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TIMELY TOPICS.
F. T . I a. -n .
.iiiK urooKiyn Argus says lioston is
gradually becoming accustomed to Anna.1
Dickinson. "When she thrusts her hand
under her bu-dle, where her pistol pocket
hangs, and says with horrible calmness,
''Keep away from me, Kir," everybody
iiiow3 there is a dramatic critic some- i
where around.
As fast ai Jovellar gets, any money
from Spain to carry on the war against
tne Cuban insurgents they capture it.
The other day they seized a baggage
train with ?GO,000 in gold intended for
the 'Spanish soldiers. Every few weeks
the republican treasury is thus replen
ished. That war is likely to . be con-
tlnued on the part of the "patriots."
Charles Francis Adams, Jr., after a
-protracted rtudy of the railway problem.
has arrived at the conclusion that rail
road competition has been tried all over
the world, and that everywhere it is now
consciously or unconsciously, but with
one consent, slowly but surely being
abandoned. In its place the principle
of resjHinsible and regulated monopoly is
asserting itself."
Garibaldi h.i3 a new pet nationality.
lie writes to the Servians ; ' "My dear
friends In the name of oppressed people
I thank you for your indefatigable devo
tion to the holy cause. To-day every
j-enerous soul in the world ought to con
tribute tothe deliverance of the Christian
slaves from the horrible despotism of the
crescent. From Candia to the Pruth all
the peoples nra more or less oppressed
must shake off the criminal yoke of the
yataghan. My heart is with you and
all other valorous souls that join in the
holy crusade. Garibaldi."
Speak i kg of spiders, the male spider
has usually a very poor show for liberty
or even life. .Small and lean, weak and cow
ardly, a mere speck by the side of hfsLig,
l.liisiiinq' sweetheart, she generally
catches him when lie first comes courting.
spears him with her fierce mandibles.
jrnaws the quivering flesh off his bones,
and flings his polished skeleton into the
sewer. She is heartless and ferocious a
coquette and a warrior. Woman's rights.
are carried to an extreme. The husband
is not allowed to vote or to govern his
own family. Before his brood of a thou
sand children have climbed merrily upon
their mother's back she has generally
made a breakfast of him, and his bones
bleach in the back yard. Graphic.
A n English baronet, Sir Simeon Henry
Stuart, wrote a letter to his daughter
and auother to Miss Blandford, and by
mistake misdirected the envelopes. Con
sequently, the daughter received and
handed to her mother, a missive contain
ing fiich passages as this: "My own
dir'ing. 1 was so pleased to see you last
night. How good of you to come over.
I do love having you here, clearest. It
seems s nics wheu I wake up to be able
to say to myself, ' I shall see my darling
to-clay.' What shall I do when you are
gone, dear? It is so weary then to know
that I shall not sec vou then for
days ; but it will not be long, will it !
You will come to me again, and soon."
Sir .Simeon, upon discovering his blun
der, telegraphed to his daughter to burn
the letter, but he was too late, and it is
now being used in a divorce suit.
While in IiufTalo I visited one of the
b.mks, the cashier of which I had known
when h was a resident of Liverpool.
As I w:n talking with him, a small, thin
man pn-sc I out of the bank. Said the
cashier: "Did you notice that slim lit
lle man who just went out? No?
Well, 1 t me tell you about him. That
man, al-out this time ew ry week, comes
ttdejx.site a few dollars, which arc
placed to the credit ot the Insur
ance Company. Last year he had an
ollice in a building that was insured for
fifteen thousand dollars, ulioiit all it was
vortli. Due day, as he was about to
leave his office, he happened to drop some
fire from his cigar into a basket of papers
near hi. desk. Half an hour after he
bad gone the building was in a blaze,
and some-how the origin of the fire was
traced to the room he had left. Now,
what do you think ? Why, that man is
saving every cent he can get and putting
it hero to reimburse the insurance com
pany, because it was through his absence
of min i that they had to pay for a burnt
building, lie may never get enough
together to cover the whole amount, but
lie is doing what he can. Xow that's
what some of us would call infernal
f.M'lislmcss. I call it honesty. Jfmfjion'
A'lfaon America.
The medusa or jelly-fish of our sea
coast is well known to all sea-bathers
and its phosphorescence often reveals its
whereabouts to steamloat travelers. It
is as large as a tea-plate, flat, gelatinous,
and translucent; with the convex por
tion forward it pushes its way through
the water as if it were a small parasol
a white fringe a yard long waving back
ward from the edge assisting the resem
blance. This creature has hardly any
life it seems to have only one orgnn
which receives and ejects food, and its'
movement through the water is by a
series of convulsive jerks. Lift it out of
tlio water and it drops through the fin
gers like thin jelly. lint in its native
clement it hai the power of sharply
stinging with the fringe, from which it
is called "nettle-fish." This fringe,
when microscopically examined, is found
to le filled with minute sacks, each of
which contains a microscopic arrow
renly to discharge. Friction bursts the
celts ami causes the discharge of myriad
arrows into any soft flesh that maybe
the cause of the disturbance. The harm
in not great to any robust organism, but
it must be sufficient to shock and par
alyze some ot the inferior fishes.
The Drought In the East.
N. Y. Tribune.
Very rarely has the country suffered
Mich a killing drougth as the one which
now prevails in many localities within a
bund re 1 miles of this city. In addition
to the failure of rain, parching winds
seem to have absorlied all the moisture
from the ground, which is dust dry to
an unusual depth. In some parts of
northern New .Jersey the standing crops
are in jured nearly beyond the chance of
recovery; the "truck" in the gardens
has withered away, and the pastures
look as hnre ami brown as the stretches
of a California summer landscape.
He.vt-ty ry Vaccination. Transfer
of beauty by bimpie vaccination is the
newest trick in France. The following
advertisement recently apjtearcd in a
.Paris paper; '' Madame X. X. permits
herself to say that she has the skin white
to icarl, full health, the cheek of roses,
face of sweet expression, blue eyes, black
hair, ficrure coquette ; therefore is full of
lieilth. She will be vaccinated next
Tuesday, and in as short a time as pos
sible the lvmph of her arm will be ready
for the vaccination of anybody desiring
to posses, all these mentioned charms.
For terms, apply," etc.
By HORSEY & HEMPHILL.
THE LETTERS.
Governor Tilden and Governor Hen
dricks Formally Announce their
Acceptance of the Demo
cratic Nominations.
They are in Complete Harmony on all
the Great and Leading Questions
of the Day, and Indorse the
St Louis Platform.
Kvery Question at Present Affecting
the Public and Private Interests
of the People Dealt with
Openly and Effectively.
The following is the full text of Cor. Tilden's let
ter of acceptance of the Domination of the dumo-
Tatic party for president of the United Butes :
i Albawy, July 31, 187G
Gentlemen When I had the lionor to receive
the personal delivery of your iettpr on tiehalf of the
democratic national
convention, held June 28th. a
St. Ixmis, advising u:
: e of uiv nomination as the can
didate of the cmmtitilency represented by that body
lorineomce oi president 01 me united states.
anBwercl that at my earliest convenience and in
conformity wUh u-uure, I would prepare and trans
mit to you a formal acceptance. I now avail myself
01 ine nrei interval in unavoidable occupations to
uiuii mat engagement.
bit.
The convention, Id-tore inaklnz its nomination,
adopted a declaration of principles which, as a whole.
seems to ine a wise exposition of the necessities of
our country, and of the reforms needed to bring
nacK our government to Its proper functions, to
restore purity vof administration, and to renew the
prosperity of the -ople. Hut some of these reforms
are so urgent that tiler claim more than a passim;
approval.
BE FORM.
The necessity ot reform In the scale of public ox-
pen.oe, federal, state and municipal, and the modes
of federal taxation justifies all the prominence given
to it in the declaration of the St. Louia convention.
Th present depression in all the business and indus
tries of the nconle which is denrivinff lntor of it
employment and carrying want in to so many homes,
has its principal causes in excessive soverumental
consumption under the illusion of a specious pros
perity, engendered by fal.ie policies of federal gov
ernment, A waste of capital has tieen going on ever
since the peace of lsttj which could only end in uni
versal disaster. i
FEDERAL TAXES.
The federal taxes of the Inst eleven vesrs reach the
gigantic sum ot lorty-nve hundred millions; local
taxation lias amounted to two-thirds as much more.
The vast aggregate is mot less than seventv-five hun
dred millions. This enormous taxation followed a
civil confllet that had! greatly impaired our nggre
gnte wealth and had made a prompt reduction of ex
penses indispensable. I
ADDITIONAL AGS R A VATIONS.
It was aggravated bv most unscientific and ill-ad
justed methods of taxation that increased the sac
rifices ot the people fail beyond the receipts of the
treasury. It was aggravated moreover, bv a finan
cial policy which tended to diminish energy, econo
my oi production, ana, frugality or private consump
tion, and induced miscalculation in business and un
remnnerative use ot capital and hibor, even in pros
perous times. The daily wants of industrious com
munities press closely upon their daily earnings.
The margin, if possible, ot the national savings is,
at best, a small percentage of the national earnings ;
yet now, for these eleven years, the governmental
consumption has been a larger portion of the na
tional earnings than the whole people can possibly
save, even in protieroiis times, for all the new in
vestments. THE CONSEQUENCES.
The consequences of these errors are now a present
public calamity, hut they were never doubtful
never invisible; they were necessary and inevitable,
and were foreseen and depicted when the waves of
that fictitious prosperi
ran highest, in a speech
made hv me on the twi
I'lity-fourth dav of Senti-mlx-r.
IH68. It was said of
these taxes that thov bear
heavily upon every man's income, ution everv in
dustry and every business in the countrv, and vear
by year they are destined to pres still inure heavily,
iiii1hs we arrest the syiXeot that gives rise to them
It was comparatively ensy when values were doub
ling under ri'ieat-d issues of legal tender paper
nionev, to pav out ot
hp growth ot our growing
eso taxes, but when v:iluw
Iheir natural scale, the tax
lot only our income, not ouly
and apttareut wealth tl
recede and sink toward
gatherer takes from us
our profits, but also a ..rtiiii of our capital.
RADICAL EXACTIONS.
