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THE, DAILY SUN. rcjjffShftho Atlanta Sun Publishing “ Company. *lcXtmrt«T II. Stephen*, ArchJbn 1<1 M. Speight*, j. Henly Smith, Proprietor*. Alexander H. Stephens, Political Editor. , B. Watson, - * - - News Editor. T Henly Smith, Genual Editor and Busi* 'V*s Manager. haeiswv * Tlie Patriot. Local Editor: WIL L I AIX H. MOOr. K. J. M. Traveling A} W. HILL. 1:111* : J. W. HEARD, U’)t.umn Jr., News Agent, Savannah, keep* iHt Sun for *»lc- - - v.oij f.j Tbattt —persons passing through CHai- t»noog». will Sad The Sck for sale by C- A. GiedhiD, Agent. Agents low The Sun, Thom** Ji. Hopeies, Thomaavlile, Ga. .James Alles Smith, Knoxville, Tenn. Dave Beta, Athens, Ga. .Tons T. Kobeets, Atlanta, Ga. j, t. Weight, Woodstock, Ga. j. g. Caedwtix, T^iomgon, Ga. S. c. (Lum/rov, Dalton, Oa. TV. C. DAViSj Jr., Ealonton, Ga. IIOW TO REMIT MONEY. We will be responsible for the safe arrival of all money sent ns by Money O :dcr, by Registered Let ■ mr by Express, or b7 Draft, but not Otherwise. Jf money sent in an unregistered letter is lost, it must 0* the loss of tlio person sending it jfo paper will »fl sent from the office till it is paid for, and names will ala-ays be erased when the time ^^y^Person^BchdiBg money by Exprcssjaust pro- ray charges. ; ' : Wo clip the following glorious nouncement from ths Washington City Patriot, and commend ii not only to the attention of cur readers generally, but specially to the attention of the esteemed Editor of that Journal himself, as well as all other “New Departure" advocates | can rightfully exercise no power which is | the Constitution in ad 1 Absequent editions j therefore the Amendment itself was void. an . n °t clearly delegated by the States in the f of that instrument. I The Court overruled the point. They compact of their union; and that no; The ticelflh ameucuaent—that which held, and lightly held, after argument power is therein delegated to them, either j changed tho mode of -iccting the Presi- "upon it, that the approval of tlie Presi- directly or indirectly, to pass final and {dent and Tice President of the United flftkc up Clubs. -,V.-6U*ii iu':ko %&ti Sc* lively, frosli and intor- cstir.R—contTi.iiug all tho. latest news. Wo shall fill it with good reading matter, and shall liavo in iveli issue as much reading matter as any paper in Georgia, and we shall soon cnlargo and otherwise improve it, so a* to give it a handsome appearaneo »nd make it easily reed and desirable toliave in the family. ’ —, ij. v • We ask our friends to use a little effort to make up a clnb for us at every post office. See our club rates. A very little effort is all that is needed to make up a luge list ■' '} ■ To Correspondents. Mr. Stephens will remain in CrawfordviUe. His connection with The Son will not change his resi dence. All letters intended for him, either on prf vale matters or connected with the Political De partment of this paper, should bo addressed to him at CrawfordviUe, Georgia. • All letters on business of any kind, connected with Tnr So*, except ito Political Department, shonld be ' addressed to J. Henly Smith, Manager, Atlanta, Ga. OLD KENTUCKY’S -BOAR. LESLIE RECEIVES THE LARGEST DEliOC VOTE EVER LOLLED IN TEE STATE. HIS MAJORITY WILL REACH 50,000. harlan's votes all come prom the ne groes. HEAVY DEFECTION OF WHITE MEN FROM THE RADICAL PARTY. [Special Dispatch to the Patriot.] Locisvhae, Rt.. August 10* *1371.—Official returns received at the Lcti-jcr office from thirty-niue coun ties, show that Leslie ia receiving not only the lnr.'cst Democratic vote ever polled in Kentucky, but absolutely the largest vote ever notled for any mm: of any party in the State. HoTvcte in those, counties exceeds by SOI the'vote ckst for Seymour in the same counties in 1SC8, and exceeds the vote east for Stevenson tlir.t year in the same counties by ‘J.13J. The* vote cast for the Democratic Congres sional ticket in those counties iast November, when the negro vote was'first polled at a general election,' was only 35,705. For Leslie, at the late election, these counties gave 35,881 votes—a gaiacf 17.G73.— The aggregate .Democratic majority la 1870 v.