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Show Our chaumino friend, Major Good -apeed, in one of his literary efforts in the Chicago Inter- Ocean, takes up the cause of the chief justice, and favois s the retention in office of that judicial gentleman. The major eayt: "I have no means uf makiDg comparisons, but I Tenturo to By, a batter ahowin; will be bard to find anywhere, and his past experience must make him Btill a better iu'lgi thm he has been, and, of course, kuowi the practice better llim a stringer." Always admitting that the major iB a truly good man, we cannot agree with his literary construction, hia eentiment or his grammar; but what we want to Bay just now is, that Good-speed Good-speed 'a defense of SchaefJer ia convincing con-vincing evidence that the chief justice Bbould be removed. Notwithstanding the great correspondent's good intentions, inten-tions, he always gets off wrong wnen writing of anybody or anything. He eems to possess in a large degree the unhappy faculty of stating everything backwards, and as a natural conee qnence, Bays good things where the reverse is intended and would anawer better. |