I do not wish to exaggerate or alarm. I simnlv
say that we cannot iilford the costly and ruinous pol
icy of the radical majoifitv In comrrcss. Wo cannot
atl'ord that policy towatd the south. We i-anoot nf-
tord the ntagnilicenf and oppressive centralism into
which our government is tieini! converted. We
cannot afford the present magnificent scale of taxa
tion, lo the secretary ot the treasury I said, earlv
in 1SHR: There is no rovnl road for a government
more than an itidiridu if or corporation ; what you
want to do now, is to cut down vour expenses and
live within your income. I would give nil lediror-
di'inaiu of finance and litianciering
"LIVE WTTHi;
N YOUR INCOME."
I would civc the wh
le of it for the old homclv
maxim, 44 live within vour income.
This refern
will lie resisted at ever
y step, but it must be Dressed
persistently. We see to-day immediate representa
tives of the people in otie branch of congress, while
struggling to reduce expenditures, compelled to con
front the menace of the senate and executive, that
unless the objectionable appropriations le consented
to, the operation of thd government thereuudcr shall
culler detriment or cealo.
A GOODj SUGGESTION.
In my judgment an iknicndment of the constitu
tion ought to lie raised .separating into district bills
and appropriations forj various departments of the
public service and excluding from each bill all ai-
Iiropriniions ior otner oitjecta and all Inueitendeiit
ecislation. In that way alone can. every power of
each of the two houses and ot the executive lie pre
serve! and exempted from moral duress, which
often rumpcls assent to objectionable appropriations.
Hat her tuat stop tne w necis oi ine government.
TIIK SOUTH.
An accessory caue, Enhancing the distress, if bus
iness is to be found in :g systematic and unsupporta
blc government imposed on the states of the south.
Kesides the ordinary ellect of ignorant and dishonest
administration, it has inflicted upon them enormous
issues of fraudulent bonds thescanty avails of which
were wssted or stolen, hnd the existence of which is
puniic niscrvoii, u-imiiiik ij iiniiiruMcy or repudia
tion. Taxes generally oppntAsive, in some instances
have confiscated t he entire income of property and
totally destroyed its marketable value. It is impos
sible that these evils should not react upon the pros
perity of the whole country. The nobler motives of
humanity concur with the material interests of all
in requiring that every olntacle le removed to
complete and durable
dred population once
basis recognixed by th
constitution of the l.'n
reconciliation lietween kin-
innaturally entangled, on a
p St. Ixiuis platform of the
ted Mates with its amend-
incuts, universally accepted as a final settlement of
the controversies whii
h encendered a civil war. but
in aid of a result so lie
hcticial to the moral influence
bs well as everv mivernmental
of everv good citizen.
authority, ought to bck-xerted not alone to maintain
their just equality lielhre the law, lint likewise to
establish a cordial frat
the citizens, whatever
now united in the one
eminent. If the du
-i mi vault goou win among
their race or color, who are
lestiny of a common self-gov-
ty shall he assigned to me, I
should dot hesitate t
exercise the powers with
which the laws and
constitution of our countrv
clothe its chief magistrate, to protect all ita citizens,
whatever their lormei
condition, in every political
and personal right,
RRENCY.
Reform is nwwary
dvx-lart-n the St. Ioiiisr-nvon-
Haii. to rtjibli.-h a 8onn! currency, restore Dublin
ore-lit, and maintain National honor; and it oes on
to demand a judiriousUrstein of preparation by pub
lic ecttiiomie, hy ofliicinl retrenchment?, and hy
wine tinancinl law. ! which will enable the nation
aoon to asanre the whole world of ita perfect ability
and i9 perfe-rt reading-Ms to niHt any of its promises
at the call of it creditors, entitled to payment.
SPECIE PAYMENT.
The object deninndfjd by the convention Is a re
POmptinn of ceie payments of the leiral tender
note of the United MUtea. That would not onlv re
store public credit and maintain national honor,' but
it would establish a aound currency for the people.
The method- by which this object is to be pursiifd
and the mean- bv which it is to he attained are di
cloed4by what the convention deniaudcd for the
future aiid bv what it denounced in the past. The
resumption of specie payments of the government on
its Icyal tender note( would establish specie pay
ment by all the hank-i on all their notes.
OFFICIAL FINANCIAL STATEMENT.
The official statement made on the twelfth of May
shown that the amount of bank notes was three hun
dred millions, lew twenty millions held by tht-m-selves
aaiti,! the two hundred and eighty -millions
of notes; the banks hie Id one hundred and forty -one
millions of local tend -It notes, or a little more than
fifty ner cent, of their amount ; but thoy also held
on deposit in the fedeiral treasury as a securitv for
t hose notes bonds of the I'nited .Mate worth, in
cold, attout throe hundred and sixty millions, avail
ablcaiil current in all foreign money markets. In
reFcmiu. the tkanksjeven if it were possible for all
heir notes to le prmted for payment would have
five huiidrot! millioiit of specie funds to pay two
huudred ami eighty itnillions of notes without con
tracting their hums to their customers, or calling on
any private dobtor for payment. Surcnded tanks,
undertaking to resume, have been obliged to collect
from needy borrowers moans to redoom excessive is
suos and to provide r-terv-i. A vrnrite Ma of dis
tress is, therefore, officii ns.ciat'i'd with the process
of resumption, but the conditions which caused dis
tress in those fonnei instance, do not now exist.
The government has lonly to make good ita promises,
and the banks can take care of themselves without
distressing anybody.
THE GOVERNM1
NT ;THE ONLY J" DELIN
QUENT. l h irovernmeiit H therefore, the sole delinquent
The amount of legal tender notes of the 1 nited
States now outstanding is lea than $:.70,000,00, he
aides $:W,0Ou,(l00 of fractional currency. How shall
the government make these notes at all time par
with reference to th.l
in: iss whicn woum ie Kepi in
use bv the wants oi
of coin, adeouate to
business? A central reservoir
the adjustment of temporary
Hurt tint ions ot intent
latiounl balances, and as a guar
anty BKaitist drains artificially created by panic or
sioculatioii. It also has to provide for the paynwmt
in coin of surh fractional currency aa may le pre
sented for redemption, and such inconsiderable por
t ions of legal tender as individuals may from time
to time desire to corkert for Mjierial use, or ii order
to lay by in coin tb-ir little storosef money.
A
COIN RESERVES. .
So, make the coin now in the treasury-available for
the object ot this reerve. lo gradually strengthen
and enlarge that reserve, and to provide -lor such
other exceptional demands for coin aa may arise,
does not seem to me a work of difficulty. If wisely
planned and discreetly puntued, it might not cost
any sacrifices to the business of the country. It
should tend, on the contiary, to a revival of hope
and confidence. The coin tti the treisury on tne
thirteenth of June, incliidtrg what is held atrainst
coin certificates, amounted no seventy-four millions.
The current of precious metals which has flowed out
oi our country for the eleven years, from July 1, 1865,
xo june itw, averaging nearly seventy-six mil
lions a year, was eight hundred and thirtv-two mil
lions, in the whole period of which six hundred and
seventeen millions were the product of our own mines.
To amass the requisite quant ity by intercepting from
the current flowing out oi t he countrv. and from
stocks which exists abroad without disturbing the
equilibrium of the foreign money markets, is a result
to ne easuy worxea out by practical Knowledge and
jiuigraeni.
SURPLUS OF LEG AL-TENDERS.
With respect to whatever wrplus of legal tenders
inn wania oi Dusinesa may iau to Keep in use ana
which, in order to save the 'liferent, will be returned
for redemption thev can either be paid or thev can
be funded. Whether they mature as currency or be
ansoroea into tne vast maR8 or securities ncla as investment--;,
is merely a question of the rate of inter
est thev draw. Even if the v were to remain in
their present form and the government were to agree
to pay on them a rate or in U ires t making them de
iraMe. a -m-wtivte-Bta. thvr would cease to circulate
rm.lu tuir place -with government, state, munie
inal and other corporate and private demands of
wnir n thousands ol miinonsexistamong us. in the
perfect case with which thev can be changed from
currency into investments, lies the onlydangertol
guarded against in the adoption of general measures
intended to remove a ciesriv ascertained surplus.
that is, a withdrawal of any which are not a perma
nent; excess oeyond the wants oi business. Jbven
more mischievous would be uny measuns which af
fects public imagination with the fear of an appre
hended scarcity. In a community where credit is
so much used, ffuctuationsof values and vicissitudes:
in business are largely caused by temporary beliefs
of men, even before those beliefs can conform to as
certained realities.
NECESSARY CURRENCY.
The amonnt of necessary currency at a given time
cannot Ire determined arbitrarily, and it should not
le assumed on ciijector that the amonnt is sub
jected to both permanent and temporary, chances.
An enlargement of it which seemed to he durable
happened at the lreginning of the civil war, bv a
suliMtituted use of currency in the place ef individ
ual credits. It varies with certain states of busi
ness ; it fluctuates with coDpideanble regularity at
different seasons of the year in KOtnron, for In
stance, when buyers of grain and other agricul
tural products Ix-gin their operations they usually
need to borrow capital or circulating credits by
which to make their purchases, and want these
fundfl in currency capable of beine distributed in
small sums among numerous sellers. The addi
tional need of currency at ench times Is five per
cent, of the whole volume, and if a surplus Imvond
what is required for ordinary use does not happen
to be on hand at the money centers a scarcity of
currency ensue and also a stringency in the loan
THE WANTS OF BUSINESS.
It was in reference to such expenses that in a dis-
cnpsion of tins subject in my annual message- tothe
New York leoslnture of January . 1K7.V a mi rr op
tion was made that the federal government is bound
to redeem every portion of Hi issue which the public
dit not wish to use. Having assumed to monopolize
the supply of currency, and enacted exclusions
against everybody else, it n bonnd to furnish all
which the wants of bu sines require. The svstem
should passively ullow th volume of circulating
sreunn io eon ami now aceoraincr to me ever rnnng
ine wants ot ousinetfg. It should imitate aa loselv
aa possible the natural laws of trade, which it has
superseded by artificial contrivances. In a similar
oiscusmou in my message of January 4. 1576, it was
saiu that resumption shoni 1 be cnected by such
measures as would keen the aereirate amnnnt of
currency seit-aujusting during all the process with
in creating, at anv time, an artmcial scarcity
without exciting the public imagination with
alarms which impair confidence and distract largely
the whole machinery of credit and disturb the nat
ural operations of business.
