Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 December 1878 — Page 4

THE NATION’S SERVANTS.

Gorement Departments and Bans. Synopses of the Annual Reports. THE WAR OFFICE. Annual Report of Secretary McCrary. The Secretary of War, in hie report, reviews the operations of the army for the year, and quotes portions of the reports of Gens. Shermon and Sheridan in regard to the condition of the. service, its requirements, and its numerical inadequacy to perform the duty required of it He describes the embarrassment of the army at present under the posse-comitatus clause in the last appropriation bill, and asks that Congress either ropeal tho clause and allow the President and Secretary of War to use tho army as authorized by the constitution, or interpret the meaning of the clause so that it may be clear in what service the army can perform without violating its provisions. If the clause is not repealed, he wants Congress to enumerate the casos in which tho army may be used to suppress disturbances in response to the call of the civil authoxities. He recites tho lawlessness in New Mexico, Texas, and elsewhere, which could not bo suppressed by the civil authorities, and which might have*been prevented had not the army been prohibited from interference. With great delicacy Secretary McCrary treats tho Indian question, and, while he describes what has been done by the military in respect to tho hostile Indians, he does not join in the controversy between officers of the aimy and the Indian service about the cause of outbreaks or alleged insufficiency of the Indian management. nor does he allude in any. way to the proposition for tho transfer of the Indians from the caro of tho Secretary of tho Interior to his own. One of Secrotary McCrary’s hobbies is the education of the rank and file of tho army, and tho establishment and maintenance of schools for soldiers. Ho discusses this subject at length, describes what has already been done, ami what he proposes to do. He asks that Congress legalize his action in furnishing supplies to the yellow-fever sufferers, and that tho army bo reimbursed for such supplies. Ho also asks the passage of a bill giving a pension to tho widow of Iheut. Benner, who (lien while in command of thoyellow-fover-reliof boat, as she is not entitled to pension under the law, hor husband not having diod in tho performance of military duty. In regard to tho uses of tho army, tho Secretary of War says : “ The aftoenth section of the act of Congress of Juno 18, 1878. provides that from and after the passage of the act it shall not be lawful to employ any part of the army of the United .States as a poxxe comllalus or otherwise for the purpose of executing the laws, except in such cases and under such circumstances us such employment of such force may be expressly authorized by the constitution or by act of Congress. In my judgment it is important either that tilts provision bo repealed or that the number of casos in which the use of tho army! shall be expressly authorized be very much enlarged. In many portions of our Western Territories, and even in some portions of the newer State’s, a resolute desperado with a few followers can defy the officers of tiie law and any local posse that can be organized. During the year numerous attacks have been made upon mail coaches in New Mexico and Arizona for purposes of robbery and pluuder, and, while I hase been of the opinion that the mails of the United States may be defended by the use of troops, I have been obliged to give instructions that they cannot without disregarding the act of Congress be employed to aid officers of the law in capturing robbers after they have committed a crime. in doing so they would act as a porntc cinnitulun, and lids is nowhere by lasv expressly authorized. In tlie new and sparsely-populated regions of the West to say to robbers and thieves that they shall not lie taken on any writ unless the HhorilT and Ids local posse is able to capture them without aid from the soldiers is almost to grant them immunity from arrest. In these new regions the army is the power chiefly relied upon by the lawabiding people for protection, and chiefly feared *by the lawless classes. Numerous instances might be citied, but the recent occurrences in Lincoln county, New Mexico, constitute a striking example. Tho inability of the officer in command of the troops in that vicinity to aid officers of tho law in making arrests was one of the principal causes which led to the must disgraceful scenes of riot and murder, amounting, in fact, to anarchy. This stall! of tilings continued until a case could be made for declaring tlin district in insurrection, after which a proclamation of warning was issued by the l’rosident, the troops wore called into action, and at ouce restored quiet. X am clearly of tho opinion that the l’resldcnt should bo left free to employ the national forces in aid of tho processes of Federal Courts whenever he shall deem it necessary. Hut it such use is to be limited to sueli cases where, as declared by the act above quoted, it is expressly authorized by the constitution or by act of Congress, then it is respectfully submitted that Congress should give very careful attention to the enumeration and specification of tho cases in which such use of the troops is to tie permitted.”

THE ARMY. Report of (lull, XV. T. Sherman. Gen. Sliommn, in liis annual report to tho Secretary of War, states that the army is in good condition, and discourses at length on tho Indian question. The whole number of eidistod men in tho army is 114,701. Beyond question, says Gen. Sherman, it was hungor which drovo tho Bannocks and doyennes to war this summer, and similar oscapados will occur each year unless theso Indians ho kept quiet with more food. It seems idle to expect that tho enterprising white race will coaso till every acre of this continent is susceptible of cultivation. It is not to bo expected that theso pasture-fields can bo used by the two races without everlasting conflict. The reservations already not apart for tho Indians are large enough, and should suffice them to raiso all tho meat and grain necessary for their subsistence, but, meantime, they must have food, else they will steal and fight. To convert theso Indians into a pastoral raeo is the first step in tho upward progress of civilization ; that ol' agriculture must bo tho next stago, though slower of realization. But in this direction iH the sole hope of rescuing any part of tlie “ nomad ” Indians from utter annihilation. This end cannot he reached by means of tho present peace agonts, because persuasion is wasted on an Indian. There must not only be a show of force, but actual force and subjection used. Force will he necessary to compel tho “ nomad ” to cultivate his own ground. There is a wide distinction among the tribes, and each tribe must lie dealt with according to its nature. Large discretion to supply food must bo lodged with tho President, or somowhere else. Starvation with each year causes wars such as occurred this season with the Shoshones and Southern Cheyennes. Tho army cannot foresee or prevent theso wars. All it can do, after tho Indians break out, plunder, steal and kill harmless farmers, is to pursue and capture them in detail, after infinite toil, then conduct them back to their reservations and turn thorn loose to return to the same game, ad libitum. Congress alouo can provide a remedy, and, if prevention be wiser than cure, money* and discretion must ho lodged somewboro in time to proveat starvation.

THE NAVY DEPARTMENT. Secretary Thompson's Report. Hon. 11. W. Thompson, Secretary of the Navy, in his annual report, states that under tlio auspices of that department sixty-tliree Government vessels havo been eithor wholly or partially equipped at tho sevoral navy yards, at an expenditure of $717,010.30, as follows: For labor, $143,805.21; for material from stock on hand, $487,075.81; for material purchased during tho year, $97,129.34. Thirty-six thousand 'even hundred and eighty tons of coal have b sen purchased for tho use of tho navy, costing, i .eluding freight, $288,222.09. Two hundred ;uul eighty thousand five hundred and thirty pounds of Manila hemp havo been purchased, costing $23,857.54. During the year $044,140 have been expended for the equipment of vessels, and under appropriation contingent (equipment and recruiting, 1878), $51,512, leaving a balance on hand of $18,542. Tlio number of desertions during tho year was 009, and Muring the previous year "818. Five hundred and twenty-three boys havo enlisted during the past year. There are remaining in tho training ships 440 boys, who are advancing the tone and morale of the servico. With the training system on a permanent basis, our ships will soon bo manned by native-born seamen. It is the intention of tho department to oontinue tho present system of trainingships.

