Semi-weekly Independent, Volume 2, Number 27, Plymouth, Marshall County, 12 February 1896 — Page 6

EELTCS OF LINCOLN.

INTERESTING COLLECTION THEM IN CHICAGO. OF Tkej lirlas Kack to tli-a Memory Xrcnt in the History of tho Martyr President From Hoyhooil Day to the Ill-Fated Nitf lit in the Theater. . Kemiudcra of u Great Man. IlaJ Abraham Lincoln lived until now would hav- been 7 years of ago. Put destiny win i;ot such. In tho full yrbne of the greatness that ho had achieved he wft3 struck down by tho assassin'." fcand wirtout the warning of a moment. The long war that had marked his administration and the terrible circumstances attending Lis death made it deeply impristsire. A general g'oom pervaded the wholo country. Flags hung at half-mast &d pnblic b'.dMings and private resltoenefcavery where were draped in hl.u k. I Linccfin was the third President to die 'While oa-iipvii : the otlicial chair. Wil'Ii ' at irii F.JpV'KViVV.l;;! M6- V 1 ''" -yrff Ä - jj 1 A''1;-! I f&?':S ''& ,V "' 1 i 1 h Km & y- tv3 I.I x CO I. x IX 'Oo. ilm Henry Harrison tiled .irii 4. 1SH, na month after -inauguration, and Zachry Taylor July .. s7t. The death of jläncoln occurred April l., lxur, and the fourth and last President to die i:i office was James A. (larfie'd. whv met a fate 'ahnt! or to Li vein's in iss. Lincoln was President d tin: ifiifhrui; peri.-xi of 1 L history of the most this oo-an-trj. during tue greatest c:iJ war t!ii' world has ever known. His noble character, portrayed during the whole of that aacmorable struggle, impressed upon the LINCOLN, PINKLKTON, people a reverence that never will be forjrUen. nnd Iiis birthday will always bo ?Sttingly remembered everywhere in the (United States. i Hut, says the Chicago Tribune, while these memorial services impress epon the Blinds of the people the menioriis of that Sflust rious martyr, there is no fear that 4Jhicagoans will ever forgot hint, for right among -them are more mementos of tho ar President than can be found in any thrr city of the Union. The largest of these collections is at tho Libby Prison rWar Museum, and Manager Macloon believes at to be rue most authentic collection of Li need :j material extant. I In connection with his early life there re original photographs of the house in .which Lincoln's father lived and died in Jolea County, 111., and also an original photograph of the house that Abe Ixnoln end Dennis Hanks built and oecu?ied ia Mercer County, in 1S,"0, where incöin made fame as a rail splitter. This douse wns on exhibition at the Sanitary !Fair held in this city in 1ST, and Mr. ar.d Mrs. Hat;ks lived in it during its exhibition in Chicago. It will be rem em. "hercd tlia I) nnis Hanks tau;,ht Lincoln Jiis first b-sson in reading and wriiing, ,and this collection contains a good photograph ef tho old gentleman. There is Als iin original cpy of the Sangamon Journal of Springlield. 111., of Nov. 11, pHI'J. which "contains the imtiee of his carriage. Th" collect iou cor.lains many interesting manuscripts of Lincoln, of which, perhaps, the most notd is his latr.mis last dispatch to (Jen. (Jrant. ; In'this colie.-tion of Lineidn mementos at Iibhy Prison there are many thing -worthy of ex!end(d notice, but to make it trief tho following are a few of tlum: ihe key, a piece of the curtain, and wall paper of theb'x in which he was shot at ford's Theater; six of the chairs used in tho box on the ill-fated night and an original program of the play; Lincoln'sjibrnry liair, n sofa from hi residence, and the bed ipn which tho body ky while the jfliysiciaus .werejiolding the autopsy; his old lKMtjack made, by himself, and all of tho portraits of himself ever published. 'Among the original photographs is one that shows what an unusually tall man "he waa. It is a picture of Allen Pinkerton, (Jen. McCiornaml and himself at the Jheadquarters of the Army of the Potomac. The three men are standing beToro an pen tent, Lincoln, in the center, tower-hi-g head and shoulders alov his two companions. There are also portraits of Uncola's wife and faniilf, J. Wilkes

