Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 14, Number 45, Jasper, Dubois County, 13 December 1872 — Page 2

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ud t: to the favorable attention Ol Congns. The reivoi: .f Ah- Commissioner of Agrieulture gtvea very full aud in ereatiiig account of Che several divtaiuna of that depart -sneut tue hört u-ult und, agricultural, statistical. entom.Wogi al, aua cheaiioa' and the benenn- conferred by each won the agricultural interest of the oouutry. The whole avport ia a complete uiatorv in total of the working of that department inallita branches, abewing the manner in which the farmer, aerciiaut aud miner ia informed, and the stent to which In ia aided in hi purauita. The Commissioner makes one recommendation. Uiat nieaaures be taken by Congress to protect and reduce the planting of forests, and suggests that no part of the public landa should be lisnosed of without the condition that one-tenth of it aboald be reserved in timber where it exists, and where it does ot evict inJ.icemeut should be offered by planting it. In accrdaaee with the term of the act of Congress af proved March 3, 1S7I, providing for the celebration of the one hundredth anniversary of American independence, Comaaiasion has been organized, consisting of the two member from each of the Sta'e and Territories. The Commission has held two ease cs, and has made satisfactory progress in the organisation and in t' initiatory steps necessary for the carrying cut the provisions of the act, and for exceeding the provisions also of the act of Jane 1, 1ST1, creating a continual Bard of Finatc. A preliminary report of progress has been received from the President f the Commission, and is herewith transBitted. It will be the duty of the Commission at your coming :esion to transmit a report of the progress made, and to lay before you the details relating to the exhibition of American and foreign arts, product, and manufactures which, by the terms of the act, is t? be held under the auspices of the Government of the United States, in the city of Philadelphia, in the year 1S78. This celebration will be looked forward to by American cit;zcs with great interest, as making a century oi greater progrers and prosper ty than is recorded in the history of any other nation, and proving a further gojd purj ose in bringicg together on our soil the people of all the commercial nations of the earth, in a manner calculated to secure international good feeling. An earaeit desire hss been felt to correct abuses wh:ch have grown up in the civil service of the country, through tho de.'eive method of making appointments to rfiice, which have been regarded to- much as the rewaru of political services. Lnder the authority of Congress rules have been established to regulate the terms of office and the mode of appointment. It cannot be expected that any system of rule can be entirely effective and prove a perfect remedy fo- the existing evils till they have been thoroughly teste i uy actual practice and amended according to the requirements of the service. Dur.ng my term of office it shall be my best endeavor to so upply the rules as to secure th i greatest possible reform in the civil service of the Government. But it will require the direct action of Congress torenderthe enforcement of the system binding upon my successors, ani I hopo that the experience of the past year, together with appropriate letpslatios by Congress, may reach a satisfactory tolut on of this question, and secure to the public service for all time a practical method of ootaining taitufu! and efficient efficers and employe. I". 8. Gai.iT. Executive Mansion, Dec. 2, 1872. Second Comptroller's Report. The following are the most important points of the annual report of lion. J. if. Brodhead, Second Comptroller of the Treasury, for the fiscal year ending June IC, 1 72: The total account. of expenditure of the War and Navy Departments, and the Indian andPensinoOraces,sssettledar.u , adjusted at the Treasury Department, I during th above period, amounts to $37.945. This sum embraces the accounts of 'iisbursing officers of the War and Navy Department, and Indian a d Pension Offices, in part for war expenditures of the rebellion, as well as those 'ncurred since the wer: claims for bounty and prize money; claims of .States for war expenses, and of private peisons for property used, impressed, or lost in the military sertic of the United .States. The above accounts of expenditures are, witb the vouchers, examined by the Second. Third or Fourth Auditors of the Treasury, who have, by law, primary jurisdiction in their settlement. When examined by the Auditors and the balances certified, all of these accounts, with vouchers and certificates, are reports ' , by them to the Second Comptroller lor his decision. This officer causes a re- i vision of ecch settlement, thus reported, i