Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 February 1878 — Page 1

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the war dk the east. The Servian troops have captured Pristina, also reoccupied Kershumli, after an engagement in which the Turke lout 400 killed and wounded. Four hundred and fifty Turke were captured. It is officially announced that the Servians, upea reoccupying Kershumli, found twentyroar Servian soldiers and officers impaled. A Constantinople dispatch of Jan. 26 says ifce Turkish delegates have been ordered to sign the peace preliminaries, which include the following : Ser via to be independent, without compensations. Montenegro to receive Antivari, Nicsics and Spuz. a “<i «• pviUuu or me territory bordering on Lake Scutan. Russia to bold Latoum, Kars and Erzeroum until a war Indemnity of £20,000,000 is paid. The Dardanelles to be opened to Russian men-of-war. Bulgarian autonomy to be conceded rather on the principle of the Lebanon than on the principle of tha Constantinople conference, and Turkey to nominate a Christian Governor for a long term of years, subject to the ratification of the powers. Bulgaria is not understood to include Thrace, but only to extend to the line of the Balkans. Part of the Russian army to embark at Constantinople for their return home, and the final treaty of peace to be signed at ixmstantinoplo by the Grand Duke Nicholas. The Russians will continue advancing until the armistice is actually signed, and even then a large portion of the Russian army is to return homo through Constantinople by sea. England has suddenly retreated from her warlike position, and the British fleet, instead of going to Constantinople, will remain at Besika bay, while Turkey and Russia proceed to the consummation of the agreement.

GENERAL FOREIGN NEWS.

Several members of the French Chamber of Deputies having been unseated recently, on the ground of illegal proceedings at'the election, Admiral Touchard, on behalf of the Right, moved that henceforth a two-thirds majority be necessary to declare an election invalid. Gambetta opposed the motion. He called the previous question, and made a vigorous attack on the minority. A stormy scene ensued, but al the close Gambetta’s motion for the previous question was adopted—3l2 against 186. Soldiering in the Mexican army is not an affair of flowery beds of ease. President Diaz has inaugurated a system of industry among his idle troops by which they will be kept out of mischief and earn their pay. Ho has set them to work at draining the Mexican valley »rail improving the roads. The question between the Argentine Republic and ('hili concerning the Patagonian frontier has been arranged by agreeing to submit it to arbitration, in accordance with the provisions of the treaty of 185f>. One hundred thousand pounds in gold was withdrawn from the Bank of England for New York, the other day. Kashgar has been completely subjugated by the Chinese. The Greek Ministers have all tendered their resignations. A great drought and intensely hot weather prevail in Now South Wales. Advices from the City of Mexico report that the Mexican Government has determined to hereafter oppose the crossing of the Rio Grande by American troops. The young King Alphonso, of Spain, was married in great splendor to his cousin, the Princess Mercedes, at Madrid, on the 23d of January. In Northern China, according to reports from the United States Consul at Shanghae, a frightful famine is raging, and children are daily sold in the markets for food.

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE.

Dell'Noblitt, a prominent citizen of Wilmington, died in this city, the other day, aged 100 years. The failure at Philadelphia of three houses in the morocco and goat-akin trade, and of the manufacturing Ann at Wilmington, Del., caused excitement in the former city. The total liabilities are said to exceed $500,000. Assets unknown. It is rumored that two houses in the same line at Newark, N. J., are also in trouble. A Philadelphia dispatch announces the failure of Dr. J. H. Schenck A. Son, manufacturers f patent medicines. K. K. Collins, founder of one of the first of the American steamship lines to Europe, died in his home in New York last week. The extensive thresher manufactory of Stevens <fc Co., at Geneva, N. Y., has been destroyed by fire. Loss, $200,000. It is said that several prominent Now York bankers are ready to place their business on the basis of specie payments, gold and greenbacks being accepted as interconvertible. These parties are members of the Clearing House, and only await the general concurrence of that body to put their plan into effect. The long strike of the New York cigar- . makers has been brought to an end, the strikers returning to work at the best rates they can obtain. Five more of the Reading (Pa.) railroad rioters of last July have been sentenced to six months’ imprisonment each. The Connecticut House of Representatives has passed resolutions opposing the Bland Silver bill and favoring the resumption of specie payments. West. Attorney General after consultation with Secretary Sherman, has addressed a communication to Judge Bangs, District Attorney at Chicago, instructing him to proceed vigor ously with the prosecution of the cases in that city, and obtain judgment. Advices from Fort Buford report Indian rumors numerous and general of a congregation Of hostiles north of Milk river. As many as nine camps are reported on either side of the line. Gen. Miles thinks there is trouble ahead. Advices from the West report that Sitting Bull is now camped on Frenchman’s creek, with over 1,000 lodges, including the escaped Nez Perces and the recent deserters from the agencies. A most wanton murder was recently perpetrated on a passenger train of the Columbus and Toledo railread, near Upper Sandusky, Ohio. A notorious confidence man and three card monte gambler named Lou Hank together with some of his “pals,” entered the car and roped in a traveling man from Toledo, named Sohman. The latter charged them with swindling, whereupon Hank drew a revolver and deliberately shot Boh “an through the neck, inflicting a wound from the effects of which he died next day. The gang then jumped the train and escaped. Hank is well known on nearly every roa in the West, and is a most desperate character. One of his aliases is “Canada Bill No. 2,” mu A new and dangerous counterfeit $5 note on the Farmers’ National Bank of Virginia, Hl. is in c rculation. Th. Western iron maixufatcurers, held a meetnj,' in Pittsburgh the other day, adopted

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JAS W. McEWEN, Editor.

VOLUME I.