-as 32;211. Leslie’s majority in thlrty-rane counties ex ceeds Uioeo of 1870 by 4,-101. His majority will roach .U- 00. Unofficial reports from about one-half the counties of the State show that while Harlan has polled a heavy negro vote, there has been a heavy defection of Y/hitu men from the Radical party, and if the whole Democratic vote had been polled, it would have reached at least 130,000. H. C. Underwood, _ . „ City Editor Ledger. 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SQUARES. i WEEK 2 -WEEK* 3 WEEKS 1 MONTH. o —a***! -1 $ 7 50 $ 8 60 3 ” 7 50 12 00 Jg do 13-88— 4 *« 0 00 16 00 20 00 24 00 5 •» 11 00 18 00 22 00 27 00 r, •• 12 00 20 00 20 00 30 00 7 •• 11 00 22 00 2S 0 0 83 00 3 •• 10 to 24 00 31 00 8G Or 9 •• 18 00 27 00 33 Oil 38 00 10 •• 20 00 30 00 3G 00 40 00 u 22 00 32 00 38 00 42 00 ' 12 •• 24 00 33 00 40 00 44 00 >, Colrnu 27 00 S3 00 43 00 47 00 1 Colmn 40 00 53 00 G5 00 75 00 Is be who conducts the Washington P«l- riot pleased with“OLD Kentucky’s Roar,” thus heralded through his columns? If so, doe.-i he not perceive that it is the ‘‘old Kentucky boar” of 1798 ? It is a “roar” against uswpers, and all their Jiiqh crimes ns well as small ones. It is no mockgroid against the Ku-Klux, and Enforcement acts—as farcical as the gentle moan of him in the play—who notifies his audi ence, not to be alarmed, for though he acts the part of a lion, yet he is only “one snug, the joiner ! ” In these utterances from Kentucky, does not our cotemporary recognize the “roar” of a sure enough lion—an enraged people thoroughly aroused to a sense of their wroDgs, in hot pursuit of the viola tors of their rights, and determined neither to approve or sanction usurpa tion, but at thej)olls, “in the manner at\d by the mode Constitutionally appointed,” to rid themselves, not only of those who have so wickedly abused their trusts, but of all their mischievous measures ? In this “roar,” does he not catch the key note of the canvass of 1872, if Dem ocratic success on Democratic principles is what he wants ? £.— —i ' n'nn -id I at. Aim -fill] Tlcmo- cratic Banner of 17dS, now floats most triumphantly in Kentucky, where “ii has been borne highest and boldest in this con- id ? ” ■: A. H. S. absolute judgment upon the valid;!:, of : what purports to be an amendment to the ! Constitution, except in cues J ailing with in the separate and exclusive jurisdiction J°* Jtbeir Houses respectively; in other iatic ! 3vonIs, that Congress; has no power tc pass a judgment upc what is u-is not a valid, constitutional am.ndmrut which shah, in any way,'be binding ca the oth er co-equal'departments of the Govei-n- ment, or preclude those from the proper exercise of their official functions upon the same subject- paz.1 • r; und further, * ’that neither House of Congress, nor both together, having any such power them selves, they can not confer it upon any other person or body whatever. If Congress, therefore, did by this aet of ISIS, intend to confer this power upon the'Secretary of State, and in this-way did attempt to “preclude” all inquiries by the Courts into matters touching the validity of amendments to the Constitu tion, and to estop all Judicial investiga tion as to-the fads touching the “mode and manner” of their proposal and adop tion, then the act is simply null and void, and will be so treated by every Court which understands its powers and duties, and has the integrity faithfully to exer cise and discharge them. -i .. Our view of this act of 181S is this— It was intended only to make it the duty of the Secretary of State to give public notice of the official proceedings of the several States upon the Constitutional amendments as they appeared of file in his office. This was highly proper; and when from the returns so filed, it ap peccred that three-fourths of the States had duly ratified an-amendment, it was to be published by him, leaving, of course, all questions touching its validity, just as all questions touching the constitutionality of acts of Congress published in the same way, and certified to under, the same “great seal,” are leftjjor Judicial investigation and determination States—was proper 1 in 1S03, and adopt ed by tLree-fourtl.s of tlie States as early as the month of Sc >r‘mber, 1804. Mr. Jefferson wa and when official in ed in his office of t- site number of Str. directed the then So dent was not necessary to a Resolution of this character, and that tlie Amendment was not invalid on the grounds alleged. If the counsel on