Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 23, Number 32, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 March 1874 — Page 5

THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL , TUESDAY, 31 ARCH. 3, 1874.

THE PLKDOE AT SPUXKY POIXT. A TALE OF VIBTCOCS XFFORT A!CD 1ICXAX PKFIDY,BT JOU!T HAY. It'a all very well for preachln". ' Hut preachln' an practice don't gee; ' I'm posted on virtue and terap'rance, And you can't ring It in on me. Jet toddle along with yoor pledge, Euulre, . EMhat'M what you want me to sign; .Betwixt me and you, I've been thar, And I'll not tae any in mine. JV year ago last Fo'th July A lot o' the boys was here; We all got corned, and signed the pledge Fur to drink no more that year. There was Tilman Joy and Sheriff M rhail, And rue and Abner Fry, And Khelbv'a boy lvlticu, And the Uolyera Luke and K.J. .And we ante-i op a huodred. In the hand o' lcacon Kedge, Fur to be divided the follertn' r o th 'Monttst the boys that kep the p edge. And we known! each other no well, inquire, You may take my calp lor a fool I :f every man when he signed his name Uldn'i fc-el dead eure of the pool. Fur a while it kU went lovely; Weputnpnjobnextday Fur to make Joy b'lleve his wife was dead, And he went home middlln' gay. Then Abner Fry he killed a man, And afore h WMhung, MThail Jet bilked the Widder outen her sheer By glttin'hlra slewed in Jail. Dut Chris'roas Bcooped the Hherlff The eggnogs getbered him In And Shelby (i boy Leviticus Was ISew-Year's tight as sin. .And along in March the Uolyer Got so drunk that a fresh biled owl "Would" a looked, 'alongside o' them two young men. Like a sooer temperance fowl. Four months alone I walked the chalk; 1 thought my heart would break. And all or them boys a-slappin' my back, And axiaV'Wh&t 'ill you take?" 1 never slept without dreamin' dreams Of Harbin, Teach or Kye, But 1 chawed mv nieirer-hcad, and swore I'd rake that pool or die. At last the Fo'th I humped myself Through chores and breakfast oou, Then scooted down to Taggart'a six re, For the pledge was off at noon ; And all the boys wns gethered thar. And each man hilt his glas, Vatchiu'meand the clock, quite solemn like, Fur to see the last minute pass. The clock struck twelve! I raised the jug, Aud tools one lovln' pull I was holler clar from skull to boots, It seemed I couldn't get full. Hut I was roused by a nendish laugh That might have raised the dead Them ornnry sneaks had sot the clock A half an Lour atiead ! "All right," I sfjnawked, "you've got me; Jest order yourdrluks agin. And we'll paddle up to tho .Deacon's And coop the ante In." But when we got to Kedge'9, What a sight whs that we saw! The leacon and I'arson skeeters in the tail of a game of Draw. Thev had shook 'em the heft of the mornin'; The Pardon's luck was ta'r, And he raked, the minute we got thar. The last ol our pool on a p'ar. onorrore temp'rance for nie. Squire; I 'low it's all very fine, Itut ez fur myr elf, 1 thank ye, I'll not take any in mine. HARPER'S WEKKI.Y.

AVISE AND OTIIERWISK. TCidins a friend on a rail recently cost some Ohio voune men $30 and the costs anieee. A lad of fourteen is conducting a religious revival in Illinois, aud is winning converts lv the score. An Indiana man has married and buried three sisters, and is now prospecting for an other family to entomb. "George Washington, deceased," is mentioned by an exchange. Now, then, who was George Washington and whatdid he do? A captain of a new military company drilling bis men the other day, near the Mississippi river, coolly ordered them to "fall In." Postal cards aro trumps with the practical jokers siiu-e tho temperance praying enterprise commenced to crystallize in MilwauIt is proposed to pray for the Ohio grangers that they inav be kept from selling corn to the distillers." That is drying up the stream at the fountain. A yankee politician suddenly finds out that he had rather be a doorkeeper in the hall of the prangere than to shovel sugar in the stores of the middlemen. Dio Lewis is supposed to be a distant relative of one Dio Genes who had the eccentric notion that a lantern was intended to be used by daylight. A white boy met a colored boy and asked liim what he had such a short nose for. "I a pect so it won't poke itself into other peo pie's business. . . . A faithful brother in a Fairfield, Connecticut, church recently prayed for the absent members "who were prostrate on beds Of aiekness and chairs of wellness." Congressman Cox went to lecture in Richmond. Va.. but had no hearers It is said because the people there never go out after Sunset. Syracuse