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f?''Kra'ru-llc IiOiIjte No. 5 I.
K Iteular meetings Tuesday eveni
week. A. J. McFa,N. o. K. W. Bess
CHURCHES.
gSCJiriHt'H Church (Eplsccpal.7 Corner At
"L' iautic and second siret-L. Divine service
everyh in day evenliiKat")40'clock: Suucaytfchool
at t Tc'cloclc, p. m, u tree. Her. J. 11. lioa
kkts, liocuir.
'l'rriiterinn Church. Services each
rairtt.iihal tr..on. m..and7:3Uii. m. Praer
Mctiji-j W'ednebday evenings, babbath bchool
at j . .-ck p. in. J. T. JSaiiid, Pastor.
pSirctUodlnt K. Church. Services each
rW "sahbatii atlftJDfu in., and 7;30 p. m. bnn
daj ti hooi a J' p. m. Praer il'etlng Thursday
eM,u n. W IJ. SLAi'niiTKK, 1'astor.
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each montli. Mavor. A. . (Tosswell. Al-
drnin First Ward James tevenson and Chas.
Ne.iUrtrdt; ftevitii Ward F.E. Johnson and Iew
i Hiii Marsha!. I). Ciiiiinliell Clerk. J. B. I)oc
U r Treasurer, J. W. MIddleton. Police Judge,
J .s stun.
COUNTY OI?FICIAS.
rSSCoHntrCnznml.-Joiier- C. Ilarmes. H.
Z" O. Mlnick, A. J. Hitter. County Clerk,
jRinesM Hacker. District CJfrk. AV.JI. Hoover.
Mir.ir. I). Flusters. Frobate Jude, E. SI IfcCo
ilia?. Treasurer, O. W. Jtrattor,. Surveyor, C SI.
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1)( irti i I J a. in.
.iut'jcrn Dally, by Hnllrond Arrives 30n.m.
I)a;.arl..la. in.
orfherc Via Peru, Dally Arrives 12 m; De
parts 1 p. m.
oallierii Vn Ncic-ha City, Dativ Arrives 5
p in Wi'i'artsTa n.
tlr-ierii-Viu, Ti'Ciimsoh to Beatrice Daily:
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ilTOrvVEY AND COUNSELOR AT LAW.
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V-L .Mhj le cun-ulted In t! e LukIWi and Ger-
(up
man IniiniaK'-. OIHct.
fitalrs.) Bruw n ie. Neb.
Ho. 70 la.n street.
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W. T. UoKir.,
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4TTOKNKY AND COFNEI.On AT? LAW.
J Will ie ttiliceiu attention to nnj lecal
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TTORFEIS AND
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A TT.JRNK s .11 LAW ANJ) SOLICITORS IN
W. VV''r" ' Ver 'fa,u n-"' Broun-
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.(axe County, Nebraska.
PIIYHICIANH.
HOLLDAV. Jf. ., Physician. Surceon
-V. aiiJUiMrtrI.n. Graduated In 1S5I. i.oc:
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I furat Implements, and stoAJ?
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KRUIGE BUILDING.
( ' MriVn f "i!SBnd! lUriWrand Contractor.
paw ui ?S e h:ronv aad bext ooden
HOTELS.
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with this
GUN SMITH.
F. ("HADDOCK, Gun smith ,fe rw-v o i..
b-t at n. .v r.. "".'KI,'ck,mlth.
a." Guns made toTrfor nS'lTir ".
iptiy u cheap rates. '"oae
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Nebrask
pron
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T "W.". A J. C GIBSON. Blaxksmltl-.s Jin.? it
. SboerS. Tirst Btrcet.between Main and Atlantic
irosVLVille. eD. Work done to order and satlsfac-
i iianuneen.
ROOTS AND SHOES.
A EX. R.OBINSON, Boot and Shoe Maker. No.
: ;. 'Man.street.Brownville.Neh. Hascon-tant-
ji, ' "IU. xooa assortment of Gent's, Lady's.
cJL.i . a"d Clnldren's Boots and Shoes. riKtnrr.
ibortwuSL11083 dISI,atcU- Ke,B
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The
DAILY- ti. CIIURCHi
, GtENrBocK, Nov. 6, 1872.
Editor Nebraska Advertiser:.
It was my pleasure to attend the
diecusFion of 2pdly and Church at
Glen Rock Centre, on Monday eve
last. A beautiful sltehad been chos
en and a commodious school building
erected at this point the past season.
We understand that arrangements
have been made with Prof. Martini of
Pern, to seat it with the Peard folding
desk and settee combined, which is
really the best thing we have seen of
the kind.
Arrivingat, as we fehonght, a com
paratively early hour, we found the
house filled to overflowing despite the
darkness and inclemency of the
weather. At the hourappointed, Mr.
Church not being present, Mr. Daily
opened with a few well-timed intro
ductory remarks, and proceeded to
discuss, aUlength, the issues of the
hour. Mr. D. contrasted, closely, the
history of the two parties now occu
pying tue political arena, snowing
how the Democratic organization in
its vain lust for power had never dar
ed adopt a principle founded on a
question of right alone, but that its
record was only one of trickery to
corrupt men and measures; the pro
tector of African slavery and the
slave-trade. Its only aim for the past
twelve years had boeu to oppose what
ever measures had been proposed for
the perpetuation of the Republic or
the development of hor internal re
sou rces
On the contrary the Republican
party coneeived the idoa of universal
freedom ; cradled by principles of lib
erty and eternal justice to all; nour
ished by anti-sl averv sentiments.
comes to you asking you to support
its standard-bearer, U. S. Grant, the
soldier and statesman.
