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the threshold of the old mansion again. AS it
has become the nursery of knaveS and convicts,
it should cease, until change Is effected, to be
a receptacle for conscious worth.
Truly have the BENEFITS been favored con-
Germ by the Government. They may well ex-
claim, when counting over their i-gotten gain,
of the Administration, as the stranger of the
old time exclaimed, on beholding the encamp-
ment of the people of God, " How goodly are
thy tents, o. Jacob, and thy tabernacles, OF
Israel" They will have basked in its rays to
an amount of patronage of something like
100000 unless they be Topped off by It with
a vengeance at once, in which case, the sum.
may be considerably diminished.
The Black Lettered LISTS far from complete
There are names, that we withhold for the pres
ent, that would extend alike its length and its
enormity. We shall have to tell of hireling
slaves of Bennett, who, as mere nominal bear
ers of dispatches, luxuriated abroad for months
on eight dollars per day, and their expenses
betrayed, when the service in which they were
engaged, if indeed service it was ought to
have been performed in as many weeks.
Jack Ketch may endeavor to frighten the
Departments into silence, as he did the other
day, when he called distinguished gentleman
IN the Treasury to account for divulging, as he
intimated, the secrets with reference to WykOh's
employment, but it will avail him nothing, even
if he succeeds in his purpose. The truth, where
there is guilt or wrong, will be certain to force
its way to light.
Has Wykoff been stopped in London, and
there dismissed? Has Grund been recalled
Has Monsieur Gabriel Fleuret, who, it is under
stood, was confirmed by Black Republican
votes, been removed? Let the President do
justice to himself, and to the party which re-
posed its confidence in him, by answering in
the affirmative.
We tell him emphaticaly that he has one of
two things to do: Either to break with the
BENEFITS, or break with the moral sentiment of
the Republic. This sentiment, in the majesty
of its resiStless power, is aroused and srousing
at the disgraceful barefaced outrages committed
upon it, and if it be not pscifed, it will make
itself heard In manner that will cause the
Administration officially to quake.
Let Mr.. Buchanan act upon the principle,
now that his eyes are opening, if not opened,
that the praise of the wicked is short" and
demonstrate to Jack Ketcb, and his co workers
in iniquity, that the joy Of the hypocrite is
but for moment" Then will his noble con-
stituency be prepared to accord to him ere UT
fer prompt resolution, and indulgence for de-
plorable mistakes After his return from his
delightful visit to Old Rip Van Wrinkle. let him,
in recommending the discharge of his important
duties, inform the benefciaries of the Black
Lettered List that the honor of the country i'm
peratively requires of him the immediate, utter
Reputation Of the Bennett concern-entire.
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Beecher on Coffee.

Henry Ward Beecher has g realizing
sense )" of what good coffee is. He writes
thus:
Breakfast is ready. A most useful
and sautary custom is that of break fast.
One may work with the hand without
breakfast, but not with the head-the ma
chine must be wound up. The blue must
be taken out of your spirits, and the gay
out of your eyes. A cup of coffee-real
coffee - home-browned, home-ground,
homemade, that comes to you as dark as
a hazel eye, but changes to golden
bronze as you temper it with cream, from
its birth, thick, tenderIy yellow, perfectly
sweet, neither lumpy nor frothing on the
Java; such cup of coffee is a match for
twenty devils. and will exercise them all.
Involuntarily one draws in his breath by the
nostrils. The fragrant SAVIOR fills his senses
with pleasure for no coffee can be good
in the mouth, that does not first send a
sweet Offering Of odor to the nostrils."
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Average for twenty-six years


