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PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, MAY 21, 1874.
NUMBER 8.
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TOST OFFICE BUILI)IG,
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EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
Condensed from Telegrams of Acfompanjin' Dales.
Monday, May 11. Severe frosts have
seriously injured the vines of France
and the grape crop -will be largely
diminished iu consequence... -.The Ad
visory Board of the Illinois State Farmers'
Association have issued a formal call
for a convention at Sprinirneld on the 10th
of June, of farmers, mechanics and other
laoonng men. 10 nominate candidates for
State Treasurer and Superintendent of Public
Instruction. ...Extensive fires are raging in
the woods throughout the whole Saginaw
(Michigan) district, and in their ex
tent and destruction of property threaten
to rival the disastrous fire of 1871.
Tuesday, May 12. The court of inquiry
in the case of Gen. O. O. Howard have made
up their verdict, and are reported as standing
four to three the majority voting that the
evidence taken relieved (Jen. Howard from re
sponsibility The President of the United
States Centennial Commission has published
a card announcing that the work essen
tial for the due celebration of the centen
nial anniversary in 1876 has been com
menced, and will be proceeded with without
delay.... Ridge way, Iowa, has been entirely
destroyed by fire with the exception of one
brick building. Between thirty and forty
families are rendered homeless. The fire
originated by two boys lighting cigars in an
unoccupied house, and resulted in a total loss
of nearly $100,000 A Madison (Wis.) tele
gram announces that Gov. Taylor has received
an opinion from Attorney-General Sloan to the
effect that the State Railroad law is constitu
tional. The Governor is determined to en
force the law to the fullest extent. The Min
eral Point and Central Roads have complied
with the law and furnished statements as re
quired by its provisions. The Commis
sioners are hard at work preparing
a classification of rates.
Wednesday, May 13. A Bayonne dis
patch says the Carlists claimed a vic
tory in the recent battle between Don
Alfonzo and the Republicans. Don
Carlos has revoked his decree banishing
the Cure of Santa Cruz and recalled him to
Spain.... Mr. Mcllish, Member of Congress
from Js'ew York, has become insane through
his study of the question of finance
....The Chicngo Tribune publishes a
list of 923 Western newspapers, giving their
views on the President's veto of the Currency
bill, and classifies them as follows: Sustain
ing the veto Republican, 295; Democratic,
V2H; Independent, 91. Opposing the veto
Republican, 234; Democratic, 112; Independ
ent, 03.
Thursday, May 14. The Czar of Rus
sia and the Grand Duke Alexis have arrived
at Dover, England.... A new Spanish Cabinet
has been announced, composed as follows :
Zabala, Minister of War; Sagasta, Minister of
the Interior; Ull, Minister of Foreign Affairs;
Camacho, Minister of Finance. .. .The Demo
cratic members of the Connecticut Legisla
ture nominated Hon. Wm. W. Eaton for
United States Senator A Liberal Re
publican conference was recently held
at Albany, N. Y., at which it was resolved to
keep the organization intact. A resolution
was adopted in favor of a State convention....
At the eighth annual meeting of the National
Encampment of the Grand Army of the Re
public recently held in Ilarrisburg, Pa.,
the following officers were elected for
the ensuing year: Commander-in-Chief,
Charles Devens, Jr., Massachusetts; Senior
Vice-Commander-in-Chief, Edward Jardine,
New York ; Junior Vice-Commander-in-Chief,
Grey Gould, Illinois. Chicago was selected as
the next place of meeting, in May, 1S75
Heavy rains on the night of the 11th and on
the day following extinguished the greater
part of the forest fires then raging in Michigan.
Many hundreds of acres of valuable timber
had been consumed in the northern and west
ern portions of the State On the 13th addi
tional crevasses were reported along the east
bank of the Mississippi, and the country in
portions of the State of Mississippi was being
rapidly submerged The State Senate
of Kansas met on the 12th as a Court
of Impeachment in the case of Treasurer
Hayes. A communication waa presented
from the Governor announcing the res
ignation of Hayes and the appointment of
John Francis The National Agricultural
Congress began its annual session at Atlanta,
Ga., on the 13th. An address was delivered by
President Jackson. He felicitated the Con
gress on the good results of the organiza
tion during the past two vears. and
urged the necessity of co-operation and
union, and the obliteration of sectional
antipathies and the cultivation of
food-fellowship and brotherly love.
Friday, May 1 .Gen. Juan Burriel
has published a card In a Paris paper explain
ing his course at Santiago in ordering the execu
tion of the prisoners taken on the Virginius.
After citing the laws and orders which he
claims gave a warrant for his action, Burriel
says: "If the laws of Spain are too severe in
the judgment of foreigners I am not the one
called upon to arrest their action, and they are
at liberty not to tread the soil of Spain. If
its method of ruling and governing itself does
not suit them, their protests in these extreme
cases should not be heard, for they only
seek thereby to hinder the action of
the law. Let their respective govern
ments come with reclamations, and this
is the way to modify these laws, if it
be deemed necessary to do so".... The Massa
chusetts Senate has rejected a resolution pro
viding for an amendment to the Constitution
to secure the elective franchise and the right
to hold office to women At a late meeting
of the posts of the Grand Army of the Repub
lic or the Department of New York
it was agreed that there should be no
distinction made on Decoration dav be-
t een the graves of the Confederate and Union
dead The Wisconsin Railroad Commission
ers have issued a schedule classifying the roads
and establishing passenger and freight rates.
A proposition of the Chicaeo & Northwestern
Railway Company to have the suit about to
be commenced aeainst them taken tn the
United States Court instead of the State
Court has been refused bv Gov. Tavlor..
Both houses of the Arkansas Legislature met
on the morning of the 14th and adopted a res
olution requesting the Presidentof the United
Mates to put that body in possession of the
legislative halls and give it repossession and
control of the public ore-pert v in the State
House square; and that he give such
orders for the disposition of the contending
iorces as would protect the State from domes
tic violence and insure the Legislature from
molestation. Iu the evenine the Assemblv
met iu joint convention ana received a mes
sage from Baxter inviting the Legislature to
decide who is Governor of Arkansas, and sug
gesting the propriety of calling a Constitu
tional Convention.
