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VOL. 8.
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An Important Conclusion.
In a recent speech Mr. Charles
Francis Adams, the younger, said
that more than two hundred years
ago, in the days, perhaps, of the
great, great grandfather of Adam
Smith; there sat on the throne of
England a monarch known in his
time as the English Solomon, but of
whose wisdom posterity has not
formed a very lofty opinion. As
with the Presidents of more recent
times it was the custom for the sov
ereign to impart to the assembled
representatives of the land at the
beginning of each Parliamentary
session his views on the important
topics of the day. On one of these
occasions, in the year 1G20 that
very year in which the Mayflower
accomplished her fortuitous voyage
this British Solomon, known in
history as King James the First of
hpppy memory, was. even as our
excellent President is now, sorely
perplexed by the unsatisfactory con
dition of the finances of his realm,
lie, too, doubtless, deeply pondered
the matter in his capacious mind,
and at last delivered himself to his
lieges as follows: "It's strange that
my mint hath not gone this eight or
nine years, but I think the fault of
the want of money is the uneven
balancing of trade."
Two centuries and a half later, in
the year of 1873 after Adam Smith
had been in his grave eigty-three
years the president of this great
and enlightened republic addressed
himself to the same problem of de
ficiency of money. His mint had
stepped thirteen years before. In
due time ho delivered himself as
follows: "A specie basis cannot be
reached and maintained until our
exports, interest due abroad, and
other specie obligations, or so nearly
as to leave an appreciable accumula
tion of the precious metals in the
country from the products of our
mines.5' From a comparison of these
two passages it would seem to be
fairlv inferrable that the sovereign
of two hundred and fifty years since
knew quite as much of the subject
about which lie undertook to speak
as the ruler of the present day, and
expressed himself a great deal more
tersely and clearly. Adam Smith
did not live and ponder and write in
vain. There was a time when in
America we thought we had changed
all this, outgrown it as a child out
grows its clothes; though, indeed,
these were never the clothes of
American childhood. Our infancy
was not corseted by auy such gov
ernment pap as is implied in the
word " protection." Edmund Burke
understood this, and rigidly attri
buted our robust youth to the fact
that our ancestors had been left
alone to work out their own salvation
in their own way. Mr. Adams said
he could not keep from asking him
self what Burke would say if he saw
the descendants of this people "then
" in the growth and not vet harden
ed into the bone of manhood," now
j applying themselves to the herculean
task of " moving the crops" by the
aid of Secretary Richardson and the
' greenback reserve. -
Was there ever in the history of
the world such a bathos? "We began,
be it remembered, on the principle
that tiie world was governed too
much ; that that government vras
best which governed least ; that in
dividuals and localities were quite
as competent as governments to find
o.it what they wanted, and ought to
be left to get or miss it through their
own devices. We were never tired
of repeating these and other wise
saws ami modern instances, and
didn't hesitate to say, that with us a
new dispensation had dawned upon
the poor old earth. And lo ! all our
boasting results in this lame and
impotent conclusion our worthy
President gravely reports the explod
ed fallacies uttered by the monarchs
of the seventeenth century, and our
Secretary of the Treasury systemat
ically debases our currency to enable
us to meet the current expenses of
our Government in a time of pro
found peace.
An extraordinary circumstance in
the history of the country occurs on
the death of Mr. Fillmore. Never
before since the administration of
Jefferson has it happened that only
one person was alive, except the in
cumbent, who had filled the Presi
dential office. Andrew Johnson is
now the only ex-President living ;
and even he was not elected to that
office, but came to it as Vice-President
on the assassination of Mr.
Lincoln. While the younger Adams
was President, the elder Adams, Jef
ferson, Madison and Monroe were
living. When Buchanan was elect
ed. Van Buren, Tyler, Pierce, Fill
more, and Buchanan were living.
Within the past thirtv-seven years
seven Presidents have been elected
besides Grant. It is an extraordina
ry fact that not one of the seven is
now alive.
A Good Education. To read the
English language well, to write with
dispatch a neat and legible hand,
and be master of tne first four rules
of arithmetic, so to dispose of at
once, with accuracy, every question
of figures which comes up in prac-
VC6.J cal1 tlli3 a Good, education.