The Republican party is not an ex
periment of the bomr, but stands forth
with its brow laurel-wreathed, flush
ed with its wondrous succosses and
achievements of the past twelve
years. Mr. D. continued to compare
the two organizations, showing that
the Republican party had been the
friend and champion of education
and educational enterprises; had de
veloped, in twelve years, the internal
resources of the country to a greater
extent than was douo in the fifty pre
vious. The question of currency also re
ceived a passing notice, as attributa
ble to this great party ; the stability
of our nationul paper ; the homestead
act, the heritage of the poor.
After speaking some three-fourths
of an hour more, Mr. D. closed. Both
frionda and political opponents were
surprised at the clearness and force of
his argument, and the vigor and per
fect self-possession of his delivery.
We noticed an expression on the fa
ces of several recroant Republicans,
which plainly said, "Almost thou
persuadesi me to be, etc'"
A pleasant evening passed away ere
we noted the tight of time. The best
of order provailod, nnd we returned
to our home with a fooling of iust
pride in the tuccess of our old friend
der construction ,three of the most gir.
gantic railroad enterprises of this age-,
the Northern, Southern and Union 1
'Pacific roads. Through the availabil
ity of these great thoroughfares the
red man was speedily being brought
into subjection to the laws of civilisa
tion, while the thousands of honest,
Industrious laborers of the east, were
enabled to, take homesteads, which
the Republican party by its generous
action has seoured to them, and culti
vate the virgin soil, and develop its
boundless andunexbaustible .wealth,
in peace, and that these results are be
ing rapidly accomplished in our own
young and beautiful State, the most
careless and disinterested cannot fail
to see. Questions were freauentlv
proposed by. Democrats present, for
Mr. D's solution, to which he gnyja
prompt and convinoing answers, and
with so little embarrassment that he
may be deemed peculiarly gifted in
this respeot. On being a9ked why the
pillars of the Republican party had
forsaken it, he answered that the peo
ple were its pillars, and that the late
elections showed they had not left it,
but that as they sustained it in the
national crisis, they still sustain it in
its triumphant march of progress and
reform, but if the gentleman moans
Sumner & Co., he would answer that
Sumner had been idolized and petted
until he had become ambitious and
vain. Fancying himself injured by
the administration, he undertook to
crush the great party that had eleva
ted him, by trying to mislead the peo
ple, but in the vain effort, mad ambi
tion overleapt itself, and to-day with
Senator Tipton and others who have
like records stand condemned by the
honest masses of the country. It has
always been the pride of the Repub
lican part3' that it has been the friend
and chatnnion of education, thnfc it
has enoouraged every means that
would promote the diffusion of learn
ing among the masses. Sumner
found, as others will find who may
try it, that the people of the age are
tpo intelligent, and well instructed to
be misled by disappointed men.
After Mr. D. had spoken an hour,
during which time he had the undi
vided attention of the audience,
which was large, considering the in
clemency of the weather, the meeting
adjourned.
Mr. D's effort was a surprise to his
friends, and a greater surprise to his
opposers, and we trust that he may
be spared to make mauy more such
efforts in the cause of right.
A Republican,
The Commission looks to the un
failing patriotism of the people of ev
ery section, to see that each contrib
utes its share to the expenses, and re
ceives its share of the benefits of an
enterprise in "which all are deeply in
terested. It would further earnestly
urge the formation in each State and
Territory of a centennial organization,
which shall in time see that county
associations are formed, so that when
the nations are gathered together in
1876, each Commonwealth can view
with pride the contributions she has
made to the national clory.
Confidently relying en the zeal and
patriotism ever displayed by our peo
ple In every national undertaking, we
pledge and prophecy, that the Cen
tennial Celebration will worthily
show how greatuess, wealth apd in
telligence, can bo fostered by such in
stitutions as those which have for one
Hundred years blessed the ceonlo of
the United States.
JOSEPH. R. HAWLEY, Sec.
.lewis waln Smith, Tem. Sec.
DVERTISER,
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UNITED
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BY THE
STATES CENTEXMAL
COMMISSION.
lind ncighlui.
Glen: Rock.
AfsOTHER
ACCOUNT.
5, 1872.
Pep.u, Nov
Editor Nebraska Advertiser.
On the evening of the 4th lust., I
vinited the Center School House,
Glen Rock precinct, where a meeting
had been arranged for a political dis
cussion betweanMr. JarvisS. Church
and Hon. Win. Daily.
After having waited until eight
o'clock, and Mr. Church having fail
ed to come to time, the meeting was
organized by calliug Mr. Culberteon
to the chair. Mr. Daily was then
called for, who responded in a clear
and interesting speech, ne soid "the
platforms of the two great parties of
the country differ but little in the
principles they declure, and that their
advocates have pledged to Bupport.
It then became an important question
as to which of the two parties would
most likely fulfill those pledges, and while newly opened China and Japan
work for the good of the whole coun- w511 Jay hare the treasures which for
To Urn People of the United States:
The Congress of the United States
has enacted that the completion of
the One Hundredth Year of Ameri
can Independence shall be celebrated
by an International Exhibition of the
Arts, Manufactures, aud products of
the soil and mine, to be held at Phil
adelphia, in 1S7U, aud has appointed a
Commission, consisting of represen
tatives from each State and Territory,
to conduct the celebration.
