Indiana American, Volume 8, Number 16, Brookville, Franklin County, 16 April 1869 — Page 1
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FLBI.lsHED BVERT FRIDAY BT , u . D I N G II A M Proprietor.
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TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: $2,50 PER YEAR, ik ABvxsct. $3 00 " " IT SOT PAID IK ADVANCE. So postage on papers delivered within thia Comity. THE TREASURY. Report of the Committee on Retrenchment-Startling Revelation of Irregu larities. Washington, April -4.
T'ue Joint Congressional Committee on j
THE UNION, THE CONSTITUTION, AND THE ENFOH C EME NT OFT HE L A W S .
VOL. 8, NO. 1G.
Eetrenchuient and Reform in obedieuce j carelessness and want of accuracy which Tlx te the concurrent resolution of Congress, J renders it impossible in many cases to dupiit M-pd in March, lSli?, for investigation j trace out errors or decide whether actual 18G2,
'.' . i. .i- 1,,...! o.i.l nihor fraud has been cniiimitlnit
if the nioue oi puming uwi i - - -- spc-irities of the Government in the Treas- , they say, that although a sys
rERMSOFAOVEUTt SING. : zKAseixHT,- ,ib'ii (o. 0 qi!rr, (19 i0,) one lnerUoa ft On nquaj-e, to TjertToas. -......... r One qurotthferaMrtioii...,.... ...... X M All (abaci-act iasortion! prijirt........ MYEARLY, One oclumnhaoiceWSrltrjjJT J7S Thr quant r of cblums ..7T." ST Una-half uf m,)aoiik Z
rG-,aitf f aoiaata ,,.,,.,.rf....,... SM
Une-eifihth of a eolomn 11 M Traneient advertisement aaa.lil In all ail paid for ia tdinw. ... .-v. ruler, a particular Uw la riw4 1m ft!d is, dvcrlicrtnvntt wM H nsi-MtaS MtU
, dertjoat and chained acoyrdlnglj.
j men in Kansas went there pennilesss, or e onlirm i'ion. and evaded flic record by b- ' with a few hundred dollars capital, and tbiitiir themselves or Pairins- off Still
to-day their wealth is much more than the enough moo of uerve were found to take?
d pw-t the resolution
e the result of this
manY 'Ottl- ! tp Hints trt lUKprihv run- c-lorinii vonn.r Uur IriCJld SaVS there 13 80me OOd land bPtluIi HI hi.l-...i, tt.rnn.'linnt tti.
een the case intone instance already re- ers. 1 he result is, that while we can't j State, Kansas; r, in oiher words, the sup- ' Ivausns, but somejoue has a title to it. j South. Common i .l fered to of the 7 30 notes of 18GI. find that the Persons in chief charge havelriior urlvuntnop li,,r,n hs vr Kunsm The greatest part of the land remains in . .
e committee state in respect to the been guilty cf any crime or intentional I vow be it know a that this Mr. J M. ! the possession of the Federal Government, j Not a Bud idea.
ication of ti e third series of 5 20s of wrong toward the Government, there has n knnwa !... Jitil t....re hot.t. Ku... ! w,,un er8 oe hundred and sixty seres i:.ll.,k,. i.,r.. ..1 l :.. .i..i.-
not prec with Mr. been inexcusable neglect and carelessness, lhan a yorw ian doe, ,8 i wUl 8,w. pratuitoosly t eh nd erjr aduU male ; recently, that General Gratrt had intim.
1 ROOK VILI.K, IND., FRIDAY, APRIL 16, 1S6.C
WHOLE NO. 381.
In respect to the balance of securities of these duplicates have probably occurred The committee have inspected the operastanding in the various tables as on hand, in is-:ues of securities from what are called tions of the bureau as thoroughly as posi. the committee find them to be on hand as "stock packages" and they are being num. ble, and have examied many witnesses re
statea. The committee proceed to discuss at length the manner in which the business of priuting, numbering and issuing securities was carried on. fcbowinjr gross
, From the North Western Farmer. ABOUT KANSAS.
In the March number of your paper is
bered separately on each occasiou, may i lative to it whose testimony irr returned communication which purports to be from people . ! of the liastem States at the tame , tU M'souM bJi t v tftd have had numbers already in use impress-! herewith, and they have also infoimally j the pen of a Mr. J. M. C, in which he at- of setileuieut. , 'rFuough. Vfe believe ed oa them. This appears, in fact, to have ; conferred with and examined many oth- j tempts to describe our glorious youiii:! Our friond says there is some pood land Jactiun nill be wholrs.
that they do
urv Department, and alleged irregularities ceipts a transmission of securities was es- duced and frauds, has reported through Senator ' tablishcd. yet the receipts were loosely plate be Edronds that a sub committee, composed given, often on slips of paper, and the b't.te tl
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It appears, Clark, Superintendent or the mating ' t mcrnous ana operauonsot tnc ; le gasa ,hat on the 23J 0f las-, Septeti beT, Sur unmarnea or "ca 01 a l.n.- tetl Lis inU.nUoll of Ucit hc Iud;a0! tern of re Bureau, that they are fraudulent and pro- ', bureau, which iurnish abundant opportu- h t.i K' n,,.t .nPr IV,r u?) wh" W1'l enrr nd occupy the ,,ndr it... ,nnirl ,. f ...i..
