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The first notaWe result of the pae-
sa^e of the silver bill is the advance in
the price of s lver in the London mark
et to 551 per ounce, which is the high
est price since eiu-lv in November last
The African explorers sent out by
the King of B-lgium have not had
Stanley’s good fortune is escaping or
overcoming the dangers of Afriu’s hur-
nine sands. Ttieirdeaths are annouuced
from Zanzibar.
Mr Ben Hill was paired on the Matr
tliawe resolution and also on the final
vote on the silver hill. Mr. Hill holds
a goo I hand in the game of brae—two
pal
But
think bn will find that it
't win in lb- giinf of politics.
vl]
The Si-
fr.oikl it
that hut wo .in ■ •
allowed to end '
drlphia Ci.riii n !■
will compel C’oegi
envelopes win- -
of socks to be wael
!»"■
•d ”
to revive the
'h the proviso
mail matter he
i-. The Phila
vets that ‘‘this
i-n to tise twi
home a pair
VOLUME: XXXIL - i“5T
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MOKNING, MARCH 6, 1878.
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NEW SERIES-NO. 27
Indian Affaire- 1 '1 A
The Trny Times intimates that tin
Hayes admiiiinistrfi m i- a white el
pliant, which the R p.ttdtcar.s don’t
want and the Dt-muom-v won’t have
The Cnuriir Journal et.ys it is strung.
that the Time', alter seeing its ears and
hearing its bray, should mistake it for
an elephant of any sort.
Col. Forney writes from E .gland that
‘ no member of Parliament is a tobacco
thewer, ami there is not a symptom
dissipation.” Whereupon a Washing
ton paper retorts that the average Eo
lish M. P. doesn’t chew tobacco, but
he is a great smoker, and will wagtr
two to one that there are more red noses
ntid advertised victims of brandy and
heavy Burgundy in the English House
of Commons than in any legislative
body in existence.
Bank President Calhoun of the Fourth
National Bink, New York speaking of
the silver bill remarked to an interview
er that he di i not think the immedi
ate effect of its passage would ‘amount
to anything,” as lie saw that bonds had
gone up when everybody said the)
would go down. Neither did ho think
that even were the basis of the new
coinage enlarged, its efiVct could be op
pressive for five years at least, "‘and
then the bill could be amended, if found
to be deterimental. ’
It is now generally understood in
Washington that Mr. Hayes will veto
the silver bill. It is also expected, in
atlmiiiisiration circles as well as else-
wli-re "'-at twn-ihir«>o .....j»**vj ,u ‘
measure will be mustered in both sen
ate and house. Secretary Sherman is
said to he in a very despondent mood
believing the ship of state is about
t.g . down in the yawning gulf of finau-
e; d ruin. He would scorn to desert his
p -st t
1.1 moil
och an ho
h -f r.-s't
this. He has
ds .(Tice.
t -he
A lady of Sou'i
in-taneeof th-- Ifi.
preparing to rmtk
ed that she was ..ut 1
c!siinedtoherdau.li '
Lord I had a yeas' t
tile door hell rai a
lining was ans ven d. i n
Ini' lying on th.- sill,
iv.i; a single yeist
that some person introducing veasl
cakes deposited this sani|ile as an ad
vertisement and departed to the next
door.
■i lates in.
er. While
discover
•i*t, and ex-
I wish to tile
Just then
.-n the sura
c vas round,
•idv picked,
ke It in.pear-
Vi'asl.iaguin special 10 the Cincinnati
<Lz-tt'-: Tile passage of the silver bill
is looked upon here as the first victory
ol die people over the bonded aris'oe-
i"i"y nl tile East in sixteen years. It i-
h'J’ a foretaste of wn.it IS to come, and
tile representatives of ilie Shylccks will
next be confronted with a prosition
looking to the repeal of the resump
ii.'ii act, the retirement of national
bank note circulation, ami other legis
lotion not in the interest oi the rich,
but lor tile benefit ol the poorer
1 he inquiry into the alleged massa
cre of Russian prisoners by the Turk
ish troops at I’levna is being carried on
cjuieily but without interruption, and
notwithstanding the military honors
which were so readily paid to the com
mander of th- liesifged town, Osman
Pasha, as be’ng responsible for the dis-
c.-cipline of Ills sol iiers, will be tried
by a Russian court-martial, togtther
"nil all ms officers. This will, says a
Corresp indent, be no novel proceeding,
and Russia will be only acting Upon
the same principles as were adopted by
German staff during the war of
•'■ 11 with regard to the French irregu
lar
Fr,
troops, and more especially the
mes-tireurs.
R- turns recently published of the
dividends declared by the Oldham cot
ton mills show that out of forty com-
hiuies o I,- four declsre 1 a dividend in
l 1 '" third ai d f or'ti quarters of 1877.
The averag- divi.l inl f ir me whole forty
mills was 35 percent, in 1877, against 11
P er cent, in 187G Bui besides the re
duced average divide I for the whole of
’oe mills, there are i q. losses made dur-
In = the period- in which no dividends
whatever were declared. As the Old-
bam mills ar understood, for the most
Part at least, to posse-s the latest im
provements in machinery and to be
trorked upon the most economical prin-
’ides, these tact- may be taken as fairly
representing the entire cotton industry
of En g l andi
Gen. Howard, now on liii waylto
Washington, is the bearer important
information concerning Indian affairs.
