Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 March 1878 — Page 1

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BUSJ»A AND TUBKEY. THZ TEEMS OF THE PEACE PBILIMINABIES. The treaty JE>ea«s the title “ PrelimiiMjnes of Peace,” containstwenty-nine article*. The opening articles relate to Montenegro, Servia, and Bulgaria. The indemnity is fixed at 1,410,000,000 rubles, but 1,100,600,000 are covered by territorial cessions. Nothing is fixed concerning the term and prrlod of ißayitient of the 310,000,000. No guarantee Is stipulated, riot is there mention of Egyptian or Bulgarian tributes or of the Turkish fleet. The treaty simply states that Russia and Turkey siall agree subsequently about the payment. Pirot remains Bulgarian. Hervia includes Bienitzs, Novi-Bazar and Yranja. ~ Montenegro includes Antivari, Spuz, Podgoritza and Nicsics. AU the Bulgarian fortresses are to be razed and the Turkish troops withdrawn. Mussulmans may return to Bulgaria. ;Any property Of Mussulmans who have not returned, which they leave nndisjx>sed, trill be sold after two years for the benefit of a widows’ and orphans’ fund. The arrears of taxes la Bosnia and Herzegovina are to be remitted. The revenue, until 1880, is to be applied to the indemnity fm sp|ferors by the Insurrection and to provide for local heeds. Austrian and Russian Commissioners will arbitrate in all disputed claims. The navigation of the straits Is declared free for merchant vessels during peace or war. f-Jix divisions of Russian infantry and two of cavalry will occupy Bulgaria until the formation of the Bulgarian militia. The expenses of the Russian occupation to be borne by Bulgaria- t "? Roumania is authorized to make her demand for indemnity direct to the Porte, and make a direct treaty. No indemnity is stipulated for Fervia or Montenegro. Russian, Turkish and Bulgarian Commissioners will determine the Bulgarian tribute. The reform programme of the Constantinople conference will be Applied to Bosnia and Herzegovina. An organization similar to that granted to Crete in 1868 is stipulated for Thessaly and Epirus. No mention is made of Greece or Crete. Batoum, Ardahan, Kars and Bayazid are ceded to Russia. Asiatic Turkey is to be evacuated in six months. The evacuation of European Turkey is to begin immediately, and te completed within three months. The European Danube Commission retains its former rights. The Porte undertakes the expense of re-establishing navigation on the Danube and indemnifying private losses, the amounts of which are to be deducted by the Danube Commission from the sums it owes the Porte. Russia receives Dobrudscha, to exchange it for Bessarabia. The question of the Turko-Persian frontier shall be speedily settled. The treaty is to be ratified within fifteen days, bat its provisions become obligatory imnor of a RoSso-Ttirkif® allfirfce. « FOREIGN NEWS. Cable dispatches state that nothing but the peace preliminaries have as yet been signed, the drafting of a definitive treaty being a work which will probably be carried forward at St. Petersburg with all the deliberation which the gravity and importance of the subject require. Several matters not included in the preliminaries are reserved for future consideration, though it seems to be generally admitted that sufficient concessions from the original demands have been made by Russia to dispel all prospect of a coffision with England or Austria. The war flurry is considered at an end in England. In presenting the annual estimates, the other day, Sir Gat home Hardy, Secretary of War, said they had been prepared upon a peace basis, and in his speech throughout avoided exciting topics. The «6ultan of Turkey lately sent the following telegram to the Emperor of Russia : “On the occasion of the anniversary of your Majesty’s accession to the thfone* I offer you my congratulations, with the desire of renewing our friendly relations. ” And the ? OZai', in reply, telegraphed as follows: “ I thank your Majesty for your congratulations, which I received simultMteously' with the riews of the signature Of peace. >1 m 4iis coined dence a presage and lasting relations betwean üB,’t>JLAjL V 8 9 1 £ The Spanish authorities in Cuba have proclaimed freedom for all slaves in the insurrectionary districts who present themselves for the proper officers be/prethe Ist of' April. fttav(*-own<*?r wfart--have -taken part

in the rebellion will receive bo- pay to their emancipated chattels, while loyal,. owners will, be compensated. In itootWr prqjgaiAltio® notice ir given that heteairerjjbuba wttl be rep*' resented [in the Spanish Dories, and that important ba institute in the island as rapidlyas possible. ’ The authorities at Washington are in receipt of information which fully opnfirms the repm-ts of the collapse of the Cuban insnrrection and* the surrender of nearly all the insurgents. The new Pope, has appointed his Cabinet. The offices are all ecclesiastical or concerned with the affairs of the Pontiff’s household, except that of Secretary of State, to which Cardinal Franchi has been appointed instead of who held it undir t ius IX., and who was objected to by the Catholic powers oh account of his reactionary ideas. The Grand Lodge of Freemasons of England has refused to recognize as a Mason any person initiated in a lodge where the belief in God is denied or ignored. Londpn dispatches of the 7th state that the Congress Of the would certainly meet in Berlin, and Bismarck "wis fooked upon aS the propar man to preside. Lord Derby admitted, in PwrMment, tMfall treaties bOd now become void, and took a despondent view of the situation. Half a million dollars’ worth of propertyhas been degtroyeg by fire in the city, of Panama. r( T >or^*V f *> 1 h Havana AhaLAh§ It is reported from Constantinople that Suleiman Pasha has been drowned in the Bosphorus as a punishment for his part in a conspiracy to dethrone the Britan. I . t The Kaffirs have sustained another severe drubbing at the hands of the British troops in South Africa. Gen. Grant was banqueted by British Envoy ayard, at Constantinople. From thence he went direct to Athens, where he was royally received and entertained by the King and'Queen of Greece. A brief cable dispatch tells of the destruo- • tion by fire of a steamship in the Mediterran<an sea, with a loss of 500 lives. The paeBengirs are said to have been Circassians from

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the Turkish port of Cavalla, or Kavala, which is one of the boundary towns of the new Bulgarian province. A peace demonstration in Hyde Park, London, on Sunday, the 10th inst., wae broken up by a Government mob. Br&dlaugh, one of the orators of the occasion, was cudgeled and fled in a Cab* the Dtfke'Of Teck- Was mistaken for the Russian Ambassador, and hustled and insulted by the mob, and Gladstone was hooted and hissed by the crowd. • • .