Journal. An applicant for old clothes at a Pine fitreat residence. Saturday, received a half dozen soiled paper collars with the advice to turn them and chalk tue edges." There is trouble in Boston about the elms. They are in the way of the street railroad, and there are some slight objections to hav ing these splendid trees cut down. A disconsolate gentleman in Chicago ad vertises that the thief who stole his wellfcucket and rope will oblige him by coming and taking the well, for wnicn ne nas no use "Dinna be sea mean wf it; it's for a puir faitherless bairn," said a Scotch woman to An anothecarv who was weitrhinc out two ounces of calomel for a sick child. An interesting incident of tho golden wed ding of Nathaniel Nutter and wife, of Pitts field, Mass., which took place last week, was the singing of a song by a great-granddaughter aged five years. : "W. B. Astor is eighty." No doubt he ivnuldnava million dollars a year if he could thereby livq. another d:ade, but his Triends are opposed to the extravagant out lay for such a useless object. The lady-president ot a charitable ass ocl ation in Des Moines, was recently fright ned almost out of her wits by the incur sinn of a oarty of masked men, who, how ever, instead of gauging her and walking off with the spoons, presented to her a large ii m of money to be distributed among the poor. There is a new song just out entitled ajy Mother Among tho Angels." .Let us sug cest that the composer and librettist should not stör at this point. Let them next favor a with "Mv Aunt Among the Cherubs,' "My Uncle fu the Clouds," "My Planetary rand mother." and "Cousin Popklns in Paradise." Punch. Colonel Tligglnson pays that when he was a boy at Cambridge there was not a boat owned at Harvard. A stud ant in the class two years before him owned the first boat. and was "hauled up" by the faculty there for. He pleaded that he was not aware of any objection to it in the college laws. The colleee officer, however, showed him a rule that "No ttndent shall be permitted to keep a domestic animal without the conrent of the faculty" and argued that a boat cauie

within the restriction.

GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

NEW YORK. ARREST OF A NOTORIOUS BOl'OH-JCDOE DURRELIy BEECIIKR ON Til K CRUSADE THRKDUAR STUART-SPAX1SH OUTRAGE A BRACE OF MURDERKRi. New Yory, March 2. Hermann Liedendorf. alias Dutch Hermann, was arrested last night on Tenth avenue, near Twenty-eighth street, after a desperate struggle in which he disarmed one officer, knocked down two others and only yielded when clubbed into helplessness. It was while looking for Her mann that Detective Leaky shot Michael McNamara. A party of fourteen Spaniards, who had escaped from conscription in Cuba, have arrived in this city. They had volunteered tc go to the front, receiving in bounty money seven hundred dollars each, but not liking the prospects of war, thev destrtad. By the practice of strategy aad bribery, they suc ceeded in getting on board of a truit vessel about to sail. A Washington dispatch says that a letter from New Orleaus states that Judge Durrell has forwarded bis resignation to a trusted friend, to be terdered in the event that the judiciary committee of the House reports articles of impeachment. The Ilev. Henry Ward Beecher, in calling attention last evening, to the woinans meeting held Tuesday evening, said that this revival of religion in the direction of temperance, under the auspices of the women by instrumentality of personal supplication with men, and of prayers unto God, is in deed a phenomenon worthy of study and admiration. It was worthy of study by all who love to trace the aspiration of the hu man mind in communities, and it was worthy of more than admiration by those who believe in working for the purification of man. hatever may be the circumslanX- V, CT aUU .VIIV11VU9 VJA bliU TV . V U V VUiVil. their work is a noble one and men should criticize their mistakes wi'h liniency and rtjoice in their ßuecess with great joy, be cause every man should rejoice in every thing that tends to pluck his lellow man from the burning. A Dry 1 ort u gas dispatch states that a steamer just arrived from Havana reports great excitement in that city owing to the alleged departure from Biltiiuore of the steamer Edgar Stuart on a fillibustering ex pedition, and that the Spanish naval oincers had determined to sin her with all on board if found near the Cuban coast. FLAMES. A BIT OF FIRE IX ST. LOUIS LOSS f 07,000, IN SURED. A fire broke up between seven and eight o'clock fhis evening in a cellar under the