Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1869-04-02

Iowa Is out of debt, and has balance
Of $629, 600, cash, on hand. Good fer
IOWal
The Pennsylvania Legislature h.ss
ratified the Constitutional Amendment.
The Ku KIux Legislature of ken
tucky, has refused BY a large major y
to pass bill encouraging emigTati. a
to that State.
The Cincinnati Enquirer thinks that
if the members of the Democratic Leg
islature "cannot attend TO their dut cs
they had better adjourn and go home" 8"
These are our sentiments, exactly.
General N. b. Forrest, of Fort Pill "
infamy, has expressed "a wish to strep,.Ia-
ulate'' the Southern States with FRI sh
importatiOns OF negroes from Africa
In some of the Democratic distri~ts
in Indiana there are sensible Democrat
ic candidates for the legislature, who
have the Independence TO announce that
they will not, if elected, resign 10 pre-
vent the ratification of the Fifi cen b
Constitutional Amendment.
John Browns soul is evidently
ssmarehing on.'' We have daily evil
dences that the prejudice existiF G
against the coloFed man is rapidly
fading away. The Labor Union of
Salem, Columbiana county, at a recent
meeting, unanimously adopted the !ul-
lowing resolution
ResOEOed, That suffrage in the choice
Of Lawmakers is one of the ''inalienq-
BILE rights" Of human beings; that il is
futile to attempt any discrimination in
the exercise of that right ON account of
the skin; that we welcome all 10 equ Il
rights and honest chances in the strIig-
grie for life against the political wolvrs
that prey upon human liberty, and that
we cordially invite all to join US in o r
efforts to break the clutch of usury fr IN
our throats-
The New York Tribune very pert.
uentlv observes For months and years
we have been aimlessly paying inter 81
on from sixty to a hundred millions IF
debt that might as easily as not have
been bought up at the current rates and
the gold WhereWith to do it lay all the
while idle in the vaults of the Trea<-
ury. The quadruple folly of this pro-
cedure cost us the interest on debt that
might have been stopped, the interest
on money kept idle that we wasted, the
profit we might have made by buying
in our bonds at their current selling
rates and the immense impetus we
might have given the Public Credit by
showing that the bonds were actually
getting scarcer, and that we were MAX
ing haste to reduce the volume of our
debt. Now at last we have a Secretary
who comprehends that Government
business, just like that of individuals,
should be managed to the best advan-
tage on business principles
On Saturday last the U. S. Senate pas
sed bill continuing the educational
and collective departments of the
Freedmen's Bureau, through 1869.
The Secretary of the Treasury has
asked Congress- to authorize him to an
ticipate the payment of interest on the
public debt by using the surplus gold
in the Treasury for that purpose, and a
bill to that effect has already been put
upon its passage. 1t permits the
Secretery to anticipate the payment Of
interest for a period of one year, with a
rebate of six per cent. on the same.
Mr.. Boutwell, was not clear whether
this power already existed; hence his
request that it be explicitly granted.