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. EitaU Three men were killed and ten seriously injured, by the fall of a trestle platform uaai in building a bridge over the. Potomac riyer, at Rowell’s Bend, Md., last week. . ,-i. > West. Enormous damage to crops and live-stock has resulted from the protracted flood in Sacramento river, in California. One farmer alone lost 20,000 sheep and 6,000 acres of wheat; and the total damage is estimated at about. SBOO,OOO. A The San Francisco city government is at a dead lock for want of funds. £ Advices from Fort Keogh say that Gen. Miles was organizing an expedition to go in search of the hostile Sioux. A national convention of the cheese, buttet and egg men was held in Chicago last week. About 300 delegates were in. attendance. A Joliet dispatch to the Chicago Tribune says that “Rande, the wholesale murderer, has not been assigned to any occupation by the prison authorities, and it is said he stubbornly refuses to work. He will probably be managed on the principle of ‘No work, no eat,’ and his EgSklibrie aljSwfed to rasp his sternum until he ft ksttsfidd’tlftt'a little healthy laboi is better a good dead of starvation.” "The Nebraska Supreme Court has decided that dealing in grain options in Chicago is gambling, and that contracts in Nebraska founded thereon are void. Chicago papers announce the death of Hon. Charles L. Wilson for thirty, years publisher i and proprietor.of the Chicago E«enirtg journal. He died at SanAfitonio, Tex., where he was sojourning for the benefit of his health* Mr. Wilson was a native of Connecticut, and was 60 years old. Arnold, Constable A Co., the second largest dry-goods dealers in Now York city, have leased the Singer building in Chicago (lately occupied by Field, Reiter A Co., and MOW being rebuETt), and wißiriiortly open an extensive wholesale and retain dry-goods house in the Garden City. The region of country extending from Cheyepne 400 miles westward was visited by a tremendous snow-storm on the Bth and 9th of Sirch, which placed an effectual embargo upon kinds of travel. The Union Pacific railway was completely blockaded, Tor. taenjy-jjour hours. Ov? South. A terrible tornado recently swept through Casey County, Ky., carrying death and destruction wherever it was felt. The whole of the family of Vincent Wesley, consisting of himself, wife, two grown daughters, and boy ; named Sloan, nephew, and William Taylor, a 1 neiglibor stopping at * Iris house, were I entirely stripped off. The two daughters were 1 carried fifty yards, and were found locked in each other’s arms. The father and nephew were fearfully mangled, and all must have been killed by the first force of the tempest. In the vicinity of Mount Olive, Mi e. Morgan, wife of John W. Morgan, was killed, and the dwelling and outhouses of F. Floyd were completely swept away, and the timbers scattered <n every direction. Albert Young, Silis Wright, Robert Jones, and Lucius Porter w ere hanged at Marion, Ala., on the Ist inst., for the murder of Mr. Isaac D. Moore, on the 6th of November, 1876. All of them protested their innocence to thejast moment. The business portion of the town of Hot Springs, Ark., has been swept away by fire. Loss between $200,000 and 300,000. Three heavy failures are announced from Louisville. Ky.—Harvey & Keith, the largest dealers in boots and shoes in the city ; the Newcomb-Buchanan distillery, the largest in the country, and J. A. Zeanore A Son, wholesale liquor dealers. The propeller Hope was run down and sunk by the steamboat 'Texas, in the Missisijppi river, near New a .few days ago. Paul St. Pierre,, bis wife and two children, were drowned, being: in the cabin of the propeller, A violent Wind-storm rtsiteththi city of Atlanta, (Ja., at 11 aclofflr oh tirtrmorning of Sijnday, (he 10$. inst. The churches weru/all filled-wirti-worsbipers at- rhetime*. ..ißai’uind struck the Episcopal church broadside, and I ■hook it to its foundatiehs. The rector cried out to the congregatfoii to throw themselvetf under the seats.. This advice folio wed, and prob ably mentrafterthewd!fiee-wa*wuwMj»of ruins, and Kshipeu wgrajauried beneath the debris. able to rwiK not onefwras killed, and* htesi injwrea, all <# wlwJfi will proba-| bly recover. Several other churches were injured, tAe walls shaken, t and partly stripped.# The > 2 - ly unroofed and the ear sheds of the railway depot unsettled. l-Tbw mferclnwAs.baßk ers and business men generally of •Louisville, in mass-meeting the, other night, passed a resolution strongly favor-, ing the repeal of the Resumption act and Bankrupt law.

POLITICAL POINTS. The Presideht, foif-the fourth time, has nominated Alex. Reed, fdr Postmaster at Toledo, Ohio. WASHINGTON NOTBS. The President has sent the following nominations to the Senath: Geo. C. Tapner, oL *Bi>U h Carolina, Co&u| at Liege; Marshall H. TwitChell,«of Ldttißiana, Consul at IKI Aston, Canada.; £hjtrles Bartlett, ,<jf Maine, Gonful at Giitthiloupe; Albert A Sorter, of Indiana, First Comptroller OT tne'Treasury; Edward 8. J. Nealy, Collector es Customs, Bath, Me.; James E. Simpson, of lowa, Collector of Rp venue, Third District. Edward H. Jkfijfrison, es New Jersey, Register of theLan'ffuffice, Boise City, Idaho; Commodore Edward F. Nichols, to be Rear d,tlw Pr of tertPTti 15otkin,. of ■TMfitWy’w "Hi" I About 4JSQO bills have been introduced ifi Congress since the beginning of thte present session. It is stated that" our Government will certainly recognise IJiajs as President. of Mexico at an early date. : During lhe present term of the Court of. Claims the court has decided adversely upon claims aggregating upward' of $500,000, and given judgments to the amount of only $5,200,; It ip stated from Washington that « there is* a growing feeling among members of both houses against present action upon the tariff? There seems to be an almost universal protest against it from business men in all The argument is that the damage to the gen-

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eral interests is so great that it will be far better, so far as general results are concerned, to rtop

MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGS. wbs?lJ|(So tJSJSL brndfeje,) Oat* 2,!)14,<»0 rye, A WashlnMc|i it iswcqr generally accepted as pXble £t thj c< *5,000,000 by the Halifax Fishery Commission, or rather by Mr. Delfosse, the Belgian Minister, who had the casting vote, will never be paid and it is even questioned whether, under all the circumstonces a the claim for its payment will Gfllat& O BSwffiSßto Monday, March 4. —Senate.—VBe-President Wheeler occupied the chair for the first time in sevkvai diyeltldN bill supplemental to: thtalaw Iti bwltton or bars wUh the Treasurer pr any Assistant Treasurer of the United States, and for the issue to such depositors: of certificates in denominations: of not l«ss ffian 820, to. be receivable for duties and all form* of public taxes, and to ibe -pfiyaMk Mr. Bruce in 4 roduced a bill to authorize the payment of bounties tothe heirs of soldiers who were to mileage of Disti ict Attorneys of the United'S fates, and spoke in explanation thereof.... Several private bills were passed ....The Senate, in executive session, confirmed Bayai d Taylor as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Germany; Jehu Baker, of Illinois, Minister Resident at Venediers and sailors of 1812 and their widows. Mr. Joyce, of Vermont, wanted a dause lnHerted excluding from its benefits any one who had participated fn the rebellion. The bill was passed by 217 yeas to 21 nays... .The following bills were introduced: By Mr. Frye, for the exenange of sflvef eotas of the United States for United States notes; by Mr. Ward, reducing the number of customs ofliqers, arid rcgulaUug tbefif cpns3irtkti»neTWTMT. Vanoe, authoriafng Circskit-kiid-lxaiiiat Judges to fine and imprison at discretion in cases of conviction of illicit distillation, in lieu of punishment now required ; by Mr. Sayler, providing for thd classification of mail matter and fixing postage rates ; by Mr. Pollard, appropriating $409,000 foii deficiendes jn the Interior Department for the fiscal year endIn|r Jnne 30, 1876; by Mr. litner (oy request), to repeal the Jaw imposing a tax on medicines or medical preparations; by Mr. Stone, for a whter-route to facilitate* transportation between Lakes Michigan and Erie; by Mr. Gibson, providing for a commission to supervise the’construction of works to improve the navigation of the Mississippi river; by Mr. Williams, of Michigan, to establish a board of fish commissioners, to regulate and protect fisheries on the lakes; by Mr. Potter, toxegulate immigration ; also, to authorize bondholders and other creditors of railroad corporations to elect receivers in suits in equity pending in the United States eourta... .Mr. Bright offered a resolution directing outstaHding i<»d»teiider iiaMt at current New York premium on gold and the commission for selling, or whether he has authorized the sale of such bonds for legal-tender notes on any other terms than above stated ; and, if so, the number and amount of the proceeds of such bonds, and who were employed as agents to dispose of them. Adopted.

Tuesday, March s.—Senate.—Mr. Thurman introduced a bill to prohibit members of Congress from becoming sureties on certain bonds.' Referred.. . .Mr, Spencer, from, the Committee on Military Affairs, rcpdned adversely on the Senate bill extending the time for presenting claims for collecting, drilling, or organizing volunteers for the war of the Rebellion, and it was indefinitely postponed... .Mr. Beck delivered a long argument in support of hl*’.resolution directing the Secretary «f the Treasury not to purchase any bonds for the sinking-fund during the next fiscal year.’ He maintained that by an erroneous method jot bookkeeping an expess of $37,000,000 has been carried to the credit of the fund. He blamed Senators Morrill and Dawes for this, and insisted that, in the present depressed condition of the industries, no more money should be appropriated for this purpose. The resolution was referred to the Finance Committee. Mr. Morrill spoke in reply to Mr. Beck, after which the Senate adjourned, r r*. House.—Mr. Marsh offered a resolution directing the Judiciary Committee to take steps looking to the collection of the $28,000,000 indebtedness due to the United States from the Ceptral and Union Pacific- Railroad Campania.. >„ fUfhe Fortification bill, appropriating- $275,0(10, .Was passed Judge Kelley delivered a two hours’ speech pn finance. It was designed as a reply to Gen. Garfield’s November sppeon on silver. Judge Kelley’s review of Garfii'Td’B speech was caustic. He said it was deypid of logic, and_was a mere rhapsody, and was welcomed by the bulflouist press as an answer to the silver argument; and was distributed through the office of the Comptroller of the Currency, and thus possessed a semiofficial character..,. Mr. Riddle, from the Committee on Territories, reported back adversely the bill to establish the Territory of Pembina. Laid on the table.... The House, in committee of the whole, discussed the bills authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to employ temporary Clerks, and making an appropriation for the same ; making appropriations for detecting trespass on public lande, and for bringing into the market public lands in certain States.

Wednesday, March 6.—Senate. —The Senate ‘bill to authorize the 'Worthington and Sioux Falls Railroad Company to extend its road into the Territory of Dakota to the village of Sioux Falls was taken uj/, discussed, and passed*. ...Mr. Chaffee, from the Committee on Public Lands, reported a substitute for the Senate bill authorizing citizens of Colorado, Nevada, and the Territories to f All And remove timber on the public domain for mining and domesbe assigned and located or appnea oy actualsettlers ami provtdingTor the issue of paiouts in the name of the. locator or his legal rvnesentative. Placed on the calendar... .After a lengthy debate, the Senate parsed the bill authorizing the issue of bonds in small denominations, rtmntng 'fifty years, and bearing 4 per cebt, interest. House.—The House passed the Fortification bill, ffilffiSSE authorizing a enecteb tm-m,* of the. United States Court in Mississippi to-toy the timber depredators. The document was very brief, and stated, in substance, that not enough -time was allowed by the bill to allow the Government to prepare its case, and that there were no funds on hand to pay the expense of. an extra session of the cotu-L The bill and message were. inefermrix to toe «. &he Hfttiso tlretlay in conmrittM oHthe whole on the Deficiency Appropriation bill, th o time being principally consumed by Mr. Garfield in a set H>eech ip reply to Mr. Kelley’s speech, delivered, on Thursday, March 7.—Senate.—The Senate discussed the bin relating to reopening the courtmartial case of eX-Surgeon General Hammond without reaching a vote.... Mr. Sargent called up his joint resolution in regard to Chinese immigration, Mississippi River Improvement Commission, and for the improvement Pfrnavieation on that river. House.—The House Committee on Accounts to worKTn*c3nnectiOTi with th^several Wreßfigating committees. A spirited discussion ensued, but the resolution was passed—l 33 to 104~. Friday, March B.—Senate. —N°t in session. House.—Communications were read from American type-founders, protesting against certain petitions for the abolition of the tariff duty on.type.... The House debated the bill to appropriate $376,000 to pay Southern mail contractors for servicenrendered th, Government grior to the war. * / t March I vice of the Government for the fiscal year ending JUfife 80; 1878.... The Consular and Diplomat!# Appropriation bill was considered in committee’of the Whole .„. Mr. Kelley delivered a speech in reply to MriGsriteldte.Speech of Wednesday, and lfc.«nbof'mmterernSmferce 111 faV ° r ° f the extension

