than her habitual acts, is not
unlikely. 1t may be difficult for her always to
see herself on her public side. To reprehend
her for choosing life of adventure, or Judge
her for wrong estimates of her capacity TO
please or her ability to secure success in the
way she has sought it, none may. 1t is her
privilege to govern herself, and only if in
doing so she Injuries others or society, can she
be amenable to judgments. We are hence
prone to give Mrs. Langtry the widest field
for indulging her tastes and inclinations. 1t |
is not remarkable that a woman who values |
herself chiefly for her personal charms should
see everything through that affection. When
interviewed at Cincinnati as to her opinion of
people and places she pronounced New
Orleans "a lovely city, because many atten-
tons had been paid her there, among them
''the Order Of the Moon had waited on her
and bestowed upon her the decoration of
Venus Or the evening star" So she declared
Chicago and St. Louis ''moSt dull and
stupid" because ''it grieved her to think she
could ever have met such discourteSy as met
her there" When the intellectual is subor-
dinate to the emotional nature, as commonly
in women, this is the consequence, and itwould
not be worth while to put a high estimate
upon Mrs. Larguy's opinion of people and
places 1t is pity she could not have brought
her charms and left her sensibilities behind
her, for in each one she meets she finds a
Judge who has not a single qualification for
his office, and while her murmurs at rude and
unjust criticism are interesting to those who
appreciate her womanly nature, they do not
enable them TO help her.