Saturday, May 10. Great excitement
was created in the French Assemblv on the
15th by a proposition of the Ministry to create
an upper chamber. . . . A Berlin special says it
was Prince Nicholas, , one of the Emperor's
nephews, instead of the Grand Duke Nicholas,
who was recently arrested in St. Petersburg,
He had stolen his mother's diamonds and given
them to a French actress, for which he was
arrested and would be punished like a common
ibiei.... Senator Carpenter has addressed a
letter to the Madison (Wis.) State Journal in
which he claims that the State Legislature has
a right to alter, amend, or repeal the charter
of any railway corporation, to give It
new and cnlareed privileges, or to
limit and restrict those it nw
possesses. He savs the Potter law is
constitutional, and that Messrs. Curtis and
Evaits have evaded the real question at issue
in their lately-published opinions.... The
Ohio Constitutional Convention adjourned
tine die on the 15th. All the members present
had signed the new Constitution The
Attorney-General of the United States, on
the 15tb, submitted his opinion to the Presi
dent in the Arkansas case, holding that
it was his duty, under the circumstances, to
recognize Baxter as the lawful Executive of
the 8tate. The President subsequently issued
his proclamation recognizing him and com
manding all turbulent and disorderly per
sons to retire peacefully to their re
spective homes within ten days. This was
telegraphed to Little Rock, where it created
the wildest excitement. In the afternoon
Gov. Baxter issued a proclamation announc
ing the decision, and congratulating the peo
ple of Arkansas that the Federal Government
had recognized his claims to the office. In the
evening Brooks sent a communication to the
Governor to arrange for the disbanding of the
forces on both sides.
THE MARKETS.
NSW YORK.
May 16, 1374.
Cottoh. Middling npland, 18Kl8,Wc
Live Stock. Def Cattle fl0.2512.25. nogs-
Dressed, 17.0017.25. Sheep Live (clipped),
f6.507.25.
BuEADSTrrrs. Flour Good to choice, $6.45Q
6.70; white wheat extra, $6.70(37.10. Wheat No.
2 Chicago, $1.431.50; Iowa spring, $1.491.51;
No. 2 Milwaukee spring. f 1.52S1.55. Rye West
ern and State, $1.051.10. Barley $1.6U1.67.
Corn Mixed Western afloat, 83"&8tic. Oats-
New Western, 61(&t3c.
Provisions. Pork New Mess, $17.1ii417.25.
Lard 10(4(310?, c.
Wool. Common to extra. 4062c.
CHICAGO.
Livr Stock. Beeves--Choice, $5.6335.80; good.
$5.2335.70; medium, $5.0035.25; butchers'
stock, $J.755.00; stock cattle, $3.5034.80.
riogs Live, $5.40:36.00. ghecp Good to choice,
$6.507.50.
Provisions. Butter Choice, 30(333c Eggs
Fresh, 133134c. Pork New Mess, $16.75
1G.87. Lard $10.30(310.35.
Brbadstctw. Flour White Winter extra.
$6.75(39.00; spring extra, 5.3. K3b.J,0. Wheat
Spring, No. 2, $1.2331.23. Corn No. 2, 614
&613C. Oats No. i. 46'4iai7c Bye No. 2, $1.40
1.42. Barley No. 2, 973'Jfc.
Wool. Tub-washed, 4-3."i5c; fleece, waohed.
X348c.; fleece, unwashed. 2532c.; pulled,
35340c
(JIIUCIMN ATI.
Brbadstuffs. Flour f6.7S7.00. Wheat
$1.40. Corn 72a73c Rye $1.C9. Oats 0358c.
Barley $1.50(31.55.
Provisions. Pork $17.50317.75. U-.rd 11
,
ST. lAJUia.
Livb Stock. Beeve Fair to choice, $4.50
6.00. Hogs Live, $4.755.75.
Breadstctts. Flour XX Fall, $5.506.00.
Wheat No. 2 Red Fail, $1.431.50. Corn No. 2,
G8fic. Oat No.2, 52(453c Rye No. 2,
yc.i3$1.00. Barley $1.WX31.55.
Provisions. Pork Mess, $17.75318.00. Lard
10,10ic.
bill, n Atiinn.
Brbadsttfw. Flour Spring XX, $5.7035.90.
Wheatr-Spring No.l, $1.37i41.28; No. 2, $1.25
l.S5Si. Corn No. 2,61614c Oats No. 2,45(3
45jc Rye No. 1, 94'J14c. Barley No. 2, $1.58
1.60.
BBEADsnirM. Wheat Extra, $1.6&31.C84.
Corn 7172c. Oats 52353c.
TOLEDO.
Breadstctts. Wheat Amber Mich., $1.45(3
1.46; No. 2 Red, $1.4rx31.454. Corn Mixed, 63
70c. Oats No. 1, 54S56c
CLEVELAND.
Breadsttttts. Wheat No. 1 Bed, $1.531.55.
No. 2 Red, $1.431.45. Corn 7677c Oats 56
58c
B'jjrrAij.
Lite Stock. Beeves $5.25(36.25. Hops-
Live, $5.C05.90. Sheep Live (clipped), $3.75
6.75.
EAST LIBERTY.
Live Stock. Beeves Best, $i.2536.374 ; me
dium, $5.756.124- Hogs Yorkers, $3.155.S0;
Philadelphia, $6.256.50. Sheep Beet (clipped),
$6.00(36.75; medium, $5.255.50.
FORTY-THIRD CONGRESS.
Saturday, May 9. Senate. Not in ses-
on.
House. A resolution of inquiry relative
to the landing in the United States of foreign con
victs was adopted A bill was reported, ordered
printed and recommitted providing for the collec
tion of money due the United States by the
Pacific Railroad Company.... Tho Indian Appro
priation bill was considered and parsed in Com
mittee of the Whole and reported to the House. . . .
Adjournea.
