Evening Star Newspaper, November 29, 1882, Page 2

eye ft THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON. WEDNESDAY, NO MBER 29, 1882—-DUUBLE SHERT. LETTER FROM NEW YORK. The Recent Bright Weather—Business Pros pects—Attractive Amusen tonian Sees Langtry in But Don't Like It—Patti Debut in Washington—Mrs. Stowe. Urreguiar Correspondence of Tar. Evestxa New York, New York fs at ber ides. The cl sand the clean streets—for a wonder th combine to make the attractions Fer ten . wit on of the is, indeed, aut one. But they are not youcan meet pe of th uri loft aw as Way yesterday. THE BUSINESS SITUATION. ks, and the sale streets lower dow town. he would could not well L ort that t tion, u: were aimost whi it to THE AMUSEMENTS. dramatic not at this season. the fs qu: four mil fon furnishes for ions of pe You can ie wio Ww his aj music of Norman and there the van'’s music spurts ou! shed, but none present. Will be i JUST ONCE ME good fortune sou mud the mw which i. the p ely located, with its r which th mest. It would vhaye adi he Prince of Wal a nd felt as proud ent Mth streets, and the cked con- that business into specula- s risen so high that there f n in the his- a has utterly to old of the musi auty and rank and ather there about the first on the top of A Washing- MR. MacVEAGH'’S- EXPERIENCES. = You Like In?— Opera—Her | st in these Novem- r, crisp days, the beautiful entertaining to one tion of a spurt of snow on Sun- er has been a marvelto our The contrast with the dense hang over the metropolis of England | Heved from all public duties he paid his final re- for New York is so thoronghly cos- | e from most | 2 Teyen n e » suffering, attractions have | open at night, whieh its js | the frauds as unparallele 6 She was woked | were the beauty, though to our little American party there appeared to be many others much hand- somer. it was the gossip of the that th ad the audacity to pour a gl ne down the back of H.R. H. ad the audacits how is your w of i and that she day to him; ering himself at incess, madam. Well, he | ce he haughtily replied: H.R. H. spent most of his time on this occa- 1 sion with M - beanty—th s of Lonsdale. cess, One of the most be who is as the re childsen pod as s x at the gra and numerous atten beautiful. remaine ants. “as YOU LIKE IT.” ry and another English The Prin- utiful of women, and i 1 stand with two ot her At the Goodwood cup she was covered all @ver with the glamor of royalty. Therefore, ‘when Mrs. Langtry stepped into the glare of the footiights she submitted a professional beauty tonsevere test.and I am satis: Ror a great actress. wind, in a rich evening low nec ed that the Ameri- Can verdict is that she is neither a great beanty In the first act she appears dress of satin, and in the blet and hose”— ‘ton the audi- med it econd act. every ¢ limba, every we - But Mrs. Lanzt her eyes ful, but her neck and shoulders tiful the i arms are thi and the end of 's of opera of com- one of disap- not are her snot fall— and e infle Her ac Amore me: ion I never saw. h the play, and closed the few line hr = sirling | that he audience in an indifferent is left before the company which n selection. The play he scene in the fo The sun str of Ardennes but is of her vunted magnifi- is s through the rich The house is sold as far ahead as y is announc Gificuity in disposing of three to five dollars apiece. ADELINA PATTI IN OPERA. Tn the year pled asa Theater the only theater of 1, and speculators have no th ets at from . when the building now occu- omigue In Washington was vurcity, under the manage- Ment of William Stuart, the well-known Shake- Spearean critic, and I Of age atthe nd had hardly b not stron; quisite purity i as she canie t it was a lc ht possession. Was predict traini fled seen her from tl ia ele Lammer simp! 4 ly fri ying down to the foot- before the gener- i Boueiecauit, author Adelina Patti was brought forward asa prima donna. She was but sixteen years an her mu- me In face and t- It with proper great artist, and that I had not e appeared as ay night to an ay. Her perfect, as a whole was pronounced of the leading morning pa- of the most wonderful ever given in The fashionable world of course I noticed in August Belmont’s box ex-Senator Conkling, Benator Jones, mrs. Mrs. Kate Chase Sprague, rague’s eldest daughter, and Mr. Belmont. Opposite to them were ex- friends. first act. Whether or not the academy is ni large enough to hold him when Mr. Blaine Preseat I do not know. HARRIET BEECHER STOWE. y.end Mrs. Blaine, the guests of some Mr. Conkling did not remain after the ot Is Imet this venerable lady at the Grand Hotel a Gay or two since. She is still vigorous in mind ‘and body and rich in the recollections of halt a ‘tentury. She seemed quite impressed with the —< Thurlow Weed, for he leaves but few marks of the anti-slavery agitation of thirty ago. Mrs. Stowe was on her way to Flor- where she spends the winters. ‘Corporal Blucher, tn ‘Henry, Bas recetved an o! from Baker Pasha ‘msetst him in reorganizing the Ezyptian army. Hirem was mourdei the garrison at Fort Mc- fer wo by Erastus Page 8 | inet until the pr ly | woul rep! e | 85 I did not for a moment entertain the idea of » common to | maining tm the Cabinet after his death, T sup- is amateurish THE STAR ROUTE VILLAINY. How He Was Crippled by the Thieves and Their Teols, | From the Philadelphia ‘Times. Three weeks before the following letter was | written to F t Arthur by the then Attorney | General, Wa acVeagh, his resignation had | bec "3 Teturn to Philadelphia free from the Tesponsibilities of the Department of The snect acVeagh was named, | and bis nomination to the Senate definitely fixed for the day of McVeagh’s retirement. Thus re- Justice. spects to the Supreme Court as Attorney General, and returned the same day to resume his business | in Pt ia. For reasons satisfactory to the = expected nomination Was not 1, and the position remained Ubereafter. A few Weeks President met ag through this tly requested him to binet until the siur disposed of, which etiully declined, with the request that resignation should he formally accepted in f the unexpected failure to appolat a suc- dent then urged MacVeagh to ar route prosecutions as one of the private counsel of the government, which was also declined for rea ry clearly Jin the etter herew: ad of sending Mr. ® Of his resignation from wrote him renewing his should return to the Cab- s could be disposed of or 1et as private counsel for the government n_con- lucting the eases. ‘To that letter, Mr. Ma h answered as follows: | PurLaperrnta, November 8, 1881. | My Dear Mn. Presipet: Your letter has just request that MacV reached me and I w me to see you and talk over once more the subject of which It treats in the same spirit of concilfation In which we have here- ore discussed tt, £ will telegraph you In advance of my ing, Which will be just as soon as I can if from engagements here. In the tnterval I wish you to consider again the reasons why I cann this subject. Share