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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.