a resolution to immediately restrict the manufacture of iron. The workingmen of California, in State Convention at San Francisco, last week, adopted a platform calling for restrictions and abolition of Chinese cheap labor, and demanding that land donated by the Government in furtherance of the schemes of individuals and corporations should revert to its lawful possessor to be held for actual settlement. Dr. Reynolds, the rod-ribbon apostle, is waging a vigorous crusade against the cohorts of alcohol in Chicago. Hundreds are joining his standard at every meeting. A daring attempt to rob a train on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe railroad was made and frustrated at Kinsley, Kan., last week. Five armed and masked men entered tion and captured A. Kincard, the night telegraph operator, who was ordered to open the safe. He refused to do so, although his life was threatened. The west-bound express train arrived by this time, and the operator, by a desperate effort, broke loose ’and ran to a hotel near by, arousing the inmates. A volley of pistol shots was fired into it, and, as the train stopped, Conductor J. W. Mallory was met by two of the robbers, who presented pistols to his head and ordered him into the baggage car. He stepped in and closed the door, instantly starting the train by pulling the bellcord. Mallory and the baggage master then armed themselves with carbines carried in the car, and then stopped the train, after running about a mile from the station. They went into the back coaches with arms, but found the robbers not on the train, and that the passengers had not been disturbed. trioutil. The Supreme Court of South Carolina has decided that Circuit Judges must be elected by ballot instead of viva voce. This decision ousts all the Circuit Judges elected prior to 1877 by the Republican Legislature, and retains Kershaw and Wallace, elected last year by the Democrats. It was a constitutional question involving the construction of the word “ballot.” Judge Whittaker, of the Superior Criminal Court of Now Orleans, has overruled the motion for the transfer of the case of the members of the Louisiana Returning Board to the United States Circuit Court. The application and arguments of counsel were based chiefly upon the fact that there was undue prejudice against the accused, and that they could not obtain justice in a State court, the fact that in the composition of the jury negroes had been studiously excluded being strongly dwelt upon in support of this claim. This season’s cotton crop is estimated by good authorities at 4,750,000 bales. A scheme is before Congress looking to increased fast-mail facilities for the South and the establishment of direct communication between Chicago and the seaboard at Charleston, 8. C., via the projected Blue Ridge route. The members of the late Louisiana Returning Board have been stirring up some excitement in New Orleans. They tookrefuge in the United States Custom House in order to escape arrest, United States Marshal Wurzbnrger and Deputy Collector Tomlinson assuming the responsibility protecting them, a detachment of marines being summoned from a revenue •utter for this purpose. Sheriff Houston went to the Custom House and attempted to arrest them, and was himself arrested by the United States officers. Ho was taken before Judge Billings, sitting in the United States Circuit Court, but the latter decided that he had nothing to do with the matter. District Attorney Ogden telegraphed the facts to Washington, and instructions were sent to the United States officials at New Orleans not to interfere with the execution of the writs of the State courts. The Returning Board men then quietly surrendered, and were held to bail in the sum of $5,000 each.

WASHINGTON NOTES.

An organization has been formed among the members of the House of Representatives at Washington, composed of members of both political parties, the object of which is indicated by the following resolution, passed at its first meeting: Re.nolved, That the purpose of the organization now about to be made shall be confined to the remonetization of the silver dollar and the repeal of the Resumption act. The holders of bonds of the District of Columbia, a large quantity of which are supposed to have been issued without legal warrant during the reign of the Washington ring, are laboring with a strong lobby to procure a Congressional guarantee of the interest on the paper. Representatives of the syndicate have asked the Treasury Department to release them from the contract under which they are bound to take some millions more of the 4 per cent, bonds. The President has determined hereafter, in making appointments for Pension Agents for cities where the old incumbents are not retained, to select soldiers who had meritorious records in the Union army. It is thought, as Pension Agents have to do With disabled soldiers only, there is a singular propriety in such selections. The House Committee on Expenditures in the Department of Justice has agreed to report favorably a bill limiting the annual salary of United States Marshals to $5,000, and Deputy Marshals to $5 per day. President Hayes has positively refused to grant a pardon to the Chicago whisky crooks, and the counsel who have been so persistently pushing the matter have left the capital, breathing the direst vengeance against the Executive, Attorney General Devens, Secretary Sherman, and everybody else connected with the “blarsted” administration. The President sent the following nominations to the Senate : Frank Leland, Wisconsin, Consul of the United States at Hamilton, Ontario; Thomas C. Sbopleigh, of Minnesota, Register of the Land Office, Detroit; Adam Underwood, Surveyor of Customs District of Boston and Charlestown, Mass. Assistant Secretary French, of the Treasury Department, has written an opinion sharply crijicising the action of District Attorney Bangs, of Chicago, in Indorsing the applications of the whisky crooks, Roelie, Yunkor and B. M. Ford, for pardon.

POLITICAL POINTS.

Capt. Shaughnessy, who figured in connection with attempts to restore order at the time of the Chisholm massacre in Mississippi, has been nominated United States Marshal for Utah. The President has addressed the following note to Congressman Glover : . Deab Sib: I am in receipt of a resolution adopted by the Committee of the House of Representatives on Expenditures in the Treasury Department, requesting my co-operation with the Committee In Its investigation of alleged abuses in said department. I shall be glad to co-operate heartlly.with the committee in the nroposadinvestigation, and to that end will issue such proper directions to all officers of that or any other department as may bo required to secure prompt and effective assistance in the conduct of the investigation. Touching the suggestion contained in your latter, that witnesses who may testify before a com-

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mittee maybe appYPhttattve ot IdMngthelrpla'eee if they testify truly and fully, you are at liberty to assure all subordinate officers that the fact of their testifying before a committee shall not be used to their prejudice. Very respectfully, R. B. Hayes. The Hon. John M. Glover, M. G, The Legislature of lowa ha 6 te-eiected Hod Wm. B. Allison to the United States Senate, Senator Plumb, of Kansas, has addremd a. letter to the President on the subject of civil service. The Senator believes that the terms of service of all employes, except of the Judiciary, should be limited to four years ; that selections should be governed by Character and efficiency, >nd that appointments should be made awarding to population. Mr. Plumb thinks that members cf Congress should net he ** El ’ Appointments by the President: Benj. B. Murray, UnitedHf» Webb, United States Attorney, Maine ; Philip T. Van Zile, United States Attorney, Utah; John H. Hammond, Illinois, Indian Inspector; Thomas Boles, Receiver of Public Money, Dardenelle, Ark., and the following Postmasters: Illinois, Charles F. Martin, Sycamore ; Michigan, S. J. Burpee, Marshall ; Kentucky, Mrs. Mary H. Letcher, Nicholasville. It is said that Judge Clifford, of the United States Supreme Court, has never, in any manner, personally recognized President Hayes since his inauguration.

MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGS.