your Opinions upon ve already told you, I knew ng about the star route frauds rtield called my attention to He spoke very earnestly of his duty to | m thoroughly investigated, to remove all | nted them and to © prosecuted against for such a course were develope He said he had expl stmaster General me views, and also why he wished him to AST me | was q : | of his own opinion upon th ubject. He Villainies; as a loath- some ulcer on the body politic, needing to be cut out, With all tts roots, no m: er where they €x- tended. He stated that, while tt did not belong to ay department—certatnly not at all at that stage miatter—yet he wished to associate me with the Postin: General to the extent of having the latter feel at perfect liberty to consult me a time about it. He said he intended to re: General Brady a soo! 1fint as At a subse- quent Inter “1 the delay in that matter and urged his immediate removal, as he held him principally responsible for the great frauds which he evidently was convinced had becn committed. THE STAR ROUTE ASSAULT. soon as Gen. Brady’s resignation had been anded his newspapers, not uunaturall lent Garfield, the Posti ronnectea ct I speak th, for thence and T only kno read th other vee Connecti sarily a part of 1 him tat T ri ft ai Tadided the general propo: ys the abuse of thieves fs about oration in our public Mfe worth win- and 1s the surest possible passport to the £001 opinion of honest men. pirit and In this compantonship I went ising with the President and the Postmaster | | ‘al BS Occasion arc My functions w (slight and infrequent. Mr. Woodward y | Speelal agent of the Post OM | ace 1 with these frauds and most zealc | tigation. He not only pos: = of the Postmaster General, Dut had ended to me personally by’ Senator man of excellent Juiginent and not | only of undoubted but of aggressive honesty. When, therefore, Mr. Woodward thought it destra- he he should have the assistance of Mr. Gib- son and the Pe opinion, I went with the latter to President Gar- field, explained the matter to him and received lis direetions to employ Mr. Gibson. When, subse- quently, Mr. Woodward and Mr. Gldson’ agreed in requesting the employment of Mr. Cook pre cisely the same cours: was pursued, with the same result, THE ATTORNEY GENERALS ADVICE. Whenever they brought me any person supposed to possess knowledge of these frauds I advised him to tell the truth, and whenever I recetved let- ters suggesting sources of information I wrote to the parties indicated, expressing the desire of the government to obtain any knowledge or papers re- lating to the subject under their control, and what- ever responses were received J, of course, turned over to the gentleman charged with the inquries which were progressing. also insisted from the and upon all proper occasions that there was no possible vindication for anybody accused except anopen trial before a court and jury, or a frank ndonment of the cases by the government if the evidence did not, In the opinion of the Prost- dent, Justity a prosecution, ‘That was my whole the cases up to the wounding of fel, except that the day before he shot he repeated to me his efforts to have Mr, He ai ’d_ district attorney of the District | t Hayes, and directed me to see Mr. | Ridale, offer him the place in his name, and, tf he cepted It him by telegraph «hd he ¢ Mr. Corkhill’s r. Riddle, asking to see + did not see me until the night of the t Garfleld was wounded and when we him to die very shortly. I then in one of the upper rooms of the at had occurred. THE SELECTION OF COUNSEL. As you had the best of reasons for knowing, I never expected President Garfleld to recover, and posed such connection as I had had with the star route eases was substantially ended, and that any further relation which the department might have with them would devolve upon my successor. AS, however, President Gurfield continued to live I continued to do‘whatever was necessary, but no- tung more. When we were considering the re- tnoval of the President to Long Branch, Mr. Cork- hill asked me if I knew whether any of these cases would be ready forthe grand jury. I told him I knew nothing of the details of the cases, and that, of course, Mr. Cook, his own. oeae assistant In the cases, was the person Ive him any infors mation he desired. af As Ifelt sure the responsibility of the govern- ment would devolve upon you at an early day I desired todo nothing which I could avoid to em- Darrass or commit you or my successor. I there- fore postponed the selection of leading counsel until I was assured by the gentleman ip chargevof these matters that it ought to be delayed no longer. Thereupon the Postmaster General and I met and discussed the subject. We that in view of the circumstances, we ought to select from the leaders of the bar gentlemen not only of the highest ability and character, but gentlemen also whose personal and political relations would very probably be not only cordial but confidential with you and with my successor, so that you should approach these cases with ‘every possible vantage. It was in this spirit we selected Mr. Bitss and Mr. Brewster, and with the selection of those gentlemen I considered my relation to the star route matters as ended. MACVEAGI’S WITHDRAWAL FROM THE CABINET. Assoon as President Garfleld died I informed you of my determination to leave the Cabinet as ‘son as you could conveniently appoint my succes. sor, and a few days afterwanls I made a public announcement of that determination. After your return from New York you kindly asked me t) re, consider It, and I, as kindly, expliined to you wh: J could not do so.’ You then decided upon iy suce cessor, and upon your assurance that he wonld we nominaty to the Senate not later than Wednes- day, October 26, T left Washington Tuesday after. noon, October %, having made my adieus and leaving the Sollcitor General, with your approval, in charge of the department, On ‘thursday at the depot, you explained to me why you h: not been able to do as you expected, and why you had decided to leave the Solicitor General in charge Until the meeting of Congress, I really think, therefore, the first thing in order Is the acceptance of my resignation. And assuming that to have been done I will re- stale why I was convinced that it was desirable on public grounds alone. If the star route cases are tried they must be ally tried in the Dis- trict of Columbia, and the Jurors must be from its resident ‘in that president Gaeneldes ith nt lifetime, wit ations. That ts said to have stantly as to President Garfeld was and i af i H} TACTICS OF THE ACCUSED. ‘Then too, you will have observed that both be- fore and since I left Washington all kinds of falsehoods concerning our relations bave been published, purporting to be semi-official, and if not Inspired at least not-discouraged. Of course I know how absolutely untrue ail this is, but it serves the purpose of leading the people of the District to suppose thst you are very, hostile to me, and It is useless to close our eyes to the fact that Mr. Gorham’s relations with some of your most influential friends give these pretentions Very considerable weight with unreflecting people. 