These figures show that the movements of
the currency, az controlled by the banks of the
country, have been very Irregular not to say
spasmodic; but the most interesting feature of
the table is the exhibit which it makes of the
ratio existing between the currency and popu--
latiOn of the United States. 1t appears that in
1887, when the banks reached their highest de-
gree ofexpansion, the ratio of money to popu-
lation was 1866; in l843, it vas reduced TO
els, which is little more than one-third the
ratio of 1887. In 1851, it had again increased
10 1852 and on the first of January last, after
having sunk the year previous to ii Sc, it stood
at li.9l, which is twenty-five per cent above
the average for the tweRty-six years embraced
in the table.
The average of this ratio is employed bv the
committee TO indicate the normal condition or
natural volume Oft currency. 1T appears
they say in their report, "that the mean cur
rency furnished by the banks Of liz United
States for the twenty-six years embraced in the
table was l.95 to one Of population. To this
must be added the amount Of coin in actual
circulation, which ib generally estimated to
average about 81 t. erch inhabitant, making
together Sl4.92, or say Sij u che Of popula,
ton"
This relative amount is therefore regarded as
the quantity of money or currency that the
commerce Of tie country requires for its regu-
lar operations.
A table of q similar character with that
given above for the country at large is com
piled by the committee for the city of New
York, embracing a period of six years from
1854 to 1859, inclusive. 1t is as follows:
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the importance of some immediate action, we
respectfully request of your Excellency to con-
vene the Legislature at as early day as posi-
BILE, in order that this important matter may be
submitted to them, for the purpose of ehciting
such action as their wisdom will dictate.
DIR. J. w. Philips and G. Stokes, by invita-
ton, addressed the meeting, and called on the
good people of our State to meet the crisis
calmly and firmly.
DIR. Fl. G. Blackman offered the following:
Resolced, That should the Governor refuse
to call the Legislature together Immediately, the
good people of this State be and they are here
by requested to hold primary meetings, and ex
press their views on this all-important subject.
ResolUed, That the thanks of the meeting be
rendered to the gentlemen who have favored
us with addresses to-day.
Resoloed, That the Mississippidn and South
ron, at Jackson, and all the newspapers of the
State who feel willing, be requested to publish
the above. w. l.. BALFOUR, Chairman.
GEORGE Stokes, Secretary.
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WASHINGTON, D. G..
For the National Fra.
EV { N IN IN UBA,

am dwelling lar on a foreign shore
No longer strange Il seems;
a. soO,h, have ssea il all before,
la the wondrous land Of dreams.
fhe heavens above are clear and blue
The ieecy clouds sweep by,
And palms sre pencilled on the hue
ofthe ROSY evening sky.
fhe dark plumed head of the graceful palm,
And the eo"oa's waving crown,
LEM 10 the view al unknown charm,
As the trOpie sun goes down.
These verdsni, never-fadIng fields,
These evenings calm and bright,
And the treasures that kindly nature yields,
Seem made for pure delight
Yet ah. how fades the enchanted scene,
When, looking round, we scan
The heavy wrongs still wrought between
Man aud his fellow-msn.
These stars that glow in the vault OF blue
This sweet, reviging breeze
Guide onward many an evil crew,
And waft them DER the seas.
look the cleaning " Cross Of May
feel the freshening wind,
And tsiuk OF thousands on their way,
Leaving all hope behind
Here all in brotherhood should live,
Here wrong and outrage cease,
For all, with hghlest toll might thrive
On ihe generous earlhis increase
But many toll that few may rest
In cold and cheerless pride;
All, never deem their lives are blesI,
Who care for none beside
These wand'rings | would fain retrace,
Might e'er hope 10 see
Mans deeds and this fair dwelling-plsce
la kindlier harmony.
Il - II.
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WHAT ARE CONSOLS?

The shortest definition of the /" consols is to
e. cribe them as the consolidated debt of Eng
laid. This debt did not exist in the good old
times when Government, instead of borrowing,
extorted money from the Jews, and occasion
ally from people of its own faith. Charles
began the national debt of England, but it was
quietly wiped out when he was beheaded
Charles ii and James had the honor of Law
ing the foundations of permanent debt and
on the accession of William III, the debt was
+ e644, 1853. At his death, it was Els, $50, 499.
With some brief periods of decrease, the amount
was gradually swollen, until, at the close of the
wars in 1916, it was f840, ,49l.
Previous to this time the exchequers of
Great Britain and Ireland were kept separate.
certain portions of the public revenue arising
| in each kingdom being especially appropriated
to the discharge of the interest on its own
sdebts, and other peculiar purposes. But on the
9th OF January, 1876, the separate exchequers
were consolidated into one; and an act was at
the same time passed, consolidating certain por-
tons of the Joint revenue of Great Britain and
Ireland into one fund, hence called the conso-
iGated fund, and providing for its indiscrimin-
ate application to the payment of the public
debts, civil lists, and other specified expenses
OF both kingdoms.
Some portions of the revenue are not inclu-
ded in this fund but in 1888, of a total
income of e47,0OO,OOO, the consols absorbed
f44,OOO,O0O. Besides the consols, the debt of
England consists Of comparatively small
amount of 4" three per cents" Its total in 1854
had been decreased to G769,644, 249, but the
Crimean war has again swollen it to not less
than E8jO,OOOOOO.
From this statement, the anxiety with which
the quotations Of consols are watched is clearly
understood The Hpht thav - 40
enormous, that any increase of its amount de-
creases the value of that already existing. More
over, in times of financial distress, holders for
investment sell out their consols in order to
realize and the increased amount thrown on
the market again depreciates the quotations.
Hence it is that the consols are the monetary
barometer of ENGLAND Erchnnne
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CORRUPTION AT THE WHITE HOITSE-
DEMOCRATIC TESTIMONY.