INTERIOR DEPARTMENT. Secretary Sclmrz on the Indian Problem. A very large portion of tho annual report of the Secretary of tho Interior is devoted to tho discussion of the Indian question, lie states that, on tho whole, the character of tho Indian service has been raised in point of integrity and efficiency, and proceeds to say: I am, however, far from pretending that tho present state of Indian affairs is what it ought to bo. Tho experience gained in the earnest effort to overcome difficulties and to correct abusos has enabled mo to appreciate more clearly tho task still to be accomplished. In my last annual report I stated frankly, and I have to repeat now, that in pursuing a policy over so wise, and with a machinery ever so efficient, gradual improvement can bo effected only by patient, energetic, and well-directed work in detail. An entirely satisfactory state of things can bo brought about only under circumstances which are not and cannot be under the control of the Indian service alone. If tho recurrence of trouble and disturbance is to be avoided, tho appropriations made by Congress for the support of the Indians who are not self-supporting must be liberal enough to be sufficient for that purpose, and they must be made early enough fa wie year to render the porohaae and delivery

of new supplies possible before the old supplies are exhausted. The Indian service should have at its disposal a sufficient fund to be used with proper accountability at discretion in unforseen emergencies. Citizens of the Western States and Territories most be made to understand that, if the Indians are to cease to be troublesome paupers and vagabonds, are to become orderly and selfsupporting, they most have lands fit for agriculture and pasture; that on sneb lands they must be permitted to reign and establish permanent homes, and that such a result cannot be obtained if the white people insist upon taking from them by force or trickery every acre of ground that is good for anything. The first two things can be accomplished by appropriate action on the part of Congress. The difficulties growing out of continually repeated encroachments by white people on the rights of the Indians may be lessened by the concentration of the Indians on a smaller number of reservations, but they can be entirely avoided even thon only by the most energetic enforcement of the law on the part of the general and local governments. To this end it seems desirable that the Southwestern tribes, whose present reservation appears insecure, or otherwise unsuitable for their permanent settlement, should be gradually removed to the Indian Territory. The Northwestern tribes will, in the course of time, have to be concentrated in a similar manner ou a few reservations east of the Rocky mountains and on the Pacific slope. To keep tho Indians on their reservations and prevent disturbance and conflicts, the Commissioner of Indian Affairs recommends the organization of a mounted body of Indian auxiliaries, to bo drawn from young men of the various tribes, and-to be under the command of tho military authorities. I heartily concur in this recommendation. It is a matter of genera} experience that the Indians so employed can lie depended upon as to loyal fidelity to the duties assigned them. But the principal ond of our Indian policy cannot be promoted by police measures alone. That end consists in gradually introducing among tho Indians # tho habits and occupations of civilized life by inducing them to work for their own support, by encouraging pride of individual ownership of property, and by educating the young generation, and no efforts should be spared to bring to bear upon them the'proper influences in that direction. Such efforts should not bo sneered at as mere sentimental fancies, for, should they be discouraged by tho assertion that success is impossible, the* advance nnldo by some Indian tribes is sufficient proof that a similar advance may be made by others. Whatoyor may be accomplished by the employmontof force, it is certain that only as the Indians progress in the way of civilization they will cease to be a troublesome and disturbing element

POSTOFFICE DEPARTMENT. Annual Report of the Postmaster General. Hon. David M. Key, Postmaster General, in his annual roport of the operations of his department for the fiscal yoar ended June 30, 1878, estimates ffle total expense of the postal sorvice at $30,571,900, the amount appropriated for tho current year being #83,256,373. The net revenue for the year from the sale of postagestamps was $16,839,116, against $15,881,936 last yoar. Amount of stamps, stamped envelopes, etc., sold. $27,375,593, against $25,757,515 in 1877. Expended during tho yoar for mail transportation, $19,444,179, against $19,356,023 tho previous year. From tables showing tho operation of tho money-order offices it appears that tho roveuuo from this source for the year was $269,647, against $109,148 the previous year. A considerable portion of the report is devoted to tho subject of the present and prospectve deficiencies in tho amounts appropriated by Congress for salaries of Postmasters and for railway transportation. In regard to Postmasters’ salaries, he says tho deficiencies or prevention of them, so far as salarios and compensation of Postmasters are concerned, are not and cannot be controlled by the department. If tho amount appropriated by Congress for the purpose he not oqpal to the amount of compensation established by law, there must be a deficiency. After describing the jates of compensation prescribed by law for railway mail service, the Postmaster General says the appropriation made by Congress at its last session was not sufficien to pay for the existing service on railroads, and, should no additional appropriation be made for this sorvice, he shall feel it his duty under tho law so to curtail tho service as to fall within tho appropriation, however much ho might consider the public interests injured tlieroby. In regard to tho revenues of the postal service, tho Postmaster General says: “ Timo and again it has been shown that matter of tho second and third class does not pay its way through tho mails, and Congress has been urged to increase tho ratos thereon. The question has been considered timo and time again by appropriate committoes, and discussed in both branches of Congress, and the results have shown that it was not expoeted that tho dopai'tment should bo self-sustaining, but that tho deficiencies in its revenues should be mot by appropriations from the genoral treasury. The amount of matter sout through the mails free is very large, adding greatly to our expenditure and giving us no revenue.” Postmaster General Key protests against the revival of the worst features of tho franking privilege. Tho free list is such, he says, that almost every tiling except letters can now bo franked which ever could bo, and it was precisely that kind of luggage which tho abolition of tho frank aimed at throwing out Tons upon tons of bookH, documents, seeds, shrubs and the like are “dead-headod ” from Washington all over the country.

AGRICULTURAL BUREAU. Commissioner Re Due’s Report. The annual report of tho Commissioner of Agriculture shows that the department during the year has been engaged in examining into the practicability of introducing new products, and has been to some degree successful. Tho following extracts and condensations show in outline the work of this department for tho yoar, as stated by the Commissioner himself. Gen. Le Due is an enthusiast od the subject of making tho United States independent of foreign nations. Ho has grouped together, and gives in a table, a list of articles annually imported into this country, amounting in value to many millions of dollars, which he is confident might, and he thinks ought to, bo produced at home. Among these articles aro enumerated tea, coffee, sugar, Peruvian bark, paper material, rice, barley, hemp, flax seed, wool, fruits, nuts, etc. The Commissioner advocates the building and repairing of tho Mississippi levees at the expense of tho General Government Tho Commissioner states that the wheat crop of the present year has been promising in a high degree during the entire season. Fears of grasshopper invasions were early dispelled, except in a few countios in Minnesota. The losses from winter-killing, the fly, chinch-bug, grasshoppers, rust, smut, etc., fiavo this season been far less than usual. The heaviest production is in the section of tho lightest yield last year (the Northwestern or spring-wheat States), whoso product fell off 36,000,000 bushels. The aggrogate in Wisconsin, Minnesota, lowa and Nebraska is double that of last year, and nearly 20,000,000 bushels greater than in 1875. Tho entire crop promises to exceed that of last year by 70,000,000 bushels, leaving 100,000,000 bushels for exportation, with a surplus remaining above the actual requirement of consumption Other crops have generally been good.

PUBLIC LANDS. Report ot Commissioner Williamson. Commissioner of tho Land Office Williamson, in his report, shows thattherearostilll,ooo,ooo,000 acres of public lands unsurveyed. The receipts last year from the sale of public lands were $2,022,536, or $509,507 greater than in the preceding year. The report exhibits in detail the work done in connection with the suppression of timber depredations ■on public lands, and presents a variety of information with regard to abandoned military and Indian reservations, the adjustment of private laud claims, and miscellaneous matters. Among othor recommendations contained in the report are the following: For legislation to transfer any title the United States may possess in islands and beds of “meandered” lakes, sloughs arid ponds to tho States in which they respectively lie; to allow affidavits in pre-emption cases to be taken before the Judges and Clerks of courts of record anywhere in the local districts, instead of compelling attendance before Registers and Receivers; to repeal the town-site law, except as regards applications made under tho law pievious to its recent amendment; to enable the department to extend prompt relief to parties entering public land where title cannot be confirmed, and also in eases whore erroneous and illegal exactions have been made, by refunding to them money paid in error.