1 do not mention these tactics of the accused par tfes to make any complaint of them. Quite likely they were to be ex in such elrenmstances as have surrounded these cases. Indeed, I foresaw to some extent that such methods would be em- ployed, and successfully, and J have, therefore, always belleved, but never so firmly as to-day, that my remaining in office after President Garfeld dled, or assuming any special responsibility for these cases in any shape, would be construed in the District itself as notice that you were not In sympathy with the prosecutions and that you in- tended President Garfleld’s administration and not yours should be responsible for the further uct of them. If I had needed any additional dence that I was right In this conelusion I wo have found It in the frantic demands of the ac- cused parties themselves that I should continue responsible and their loud prophecies that you would not accept my resignation unless I agreed to such responstbility. They know as well as you and I know that the genticmen now In charge of the cases are all tht can be elther usefully or beneficlally employed in them and that they will de all which can be done to bring them to a ful conclusion, but they destre to point to my pervision of them as proof that they are con- trolled by Influences to which yon are liosttle, Tn the District of Columbia that consideration would certainly be very powerful and might be fatal. ‘TRYING TO MAKE THE PRESIDENT SEE IT. Ihave written you a long letter,but it 1s because Irecognize the gravity of the subject and because Iwish you to look intomy mind upon {t as through an open window. In this matter, as in all others, however much I desire to oblige you, I must stand upon my own convictions of duty, and { cannot, therefore, do as you wish, because T belleve It would be wrong." If, however, there is any oti way open in which I’ can serve you I will gladly doit. If you wish to sattsty yourself of the utter and shameless iniquity of these. transactions by nination of the records, I will dozen typleal ¢ in a few hours. If, then, you c: give public expression'to te convicts government has been shamefully robbec the men engaged Int bring the wrongdo- ers to justic vol »roval, you in my opinion, do far mort 15 securing ¢ resuit thon IS possible in any other v M while, ¥ » Lean render w culated, in my judgment, to help and not to hi der the good cause, I will gladiy render withou stint and without reward. IT will consult and vi to the best of my ability with you or with my he gentlemen in charge of the cas y whom you may suggest, for in that am of Httle use, Iwill at least be sure I am not doing harm. And nowI have given you once more my deliberate opinions upon this whole matter and a full statement of my connection With It. Sincerely yours, Wayne MacVEacH. AE London Decorative Novelties. Correspondence of the Art Interchange. Painting on glass still retains its populs Mirrors of all sizes, clreular stands for flower vases, the panels and doors of cabinets, glass flower pots with four sides, the “jambs” of a mantelshelf, the front of a cottaze piano, and many other ornamental articles are decorated with painted glass. The designs are usually floral, bold and effective, and the work is car- ried out in oil paints, laid on tolerably thick, and without any preparation. In a fashionable boudoir T saw recently the strips of glass between the windows painted with a few detached sprays of red acconia and leaves, and the mirror over a console table hada large spray painted on the left side, with Iris and small leaves straying up and and the was decid- , astrip r haifa yard in width, was laid in the center of the table, painted ali round the edge with water lilies, leaves, with af ed round it on the strip of glass. other dishes, all slightly raised, containing the fruit, cakes and bonbons, rested on t ited part. A smaller piece of in the center of the table, under a lamp or vase, and painted, looks well. It is not necessary to paint very carefuily, the general effect being most aimed at. Pieces of looking-glass can be cut into shapes and fitted into the backs of plush and velvet brackets, with a piece of ribbon-yel- vet tightly fastened _across..tia elges,or into the back of a blotting-case or, photegrapheal- bum, and painted with a-spray of flowers or Dirds or any design. I was lately shown two circular pieces of glass, bound with velvet, and backed with gold paper, in the style of the old passe-partout photograph-frames; the suspended by yelvet bow, and had a lovely face painted in oils on each. They were about the size of an ordinary dessert-plate. Toilet-mirrors have now occasionally plain straight borderings of glass let intounvarnished wood, and painted with flowers. Other mirrors have bands of embroidered yelvet or satin laidon to the plain, straight wood-work. Similar em- broidery is worked on a :rlder band, which bor- ders the edge of the toilet cover. Loops of rib- bon of the colors in tie work fall very long from the two front eorners of the table, the “skirt” being of flounces ot washing-lace, figured net or muslin. Sunflowers hold their own Inartistie work, and yery large single ones, without stalk or leaves, form the center of cushions and cireular footstools. They are worked in either arrasene or crewels, and are effe: A brown satin quilt had one of large sunflowers worked in each corner, with a wreath of smaller ones in the circling a large monogram worked in each about the size of an ox-eyed ‘The monozram composed ot these min- ely put together was ex- ‘The same had been worked , on a ruby velvet ground, for ‘a banner screen, which hung from one side of a mantel border of red velvet, embroidered with one large spray of daisies and brambles. This 1s somewhat novel style, and is carried out on the little fireplace curtains as well ason the valances J wail-brackets. On the curtains the de: from the base and strays upwards. Ornamental work can be made out of discol- ored blankets that have become unsightly from continual washing and long wear. They can be dyed to any desired color, cut up into a variety of sizes and shapes, and, by being embroidered in silk, crewel. or chenilles, or applique with colored cloth,made into varlous articles of deco- ration. A carriaze-rag was dyed dark blue, bound with velveteen of a deeper shade, and embroidered in the four corners with sunflowers. A mantel valance, of dark green, had poppies coarsely worked with one petal raised by means of cardboard, and turned back. The wool was passed over and over, in its correct shades, till the card was completely covered, fastened to the poppy, and then again lightly to the valance. This was only done here and there, but it was most effective. A perambulator cover of ruby had wild roses on it. A couvrepied was of alternate