the other side did not v< his time President: j object to the Court’s taking jurisdiction mation was receiv- of the question, it was, perhaps, because action of therequi- they thought as wo do, that such a posi es ratifying it, he tion would be utterly untenable. iry of State to j But the great fact which we wish now tertaiued a question of fact as to whether an amendment to the Con stitution was constitutionally ratified. In that case the point was not made denying the right of the Court to go into the inquiry. But if the Supreme Court is com petent to pass upon the validity of amendments duly declared and ailop- and can by its decision strike them out of the Constitution, there is less excuse for the revolutionary pro cess of treating them as nullities by President or Congress. If the Su preme Court has jurisdiction in the ease, then, it is a judicial question, and that is the proper tribunal to re sort to, to nullify the Constitution, or any part of it.—Av.gusta Constitu tionalist, Aug.11. NEW ORLEANS CORRES- PONDENCE. ; V For a less period than one'week, SI per square (ten lines of solid Nonpareil type,' or occupying that much space] for tho first insertion, and 50 cents for each subsequent insertion. Advertisements in tho Local Column marked with an asterisk, (*) will he charged 25 cents per lino each insertion. Advertisements under the Special Notice head leaded) for less time than one week, will be charged cents per iine. Advertisements, except for established busi ness houses, in this city, must be paid for in ad vance Norednciion will be made on tho above rates for quarterly, semi-annual or yearly advertisements. CONTENTS ‘•ATLANTA WEEKLY SUN, 55 FOa THE WEEKjENDING WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 16TH, 1871. Page I—TheRatriot ‘-Is it a Judicial Question?'* Now Orleans Correspondence, etc. Page »—Public Sentiment at the North. Politics in New Hampshire.BPolitics in Arkansas. Ken tucky Triumphantly Democratic. Supreme Court Decisions, etc. Page 3—Democracy of Texas. Platform of the Democracy of Texas. A H. Stephens and the '* New Departure.” Indiana Politics. Politics in Tennessee. Politics in Arkansas. State Agricul- , tural Convention. Tennessee. Duel with Broad swords, etc. Pwgc 4—Another Letter from New York. Coming Back. Speech of J. Proctor Knott. Alexander H. Stephens on Study of the Law. The Live Old Party. Eatonton. Our Subscription List. Im portant Case before 'the Supreme Court. Sun strokes. Surveyof the Georgia Western Railroad Telegrams. Stats Agricultursl Convention. Mya- torious Affair. Georgia News. Piagc 5—Public Sentiment Elsewhere. What the New Departure Means. Speech of Hon. J. Proc tor Knott on the New Departure. A Rattlesnake. Etc. Plage O—Editorials. A Pungent Letter. Georgia News. StatoTgricuItural Convention, etc. Page 7—Sun-Strokes. District Court. Sentence of tho Misccgenationisis. Humors of the Cam paign. Telegrams. A Gay and Festive Crowd, etc. Page 8—Tho Great State Road Plunderings—Rail road Rings—Tragedy in Macon County—Atlanta Car Shed—Telegrams, etc. 44 Is it a Jndiciai Question T? Novel Railroad {Suit. The residents of Livonia, feeling ag grieved at the overcharge of fare on the Buffalo, New York and Erie road since it has been in the possession of the Erie Railway Company, have commenced seven suits to recover penalties, amount ing to $40,000, for violation of an “Act to prevent extortion by railroad compa nies,” passed in 1857. In the issue of The Sun to-day will be found an article under the above heading, from the Augusta (Ga.) Constitutionalist of the 11th instant. Our cotemporary seems not to under- stand what we denied, and what we join ed issue with him upon, in our notice of his first article upon the subject of the Ju dicial power over questions connected with Constitutional amendments. This misap prehension on his part clearlyappears from his second article referred to, and which, as stated, we give our readers in full to day. We did not deny that the Secreta ry of State had any authority to issue a proclamation upon the subject of Con stitutional Amendments; but we did deny his rightful authority to determine by proclamation, even with the great seal of State attached to it, what is and what is not part of the Constitution; and this denial we repeat, notwithstanding the act of Congress of 