to be made and a cet titled balance sent to the Secretary of the Department in wnicn tne expenditure has neen incurred. During the fiscal year the amounts of settlements thus far acted on and adjusted are as follows: From the Second Auditor, $170 2-;)n-u: Third Auditor, $170,955,764; Fourth Auditor, $23,689,462. The above ao eotmtx have been duly entere J, revised, and the balances found thereon certified to the Secretary of the Department in which the expenditure has been in aurred,viz.: Those from the Second and Third Auditors to the Secretary of War, ex?pting the accounts of the Indian Agents, which are certified to the Secretary of the Interior, and those from the Fourth Auditor to the Secretary of the Navy, which are classified thus: From the Second Auditor, embracing the accounts of disbursing officers of the War Department for collecting, organizing and drilling volunteers $751, 44S; PayBlasters' accounts for the pay ot officers and the pay and rations of soldiers of the army, 1132.789,140-, special and referred accounts, $10,051,429; accounts of Army Recruiting Officers for clothing, equipments, and bounty to recruits, etc., $262,27; ordnance, embracing the accounts of disbursing officers of the Ordnance I Apartment for arsenals, aruoiies, armaments for fortifications, arming militia, etc., $4.742.4 4; Indian Department, accounts of Indian Agents, including the pay of Indian annuities, juesents to Indians, expends of holding treaties, pay of interpreters, pay of Indian Agents, and the settlement of personal claims for miscellaneous service of agents and others in connection with Indian affairs, $24,042,904; medical and hospital aid accounts, including the

purchase of medicines, drugs, surgical instruments, hosp.tal store, the claims of private physicians for service, and surgeons employed under contract, $429,S1; expenses of the War Department, including expenses tor military contracts, secret service, etc., $2J5 ,729; Freedmen's Bureau, pay and bounty, $2,143,284; Soldiers Home, $4;!2t')94; National Volunteer Avlum, S4 17,7 13. Total. 17M993M. From the Third Auditor, Quartermasters' accounts for transportation of the Army and the transportation of all descriptions of army supplies and ordnance, and for the settlement of personal claims for services in the Quartermaster's Department, $125,.Li,0,59.!; Commissioners' accounts for rations and subsistence of the Army and Navy, and for the settlement of personal claims in the Commissary Department, $7,015.145: accounts of Pension Agents for the payment of military pensions, including the entries of the monthly reports of new pensioners added to the rolls, and the statement from the Cum-

HaWOMff ot Fens ons respecting the changes arising from deaths, transfers, etc., and for pension claims presentea for adjustment, $34,H27,S96; accounts of the Engineer Department for military surveys, the construction of fortifications, for river and harbor mrveys and improvements. $2,670.470; accounts for the relief of freed men and refugees, $1,561,655. Total, SI 70,955,764. From the Fourth Auditor, Marine Corps; first, Quartermasters of the Marine Corps, embracing accounts for the expenses of officers' quarters, fuel, forage for horses, attendance on courtsmartial and courts of inquiry, transportation of officers, and marines' supplies of provisions, clothing, medical stores an military stores, for barracks, and all incidental supplies for marines on shore; second, accounts of Paymasters of the Marine Corps for the pay of the officers .and the pay and rations of the marine11 $609,594. Paymasters of the Navy, accounts fcr the pay and rations of otliceis and crew, oi the ship supplies, of provisions, of clothing, and repairs of vessels on foreign stations, $4.494,161; Paymasters at navy yards, accounts for the pay of officers on duty at navy yards, or on leave of absence, and the pay of me chanics and lahorers on the various works. !? 10,050,264; Paymasters acting as Navy agents, accounts for their advances to Paymasters, purchases of limber, provisions, clothing, and naval stores, $74903,806. Navy Pension Agents' accounts for the DM of pensions ot officers and sea men, etc , ot the Navy, and officers and privates of the Marine Corps, $-!41.572. Tota!. 123 $89 462. Naval prize lists, claims revised during the year, soldiers' pay and bounty, $1,202,754; sailors' pay and bounty: $482,020; prize money, $110,003; Quarmasters' stores under the act of July 4, W4; property l-st, or destroyed, or captureu. etc., under the act of March '', 184'."; rent of buildings and land for th use of the War Department. $1,695,246. Oregon and Washington Territorywar claims, $12,157; claims of States for enrolling, subsisting, clothing, supplying, arming, equipping, paying, and transporting their troops in defense of the United Slates. $339,543; subsistence, $82 228. Total, $3,9044282. These settlements have been effected and requisitions for thj saino. t xosjptfor soldiers' and sailor's pay and bounty, have been issued by the War, Treasury, and Interior Departments to the number of B,454. With the Second Comptroller are filed the contracts of ihe Quartermaster's Department, the Commissary of Subsistence, the N.'