Originating under the auspices of.
the National Legislature, controlled
by a National Commission, and de
signed as it is to "Commemorate the
first Century of our existence, by an
Exhibition of the National resources
of the Country and their develop
ment, and of our progress in those
Arts whioh beueilt mankind, in com
parison with those of older Nations."
it is to the people at large timt the
Commission lmii for the aid which is
necessary to m,ake the Centennial Cel
ebration the grandest anniversary the
world has ever seen.
That the completion of the first
century of our existence should be
marked by some imposing demonstra
tion is, wo believe, the patriotic wish
of the people of the whole country.
The Congress of the United Stjitnt.
has wit-ely decided that the Birth-dav I
wi m.- wcui xvuuuuno ean De most tit
tingly celebrated by the universal col
lection and display of all the trophies
of its progress. It is designed to
bring together, within a building cov
ering fifty acres, not only the varied
productions of our mines and of the
soil, but types of all the intellectual
triumphs of our citizens, specimens
of everything that America can furn
ish, whether from the brains or hands
of her children, and thus make evi
dent to the world the advancement
of wbich a self governed people is ca
pable. In this "Celebration" all nations
will he invited to participate; its
character being International. Eu
rope will display her arts aud manu
factures, India her curious fabries.
try. That the best evidence that
could be had to direct ub in gathering
material for a correct judgment, was
the past record of those parties ; that
for the long period of nearly thirty
years, with but little interruption.
the Democratic party had administer
ed the affairs of the country, and dur-
(nra nil ji - -
IUB " "s time, nau never introduc
ed a measure for national reform.
They advocated hard, currency while,
at tne same time, they chartered wild
cat banks ; the people were flattered
by the promise of gold and silver as a
circulating medium, while at the
same time, they were suffering in
pocket from bank failures. This was
their policy and practice until the in
auguration of Mr. Lincoln,. Since
that time this party has done nothing
or but little, except to oppose contin
ually and persistently every measure
for reform introduced by the Repub
licans ; on the contrary the Republi
cans, in the short time of twelve
years, bad put the ballot into the
hands of every man, without distinc
tion of class, and bad carefully pro
tected him in the exercise of this sa
cred right; that the Republican par
ty, looking to the wants of the whole
people, Doth East and West, North
nnd South, had caused to be put un-U!ieir resPective 8tates aud Territo
centuries their ingenious people have
been perfecting. Each land will com
pete in generous rivalry for the palm
of superior excellence.
To this grand gathering every zone
will contribute its fruits and cereals.
No mineral shall be wanting ; for
what the East lacks the West will
supply. Under one roof will the
South display in rich luxuriance her
growing cotton, and the North in
miniature, the ceaseless machinery of
her mill? converting that cotton into
cloth. Each section of the globe will
send its beat offerings to this exhibi
tion, and each State of the Union, as
a member of one united bod politic
will show to her sister States and to
the world, how much she can add to
the greatness of the natjon of which
she is a harmonious part.
To make the Centennial Celebra
tion such a success as the patriotism
and the pride of every Americau de
mands will require the co-opreation
of the people of the whole country
The United States, Centennial Com
mission has received no Government
aid, such as England extended to her
World's Pair, and France to her Uni
versal Exposition, yet the labor and
responsibility Imposed upon the Com
mission is as great as in either of thoe
undertakings. It is estimated that
ten millions of dollars will be re
quired, and this sum Congress has
provided shall be raised by stock sub
scription, and that the people shall
have the opportunity of subscribing
In proportion to the nnnnintmn c
CHARACTER IN PRESIDENTS.
But the personal qualities of our
candidates for the presidency have
always been most freely discussed
uunug the presidential campaigns.
They always will be, must be, and
ought to be.
The President is not the most noisy
branch of our government; aud there
has been, In accordance with a weil
koown law in the physiology of con
stitutional governments, a decided
tendency In the representative branch
to be much more visible and audible
than the executive, aud also to ho.
quire more or less indirectly, any ac
cessible bits or executive power.
Probably, therefore, the real extent of
the sort of personal exooutive influ
ence now referred to (which does not
Include the dangerous and undesira
ble department of official patronage)
may be freshly illustrated to most
people by calling to mind a few in
stances of it.
The calm and deliberate wisdom of
Washington, his equity and careful
goodness, the immense weight of hid
individual personal character, were a
chief meauB probably the one most
indispensable means of first bring
ing our nation together under its pres
ent Constitution, and affording it an
opportunity to knitinto a real nation
ality after the disunited jamble of the
confederation. The same wisdom
chose Hamilton's great financial abil
ities to erect our excellent system -of
treasurj' business and public finance.
The same weight of personal charac
ter enabled him to gather into his
cabinet men at once valuable, power
ful, and discordant; and in great
measure to utilize their excellencies
for the good of the nation, without
serious injury from their dissensions.
The resolute boldness of John Ad
ams effectually quenched the attempts
of the French Republio to overaw or
abuse our marine, and thus enroll us
by foroe in the great French interna
tional cousoription against England.
The perfeot fearlessness and firm
ness of Jackson frightened the plot
ters of Nullification, aud ruined their
enterprise. Even the courage of
John C. Calhoun failed him ; for he
felt to his very nook-bone 'hat when
Andrew Jackson said hang, ho meant
hang.
The careful deliberation, and slow.