And if you add the ability to write
pure grammatical English, I regard
it as an excellent education. These
are the tools You can do much
with them, but you are helpless
without them. They are the foun
dation ; and unless you begin with
these, all your flashy attainments, a
little geology, and all the other
other
ologies and osophies,
are
ostenta-
tious rubbish. Everett.
Just the Place. Waynesborough
Pa., boasts of a haunted distillery,
wmcu is just tne place where one
would naturally look for spirits.
9w ijnujyn
IJeck ou Expenditures.
Mr. Beck's speech on expenditures,
made in the House on the 7th, con
tained a great many rugged facts
which the Republican leaders wonld
rather not have the people know,
but which they are entitled to know,
nevertheless. He charged and the
charge was not denied that the war
department had sold Sl.3'2 000 000
worth of useless material, and, in-
bieuu ui icimuiug me monev to tne
treasury, where it -operly belong
ed, had spent every dollar of it in
addition to the regular appropria
tion voted to it by Congress; that
the postmaster-general had spent the
present year 8500,000 of appropri
ations made three years ago, in defi
ance of the law winch requires all
unexpended balances of appropria
tions to be returned to the treasury;
tluit the secretary of the treasury
has issued a fund of $3,000,000 a
year in organizing bureaus in his
department, giving salaries of 3,000
a vear to seven clerks who are enti
tled to only $1,)0, and $2,000 to
assistants who are entitled to only
$1,400 ; that there are in the treasu
ry department 1,500 chiefs of staff
and employes, who are not provided
for in the appropriations ; that the
head of the department had assum
ed authority to pay out $25,000,000
of what is called the greenback " re
serve," without any warrant of law ;
aud that the secretary of the navy
had made use of the excitement
about the Virginius seizure to enlist
1,500 men and spend $4,000,000,
without the warrant ol law, as a
preparation for a war which the gov
ernment never had thought of mak
ing although exhibiting a reckless
and lawless use of the public moneys
by the officers of the government
that has no parallel or precedent in
the history of the country.
On the subject of revenues and
expenditures, Mr. Beck shows that
so far from the treasury neeuing
$12,000,000 of additional taxes, it
ought not to need a dollar of addi
tional revenue, and would not, if it
made an economical use of what it
has received. Thus on the 1st of
July there was a surplus of $00,
000,000; from that day to the 1st of
February last it received $110,000,
000 ; and from the 1st of February
to the 1st of July next it will receive
an estimated sum of $110,000,000.
To these amounts must be added the
reserve of $44,000,000 which the
secretary claims the right to use, if
he has need for it making, a total
$387,000,000 of revenue for the
present fiscal year at the disposal of
the secretary of the treasury. Mr.
Garfield had stated that the total ap
propriat'ons for the present .year
were $310,000,000, to which should
be added the $4,000,000 spent by the
navy department during the Virgin
ius excitementrand subsequently le
galized by congress making $423,
(K0,000, showing an excess of re
ceipts of $03,000,000 for the year.
In other words, according to the
official statements of the treasury
department and the semi-official
statements of Mr. Dawes and Mr.
Garfield there ought to be a surplus
of $02,01)0,000 in the treasury on the
1st of nextJulv, instead of the de
ficiency of $42,000,000, which the
secretary of the treasury intimate.
How there is to be a deficiency in
the face of this officially -demonstrated
surplus is a question which Mr.
Beck would like to have answered,
but which noneof the Republican
leaders at Washington have answer
ed. Mr. Garfield and the adminis
tration demand a levy of new taxes ;
but it is sufficiently evident that the
people will not quietly submit to
such a measure, aud that they are
justified in not submitting to it. till
the administration tells wnere tne
squandered money of the past five
years has gone to. Republican.
Amusixo Anecdote. Mr. Thomp
son, an American, was visiting Mr.
Herbert, an Englishman, aud the
latter, being interested in the study
of Phrenology, ordered his Irish
man. Pat. to show Mr. Thomson his
collection of skulls.