He says.that agents fr;m the camps of
Sitting Bull and the Nez Forces now
in Canada are constantly arriving in
his department, and as soon as they ar
rive, set at, work sowing the eieds ofdis-
sension and strife among the various
tribes which have hitherto : been peace
fully disposed.- The arguments'.em
ployed, as far as can be ascertei tied,' tire
mainly based on the insignificant suc
cess of our military operations during
the past few years.'' The 'Modoc cam
paign; in which a handful of half-
starved savages defied a force ten times
their number; the expedition against
the Sioux, which terminated in tin*
laughter of Custer and his command
the Nez Perces war, which cost sd much
and accomplished so little—all these
have weakened the military prestige of-
the Government, and thereby encour
aged the red brother to dig up the
hatchet whenever favorable i pportntii
ty offers. Gen. Howard thinks—aiid
hm judgment is more reliable on th 5 -
subject than ou Freeduirii’a Bureau
business—that the Indians in Montana
and elsewhere are oi ly waiting for a
good chai.ce to strike, and that the only
way to avert serious disa-ter is to watcl
them closely with sufficient troops
properly, a-d anticioate them, if neces
sary, by taking the initiative.
Meanwhile the new Indian Commis
sioner, Mr. Hayt, has a plan of his own
whicn he is exceedingly anxious to try.
He proposes to select from all the
promine, t tribes the most respectable
and well behaved Indians; those “who
are recognized for good conduct, stand
ing and influence among them people,’
and organize them into a police to
keep ihe rouges in order. He is confi
dent, it is said, that this arrangement
“will not only have the most salutary
ff-ct upon the Indians, but will serve
to dispense witn the necessity of the
presence of United Suites troops at the
agencies,” who, as he thinks, stir up
more trouble than they quell. Proba
bly the Hayt plan woul 1 answer ihe
purpose admirahly if we had been
honest and honorable in all our deal
ings with the Indians, and thereby
made good Indians the rale and bad
ones the exception. But our treatment
has been such as to reverse the rule,
and we doubt whether any tribe can be
found west of the Mississippi with fifty
men who could be tiUBted as Govern
ment policemen. The commissiouerV
theory is very pretty, but it cannot he
rednoed to practiceiaod —- ’ * ‘ ’
rlayc, if ii- *,uues ins scalp, not to risk
it in the keeping of his coppe'-colored
police unless there are Federal soldiers
within signaling distauce.—Missouri
Republican.
Discussing the matter of artificial
butter, a leading commercial authority
if Cincinnati says: “Many of the hest
families in Cincinnati are using it in
preference to any other butter, and the
role of its fi n nds are widening daily.
It is decidedly ‘the butter of me fu
ture,’ and will come into use so gener-
ly that ere long it will rank first, and
he ordinary product of the dairy will
he relegated to a ‘hack seat.’” Prol.
E S. Wayne, a b-adiug chemist of Ciu-
iunati. says, ill a prinl-d letter : ”Bui-
er being, as mentioned, sin ply ordina
ry fats, oleine, palroaline anil stearine,
flavored with a small per cent, of odor
fat tv matter, there is no gaud reason
why it cannot be made dir* ct trom fats,
in I 11 ivore I so as to represent 'hat
ii.tdei from milk or cream direct. Fresh
ar- selected,containing the proper
proportions of oleine, palmatine and
urine. These are rendered and puri
I with the greatest ear -, and then
churned with rich, fre-h milk. The
peculiar odorous fais that impart to the
in butter iheir flavor, are by the
churning process taken u * by the tat,
a d they result in manipulating butter
that has all the taste, flavor and ap
pearance of that made trom milk or
cream. Artificial butter-making is like
that of natural butter, and there is a
ast difference in the product of differ
ent dairies, some producing an exc* 1-
lent article, others a very it diffcrenl
one.
Brooklyn Eagle: John Sherman has
a dumber of most diabolical enemies.
Thev are advising him to cut the throat
of the silver bill when it becomes a
law by not executing it in good faith.
The silver bill is none of our bill but
law is for Cabinet officers as well as
plain people in this country. And if
Mr. Sherman undertakes to get upa cor
ner in nullification, this Congress will
impeach and depose him so quickly tha.
he won’t have even that chance to re
sign, which his Federal District Judge
brother was accorded some years ago,
when he was awout to he removed for
not separating himself from another
man’s money.
srir to alqoea^fjrfl lOOr^aotncnovob j
id bslomtnq AHfeau?. 5 sliaU i
. , . It 8eerps.impossible to. get' tq'&e bot
tom of the,- extravagance . and villainy
of Republican rule in SouthCarolina
ffom;-186Sto 1N74-- We thought the
story had;been all told, says the Mis
souri Republican, 'but'the report of the
legislative committee on frauds, made
'last week; adds a neiv chapter. . This
report stiowe-that there wa3 expended
M refresHinents 1 of. various kinds at
one. session of the Legislature 8350,000
—or about • $2,000 for each member.
Tne State-paid all the bills. The Sen
ate bad it3 Own refreshment saloon in
the i Stite-hpnse, where, Senators and
their friends'drank, and smoked .their
fill, and then carried off as ranch, liquor
and as' .many cigars as they wanted-.
The House -had '.no Saloon,: hut .the
members ordered,’'-what they 1 'wanted
and thp State paid .for it. The orders
for liquor from one dealer in three days,
amounted to S3,4S3. Another supplied
the House with liquors for -a time to.
the amount of S450 a day. It is cal
cu'ated that the State paid for enough,,
brandy and whisky to allow a gallon a
day to each of the 156 members, with
a few bottles of wine and ale thrown
The bills for furniture in four
years amounted to S200,000, of which
ouly 817,71-5 worth is to be found in
tiie State-house. The rest was either
stolen or paid for and not furnished.