Intent, heedful study of public opin
ion, which was a chief tiait of Presi
dent Lincoln's mind, as it was his
mode of managing the course of pub
lic policy, while it seemed agonizing
ly slow to men of quick Insight and
impatient temperament, yet enabled
him to plant every leading measure
of his administration, when at last he
did adopt it, upon an impregnable ba
sis of decisive national preference.
On the other hand, it is impossible,
of course, to say in any case what
might have been done. But there are
no sadder questions, as poet and
statesman know alike, than those
which ask, what might have been.
What might have been, and what
might not have been, if, in 1S20 and
1821, we had had a man of purpose in
the Presidency, instead of James
Monroe? Heie itiw n fooblo pioco,
who in the Revolution had deserted
his country, had played all of a trai-
f tor's part that a coward nnuld nW
who, by the accident of Virginia
birth, had been translated into official
position by great men who thought
they could conveniently manage him;
who, on every occasion when he had
a chance, had managed to do wrong.
But this man having been, for Mr.
Madison's convenience, made Secre
tary of State, happened, we mustsnv.
perhaps, to be President when the
Missouri question came along. If
only John Adams had beeu in that
place! If even Thomas Jefierson, to
whom we owe, they say, the confir
mation of Nathan Dane's great edict,
had been In power! If any man,
competent to read the future, or even
to look into the future, could have
held the power which the President
of the United States, when he is a
man, holds in such a crisis ! Instead
of a man, there was a James Monroe.
There is not, so far as we know, in
the whole discussion, publio or nri-
vate, an allusion to the poororeature'n
opinion. He was there to be used by
the slave-dealing coterie ; and he was
used by them. After they hnd used
him, they forgot him, nnd the coun
try has forgotten him to this hour.
But we cannot help saying "What
might have been !"
There is another such man whom
the country has forgotten. Of course
it forgets men who miss their only
chance of being remembered. John
Tyler, happily called "his accidency,"
uuuie juui power wiin a curiously for
tunate series of possibilities around
him. He was at the head of a nation
thoroughly sick of the adventures
and experiments of the last five or six
past years. But he was snillv nfrnH
that he should be eclipsed by great
men in his Cabinet and and great
men in the Senate. Wherever he
could obstruct, he obstructed. Every
measure required the study of the
President's whims; and before it waB
passed those whims had changed. In
such a man the personality proved to
be everything. It ended, of course,
in his selling himself to the extreme
Southern party, in his hope of re-election
; and, Of course, that endnrl in
their forgetting him when the day of
cieutiuu uuluu. wnat might have
been, alas !
It was tho personal timidity, irres
olution, and want of moral principle,
of Mr. Buchanan, that formed the
whole dependence of those who plan
ned the outbreak of the Rebellion.
Remember the doleful series of public
disgraces through the fall and winter
of 1S60-61 ; and then say, Would those
things have happened if Jackson had
been President, or John Adams, or
the steady, hopest. brave old Tyler?
The case of Andrew Johnson is not
forgotten. One of Mr. Charles Sum-
ci o yjcjmuues, wnicn ne has never
fiirn into opposition to Mr. Hannibal
Hamlin, when Mr. Lincoln was nom
inated the second time. This opposi
tion succeeded, and succeeded on ac
count ofl Mr. .Sumner. To him we
owe the administration of Andrew
Johnson. That administration, if the
wo-,1 is proper, is simply a personal
history. It has been .-said, indeed,
that those four years of failure may
rm I ii. - acc,ae"i or a name.
rb(it th6 name, Andrew, suggested
the imitation of another Andrew!
rhU if the parents of Ptesident John
sort hail named him Moses, all would
haye been well ! Who knows? What
werdo know Is, thnt, with the wish to
rival Andrew Jackson, Andrew John
son a-serted himself at every corner,
obstructed every measure.disappoint
ed every friend, and reconciled no
enemy. All this was to be traced di
rectly to the personal qualities of the
President. Peace and reconstruction
were set back four years. In one
wretched quarter of an hour, his pub-
liQ drunkenness, at the hprmnlnt
had been enough to shed disrepute on
the whole of his official term. With
this bad presage from the first, the
unreasoning, ugly obstinancy which
followed was, of course, enough to
blast every hope, and almost every
thing that has been done.
These are specimens only. But the
whole history of the United States
has been, aui must be. visiblv tiiiered
throughout by the personal qualities
of the Presidents. It is not only our
right, therefore, but our duty, to
know as thoroughly as we can what
manner of man it is that offers him
self for this more than royal place
for this truly imperial place. From
Old and New for September.
OFFICIAL.
Laws of the United States
PASSED AT Til E
SECOND SESSION OF THE FORTY
SECOND CONGRESS.
General Nature No. 134.
AN ACT making appropriations for tli re
pair, preservation, and completion of cer
tain public works on rivers and harbors,
and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and
House of Representatives of the United
States of America in Congress assem
bled. That the lollowing sums of mon
ey be, and are hereby, appropriated,
to be paid out of any money in the
treasury not otherwise appropriated,
to be expended under the direction. of"
the Secretary of War, for the repair,
pieservntion, and completion of the
following public works hereinafter
named :
For the improvement of Du Luth
harbor, Minnesota, fifty thousand dol
lars : J'roviaea, That no part of said
sum shall be expended so as to injure
the harbor of Superior city, Min
nesota. For the improvement of Superior
City harbor, Wisconsin, fifty thou
sand dollars.