RE5ERVE3 AND REDEMPTIONS.
Public economies, official retrenchments and a
wise finance are the means which the Kt. Lotiia
convention indicates as the provision for reserves
and redemptions, l he (rest resource is a redaction
n ex peuses ot too government below its income, for
tiiai imposes no new charge on the people. If. how.
ever, the improvidence and waste which have con
ducted ns to a period of filling revenues oblige us to
supplement the results of economies and retrench
ments by some resort to loans, we should not hesi-
ate. i he government ought not to speculate on
Is own dishonor in order to save the interest of its
Token pro mis s. which it still cnmnella hHtri
lea lers to accept at a fictitious Par. Tha bicbpt
national honor is not only right but would prove
profitable.
REDUCTION OF INTEREST.
Of tha Public debt nine hundred and eiirhtv-flvA
million dollars besr interest at six percent, in gold,
and sixty-five millions itt five per tnt. in gold ; the
average interest is 5. HA per cent. A financial policy
thnt should seenre the highest credit, wisely availed
I, ought gradually to obtain a reduction of one per
cent, in the interest on most of the loans. A saving
f one per cent, on the averase would le seventeen
million dollais a year ia gold. That saving, regu
larly invested at four and a half per cent., would.
n losstttnn thirty eight vers. extinguish the prin-
pai. The whole seveuteii hundred million- of
he fumh'd debt, might tepaid bv this savine aloje.
ithout cost to the rcopl ..
THE TIME FOR RESUMPTION.
The proper time for resnmotion is the time when
wise prepiiratimi shall hav-i reigned into perfect
ti lity to accomplish the oh.ect with certainty and
!i"e, that will inspire continence and encoursge a
revival it inf.ite-s. the enrlio-t time in winch
ha result cn le brought a 1 tout is best. Kvcn
when preparation-- shall have letn matured, the
sact date would have to be chosen with reference
o the then exiclimr st;tt of traiie, and the credit-
beet of operntions in our countrv. the con The of
foreign commerce, and the condition of our ex-
battles, with other nations.
SPECIFIC MEASURES.
The specific measures and actual date are m titters
of detail, having reference to the ever-chamring
namons. l hev Peions to the domain ot nrsciicul
administrative statmanship. The captuin of a
steamer about to sail fn-ui New York to Liverpool
dors not assemble a counsel over liis ocean chart
and fix an angle by which to 1,-irdi the rudder for a
whole voyare. Human intelligence mint lie at the
helm to discern the shifting forces of the waters
and winds ; a human baud must Ik at the helm to
feel the elements dsv by day, and guide to a maste
ry Over them such preparations are everything;
without them a legislative enmmnd fixing a day
an official promise fixing a day are shams. They
are wor-e they are a c-elusi in and snaro to all who
trust them. They destroy all confidence among
thoughtful men whose jndginent will at lenst sway
public opinion. An attempt to act on such s com
mand without preparation, would end in a nw
suspenniou. It would he a fresh calamity, prolific
of coufusion, distrust and distnss.
RADICAL RESUMPTION.
The act of congress of Jnly, lsT provided that on
and alter the first of .lauurv, 179, the secretary of
the treasury shall redeem in coin the lecal tender
notes of the I'nited States on presentation at the
office of the assistant treasurer, in the city of New
Yoik. It authorizes secretary to prepare and
provide for such resuifrnion of speeie pavinents by
the use of any surplus r- venues not otherwise ap
propriated. ad by issuing, in his discretion .classes
of bonds. More than one and a half of the four
years have pnssed. Cougtesa and the president
have continued ever since to unite in act which
hve legislated out of existence every possible sur
plus a pplicable to this purpose. The coin in -he
treasury rimmed to belong to the g. vrrniuent had,
on the thirtieth of June, fallen to less than $4.s,(inOt
ihki, against :, Km, nun ou th first of July, 1H7.1, and i
the availability of a part of that sum is said tube
queetionublc,
THE REVENUES.
Tha revenues are falling faster than appropria
tions and expenditures ar- reduced, leaving the
treasury with diminishing resources. The secretary
has done nothing under bis power to issue bonds,
the legislative command the official, promises fix
ing a day for resumption have been made, and there
has leen no progress, there have leeii steps back
ward, there is no nvcroma-'y in the operations of
the government, the homely maxims of every day
life are the lest standards of its conduct. The
debtor who should promise to pay a loan out of his
surplus income, et le seen every day spending all
he could lay his hands on In riotous living, would
lose all character for honesty and veracity. His
oner or anew promise, or ins profession as to the
value of the old preniiee, would alike provoke de
rision. TnE PLATFORM ON RESUMPTION.
The St. Louis platform denounces the failure for
eleven years to make good the promise of legal
tender notes ; it denounces the omission to accumu
late any reserve tor their redemption ; it denounces
the conduct which, during eleven years of peace,
has made no advance towatd resnmpti on, no prepa
ration for resumption, but has obstructed resump
tion, wasting sdl our reson-ces and exhausting all
oursnrplus income, and, while professing to intend
a sreedy resumption ef specie payments, has annu
ally enacted hindrances thereto, and having first
denounced the barrenness of promise of a day of re
sumption, it denounces that barren promise as a
hindrance to resumption. It tken demands its re
peal, and als demands the establishment of a judi
cious system of preparation of resumption. It cau
not le doubted that the sulrstitution of a system of
preparntiou would be the gain of the substance of
resumption in exchange for its shadow.
IMPROVIDENCE,
Nor Is dennnciation unmerited of that improvi
dence which in eleven y-ars since the peace has
consumed four thousand five hundred millions of
I IIIKIIM1II1 II. TT IINUIIirU UI1I1IOI1N O,
et could not afford togive the neople a
able currenry. Two and a half per
pcnditures of these eleven years, or
Hollars, ami yet couia nov anoru rogive tne
sou ml and st
cent, on the ex
even less, would have provided all the iroin needful
to resumption, l he distress now lelt by the people
in all their business and industries has k"prinri pa
caue in the enormous wate of capital, occasioned
by the false policies of our government.
EFFECTS OF CURRENCY MISMANAGEMENT.
It has Iieen greatly aggravated by the mismanage
ment of the currency. Uncertainty is the prolfiic
parent of mischiefs in all business. Never were ita
evils more felt than now. Men do nothing because
thev are unable to make any calculations ou which
they enn safely rely. The)' undertake nothing be
cause thev fear a loss in everything they would at
tempt. They stop and wsit. The merchant dares
not buy for the future consumption of his custo-nv-rs.
The manufacturer dares not make fabrics
which may not refund his outlay. He shuts up his
factory, and discbarges 1 is workmen. Capitalists
cannot lend on security they consider sate, and
their funds lie almost without interest Men of en
ter prise, who have credit or securities to pledge, will
not borrow. Consumption has fallen below the
natural limits of reasnnatde economy; the prices
of many things are undwr their range in the frugal
specie payment times Itefbre the civil war; vast
masses of the currency of the United States lie in
the banks unused ; a ye-i.r and a half ago legal
tenders were at their Urgent volume, and twelve
millions since retired have been replaced by fresh
issues of fifteen mil Hons of bank noies. In the
mean time, the banks gavebecn surrendering about
four millions a month, be-ause they canuot find a
profitable use for so amuy of their notes.
SHAMS.
The public mind will no longer accept shams. It
nastmftered enough from i lusions. An insincere
policy increases distrust; au unstable policy in
creases uncertainty. The people need to know that
the government is moviv-sr in the direction of ulti
mate satetv and prosperity, and that it is doing so
through prudent, safe and conservative methods,
which will be sure te inflict no new sacrifice on the
business of the country. Then inspiration of new
hopes and well-founded confidence will hasten the
restoring processes of nature, and p.osperity will
bgin to return.
PREPARATION.
The St. Lonis convention concludes its expres
sions in regard to the currency by a declaration of
its convictions as the prctk al results of the sys
tem of preparation which it demands. It says:
We lelive such a system, well devised, and. alsive
all. instrusted to competent bands for nxectition,
creating at no time an ar';ftb ial scarcity of curren
cy, and at no time alarming the public mind tothe
withdrawal of that vaater machine of credit by
which ninety-five per cent, of all our business
transaction are performed.1' A system open to the
puJic and inspirina general confidence from the day
of its adoption will bring healing on It wing to all
our harraed industries, set iu motion the wheels
HERA
COLUMBIA,
of commerce, manufactures, and mechanic arts, re
store employment to lator. and renew in all its
equal resources the prosperity of the people.
RESUMPTION MUST UE GRADUAL.
The crovernmsnt of he F nited States. In mv opin
ion, can advance to a resumption of specie payments
on its legal-tender notes by gradual, and safe pro
cesses, tending to relieve present busiaess dis
tresses. If charged bv the people with the admin-
iraitinn nf tha MTArntivn office. I shoulo deem it a
duty so to exercise the powers with which it has
been or may be Invested by congress as best and
soonest to conduct the cout.try to that beneficent
result.
CIVIL SERVICE.
The convention jnstly affirms that reform is neces
sary in the civil service ; necessary for its purifica
tion, itseconomv and efficiency ; necessary in order
that the ordinary employment of pnblic business
may not le a prize to nglit lor at tne oanot-nox a
relief of party seel, instead of poetsof honor assigned
for nroved rnnine.fp.nrv. and held for fidelity in the
public employ. The convention wisely added that
refsrm is necessary even more in the higher grades
of the public service the presidout, vice-president,
nidges, senators, representatives, cabinet officers.
these, and all others in authority, are not a private
perquisite; they are a public trust. Two evils invest
the official service of the federal government one is
the nrevalent and demoralizing notion that the pub
lic service exists not for the business and la-nefit of
the whole people, but for the interest of the office
holders, who are in truth but servants of the
people.
THE GREEDT OFFICE-HOLDERS.
Under the Influence of this nernicions error public
employments have been multiplied ; the numbers of
those grathered Into the ranks ot omee-hoiuers nave
bevj steadily increased beyond any possible reinire
ment of public business, while inefficiency, pecula
tion, fraud and malversation or puoiic funds troni
the highest places of nower to the lowest have over
spread the whole service like a leprosv : the other
evil is the organization of official class into a body
of political mercenaries governing caucuses ami
dictating nominations of their own partv and at
tempting to carry elections of the people by undue
influence and bv immense corruption, ruuds svs
tematically collected from the salaries of foes of
officeholders, the official class in other countries
sometimes by its own weight and sometimes in alii
ance with the army, has been able to rule unorgan
zed masses even under universal suffrage. Here it
has already grown into a gigantic power capable of
stining ttie inspirations off a sound public opinion
and oi resisting an easy change ot administration
until misgovernment becomes intolerable and nul
lie spirit has been stung to tbo pitch of a strong
revolution.