by an impres.-iou from a genuine ' nities and tempations to fraud, and even ; tr,vej anded in Kausas
before it come to the Treasury. They , vy too persons connected wun it. now
e reasons, which satiB'v them, that 11 'ur, out remains fj le determined
of himself, Senator Buckalew aud llcpre- clerks in the various bureaus never or sol- they were printed in the department, and when the loans are withdrawn, but as to ent-tive lialsey, devoted all the time pos ! d"1" compared their accounts to ascertain state, as a singular fact, that while there ia ,ile fractional currency, parieu'rty; if any !ihC to the extensive, complicated and j whether errors or discrepancies acfually 110 duplicate of bouds of ihat is--ue which, . fraud has occurred it can never - be aseer
imrortaut itniuiries iuvolved in the iu- existed, or to trace them out if discovered. , to peifect them, would require forgery , and tamed troui redemption unless the frauds
- . . . ... . v v v.? . i v. ii a ii iii i . 1 1 1 1 i v, iuutiiuic .is a nu ui iil I i niinifim ill
or siimeurse 1 u
October he landed there. Now, this would
eluding a deed at the
have been enormous in amount.
h h..lnS,,R ...IvirP that 1 t., h.'s : renuircu nve years occup,. ncy, i out eigh
remaining Hminier tri.,ds. i from Coles tcen ioUt.rs, being office fees and Cost of
county, 111.
be gives must have been written ton.etiuie during the winter. Now, it took him
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Under the circumstances they say ex- j 8d delivery of securities, when there were ditftreut bureaus have been piesented, but I
ictio" at the commencement ot the busi- ay, were so kept as to make such a cr:t- duplicate ne-; rit was to be expected that more or j icistu and comparison almost impossible. when the
;rfJ.Tiiliritv and even fraud and ree- 1 e want ot proper accounts led in s. me hecu ltresBiited and paid. There have ana also at me lreasury, a
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ulauou would exist, this possibility or , oi ine oureaus, ana particularly in the , oven, However, no over-redemptions ot u tngimtu iimcs uwa 10 primprobability of other looseness and want of Register's office, to other evils. " A lead-; any of the t-ecurties, and the semi annual ing the older issues of securities of the L,.i....rv ua realized, but it is believed ! ig one will be mentioned. It was tie pa vments of interest have fallen consider- ! various kinds, which are now uo longer
.5..- f.t..:ri l.i.-ses have occurred in couise of practice in printinvt and trans- ! abiv below the amounts shown bv the fee Jed, and which the committee believe!
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Mime limp In ni:ikt- the innriipv luick So
ie committee wish to call attention to v Knnk;Kl ....... ;n i,,t l.i-
scjouiu iu Kansas was brief spent none i of the season of the year there, and consequently was Hot capable of imparting that" ! instruction or advice iu regard to tl.'e tState I that it deserves. I hope i.o one will fail ;
to see the point of niv 'remark, vix , that
i which aie complete fo the fact that there are in possession of he rriiiting Bureau, have : the IJank Note Company at New York,
and paid. There have and also at the lreasury, a considerable
:i ri v hup t p iti a-i h 1 r.tr in u f:i?p tnp i-noth
. - 711 .- ...ti....vcA...... ...ia.vfti. ., ... . - a-. . ...... 1 ,..1.. .A 1 - .1 1 nni) nr rn nu unnn m r nu i n . n.iuii-nran . . ... . .. ...
conoi'ieuee, a:td It is possiuie, aua in ; rcunnca iu uai iui, uuiu imui . ic-uc utois iu ue aciuany ofi tne regular ".- - ... .. ... ot ,,je our f,,e, j j. u. ciid call possloiiie cases probable, many of the disc-rep- ; the Bank Note Company, and for a while ; outMauding debt. It would seem probable order to obviate all possibility of any iui- I yy have but a iimited knowledge id hat aneies reported are entirely innoceut ones, by the Treasury Bureau, to transmit with j if there were auy considerable amount of proper use of disposition ot the sa:ne. j js eve visible to the eye. Be ft. re I am
ansin" In.iii irregularity in method rather each i,uuu impressions a quality, usually I Iraudulent coupous in existence, the pay- comuiiuce are not aware inat any i through I mean
than from any positive fraud. 'Ibe ng 1", extra impressions not uuuibered, and u.ents ot interests would have come much grtizrHe of all the public securities credit , intended to be used to supply those of the i uearer the full sum. ed since ISOO to the date of the passage tegular uumbered class which, from lime The committee arc satisfied that methods of the ro.-olution, amounted to over eigh- to time, might be eiroueously tilled up or j f numbering, &c, the securities of the teen and a quaiter billions of dollars, accidentally defaced. These extra itu-j United States ought to be adopted which.
Tin' i on iiiittee iro into a detailed statement pu ssions were cauea "siock pacKane, and ; win approacu the nearest to bein-j; abso-
fl-ient issues of loaus, and bud whenever tneie was occasion, in tlie course
i , ...i lict vi i'imi ihpiiiim. of business. te use one of them, the oce
of
lutely secure against error and fraud, they claim to be the owners of some of
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Ii-r i t i.Mtids printed and issued, on mere imiiaueu, 01 sasu iu ue iu pa'reu Tiou.u i e expensive man otners Having less guaran- " "
i-s-.i. -. t ut not id any ureat aiisount, and
tr. ..lii.nr tli 1.111:1 It. r
.cK.a...vu .ui 'iwa. ; vantaues and rare inducements Kansas
out suppose .ue euu can oe accomp.isnea ,iolds put t0 ,he ,or U)a over idl.iria. i
Treasury, i naMnueh as the liaiik Note j . 1
ompauy nave expiessea tncir enti re '
a
expratton of the I )e WB8 OIDosed ... flipm r, A.
lg - - - ewaKM Ihe laovis of the Unite 1 tUtc3 aod giving
r . . ... . . i " - 'wiv-, aawai luiuirtLU
This description and advice 2nuid the liou.fM.'aJ settler fndiana treaties or auy other way.
v.,,,.c . iuv. . .up in ( Though a i.oxel way of disposing of tho order that h may sell or othc wise dispose red tkins, we are by no means sure but it of it, le oh., read.ly do so under the .pro- . WottItf pruVe a Jeaeible and succaaaful v .s.ons of the eighth seciu . f the J OI.e. TLat t.c reJ ;eu Lave thus far tecu -llotmstcad Act. On ji,. to the imjl0sed upU aud illy treated by Dot,;. Government? ailJ injividuaU ig eJerUill. with all its buildiuus and other m.p.e.vc-j p roiIS ,ime immemorial ihev bare beenwen'9 ,hcrew' r ' "t f Cogre, J ,iwiM,d W.iusl than .j, WhUmade exempt from se.zure r sale, f.,r any !thev have b,,. i.v!mu-.n. M-.r-.