INTERNAL REVENUE. Report of Commissioner Raum. Tho annual roport of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue shows that $111,089,319 was collected during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1878; a decrease of $8,367,231 from tho receipts of the previous year. The receipts were from tho following sources: 1877. " 1878. Spirits $57,469,430 $50,420,503 Tobacco 41,106,547 40,084,529 Fermented liquors 9.480,789 9,937 052 Hanks and bankers 3,829,729 3 492 031 Stamps, penalties, etc.... 7,108,089 7J55,'201 Total. $118,995,184 $111,089,319 It will bo noticed that the falling off was almost entirely in the receipts from distilled spirits and tobacco, sovon-eighths of the loss being on spirits, and the other eighth from tobacco. This is owing almost entirely to the attempted legislation in Congress last winter for the reductionof the tax on whisky and tobacco. According to Commissioner Raum's figures

the American people are drinking lees whisky and more beer than formerly. There was manufactured in the fiscal year of 1878 about 6,500,000 gallons less whisky than during the previous year, and 1,500,000 gallons more beer. Commissioner Raum estimates that #596,000,000 is annually expended for liquor in the United States, an expenditure that, if applied on the public debt, wonld pay it in three years. Each one of ns, it will be seen, therefore pays over #13.25 per year into the bands of liquor sellers. The number of cigars consumed in this country last year was 1,905,063,743, being an average of over forty-two cigars to every man, woman and child. Assuming that one-fourth of the population—a very large estimate—are smokers, each smoker wonld have 168 cigars for the year. The amount of tobacco, other than cigars and cigarettes, consumed, was 25,312,933 pounds, which is equal to more than half a pound to every inhabitant. The House of Representatives, at its last session, passed a bill reducing the tax on manufactured tobacco from 24 cents to 16 cents per pound. The Commissioner advises against the enactment of this measure, on the ground that it is inexpedient to reduce the revenues of the Government over #B,OOO,(XX/ a year as will result if the proposed change is accomplished. But if the reduction of the tobacco tax is made the Commissioner will recommend that the tax on fermented liquors be increased from $1 to #1.50 per barrel of thirty-one gallons.

THE PENSION BUREAU. Report of a Year’s Operations. Commissioner of Pensions Bentley, in his annual report, shows a reduction of expenses in the last two years of $662,222. There are 223,998 pensioners on tho rolls. Exclusive of fees of Examining Surgeons and fees and salaries of Pension Agents, the amount paid for pensions during the year was $26,530,792, of which #240,901 was retained from pensioners and paid to claim agents for fees. The number of new claims sos the year ending June 30, filed during the year, was 67,509. Of these, 18,812 were original claims for pensions, being more than double the number of the same olass filed in either of the four years 1871 to 1874 ; 18,240 were for the war of 1812 sorvice, under the act of March 9, 1878; about one-sixth of these were in behalf of survivors; the balance were widows’ claims. The aggregate saving in the bureau for the year, in reduced payments of salaries of all descriptions and reduction in the number of agencies, was $482,172. Adding $180,050 for 1877, the aggregate saving for two years in these items alone has been $602,222. Commissioner Bentley reports that, since the consolidation, the pensions have been paid more promptly than before, and tho pay service has advanced to a high degree of efficiency.

THE TERRITORIES. Reports of the Territorial Governors. Some of the Governors of the Territories, in their annual reports to tho Interior Department, make suggestions that are very interesting. Montana. —Tho Governor of Montana sulimits the question whether tho United States will permit the British Government to afford an asylum for our hostile Indians, and furnish them a safe place where they may recruit and replenish their supply of ammunition and again raid upon peaceable citizens. If the British Government persists in doing so, he recommends that for the safety of tlio people of the Territory the Indians he removed from the border several hundred miles into the interior. HC recommends, also, in view of the ’surrounding dangers, that the military districts of the Yellowstone and Montana be consolidated in one department and placed under the command of Gen. Nelson A. Miles, to tho support of whom thousands of settlers would rally. Utah. —Gov. Emery, of Utah, recommends a modification of the Jury law in force so that jurors may be selected, certainly in criminal cases, in precisely tho same manner as they are chosen for tho United States courts in tho States. He claims that as matters now stand it is almost impossible, owing to the poouliar legislation enacted by Congress, and to Territorial legislation, to obtain conviction in certain classes of casos. He recommends, secondly, that woman suffrage in the Territory be abolished, and thirdly, that bigamy in tho Territories should be made by act of Congress a continuous offense, based on cohabitation rather than the marriage ceremony, as is now enacted by Congress. Idaho. — Gov. Brayman, of Idaho, makes a general recommendation that a thorough revision and consolidation of the laws governing Territories bo effected, securing greater uniformity, applying to all the same rules, in a manner defining more clearly the rights and limits of local legislation, and holding officers to a stricter accountability. To bring this about it is suggested that Territorial delegates might properly be permitted to vote in tho House on Territorial matters. Arizona. —Gov. Fremont, of Arizona, in his report to the Secretary of the Interior, expresses tho opinion that the control of tho Indians there should be transferred to tho military.

MISCELLANEOUS REPORTS. BUREAU OF PRINTING AND ENGRAVING. The annual roport of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing of tho Treasury Department shows that tho aggregate expenses of operating the bureau during the year was $538,861.33. In the labor and expense account less than onefifth tho amount appropriated was expended, leaving $052,830.17 m the treasury unexpended at tho close of tho last fiscal year. Tho number of impressions by plate printing was 20,244,490, against 18,989,327 during the preceding year. Tho number of sheets of customs and internal-revenue stamps and of United States securities delivered in the fiscal year ended June 80, 1877, was 9,820,059. The'nnmber of sheets of tho same class of work during the fiscal year ended Juno 80,1878, was 12,518,339. The value of notes, bonds and miscellaneous securities turned out during the year ended June 30, 1877, was $708,414,045. The value of tho same class of work during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1878, was $1,040,451,380. Eight hundred alid twenty-two persons are now employed in the bureau, tho number having been increased during the last four months on account of the demand for the 4 per cent bonds. During the year no counterfeit has appeared on any of the work engraved or executed by the bureau. RIVERS AND HARBORS. The annual report of Gen. A. A. Humphreys, Chief of Engineers, is devoted mainly to the two subjects of fortifications and river and harbor improvements. It is shown that, during tho fiscal year ending June 30, the sum of $2,794,483 was expended for the improvement of rivers and harbors, and a balance of $1,608,678, remaining from the previous appropriations, is available for use during the present fiscal year. The act of June 18, 1878, made provision for 215 works and for surveys and examinations at 116 places, appropriating a total of $8,201,700 in addition to the balance available from previous appropriations. Upon the approval of projects submitted by the various subordinate engineer officers, steps were taken for putting tho works at once into execution, and they aro now being conducted under tho contract system, or by means of hired labor and tho purchase of material in open market, as appeared to be the most advantageous in any particular instance to the Government.

FOREIGN MAILS. J. H. Blackfan, Superintendent of Foreign Mails, shows that the total cost of the United States ocean mail service for the year ended June 30 was $197,276, being a reduction of $lO,310 from the cost of the preceding year. The report embraces an elaborate account of the proceedings of the late postal convention at Baris, and the action taken by the representatives of the United States—Messrs. Tyner and Blackfan—at that meeting. The total weight of mails dispatched from the United States to postal union foreign countries during the fiscal year was, of letters, -3,400,711 ounces, and of g rinted matter and samples 14,528,862 ounces, eing an increase over tlie preceding year of 176,284 ounces in letters and 1,219,975 ounces of printed matter and samples. The number of letters exchanged with countries not embraced in the general postal union—the Dominion of Canada excepted—was 697,551.