Pat accordingly led Mr. T. into a
large apartment; where, taking up a
lar?e skull, lie said:
"Would ye mind this, sir; there is
the skull of Africanus of Home, sir;
a great man, sir, a gineral, aud me
own particular friend."
' "And this one, sir," he exclaimed,
picking np another, "is the skull of
Coriolanus. Ah, sir, he was a great
man. I didn t know him, meselt, in
div'dually, personally, but he was
me father s confidential clerk. Ah,
s'r," he went on, "but here is tne
skull of them all. It is the skull of
Wm. Shakespeare, a great poet. Ah
me, but he was fond of me brother.'"
And so 1 at continued, braggiu
and lying at every step; when, after
an interval of a half hour, he picked
up an exceedingly small skull, and
cried out:
"Mr. Thomson, look ve here
Here is the smallest skull in the
world. It is the skull of William
Shakespeare "
"Hold on, Pat," sa:d Thomson.
"Vrm told me the bio- skull over
there was William Shakespeare's.
Ha ha! I've caught you m a lie!
"indeed not. ver honor," said Pat,
quicklv. "The big skull over there
is the skull of Shakespeare when he
was an old man. and this is the skull
of Shakespeare when he was a baby.
Not Oftener The Mississippi
lature is talking of providing
for biennial sessions. To the unpre-
indicwl observer, says the Courier
Joarnal, the Mississippi Legislatu-e
very closely resembles a uoay mat
ougtatn t to meet oltener inau cemeu
nially. '
A mabVions rerson says that cot
ton Khaat nml newspaper sheets
i are alike in the respect that a grea
1 iT..
nioujf ijeopie lie iti tuciui
(Janiing in tVashingtou.
After Ash Wednesday the males of
Society abandon the ladies and dine
at We'lcker's or the club, and the
draw poker is a fearful sight that is
flourished in those cloisters. Ben
Holladay, who is now here living in
widowed quarters, and looking after
his railroads, is said to have raised
the largest hands at poker known
among gambling capitalists.
"He Avon $3,000 from roe," said
William Sharon, "but I was sick that
1 1 rt tot liilYi fnln I TTrt
oay, aiio iiim iu n. mm iunc. it. uc
can't beat me when I am feeling
well."
It is very easy to corrupt public
men at the poker tablej for a large
percentage of them play nearly, as
manv, I should judge, as in the old
days of slavery. Poker has arisen
with the Northwestern domination,
and the ease with which it is learned
the reckless chances it invites, and
the rapid popularity it attains ii
every circle, makes it an especial
game for large operators who loiter
on the threshhold of politics. Make
a public man poor and replace the
money as a gift, or permit him to
win and suppose he has wronged
von, and he will try to work off the
obligation with a might which lie
almost imputes to righteousness.
These great, brawy operators know
such things, and honor in the chief
places is no barrier to their circum
venting. The table, t he fine and rap
id woman, worldly talk with brillian
cy in its delusiveness, the confidence
that follows the wine cup, and the
cool studv of a man over five cards
when he bets beyond his measure,
these are the steps by which hard
men capture better ones. Bribery is
seldom direct, neither wounding the
pride or the feelings of the recipi
ent. It is extended like the love that
precedes ruin. It says:
"Aly Iriend, X admire you. iu see
ou poor, with your talents, is a re-
roach to our country that you illns
rate. I never v-et met a man I onld
get so close to. If you ever feel the
wolf too close totlie door, i nope you
ill not wrong vour friend by si-
ence. I l".s7 i nylon Correspondence
of ilie Graphic.
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"He Bi s' He Gut." A Southern
laper tells tlie loiiowing on a low
country darkey:"
"An old lady of our acquaintance
tad hired one to work on her farm.
One day her eldest son, a youth of
eighteen, was about riding to town a
kittish mule. His old mother was
u constand dread that something
would happen to her darling boy
whenever he mounted that mule.
On the day in question, while the
old lady was quietly reading her fa
vorite book, this "low country dar
key rushed in, with his eyes rolling
ike two saucers m lus head, and ex
humed: 'Law, Miss, de mule done frow
Mas' Bob.'
'How? When? Where?' exclaimed
the old lady, excitedly.
'He bus' he gut.'
'Then why, in the name of God,
are von standing there like an idiot?
