Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 December 1879 — Page 4

lUnsstlaerJlepttblirait. MAJOR BITTERS * SON, PiMUAer* and Pr RENSSELAER, " : INDIANA. i

THE NEWS.

The Indiana Republican State Central Committee met at Indianapolis on the 25th, and determined to issue a call for a State Convention to be held on the 25th of next February. The following is the official rote of Nebraska: Cobb, Supreme Judge, 25,286 plurality ; Carson, for Regent of the University, majority; Garnett, Regent, 266 majority. These were the Republican candidates- Weaver, Pound, Post, Barnes and Gavlin, Republicans, and Savage, Democrat, were elected District Judges, Ja Washington special of the 28th says the belief was fast becoming general among army officers there that a severe Indian war is impending. A gentleman who ■ had recently returned from the West, and who had lived for three years among the Indians, had said that there would be more Indian fighting during the next year than since the'Seminole war. lOn the 26th William H. Vanderbilt sold to a syndicate,'' composed of Drexel, Morgan A Co., of New York, and of 8. Morgan, of London, $25,001,000 of New York Central and Hidsoa River Railroad stock at 120. For this Mr. Vanderbilt received $15,000,000 in Government bonds, and will receive a like amount later. This is the largest stock sale ever consummated in this country. Mr. Vanderbilt will retain the management of the Central. % General Francis Walker, Superintendent of the Census, In hfs annual report, Says the Census law enacted at the last regular session of Congress is found to be thoroughly satisfactory in its practical working, and be recommend’* only two minor changes , —that the franking privilege be extended to communications addressed to the Census Office, and that inquiry relating to holders of the public debt be omitted from the population schedule as useless and aggravating. The Attorney General stated on the 24th to the Washington correspondent of the Chicago InUr-Ormn that without any amendment to the Constitution Congress can pass an act for the protection of trade-marks which will not be open to any of the Objections on accouut of which the Supreme Court iield the present law unconstitutional. In #ie opinion of the Attorney General, the fault with ilie act declared unconstitutional was in its form and detail, amt the Constitution docs not deny protection to trade-mark property.'.

The Assistant Attorney-General for the Poet-Office Department has given an opinion to the Third Assistant PostmasterGeneral to the effect that lottery letters reaching the Dead-Letter office may be returned to the senders, and that a letter must be Addressed to a lottery agent, as such, to warrant its detention. The Postmaster-Gen-eral, in accordance with this decision, has directed that lottery letters be returned to the senders. The suit in the District of Columbia against the Postmaster-General was, on the 26th, certified to the Supreme Court of the United States. Several witnesses who were former employes in the Custom House at New Or- *- leans testified before the Kellogg-Spofford Investigating Committee on the 24th to the effect that money had been {laid to secure the election of Senator Kellogg. Denis- Kearney, the San Francisco agitator, was fined twenty dollars in the San Francisco Pblice Court on the 24th, for carrying concealed deadly wcafions.. The charge of disturbing a public meeting was continued. V • < Mr. Gladstone made a furious attack on Lord Beaconsficld at Edinburgh, Scotland, on the 25tli. in which he characterised the Premier a* a veteran trickster and political posturcr, devoted to hi* own selfish interests regardless of the true interests of the realm. pkvitt, another of the alleged -agitators, was held to bail for trial in the sum of s’Ltoooh the 25th. ' , An alarm of fire in a St. LoUis < school building on the 26th caused a stampede among the teachers and pupils. In the mad rush for the street a dozen scholars were badly trampled upon and Injured, and a very much larger number received slight hurts. A L°s Pinos telegram received • at Lake City, Col., on the 27th says thafl|fct the meeting of the Commission on the rcported the arrival the night before of a runner from Douglas’ camp, with information that, owing to the advance of the troops, the L intahs had left the agency and the reservation to join Douglas, pre;>ared to fight; that the White River Utes declined to return, and Jack had sent word that he would not come to the agency until the Uintahs’ trouble was settled. Some of the Commission donbted this rfeport, believing it a rose to save time, ' nr that the Mormons were at the bottom of it. Should it prove true the work of the Commission would for the jiresent be a failure. At the municipal election in Providence, Ik 1., a few days ago, Thomas A. I>ojle, Republican, was elected Mayor for the fifteenth time, receiving 2,923 votes to 2,648 h»r his opponent. The vote on granting.license to sell intoxicating liquors was 2,101 in favor of, and 1.-atiO against, such license. Several witnesses in Kellogg’s behalf were examined before the Kelloge-Spofford Committee at -New Orleans on the 26th and 27th. They denied that they were bribed to vote for Senator Kellogg, and one of them stated that he had not dared for two years, on account of his polities, to visit the parish w here his family lived. On cross-examina-tion the same witness admitted tha^he had been accused of murder, but was sure it was his Republicanism that le*l the people of his pariah to* threaten him should he return there. v

Late advices from the Arctic regions aretiot encouraging f or the success.of the cxpcdttimi of the Jeannette. It was feared the ship would freeze up in the |«ck-ice and have to be abandoned! A whaling bark which arrived at Bau Francisco on the 27th from the Arctic Ocean broiight the officers and crew of a bark abandoned in the ice on the 24th of October and another vessel frozen in near by. \ Dublin dispatch of the 28th anno nees the murdSr of a bailifT who was executing some processes on a farmer near Sneer, Countjr Kerry. - * Killen, the hist of the three Sligo agitators, has been also held to bail for trial Intelligence reached Constantinople VnWhT tbe m^*cre of Ahmed Mukhtar Pasha and almost the whole of his command, by the Arnouts, at Uusingi. The porte-monnaie of Mrs. Meeker, f°“ t * i 1 nl , n £ thirty-one dollars, taken from her by Chief Douglas at the time of her capture was to Los Pinos Agency on the Joth, Douglas sending it by a runner to Chief Ouray, who delivered ft to Agefet Stanley. Before the Spofford-Kellogg lnv’estipwting Committee on the 2Sth one of the witnesses—a discharged employe of the Internal * Revenue Office— testified that Morris Marks had told him that he “could not take care of his own friends whilst this fight wai being made on Kellogg; that he had appointed edm to keep them from ‘squealing' on Kellogg." A letter put in evidence on the 27th denying that the writer (one Milon) had signed an affidavit against Kellogg was acknowledged "by Milon. and a comparison of B S*L Ure * ® h ° Wed tUt h * not sign he affidavit. The Manager of the Western* In ion Telegraph Company stated that the demand on him for dispatches called for only those delivered to Mr. Kellogg, and that those from that gentleman had recently shipped to New York by order of Superintendent Merriweather. Louisville, Ky , was visited by a tornado on the morning of the 28th. Two or three dozen houses were unroofed and otherwise injured, and there was a wide-spread destruction of trees, fences sn<j shrubbery. The loss was about * in,030 «.

Synopsis of Report of the Secretary of War.