For the improvement of Marquette
harbor, Michigau, fifty thousand dol
lars For the improvement of Mcnomo
nee harbor, Michigan and Wisconsin,
twenty-five thousand dollars.
For the improvement of Ahnapee
harbor, Wicousiu, twenty-five thou
sand dollars.
For the improvement of Two Riv
era harbor, Wiscousiu, twenty-five
thousand dolmrs.
For the improvement of Sheboygan
harbor, Wisconsin, eighteen thousand
dollurs.
For the improvement of Port Wash
ington harbor, Wisconsin, fifteen
thousand dollars.
For the improvement of Chicago
barb r, Illinois, ninety thousand dol
lars. For the improvement of Calumet
harbor, Illinois, forty thousand dol
lars.
For tho improvement of Michigan
City harbor, ludiaua, fifty thousand
dollars.
For theimprovement of New Buffa
lo harbor, Michigan, five thousand
dollars.
For payment to the Green Bav and
lUMSissippi vanai VstJiiiinvuy, inr so
much of all and singular its property
and rights of property in and to the
line of water communication between
the Wisconsin river and the mouth of
the Fox river, including its locks,
dams, canals, and franchises, as were
under the act of Congress for the im
provement of water communication
between the Mississippi river and
Lake Michigan by the Wisconsin nnd
Fox rivers, approved July seventh,
eighteen hundred and seventy, re
ported by the Secretary of War to be
needed, In his communication to the
House of Rep esentatives dated March
eighth, eighteen hundred anil seven
ty-two, one hundred and lorty-hve
thousand dollars.
For the improvement of Frankfort
harbor, Michigan, ten thousand dol
lar. For the improvement of Manistee
harbor, Michigan, ton thousand dol-lar.
For the improvement of Pere Mar
For the Improvement of Ashtabula
naroor, Uhio, fifteen thousandddllars.
For the improvementof Vermillion
harbor, Ohio, five thousand dollars.
For the improvement, of Erie har
bor, Pennsylvania, fifteen thousand
dollars.
For the improvement of Dunkirk
harbor, New York, twenty-five thou
sand dollars.
For the Improvement of Port Clin
ton harbor, Ohio, eighteen thousand
dollars.
For the Improvement of Rocky
River harbor, Ohio, ten thousand dol
lars. For the improvement of Maumee
river above Toledo, Ohio, seven thou
sand dollars.
For the Improvement of Monroe
harbor, Michigan, ten thousand dol
lars. "
For the improvement of Buffalo
liarborj New York, seventy-five thou
sand dollars; and the unexpended
balance heretofore appropriated for
building pea-wall at 'Buffalo:-
For the improvement of Olcott har
bor, New York, ten thousand dollars.
For the improvement of Oak Or
chard harbor. New York, two thou
sand five hundred dollars.
For the Improvement of Pultney
ville harbor, New York, ten thousand
dollars.
For the improvement of Little 80
dus harbor, New York, fifteen thou
sand dollars.
For the improvement of Oswego
harbor New York, one hundred thou
sand dollars.
For the improvement of Odgdens-
burgh harbor, New lorfe, ten, thou
sand dollars.
For the Improvement of Burling
ton harbor, Vermont, thirty thousand
dollars.
For the improvement of Otter creek.
,' Vermont, from Vergennes to its out
let on Lake Champlain, ten thousand
dollars.
For dredge and snag boats on the
Upper Mississippi river, forty-two
thousand dollars.
For the improvementof the Minne
sota River, Minnesota, ten thousand
dollars.
For the improvement of the Des
Moines rapids, Mississippi river, four
hundred thousand dollars.
For the Improvement of the Rock
Island rapids, Mississippi river, fifty
thousand dollars.
For the preservation of the Falls of
Saint Anthony, Minnesota, and the
navigation of- the Mississippi river
above the same, fifty thousand' dol
lars. For improvementof the Mississippi,
Missouri, and Arkansas rivers, nine
ty thousand dollars ; for improvement
of the Little Missouri river, ten thou
sand dollars ; for improvement of they
Ouachita river, in Arkansas, sixty
V it '
near
ft ---- " - " no net CI I V1L IIU
fyet explained to the public, threw dollars.
- j
quette narbor, Michigan, ten thou
sand dollars.
For the improvement of Pentwa
ter harbor, Miohigan, thirty thousand
dollars
For the improvement of White Riv
er harbor, Michigan, ten thousand
dollars
For the improvement of Muskegon
harbor, Michigan, ten thousand dollars.
For the improvement of Grand Ha
ven harbor, Michigan, fifteen thou
sand dollars.
For the improvement of Black
Lake harbor, Michigan, ten thousand
dollars.
For the improvement of Saugatuck
harbor, Michigan, fifteen thousand
dollars.
For the improvement of Saint Jo
seph harbor, Michigan, three thou
sand dollars.
For the improvement of Saint
Mary's river aud Saint "Mary's Falls
canal, Michigan, three hundred thou
sand dollars, of which ruin fifteen
thousand dollars may be applied to
secure the right of way.
For the improvement of Cheboygan
harbor, Michigan, fifteen thousand
dollars.
For the improvement of Au Sable
river, Michigan, ten thousand dollars.
For the improvement of Harbor of
Refuge, on Lake Huron, one hundred
thousand dallars.
For the improvement of the mouth
of Black river, in Saint Clair river.
Michigan, fifteen thousand dollars.
For the improvement of Saint Clair
flats, Michigan, four thousand dol
lars. For the improvement of Toledo
harbor, Ohio, fifteen thousand dollars.