At one sessio l there was 4,658 yards of
carpeting charged for, although 1,300
yards will cover every hall and room
the State-house. For stationery
about 868,000 a session was expended;
it was a common thing to charge 8100
a day for stamps. The State even paid
lor rings, diamond studs, watches, and
Boulevard skirts” furnished to mem
bers. Is it any wonder that the white
people of South Carolina lost all pa
tience with a regime that was marked
by such shameless robbery as this ?
Washington Corretwoajiepce. 1 pf* bu * Greenbacks. ~ :
„ ' ■ — | tidad edt nr ed trn— * - . --. -, .. i
r ’ ' “\VlsHfiftSSxr Feb?33,'‘lw8?' j MjSf&FS** ;•&*• B “I »■ »»»«••*
Murpliy^lils bide flbbon 88fMra La ai { a*anmu!!S2«ni
the various'iqcal temperance orgftniza-1., . .There being no subject of deeper in*
lewstib onripeople than the movement
in favor of an exclusive national ureas-
Capt. Hvwgate’s plan for a new expe
dition to the North Pole has met the ap
proval of the Seoate and House oommit-
tees on naval affairs. It is proposed to
appropriate 850,000 for this “Polar Colo
nization’’ scheme. Capt. Ilowgate has
obtained the support of many prominent
geographers and explorers, who have, at
their own expense, sent out an advance
expedition to collect supplies for the
permanent colony. The place selected
as the site for the coloay’s headquarters
is on the shore of Lady Franklin Bay,
near a seam of coal found by the English
explorers of 1875. Capt. Howgate
thinks that if the colonists build substan
tial houses they can live there «• ~5 f
jium atmoNpia. os ine men oi
Signal Service s*ationed on the summits
nf Pike’s Peak and Mount Washington.
There seems to be do doubt that Lady
Franklin Bay cau be reached anuuaUy
by steamer, and the colonists thus sup
plied with provisions, while they grad-
ally advance stations further and fur
ther north. This plan for reaching the
Pole is similar to that adopted by be
siegers when they close in upon the ene
my’s citadel, but in the Arctic region the
lldiers who undertake the “reduction”
if the Pole will fight only against natu
ral forces.
Tne total number of hogs packed at
the various Western citirs up to Feb
ruary Jo’-h is estimated at 5,760,000, or
bout S45.000 more than the same time
ust. ye .r. The remaining two weeks
bid fair to make the increase for the
caPon upward of 1,000.000 head; Chi-
igo will gain about SOO.OOO over last
ear, Cincinnati 100,000 or more; St.
- mis fully 75,000; Milwaukee up-
-ils of 100,000, and Louisville 65,000,
while Indianapolis will fall short about
200 0 head. Thus an increase of fully
,100,00"t at the six cities is indicated,
title interior points will not fall much
f any short of last wirier, so that the
nal at all points is ;nt unlikely to
■ach 6.200,000 head, , r over 60,000
more than the largest number in noy
reviuus winter.
Boston Post: Young men and middle-
aged ones with the emigration fever open
i hem should think twice before they fol
low the well-worn injunction to “go
West,” for Western men, to a considera
ble extent, have imbibed the idea that
they cau do better by going South.
Farmers from Indiana, Illinois and Iowa
have betaken themselves in'considerable
numbers lately to Mississippi and Texas,
.for the purpose of colonization. If this
policy is based on sound ideas and expe
rience, the young meu of the East can
skip the experimental stage and go South
at once.
Courier-Journal small talk: As the
gold-bug came mournfully down from
the sweet-potato vine, he was met by the"
Iihir faithful bug, the Colorado beetle.
The yellow iusec: bowed mechanically to
the striped one, whereupon the latter
spoke up: “I hope, my dear fellow, that
you do not fail to recognize me. I am
your long-lost brother. Let us take cour
age. I have it from a Washington cor
respondent that the President is certain
to veto.” The gold-bug, hearing this,
stridulated joyously. The two insects
locked arms and marched up and dowr
in the highest spirits'. After this they
got into a little buggy and drove off.
Some may suppose that this a World fa
ble, but it is not.
tions. wrth their' fed ribbon hdbei
had tl rnunoijoly of the celebt i &ti'rig-’
ness on' the* ff2d , ’in8t, Washington
birthday?.' 1 ^ Beyond a falr displBy’
hunting And 1 tfiffstereotyped imnuh!
servances indult^ed in by the'Oldest
habitants’ Association, no formal cera-
• monft-S 1 ^n?2tTeffi|,teaQ# the Govern
ment ur the municipality, though the
day had been decreed a holiday within
the,District cqiiflnes. j The streets 1 weip
crowded as usual whenever the depart
mental employe,is let loose,'and don’t
really knew what to do .with' him Or
isrseifi TfWP ib? ladies composing
the cream of.Washington society j were
abroad on iheir d iij[y’round of c ills to
excite tha^dmiration of the many,
bi-aus stationed along the line of that,
.thoroughfare to revie.w them, or to
asperate their sister less successful
obtaining her share of masculine atten
tion, and who was correspondingly lij--
dignant with these possessed of greater
attractions. But the celebration by the.
temperance men was the great feature
of the day. Considering the number
of people in Washington the procession
was not large, but ‘he very fact that
public sentiment has so far advanced
here as to tolerate a temperance cele-,
bration at all, is encouraging. Up to
within a very few years those here who
were at all sensitive to the drift of pub
lic, or “society’’ opinion, shrunk from
identifying themselves in any conspic
uous way with temperance reform, be
cause of the ridicule and other un
pleasant things they were sure to invite.’