REPORT OF THE COMMISSARY GENERAL. Commissary General Macfeely’s report to the War Department shows that the total amount disbursed for subsistence stores during the fiscal year ended June 30 last was $3,510,501, of which $1,011,747 was reimbursed by sales of stores to officers and enlisted men; $31,824 was paid by the Interior Department for supplies furnished to Indians; $73,843 was collected for tobacco sold to enlisted men, and the balance was furnished to the department by the Congressional appropriation. From the tables accompanying the report it appears that there was a marked decline in the cost of the components of tho army ration during the past year, as compared with the preceding twelve months, and the estimates for appropriations were reduced accordingly. QUARTERMASTER GENERAL'S REPORT. The report of Quartermaster General Meigs contains a large amount of statistical information, and makes sevoral recommendations. The total requisitions from his office during the fiscal year ended June 30 last amounted to $12,792,603. The department moved, during the year, 79,260 passengers, 11,400 beasts and 109,261 tons of military material. The department bought 2,251 horses and 1,162 mules during the year, at an average cost of sll7. for the former and $l3O for the latter. There were 11,375 horses and 9,688 mules in the army on the 30th of June, and the forage consumed "was as follows: 893,000 bushels of com, 1,100,000 bushels of oats, 136 000 bushels of barlev, 37, JOO tons of hay and 2,500 tons of straw.

TREASURER GILFILLAN'S REPORT. United States Treasurer Gilflllan, in his report tq Secretary Bherman, makes no reoom-

mendatione for legislation to be submitted to Congresa Upon examination of the law he finds that the Treasurer of the United States is required to communicate directly with Congress upon the third day of every regular session, setting forth the condition of the treasury. Though this law has been in existence several years, Mr. Gilfillan says it has never been complied with. The Treasurer Bays he will have the required statement prepared and presented to Congress on Wednesday, Dec: 4, showing the condition of the treasury up to noon of that day. the revenue marine bureau. The annual report of the Revenue Marine Bureau of the Treasury Department shows that of the vessels wrecked or in distress, with an aggregate of 926 persons on board, 192 have been assisted by revenue cutters The estimated value of the property saved is about #1,700,000, and, 142 persons were actually rescued from death by drowning. The expenses of the reve-nue-marine service for the year ended June 30, 1878, were $843,001. The number of vessels in the service is thirty-seven. REPORT OF THE COMPTROLLER OF THE CURRENCY. The Comptroller of the Currency devotes a considerable portion of his report to a defense of the national banking system. He says that the losses of depositors through savings banks during the last year exceeded the losses of deEositors in national banks for the entire period uring which the latter have had an existence. Tables showing the rate of taxation of the national banks and the amount of their profits accompany the report. THE APPOINTMENT OFFICE. Tho report of the Appointment Office of the Postoffice shows that during the past year there have teen 2,784 established and 871 discontinued, making an increase in the total number of 1,913. The total number of offices in operation June 30, 1878, was 39,258. Of these, 1,570 were filled by Presidential appointment, and 37,688 Postmasters hold appointments from the Postmaster General. The number of appointments ihade on resignations and expiration of commissions was 5,117. There were 748 removals of Postmasters, and 338 deaths. REPORT OF THE SURGEON GENERAL. The annual report of Surgeon General Barnes, United States army, has been submitted to the Secretary of War. It shows' that there were disbursed during the year, for medicinal and hospital supplies, $46,(501.01; expenses of purveying depots, $5,657.23; pay of employes $30,303.771; medical attendance, nursing, etc., $7,471.81; miscellaneous expenses, $6,111.16; total, SIOO 545.03; balance, Juno 30, 1878, $99,988.67. The greater part of this balance has since been disbursed, and the remainder will be required iu fulfilling contracts made before June 30. There were’ furnished during the year 83 artificial limbs to disabled soldiers, while 1,700 drew commutations for the same.

The Clean Newspaper.

There is a growing feeling in every healthy community against the journals which make it their special object to minister to perverted taste by seeking out and serving up in a seductive form disgusting scandals and licentious revelations. There is good reason to believe that the clean newspaper is more highly prized to-day than it was four or five years ago. It is also safe to predict that as people in all ranks of life, who protect their own at least from contamination, become more conscious of the pernicious influence of a certain class of journals, called enterprising because they are ambitious to serve up dirty scandals, they will be careful to see that the journals they permit to be read in the family circle are of the class that never forget the proprieties of life. Already men and women of refinement and healthy morals have had their attention called to the pernicious influence of bad literature, and have made commendable efforts to counteract the same by causing sound literature to be published and sold at popular prices. These efforts are working a silent but sure revolution. The best authors are more generally read to-day than at any previous time. The sickly, sentimental story paper and wild ranger and pirate story book are slowly yielding the field to worthier claimants. To the praise of the decent newspaper, it may be said tliat -where it lias a place in the family, and has been read for years by young and old, it has developed such a healthy tone and such a discriminating taste that the literature of the slums has no admirers. Fortunately, the number of such families is increasing in the land, and, as they increase, the journal that devotes itself to sickening revelations of immorality will be compelled to find its supporters solely among those classes that practice vice or crime, or are ambitious to learn to fellow such ways.— Boston Herald.

Why Gen. Grant is Honored.

I must here remark that my ignorance in regard to the European ovations so generously and properly given Gen. Grant lias induced me to believe that these ovations were to be participated iu, indirectly even, by the United States of America as regards to an ex-President. Not a bit of it. Indeed, the friends of the General here ignore the United States in this association altogether. No ovations, no honors from crowned and uncrowned dignitaries, go to ye, good people of America. It’s all a mistake to think so. The international favoring and flavoring is all mythical. It is entirely, solely, and singly personal and to Gen. Grant, “the Wellington of America,” that these ovations are given, and to him as a soldier, and not as an ex-President or a future one. The logic of this is incontrovertible. I am told that when the Prince of Wales addressed Gen. Grant, he said: “I welcome you to England, General, as the second—the American—Wellington.” That was a pretty speech for the gallant Prince to make, and he can put pretty phrases into the right place now and then. The boy King of Spain the other day was even more gushing. He said: “General and savior of your country, Spain is proud to greet you on her soil, for Spain is the country of warriors, and you are the greatest of our age! ” Good for the boy King! There is a grace about the Spanish language that even makes truth in simple sentences pale beside the very eloquence of fancy. Mucho palavera is a peculiarity of the Spaniards. —Cor.Cincinnati Enquirer.

His Trust in Providence.

“Whenl travel by rail,” said an eminent divine at an English station, the other day, “I select a first-class carriage in the middle of the train, I enter the middle compartment of that carriage, and I take the middle seat in that compartment, and I leave the rest to Providence.” “It strikes me he leaves precious little to Providence,” said an eminent descendant of Mr. Toodles, sotto voce, who was standing by.

A Problem Long Since Solved.

How to remedy those prolific causes of disease, an impoverished circulation aud an impaired digestion, was a problem the solution of which had often baffled medical skill, but which was solved over a quarter of a century ago by the introduction of Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters to public and professional notice.' Since that time, which may well be said to have initiated a new epoch in tho history of medicine, the remedy and preventive referred to has obtained a foothold in the confidence of the American people that each succeeding year has only served to strengthen. It is recognized throughout tho Union as a tonic of the first order, a remedy for and sure means of preventing fever and ague, and disorders of the stomach and bowels; as a reliable means of reforming a disordered state of the liver, and of counteracting a tendency to rheumatism, gout, urinary and uterine disorders.

Who Wrote It?

The question is, who wrote “ The Little Belle of Bloomingdale,” the realistic story of New York Revolutionary life now running in the Christian Union, of New York ? We are told it is by one of the most eminent of American writers, and that we have six months to guos3 it in. ’ To cleanse and whiten the teeth, to sweeten the breath, use Brown’s Camphorated Saponaceous Dentifrice. Twenty-five cents a bottle. Hon. C. R. Paksons, Mavor of Rochester, was radically cured of Bright’s Disease by Craig’s Kidney Cure. Depot, 42 University Place, nTx. Qhkw Jackson's Beet Sweet Navy Tobacco.