.'i nu uriii s rim 1 1 uiMfii pinr in tin; txpir ation of the five years' occupancy reij .ired by the Home stead act. There are plenty of opportunisms vet for poor men to secure ihe-e cbcsp lands, and by their industry and deep! t the country become lich. No mu is ti o poor to tret a foothold in Kana. The
deem it uniust for anv one to misrepresent """ devdoing with ticoie Li e .-, 3, d
the claims of any "State. Indiana is a wliUl1 ractc d auy ol the older
li: : (.1 tliciu are saii'iaiiuinj auuuiiau f.'. .N'iiii teen bond cf the Oregon war loan, an . in.:it!g to 7,l.",0, supposed to bae been lost in the Golden Gate, were dnj li ca'f I, uti-icr an :.ct of Congress, but since a art i f the coupons id' the original bonds have been pesciued and redeemed, which shows either that the coupons were detached l ime the bonds weie shipped, cr tlu the bet.Js nero not sent by the steamer as fhiuicu and tspp-aieully proved. t f the issue id bonds under the act of 1st; 1 , ca'iied secured scries of fifty dollar i:tes, the c is a d;iLie:ice of two hundred ar,d t is; t) -three notes, and of one huni e i .1 i; a n res a J.tl neoee of seventytl lie. ;.i!i a d.ilireiice of fif'y of one tN .usaud dollar tiotes btweeu the nunilerptii.tcd and -ieineied and the liuu:l r ;ivc. UMtei for. Of the five thousand ii.tie aio m im. tj - ti ii-e siti.il.irly ritnic-c-utjtt-il for. i' is thought by Mr. h"hati t.i ti, who received these notes and was tx atii'ii.ei: ;is n witness, that they were ilesuiyni iri the course of business, and the sjie iie certificate of their ciesii m lion,
should, in the usual course of bus. K,.e been let tl.eoiuir.g, hiss I een I !.e redemption of these notes down n-h. lSii'J, had not rc::ehed tlcwbole
er hi i ..i inr by tho books to
li-eis issi.ed. 1 his laet supports iu seme dii:tte the jub.i!-iht l:iised upon the i.'Vittin.eut in lespeet to tl itn. l'ut the a;.t I ay uecUUicutary or etlser specific t. i ! ;.i -iinMiig for the-e noti s is. coitsi 'uritiu v.ha', ought to be the exactness of Mit h 1 1 1 aiiehs. ijiiitc satisfactory. In r. ;ird to the icpisteied and coupon heuu-. k t . v i th,' 5 s of t2 first ser its v;i urns liiMtt pmiries. are a.H'OU n'td for. t'i the third series coupon bonds, of the sat: e issue, ot.e 1(U bond and one bun!u 1 and thn c of the - bonds arc not a 'counted li r. 'I lie committie ssy a largo mi., nut ot these bonds were deli-ied to the register of 'I u-asory by the 1'iii.ting biire i.i, and it is vh-iimcd b I hose ..fliccrs It .il tl ey were hat.uid to a oommiUte for di'stiuoti n or to be dt stroked. Ibedltcet ividetieeis inconipetent to sl ow tlnir destruction. No documentary r t ,.f the tact is to be found further turn that tie destruction was directed.
thiowu in the fire or other wise destroved, j tees a. id protection, and they say it is oh- On a general survey ed the as is stated by the clerks, and one taken ' vious that the highest safety is to be at- ; caused by the investigation of to supply its place from t'.e 1 stock, tass-' tained bv so eoiiduetin. the work that no ! mittee, they could not fail to
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a ire
State, but Kansas is better for the mm. Those who live iu liuiiana,
and possess some of this world s goods, who live comfortable, I say for such to re main here; but to the poop-twun wlu hs to work bard and live bard, 1 euu say, without successful contradiction, that Kansas is the place for them. Go there,
ke; t
a nu g.j to
operattous . the com - j be struck !
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u uncut any account or ie.:i td t eing ; one iu even two departments should have j n me ainerenee in tne management ana ; Hly a j-jrn, or :f neej e seeuve a tlaiui
ci ti.e peiioiu aisce, ana without ai y ; t in tbeir power to liiiisli any note, bond i oeians uuiu peisouai mm oiuerwise oe- u()der tjle "Homestead Law
piool or n.eshod of proof of the actual : or coupon. Ihisseeuri
destruction of tie one so actuallv or os- not be attained where
tensibiv disposed ct. It is impossible, j er are under one control; where all thei teeiing no oilier responsibility at Pest i Indiana laimer with their lar
therefore, to account except on very vatrue i various processes are done in one buiid- than that ot doing tneir duty from 'J o clock
evidence for many of the securities that j ing, and substantially in the same room; ln the forenoon, und similar operations j j.,nglsl
went into the lxegister s ettico, though is and where the employees are tu frequent ! earnea ou vy private persons or corpora
to registered bonds in which, to a consul- intercourse with each other, as has been ' I10,IS wnerc ine muiviauai
crable extent, this loose practice pievails, j the case in the Printing Bureau of the j success of the persons man
Slates.