It appeared to be about the same up
through the various gradations of so
ciety till the upp*r crust—rather the
most intolerant, probably—was reached.
The original movers in the remone
tization cause—some.of them, at least—
appear about the only ones very un
happy over the modified silver bill as
passed by the Senate and concurred in
by the House, and which goes to the
President to day for his signature. Nnw
that a little time has, been allowed for
reflection, I believe the great mass who
were opposed to the Bland movement
because they feared it covered a scheme
for inflation, are not very rabid in their
hostility, even if riot quite reconciled to
the measure, as it now stands. No one
appears to have any wed grounded
opinion as to what the President’s ac-
nry nine currencv. wie publish in fall a
ieopy inf the bilinow before the House
;of Representatives:
.:oI£«iC enacted, etc., That, as soon as
4riay.,be, practicable after the passage, of
this act the Secretary of the Treasury
Hhajlj Caus^ tb .be prepared an issue of
IrvaiAiry 'notes equal in amount to thfc
: circrilatioD'' of the National Banking
.Association’e on the firs: day of Feb-
r'lary, A. D. 1S78, ..being - the sum > of
832Q.6A7,6^P, .which shall be used in
file redemption and retirement, in the
•*av hereinafter provided, of the circa-
Utuig notes ..of: the • national banks,
which treasury notes shall be in the
t'olliiwiiig form:
"Was!mpm? D. C.^The; United:
Stahls'ut America are indebted- to the.
nearer lil ttie snm :o. — dollars,'
lion will be; but as we'may reae-—
expect the maUer decided
spec-
The report of Mr. Sherman’s com
mittee, appointed a few weeks ago to
look uo the missing 81.800, to the effect
that they could find no trace of it, cer
tainly looked as though it was designed
to shield some, besides, as a matter of
fact, it looked very absurd Since that
lime the publicity given the matter of
assessing all the 8900 female employ* a
of the Redemption Division of the
Treasury, except Mr. New’s neice,
817 50, in open defiance of law and
equity; the eccei.tricities of Mr. New’s
nephew, who was appointed messenger
by that gentleman, and the dismissal
of Guthrie, late cashier to Mr. Ntw,
under very suspicious circumstances,
has wonderfully stimulated the de
mand that the abuses said to exist in
that Department, and the alleged op
pression of female employes, shall
cease, and that the administration of
Mr. New be subjected to a rigid scruti
ny with a view to the promp' dismissal
of the dishonest, if any. and the little
petty tyrants who have Used their aC
cidenta 1 elevation to oppress and insult
those every way their superiors except
in official preferment. Ksox.
Railroad Crash.
A revised circular, just issued by the
Commissioner of Internal Revenue, sus
pends the offers of reward for information
as to illicit distilling in the States North
Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Ala
bama, Mississippi, Tennessee, A rkansas,
Missouri, Kentucky, Virginia and West
Virginia, as more effective methods for
the suppression of illicit distillation in
those localities are now being put into
operation. ■
A Birmingham, Ala., correspondent of
the Mobile Register writes that the Ger
man element, on the line of the South'&■
North Alabama railroad is becoming
qnttean important one. The new cona-
ty of Cullman is now so thickly popu
lated with this people, that in traveling
through it, one almost imagines himself
transported into sotne jiroyince of Ger
many.
A horrible accideut occurred on the
Riobmoud, Fredericksburg and Puto
mac r.iilroad on the night of the 24th
of February, near Millford station,
about forty miles north of Richmond,
by which one passenger was instantly
killed, three others thought to be fatal
ly injur-d, and several others more or
less seriously hurt. A correspondent
of the New York Herald who was on
the train telegraphs to that paper, from
which we extract as follows:
The express train for the north left
Richmond last evening, and went on
its way at the rate of about thirty miles
an hour. Toward midnight the coup
ling connecting two Bleeping cars in the
rear with the rest of the train snapped
asunder. The engine, with the bag
gage and two passenger cars, kept up
its rate of speed, followed at about a
mile’s distance by the two sleeperB, un
der the additional impetus of a down
grade.
A brakeman assuming the chief com
mand* and twice pulling the cord iu
the baggage car, ordered the engineer
to stop. At the second pull the loco
motive came to a standstill. Several
of the passengers wanting to know the
cause of this sudden stoppage in the
midst of a dismal Virgiuia swamp, in
the darkness of a starless night, went
to the front platform of the ill-fated
car. The conduct ir of the train now
saw the two sleeping-cars closely be
hind, and wildly called out to the en
gineer, “for God’s sake go on!”
It was too late. Down came the two
sleepers upon the passenger car. and a
terrific shock awoke the sleeping in
mates and jammed four unfortunate
men between the pUtfortns of the tiro
passenger cars.
The lawyers of the City of Mexico'
must have a tender regard for the ban*
ished and implacable Lerdo de Tejada.