A Mixed-Up Family.

very mixed-up family. Her father, living at Belfast, Me., is 85 years old,and four years ago he married for his second wife a lady 34 years old. Th© fruit old, who is the aunt of the lady’s son, j. stalwart man of 40, who is* the old man’s grandchild.

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WASHINGTON NOTES AND NEWS.

of Congress have & legal Thb Chief of has prepared a statement showing by during SyKuary and tho/Jirfit seven months otthe current fiscal year, from which it appt ars that the exports of merchandise exceed the imports during January by $33,445,907, andin theseven months by $135,609,137. Secretary Sherman is rapidly perfecting arrangements at the mints for the coinage of the new silver dollar, and by the of expecfgTyij jjti ra operaa&F Inn)* fWh®OTife obverse of the coin bears a free-cut head of Liberty, crowned with Phrygian cap, decorated with wheat and cotton, the staples of this country. The legend, “ E Pluribus Unurn, ” the thirteen stars, and year of coinage also appear, as on the old dollar. On the reverse, surrounded by an olive wreath, is an eagle with outspread wings, bearing in his talons a branch of olive and a bundle of arrows—-.emblems of peace and war. Inscription: “ United States of America” and ‘fOne Dollar,” and “In God We Trust.” The following is a comparative statement] of the condition of the United States treasury, March 1, 1877, and March ], 1878: Balances. 1877. 1878. Currency $ 9,122,874 $2,690,765 Special fund for the redemption of fractional currency 10,000,000 Special deposit of legal tenders for redemption of certificates of CoijE<*tiflc*s....a. *s2,lf6^otf ; 4fr4s®tWo CoißSss «£ cerfci- sti tKi ] f^Mdii^f' \ bonds .777.. 7,82?;550 Other outstanding coin liabilities 9,070,572 5,539,020 Outstanding legal tenders 364,239,484 348,618,024 Outstanding fractional currency 24,434,420 17,190,698 Outstanding silver coin 28,683,170 38,489,490 Total debt, less cash in treasury 2,088,781,143 2,042,037,129 debt for , , J gtffUi since July 1 Y 0,658,201 18,121,C94 Market value of gold.. 104.87 101.87 Imports (12 months ending Jan. 31) 422,943,252 477,712,900 Exports (12 months ending Jan. 31) 603,418,793 622,167,514 The following is the text of the bill ■intaidxiaad.MitQ tha United States Senateby Senator Cockrell, of Missouri, proof Government ceifr tifica|esSpn stamped bars tlfe sajme manner? as (jertfccates df deposit are now iasugA gold ‘bullion: e^c. ., TThlt*flie thorized and direated to teceive deposits of silver ba& WiflidhiS 'Frs»urer or am^Ass»ttot United States ill sjrasmS llss'Flal SBO, estimatiiihA4l A. ygridljj: Aov wWaOlWg certificates Therefor less than S2O, each corresponding with the denominations of United States notes, and such certificates shtill be in the form of’ the certificates now authorized and issued lor bullion, and shdMftH Le tieS’ on imports, ta&®, apfl all publics dues, and shall be payable by the Treasurer dr ahy Assistant Treks«M**Bf «lhe

United States on demand in silver dollars or United States notes, and when bo paid such bullion shall become the property of the United States.” The alleged kidnapping of negroes from Southern States, with their deportation and sale in Cuba and elsewhere as slaves, which resulted i» idential mission of Con griphspYiiiljiefenT aid, of Louisiana, has been reported by a special agent of the InterioSDepartment employed in the Sdutheffi States’ It ndw that a resident qf Sa-vann»h,'-<>a.>.n9mlleged to h<>ve madeovertures to this agent to enter, this contraband with him. ' vessels were to have been chartered to trade from Savannah and other Southern ports laden with whatever cargoes cotild be procured, or witlr ballast,- if- liedeasafy. These vessels were to be manned by much larger ‘wnra with ignorant chiyKcteFbf flip Southed negro - ' and the P<4>t money foutlie was deigned that the vessel should reftiili to a Northern port in the United States manned by a new crew picked ite iUJe >aforff teid tendsmen whete her living •• well as her material freight.' It is alleged that this is not merely a enterjptise, but that it hate alr&tdy been carried bn to some extent from Southern ports. -h The story of Dabney Walker is one of the most. jtttereßting which harbeen submitted W) the Claims A committee of the Bouse has just recointhat his claim fpr services be paid. Dabney Walker was a Virginia slave. The committee, in makitig the report, say;

Dabney Waltafr, after rendering fc&ices t« necessity forjseSicesof thatAim£ Ift K doinl having rendgrea MfmSeW ab t&uHWly o$ noxious to the rebel authorities as to cause them to offer a reward for hi»-capture, deader ahve.Atel, pervicas wtoch resu/ted in the capture or property worth in the" aggregate many’ times the amount claimed as pay by him for his services—seems to have been prevented from receiving pay therefor by a series of misfortunes, for none <ff Which Was he reSpqnsiCap|. George F. Noyes, the author of a book entitled The Bivouac and the Bat tiff-Field’” refers to DabneyWalker as follows : Quite a large body of troops were now assembled, and occasional *peditians of aoralry were sent out ttediatgrf) IheyjuiatW th| enemy, burzftheraiteoad bridgeffffand thuaStoterrupt his communications—aomdtftiefe having a brush with the enemy’s cavalry and bringing in some prisoners. Their usual guide was a na-tive-born yirginian, ip Whom we all became much mteres&d. He ‘seemidtowe a sdririAf Daniel Webster in ebony—a strong, clear-head-ed man, who had reached a true conception of the real issue in this war. and devoted himself, body and soul, on feh&tigh'ljfflle. jfaowingJWl the roads antLbwrS inmhis StidaE And brave as ali®, ffi) ltd off? bbys Wi cool courage needed in a scout, established a comprehensive system of esmopsge among the people of his own color, ana thus brought ‘in much valuable information. The rebels did him the honor to offer $1,500 reward to his head; andwefil they wtighfcfor to the Union cause any two of the best of ns. '

she Anderson Case.