.vy Department, the Engineer Department, the Indian Department, the Ad jutant Ol iHf ml l Department, the Freedmen's Bueau, Ordnance Department, Surgeon General, charter patties, contracts and leases. Total during the year, 1,130; a'tso, the official bonds of disbursing officers of the War and Navy Departments, and the Indian Department, nun.ber 6S. The pensions have slightly decreased from the preceding year, the decrease being $4411.224. Total for the last fiscal year, $34,76,120. The bounty io soldiers has decreased from $2 522 690 in 1871, to $1,202,754 in 1872. A Queer Scene in Church. In a fashionable Scotch church in London (the correspondent of the Dundee AJvrrtiee.r writes) there has been a u scandalous" little incident, very painful to one unfortunate man, and veryamusing to many others. A gentleman, well known in society, recently deserted his wife, and she, poor creature, has since been roaming about the world in search of him. Having been informed that her husband " worshiped" pretty regularly in the church alluded to, she went there in a rage, and during the service fixed her eyes on a highly respectable elder, who, though not her husband, was amazingly like him. Immediately after the services concluded, the excited woman rushed from the gallery where sho had been sitting, and, without waiting to make certain whether she was right or wrong, seized the unfortunate elder by the whiskers and poured a shower of blows on his head. Before her mistake was made known to her and an explanation given, the poor elder's frontispiece was black and blue, lie did not give the woman into custody, but, like a good Christian, took her home with him to dinner. John 8. Livinqstoxe, a brother of Dr. Livingstone, the explorer, has a apacious store at Listowell, Canada, and hangs out a sign, " Drugs and Patent Medicines, Toilet Goods, etc." He is a cultured and highly intelligent gentleman, and believes implicitly in the correctness of Stanley 's representations in ret ard to iiis brother.

THE INDIANS.

Annunl Itonart al'lha I aniiiiUalaner ol lam va. llun Allwlra-Thr Halle ot Krrdlna v ihr Pailrr al nabilu The I'rraen Number of Mi vn sea How Tue? are Sa I'ff.rnl vortra The annual report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs is too lengthy to admit of its publication in full in these columns. The document opens with an exposition of the Indian policv of the Administration, in which the Commissioner remarks that the Indian policy, aocalled, of the Government, is a policy, and it is not a policy, or rather it consists of two policies, entirely distinct, seeming, indeed, to be mutually inconsistent and to letlect each upon the other ; the one regulating the treatment of the tribes which are potentially hostile, that is, whose hostility is only repressed just so long as, and so far as, they are supported in idleness by the Government; the other regulating the treatment of those tribes which, from traditional friendship, from numerical weakness, or by the force of their loca tion, are either indisposed toward, or incapable of, resistance to the demands of the Government. The treatment of the feeble Poncas and of th- friendly Arrickarees. Mandnns and (iros Ventres of the North, is an example of the latter; while tho treatment of their insolent ami semi-hostile neighbor, the Sioux, furnishes an example of the former. In ihe same way at the South the treatment of the well intentioned Papagoes of Arizona contrasts just as strongly with the dealings of the Government by their traditional enemies, the treacherous and vindictive Apaches. This want of completeness and consistency in the treatment of the Indian tr'bes by the Government has been made the occasion of much ridicule and partisan abuse ; and it is indeed calculated to provoke criticism, and to afford scope for satire i but it is none the less compatible with the highest expediency of the situation. It is no more unreasonable, the Commissioner says, that the Government should feed and pamper hostile and treacherous Indians, while at the same time denying the same indulgences to other and friendlier tribes, than that a citizen should deliver his purse to a highwavman to save his life. It is not to be understood that the Government is ertirely at the mercy of the hostile Indians, but thousand- of citizens upon the frontier are, and their position on th verge of settlement affords justification for buying off'the hostility of the savages, excited and exapcrateias they are by the invasion of their hunting grounds. It would require 100,0 0 troops at least to form