Stop Drinking Vinegar. How many young women who have inherited a predisposition to embonpoint have ruined their health by drinking vinegar to reduce their forms to graceful proportions. Allan’s AntiFat is absolutely harmless. It promotes digestion, and accomplishes its work simply by preventing an undue assimilation of the fatty ingredients of the food. Excessive fatness is a vexatious burden, and there is no longer any excuse for enduring it, since Allan’s Anti-Fat is an effectual remedy for tins abnormal condition. Colorado Springs, Colo., July 15,1878. Botanic Medicine Co., Buffalo, N. Y. : Gentlemen : I lost three pounds while taking one bottle of Allan's Anti-Fat Yours truly, Mrs. M. B. Myers. Pimples, Freckles, Etc. The most wonderful discovery yet known, Mrs. Dr. L. K Shaw’s Moth and Freckle Lotion. May be had of your druggist. Price only #I.OO. For particulars, address Mrs. Dr. L. K. Shaw, 140 East 28th street, New York Mrs. Shaw's Liver PilL Best in the world. God has given us medicine to cure ourselves when sick, but the knowledge of their combinations is a mystery to most of us. That dreaded of all diseases, Heart disease, has defied nearly all remedies, but we are happy to be able to inform you that in Dr. Graves’ HEART REGULATOR you have a certain cure. Thousands of bottles have been sold, and people are ready to testifv to its beneficial results. There are some really wonderful cases of recovery from what seemed immediate death, and they have gladly given these testimonials, hoping they might be the means of benefiting others. Among the many forms of Heart disease are Palpitation, Enlargement, Spasms of the Heart, Stoppage of the Action of the Heart, Trembling all over and about the Heart, Ossification or Bony Formation of the Heart, Rheumatism, General Debility and Sinking of the Spirits. Send.your name to F. E. Ingalls, Concord, N. H., for a pamphlet containing a list of testimonials of cures, etc. The HEART REGULATOR is for. sale by druggists at 50 cents and $1 per bottle. A speedy quietus is given to a hacking cough by that inestimable specific for pulmonary, tliroafc and bronchial complaints, Hall’s Balsam for the Lungs, which cures consumption, bronchitis, pneumonia, pleurisy,’ labored breathing and other disorders of the respiratory organs. When a cough manifests itself, tlje aarly use of this beneficent medicine is earnestly recommended, as the difficulty is more easily overcome in its incipient stage than later on. Bold by all Druggists. A gentleman afflicted with the chronic rheumatism says: “No description of mv caso can convey the vast amount of benefit I have received from the use of Johnson's Anodyne Liniment. I believe it is the best article in the world for rheumatism.” The season has arrived when everybody who own horses, cattle, sheep, hogs and fowl should begin to feed out hlheriddn's (Condition Powders. They all need to be braced up for winter. Get Sheridan’s. The large packs are worthless. Dealers will, of course, often recommend an organ as best because they have it to sell, or can make more on it. But it has been demonstrated at all world’s exhibitions for twelve years that those made by the Mason & Hamlin Organ Co. excel all others. For throat diseases and affections of the chest, “ Brown's Bronchial Troches " are of value. For Coughs, Irritation of the Throat caused by Cold or Unusual Exertion of the vocal organs, in speaking in public, or singing, they produce beneficial results. We confidently refer our readers to the card of Dr. C. R. Sykes, in our issue of last week. Dr. Sykes is an old resident of Chicago, a regular graduate, honest, honorable and responsible, and as a physician takes first rank in his chosen specialty of catarrh and its complications. Fob upward of 30 years Mrs. WINSLOW’S SOOTHING SYRUP h*as been used for children with never-failing success. It corrects acidity of the stomach, relieves wind colic, regulates the bowels, cures dysentery and diarrhea, whether arising from toothing or other causes. An old and well-tried remedy. 25 eta. a bottle. CHEW The Celebrated “Matchless” Wood Tag Plug Tobacco. The Pioneer Tobacco Company, New York, Boston and Chicago.

lIUPOHTANT NOTlCE.—Fanners, Famine, and Others can purchase no remedy equal to Dr. TOBIAS’ VENETIAN LINIMENT, for the cure of Cholera, Diarrhoea, Dysentery, Cronp, Oollc and Seasickness, taken internally (it Is periectly harmless; see oath accompanying each bottle) and externally for Chronic Rheumatism, Headache, Toothache. Sore Throat, Outs, Burns, Swellings,. Bruises, Mosquito Bites. Old Sores, Pains In Limbs, Back and Chest. The VENETIAN LINIMENT was introduced in 1847, and no one who has used it but continues to do so, many stating if it was Ten Dollars a Bottle they woiUd not be without It. Thousands of Certificates can be seen at the Depot, epee-king of its wonderful curative properties. Sold by the Druggists at 40 eta. Depot, 42 Murray street. New York.

THE MARKETS.

4 NEW YORK. Bkeves $7 00 @lO 00 Hogs 2 00 @3 30 Cotton ‘.*M@ 9}£ Flour—Superfine 3 40 @ 3 80 Wheat—No. 2 09 @ 1 00 Corn—Western Mixed 44 @ 47 >i Oats—Mixed 29 @ 31 ~ Rye—Western 07 @ 58 Pork—Mess 7 35 @ 7 50 Lard 6J4@ CHICAGO. Beeves—Choice Graded Steers 4 50 @ 5 00 Cows and Heifers 2 00 @ 3 00 Medium to Fair 350 @ 3 75 Hogs 1 75 @ 3 05 Flour—Fancy White Winter Ex.... 4 75 @ 5 00 Good to Choice Spring Ex.. 400 @4 60 Wheat—No. 2 Spring 83»4@ 84J£ No. 3 Spring ... 71* Corn—No. 2 31 @ 32 Oats—No. 2 20 @ 21 I Rye—No. 2 44 @ 45 Barley—No. 2 <O7 @ 98 Butter—Clioice Creamery 20 @ 20 Eggs—Fresh 18 @ 20 Pork—Mess 6 75 @ 8 00 Lard 5 34® 6 MILWAUKEE. Wheat—Nh. 1 ~... 86!£@ 04 U T?- JNo.3 83 @ 84 Corn—No. 2 31 @ 32 Oats—No. 2 20 @ 21 Rye—No. 1 43 @ 44 Barley—No. 2 84 @ 85 ST. LOUIS. Wheat—No. 2 Red Fall 88 @ 80 Oats—No. 2 10 20 Rye 42 @ 43 Pork—Mess 7 87’6@ 8 00 Lard CINCINNATI. Wheat—Red 88 @ 96 Cokn 32 @ ‘33 Oats 22 @ 25 Pork—Mess : 8 00 @ 8 10 Lard 5%@ 7 TOLEDO. Wheat—No. 1 White 08 @ 09 No. 2 Red 96 @ #7 Corn 32 @ 37 Oats—No. 2 23 @ 24 DETROIT. Flour—White 4 40 @ 4 75 Wheat—No. 1 White 9<i @ 97 No. 1 Amber 93 @ 94 Corn—No. 1 38 @ 39 Oats—Mixed 24 @ 20 Barley (per cental) 1 00 @ 1 75 Pork—Mess 8 60 @ 9 00 EAST LIBERTY, PA. Cattle—Best 4 50 @ 4 62 Fair 3 30 @3 40 Common 3 00 @ 3 25 Hogs 2 00 @ 3 00 Sheep- 3 00 @ 4 25