Col. Wagner writes to the Commissioner ofjnternal Revenue from Greenville, S. C., that the breech-loading rifles sent by the Commissioner of Internal Revenue for use by officers of the revenue in their raids on the illicit whisky distillers have been of great assistance. In a recent raid made by the officers under the Collector, in which they captured an eighty-gallon still and arrested the owners,' they were assailed by nine moonshiners with shotguns and rifles. They responded with their breech-loaders, and charged up a hill upon their assailants, driving them back, chasing them until they were dispersed. The “ Colorado stone man,” as was suspected, turns out to be a second Cardiff-giant fraud. According to the statement of a citizen of Elkland, Tioga county, Pa., the so-called “ stone giant ” was manufactured there by one George Hull, who made the Cardiff giant. Hull molded and baked his giant, expending, it is thought, SIO,OOO or $12,000 on it, which exhausted his means. Then he visited Barnum, and shortly afterward the object was shipped to Colorado Springs, where it was “planted.” The following business failures are announced; J. M. Brainard, notion dealer, Cleveland, Ohio; Rhodes & Server, produce merchants, New York, liabilities $100,000; Dovale & Co., the oldest shipping house on South street, New York, liabilities $150,000; J. J. Wightman & Co., wholesale liquors, Cleveland, Ohio; Wood & Co., brass founders, Philadelphia, liabilities $70,000. The Pennsylvania Editorial Association, in session at Harrisburg, last week, passed a resolution protesting against the bills before Congress providing for a new classification of mail matter, and regulating the postage thereon. It has been decided by the Treasury Department that bank drafts cannot be received as legal tender for subscriptions to the 4 per cent, loan. The sale of bonds is a strictly cash business. and deposits of cash will have to be made at the sub-treasuries by persons who want to buy, or by some person for them. The committee of Western merchants and shippers appointed by the convention held at St. Paul, in October last, for the purp»se of urging upon Congress the imperative necessity of permanently improving the channel of the Mississippi, have presented a petition to the House of Representatives for the appointment of a standing committee of the House, to be called the Committee on Permanent Improvement of the Channel of the Mississippi River and its Tributaries.

FORTY-FOURTH CONGRESS.

An Exciting Debate in the Senate. A literal mad bull plunging about in the traditional china shop, says a Washington correspondent, could not have created greater havoc than did Mr. Blaine in the Senate Chamber today. Hamlin took the floor with a written speech upon the life and virtues of William King, the first Governor of Maine, whose statue was to be unveiled. in the national memorial gallery. Immediately a calm settled upon the Senate. Every Senator was in his seat and the galleries were densely crowded. Hamlin’s speech was a plain one, dwelling upon the life and virtues of Mr. King, and the reasons which prompted Maine to select him as the most fitting representative whose marble statue was to adorn the memorial gallery of the nation. When Hamlin had finished Blaine arose, and at once there was a general commotion in the galleries, and the throng of spectators bent their heads in all directions to catch a glimpse of the orator. Btaine’n speech was a masterpiece of elocution. It lasted over thirty minutes. It was an analytical review of Maine’s s= greatest men, and a selection of William King as the greatest. He spoke of the powers of leadership of this hero, and, in doing so, placed him as foremost in the movement which separated the district of Maine from the commonwealth of Massachusetts and made it a separate-state. In this connection he dwelt upon the circumstances of this separation, told of the rancor and hate engendered between the people of the two sections, and which, to some extent, still exists, and how Maine was unable to bear the tyrannical domination of Massachusetts. He spoke with great warmth, and was very severe on Massachusetts people. He even referred to the part which Massachusetts had taken in the war of 1812, and gave it some pretty hard raps, several times making ridiculous comparisons, and producing general laughter at the expense of Massachusetts. All throughout his speech a whisper might have been heard in the Senate, and, when he ended, the Senate sat motionless as Vice President Wheeler was about to put the question upon the adoption of appropriate resolutions. The scene was at this point suddenly changed by the rising of Senator Dawes, of Massachwette. He said that he did not desire to interfere with the formal arrangements of the occasion] by presuming to make a speech when it was only intended that the two Senators from Maine should speak, but he leli that he could not allow the occasion to pass without some remarks from him. Then he even outdid Blaine’s want of decency by indulging in a most partisan attack upon the peopftwf Maine, a defense of Massachusetts, and a bitter charge upon Blaine for having dragged from the ashes of the events whioi the rer^udiated temeUt “ Masaa<3jinße Uß SM long After Dawee came Hoar. His speech was very severe upon Blaine. Indeed, Hoar’s main forte is his venomous tongue, and when he wishes he can turn himself into a bag of the bitterest gall. He grew very excited as he addressed himself almost exclusively to Blaine, and walking in the direction of the latter, with flashing eyes, compressed lips, and his finger shaking at the rate of forty motions to to-day expressed that heart did not beat in Massachusetts. He defended his people and defended their valor and patriotism in the war of 1812, saying, that the only naval battle that had occurred off the coast of Maine citement, shouted out, “No, sir! that was a Portland crew.” Thic sudden outburst was the occasion of laughter and applause, during which Hoar’s voice was completely drowned. He went on. however, and said that Blaine’s attempt at ridicule of his State was done only for the purpose of ingratUtjng himself with a certain class of Sen-

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a tors upon the floor whft may nottfeeljfceiM kindly, tn J|kffiiW|)jjtiiitf(i He vent further, and charged that Blaine s grievance By this he referred to thßjtouure frf/Bleine io sect®# thb Votes of th® Massachusetts delegation in the CTUcinneti Convmition, Sun everybody so understood it. SubseqffMnfy Dawes spoke again, and made the same pointy only with greater force. Blaine quietly replied to Hoar that he had no desire to enter into a controversy upon the subject on this occasion, but went on to criticise Massachusetts’ course in the war of 181S> Dawes undertook to get in a little more abuse of Blaine, when the latter, as if unable to longer restrain himself, arose very excitedly, and, addressing himself to both hia antaaow ists, aslfod if the Senators. f*wi Magtegtoißtfi could stand thaw to-day t*R State had not bristled all over cowardio# that nigh * ‘ Certainly, said he,' of as are recounted here to-day would have been better if done in war.” Dawes tried to interrupt Blaine here to K “V •omalhinG olvint the promptness or Massachusetts soldiers to respond to the call to arms, but Blaine laughed to derision this statement, and, walking up and down in the greatest excitement imaginable, said that it was not true, but that Maine volunteers had first crossed the line. Soar took another hand and made a personal onslaught upon Blaine, charging prostitution of his office as Speaker of the House to accomplish party ends, when Blaine suddenly interrupted him and asked him what he meant. “ I mean,” said Hoar, “the Ku-Klux legislation of 1871.” Blaine retorted that, whatever were his acts then, Hoar, who was then a member of the House, was always his closest adviser. Blaine then fired another long-range volley of canister at his adversaries, and especially at Hoar. He repudiated the charge that he (Blaine) was trying to ingratiate himself with the Southern Senators, and said that the remark came with bad taste from Hoar, who was one of those anxious for reconciliation, and was willing to embrace every wayward brother in the land. This disregard of dignity and personal and political abuse of each .other continued for some time. Several times during the scene the galleries became very noisy, and loud applause came forth unrebuked ’by the chair.

Regular Proceedings.