1818, arrayed against us with so much seeming confidence by onr cotemporary. That act of Congress we were well aware of when we penned what we did on this point, and hence we con fined onr language to the denial of any rightful authority (underscoring the word) on his part, in this way, to pass final judgment on the validity of amendments to the Constitution, or by bis attachment of the great seal of State to such procla mations, to “preclude” the Courts from going behind this great seal so attached, and inquiring into the real facts of the case. We utterly deny the rightful pow er of Congress to confer any such ** au thority” upon the Secretary of State, or upon any officer under the Government; nor do we believe that any such intention existed at the time of the passage of the act of 1818. But whether it did or not, nothing is clearer than that under the Constitution of the United States, Con gress had no poicer to pass an act with such intention or with such effect. So the question between ns and our cotemporary, on this point, is not one to be settled by the adduction of the act of ISIS. If offered with this view, we assail it upon the same grounds we assail the whole doctrines of our cotemporary upon this entire subject. We need not, we trust, elaborate truths By. the act the Secretary is to certify to the apparent validity of the amend ment from the official Documents and returns in his office ; stating particularly the States which have ratified it—just as the Governors of States certify, and also, sometimes, attach the “'great seal” of their respective States to the returns of the election of members of Congress, Senators and Representatives, as appear from official documents'in their respec UVC omees. riu stun i.naM.Kr.— B • ;i1 ^ them nothing but prirfia facie- eviclenc of the truth of the/aefc to which they re late, They do not preclude, nor are they intended to preclude an overhauling of the Records in a case made before, and by a proper tribunal. These views of ours as to the intention of the act of ISIS are confirmed by looking to the antecedent action of the Government upon the subject of Constitutional Amendments. The frst ten Amendments were adopt ed soon after the Government went into operation under the Constitution of 1787. The fact of the ratification of these, by the several States acting upon them, was communicated by General Washington, the President, in messages to Congress, accompanied by the official Documents from the States respectively, as they reached him. When it appeared from these documents that three-fourths of the States had duly ratified these ten amend ments, and no one controverted the fact, they were all by general consent accepted and acted upon as valid parts of the Or ganic Law—there was no proclamation or public announcement of the fact what ever. In all subsequent editions of the Constitution they were published as parts of the same; and so regarded by the other Departments of onr Goverment, as well as the people elsewhere; because there was no more question as to the va lidity of their proposal and ratification than* there was as to the Constitution itself. Re public notice of tu: .same in the news- to call special attention to is that .the papers. This was important information Supreme Court of the’ United States’ has for the people of all the States to have at taken jurisdiction of the question and 'pro- that time, as the choice of electors for nounced' judgment upon it in .at least one President and Vice President for another case.' ' vim vas io com.: jjff that ml!. This i This fact alone is;a sufficient answer to Itbiic newspaj -r - - . of the ratification j our cotemporary’s position, until that of this amendment iris given by the See-1 tribunal shall reverse the principles of its retary of State on the 25th September, action, and abjure that jurisdiction for 1804. I the future which it has heretofore exer- No one question:, .i the validity .of ithe Joiaed. We have a great deal more to say amendment in any - av. This is a sue- j upon tins subjeet, but must eoneludo this, dnet review of tho^a matters up to ISIS. J article by saying to our cotcmporray that At that time other amendments had the riilidity of those most fraudulent so- b< en proposed; r.v. ;he object of the act called Amendments, tliel ith and 15th, is, of ISIS seems cleary to have been sim- I iuour judgment, not only dieial Ques- piy, by law, to direct the Secretary of tion. but.