■gnrffWi Warranted a PERFECT CURE, (or fatluTM money returned) all irnr.it ula. Rheumatism, Salt Rheum, Catarrh, Kidney Diseases, tm<l all ilisecues of and < BLOOD. rJfeSw&zS Rj lUontrenl and Boston. * J 9«; Sold TRUTH IS MIGHTY I " AddTmf.“mAßTll flu. Booton, Mow. Tku mo kmmomg I > joy to many mothe«. to W^JOLUiCH o A >^,'ts?foiYe t TOry la bel. Take no other. the tTmperance reform AND ITS GREAT REFORMERS. _ The latest, Jrenflr.lt anil most complete work on the Great Temperance Movement now sweeping over the country. Francis Murphy, Dr. Reynolds, and all Ibe great temperance workeis of the country, indorse it. AgentM YV anted Everywhere. Address for extra terms. NELSON A PHILLIPS. BUS Broadway. N Y TE AC I 1 f The very best goods H jQBH n direct from the Ini--1 “porters at Half tho usual cost. Best plan ever offered to Club Agents and large buyers ALL EXPRESS CHARGES RAID. New terms FREE. Tie Great American Tea Company, P.O 5 80x4«35? V ** < ‘ y StreCt * Xew York - SfVTtTflllfl I s not a new compound Ull V HIST’S KEMI'UY ll 11 In I i\ has been before the public llUifl A L 9 thirty years, and used by all classes, with and without the DUMVnV ■■ IVI I" 11 W has saved from linserinKclisBit 11 If I 1181 1 ease and death hundreds of ™ well-known citizens. IJTTXT’S B£M£BY cures Dropsy, Gravel and all Diseases of the Kidneys. Bladder and Urinary Organs. Sent) for pamphlet to wm, e, Clark, Providence, r, i.

Tbißest AgrinMFiiD TO HELP A FARMER MAKE MONEY BY FARMINB IS, BEYOND ALL DOUBT, The Country Gentleman, Which has a larger circulation than any other paper of its class in the world. See what Prominent Journals say i The bepresentative paper of American Agriculture.—Salem {Mast.) Trade Bulletin.. Has attained its position on the ground of real merit. —Cincinnati Price Current. Every number worth more thin the year’s subscription.—Varlinville {III.) Democrat. Certainly stands at the head of the aqbicultuJ R'AL PRESS.— Patron's Helper. One that we guarantee to pay the biggest profit to all subscribers. —Mil ford (Del.) Advert ser. Universally conceded the best AGRICULTURAL paper in U. S.— Johnslo'.cn Independent. None can read it without interest and profit.— Attv kapa* (La.) Cotton Bill. fflike it one year, and you will never go without it 1 alter wards. —Small Fruit Recorder. Replete with short, pithy items relating to rural interests.— Washington (D. C.) Republican. You want a first-class paper? Subscribe for The Country Gentleman. —Schoharie Union. Gives experience of successful farmers in all parts of * the country.— A etc Bedford Stand ird. with ability; best corps of correspondents within our knowle lge. —Concord People. No other piper of the kind shows such enterprise and liberality.— Painesville (O ) Telegraph. Tldhe chosen vehicle of the writing of the very best 1 farmers in the country.— Vt Watchman. Leading journal of its class, a safe adviser and steadfast friend.— Babylon (N. V.) Signal. Emphatically a LIVE PAPER.— Chester County (Pennsylvania) Times. Matter and stylo always acceptable to the cultivated rural home. —Leesburg ( Va.) Washingtonian. Asa Farm Journal, it has no superior in this country. J\_ — St. Paris (O.) litre Era. ~\fo farmer can well afford to be without it.— Greeley Sixteen large pages weekly; illustrated; specimen number free. Terms—s3,so per annum; five copies, SIO ; eleven copies, *B*2o, and & 30-cent premium annual (144 pages, 135 beautiful engravings), free to every subscriber . LVTIIER TUCKER «fc HO X, Publishers, Alba ny, X. AT

XMAS “WONDER BOX,” Sttis Paper, 12 Envelopes, 3 Sheets Colored Paper, 1 Lend Pencil, 3 Pens, 1 Text, 12 Comic Cards, 40 Silhouettes, 36 Mottoes, 85 Patterns for Fancy Work, 112 Decalcomanie, 131 Embossed Pictures, 50 Fancy Ornaments, 1 Penholder, 2 Book Marks, 6 Black Tablets, 5 Picture Cards, 30 Scrap-Book Pictures, 1 Xmas Banner, 1 Game Age Card 3, 2 Xmas Cards, 1 Toy Parasol. Price, 42 cts. : by mail. 53 cts. Retail value, $1.45. Postage stamps taken. J. JAY GOULD, lO Bromfield st., Boston, Mass.

Thr (ireat Family Weekly, THE CHRISTIAN UNION. LW3S An Unsectarian, Independent Journal Devoted to Religion, Morals, Reform, News, Literature, Household Matters, Agriculture, «tc #3 per uniiu:!!, postJige prepaid. A large cash commission paid to agents. Send 3-cent stamp for sample copy. Address THK CHRISTIAN UNION, 27 Park Place. N, Y.

A ANDERSON & CO., V MASONIC PUBLISHERS, Reade Street, New York. ' V AGENTS WANTED. Illustrated History and Cyclopedia of Freemasonry, 700 pages, 300 Illustrations, halt-Morocco, price $4.<K). The Masonic Token, Illustrated, full-gilt binding, $2.50. True Masonic Chart. A universal Ahiman Rezon. Fully Illustrated, clotii, gilt, $1 50. Sold by subscription only. Sample copies sent to agents on receipt of the price. For terras, catalogues, Ac., address AXJDJEKSO.V A CO., Masonic Publisher*, 8 Reade St, New York.

THE NEW YORK SUN. DAILY. 4 pages. 55 cts. a month; §0.50 a year. SUNDAY. Bpages. sl.2t)ayear. IV K Eli I. V. 8 pages. $ I a year. •THE SUN has the largest circulation and is the cheapest and most interesting paper in the United States. TII K WEEKLY SUN is emphatically the peo pie’s family paper. I. W. ENGLAND, Publisher, N. Y. City. F CURED FREE ! An infallible and unexcelled remedy for Fits, Epilepsy or Fulling Sickness \v n framed to effect a speedy and ■ RPA PUItJIANENT cure. 1 ■ SB ‘"A free bottle” of my H V, renowned Specific and a valuable Treatise sent to 3 ©Jw any sufferer sending mo his ■ ■ Pustoftice and Express address. Da. H. Q. ROOT, 183 Pearl Street, New York. For Beaut, ..f I’.li.h. SnviuK Labor. Clean. liness. Durability & Cheapness, Uncqualed. MOUSE PROM., Prop’rs, Canton, Mass, fH£ ALLEN’S great LUNSBALSAM REMEDY Uold*, Consumption. Asthma, Bronchi tin, and all rnn Throat and Lung Afreet lon*, run Indorsed by the Press and Physicians. Taken by thouCURING JB3-SOLD EVERYWHERE.-®*

THE SMITH OHGIH CO. First Established ! Most Successful! THEIR INSTRUMENTS have a standard value in all the LEADING MARKETS OF THE WORLD! Everywhere recognized as tho FINEST IN TONE. OVER 80, 000 Made and In nse. New Designs constantly. Beet work and lowest prices. Send for a Catalogue. Ittaoni St, 1 opp, Waltham St,, Bostea. Mia, FRANK LESLIE’S CHIMNEY CORNER Occupies a field that no other journal attempts to fill. It is essentially a paper for families. Avoiding all politics and questions of the day, it devotes its columns to healthy fiction for the entertainment of its readers, and well-writ-ten, agreeably-instructive articles for the home circle, biographies of the good and great, anecdotes, art, invention, travels, curiosities of foreign life, the tastes of the day, the marvelous in nature and art. essays, attractive reading for the little ones at their mother’s knee and for those of larger growth, combined with pictures that attract the eye and fix impressions vividly on the mind. It is issued every Monday, and can be had at all news depots; price 10 cents. Annual subscription, $4. Three months, sl. Postpaid. Biihscrlltcrs can remit direct, by P. O. Order, Drafts on New York, or Registered Letter, at our risk. Those who find it more convenient to subscribe through an agent can do xo at their own risk, but should first assure themselves of the agent’s responsibility. Address Frank Leslie’s Publishing House, 53, 55 & 57 Park Place, New York.