Monday, Jan. 21.—Senate.—A bill having been reported to the Senate, Mr. Beck submitted a concurrent resolution declaring that it is unnecessary and inexpedient to impose the taxes at this time asked for by the Secretary of the Treasury to provide $37,000,000 for a sinking fund, and directing the Secretary not to purchase any more bonds for the liquidation of the public debt until directed to do-eo by-43ongr(BB. Laid over and printed.... Bills were .introduced and referred as follows : By Mr. McDonald to establish a mint for the coinage of gold and silver at Indianapolis, lud.; by Mr. Cameron, authorizing the coinage, of a standard silver dollar, and providing that gold and silver jointly, and not otherwise, shall be a legal tender ; by Mr. Eustis, to authorize the establishment of mail steamship service between the United Statesand the empire of Brazil... .At the expiration of the morning hour, the Senate resumed consideration of the resolution of Mr. Matthews, declaring the right of the Government to pay its bonds in silver, and Mr. Jones, of Florida, and Mr. Cockrell spoke in favor thereof... Executive ’business was then transacted, and the Seukte adjourned. Houser—Bills were introduced: Proposing an amendment to the constitution providing that no claim against the tTnited States shall ever be paid unless the samashall have been prerented, to the proper tribunal within ten years from the time the claim shall have accrued; authorizing the coinage of the silver jdollar, and declaring gold and sinter jointly,'; and not otherwise, to be full legal tender ; : to regulate iuter-State commerce, and prohibit unjust discrimination by common carriers; for the transfer of the Indian rureau to the War Department; restricting the admission Of cadets at . West Point; to prevent the further destruction or retirement of the United States treasury notes ; declaring the sense of Congress in regard to subsidies; to suspend for five years the operation of the law requiring the purchase annually of 1 per cent, of the debt of the United States... .Mr. Southard moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill authorizing the payment of customs duties in legal-tender notes after the let of January, 1879, The motion to suspend the rules atjd pass the bill was defeated«s-yeas, 154; nays, 96 ; —not two-thirds in the affirmative. ...The House then adjourned. Tuesday, Jan. 22.—Senate.—Mr. Morrill, from the Finance Committee, reported a bill to remit taxes on insolvent savings banks.... A few unimportant bills were introduced... .The statue of William King, once Governor of Maine, contributed by that State to the National Statuary Hall, was accepted, after a sharp debate between Messrs. Blaine, Hoar and Dawes.

House. —Mr. Willis, of New York, from the Committee on Naval Affaire, reported a bill authorizing Rear Admiral John J. Almy to receive a decoration from the King*! the Hawaiian islands. Passed.... The House spent a considerable portion of the day in considering a bill to amend ’ the Existing laws concerning commerce and navigation. The joint resolution accepting the statue of William King was passed. Wednesday, Jan. 23.—Senate.—Mr, Blaine introduced a bill to coin a silver dollar of so many grains as the Director of the Mint shall from time to time prescribe, to be a legal tender in common with gold coin up to and including SS, and for all sums exceeding $5 the debtor shall have the right to tender, and the creditor to demand, one-half of the amount in gold coin and onehalf in silver coin... .Mr. Ferry introduced a bill to regulate the compensation of Postmasters and for other purposes. Referred. It provides, as its main feature, that the compensation for fourthclass Postmasters.-<iijaH.be baaed upon the stamps canceled in their offices instead of stamps sold ’ The Senate then resumed considemtlon of unfinished business—the resdTuiien of IWr, Matthews to pay the interest opda>rinoipal of bonds ip silver— t and Mr. Cockrell Continued his remarks infavor of the Mr. Randolph spoke in opposition to the resolution, and in favor of gold as the single standard of value. House.—The proceedings in the House were exceedingly tame, the greater portion of the day’s session being devoted to the consideration of the Steamboat bill. Thursday, Jan. 24.—Senate.—Messrs. Howe and Cameron, of Wisconsin, presented resolutions from the Milwaukee Chamber of Commerce in favor of extending the time for completing the Northern Pacific railroad on certain conditions. Referred .... At the expiration of the morning hour, the Senate resumed consideration of the resolution of Mr. Matthews to pay the intereat and principal of bonds in silver, and Mr, Lamar spoke in regard thereto. He opposed the remonetization of silver, and advocated the single gold standard.

House.—The House spent another day in discussing he Steamboat bill. Friday, Jan. 25.—Senate.—A number of petitions and memorials,most of them relating to the tariff and restoration of silver to the currency, were presented and referred.... The bill to remit taxes in insolvent savings banks wfe- briefly discusaed.. Consideration was .TeWtoaed us the resolution of Mr. Matthews, 4ecl*Jng fthtt right of the Government to pay fta bonds in- Silver. ThS amendment of Mr. Conkling, making the resolution a joint instead of a concurrent one, was rejected—yeas, 23; nays, 39. Mr. Edmunds then spoke in opposition to the resolution of Mr. Matthews, and favored the amendment offered by himself. The amendment was defeated—yeas 18; nays, 44. The question then recurred on the amendment of Mr. Morrill submitted on the 15th inst., to the effect that it would be detrimental to the economical interesta of the Government and people to pay the bonds in silver. Rejected—yeas, 14; nays, 41. Mr. Edmunds moved to indefinitely postpone further consideration of the Matthews resolution. Rejected—yeas, 22; nays, 43. »he resolution of Mr. Matthews was then agreed to by a vote of 43 yeas to 22 nays, as follows: Feas—Allison, Armstrong, Bailey, Beck, Booth, Bruce, Cameron of Pennsylvania, Cameron of Wisconsin, Chaffee, CokaiConover, Davis of Illinois. Davis of West Virginia, Dennis, Dorsey, Ehstis, Ferry, Gordon, Grover, Itiereford, Howe, Johnston, Jones of Florida, Jones of Nevada. Kirkwood, McCreery, McDonald, McMillan, Matthews, Maxey, Merrimon, Morgan, Oglesby, Plumb,Ransom,Saulsbury,Saunders,Spencer, Thurnpan, Voorhees, Wallace, Withers—43. JfaysAnthofiy, Barnum, Bayard, Blaine, Burnside, Chrietiancy, Conkling, Dawes, Eaton, Edmunds, Hamlin, Kernan, Lamar, McPherson, Mitchell, Morrill, Paddock,. Randolph, Rollins, Sargent, Wadleigh and Windom—22. House.—The House passed the Steamboat bill by a vote of 173 to 80... .-Mri s Canffcn,--of Hlinota, introduced a resolution requesting the Postmaeter General to furnish the House with such information as he may have in relation to the ocean man steamship service of foreign countries. Adopted. •: *' Tipton, of Illinois, introduced a resolution Oomnrit tee on Postoffioes to report, what legislation is necessary to enforce the pro visions of section 4,257 of the Revised Statutes relating toposthe arrest and imprisonment of Robert Smalls, member from South Carolina, to the effect that there was in that no breach of privilege of the House. Ordered printed.. House indulged in a long and animated debate on tffe bill extending the time for the withdrawal of whiskv in bond until the end of the fiscal year. Saturday Jan. 26.—SEN4T®.—Not in session. -House met for general debate only. Mr. Durham then made a speech in favor of the remonetization of silver and the repeal of the Resumption act. In th> course of his speech, Mr Durham said, he would vote for the Matthews silver resolution, and for any bill which would propose a raductioii es tbs tariff