U. S. dollar store of J. M. Lawton, 402 north Fourth street, which up to the present writ' ing, 10 p. m., the fire department have fail ed to extinguish. The dollar store is com pletely quitted, but the loss can not be ascertained to-night. The cellar contained about 50.000 dollars worth of India rubber goods belonging to the Goodyear Rubber company, whosg sales rooms are in number 400. adioincrmg on ine soutn, upon wnicn their is said to be some flO.OOO insurance but the names of the of fices cannot be obtained tonight. No. 404 adjoiniug on the north is occupied by the extensive furniture house of Hurrel), Comstock fc Co., damaged by smoke; cov ered by insurance. Insurance on the stock in cellar f 10,000,Llverpool,London and Globe; $10,000, Continental of New York; 110,000, London Assurance; fö.000, Germa nia, of isew lork. uoodyear a salesroom was damaged about Slo.lXXt. fully Insured. Total loss by fire, exclusive of damage by smoke to Burrell, Uomstock tv Co., fbT.UOO. XLIII CONGRESS. SENATE. CURRENCY DISCUSSION SHERMAN AND LOQAN DISAGREE A HEAVY DAT's WORK. Washington, March 2, 1874. Mr. Allison, of. Iowa, presented a remon strance from the citizens of Wisconsin against the contraction of the legal tender notes. Referred. A bill reported from the committee on . ... public lands to extend the time of complet ing the Wisconsin central raiiroaa, wa taken up and passed. Mr. Sherman, of Ohio, presented the reso ution of the Chicago merchants' exchange, against any further issue of paper money, and stating that the action of the senators in advocating the increase of such money is based on a misapprehension. Mr. Sherman said that it was signed by seventy-five lead ing merchants of Chicago, representing sixty million dollars of capital. Mr.Logan, of Illinois, said be bad nothing to say against the character of th men sign ing the resolutions, as they wero respectable merchants, but he would say that the meet ing at which the resolutions were adopted was composed of ten men and thev bad been going around for the last ten days procuring signatures of business men to the resolu tions. The grocers ot Chicago had an organ ization called the merchants exchange and it was the members ot this body who adopt ed the resolutions. The meeting did not represent the business of Chicago, as the board of trade of that city was composed ot l,o2b men. lie (Logan) had received a letter from one of the alleged signers, stating that his name was there without his authority. Logan then presented a petition signed by Potter Palmer Samuel J. Walker B. F. Alleu Hostone, J. loung Scammon, and Peter Schultz, of Chicago, asking for an increase in tho volume of paper currency. He said these six men had done more to bmld up Chicago than all the others there, He also presented a petition ot similar nature from the mayor and a majority of the board or aldermen ot that city, and one hundred leading business firms, and 311 leading business prominent merchants, anether signed.by 100 manufacturers and business men. an - 100 manufacturers and business men, an other signed by 4M) respectable citizens, an other by three thousand eight hundred and sixty business men and small traders, and a final one signed by all the merchants ot Evanston, all of which were referred. Mr. Pratt, of Indiana, from the committee on the public bill ceding to several states deeds of all unsurveyed lakes, bayous, and all other bodies of unnavigable water, lying within the limits of such states. Placed on on the calendar. Mr. Sumner, of Massachusetts, presented a petition from certain ladies of New York, setting forth services rendered by them dur ing the war, and asking for a pension. Re ferred. The bill reported from the committee on public buildings and grounds a lew days ago, in relation to the removal of the bronze statue of Jefferson irom the grounds at the executive mansion to the old hall of the house of representatives, was taken up and parsed. Mr. Frelinghuyson, of New York, Intro duced a resolution requesting the secretary of the treasury to Inform the Senate wheth er United States securities, bonds, notes and fractional currency have been and are being prepared in accordance with the recoinmenda tions of the joint committee on retrenchment; if any change has been made therein, and what were the reasons for a change, ana what safeguards have been adopted against the fraudulent issue of said securities. Agreed to. The chair laid before the Senate the joint resolution of the Kansas legislature in favor of the transfer ot the bureau of Indian affairs to the war department. Referred.

