Year: 1879

6Sth year. He is living quietly at Mississippi
City, one of the finest towns of the State,
devoting his time to the book he is writing on
the history of the civil war. 1t has been on
ly within the last year that he has been able
to devote his time to this object, by reason Of
his financial affairs About year ago he
gained suit in the State Supreme Court by
which he came into possession of the estate on
which he lives, and which yields him COM
Portable income. He is paying no attention
to politics, and would really prefer not to be
dragged into them. All of the Mississippi
men in Congress unite in emphatically say
ing that if Mr.. Davis should return to the
Senate, he would carry himself with such dig.
nifty and selfposses.ion as would soon dsarm
the Radical leaders in the onslaught they
would inevitably make against his election to
the Senate. They are confident that Blaine
or any other Radical Senator who should at
tempt to get him into sectional debate in
the Senate would be greatly Disconnected
by his conduct They refer to his career in
public life before the war as proof that he
is man of intellect, and with the soberness of
his years would be fully able to take care of
himself in debate with any one, and would
turn the tables on those who attempted to
make political capital out of wordy contest
with him.


Of course bill must first be passed by
Congress removing his political disabilities.
This, if done at all, must be done at the next
session. when this proposition comes up in
the next Congress. Blaine and the Republi.
cans will probably try to raise such furore
as Blaine succeeded in doing in the House in
1876 on the proposition, when he held Davis
responsible for all the dark deeds at the Lib
by and Andersonville prisons.


GREENBAcK Issues IN TIME OF PEACE
The constitutionality of the legal tender act,
so far as it applies to the issue of govern
ment notes in time of peace having the quail
ity of legal tender for private debts, is
about to be brought to test in the courts,
and, of course, finally in the Supreme Court,
by an agreement between Representative
Chittenden and General Butler. The cor
respondence between them forms an agree
ment to find real case in which debtor
shall have offered to his creditor, citizen
of different State, payment Of a debt in
greenbacks of date since August, 1865, which
is the officially declared date of the close of
the war. The creditor refuses payment and
brings suit, and thereupon Mr.. Chittenden
binds himself to bear the expenses of the cred
itor, and General Butler on his side agrees to
defray the cost of the debtor, he asserting the
right of the government to issue legal tender
paper money at all times. Gen. Butler means
to argue the case himself Senator Edmunds,
of Vermont, and Mr.. William Allen Butler,
of New York, will manage for Mr.. Chitten.
den. Mr.. Chittenden says that the currency
debates during the first and second sessions of
the Forty fifth Congress convinced him that
nothing short of constitutional restraint will
save the country from continued and excessive
issues of legal tenders in the future Hence the
necessity Of bringing the question to the final
test by case on which the Supreme Court
will be compelled to decide whether legal
tender paper money in time of peace is constl-
tutional.


The MEXICAN VETERANs.-The bill in
regard to the Mexican veterans, approved on
February 49, is as follows:


AN ACT for the payment to the officers and SOL


diers Of the Mexican war, Of the three months


extra pay provided for by the act Of July 10,


1S4S. .......


Be it enacted by the Senate and House of
Representatives Of the United States of Amer
lea in Congress assembled, That the secre-
tary of the treasury be, and he is hereby,
directed, out of any moneys in the treasury
not otherwise appropriated, to pay the officers
and soldiers engaged in the military service
of the United States in the war with Mexico,
and who served out the term of their engage
ment or were honorably discharged" the three
months extra pay provided for by the act of
July IS, 1848, and the limitations contained
in said act, in all cases, upon the presentation
Unsatisfactory evidence that said extra COM
pensation has not been previously received.
Provided, That the provisions Of this act
shall include also the officers, petty officers,
seamen, and marines of the United States
navy, the revenue marine service aud the
officers and soldiers Of the Unitad States army
employed in the prosecution of said war.


Approved February 10, 1879.


KEEP 1T TO YouRsELF.-.You have
trouble-your feelings are injured, your hus-
band is uukind, your wife frets, your home is
not pleasant, your friends do not treat you
fairly, and things in general move unpleas.
antly. Well, what of it? Keep it to your
SELF A smouldering fire can be found and
extinguished; but when the Goals are scat
tered, who can pick them upf Bury your
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