THE ROAD TC REFORM.
The first step in reform is the elevation of the stand
ard by w hich the appointing power selects agents
toexecute otncial trusts. Sextan lmnortance
conscientious fidelity in the exercise of authority to
noiu to account and displace untrustworthy and in
rapaoie subordinates, 'ihe public interest, in an
honest and skilful performance of official trust
must not le sacrificed to the use of incumttents. Af
ter these immediate steps, which will insure the ex
hibition of bettor examples, we may wisely go on to
tne aooiisning ot unnecessary omces, and miallv to
the patient, careful organization of a better civil.
service system, under tests, wherever practicable, of
nn'vwi nnHn-irm:y im ii'iriny. niie mucil may
e accompiisneu ov tneso metnoos. it niitrnt enmnr.
age delusive expectations if I withheld here the ex
pression oi my conviction that no reform of the r v
service in this country will le complete and perma
nent until its ahief magistrate is constitutionally
disoualifiwl for re-election. Experience has rene.r-
edly exposed the futility of self-imposed restrictions
nv candidates or incumociits. "through this sol
emnity only can he be effectually delivered from his
greatest temptation to misuse the power and pat
ronage wiin wmcii iuo executive is necessarily
cuurgcu.
Erlnoated in tlie Ix-lief thnt it in the firiit duty of a
citizen of thin rpnlilir to take liis fHir allotment of
rnr ana trounii-in piihiic a Hairs. I hnv. fur fifty
yciim. a private jti7.cn. fulfilled that duty.
Thnnjrh occupied in an unusual dcereo durinjf all
that period with the concern of government. I have
never acquired the liHl.it of ofllt ial life. When, a
year and a half aeo, I entered upon mv present trnst.
it was in order to consummate the reforms to which
1 Had already devoted several of the l't years of my
ine. rwnowniK as l on, then-lore, rrom freli experi
ence, how great the difference is N-tween eliding
through an otncial routine and workineout a reform
of systems and policies.it is impossilde for me to
contemplate wmu neeris 10 ne clone in terteral ad
ministrations without an anxious sei.e of the diffi
culties of the undertaking. If summoned l.y the
sunraeee oi my countrymen ta attempt this work. I
shall endeavor, with tjod'a help, to be an efficient
lnsinimcm oi tneir ill.
tjiBliedl SAMUEL J. TILDEN.
To Gen John A . Mct'lernard, chairman; Gen. W
It. Franklin, Hon. J. J. Ahbott. Hon. J. H,
Spanhorst, Hon. H. J. Kedfield, Hon. F. . Lyou
ana uiucrs, committee.
HESDHICK'S LETTEB.
The following i the full text of Gov. Hendrick's
letter oi acceptance:
India-iapolir, Jnly 21, 176.
GrsTi-rxiu I have the honor to acknowledge the
receipt of your communication, in which you have
formally notined me of mv nomination ny the na
tional democratic committee at St Louis as their
randidate for the oflice of vice-president of the
I niteti states, it is a nomination which I had
neitner expected nor desired, and vet 1 recoenize
and appreciate tne men nonor done me iv the con
vention. The choice of such n body, ami pronounced
with such unusual unanimity, and accompanied
w ith so itenerous an expression of esteem and confi
dence, ought to outweigh all merely personal desires
anil preferences of my own. It is wifh this feeling,
and I trust also from a deep sen-e of public ilutv.
that I now accept the nomination and shall abide
the judgment of my coiiutryincn.
THE ri.ATFJ3I EJiDOKSEP.
Tt would have been impossible for me to accept the
noiitinarion ir I coill.l aot Heartily indorse tne pl;it
orm of the convention. I am gratified, therefore.
lie able, nneonivocallv. to d'-ehuo that I affre in
he principles, approve the policies, and svmnafhi.e
w nn tne purposes enunciated in that platform. I i
institutions of our country have Iwcn solely trii-1 ly
the exigencies id civil war. and since the peace hv a
selfish and corrupt management of public affairs.
which has shamed ns lefore civilized mankind, bv
unwise ami partial legislation, everv industrv and
interest of the people have Iieen made to suffer, snd
n the executive department of the government, dis
honesty, rapacity and venality have debauched the
public service. Men known to lie nnworlby hivr
Men promoted, whilst others have !een degraded fo
fidelity to official duty. I'ublic office has been made
the means of private profit, and the county has mcn
offended to see a class of men who Ismst of the friend
ship of the swrn protectors of the state, amassing
fortunes bv defrauding the public treasury and bv-
corrupting the servants of the people in mich a crisis
ol the history of the country.
REFORM.
1 reioice thnt the convention at r-t. Lorn lias so
noltly raised th. standard of reform, rtotliing can
be well with us or with our affairs until the public
conscienee. shocked by the enormous evils and
abuses which prevail, elinll have heel r -iandrdand
compelled an unsparing reformation ot onr national
aiiiiiiiiisiraiion, in lis ueau anil ill lis iiicmiK'rs. in
ench a reformation, .the removal of a single officer,
even the president, comparatively a trifling mat-
trr, if the H.viHtem which he rpr-s-ntN, nd wliii h
IiHfl ffwteron him nn ho Im fofttcmil it, im miflVrod to
rem tun. The prc-ffirit'itt alone miiflt not le untie the
pcapt-tfoat ir the enormiti of the f-y-tt-ni wkich in
fwts the public net-vice, and the nn-HiiH of i-ftruc-tinn
of our inrititutiomf. In come renpectn. I hnhl
thnt the nrfwnt e-ccriitivp has tfpn flip victim rath
er than tne author of that vicioiiH pyKtem. t'oncres
nionnl and party lenders have heen t rotifer than the
president. No one man could have created it, and
the removal of no one man can amend it. Tt it
thoronchlv corrnnt. and nuipt lo swent remorwler;-
ly Hy by thc wWtinnof h eovm.nu-nt con,poW,i
of elementu entirely new and pledc:-d to radical re- 1
form. The firnt work of reform nniot evidently he
the retomfion of the normal operation of the- con-
At it n tion of the l'nit-d State, with all its amend
ments. The necesMities ot war cannot he pk-adeii in
a time of pence. The ritrht of local self eorrnment.
a guaranteed by the constitution, must Ih every
where restored, and the centralized. alntoHt pervoiial
inipermliKni. which has (teen practiced. nmt he
done away, or the first principles of the republic will
ie tost .
FINANCES,
nr financial system of expedients must be reform
ed . old and silver are the real standardsof value,.
and ow national currency will not be a p-rfect me
dium of exchange until it nhall be convertible at the
pleasure of the holder. As I have heretofore said,
no one desires a return to specie payment moreen rn-
estly than I do; hut I do not believe thnt it will or
can be reached, in harmony with the interests of the
people, hy artificial measures for the contraction ot
the currency any more than I believe that wealth or
prosperity can l created by an iutlation of curren
cy. J he laws or ft nance cannot J d isrejjartied. I he
financial policy of the eovernment. if. indeed, it de
serves the name of policy at all. has l-en in dim-e
ars rd of those laws and reform, and has diotnrln-d
lisiness confidence, aa well as hindered a return to
specie payment.
On feature of that olicv was the resumption
clause of the at of 1 87ft. which has embarrassed the
country by the anticipation of a compulsory reump
tion, for which no preparation haa (wn 'made, and
without any assurance that it would le practicable.
The repeal of that clause is necessary, that the nat
ural operation of financial laws may be restored:
that tne business of the country may le relieved
from its disturbing and depressing influence, and
that a return to specie papnierits may he facilitated
by the sulx-titution of wiser and more prudent lecife
lation, and which shall mainly relv on a judicious
system of public economy and official retrenchments,
and, above all, in the promotion of prosperity iu alt
the industriesof the people.
SPFjCIE PAYMENTS.
I do not understand the repeal eT the renmption
clause of the act of 1S7 to be a backward step in our
return to spcie payments, but the recovery of a
false step; and although the repeal may for a time
be, prevented, yet the determination of the demo
cratic party on this subject has leen formally de
clared. There should be no hindrances put in the
way of a return to specie payments. "As such a
hindrance, says the St. Louis platform, "we de
nounce the resumption clause of the act of 1875, and
demand its repeal. I thoroughly believe that hy
public economy, by official retrenchment, and by a
wise finance, enabling us to accumulatethe precious
metals, resumption at an early period is possible
without producing an artificial scarcity of enrrenev
or disturbing the pnblic or commercial credit; and
that these reforms, oogether with the restoration of
pure government, will restore general confidence,
en con rape useful investments of capital, furnish
employment to lalor, and relieve the couutry from
the paralysis of hard times.
OVR INDUSTRIES.
With the fndnstr.es of the people there have been
frequent interferences. Our platform truly says that
many industries have been impoverished to subsi
dize a few. Our commerce h been deranged to an
inferior position on the high seas, manufactures
have been diminished, agriculture has leen embar
rassed, and the iestinie of the industrial classes de
mand that theae things shall be reformed.
v TAXATION.
The burdens of the people must also Im lightened
by a chance in our svstem of public expenses. The
firofligate expenditures which increased taxation
rom five dollars per capita iu 1W to eighteen dol
lars in 187. tells its own story of our need of fiscal
reform. Our treaties with foreign powers should
also be revised and amended in so far as they leave
citisens of foreign birth in any particular lesssecur
in anv country on earth than they would be if they
bad been born upon onr soil.
THE COOLIE SYSTEM.
The inignitous coolie system which, through the
agencv of wealthy companies, imports Chinese
.ondmen, and establish a specie of slavery and
interfere with thejust rewards of labor on our Pa
cific coast, should s utterly abolished.
CIVIL SERVICE.
In reform of our civil service. 1 most heartily in
dorse that section of the platform which declare
that the civil service ought not to be subject to
change at every election, and that lLonght not to be
made the brief reward of party xeanAnt oncht to le
nwmnled fr proved coniDetencv. and held for fidel-
itv in the put die employ. 1 hope never aitin to see
the cruel and remornele? proscription fr political
opil
the
inions w hich has disgraced tne administration of
Mst eiffht vers. Had as the civil service now is.