For the improvement of Sandusky
river, uino, ten inousand dollars
thousand dollars ; and further im
provement of the Ouachita river, in
Louisiana, forty thousand dollars.
For the improvement of the Mon
ongahela river between Morgan town
and New Geneva, in accordance with
the plan submitted by General A. A.
Humphreys in his report to the House
of Representatives dated February
fourteenth, eighteen hundred and
seventy-two, twenty-five thousand
dollars.
For the improvement of the Ohio
river, and the harbors thereof, inclu
ding the repair of the Cumberland
dam, two hundred thousand dollars.
For the improvementof the Osas;e
river, Missouri, twenty-five thousand'
dollars.
For the improvement of Currant
river, Missouri, five thousand dollars.
For the continuing the work on the
: canal at the Falls of the Ohio river.
three hundred thousand dollars. And
the Secretary of War is hereby direc
ted to report to Congress, at its next
session, or sooner, i( practicable, the
cond.tun of taid canal, and the pro
visions necessary to relieve the same
from incumbrance, with a riew to
such legislation as will render the
same free to commerce at the earliest
practicable period, subject only to
such tools as may be necessary for the
superintendence and repair thereof,
which shall not, after the passage of
this act. exoeed five cents pr ton.
For the improvement of the .Mis
sissippi river between the mouth of
the Illinois river aud the mouth of
the Missouri river, twenty-five thou
sand dollars.
For the improvement of the Mis
sissippi river between the mouth of
the Missouri river and the mouth of
the Merrimac river, one hundred
thousand dollars.
For the improvement of the Wa
bash river, Indiana, commencing atits
mouth, fifty thousand dollars.
For the continuation of the work
now in progress on the Tenne-et
river, below Chattanooga, including
the Muscle shoals, fifty thousand dollars.
For the improvemsnt of the Ten
nessee river, between Knoxville and
Chattanooga, twenty-five thousand
dollars.
For tho improvement of Cumber
land river, in Tennessee, twenty
thousand dollars.
For the improvement of the mouth
of the Mississippi river, Louisiana,
one hundred aud fifty thousand dol
lars. For the improvement of Tones
bayou, Louisiana, twenty thousand
dollars.
For improvement of Calcasieu pass,
in the State of Louisiana, fifteen
thousand dollars.
For the improvement of bar in Gal
veston bay, ten thousand dollars, and
for improvement of the harbor of Gal
veston, Texas, thirty-one thousand
dollars.
For the improvement of Cypress
bayou, near Jefferson, Texas, ten
thousand dollars.
For the improvement of the Tangi
pahoa river, Louisiana, two thousand
flue hundred dollars.
For removing the raft in Had river,
Louisiana, one hundred and fifty
thousand dollars.
For removing the wreck of the
gunboat "Oregon," in the Chifuncte
river, Louisiana, six thousand dollars.
For dredging the bar at the mouth
of the harbor of Cedar Keys, Florida,
seven thousand five hundred dollars.
For dredging the bar at the mouth
Stono river, Suth Carolina,
vsiiurcu Jiais.
For the Improvement of Savannah
harbor and rivqr, Georgia, fifty thou"
sand dollars.
r or. me inyprevernent of the en
trance to the harbor of Baltimore, in
Patapsco river, and.Chesapeak bay,
pna hundred thousand dollars.
For the Improvementof theRappa
hannock river, below Fredericks
burg, Virginia, fifteen thousand dol
lars. For the Improvement'of the Ja'mes
river, Virginia, fifteen tfcousand'dol
Iara. .
For the Improvement' of the Amjo-
I mattox river below Peterhurgh, Vir-
6nua, ivuy muusanu uoiiars.
For the improvement of Aquia
creek, Virginia, one thousand five
hundred dollars.
For .the Improvement of Accotlnk
creekt Virginia, five thousand- dol
lars. For theimprnvement of the Roan
oke river below Weldnn, Mortbr'Carot
Una. ten thousand dollars.
For the Improvement of Cnno Far
river, belo Wilmington, North Car
olit a, one hundred thousand dollars.
ror the Improvement of Queens
town harbor, Maryland, six thousand
dollars.
For the Improvement of Worton
harbor, Maryland, twelve thousaud
dollars.
For the Improvement of Cambridge
harbor, Maryland, ten thousand dollars-
For the Improvement of Northeast
river, Maryland, ten thousand dollars.
For the Improvement of;the Wi
comico river, Maryland, five thou
sand uouars.
For clearing nnd Improving the
channel of the Schuylkill river from
Its mouth to fbo Chestnut street
bridge, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,
forty thousand dollars, of which sum
sufficient is to be used for removing
the rock between Locust street and
the said bridge.
For the improvement of Wilming
ton harbor, Delaware, teu thousand
dolllars.
For the repair of pier of the ice
harbor at New Castle, Delaware, and
for building a new pier at said harbor,
twenty-seven thousand dollars.
For the improvement of Delaware
river, between Trenton and Borden-
to.wn, New Jersey, ten thousand dol
lars. For the improvement of the Hud
son river, New York, forty thousand
dollars.
For the removal of obstructions in
the East river, New York, including
Hell Gate, two hundred and twenty
five thousand dodars.
For the improvementof Providence
river, Rhode Island, ten thousand
dollars.
For the improvement of Pawtucket
river, Rhode Islaud, ten thousand
dollars.
