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CEDARTOWN RECORD.
W. S. D, WIKLE & 00,, Proprietors,
CEDARTOWN, GEORGIA, MONDAY, APRIL 3, 1870.
VOL. II. NO. 42.
timely topics.
N"r among ilio loiut of tlm milftrm
I'V 111,. IlolknAp Invoke,m„ nr.. tho ft-
iitme corrc^Kin.IcnUAt Wiuhiiigtnn, who
have l wn wont to gush ,,uliii. lv „v,. r
ll "‘ nncomplialimonU, graom, dignity
Jl'ninhllity, cU\, of Mr.. n,.|kll«|,. If
dread (til lemon hIiiiII huIkIii.. their
tendency togneh at nil times and in nl
|,l..,eo, over everylsnly ml,I everything,
the daily lireralnreol this country will
lightened of a load under which it
luw »ong groaned.
I m.in: apiiears to Ik* iiu unfortiinnU
defect in tin* law im|>o«.ing u penalty or
tin* intmduction «f spirituous and intox
icating liquom in tin* Indian country,
lly the terras of the law all Indiana
exempted from tin* penalty, and n ti
Iwr of the alire.viler “ children of the for-
' •*1 arc availing tliemaolvoH of this
cinption to carry on a lively trade in
« up that inebriates as well as tin
III., attention „f eongreaa lias lam called
I" the snhjeet, lunl it ia more than prob-
aide that the law will be amended.
' 'Otf-gBiunmiNr of the Pittsburgh
Chronicle, who has Wen wandering
nmnjtg t| 10 New (Irleana eemeteries"
-vTit«*s: “ For tin* accommodation o!
rlnise who are not able to afford a tomb,
the cemetery association have erected
large toinhs containing a hundred or
more eompnrtments, called ovens. These
compartments are about two f.et square
ami seven feet long. They are built of
hrirlr, four tiers high, and extend aceord-
ing to the demand. These are sold at
nlwtui twenty dollars apiece. In sealing
up the compartment, room enough is
left in front to insert a niarhlc slab lx*ar-
ing the usual inseriptions.”
Richard IIkniiy Dana, .In., baa been
• ailed liefore the committee on foreign
■affairs to answer the charge of literary
piracy, preferred by flen. Hen. Itutler.
Wntil this matt* r is dis|>oHcd of no action
will Ik* taken ti|m>ii Mr. Dunn's confirma
tion as minister to tho court of St.
•fames. Mr. Dana is charged with delib
erately appropriating William Beach
Lawrence's notes on Wheaton’s Elements
ol International Law in his own edition
°t AVIieuton, and with having Iktii con
victed in 1867 of the offense. General
Butler has interposed this obstacle to
Dana's diplomatic career, probably ln'ing
actuate*! by an old grudge, as they have
been |>olitical opjKinents.
The 8an Franciscans, who, not long
ago, were holding mass meetings for the
suppression of some of their daily news-
papers, are now in a ferment over their
Mongolian immigration, and arc lo meet
again. Thousands of thodusky heathens
arc preparing to leave their country and
brave the Christian prejudices of the
»I range land ofCalifornia, and the wrath
of the Melican man is ro
is to be npj>caled to, and there is trouble
ahead. If worst comes to worst, the ce
lestial “ wave ” may Is* ttirred ujion the
smith and utilized in restoring the glory
of the republican party in that section.
S> much voting material can not well la-
wasted at a time like this.
The price of living in the city of New
^ ork has not, it is estimated, declined
more than five per cent, in the past
three years. An article in tho Times
shows that “ in meats of nil kinds there
is no reduction ; in fresh fish the price
appears to lx* about fifteen per cent, less,
while in smoked and shell fish the cost
is alsmt the same as it was nhout three
years ago. Poultry and game show ■<»
decline, and butter, lard, cheese and
fruit remain at nlioul the old prices.
Vegetables show a considerable reduc
tion, at least twenty |*er cent., and eggs
show about the same decline in price.
Flour, by retail, is from one dollar to
one dollar and fifty cents per barrel
(lira
froi
* jK*r
les** than it was three
while, there is a tendency to economy,
and consumers are finding that they can
with a little rare save more than five
cents on a dollar
Cardinal Manning in a recent ser
mon referred to English pauperism in
the following |>oinU*d language : “ En
gland, the richest of all countries, bos
upon it a stain ami a shame not to lie
found in countries which Englishmen as
sume to despise: be meant pauperism, an
intense demoralized state of poverty.
Poverty in itself was an honorable state;
but pauperism was something altogether
distinct from poverty. Pauperism was
that wrecked condition of men and of
families out of which there was no rising
by any effort of their own. And what
did it come from ! It would taketoo long
to endeavor to say. One reason he would
state; the overwhelming prosperity of
the rich, the closeness of the hands and
the hearts, and the ignorance in which
the rich lived and died, of the state of
the j»oor who lived and died round
about their dwellings. The possession
of wealth and prosperity generated a sel-
fi-hness and an unconsciousness of the
sufferings of others, so that men were
wrapped up in their own daily indul
gence, and were forgetful of those who
were in want.”