stripes of red velveteen and red blanket, with a running pattern of jessa- mine worked on the velveteen, and stars of very dark red arrasene on the blanket. These are a few uses to which old blankets are put, and there are others which may suggest them: selyes, such as panels of screens, portieres, mats for baths and window-hangings, ete. Ornamental plateg look their best when placed ‘on sinal! velvet-cof€red easels, surrounded bya twisted length of soft silk, either plain oredzed witha narrow silk fringe. The silk length is passed over one upright support at the top be- hind the tallest, center one, over the third, showing the point, and allowed to fall over the edges of the plate on both sides, then twisted loosely along the bottom and knotted over to one side. On a mantel-shelf, two handsome plates on these easels, with the scarf twisted on opposite sides, are very effective, especially in red. Some wooden frames are carved to look like open compasses and rules; they are usually mounted on velvet. Small candle shades of perforated silver, lined with pink paper, are now fashionable for the dinner-table. The silver looks well with the plate on the table, and the pink Iming throws a ‘oming hue: they are also to be had in gold. The quaint crumpled paper owls’ heads for Jamps and candles, in different colors, are still used. Stamping the menu in gold on a doyley isa novelty, but scarcely likely to be very popular; it is laid on the table, and is clreular and of the ordinary size. At a dinner party given on board a ie hot longago, each guest hada meno. slipped into a quilted satin case, with a simulated flap turned ; and asmall sprig of forget-me-nots. The cases would afterwards hold a few photo- graphs or letters. The host wished each guest to have a souvenir of his entertainment after he had left for’his far-off foreign home. Some d'oyleys have the floral design on them outlined. with gold twist before i; sachets and glove-cases are ornamented in same manner. Cross-stitch work 1s used in church decoration. altar-covers are worked in blue and red. of hassocks The tops and the covers for the Bible are of silk or the is done serge; on canvas which is after- wards drawn away. Some box hassocks worked with «large Curtains for drawing * are ' by a broad insertion o ‘worked, red.or TREASON F@ THE GOVERNMENT. What the Executive Should Insist Upon. THE HELMS AXD SPENCERS SHOULD BE CLEANED ‘ 5 OUT... From the Springfield (Mass.) Republican. The removal of several Washington officials Saturday wpon charges by Attorney General Brewster and Messrs. Bliss, Ker and Merrick, government counsel in the star route cases, in- dicate that President Arthur has heard from the elections .and has: wearied with his two-faced subordinates. The men removed and the grounds for removal are thus stated In letters to the President by George Bliss and the Attor- ney General: United States Marshal Henry, Gar- field’s appointee, on the gronnd that he had publicly stated in an interview that the govern- ment had “no case,” had been negligent of the interests of the government in drawing the Jury and had not concealed his sympathy with the defendants. Postmaster Ainger,one ot Hayes’ ap- pointees, and an efficient and popular officer, on the ground that he had certified bogus bonds for star route contractors and had written a letter to his newspaper in Michigan attacking the conduct of the prosecution. His assistant, Col. Myron M. Parker, of Vermont, on grounds probably of the same character, though they are not very definitely stated. | Helm, fore- man of the government printing office, on the ground that he is the controlling editor of the Critic, alow Washington newspaper which is owned by Brady and which only exists to abuse the prosecutors in the star route cases. George E, Spencer, ex-Senator, and at present govern- ment director of the Union Pacifie rallroad, who has been wanted for many months as a witness for the government in these cases. The removal of all these men will be approved by the people, we believe, unless there be an exception in favor of Ainger and Parker, neither ot whom has been involved heretofore in these scandals. Henry is an effusive ass ana greatly lacking in discretion. Helm is a striker who seeks at one and the same time to serve the men on trial and to enjoy control of government patronage by holding an important office in the great national publishing house. His appoint- ment as foreman of the Congressional Record by the Public Printer was a insult to the government, In view of the fact that ils hire- ling, Bueil, had already testitied In court that Helm controlled the columns of the Critic. Spencer's appointment as a government director of the Union Pacific railroad, was in itself a gross outrage upon decent’ people and the President makes tardy reparation of decency Ly ent removal. public printer, Rounds, cannot escape complicity for Helm’s appointment, and may have to go; there would be Ittlesympathy with him ifhe did. District Attorney Corknill’shead is also in danger. He isa third-rate lawyer, whose want of dignity and common sense in the Guitean case brought contempt upon the coun- try. Ifhe could be replaced with a lawyer of the ability of Mr. Merrick, there would be satis- faction in his retirementalso. No one would be more jealous than The Republican of the mantp- ulation of the civil service to affect the standing of government prosecutions in the courts, but when that service is used to entrench the public defenders and apologists of the accused, and other bitter assailants of the prosecuting officers in the high ¢onfidential places and emoluments of the goverument, and to insult the administra- tion of justice, it is time that the executive should insist upon the unity and loyalty of its subordinate service by removal. “Indeed, it puld be observed that the most fazrant of these cases comes from the wanton appointment upon grounds of favoritism, of such men as Helm and cer to the places they occupy, a Brewster's Broom. From the Philadelphia Press (rep). The administration has acted late; but it has acted-decisively. Washington swarms with peo- ple who run about sneering at off and flouting the punishment of offi The air is fall of sympathy with thi apologies for thieving. The official world is rank with an easy belief that the government is there to be plundered. Honesty there is and the honest men y outnumber the rogues, but the rogues are rich and powerful, and per- yading. They make friends and keep them; they dazzle poor clerks by their expenditure and awe them by their “influence,” they make the most of their wealth and more of their as- surance; they treat an honest prosecutor as a persecutor, and they command sympathy in a community which has come to feel that stealing is safe at Washington if government money is taken. On this President Arthur has set histoot. If nothing more is accomplished, if no members of the star route conspiracy are punished and venal jurymen again defeat the ends of