The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1870-08-04

ce payments are 10 be Hode0FeioA
l&$f&s1s'' 11tU|
eat, drink and wear.
The Commissioner of the General Land
O6oe has received an application for = pat
ent for the Comfy and Gowell gold bearing
cement cliR in PlunA sqD Nplifosnia.
The area of De claim Is krytvo O. and one
tenth acres, the whole Of which is reported
to consist of quartz gravel, the lower portion
being held together by very hard cement,
resting on soA, yellow bed rock, having the |
appearance Of clay. The everlxi4g R,Yel
| FIJI fpthIIossAM4k}|
to ten feet. 1t is very hard when irst taken
out, hut after exposure to the action Of the |
atmosphere for one or two years it becomes !
decomposcd. The expenditure upon the |
claim is estimated at $500, 900. Specimens
of the cement or rocky matter have been
received and will be placed in the alcove of
the General Land Office cabinet allotted TO
California minerals.
z0rRd t& SEeas ofahe lew army hinE|
already evident in the disuse by the War
Department in its special and general orders
Of the brcvet rank of officers in their details
and assignments. This feature Is one equally
as disagreeable to army officers as any other
embraced in the provisions by the new Law,
rs many of the officers wear their brevet
vice, the abolition of which reduces many of
them in their ofiiciald designation from Briga-
dier Generals to Lieutenant Colnoels, Majors,
and Captains, while in some instances they
THE French Republicans of New York
passed some generally sensible resolutions
the other day! They expressed their SYM
pathys viii he 6tisna Of Rus wAo are %
posed to the war; ayowed their brstherhood
with workingmen of every nation, and de-
IN wars carried on By despots for
territorial asgEanilinanent o. lyaaaical inter-
est. Above all they protested against those
who, being French or Germans, seek to
divide the working clsses in America be-
cause of the passionate disputes of the des-
pots Of the old world. Upon the free soil of
the United States We are neither French nor
0ermaac, but citissps md vorknsnen.
The "late unpleasantness'' would appear
to have passed away from the peoples recol-
lections, judging from the fact that General
r. E. Lee is guest at Long Branch, and
that on the I'D inst, the Fifth Maryland
Rebel Regiment was entertained At Philadel-
phia, on its way to Cape' May, h syesl
regiments of Pennsylvania militia. The ex- j
rebels marched under the national banner {
and cheered Independence Hall as they
moved by it.
THE New York Mail chronicles the mar
rage at Portland, Maine, on the 18th, of {
Signor Brignoli and Mise McCulloch. The
Mail is mistaken as to the locality. They
we're married in Montreal on the day named.
Miss McCullOch is member of his opera
troupe, and the two played together on the
previous evening in the theatre at Montreal
It is to be hoped matrimony will improve
he temper of the groom.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Sandusky Re- ,
viaer, in taking up the cudgel in defence of
he kmous medical miracle worke5 Dr.J
Newton, gives remarkable fact. He says.
! boy who had never been able to walk with .
put crutcles, was cured bv Interpolation Of
hands in few minutes, and rent home a hum +
lnoa,siies, nent DEFY, saik;as, without c1utches,
md has done 50 ever since. That boy should
ry titles with Weston. 9
WITH the single exception Of "Let us
nave peace" We know of no other master
piece Of oratory which has been 50 ''1uelly" /
as Admiral Fisks !" Gone where 2
he woodbine twineth." 4 Southern re :
,orter in furnishing his account :" Of the
event execution at Richmond, Va, says: d
8 After hanging for four minutes, his soul q
eft its earthly tenement and went where the !
voodbipe twine4h."
THE books Of the Treasury Department &
how that the sexual receipts Of the govern I
nens for tie year ending Jsns 80, 1870, Z
we're sos, go, 600. TIE expesa amount :
d 10 s2940o00 900, showing On actual saw 4
ne, in round numbers, Of S1l6,0OO, 900. d
The expenses Of the, government for 1865 i
we're 81, e5O, 600, 900, and for 1866 over },
500, OOO, 900. l.
the national debt Of France is more than
light times greater than that Of Prussia. o
The debt Of Prussia may he represented, in Al
uund numbers, as 1926, O0O, 600, while that y
# France is as high a s., 767, 0oo, OoO.i The !,
Of the Prlssian government ia p
heaper than that Of any other government y
n Europe, proporticnately to the population E
md the service rendered.
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The Commissioner Of Indian Affairs is in E
eceipt Of reports from his officers in New il
Mexico, which show that while large num- =
,ers Of the old men, women and children Of .
he Apache Indians are being fed by the E
Department, the young men ere an "a de &
Ear-Iath or hunting.
The "rentes'' are the French funded debt, o
he holders of which are styled the "rentien." !.
The government issues no bonds, but accepts
oans from the people, entering them upon 81
Is ledger, and paying specified rate Of
interest.
THE Statistical Ofice Of Sweden publiah- !,
= report ON the last census Of that country,
showing that in two years the populafion, =
witch i 4, Ia Oe0 ssuh, decreased b. 2z.l
sol. Hitherto, since 1910, there has always
been an augmentation. b
The population of Berlin has increased, 1
between Let Of January and 30th Of June Of
the present year, partly through births and
partly through immigration By $1,000 sonk ]
This augmentation is unexampled in the his d
DRY Of the North German metropolis.