Tin: sound parts of the old Boston
elm have been sent away to be made into
furniture for the city hall and souvenirs
to be given to historical societies all over
the country.
LATEST NEWS.
NOI TII A.M> IVIAT.
A hundred inmndo ttf Ilnur costs i
in the Mlnek Hills.
('u cum Ik* rs are selling at one dollar
The Ohio democratic stale convention
"ill he lu-lil at Cincinnati, May 17th.
Thirty-one Augusta cotton dealt*
have made estimates of the cotton crop, which
average 4,(MMi,!i60 hales.
John Donnelly has been convicted at
Molly Springs, Miss., of the murder of tho
Jew peddler, Marcus lx*wis.
The state conservative committee o
N irgiuin lias changed the day"of holding tin
state convention to May .‘list.
1 he rush ttf Black Hillers is undimin
idled. Trains are overcrowded daily with
them, cn route for Cheyenne.
Lee Bennett, son of Dr. Bcnnel
Fort Smith, Ark., shot and killed a
named Clarendcitclicr, on the 20th.
A vein of amethyst has Im’cii found
near Moiitieelln, (ia. Some of the stones
very large and sell for $10(1 a pound.
Mississippi farmers say that they will
hereafter make their ow n smoked ment ami
not give cotton for hirob to westeri
It is reported, on the authority of
Vice-President Bond, that trains on the Texas
Pacific railroad will by the 1st of Juno he
running to Fort Worth.
Josiali Turner, editor of the Raleigh
N. (’., Sentinel, ami W. II. II. Ihunorton,
secretary of state, have been arrested on
• he charge of conspiracy ami libel.
at Jackson, Ixitilsiaiin, last week,
destroyed the greater portion of the business
Y“rt of the town. Loss estimated at fifty to
•venty thousand dollars. Insurance only
iglit thousand dollars.
Treasurer Flatulent, at New Orleans,
ns received fHXl.Ooo in silver coin, half-
dollars and dimes, sent from San Francisco
order of Secretary Bristow. It isfxpueted
a million will be sent to that point.
Throughout I/misiana at present a re
markable curiosity Is visible. < >n many orange
to be seen fruit of IunI year's growth,
which is most deliciously sweet; partly grow n
n oranges, from blossoms of early w inter,
and fresh blooms, which have now appeared
the proper period.
By the recent storm at New Orleans
; coni barges were wrecked and sunk at the
foot of St. Joseph street. The loss is esti-
I at $70,000. A barge of staves also
to pieces. Loss, $.'1,000. (.'apt. Held, of
eamship St. Louis, reports encountering
d-oeean, March 6th, the hark Chatham,
Wilmington, N. C.,wltli 3,212 barrels of
for Rotterdam, in a helpless condition.
On the 22d of February n storm carried away
the sails and washed everything on deck
rlioard, including charts and provisions.
Tiie captain and two men were also washed
I. The men on honrd the hark de
termined (<• abandon her. ('apt. P.eid put a
rioc crew on honrd the Chatham, supplied
ids, charts, provisions, etc., and ordered
tent to proceed to Liverpool. The bark,
reept from loss of sails, was hut little dam-
fed.
Now Jersey pitta up $1,000 to exhibit
r schools at the centennial.
The domestic export, trade of I’hiladcl
iin for the month of February aggregated
$3,389,707.
Tho reduction of twelve and a half per
nt. in wages at Great Falls mills went into
eet Tuesday. The w eavers left in a body,
refusing to work.
Con ray, one of the Utica, New York,
asked burglars, who liitd turned state's
idence, was shot dead last week, during a
parley between the officer who had him in
barge and n party of men who claimed him,
ssertlng that they were officers,but who are
supposed to have belonged to a gang of bur
glar*.
New York city thinks of solving the
problem of an increased water supply by
utilizing (lie salt water of East and North
extinguishing fires, thus confining
if Croton to drinking and cooking
purposes. The question of salt caking in
the pipes and lm.se, and (lie means of remor-
neriistations have been considered,
and tiie plan pronounced feasible, hut the
nornious cost of duplicating the present
iet-work of pipes, appals tax-payers.
The re|x>rt of the New York Prison
ssociation, just published, shows that in
very hundred convicts, there was found
forty-six who have been grossly neglected
while children, forty orphaned or abandoned
childhood, eighteen who were confessed
■mhers of criminal families, twenty-two
re of pauper stock, forty-three who were
inebriate families, chiefly children of
drunkards, twenty-three who belonged to
families in which insanity, epilepsy, and dis
abling disorders of the nervous system ex-
isted, thirty-nine who confessed to being
habitual drunkards, while seventy-six were
hahjtunl criminals. Every convict belongs
more of these classifications. Many
of the habitual criminals are habitual drunk
ards and most of them were neglected or
abandoned in childhood.
FORKIMX.
An official return states the grow num
ber of slaves in the Brazilian empire at 1,409,.
Eight out of every ten of the leading
journals in England and Scotland will send
respondents to the centennial.
Paul Dahlgren, consul-general of the
United States to Italy, ami son of the late
Admiral Dahlgren, died at Home last
A dispatch from Vera Cruz says the
volutionists have captured JaJnpa, and that
e state of Vera Cruz is declared in a state
of siege.
rV Madrid dispatch reports that recruit
ing for Cuba is actively progressing, and even
soldiers who served under Don Carlos are
allowed to enlist.
