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4V Report on the Gold Panic of September. 1 The Committee who were appointed to investigate the September gold panic have finally reported to Congress. The report 4trd testimony is quite volumnious. Two reports were submitted. The following are the conclusions arrived at by the majority and mi- I nority: CCNCLUFICNS CF THE MAJORITY. Gen. Ghifield, chairman of the committee on 1 enking and currency, made a report to day on the gold panic. It givejs a circumstan tial account? of its history, and conics to the following conclusions, in view of the testimony. 1. Prominent 1 ankers and mcr chants who testified before the committee were nearly unanimous in ihe opinion that there was no sufficient reason for the existence of the Gold exchange and Gold Exchange bank: that they were the source of measureless evils, and ought to be destroyed. 2. The gold conspiiacy dealt a heavy blow at our credit abroad, by shaking the faith of- foreign capitalists in the stability ot o.ur <i tiade and the honesty of our people. Hundreds of firms engaged in legitimate business were wholly ruined or severely crippled ; impoiters of foreign goods were for many days at the mercy of gamblers, and suffered heavy losses; in fact, the entire country was in jured, the foundation of. business and morality were shaken, and the numerous defalcations that shortly followed were clearly tracable to the mail spirit engendered by spec ulations. 3. The committee finds the wicked and cunningly devised attempts of the conspirators to compromise the president of the United States or his family utterly failed. Mr. Corbin, using the opportunity, which his family .relationship to the president .offered, and under flat worst foim, of hypocrisy which ] ut on the guise <>l itligion and ] atriotism, used all his arts to learn from private conversation, of the president which would be made profitable to him and Ins conspirators; but with all the efforts ot Ids associates the testimony has not elicited a word or act of the president inconsistent witfi that patriotism and integrity which befit th.e chief executive of the nation. The message sent to Coibin when his duplicity was first suspected, and the orcdr which laid ti p strong hand of the government upon the .conspirators, and broke their power. :re the j most significant declarations that the president held and treated them as enemies of the country. The report relieves Mrs. Grant ar.d Gen. I’oiter from any suspi cion of gold gambling# All the public funds intrusted to Gen. I llutteifield were faithfully accounted for. It is not conclusively proved that lie was not interested wi.h conspirators in raising the ■ gold, though on this point the testimony'is conflicting. Mr. ' Gould swears positively that he > bought two lots of gold for Butterfield, amounting in all to 31 500,C(0. Gen. Buttcifield also, under oath, denies this statement. Both Fisk and Gould swears that they received messages from Butterfield and answers to messages i which they sent, during the days of the panic, in reference fb the 1 news fiurn Washington, and this statement receives some support from Brown, a messenger of the sub-treasury. It is proved bytes l timony that during the days of the I panic two films bf brokers sold -gold on Butte) field’s order, and for i his profit, and that during his whole term of office he wasdcaling largely in United States bonds, on his ow n account. When asked by the committee whether he knew of any officer of the United States who was directly or indirectly interested in gokl. he answered wn qualifhdly in the r.cgatiw, but when afterward confronted by the testimony of Seligman, concerning his piiicliascs of go.d, he admitted , that it was true. The committee recommended i the adoption of the following resolution : That the committee on ways and . means lie instructed to report a bill levying such a tax on the: transactions of the gold exchange,) and Gold Exchange clearinghoti'C, ns in its judgement the in forests of the country demand. That the- committee on judiciary ( Im? instructed to inquire into the j I cipetHcncv of reporting a bill to 5 define and punish conspiracy a'gainst the credit of the United ' States, and the business of its peo•pie. *• - - .