The editor of the Washington Suites received
a splendid service of plate last winter, from the
Democracy Of Virginia. for his eminent services
to the party, and particularly for his successful
efforts in securing the nomination of John
Letcher as the candidate for Governor He is,
therefore, Democratic authority of the most IN
questionable kind, with Virginia as his en-
dorser
From the States OF June 9Th.
We have not hesitated, even at the risk of
incnrring the frowrs of the President to expose
this infamous concern to the Just indignation
Of the American people.
Never have we had occasion to deplore any
thing more, of public nature, than the be.
witehing influence which Bennett and his de.
graded mercenaries seem to exercise upon the
Executive of this great Republic.
We have heard it stated that the portals of
the White House are ever open to each and all
of Benefits underlings, while elevated gentle
men from distant parts of the Union have been
made to wait for days before they could obtain
a private interview, upon official business, with
Its iIustrious occupant. Spirits of departed
Presidents, can such things be, without causing
YOU to linger around your exalted place of
abode ON earth, Borrowing for its demoraiza-
toni
There was that virtue once in Rome" says
Cicero, " that a wicked citizen was held more
execrable than the deadliest foe." Could the
voices of Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Madi-
son, Monroe, John Quincy Adams, Jackson,
Harrison, Polk, and Taylor, be heard on earth,
they would doubtless remark, there was that
virtue once in America, that the Presidential
mansion would have considered it disreputable
TO the country to have admitted within its walls,
or social intercourse, the Jack Ketch of editors,
or any member of his polluted clique"
The peculiar relation of the Bennett concern
with the President has been heavy load for
the Democracy of Virginia to carry in the re-
cent contest. There is not an upright citizen
within the embraces of the slaveholding States
who does not feel deep humiliation that such
relation should exist. Hundreds of them re-
mark, that they are disinclined to ever cross
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AYERS sARsAPARILLA.

4 COMPOUND remedy, in which we have laborrI
"a produce the ehectual alternative that can b5
made. It's concentrated extract Of Para SarsapaTla
combined with other substances Of st greater altcTR
i've power a. TO aG rd an effective andoie for The
diseases Slrsaparila repued Il is believed
that such remedy ed ty hose who suhrr from
StrunOus complaints ana that one which will accom
pish their prove of immense service 10 this
large class OF uttctrd fellow. citzens How
petey this conuound will do n has treu proven nv V
pertinent many OF the worst cases 10 be found OF the
following complaints:
Scrofula and Scrofulous Complaints, Eruption. and
ErCpuve Diseases, Ulcers, Pmples, Bloiches, TumOrs
salt Rheun Scald Head ~ philis and Syphiilic Alice
tions, Mercurlal Disea e. Dropsy, Neuralgia OF Tic
speas Rose 81 AnihOny's Fire and indeed the whoLs
class Of complaints arising from npurity Blood
This compound will be found great promoter OF he slh
when taken in the spring, eXpel The foul humOTs which
fesier IN tie blood at that season of The year BY
timely expulsion of them, many ranking disorders
hppsd IN Inc bud Muuiudes can, BY the aid Of this
remedy spare themselves from the endurance Of fOui
erupons and uceTous sores through which the system
WAL strive 10 rd Itself OF cOrupuons not assisted 10 DO
this through The natural channels Of the body by
teratIye med Cleanse the viiizted blood when
ever you hnd MS impurities bursting through the skin Ia
pImpes, eTupuons, sores, cleanse il YOU md
ever IL Is iod ana your feelings VIII tell you when
Even where no paTcu lar disorder felt people enjoy
better health and live long Tor cleR sing blood
heep the blood healthy, and all Is WELL bat with this
pabuun of life dIsOI dered there be lasting health
sooueT or later, something 80 wrong and the gTes
machinery OF ne Is disordereo or overihrown
Sarsaparla has, and deserves much the reputation
accomplishing these ends. But the world has been
egregIously deceived by preparations OF IT, partly
The drug alone has all the virtue that claimed
for H. bot mort because many PREPARATIONS pretending
To be concentrated extract IT, but little OF The
virtue OF Sarsaparilla, or any thing else
During late years The public have been msled by large
bottles, pretending give quart Of Extract II SaTss
parld for dollar Most of these have been fIaU3s
upon the sick, for they only contain little II any.
SaTsapaTIlls but Oft curative proper les whatever
Hence bIlter and painful disappointment has followed
the use of the varous eX racts Of Sarsapada which
Hood the market, until the Itself Is Justly despsed
and has become synonymous with ImpOsItIsu and cheat
SIill call this cOBpOnd SarsapaTlla, and intend ~
supply such remedy shall rescue the from Tx
load OF obiOquy which rests upon IT. And think We
have ground believing has virtues which
reslsDe by The ordinary Ofthe II IL intended
10 In Oruer secure their complete eradcauou
from the system the remedy should be udciOusly skeI
according 10 directions Ihe boue.
Prepared by
DIR J. C. AVER & co
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lLsttey from a CieTgynGH.l