'Hie Bavarian government has put a
sudden stop to duelling by denying Christian
burial to persons killed in this manner, hold
ing (Item in thejeves of the law tho saittejiti
suicides.
The yacht Octnvia, raptured by a
Spanish gunboat, bad a cargo of 213 boxes of
powder, 48 boxes of cartridges, 12 hi
shells, KM) rifles, |f>0 carbines and two
of artillery.
A groat eruption of Mount Vesuvius
is in progress. The scene as oltscrvei
a distance is grand in the extreme,
eruption tliientoiiK to lu* one of the
violent for many years.
A n epidemic of typhoidul character has
just broken nut in a Lancashire (England)
village of about MM) inhabitants, where If*
people were taken ill. It was shown cm
elusively that the poison came from the milk
of a sick cow.
The Inst discovered grievance of the
Christians in Turkey is a strange one. Hith
erto they have .paid a small poll tax and been
mpt from military service. By virtue of
tin* sultan’s proclamation promising perfect
(tmlity witli tin* Mussulmans they now claim
admission into tho ranks, and are clamorous
for the very burden to escape which
thirds of the French and German conscripts
would readily pay a good round sui
A Paris dispatch says an arch of the
ilroiid bridge of the river 111, net
hneli, gave way under the pressure of the
floods. A passenger train from Mulln
for Htrasburg, which was crossing at the time,
was precipitated into tho river,
riages fell on top of one another i
lashed to pieces. Owing to tlm violence of
tin* stream, none of the passengers could he
til were either crushed to death or
drowned. Thirty corpses have already been
covered.
The French government has published
official report mi the Paris commune of
(I, and tin* fate of (hu captured commun
ists. The report shows that over 200,000 men
the ranks of the communists, with
Jit*. It shows also that the total
number of prisoners was 38,000, Including
'Idiom, 8T»0 women and (150 young pc
sixteen years of age or under. About
ere released very soon after their
Noon after 10,000 more were set
-about A,(KM) of (hem discharged
bavin been imprisoned wrongfully, the re
freed for want of evidence; six months later
re were discharged. Out of the
women only 200 were sent to trial; of the
hildrcn only eighty. The courts first dealt
with nhout 3,000 principal offenders, Imi
afterwards disposed regularly of about 2,000
'Unary eases a mouth: of thesu they con-
•uned about 8,300, acquitted about 2,(MM),
mill released about I,(KM); uliout one per
their sentences were annulled on
appeal; twenty three men ami eight women
l eutcd, lent always for some signal
Out of the 10,(MM) convicted, two-
thirds were sentenced to simple transporta-
n or to imprisonment without hard labor.
.niNCKI.IiANF.OIIN.
Fourteen IhhHch have I wen recovered
from the ruins of the alms-liouso lire nt Nor-
eh, Conn.
The United .States government lows
$700,000 a year in the manufacture of postal-
■arils, to say nothing of the cost of carrying
them as mail matter, and they claim that if
tiie government should abolish stamped cn-
lopes, wrappers and postal cards, it would
vi* $2,500,000 a year.
I’rof. r. V. Riloy assorts that in 187*1
e southern stales lost $20,000,000 by tho
niton worm in a single week; that in 1871
$30,000,000 worth of grain was ruined by the
hinoh bug; and that in 1873, 1874 and 1875.
the Itoeky mountain grasshopper destroyed
food to tin amount of $50,000,000.
I’he Portuguese government has naked
■ cartes for the sum of thirty-three thou-
ol dollars, in order to render the I’ortu-
esc disjday at the centennial exhibition as
attractive anil complete as possible. Tills
intended for two sections in particu
lar, the agricultural and industrial.
oust ruction of a steamboat for
xhihition at tho centennial has heen begun
tcnnial works, New York. Jt. will
he fifty feet long and ten feet wide, with iron
no sheathed with wood. It will cost about
illy thousand dollars, and is expected to
he a model of beauty, symmetry and speed
The now steamboat hill a I Iowa the con-
wiicc of coal-oil at igniting point of 110 in
■tallic eases on any passenger steamer, and
150 in barrels, nil oils to he carried on
deck or in the forecastle, ns far ns possible
from the furnaces. The present law forbids
tiie carrying of oil in any way on passenger
ainers, when there lire liny other means of
nsportation.
Senator Frciirighiiysen reported in
or of disposing of the Japanese indemnity
fund in accordance with the petition of the
New York chamber of commerce, which, we
believe, gives it to the cause of education in
lupnn. This is simple justice to that coun
tin' indemnity, amounting to $750,000,
reed from Japan by a species of dis
honorable bullying. The real damages
amounted only to $10,000, and grew out of
injuries inflicted in an American vessel in
rebellious vassal of the Japanese
government. The $10,000 was paid, but our
government united with tiie French, Dutch
and English in a fresh demand for $3,000,-
000, of which $750,000 fell to the share of the
nited .States,
Mr. Wright, the United States grange
oinmissioner, lias returned to England after
i extensive tour on the continent. His
port is in the main gratifying. JIc met
with considerable success in Germany. While
there he had an interview with Herr Folk,
tiie minister of education, aijd with Herr
Frieudcntbal, tiie minister of agriculture, at
which he was furnished witli much valuable
information relating to the German agricul
tural associations, in England Mr. Wright
conferred with the chamber of agriculture
and other societies. He will remain there
until after the industrial congress, which
hold', its first session April 15th. Mr. Buskin
has written to him saying that he approves
of the system of the granges, and hopes they
will take root and prosper in Great Britain.