Why don't yon go for a doctor?' re
plied the half frantic mother.
'2s o, Miss, he bus de gut ol de
saddle.'
"The reaction was so crreat that the
old lady dropped in her chair and
laughed till her back hair fell dowr,
while the darkey, with open mouth,
crazed at her as if she were crazy."
The Drunkard's Will,. "Know
all men by these presents, that I
of the county of Mecklenburg, and
State of lrginia, being of sound
and deposing memory, in view of the
uncertainty of life, and thecertaintv
of death, do make this last will and
testament, to-wit :
I die a wretched sinner; and I leave
to the world a worthless reputation,
a wicked example and memory that
is fit to perish.
I leave to my brother and sisters
shame and grief, and the reproach
of their acquaintances.
I leave my widow and broken
hearted wife a life of lonely struggle
with want and suffering.
Heave my children a tainted name,
a reviled position, a pitiful icrnorance
and the mortifying recollection of a
father, who, by his life, disgraced
humanity; and at his premature
death, joined the great company of
those who are never to enter the
kingdom of God. I pray God that
those who are yet living may take
warning and profit by the above.'
m
Senator Sumner's Coffin. The
Philadelphia Record gives the fol
lowing description of the coinn lor
warded to Washington from that
citv, for the reception of the remains
of the late Senator Sumner: "It is
nearly square and made of a species
of wood said to be more durable
than any metal. The side panels are
covered with black cloth. The eight
handles are of solid silver. They
represent two hands grasping a rod
about eighteen inches long. The lid
is of two parts or panels, and made
of French crystal plate-glass. Two
iv.ml of loth are made so as to
cover the glass when required. The
entire casket is surrounded by a mas
sive molding -of silver. The inside is
upholstered with white satin, silk,
and Venetian lace, heavy silken tas
sels dropping from each corner. The
rasVt. is six feet four inches in
length,
A Brooklyn man who sat down to
meditate in" his sweetheart's lap, had
occasion to caution her about loop
ing up her skirts with pins. He
found that the consequences had a
tendancy to disturb his mental poise.
The Best Wat. One who wants
the world to know what he knows
about farming, says that the best
way to raise strawberries is "with a
spoon. .
COURTESY' "OF BANCROFT LIBRARY,
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA,
The Curse of Drink.
From the San Francisco Examiner.
A great work rests upon the clergy
of the land in rooting out the curse
intemperance. We have no faith, as
we have often remarked, in women's
unwomanly crusades and ludicrous
praying parades iu and through the
gin-mills of large towns ; but we
have abundant faith in the efficacy
of prayer in the proper way and in
the exhortations and personal entrea
ties and appeals of the ordinary ser
vants of Christ. No greater charge
is laid upon the ministers of the
Gospel than that of preaching and
practicing the doctrine of the text,
" Be sober in all tilings." The Cath
olics seem to apprehend the solem
nity and importance of this duty,
and are making throughout the
i Union an enormous headway against
King Alcohol. They are doing the
work in an energetic, systematic
manner, with that organized force
and concentrated method which dis
tinguishes them in all their opera
tions, when the interest of their
Church and their souls are concern
ed. They proceed with deliberate,
steady steps, making no blunders,
creating no confusion, but marching
onward against the foe with a fixed
determination to achieve enduring
victory : and their progress is mar
velous. Although that Church has
always been a bitter and unrelenting
enemy of the vice of intemperance,
it is of late only that it has sanction
ed sneli si powerful auxilarv engine
of reform "as the Catholic Total Ab
stinence Union of America, which
has branches in almost every State of
the Union, and is converting thou
sands monthly from addiction to
strong drink, reclaiming drunkards
and preventing moderate drinkers
from becoming sots. One of the
clergy of that church in an excellent
sermon lately delivered in the city
of New York, said that the Almighty
had created three distinct races of
beings, the angelic, or those beings
which are altogether spiritual ; ami
as the direct antipodes, a race en
dowed with animal life, but without
reasonable facilities, known as the
beasts of the field. Between these
two, the purely spiritual and the
purely animal, lay a great valley
a void to be filled. This vacancy
God had filled by a creature possess
ed of both attributed partly spirit
ual, partly animal and this is called
Man. There is but one step up be
tween the human and the celestial ;
so, also, is there but one step in the
downward direction, between the
man and the brute. No sooner does
a man debauch himself than he falls
into the worst kind of ruin, temporal
and spiritual. He becomes a victim
of disease, which destroys his body,
or dies from the knife of his boon
companions, to meet with a future
fate in the company of worse repro
bates than those he has left behind.