Therefore, I advise ail wishing homes to emigrate to Kansas, including our friend J. M. C and go to work with a wifl, aud spoo the eut.ro country will blossom as the rose.
.'uriiy. we think, can j tweeu such operations canied on by paid work, and iu a few vears you can boa; i all the plates togeth officers having certain fixed hours uf labor, , Juiliy w rth as U1U,, or more, than
no ioss can happen to lho Government that cannot readily be detected in the semi-annual payments of interest, and the committee are jersonally satisfied, from an examination of the iuttiest accounts and individual account in the ledgers, with the poisons to whom the bonds were regularly issued, the total id' which make up bases of interest account, that no fraud h;;s been perpetrated iu respect to the registered lo d iu 1 1; is w ay. The existence ; ud ixce p ion of a c ti sidcrable nutuler of duplicated note ar.d coupons have given the committee a corsidcrc.blo degree of anxiety, and lhey Iiave e'evoted all the time that could be spired for that puiposo, to ap inquiry into, and a consideration ed', the causes which are supposed to have produced them, ard the
Treasury Department. Another subject of
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t'V l i II 1 I IJ ll.-IVIt. I ll" , , .. , ,
.- . : ,'. - : ,i . iiiut oi uuiumi! muse peisuiia n uu mum tton in tins connection is the comparative 1 , . , . , " . . 1 . I irtit. ... H..t: itnlira t li a H.ti l.t.t niTllilllil
.'...Iftl V VI CUV. I. ViU.iVO .IIW jlVU . .
were involved, and wheie no other motive
for employing subordinates existed than
Hi
have been given by as appears in the tes
Olflt- .-I ( !lt I'll ... A, t .. ..O ... Il.ll t...
of l.-insfcrpd nnd oonnon nmnilir,. In I ot Oapaclty and fiJ.-.lty.
the case of registered seeurlies, as they ' are issued lo some particular person, and ?tand in his name on th.e looks cf the Treasury until transferred to the pa tne of ant ther person, who then takes his place upon the books, it is next to impot-.sible ihat spy fraud should occur, and if it
should it would be certain to be detected
on any investigation, i on
The Excavations at Herculaneum to be Resumed. King Victor Emmanuel has ordered the
oast of i resumption of the excavations at Hercu-
our ; fancutu, and miv annual grant of thirty
e In mis. ; thousand francs is added to his civil list
lie attempts to describe the soil, not of, ,hl purpose. Ihe Jvmg has also un-lcede to thi
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part but in i uertaKeu 10 provi ue or n.e mai n icna nee j . ' I ' I . . 1 . . - 1 I f
oi a pupu at ine .ieuiaee iog c u .-ikoi o:
correspo nin - wines. i
that Ihe I " i ne earnest, lesearcnes were instituted vuvh Jive
Iierculaneiitii, with what uiagnifieeiit , shade, b.t
not near the best
from one rescivativu tj utiotber by fl... naiion.il authority and ihe encroachment ot ei.il z tion, g.tvt-riiux nl agents, traders, peddiv.s, and others have looked upon iheiu as legitimate gau.e fr plunder, li disposed- to be Jtiendiy and peactuble, some fuh ukI td wiwu tuts bseu coustautly com mil ted to ritioditi (heir anrtuoer-
tits and arouse their ltilinga uf rercuge toward ihe pale faces. The Quaker would unquestionably do what bus uol been done before, treat them honestly and justly, and protect ikeut from the iiiru .us uf swiuolers aud lire j water petiJiers. A knowledge of the lact j that they were to be placed under lho jguardiiii. charge of this piovei bia-llr peaeeb!e and honest sect would gu far toward ; coi.ciiiatiug and quieting the hitherto ; hostile Jiibes. f tieneral Grant desires to have the con -I trol ot Indian aif.irs returned to the War
Dcpai tu.eut. W hy will Congress not ae
r oucst, and aivc an opportu
nity to make trial of the Quaker scheme?
, . , small places, could we not find such here, H I al prospei itv and 1 '.. . T ... . J p.-..,., r ., - jef, more sof Now, 1 will not attempt to 1 "I atiaging the same , . . ., . '. ,, ., ., r., 1 x , ,v . explaiu this "mysterious sou the t'",1," ,
N V Com Alv.
It must be con
fessed thut such a ecrr.man la u:.!avora lie- to the GuvcTDti ent engaging in any operations of this character when it can possibly be dispersed with. Of course the
con niiitee do t.nt mean to intimate that all j
or even the majority of the persons employed by ihe G overt: men t in these iift.iirs are either incapable or unfaithful, but
in
. rum nl i I iifi ! .i-v.I iiMmf n iMviod ti I :i ftv a i
any change ot ' . - .
. ic.i 'i.. .1 ' ciciiio-iii oi iiioiiiiiuv, on re less ill's.-) auu the personnel r i the depsrtment or bu:eau, , . . . . f . . , 1 tinbntl (iilniv.c i. iiitv.idiiiiol intA flu nnnr.
I . UUIUItlHMIIiV,."!? 1.1 IIMI'JVJIIVtVI llllU HID V VI tn- "'sit : ... . , M.