For the improvement of the Pas
nctfbis jiyer. Orphan, ftftv ihm..
jAd'dqirsfs.
For tfierempfalofABoa rock, in
the harbor of San Francisco. Gisijfor
nia, fifty-thousand.dolIar3v N
For the improvement of tke break..
water at Wilmington, California, aey-enty-five.thousand
dollars.
For the improvement of the Torn
bigbee river; ten thousand dollar
For removal of rocks at New H&-
ven harbor, Connecticut, fifteen
thousand dollars.
For Improvement of Cocheeo river
;wJt$in the taw'n of Dover." 'JC'
Hampshire, ten thooslfed dollars. "
For the improvement of Black Rfv
I er harbor, Ohio, twenty thousand doi-'
For Burveys and examinations, with
a view to the improvement of rivers
nnd harbors, one hundred and ftfy.
thousand dollars. f
.Sec. ZT That, the Secretary of War
is. hereby directeaVto cause examina
tions orsuryeysor both, to-be mada
at the following points, namely: At'
Kcyport harbor, New Jersey chan
nel between Staten island and New.
Jersey ; at Cohansey creek, New Jer
sey ; at Bear creek. Lake Ontario,'
New York; at Waddington harbor.
New York : for a brunkwnfnr nt.
Rouse's point, on Lake Champlain.
New York ; at Port Austin and Port
Cre-cent, Michigan ; at the mouth of.
Pen saukle river. Wisconsin ; at Wau
kpgan harbor, Illinois ; the Machina
river, Maine; at WIckford harbor and?
Newport harbor, Rhode Island ; tho
east side of Providence river, between
rieia-s point and Fox point, Rhode
saic river, between Newark and Pas-
of aint John's river, Florida, ten
thousand dollars.
p'or the improvement of Mobile
harbor anil bay. Alabama, seventy
five thousand dollars.
For the improvement of the ship
channel in Charleston harbor, South
Carolina, thirty-eight thousand seven
hundred dollars.
For removing obstructions in Ashe
poo river, South Carolina, one thou
sand three hundred dollars. And
the amount of the appropriation made
by act of Congress, approved July
eleventh, eighteen hundred and sev-
emy, lor removing ooatructions in
Town creek, near Charleston. South
For the improvement of Sanduskv Carolina, which remains unexnended. I
City harbor, Ohio, thirteen thousaud ? is hereby appropriated to remove '
j wrecks obstructing navigation in j
saic, New Jersey, twenty-five thou
sand dollars.
For the improvement nnd removal
of rocks in Port Clester harbor, New
York, twelve thousand dollars.
For the improvement of Roundont
harbor, New York, ten thousand dol
lars. For the improvement of the break
water at Block island, Rhode Island,
fifty thousand dollars.
For the improvement of Pawcatuck
river, Rhode island and Connecticut,
ten thousand dollars.
For the improvementof the Thames
river, Connecticut, ten thousand dol
lars. For the improvement of the Con
necticut river below Hartford, Con
necticut, including Saybrook bat at
the'mouth of the river, forty thou
sand dollars.
For the improvement of the Con
necticut river on or above Enfield
falls and below Holyoke, twenty-five
thousand dollars.
For the improvement of New Ha
ven harbor, Connecticut, twenty
thousand dollars.
For the improvement of the Hous-
nionlc river, Connecticut, fifteen
thousand, dollars.
For the improvement of Bridgeport
harbor, Connecticut, forty thousand
dollars.
For the improvement of Norwalk
harbor, Connecticut, between the
stone bridge and the railroad draw
bridge, ten thousand dollars.
For the Improvement of Port Jef
ferson harbor. Long Island, New
York, fiftepn thousand dollars.
For the improvement of Peconic
river, Long island, New York, ten
mousanu uouars.
For the improvement of Hunting
ton harbor, Long island, New York,
twenty-two thousand five hundred
dollars.
For the improvement of the Narra-
gaugus river, Maine, ten thousand
dollars.
For the improvement of Sullivan
river and Sullivan falls, Maine, twenty-five
thousand dollars.
For the improvement of the Penob
scot river, Maine, forty thousand dollars.
For the improvement of the Ken
nebec river, Maine, eight thousand:
dollars.
For the Improvementof Royals riv
er, Maine, ten thousand dollars.
Fur the improvement of Portland
harbor and Back bay, Maine, forty-
nve inousanii uouars.
For the improvement of Ssoo river,
Maine, fifteen thousand dollars.
For the improvement of Rich
mond's island, Maine, twenty thou
sand dollars.
For removing rock in Gloucester
harbor, Massachusetts, ten thousand
dollars.
For the improvement of Boston
harbor, Massachusetts, seventy-five
thousand dollars.
For the improvement of Taunton
river, Massachusetts, ten thousaud
dollars.
For the improvement of Plymouth
harbor, Massachusetts, two thousand
five hundred dollars.
For the improvement of Edgartown
harbor, Massachusetts, twenty thou
sand d--liars.
For the improvement of Province
town harbor, Massachusetts, five
thousand dollars.
For the improvement of Wells har
bor, Maine, five thousand dollars.
For removal of rocks at entrance of
Wellfleet harbor, Massachusetts, five
thousand dollars.
For the improvement of the Merri
mac river above Haverhill, Massa
chusetts, twenty-five thousand dol
lars. For the improvement of Duxbury
harbor, Massachusetts, ten thousand
dollars.
For the improvement of Wareham
harbor, Massachusetts, ten thousand
dollars.