I know, it has acme men of tried integrity and
.hilitv Knch men. and snch men onlv. should be
retained in effirf ; tint no man should lie retained on
any consideration who lias profti luted his oflice to
purposes of partisan intimidation or rompnlsion, or
who has furnished money ti.corrupt the elections.
This is done and has bei done In almost every
county of the land. It is a blight upon the moral
of the count ry. and ought to t e reformed
SECTIONAL CONTENTION.
Of sectional contentions and in respect to our
common schools. I have only this to say; that, in
my judgment, the man or party that would involve
our schools in political or sectarian controversy Is
an eneinv to the schools. The common schools sr,
far mora under the protecting earn of all the people
5
A
TENNESSEE, FRIDAY,
than nnder the control of any party or sect. They
must be neither sectarian nor partisan, and there
miiftt IkA neither S division or misannrnnriation of
the funds for their snf port. Likewise I regard the
man wno wouiu arou-w or ixer sectional animoei
ties and antagonisms among his coutrvmonas
duntreronn enemv to his country. All the neonle
must lie made to feel and know that once more there
Is establiMhed a Purpose and POflcv nnder which all
citizens of every condition, race and color, will he
secure in the enjoyment of whatever rights the con
stitutiou and laws declare or recognize, and that it
controversies that may arise, the government is not
a partisan, out wh-miii nn --71111 mionai aunioruy
the inst and powenui guaramn ot the rights of safe
v A 11 t-ttrife between sections and rarfw will oeaao
as soon aa the power for the erils is taken away from
a partv that makes political gain out of scenes of
violence auu oiwunin-u. ne conBiiiuiionai au
flmritv is placed jn the hands of men whose politics
welfare requires that pence and good order shall be
preaervedeverywnere. t .
Tt will be seen, gentlemen: that T am in entire c
cord with the platform of the oven tion by which 1
have been nominated as a canttiate for the office o
vice-president of the United S;ates. Permit" me, it
conclusion, to express my satisfaction at being asso
ciated with a candidate tor the presidency who l
firut among his enuals as a representative of th
spirit and of the achievements of reform. In his off!
rial career as tne executive or great stateot ne
i orK, ne nas, in a compnrauirty snort periou. n
formed the public service, ant reduced the Publ
burden, so as to have earned once the gratitude
of his state and the adnnratiot of the countrv. Tl
iwonln know him to be thoroughly in earnest. H
has shown himself to 1 postessed of powers and
iinalities wincn nt nim, in an. eminent degree, lor
the great work of reformation which this country
now needs ; and if he sli 'Me chosen bv the people
to the high office of pr -ir. -if.,f the United Mates-.
I leli.ve that the day1' .o. inauguration will be
the ieginning oi a new era n peace, purity ami proa
neritv in all departmentsof our frovernment. I ai
gentlemen, your obedient servant,
TlH-JM&s a. HENDRICKS
To Hon. John A. M'Clernand, chairman. and others
of the committee ot the uational democratic con
vent ion.
LATEST NEWS.
MOUTH AND WEST.
An official telegram from Camp Brown;
Wyoming, to-day, says: "The Indian scouts
sent out from here report hostile Indians
moving to the southeast. They traced theu
from the head of Crazy Woman Fork to the
head of Little Powder river. Their number
is not known, but it is believed to bo large.'
This corroborates the reports received from
other sources that a large number of Indians
are doubtless making for the agencies.
An immense cotton factory will soon
be opened in Atlanta, Ga. The buildingsare
of sufficient capacity for 21,500 spindles and
five hundred looms, and one-half of the ma'
chinery is nearly completed.
A little girl, child of parents living in
a healthy locality on one of the ridges near
Pensacola, had an attack of yellow fever
which much puzzled the physicians, as there
was then no yellow fever in the city, nor had
she and her playmates been in contact with
any one from there. After her recovery she
described a game of "hide and seek," where
she hid under an old sail so cunningly that
she could not be found. The sail had been
imported from New Orleans during the epi'
demic of a previous season.
Along the St. John's river, in Florida,
tne estimates of the orange crop have been
reduced one-half, and the young trees are
said to be dying by scores on account of the
dry season.
Grasshoppers are spreading in Georgia
and creating great alarm among the planters.
Senator Sharon, in applying for the
reduction in the valuation of his palace ho
tel. Sa Francisco, which was put at $2,000,
000, said that it was not paying, and was not
likely to. It cost, he said, $5,000,000, but
labor and material were then high, and it
could not be sold for half that sum.
A Georgia theorist, who wishes to in
crease the production of corn in the south,
proposes a tax of $20 an acre on every acre
of cotton more than five which maybe raised
by any planter.
The extensive cotton mills at Little
Falls, belonging largely to commodore
Garner, says the Albany Argus, are at pres
ent closed, awaiting some adjustment of his
affairs. The commodore, it will be remem
bered, was drowned in New York bay a few
days ago. lie was one of the largest, if not
the largest, buyer of cotton in the Memphis
market.
FOREIGN.
The Turks have penetrated into Ser-
- . , ir- . rr:
via, ana again assnme tne onensive. ane
Montenegrins have been defeated at Antrim,
and four hundred Bulgarian prisoners have
been released at PhilippolL
The European congress upon the east
ern question will soon meet at Brussels.
The Turks in a recent battle at Tre-
.inie .had Selim Pasha killed and Osman
. - ,
1 anna taKen prisoner, io uumucis, mice
lieutenant-colonels, seven majors and from
five thousand to six thousand men two bat
talions of infantry and one of chasseurs
were destroyed to the last man. All of the
battalions engaged suffered. The number oi
Turkish inferior officers killed is numerous.
Th .fc continued to the walls of
-.-.. v ...
Bitck. Corpses were thick in the road be
fore the citadel. Besides the artillery and
trains, the Montenegrins captured four hun
dred homes and an immense number of
arms. The Turks are greatly outnumbered.
The ex-queen Isabella, who left Paris
last week for Santantler, means to make her
self dear once mnre to Spain. Her son is
putting the splendid palace of the Alcazar
in Sevilln in order for her residence, and the
changes and repairs she has insisted upon
have already cost nearly $400,000.
miNCELLAXEOUS. .
The Custer monument fund amounts
now to nearly four thousand dollars, and is
being increased steadily.
The public debt statement is as follows.
Bonds at 6 per cent $ 984,990,050
Bonds at 5 per cent 711,685.800
Total coin bonds $1,696,685,450
DEBT BEARING INTEREST IN LAWFUL MONEY.
Lawful money debt $ 14,000,000
Matured debt 3,297,760
DEBT BEARING NO INTEREST.
Legal tenders 369,r,R6,020
Certificates of deposit-
32,81",0O0
32,900,880
Fractional currency
Coin certificates
Total without interest.
Total debt
Total interest
2,093,000
.$ 464,716,900
. 2,178,700,111
24,850,231
.CASH IS THE TREASURY.
Coin i 59,843,GS4
Currency 12,590,349
Special deposits held forthe re
demption of certificates of de
posit, as provided by law 32,81 5,000
Total in Treasury $ 105,249,034
' " DEBT LESS CASH IN TREASURY.
Debt less cash in Treasury $2,098,301,831
Decrease of the debt during the
past month 1,138,033
B03TDS ISSUED TO PACIFIC RAILROAD COM'
PAJnES INTEREST PAYABLE llf
LAWFUL MONEY.
Bondsissned to Pacific Railroad
Companies, interest payable
in lawful money, principal
outstanding. $ 64,623,512
Interest accrued, not yet paid... 323,117
Interest paid by the IT. States... 32,080,218
Interest repaid by the transpor
tation of mails, etc .. 6,909,204
Balance f interest paid by the
United States..-.. 25,171,013
The comptroller of the .currencT has de
clared a dividend of twenty-five per cent, in
favor of the creditors of the City National
Bank of Chicago, and twenty-five percent,
in favor of the creditors ot theFirst National
Bank ef Dulutri; Minn., payable 7th instant.
" So you are going to marry a drup
gist's clerk ?" remarked a Chicago gill
to another on the street cars yesterday.
The question was asked in an unmistat
aVle tone of derision, and so the fair one
addressed half apologetically replied:
" Of course don't they have all the soda
water they want for nothing?" " Yes,"
was the gloomy reply ; " they're all right
in summer, but what about next win
ter?" "Oh," mildly answered the en
gaged one, " maybe by that time we will
be divorced!" The interfering friend
seemed satisfied then. Chicago Journal.
AUGUST 18, 1876.
CONGRESSIONAL,.
SCEBIATK.
At noon, on the 1st inst, the senate
began to vote upon the articles of impeach
ment against William Belknap, late secretary
of war. Upon the first article of impeach
merit 35 senators voted guilty; 25 not guilty,
for want of jurisdiction. Those who voted
guilty were: Bayard, Booth, Cameron
(Penn.), Cockreil, Cooper, Davis, Dawes,
Dennis, Edmunds, Gordon, Hamilton, Har
vey, Hitchcock, Kelley, Kernan, McCreery,
McDonald, Merrimon, Mitchell, Morrill,
Norwood, Oglesby,' Randall, Ransom, Rob
ertson, Sargent, Saulsbury, Sherman, Ste
venson, rhurnian, Wadleigh, Wallace,
Whyte and Withers. Those voting in the
negative: Anthony, Allison, Boutwell,
Kruce, Cameron ( Wis.), Christiancy, Conk
ling. Conove, Crngin, Dorsey, Eaton, Ferry,
Frelinghnysen, Hamlin, flowe.Ingalls, Jones
(Nev.) Logan, McMillan, Paddock, Patter
son, Spencer, West, Windoin and Wright.
Mr. Jones ot r lorida declined voting on the
ground that the senate had no jurisdiction.
Presiding officer announced that two-thirds
had not voted guilty, and therefore the re
spondent was acquitted or the charge in the
first article. On the second article 36 sena
tors voted guilty and 25 not gniltv. Mr.
Marry, who did not answer on the first roll
call, voted guilty upon the second article.