#, .Question, an Ia- Stato to give p iblic i iih\ eof the fact, when oeutivc Question, and also a great popular it should appear from official returns in question. There is, in our judgment; no his Department that any new amendment shelter .Or hidihg place for such monstrous had been ratified by the requisite num- iniquities in any corner or nook of ber of States, jus* as Mr. Jefferson had i country, nor in .any .branch or directed him to do In 1801 of his own department' of the Government—tho accord, and xriOmif any late. This Is the only hope they have. Read Hon. J. whole of it. One thing is certain,, and [Proctor. Knott’s ' masterly and grand that is, no prodem. dipn oi Mr. Secretary speech lipon them published in our issue Seward or Mr. Secretary Fish, with “the on Saturday—but we must close for the great seal of State” attached to it,;under present, - w AatU.yC : the act of ISIS, can estop inquiry into | A. H. S. the validl‘>i of the 14th and 15th amend 1 ! ments, so-called, nov preclude judicial in- s * tl ** Q UvS l0n vestigations concerning them, any more!' !' i n reference to the power of the than thepullic nerspaper notice of Mr. j Supreme Court to pass upon the v:i- Secretary Madison, given upon the bare lidity of- amendments to the Consti- instractions of Mr. Jefferson, could have tution, we recently stated the propo- cslopped or precluded like inquiry or inves-1 sitioii and took the negative side, in tigation concerning the validity'of the lithe following language : 12th amendment. “Tins is, that the validity of tlie .. , . , amendments is a judicial question—that Now,- the question between us and our ifc is incompe t e nt for the Supreme Court cotemporary of Augusta, Ga., is whether G f the United States upon a case made to the courts of the country can eyer, in any j pass upon the fact, whether the ainond- investigation, go behind this public no- dul ? P ro P osec J au< J duly rati- .. - , ’ , „ . c , , „ 0 , , fied by the requisite number of States ac- tice or certificate of a Secretary of State, corclin J g to the organic law of the land.- setting forth barely what appears .from Wo hold that the courts are precluded returns in his office. „ from inquiring into the matter. They „ , , . lTTT ... are precluded by the very nature of the Our cotemporary says: e mam.am p rocee <ii n g f rom going behind the Great “that tho Supreme Court is precluded Seal of State which gave sanction to the “ from going behind the certificate, and proclamation of Secretary Seward, that “ discussing whether the amendment so j amendments were constitutionally * * certified is valid. It is bound to accept j [ t :, K)n tliig The Atlanta Sun “ the same as valid. -; r G takes issue. It goes further, and de- This.is thejd a-: and distinct position nies tlie authority of tlie Secretary of or<mr;cstom r '5j-^ Ours, on the con- State to issue a proclamation on tlie tniry. is equally clear ft ml destine’, th.it States, nor any other Court in the landf j “To this we have barely to say m Letter from Ivauboe. The eleventh amendment, that which prohibits the bringing of suits against a State by citizens of other States of the Union or of Foreign States, was pro posed in 1794. Quite a number of States, it was known, had ratified it between its propo sal and the dose of the year 1797; bnt which ones and what number was not exactly known in the country generally. Congress, therefore, by Resolution, called upon the President for the official infor mation in his office of the proceedings of the States which had passed upon it. In reply to this Resolution Mr. Adams, who was then President, stated in a message dated the 30th of December, 1797, that from official documents in the office of the Secretary of State it appeared that- this Amendment had been duly ratified by three-fourths of the States. No other proclamation was made about it. No one in Congress questioned its validity on any gronads whatever, and it, either State or Federal, high or *Tow, 1 tlie Supreme Court is not pre . j7 . . .. -. , , . , eluded from going behind the great seal is thus prec. uded from going^ Behind any 0 £ attached to any proclamation of such certificate and inquiring whether Mr. Secretary Seward concerning