MoNDAY.May 11. Senate. A memorial
of the Workingmen's Convention that the two
houses of Congress adjonrn sine die was presented
and referred A favorable report was made on
the House bill for the relief of settlers on railway
lands The House bill to authorize the
Secretary of the Intern to discharge certain
obligation of the United States to the credit
of the Upper and Lower bands of the Sioux In
dians was passed The Geneva Award hill was
debated.... A hill was introdnced to repeal so
much of the act of July 1 1870. as requires pay
ment by the Northern Pacific Railway Company
of the cost of surveying and conveying lands grant
ed said company ...Adjourned.
Howe. Among the more important
bills introduced were the following: To provide
for free hanking and better security to depositors.
to hinder usury, to give elasticity to the currency,
preserve its value to the people, and prevent finan
cial panic by locking up the currency; to fix the
term of President at six years, and to prohibit
his re-election Bills were passed Indian Ap
propriation bill; declaring subject to local. State
or Territorial taxation the lands of the Pacific
Railwav Companies from the time that they
became entitled to them, irrespective of the time
at which patents were Issued; to confirm pre
emption and homestead entries on public lands
within the limits of railwav grants in cases
where such entries are made under the reg
ulations of the Land Otllce; the Military
Academy Appropriation bill ($315,635) A
resolution was adopted 126 to 62 declaring that,
if an increase of taxation be found necessary,
snch increase shall commence with the taxation of
persons and corporations on their annual incomes,
dividends and salaries The Deficiency Aporo-
pnarion nm (-5..m,iio; whs conswierea in com
mittee of the Whole.... Adjourned.
Tuesday, May 12 Senate. The bill
amendatory of the act to increase the pay of the
soldiers of the United States army was reported
favorably.... An amendment to the new Finance
bill was reported from the Committee on Finance.
....The Geneva Award bill was taken dp. and the
amendment to strike out the clause excluding the
Claims of insurance companies was rejected, and
other propesed amendments were disposed of, and
the bill was passed 2o to 17.... A resolution was
offered proviaing for a committee of three to pro
ceed to Arkansas to inquire into the cause of the
existing troubles in the governmental affairs of
that State, and to ascertain who is the lawfully
elected Governor of the State.... Adjourned.
House. A resolution waa adopted de
claring that Cannon, the sitting member from
Utah, had been dnly elected and was entitled to a
at as Delegate, and a resolution was also agreed
to 127 to 51 to refer the question of Cannon's
polygamic practices to the Commit tee on Elections
....The bill to amend the Passenger Steamboat
law was considered in Committee of the Whole....
Adjourned.
"Wednesday, May 13. Senate. Bills
were introdnced for the better protection of im
migrants; to regulate commerce among the several
States with foreitrn nations; for the relief of
the Chickasaws and the freeamen The new
Finance bill was taken np and debated, and one
proposed amendment was rejected The House
bill to secure homesteads to actual settlers on the
public domain was reported from committee, with
amendments Adjourned.
Houte. The bill to revise, amend and
consolidate laws relating to the security of life on
board vessels propelled in whole or in part by
steam was passed. ...The Deflciency bill wss con
sidered in Committee of the Whole The Senate
bill to distribute the Geneva award was referred
to the Judiciary Committee.... Adjourned.
THURSDAY, May 17. Senate. The Fi
nance bill was taken np and amended as follows:
Making 25 per cent, (instead of 50) as the propor
tion of leeal tenders to be retired as the new Na
tional Bank notes are issued; providing that with
in thirtv days after circulating notes to the amount
of $1.G00.UT0 shalL from time to lime, be
issued to National Banking associations under
this act In excess or the highest outstanding
volume thereof at any time prior to such issue, it
shall ba the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury
to retire an amonnt of United States notes eqnnl
to 25 oct cent, of the circulating notes so issued :
making 4'J per cent, (instead of 5) as the rate of
interest which bonds issued to reaeem ine preseui
United States notes after Jauuarr. 1877. shall
bear; making ten years (Instead of fifteen) as the
time when such bonds shall be redeemed in
coin; fixing July 1, 18V8 (instead of Jan.
1. 1877), as the time when United States
notes may be redeemed in the bonds above
mentioned; inserting the word "shall" instead of
"may") in the clause authorizing the Sec
retary of the Treasury to rvissue United States
notes redeemed after July, 1878, as provided in the
ninth section. Among the amendments offered
and rejected was one providing for the withdrawal
of $46.0HO.COO from those States having an excess
of National Bank circulation and the redistribution
thereof to those (State having less than their pro
portion yeas 18, nays 28. The bill was then
finally passed yeas 25, nays 19. . A bill was in
troduced and referred to authorize the settlement
of the claims of several States for 5 per cent, of
the values of Indian reservations... .Adjourned.
Home. A bill was passed to amend the
charter of the Frecdmen's Saving and Trust Com
pany The Deficiency bill was reported from
Committee of the Whole and passed. . . .Tne Con
sular and Diplomatic Appropriation bill ($3,347,-
304) was considered in Comtnitiee of the hole
..Adjourned.
Friday, May 15. Senate. A resolution
was passed calling for copies of official correspond
ence relative to the troubles in Arkansas.... Sev
eral private relief bills were passed ...A bill was
introduced to establish a Bureau of Internal Com
merce, to be attached to the Treasury Depart
ment, and be under the direction of a Commission
er of Internal Commerce, who shall be appointed
by the President and confirmed by the senate....
Adjourned to the 18th.
House. The Senate joint resolution
prohibiting the publication in the Congresionat
Record of speeches or parts of speeches not act
ually delivered was reported, with an amendment
providing that it shall not be lawful for any mem
ber of either house of Confrrees to speak lonirer
than one hour on any question, any agreement of
consent to tne contrary notwithstanding, ana ar
ter debate was laid on the table.... Several private
bills were passed ...Adjourned. -
National Agricultural Congress.