They- Jirienuy dTBHBSf him Perpetual
Rector of the College.of- Lawyers at the
capital. . Lerdo is not just now ina posi
tion to enter upon his rectorship.
and snail ne signed by the Treasurer of
-tha United Stales and countersigned by
the Register of the Treasury, or their
signatures shall be thereto engraved,
and shall contain suen devices and su-
perscriptions as the Secretary of the
Tresiury shall direct, and the denom
ination ut such notes and the general
.similitude thereof Bball conform as
nearly as m iy be to those of the United
Suites notes commoaly known as legal-
tetider-notes. They shall be receivable
in payment of all axes, customs, ex
cise, debts and demauds of every kind
due to the United States, and ot aU
claims and demands agaiustthe United
States except for obligations made pay
able in coiu by existing laws, and shall
he received by the Secretary of the
Treasury at par for the 4 per centum
bonds of the United States authorized
to be issued by the act et titled “An
act to authorize the refunding of the
’national debt,” approved July 14,1870.
Immediately after the Treasury notes
provided for in the preceding section
shall be ready for circulation, the Sec
retury of tbe'Treasury shall cause them
to be forwarded to the Assistant Treas
urers of the United States at New York,
Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Cin
cinnati, Chicago, St. Louib and New
Orleans in amounts proportioned to the
receipts and disbursements of their
several officers, with regulations’and in
structions to the following tenor, to
wn:
First—That the said Assistant Treas
urers shall immediately after the re
ceipt of such treasury notes cease to pay
in disbursement of the public fund.*
upon any account whatever the circu
biting notes of the national banks then
in their several offices, or thereafter re
ceived into them, but shall pay ouc ii
the place and stead of such nationu
hank notes and in substitution therefor.
otoSStbe’wno'e'circulating notes of the
national banks shall have been retired,
and the Assistant Treasurers may at
any time issue such treasury r.otes in
exchange for bank notes upon the ap
plication of any person nr bank.
Second—That the Assistant Treasur
ers. eve y thirty days after the process
of retiring the national bank notes shall
liave been begun ais above directed, or
oftener if the Secretary of the Treasury
shall so require, transmit to the Treas
urer of the United States, at Washing
ton, all the national bank notes re
ceived by them up to the date of such
iranaiclinn, which said notes shall be
received by the Treasurer in liquida-
• iou of the charges against the several
A-sietant Treasurers on account of
treasury notes as hereiu provided.
It shall be the du y of the Treasurer
as rapidly as the notes of the national
hanks are received into his office from
the Xssisuul Treasurers to cause them
to be counted and assorted and toe
notes of each association carefully as-
c r ained, and whenever those of any
association shall he ascertained to the
imoint of 85,000, or any multiple of
85,1 :U0, such association shall be noti
fied ihereol and shall he entitled to re
ceive upon demand and payment of a
like nun in legal-tender notes or the
treasury notes authorized by this act,
or id drafts or certificates of deposit ot
tne Assistant Treasurer, or of such na-
linnnl hanks as may be designated by
the Secretary of the Treasury for that
purpose, its bonds on deposit with the
Treasurer for security ot circulation to
the amount of its notes so ascertained
and in lfil-d, itud to that extent shall be
discharged trom mx on its circulation;
and ilaiiv national bank shall fail or
neglect fora period of sixty days after
the ratification above directed to make
payment in redemption of its bunds in
accoriai.ce therewith, then to that ex
tent interest ou iis bonds hearing inter
est athighest rate-hall cease and be
forfeited to the Uni„ed States during
the whole period such failure or neglect
shall continue, and a .v banking asso
ciatin' desiring so to do may withdraw
all it* muds on payment into the treas
ury a legal-tender notes or the notes
auihcrized by this act, to the amount
of iti circulating notes outstanding
at the date of Buch payment.
The Secretary of the Treasury is here
by required from time to time. »b pay
ments are made by the national banks
on th? withdrawal of the bonds, or as
treasury notes may be received in ex
change for 4 per centum bonds, as au
thorized in the first section of this act,
to expend the sum of such receipts,
eitbe.-in treasury notes or legal-tender
notes, as may be most expedient, in the
purchase of 6 per centum bonds of the
Lnited Stat-s redeemable at the pleas-
tie of the Government, or in the pur-
ciase of gold or silver coin with which
to redeem and pay such bonds.
Any national bank desiring to
cltnge its 6 per centum bonds for the
trosuiy notes authorized by this act,
upn applicut on to the Treasurer of
tb-United States, and upon payment
ina the treasury, in accordance with
sub regulations as the Secretary shall
estblisn, of legal-tender notes or treas-
nit. notes equal to its outstanding cir-
cuation at the date of such applies-
tin, shall be entitled to received treas-
uy notes to the full market value of
its6 per centum bonds on deposit with
th' treasurer for security of circulation
atjhetime, and in addition thereto, the
■unt of iu accrued interest and pre
in at the market rate. All bank-
associations organized under exist-
laws with power to issue circulat-
notes redeemable in gold coin shall
tea monthly deposit in theTreasu-
f the United States in gold coiu of
own circulating notes equal to 5
per centum of. their circulation ont-
standing at the date of the passage of
this act, arid when an amount equal to
the outstanding circulation of such
gold banks shall have beeu deposited
with the treasurer in gold coin or in
their own circulating notes the bonds
of the United States held by the treas
urer to secure the circulating notes of
said gold banks shall be reassigned and
delivered to said banks, and thereafter
the circulating notes of said bauks shall
he redeemed at the Treasury of the
United States.