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Pootb, and photographs of the jronsp'rators; photographs of tho interior of the theater In which he was shot, photographs of the execution, tho original temporary headboards placed over the graves of tho conspirators, and the Learn from which they were hanged. The collection also includes a life mask and casts of Lincoln's hands token in ISOO by Leonard Volk, the well-known sculptor of this city. It Is interesting to note in the hand casts that there is such a vast difference in the size of them that one would hardly believe they belonged to the same person. The left hand is of normal projortJon-, the veins standing out in them very dis

tinctly, but the right hand seems unusually fat and chubby, not a vein being discernible. This is accounted for by tho fa.-l t ha t the night before Lincoln had been given a reception nnd such a multitude of p?oplo had grasped his hand that it was greatly swollcu the following morningwhen Volk made the casts. In the museum there are two life-size oil iort raits of Lincoln, one of which is by Lambkin, tho celebrated Philadelphia artist, and an oil portrait of Major lt. C. Todd, a brother of Mrs. Lincoln. This Is notable f(.r the fact that Todd was in the Confederate army and had charge of Castle Thunder prison, Richmond, during the war. Resides this collection there are many other interesting Lincoln mementos In Chicago, the largest private collection being owned by Charles F. (Junthor. The most important of the many mementos that he possesses is a duplicate copy of the L'mancipatiop. Proclamation. This is n,. t ..tu f tlw imhiishfd fac-siinile conies. ...... i of whi.-h there are many, but is an exact bipli'-ate. bearing the original signature.? of Line! and Iiis cabinet. Ainoug the other original manuscripts in this collec tion is a poem i:i Lincoln's handwriting written in ISÖIJ. an address on thirteen pages of fiiois.-ap, delivered before the Springfield Library Association, a letter to a committee regarding the Hosten, Mass., Thomas Jefferson celebration in April. ls.V.i; the original record leaves from Lincoln's fa: Iter's family 1 1 i l1 e in Abe's handwriting: several .uf the transfer deeds to the different lands owned by Lincoln's fa; her and mother; a piece of his copy-bock, used when l:e was HI years of age; she chain of the watch that ho carried in boyhood days, a number of interesting war documents, locks of his hair, and many personal effects, including a number of pieces of clothing-worn by liitn. Mr. ttu::tl:er also owns the carriage used by Lincoln in Washington, and later by Mrs. Lim-oln in .Chicago. This is at the Libby Prison Museum. The watch that Lincoln wore 0:1 the night of the assassination is now owned by Robert Todd Lincoln, and was changed from a key to a stem windi r fifteen years ago. .lohn NetAND MCLld.NAM). erstrom. of I:ko View, owns a cane that was sent to the White House in'lSUlI by some unknown admirer. It was carved out of a piece f appic wood, nnd is a marvelous piece of artistic work. It was so unique anil so different from the many other canes sent to Lincoln that ho prized this particular walking stick above all others of the many that he had received. Charles Rector is a son-in-law of Mr. Peterson, who owned tho house ih Washington in which Lincoln died, nnd he keeps ns a valuable and interesting me.mento the picture that hung over tho bed upon which the President died. The picture is not a valuable one except for this fact. A son of Mr. Peterson, now living in Raltimore, Md., owns the quilt that was on tho I.nI at tho death, and Mrs. nr.N.vis hanks, who ta uc;nT mxcoln to 1:1: A I) ami witi ri:. .Magruoer ot asniugtou, 1. (;., owns tho original bed. The house still stands .in Washinglon. Lincoln'! rclf-L'ontrol, Although Lincoln was cniversally re garded as one of the most amiable of men and was scarcely ever known to show anger, thoso acquainted with him in his youthful and obscure years have declared that lie had naturally a liery temper, which ho struggled against until he mas tered it completely. After having become a prominent figure in the councils of tho nation, lie was a pattern of self-disci plino and self-control. One of his. favor ite sayings, which would givo color to this belief, .was, "Tho most important victory a man can gain is the victor over hlui-

VALENTINE OF COMMON 6ENSE.