Mr. Wright is not sanguine of such result at
present, but thinks the basis of the union
will soon he formed between British co
operative societies and corresponding grange
societies iu America.
CONGBESRlONA L
NKWATK
In tho senate, oil tho
Withers, front the cummittoe
reported Imuso hill 2589,
feeding tin* Sioux
20th, Mi
ni npproprlti-
to suyplv
deficit* ... n K1U11A minim,
III* moved to strike out of the hill the words
om* hundred thousand dollars, and insert
one hundred and fifty thousimd dollars. The
amendment was agreed to, and the Idll
passed. On motion of Mr. Nhermnn, tin*
senate took up ami passed senate I
regulate the transportation of Imiulci!
oliuiidiso withdrawn from warehouse, v ,„
motion of Mr. Allison, tlm senate then took
up for eonsideration senate Idll providing
for an agreement with the Sioux nation in
regard to a portion of their reservation, and
for other purposes. The mutter was briefly
diseiissed by Mr. Illteheoek, who said he was
opposed to any further appropriation for
these Indians, or for other eoiumlssious. Mr.
•Morton said he Imd permitted (his debate,
hoping the kill would puss, hut as It was
quite evident that it could not, lie would call
up regular order, senate hill number one, to
provide for counting the votes of the presi
dent and vice-president. The hill was thru
taken up, when Mr. Buudolph briefly ml-
the senate in support of his amend-
lit, providing tlmt should the two houses
of congress, acting separately, fail to
which is tlm true and valid returns of
only, the
the slate, then, and in that *
president of tin* senate shall rende
clsion of the question, nnd such rendition
shill he in favor of that return of the stale
which shall have received the majority of all
lio votes east in both houses of congress,
oiiNidered as if hotli houses lunl cast their
votes in joint meeting nssembled. After de
bate the chair laid before tin* acnate the
military hill from the house, with a notiliea-
that tiie house failed to concur in tin*
ndmciit of tlm senate. Tho somite agreed
to adhere to the amendments. Adjourned.
In the senate, on tho 21st, Mr. AlfVon,
•rialions, re-
• .. .known as tin*
military academy hill, with tlm rcoommenda-
that tlm senate adhere to its amend-
h, and ask for a committee of confcr-
Agreed to. Mr. Allison nailed up
te hill No. 591), providing for an agree-
with tlm Sioux, and pending its con
sideration tlm morning hour expired, and
the senate rcsiliuotl eonsideration of tlm hill
count tlm vote of president and vlee-presl-
»t. Fending discussion, tin* senate went,
to executive session mid soon adjourned.
In the senate,on tho 22d, Mr. Edmunds
introduced ii joint resolution providing for
lending tlm constitution of the United
iiles. Referred. The iiiornitig hour having
pired tin* senate resumed consideration of
"ate hill No. 1, providing for counting tin*
tes for president and vice-president. Var
ious amendments were rejected, and after a
short executive session the senate adjourned.
In tho somite, on tho2.'hl, Senator' Jones
introduced a hill to orohihil tin* transporta
tion of liquid iiltro-glyccrinc, and to regulate
tin* transportation of dynamite. Tlm chair
laid before tin* senate (lie unfinished Imai-
•msH of yesterday—h hill to count tho volo lor
president and vice-president. Tho hill was
tided in its phraseology without materi
ally altering its meaning, and tin* question
then recurred on the passage of the Idll.
•nntor Hamlin asked the son ate to lay
ide tin* pending hilt nnd take up tlm post-
ute idll, and tlm senate agreed. In onm-
emdng its consideration it was ascertained
Hint the post-route Idll had been sent to the
printers with Hie pending amendment
senate then went into executive session ami
nil lifter ndiourned.
In tho HGimto, on Ilio 2-lth, Mr. Cnm-
"» presented u memorial of the legislature
of Wisconsin in relation to tiie Improvement
of the Nt. Croix river. Referred. Tlm chair
laid before the senate its hill on the Nimix
deficiencies, with notice that tlm house will
not agree lo tlm iimcndiiicnlH of the senate.
Voted to insist upon it* aiiicmi-
seimte took up for consideration
• Impost route hill. Dchuto ciiNticii, during
the course of which Mr. Sargent sniil let the
departments send their mail mutter by a
stroke of tlm pen. It. will take no more lime
than to lick a stamp, and it costs no more to
send mails in this mniiner Ilian it does with
a stamp on Ilium. The hill was amended as
to minor paints and pnssed. The senate then
resumed consideration of senate Idll No. I,
to count the votes for president and vice-
•sidimt. Nevcrnl amendments were rc-
. ted, and tin* iinestion was then taken upon
tin* passage of tlm hill, and it ivas passed—
32 to 26. Tho senate then took up tlm con
sular and diplomatic hill and made it tlm
order of business, and then went Into execu
tive session anil soon adjourned till Monday.
