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THIS is the ohl,st Of the series. In its main
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Jy Rrvu- ham, Jc'r,y. sydney Smith. ami Lon!
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Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1870-02-24
The West.

Two Chicago citizens publish card in
the Tribune of that city on the 10th, claim
ing TO be the makers of the so-called Car
diff giant.
A contribution of $500 in gold came to
Springfield, ILL.,, on the 10th, from Nevada,
for the Lincoln monument.
The Colorado Council passed a woman's
suffrage bill on the 9th.
rhe Ohio Woman Suffrage Convention,
at Columbus, on the 10th, adopted me.
mortal to the Legislature that it take
steps to submit the question to the people.
Under a fair reading of the woman's
suffrage statute in Wyoming Territory, II
is said that colorcd women have the right
to vote, while, under the existing laws OF
the Territory, colored men have not
Isaac Levi, arrested at osgood, Ind, on
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1870-02-24
What Does Reason Saw

The little mongoose when bitten by deadly ser
pent resorts to certain plant eats Of it, and es'
capes the effect of the poison That is instinct.
Human beings on the other hand, must depend on
reason and experience in selecting the means Of
protecting health and life against unwhoesome
Influences Now, what does reason say on this VI
tai subjectf Does 1t not tell us that to invigorate
and purify the system is the best way to protect II
against the invisible poison which generates DIS
eases Surely 1t does. The next question is, whsl
guide shall we follow In choosing medicinal SAFE
guard! Reason replies let your monitor be expert
ence. Well, the experience of eighteen years com
prised in one unbroken series OF satisfactory tesu~
monials assures us that Hostetter's Stomach BIT
tiers possess strengthening, regulating and an
tiseptic properties which are not combined In lhe
same happy proportions in any other preparation
extant. This therefore is the antidote TO wmcn
reason bids resort when our health 1s imported
either by the malaria which produces epidemic dis.
orders, or by any other cause, whether inherent
and constitutional or connected with our habits, oc-
equations and pursuits
The venom of noxious reptile is scarcely more
subtle and dangerous than that which turks IN ioui
air and impure water. To escape the levers, OIL,
ious disorders, disturbances of the bowels ana
other serious maadies produced by these lnsaIu,
brious elements 1t is absolutely necessary that ne
stomach and all the secretive organs should De, SO
to speak, in robust condition. Upon the amounv
of resistance which the vital system can oppose 70
the deleteriouS influences that assail IT, the saie
CT the health depends and 1t IL because the GHEAi
VEGETABLE INvIGoRANT imparts energy ana resu
larity to the most important functions OF the ood!r
that il can be recommended and guaranteed dc I'LL
invaluable preventive medicine.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1870-02-24
The Legal.Tender Decision.