Those senators who voted not euiltv repeated
their reason for doing so, want of jurisdic
tion. Upon the third and fourth articles
the vote stood as above, 36 voiing guilty and
2o not guilty. Before roll call on the 6th
article was finished Morton, who had been
detained on account of a severe fall this
morning, came in and voted guilty, making
the vote on that article 37 guilty and 25 not
truiltv. Two-thirds of the senate not havinp
voted in favor of sustaining the articles of
impeachment, it was ordered that judgment
ot acquittal be entered, and the senate sit
ting as a court of impeachment adjourned
sine die. The chair announced a new con
ference committee on consular and -liplo-matic
appropriation bills Messrs. Sargent,
lioutwell, and .Norwood. A joint resolution
providing for the restoration of the writing
ot tne original declaration ot independence.
Mr. Haddock called up the house bill to es
tablish a new land district in the territory of
w vonnng, to w known as Kvanston district.
Passed. Mr. Kelly called up the house bill
to create an additional land district in the
territory of Idaho. Passed. The house bill
providing for the sale of Osage ceded lands
in Kansas was taken up and passed. The
senate then took up the river and harbor
appropriation bill, and various amendments
proposed by the committee on appropria
tions were agreed to. Pending discussion, a
message was received from the house of
representatives, announcing the action of
that bo-y in regard to the death of Ed. Y
Parsons, member from Kentucky. Ap
propriate addresses were made hy Messrs,
aictreerv and Stevenson as a mark oi re-
pect to the memory of the deceased. Sen
ate adjourned.
In the senate on the 2nd, a substitute
for house bill granting a pension to E. M.
Hansell, the mesenger in the state depart
ment who was injured in defending the late
secretary Seward from the assassin PayDe
was passed. Ihe substitute awards $1,000.
The senate then went into executive session.
and when the doors were reopened con
sideration of the rivers and harbors ap
propriation Dill was resumed, ine amend
ments of the committee were agreed to
without discussion. Adjourned.
In the senate, on the 3rd, a bill to
limit and fix the signal service was amended
and passed. Mr. Logan introduced a bill
for the coinage of the silver dollar of 412 8-10
grains of standard silver, and providing that it
be a legal tender at its nominal value for any
mount, except for customs due and inter
est on the public debt. Ordered printed
ad lie on the table. The morninc hour having
expired, the senate resumed considerati?n
of the river and harbor appropriation bill.
The bill was then reported to the senate, and
the amendments made in. the committee of
the whole were concurred in. The bill then
passed. Those who voted in the negative
were: Messrs. uocKrili, conkiing, jviton,
Edmunds, Hamlin, Hitchcock, Jones (Fla.),
Locaii, McCreerv, Morrill and Wadleigh.
The bill ss passed appropriates in the aggre
gate $5,000,000, the exact sum recommended
bv the committee on appropriations, and no
change whatever was made in any amount
reported by the committee. The senate
then adjourned.
In the senate, on the 5th, Mr. Morton
moved to take up the resolution to print ten
thousand extra copies of the president's
message and nccompanving documents in
reference to the recent trouble at Hamburg.
The motion to take up the reso.ution was
agreed to; yeas, 39, ; nays, 15. A strict par
ty vote. The discussion became entirely
political, and was continued through the
morning hour, being participated in by
Messrs. Patterson, Thurman, Cameron, Gor
don and McMillan. The ch'ir then f resent
ed unfinished business, the bill to establish
post routes. On motion of Mr. Edwards the
regular order, the post route bill, was laid on
the table; yeas 32, nays 17, and the consid
eration of Mr. Morton's resolution was re
ceived by a vote of 32 to 18. The report of
the conference committee on the bill to pro
vide for the sale of Osage ceded lands, etc.,
was here agreed to yeas 27, nays 18, and
iscussion of Air. Morton's resolution and for
the punishment of the perpetrators of the
Hamburg crimes. Adjourned.
In the senate, on the 7th, a joint reso
lution in reference to the wreck of the mon
itor Tecumseh in Mobile bay, and to provide
for the burial of persons carried down when
she sank, passed. On motion of Mr. Sher
man the amendments of the house to the
senate bill extending the time for rcdemp-
on of lands sold by the United States for
direct taxes were agreed to and the bill
passed. The house bill making an appro
priation for the payment of claims, reported
allowed by the southern claims commission
er, passed with the amendments proposed by
the committee, i he senate tnen resumed
consideration of unfinished business, the
resolution of Morton to print 10.000 extra co
pies of the message of the president and the
accompanying uoeuuiriiia in icpuu iu me
recent trouble at Hamburg, South Carolina.
Pending the discussion Allison, from the
conference committee on the river f nd har
bor appropriation bill submitted the report
that the committee had agreed upon the
bill, and it was ordered printed and laid
over until to-morrow. The chair appointed
Imralls. Oulesby and McCreery conference
committee on the bill to authorize the secre-
tary of the interior to deposit certain funds
in the United States treasury in lieu of in
vesting them. The senate resumed consider
ation of the resolution of Morton, and was
addressed by senator Eaton. Before Eaton
concluded, the senate went into executive
session and soon after adjourned.
IIOVMF.
In the house, on the 1st., Mr. Randall,
chairman of the committee on appropria
tions, reported a bill appropriating $227,566
for payment of the indebtedness incurred in
constructing the New York postoflice build
ing. Passed. The house then went into
committee of the whole, Mr. Clymer in the
chair, in order to take up the bill reported
by the committee of invalid pensions lor the
payment of arrearages of pensions, making
them date from the time of the pensioner's
death or disability. It was necessary, how
ever, nnder the rules, to have each of the
bills standing before it laid aside by a party
vote, and as Mr. O'Brien and others sought
to interpose all parliamentary obstacles to
the cons:desation of the bill, which would
take many millions out of the treasury, the
process of getting at it proved to be too
tedious and bad finally to be abandoned.
The committee rose, when obituary speeches
were made by Messrs. Jones, Boone and
Lawrence, after which the house adjourned
In the house, on the 2d, regular or
der being demanded, the house considered
the Blain silver bill. The action on the bill
to-day was prevented by motion to adjourn,
and when the house adjourned it be till Sat
urday, and call the roll on each motion,
which consumed the morning hour. The
house then went into committee of the
whole Mr. Clymer in the chair the obect
being to take up and act upon the bill to
provide that pensions shall date from death
or disability of the soldier, but the chairman
decided, and his decision was sustained,
that each bill preceding in the calendar
must first be disposed of or set aside, for the
first bill on the calendar was that to transfer
the Indian bureau from the interior depart
ment to the war department. Mr. WiUon,
Iowa, moved its postponement, but the house
refused to postpone, and Mr. Cook, who had
chanre of the bill, yielded the floor to Mr.
Lamar, who proceeded to make a speech on
political subjects. He commenced by say
ing that it could not be truthfully asserted
that the practice and peculiar system of
measures adopted by the present adminis
tration commanded the approbation of
majority of the people, bnt that on the con
trafy the sentiment in which the American
people regarded the conduct of national
affairs was one of very decided dissatihfac
tion and despondency, accompanied with a
strong and intense desire ot change. Ihcre
was a deep and anxious protest against the
methods of administration, the tone and
character of the public service and princi
ples of legislation, that had marked the ac
tion of the government many years past,
and yet it was remarkable that the popular
feeling produeed no change in the adminis
tration. Such a development of public sen
timent in f.ngland would nave produced a
change in the administrative agencies of the
government within twenty-four hours. He
did not believe that an apprehension grow
ing oat of the united support by the south
ern people of the democratic party was well
founded, or that it should Htand in the way
oi tne axiurationsot a great people lor pro
gress and reform. J lie t;efi that the south
under any combination of yn-jru-e er circum
stances would ever obtain co'.T of this
giant republic and wield its destinarrKfiist.
the will and interests of this mighty people
was, or all ideas, the most visionary and
false. The people of the south were pros
trate; they had been defeated in war and
made to feel that sacrifice, and humiliation
and helplessness of defeat had been allotted
to them as their share, while the people of
the north had reaped the rich results of a
victorious war and had embodied and guar
anteed them in the very life and constitution
of the nation. The institutions of the south
had been scattered and destroyed, her in
dustries had been disorganized, every foot
of her fertile soil sterilized, by an oil-de
vouring taxation, her educational interests
waning and languishing, and her population
was so feeble in comparison with that of the
great union, that, with the south united,
black and white, it would be impotant to se
cure a single southern man or to defend a
single southern interest. It was therefore
absurd for a great people to apprehend that
the people of the sontu arrogated to them
selves tne ruling of the interests of the great
nation, there was no aspiration which they
had that was not bounded by the horizon of
the union. If they were united with the
democratic party it was not for the purpose
of sectional aggrandizement; it was not for
the purpose of reversing the policy of the
government; but it was because they ob
served an instinctive and imperative law of
self-preservation, ile qnonted from the re
ports of the Louisiana investigating com
mittees and from the president's annual
message, in which he acknowledged that the
people of south had had vile and oppressive
government to live under, lie asked how i
could be expected to find orderly, lawabid
ing communities whose governors were law
less felons, whose ministers were theives and
whose magistrates were scoundrels. This
race problem was not incapable of solution,
Two statesmen such as lord Derby and
earl Kussell would settle it in three davs.
The people of the south would be content
to withdraw from participation in the presi
dential election it they could do so, and Jet
the people of the north elect a president
but they could not impose ou themselves a
stated inactity. All that they wanted in
uniting with the democratic party was, not
to rule cabinets, not to dictate a policy, not
to control the interest of the country, but
they wanted a representative share of the
responsibilities and benefits of a common
govPrnment, according to measure of their
population and .race. Ihey wtre now co-
operating with the democratic party, under
a dire and inexorable necessity, and only in
me i ope oi geiung an aumiuiavrBuoii wini,
wou d not be unfriendly to them; that would
not feel it commissioned to
. .1 . :
They wanted to
-.---- l
ft an administration which, in nlaee of
force, of conquest, subjugation and domino-
i , j . j . . : i .
tion, would give amnesty and restoration to
the privileges of American citizenship; an
administration which would allow their
states the same rights other st , which
would allow theu equality of consideration,
equality of authority and jurisdiction over
their own affairs; exemption from domina-
tion of election by bayonets that would give
them local self-government, and their coun
trv would at last see the dawn of prosperi
ty. In all industrial enterprises of the north,
it would see a true southern reassurance of
real grand reconstruction of the south ; it
would see her rising from her confution and
distress, rejoicing in her newly acquired
liberty, free, great and prosperous; hr sons
and her daughters of every race happy in
her smile, and greeting this benignant re
public In the words of the inspired poet
"Thy gentleness has made thee great."