Your eyes are not Btarn, they're too near to me, quite. And surely uot fixed with their distance tho same; lio.sldrs, rh to twinkling and wlukiog at night, Tho very Idea would All you with haine. Your linlr Is not gold, nor a peach Is your cheek. For the former la finer nnd lighter than Filk. Of tho hue of the nut nor would breezes dare peek To rncnnnlne with blushes a face white us nilik. Your troth nro not pearls; they're more useful !y far. And are good for a mpiare meal three times every tiny. Your thront Is uu lily, whose frailness would mar Tho volume of voice that comes pushing that way. Your form's not Uko Venus; I'm thankful , 'tis not. For your urnis are complete, and yieir virtues ns well. Perfection of contour may well be forgot In remembering the graces within you ' that dwell. In short, my dear sweetheart, no tdmlles fit Tho charms that have set my poor heart in a whirl; And even St. Ynl., nt whose feet 1 now sit,. Teaches mo that you're simply a most Thanning tSIKId Itoe L. Uendrick, In Puck. AUNT MARTHA'S VALENTINE. A Pretty a ik! Delicately Tinted Miabivc that Cumo Too Lntc. ISS Martlia Whitiey, v.as tiie adIrtaS ou tho lurje, lieavily embroidered, white envelope, I knew, when I took it from tha postman, that it was a valentine, and I fancied that thero were word inside that would have bro'uglit joy to the patient heart, could she have been given the power to read them. Put there was crape on the door that 1 1th of February and the tender message had come too late. "If any letters come for me after I'm gone you may read them and answer them for me." she had said, so I opened the en velope, and looked at the dainty offering. It was a pretty, delicately tinted mis sive, containing a pathetic little verse. below which was written in an unsteady hand, the one word, ".lohn." I'pstiiirs in her trunk, the contents of which had also been given to me, there was another valentine, a memento that had been guarded so sacredly that uona but myself knew of its existence. Once, when but a child, I had bet standing near while she was search in for something and had caught one fleeting glimpse of it. "What is that pretty let ter. .Mini .Manna; 1 nau sskcu. is a It W tl t-l 4iT it a valentine:'' "Yes," she had answered, in such a tone that, young as I was, I instantly pcrcciv od that no further questioning would be allowed. Rut how thankful I had been for that otie slight bit of knowledge of her past when a few days later I was at a .... . . a neighbor s house where there were a number of women who, not noticing me, commenced talking aeout my tieioveii aunt. " es. she s a good enough woman, one of them said, "but so queer. Why, I've heard it said, on good authority, that she never had a boa, iu her. life. Instantly I darted cut fruju my place m the corner, and, stamung in tho midst of thrt astonished women, I indignantly refuted the slalement, for, to my imma tu re. mind, it seemed that a woman who had never had a beau was disgraced for ever. " "1 isn't so," I cried. "She had beaux, lots of 'em. And she's got valentines that they gave her. 1 saw 'cm just the other day." .. "Oh, pshaw, child," one of them remark ed, regaining her self-possession, "anv one can got valentines." And then, as I flounted angrily out of the room, they ex claimed iu a choms: "Oh, dear! 'Who'd have-thought that little snip was in here? She'll go homo and tell." Put I did not tell, for I knew ik.w sensitive Aunt Martha was, and I would not wound her by re peating the foolish words. That happened a long time ago. and af ter I had looked vt hT second valentine I resurrected tho old one from beneath the other treasures rind compared the two. They were something alike in ib sign, out me verso on ine nrsi one was hopeful and gay and tho ".lohn" accompanying it was written in a bold, manly hand that contrasted strangely with the trembling signature of tho second. Rut, then, ono was writien in 1S40 and theothrr in IS'.M, and fifty-one years produce wonderf.i! changes. Then I fell to wondering about Aunt Martha and ".lohn." Who was ho? What had separated thorn? Where had he been nil those years? Why had ho never writ ten? Had her whole life been one great waiting nnd longing for tho token tha had come at last? I dropped a tear on the two valentines ami slipping into the parlor I placed them in the casket beside her, and so her love secrets were buried with her. Valentine's Day. In Railey s old dictionary this Is tho explanation of Valentine's Day: "About this time of the year the birds choose their mates, and probably thence came the custom of the youi:g choosing Valentines men nnd maidens or special loving friends." Drayton, a poet of Shakspearc'a time, wrote thus: I'ach littlo bird, .this tide loth choose hor loved peer. Which constantly abide Iu wedlock all the year. My Hps I'll softly lay t'pon her heavenly ehrfk, Dyed like the dawning day. As polished ivory sleek. To Nationalize Lincoln's Ilirtliplacc Tho movement is on foot for tho pur chase of the birthplace of Abraham Lin coin for tho purpose of forming it into a national park. The promoters-intend to form an association, whoso objects shal be to improve tho farm, long i.egleeted ami to restore to its original character t ITT cabin in which tho President was born It is three miles south of Hogdonville, Ky., nnd is no longer in Hardin Countr, but in Larne County, a new division 0 tho State. 4 Should any one ask mo, what Is tho first thing In religion? I would reply, the first, second anil third therein, nay, all. Is humility.