He would also lend his aid in repealing the Bankrupt law. Mr. Bright also spoke in favor Of ffie remonetization of silver, and called attention to the fact that he the first pereon who, in 187 A had brought that question before Congr&ss. Mr. Deers trig favortd k return to ihsdotible Standard of Valbe. Mr. Humphrey spoke in the same strain, and denied, that there w»s a partide of spirt of re. pudiation in the West.’ Mr. Tipton said the people were demanding the immediate passage of the KemonetimUpn bill and the Repeal bill, and if that were not done the West wotfld send to the Fortysixth Congress men who would not be satisfied with the passage of those bills, but who would also repeal the National Banking laW.

Didn’t Want Any.

A long-waiated, consumptive-looking yoiwg man yesterday entered the office : of a Woodward avenue dentist holding fhis nhaak in hiw hand, . Hfi Jlfiionlyhad thatoothaqhe, but he hacLarrived at that point where his minei w» biivß “Uinme laughing-gas,” was Mr curt salutation as he took a ehair. The dentist, looking him over, concluded it would be safe to comply, and while he was getting ready the stranger looked down upon the street. He presently saw two well-dressed -women slowly approaching each other. Both were well-dressed, proud and dignified, and they sailed by each other as if each one thought she owned the whole city. One of them wanted to look back at the other’s hat, but by a great effort she controlled herself and kept on. The other wanted to look back, and, after a struggle -with pride and dignity, turned her head. She walked forward as she looked back, and disaster overtook her, as a natural consequence. She encountered a baby cab, and while the cab rolled one way she fell the other. The man with the toothache had seen the whole performance, and he knew how that fall would ruffle her dignity andcrumple her pride. He began to chuckle, and, as the proud woman made a kick at the cab, he yelled out: “Haw! haw! haw!—get your forceps —haw! haw! haw! —pull ’er out quick —haw ! haw ! haw! I’m tickled to death —pull! pull! pull!—never mind the gas —-haw ! haw ! haw I” And the tooth was out before he got over feeling tickled.— Detroit Free Prees. ;

Mr. Blaine’s Silver Bill.

The bill introduced in the Senate by Mr. Blaine is, in full text, as follows : A bill to authorize the coinage of silver dollars for circulation, and make the same legal tender, and for other purposes: Be it enacted, etc., That silver bullion may be deposited at any coinage mint or at the assay office in the city of New York for returns in silver dollars of grains of standard silver at such rate or price per standard, ounce of bullion as may from tone to time be fixed by the Director of the Mint, with the approval, in . writing, of the Secretary of the Treasury, and | which rate shall correspond as exactly as possible with the market rate, and the bullion thus placed shall, in addition to the other required coinage authorized by existing la|r, be coined Without delay to the full capacity of the mints. Sec. 2. That any gain or profit arising from the coinage of silver dollars shall, after the payment of lawful wastage, be covered into the treasury of the United States at the close of each fiscal year. •Blto. 8. The stiver dollar herein authorized to be coined shall be a legal tender as by existing law in common with gold for all sums up to and including $5, and for all sums exceeding $5 the debtor shall have the right to tender in full payment and the creditor the right to demand one-half the amount in gold coin and one-half in silver dollars. Seo. 4. Bine or standard gold and Silver bars bearffig the stamp of any coinage mint or the assay office at New York, shall be recaved by the Assistant Treasurer of the United States at New York for their stamped value, which shall be their coining rate respectively, and com certificates shall be issued therefor by the Assistant Treasurer in the same manner as coin certificates are now issued for gold coin, and the certificates ro issued shall be redeemed by the Secretary of the ’Treasury on demand, at the office of the Assistant Treasurer at New York, in coin or stamped btrs of hullioirdeposited at his option.

Life in the White House.

So talks Mr. Hayes, concerning his daily life as President: “There is so muhh variety in tho life of this building that I get wonder, instruction and amusement from it. All kinds of people, on every conceivable errand, think that if they-can only see the President their troubles are ended. I don’t mind those who merely want to shake hands. That is a pleasure and a relief. They often help me out of a dilemma. For example: I may have some persistent, obdurate office-seeker or office-manager. He will press his point, perhaps, until he has puth is knees against mine and demands a ‘ yes’ or ‘ no,’ Itpiav be that drfeel rising temper athis aggressiveness. Then I think of the people outside. They are always let in on presentation of a card ‘ respects only. ’ I see some of them at the instant, desirous to shake hands. So I turn from the unpleasant caller, and, While I talk a minute tothe people, have a chance to cafm my mind and prepare to answer the question.” The President is reported to retain one of his home customs at the White House; every Saturday evening a few friends appear and they all sing together divers old Methodist tunes.— JVetv York Tribune.

Yankee Enterprise.

Americans are exporting coffins to London and putting them in the market at prices little more than half of those charged by Her Majesty’s undertakers. The Yankees began by sending washingmachines, apple-parers, and egg-beaters; then they .shipped window- sashes, doors, pWffefe, jmd wsrinß<M>ts; within a year they have been exporting ready-made furniture of all kinds, from the commonest kitchen chair to the most elegant drawing-room table; and now they are following the lifelees Briton even to his grave, and packing him under ground in brand-new American coffins with patented handles and reversible lids, vastly superior to the English-made article, and with prices to suit the times.

French Savings.

Savings banks were established in France in 1835, and have notinade much progress,-in comparison with the growth of savings banks in Great Britain or the United States. In 1869 only 56 in 1,000 of the population were depositors; in 1875, the proportion had increased to 65 in 1,000. The total amount in the savings banks at the close of 1875 was $132,085,000. The average deposit was, in 1869, J&SS; inTB73?lUi was $2.85; and ia; 1875, $3.65. Most of the depositors are inhabitants of the manufacturing districta or large cities, The peasant proprietors prefer Government bonds to savings banks.

A Royal Santa Claus.