Leopold L. Montplaiser, one of the two colored jurpra impaneled to serve in the Anderson case in Kew jjub- ' lishes a letter to say that, after Searing the testimony of witnessed! end charge of the Judge, he came to the conclusion that-Anderson was not guilty, and said so. The other colored juror and a Mr.

Welch agreed with him, apd stood nine to three. Some one then moved co amend the majority and recommend;,to the mercy of the court The three jurors voting for acquittal were assured • i 4hfc& ; tMB recoriimwteDtion merejj ppeyenV’d a sentence to the penitentiary, and they agreed to the verdict, otherwise they would have voted to the last for acquittal. /. H

FIFTy-YEAR BONDS.

Provisions at the WallaCe Bill. Following is the text of the bilF passed by the United States Senate for the promotion of satifigs. It was irifroduced afnd engine£red ! oy Mt 1 Wallace, of Pennsylvania : 7 “• 1 " : ■ amount of 4-per-cent. bonds of the United crazed.to Jlßli b sfled, not exceeding $100,000,000 cqupqnjbonds or thb denominations df s2ff, SSO, and stto, Aid ofetjdat tetotisof iarth'ofwididenoriiMMttionß, deemable m coin fifty year» from [the; date of their issue, apd bearing interest payable semiannually at the rate of 4, per centmh pbr to-.' num, and paid bpnds shall be exempt'from taxation inlike manner aft those m the place tof wbidh they are to be issued.., ebj'd ■ j; Sec. 2. That said cqupfP bondsshajlbe made payable to the order of 'the person who shall pay the feoiiey therefor, and ftie nMnJ’bf' such person or hite or her assignee,'-<Jr of any qnent assignee, -and his or har reflidepee. s«h*R bq registered owner of tech bond in dike, manner as if the same was a registered bond, and such coupon bonds shall be transferable only by MsigMaexit duly acknewtetigudbefore and certified under the the Clerk of State tqurt of record, or Federal court, or United State ft ObrhmiHSioncr, which assignment shall also he 'exeeiited m the presence (rt iflwa subsbrihing witnesses, and:.'such<-asqigigfieDtj made, leaving the name of the assignee blank, and when so made in blank, ana exfecutea’as hereftibPfoMt -"prtwinS Mw oWprtpJknftt’Aall be transferable by ■delivery to like maaner m if payable to bearer. u ■Bec. 3. That the .coupons attached to said bonds shall Unpayable either 'iii Utiited Btfites fegal-tehfier ildtes erib' ‘com, aVthe option afr the United States, and the jntme shall be paid at any of tpe suMreaswies or money depositories of the United States, or at any natidnal. bank, and, it is herdby maae the duty of each of the said national banks to pay Baid coupons upon presentation witfioto eterges? Abd remit the aarne to the treasury.for said national banks shall only be ( j-eqtlired to, do so iipoii the production of tne proper bond to which the coupon presented shall have been at bonds for sale at the different sub-treasuries, national banks, and iriofiey r depositories of the United States, and shall dispose of the same at par and accrued interest for coin or for United States legal-tender notes at their nominal value, and sfich legal-tender notes' shall be reisshed, and their proceeds and coin received for snob bonds'shall be applied to the redemption of . jgutsjanding bonds of the United States which are redeemable and bear the highest fate" Of *ta‘ r terest of such bonds. SfA S- Thatjhe provisions of sectipns 3JWti and ,f,705 of the of?theJfadtai States, authorising > of in reom of any registered bond lost cjr def■frayed, are betetomideeniilicablefolhfeJlondiß to be issued under this statute, but only in case tags or destnictten thereof before tho exeCutidn of an assiMiment in Blank thereon. |Thefeecretary of tiffe Treasury iS authorized to tnalte such rules to efrry out the prmnsions of this

FASHION NOTES.

Faille continues in favor for house dresses. a?e the new qrnamei\ts4ar "springTiats. < 1 e machine-stitching will triffi sses. !& £ 5 a* ‘ pri T re appoftredon articles children’s spring attire. - Embroidered and fringed ribbon will “New ber without wire stems. on the ntw spring bonneto. Flower-embroidery is the latest trim□Aing for . Radies’ silk ends of net heavily etnlp oiderod 5n colors. New and beautifftT grenadines have stripes and flowers of velvet. Pearl buttons tee shaded to match all the new shades of new materials. new spring colors are in subdued tints, such as drab, tan and silver. Scotch plaids will be much worn thi« summer, especially for traveling. As many as five" row* of pearl beads are on the white chip bonnets just imThe old gjolctt, |“»shei < roses,” so ’ ait of iriH be Revived this Thenew wide WllaW have a lace /rill to stgnd up around the neck and vhrsts. “ 1 5 ‘ - Mantelets will be much Worn this lunrtner ; they will be sqfh hl a variety f materials. . J White ostrich feathers' tipped with pearl beads are fresh attractions in millinery goods. A new trimming for spring wraps is colbred swan’s-down, to match the color of the material. ScotcfrOhGyioV will be twsed for morning .wear ; it" is sines- and jn° re durable than cambfic.— tribune.

Englishmen vs. Americans.