Washington, November ft The following is a synopsis of the an> nual report of Secretary-of-War McCrary: The Secretary, In referring to the ITte outbreak. takes the ground that the Government •fcouid Insist on its demands for the surrender and punishment of the Indians responsible for the Meeker massacre, and the treacherous attack upon Major Thornburgh's command. The Secretary recommends the sale and abandonment of certain military posts, and concurs in General Sherman’s recommendation that the army be fixed at 25,000 men, exclusive of those on detached service. He has reduced the Engineer’s estimates for river and haihor improvements during the next fiscal year from 114.000,000 to KUHkOtt. and he haa also made a reduction of over S3.QGOJ)OO from estimates (aggregating about $10,000*000) which were submitted for all other public works under the War Department. si:real- or militabt jnmci. “The Judge Advocate General reports, among other items of business, the receipt and review at his bureau of 1.673 records of general courts-martial, and the furnishing to the Secretary of War of 888 reports and opinions on questions of law. “ He reports the convictions for desertion as increased during the past year by twenty-four, and expresses the opinion that the two principal or most conspicuous causes of desertion In the army are: 1. Drunkness, or rather indulgence in Intoxicating liquors; fi. Oppressive or injudicious treatment of soldiers by non-commissioned officers, and especially First Sergeants of companies Invested with an excess or authority. “He also recommends that the legislation heretofore Initiated in the Senate for making gambling In the army a punishable offense be renewed, and that the bill heretofore proposed for the purpose, or some similar provision, be enacted by Congress. “In view of the standing reward offered for the apprehension of deserters,'and the duty Incumbent by law upon public officers to effect their arrest when practicable, courts-martial are usually inclined to consider, in the absence of evidence that a deserter’s whereabouts were known to the military authorities, that while absent he was not amenable to justice. Nevertheless, the controversy that is continued on this subject cannot fail to injuriously affect the discipline of the military service, by tending to extenuate in the minds of enlisted men the responsibility for this grave crimes and leading those disposed to desert to believe that by hiding for two years they may escape punishment. Nor is the question confined to deserters alone, sinoe it might equally arise in the case of a mutineer or other offender Against the articles of war, who might escape and evade arrest by secreting himself for more than two years. “As a settlement of the whole question upon a satisfactory basis, I would advise, in conformity with the views of the Judge Advocate General, that some certain term of amenability be fixed in the case of deserters. This term, however, ought not, in my opinion, to be too short, lest a hope of speedy immunity should be held out to encourage a crime already too prevalent; nor should the law to be enacted be complicated by any proviso in reference to the offenders having been within or without the territorial domain of the United States, which, as a rule, it would be wholly Impossible for the Government to ascertain or prove. QUARTERMASTER'S DEPARTMENT. “The Quartermaster General reports that the expenditures of the Quartermaster’s Department during the fiscal year have been $10,758,001.11; that $12,136.50 was transferred from the appropriation for support of the military prison to, the Commissary Department on account of subsistence of prisoners; that $198,108.36 has been covered Into the surplus fund in tbte Treasury, and that the balance to credit of Quartermaster’s Department appropriation in Treasury on 30th of June, ltfiS, was $1,218,701.15. “The expenditures of the Department have decreased. In 1874 they were $14,558,317.11; in 1878 they were $10,758,001.11.

“He recommends the enlistment of PostQuartermaster’s Sergeants, much needed to give personal care to property and supplies, and preserve knowledge of business affairs ana condition of buildings and property at posts., now lost by frequent changes of station or the lieutenants who act throughout the army as Pijst Quartermasters, and who, being attached to companies, are replaced every time a company is detached and ordered to a new post. He also recommends that these lieutenants, when their detail as A. A. Q. M. has been approved by the Secretary of "War, be allowed slu per month extra pay as compensation for responsibility amt risk of loss involved in the care of money and supplies. In these recommendations 1 fully concur. “The Department moved during the year 50,177 persons, 4.921 beasts, and 130,440 tons of supplies from the settlements to the military posts, many of which are in the far interior and at the end of long lines of communication. The cost of this transportation was <2.215,968.05. “Tne embarrassment and expenditure arising in the legislation against the land-grant railroads still continue, and the repeal or this special legislation, which would leave these Questions and claims to be settled on the principles of law and equity decided to be applicable by the Supreme Court, is again recommended by the Quartermaster General amfi •occurred in by me. “The Pacific Railroads transported 10,488 persons. 1,766 be-*-»t 3 ami 52.147.552 pounds of supplies during the year. At their regular tariff rates the value ot this service was $721,913.40. The total value of the military transportation over these roads to June 30, 1879, is $10,>2.311.U I .'. “The raiiroails who purchase*! material from the Quartermaster's Department, under executive orders of October, 1865, still owed the Unite*! States, on the Ist of July last, the sum of $1,RC,«n7.11. Of this amount the Nashville Sc Northwestern Railroad, which is insolvent. owes <908.55d.27, which .amount it is not supposed wtil ever be paid. CLAIMS UNDER ACT OF JULY 4, 1864. 1 “ In the investigation and examination for claims for compensation for Quartermaster's stores taken by the army, under the act of July 4, In:4. the sum of $132,825.52 has been expended during the year: 2,460 claims for nearly two millions of dollars have been investigated, and on these the investigating agents recommended allowance of one-fourth of a million; 3,7145 claims have been considered during the year, amounting to $3,188,658.55; I,BB7have been reported to the Treasury, with recommendation for allowances amounting to $121,568396. Under this law 40,748 claims have been filed for $30,557,014.99 ; 9,905 have been reported on favorably for allowance of $4,143,982.R5: 19,194 have been rejected, amounting to 523.2 ti. 55. “NEW MILITARY POSTS have been under construction on the Yellowstone or Milk River, near the northern boundary line, on the line of communication of the renegade Indians who fled into British America; on Lake Chelan, in Northern Washington Territory, and on the north fork of the Canadian River, in the Indian Territory; also on Bear Butte Creek, in, the Black Hills, Dakota. Other military posts were authorized by law at El Paso, Texas; at Pagosa Springs, CoL, and on the Niobrara River, in Nebraska. - . MILITARY CEMETERIES. “The military cemeteries, eighty In number, arc in good order, and improve In beauty as cultivation improves. I caused the materials of the ancient portico of the old War Department, on its demolition to make room for the new building, to be transferred to the Arlington Cemetery, where the old columns and entablature have been used In constructing two handsome and appropriate entrances to that cemetery. It Is suggested by the Quartermaster General that the cemetery affords ample space, without encroaching on the • ground occupied by the soldiers of the war, to be used as a National Government cemetery for the interment of members of Congress and officers of all services of the United States who may die at the Capital or whose friends may desire for them such a place of sepulture.

SUBSISTENCE DEPARTMENT. “<Thc Commissary General recommends that i the appropriation for subsistence of the army be made available from the passage of the act making it, in which recommendation I concur. “ Supplies, as a rule, are purchased from producers and manufacturers or importers nearest points of consumption, when consistent with a due regard to economy and the procurement pf stores of a proper quality. “ The enactment of a law authorizing the Commissary General to detail such officers of the Subsistence Department as may be necessary to investigate claims not already decided upon by the Cbmmiss&ry General, or which, having been decided, may be reopened on account of new evidenoe submitted, is recommended. MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. “ The total number of deaths from all causes reported among the white troops was 266, or twelve per 1,000 of mean strength. Of these, I*2, or seven per 1,000 of strength, died of disease. and 101, or five per 1,000 of strength, of wounds, accidents and injuries. The proportion of deaths from all causes of cases treated was one to 142. The total number of white soldicra reported to have been discharged the serv ice on 4 Surgeon's certificate of disability’ was 677, or thirty-one per 1000 of mean strength. ‘‘The total number of deaths of colored soldiers reported, from all causes, was 28, or 14 per 1,000 of mean strength. Of these, 15, or 8 per 1.0(0 of strength, died of disease, and 18, or 6 per 1.000 of strength, of wounds, accidents and injuries. The proportion of deaths from all causes to cases treated was Ito 140. The total number of colored soldiers reported to have been discharged on ‘ surgeon’s certificate of disability* was 42, or 22 per 1,000 of mean strength. rAT DEPARTMENT. "The Paymaster General states that the Freedmen's Bureau, for payment of bounties, etc., to colored soldiers, organised in 1867, and transferred In 1873 to the Adjutant General, Is now in operation in the Pay Department, under the act of March t, 1879. REPORT OV THE CHIEF OF ENGINEERS. '■ "The report of the Chief of Engineers states that work upon our sea-ooast defenses has been limited, in accordance with the terms of the act of March 23,1878, to their protection, preservation and repair. For the reason that 2£JSk«IS k»ps, of light-houses, to the destructive and deteriorating effects of the sea, the amount heretofore appropriated for these objects has proved insufficient, many necessary works of repair and protection remaining" unexecuted at the close of the last flacal year for want of funds. Preservation and °°®P let J° n ot certain public works on rivers snd harbors, and the surveys and examinations connected therewith, have been prosecuted gays approved June 1(£ 1878, and the balances S.SrfSjJ?’?'®* oo " -’“‘■“■W -M----execVV?n ot all works provided for In the River and Harbor act, approved March 8. 1879, for which the plans and projects have been approved, is being proceeded with. In the case of new works unavoidable delays have in some Instances arisen from the neces?h7^ COMlder V I *. Questions occupancy of their sites. ® w ot the northern and northwestern lakes, the main trtangulation oonnect-