The Agricultural Congress, during its re
cent session at Atlanta, unanimously adopted
the following resolutions:
While recognizing the value of railroads and the
necessity for ihcir further extension, we deem the
cost of transportation by rail of crude products
of fields, forests and mines so dispropor
tionate to the cost of water carriage as to
render it the duty of the United States to
improve the rivors in the interior and con
nect them with the ocean by artificial water
ways, giving the Mississippi Valley continuous
water transit to the seaboard, and to enter at once
upon the work of constructing artificial water-ways
adequate to the present and prospective demands
of inland transportation, and continue it by annual
installments of aid nnlil unrestricted channels of
trade are opened, not only through the Mississippi
Valley bnt connecting the Mississippi River with
the Atlantic Ocean via the lakes, the Ohio, Kan
awha aid James Rivers, and Atlantic & Great
Western routes.
That the Agricultural Congress believes It is
within the people to reform the corporate trans
portation system by the same agencies which cre
ated them. viz. : State legislation, controlled by
public opinion; and that we oppose any legislation
under the plea of regulating commerce between
the Slates which interferes with the authority
heretofore exercised by the State over railroads
entirely within or passing out of its borders.
Keporls were adopieu, recommeuuing tuai.
the Government appropriate one-half of the
net proceeds of the sale of public lauds to
agricultural colleges organized under . the
act of 18(12, aud that the Government re
duce the tax on tobacco to a uniform rate
of twelve cents per pound, and that
articles used in the manuf.icturc of tobacco
come duty free. Gen. Jackson was re
elected President and C. W. Greene Secretary;
J. S. Griunell was elected Vice-President. C.
W. Greene, Secretary, resigned, and George
E. Morrow, editor of the WUoonsin Farmer,
was elected in his place. The next meeting of
the Congress will be held at Cincinnati on the
second Wednesday iu September, 1875. Ad
journed sine die.
Two Mad Women.
Two women on Essex street are mad
at each other, lhey both live in the
same house one up stairs and the other
down stairs. They have been mad at each
other two weeks, and the trouble arose
about the priority of claim to the rain
water spout on the south corner of the
house. From the hour the woman down
stairs moved away the tub of the woman
up stairs, and put her own in its place,
they have not spoken. They both use the
same cellar and the same back stoop. Up
stairs has to pass through the part of
Down-Stairs to get down the cellar or
out into the yard, lhey meet in the
walk, on the stoop, on the stairs, in the
hall, but they do not speak. Lp-Stairs
watches from the window until Down
Stairs gets out of the yard, and Down
Stairs waits to hear the descending steps
of Up-Stairs to get out of the way before
the arrival. Ana yet, in spite or. inese
precautions, twenty times a day they pass
each other, and are pressed together in
the doorways. But there is not a word,
not a look, not a motion of recognition.
Down-Stair3 curls her upper up
and brings a hard expression into
htr eyes and face on the appear
ance ot cp-otairs. un recognizing
this Up-Stairs assumes an expres-
t - a i
sion oi supreme lnuiiierence. Ana doiu
experience intense saisfaction in so doing.
They are mad at each other, are thote
tlt - . i i r.i :
two women, noim&u ueuauseui lucmiu
water and the antagonistic tubs ; It has
gone way beyond that now, but Up-Stairs
is maa at uown-tstairs Decause uown-
Stairs is mad at Up-Stairs. And yet with
these rancorous feelings in each breast,
and constant self-inflicted irritation in
consequence thereof, it is a happy house.
.Never before were there such clear sing
ing, such hearty laughter, such merry
voices in talk as are daily heard in that
house of distrust and bitterness. Up-Stairs
trills her happiest melodies in a key so
high that it cannot fail to pierce the floor
and ceiling between her and her neigh
bor, and gloats over the disaster working
in the heart of Down-Stairs as the strains
reach her. No sooner does she cease ihan
Down-Stairs pours out her soul in happy
song, increasing its power as she by in
tuition realizes the Jar it is bringing to
the feelings of the hateful Up-S?airs,while
Up-Stairs grates her teeth in the seclusion
of her own apartment and uncom
fortably listets to what she would
gladly shut out And how those
two women laugh! Their risibilities
appear to be on the most delicate springs
which the slightest touch throws into mo
tion. And such merry laughs! so free
from trace of care, so hearty, so ringing,
so happy in their rippling. And the
vivacity of their talk to casual neighborly
visitors is beyond our description. Up
Stairs knows when Down-Stairs has com
pany by the merry tone of the entertainer,
and strains her ear in vain to catch the
voice of the new-comer. To see her now
with fingers nervously pressing the
palms with color going and coming at
the beck of that loud, care-free v7ice
b-low with mouth compressed in the
sorest kind of pain, one must rub his eyes
right hard to recognize her an hour later
in the fluttering ribbons, bright colors,
proud step, and self-satisfied air of the
lady on whom Down-Stairs is evil glaring
through the apertures of her front blinds,
as she steps down the walk and smilingly
nods to the right and to the left. Dan
bury Neves.
A gentleman visited a family who was
not only very homely but was possessed
of one of those fearful mouths that stretch
from ear to ear, and are facetiously termed
"Awful mouths for pie." During the
evening, amidst a pause in the conversa
tion, the gentleman yawned, displaying a
fearful chasm, and giving reason for fear
lest his head would split in two. Up
jumped the terrified infant, walked slowly
up to the guest, saying, before the mouth
was fairly shut, to the great amusement
of those present and the horror of the
family, " Do so again, please !" Portland
Advertiser.
The man who carries everything be
fore him Che waiter."
Senator Morton on the Finance (Jues
tion.
In a recent letter to the Indianapolis
Journal Senator Morton gives his views
upon the vetoed Currency bill and the
President's veto message. We give the
following extracts from this letter, as
probably embodying the views of those
members ot Congress who sustainea ike
bill in opposition to the President's veto:
Mr. Morton says there appears to be a
misapprehension in regard to the provis
ions of the bill from which the President
withheld his approval. He says the bill
is criticised as if it authorized a new
emission of United States notes, which
would increase tLe difficulty of a return
to specie payments, and thereby involve a
breach of the national faith pledged for
me reuempiionoi muse notes in coin.