For the improvement of the Lower
Willamette river, Oregon, fifty thou
sand dollars.
For the improvement ef the Upper
Island ; et Port Orford, Oregon' f aA
Estero bay, San Louis Obsipo county,
California; the mouths of Nomonl
creek and Occoquan river, Virginia;
the bay or sound from Delaware line
through Worcester county to Chinco
teague Inlet. Virginia, with a view to
an inlet at or n.ear a, place called tho
Hammocks ; for n ship-canal between
the waters of Galveston bay aud Sa-'
line lake, Texas; Chester river at
Kent Island narrows, Maryland ;
Saint Francis, river, from Greenville-'
down, Missouri; Gasconade river,
Missouri ; Tom bigbee river, between
Fulton and Columbus, Mississippi;
harbor of Cedar Keys and channel to
same, Florida; Nian.Uc rivpr, Con-
necticut ; the bars at the outlet of Sa
bine pass, Texas ; tho Mississippi riv-"
er, between the mouth of the Mis-'
anuri river and the mouth of tho Ohio'
river; west end of the pass at ftnd,
near Bio Bulck point, Texas ; the bar
at the mouth of Sabine river, in Sa
bine lake, and to extend up the main
chanuel of said river to tho town, of
Belzora; at the mouth of the Nuches
river, in Sabine lake, and to extend,
up the main channel of said river to
the town of Boonville, at the point
where the Angelica river falls into tho,
Nuches river, and to extend up tho
main channel of said river to the
town of Pattonia, Texas; at tho
mouth of the Trinity river, in Galves-
ton bay, anil to extend up. the main
channel of said river to the tovn of
Magnolia, Texas; Washington "har
bor, North Carolina; Edenton harbor.
North Carolina; mouth of Mackay's
creek, North Carolina; Chippewa
river, up to Chippowa falls, Wiscon
sin ; harbor at Swanton, VerrnoYn. :"
harbor at Galveston, Texas; at Apal
achicola river, from Chaltahoochc,
Florida, to Apalachicola ; at Chritta
hooche river, from Columbus. Gepr
gia, to Chattahoocho, Florida; at
Flint river, from Albany, Georgia, to
Chattahooche, Florida; for survey of
breakwater at Milford, Connecticut;
mouth of Pine river, Michigan ; tho
harbor of San Diego, California;
mouth of Grand Calumet river, Indi
ana ; Great Kanawha river, from tho
Great falls to the mouth. Yest Vir
ginia; to complete the survey of tho
James river and Kanawha canal ; for
survey of Camden harbor, Maine; for
a sea-wall or breakwater at Trinidad
harbor California; of tho channel
and bank at entrance of Salem har
bor; on Merrimack river, Massachu
setts, from Haverhill to Newburyport,
including Duck Hole and Curripr
shoals; the New river, from tho
mouth of Greenbrier, in West Virtrin
ia, to the lead-mines, in Wythe coun
ty, Virginia ; at St. Helena bar, in tho,
Columbia river, Oregon ; for survey
for the removal of wrecks of sun-
boats, steamers, and other obstruc
tions placed in Yazon river during thok
war, and for the resurvey of Savan
nah harbor; the Delaware river be
tween Trenton nnd Easton ; for tho
Burvey of the river St. Mary's, In
Ohio and Indiana; for the survey of
the Minnesata river above the mouth
of the Yellow Medicine, Minnesota.
Sec. 3. That in the examination or
surveys of all points mentioned in the
'oreaomg section, the Secretary of
War be directed to ascertain. S3 far as
practicable, the amount of tonnage of
commercial business during the pre
vious year at each point, together
with such other facts as bear upon the.
question of the contemplated im
provemant, and that he communicate
the same, together with his report of
the examination or survey of such
point, to Congress: Provided. That
so much of the amount herewith ap
propriated for the survey of rivers and
harbors as Is requisite for contingen
cies, may be used for said purpose.
Approved, June 10, 1872.
T:e ToiabofTantnltw.
The following interesting article is
taken from the .dnMenGenm of a recent
date: Among the famous sights of
Smyrna which are seldom seen by1
casual visitors are, the Tomb of Tan
talus, on the opposite side of the bay,
and the Lake of Tantalus, jn thechaiii
ofSipylus. According to the classic!
insiuriHus, uesiaes tne rocs-cut image
of Cybele, there was once here a city
01 iantalus, which was destroyed
bv
an earthquake. Since the emotion of
Vesuvius the lake has been sensibly
affected. Tliiu lake, the crater of a
volcanic formation, is reputed to be
fathomless although an English naval
otfider settled that point many years
ago. At this time of the year it is &.
place for .picnics from the sumrrier
town of Bouruabat but now sight-seera
aud tourists are proceedning thither
because the two peaks above the laker
are visibly sinking. Not only this,
but t'.vo fissures have opened, from
one of which warm water flows, and
in the other ruins are to be recognized
of a lino city. Such Is tho local re
port we have received. On the other
side of the city of Smyran are the vol
canic peaks of the Two Brothera, nnd
it is much to be feared, after the lats
disturbances of the District, thatsoms
fearful earthquake again awaits tho
city. "Do you see the resemblance be
tween the whipping of his wife by
that man yonder, aud the running of
that chicken across the door-yard in
front of them?" asked one passer-by'
of another. "I do not,'r was the- ro
ply. "That's strange," quoth tho
first speakea, "as it is plain enough"
that each is a foul proceeding.'-' oii