me Lake Brie with Lake Michigan aas oeao nearly completed. Coast charts Nos. 3, 4 and 5 o t Lake Ontario, and Nos. 1 $ and 4af Lake ■rie have been finished. UPGR or XU CHIEF or ORDNANCE. “The construction of the new buildings at Rock Island Arsenal has progressed In a satisfactory manner, and, with the aid of the new appropriations asked for, the workshops will soon be in a condition to receive their machinery and oomaaeooe manufacturing to meet the future wants of the country. “Darina the last fiscal year there were manufactured at the National Armory SUH6 Springfield rifles, and, under the law aathorhungn, 1.000 of the experimental Hotrhblar magazine rifles. The former have been produced at a much less cost than heretofore, owing to the increased number manufactured and the improvement of the plans employed; and as there is now available a larger proportion than usual for the present year. It Is confidently expected that the cost will yet be further reduced In the future. There were in store, on July L 1878, only ftOTS rifles and 5,408 carbines at the armory and arsenals, a wretchedly small number, considering the wants of the present and the calls that may be made in the future. REPORT or THE CHIEF SIGNAL OFFICER. “The Chief Signal Officer reports that the established course of drill and instruction in mllitart signaling and telegraphy, meteorology and the Signal Bervtoe duties at stations of observation and report, together with the drills of the Signal Cores with arms, haa continued at the Beh' >ol of Instruction and Practice at Fort Whipple, Va. The apparatus needed for the study and exercise, with Instruments; for practice in the meteorological duties st stations of cfmervation; the equipment for the drill in field signaling; the drill with the field telegraph train; the construction drill for permanent telegraph lines, and the duties on signal and telegraphic statiom* is full, and has been improved by useful additions. “ The officers of the Signal Service pass the course of drill and instruction, and serve regularly at the post of Fort Whipple before betag put upon any other duty. There have been instructed during the year 122 men as assistant observers and nine for promotion to the grade of Sergeant. “ One hundred and seventy stations have been maintained during the year to fill the system of stations of observations from which reports are deemed necessary to enable proper warnings to be given of the approach and force of storms, and of other meteoric changes, for the benefit of agricultural and commercial interests. “Twenty-five stations of a second class, hitherto described as ‘Sunset Stations,’ at which a single observation is taken dally, at the time of sunset, by citixens employed for this purpose, have been continued in operation. “The issue for publication of the official deductions or forecasts had at the office of the .Chief Signal Officer, and known as the Synopsis and Indications, has continued during the Cear. There has been no failure of the do very of any report to the press during that period. The total number of the reports thus furnished at the hours of one a. m., 10:30 a. m., and 7:30 p. m., daily, has been 1,085. “ The wide diffusion given these reports may be judged from the fact that they appear daily tn almost every, newspaper in the United Btates. When the forecasts or indications thus published are examined in reference to accuracy of preannouncement of the state of the weather only (not the forestating, as is the custom, the eh&nges of the barometer, thermometer and averge wind-direction to happen), the average percentage of accuracy is found to be 90.7 per cent verified. A minute analysis of the Same forecast, and a careful comparison with the weather aud the instrumental changes above referred to, afterward occurring within the time and within the district to which each forecast has had reference, has given an average percentage of accuracy of 86.6 per cent. An nverage of 90 per cent to follow this comparison is also believed to be attainable. “By an arrangement with the Post-Office Department. 6,142 printed ‘Farmers’ Bulletins,'on which appear.daily the forecasts of this office, have been distributed and displayed in frames dally at as many different post-offices In different! cities, villages and hamlets in different States, for the use of the agricultural population throughout the United States. “A ‘Weather Case, or Farmers’ Weather Indicator,’an instrument arranged to exhibit together on a simple plan the meteorological indications of several instruments,* and in such way that they can be easily noted by any one, is in preparation for general issue.” a

Internal Revenue Report.

The following is an abstract of tha annual report of United States Commissioner of Internal Revenue Raum: There has been an increase in receipts from Internal revenue during last year, but it is small in comparison with the increase in revenues from customs. The reduction of the tobacco tax caused a loss of over $2,250,OUO during the three months It whs in force, which would indicate a decrease of about S7.<WU,OOO on this account during the year. Twelve million pounds more of’ tobacco were produced In this country last year than during 1878; IM.OQo,O>X) more cigars were manufactured, while the importation of Cignrs fell off 1.250.00 J. The total amount of collections from tobacco in all its forms, including internal revenue tax on imported tobacco, snuff and cigars, Hnd special tuxes paid by manufacturers of and dealers in leaf and manufactured tobacco for the fiscal vear ended June 30. 1879, was $40,135,008. As compared with the total receipts from the same source for the preceding fiscal year, this , shows an increase of $43,847. There was a large increase during the year of production of spirits, the aggregate amount produced in 1«'.9 Ix-ing over 17,000,000 gallons more than in 1878. The increase in thcuinount of spirits imported was also large, being over 9.000.000 gallons in excess of exports in 1878. The bulk of the spirits exported in both fiscal years(lß7B and 1879> was alcohol produced in the northern part of Illinois, Shipped on foreign-bound vessels at New York, and consigned to Marseilles, France. In the exportation of spirits, having really trebbled in amount during the year 1879, as compared with the year 1878, it is apparent that the increase in such exportations hns kept pace with that of other American products. The quantity of spirits withdrawn from distillery warehouses for export during the year was 14,837,731 gallons. The-receipts from distilled spirits for the year 1879, as .compared with 1878, show an increase of $2,149,468. It is anticipated that the exportations of such spirits during the current fiscal year will be still greater than those made during tho fiscal year ending June 31,1879. Regarding the production and movement of distilled spirits during the first four months of the present fiscal year, the report says: “ It shows that the foreign demand of last year is steadily maintained, while the production is 2,794,118 gallons greater than for the corresponding period or last year, and the withdrawal 2,968,950 greater than for the same period last year. If the business of these four months is maintained during the balance of the fiscal year, which is scarcely to be credited, the production will be over fe, 000,000 gallons, and the amount of tax received will bo over $45,756,030." The Commissioner predicts that the receipts from Internal Keverng? taxes will during the present fiscal year reach $115,000,000. During the year ended June 70, 1879, $113,449,621 of Internal Revenue taxes were collected and paid into the Treasury. \ Tber*ab>'?re during the year 5,448 distilleries registered, and 5,347 operated. During the special-tax year ended April 30, 1879, there were 49,464.421 proof gallons of spirit * rectified. The quantity of spirits (19,212,470 gallons) actually remaining in warehouses Juno 30, 1879, is the quantity as shown by the original gauge of each package. Almost the entire increase (9,354,989 gallons) in the quantity of spirits exported In 1879 consisted of those varieties which had been subjected to several processes of distilling, redistilling, and refining before being deposited id the distillery warehouses. The increased production of spirits is distributed among all the different varieties known to the trade except highwines, which decreased 1,379.3 tl gallons. The taxes paid on spirits withdrawn from warehouses during the year 1879 aggregate $46,778,342. The receipts from fermentea liquors for the year 1879 are shown to have increased s7Stt,26B over those of 1878. During the last three years and four months, 3,117 illicit distilleries have been seized, G. 363 persons arrested for Illicit distilling, and 27 officers und employes killed and 48 wounded while engaged in enforcing tho Internal Revenue laws. During the last sixteen months 32J81 persons have been arrested and 1,495 stills seized, 5 officers have been killed and 29 wounded.