Notwithstanding the hard tithes, the Emperor of Germany had a pleasant Christmas. For sevtaal days before the holiday eve the aged monarch was seen an the forenoon frequenting various shops and buying gifts With which to gladden the .hearts of his royal kinsforTth Im arg ° crowds aßSem bled beeve to catch a glimpse oftree, decorated with gingerbread, sweetmeats, gilded apples and. nuts, illuminated with countless tapers, and hearing gilts for every member of the household.

THE FINANCIAL ISSUE.

Senator Cockrell on the Remonetization of I **"’cjo*3* 1 fl Secretary Stairs. Senator Sternal.

Honesty East and West—The Frightful Befits of Contraction. Silver Kemonetlzatioa—Remarks of Sena- ♦«» - [From the Senate Proceedings ] I Mr. Cockrell was in favor of the Matthews resolution. He argued that silver was still a legal tender of the United States. The customs regulations of 1874 provided that silver dollars, though no longer coined or issued, were receivable for duties and imports in unlimited sums, and subsidiary silver coin was receivable to the extent of $5. Mr. Conant, late Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, in a letter directed in 1875 to the Surveyor of Customs at St. Louis, stated that silver dollars were receivable for duties on imports to an unimited extent. Thus the Government officials proclaimed the silver dollar as a legal tender. He argued that the bondholder knew that the dollar named in his bond meant the silver coin of 412 X grains, or the gold coin of 25 8-10 grains. Silver dollars had been practically as much in circulation as money since 1861 as gold. Neither metal had been actually used and circulated as money in the business of the country since that time. Mr. Cockrell then quoted extensively from statistics, showing the coinage of gold and silver, and called particular attention to the following figures: The coinage of the silver dollar in 1868 was $54,800; in 1869, $231,350; in 1870, $588,308; in 1871, $657,929; in 1872, $1,112,296, and in 1873, up to the time silver was demonetized, the coinage amounted to $977,155. Had coinage been continued that year it would have amounted to $1,571,102. These facts were not mere assertions. They showed a rapid and wonderful increase in silver coinage. The gold coinage in 1868 was $10,550; in 1869, $5,295; in 1870, $93,300; in 1871, $3,940; in 1872, $1,080; in 1873, $252,000; in 1874, $323,920, and in 1875 it fell to the enormous sum of S2O.

Mr. Bayard inquired if the Senator in preparing his table had not counted each piece of silver coined as a dollar. Did not the tables show that the value of gold coined was five times as much as that of silver? Mr. Cockrell replied that his tables were correct. He knew that assertions had been published in newspapers and made in speeches, and went forth as facts, though they were not true. The Government officials had falsified facts. He then argued that all subsidiary silver coined prior to the act of April 1, 1853, was full legal tender for all debts, public and private. Prior to that date the half dollar, quarter dollars. 10 and 5-cent pieces were proportionately of the same value as the silver dollar of 412)i grains. All subsidiary coin issued prior to the act of April 1, 1853, was to-day vested with unlimited legal-tender power, and the Government must receive such coin in payment of all customs dues. Mr. Bayard said the Senator would recollect that in 1853, when six and seven-tenths grains were taken out of every half dollar, it was because they could not be kept in the country. They were swept out of this country, where they were undervalued, and went to other countries, where they were properly valued. Mr. Cockrell said that in the Western country there were many silver halves and quarters coined prior to 1853 still in use. Many of them had been locked up for years, and were brought out since the close of the war. He argued that the bondholder had no right to question the power of Congress in regard to coining money and regulating its value. They had no right to complain, because, no matter what happened, they would still be paid in coin of the standard of value of July 14, 1870. He then referred to the assurances of Government officers that bonds would be paid in gold, and argued that these officials had no right to modify the plain words of the law. They could not change the terms of the coniract. Officers of Government were administrators of law, and not law-makers, and no one knew this better than the present Secretary of the Treasury. He then quoted from the recent report that an officer was urgently recommending Congress io give sanction to his assurance that the bonds would be paid in gold. The Secretary had dared to give unauthorized assurances to bondholders, but he had not dared to issue a single bond contrary to law To claim now that the United States must pay its bonds in gold on account of the assurance of the Secretary of the Treasury, was scarcely less than a erime. The cry of “repudiation,” “violating national honor,” “impugning the faith of the Government,” and so on, had Deen heard far and wide from the Eastern press and from bondholders, their allies and friends. Western men in favor of the remonetization of silver had been stigmatized as lunatics. He (Cockrell) was as firmly devoted to the maintenance of the national hopor as any of these Pharisees, and he hurled back, with scorn and contempt, their imputations. He stood upon the floor of this Senate as one of the Senators of the great State of Missouri, and demanded for the people the enforcement of a contract He boldly asserted that to pay the bonds in gold and silver, or in silver alone, was in perfect compliance with the plain words of the law, and wiui all the recognized principles of honesty and national honor. He charged these crimes of repudiation upon those who upheld the bondholders. The people whom he represented, with the bayonets of truth in their hands, would drive them into a decent observance of the plain terms of the law. The bondholders, by their false cries, were attempting to foster their high crimes and misdemeanors upon those who desired to comply in good faith with the letter and spirit of the law. The tax-payers of the country had their rights, one of which was to pay the bonds silver, and they would never surrender that right. The people could not and would not pay gold alone. He heartily approved the resolution of the Senator from Ohio, and it was the imperative duty of Congress to-day not only to pass this resolution, but also to re-? store free coinage of the silver dollar by passing the Silver bill.

Sherman vs. Sherman.

[From the Cincinnati Enquirer.] The Secretary of the Treasury at this moment is the chief obstacle between the people and a return of prosperity. He is our Minister of Finance. He was the author of the Resumption act. He forced it through Congress under the gag law. He has announced his determination to enforce it, no matter how much ruin it scatters abroad. He is in a position to do it unless Congress stops him. He dictates to the President the financial policy of the administration, and it is he who persists in proclaiming to the world that the bonds are not payable as the bonds themselves say they are payable. He does all these things in the name of honesty, He advertises himself as the protector of the honor of the country. He is the apostle, by'his own statement, of financial justice in the administration of our affairs, ft is he that will secure the veto of one or both the great financial measures now pending in Congress, if those vetoes are secured at all. He takes it upon himself to interpret the law. A rule of interpretation is lasting. Statutes may change, laws may alter, but the law of interpretation of laws is not so fickle. Especially when the man sitting as Judge has laid down a law of interpretation should he be held fast to it The Judge who would not abide by his own decisions, and who, when vast pecuniary interests were involved, and when he himself was suspiciously involved, would, with indecent haste, scorn his own rule of interpreting the statute would be likely to hear something about impeachment Impeached or not such a Judge would earn the contempt of the bar and of the community, though th* transactions depending were of limited amount. What if they should reach hundreds and thousands of millions? On the 20th of March, 1868, John Sherman, now Secretary of the Treasury, gave his rule Of iuLerpretatioa of the law touching the payment of the national debt The laws have shifted since then, and the national debt has been largely funded into other forms of indebtedness, but the philosophy of translating the law has not changed. As an argrttmestfum ad hominem it is proper to summon John Sherman against himself: “ Ukxxet Sxatss SIXXTS WASHIsaTOx, March 20,1868. f “PjAßSpk: 1 was-go glad to receiyj «your