Nn circulating notes shall be issued to
aay National Banking Association after
the. passage of this act, but nothing herein
contained shall b- construed either to au
thorize or allow any contraction of the
currency by reason of its operation, and
should any National Bank after its pass
age retire its ciicnlatfun in pursuance of
existing law, , the Secretary of the Treas
ury is hereby directed to i-aue iu the pur-
cuase of 5 per centum bonds of l be
United States, the Treasury notes author
ized by this act to the full amount of the
circulation retired by >ucb association,
and all the Naiioual Batik notes redeem
ed under the several provisions of this
act shall be cancelled and destroyed
under such rules and regulations as the
Secretary of the Fretoury shall prescribe,
and in the monthly statement of the con
dition of the public debt made hy the
Secretary, he shall iuulude an exhibit
the amount of the .Treasury uotes h-r. in
provided for outstanding at the dale of
such a statement, together with the
amonnt of National Bank uetes which
up to the same date, have beeu redeemed
aod destroyed or held for cancellation
The third secti m nf the act entitled
An act for fixing the amount of Uoited
States notes, providing for a redistribu-
of national bank currency, and for other
purposes.” approved June 20. 1874. re
quiring the national bauks to keep ou de
posit with the Treasurer of the United
■States, at Washington, lawful money
equal to five per centum of their circu
lation, to be held and used for the re
demptioc of such circulation, is hereby
repealed.
All acts and parts of acts inconsistent
with the provisions of this act are hereby
Judge George W. Faschall.
The committee vote was in detail as
follows:-U i: i.:
;Ye»s.—Messrs. Buckner (Mo.), Ewing
(O.), Yeate?, (N. C.), Hartzell (III.).
Bell (Ga.). Fort (Ill.), and Phillip*
(Kan.)—7.
Nays—Messrs. Hardenbergh (N._ J.)
and Earaes (R I)—2
Mr. Hart-(N. Y ) was absent, and Mr.
(Jhitteinleu, ou the final question, de
timed to vote, although he.had previous
W manifested his opposition to the bill
The British Coal Supply*
Some ten years ago a British scieti
tific commission reported that the coai
suit tl' Utfi -a I iVi trait j', "owing’ to 'th*
lepth front which it roust be raised—
would practically fail within fifty
years. Fresh explorations were caused
hy the alarm raised by this report,
which confirmed some and contradicted
other parts of the statements of th
commission. Uneasiness, however, has
ever since prevailed in the British coal
and iron interests. It was found that
in the thirty-five years, ending with
1874, the British output of coal bad in
creased 95,500,000 tons, or four-fold
that of Belgium and France in the
same ratio; that of Prussia fourteen-
fold; that of the United States ten-fold,
and yet Great Britain has not held her
position. Mr. Courtney, M. P-, one ot
the editors of the London Times, reas
serts that the failure of the coal fields is
so rapid that they will practically giv*
out this century, and recommends ef
forts to prepare for that event. We Imv
seen statements, however, purporting
to be based on the latest Caleul itlnui* n
d commission, indicating the Enefi-I
coal supply would hold out for at lea-
one hundred years.
Boys and Gther Colt*.
Now, boys, let the colts out into th-
lots, and see them rut*. Don’t kee|
them penned up iu the stalls. That is
as baJ as keeping a healthy hoy in he.
all day. They were never lll-ide fm
prison, hut. for freedom. More c*,n
are permanently ii jured hy lack of ex
erciso than any oilier cause. What the.
want is a chance to run, and race, an*
corvette, anil kick up their heels, and
draw the cool, fresh air Into their tung-
atid blow it out with a sunn. Bring
them all out into this four acre lot, slit
the halters, cltmli up on the fence and
see them go it. What a sig‘ t! He-
them sweep! 8ee them circle! Ha!
See that fellow trot! Did you see tin-
chestnut catch his gait? Here they
come, heads and tiils up, streaming
toward us like a torrentof leaves blown
by the gale 1 How their eves shine!
H »w their feet fly 1 How full of life,
and vigor, and fire they are! There is
no sight iu the cities like that, boys;
no work purer, healthier, manlier than
yours.' Stick to he farm and stable,
and the free, exhilerating life of the
couutry. You are a deal happier than
you would be measuring tape and
clerking it for eight dollars a week iu
the city.
A young widow whose aged husband
had died becomingly appealed two
months afterward at the Paris Maine
to annonnee her forthcoming marriage
to her cousin.
“Pardon me. madam,” observed the
clerk, “but the law peremptorily for
bids a woman to marry within ten
months of her husband’s death.”
“Yes, truly,” replied she, “but are
not those eight months of paralysis to
be taken into consideration.”
The little daughter of a leading phy
sician in a certain country town pre
seated the folio iring as her first school
essay:
“There was a little girl, and she was
very sick. They sent for my papa, and
she died very quick.”
“You must cultivate decision oi chsr-
acter, and learn to say ‘no,’ ” said a
father to his son. Scon afterward,
when the father said to his son, “Chop
wood,” the boy said “No” with an em
phasis that showed a remembrance of
the lesson;
York Tribune.]
The Hon. George W. Paschal], ot
Texas, well known as a lawyer and writer
upon law, died at Washington, on Sat
urday morning, after long illness. He
was born in Greene county, Georgia, No
vember 23,1812. His father was a Rev*
olutiouary soldier, and fais mother, who
survived until 1860, was a pensioner mi
the time of her death. The failure ot
his father left young Paschal! dependent
upon his own exertions. He determined
io enter the State College at Athena.