The United States Supreme Court has
decided that an act making mere promises
to pay so many dollars legal payment of
debts previously contracted, is not con-
sistent with the spirit of the Constitution,
and that it is prohibited by the Constitu-
ton. Debts, therefore, contracted pre-
vious to February 25th, 1862, are to be
paid in coin, whether coin was stipulated
or not; for Congress had no power to
make greenbacks legal tender for debts
created before the passage of the law by
which the legal tender quality of green
backs was established. The question
whether or not debts contracted since
February %, 1869, are also to be paid in
coin, is not settled by the present decision
of the court. OF those which originated
previous to the passage of the Legal
Tender act, and which are still unpaid, the
creditors may require payment in coin.
In cases where for such debts greenbacks
have been accepted in payment, creditors
cannot require an additional payment-as,
for instance, the difference of the value of
greenbacks at the time of the payment
and the real price of gold Reception of
payment liberates debtors entirely.-Mls-
souri, Republican.
The Supreme Court of the United States
has decided that legal-tender notes are not
a legal tender in the payment of debts
contracted prior to the 25th of February,
1862. That is the decision, and that is all
there is of it, and that decision Is now the
law of the land.
1t is but natural to inquire how far this
decision is likely TO embarrass the public
and affect the business of the country.
We do not regard it as of very great i'm
portance in any light. 1t places no man.
corporation, or municipality in any worse
condition than he would have been had
the Legal Tender act never been passed.
1t changes neither the letter nor spirit of
any contract. 1t will apply to State,
municipal, railroad, savings bank, and
other stocks, bonds, liabilities, and debts
con facted prior to 1862 and not since dis
charged. These have been greatly re-
duced during the last eight years, and re-
duced, too, by the payment of deprecated
currency for coin obligations. Except
Massachusetts, no State in the country
adhered to specie payments throughout
the war. Illinois has discharged half her
debt since 1862, but paid half that sum
(stcrling bonds in coin. The debt of all
the New England States, except Massa-
chusetts, in 1851, was less than $4,000,
which has since been paid; but these
States now owe war debts amounting to
perhaps $6,000,000 In 1861 New York
owed $34,00o,000 in coin, of which
S14,0O0,0O0 has been paid in paper.
New Jersey owed no old debt.
Pennsylvania has reduced her ante.war
debt to 100000. Ohio owes 81, OOO,.
900, Indiana about $2,O0e,O00, Michigan
81 100000 Maryland, Kentucky, Kansas,
Minnesota, and Iowa owe nothing, and
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1870-02-24

Wisconsin next to nothing. Missouri
owes perhaps $12,0O0000 of ante.war
debt. Including the ante.war debt of the
seeding States the whole debt of all the
States to which this decision can apnlv
will not exceed $100,000,000. For this
debt all these States received coin, and
the decision simply requires them to nav
coin in return on all that they have not
already discharged with paper. These
States have, during the last eight wears.
paid about $50,000,0 900 of their coin obi.
cations, and the interest on all of them.
in paper That payment stands good in
all cases where protest was not made, and
the decision merely prevents the avoiding
of original contracts They all stand pre-
cisely where they stood before. The rail.
road debts contracted prior to 1862 do
not exceed $100,000,0O0, and these, in
many instances, are subject to reductions
by the issue, sllce 1862, o. new bonds, in
renewal, or in exchange for outstanding
obligations. But even in this case, put.
ting it at the worst, the consideration of
all the debts was gold.
The savings banks, in 1862, owed Der.
haps $4,000 900; this they received in
coin, and perhaps nine-tenths of it they
have paid back to their depositors in de-
preciated paper There can be but little
commercial paper eight years old, and,
consequently, little to be effected by this
decision
The remaining cases are those of private
mortgages made before 1869. Those hav.
ing more than eight years to run will fall
due, and are to be paid in coin; but the
mortgagors have had no reason to com.
plain. For eight years they have paid
interest in paper instead of gold, and, at
most, could have had no expectation that
specie payments would be much longer
deferred. They can well afford to pay
the principal in coin now, and, consider
ing the value of the currency in which
they have paid the interest, the advantage
will still be on their side. Upon the
whole, the decision affects such a compare.
lively small proportion of the indebted
ness of the country that its effects will
hardly be felt. They are, in fact hardly
perceptible!in the quotations of the Stock
Exchange to-day. - Chicago Tribune,
Feb. r.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1870-02-24

FOSSIL wood has been found at Oak
land, Cal, 260 feet below the surface. The
San Francisco Alta says: THE artesian
auger was in this wood for a distance of
eight feet; but whether it was going
transversely through large tree Of that
diameter or not, is unknown. The wood
was probably deposited in water horizon.
tally but whether in deep or shallow
water cannot now be ascertained. The
water at the Golden Gate is 10 feet deep,
and the bottom is the solid rock, $50 feet
above the level Of this ancient tIee. Per
haps the outer ridge of the coast was
raised to its present elevation after the
tree had lived, died, and found its final
resting place where it still lies"
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1870-02-24
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