IIOKMK.
hill prohibiting eonltjliulloils to Heoilotl
funds hv dinners of the United States govel li-
tut'ilt. Mr. Blaine’s nmcudmciit including
senators, representatives and delegates in
congress in the provisions ol tlm Idll, was
agreed to, us was also an amendment offered
by Mr. Goode to Mr. Brown’s substitute,
making it a misdemeanor for auv person to
dm* force, iimnneo, violence or bribery to in
fluence elections of president, vice-president,
senator, representative or delegate In eon-
Kress. Tlm next volo was on ait muundiuent
ottered by Mr. Beagatt as a substitute for tlm
"oollon of Browu's substitute, making it un
lawful for any ollleer, postmaster, clerk or
employe of the United whites,or for any sen
ator or mouther of congress to solicit, ask,
receive or accept any gift for election pur
poses. Rejected. Tlm next vote w«s on
Brown’s substitute. Tlm first section is, tlmt
no ofllocr or employe of the government shall
require or request,give to or receive from any
Other ollleer or employe of tlm same or other
person, directly or indirectly, auv money or
property or other thing of value fur political
purpose.^ and any such officer or cmpl
who shiil! offend against the provisions of
this net shall at once he dismissed from tlm
service of the United Htutes. and also in*
di'cnmd guilty of u high misdemeanor, and
on eon Viet Ion thereof fined not less than live
hundred dollars nor more than three thou
sand dollars, and imprisoned not mure tlipii
tlm
the discretion ot tlm judge
The
ailment
lion gives United' Mates district courts
jurisdiction over the oflenses created by Hie
nel. Tlm substitute was agreed to, nail tin*
hill, »s amended, was passed - 173 to 8. Ad-
jntirned.
In tho liOUHo, on tho 2!kl, Mr. Stone
introdil i* a Idll fixing Hu* compensation of
United Hint
'idled tlm committees for r
nature. Mr. Parsons, from tlm committee
private laud elitiuiN, reported buck tlm Idll
for sale of certain lauds at Vincennes. I'assed.
Mr. Boone, from the committee on Indian
alliiirs, reported hack tlm Idll nrohildting
• he eiitting of timber on any Indian reserva
tion or hinds to which tlm Indian title or
right of occupancy lias not heen extinguished.
Mr. Cook, from (lie committee on mililurv
nflairs, reported a Idll to reduce the area of
military reservation of Fort Laramie, Wyom
ing territory, to an urea of fifty-four square
miles, which was passed. Mr. A. N. Wil
liams, from the same committee, reported a
lull repealing tlm law which forbids tlm ap
pointment to any position in Hie army or
•y of any person who served iu nnycnpnc
•ports of n public
In the house, on the 17th, on motion
of Mr. Banks, tlm committee on tlm centen
nial question was authorized to sit during
recess of congress. Mr. Banning offered
isolation instructing the military com
mittee to inquire into the making of con
tract * for Hie transportation of'army supplies
to Texas in 1874. Adopted. Adjourned till
Monday.
In the house, on the 20th, Messrs.
Banning nnd Hnylcr presented petitions front
various distillers of Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana
and Illinois, protesting against any change
the present plan of collecting taxes. Be-
red. The speaker culled on tho states for
hills, and the following were return d : To
regulate commerce nnd to prohibit unjust
discriminations by common carriers; to amend
(lie national hanking net; to reduce the tux on
miiifacturcd tobacco, nnd'to regulate the
x on dealers in nnd producers of leaf to
bacco. Mr. Atkins moved to suspend the
rules and pass the hill repealing all pro
visions of the net of the lltli of January,
1S75, for the resumption of specie payments
that authorizes tlm secretary of tin- treasury
and cancel United Mates notes,
nnd to sell United-States bonds for the accom
plishment of Hint purpose. The motion to
suspend tiie rules and pass the Idll was ri
led—KM) to 108— not two-thirds in the
affirmative. Adjourned.
In tho house, on the 2lHt, Mr. Bright
offered a resolution instructing the committee
expenditures iu the treasury department
inquire into Hie management and disposi-
ii of the captured mid abandoned prop
erty, and it was adopted. Mr. Reagan, from
the committee on commerce, reported a bill
» amend the law for the regulation of com-
icree nnd nn’'igntimi, and for regulating of
earn vessels. Made tin: special order for
uesday nexl. Mr. Beebe offered a resolution
ailing’for a statement of account* of the
navy department with its fiscal agents nt
Ixmdon for every year since 18(18. Adopted.
The house then went into Hie committee of
the whole, on the legislative nnd judieinl
appropriation hill. After a long discussion
‘ 'omrnittee rose without action on the
Mr. Wells introduced a hill to pay
bounties to colored soldiers and their widows
nnd heirs. Referred. The house then ad
journed.