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letter. My personal interests are the same as yours, but, like you, I do not intend to be influenced by them. My construction of the law is the result of careful examination, and I feel qute sure mi impartial court would confirm it if the case shomd be tried before a court I send you my views as fully stated In a speech, tour idt A that we propose to repudiate or violate a promise when we offer to redeem the ‘principal’ in legal tenders is erroneous. I think the bondholder violates his promise When he refuses to take the same kind of money he paid for the bonds. If the case is to be tested by law, I am right; if it’s to be tested by Jay Cooke’s advertisements, I am wrong. I hate repudiation or anything like it, but we ought not to be deterred from what is right for fear of undeserved epithets. If, under the law as it stands, the holders of 5-20 s can only be paid in gold, the bondholder can demand only the kind of money he paid, then he is a repudiator and extortioner to demand money more valu- ■' “John Sherman." As indicated in this letter, John Sherman elaborated fts doctrine in a speech in the Senate. His “ construction of the law was the result of careful examination,” he says. He is sure that it would be sustained by an Impartial court. His “ construction of the law ” was that the five-twenty bonds were payable in greenbacks. Why? Because it was so nominated in the bond. Because the bonds said they were payable In “lawful money.’’ Because the bonds were bought with this money. He then scorned Jay Cooke’s interpretation of the law. But Jay Cooke had then as good a right to declare what the law was as John Sherman has now, and the Government would be equally bound by either decision. ■ John Sherman then called a bondholder a “repudiator and extortioner ” for demanding more than bis bond demanded. It was the holder of the bond who was then the holder of the promise by refusing to take the same kind of money he had loaned. He was not then “deterred from what was right for fear of undeserved epithets,” such as “repudiator,” “soft-money heretic,” “cab-bage-leaf advocate,” etc. Just one year later we find John Sherman framing a law—and on the 28th of last month he confessed in wiiting that he “ partly framed” it—declaring that the bonds were payable, not in the money in which they were bought and promised to be paid, but in the “extortioners’ ” money, and that law which John Sherman “partly framed” was worth $600,000,000 to the men he had just called “ repudiators,” “extortioners,” and “violators of contracts.” In antagonizing the Silver bill Sherman even more flagrantly, if possible, violates his own “ law of construction” and becomes himself a stupendous extortioner. Sherman said that the bonds should be paid in money not more valuable than that with which they were bought, even though there might be doubt as to what the bonds said themselves. In this case there is no doubt. The bonds travel up and down the face of the earth saying : “I am payable in gold or silver coin of the standard value of July 14, 1870.” John Sherman, from his high place, has announced that the law and the bonds are mistaken. The law says that the bonds shall be sold for silver coin. Sherman says they shall not, and declines offers so to dispose of them. [From the Chicago Inter-Ocean.] Listen to the language used by Secretary Sherman in a speech delivered in the Senate Jan. 27, 1869: Since the earliest records of humanity gold and silver have been employed as the equivalent for effecting exchanges. From Solon to our day innumerable attempts have been made to substitute something else as money, but, tn spite of all, gold and silver have maintained their exclusive dominion as the money of mankind. The gold in the shield of Achilles, the shekels that bought the field at Macphelah, the pieces of silver the price of the blood of our Savior, will be current coin when the completed history of nations now rising into greatness toitl be folded away among the records of time.—Congressional Globe, Part Third, Fortieth Congress, page 626. As the boys in the army used to say: “You’re mighty right.” Mr. Secretary !

Honesty East and West. [From the New York Graphic.]

We have heard a great deal about repudiation being a disease almost confined to Southern and Western mercantile life, and many severe lectures have been read to those sections about the villainy cloaked in the remonetization scheme as being latent repudiation. Let us test this theory by the facta. In Dun Barlow’s statement the following table is given :

w 1877. de. Bank Perstates. Fo.in National circulatn No. eentage Amount Average Busi- Bank for each Fail- Fait- of lAabiliness. Circulation. Trader, ures. ures. Liabilities, ties. Eastern 77,724 $112,678,336 $1,450 1,353 1 in 58 $26,088,007 $t9,239 Middle 224,707 112,811,913 547 3,049 1 in 73 77,173,750 25,311 Southern 91,783 23,531,026 256 1,078 1 in 85 17,271,920 16,022 Western 231,557 65,194,381 281 2,756 1 in 84 56,187,064 20,387 Pacific and Territories... 26,235 3,098,454 118 636 1 in 41 13,949,185 21,932 Total for United States. 652,006 $317,314,110 $486 8,872 1 in 73 $190,669,936 $21,491 Canada .. 56,324 $22,018,658 $391 1,892 1 in 30 $25,523,903 $13,490

This table shows that the percentage of business failures in the Southern States has been lower than in any other section of the country. The Western States follow next; then the Middle, then the Eastern, and last come the Pacific slope States. It has not been attempted to be denied that many failures are fraudulent, and on the score of probability it is more likely that where one trader in fiftyeight failed there will be more dishonesty than where one in eighty-five fails. With these figures before ns we see that the South and West have been grossly slandered—that taking those tables as our guide the South and West live up to their engagements better than any other portion of the country. As Dun Barlow’s report says: “ Notwithstanding the solidity and wealth of New England, its established sources of income from its long career of success, and its enormous investments within and without its own borrowers, its perfect monetary facilities, and other great advantages, yet all this does not preserve its traders from failing in numbers far greater than in the Southern States—ruined by war, retarded by misrule, and only just recovering to a self-sustaining power of existence.” There is another point deserving of thought. Failures are more prevalent in Canada than anywhere else in the world—one trader in every thirty failed last year. On the Pacific slope one trader in every forty-one failed. Now it should not be forgotten that Canada has the single gold unit of value, and paper has never defiled California, where the bulk of the Pacific coast failures occur. Unless there has been an abnormal development of dishonesty in Canada and California, gold must have had something to do with these failures. One thing is certain, whether they are to be attributed to the single standard or not, gold has not preserved tts votaries from great waves of mercantile disaster, accompanied, we may hope, with small waves of dishonesty. Let not the East hereafter say, “ I am honester than thou,” or pretend that gold will ward off the evils of insolvency.