a cordon sufficient to protect the frontier settlements by force of arms alone ; indeed, the presence of no military force could give that confidence to pioneer enterprise? which the geueral cessation of Indian hostilities has engendered. Tue Commissioner trocceds at length to thow the evils which would result from the breaking out of an Indian war. There are innumerable little rifts of agricultural or mining settlements all over the western country which, if un-mole-ted, will in a few years become self-protecting communities, but whioh, in the event of a general Indian war occurling at the present time, would utterly and instantly disappear, either by abandonment or massacre. Besides, argues the Commissioner, a genera! Indian war could not be carried on with t ie present military fort e of the United States. Regiments would be needed where now are only companies, and long lines of posts would have to be established for the protection of regions which, undertne present feeding system, are now left wlolly uncovered. After commending the policy of patience and forbearance that has hitherto been exercised toward the savages of the plains, the Commissioner proceeds : It belongs not to a sanguine but to a sober view of the situation, that three years will ee the alternative of war eliminated irom the Indian question, and the most powerful and hotiie bands of to-day thrown into entire helplessness on the mercy of the Government. Indeed, the progress of two years more, if not of another summer, on the Northern Pacific railroad will, of itself, completely solve the great Sioux problem, and leave the 90,000 Indians ranging between the two trans-continental lines as incapable of resisting the Government hs are the Indians of New York or Massachusetts. Columns moving north from tne Union Pacific, and south from the Northern Pacific, would crush the Sioux and their confederates as between the upper and the nether millstone; while the rapid movement of troops along the. northern line would prevent the escape of the savages, when hard pressed, into the British possessions, which have heretofore afforded a convenient refuge on the approach of a military expedition. Towards the south the day of deliverance from the fear of Indian h stility is more distant : yet it is not too much to expect that three summers of peaceful progress will forever put it out of the power of the tribes and bands which at present nisturb Colorado, Utah, Arizona, and New Mexico to claim consideration of the country in any other attitude than as pensioners upon the national bounty. The Commissioner says that the Government ought to extend over the Indians a rigid reformatory discipline, to save them from falling hopelessly into the condition of pauperism and petty crime ; that it should exercise over them a system of paternal control, requiring ihem to learn and practice the arts of industry, and discourage indolence, vagabondage and vice, and that the reservation system affords the place for thus dealing with them. "In a word," he snys, "in the 275,000 Indians west of the Mississippi, the United States have all the elements of a large gipsy population, which will inevitably i

become a sore. A well-nigh intolerable atlliclion to all that region, unless the Government shall provide for their instruction in the arts of life, which can only be done effectually under a pressure not to be resisted cr evaded." The Commissioner submits a detailed account of the number, the location, and the present condition of each tribe and important baud within the administrative control of the Indian Office, lie says : The Indians within the limits of the United States, exclusive of those in Alaska, number, approximately, 800,000. (a) They may be divided according to their geographical location, or range, into five graud divisions, as follows : In Minnesota and States east of the Mississippi river, about u2,500 ; in Nebraska, Kansas, and the Indian Territory, 70,650; in the Territories of Dako'a, Montana, Wyoming, and Idaho, 65,000 ; in Nevada and the Territories of Colorado, New Mexico. Utah, and Arizona, 84,000; and on the Pacific slopi, 4S.0OO. (A) In respect to the three lines of railroads built or projected between the States and the Pacific ocean, viz., the Northern, Central and Southern .on tos, they may be divided, excluding those residing east of Minnesota and of the Missouri river, south of Dakota, as follows : Between the proposed Northern route and the British possessions, about 36,000; between the Northern and Central routes, 92,000; between the Central and the proposed Southern routes, 61,000; and between the Southern route and Mexico, 85,000, making a total of 274 tKX). (e) As regards their means of support and methods of subsistance, they may be divided as follows: Those who support themselves upon their own reservations, receiving nothing but from the Government, except interest on their own moneys, or annuities granted them in consideration of the cession of their lands to the United States, number about 130.000 ; thoie who are entirely subsisted by the Government, about 31,IKK); those in part subsisted, 84,000 together about 115 000; those who subsist by hunting and fishing, upou roots, nuts, berries etc., or by begging and stealing, about 55,0K). (d) They may be divided again, with respect to their connection with the Government, as follows i There are about 150,000 who may be said to re