,i r- i a in lis as in u i-u ucn u e eieuieu 10 ubin the c.ise of coupon secui ittcs vv hu h ma y , .
r.. li no ninl loii'ii i v.l l nu Anuria iu l inun
whit :i rp vi li ri-1 ! 1 v i1iii(Hls of (loiiw the
ra?s bv deuvery. there is no such . .. f 7I 1 '. ... - IwivjI rt.ih-i lo ftl- tho I t m orn ii our
Hiid it should be traced to its orictn. But
in the c.ise of coupon secuiitics v
be and generally are issued in blank and j
have explanations which
ihe various officials,
timonv, and as bus been oilierw ic obtain - 1 the final withdrawal ot tie loan, and even I cd by the committee from peisouai t x -i m then it could not generally be traced to i iuatious of these aiftirs, it is obvious that i any particular person. These securities,: a very large proportion of these dupli-; therelore, and the method of their issue' cates ure (roduced by alterations made f- and transfer, hold out strong temptations I ter the sceituties were issiiod and usually j t fraud. The committee think it ought i no doubt, in cases w here the securities had ! to be the policy of the Government to j
been stolen from private holders.
class may be set aside at once as
pecuniary interest to th.e Government, in
astnuch as th.e Government sutlers '-o ioss in co ns que nee id' them. Other cases, in which it is eel tain, or nearly certain, that duplicates of originals are actually composed of securities issued in ihat form h um the lep.t tn.ent are more serious and less easily accounted for. i t.e suggested explanation in favur of innocent duplication is, as a pears from the testinionj-, that they are mere accidental errors of the persons in chartre of the nuniberinu: machine.
man speaks of. Suffice it o say
State can not be judged by these spots oi l1"
clammy clay. ' ether, it is fr. tl
deep, a deep black loam of inexhaustible j
richness, equal to that o! th first w.llcys of the United States, at;d wil! ield most prolific crops of all the cereals, producing as niu'-h or even more to the acre of barley as any of the States Kist. In the production of wheat the soil is excelled only by that of the Pacific Coast. Corn yields more than our best corn States in everything else, excepliug potatoes. Iu proof of which I cite you to the Commissioner of Agriculture at Washitsgtou. If our friend had extonued his trip into the ceutral part of the State during his rambles, he would have seen the best and richest part of the State. As to climate, it is unsurpassed. There are no swamps or marshes; air dry bracing, and especially beneficial to diseases of the lungs, consumption never knowu auless brought from other States. He says they have to haul wood from ten to twenty miles. I think I have traveled over Kansas more than J. M. C. has. aud i think I never was over four or five
results we may see in the .National Mu il
eum at Naples, or in the pages of the Au
di
Faith. Is in the bonier LnJ of tU Uk.1.1 and the dark.
which pass bv delivery, there is
cuiraiitee of safety, and a hand nrght t x
i ist for years impossible if de'ection until;
The Sun s Atmosprterc. The Academy of Sciences, of Paris, has lately received additional details from Mr. Janseu regarding hi discovery, nearly simultaneously with Mr. Lockyer, of au incandescent atmosphere consisting principally, if not entirely of hydrogen
1 hi ; carry its debt as far and as fast as possi- ; surrounding a luminous portion ot the
of no b'e into a resristcred form, and that there ' vUn. This astronomer was sent, as may i milps from timber. Coal is found in ureat
arising from this species of security that ; he remembered by our readers, to Siuiin; i quatiity. There is a plenty of wood for
should outweigh ineiiuiy tr waking mejm the lluniualay a mountains, to observe Government debt safe as well for the ' the total eclipse of the sun, in August Government as for the community. ' last; and, while there made the discovery
The operations of the Printing Bureau relerred to. lie states, in his last com-i
iu. the Treasury Department have grown '. munication. that this atmosphere is low so immense as "to occupy a very large down, and with a very irregular level, quanity of the space of the building which 'sometimes not passing beyond the prejeci.s needed for other purposes, in eonnee-! tions of the luminous atmosphere, and tion with its operations of the Treasury forming a kind of vault or canopy, con.
proper, and the bureau has become prac
i All liiiht or aii dark, there wero no rnum
I for faith. Site is a grace that sees men a
ISrcohmo (commence J in 17G7, . frees wJksnir. SLie di-cerus Mibsianre,
the reijin of l?hur!ca HI , ..lJ ,x- but not fuiai: &hc rests on evidenp." hut
tending to nine folio volumes.) But j not vision. God, by the economy of IIm
partly from the hardness of the material partial revelations, has given nsthis border
whi.h
th
rums arc imbedded, and
partly also from a fear of endangering the foundations of the modern town ef Portici. the works were discontinued and transferred to Pompeii, where the labor is far cub ier, aud, therefore woie remunerative. Pompeii, from the circumstance that it may be almost entirely laid bare, presents greater attraction for the tourist, and awakens associations to which one is a
stranger at lierculancuin. But as a set
land for fauh. And faith loves it. fehe. says, ' On this sido I can re, on the other I can trust, and midway I can walk, am) as I walk I can look, not at my path, but at Ilia guiding eye." It according to Ui revelations we are iu., by viiul uuion with Christ, become suns of God, we will
j wait hi cotifi deuce what we shall be when j He who is ouv life rhaii appear. Bap- , tist Quarterly.
If against this defect, the works of art Th.e people of the United .Starrs are not
unearthed here are generally of a superior j 8t impressed with (he light cf Spain 19 character, not only bcoausc llerciilaneuni rule over Cuba, that nothing on the part was itself the seat of a richer aud tmreif ,ne Government of Madrid can stimurefined community, but al?o becau.-e, as I late them into a recognition of the belligM. Gualterio observes, in his address ue- ! ere tit rights of the revolutionists, or even iivered at the recent inaugural cei enion v, j ",llie more deei-ive measures. Ou the couthe difficulties attending the excavations j tmry. their sympathies are so strong for the
at llercula ncum have preserved its con- coioutsr, ti.at nut nine is reomred to m-
I n view of this,
tents lrotn the depredations to which Pom) eii has been subjected at vuriotn periuda. The manuscripts, for instance.
which have hitherto been brought to lighi "c- soori,i urfato tn-seoursa.
were almost exclusively found iu lleicul- j ow v. r, that .-he m doing just
aneum, one house alone furnishing smany as seventeen huudred."
by which, iu a given 1 ,bU0 impressions,
an l ti e coining in of sundry complicated some two or more would ie macie to bear '( -i.s if Has seiics rrod.ned in tho ' the same number, and the number which
minis ,i the committee, some solicitude
m any years to come; and where the annual fires have been prevented that sweep over the prairies, groves of timber spring up, which, in a lew years, are large enough
for ceneral uso. Experience from others i
have taught me that trees of ail kinds glow j A Complicated Liquor Case, rapidly from the seed in Kansas. The Farniington (Me) (hroni lc tells an Fencing is made of both timber and j amusing s'ory of the arrest of a person rock. When a fence is made of stone, it ! who had violated the liuor law aud want
duce them to interfere.
it is all iti.poitaut fur Spain to be careful of oft'eiidiiij; in. Poiit-v. if no hio-her nir.