justice, much is done when a public example is made of the friends of public plunderers and public opinion in Washington receives a warning that the only safe side is the side of the people. This has been done. More remains. Attorney Gen- eral Brewster should sweep out every man in official life whose sympathies Ife with this great conspiracy which has spent its millions to de- bauch public opinion in the capital of the government whose money its mem- bers stole. This money has been used to purchase newspapers, to buy lawyers, to acquire friends, until the public alr of Washing- ton has been filled with foul attacks on every man who made the cause of justice his own and departed from the company of thieves. Ex- Marshal Henry's attempt to creep under the fall of the martyred President, whose friendship and memory he insults by using them as his detense, is. part and parcel of this false and wicked sentiment which has come to look on the efforts of public justice to take public thieves by the throat, lest’ a government by the people should rot off the earth, as a bickering, nagging persecution of mien who had made much of opportunities by which all seek to profit. When Marshal Henry found that his personal sympathy was doubted in a case where honesty was on one side and robbery on the other—one of two things—he should have resigned or proved by his acts where his sympathy lay. He did, unfortunately for himself, and the demonstration should have put him out of office months ago. So of other men. Ona vital issue they are on the wrong side, and Brewster's broom has righteously swept them out of office into the street to bear compuny with the other ex-officials, from Brady down, whom they aided. The work should not stop. It cannot if the President and his Attorney General do their duty. The Press long since insisted that Dis- trict Attorney Corkhill should not be permitted to remain in an office with whose chief work he had no sympathy. The letter of ex-Attorney General MacVeagh, now first published, shows the accuracy of our assertion. If the prosecu- tion of the star route conspiracy is to be made effective as well as earnest, Corkhill must go, and with him every man in official place in or about Judiciary Square or the government of the District who has used his influence or his sympathy to belittle the prosecution or block the wheels of justice. In all these things Presl- dent Arthur, has the people with him, and his Attorney General enjoys the support and countenance ef honest men. Let them act and treat sympathy with a plundering ring as treason to good government. Se. The-Sad Truth. From the New York Tribune, The root of’ the present difficulty is excessive speculation mm products and the resort to “corners” and monopolies in order to extort unnatural prices. Iron is prostrated because the combination virtualiy cornered the market and extorted excessive prices two years ago. Petroleum has been controlled by a monopoly for years. Qotton svas held at an unnatural price for along time, and the growth of con- sumption was thereby checked. Speculation prevented thé marketing of a part of the wheat and provisions proditced last year, and deiayed tries had command.6f the markets. We cannot monogram, ete ton. | ihe exports this ua until crops from other coun- eat ourcake and have it too; if we will have all the dear delights of unlimited gambling and Jobbery in commerce, we must bear some of the ‘consequences. —— A Strange Race With Strange Gar- ments, From the New York Sun. Along with the unceasing introduction here of people trom other countriesand of other races, there has been indi ously developed a new race of people, with their own customs and their own language. Although they are natives of this country and are in tull sympathy with our political passions, their dress is not exactly the ‘ame as ourgenerally ized style of and among other points of distinction this is one by which hod be ‘@fstinguished from the general run of native Americans, These people are classified under the general name of gents. It is for their benefit that the sign our corres- pondent refers to is displayed, and the meaning of the sign is that at that place can be a aUarticle of ress Kaowe aa? eta ‘THE ABETTORS EOUNCED. Notice Served Upon the Star Routers. From the Philadelphia Pross (Rep.) President Arthur gives an earnest of bis hostility to the star route influence by cutting off the official heads of five men who have been drawing pay trom the government, and at the sameé time giving aid and comfort to those who have been seeking to defraud the government. While there has been no good reason to doubt that the administration desired the conviction of the star route thieves, the display of zeal hitherto has been confined to the government counsel, including their chief, the Attorney General. The removals might have been made sooner and the number, we think, might have been larger, with advantage to the public ser- vice, but there is no mistaking their meaning. Notice is hereby served upon the star routers that the war against them is to be pressed with vigor, without quarter for them or considera- tion for thelr friends. The retention of ex-Senator Spencer in the office of government director of the Union Pa- cille railroad after he became a delinquent and absconding witness has subjected the adminis+ tration to much unfavorable criticism. It, how- ever, chose to act in its own time and in its own way. It gave Spencer abundant oppor- tunity to appear and explain his action if he chose, and he, failing to do so, the government at last remoyesits approach by taking his office from him. Attorney General Brewster tells us. that the search for Spencer is still persisted in, and if he can be found he will yet be made to answer for his gross contempt and disobedience and compelled to disclose the facts within his knowledge, which are essential to the prosecu- tion of the defendants. Helm, who drew pay as foreman of the Government Printing Office, and was, at the same time, manager of one of Brady’s sheets is stricken off the government pay roll. He is now at liberty to give his entire attention to the work of slandering and abus- ing those who are seeking to bring Brady and his star route associates to Justice. Marshal Henry ts charged With being respon- sible for much of the opposing sentiment to the cause of the government that was exhibited during the star route proceedings, and another marshal will perform his duties at the next trial of these cases. Ainger and Parker, postmaster and _ assistant postmaster of the District of Co- lumbia, were so seriously implicated by the star route evidence that it is a question whether they should not themselves be placed among the de- fendants. They are certainly not the men to be lett in charge of the post office of the national capital, The administration cannot afford to re- tain a single man in position of trust in Wash- ington whose sympathies are with those who have been robbing the