The first section of the bill, and the only
one which relates to United btales notes.
is in these words:
' The maximum amount of United
States notes shall be $400,000,000."
1 o understand the etlect el this provis
ion, reterence must be baa to previous
legislation. By the act of June 30, 1864,
it was declared that the United States
notes in circulation or to be circulated
should not exceed the sum of $400,000,000.
By the act of April 12, 18G6, it was pro
vided that "of United States notes not
more than $10,000,000 may be retired and
canceled within six months of the passage
of this act, and thereafter not more than
$4,000,000 in any one month." On the 4th
of March, 1868, another act was passed
forbidding any further reduction of United
States notes. At that time the amount
outstanding was $356,000,000, and that is
the limit below which the United States
notes cannot be reduced without Con
gressional enactment Under the opera
tion of these statutes successive Secreta
ries of the Treasury have assumed the
right to reissue at their discretion $44,
000,000 that is, the difference between
$356,000,000 and $400,000,000 and to with
draw the same again from circulation.
Since the 1st of October last there have
been issued of these notes by the Secre
tary of the Treasury $26,000,000. making
the whole circulation of United States
notes $382,000,000.
The right of the Secretary to reissue
any part of this $44,000,000, or to increase
the circulation of these notes above $356,
000,000, has been continually denied by
many lawyers in Congress and out of it,
aud a large portion of the press; and
the question cannot be said to be free
from doubt.
In his veto message, and in his letter to
Messrs. Claflin and Anthony on the 2Sth
of September labt, the President treats the
iorty-tour millions as being an existing re
serve, a sum ot money already in the
Treasury, as much so as a like sum re
ceived from taxes, to be used at the discre
tion of the Secretary of the Treasurv for
certain purposes.
The first section of the bill declares the
law to be what the President and Secre
tary have assumed it to be. It declares
that the maximum amount of United
States notes shall be $400,000,000, that is,
the amount beyond which the issue shall
not be extended. The word maximum
means the greatest. It does not mean the
precise amount, but simply the amount
beyond which the issue cannot go.
The section relieved the Government
from the exercise of a doubtful power,
which had boen the occasion of severe
animadversion.
It was the wish and expectation of the
friends of the bill that the Secretary
should put into circulation the remaining
$18,000,000 of the $44,000,000, and it was
proposed by some that the language of
the section should be so changed as to re
quire that amount to be put into circula
tion and kept outstanding. But it was de
termined otherwise, and that the bili
should simply declare the maximum
amount of circulation, and leave the
power and discretion of the Secretary
what they had been claimed to be.
The other section of the bill authorizes
the increase of bank-note circulation to
the amount of $46,000,000, to be distributed
among the States having less than their
proportion upon the basis of the act of
1865, the new basks to be established up
on the terms, liabilities and restrictions
imposed upon existing banks, being re
quired to secure their bills by deposit
of bonds, redeem them in United States
notes upon demand over their own
counters or in one of the redemption
cities," and with the additional restrict
ion that all banks, old and new,
shall keep one-fourth of the coin interest
they receive upon their bonds deposited
for the security of their notes. This pro
vision looked forward to the resumption
of specie payments and was the first step
that had been taken in that direction by
Congress.
The $46,000,000 provided for came full
$30,000,000 short of equalizing the dis
tribution among the States upon the basi3
of the act of 1865. Luder that act the
New England States were entitled to less
than $40,000,000, but received $110,000,-
000, and the other Eastern States had an
excess of nearly $12,000,000.
V nether the volume ot the currency is
sufficient for the business of the country
is a, question of fact about which men
may nonesiiy diner, uuring cue iour
years preceding the panic there had been
an actual contraction oi tne currency,
and a much larger comparative contrac
tion resulting from the growth of popula
tion and business. A majority of Con
gress were of the opinion that to produce
a restoration of confidence a speedy re
vival of business and a return to the pros
perity which was so suddenly destroyed
by the panic, 6ome"addition" should be
made to the volume of the currency.
That the bill which has failed to be
come a law would have produced some
contraction is undoubtedly true; but it
would have been almost entirely in tne
stock market in New York. It is a well
understood fact that the reserves of the
Western and Southern banks kept in
New York have been loaned by the New
York banks almost exclusively upon
call to dealers in stocks and have thus
contributed 1 stimulate unwholesome
speculation, and have been of very little
benefit to the mercantile or manufactur
ing community. The evil resulting from
this fact was strikingly illustrated during
the panic last fall. The stockholders
who had borrowed the money were not
able to repay the New York banks, and
they in turn were unable to pay the
country banks from which the money
had been received, and thus the disaster
of the panic was greatly aggravated. This
bi'l in effect required the banks outside
of the redemption cities to keep three
fourths of their reserve at home, and
would have withdrawn some millions
from the stock market in New York,
which would strengthen the banks to
which they belonged, and would have
produced contraction in a quarter where
it is pretty well understood that contrac
tion would do no harm.
The act of 1869. to strengthen the public
credit, declares that " the United Stas
solemnly pledged its faith to make pro
vision at the earliest practicable period
for the redemption of the United States
notes in coin." In the debate upon this
bill nobody has denied the character or
binding force of that pledge, but the
question as to the " practicable period
lor its performance remains as open
as it was upon the day it was
passed. Very few members of either
house of Congress have agreed upon any
method for tne resumption ot specie pay
ments. A few are in favor of hoard ing the
gold in the Treasury until enough has
been acquired to begin the redemption
of the noteo. Others ha.ve proposed
to acquire the requisite amount of
gold by selling our bonds in
Europe; others to fund a portion of the
legal tender notes iu bonds bearing 5 per
ceut. interest, and retire them in that way,
to bring the rest to par by contraction ;
others to tund them into a bond bearing 5
per cent, interest, to be issued and again
funded.
While the Government is pledged to
redeem the legal-tender notes in coin, at
the earliest practicable period while the
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
purpose to do so should ever be kept
view yet that period is by manv not
deemed to be practicable when there is
great stagnation of business, much labor
unemployed, the revenue largely fallen
off, and much distress and suffering in
every part oi the country,
The Southern FloodsGreat Destitu
tion and Suffering:.