The London World says that Stanley honjjstly-believes toatJgnglishmen are prejudiced against fiim»n account of his nationality. dwnot like American®” hl insjiste?; f th«y are jealous of WtnwrbKif andwtheiC j®lousy crops out continually. ” In this opinion Stanley is partly right and partly wrong.” It is not so much his jealousy that makes the average Englishman unpleasant to the average American as it is his self-suf-ficiency.. Hawill nqt meet the American cordially, because he regards Americans as an inferior species of Englishmen. This feeling, we are glad to say, doesnot exist to any extent among the upper classes of England, who by travel and education have become relieved from the prejudices long ago engendered by the caricatures of .Gb&rlea iWqkens and his imitators. Paiadfixical it may seem, the warmest appreciation of this country is found among the gentlemen constituting what is called the aristocracy of England. : - i

Frightful Shrinkage.

, 4-nidea of the tremendous fall of real eptate Ju^New ?Yotk» furnished by the following item from me Tribune : “ The Industrial Exhibition Company in 1/571 of land Iviug .between Ninty-ninth and One-Huhdred-and-Third streets and Third and Fourth •ffeifties, for the purpose of establishing an industrial exhibition. ' The price paid was $1,700,000. The scheme was not successful, ana the land, which had been divided into lots, has been hold tinder by several insurance companies holding jfiorftages upon it. The sum realized was $400,000. The former manager toe Exhibition Comof the property, the company wns offered $2,500,000 for it.”

FINANCIAL FACTS.

ffILVEB COINAGE. *fhough n hate been stated several times, it may not bfe out of place to peat, Mys - the Chicago TV-towne, thatthe dollar of 4121 grates of mixer was a legal tender from 1798 to 1874; and that jhe statement so often made that carte $8,000,000 Of legal-tender silver dtdltars were opined is not true te foot. . The silver dollar was not only a legal tender itself, but all its fractional parts were legal temder for w amount whatever, and Qf , legal-tender silver (enehuhng the-.subsidiary silver) there were coined to the amounts and of the denominationft following: DoUara $ 8,045,838.00 Half-dollars 66,249,183.<80 Quaxteraiollara.. ' 3,999,0*0,00 -qtotaL^.,...’ WK)7,39X90 < .Al PUBLIC DJWT A £UEhIO CURSE. The debts of the civilized nations ameunt to more than eight times the total of all the gold ajjd silver money in Europe and A<neriea.*j tional debts amount to s2&4oo,oo|jQ®r railroad debts, $5,000,000, COO, and ofatff and municipal debts, $4,250,000,000. The aggregate of this vast sum is $32,650,000,000, Tlw principal is never be paid, It is designed to constitute a yoke of perpetual bondage upon workingmen. Tt is te be the, means of supporting an aristocracy for fill time. It is the foundation upon‘which an oligarchy may stand within the halls of legislation, the temples of justice, the chambers es the .Executive, and dictate as effectually as depots to ’ those who obey, the Almighty’s first canon to man and earn their living by the sweat oi their brow.—fiveAanpe.

FACTS, AND FIGURES.

The total amount of goljd in tne country in 1859, says a contemporary, .was $275,000,000^' The tottl ’ 5 amount of paper circulation the same year was TMs was composed exchtewkT of Sttite-hank notes. Jhei total amount of gold in was $121,090,000. Now it is about $110,000,000, while the amount available for resumption is less than. $50,000,000 ! Is it not absurd to talk, of resumption under these circumstances? We-were better prepared to resume in 1870 than we are now. In 1859 we had a mufth larger amount of gold thd!n Currency, and set specie payments were maintained with - the" utmost difficulty. Now the volumeof the paper money is nearly seven times 4s great as all the gold iif the country, andyetsome talk of resuming specie payments! Would that the fool-killer were not sent away!

REPEAL THE RESUMPTION ACT.

Grateful as this measure of ( Relief [the Silver bill] -will be to the business interests of the country, it will fail of the full measure of success unless it is complemented by a repeal of the act fixing the date for the resumption of specie payments. That statute is one of the prime factors of our financial distress, anifit js as wrongful, mischievoiip, and unjust as was the .act of demonetizing silver. It is by ths repeal of the Resumption act that we will relegate to the laws of trade the fixity or relativity of mofiey values. Under.thesela'Ws we believe silver will soon appreciate to the gold standard of the United States, which is sixteen to one. The absorption of currency in business .will be the reliable measure for the volume’of the circulating medihm, and" hence in flic future this great money question will virtually settle itself and be kept otft of ■Congress, exceptewhere interference, by the National Legislature is warranted by the organic-law of the nation.—Philadelphia Inquirer. JBANKS. The following; ft&ws flip jiurabm of national banks tei ■afch Slate and territory, as well as in the leading cities erf the country, as reported last year. It will be seen at a glance that the great preponderance of them is in the East, and that will go far toward accounting for the great strength of the money power in that quarter: SVATEfI. Tennessee 11 New Hampshire 24 0hi0.... 11 Vermont 17 Indiana 36 Massachusetts ..IC9 Illinois 47 Jihads.Island,.. 21 Michigan .34 Connecticut..: 44 Wisconsin .............17 New York >. 123 10wa,.... ........32 New Jersey 37 Minnesota.,.,.,.. .14 Pennsylvania 81 Missouri 11 Delaware ............. 5 Kansas 7 Maryland 8 Nebraska ... 4 Virginia . ... 13 Oregon w.-. J West Virginia.. 4 Ca1if0rnia. ...u...... .. 2 North Car01ina........ 6 Colorado. 6 South Carolina f> Utah.......i.j - IGeorgia 10 New Mexico... 1 Alabama 4 Wyoming 1 Cexas.. 8 Idaho 1 Arkansas ............. Montana. 2 Kentucky 14 Maillevs. ..j...... 24 CITIES. Louisville 7 Boston 43 Cincinnati 3 New York .43 Cleveland 5 Albany. i... 5 Chicago .4........ Philadelphia 13 Detroit 3 Pittsburgh. 14 Milwaukee....... 2 Baltimore...,; 11 Bt. Irtnis .....:.a.'4 Washington...... •...... 4 Sab Francisco .... .... 1 NewOrJeans,.i...... ~.7 WHAT WAS PAID FOR THE UNITED STATES BONDS.