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It seoui?,
wis rp-
ihey should have borne was entirely omit-
''i U,e n in i. snl ii. .1.;... l fed on anv I ti which case, tor instance, in
s -..jvv ... i.it.s si-iii:s, rtl j -i ... 1 oiugh the whole redemption of the con- one thousand dollar bonds, there would f'-'Os ih-cs not exceed the amount issued, i he two numbered five hundred, and some Ibn in the case of this series the re- numbered five hundred and one. With a 't;i tion uf coupons comes so near to the view to see that the quantity and numbers ! "le is-ue aj pearing on the Register's a,e correct, and also ihe inspection which l'"eks that the duplication can not be fully clerks in charge of issues sre supposed to fs ' sit ed by the absence of the coupons make, to see that the securities issued f! ':tcly from some numbers. The result compare in quantity with the books of is's. that if those bonds which went into sue, and in con'secute numbering with the I"-' UejMster's office they are not satisfac- numerical register ot issues kepi in ihe t "'y i.eeutued for: Of the 50s, 2o bonds; Register's thee and in the Loan branch ! :! e Pmu, 7,072, of the 50ds, l.t'37; i f of the Secretary's office, supposing such a ti e lf-t'Os, :i4;s. Those which weut direct ' course to have taken place, there would J' t:.e Treasurer's office were not perfect, have been no loss to the Treasury, because H-iiked statistical for destruction. Ofi ,or every had or other security which ap"ve tl eie is no proof of the destruction ' pears in duplicate there would be some oth
c' ere bond of one thousand, and 103 lr number equivalent entirely wanting.
ct five hundred dollar In r.-i . t lea vi ti g the w hole number actuallv issued
what it should be. But
and the bureau has become prac- tinuous with the protuberances, the gen- j is there for all time. Is it not better to ; ed to' slip his bail. An cfiicer was detail
licallv in its etloot nmih tlip other opera-i era! composition ol which appears to be i have a scarcity ot tunber than a large sur- ed to arrest the man, but he got tbe start
tionsof lho Treasnrr n nuisance It has 1 the same as that of this atmosphere, audi plus where a man must wear himself out j and ran, pursued by the sheriff and a
a 1-Mi'pr mill in the basement of the build- i to be simply raised and sometimes detach- clearing it awa? Hard was the lot id our ; large concourse of citizens
ing, extensive steam power, engineers' 1 el from portions of it. The presence of shops and carpenter shops, and it has. of , this atmosphere is said by Mr. Jansen to
course, very extensive engraving or print- explain the phenomenon of refraction on
fathers who opeucd these faiius that we now live on.
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Mr. J. M. U. seems to think that so
in. rooms besides a ureat number of bv the solar surface, revealed by the study of , much stone is an awful thing. Does be
I . :. Is
drostatio presses for dry muting. All the spots, and to p!ay an important part
tlusj operations combined produce a noise , in all the luminous phenomena of the aud disturbance in the building, together visible envelope of the sun, and partieu with all degrees and kind of noxious , larly of the faeu'ie or bright streaks. It etlluvias, to the very great annoyance and ! is sai l to be certai ti that it is to this ntdetriment of persons connected "with that ;' mosphere that is principally due that dimwing of the building where these opera- ' inution of luminous, heating and pboto-
lions arc iT.iin.f on. The number of rer- graph i ng in tensi t y presented in
took rt-tuge in a barn, where, after 111 ich
bluster and threatening, he ws arrested. But the sequel is where the Ijugii cr iuenj in. The sheriff, in his zeal to uphold thel
Jstte. First, Mr. Codriugton, our consufdr I -i-out a. t.ioji j, h,iS b.cu takuu in irons to Havana, 011 acciUI,t of "suspicion of 1 complicity in tho rebellion.'' Whether j guilty or not, his hardships will awaken
feeiing for htm and against his captor. Second, tho American biig Mary Lowell has been wrested from the custody of a British vessel, in British waters, near Ragged Island, by the Sp.niith war steamer Andalusia. Spain has enough to do with
rlisls at homo and rebels in (luha. with-
J out provoking, bulb th United States and Great Britain, as she ma find to her cost. Gazette.
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I lOillll IlllCliCU rp. . . . . , who had it iu! n''-"cr,":' . ihe slaves in the
1 oriuuese colonies, already noticed III
so re
sons employed about these various opera- 1 markable a manner along the
not know that this stone is a great profit j majesty of ihe Jaw.'shz.d
to the Stale? in Davis county, surround iu tho street, aud the man
i. Iii.i.;.i. f'irt- ill.. l.litfT -ill. ill nil u-itll .li-iriri. Iiui. i j-l.iik. f.ir il-im inn j il .. iMt.tiin.