Loud applause. Mr. Lamar spoke about
two hours, his time having been extended on
motion of Mr. Garfield, and commanded
throughout his whole speech the close and
interested attention of the house. He is to
be replied to by Mi. Garfield, who obtained
the floor for that purpose.
The committee then rose, when Mr. Goode
called attention to the fact that he had been
reported as having applied for and obtained
indennite leave oi aosence.
On motion of Mr. Gordon the senate
amendments to the bill providing for the
sale of Osage ceded lands in Kansas to ac
tual settlers were non-concurred in and a
committee of confederence ordered.
In the house, on the third, a report
exonerating Mr. Knott from all culpability in
the matter of the Caldwell dispatch, was
presented, and made the text of a speech by
Mr. Knott, in which he rehearsed the whole
history of the Blaine investigation. Mr.
Frye replied to Mr. Knott speech. Mr.
Tinrd In making the motion to recommit I
do it with the object that the minority of the
committee may have an opportunity oi pre
senting to the house a minority report. The
report was accordingly recommiueu. jur.
Morrison, chairmm of the committee on
ways and means, reported a resolution pro
viding for the adjournment of congress on
Monday next, at 'twelve o'clock. Mr. Waddel
called for the yeas and nays, which were le
fused, and the resolution adopted. Mr. Ran
dall moved that the house go into committee
of the whole in order to allow Mr. Garficd
tv sn?ak in reply to Mr. Lamar, pending
W itch the house adjourned.
In the house, on the 5th, Mr. Bland s
silver bill was taken up on the regular or
der. The morning hour havin; expired, the
bill went over without action. Mr. Cox,
chairman of the committee on banking and
currency, reported a bill to repeal section 3
of the resumption act oi January it, 1010,
which direct the secretary of the treasury
to redeem in coin the legal tender note
then outstanding, and proposed to allow an
hour and a half for its discussion and a like
iime for the discussion ot a further bill
which he was d irected to report, providing
for a commission on the subject. He would
decline, however, to allow amendments to
be offered. He opened the argument by
declaring his belief that the fixing of a day
for resumption was a hopeless menace to
prosperity ; that it effected no good, and that
it was utterly useless for all practical pur
noses. The best business men of the coun
try hnd said so. and said so to his committee.
1'he bill which it was proposed to repeal in
part bad passed congress as a party neces
sity; under the whip and spur of the previ
ous question. Mr. Goode, of the banking
committee, advocated to repeal. Mr. Hew
itt a.sked Sir. Cox to let him oflcr as substi
tute hill nroviding for a committee on the
nbiect. After some time wasted in call of
house, Cox allowed Hewitt's proposition to
h offered as substitute, and. the previous
question was seconded without objection.
The vote was then taken on Hewitt's sub-
titnta which nrovides for a commission of
three senators, three members of the house,
and three experts to be selected by and as
sociated with senators and members to con
sider what measures are necessary and prac
ticable in order to bring about resumption
of specie payment, at the earliest possible
time consistent with due regard to the inter
ests of the country, nd to report bill em
bodying results of its investigation on or
before the 15th of December, 1876. Finally
the vote was announced, as yeas, 92; nays,
104; so the substitute was rejected. The
vote was then taken on the bill reported by
Mr. Cox, from the committee on banking
and currency.it was passed; yeas, 106;
nays, 83; as follows: Yeas Aiusworth,
Anderson, Atkins, Banning, Bland, Boone,
Bradford, Bright, Brown,, New York;
Brown of Kansas; CobelL Caldwell, of Ala
bama; Caldwell, of Tennessee; Campbell,
Cannon, Coson, Cate, Calfield, Clarke, of
k'.nfnrkv: Clarke, of Missouri; Clvmer,
Cochrane, Collins, Cook, Cox, Dibrell, Doug
las, Durham, Eden, Evans, Faulkner, Fel
ton, Finley, Forney, Fort, Franklin ; Gause,
tioode, ijoodin, uunter, iiarrisun,
Haymond, Henkle, Hereford, Holman,
Hooker, Hopkins House, Hubbell, Hunter,
Hurd, Jones, of Kentncky; Landers, of In
diana; Lone, Lawrence, Lewis, Lynde,
Mac-key, Marsh, McFarland, McMabon, Mil
liken. Mills. Morgan, Mutcbler, NeaJ, New,
Iayne, rhelps, Poppleton, Kandali, Kea,
Reagan, John Reillv, Eice, Kiddle, Robin
son, Savage, Sheakley, Singleton, Blemous,
VOL. XXII. NO. 6.
Smith, (Ga.), Southard, Springer, Stringer,
Stevenson, Stone, Thomas. Throckmorton.
Tucker, Turner, Van Voorhes, Vance, (Ohio)
waddeiJ, walker, ( a. Walsh, (ill.), Whit
rborne, Williams, (Ind.), Williams (Ala.)
Wilshire, Wilson, (West Va., Testes and
Young 10-V Nars Ahbott, Adams, Unghy,
Baglcv, J. -.u'W. Baker, Ballou, Banks,
JJell, mf .urV""'i fill., Uaswell, Chitten
den, Dailforii l:'vy, Dursnd, l'-aiues, F,ly,
Freeman, t rve, Uiiiwii, lisle. Hancock, liar-
cenburgh, Harris (.Mass.), Henderson, Hew
itt, (N. Y.) Hoar, Hoge, Hymen, Joyce, Kas-
sod, Kehr, Kimball, Lamar, Laphutn, Levy,
Lynch, MacDougall, McCrary, Meade, Met
calfe, Wilier, Aicnroe, Jlomcon, "sash, "nor-
ton, O'Brien, Odell, O'Neill, Pucker, Page,
Pierce, Piper, Piatt, Potter, Powell, Pratt,
Rainey, lions. Rusk, Sampson, Schleicher,
Sinnickson, Smalls, Smith, (Pa.), Stowcll,
Thompson, Thornburg, Townsend, (Pa.),
Tufts, Wait, Walter (New If ampshire), White.
Whiting, A. h. W illiams, of Michigan, w ti
lls, Wilson, of Iowa, and Woodburn 83. Mr.
Cox then reported a bill for the commission
of three senators, three representntiven and
three experts to inquire, first into the change
that has taken place in relation to the value
of gold and silver, the cause thereof, whether
permanent or otherwise, the effect thereof in
trade, commerce, fin mice and the productive
interests of the countrv, and on thestnndard
of value in this and foreign countries,
Second, into the policy of the restoration of
a double standard in this country, nud if re
stored, what the legal relation between the
Iva "i't no ullrA. nti.l rr..l.l ulinll I. a -Tlil.l
. . . t ' r .1. IT -
iuio trie (iiit'suoii oi uic policy oi coiuiiiuing
legal tender notes concurrently with the me
tallic standard, and the ellect Uierof in the
labor, industry and wealth of the country,
r onrth, into the best manner of providing
for facilitating restitniition of specie payment,
the commission to report on or before the
lath dav of Januarv, IHi 7.
An hour and a half debate took place.
turning chiefly on the question whether the
bill demonetizing silver was or was not passed
through the house surreptitiously and with
out reading, the affirmative being held bv
JJIand, Holman and r ort, and the negative
by Kasson, of Iowa. Finally the question
was taken and the bill passed. The report
of the conference committee on the bill for
the sale of Osage lands in Kansas to actual
settlers was made by Mr. Goodin and agreed
to, and the house adjourned.
Jn the house, on tne 7th, there were
bet few bills introduced under call of states,
but a resolution was offered by Mr. Douglass
of Virginia allowing committees of investi
gation to report at any time during the pres
ent session, this was resisted by the republi
cans, who resorted to the plan of refraining
from voting, thus revealing apparent absence
of quorum and preventing the transaction of
any business. After some time was wasted
Mr. Cox suggested a compromise in the way
of two days' notice of reports being given.
Mr. Hale, who had been leading the opposi
tion, assented to the suggestion, with the un
derstanding that two days should be given
by a majority ef a committee to the minor
ity, so both reports wonld be made together.
and go to the country simultaneously. After
much discussion, a compromise was eflected
n the adoption of a resolution ottered by Mr.
Cox. The house then adjourned, after re
fusing leave of absence to some twenty mem
bers who had applied lor it.
TILDEN AXD HENDRICKS.
Opinion o f the Itfeir York Pmi on the
Eettm mf Amptaar-J
THE TRIBUNE.
The Tribune in a leader says of the
letters of acceptance of lilnen ana Hen-
dricks: "To say that there is nothing in
either of them taken separately, or in
Wh nf ih.m ,-- ,l1A
I ienfeul 01 UM iara w irt-are
l i c a. i :i a i a.
them, IS DUt to anticipate tne tua-ment
th'
I of the reader. Neither of the candi-
I , . .
dates have contributed anything; specially
new to the political situation, or thrown
any new light on the issues already do-
nucu. M iic name phih i hi atiomer edi
torial says: "Reviewing the letters, of
Mr. Hendrick's letter, it is hardly nece
sary to sav more than that it is all that
governor Tilden's is not a very bitter,
narrow, offensive, and partisan docu
ment." The Herald says: "The letters are dis
creet and able document. If Gov. Til
den's friends can inspire the country with
the belief in his power to carry out his
hedges without any peril to the achieve
ment of the war from the advent of the
new party.the desire for'achance isso wide
spread that his canvass may be a winning
one. if, on the other hand, it "is leareu
that the end will be leaping Niagara,
then, not all the cenius and skill of a
letter of acceptance will overthrow
the strongly seated power of republican
ism."
The Times thus concludes an article :
" Nothing could more forcibly illustrate
the barrenness, the timnlity, and, the
inborn craftiness of Mr. Tilden than the
shuffling and delay which have attended
the ushering into the world ot this
abridgment of last January's mes
sage. It ia absurd to suppose
that men ot cultivated intelligence and
moral sense can lie the victims of
such a charlatan as Mr. Tilden shows
himself to lie by his treatment of ques
tions so vital that on the right solution of
them the continued existence of our gov
ernment in its present form not improb
ably depends."
The Bun says : " Gov. Tilden's letter
of acceptance is the strongest, clearest,
ablest, most statesmanlike, most sugges
tive and most satisfactory political docu
ment that has been laid before the pub
lic within a long period ol lime. Gov.