WardsborO, VI, May ~, tSJ?
take great pleasure in stating the wOnderUl eocs
"WHTcoMB's REMEDY FOR THE ASTHMA" on my vie.
She has suffered for years than my peH can de-
scribe with The spasmodIc form OF that tcrF'b dissse
consulted numerous physicians Of the h garet lrfy
to lille or no purpose. AS Often ten twelve umS
in wear she brop~h 10 the very gates dc ath
ouiTinx two three watchers sometimes, for
davs and nie hts sucG esson. At times, for hours
would seem every breath the last were
Obliged to open doors and windows mid winter and
resort every expedlent that affection could devise
keep her alive AT one time she " as so far gone hs
heard off, Whlcomb's Remedy ,n-i acted like a charm
il enabled her TO sleep quietly i'm few minutes and
nearly bToke up the disease. keep II constantly on
hand-and though has not cured her it has done
stationed here. shall be happy any inCui
ries respecting her ease and you Al liberty TO make
any OF The foregoing facts that will benefit the acI
ed. Yours, truly, KIMBALL'H ADLEN.
MFR BURNETT
Jonas Whiicomb's Remedy prepared only ~ 10
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New Yerk, by Hegeman Co.
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Washington, BY Marie Palmer
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Cincinnati, by ] Park
81 Louis by Henry Peues q Co
IouisviIle, Ky, by SuicIhe Hnghes
New Orleans. by Syme 4 ProVan
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Savsnnah by A. SOlonaEs Co
Ana nv all Druggists throughout the United Stsie
Canada.
One dollar per bottle.
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NEW WORK CITY BANKS.
The committee argue as follows ,

"By referring to the tables here presented,
and comparing the bank movement in this city
with that in the country at large, it will be seen
that the present expansion, like all others that
have occurred since the ere of the United
States Bank, originated here. 1t could not in
fact have originated elsewhere; for the position
of the banks here, at the centre of the COM
merce and finances Of the Union, gives them a
supremacy which, without any sfort of their
own, effectually controls the movement of ell
other banks in this country. The banks of this
city began to enlarge their discounts in Decen-
Der, 1857, just after their prostitution by the
panic of that year. They continued 10 move In
this direction with rapid strides until on the LIST
of January, 1852 they were found to be more
extended than they were at any time preceding
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NewbuFyporf, February 95 1 S

LttlfT I7onI a Lalryc ga Ntic6uTgp0II Mas
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CURTIS & POST,

DALTINORE, Md, Commiss sion Merchants for III
I'D sale OF Country Produce aud Merchandise generally
aud Wholesale Dealers in Cheese. and Fish Of AT h a
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OFFICE FOR PATENTS,
Washington, D. c. Aprii 1889
DEPARTMENT OF STATE
WdShiRqt0a. AH0uSk 1882

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liable To serious Inconvenience II unpFovded win
Authentic proof their national character Their nee
safeguard Is passport from this DpaT ment cerfyiHs
the bearer 10 be a cilIZen OF The United States
Persons VINO leave the country, expecting 20 obtsIb
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ment iuamuch ~ II Is the duty Of those agents
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Is sometimes difficult, II not mpraeucable 10 procure
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