matters the amendment so certified to is in. truth over vyhich he was clothed with no proper and fad valid or not. All courts in this l )0Wer or authority to issue a_ proclama- , . , . , . . , , tion: • The great seal of State is respocted countryai-e judges of what is and wliat L. v rtll0 Su ? )reme Courfcj or ai j y other is not constitutional in Legislation. The | court, only when attached by the proper Judicial Department of our Governments, officer to such papers and documents as both State and Federal, was instituted kohas due authority to attach it to. Of , . .. ‘ j „ 1 the nature of the paper, as well as the for the purpose of opening the door, cons ti tu tional authority to attach the and opening it wide, too, for just such sea i 0 f State to it, by the person so at- inquities and investigations, however tachirig it, the Court must judge and de- ihterminable they may be.” ^ “Suppose a Secretary or President All courts were instituted to make in- should attach the great seal of State to a vestigations into frauds and wrongs of warrant for the arrest or imprisonment all sprta proper* eom tae before them ae ” f SleTcSSr.t interminably as thejunjust perpetra- jg the Supreme Court, or any court, tors of them shall render it-necessary. \ precluded from going behind it, and in- It seems a little strange to us that our TuMng and deciding whether lie had any “ , / , , , proper authority for putting it there or cotemporary, after Ins broad andunquali- not ? w e say no!—and woe be to the fied denial of our position, should have, people of this country if such doctrines in the very next sentence, admitted shall ever be entertained and sanctioned enough to upset the entire fabric of his & the people! We say the Secretary of , , B , * v, . , State has no more rightful authority to declamatory assertions; for _ argument it attacll the great seal of State to a procla cannot be called. The admission we re-1 mation declaring what is and what is not fer to is in these words : “Wehave met a part of the Constitution of the United with but one case reported where the Su- States than he has to a warrant for „ , , f ,. J the arrest or execution of any person preme Court entertained a question of eitlier be fore or after trial. It is no part “ fact as to whether an amendment to the of bis duty; and no court, understanding “ Constitution was constitutionally rati- its duties, with integrity and firmness to “fied.” discharge them, will ever pay any more attention to it in the one case than in the Well, if the Supreme Court of the other. “A. H. S, United States has in one case entertained As this.is a matter of fact, and not a question of fact, as to whether an of argument^ we simply quote in re- amendment to the Constitution was prop- pty the statute of 18.18, prescribing erly ratified or not, why may they not in duties of the Secretary of State: another! How can it bo qffirmathd« , “Whenever official notice shall have and broadly answered in aMn ol a**“"*"*»* Department, of .. .. rax » State that an amendment has been qmsbon b«ng preaented to them. aaopW> ae Secretary of State shall that they will not m another. How can caege th e amendment to be published it be so unqualifiedly asserted that they j a the newspapers authorized to pro- are “precluded” from entertaining the mulgate the laws, with his certificate question ? specifying the States by which the But says onr cotemporary: “Lithat same may have been adopted, and that A. . the same has become valid as a part raaethepomtwaa not made denying ofthe Constitution.’’ * “the nglit °(the Court to go into the We maintain that the Supreme inquiry. Court is precluded from going behind Now, we suppose that the case here re- the certificate, and discussing wheth- ferred to is the case of Hollingsworth el er the amendment so certified to is al. vs. Virginia, 3, Dallas 378. valid. It is hound to accept the same mi fort as valid. If the door is to be opened , , for investigations before the Supreme New Orleans, Aug. 8,1871. New Orleans to-day is iu a complete ferment. The grand Convention which is to decide the Radical policy of tlie State of Louisiana, during the % next Presidential canvass, is to come * off to-morrow.