Ilendrick s letter! sustains the principal
position of Gov. Tilden, and leads us to
believe they are thoroughly in co-operation
respecting all the great measures of
public policy now belorc tne country.
THE WORLD
ar-r It . 1 a f ii . fli
says: " upon ail oiner points oi tne r-u
Louis platiorm, tnese letters prove mat
the statesmen who have lieen selected to
give its doctrines ellect, understand
themselves thoroughly: agree with each
other, and with the party thoroughly,
and when sent as they win lie to
Washington, by the votes of the A men-
can people, in Novemlier next, to do
that great work, will do it thoroughly."
THE F.VENIN'O pORT
says: uovernor inuen s letter or ac
ceptance is an ample and careful docu
ment, showing that familiarity with his
subject, which comes of patient study
and large experience. The ends vhicli
governor Tilden keeps in view will be
everywhere agreed to, the differences
will occur upon the means by which he
proposes to secure these ends, the coun
try has been studying ine democratic
party since the political revolution in
states in 1874, put it partly in to ower.
The course of the party Jias not been
such as to encourage any more 'aith in
it than the country has had or the last
sixteen years. It is doubtful whether
Gov. Hendricks, in attempting to satisfy
both hard and soft money men, has not
Hatisfied either. His letter avows a
hearty desire to return to specie pay-
ments. The solt money men, ii tney are
bonest. cannot be satisfied with this. It
favors an unconditional repeal of the re
sumption pledge. Hard money men
ought not to be satisfied with this. Gov.
Hendricks is opposed to artificial meas
ures for the contraction of the currency,
but Gov. Tilden in his letter seems in
clined to contraction. Gov. Hendricks
views of civil service are just. We may
doubt whether the democrats will do
what Gov. Hendricks advi-ed them to
do, but the advice is not the less sound
for that reason."
The Express says the letter of Tilden
is marked with all the peculiarities of
the man. It ia instructive, terse, timely
and complete, full ot faith and hope as
to the capabilities of the country and
people to be brought out of their present
slough of despond. The letter of Gov.
Hendricks generalizes where Gv. Tilden
condenses upon the enlargement of the
topics discussed. It is folly, or worse,
to attempt to point out any great differ
ence ef opinion between the two men.
As to the conclusions in both letters,
there is the plainest honesty of purpose,
the most sincere love of country, arid a
hcartftdt desire to save the country from
further infliction of'evil.
FACTS ASD 'FAKCIJ&
" YotJ must Lave li ved here a long time, "
aid a traveling Englishman to an Oregon
lio??CT-' "Ye" r, 1 have. Do you see
tha mornta.inT WeH, when I came here
that mountaA w& bole in the ground.'.
The empress ZuFenie. th duke of
Nassau, the grand due of Mecklenburg
Schwerin. aupen Victm?! the king of
Sweden, the grand duke Alt", and king
Lomba s son are said to own ro" csiaio
in the city of New York.
A MiyieTKR trarelingthrough tbew"e
I some years ago asked an old lady on
whom he sailed what she thought of the
doctrine of total depravity. "Oh," she
replied, " I think it isagood doctrine, if
the people wouia oniy acs up to it.
Fond father to visitor: " Mv boy.
knows a lot of scripture. Now. I-rrv,
what did God make on the first day?"
l father points up
ward in the direction of the chandelier.
I know, pa ; he made gas I
If vour name is John Jacob Smith
and vou tro to an eastern college they im
mediately put you down in Ibe catalogue
as Johnerent Iambus friuithiorium. Is
it a wonder that a young man feels stuck
up under such circ umstances 7
OriLT. though it may attain temporal
splendor can never confer real liappinews.
The evidence consequence of our crime
long survive their commission, and like
the ghosts of the murdered, forever haunt
the steps of the malefactor. Walter
TnE spiritupliHl lecturer who noticed
a lady in deep mourning inning hit cie
parture from the hall, prophefied lietter
than he knew when he told hrr that tlm
spirit of her husband desired to commu
nicate with her. " I know it," said she,
he's waiting at the door.
A IVipton t aper remarks that the ef
fects of culture are alw-ivs prominent in
language. 1 his is iiotii-ciiMe when a Hus
ton girl jams her finger. Mie says:
"Aow!" (Viar.-e, ill-bred people say:
" Ouch ?" It is trifles that reveal the in
nate delicacy ofa human eoul.
Plato ssts that philosophy consoles a
man in all trials; but we would have
Jiked to see 1'lato chasing a lawn mower
aliout his front yard and trying to pro
duce a plca-'ing impression on the pretty
girl across the way about the time the
machine struck a stone and the nanaie
took him in the pit of tlio stomach.
M. Kenan, in bis new philosophical
dialogues declares that thought central
ized in tome superior man is the only end
ofnature. Humanity is a great trco
which drops its thousands of finall fruit;
it is necescarv that millions should suf
fer, work ami die in order that one great
man appear.
IT was a wnlowett miser woo, mier
composing a long e pitaph for his wife,
suppressed it altogether and said : " It's
too exi-eiisive, put on th- gravestone a
few tears." " Very well, replied tne
artist; Fay three tears, like tins . ! :
" Heavens, n I" I l-.ree tears, when i
have only two eyes ? Abt-urd ! 1 wo will
be plenty."
She was standing lv the counter when
phe thought of her money, and slipped
her hand into her poc kt to see if her
uirie was tale. It was not there, i-ho
oked hard at the cleik, and said:
" Very strange ?" Then she upsets all
the goods on the counter, while cold per
spiration broke out on the unfortunate
clerk. Next she summoned all the casii
boys, clerks, floor-walkers, inspectorsand
nronriptors. Then she sent for two po
licemen, and just as they arrived on the
spot, she discovered she was holding her
pocket-book tightly c lutched in her left
hand, and all the apology she made to
the unfortunate clerk was : " I knew it
was here, somewhere.
Mark Twain's description of thehap-
piest boy in the village : " Hucklelicrry
was always dressed in the castolT clothes
of full-grown men, and they were in Jcr
ennial bloom and fluttering with rags.
Ilia hat was a vast l u m, with a wide
crescent looped out of its brim ; his coat,
when he wore one, hung nearly to his
heels, and had the rearward buttons far
down the bac k ; but one suspender sup
ported his trousers; the Inngeil legs
dragged in the dirt when not rolled up.
iluckleoerrv came aim vent at um own
freewill. He slept on doorstep in fino
weather, and in empty hogi-bends in wet;
he did not have to en to school or to
church, or call anv Is ing master, or olioy
anybody, he could go fishing or swim
mine when or where he c hose, and stay
as long as it suited him ; nobody forbade
him to fight ; he could sit up as late as
he pleased ; he was always the first Imy
that went barefoot in the spring nud the
last to resume leather in the fall; he
never had to wash, nor put on clean
clothes; he could swear wonderfully. In
a werd everything thnt goes to make l;f
precious that lwy had."
The champion it lie-hunter at the ex
hibition is n woman. Hie went into tho
Tunisian department of tho main build
ing and espied a may nificcnt mosaic,
representing a lion and his prey. Jt was
fashioned over two thousand years ag,
and formed a portion of the pavement id
a Carthaginian temple. Tins irrepressi
ble woman watched her chance and
gouged out several of the stones of
which the mosaic is composed. A po
liceman was summoned hy a bystander,
but the exhibitor van too tender-hearted
to apjcar against her, and she was dis
charged. It is charity to Ktipis.se that
relic-hu titers are the irrcs-ionsilile victim
of a morbid impulse; but this woman
was a fit subject lor retributive justice.
If she had been led away by the ear and
one of her eyes bad Is-en c hiselod out, or
an eye-tooth wrenched out of her mouth,
it would have Uen brutal and cold
blooded, but not unjust. Vandalism
that would deface a mosaic dedicated to
Diana ought to be made odious.
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Self-Saciillciug.
This isatruestot y. The hnppyjcircum
slance oceured on last Sunday evening.
He escorted her to and from church, and
upon ariving at her home their disc us
sion of the sermon and theextremo heat
suggested an invitation, readily accepted
by Charles, that they step into the house
and partake of a cooling glass of lem
onade. Hie led him tothe dining-rcsnn,
.n,l l,or found liuiiL'Iitv brother 1'cn,
about toHquecze the last lemon in the
house for his own individual benefit!
Calling him aside she induced lien., by
means of sundry threatts and promises,
to dissec t that lemon and make Charlie
and herself a glass. A sell-sacrificing
thought struck ker I "No, lien.," faid
she 'put the juice of the whole lemon
into ( Iharlie' t'lass and bring me a glass
of water. He won't imi ice it there is
no light in the parlor!"
lien was making one good strong lem
onade, as directed, whi n Charlie quietly
slipi-ed out and remarked : ' I say, lien !
put the juice of the entire lemon in your
iister's glass and bring me some ice water
there is no light in the parlor and she
won't notice it 1"
lien.'s forte is in ols-ving orders
With a merry twinkle in his eye he
drank the lemonade, then carried them
each a glass of water, which they drank
with much apparent relish, asking each
other, betwecm ait s, "if it was sweet
enough!" And naughty brother lien.,
with the taste of that lemonade in his
mouth, stcssl out in tbe hall and laughed
till his sides ached, to hear them assure
each other that it was "just right! so
palatable and so refreshing!"
The Kesi'krkction Plant. It is an
annual, indigenous to the Egyptian
deserts. When full grown it contract
rigid branches into a round ball, and is
then tossed alsiut by the winds. hen
it alights in water or on damp ground
the branches relax and oi.cn out, as if Us
life was renewed henc-e its name of Ites
urrection Want. One of the superstitious
tales told about it is that it first ;Jnie.l
on Christinas eve to salute the birth of
the redeemer, and paid homage to II .
resurrection by remaining P"ded t II
Faster Theses plants may be Imught In
alirys'tate, amf will thus remain anv
length ot time, but will always expand
when placed in a saucer of water.
Surma kine Lamth S.me interesting
experiments have lately It-en made in
Cork harbor with tho Denavrouz" sub
marine lamp. While at the botton of
the harlx.r a diver lighted the lamp and
read from a newspaper an account of an
examination of the prow of the Iron
Duke, which was distinctly heard at the
rurface by means of a speaking tul.