Treasury or who are dis- posed to hinder the effort to track down and lay bare their devious ways. o- My Rights, Yes, God has made me a woman, And Iam content to be Just What he meant, not reaching out For other things, since he, Who knows me best and loves me best, has or- , dered this for me. . . . Tam not strong or valtant, T would not join the fight, Or jostle with men in the highways, ‘To stain my garments white; But I have rights asa woman, ard here Iclaim é my right: * (. e e The right of the lady birch to grow,~< ‘To grow as the Lord shail please, ver a sturdy oak rebuked, jed nor sun nor breeze, all its pllant sienderness, kin to the stronger trees; The rizht-to a Ure of my own,— Not inerely a casual bit Of somebody else’s life flung out, That taking hold of it, Imay stand as a cipher Woes after a numeral writ I do not beg for a ballot, Though very life were at stake; I would beg for the nobler, juster way, That men, for manhood’s sake, Should cive ungrudgingly, nor withhold tilt I must fight and take. Susan Cooliage, gg Consistency in Costume. From the London Daily News. The beauty of consistency was till a few years ago conspicuous by its absence from the dress of women of the present century in England. To Wear a perfectly plain bodice m company with a skirt whose gathers were inconyeniently superkbundant was an incongruity so universal that those who, in advance of thelr time, dared to ask what was supposed to become of the fulness which so abruptly ceased at the watst were considered to be curiously hypercritical. If, undaunted by snubs, an inguiring mind of this order had asked what was the motive of fringe or lace stretched plain as a trimming up- on askirt, withopt a possibility of appearing to terminate anything, the owner of the Interrogative mind in question would undoubtedly have been set down as “odd,” a term of reproach which conveyed more severity in those days than it does now. As regarded color, matters were worse still. On a great state occasion the Empress Eugenie wore a green dress, a yellow mantle and a red bonnet, te shades of these colors being, most probably, glaringly brilliant. Her taste was considered unimpeachable, and the contume in question, distended as it was over an enormous hoop, was praised by the chroniclers of the period as ‘-bril- jant and effective.” Without unduly prasing the reigning modes, which haye many faults, it may be claimed for them that they display in many respects a due regard for consistency. Fringes are placed only where they are pendant from an edge. Lace has been misused, periiaps, in the matter of skirts where one flounce is placed above another throughout the entire length. This, however, is but an instance of the faulty carry- ing out of the original conception. The theory of such a skirt Is that each lace flounce repre- sents the edge of a skirt, anerge than, and falling over, the one beneath. Wien the lace is skilfully manipulated this deception (Geeepiions are permissible in dress when skilfully veiled by the art which hides itself!) is artistically suc- cessful, and in order to place it above suspicion each flounce of the lace should be finely and im- xceptibly mounted npon net of amesh resem- ling that of the lace. The succeeding flounce ‘would fall over this net, and even slightly over the lace itself, the latter being in no cese sewed tothe foundation. ‘This small precaution is too frequently neglected. There was a time when buttons were used by the gross as trimmings. They were sewed on anything and everywhere, down the middle and up the sides, on either “front” of a Jacket, and thickly bestrewing the sleeves. “Clever, indeed, was that girl considered who arranged her buttons in van- dykes round her dress, and her skill was well advertised by the terrific noise made in church by her very original trimming. It never oc- curred to any one that buttons should have dress known as trousers. believe that. some plausible excuse for being in any given place. In peppering them all over a costume the pepperer should have been equally liberal with small tabs and button-holes. Then the buttons contd at least have pretended to be use- COOKING THE THANKSGIVING = BIRD. Noast ‘Turkey With Cranberry Sauce and With a Stuffing of Chestnuts, From the Chicago Hotel Reporter. Take the large turkeys, such as are known to be old and not Buitable for straight roasting— it will take twenty-five pounds raw weight for fity persons, or forty-five pounds for one hun- dred, varying according to the rarity of the dish and the method of carving—singe, wash and truss with the legs inthe body. Boil them in the stock boiler, in the soup stock which may have vegetables in it anda little salt, but no spice flavors nor bay leaf for about three hours, or till tender. They can be tried by lifting on a fork and yulling the wings, which will part from the body when done, or by rais- ing the meat ot the dramstick. Then take | them out ona baking pan. Your turkeys are now good eating, hardly to be improved by roasting, and all the harm that is done to them the deteriorization into dryness, stringiness and insipidity that brings hotel turkey into disre- pute takes place afterward by ruingus dry bak ing Inthe oven. They are already cooked, and you can let them wait till there is room and the Tange is hot. Dust then Nghtly with flour. Pour enough water or stock into the pan to keep it from burning, and some of the fat from the top of the stock boiler, and brown them off quickly. If fresh butter is cheap enough baste them with ft and the turkeys will soon be of a rich deep brown, will cut moist, compact and tender without parting into only dry strings. The common mistake in cooking old turkeys ts in boiling them halt done and thinking to finish the cooking in the oven. They dry out. Serve with cranberry sauce on one side of the dish and a little brown sauce made with the residue of the butter in the turkey pan poured under, Turkey stuffing and cranberry sauce ought not to go together. It makes too much ofan incongruous mixture tn one dish and, as the dressing needs gravy as well, It takes ‘too much time in the carving. Cranberry sauce for turkey: cranberries, 12 ounces of sugar, 1 smail cupfal of water, Wash and pick over the cranberries, put them into a bright kettle with the water, Spread the gugar on top, shut in the steam and cook at the back of the range where they will not scorch at the bottom. When done, stir up to break the berries. Serve warm. Cranberry Jelly for wild turkey and game and cold dishes and pastry is easily obtained by draining off the yrup from well-cooked cranberries before they are stirred or mashed and letting it get cold. The berries then stirred up with a little more sugar make equally good cranberry sauce. How to prepare roast turkey stuffed: Tike fat hen turkeys or young but full grown gobblers, singe, and pick over and wash them. Stuff them with at dressing and roast for two hours. It Is a good sign that a turkey is done when little jets of steam burst