The total cost of collecting the revenue for the year was $4,206,Ki0, being 3 7-10 per cent, upon the amount collected. Accompanying the report is a detailed statement showing the amount collected in each district, from which it appears that the largest amount waa collected in the First Ohio District, $10,8.3,450. The First Illinois contributed $8,280,978; the Fifth Illinois, $6,50,170. The smallest amount, $4,020, was collected in the Third Texas District. During the past three fiscal years, $313,099,000 Internal Revenue taxes were collected and paid into the Treasury. The average cost of Collecting, including saiaries and the expenses of the Internal Revenue Bureau, was 33( per cent. The total amount expended through Collectors Of Internal Revenue for Information leading to the discovery of frauds nnd punishment of guilty persons was $95,506. During the year thirty-five revenue agents have been ir-lapd. and ,hcir to,al expenses have been A detailed statement of their work shows (fee value of property seized on information of revenue agents to be $280,944. The amount of uncollected taxes and penalties reported to collectors by revenue agents waa $880,616. The total amount realized by tax on capital and deposits of banks and bankers during the fiscal year ended June 30 was $3,480,913, and for the fecal vear of 1879 $3,184,979, a decrease of $3(0,984. A statement of capital and doposits of savings banks and banks and bankers otherthan National banks, shows an aggregate of $195,290,513 invested In Government bonds, against $158,882,801 reported last year. The total value of property seized during the year °i the Internal Revenue laws was $524445. The total number of suits pending July- 1, 1879, for a violation of the Internal Revenue laws was 119340. During the year 4JWO suits have been settled, decided, or dismissed, and the amount recovered by the Government on judgments and from compromises accepted has been $802,518. The total value of internal Revenue stamps issued during tho rear, $129,555,635. The table of assessments during the year 1879 shows a total of * 4^ 6 ’' 6B, a decrease since 1878 of $570,650. xriq expenses for the next fiscal year are SfrJnm at •L<BB,COO, being an increase of °, V *T the past year. For salaries of omcers, clerks and employes of the bureaus iffn ?. ear ~^ h ,® Commissioner adding that It will be wholly impracticable to reduce the force in any particular without material Injury to the, public service. In addition to the bureau proper there are connected with the various districts throughout the United States 126 collectors, 860 deputy collectors, 179 clerks, messengers and janitors, l 1 * 3 * tor «koepers and 51 tobacco

Annual Report of He Comptroller of the Curreney.

Washington, November ft * The Comptroller of the Currency haa just completed the seventeenth annual report of the operations of that Bureau, which will be submitted to Congress at the opening of the winter session. The following extracts are taken from the report: The total number of National banks organized from the establishment of the Na-tional-banking system, February 25, 1869, to November lof the present year Is 2,438. Of these 307 have gone Into voluntary liquidation by the vote of shareholder* owning two-thirds of their respective capitals, and Strhty-oae have been placed in the hands of Receivers for the purpose of closing up their affair*, leaving 2,060 in operation at the date last named. Since my last annual report thirty-eight banks have been organized, with an aggregate authorized capital of $3,5:*5. 000, to which SB,390,440 in circulating notes have been issued. Thirty-eight banks, with an aggregate capital of $4,450,000, have voluntarily dwoontinued business within the same period, and eight banks have failed, having a total capital of $1,030,100. The insolvent banks include two, with a capital of $700,000, which failed after having previously gone into voluntary liquidation.

The aggregate capital of the various classes of bank* ha* diminished from $719,400,000 in 1876, to $656,500,000 in 1879, and the aggregate deposits have fallen off from $2,075,3U).000 in 1876, to $1,893,500,000 in 1879—a redaction of $62,900 030 in capital and $181,800,000 In deposits during the last four years. The Nationalbanking capital has diminished $45,100,000, but the deposits of the National banks are almost Sreciselv tho same that they were in 1876. avings banks with capital show a reduction of about one million in capital and the same amounts in deposits. The capital and deposits of State banks and private bankers are less by seventeen millions and eighty-three millions, respectively. The greatest reduction, however, is in the deposits of savings banks without capital, which have diminished $97,500,000. The great war debt of the United States was contracted in less than four and half years. In 1836 the country was entirely out of debt, and on January 1,1861, the whole debt of the Union amounted to but $66,213,721. During the next six months it increased at tho rate of about four millions a month, being, on the first day of July, 1861, $90,580,813. During the next year it increased at the rate of more than thirty-six millions per month, and at the close of the fiscal year ending July 1, 1862, it had reached $524,176,412. At the end of the succeeding year it wns considerably more than twice that amount, being on July 1, 1863, $1,119,772,138. During the following year it increased nearly seven hundred millions, reaching on July 1, 1861, the sum of $1,815,784,370. During the next nine months, to the close of the war, April 1, 1866, the debt increased at the rate of about two millions a day, or about sixty millions a month, and for the five months next thereafter, ut the rate of about three millions per day, or about ninety millions a month, reaching its maximum on AugUßt 31, 1865, at which date it amounted to $2,845,907,826. The sales of United Stutcs bonds since 1871, under the Refunding acts, have been five hundred millions of ss, one hundred and eightyfive millions of 4(4s and $710,345,950 of 4 per cents; in all, more than one thousand three hundred and ninety-five millions of dollars. There have also been sold for resumption purposes, since March 1, 1875, under the authority of the Resumption act of January 14, 1875, twenty-five millions of 4s and sixty-five millions of 4*4 percents; the latter being at a premium of 114 per cent. The reduction on the interest-bearing debt Of the United States, from its highest point, on August 31, 1865, to November 1, 1879, is $583,886,594, of which amount $105,160,900 was accomplished since the refunding operations were commenced on May 1,1871. At the highest point the annual interest on the debt was $150,977,697, while it is now $83,773,778 only. There hns, therefore, been a total reduction In this charge of $67,203,919. The total annual reduction of Interest under these refunding operations sjnee March, 1877, has been $14,297,1*7, while the saving on this account, growing out of the operations of tho present year alone, is nearly nine millions ($8,803,707), and the total nnnunl saving in all tha refunding nperaQons of the Government since 1871 is nearly twenty millions <sT(,:or,ftc7). The refunding of the National debt commenced in 1871, at which time the National banks held nearly foil : hundred millions of tne five and six per cent, bonds, und from that date to the present time they huve held mote than one-fifth of the interest-bearing debt of the United States. A large portion of the bonds held by them in 1871 lx ire Interest at the rate of six per cent. This elasS of' bonds huf since been greatly reduced, and is now less than one-sixth of all the bonds pledged for circulation, while more than oms-third of Iho whole amount consists of bonds'bearing interest at four per cent. The Government has still outstanding $273,681,:'30 in six percents, und more t hun s7o'),00U.OU) in five per cents, all of which-will mature in 1881. The refunding of these Ixmds into four per cents will stive $ 10,413,001 in interest annually. The credit of the Government is now such that it is not improbable that long before its maturity the present debt Biay be refunded into three and a half per cent, bonds, which is one-half per cent, more than the rate of the English consuls, thus saving to the Government a large additional amount of interest.