By drunkenness man removes from
himself that grace which God has
given him, ami the blessing which
God bestowed on all men when He
took upon himself humanity at the
incarnation. By the vice of intem
perance man does a violent wrong to
his family, and he becomes unjust
to his neighbor through incurring
indebtedness which he is never able
to pay. Even if a person is rich,
and is intemperate, he becomes un
just. There is always something
due to his family, something to his
country, and most of all, something
due to the poor and needy, which he
fails to perform. The brute creation
perform ail the duties mat are as
signed to them, and the horse and
cow will always seek their stable ;
and when man is besotted, he is in
sensible to the August sun or the
December cold, and this masterpiece
of God's creation can scarcely dis
tinguish the feather pillow Jrom the
cobble pavement. He will be in the
gutter, with a total disregard oi ins
fellow-man, and when his besotted
tongue gives utterances to words,
they are generally blasphemies to
wards his God and curses upon his
fellow-man.
It is this sin of intemperance
which has caused the existence of
many rival factions that have caused
the earth with the bloo.i of its vic
tims; and many a man, who might
have had his character written in
historical letters of fire, has. through
this vice, dwindled down into abso
lute obscurity if not into actual
darkness, lost to country, lost to
home, and lost to heaven. The
drunkard is responsible to all society
but more especially to his family,
where his responsibilities are of aw
ful importance. There is nothing so
beautiful to contemplate as a sober
and loving father. There is no star
in the heavens so bright as the light
of the home to which the sober
father is wending his way for
the purpose of superintending the
spiritual and temporal welfare of his
family. Make a resolution of tem
perance at once. No matter how
strong the habit, it can be conquer
ed bv resolution. The habit cannot
be necessary to nature when it is de-
cirnMivo to it. Temperance brings
honor, not only to the temperate
man but to his family and his re
latives. The glorv of the Christian
family will never fade while the
cnlwr" son reflects the image of
the sober father. Be sober, then
for temperance produces a happy
life and a glorious death, and forms
one of the brightest jewels in the
crown of glory, which is the inheri
tance of. every true Christian.
Wood-Sawixo. Since it has been
discovered that good whisky can be
manufactured from sawdust, wood
sawing has become a fashionable
amusement.
A Western editor recently said of
a new novel : " Its incidents follow
each other like a shovelfull of hot
coal."
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The Alaskan Autocrats.
We revert once more to the ter
rible condition of the Aleuts brought
about by the infamous favoritism of
the federal Government in accord
ing a franchise to a private company,
which places our fellow-citizens of
Alaska campletely in the power of
a grasping and grinding monopoly.
A gentleman of this citv has just
received a letter in the Russian
language from the natives of Ungr,
Alaska, which, translated, reads as
follows :
" On the 12th of January, 1874,
the natives of the Island called a
meeting to send a petition to the
Government in Washington, saying
that they sutler great poverty and
misery that their schools have
been closed since the annexa
tion of the Territory to the Unit
ed States. The cause of all this
misfortune is that the General Gov
ernment favors only the Alaska Com
mercial Company, and their agents
tyrannize over and oppress us in
every way. The Government, in
giving them the unconstitutional
lease of the fur-seal Islands, enables
them to control the entire commerce
and the inhabitants throughout the
entire Territory. They pray the
Government to allow the natives of
other Islands to catch fur-seals.
They state that they are willing to
pay $2.G2 tax for each skin ; that
they will receive $20 in the London
market per skin, and from the pro
ceeds they will be able to support
themselves and establish schools in
the whole territory for their children.
Signed by Tayoun Ivan Thomin, and
twenty others."
Of course the prayer of these
poor people will fall upon heedless
ears at Washington, for the autocrats
of the Alaska Commercial Company
are in high favor with Grant and his
corrupt Radical crew. rExntnlner.