out of the breast and fleshy parts. Young turkeys will cook in about an hour plain or an hour and a half when stuffed. Recipe for cooking roast turkey stuffed with chestnuts: There are two or more ways com- monly practiced. One is to mix the whole chest- nuts with enough of the common dressing to keep them together and fill the turkey with the mixture; another isto mince the chestnuts very fi fter boiling them tender, season well with butter or part suet and saltand pepper, and stuil the turkey with the preparation, which results in a dish scarcely distinguishable from turkey stuffed with mashed sweet potatoes—a way that is really very good, but takestoo many chestnuts. For the first of the above ways make for two tur- keys a veal stuffing and boil about eighty or one hundred of the large foreign chestouts much as you would potatoes, in salted water, then peel and scrape them offthe inner skin. Mix them with the veal forcemeat and use to the turkeys. Sausage-meat can be used d of veal forcemeat. Also, turkeys are with sausage-meat, mixed with one- rd as much fine bread crumbs added dry. is a style cailed a la chipoleta that means ‘h little sausages, made by twisting link sau- sage Into short lengths like chestnuts in size. These are used like whole chestnuts in stuffing, and also in the sauce or gravy. A puree is a pulp of meat, vegetables or fruits pressed through asieve. Boil fifty large chestnuts for half an hour, peel them, scrape off the furry inner skin, wash free from dark specks, then bollthem in a little soup stock one-half hour longer, Mash them like potatoes, season with salt, thin down to the consistency of athick sauce with hot milk and a little butter and stirit through a gravy stainer. sauce for turkey or chicken stuffed with sausage. —___o-_____ Funerals in Gospel Times. From Mrs. Palmer's *‘Home-Life in the Bible,” The touching gospel account of the funeral procession that wound out of the gate of Nain,— probably down the steep road which now leads toward the ancient sepulchral caves west of the village,—as our Lord and his disciples came nigh, gives us probably the most familiar idea ot the ordinary mode of committing the dead to thelr “long homes” in that day. First in order came the women, according to an ancient com- mentary of the Jews, which explains, that, as “woman brought death into our world, she it is who ought to lead the way in a funeral proces- sion.” Among them, how easy for anyone, much more the Lord, to recognize the widow, about to hide away forever from her eyes and only son. Behind the bier followed “much people of the city,” and last of all the hired mourners and the musicians, with their distracting and dis- cordant wailing and piping. According to pre- vailing custom, our Lord and his companions should have Joined the procession, and wept with them who wept, or shared in bearing the burden of the open bier on which lay the young man, “the only son of his mother, and she was a widow.” The apostle pauses in his record of this glorious miracle to emphasize the Saviour's compassion for this bereaved moth¢r, whom he must comfort with a gentle**Weep not,” though in a moment more he should place the dead son alive again Inher arms. May he not at that moment have beheld, as in prophetic vision, the sorrows of that Virgin Mother for the death of her only Son, of which Simeon had testified, saying, ‘Yea, a sword shall pierce through thy own soul also?” It was contrary to the law that a high priest should attend the funeral, or observe any of the customary rites of mourning for any relative, not even for his father or his mother; the priest might be “defiled” for his mother, father, son, daughter, brother and unmarried sister, but for no other relation in life. In the time of Christ it was the custom, from the moment the body was carried out of the house, to reverse all chairs or cot or seats of whatever sort. The mourners an the floor, except on the Sabbath and on one hour of the Friday, the day of preparation, and on some feast-days in which “mourning” was ibited. On the return of the family from the with their friends,*they were served by their neigh- bors with a symbolical refreshment in = consisting of hard-boi an Two quarts of guests, us meal, but at which the supply of wine was limited to 10 cups. These “cups” may have been a relic of the ancient custom referred to in Jeremiah: ‘Neither shall men give them” ‘the mourners) *‘the cup of consolation tor their father or for their mother.” An allusion to fu- Sir John Lubbock em the Sense of These Insects. Sir John Lubbock read to the members of the Linnean society, London, lately, an account of his observations on the habits of Insects made during the past year. Two queen ants which he has had under observation since 1874, and which are therefore eight years old, are still allve, and laid eggs last summer as usual. His oldest workers are seven years old, Dr. Muller, in @ recent review, had courteously criticized his ex- periments on the color-sense of bees, but Sir Joha Lubbock explained that he had anticipated jae objections suggested by Dr. Muller, and guarded against the supposed source of error. The difference was, moreover, not one of princi- pal, nor does Dr. Muller question the main con clusions arrived at, or doubt the preference of bees for biue, which, indeed, is strongly tndl- cated by his own observations on flowers. Sir Jobn also recorded some further experiments with reference to the power of hearing. Some bees were trained to come to honey which was Placed on a musical box on the lawn close to @ Window. The musical box was kept going for several hours a day for a fortnight. It was thea brought into the house and placed out of sight, but at the open window, and about seven yards from where it had been before. The bees, how- ever did not find the honey, though when It Was once shown them they came to It readily zh. Other experiments with a microscope were without result. Every one knows that bees when swarming are popularly, and have been ever since the time of Aristot to be Influenced by clanging kettles, ete. perlenced apiarists are now supposed to whether the noise has really any effect, ty Jobn suggests thateven If it has, with re! to which he expresses no opini it is possible that what the bees hear are not the loud, low sounds, but the higher overtones at the v of or beyond our range of hearing. As re; the industry of the wasps, he timed a bee and a wasp, for each of which he provided a store of honey, and he found that the wasp began earlier In the morning (at 4a.m.), and worked on later in the day: He did not, however, quote this as proving greater Industry on the part of wasps, as it might be that wasps are less sensitive to cold. Moreover, though the be proboscis 1s admirably adapted to extract ho from tubular flowers, when thehoney Is exp as In this case, the wasp appears able ow it more rapidly. This particular wasp bezan work at4inthe morning, and went on without any rest or intermission till a