- The first light as to the immensely important posit, whether the Convention should liold^ its session' at the Mechanics’ Institute, or at Uncle Sam’s Custom House, terminated in favor of the latter, which is' regarded as a triumph of the Dunnite .over the Warmouth par ty, the Governor having determined that the- Convention, should hold its poio-wow at the Mechanics’ Institute. It is, at the present moment, some what doubtful which of these factions will prevail. Both have .encourag ing prospects. Warmouth will be sus tained by a numerous body of ‘.State officials, whose continuance in their places is dependent on his will;, buff opposed to him, stands a powerful phalanx of Federal officers, the Col lector of the Port, the Postmaster 1 of New Orleans, and other well kncnVn wire-workers, backed, it is said, *>y President Grant himself. The Convention will be a very, checkered body, composed, in a large degree, of tlie colored element. A good deal of-sport is. anticipated, and I sliall take an early opportunity to give you any intelligence in respect to the action of this .extraordinary assemblage,, winch I think may either directly or indirectly bear cii the po litical issues’ of the day. If War- moutli fails iii maintaining and con solidating his ascendancy, you need not.be surprised, should you find him occupying, ere long, an entirely new platform. He has been sometime past endeavoring to kick'from under him the underpinning by which he rose to power—I mean the negroes, and to affiliate himself respectably with the Caucasian race. lie is ambitious of Federal distinctions. If he can not: get the next United States Sena- tqrShip from this State that is vacant, he will wait patiently for tlie next that offers. In the meantime, he will n.n.1—jo vhc Governorship, if ho can, ancl prooam^,..-^ vyhite man’s party as against tho coiotcu race, with which he has ceased to fra ternize as vehemently as formerly. I suppose you have seen the Tunes’ arraignment of your Political Editor ' ttv vfo iooiia aP loaf Srm/lo.ir Tf. IQ in its issue of last Sunday. It is queer what blunders the Times com mits. IVANHOE. SUN-STROKES. New York manages to get along with 100,000 baskets of peaches a day. Says Fleas., “I know . “What I’m about!” Says Grant to Pleas.: “Oh, you git out 1” In that case, at any rate, a touching the validity of the eleventh \ Court a3 to the validity of parts of , jj . n . - . _ I VVUiU <WG tv UUV TaUUlbY VA IJtti bG VA Amendment did come up or was raised- the Constitution, and how they came the point made was that the Joint Reso- to be adopted, all ideas on this sub- lution of the two Houses of Congress ject become unsettled. Such investi- proposing this Amendment to the States, j gations might be interminable. so indisputable as these: that Congress loo, was afterwards published as part of had not been presented to the President and had not received his approval; and We have met with but one case re ported where the Supreme Court en- “Butler is disposed to crow over his prospects for the gubernatorial nomina tion.” Certainly he has a right to >crow since he has a coek in his eye. 8®* A Cincinnati man has written a history of the Cass family and signs him self Jack Cass. Pogue says he don’t C the name. JSriV*’ The Republican party must be prospering. It has two organizations in almost every State in the Union, and they claw each other with all the felinity of several pairs of Kilkenny cats. The latest social sensation is the Buffenbarger poisoning case, at London, Ohio. The points are about as follows: Buffenbarger, seventy-odd years old, and worth a million, like many another man has done, turned fool and married a wo man of twenty. Bridal trip to Cincin nati. Het Colburn. Colburn thinks she’s the old man’s daughter. He makes eyes at her. She tells the old man the fanny mistake. Old man laughs and makes the acquaintance of Colburn and invites him to visit him. Good. Col burn make a visit—one, two, three, many of them—just to keep up a pleasant ac quaintance. Two children are bom. Old man dies at the age of seventy-six.— “Sleeps with his fathers.” Wife mourns a reasonable time and then marries Col burn. Happy all. Some more time pas ses. Buffenbarger’s friends intimate that the old man was helped off. They accuse the lady of feeding him on arsenic gruel. She is arrested. Corpse exhumed. Post mortem. Arsenic in liver and other parts of body. Who put it there ? Late widow awaits trial. XMPlSTlMCT PRINT