Pop Goes tfie Weasel. " Pop
Goes the Weasel" has become the
chorus of a thousand snatches of
song, but not one of a thousand who
sing it ever heard of its origin. But
its parentage is as easily traced as
that of an English baronet. A fa
mous .Methodist preacher by the
name of Craven was once preaching
in the heart of Virginia, and spoke
as follows: " Here are a great many
professors of religion to-day. You
iire sleek, fat, good-looking, vet
something is the matter with you.
Now, you have seen wheat which
was plump, round and good-looking
to the eye ; but when -ou weigh it,
you found that it only came to forty-
five or perhaps forty-eight pounds to
the bushel, when it should be sixtv
or sixty-three pounds. Take a ker
nel of wheat between the thumb and
fore-finger, hold it up, sqeeze it, aud
pop goes the weevil! Now, you good-
ooking professors of religion you
are plump and round, but you only
weigh some forty-live or forty -six to
the bushel. What is the matter?
Ah! when you are taken between the
thumb of the law and the finger ot
the Gospel, held np to the light and
squeezed, out pops the whisky bot
tle! 1 rom pop goes the weevil to
pop goes the weasel, the trnsition
is easy.
Pruning Fruit Tkees. W. II.
Nash, in an article lately read before
the xsapa (Cal.) Grange, set forth
the following as the principles to
govern in pruning fruit trees:
1. The vigor of a tree subjected to
pruning depends in a great measure
on the equal distribution of sap in
all of its branches.
2. Prune the branches of the most
vigorous parts very short, and those
of the weak parts long.
3. Leave a large quantity of fruit
on the strong part, and remove the
whole or greater part of the feeble.
4. Bend the strong parts and keep
the weak erect.
5. Remove from the vigorous the
superfluous shoots as early in the
season as possible, and from the fee
ble parts as late as possible.
0. Pinch earn- the soit extremities
of the shoots on the vigorous parts,
and as late as possible on the feeble
parts, excepting any shoots which
may be too vigorous lor their posi
tfon. 7. The sap acts with greater force
and produces more vigorous growth
on a branch or shoot pruned short
than on one pruned long.
8. The sap tending almost to the
extremities of shoots causes terminals
to push with greater vigor than the
laterals.
0. The more the sap is obstructed
in its circulation the more likely it
will be to produce fruit buds.
10. I he leaves serve to - prepare
the sap absorbed by the roots for
the nourishmens of the tree, and aid
the formation of buds on the shoots.
All trees, therefore, deprived of their
leaves are liable to perish.
The word lady is a compound of
two Saxon words leaf, or Inf, signi
fying a loaf of bread, and d'utn, to
give, or serve. In olden times it
was customary for those families
whom God had blessed with afflu
ence to give away regularly a por
tion ot bread or other food to poor
families in their respective parishes
and neighborhoods, and on such oc
casions the "lady" or mistress of
the household distributed the daily
or weekly dole. Hence sue was
called the " laf-dy" or "bread-giver,"
and it is probably from this hospi
table custom that to this day English
ladies carve and serve the meat at
their own tables.
There is a minister near Boone
ville, Ind., who has been married
three times, his first two wives being
sisters, and his third wife step-mother
to his first two wives.
Anticipation of evil is the death of
happiness.
The New Hampshire Election.
The election in New Hampshire.
which resulted in such a glorious
triumph for the Democracy, was
preceded by unexpected signs of
mutiny in Secretary Robeson's vote
tactory at the Portsmouth Navv
Yard. It is estimated that the Navy
Department exi .ended at least $250.-
000 at this yard in order to seerira
voters for the Administration ticket,
and the most violent indignation was
excited among the Federal ofliee-
holders when it became known that
there was danger that so profuse an
expenditure of the public funds
might fail of yielding the desired re
sult. It appears that the men who
have been employed since January,
receiving from two to five dollars
per day for the votes they were ex
pected to cast, knew from the expe
rience of former years that the most
of them would probably be discharg
ed within a few days after the elec
tion, and came to a secret under
standing among themselves that they
would vote as thev pleased. The
idea that American citizens who
were receiving pay from the Govern
ment should presume to vote in op
position to the will of their official
superiors struck the othce-holders
Ring as a little less than ra.nk
treason ; and every variety of coax
ing and intimidation was resorted to
for the purpose of checking the dan
gerous spirit of insubordination.