With bnt a little money, he taught in the
preparatory contse, kept bis landlord’s
books for his board, and studied daring
the night. While engaged in serving his
helplessfather he studied htw with Joseph
Henry Lumpkin, and in 1832 he was
admitted to the bar. In January, 183$
he set out fur the gold region of Georgia,
It was about the time of the removal ot
the Cherokee Indians trom the^tate, and
Mr. Paschall acted upon the staff ot Gen
eral Wool, who was charged with the
service. Mr. Paschal! married fiarafai.
the daughter of Major Ridge, the prin
cipal Cherokee chief He removed to
the new State of Arkansas in 1837,
where he at once occupied a prominent
position at the bar. Within four yearn
he was elected a Judge of the Supreme
Court—the ouly office which he evei
held.
Judge Paschall did not long remain
•qiou the bench, preferring a lucrative
practice at the bar. Iu 1848 her removed
io Texas. Io politics, be was at this time
a Jacksonian Democrat, and he was
always a strong Union man. In 1837 tie
established, iu Austin, a newspaper called
the Southern Intelligencer, for the pur
pose of oppo-ing secession neresivs. The
crisis of 1860, found Him the leader of
what was known as the Union party ot
•Vxus, and a warm supporter of Mr.
wtptaway hy thestorm. Judge Paschall
retired to the privacy of his home and
■ibrarv and to his legal studies. His
sons joined the armies of the Union.
Upnu the return of peace, Judge
Paschall resumed the practice of his pro-
ft-si. in and continued the editing of bis
works. In 1869 he removed to Wash
ington, D. C., but he never surrendered
his citizenship in Texas. Since 1865 be
las published fonr editions of his “An
uotaled Digest of the Laws of Texas,’*
two editions of his “Annotated Conarira-
■ ion of the Uoited itates,” five volumes
>f “Texas Reports,” and a "Digest of
Decisions.” He also printed many pans-
uhlets and articles npon questions of
jurisprudence and the polidcsof the day.
Ho was identified with the Republican
party after the war, bat in 1872 he acted
with the Liberal party and warmly sup
ported Mr. Greeley for the Presidency.
Judge Paschall was an untiring worker,
and his unremitting labors doubtless
■•.fc'WfiSJlJiy’fBtJust constitution. He Was
hrice married, and leares a wiaow ana
five children.
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One-half colnmn six months
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Tri-Weekly. When published in both paper*,
additional npon table rates.
psrcenki
The Silver Bill Passes over
President’s Veto.
WasBiXQTDX February 28.—f
the _ House, the President’* message
vetoing the silver bill, wa. laid befn
the House by the speaker. The P e
dentsays it has been his earnest desire tl
concur with Congres in the adopt! n o8| I
a measure to increase the silver coii eg- I
of the country, but so us cut not tuin-pai
the obligation of contracts either pubiii j !
or private, or'injuriously affect the publi-Jj I
credit. It was only- on the eonvictind r';
that this bilLdid not meet that essentia . F "
requirement that he felt it his doty t*
withhold from it his approval. Tin
message farther states that the capital tie
feet of the bill is that it contains no pro
vunn protecting from its operation pre
existing debts, in cane the coinage which 4
it creates shall continue of less valor;
than that which was the s le legal tender
when they were created. In the jndg
ment of mankind, it would be an act o:
bad faith. -The standard of value should
not be changed without the consent ol
both parties to the contract The nation
al promises should be kept with unflinch
ing fidelity.
He could not sign a bill which would *.
authorize the violation of sacred oblige-’' --
tiona. The obligation of the public faith
transcended all questions of profit or pub- '
lie advantage. Its unquestionable main
tenance was the dictate of honesty well at
of exptd ency and should ever be care
fully guarded by the executive, by Gon-
grew and the people.
' Before proceeding to vote on the ques ! ”
tion, will the house, on reconsideration, lrr
pass the bill? Cox, of New York, made
the remark that message was a “charge. ,
of fraud by a fraud,” on which bis col--’ ■
league, McCook, made a point of order
The speaker decided that the remark wa.
madeoutof order and that it should not '■
be printed Record. The house then pro-
Douglas for the Presidency. When the ceeded to vote and the result was yeae : ,
rebellion came the Uoi-m party was 196. nays 73. The speaker declared the ••
bill as passed, and the announcement was
received with general applause.
In the Senate the silver bill passed,j
the President’s veto notwithstanding, by .
a vote of 46 to 19; Mr. Hill, ot Georgia,
voting with the majority.
Three Things.
lb
An Entire Village Swept Away.
San Franc'sco, Feb. 27.—It is re
ported that the village of laleton, on
Andrews island, in the delta of the
Sacramento river, was swept away last
uigbt in consequence of the pressure
of water brought upon the levees by the
cutting of the dikes on Grand island
just across the river. Reports continue
coming of disaster by flood in the Sac
ramento valley. The water covers the
whole face of the country, and the des-
ruction of property from Colusia to the
mouth of the river already aggregat s
one million dollars. Fortunately, with
two or three exceptions, as far as learned
io loss of life has occurred.
Steamers and barges are employed
onve> ime live stock and other prop-
riy to places of safetv. The legislature
■ is apnroriat-d 823,000 lor the relief of
hemiff-rers.
“Dene Quit all Da<- Wow*”
e» Yort World.
Mr. Stephens has many stories to tell
f n-groes, and one is of a famous cot-
iii and chicken depredator, who, since
tie war, met the ex-Vice President in
le null.
“Well, Thomas,” was the kindly sal
tmine, “I was sorry to hear th it you
ail been in trouble about Mrs. Tripp’s
biekens.