In the house, on the 22<1, Mr. Rice,
from the committee on invalid pensions, re
ported a hill providing that all pensions on
account of death, wounds received or diseases
contracted in the service of the United .States
since March 4, 1871, shall commence from
the date of death or discharge, and pavment
of arrears of pension. Referred. Mr. Young
presented a petition from the chamber of
commerce of Memphis,Tenn.,asking to have
the signal service enlarged. On motion of
Mr. Atkins, the seuate amendments to the
hill to supply the deficiency in the appro
priation for certain Indian tribes were non-
concurred in. The house then took up the
$2,0(
lieutenant, not mounted, $1,500; sehond
lieutenant, mounted. $1,5(H); second livnten-
, not mounted, $I,I(H). Feuding action
the hill the morning hour expired, and
tin* house went into committee of tiie whole
the legislative, executive nnd judicial
appropriation hill. Mr. Yeates spoke in de
fense of the democratic party against the
attacks of the republican mumhers of Hu*
house. 'I’he house (lieu adjourned.
In tho house,on the 21th, Mr. ilolnmn
presented tiie memorial of tho Woman's tem
perance league of Indiana, asking for leg-
slaliiui to promole temperance in the United
•States. Referred. Mr. Blount, from the com-
luilteo on appropriations, reported a hill to
supply a deficiency of $62,
fncturo of postal-cards fo
June 30, 18/6. I'assed. The house
committee of the wfiolo on the legislative,
executive and judieinl appropriation Idll.
The committee proceeded to consider the
Idll in detail. The item for compensation of
senators, which is in tlm first item iu Hie Idll,
having heen rend, which fixes the Hillary id
$4,500, Mr. Baker, of Indiana, moved lo re
duce to $3,000. Rejected. Mr. Foster moved
to reduce it to $2,700. Rejected. Mr. Hill
moved to make the reduction of salnries
commence Oil Hie 4th of March, 1877. Be-
joctfil. Mr. Kelley moved tostrike out $4,5(H)
and insert $5,(HH), anil spoke iu favor of that
motion. Mr. DiMiglass moved to iix the sal
aries at $3,600. Adjourned till Monday.
POLITICAL NOTES.
h' looks ns if Belknap exorcised con-
sidorahlo “ discretion ” in awarding tho
contracts for headstones for soldiers’
graves.
If republican oflico-holdnrK can afford
to pay political assessment a, why (tan
they not afford to have their pay re
duced?
“ No administration senator,” says the
New York Evening Post, “stands any
chance ol becoming the next president of
the United Htates.”
TitKAHttHF.lt Nf.W thinks he will resign
April first, if the president is willing.
There are fifty booster radicals waiting lo
plump themselves into New's place by
the grace of Merton.
It is conceded tlmt Belknap should lie
tried and punished for selling post-trader-
ships. But if Belknap had a brother to
whom lie gave control of certain posts,
and if the mother sold them for whatever
lie could get, would there he anything
wrong in the transaction? The brother
would probably he grateful, and so was
Orville Grant when his brother gave
him the “tip” in respect to vacant In
dian traderships.
Even the Soldiers' Home at Washing
ton must Is; investigated, if economy is
to be the watchword of success. Tin!
cost of this institution is enormous. It
would be cheaper to Ixiard all theinmates
at Willard’s, dress them in broadcloth
and give them enough spending money
to keep up appearances. If the invalid
soldiers got the benefit of this extrava
gance, it might lx; well enough, hut sus
picious democrats think ablc-lsidicd offi
cials make away with the heavy appro
priations in a manner not altogether
honest.
Tin: New York Evening Post, which
is certainly not a democratic journal, iu
commenting upon the testimony of Peek
before the house committee on expendi
tures in the war department, says: “It
is impossible to believe that all this
wretched buying and selling of patron
age eon Id have gone on about the presi
dent, ttjsm the threshold of his house
and tinder his very nose, without an un
paralleled, and almost inconceivable in
sensibility on the part of tiie president
himself. * * * Is it jKissthle that
the president can surround himself with
official and personal associates so obtuse
without sharing their ohtuseness; that
he can live in such an atmosphere of in
sensibility without suffering from the
moral malaria? GeneralBherman rightly
says that General Grant did ‘enough to
entitle him to absolute confidence’ in
military life. President Grant iu civil
life is a startling illustration of tiie lost
Federal sense—the decent sense of
shame.”
BOBBING THE RED MAN.
AtitHliM- Finn* »i ii'-oiii«*i*-iii-l.ii«i llmv li
4'im< tiin.niio io m«*i * in, ooo.
A Washington special lo tho Chicago
Times says: For years tho most notorious
class of lobbyists and claim agents in
Washington have been the half-breed re
presentatives of certain tribes of Indians.
The committeo on expenditures of the
interior department have just begun an
Investigation of the various claims tlmt
have been presented by thisclass of men,
and in tin* course ol their investigation
have struck a mine of information in
connection with tin* sale ol the Osage
reserve lands in Kansas. Here it is
found that ('cl. \V. I'. Adair and C. N.