. I I ... liUVII'H O. II I 1 llll. IN Wli MUI'U .. V. .. .1 V ! 1. V, I U - I. V . II I I.l I ... . IIIUV .. "A . . U . . I . , It , . .. , 1 . . ill 1 1 1 1 1 . . 1 our columns, will not be comp eted until Maguesian luuestoiie. 1 his stone extends ' c . which is likely to grow into a Uwsur; . , - ' y. ...
probably forty ujik's along the Smoky Hid i ihe owner of the barn w heie the fugitive
aud Kansas rivers. The beauty and fit- was secreted is threatening an action ofi
uess of this stone for substantial and oru- j iraspass; while it is intimated ihat lho amental buildings have attracted such at 1 person arrested, when agai 11 at libert v,
Hons sometimes runs as high as 700. The books and accounts
the various subdivisions of tbe printing
life) or t the solar disk.
between !
Conundrums.
border ofi tendon that already the shipment of it is 1 will sue the sheriff in an aciion of sianuer.
1 exceedingly great. Mills have been erect- inasmuch as several times during the ear
in any ! ly stage ot the chase he cried out ' s'op
establishment have been until recently, to 1 Why is a man deceived by a girl like say nothing of the defects still existing, j anonie"r r j a loading strings? 11c is so irregularly kept, aud coiiiaiu, iuar.y cf 1 m.'sS't'd (misled). then;, on examination, so many erasures '. Why is a city being; destroyed like
ar.d a.Jeratious. as considerably to dituui. .mother being built? it is being rmra
ed iu whtcli the stone is sawed
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, . .use .onjs, irom the evidence ad- ;jusi wuai n sucuia oe. i.ui 11.1s expia-. ,1 contidenco iu the accuracy of the re- ; framed'! u teoa. iliia ...... . . .1.. 1.. '..-ti.. .a r n.-inicii i..ivi;. ii... tin ....... . . ! ...... . m. 1 v
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vtit.'iut there must been an error in the ; ical registers cf issues contained entries sCount or an erroneous printing. j of issues of certain numbers that never 1 f.e con.niitfee thpn dpt.iil a mmibpr nl i were in fact issued, and assuming the nu-
tsJUfs accounted for with the exception of merical registers to hive been made up t?l,P0tl bonds. Large discrepancies ! trom an actual comparison of securities
ear uve pia cent. oij m i i.-s-i., u .i.jiiii.-i- iu.i s u o o
.aes accounted for with the exception of! tu ti hi'Otl bonds. Large discrepancies ! tr rxist in the issue of two year five per cent. I as
1i - Cr r'o!e,, ""der the act of March S, entries must have been known to the per- ,,' hut considering the fact that this is-j fons making them, as a rule, to be untrue.
,on it ue) iUe piopahility is J s:ro! g that no fraud has been pere.rated on the Government. Criticism
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But the testimony tends to show that the
numerical registers of issue are rather theoretical than actual records of trans-
care- : actions. Ihat is. the clerks iu charge did
suits derived from such sources. This is, W hv is a srallcws the last refuge of a
perhaps, not altogether the fault cf the j condemned mau? He has nothing else to head of the bureau, for so long as per- : depend upon. sons were employed there upon the recoiu- j Wrhat celebrated author does an infant luendatioii of Senators, members of Con- remind one of? Young, gress and other persons having political! Why are fish in a hearty state like fish influence, without very strict regard to the made so'to imitate them? They are tarqualities essential to faithfulness aud ac- : fy j,, (artificial.) curacy, it was not to be expected that all j Why is a greedy man like another with tbe persons having business or clerical ; a sfiort memory? He is always forgetting
duties to perform they would perform
( forgetting).
thctu with absolute accuraev. I
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Some of the discrepancies and diffieul- I p0 not be troubled because you have no thoroughly tesn me adaptation or me mii
I lS.S. Unless, as in lho case of lh Urifn.fi
Wct Indie.-, the first Sfr; toward freedom shoiil.i hurry on lho conclusion of tbe good work. Portugal now holds by h ptectrious tenure a few traa. incuts wf it once vast co'onial empire The il.t)d nf Macao, near Cauti u.'Chiria, a station or two on the west coast of llindostau. a half
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s . ui;t;.jiii hit. 1.3 in. ine coast or Africa, and a tract of country ou the west coast south of the equator, arc the most
iu n-r'ant of its p.jsscssiotis. It is be -
! iievpd tlmr its rcai autuesry outside of th fVnlls of its ttiurr.e ..nil P. rl c.ita i Mttlrm
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met wmi uopeiui ana encouraging resu. is. street s appoinuiient 10 me oiuee or our : ire ,l9n .;,!. Xt.t ,hw morH, ing Apples, peaches, pears, tduias, grapes, etc , veyor of the Port of New Orleans will ; w, kj cc.jr.,t. ,', 1k ,abro wiJi he far
have been excellent in quality aud yield, meet the approval of the mass ot ihe neo- :, . ,..: .- . Til.. ; :..
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it . hiii. and
?t Us Us Alricait at coTniihM tut iisua
shape for building purp -ses. Ibis rock j thitl," words .iCtion;.b'.e in theuiseives and is of great strength, bearing 3,210 pounds j not warranted by the circumstances of ihe to the squ ue inch, and is rapidly creating ease.
an interest in ine state.
U Ihinko Kansas is no fruit country. Longstreel s Confirmalton.