6ILYUR MEN OX TOP.

FREE COINAGE BILL PRESENTED :N THE SENATE. Members of the Senate Finance Cnw mittce Adopt a Substitute for the Cur iff Hill Act'o 1 Taken on Proposition of 31 r. Vest. Substitute Given the Senate. The belated tariff bill emerged from the Senate Finance Committee Tuesday and made ils appearance soon after tho session opened. Chairman Morrill made the report, stating that a free silver amend ment bad taken the place of the original bill. Mr. Ouay had remain. 'd standing while Mr. Morrill spoke and sit nce folowed with a motion to recommit the bill ind substitute back to the Finance Com mittee with instructions to report the orig11.1 1 bill and asicii lment separately. Tho silver substitute to the tariff bill reported to the Senate was suggested by Senator Vest and was agreed t in the Finance Committee by a majority of t. Senator Jones tNev.) voting with the Democrats for the substitute and all the Kcpublicans resent voting against it. Senator Wolcoit (Colo.) was tho only Republican ab sentee and he was recorded as voting against the substitute. Senator Jones (.Ark.l, the only Democratic member not present, was recorded as voting for it. The substitute agreed to is in the exact words of the silver substitute for the bond bill which passed the Senate on Saturday. It provides for the frev coinage of silver it the ratio of 1 to 1; directs the lmmed'nie coinage into standard dollars of tho silver scigniorago in the treasury accumulated by the purchases under the Sherman act: prohibits the issuance of national bank notes of a smaller denomination than -SH. ami directs the Secretary of tho i'n usury to redeem greenbacks and treas ury notes i:i either gold or silver xciilively, at the option of the Secretary, and to reissue greenbacks. KAFFIR CORN IN SOUTH DAKOTA Interesting Ncaulta of Experiments Made ly Farmers Last Year. A detailed description of the new fa mous Katlir corn in an article fron Guthrie, Ok., and first printed a few weeks ago in the columns of the (J lobe-Democrat, has been widelj copied by the newspapers of the Northwest and has aroused much discussfm among the farmers of South Dakota as to the adaptability of Katfir corn to that climate. Last year and prior a few farmer:; in the State pro cured small quantities of this seed and ex perimented with it. ami the results of these experiments are interesting. T. I?. Strong, a farmer and ranchman on White Itiver, in the ceded Sioux lands, had a field of corn which yielded fuily up to expectations. He declares that it is tho very best kind of feed for any kind of stock. 1 . J. denn, a Chamberlain busi ness man. experimented last season with a small field of ordinary Indian corn and Kallir corn. The ordinary corn was irrigated several times, while the Kallir corn received only the natural rainfall, which was nuich below normal. . Still, the Kallir corn frew as fast as the other, was green and i t althy looking during the very driest periods of the summer, proving, in this instance, at least, that'it can withstand drought to the degree claimed for it. In referring to a newspaper slalement warning farmers to go slow iu going into the culture of Katlir corn, F. D. Dyer, a prominent farmer of Hanson County, says tlutt three years ago he risked a dime for seed. This year ho has ten bushels of seed and next spring wiil put in all he can cultivate. He declares that he finds nothSAMPI.r. OK KAFFlt: COKY. ing that excels it for feed and nothing that stands the dry, hot winds, and always keeps growing like it. His experience shows that the Katlir coin, in Iiis region, should be put into the gretud as early as other corn, and the mote it is cultivated the better: that it can be cut for feed three times iu early summer. While there seems to be n good deal to 1.' said in favor of tho new corn, there are, of course, two sides to the question as applied to a region so far north as South Dakota. A resident of Watertown, who spent fifteen years in S oith Africa the region from which tho corn was brought to this country, saw the corn prow there time and again, and expressed the opinion that it will not prove a success in the Dakota climate. He has never witnessed any experiments with it here, however, therefore his opinion is wholly superficial, but adds that ho does know that even in tho warm climate of Africa tho corn crop was a failure for three or four season. Virginia S. Washington and Mary I. Washington, of Portsmouth, (., representing themselves to be immediate descendants of (Jeorge Washington, have written to tho Secretary of the Interior offering to sell to tho (loverument a number of relics of Washington. Among these .4 a Miuffbox presented to Jefferson by (Ynshingtou and afterward returned to tho donor. It. McKay, ngod'tCt, died suddenly ia Hrnoe,. Mich. He was one of the original abolitionists, casting his vote for that nnrtv in -1S4-, when it hnd hardly two 1 inti slavery vete in tho town.