main constantly upon their reservations, and are under complete control of agents appointed by the Government ; 95,000 who at times visit their agencies either for food or ior gossip, or for both, but are generally roaming either on or off their reservation, eogtafled in hunting or fishing: and 55,000 who never visit an agency, and over whom the Government as yet exorcises practically no control, but mot of whom are inoffensive, and commit not acts of hostility against the Governnif nt. () Again it may be said that of the 300,00 I Indians of the country about 180,000 have treaties with the Government; 40.000 have no treaties with the United States, but have reservation" set apart by executive order or otherwise, for their occupancy, and are in charge of agents appointed by the Government; 26,000 have no reservations, but are more or les.-, under the control of agents appointed for them, and receive more or less assistance from the Government, tlie remainder consisting of the same 55,000 already twice described, over whom the Government exercises, practically, no contro!,and for whom liiere are no treaty or other provisions. (f) As to civilization, they may, though with r.o great degree of assurance, be divided, according to a standard taken with reasonable reference to what might fairly le expected of a race with such antecedents and traditions, as follows : Civilized, 97.000; semi civilized, 125,000; wholly barbarous, 78,000. Here follows a detailed description of each tribe and important band in the United States : In addition to the .ibove, the report contains chapters upon : 1. The orginizition of the Indian service in the field. 2. The Indian service and the relig ious societies. 3. The Indians and the railways. 4. Indian lands. 5. The Indians and tho army. 6. The legislation of the last session, and the action had thereon. 7. Special commissions sent out Iiiring the year. 8. Indian delegations visiting Washington during the year. 9 Recommendations for legislation at the approaching session of Congre.s. The Arts of Blackmailers. Blackmailing in New York has become a profession. It is carried on, says Matthew Hale Smith, in his letters to the Boston Journal, mainly by women with a man in the background. The other night a banker, who was starting home in bis carriage at the close of business, was approached by a woman, well dressed, modest in appearance, and apEarently in distress. She was a stranger, ad come down to meet a friend, he had not come, would the gentleman be kind enough to tell her the way to the street named (naming the one in which the banker lived), was never in New York before, did not know what she should do, no hacks, no horse-cars running. The banker offered her a seat in his carriage, and left her at the desired point. The next day, in the rush of business, a lad came in and said a lady wished to speak to the gentleman, in her carriage. On going out he discovered the identical woman whom lie had aided the day before. She wanted $1,000, and if she did not receive it down town she would call for it at his house some evening. The report is that the merchant wss bled to the tune of $3,000, when he thought it was time to hand the case over to the authorities, and the whole affair will have an airing in due time.

Personal or the Indiana Legislature. The ' personal" ttatistics of the bjm Legislature of Indiana, jtit OMBpile I show that the Senate exhibits an extr , ordinary average height and, avc ;rlu pois. Forty-tiv- members have n flga of 5 feel 10 6 45 inches, ttn,l atl ' enge weight of 164 27 45 pound-, fas averare sge is 44 32-45 years. The tall, est man is President Fricdley, wli,, stands 6 feet 3$ inches, and the shortest is Mr. Dwiggiiis, who measures 5 feet inches. Kleven members are 6 fet aju upward. The heaviest man bDr.Oli. ver, of Indianapolis, who turns the seals of 225 ; and the lightest niau, physicn. ly, is Dr. Dwiggins, of Jasper Musty who balsnces 130-pound Wright, flis oldest man is Mr. Carnahan, of 1V.,.V county, who has spent three score yean and ten, less one, in this vde. of tear, and the youngest is Mr. Daugherty, o' Wella county, over whose head twerm eight brief summers havo passed. Then are 5 merchants, 14 lawyers, 5 inanutv turers, 14 farmers, 1 banker, 2 phy. cians, 2 editors, 1 lumber dealer, ami farmer and lawyer among tne fortvfive. DriMMU or Inuiuistion. Who of our readers haa not suffered from the ills and varied forms of this hydralieaded tormentor, which originates from loss of tone iu the stomach, or more particularly in its muscul ir or fibrous coating, which becomes pale and feeble. It would require pages to describe all the symptoms and variou sympathetic affections of indigestion, and the torture to which the dyspeptic is subjected, but which may be compressed into one brief comprehensive sentence: You ftel (, depressed, , unfit fit the duties vf life. Nevertlielc-.