Experiments uiade iu fruit growing bawj The confirmation of General L-g-
ave been excellent in quality aud yield, meet the approval of the mass of ihe peo- f. , ;. , .t,.r Tiw r ... - i 1.1 .1- -111 I i... V i II .1 . i " If . . -1 . I . lttj I
and mere is no aouoi cut ivjusas win oe i pie ot ite orm. uenerai ij-m;tst rei ' j.;H Vl. ir.j.- it now i'unl'c.-,:
an excellent iruu ana wiue growing eoun- not been an applicant lor orace, nor nas ne
ry. The" enormous yield of peaches the j made himself conspicuous in pol.ti-, in . j.,r.h -', ,..Xt..,)lhig u.oic to do with
any way, since me close or t.ie rebellion; , , j,,;, ui,OI4 ty ,te:: S!,.,.,hl h r J but whenever his opinion was S'd.citcd, he ,ic ex. f(l? titC mJfer c.u.urv, gave it frankly, with no dissim u.atio... 1 a fhu L.,,rlMial, lta,i(M,s of . he wo Id will
aud without regard lo me onsc queiiees upon his own personal relations or st,md-
past two years in all parts of the State, no longer leaves room for doubt that this delicious fruit can be grown successfully. Probably no State iu the Union, at so early a stage in the history of its develop
ment, has made so large experiments over so wide an extent of territory, iu order to
"ik i , 1 ' not compare each issue of bonds by their ; ties in the operation of the bureau, and of o,-eat virtues. God made a million spires ' and climate to the growing of all manner V.. "r,ticate9 under tbe act of consecutive numbers, with the registry j tjie explanations and answers to theru. I of crass where he made no tree. The ! of fruits.
" 1 . 1 Milt all mo a,.,,.... n t ...I .,- P 11 1 rips or in a k p pn I rip in lho rpiis! cr : : ! I . l : . i . . : . , . . - . . i . : . i It'.ncu nlilmti nAnnU I inn
-,v oLmuincii .vi vjk.- - --1 win oe iuuiiu iu ine u ceo u. o a ii v iu n iei'or p-irtn is trino-en ana caroeiea. not wnu c ... ..v..
lliev COUId not le Used nom eacu coin parison , out mil iiipv niaue
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ut he
i"g tilled
I un and sicned bv the ! up tbe entries in the register as a tule, bv
a'.st I reasnr.ir V. ... n A takim thp first anil last immitpr ol' a n r
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v l.tr evideiii'p v,. c....... I .1,. ...;.. I Iro in tf.psp
l ever since appealed and from ' particular lot of securities, making entrie:
ana assuming mat au me
tt( - - vi. it- nfseinca, me cotnum-1 ctit:!;,'C,U ,hat lhJ were destroyed, but 1 numbers I .iirrre ?0,vcre,.V the looseness of proee- i lar'j aJ I lre bv whii-K ,.i. . p 1 .- .. i
Wlllen SUCh an amonnl cmuiri.
rC"1'"1 ,Us''t r:r unaccounted for, and
l-itrtmi. ......I. ..I ii : . .
Cf'in --.., tiicinou ui uxing nie
,..) on anJ person. Variie.11'-" uifis-rences and discrepancies U',. tut not of bre amouuts.
jetween were consecutive, regutiot duplicate.
It is also suggested as to the duplicated
coupons that, as they are numbered at a different time from tbe number on the bond, they may have been duplicated, aud the bond not. A u cither partial explanation is that some.
ing with the peop.e ol the cxiuth; and n was uuiformly to the effect that they should cheerfully accept tho situation, comply with the conditions iaiposed b Congress, reconstruct their State Governments speedily and in harmony with them and go to work to revive their pr..s'-ite industry. It wa:? the advice of a senib:e man, who had fought bravely for the suc-
yet there is room for many more. Kansas! cess of the cause, and when it had bopt-
i needs. and wants farmers. Producers, tar- lesslv failed, determined U ui-ike the best
Strive to make everybody happy, aud ' mers, and stock-raisers can find an abund j of tho sifnition in which it -left him, a-.d
...... .;it ....I. .. ..hp ko v.nirspH 1 anee oi room, ana to sucn, rare inance aaviseu omers ro au ine same. im cj.
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with' Kansas claims a population ot four
of Messrs Marsh, Pratt, Moore and : forests, but gras. Only have enough of! hundred thousand. It has six hundred Wwuau, and the commentary of Mr. Clark : little virtues and common fidelities, and ' miles of railroad in active operation. The thereon, aud in the reply of these gentle-; ou nee d not mourn because you are ; Stato is rapidly filling up with emigrants,
have pronounced their coi.dt;unaK.t human bond igp G m.-ttar.
of
Unless Christianity be viewed and fcftin a high aud comprehensive way, hour' large a portion of our intellectual ami moral nature doe- it leave wirbuut object aud action! It'olcridge,
neither a saint aor a hero.
nient9 are held out. The Histern States
men to his auswer.
To put the best face upon it, .it is evident that the course of things there has not been such as to merit our commendation. As will be seen by the evidence herewith returned, mauy things have been
done, which, although perhaps in noceut j habits soon form and fix character.
lixiug tendiiicy, and to sustgest opportuni-, Every day is a little life, and our whole i agement secure a competence aside from tics and methods cf fraud tu employes,.' ife is hut 4 day repeated. Bishop Hall. 1 living. - It is said that niueteuths cf the
Character is the essence of destiny, and j re overrun with poor men. many of whom
would be glad to secure a farm and home
for a trifle, and by their energy and man
A N'oith Carolina. Tebcl was relating how -iIih Yanks" ISieU upon his company white in trehin throng'! a lliick Wwcwl. They gladly iiLeyn ,. ti.rirr lo lie down., Uitl tliPte was utuhing lo shield Iheiu fruiu t'ua iv.i'ibiK volU..s wi' lite rnetyv. "Wh
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ate, after a protracted dtseu-ssio-i, does uot dilu'i yo ek Uh-iml: a tiee'.'" asked a lis-, appear to have foa:d anything in his j tn,r. 'Free,' replied; reb, "there wasn't conduct since the wir to which exception s trees enough foi the officers.." could be taken, but Senators seen to have! - been apprehensive of consequences to Why is a blind beggar like a wig? iboiuselies should they vote for or against is U-l (uricd).
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