Memphis (May 5) Correspondence of Chicago
Timcs.j
There Is now not the slightest doubt as
to the great destitution among the inhab
itants of the flooded countrv along the SL
Francis, V hite, Arkansas and Mississippi
Ktvers, as well as along the Ouachita,
Yazoo, Tallahatchie, i allabusha, Sun
flower and Bed Rivers. It was hoped that
the water had reached its greatest height.
and that with a few days of fair weather
a decline in the vast lake of the Mississippi
would set in, but these hopes have been
dispelled. I am told that Clarendon, Au
gusta, Desarc and Jacksonport, as well as
the other smaller towns on White Kiver,
have been completely inundated by the
last flood, and that it came upon the citi
zens so suddenly and unexpectedly that
many had no time to get their stock to a
place of safety, and lost that, as well as
everything else that would float. Barns,
fences and outhouses were carried away
by the angry flood, and In one instance
an entire dwelling was taken irom its
foundation and lodged against a tree.
fifty yards or more from where it started.
Strange to say, none of its occupants
were injured, lhree or lour small places
above here, including Ashport, Osceola
and Fulton, have at last succumbed to
the water, and in all the streets now
nothing can be seen but skiffirand canoes.
On one plantation below Fulton there are
halt a dozen negro dwellings located in a
low place, and in each of these is one or
more families cooped up in the second
story, the water being nearly to the ceil
ing ot the first, and there tney remain,
with a scanty supplv ot lood and no pos
sible chance to get more unless the water
subsiiles, as the current is too strong for
a skiff or raft to reach them. Their case
is no worse, though, than hundreds of
others below here, who hve been driven
in some cases to the tops of their houses.
where they remained for days without
food or shelter and exposed to the
cold and rainy weather. Refugees
from below continue to arrive here
daily by boat, and all give the most piti
able accounts ot tncir sunerings. une, a
lady, came up yesterday from a point
seventy miles below, on the Mississippi
side, and tells a sad storv of the sufferings
of her own family. The high water
broke through the levee in front of their
place. The "unexpected flood forced her
family at once into the second story o
the dwelling, and allowed not a moment's
ime to lay in provisions or remove tne
stock. Two days ago a passing steamer
was hailed from the house top, and, round
ing to, approached as near to the half
floating dwelling as the timber would
permit. The husband then first took his
child in his arms, and half-swimming and
half-wading for over a hundred yard6
made his way to a little hillock, told his
story to the Captain, and he sent out a
yawl, which brought the child and its
mother to this city to buy lood, tne lather
remaining with his three other children.
To add to her misery her small amount
of money was stolen on the boat; but she
!n - i i r uru ...inj
will oe proviueu iw. nucu tuc buiiicu
up the water was so high in her house
that the children were sleeping on shelves,
and the cooking stove was raised upon
the dining table.
There are no supplies in that section,
and even if there were the people in most
cases have no means of reaching them.
The strong current of the rushing water,
with the timber and heavy drift, render
it hazardous, if nor impossible, to propel
crafts, and all the poor souls can do is to
remain in their houses. Owing to the
isolation of the country there, as well as
along the different streams named, the
true condition of the inhabitants is not
known to the public, and their suffering
will not be known until this great deluge
subsides. Then we fear it will be found
that many have starved to death in their
houses. Many homes in the bottoms, far
from railroads or the river, have been de
serted, and hundreds are thus left without
food, clothing or shelter. In many in
stances entire settlements have been cut
off from all communication with the up
land country by the rapid rise of the
water, and are compelled to remain in
churches and hall-submerged homes.
with but a scanty allowance of food. No
provisions are to be had, for none can be
purchased or got to them.
The swilt current has stripped tne plan
tations of stock, wagons, farming imple
ments of every kind". To sum up, I might
say that the whole country south of here,
along the valley, is submerged. 1'iania
tions are devastated, the inhabitants im
prisoned by the deluge, and, without food,
are undergoing fearful afflictions. This
is the situation between here and v icrs
burg and only a parallel to thit below
there. The water at the city last night
was forty-five feet eight inches above low-
water mark in the river, and nau iounu its
wav through behind the rear of the ele
vator, covering the railroad track, and was
a foot deep in some ot the stores, ueua,
just opposite there, is only saved from
being washed into tne river ny tne almost
superhuman efforts of its inhabitants
men, women and children working to
gether, night and day, to secure the levees
and keep the top above tne warer-ievei.
The entire Ouachita Valley, from Camden
down, is one vast lake. There, too, the
suffering has been great, and the worst
has not yet come.
In most all or the Louisiana parisnes
distributing committees have been organ
ized to attend to the proper distribution
of food and supplies, and at the different
landings below here l am miormea tne
same course is being pursued. It will
take some time, however, to get these
committees organized, and there will be
great suflVring before a perfect system of
distribution is arranged. This should not
deter or delay a single contribution. Any
thing in the shape of clothing or food
would be acceptable, and in donations
sent here for distribution your reporter
would suggest that they be addressed to
the Howard Association, as we have as
yet only a soliciting committee. The
"Howards will attend to the shipment by
boat of anything sent, and the boats have
all signified their willingness to carry
free of charge and distribute all that may
be sent.
Sunflower oil is being discussed in
Bombay as a substitute for ordinary olive
oil. This newly-discovered delicacy has
been examined by Dr. Lyon, the chemical
analyzer, who reports it to be perfectly
clear and strongly resembling the oil ex
tracted from the olive in both taste and
odor, but free from any disagreeable and
injurious properties.
The Rev. Henrv Ward Beecher makes
this comprehensive reply to an anxious
questioner, who is desirous of knowing
whether a man can love his second wife
as well as the first: "That depends on
what Bort of a wife the first was, and
what kind of life the second leads him.
Steel bound B-o-u-n-d.
A gushing miss Mississippi.
" Telling an unveracity" is a new and
elegant phrase.