Holiday Mcßooks! CHRISTMAS CAROLS. &"i h ”“X*; Christmas Music. We recommend: Drßsster’n Chimes (20 cts.), 20 beautiful and easy Anthems, or Howard’s Ten C’.irol* (20 cts.), or Howard’* file vest nv.iH C irols (20 cts.). or C'hrl*tin:i« Volet*** (15 cts.), 15 Carols by Waterbury; or Ohrlfttmu* S ■l iC*Ub!is ($4 per hundred), containing Live ch » : ct pec *s. A vduabte book is Cardiff, Old and New (4) cts.), also, luo cthor Sin-git Carols (5 to 10 cts.». Pjriviwish nffiarimr t f ßl*2s). by L. o. Emerson, 'Jiili-.GII uuarmg has 6 Christmas Anthems and also a complete set of Anthems and Chants for all the Festivals and Services of the year. A tine hoik Noel. By s^ vaA SSbSrffkA m Chr, ’*““ The School Song Book Everest, is an excellent bonk for Girls’ High or Normal Schools, or lor Seminaries. Good instructions and very good music. Enliven yonr fingers for Christmas playing by practicing M.ISD.VM PIANOFORTE TECHNICS ($2.5j), the best Finger Gymnasium known Any book mailed, post-free, for the above prices. OLIVER DITSON & CO., Boston. C. 11. Dltsou & Co., J. E. Dltsou & Co., tmOroadwoy.N.Y. 085 J Chestnuts*., PUl*.

YOUNG MENe^£3?m?l ■ month-Smsll salary while learning. Situation ftp* nlshed--Address R.Valentlne.Mannger,Janesvllta,WlA Unrivalled in Appearance. Unparalleled in Simplicity. Unsurpassed in Construction. Unprecedented in Durability. Unexcelled in Economy of Fuel Undisputed in tie BROAD CLAIM ol being Hi VEEY BEST OPERATING, QUICKEST SELLING, HANDSOMEST AND iraramm Ever offered to the public. MADE ONLY BY EXCELSIOR MANUFACTURING CO. Nos. 612, 614., (16 & CIS N. Main St., ST. LOUIS, MO.

MASON & HAMLIN CABINET ORGANS Demrmdrattd best by HIGHBST HONORS AT ALI WORLD’S EXPOSITIONS FOR TWELVE YEARS, viz.: At Paris, 1667: Vienna, 1873; Santiago, 1876 Philadelphia, 1876 { Paris, 1878; and Grand Swedise Gold Medal, 1878. Only American Organs ever award ed highest honor* at any owh. Sold for eaeh or Install ments. Illustrated Catalogues and Circulars, wit! new styles and iirices.iient free. MASON A HAMLIN ORGAN CO.. BOSTbN, NEW YORK, or CHICAGO A SBtf A ■ ARA A all KB M a il . BAH H sk the sham offers pre |R AB VBH 0 sen tod to Agents. fiSsß lOg ELk H B IS b! there is y tan open m m ing for everybody t? make money honorably and easily. Inexperience) hands make little fortunes in leisure hours. Toaobers are doubling their salaties. Boys and girls are making men’s wages. Onr Agents can over look customer! straight in the face, for our very life depends on keop ing faitth. No charge for outfit, and no experience needed Winn our terms are known there is a 6cr m ble tor agencies, so this will appear only once A p sta card secures ail pirticular*. Family Herald Pub‘♦sfiimj Oo . Box 1513. Boston, Mass. MOLLER’SgfCOD-LiVER Oil is™* tr Is perfectly pure. Pronounced the best by the highest medical authorities in the ■world. Given highest award at 12 World’s Expositions, and at Paris, 1878. Sold by Druggists. \V. 11. ScliieUelin & Co.. N.Y. BOSTON TRANSCRIPT Daily and Weekly, Quarto, BOSTON, MASS. The Largest, Cheapest and Best Family Newspaper li New England. Edit* d with special reference to th< varied tastes and requirements of the home circle. A3' the foreign and local news published promptly. Daily Transcript, $lO per annum in adva T ce. Weekly “ $2 “ “ “ “ ** M (5 copies to one address, s7*so pei annum in advance. __SElsrr> FOR SAMPI/3 COPY.

*r-4 LIST OF DISEASES ALWAYS CURABLE BY USING MEXICAN MUSTANG LINIMENT. OF HUMAN FLESH. OF ANIMALS. Rheumatism, Scratches, Burns and Scalds, Sores and Galls. Stings and Bites, Spavin, Cracks, Cuts and Bruises, Ringbone, Sprains A Stitches, Worm, Grub, Contracted Muscles, Foot Rot, Roof Ail, Stiff Joints, Hollow Horn, Backache, lamenjM, Old Ulcers,! Swlnny, Founders, Gangrenous Sores, Farcy, Poll Kvil, Neuralgia, Gout, Sprains, Strains, Eruptions, String Halt, Frost Bites, Sore Feet, Hip Disease, Stiffness, and all external diseases, and every hurt or accident For gensral use in family, stable and stock yard it ia THE BEST OF ALL LINIMENTS

Nb!2H? RY JIWTLEBOR.O,Yt THE LICHT-RUNNINC NEW HOME Is the Best, Lntest Improved, and most Thor> ouglily Constructed SEWING MACHINE Ever invented. It is NOISELESS*, and has more POINTS of EXCEL. LEN'CE than all other Machines combined. f3f~ AGENTS WANTED in localities where wc are not represented. JOHNSON, CLARK & CO., 30 Union Square, New York. Orange, Mans., Pittnlnivgli, Fa., Chicago, III.. St. Louis. JMo.

1878 IMday Greeting! 1878

BEATTY SIOOO PiANO FOR $203 .(osowood Case, new and valuable improvements,elegantly finisho 1. Three String.. Weight, when boxed, over I,W>O lbs. Siren one-third (. 1-3) octave, lull agraffe scale, rosev»l case, all round come-s, be .utiCul cai-ved legs anil lyre, heavy serpentina and top mouldings all around the case, b.icklbiUnod a;une as front. Ailimprovements with Beatty’s very latest full iron frames, bars and extra braces, improved new scale, overstrung bass. French grand action, fret desk, carved pedal, solid rosewood mouldings, ivory hey fronts, capped hammers, agraffe trebleand every Im-P’-ivemsnt which cun in any way tend to the perfection < l tho instrument has been added. This instrument is a nasTuflccnt Pianofoitx. Koguiar Retail Price asked by the MonopoLtj about SIOOO I will soil Ph l— ‘-n-nent direct w4a r « r—rm Curing- the IiC.LUV ii, for only kYi No such offers r r. t ‘ kwo weroever made before,bntlmow-1 tnffjjiat.theirin.vuonv.-iilrepay me on future sales, I offer them to readers < r this paper at these prices during (no Holidays. Order direct from this advertisement; I which will not appear again, and no further reductions ‘ can IK! made. Having met with unparalleled success v.-ith:n: 110 paftyear and extended my sales over the world by rn c:."tended tour through i he Continent of Europe. I have returned determined that r.o town cr village In my native count--,- shall bo unrepresented by my instruments, eiul c--i energies, aided with ampin capital, will uj exerted to cccompliah this <*jec(. henco tho above offers, that can not bo made by any other responsible house in America or tho '■Grid. Don’t iniift 1 hose very valuable off era. Order now.