Vaughn have obtained a claim ol $f»0,-
000 from the interior department. To
secure the passage of this claim they had
to pay tiie sum of $80,000. The history
of this claim, briefly told, is as follows:
Thorn has been a st ruggle for years by
capitalists and speculators to get control
of the lands of tho Osage Indians iu
Kansas. Those, in 1801, amounted to
8,000,000 acres, the most valuable for
agricultural purposes in the state. The
Leavenworth, Lawrence and Galveston
railroad company, for speculative pur
poses in 18(18, succeeded in getting the
Indians to consent to a treaty agreeing
to u sale of these lands. It was stipu
lated in tho treaty that the Osage In
dians sold these lands because they
wished to remove to a more permanent
home in tho Indian territory. Tiie rail
road bargain was, tlmt for the 8,(100,()()()
acres of land they would pay $1,(100,000,
as follows; $100,000 in cash within three
months after tho ratification of tho
treaty; $1,600,000 in bonds of tho com
pany hearing five per cent, interest.
The cash and Isolds to is* deposited with
the secretary of the interior and to Is*
hold, and the interest therefor to he ap
ed to tho use of the Indians, and as
* principal was annually paid in sums
of $i00,000 it was lo he reconverted, bo
t lmt the interest only might, he available
for the Osage Indians. The Indians
afterward became dissatisfied with this
bargain, discovering that it
indie, and iu I860 Adair and Vaughn
me here with a contract with the
lages to defeat the treaty.
The following facts have been brought
out iu Col. Adair’s testimony before the
'omrnittee on expenditures in tho inte-
ior department. In renly to questions
addressed to him by tiie chairman, lie
said that the influence of the railroad
•oinpanics was so great iu llte senate that
n tin* end ho feared the treaty would he
ratified. It required great dibi ts on the
part of himself and friends to prevent ac
tion being taken thereon during tin* last
ssion ol tiie forty-first congress. It was
absolutely necessary, lie said, to have
tiie treaty withdrawn iu order to defeat
t he great odds which wore on (lie side of
tlm railroads, and to accomplish litis lit*
employed Judge Louis Dent, brother-in-
law ot President Grant. He promised
Judge Dent tlmt if lie induced tiie pres
ident to withdraw the treaty from the
senate he would pav him $6,000. This
was accomplished by Judge Dent, for
the treaty was withdrawn by President
Grant, and Col. Adair admit-i that it
was. through tho brother-in-law that this
was offeeted. Tho lands were finally
sold under a provision, which was incor
porated iu tho Indian appropriation hill,
passed on July 16, 1870, which required
the Osage reserve to he Hold at not Ics
than $1.26 per acre. Mr. Adair, in his
testimony admitted that lie had paid
$.'16,000 of the claim and imd only $16,-
000 left to divide bolwccu himself and
tin*, widow of Vaughn, and lie (••uld not
satisfactorily explain what ho did with
the $.'16,000. lie said tlmt he paid $10,-
000 to a claim agent who Imd considera
ble dealings with the interior depart
ment. He also paid $6,000 to the wid
ow of Judge Louis Dent. Tho remain
ing $20,000 lie credited to contingent ex
penses. It is claimed that lie paid a
good deal more money to Mrs. Dent than
lie iuiH testified to ho/oro the committee.
It is also charged that C'owcn received a
large, portion of this sum.
Go ’wav Da it.—In this town there is
.■in old lymphatic negro who lias wonder
fully large feet, and is always willing to
take a rest. One afternoon.while ho was
sleeping on his cabin-floor, with his feet
presented to tho glimmering fire-light,
lie opened one eye a little, and, getting a
glimpse of Ids huge pedals, mistook them
for two little negroes, and called out,
“ Get film 'fore me, I say! Kick you in
do firnh, if you don’t—I will, sliuali!”
And again be snored, lint his dreams
not being pleasant, lie presently opened
both eyes, and still seeing tho pests he
drew up his feet for tho threatened
kick; hut, alarmed to see the enemy ad
vancing upon him, lie bellowed out,
“ Wlm—wha, you cornin’to, now? Go
’way dar!”
ClIU.'IJMHTANTIAL EVIDENCE.-— A very
wealthy young man, with a reputation
for fastness, married recently. On the
morning after tiie wedding the, bride
asked her husband to perform nu office
of tiie toilet for her, made necessary by
the absence ol her maid. The husband
did it willingly, and when it was eon-
eluded was astonished to find his pretty
wife in tears. “ Why, inyown precious!”
said he, “what is the matter with her
hubby’s pet?” “O Jimmie!” replied
the poor girl, crying as if her heart
would break, “if you hadn’t laced a
thousand corsets, you never could have
done it like that.”
Quaint Text.—“The. devil, as a roar
ing lion, walkoth about seeking whom
lie may devour.” Now, my friends, we
will divide the subject of our text into
four heads: First we shall seek to learn
“Who the devil lie was;” secondly, we
shall inquire into his geographical posi
tion, namely, “ Where the devil he was,
and where the devil he was going;”
thirdly land this is of a personal charac
ter), “ Who the devil lie was seeking;”
and fourthly, we shall endeavor to solve
a question which lias never been solved
yet, “ What the devil lie wan roaring
about.”
The Buy St. Louis Herald says “tiie
bluff along Bayon Lacroix is lined with
wax myrtle bushes and tho berries are
ripe and fit to be melted into candles.