quarter to 8 in the evening, during whith time she visited the store of honey 116 times, , Supposed Px- Sally Court, the Buxom Widow. Sally Court was a buxom widow who owned a freehold cottage, nearly two acres of land, and @ mangle. She wasa tempting prize for Mr. Margets to win if he chose—for Margets was a blacksmith, steady and well to do, and the free- hold would Just have suited him—but he was 25 and she was 42; there was the hitch. Neverthe- less, Margets more than once or twice was ob- served tosneak down the lane after working hours, and it is undentable that fora period of weeks, or even months, he had frequeutly and regularly **Called on the lady, and stopped for tea.” After a while he waxed cool. Interest drew him one way, but love provedstronger, and it ended by Mr. Margets leading anot y altar, and one who was younger, her spouse. Widow Court bro wrankled in her bosom. She hold her peace. ‘He's a false Dlack- she cried one day—for in her wrath she was not nice in her language—‘and If an ill wish can hit him be shall have it, He shan’t come to no good as I can do hin Poor Margets had one child; but a little afier he met with a se rious accident; his right hand was caught in @ machine and dreadtully mangled—he had to lose his arm. It preyed upon his mind, he got Into a desponding condition, and ended by hanging himself. I am sorry to say Mrs, Court was Jubilant, but her hate was not yet appeased nor her vengeance satisfied. She proclaimed that no child of poor Margets would come to any good, and she gloried In the boast that Margets had been “hit by an ill wish,” and the wish was hers. “Aye! and the brat's under it now, and it'll never be took off neither!” As ill-luck would have it, a few months after"this the poor child, in the absence of its mother,was playing with some sticks in the fire, when its clothes caught alight, and it was so sev burned that it became shockingly di and must continue to be so. Mrs. Court exhtb- ited quite a fiendish joy, and went about loudly declaring that she'd serve any one else the same and worse that “came courting her on'y to fool her.” Of course she had well-earned her bad pre-eminence,and though suitors fought shy of her, yet it is said that in the dark hours men and women from all quarters came and knocked furtively at her door, and rumor said i was not for the loan of her mai The road ran just under her garden,and one a young farmer riding by, and seeing an apple tree loaded with fruit hanging over the — he sidled his horse toward the fence and pick arosy apple from the bough. He had scarcely secured it when the animal he rode reeled and dropped as if ithad been shot. The young fele low was overwhelmed with terror; he had been thrown over the horse's head, but, getting up as best he could. he rushed into Widow Court's cottage, fell on his knees and bey or MeTCS, confessed his sins,and prayed that the jad: might stop there.” “Oh, Missus Court, don't ye hit me no more. Ye may ha’ the saddle and bridle and welcome, but don’t ye hit me, not for aapple!” “Get along wi' ye,” said the old hag, for by this time she was old and miserly; *“ don't ride them things! I shan’t do youno harm, On'y don’t ye meddle wi’ my apples no more!” The young man when he got out into the road, found his horse, to his immense Joy and greater surprise, standing quietly waiting for him. Nothing on earth will convince him that Widow Court did not first kill that horse and then raise it from the dead.—The Nineteenth Century. Nothing To Do. Nothing to do! O, folded hands: Why will ye He so white and fair? ‘When the busy world on every sido Call for thy labor, thy earnest care, Nothing to do! there are tired feet Walking with thee life's weary road; Show them the way In path so sweet ‘That leads to Heaven, that leads to Goa Nothing to do, but live In ease ‘You might nave helped vo bear the pala, ou mi ave hel and breast, the vain and rushing ude, Nothing to do! thy days are light. ‘You gather flowers, fest and DrgnG Some are with cruel thors, ‘Nothing to do!_what will Say, When the Lor’ of the haFrest asks of you “What gleanest thou in my field to-day?” “Lora, there was nothing for me to do!” Ella D. Chapman, tn Kingston ful. A beautiful and novel trimming has been devised by a French male mind susceptible to neral banquets is supj to be found in the circumstance after Al death, as recorded in this text: ‘When all the people came to fishing village until King Erik of Pommera cad millinery influence and inspiration. This noble being, regardless of the tact that his own gar- ments could never, never beadorned by it, gave to the world the splendidly successful ee “a = fringe composed partly of chenille an y 0: oxidized silver. It is certainly both graceful and effective, and, like embroidery, is too costly to be within the reach of the multitude. The farrier’s art has now placed Ronee d with climatic variations within the reach of al- most all. The daily governess, trudging her tiring round, can envelop herself in a delightful “dreadnought” at a trifling cost. In her hand may occasionally be observed a small satchel, which is a pleasant mystery of comfort- able contrivance. Opened, it reveais itself as a fur-lined foot-warmer, which enables its fortu- nate r to smile superior to the lukewarm uncertainties and slippery movements ot the railway variety, as well as the arbitrary larities of the great untipped. who control their distribution. The fashionable tur cape has this ear assumed some novel forms, con- sistent with its character as comforter con- soler under stress of weather. One of these varieties forms a sort of mantle, coming well below the waist and provided with 8h which protect: arms without the ly of heat, asin the other new form is that which a thus most effectually and lui A goad illustration of consistent leyed by a judicious admixture of adornment js afforded bythe Redfern dress which Mra. for her landing in New York. of dark blue serge, i ‘the the chest wl cause David to eat meat while it was yet day, David aware, saying, So do God to ime, an more also, if 1 taste bread, or aught else, till the sun be down;” and Jeremy, in his Epistle, speaks of the priests in the temple of idols,who “roar and cry before their as men do at the feast when one is dead.” With the retura from the graye began the formal mourning, when the others tation.’ fulfilled, there followed alighter mourning of 80 days or more, 1 the nature of the bereavement’ parent whole The aecrorie a year. of a relative was also to be Sy ee) for @ season, the Jewish prayer dead’ (ts cmens” tg itt : uit eet +i raised it to the rank of a city in 1425), and they reached a hill on which stood an abbey formerly at the extremity of the terraced gardens at Ma- rienlyst, where, they were told, they would be- hold the sublime metaphysician's tomb. Finding nothing, they inquired of a passer-by, “Hamlet's tomb, if you please?” “Which tomb ou want “What tomb! Are there have noi. in t at e lo Necuthuen thee mie tom, ene Bae PLE beet