According to the correspondent of
the Boston Post, the most tremend
ous efforts were made to convince
the navy yard men that if they would
only vote right they should'be con
tinued on the roll's and draw pay
whether there is any work for them,
to do or not. A good deal of remark
not entirely coinplimentory to Rob
eson's character for varacitv has been
caused in New Hampshire bv the
receipt of letters from Congressmen
Randall and Parker, who wrote that,
having waited on the Secretary of the
Navy and remonstrated with him
against the outrageous ard disgrace
ful prostitution, of the civil service
in the Portsmouth Navy Yard, thev
had been informed by that official
that not over 000 men were employed
there, and no more than the necessi
ties of the service required? It is
confidently asserted by the corres
pondent of the Post that from 1,500
to 2,000 men have been on the pay
rolls there since the first of January,
at least 1,000 of whom were ot
needed in any of the departments of
the yard. Exchange.
Avoiding- a Middleman. A lodge
of our G.-ange friends, in Clayton
county, had need of a barrel of good
whisky for domestic and medicinal
purposes, and were rightfully deter
mined to avoid the monopoly prices
of middlemen in purchasing. So a
committee was delegated to comi' to
Dubuque and purchase it of one of
our wholesale houses, which they
did on reasonable terms, and took it
home on the cars. On the day of
its arrival the memlers of the
Grange repaired with their stone
jugs to the house of the head Gran
ger, where the barrel was stored.
and the liquor was distributed among
them, each paying for his share at
the wholesale rate at w hich it was
purchased. This was well enough
as far as it went, but the next day a
Collector of Internal Revenue, who
had been scenting the flavor of the
good spirits from afar, pounced upon
the head Granger for retailing whis
ky without, a license, and threatened
to place him under arrest unless he
complied with the requirements of
the internal revenue law in this re
gard, and he was comiielled to pay
so or friu to get rid ol the gentle
man and his unpleasant exposition
ot what Uncle Sam provides. I)u-
biiqite Herald.
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The Gilroy Advocate, in stirring
up its delinquent subscribers, poet
izes as follows:
"Delinquents on the printers' books
an never go to J leaven.
If this be true we are sadlv afraid
that "'tother place" will be densely
peopled, for the race of delinquents
is large indeed. We hardly believe
it, for many a good fellow is behind
with the printer, let it may be so.
and common prudence would sug
gest to all such to square up the
old scoreand get a receipt for ad
vance payment. It would be terri
ble to be cast into outer darkness,
where there is weeping and wailing
and gnashing of teeth, when the
p. yment of a small score due the
printer would have been a sure pass
port to8 regions of eternal light.
Our heart aches at the mere thought
of the dangerous position of many
of the patrons of the Enterprise!
Some of the Beauties of Protec
tion. The tariff protective tax on
axes is 40 per cent, in gold; on
bags it is 40 per cent.; on feather
beds 20 per cent.; books 22 per
cent.; plain Chinaware 45, and orna
mental 50 per cent.; dress goods 5 to
7 cents per square yard, and 31 to.
30 per cent ad velorem ; drugs 20 to
40 per cent.; flaunels 13 to 45 cents
per pound, and 31 per cent, ad ve
lorem; brown and bleached linens 30
to 40 per cent.; railroad iron 63 cents
per 100 pounds; salt, in bulk, 8 cents
per 100 pounds, in bags, 12 cents;
silk, dress and piece, GO per cent.;
iron 32 per cent.; leather 31 per
cent steel 40 percent.; glass 35 per
cent., and so on through some 2,000
articles. Generally the tax is more
than half the original cost. What
do the industrial classes tnink of
such rates of taxation on their nec
essary supplies?
A verdict has leen rendered against
E. C- Barnes, formerly Collector of
Internal Revenue for the nmtn nen.
tuckv district, for $100,000,
amount due the Govesnment.
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