The candies made from these I terries era
said to burn clearly, are very iiard and
not affected by heat.” Bay of Hit. Louis
ought to ” light up.”
FACTS AND FANCIES.
TlIKODonnTlloSlAK lias purchased, and
is going to turn the former mansion of
Edwin Forrest, at Philadelphia, into a
summer concert garden.
The average journalist can work like a
mule and witli the brilliancy of a head
light to a locomotive, and still be abused
by an ungrateful public.
On tho eleventh of June in each year
the inhabitants of Cyprus throw a beau
tiful young girl into the sea in honor of
Venus. Slic is then taken out, crowned
and worshiped all Hie day'as a queen or
domi-goddess.
A Chicago doctor says that supersti
tion often kills people who are otherwise
fitted for a long life. That may he ho,
but what is a fellow to do when his
grandmother's ghost pokes him iu the
ribs at midnight and whispers: “ Kcfund
that money—your hour has arrovo!”
The Yea us.—
Why do wo heap largo mounds of years
Before ns and licliind,
And scorn the littlu days that pass
Like angels on the wind?
Each, turning round u small sweet face
As licimtifnl as near,
Because it is so small a face
We will not see it clear.
And so it turns troni us, and goes
Away iu sail disdain:
TInmgn we could give our lives for it,
It never comes again.
Til HUE Ih a saying of Schopenhauer
that the “women remain all their life
long big children ; they have ail eye for
the thing which is nearest to them; they
attach themselves to the present; they
mistake the appearance for tho reality;
and they set aside the most momentous
question for tho veriest trifle.”
“They manage those things better iu
France.” At a trial in Paris recently,
where it was anticipated that the evi
dence would be such as might have a
tendency to shock the sensibilities of tho
deliente-minded. tho judge intimated that
such would bo tiie ease and requested the
decent women to withdraw. Not a soul
moved. “Usher,” said the judge, “now
that tin! decent women have withdrawn,
put out the rest.”
The old adage that “charily begins at
home” is well illustrated in the benevo
lent work done in tin* city of Boston.
•Statistics complied for the government
show that in llioyoar 187.8 the city gave
for homo charities $8,1(10,-187 ; tin* aver
age given by its Protestant elm relies to
foreign Christian missions yearly is $8(1,-
000. This would show lorty-threo dol
lars expended for homo charities for
every dollar expended abroad.
The agent of an English company lias
been for some time past buying up the
wild pine lands in Georgia, which have
been lying inutilized for years, and only
a burden to their owners. The
object is to obtain the timber and
turpentiuo for foreign shipment. No
leas than 760,000 acres have been thus
purchased, and it is tho intention of tin*
company to liny a million, from which
they pay from live to fifty cents an
Tho larder
Anil clonno
mi fat of vealoH
No! ’tis a fast to dull!
Thy slionfu of wlicatc
And iiumto
Unto a hungry sowlo I
To uircuinoiso “thy life.”
To show a lienrte grief rent,
To starve ttiy sin,
Not hill,
And that's to koopo thy Lent!
- Hubert Herrick, 15111.
The Boston Post thinks this, from the
World, heats Col. Hellers’ calculation as
to the profits realizable from introducing
his eye-water into Asia : “Thereare four
hundred and fifty millions of people in
China, and all, men, women and children,
wear cotton clothing, both upper and
under. Allowing ten yards for tun outfit
of eae.li person, of cotton cloth weighing
five ounces to the sonare yard, we have
four billions five hundred millions of
yards of cotton cloth, weighing seven
hundred thousand tons.”
The Georgia ladies find it expensive
these Iiard times to aHsumo their leap
year rights. A party of them at Colum
bus, unanimously passed the following:
Kesftlvcd, That we have always been op
posed to tin* young gentlemen hi ring car
riages to take us to placesof amusement,
simply because it rained. Resolved,
Witli a view of setting an example and a
precedent, we obligate ourselves to ig
nore carriages, and provide oursclves with
an umbrella, a waterproof and a pair of
overshoes, and we shall ask those gentle
men whom wo are to escort to lie pro
vided likewise.
Ot’lt brains are seventy-year clocks.
The angel of life winds them up once for
all, then closes the ease, and gives the
key into tho hands of the angel of tho
resurrection. Tic-lac! tic-tac! go tho
wheels of thought; our will cannot stop
them; they cannot stop themselves;
sleep cannot stop them ; madness only
makes them go faster; death alone can
break the ease, and, seizing the ever-
swinging pendulum, which wo call the
heart, silences at last the clicking of the
terrible escapement we have carried so
long beneath our wrinkled foreheads.—
Oliver Wemlrll Holmes,
They are publishing that process again
by which every man may become his
own ico-house. It is lo fill a barrel with
water and let it freeze solid and then set
it away in the cellar, and help yourself
to the contents through the summer.
There is a Danbury man who set out his
barrel for this pur|joRc about two months
ago, and to sec that man go up to this
barrel every morning and peer into it
and kick it, and ponder over it is the
very host evidence that the honest sim
plicity of early times lias not entirely
percolated through the shoddy of this
ago. Perhaps he law not yet got tiie
right kind of water.