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TWO MILLIONS LOSS.

Furious Flames Destroy Itic Buildings in Philadelphia. Chestnut street. Philadelphia, was visited the other morning by one of the fiercest tires the city has known for years. The seven-story IciiMing of Charles II. Haseltine. 14W and HIS Chestnut street, and the adjoining five-story structure of the ltaptist Publication Society and the American ltaptist Historical Society were destroyed. The buildings damaged by fire and water and falling walls were the four-story dry goods house of Homer, Lo P.oo.tillic- A: Co., 141'J nnd 1411. the dwelling at 14l"J owned by the Wistar estate and the Hotel Lafayette at Proad and Sansom streets. On either side of the main entrance to the Haseltine building were the piano warerooms of Hallet & Davis at MM. and of Steinway & Co., at 141S. Tho two ltaptist societies lost large and valuable collections of paintings, books and curios. The detailed losses have no yet been made up. but a conservative estimate places the aggregate at close toy'J.(NN.(m. it :s though: that this is covered by insurance. It was shortly before .", o'clock, when Policemen 1 1 ice and Howard, while patrolling their beats at F.r'oad and Chestnut streets, detected the smell of smoke. They ran to the Lafayette Hotel and went from Moor to floor, looking for the lire. When they reached the sixth a tierce blaze met their sight. It was in the rear of the Haseltine building, which reached dangerously near to the bak of the hotel building. An alarm was struck immediately, but before the first engines could reach the scene a strong west wind had carried the Uam.es throughout the entire building. .V dozen lines of hose were turned on the Chestnut street front, b-.it the light wood and pi-per which stocke. I the second, third and fourth i'oors were easy food for the flames. The upper portion of the Lafayette Hotel was ignited by sparks flying from the burning buildings on Chestnut street, but th" blaze was conlined to the Mpper t'oors. The lire was not controlled unMI long afier daybreak. The Haseltine building was valued at $.",( K U h m nr.d was fuliy insured. It was erected in lVss, juid the first two Moors were "fireproof." The ioss on paintings on thesecond Moor is between $.'. m i.oj h) and 9I(mi.(i(k, uninsured. Among those destroyed were two by. (I. H. Scions, valued at S.".n.om cadi: i.ne by Kobert-Fleu-ry, "alued at SI'.umhi. INSURGENTS IN GOOD TRIM. Kcportcd Critical Situation of the Two Lenders Is Denied. Tho following gives a resume of the operations of the insurgents in Cuba during the past few weeks, in.-idents of the campaign eliminated by the press censor from cablegrams sent to the United Slates: When Maximo ilm.icz and Antonio Maceo with two large columns of mounted men invaded Havana province, coining almost to t'ue gates of the capita: city, and burning cane fields, destroying railway bridges, stations nnd cars all over the province, the two rebel lead-rs separated at the Pinar del Kio line. (Jomez passed the line of troops thrown across ihe island south of Havana and Ma ceo began the conquest ef Pinar del Itio. According to Spanish oli'e. i.il reports Macon's band has been defeated many times. As a matter of fa.-t.ho entered the province with L'.IH'O men and he now has r..O((). All are mounted, armed and will equipped, lie also has plenty of ammunition, lie obtained 1 1 .