People forget statistical facts very quickly, and what they retain of figures and quantities is apt to get mixed up with error. In regard to the sale of the bonds constituting the national debt, many people think they were mainly purchased with gold—at least all that portion whfch found a market in England. Others are in the habit of declaring that the bonds realized the Government but 37 cents in coin value to the dollar’s worth of bond. It is true there were a few. sold in 1864 as low as 37 per cent of com, and'the whole year’s sale of 1864 only realized 46f per cent, gold Value, but that was the worst year of alh A statistical table has been prepared during the debate’on the Silver bill and bond question showing just how much the Government obtained each Cfrom the sale of its 5-20 and 10-40 a All the bonds were sold for greenbacks at their nominal value, regardless of their gold value. Secretary Chase maintained that it was better to disguise the actual discount on the bonds by receiving depredated greenbacks at par than to sell them on a coin baais for their market price, and thus expose the frightful loss of credit caused by what was deemed by capitalists “a doubtful struggle,* * anti yet every intelligent, man knew from month to month what the depreciation actually was. The follow ng is the table referred to: Ctxrcis. . Amounts. Sold for VM. Profits. Js62 -S 60 982,450 $ 44,030,649 $ 16,951,801 1863 160,987,650 101,890,854 59,098,694 1864....... 381,292,250 186 697,636 191,594,614 '1865 279,746,150 208 214,090 71,502,080 1866 124,914,400 88,591,773 26,322,627 1867 4'41,469 550 303,216,503 118,254,047 1868...... 425,413,800 312,826,323 112,617,477 6 per ria.. 195,136,550 122,957,410 72,18'2,140 $2,059,975,700 91,371,424,888 $678,551,460 - The 5 per cents, in this tabto emmist of the 10-40 bonds; nearly all toothers were 5-20 s. Several hundje<ClhwOns of these,bonds have been called in and paid off, and $700,000,000 of them have

$1.50 dot Aduuiil

NUMBER 5.

beeu 1 0Oftiw3rt0d ; into 5,4 j, and 4 per cents. The amount of toss on ifie sale of those bones originally exceeds $678,000,000 of dollars.—CAicat/o TVitune.

MONET OF THE UNITED STATES.

(From the Cincinnati Enquirer.] The public questions of this genera tion are to be question of finance. The duty of the law-makersef this epoch if to establish an American system of finance, based upon sound principles, built for permanency, for equity, and for the people. No question so vitally concerns the welfare of all the homes of the land as the questions relating to money, to the currency of the country, the machinery for all of its business. No question is settled till it is settled right, and this greatest of political questions, which is ndw, fortunately, in the process of agitation; will not doWn ” till a system is permanently established which if adapted to our people; to our condition, to our century. Our Federal Government has always assumed control of the currency. It has rested and should rest nowhere else, e How shall that control be exercised I The constitution wisely . leftrthe Congress almost unfettered in the matter of making money. There »e no constitutional limits placed upon the action of Congress in ordering what shall be money, save’ by implication. The States Were forbidden to “make anything but gold and silvan owm a tender in payment of debts/’ to-to awords of the constitution. The States, by the - constitution, were forbidden to “coin money,” or #, Vomit bills of This clause in the tenth section of the first article of the constitution suggested the possibility 61 the true Amencah system of finance. With all pi tfie recognitions of the rights of toe States that are fixed in toe constitution toe doctrine is plainly indicated, if nqt named in words, in, toat constitution that the Federal Government has, and alone has, the control of the issue of money. The wise decision of the Supreme Court of the United States is that toe Congress is not limited to gold and silver in its making of money. It can make copper or nickel or greenbacks money. There are those who say that there is no express authority given to Congress in the constitution to make gold and silver even a legal tender, or to make a legal-tendef law of any kind. If this is granted, the constitutional right tomake other things than gold or silver legal tender rests on the same grounds wid* the right to make even these metals lawful money. But the highest court has settled this question. The power to make money inheres in toe Federal Government, and toe Congress has powt r to determine what shall be money. Our Government has always assumed control of our currency, and alway&will. This is why that control should be right. There have 1 r&ftly" tlrfe^ 1 distinct phases of pur currency system. The first Congress under the constitution vs--* 4 tablidhed the BanVdf.’thcUnitedStates. Certainly the fact that the control of the currency was placed in the General Government. The Government could give it away. The United States Government was itself ip the banking business. Tins bapk wap rechartered during Madison’s adminis-tration,-and wap the basis,of our currency system till the noble veto of Andrew Jackson. Then came th® era of State banks. They were toe basis- of our system of finance. For twenty-eight years prior to 1860, under that regime, we had a “specie basis.” It was called a “sound financial system.” It was “hard money.” It was the epoch of State banks and solid basis. But the statistics show toat fox twenty-six years prior to 1860 this basis was 18 cents of coin to 100 cents of promise outstanding. The average of all the banks of the country presented this showing, when little corporations scattered over the land were allowed to make money, and When men looked at a “ bank-note detector” before making change when selling a pound of sugar. Ohio ndtes wtere looked on with suspicion in Indiana or Kentucky, and “wildcat” banks were always possible. The next era in finance in toe United States came with the war. The 8 ate banks'were taxed out of existence, and the Government made one-half of the money of the land (made millions more of bonds legal tender) and indorsed the remainder. It made greenbacks and authorized toe issue of national-bank notes as a “war measure,” and to coax the sale-of the Government bands. However vicious the national-banking system--and it is a financial heresy—rib bauhelped so perform one work in our finaneial -history toat is valuable. Its adoption-helped to place toe control of our currency where in belongp-r-to the Federal Government. The war pointed out toe path to top American system Qi finance. The direct necessity forced the system on us. It stood toe test of war, and it has stood to® test of peace far bet; ter than it endured toe war. Eyen toe .National Bank pct was an s advance step in our financial story in that it carried all of toe control of our currency that ip not otherwise carried to toe Government of the United States. The Congress can now handle it as it could not prior to 1860. The third epoch iu our currency system —the present one—is that in which the Government makes half of the momjy ahd indorses the other half. The, next curienßy epoch will be that in which the Government indorses no money, but makes it all.

The Financial Situation.