That the committee on banking and currency be instructed to inquire wbeter any further legislation is necessary to prevent the improper use of certified cheeks by national banks, and that it have leave to report by bill, or otherwise, THE MINORITY REPORT says the members join with their colleagues in recommending some legislation upon this subject, but the cannot fail to see how impotent all legislation will be so long as agents of the government and their outside confederates can know with certainty and communcate with ease the intention and conduct of the financial officer, in advance of public informution. or how. being advised of such intention and conduct in advance, by an impractical system, they may adopt their plans to the exigencies of which they are advised. All such legislation is futile so long as policy is pursued by the secre’.aiy of the treasury which advises such agents and the public w hat to expect as to.sales of gold. No such supreme control should be vested in anyone, how ever honesfiq intention, over the results of our industry; and, second, no scheming and untrustworthy subordinate official, and no possibility of such appliances, reaching to the bead of the government, w hich this investigation reveals. There is not a particle of doubt but that Corbin was interested, and his role was that of procuring the aid *of the president for his theory. Buiterfild, himself, frankly stated to Grant that he knew the views and policy of the government w ere that it would not sell any gold till after the crops were sent to mark et. Who contributed to this, fallacy, unless it was Corbin ? That it was the policy imposed on the rest by this pertinacious schemer is placed beyond the shadow of a doubt by the correspondence between the president and secretary of the treasury. The president, either from a conviction of the fcasibiliiv and utility of the crop theory, or from his indifference and inattention to llie designs underlying it. accepted it. He never intended gold should go down. Goiild did not expect it. The minority argue nt length the president should have been allowed an opportunity for explanation. In conclusion, they respectfully decline to give any certifi cates of of any party, saying: •‘ I he resolution under which we act does not call for or compel us to do so, ami however much it may be desirable in many,views, we submit' our report in that reticence to which we were enforced by the conduct the president, and the act of the majority. The public may draw its ow n interferences as well from the testimony as from its absence. We have none to draw, and by this statement w o say that we make no in .sinuations or charge. “Let the friends of the executive, if he has been in anyway damaged by their zeal in shielding him, be held responsible for our silence.’’ Ttae Village Pastor. In the retired villages of our land, the pastor often became a source of civilization and refine ment to those around him. His simple and unpretending manners; his house, with its modest ornament ; his garden, tended and decked by the hand of taste; these impart some relish for improvement among his poorer and ruder neighbors. But further, he is ever at liai d to relieve to instruct, toad vise, and to console his flock His purse, seamy as it often is. administers tQ their temporal wants; and lie is yet more their benefactor by organizing and conducting plansinorc systematically formed for their relief. His influence may arrest the heavy arm. or soften the bard heart that would oppress them. His superior kno wleilgeguides them through difficulties, where no other friend is near to give them counsel His autlior-* ty their little feuds and jealousies. His words of sympa ; thy and consolation soothe their distresses. His vigilanteye marks j their first deviations from recti i tude. and brings back the yet nn I hardened 7 and reclaimable transI gresoor into the path of innocence, i He is, in the great mejority of in aided by a partner, whose I co-operation is by so much the more valuable, as her habits qual ity her for every task of gentleness and mercy, more especially when I she has to ileal with the sick or the afflicted, the ignorant or the vic icous of her own sex. Shade trees should not be plant ed dose to dwelling houses. Let in the sunlight.

r The Impositions of the Proposed Tariff. From the Cincinnati Commercial. We do not know of any question | i now before Congress so vitally interesting to the whole people as the tax and tariff laws. The lull - to amend the latter, which is to be > taken tip in the House on the 15th I instant, is so full of new and insid-1 t ions grabs for more protection, i coupled with a few special rediic- , • tions of taxation, that it becomes j every journal published in the pea- 1 i pie's interest to expose it, and to ' f strive for its defeat. We have al- ■ f ready shown up some of its worst of its impositions on articles which are the necessaries of life. Let us now call the attention of our read- i i ers to more of them. “ On brass in sheets or wire, and j on all articles of brass or bronze, ! ■ forty-jive per centum ad valorum." | ■'The present duty, which is too much, is only thirty-five per cent. ' This staple article enters largely j into a variety of fabrics in universal use. It is consumed bu build j ers, saddlers, furniture manufac- . Hirers, printers, plumbers, lock i smiths, &c. There is no possible ' excuse for raising the tax on an ■ article entering into all these manufactures ten percent, on the whole ! amount imported, or multiplying the duty—as this amendment re- ' (ally does—by thirty and thus in creasing it by nearly one-third its timount. The effect is to make ev cry man pay this much higher for ; every article manufactured of brass j which lie must have in his shop or ■ his house. The lax on brass (of i course, we mean the material ar- | tide; as for the metaphorical,; there is already so redundant a j supply at Washington that we I wonder Congress don't clap on a j prohibitory duty) is already high ' enough for revenue, and too high [ for the public interest. It should I be cut down to twenty five per cent., not put up to forty five. pewter, Britannia, and all like mixed metals of lead or tin, unmanufactured, three cents per \ pound."’ The duty on these raw materials is now two cents per pound ; s<> that it is proposed to raise, by fifty per cent, the tax on pew ter ware. Now. if the proposition were to charge up this additional taxation of fifty per cent, on an article of pure luxury, say on silver ware, for example, we should not have the slightest objection, provided the Government's necessity for additional revenue were clearly shown. The tax ■ would then be paid by the rich, or, I > at least, by those in comfortable j ciicumstanccs, who could afford t<> I use silverware on their tables, in lieu of the more vulgar and uni- j I versal pewter or Britahnia. Is it . proposed by this reformed tariff of ■ the Ways an'd Means Committee, to raise the duty on silverware and other articles of luxury ? Not at ! ■ :,n - , : . / M e look in vain in the bill for any change in the tax on silver- ' ware, while the duly on the poor . man’s pewter cup, and everybody's I Britannia tea set is to he raised • fifty per cent! And this is to be done ct a time when we confessedly don’t need the revenue, five years after the war is over, and with a treasury redundant to the extent of a hundred millions, ow1 ing to our having submitted to these high duties so long. “On zinc, spelter, and tenfen- , • cque. in blocks or pigs, tied cents per pound.'' Here is another raw material among the metals, heavily used in roofing, boat building, the stove and tinware business, and many other industries, on which it: is proposed to increase the present high specific duty of one and one j halt pw cent, per pound by thirty- , ! three per cent, additional tax. < J What possible plea can the high , tai illites make for this outrage on all the consumers of the count)y, j except the miserable monopolizing one of “protection’’ for half a doz- ■ cn or more American manufactur- , ers of zinc metal ? "On zinc in sheets, two ond three-quarters-cents per pound."] jrThc present tax on imported sheet . zine is two and one quarter cents , per pound; so that the proposed increase of duty on this article alone is twenty five per cent. "On old type. fit only to be re- J manufactured, tiro cents per; pound." The present tariff law reads : “ Old type, if only fit to be remanufactured. free." So it appears that our legislators are ask ed to impose a new and S|>ecial tax on printers' material, which should be left as free from taxation as ’ possible, since their cheapness di- ' rcctly contributes to the public intelligence and the diffusion of kdow ledge. Togo back to zinc and spelter, taxed at two cents per pound by t : Ibis [-roposed enormity, we find by a January price current of Janua -

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ry 1. 1870 that the price of zinc in blocks or pigs was £l9 10, per ton, or about four and one third cents her pound. The duty at two cents I is thus raised to about fifty per cent ad valorem. “ On mats of goat or sheep skini, plain, fancy, or colored, fifty per centum ad valorem." As the pres ent tax is forty-five per cent, this iis not a very severe increase on these articles; but when we all (.agreed (except a few interested i persons and the demented tariff I ites) that all changes to be made in our tariff should hereafter be in the direction of reduced duties, it is a simple outrage to propose such -i an increase upon mats, however , small. "On flour or meal of oats, one ■ cent per pound." Here is an out- ■ rageous tax upon one of thg.com ' rnonest of the necessaries of life ; ■ | the more glaring and indefensible I since the present tax is but ten per ' ' cent, ad valorem. The tax of one j cent per pound amounts to fifty six ; cents on a single bushel of oat ■ meal; and if that is not a . itive duty, we do not know what i could come within such a designation. It was these high duties on ' , breadstuff's of all kinds that led to ! ■ the corn law agitation in England, i I and made free traders of one of | the most protection-ridden com-, ! munities which the world has ever seen. I d On malt, thirty per centum ad , valorem." This is an increase of \cinh'fifty per centl. in the rate of I tax imposed, the present duty 1 e- : ing twenty per cent. This is :jn- ■ other instance of a grab for higher i protection, in which this bill so i abounds as fully to justify the title | we have bestowed upon it, of “The ' New Tariff Swindle.” f True Courtesy. Real courtesy is widely different from the courtesy which blooms only in the sunshine of love and the smile of beauty, and withers and cools down in the atmosphere of poverty, age, and toil. Show 1 me [the man who can quit the brilliant society of the young, to listen to the kindly voice of age; who I can hold cheerful converse with one whom years have deprived of charms.. Show me the man of generous impulses, who is always ready to help the poor and needy; show me the man who treats unprotected maidenhood as he would the heiress, surrounded by the proi tection of rank, riches and family. I Show me the man who never for i an instant forgets the delicacy, the respect that is due to woman as I woman, in any condition or class; I show me such a man, and yon show i me a gentleman—nay. you show ! better, you show me a true Christian. Turning the Devil to Grass. So rapid is their wav of doing I things in Chicago, that, when a man makes up his mind to reform 1 (rather a tough job), it becomes important to fix him promptly. It is therefore necessary, at times, to cut a hole in the ice to perforin die solemn ceremony of baptism. On one of these occasions a convert, who had felt the necessity of that rite, was immersed, and on com ing out was asked by the minister, “How do you feel now. brother?” "Better,'' was the r ply; “put me in again. The request was complied with, and after the second dip, the question was repeated. “How do you feel now" Better! better! ' was the response, in a solemn tone of voice— "the devil . may go to grass note !’’ Such is the pluckv spirit of the Chicago convert! Editor's Drawer in Harper's Magazine for Mmwh. A Good Thought for the Xcw Year. — Rev. Albert Barnes says : “The , wo’rtd is becoming better every year, every month, every day. In its progress society takes hold of all that invaluable, or that consti tutes real improvement, and will not let it die. That which is t worfliTess is superceded by that which is useful; that which is injurious and wrong is dropped by i the way: that which goes permanently into the good order of the' , world alone is maintained, and Christianity nexgr had so firm a , hold on the intelligent faith ot mankind as it has now.” At a session of the Massachn setts House one day* a little bald headed man. with a thin voice, interrupted the business by a insistent squeak of—-Mr. Spcc-ker! Mr. Spee ker!” till finally gaining the fluor. he piped out tremulous ly ; .“Mr. Spec ker. I want ’er an- i ■ nuance the death of rdetiah R.ir kins. Brother Parkins departcvl this work! yesterday, full of fee ar of the Lord and drops-e-ev on the ' chisL”

A Sailor’s Soliloquy. - —— A Nantucket correspondent gives ah interesting illustration of the “gradual progress of opinion” in this anecdote about a shipmate who accompanied him on one o his early whaling voyages : Stiles was a sjimple hearted, transparent young fellow ; and, when we sailed had been “paying attention” for some time to a young .lady, who,he had reason to think, did not fully reciprocate his ardent feelings. At all events, the parting, on her side, whs not so affectionate as he could wish, and he was impressed with the belief that she only kept him as a stand by, in default of a better offer. “I don't believe,” Stiles would / say, with a despondent shake of j the head. “I don't believe Ann t Jones "II have me. anyhow !” When we had been out a few months, and had met with fair success, Stiles' tone was modified. The burden of his monologue changed to, “Well. I don'no Hut what Ann Jones 'll have me after all” With a thousand barrels of oil under hatches, he became still j more hopefull. “Chances is preti tv good for Ann Jones,” he would | say. “Pretty good now.” i At fifteen hundred barrels he had ; assumed a self satisfied manner, and soliloquized—“l guess there’s' no danger but what Ann Jones 'll nave me now.” At two thousand barrels; —“Ann Jones 'll be glad enough to get j me now, I know.” , When we cut the last whale that ■ was to fill the vessels hold and > squared away for home. Stiles threw his hat in the air with a wild Indian yell of trUunph—“l'll be hanged if I'll have Ann Jones, 1 anyhow!" The Richest Boy in America. , The papers are telling about a boy in New England, now fourteen years or age, who is supposed ’lo be the richest boy in America, is J the due who is good n rtured, honest, intelligent, ambitious, willing to d<* r; ght. He is the one who loves his mother, and always has a kind word for her; who loves ; his sister or sisters, and tries to ; help them with true affection. He is the boy who does n<>t call his : father the “old man,” but who ■ loves him, speaks kindly to and of him, and tries to help him as the signs of old age gather fast upon his brow. The richest boy is the one who ■ ; has the pluck to fight his destiny i ami tuture. He is the one who has I the manhood to do right and l>e : honest, and is striving tobysome- - body ; who is above doing n mean action, who would not tell a lie to screen himself or betray a friend, jHe whose young mind is full of j noble thoughts for the future, who is determined to win a name by jjood deeds. This is the richest boy in America. Which one of our readers is it ? This boy we like, we would be glad to see, would like to take him by the hand and tell him to go on earnestly, that success might crown his efforts. And if he is a poor boy we could meet him at the threshold, bid him enter, and give him good advice, well and kindly meant. That other rich boy, in New England, we don't care any* | thing about, for there are fools and ' snobs enough to worship, flatter and spoil him. Driving Buys from Home. I Mothers who are disturbed by ' the noise and untidihess of boys at home must be careful, lest, by their j reproaches, they drive their chil‘,dren from home, in search of pleasure elsew here. “There arc those balusters all finger again ” said Mis. Ccry, as I she made haste with a soft linen cloth to polish down the sinning oak again . “George,” she said, with flushed face, at she gave the cloth a decided wrench out of the basin of'suds, “if you go up these liefoDfliedtime you shall be punished!” “1 sljouhl like to know where I am to go?" said George, angrily. "I can’t stay in the kitchen, I am so in the way; and I can't go in the parlor fyr fear I shall muss that up. and now you say I can't go up to my own room. I know a grand place where I can go," he added to himself; “boys are never told they are in the way there, and we can have lots of fun. I'll go down to Nile's corner. I can smoke a cegar now as well as,.any J boy. if it did make me awful sick • the first time. They shall not I laugh at me again about it.” Ami so the careful housekeeper virtually drove her son from her door, to hang about the steps and sit under the liroad inviting portico of the village grog-shop.— PortI land Transcript“Lot,tie.” said a tittle visitor, > “what makes your kitty so cross ? ’ t -O’i, ’cause she's cutting teeth, I i spect.” ‘ Teacher—“ Who was David?’*' Boy—“ The son of Jesse.’’ Aud who was Jesse?” .“The flower of , Dumblaue.”