A joint resolution of the same legislature

lor the Immediate payment by the United States, ot certain claims for Indian depreda tions-In Kansas was likewise referred as were also the resolutions of the republican state central committee of South Carolina in reply to certain allegations in the resolu tions of the tax payers convention in regard to the excessive taxation imposed by the state of South Carolina. Mr. Id galls, of Kansas, introduced a bill authorizing the secretary of the interior to use for the ben eh t ot the Great and Lattie Osage Indians of Kansas $200,000 per annum for four years, out of the proceeds of the sale of tLeir lands; also a bill relating to the central branch of the Union Pacific ltailroud. The letter proposed to give that company the right to grants of lands and subsidy bonds for extending its road to unite with the Union Pacific railroad at the one hundredth meridian, pro vided the supreme court shall decide such to have been the intention of the Pacific railroad acts of 18)52, 1804 and 1800. Mr. Schurz, of Missouri, presented a reso lution of the Missouri legislature, asking for an appropriation for the removal of obstructions from the channel of Mississippi river. Mr. llamsey, of Minnesota, presented the resolutions of the Minnesota legislature, asking that a survey be made to determine the feasibility of connecting the navigable waters of the Minnesota river and the lied River of the North by a canal. The bill in regard to the appointment of a commission to investigate into the alcoholic liquor traffic was taken up and Mr. Pratt spoke favor of its passage. When the morning hour expired the bill was laid over. The unfinished business being the House bill in regard to the Centennial Exhibition, Mr. Sargent, of Caliiornia, addressed the Senate In opposition to it. He argued that the national treasury was not in a condition to appropriate money for this purpose. The matter of the centennial exhibition coming up, Mr. Morrill, of Vermont, said the exhibition should le held but it should be national in its character. He therefore moved to strike oat the provision authoriz ing the president in the name of the United States to extend a respectful and and cordial invitation to the governments of other nations to be represented and to take part In an international exposition and to insert therefor a provision authorizing the president to extend a respectful and cordial invitation to the gover nors of each one of the United States to be present and take part in a national exhibition to bo given at Philadelphia, Ac. Mr. Morrill said if we were to have an international exhibition it should be held in New York. Ho thought that in 1SS0 the country would be prepared for an international exhibition. The celebration had been so managed by Pennsylvania that the whole of the loss, if any, would fall on the government of the United States, lie did not believe it would be proper for Philadelphia or Pennsvlvania to bear the whole expenses of the national exhibition and he was willing that the United States should contribute any reasonable amount to insure its success, but when money should be contributed from the national treasury, he would insist that the money from other sou ices should be on the same footing and subject to the same profit and loss as thai of the federal government. As a national exhibition, he would do all in his power to insurits success, but was quite sure it would be a failure as an international one. Mr. Sherman said that if congress should now change the character of the exhibition, the effect would be td release the subscriptions already made, including the million and a half from Philadelphia and Pennsyl vania. Mr. Cameron, of Pennsylvania, said he would not vote, as it would destroy the whole affair, and change the whole charac ter of the exhibition, and prevent the man agers receiving the money already sub scribed. He had been assured bv the een tlemen having the matter in hand that they would not ask another dollar beyond the three millions from the federal govern ment. He spoke in favor of giving the ex hibition an international character, and said the people were going to celebrate the one hundreth anniversary of there existence as a nation and it was proposed that representatives of the whole world should be in vited. They would be re spectfully received. Mr. coli, or i'ennsyivania said the amendment ot the girl from Vermont, (Mor rill) would accomplish nothing, as the original bill authorized the President to invite the co-operation of different states and commissioners from eacn state and territary had been appointed, tie would allow it to be taken for granted, but if his bill is passed - J 1 . 1 1 M iL. an appropriation wouiu u asKeu irom tne government, but every opportunity would be offeied the government of participating in the profits. Mr. Conkling said, as the bill stood before the Senate, il meant the com missioners should go on with the enterprise, and the United States would toot the bill Invite every land and every tongue to com here across the trackl sas neea sed brings their works, the United States paJ" ing the expenses. He would vote for the amendment upon its merits, knowing that the right of members of the corporation would not be injured. Mr. Morrill ot Vermont, said his object in controlling the amendment was friendly to the exhibition, and the meaning of it was to save at least ten millions to the treasury of the Unitad States. A national exhibition oould be carried on with just as much credit as an international one lor ten million dol lars. Mr. Ferry of Connecticus said the bill was here under false pretense. Up to the time that (Jen, Hawley announced in the House to the contrary, there had been a steady assertion that the government should never pay