What word is always pronounced
wrong, even by the best scholars? Wrong,
However much we may object to
horse racing, there arc few oi us w ho like
to be passed on the road.
It will startle some people to know
that the parasol of the season contains a
dagger in the handle.
When prosperity was well mounted
she let go the bridlo and soon came
tumbling out of the saddle.
It would only be a slight mispronun
ciation to call cremation the " bourne
whence no traveler returns."
I he old saying about "those Mho go
down to the sea in ships" has more sig
mficancc now than it used to have.
A correspondent of the Boston Jour
nal proposes buttcroid, or buttoid, as
shorter and better name than oleomargine
Wanted to know The lengih of the
rule of three; how many days in the
march of Intellect: the width of a broad
hint.
Ten shillings is the established price
in Boston for stopping a runaway team
and saving the life of a millionaire's
daughter.
A New York merchant absent-minded
lv copied a love-letter to his "heart's
idol" in the letter book of the firm before
sending it.
Manx cats, imported from the Isle of
Man, are among the newest of household
luxuries. Their peculiarity is that they
have no tails.
An observing man has discovered a
similarity between a young ladies' semi
nary and a sugar house, as bom renne
what is already sweet.
The bead work and basket-makers of
New York are unusually active in conse
nuence oi orders irom me stiuaws oi
N lagara and baratoga.
It is suggested by Noah Count that a
sexton would be more serviceable than a
sextant for the French line of steamers to
have on their steamships.
The New Orleans Picayune wants some
of the female crusaders to visit that city
and try and remove some of the bars from
the mouth of the Mississippi.
It is stated as a bovinological fact that
the milk of a young cow is apt to be
foaming. Which is highly probable, as
the creature is heifervesceut.
One fatal objection to cremation is that
our great men, whom we safely get rid ol
by burial, would be constantly "rising,
Fha?nix-like, from their ashe3."
The rose crop in the Orient is reported
to have been a large one, and ladies will
be glad to know that attar of roses will
not cost more than fifty cents a drop.
No man ever sank under the burden of
to-day. It is when to-morrow's burden is
added to the burden of to-day that the
weight is more than a man can bear.
California lightning may have killed
500 wild geese at one flash, as reported,
but it must have been hard woik alter
the four hundred and ninety-ninth goose.
Truckee, Nev.," has its first photog
rapher, and he has been shot at because
he wouldn't take a picture by lamp light
of a miner who was going away early in
the morning.
Good manners," says Swift, " is the
art of making those people easy with
whom we converse; whoever makes the
fewest persons uneasy is the best bred
man in the company."
Ah ! Little Rock is the place for a lively
man! Two Governors militia out
United States troops cannons sliooting
proclamations, and iust like a Fourth
of July from daylight till dark!
The Arkansas war was a good thing
for job printers. One of the craft at Liu
tie Rock printed 50,000 copies each of
seven proclamations, and was on the
eighth when the first hostilities ceased.
Chignons are worn in Virginia as life-
preservers. At least one oi tnese atroci
ties was carried away from a young lady
the other day by an eagle, while the head
was left in a state of nature by the ungal-
ant bird.
If lying were a legitimate business we
know a Rochester editor who would be
rich enough to-day to buy out Commodore
Vanderbilt with one day's installment of
his average pocket money. Pxodiester
Chronicle.
Accordino to a French journal, horses
and other animals may be protected from
the persecutions of flies by painting with
a pencil the inside of the ears, or other
parts liable to be Diuen, wun a lewurops
of cmpyreumatic juniper oil.
The brains of people advanced in
years would be greatly strengthened by
... . i . i i . .i ii i. ..
habits oi stuay. urn jicupie mourn nat;
their lessons, Iheir mental culture, like
children. It would be almost a cure lor
the decay of the mind as age advances.
It should be stated in the matter
of the new trade dollars that they
are turned out only to nil orders, and
that for everv such coin issued the re
ceiver has been obliged to deposit an
amount of silver equal to a traction over
102 cents.
St. Paul seems to have held cremation
among tue higher Christian virtues, as
witness: " And though I bestow all my
goods to feed the poor, and though I give
mv bodu to be burned, and have not charity,
. " - . - . .1 . T fl j I..-.. .
it prontein me noiuing. x. iertiM,
arm. cnap., aa verse.
A Coroner's jury in a Nebraska town
waa unanimous in its decision that "the
roadway monopolized by the iron horse
is not safe or sensible when improvised
na a hd bv irentlemen to whom benzine
is familiar as a daily necessity rauier tuau
an occasional luxury."
People who, on account of health, are
particular about knowing that their claret
is put in their cellars iust as im
ported from France may be interested to
learn that 300 barrels o'f wine for exporta
tion, lately confiscated in Paris, con
taineM, "with a little alcohol or wine,
which was even wanting in some of the
barrels, water, carmine cochineal, tinc
ture of logwood, 6u!phate of alumina,
potass, aniline, fuchsine, etc."
Maxims for a Young Man.
Never be idle. If your hands cannot
be usefully employed, attend to the culti
vation of your mind.
Always 6peak the truth.
Keep potxl company or none.
Make few promises.
Live up to your enagements.
Keep your own secrets, if you have any.
When you speak to a person look him
in the face.
Good company aDd good conversation
are the very sinews of virtue.
ClnnA character is above all things else.
TCfvpr listen to loose or idle conversa
tion.
You had better be poisoned in your
blood than in vour principles.
Your character cannot be essentially in
jured except by your wn acts.
If any one speaks evil of you let your
lifA h so virtuous that none will believe
v no intoxicatinrr liquors.
Ever live, misfortunes excepted, within
vour income. . .
Whon von retire to bed. think over
what you have done during the day.
Novpr nnpak liirhtlv ot relieion.
Make no haste to be rich if you would
prosper.
Small and steady gains give competen
cy wilh tranquillity ot mind.
Never play &t any kind of game.
Avoid temptation through fear that you
may not withstand it.
Earn your money bcfi.ro you spend it.
Never run in debt un ess you see a way
to get out again.
Never borrow if you can possibly avoid
it.