-. there is nothing more certain than that dyspepsia, in all its phases, can be thor oughly eradicated. There is but one way to cure lndieition, viz. : by toning and ItrCOgthenins the stomach and general system, gently relaxing the bowels if constipated, and regulating the liver if disordered. A remedy lor this human peace-destroyer is California Vineuak Bitteks. which have the rare merit of containing si alcohol, the virtues of the medicinal Californian Plants, which CanttitQtS their healing and curini; BgeoeiM, being extracted by a new chemical pro cess. The popular verdict is that tori are the Bjtsjtf perfect article for the lOfl ; and are to be taken as Ctrcumstancei may require, with the fullest confidence,

anil that by their means can the return of this distressing malady be pusvenUd, We are satisfied this remedy it of great value. The lawyers cannot complain of their treatment in the selection of delegate to the Pennsylvania Contitutional Convention. Ot the 133 members, 93 are lawyers. Herring's Safes Airain TrtlUflllfi A telegram says : " Another Berriag's ssffl rescued from the Boston rums. Kveiytlmit: saved. Nothing lost in Herring's safes in tins lire." S.icli fuets need uo c omment. Derriag A Co. 'a office is at 4tJ Stale Ht,, Chicago. Cable Si he Wike Hoots axi Snot'. A word of explanation mav not le out m place. The cahic wire acts as a BOMW, is stlWM and firm, and at t lie same time is elastic' awl comfortable. If is much preferable, to the old method of pegging;, and pitte as soft and h--tic as saaOQ work, hut much strongei and i'--liatdo to rip. and much leas expensive. We have tried the cable screw shoe, which laproved all that is claimed for it. The lucfsite in this new method of ): mufaetiiriiig boots and hoes is verv rapid, aud promi os to supersede the "vood peg and waxed tlnvi.1. TV Millions or PAIItof shoe-tipped with metal are sold every year. For children s shoes they are absolutely indispensable, unless one can afTjrd the Waats of buying' tWO pur-' wheu only one would be n ieded : anil few can safely submit to such a constant leaK . With most people it is the little economies si the household that supply its members witii comfort, and at the same time make the lew of the lather of moderate means a lighter ose to loar. Cents invested in the purchase ot metal-tipped shoes save many a liard-eaitieJ dollar. AwHrtOUH Workman. A sinoi.e trial will convince anv WW of the very groat value of "The tinea? Toilet," for the Complexion. Com. Oi r Bovs, for December, is enlarsed to sixteen pages and sixty-four columns, ruaaingitono of tho largest and most WlM sjW journals for the youth m America. I' eontains two grand serials, ".sturdy and Steady, and " Lance and Lasso," with tifte n uplcto sketches, poetrv, games, head-work, editorials, etc. Illustrated. Edited Cmuam Dimil. i year. Tweotv-flT cents allowed on small clubs. Send stamp br specimen to Our linis, Chicago. For Dvsiei'SIA. Indigestion, depres sinn of spirits, and general debility in tlW various forms; also, as a preventive H feverand agii,and other intermittent fevers the " Ferro-Fhospliorated Klixirol Calis.iy, ' made bv Caswell, Hasard A Co., New York, and sold bv all druggists, is the best tonir, ami as a to'nie for patients recovering from fever or other sickness, it has no e-pjal. Com. Wide Awakk Youth's Paper. For judicious editing, select and popular cotitrils utors. and spriglitlv, entertaining roauini,. the Ymith'n Companion, of Hosten, has BO superior among the youths' publications. Wantbo. A reliable and intelligent man of good address, to engago in an BfW -able and lucrative business producing mm 1 500 to T,f)nO per yoir. Addross J. ' FORI) A CO., New York, Boston, Chicago, or Han Francisco. Com. Pub Peter the Great iron clad, according to Mr. Reed, ex -chief constructs of the English navy, is the most power ful iron-clad in the world. Bar enough to look and f,el . yourself i but no excuso for having your norlook aud feel badly, when for a small can buv Sheridan' Cavalry Condition y der, winch, given iu grain two or three um a weok, will mako htm look and feel wen. Doour'a" Yea-t Powder is the cheapest, but not tho lowest priced. sktWsf rn dor. Elegant Biscuits, Rolls, Ac, pUf"" in a few minutes. Com. The Elmwood Collar will keep djj longer nnd look better than any other coi Ask for the l'.iuiwood. Coin.