The act of Jan. 14, 1875, required the Secretary of the Treasury to redeem “in coin the United States legal-tender notes then outstanding, on their presentation for redemption at the office of the Assistant Treasurer of the United States in the City of New York, In sums of not less than fifty dollars,” on and after Jan. 1, 1879. At the time of the passage of this act the leading industries and general business of the country were very much depressed. The agricultural classes were largely in debt, and the failures of mercantile establishments and manutacturing corporations In the three years previous represented more than $500,000,009. During the succeeding years an era of economy supervened, agricultural products greatly increased, and the balance of trade whs turned largely in our favor, the excess of exports over Imports for the fiscal year 1876 being more than sev-enty-nine millions, in 1877 more than one hundred and fifty-one millions, in 1878 exceeding two hundred and fifty-seven millions, and for the year ending September 30 last more than two hundred and ninety-four millions. For 1878 the excess was, it will be seen, more than three times as great as that of 1876, and more than two-thirds greater than that of 1877. The Resumption act not only fixed the day of resumption, but authorize*! the Secretary, in order to prepare and provide therefor, to use any surplus revenues not otherwise appropriated, and to Issue, sell and dispose of, at not less than par In coin, any of the bonds of the United States described in the act of July 14, 1870. Under this act, the Secretary In 1877 sold at par in coin $16,000,1000f/our and a haifs and $23,000,000 of fours, and in April, 1879* <50,000,010 of four and a half per cents at a premium of one and a half per cent. The coin in the Treasury continually Increased, so that on the day of resumption the Secretary held one hundred and thirty-five millions ($135,382,639) of gold coin and bullion, and, in addition, ovei thirty millions ($30,567,533) in silver coin, the gold coin alone being equal to more than forty uer cent, of the United States notes then outstanding. The banks of the country nt the date of resumption held more than one-third of the outstanding Treasury notes; but they had sc much confidence in the ability of the Secretary to maintain resumption that none were presented by them for redemption. The people nlso, who held more than three hundred millions of the Issues of tho National banks, whieh issues were based upon the bonds of the Nation, preferred such notes to coin itself. There was, therefore, no demand for payment of the notes of the Government, and the gold coin in the Treasury, which amounted to one hundred and thirty-five millions on the day of resumption, increased more , than thirty-six millions in the next ten months, the amount held on the first of November, 1879, exceeding one hundred and seventy-one millions. During the last fifteen years gold coin has been used by the banks in comparatively small amounts ns a reserve, and by the people only in the payment of customs duties and In the purchase of foreign exchange. If it was used for other home purposes, it was first converted into paper money; but since the day of resumption the Treasury note and the Na-tional-bank note have been generally prefer red In business transactions to coin itself.

The amount of coin and currency in actual circulation at the present time is believed to be not greatly in excess of she average amount during the live preceding years. Tt Is manifest that at no time since the dot* Of suspension so large an amount of currency has been needed for tho legitimate purposes of business as during the present year. The harvests have been unprecedentedly large, while the value of agricultural products, owing to the short crops of other nations and the consequent demand for our products abroad, has greatly increased. There has also been u continual rise in wages, in the value of manufactured goods, in provisions, and in the price of iron and other commodities. If this statement is. correct, It will explain the scarcity of currency in the City of New York during the last two months, and the consequent demand for additional issues, the amount of National-bank notes issued during September and October being nearly six and one-half millions, which is nearly equal to the amount issued for the whole ten months preceding. R will also explain why the banks in New York have grudgingly presented for payment their legal-tender certificates, and been obliged to designate one of their number as a depository for gold, upon which ClearingHouse certificates are issued and used in settling their exchanges. Notwithstanding the large increase of specie in the country during the past year, the amount held by the banks has by no means increased in proportion. The amount held on Oct. 1,1878, was 5c0,688,600; on the Ist day of January. 1879, $41,499,757: and on the 2d of October last, $42,173,732—5h0eing an Increase on that day of less than seven hundred thousand dollars sinoe resumption-day. The more recent returns, however, of the National banks in the City of New York to the ClearingHouse, for the week ending November 15, show a further increase of $21,239,400. The amount of cash reserve now required to be held by all of the banks is less than ninety-four millions. The banks outside of the large cities held on October 2, $11,474,961 of specie, which nearly equals three-fourths of the full amount pf cash reserve which they are required to hold, while the banks in New York and in the other principal cities held in specie considerably lees than one-half of their legal cash reserve. The addition of coin to the circulation should have the effect to reduce the amount of paper money. If In excess of the wants of business, and rend homeward for redemption the legal-tender and the National-bank notes. If the legal-tender notes accumulate in the Treasury, they cannot again be issued, except upon requisitions of the uoverament; and the accumulation of such a tendency to induce extravagant appropriations and expenditures by Congress. The law. as it now stands, requires tbit the

Secretary shall keep to circulation the legaltender notes, which Is not practicable, and their accumulation by him will lead to ooo» ■taut agitation of the subject in Congress and among the people, which discussion* will eooourage speculation, and disturb the current of legitimate business. With the influx of specie it is important that such a paper currency shall be in circulation as can rallj be retired, if in excess. A currency is needed which win act automatically, and aa a regulator, like the governor to machinery; or the balance wheel In the chronometer. The beet currency ia that one which will most readily adapt itself to the needs of business, and Its relative cost should not be taken Into consideration; fur the best money is always the cheapest in the end.

Annual Report of the Secretary of the Treasury.

The following are the principal points of the report of Secretary Sherman: The ordinary revenues from all sources for the fiscal year ending June 90 were $273,827,184.48. The ordinary expenditures for the same period were $266,947.8 -0.53, leaving a surplus revenue of t«.R79,: Q > 98. The amount due the sinking fund for uie year was $38,955,014.83, leaving a deficiency of this amount of $£0,078,308.70. After applying the balance of the special four and a half per cent. United Btates notes held in the Treasury for the redemption of fractional currency, amounting to $8,375,934, to the payment of arrears of pensions as directed in Section 3 of the act approved June 21, 1879, the increased revenue derived during the months of July, August and September of the present year was fully absorbed by current expenses, and the payment of f 1n.:(74.e0 arrears of pensions, accruing under the act approved January £5, 1879. Notwithstanding these unusual demands, the Department has been able to purchase and apply to the sinking fund, out of the surplus revenues for the month of October, $10,060,000 six per cent, bonds of 1881; and $676,060 in five r-r cent, bonds issued under the act of March 1864. The latter Is the excess of redemption of these bonds over issues of four percents under the Refunding acts, and, unless unexpected appropriations, available for expenditure within this year, arc made by Congress, tbe surplus revenues, in addition to paving off the balance of arrears of pensions, will probably enable tbe Department to apply to the sinking fund account during the year the sum Of $20,(00,000. The revenues of the fiscal year ending June 80,1881, estimated upon existing laws, will be $288,000,000. The estimates of expenditures for tne same period, received from the several Executive Departments, are $27R,097,864.39, or an estimated surplus of $9,902,635.61. Excluding the sinking fund, the estimated expenditures will be $283,200,136.67, showing a surplus of $49,730,861.33. The estimated expenditures are based upon the requirements of existing law and the necessary appropriar tlons for public works In course of construction. The estimated surplus of $9,902,635.61 will probably be exhausted by additional appropriations. Should Congress Increase the appropriations beyond this limit, or repeal or reduce existing taxes, other sources of revenue must be provided. Should this course be determined upon, which, however, the'Secretary does not recommend, he would suggest as a means of meeting the deficiency the restoration of a moderate duty on tea and coffee, and the levying of an internal tax uoon manufactures of opium, as hereinafter more fully stated. With a view to promote economy, the Secretary ventures to suggest for the consideration of both Houses a permanent organization of an Appropriations Committee for each House, who shall have leave to sit during the recess, with power to send for persons and papers, and to examine all expenditures of tne Government; that rules be adopter! in the respective Houses limiting Appropriation bills to items of appropriation, and excluding legislative provisions; that ail appropriations, except for the interest of the fiublic debt, be limited to a period not exceedng two years, and that their expenditure be strictly confined to the period of time for wbicfltthey are appropriated, and that all permanent and indefinite appropriations made more than four years ago, except that for the public debt, be repealed.