The Results of Contraction.

[From the Cincinnati Enquirer.] The business distress of the country has grown, in recent years, with the contraction of the currency. As business misfortune is itself a cause of business misfortune, the disasters in business have increased even more rapidly than the contraction of the machinery with which business is done. The contraction of the currency of a country is properly measured, not merely by indicating the volume in circulation, but by owning the volume compared with

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the population for whose business it is the machinery. The volume of currency a country should have must be determined by still another circumstance—the sparseness or the compactness of the population. The aity, with its various credit devices, bills of exchange, notes, checks, drafts, clearinghouses, needs comparatively little monev per capita, while the millions of people scattered thinly over an undeveloped continent need a much larger sum per capita. In this country, after the close of the war, an element of enormous contraction was suddenly introduced in our financial system by the addition to the Union of the doilarless States that had attempted to secede. The same quantity of currency was spread over a vast territory and among millions of moneyless people where it had not been used. The annual increase of population, the currency remaining the same, is of itself an element of contraction. The results of contraction tration of all industry, the suffering that accompanies hard times. We present a statement of the amount of contraction that has actually taken place. On the 30th of June, 1864, the amount of paper-money issues outstanding, consisting of greenbacks, postal curcurrency, treasury notes, certificates of indebtedness, national-bank notes, State-bank notes, seven-thirty notes, temporary deposits for which certificates were issued, was $1,125,877,034.53. In that year there were but 520 failures in the countrv, and ihe aggregate liabilities were but $8,579,000. We give below the story of the contraction for the last thirteen years: Paper Money Years. Paper Money. Per Capita. 186551,651,282,373 $47.42 1866 1,893,702,726 50.76 1867 1,330,414,677 36.68 1868 817,199,773 22.08 1869 750,025,089 19.86 1870 740,039,179 19.19 1871 734,244,774 18.47 1872 786,349,912 17.97 1873 738,291,749 17.48 1774 779,021,587 17.89 1875 778,176,250 17.33 1876 „ 735,358,832 15.89 1877 696,443,394 14.60 What is the result of reducing the money of the country from SSO per capita to sl4, a reduction of almost three-fourths ? For the first six months of the year 1877 the number of failures in the countrv was 4,740, and the indebtedness involved was $99,606,171. The agony of bank••uptcy has been multiplied more than twentyfold. And the end, even the worst, is not yet.

A Voice from Indianapolis.

The annual report of the Indianapolis Board of Trade for 1877 makes this reference to the prevailing stagnation of business : “ The sanguine hopes entertained a year ago that the returning tide of prosperity had set in, and the depression in trade incident to financial agitation and threatened currency contraction which had prostrated the industries of the whole country was passed, and henceforth we would experience an active and healthy advance toward prosperity, were early dispelled, and 1877 has passed into history as the most disastrous year known in trade for a generation.” The financial question is thus touched upon : “ lhe Government, by discarding one-half the metallic currency ana bidding for the remaining half at its high speculative price, at the same time threatening to withdraw onehalf of the paper currency, has given to money a marvelously-high purchasing power, which has greatly oppressed the debtor class. Such a state of finances unsettles credit, and works great hardships to merchants, who are dependent upon a healthy state of trade to meet their obligations. Forced resumption has proved an expensive and rough road out of difficulties —a corduroy, destroying the springs of credit and trade, ending in distress and loss, endurable only in the shadow of the Government, or wrapt in its promises to pay.”

The Old Silver Dollar a Legal Tender.

Secretary Sherman, in a recent letter to the Burlington Hawk-Eye, says: The old silver dollar, if any are in existence, coined before 1873, is a legal tender for all sums, but, practically, there have been none in circulation since 1837, when the change was made in the standard from 15 of silver to 1 of gold to 16 to 1; but all silver coins are now a legal tender to the extent of $5. This is an important concession. The goldite organs have demonstrated over and over again that the old silver dollar, alluded to by Secretary Shermanite worth only 92 cents; but here is proof that it is held to be worth as much as the gold dollar.

Farmers as Pork-Packers.

We have, says the Rural World, in former years, again and again urged farmers to pack and cure and prepare for market their own pork. The combinations among the city packers this winter to pay only very low prices for pork makes it very important that farmers should kill and cure their own hogs. It is true last year the packers paid good prices, and lost money. But this year they have combined to pay low prices and make money. They intend to make up the losses of last year and double the money they invest this year besides. Now, if farmers can kill and cure hogs as well as men in the city can, when the pork is sold they will double their money, too. What one man can do another man can do. If one man can cure pork well in the city, another man in the country can cure it equally well. But he must try to qualify himself to do it. He must talk with those who have good success in curing meat, and draw out all the information he can. He must read everything he can find on the subject. He must make the proper arrangements at home for doing it well. He must learn to cut and trim his bacon nicely. He must keep it neat and in good order. He must not have it too salt nor too fresh. He must get a good recipe and try it, and his own experience may induce him to modify it somewhat in future operations. He must talk with his neighbors, watch their practices, and perfect himself in the business, and cure his pork as well as any other man, and he can sell it as well. When market day comes, if the city packer makes money, he makes it, too. If the city packer loses money, he does not, because he has produced, not bought, his hogs, and well-cured pork will sell at paying prices always. . Good pork always buys work on the farm. It always buys goods at the stere in town or city. It always commands money, because people must eat. The better the quality, the better the price and the more easily it is sold. It is the best that pays best. Put up your own hogs. Don’t send them to the city and nearly give them away. Deduct shipping expenses, commissions, etc., and but little is left. Put up pork at home, and you have what will command money all the time.

A Change of Climate.

Yesterday morning a forlorn cricket that had been tempted out of doors by the warm weather of the preceding days was shivering along the street looking at a cheap second-hand ulster, and wishing he were home, when he met a wasp that had been locked out during the fall house-cleaning. “ I am almost frozen,” said the cricket: “my hands are fairly numbed with cold.” “Put them in my coat-tail pockets,” replied the wasp, cheerfully, “and warm them.” The cricket did so, and the wasp immediately warmed him with the improved heating machinery located in. the after part of his system. The cricket, merely pausing to remark that there appeared to be a cayenne-pepper manufactory in the neighborhood, crawled under the plank walk to die, while the wasp, who was fond of his little joke, went away singing merrily. “Come, come away to the try-sting place.”— Burlington Jtawhr-Ego,