Be just before you arc generous.
Keep yourself innocent if you would
be happy.
Save when you are' young to spend
when you are old.
Never think that which you do for re
ligion is time or money misspent.
Read some portion of tho Bible every
day. Counsels fr Life.
National Agricultural CongrcHS Pres
ident Jui'kson'a Address.
On the occasion of the opening of tho
recent session at Atlanta, (in., of the Na
tional Agricultural Congress, President
Jackson delivered an address, from which
we extract as follows:
" It gives me great pleasure In the dis
chargeof my duly as the presiding officer
of this honorable body, representing the
great agricultural interests of our nation,
to greet you in the annual reunion of tho
representatives of sections North. Sotilli.
East and West. This great force of na
tionality and intelligences must ever com
mand respect and confidence tor its uttei
auccs, and cxetcise a material Influence
on the measures of National and Slato
legislation. We, aa au organization, are
in our infancy. We are closely watched;
we Hro suspected, and tho suspicion la
often expressed that these agricultural
associations, whether limited or national,
will degenerate into political partisan
agencies.
" I trust, gentlemen, our measures, our
action, will steadily and unilotmly be
such as to convince the nition that our
great end and aim is to build up and de
lend the rights and interests of agricul
ture, and to give no aid or countenance to
political demagogues or partisans who
may chance to foist themselves upon any
of our organizations for the sake ol per
sonal preferment; yet it will be our con
stant right, as it bhould be our aim, to
promote among the musses of the farmers
a more intelligent understanding of polit
ical economy in its relations to agricul
ture, by papers and discussions upon
finance, taxation, commeice, etc., to the
end that we may select such representa
tives, Stale and National, whether from
our associations or outside of them, as will
be likely, wilh ability, integrity and dili
gence, to sustain and advance liiecuuse of
agt iculture. The farmers have greater in
ducements to be patrioiic and conserva
tive than other vocation. That business
which sustains tho Government must
sustain the tree that bears tho
fiuit mut be nourished and pro
tected. The feelings and desires
of our farmers remain uncared for, but a
railroad monopoly, a block association,
the petitions and wants of a bondholder.
or the confabulations of an office seeker,
are of more moment than the price of
wheatj corn, or tobacco, even though that
price involves a loss to the producer."
He then lehcilateti the Congress on the
good results ot the organization of tho
past two years; urges the necessity ot co-
iperation and union, illustrated by the
Scotch proverb: "Many mickles make a
muckle." " Let, then, ihe coral reef and
tho bee-hive be a part of our symbolic
anguage, which, being properly inter
preted, means industry, perseverance, self
reliance, and especially union of forces.
At all in our ranks aspire to bo 'high
privates;' let none be found more solic
itous for office aud position than for the
success of our cause. Let not the vuriety
of our own organizations, or Hags, or
officers, or locality be any obstacle to the
advancement of the great and common
object which we all seek to promote. Let
harmony prevail throughout our extensive
camps."
He urges the obliteration or sectional
antipathies, the cultivation of good-fellowship
and brotherly love. " Let our
constant endeavor bo to remove all hin
drances to the steady advance of our local
and national organizations, and let the
wise heads of our assemblies be ever
taxed for contributions of valuable prac
tical ideas which will help to enlarge the
horizon of agricultural intelligence and
prosperity."
He then discusses the contemplated in- 4
crease of the organization from year to
ear ; and to secure a full representation
at their annual meetings he suggests the
necessary amendments to the constitu
tion to meet the expected exigencies. He
then calls attention to some of the bur-
ens which agriculture has to bear, and
says:
"Our Government lias, in tunes past,
dealt out our public domain with a lavihh
and profligate hand, to provide home
steads for emigrants from foreign lands,
as well as for the native, and very large
. . . . ... rw . .if
and liberal appropriations. inc puunc
treasury has been set apart to a'd and en
courage railroad enterprises, and yet
these advancements to public works nave
been coupled with no restrictions on rail
road tariffs lor the protection of the pop
ulation who, induced by the Government
bounty, settle on or near the line ol their
works. In a word, nothing has been done
by the Government policy to bring almut
cheup transportation, and I very much
doubt whether railroads, it honestly and
economically conducted, could aflbtd suf
ficiently cheap transportation for as bulky
commodities as corn and grain. Besides,
there is notasuflicientnumberof railroad
for the transportation of the products of
the grain producing section of this coun
try. It seems to me that the improve
ment of the water routes, the opening of
new canals, is a necessity, and we should
approach with great care any action look
ing to the disturbance of vested iighta by
legislative enactment. Railway charters
are in the nature of contracts, and it
would be unwise and unsafe to establish
the precedent of violating contracts,
though I am aware that an eminent jour
nalist thinks that tne passenger anu
freight tariffs on railroads should be regu
lated a3 tolls on the turnpike roads, 'i he
remedy lies in examining whether these
corporations have violated their charters.
If so, amend them and begin de ruto; and
permit me, in this connection, gentlemen,
to remark that the most effective method
to reduce the con rf transportation is to
encourage the building f manufacturing
establishments to work up the raw material."
Will 'ot Act With the Offlce-Seekers.
At a largely-attended meeting of del
egates from the several farmers' clubs of
Jackson County, 111., on Saturday, reso
lutions were passed deprecating the
efforts of certain political schemers to
capture the farmers' movement.disapprov
ineof the independent political-party ac
tion of the "State Farmers' Association,"
and declaring that hey will not send del
egates to the political State convention
recently called by the "Advisory Board"
caucus at Bloomington. It is very evi
dent from this, and from other advices
we have from various parts of the State,
that the handful of sorehead politicians
and scheming office-seekers who imagine
that they can readily bamboozle the farm
ers into anything they choose to propose
are destined to meet with disappoint
ment. Chicago Journal.
Among the hosts of minute forms of
life inhaled into the lungs in the atmos
phere we breathe are certain microscopi
Ll crSures which become the living
fish of our blood, but as it takes .a.OOG,
W of these otmake the bulk of a g.ain
we need not be much alarmed at the
piscatorial visitation.