RESUMPTION. At the date of my last annual report, Bto cember 28, 1878, the preparation for the resumption m specie payments provided for by the act approved January 14, 1875, had been substantially completed. On the Ist day of lanu&iy, 1879—the day fixed for the resump tlon of specie payments—the reserve of com over and above all matured liabilities was $133,508,804.50. Previous to that time. In view of resumption, United States notes and coin were freely received and paid in private business as equivalents. Actual resumption commenced at the time fixed by law, without any material demand for coin and without disturbance to public or private business. No distinction has been made since that time between coin and United StHtes notes In the collection of duties or In the payment of the principal or interest of the public debt. The great body of coin indebtedness has been paid in United States notes at the request of creditors. The total amount of United States notes presented for redemption from January Ito November 1,1879, was $11,256,678. But little coin has been demanded on the coin liabilities of the Government during the same period, though the amount accruing exceeded $600,000,000. Meantime coin was freely paid into the Treasury, and gold bullion was deposited in the Assay office and paid for in United States notes. The aggregate gold and silver coin and bullion in the Treasury increased during that period from $167,558,734.19 to $225,133,568.72, and the net balance available for resumption Increased from $133,508,804.69 to $152,737,155.48. In accordance with the position taken In the last annual report. United States notes have been received since January 1 last in payment of duties on imports. To meet the local demand for coin, in places other than New York city, persons applying have been paid' silver coin for United States notes, tho coin being delivered to them on established express lines free of expense, and for some time gold and silver coin has been freely paid out at the sub-treasuries upon current obligations of the Government. There has been, however, but little demand for coin, and United States notes and the circulating notes of National Banks have been received and paid out at par with coin in all business transactions, public and private, in all parts of the country. The specie standard thus happily secured, has given an Impetus to all kinds of business. Many industries, greatly depressed since the panic of 1873, have revived, while Increased activity has been shown in ail branches of production, trade and commerce.

The reserve fund created by the Resumption act could not, without further legislation, be applied to the payment of ourrent appropriations; nor is it to be presumed that Congress will omit to provide ample revenue* to meet such appropriations. Therefore, under existing laws, the notes received into the Treasury in exchange for coin will always be available for the purchase of or exchange for coin or bullion. Any United States notes in the Treasury may be exchanged for coin under the authority of Bection 8,700 of the Revised Statutes, when notes cannot be used at par for that purpose they must necessarily remain in the Treasury. To avoid all uncertainty, it is respectfully recommended that by law the resumption fund be specificallydefined and set apart for the redemption of United States notes, and that the notes redeemed shall only be issued in exchange far or the purchase of coin or bullion. NATIONAL BANKING SYSTEM. The report of the Controller of the Currency gives oomplete statistics relative to the National Banking system from its organization until the present time. The number of banks in operation October 2 of the present year, the date of their last reports, was 2,015, and the aggregate capital, $404,067,265; surplus, $114,786,528; individual deposits, 8710,737.560; specie, including United States coin certificates, $42,173,731.23; legal-tender notes, including United States certificates, $95,973,446; as loans, $828,013,107. The total circulation outstanding on November 1 was $337,171,418. Among the subjects discussed in the report are the relations which have existed between the National banks and the Government in the resumption of specie payments, and in the funding of the public debt. In both of these important financial operations the co-operation of the National banks has been of essential servioe to the Government. CUSTOMS COLLECTIONS. The disbursements for collecting the revenue from customs for expenses incurred within the following fiscal years have been as follows: 1877, $6,301,279.67; 1878, $6,525,787.38; 1879, $5,485,779.03. This shows a reduction for 1878 over 1877 of $778,492,26, and a reduction for 1879 over 1878 of $40,00&29. A marked improvement has also occurred during tbe past year in the collection of the revenue from customs. The revenue, under the ad valorem system, has fallen short of the amount which should have been collected upon a proper assessment of the real foreign market value. This was due to a system of undervaluations in the entries at the CustomHouses, especially upon bonds consigned by foreign manufacturers to agents in the United States. OCR MERCHANT MARINE. The total tonnage of vessels of the United States at the close of the fiscal year ended June 30, 1879, was 4,169,600 tons. It is a grave question of public policy whether the period has not arrived when the unlimited right of purchase, as under tbe English statutes, should be extended to vessels as well as to other commodities, and when admission to American registry upon the payment of duties should be allowed them upon importations. The recovery of our old position in the carrying trade will more than counterbalance any disadvantage likely to ensue upon a modification of restrictions upon the right of purchase, while a moderate duty upon ships imported will enable our shipbuilders to compete successfully In the construction of I row vessels of tiia largest class. The councils for the settlement of trade disputes in France in their last year considered 86,046 cases. Of this number 25*884 were heard in private, and a reconciliation was effected in 18,415 .(seventy-one per cent.); 7,555 could not be reconciled, and were remitted for hearing to the general council, and 9,076 differences were settled upon advice of the councils. As to the causes of dispute, 21,368 cases were relative to wages; 4,733 to dismissal, and 1,795 to matters affecting apprentices. —ln return for jokes played upon others, some one filled the overcoat pocket of E. P. Guise, a young attorney of Williamsport, Pa., with steel pens. A number of them stuck in his hand, and in taking them put several broke off. The hand became terribly swollen, and fatal consequences were feared. —Ash Wednesday in 1880 will occur on February 11, and lister on the 28th of March, i

The Life-Saving Service.

WinumOi, November 28. The General Superintendent of the Life-Saring Service has made his Annual report to the Secretary of the Treasury: At tfcedoM of the fiscal year the establishment embraced 172 stations, of which 18$ were on the Atlantic, 80 on the lakes and 6 on tbe Pacific. Within the limits of the operations of the service there'were 219 disasters to veasels The number of persons on board these vessels waa 2,107, of whom 8,048 were aaved aafl 88 were feet. There were succored at the stations 871 shipwrecked persons, 1,074 days* relief being afforded them in the aggregate. The number of persons brought ashore from wrecked vessels by the life-saving appliances at the stations was 412. In addition, the life-saving crews assisted in heaving off when stranded, got out at dangerous positions and piloted to places of safety, 89 vessels, sometimes working in conjunction with other wrecking agencies, but, in most oases, by themselves and the ships’ companies alone. In many of these tostanoee, without their akl the vessels and crews would have been lost. The estimated value of the whole number of vessels involved was <1,925,276, and of their cargoes $965,810, making a total value of property imperiled $2 887,886, Of this amount $1,445 068 were saved and sl,442,ri)0 lost. The number of disasters involving the total loss of vessels was 61. The number of disasters to vessels, being 217, is greater than that of any previous year, the highest former number having been 17L The report closes with a telling exhibit of the efficacy of life-saving stations, a special instanoe given having reference to the lakes. It is shown that on these waters the loss of life in 1878, when there were no life-saving star tlons, waa one out of every fifty-four persons on board vessels suffering disaster, or one out of every five casualties. In 1877 eleven star tlons were in operation a portion of the year, to which sixteen were added to the latter part. As a result only one out of every sixty persons imperiled was lost, or one out of everv six casualties. Ia 1878 the number of stations was further inoreased, and the loss of Mfe was reduced to one out or ever j 102 persons imperiled, or one out of every eleven casualties. All this time the stations were crippled by the Insufficiency of arrangements for the proper maintenance of crews, this being remedied by the act of June 18,1878, In 1879 the loss of life sunk to one out of every 216 persons imperiled, or one out of every twenty-one casualties. It is further shown that, since the commencement of the present fiscal year up to the date of the report, including an unusually calamitous autumn in that region, sixty-one disasters have occurred within the field bf life-saving operations on the lakes, there being on board the vessels involved 468 persons, or whom only one was lost, this being a woman, the cook of the vessel,- who was asleep below, and whom the Captain singularly omitted to notify of her danger. »