a cent. It was evident that there had been an attempt all the time since to commit the government. He (Ferry,) was in favor of the greatest celebration of the fourth of July 1870 that the country had ever seen and he was prepared to vote lor such a celebration on that day. He wanted to see the North and South come together, and bury every bloody memory of 1 o0f tK v.Dt oniuwrn.nnf,.tii..n have conflicting interests, and all give thanks to God for the goodly heritage left us by our fathers, Mr Cameron said Philadelphia was the proper place lor the exhibition, and it should be an international one. It was in that city great events in 76 took place, and no other place would be suitable for the celebration. If the state of Pennsylvania should be forced to hold the exhibition, she would have such an one as would do honor to her and put to shame all opposing, it. It an international exhibition was not to be held, let it be known now, and the opponents thereof could take upon them selves the responsibility of disgracing the country. l'hliadeipnia was the best city in the world for an exhibition and so . with ' the great state of Pennsylvania. When other states were in rouble she put out ber money without stint, and the blood of her people had llowed freely ro maintain the Union. Mr. Scott denied that there had been any false pretenses on the part or anybody in connection with the celebration as charged by tha senator from Connecticut (berry), Pending the discussion on Mr. Morrill's amendment, the Senate proceeded to the consideration of executive business, and soon after adjourned. HOUSE. BUTLER HAS A WORD FOR DISABLED SOL DIERS BARE-FOOTED SCHOOL-TEACHERS E. H. ROBERTS MAKES HIS LITTLE SPEECH A GENERAL JAMBOREE. Under the call of the states several bills were Introduced; by Mr, Ward of Illinois,

give flexibility to the currency without inflation, and to legalize the issne of the reserve of fl4,000,0oo, aud to make the same available for a time of extraordinary pressure; by Mr. McDill, of Wisconsin, granting the right of way to the Wisconsin Central and Wisconsin Valley railroad; by Mr. Scofield, of Pennsylvania, to cover into the treasury the bonds belonging to the Japanese and Chinese indemnity funds; by Mr. Myers,

- - 7 -J euMsjivauia, imposing a amy oi 6o per Mr u valorem on maccaroni and vermicell!. Mr. McCreery, of Iowa, presented resolutions of the Iowa legislature asking the passage of a law to prevent railroads and transportation companies from makinz un just charges or discriminations. Mr. Cotton, of Iowa, presented like resolutions in favor of the election ot United States senators by the people. Mr. Monroe, of Ohio, presented a bill for the purchase of Carpenter's painting of the signing of the proclamation of emancipation. Mr. Lutteroll, of California, presented resolutions orthe California legislature, asking congress to appoint a committee to investigate the affairs of contract and finances of the company of the Central Pacific railroad. Mr. Cannon, of Illinois, presented a bill for the admission of Utah into the union as a state. Mr. Butler, of Massachusetts, presented a bill to prevent the mal-ad ministration in the civil service officers against whom articles of impeachments have been presented, also to enable members ot congress to do public business with their constituents and other departments ot the government and to limit the frunking privilege to certain newspapers. The bill provides that during any session of congress, and for 30 days prior and subsequent thereto, all written and printed matter and such other thereof as have been ordere4 by either house for distribution, shall go free ot postage. The second section provides that all newspapers regularly printed, and not advertising sheets simply, shall go free ot postage through the mails in the county where they are published, but shall not be delivered under the free delivery system. The third section requires all postal matter to be prepaid. A bill was presented by Mr. Cason, of Illinois, ior tne appointment of a joint commission to examinee the national lines of water com munication. Mr. Tyner, of Indiana, moved to suspend the rules, and pass the bill suthorizine weekly newspapers tobe sent by mail within the county of their publication, and exchanges between publishers, to be transmitted free of postage. The House refused to accept the motion by lo to i5, and the bill was not received. Mr. Foit. of Illinois, made a like motion in regard to the circulation, bv the commis sioners of agriculture, of books, seeds, cuttlings, etc. The House refustd to accept it by a k in jaruer iimjuriiy. Mr. scolield. of Pennsvlvania. called the attention oi tne House to the fact that there were among themployes of the Uoue, in the fold eight of whom had lost a leg or arm. and that three others had sullered iniaries eiuiaiem in law. lie onered a resolution 1 1 A w . V directing the doorkeeper to retain those men In case of a reduction of the force of em ployes. After a considerable flurry the House refused to pass a motion Tor the pre vious question by G8 to JK). air. liutier, or Massachusetts, moved to suspend the rules and adopt the resolution au vising iieausoi aepartmenis and Of the House.that In discharging clerks.offlcers and employes from the public service in their several departments they shall dis charge civilians who have not been in the army or navy, and shall retain disabled sol d:ers f ni sailors and the wive", widows. uagnters ana sisters of solaiers and ii saiiors, proviaea mey are com petent to perform their respect ive duties, and provided that two members of one family shall not be employed in the same department in v ashinzton. and that it shall be in order for the committee on appropnauons 10 emoody tins proposition in one of the regular