"Y-s, Mars Al-c, but I done quit
11 ilat now,” said the negro very peni
inly.
“How many did you take before you
lopped?” asked Mr. Stephens.
‘I tuck ail she had,” was the perfect-
innocent reply.
Washington, Feb. 25—Hon. R. W.
Teylor, the First Comptroller of the
Treasury, is dead of paralysis, lie
was at his desk this morning. He was
ppointed by Li' Coin
Gov. Hampton, of South Carolina,
commended to the President XV. J.
Lovsl and Thos. G. Clcnson as honor
ary commissioners to the Paris exposi
tion. They have been appointed.
The honorary commissioners from
Mississippi are Felix LaBoove and F.
E. Whatfield.
New York, Feb. 25.—At a meeting
of the socialistic labor party in the
Germania assembly rooms yesterday,
the red flag of the Commune wes dis
played. Resolutions were adopted de
nouncing the standing army, the exist
ence of armories in cities, and retting
forth that more protection should be
given to free speech. One speaker said:
Only let the army be abolished and la
bor would make such a move a* would
insure i's rights and render it equal
with capital.
Three things to love—courage, gen- jhi
tienees and affection. pu
Three things to admire—intellect, -
dignity and gracefulness.
Three things to hate—cruelty, arro- L
gance and ingratitude.
Three things to' delight in—beauty, ‘
frankness and freedom.
Three things to wish for—health,
friends and a contented spirit
Three things to like—cordiality, good
humor and cheerfulness.
Three things to avoid—idleness, lo
quacity and flippant jesting.
Three things to cultivate — good
• Three things to govern—temper,
tongue and conduct
Three things to think of—life, death,
and eternity.
It is not always safe for an editor to
send the business manager of the office
to describe the costumes of ladies at a
gathering. One recently wrote his ex
perience thus: “Miss A wore a:
red bombazine dress, ruched with poiDt;
alpaca; and an overskirt of rose ging-1
bam with a border of parsley blossoms-1
Her torture was particularly notices-.
ble, from the fact that her hair was so:
deliciously scrambled in front. She!
wore No. 6 lilac double-button gloves, t
and No. 4 store shoes, slashed ut the t
heels, and pompadour eocks.”
A grumbler write* to the Brooklyn l
Eag e: “LastSunday, when subscriptions ]
were beiug received for the liqaidat ou of:
lb» debt ou the Tabernacle church, a
lady sent up a diamond ring. A t
moment latera jeiorold woman declared,
in a trembling voice, that if God spared
her life she world give ten cents a week
for six months to the cause. In the t
evening Dr. Talmage told the story of i,
the riug, exhibiting it on liia finger. But
he said nothing of the [m >r woman's ten
cents.” i
Good looking young man, who has R
called at the house on business—"I re
gret, miss, that your father is not at ,
mime. I had an important proposal ’
to make to him.”
Young lady of the house, demure- 1
ly—“Well, perhaps you could make •
your proposal to me, I nrn disengaged
at present.” 4
present.
Good looking young man excused ' .
himself and retires in confusion.
. '
i.‘
Bismarck is reported to be on the verge
f bankruptcy. He got swindled when ,
be bought Varzin, and ha- been engaged
in some very foolish speculations. His
financial troubles no doubt make him
irritable and imperious—not a very safe ’■*
mood for the Atlas of the German Em
pire to be in just ahout ibis perilous pe- f
")d in European affair.-.
The Virginia papers report a contl.!-
erable decline in the receipt" from the .
whisky bell-punch in that State, and 1 B
yet they do not report any perceptible
change in the bibulous habits- ot the j J
“first families ” The ii.fi rence
that either the bar-tenders or. the h
patrons, or both, bave learned how
“beat the machine."
the :
to 9
New York, Feb. 25.—About 7 o’clock
this evening, during a dense fog, the
ferry boat James Fiak, jr., of the Third
street line collided with the schooner
Jueie Crawley. Three of the former’s
passengers were thrown into the water,
bat were picked up. Several other
passengers standing on the forward
deck it is believed were swept into the
river by the jib of the schooner. The
deck hands of the ferry boat were
killed.
The latest and wickedest on dit about
the clubs is to the effect that a married
lady in this city, well known to socie
ty, but name not given, has recently
fallen in love with her husband.—N. Y.
Mail.
New York, Feb. 25 —W. A. Ransom
& Co., the oldest jobbing firm in the
shoe trade, failed yesterday. Their
liabilities will exceed 250(000, princi
pally dueto Eastern creditors:
A man who bad a scolding wife be
ing asked what be did for a living, re
plied that he kept a hot house.
A few days ago a very handsome wo
man entered a dry goods bouse in New
York and enquired for a bow. The
polite clerk threw himself back t*nd
declared he was at her service.
“Yes, but I want a buff, not a gret n
one,” was the reply.
The young man went on measuring
goods immediately.
“In chooeing a wife,” says the Phre
nological Journal, “be governed by her
chin.” The worst of that is, that after
having chosen a wife one is apt to keep
on being governed in the same way.
Thirteen school teachers went into a
South Boston savings bank on their pay
day, to get fifty dollar bills changed.-
That started the rumor of a ran, and be- ;
fore night there was a run indeed.
The New Orleans Picayune says girls !
at the North are waiting for spring I
violets. The girls at the South are j
waiting for two lips, we suppoer.
The boy who grows up with an over
whelming fear of dogs will not develop
into a book agent in afterlife.
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