Report of the Secretary of the Navy

- Washington, November 27. Secretary Thompson, in his report of the condition and operations of the Navy Department, says: The condition of the navy has greatly Improved during tho past year. There are now In commission thirty-five vessels, consisting of cruisers, monitors and torpedo boats. Of the different classes, sixteen can be put in condition for sea service in a few months, and twenty could be made ready in an emergency. With this done, the fighting force of the navy< which might be made available in a very short time, would consist of eighty-one vessels of all classes, and if to this number be added the four monitors—Terror, Puritan, Amphitrite and Monadnock—and eighty powerful tugs, which can be fitted for eithercruisersor torpedo lioats, our whole effective fighting force would consist of ninety-three vessels. The unexpended balance or appropriations which stood to the credit of the Department at the last fiscal year was $1,418,215.37, which, added to the appropriations, makes the aggregate of appropriations available for the fiscal year ending Juno 90, 1830, $11,502 251.67. The table .of estimates submitted of the expenses for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1381, Aggregate $11,161,147, showing an excess over the appropriations of the previous year of $361,899. This excess is accounted for by the fact that the estimate for the pay of the navy was rcducod $106,725 in the appropriations; That $90,0X) will be required by the system of training boys for the navy and toy other expenses in various bureaus which are mentioned in detail. For the first time probably in the history of the Government the expenses of the past j-ear were less than the amount of the appropriation.

PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

—The curiosity of the clerks in the Post-Office Department in Washington was piqued by a letter from Roswell Beardsley, postmaster at North Lansing, N. Y., who said that he has held that office for over fifty-one years, and thev began to look over the records to find out the oldest postmaster. Mr. Beardsley proved to be the man, for he was commiasioned on June 28, 1828. Edward Stabler, now postmaster at Sandy Springs, Md., was appointed by Andrew Jackson in 1830. —The verb “to buck,” whether of Western origin or not, certainly has a comprehensive and what might be termed a striking meaning. It signifies to resist determined opposition, and to resist it with pertinacity. A man bocks against the law when he appeals his case to higher and higher courts; bucks against religion when he is unmoved by a sturdy “revival;” bucks at faro when he sits down and gambles all night; bucks ores when he crushes their tough lumps and hard grains until they slide between his thumb and finger like flour. —Good Company. —A friend of Chief-Justice Chase attributes his death to the fact that he had not practiced law for twenty years when he became Chief Justice, so that when he came to, preside over so learned and experienced a body of lawyers he naturally felt his inferiority, and those profound old judges, while apparently paying the most punctilious respect to their presiding officer, never let an opportunity pass when there was a chance to make Mr. Chase feel that, though he may once have been a very good lawyer, yet twenty years in politics had impaired his legal education and astuteness. Mr. Chase was a proud man, and chafed under the implied inferiority. He studied day and night to remedy his defects and bring himself up to the fit standard, and under this mental strain he broke down.

—At Leadville the other night, a barber named Carl Bockhouse, while returning from his work, was stopped by three foot-pads and commanded to throw up his hands, the usual summons received by wayfarers out late. He immediately did so, having a self-cocking pistol in his hands, with which he instantly killed one and shot another in the arm and captured him. Next afternoon Bockhouse was borne through all the principal streets in a chair on the baclts of men, followed by a large procession of men bearing a banner inscribed on one side the words “ Footpad Exterminator,” and on the other side “ Terror to Robbers.” There was considerable excitement, and there were threats of lynching the wounded foot-pad, now in jail, but it has somewhat subsided and doubtless will blow over. A purse of over SI,OOO has been raised by citizens, and when further collections are made it will be presented to Bockhouse, as will also a gold watch and chain. —Father Scully, whose course on the school question is attracting so much attention in Eastern Massachusetts, was Chaplain of the Ninth Massachusetts regiment' in the civil war. He was especially opppsed to gaming. One day half a dozen of the officers were having a game of poker, and as the stake amounted to $9.75 there was considerable excitement as to the winner. Just as the question was decided Father Scully sprang in under the tent flap, grabbed the stakes and put them in his breast pocket, with the remark, “There it is, and there it will stay!” No remonstrance was offered, and he walked off with the currmicy. In a little while pay-day came rotmd, and the usual collection was taken up for the Chaplain. Father Scully was soon informed of the amount, and sat in his tent waiting for it to be brought to him. In a short time the officer who had taken the collection—and he was one of those who had been disturbed at the game a few days before—approached with the money, which he nanded over. The Chaplain counted it and then turned sharply on the messenger with the question, “Where’s the other $9.76!” The officer had been waiting for this moment of triumph, and drawing himself up he slapped his hand on the breast of bis coat and answered, “ There it is, and there it’ll stay; that was my pot you took.”— N. ¥. Evening Post. —“ The teeth of time” are not false teeth. —Yonkers Gazette ,

SENSE AND NONSENSE.

The dress circle—The belt. Most of our misery comes from our fearing and disliking things that never happen at all.—Good Company. “The balance of trade” is that portion of patronage which ia waited for in vain by the business man who dees not advertise.— Rome Sentinel. When you see a callow youth with a wooden toothpick in his mouth, it is not circumstantial evidence that he’s selling lumber by sample.— N. Y. News. How quietly flows the riFer to the sea, yet it always gets there. This is a good* point to remember when you are trying to rush things. Nan Haven Register. The manager of a church fair not far away, when asked if there would be music each evening, replied, “No,” and then added, ‘*Dut there will be singing.” If a hunter will only hunt long enough he will be sure to pall his gun over the fence by the muzzle, and the day he does that he quits hunting— Detroit Free Press. A band of 1,500 sheep was burned to death by a brush fire near-Ventura, Cal., the other day. The fire surrounded the stock before the herder could drive them out of danger. When a man in Connecticut is killed by a buzz saw they arrest his family and hold them until the State chemist has examined the man's stomach in search of arsenic. — Boston Post. The Alta Californian claims 1,266,000 inhabitants on \he Pacific slope now, against 821,058 when the last census was taken. The returns of votes cast at recent elections seem to justify this claim.

It is strange how the sudden opening of a parlor door will send two people to the ends of a sofa, and set them to counting the figures in the carpet. There must be something powerful in the draft of air to blow numan beings around In that way. —Providence Journal. President Lincoln once listened patiently while a friend read a long manuscript to him, and who then asked: “What do you think of it ? how will it take?” The President reflected a little while, and then answered: “Well, for people who like that kind of thing, I think that that is just tho kind of thing they’d like.” There are three persons in Augusta (Me.) jail for debt. One is a welleducated young man, whose father died twenty years ago, leaving him an estate worth one million dollars; the second is confined by the town of Mount Vernon for non-payment of taxes; the third refuses to pay for a newspaper Which he had subscribed for and read. When Mrs. Shoddeigh read in the paper that the Government had expended $181,000,000 on its Indian service, ■he urged Mr. Shoddeigli to write immediately and ascertain where it was purchased. She said her China service cost only $3,500, and she could never be happy again until she was the owner of an Indian service. —Norristown Herald. Conjugal Affection. —Mrs. Foozle (improving the occasion); “Is it not _sad, my dear, about j’our friend, Mr. Buffles, drinking so, lately? I’m told his only excuse is the loss of his wife.” Mr. Foozle (excitedly): “Only excuse—only excuse, madam! And a very good excuse, too. There are many men who would be glad to have the same excuse.”—Fun. An Arizona judge has just shown his appreciation of modern improvements in firearms by shooting and killing an editor. The editor's partner immediately shot the magistrate and was himself waylaid and extinguished the same night by some parties unknown. The total bag for the day’s sport was a judge and two editors. Altogether it was a great day for Arizona. Three whales appeared off Cape May, N. J., recently, close in shore, going eastward slowly, throwing single spouts about twenty feet into the air. They were probably of the sperm species. Large flocks of sea-gulls surrounded and dived about them. They stopped the gill-nct fishermen, who were after snapping mackerel, and. kept possession of tne sea during the day There is a legend common in Scandinavia that a dishonest hand-maiden of the Blessed Virgin purloined her mistress’ silver scissors, and that she was transformed into a lapwing for punishment, the forked tail of the bird being a brand of the theft, and that the bircl was doomed to a continual confession of the crime by the plaintive cry, “ Tyvit, tyvit,” that is in Scandinavian, “I stole them, Tstole them.”