appropriation bills. Mr. Nesmitb, of Oregon, suggested satiric ally that the rule should be extended to congressmen. Mr. Cox, of New York, suggested in the same vein to make it apply to the speaker oi xne nouse. Mr. Butler's motion was agreed the resolution was adopted. to, and Mr. G. F. Hoar, of Massachusetts, moved to suspend the rules and adopt the resolution instructing the committee on the District of Columbia to report a bill compelling the payment of the wages of the school teachers or the District, lie remarked that they had not been paid since September last, and that the women teachers who are dependent on their wages, are compelled to go without shoes. The rules were suspended and resolution was adopted. the Mr. Piatt, of New York, moved to suspend the rules and adopt the resolution reciting the failure of congress to provide for the distribution of agricultural reports, and res cinding the order for the printing of 225,000 copies of the agricultural report for 1S72, and providing tor the abolition of the agricultu ral department by the first of January. 1875. ine motiou to suspend rules was not sec onded. Mr. Schuniaker. of New York, moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill extend ing to unnaturalized enlisted men of the navy and marine corps the same privileges as to obtaining citizenship, as unnaturalized enlisted men of tha army now have. After some informal discussion, the motion was agreed to and the bill passed. Mr. Maynard- of Tennessee, moved to suspeud the rules and make the currency bill the special order for Wednesday of nett week, to the exclusion of all other orders except appropriation bills. After various conllicting suggestions the motion was agreed to and the order made. Mr. Speer, of Pennsylvania, moved to sus pend the rules ard adopt the resolution di recting the Attorney General to transmit a detailed statement of the expenditures of the contingent fund of the depaitment of jus tice since its organization. Mr. Butler, of Massachusetts, objected on the ground that the information was already before a committee of the house. Mr. Speer denied that such was the case and said that the house and the country wanted information. The house refused to accept the motion by 09 to 84. and the reso lution was not received. Mr. Niblack, of Indiana, offered a resolu tion declaring it to be the sense of the House that any scheme for the improvement of the finances of the country would be un satisfactory and incomplete, which should not embrace the revision of the the tariff in the interest of the revenue and for the emancipation of commerce from all unnec essary restrictions, and instructing the committee on ways and means to enter upon and proceed with such a revision ot the tar iff. Referred to the committee on ways and means. Mr. Sener, of Virginia, offered a resolution authorizing the committee on contingentexpeuses of the department of justice to send for persons and papers and to take testi mony in reference to expenditures In the western district of Arkansas. Adopted. The House then went into the committee of the whole, with Mr. Hurlburt, of Illinois, in the chair. A DASH AT DAWES. SALART GRAB ELLIS SHOWS THE ECONOMY OF THE ADMINISTRATION A BEAUTIFUL AR RAT OF FACTS AND FIGURES THE COUNTRY PROSPEROUS AND FRUGAL. The order being bills to repeal the tax on RÄ of New York, re"l to the sph of Dawes in the opening debate on and bank cliecks. Mr. ü.. ix.

these bills. He argued that the estimtate

of the revenue which the secretarv of tha treasury had made for 1873-74, ought to be added from five to eight millions from the customs, and from ten to twelve millions rrom the internal revenue, and the increase arising from the improved condition of trade, so that instead of the reeeibts baincr 271 millions, as estimated bv the isecretury, J .v i III they would not be far from 2S$ millions. row prediction was based rn resolutions made since the date of the s secretarv'a reoort. On the other hand he lelt justified in stating that the expenditures for this fieal year could not overrun that statement of receipts. Tne actual expenditures for the seven months ending with the aist Jauuarv. exclusive of interest and the sinking fund.had beeu as ioiiows: j- or last three vears, seven months ending January, 1872, ?l79.Ko,0'-H); for 1S73, 175,OUO,0O0; for 174, )? 177,000,0 H). This last figure however embraced the expenditures made necessary in connection with the threatened troubles in Cuba. Leaving those :out. the expenditures for thp?!ftvmohths up to January. 1S74. were less than those ot the preceding year by ?2,440,G34, and the figures for February showed a further ditfierence in lavor of this year. He was therefore justified in conclud ing mat THE EXPENDITURES FOR 1873-4 WOULD NOT EXCEED THOSE OF 1872-3, as had been alleged by Dawes. The gentleman naa created a false impression in Congress and in stating that under the the country, in circumstances, the would be 193,the expenditures xpenditure for year 000,000. Even adding of $4,000,000 made in connection with the alarm about the Spanish troubles, the excess of this year's expenditures over last year's was less than 2,000,000. He asserted that the receipts from the revenue for the current would more than meet all the demand for ordinary expenditures and that therefore thev might congratulate themselves that the treasury would not go to protest. The. expenditures tor February of this year was lews than for 1-ebruary oi last year, while there bad been in the month just past a ieduction of the public debt by the amount of $2,590,000 so that they were annroachinir th next fiscal year with an improvinz treasury, and. with every indication that the balance against tnetrea.susy would be measured only by the amount of reserve that was ont He asserted