The prognostiedtions as to the evil effect of the passage of the Silver bill have been signally falsified. The press of this city, for > months, did all in its power to create a panic among the holders of United States Government bonds, and, unfortunately, this attempt had file assistance of the President himself. But it has utterly failed. Gold has gone .down, contrary to prediction, and governments have gone up, contrary to prediction. If we bad not been eye-wit-nesses of the folly and recklessness exhibited by the Eastern press in toe recent struggle of a few brokers who make money by turning aver Government securities, We could scarcely have believed that men making any pretence to clear-sightedness or patriotism Wodfd have endeavored to discredit, their own Government in the way that we have been made so familiar with during the recent discussion of fhpjsilvCr question. Of course, the bankem brokeis in interest the fight, was made are now laughing in their sleeves at the sorry plight of toeir newspaper allies.. They were too familiar with financial affairs to have pinned toeir faith to the prognostications . of the press that represented toeir interests though not their intelligence. It should be distinctly bCrne in mind that the bondholder—toe man with his money permanently invested in Governnftjntfc—n As‘neft'enaeavoted to throw discredit upon lus Government, He lives

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upon his interest, and as long as that is sectire he is satisfied. But the insinttationte that have been so galling have emanated from the small knot of speoulators who live by handling toe evidences of indebtedness— -they have come from brokers who manipulate bonds and the small party of bankers who lend money and are not satisfied with getting back the principal and interest, but who r want the principal largely increased by means of a surreptitious change of the standard of value. The Silver bill has become a law, and, far from producing the evils predicted, it brings about benefits. The passage of toe Silver bill has marked the end of the long era of coddling one small interest to the neglect of every other. Since the close of the war every step in financial legislation taken by the Government was in the interest of the holders, or, rather, the manipulators of one form of debt. The national debt was made a deity—an idol; wittr a head of gold. All the patriotic feelings engendered by the war were ingeniously appealed to on more than one occasion to aid in giving by law a bonus to the bondholders, when they already had made a good thing out of their investment. Every new device to increase the principal was hailed with delight by the organs of the money power here ahd' in Europe. It is simply amaring that Congress and people should have alike neglected every great interest in order to coddle one small interest'. Our shipping was allowed to rot and disappear from the seas, our commerce was unoared for, the interests of agriculture were permitted te be crippled by railroad discriminations, but neither Congress norpeople moved: but Any scheme for providing ritew offerings on the altar of our nations! fetich—the debt —was snre to hq/tailed with acclamation. This is now past. The bondholder must take hlte place in th'e straggling crowd. His interest is only one of many. He is not to be clothed in purple and fine lipeu and all toe rest of the world in rags. This is certainly a change for toe better. Congress and people will now find time to think about some of toe other interests that have been permitted to languish. As we have said again and again, free coinage and unlimited legal tender is necessary to give silver its true place in our metallie circulation. Free coinage is a thing to keep in view. Resumption on the Ist of next January is impossible, and hence Congress ought to quietly repeal so much of the Resumption act a# fixes a date, but at the same time toe Secretary of the Treasury ought to be clothed with the necessary power to resume at such time as he deemed it expedient so to do.— New York Graphic.

NATIONAL BANES.

The House Bill for the Retirement of 1 heir Circulating Notes. The House Committee on Banking and CurrenflyTßßyß toe Chicago Tribune, hate at last matured the bill for the retirement of all toe circulating notes of the national banks, and the permanent isspe therefor of treasury notes. In its present shaport is possible the bill may pass both houses of Congress and become a law; if not at the present, then at tho next Session cf Congress. Tho bill provides, substantially, as follows : That the Secretary of toe Treasury shall have prepared an issue of treasury notes equal to the whole amount of outstanding national-bank notes (about $323,000,000) ; these treasury notes are to conform generally to the greenbacks, and shall be receivable for all taxes, etc., due to the United States, and be payable for all claims against the United States as national-bank notes are now receivable and payable ; and, in addition, be receivable for customs duties to the amount of one-third of each payment of duties. The treasury notes s'i all be exchangeable at par with legal tender notes at the treasury. They shall also be receivable in exchange at par for 4 per cent, bonds of the United States. The notes as soon as prepared shall be sent to the several eub-treasuries, with instructions to cease to pay out upon any account whatever any national-bank notes, biit to pay out in place of such batik notes these treasury notes, and this to continue until the whole of such notes of toe national banks shall be retired. The bank notes so retired to be sent to the treasury every thirty days; and, whenever.toe notes of any bank to the atoount of $5,000 shall be received at the treasury, the bank is to be notified and be entitled to receive, on payment of mi equal sum in legal-tender notes, bonds of such bank on deposit with the Treasurer. Any bank may withdraw all its bonds upon payment to the treasury of legal-tender notes equal to its circiiTOtion. - The Secretary of the Treasury is to use the legal-tender notes received in exchange for bank notes, and toe treasury notes received in exchange for toe 4 per cent, bonds, to ptirchate outstanding 6 per cent, bonds, or in. the purchase of gold or silver coin with which to redeem and pay such bonds. Any national bank may exchange its 6 per 1 cent, bonds at the treasury, receiving therefor the full market value of such bond# in treasury notes, together with the accrued interest on such bonds. National banksissuing notes redeemable ih gold shall make a monthly deposit of gold equal to 5 per cent of their whole circulation until the same is wholly redeemed. No circulating notes are to be hereafter issued to any bank. There can be no mistaking the purpose of this bill. It provides absolutely for a national paper currency, to the exclusion of any other. The paper money of the country is to be: 1. Greenbacks or legal tenders to an amount pot exceeding $400,000. 2. Treasury notes, not legal-tenders, except to the same extent that nationalbank notes now are, and redeemable as the bank notes are in legal-tenders at the treasury. Both forms of paper, however, are receivable in payment of duties to the extent of 33 J per cent, of all payments, and the treasury notes are also receivable at par in exchange for 4 per cent bonds.

The Sowers.

The Chicago. Inter- Ocean, in a recent issue, says: <f We have reports from Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, lowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and. from Illinois. AU unite with one voice in saying : ‘ Prospects for winter wheat never better.’ Large sowings of spring wheat are expected. The mild winter has given opportunity for outside labor, and all work is well advanced and ready for spring. Great complaint continues On account of bad roads, which prevent toe moving of grain in Wagons. The frost is alt out of toe ground in lowa, and spring-wheat sowing commenced a week’ ago. Nebraska also reports a large number of farmers sowing spring wheat,”