A lino two Ret of reed 'BOO Organ, new and as good as tho best of this canocity, for only B 6& Solenoid e-un to eua Organs, 095, *lO5 .and *l5O. Bub-Bn*s and Octave Coupler, *BSO to s4ooj Organs, dlfoVnd nino tu-) Organa. More and better styles of case and sweeter toned instruments than can be boughtof snv SXim llsvo. ne-v and nerfeet, rosewood outside and in, usual price *650, for onlv 8150. Grand Bouaro and ITnrlodvt Pi° nos from 8175 to 5275, usually sold at from *7OO to *I,OOO. All instruments shipped on st» I B?d£sVtS.tffinl ’ uefunoedand freight paid both ways if unsatisfactory to the buyer. Warrairted six ycaraT Moro*iimmlieited testiirorials rc w on file than any manufacturer in the world. - In ordering, state where advertWment: Large Newspaper, containing much information in regard to cost of Pianos snd Organs. IVeZ Bewaro of Irre-

Clap Bnsiaess Directory, KOFARLAHD A 00..8 Union Stock Tarda Bxahaor produce Commission. 8.0. BARQBART, OenL Commission. 217 So. Water 84 W.H. WILLIAMS * 00.. Bnttar * Flah. 18S So. Water Bt Alt!) Winters, boy Blank Cards from Johnston A Go., Card M’f’ra, Harriaburr. Pa. Send for list. g UiKAP t*liNS. lllnatrated iTMiTAd. Li dteaa Great Western Gun Works, Pitta burs, Pa. TVTE W and BMutiful.-Photograph Cards with Name. IT Samples Bc. Send picture to H. PxBRT, Naaaan, N.Y. A GENTS WANTED—For the beat and fastest-sell-s 4!i p, iSSS. ,^iTiffiSAi. B !SiB p ss; ffisi” SOMETHING NEW for AGENTS;;"^ wanted in every village. Address Box TSB. New T <vk rminw habit & SKIN disease * I B-r 111 H| Thousmuiscured. l.ewestPrices. Djnot i/1 /Dlßfoil to write. Dr.F.E. itarsh.Ciuincv.Mich. 1 drew P. o. ViOKEKY, AnamaU. IAC Hoar* Mndcnl Inrtractloa ftil £ 125 Haii.Bo»ton d tjliO, ATT who wltJl to ukv *P worth SIO.OO jvr »cr», ran <to *o, nnd well at that price. St*n«l SI.OO Tor CliruAnt, Jrc. P. Ijitthrop Bniith, Pnrvovor, T’tak Tv. /hft Pft A MONTH-AGENTS WANTED-36 BEST tk {fill selling articles in the world; one sample V fert. Address Jay Bronson. Detroit. Mich PAY—With Stencil Outfits. What-coats 4 Iff IC ota. sella rapidly for SO cts. CataloKne Jin. 3*163 S. M. BPENCEB. 113 Weh’n St.. Boston, Mass. djl fl tn (Mnnn luveated in Wall Bt. Stocks make* pIU lu tPIUUU fortunes every month. Book sent _ free explaining everything. Address BAXTF.R A CO., lfanken," 17 Wall St., N.Y. SfJJj a lin* $135 to S4oo—fictcry prices—alEM MS U highest honors—Mathusliek’s scale » inilw %w for squares—finest uprights in \merfca—over 12,000 in use—regularly incorporator’ Mfg. to.—Pianos sent on trial—lß-nagu Catai.ooue fhek. IiENDKI.seOBN Piano Co., 2 1 K. 15th Street. N.Y. AWNINGS! TENTS! Waterproof Covers. Signs, Window Shades, to. >1 unit AY & BAKER, tOO South Drsplnlncs St,. Chicqgo. iy Henil for Illustrated Prfoe I.iet Andrews* Slate Drawing Book 260 Illustrations, with definitions; Progressive: for Home and School. Price, single. 15 c's.: $1.50 per doz., sent by mail. JTuat out for Ifioliduya!! Globes. Blackboards, Erasers, Crayons, ( harts. Outline Maps, the celebrated Triumph School Desk, Noiseless Slates, and Kindergarten Material. Alio ManufACtnrpTA of Qtp e snd Church Furniture. '^A II (I re n s & Co. Chicago. N T EWSrAPEKS jf MAGAZINES it club rates. Time, trouble and expense saved by sub. icribing through the Rocky Mountain Subscription Agency, which furnishes any paper (exoept local) pub'lsliod in the Jnited States. Musical Instruments, Sewing Machines of all kinds Chromos Frames Sewing Maclime Needles and Attachments at reduoed prices. I will also furnish Books of all kinds at lowest prices. Rocky Mountain Stereoscopic Views i specialty. Don't fall to write at once for our circulars. Agents can make big money. Address JAMKS TORRENS. Evans, Colo. WASHES BRO’S CORSETS' lIIIJtmS&t received the Hlfflu’Kt Medftlat thererent PARIS EXPOSITION, 'iti W&XSr t> vp r h! 1 Americen competltorH. Thoii IFLEXIBLE HIP CORSET tl2o Boues) fits with perfect ease, and Is wabmW 11/ j IllihWL ranted not to break down over the hi pa Thelr HKALTH CORBET with its Imjf '3 I; j I proved Bust.lsnow a croater favorite fill I /Ij ever. Their NTTRSINU COK6EI la \l 111 I the delight of every mother. Alii 111 111 IJr For sale by all leading merebat-ia. WARNER BROS,, 351 Broadway, N.Y, P AGENTS WANTED FOR THE ICTORIAL HISTORY of hi WORLD It contains 072 fine historical engravings and 1280 iarge double-column pages, and is the most complete History of the World ever published. It sells at sight, send for specimen pages and extra terms t r Agents. Address NATIONAL PUBLISHING CO., Chicago, 11L UCOES3FUL FOLKS. Malkw Hale Mil’s new loot. 1,000 Prominent persons—men and women unalyzed. Steel iNfrlrnlln ot* A. X. STEWART, Z&WI&WVbi sensation of the season. Now is tile time for AT Qto secure territory. Aildro-B, for HDCH I O agency, circulars and torms, AMUKKA.V PiULISiIIMi CO., Chlc:<K<>, 111. The Antidote to Aieohol Found at Last. THE FATHER MATHEW REMEDY is a certain and speedy cure for intemperance. It do.troys all appetite for alcoholic liquors and builds up the lervoussystem. After a debouch, or any intern, iterate indulgence, a single teaispooiifiil will remove till me.-itul mid pliyaienldepression. ,'t also ofirr.s every kind of Fkver, Pybpepbia and Ton’tDITY OF THF. LlvEB. Sold liy all druggists, (flpor iloitio. Pcnphl.t ..n “ Alcohol. Its Effects on the Hunan Body, and Intemperance as a msease," sent lice. FATHER MATIIIOW TEMPEUANOK AND MANUFACTURING CO., 3i» Bond Kt., New York. la the Old Reliable Concentrated Lye FOR FAMILY SOAP-MAKING, Directions accompanying each can for making Hard, ■ioft and Toilet Soap QUiC iv i , Y . IT IS tCJLL WKIOHT A.VI) STRENGTH. 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BEATTY2SSAH^?f®Dm?S'rri^i^l |(X Dulc-Jkna, W («) Vox Hum*na; (7) Principal; (8) S Hauttmy; <9) Diapason; (10' Dulcet; (lij Grand Organ; (Iff A ITincinat Forte; (WFlute. FlyeJß> Octaves. French VeAnoered Panel Cases, highly finished, and a beautiful neat Jdsnlgn. Upright Bellows. Solid Walnut Case. Beatty s 11 mproved Knee Swell, and Beatty’s New Excelsior Crancl ! Organ Knee Swell. The mechanism, design andmueio In this Organ renders it tho most desirable ever before man- ■ r.faetured or the parlor. Golden Tongue Reeds. Regulrr jßeifiU l’rre n.akedby thoMcnopoUatoabotit 887 5 1 1 will sell tnU Instrument direct .1. s-v w 9 j during the HOLIDAY B. for oblt