that the actual condition of the country was that the revenues were improving and that congress was doing its duty and en forcing retrenchment. He did not believe it wise to be meddling all the time with the tax laws. THE LOCOMOTIVE BROTHERHOOD. THE RESULT OF THE CONVENTION A GENERAL HTRIKE TO BE INAUGURATED. A special dispatch from Cleveland to the Chicago Tribune says: The engineers' convention adjourned last night, and the ma jority ot the membei s left at once for home. Notwithstanding the extraordinary ef forts to keep the proceedings secret, the details of their work is now fully known. The majority which demanded the resignation of Chief Engineer Wilson was 120 to IS. A large majority was at first in favor ot an immediate strike. The aati strikers, however.included the strongest and wt men on th council, and their firmness and good sense saved the brotherhood, tern porarily at least, from a serious mistake. All of Thursday was spent in a wrangle over a proposition looking to a general striks and at the close of that day s meeting pretty bitter Jeeling had grown up letween the two parties, one accusing the other of cowardice, and the latter replying that their opponents were endeavoring to carrv the brotherhood headlong into a con test which would result in defeat and ruin The discuss'on wis renewed, in a som vwhat calmer tone, on Friday, but waxed hot as it proceeded, and at one nine a bolt or anti strikers was seriously threatened. This had the effect to tone down the other element, the more conservative portion oi wnicn urgea some middle ground upon which the ex tremes might meet. Subsequently a com pro mise was agreed upon wnicn contemplate? a strike only in certain future contingencies. whereas the demand of the element in favor of a strike was that it should be inaugurated at once. Under this arrangement It is un derstood that a demand will be made upon all railroad companies that 'nave made re ductions in the wages of their engineers to restore them to the former figures; and if this is not complied with a general strike will be ordered. WASHINGTON. THE RING AND BOOKS. BOSS SHEPHRED RISES HE EXPLAINS THE RING DOINGS MODEST DENIAL THE NATION PAYING FOR CAPITAL CORNER LOTS THE LATEST FRAUD. Washington, March 1. Governor Shep herd has replied to the interrogatories propounded by the committee appointed to investigate the affairs of the District of Columbia. The papers includs the original contracts made by the board of public works, numbering one thousand and thirty-two togeeher, with tho original measurements and vouchers, numbering 10,o3. in answer to a question as to the indebtedness ot Washington and Georgetown and Levy court when the new government went into effect, it is stated that J5,520,0i:ti was tne Donaeu aeDt oi tne district of Columbia. On January 1, 1S74, it was 15,527,850. The present assessed vaiuof the property is ?9o,44J,0, against 79 997.454 in 1871. The exhibit of the auditor shows that the actual cost of the work done under the contract with the boar d of public works was less than five per cent, in excess af the estimated cost. In reply to the qu estion, "What amount, if any. does the district government estimate ought to ba paid by the United Statesfor improvements of the pu blic property made by the district government," be says that the board ot public works in their report to the president, dated the first of November last, estimated mat lnaeoteaness, and gave an aggregate of fl,000,370. This, however, is a small portion of the sum equitably du 3 by the government. An account OI tne expenaitures maus uy ine citizens in their corporate capacity for the improvement ot the streets nd avenues of the city, and the roads and thoroughfares of other parts of the district. The streets and avenues are held In fee simfiie by the general government and accordng to a decision of the supreme court. Acting under such a construction the United States have in one case gained 397,280 square feet of land by enclosing the streets in the vicinity of the capital, which are worth, according to the apprisement of adjoining Eroperty, ?57G,05G. The general government as also ' obtained the ground reclaimed by filling up a canal worth as the valuation of the adjoining property I2,$00,000. It appears from the statement of the register that Irom 1S02 to 1871, when the new government went into operation, that 19,199,432 had been expended by the citizens under tha old corporation for public imnrovAmAnts. The expenditures of THE BOARD OF WORKS since the creation of the District govern ment have been on streets and avenues 15502,085 dollars. The total expencitares by citizens nince 1872. 2.476.217 dollars; the amount expended by the United Statessince I that perion on streets and avenues 4,4, G,oe

dollars showing an excess of expenditures by citizens over those of the government on improments on the streets, avenues and roads, nine-tenths of which are used exclusively by the government of 20,2Sö.411 dollars. Illinois shown that the real estate held by the United States in tho district cf Columbia fully equals, if it does not exceed in value, that owned by the citizens. It is suggested that were a plan adopted by which the government would reimburse to the district the amount of outstanding indebtedness of the United States on account of improvements, and annually thereafter contribute a just proportion toward the current exjnses as well as extinguishment of the local debt. Such an arrangement would I in accordance with strict equity, and would comparer favorably with the libeiality exhibited by other governments toward their capital cities. Under the acts ot congress and tho legislative assembly,? J,150,2::2 worth of property belonging lo churches, Ac, is exempted from taxation. The only aid granted by congress