( h mi rounds at Cabanas and a large quantity at (Inane. He captured one mule train containing 1m,(mjO rations or. its way from Coiema to Pinar del I'io City, and food has been scarce in the capital over since. At San Cristobal, one of the first towns entered. Ma coo found the houses covered with white Hags in token of surrender, lie ,as welcomed v.iih cheers. He rested there one day. added forty volunteers to his army ::ud marched on. after hoisting a Cuban Hag on the town hall and appointing a local government. At Paiacios Coiis.tl.ieinii de! Sur and nearly a score of other towns the same scenes were repeated until Mantua, the most western town of any importance, was reached. There the inhabitants gave a ball in honor of the invading army and Ma en stood as godfather to a r.owlv born child. DEMANDS INDEMNITY. Minister Terrell Asks $100,000 for I!iirnin American Missions. I'nited States Minister Terrell has demanded of Turkey an indemnity of $1M,(mm for the burning and pillaging of the American missions at Marash and Kharput. He also asked for the immediate granting of tirmans for rebuilding them. " Itepoits from Turkish sources, believed to be fairly accurate, say that it is believed that the Zeitounlis are still holding out. The Turks have made seven different attacks upon the town, but all haveTail'N?. r.nd their losos are reported to amount to l(UM. It is alleged that fiO.OOO troops will be needed to capture Zeitoun. It is believed that the Zeitounlis number from 10.H0 to L'o.ooo, well armed, and provisioned for a year. There is a doubtful report that 4.hm Russian Armenians crossed the Persian frontier aud ilefeated the Turks at Siz, eighteen hours from Zeitoun, and have new joined the Zeitounlis. Sparks from the "Wires. As the result of u conference between Flbridge T. (Jerry and President Koose. volt it is probable the New York police will abandon the employment of children to obtain evidence against saloonkeepers. The czar has promised to stand as godfdthor to the Pulgarian Prince Poris (son of Prince Ferdinand, ruler of Uulgaria) in his conversion to tho Russian church, and afterwards to appoint a Russian minister to Sofia. Tho steamer reported shore at New Inlet, N. C, proves to bo the American steamer James Woodall with a cargo of sugar ami molasses from New Orleans, La., for Paltimore, Md. The" crow of ten men were saved by the life savers. John Rodgers, who confesses to having been implicated in tho robbery of the postoffieo at KockMrt. III., while left momentarily alone in one of the rooms of tho United States district attorney's office t Springfield, stepped out of a door,' supposed to bMocked, and escaped. William I. Himes, vice-president of the (iettysburg National Pank at New Oxford, Pa., is dead at the nge of 84 years. Mr. Hirnes was among the most Intinisto personal frjends of Thaddeus Stevens in his early career in Adams County nnd was associated with him In various bu&ineai eotcrprim.

BIDSrOß THE BONDS.

TOTAL AMOUNT OF ISSUE SUBSCRIBED MANY TIMES. Five Hundred und Fifty Millions Ars Offered in bxchanc-Public (et About a Tliird-Rcniairulcr Will II Awarded to the Morgan Syndicate. Iliddera Number 4,JI(. Pour thousand six hundred and forty bids for V."h,:.,i;,.i,s."',o worth of bond was the tremondou .1 total of the subscription opened at the Treasury Department in acoordar.ee with the terms of the call issued a m nth imi'ing proposals for $1(ki,mm,iX'ii of r.'nitcd States 4 p-r cent bonds to run f o ; thirty years from I'eb. 1, lVdö. These figures do r.ot include about Sl-O.OUO.O-iO el' bids rejected as bogus. The immense off ring astounded experts. The bids iit'-raily swamped the Treasury Department. At ( o'clock it v.as impossible to toll with definitetiess how many bids and for whr.i aggregate had been received at tiirures in advance of the pried of llo.i',s77, -Ii which a syndicate composed of J. P. .Morgan & Co.. Harvey Fisk & Co. and the Dcutse,. Rank of Iterlin offered to take tin whole loan. The bids ranged from par up a single ."io bid at 1ÖO. The public gets from :: . .t M i, m m to $M,(M0,(M0 of the JslHHtHXUMMI popular loan, and the Pierpont Morgan syndieu' secures the remainder on a bid of 110.CS77 for $HiO.(MM.,(m. v Treasury officials regard tho loan as & complete success, both as to the popular subscription feature and the prices obtained. Rids came ln.