“You see, massa,” said the old colored washwoman, “since dey’s got dese here big crayvats we don’t hab so much to do. De gemmen puts on a big crayvat nowadays, instead ob a clean shirt. You don’t know much about dese matters, but if you take off all de crayvats in this town, an’ make the Semmen show up, landsakes! you’d see e worst lookin’ white men you ebber laid yo’ blessed eyes on ."—Syracuse Herald. A curious thing happened to Deacon Davis Newton, of Woodbridge, Conn. The deacon went to the church lectureroom to start a fire. While inside the room he heard a tremendous knock at the door, which he opened. On the ground before him he saw a plump, young partridge in the agony of death. A moment afterward a sportsman and a dog hove in sight. The bird had probably been frightened by tbe gunner, and flew with lightning rapidity. It struck the door with such force as to break its neck.

Carrots As a Field Crop.

Root crops have never received the attention in this country that they have abroad, for many reasons. We have not as yet found it necessary to kedp a large amount of stock on the produce of a small area of land. Com is so cheaply raised that most farmers rely on it for fattening nearly all kinds of stock. Labor is comparatively high, and all root crops requires considerable hand labor. We are generally averse to any sort of crop that cannot be raised by the use of implements operated by horse-power, and no machine has been contrived that will weed and thin out roots raised in a drill. The climate in most parts of the country is not very favorable to the production of those kinds of roots raised in the greatest abundance in Great Britain and other European countries. Tolerably cool and moderately moist weather is most favorable to the growth of turnips, and our summers are ordinarily very hot and dry. Sugar beets do very well in most parts of this countty; but the varieties of beets that are grown for stock purposes abroad are likely to become hard and stringy when exposed to the heat that prevails during July and August. Roots that grow entirely under ground are likely to do best in a country where the summers are as dry and hot as they generally are here. By being below the surface and having tops that spread over the ground they are protected from the rays of the sun, and suffer comparatively little from a protracted drouth. The carrot is admirably adapted to thrive in our climate. The root does not rise above the surface of the ground, while its numerous thick leaves serve to protect the soil from the burning rays of the sun. For these reasons tne carrot suffers less from the drouth than almost any root raised for stock food. As a con-

sequence its growth is continuous from the time the seed germinates till the frost kills the tops. Carrots will be crisp and tender, although turnips and beets grown beside them will be tough and stringy. The carrot has many other points of excellence. It is more nutritious than any root ordinarily grown for feeding to stock. It is also relished by some kinds of animals. Horses and hogs will generally decline turnips and beets, but they are fond of carrots. An occasion al feed of carrots has an excellent effect on horses, improving their digestion and imparting a fine gloss to them hair. Sheep prefer carrots to any kind of roots or tubers. Carrots are sufficiently sweet to make them acceptable to young animals. Carrots are the best roots to feed to milch cows. They tend to increase the production of milk and impart a rich color to it as well as to the butter and cheese that are manufactured from it. Turnips give a bad i flavor to milk, but carrots do not; turnips are hard to digest, but carrots are easily digested. Turnips and beets, on Account of their larger size and peculiar shape, have to be cut before they are fed to stock, but most animals have no difficulty in disposing of whole carrots and are rarely choked by them. In some European countries* carrots are extensively used for feeding to poultry. They are generally steamea or boiled before they are given to the fowls. When they are designed for fattening poultry they are often fried in sheep fat ’, after they are softened by steaming or boiling. With suitable soil and clean culture a thousand bushels of carrots may be raised on one acre of ground. They are easily harvested with a spade or fork or by the aid of a plow. After they are taken from the ground they should be thrown in rows on the surface of the ground to dry. In doing this work let the tops lie toward the row that is being harvested out two or three feet distant from it. In digging the next tow throw the roots on the tops of those previously dug and 8o continue till as many are taken out as can be topped and stowed away «n'-.that - day. Carrots are much easier to harvest thau turnips or beets, as they are so smooth that little or no earth adheres to them, while they are generally in bunches to be trimmed off. Although the roots are entirely under ground, they are readily withdrawn from it, owing to their peculiar shape. . Most of the trouble required to raise a crop of carrots results from the slow’ v germination of the seed; When sown m soil abounding in the seeds of weeds, much difficulty is experienced in cleaning the drills after the young plants appear above ground. To make this work as light as possible, carrots should be sown on soil quite clear of weeds. A piece of old pasture land is excellent for carrots, as it is generally sufficiently rich, while it is not likely to be infested with weeds. Rank manures are not suitable for carrots, as they cause them to be forked, while they tend to produce a large growth of tops. If any stable manure is applied it should be ~ well rotted. Wood ashes and salt are good fertilizers for carrots. For field culture carrots should be sown in drills about three feet apart, so as to allow a. cultivator to be run between them. They should be as straight as possible, so that the cidtivator can run close to the plants and still not tear out any of them. In sowing the seed it is best to dash a few radish seed or oats in the drills, as they will come up in a few days and mark ‘ tbe rows. . Some persons soak carrot seed in tepid water before sowing it, and others place it in a bag and bury it in moist earth, allowing it to remain two or three weeks before it is Bown. When treated in either of these ways it will come up much quicker than when sown in a dry state. About five pounds of seed are required to sow an acre in carrotA This crop is not liable to be injured by Insects in any stage of its growth. The' hand-weed-ing and thinning, which may be done at the same time, call, however, for considerable work. —Chicago Times. -

How to Become Rich.

You can probably be rich, my son, if you will be. If you make up your mind now that you will be a rich man, and stick to it, there is very little doubt, that you will be very wealthy, tolerably maan, loved a little, hated a great deal, have a big funeral, be blessed by the • relatives to whom you leave the most, reviled by those to y, whom 'you leave less, and vilified by those to whom you leave nothing. But you must pay for it, mv son. Wealth is an expensive thing. It costs all it is worth. If you want to be worth a million dollars, it will cost you just a million dollars to get it. Broken friendships, intellectual starvation, loss of social enjoyment, deprivation of generous impulses, the smothering of manly aspirations, a limited wardrobe and a scanty table, a lonely f home, because you fear a lovely wife and beautiful home would be expensive, a hatred of the heathen, a dread of the contribution-box, a haunting fear of the Woman’s Aid Society, a fretful dislike of poor people because they won’t keep their misery out of your sight, a little sham benevolence that is worse than none; oh, you can be rich, young man, if you are willing to pay the price. Any man can get rich who doesn’t think it is too expensive. True, you may be rich and be • a man among men, noble and. Christian and grand and true, serving God and blessing humanity, but that will be in spite ot your wealth, and not as a result of it. It will be because you always were that kind of a man. But if you want to be rich merely to be rich, if that is the breadth and height of your ambition, you can be rich, if you will pay the price. And when you are rich, son, call around at this office and pay for this advice. We will let the interest compound from this date.— Burlington Hawk-Eye.

THE MARKETS.

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