in defraying the current expenses of tfce District is an annual appropriation toward the support of the police, and it is hoped that it will adopt a similar course toward the schools, the fire department and the lighting of the streets. It is susrgested by the governor that authority bo given for funding the outstanding bonds into one consolidated loan bearing a fair rate of interest, and that the committee personally visit and inspect the various district offices and improvements in order that they may tee for themselves theaperation of the one and the value of other. The governor states that he had effected a negotiation for a loan based upon the tax. lien certificates sufficient to pay for the salaies of the school teachers and the memters of the police and fire distric'-s, but .owing to grave and unfounded imputations of the memorialists affecting the District government, the realization of the loan was deierred. The misrepresentations ot a few designing tier-

sons have, the governor says, cost the people of this municipality hundreds of thousands of dollars, and MICH SUFFERING. Referring to the sewer certificates, the governor encloses the opinion ot Messrs. Cushing and Black, to show their legality. acd as being in the nature of assessment certificates, and therefore forming no part of the indebtedness of the District govern ment. The reierences made to the statement in the assessor's report show that the humbler tax-payers have met their assessments uncompromisingly, and paid tentwelfths of the entire amount. The report of the treasurer of the baard of public works shows that thev have received to the 28th of February. f 15,23J,232 and expended $14,1)03,002. The assets of the board are stated to be . S37.W2 97, and the total liabilities, 45,529t5S. This is exclusive of the amount due by the United States government for improvements on its property. ITne total amount of certificates of settlement issued is175,4k 54 as follows :"For tilling in purposes, in the prosecution ot special imuroveuteuts done under contract, $12,294.094; for special improve ments outside thecontracts.including mater ial furnished not included in the measurements,2,(55,370; on account of miscellaneous expenditures other than special improve ments, and payable by special appropri ations, $1,329,010; on account of contingent expenses, pay of employes, etc.," JS98.011; on account öf water fund. $370,079. The answers of Governor Shepherd covered from l,.i00 to 2,00) pages of manuscript, and include replies to all the points of inquiry. An Imperial Ball. At the Winter P ace the other night, writes a St. Petersburg; wedding correspondent of the London Times, the ball room was lit by five thou sand six hundred wax lights, and the whole suite of saloons and supper rooms by twenty-six thousand six hundred. The exact number of persons who sat down to supper was one thousand nine hundred and fifty, and your readers may judge of the cost of the feast when I say that one dish, of which there was far more than enough for all, was of exceedingly fine asparagus. Now, they tell me that aparagus in St. Petersburg, at this time of the year for a supper of two thousand persons, could not possibly have oeen bought for less than four thousand roubles, or between five and six hundred pounds. This most delightful of balls at the Noble's Club did not end as well as it might have done. The getting of coats and hats and carriages was a most terrific and endless scene of noise and confusion, and we found it as hard to get out as the guests at the Elysee seem to have lound hard to get in. A whisper went round at one time that a gentleman had fallen down dead in one of the galleries, but I trust it was an exaggeration. I beard an officer repeat it to the woman on his arm. She looked young enough and beautiful enough to be immortal, and she must have felt so too, for her remark was, "How absurd!" The king of Bavaria is said to be tha most musical and least warlike of any of the German princes. He is devoted to the ballet, and devotes hours gazing from his box upon the airy, half nude forms of the graceful dancing girls. A day or two after the production of a new ballet the king (says Bavarian gossip), walking about the streets of his capital, met a soldier with one arm, and entered into conversation with him on the subject ot br wound, the circumstances under which he received it, and so on. The soldier replied abruptly, and then learning who it was that had done him the honor to addres him. made an apology. How was it you did not know me ' asked the monarch. " How could I? " replied the one-armed hero; "you never come to the army, and I never go to the theater. JUST OPENED. One case of B'ack Alpacas and Briliantines, fine quality yet cheap. Tweeds and Cassimeres for boys and men's wear. Heads of fam ilies should call to-day. Butteriek'snewspringpatterns for March. A. full assortment and all sizes. L S. AYRES & CO., Trade Palace. TWENTY YEARS YOUNGER. To say that hundreds of maids, wives and widows look twenty years younger than they are In' consequence of the complexlonal freshness derived from the use of Haoas' Magnolia Balm, is simply to state an absolute fact, which mlgut be promptly veritlM by direct testimony If ladles were as willing to tell their ages a to use the bestmeansof making themselves lovely Nature sometimes, but very rareiy, crowns tle charm of perfect features ith a complexion of exquisite claarp.fou; but even then time btjou boRius to make inroads upon the velvet cr-.eek, the fair white brow, the ivory bust, the rounded arm. To preserve the "glory of wonmn' unblemished, even afler tne meridian o? Ijf h been passed, it is only necessary to 110 daily tula cooling, heathful vegetable preparaUon. 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