-m several thousand" individuals and from hundreds of national banks an 1 other banking institutions. Nearly nil of the leading New York joii.N ;. ( ai:i i-i ! i Secret ;irv of the Tresis..! v.) bankers and big insurance companies were represented in the list of bidders, but with a few exceptions they were outmaneuvered by the M"igan syndicate. TIi.i opening and scheduling of the bid. was conducted under th" direction of Assistant Secretary Curtis by a committee consisting of Mr. Morgan, I'nited States treasurer; Mr. lb-kels. Comptroller of tic Currency, and Mr. Huntington, chief of the division of loans and currency. Terms of t!ic Circular. The bonds are redeemable in coin, nnd will heissue'd in denomination-; of ,"' or multiples of that sum as may lie desired by the bidders. Only I'nited States go'd coin or gold certificates will b received in payment. I'nder the terms of the Secretary's circular the first payment of 'JO per cent and accrued interest must be made upon receip; of notice of the acceptance of the bid. The remainder of the. amounts bid may he paid ia installments of IM per cent each i icl accrued interest at the end of each lift n days thereafter. Accepted bidders, h wovor, .".re allowed to pay the whole anciunt of their bids at the time of the ji-f iustaiine-nt. or at any time previous to tie- maturity of the last installment, provided that al! previous installments li.a.e been paid. Tho bonds will be d.'.ted 1 '. b. 1. lN'A",. to run thirty years from that time, and wilt therefore mature Teh. 1. i'.cjr.. According to the cab-al.:: ncs of '.lie actuary of the treasury n bidder, in order to r;".li:-:i -'j I"'T cent interest h's invedmor,r, should have off. red ? i. '!'.. ST it) f r each $100 in bonds bid for. Riils for I'rc.ior I.o.m. Tor the Ö per e; t loan of I VI. . ISO J, there were in ail IMS bi;!s, representing Sü'J.IÜ.ir.O. Of this an- :uut $ t f.Mj.S.) was lid for at the upset price of .SI 17. I'll.'!, and $'..l.H.r.::m at a price .n excess of that figure. The amount awarded was $ÖO.( M M ,( M M , upon w hich ihe 'overnment realized a premium of SS.L",.'!.'H.r. l'or Ihe ." per cent loan of Xen-. ;, ls'.M, for which there was n. upset price, the (Jovernment received .".!! bids, amounting to $17S.::il.l.M. The amount of tin bids received at SI Id.S.st'S was .S.iO.Oio,000; amount below that rate. .t;i.77('.!i; at rates between Sl!t;.sv.S and $117.077, $.-.,( ;L1.Si to ; a t J? 1 1 7. 77. S." U : ' .( mm, made by the Morgan-Relnioiit syndicate. The amount bid at rates above S117.077 was $10,ir-V-ÖO. The syndicate bid was accepted, the (loverument reaii.ing a premium of ss..".s.r,tMi. Tho gold purchase of IVb. S. lS:r,. was for ;?,." m ,( M h i ounces, payable in I'nited States I per cent bonds. The bid of tha Morgan syndicate to furnish the gold wa accepted. The ( 3ovt Turnout, under tiM terms of this agreement, issued bonds amounting to .St".2,.'MÖ. loO, for which the syndicate paid at the rate of .1(t. P.) Id per $lini, the ( Jovetni'.ient thus realizing a premium of .SJ.Mhi.S 1 1. Aiding Captain O'p.ricn. of the Nc.t York police department, published the census of safes in the city recently taken by the police of the different precincts. T!:.i total number of safes in the city, according to th census, is '7..".V.t'. The census was taken so that the police will know the location of all the safes in their precincts. This census does not include all the safes that are in use, but as many as the police could locate. A correspondent in Kio Janeiro. Rrazil. sends wont that rain has falten in such, torrents that it has caused the falling of many houses in the city, the great Hood of water completely undermining them. In the lower part of tho city many buildings were completely submerged, liven those who live iq on the highest elevation suffered by the ilood. While suffering with tho grippe (Jorge Mead, a farmer of Dubuque, la., swallowed a capsule of corrosivo sublimate by mistake for quiuiae a cd died iu gret agony. i