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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1871-10-25

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1871-10-25

Dropsy, Stoppage Of Water, Incontinence Of Urine
Disease Albrminnria, and In all cases whers
tnere are prick dust deposits the il thick
cloudy, mixed with substances Ike the white OF ~
egg, or threads Ike white silk, there IL morbid
DARK. bilious appearance, and white bone-dust Dc
non when passing water, and pain In the mail q
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1871-10-25

THE NEW FRENCH CANDY MAUFACTORY
MR.. A. CAVAEARD.
The celebrated French Candy manufacturer, keeps
always on hand q large stock Of the finest fresh
French Candies at New ork wholesale prices No
$40 sth street, between Penna avenue and d street
northwest. Dealers will do well BY giving him
call auas 9lvs
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1871-05-09
Pensions TO Il,e Soldiers and Sail
OrS OF lS12.

The new law giving pensions, to GER
tain soldiers and sailors of the War of
1872 is now in tull force, and app!ica
tions under it are arriving in large num-
bers daily at the Pension Office. Many
of these will be thrown out, because
they are not covered by the law, while
others are deficient in proof The law
provides pensions for all the surviving
officers and enlisted and drafted mer,
including militia and volunteers, Of the
military and naval service, who served
sixty days in the War of 1872 and were
honorably discharged, and to such other
officers and soldiers as may. have been
personally named in any resolution of
Congress for any specific service in that
war, and who at no time gave aid and
comfort to the late rebellion, and the
surviving widows Of such officers and
soldiers and drafted men, provided that
such widow shall have been married pri-
or to the treaty of peace which termina-
ted the war, and shall not have lemar-
ried., 5,
The law does not apply to any person
who is receiving q pension at the rate OF
more or less than eight dollars except
for the difference between the pension
to be received and the eight dollars now
received per month. The rate under
this law is eight dollars per month fol
life. The loss of certificate Of dis
charge will not deprive the applicants OF
the benefit of this law, for other proof
Of services may be taken
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1871-05-09
Grant in Wasl,ington.

According to the Capital, the WASH
ington paper of Dom Piatt and George
Alfred Townsend, President Grant don't
stand much higher on the Potomac, out
side o. those who enjoy favors and hope
for favors, than he did when he peddled
wood in st. Louis or bought hides and
sold leather in Galera. On this point,
the Capital vouches for it as a fact that
'.for the first time in the history Of our
national capital the President now pass.
cs to and fro almost unnoticed, and 1t is
singular to meet him walking along our
streets in that awkward way of his,with-
ont securing look even, and certainly
not comment. From behind the ever
lasting cigar, one sees the dull, glazed
look of common, uneXpressive face,
that reminds many of Louis Napoleon
when that noted humbug was playing
his little game o: Emperor
"Not long since an enthusiastic sup
porter of the President, seeing the in
justice of this neglect, rose between the
acts of play at Walls Opera House,
and proposed in a loud voice,to crowd
ed audience, that three cheers should be
given General Grant, who was seated
in one of the boxes. A dead silence
followed the loud proposition. Nothing
daunted, the cherry fellow renewed in a
yet more earnest manner his proposition
to cheer the President. No one respon-
ded, and to the. third appeal, after q
pause of few seconds, laugh rippled
over the house as if the suggestion were
somewhat ludicrous. And so it was
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. .Eagiana1nsrruirtted.

The British Parliament not long since
imposed tax upon friction matches =
The indignation of the people vented
itself through public meetings through
out the United Kingdom of Great Brit
ain and ireland. AS an offset to the in
t1uence exerted by these me ,tings, the
Chancellor of the Excheqner telegraph
ed to Washington. Here are the dis
patches:
The Chancellor of the Exchequer at London
to Revenue Commissioner at Washington:
"Plcasc cable Immediately how tax on
friction matches works. Did imposition
derange manufacture or check consump-
ton? What yield this ycar?"
General PLEAsANroN made the follow
ing reply;
Fright Hon. Robert Lowe, Chancellor of the
Exchcquer, London
Tax on friction matches works well.
Manufacture not tleranged nor consump-
ton checked Yield 100000 per an
nun, A. PLEAsANToN, Com'r.
This is an instructive commentary
the British Government becoming pu-
pill in the art of oppressive taxation from
the United States, and endeavoring. TO
reconcile its people to an odious and
abominous tax, because, forsooth, it is
resortei to by this Government.
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Strong words.

Dana, the editor of the New York
Sun, was at one time editor of the New
York Tribune, and Assistant Secretary
Of War under Lincoln. He is yet Rad
ical, but opposed to Grants renomina-
ton. He says: 4
".rhc masses of the Republican party
win never consent to the denomination
of a man who has bestowed high offices
for, costly gifts, has thrust all his own
and his wne's relations, down to third
and fourth cousins, into responsible and
important places, and has allowed his
foolish old father to trade in Federal
offices at $500 apiece. Still less will
they allow the man to be their candidate
who, without authority of law, has dar-
ed to take part in. the civil war in San
Domingo, and who has struck down the
oldest and best beloved Republican Sen
ator because he would not become a par
ty to the usurpation and the swindle."
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A miraculous Escape.

The Springfield (Mass.) Republican
tells this story:
While train on the Boston and Al
bany Railroad was running at speed of
twenty-five miles an hour the other day,
on short curve between Richmond and
State Line, the engineer noticed a man
walking on the track some distance
ahead of the train. He blew the whistle
and rang the bell, but did not seem to
attract his attention. He then made every
endeavor 10 stop the train, but all to no
avail. The cow catcher struck the man
and threw him in front of the engine
against the boiler, and there he remained
until the engineer stopped the locomotive
when the stranger" jumped off and put
his fingers to his nose as if to say, "You
didn't kill me, did yep The engineer
and fireman took il for granted that the
man was dead. and their surprise when
they saw him making up faces at them
can be imagined. Il was miraculous
escape; not once in a thousand times
VIC uld person, escape death under SIM
liar circumstances &
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Letting on a Batch of Radical
Thieves,

The general order of March 25,of the
Secretary of the Navy, reviewing the de-
.cision of the court-martial in the case of
@Paymaster LOCKWOOD and others, for
scandalous conduct and cmbezzlemcnt,
set aside The sentence, SO far as it reIa-
ted to fine and Imprisonment, because
there is no law for the execution of such
sentence, LOCKWOOD, who defrauded
the Government out of about forty
thousand dollars, therefore is set at lit.
erty, being merely dismissed from the
service. The same course is pursued in
thec of Paymasters GERARD, MARCY
and WASHINGTON. each of whom were
sentenced to both fine aud Imprisonment.
These paymasters were the cause of the
loss to the Government by em5ezzle-
ment or other misdemeanors, of about
five million dollars. The Navy Depart
ment has taken no steps to bring the
cases before the civil tribnnals,nor has it
even claimed the paltry bonds which the
officers were required to give under the
law. The officers were simply dismissed
from tie service
Perhaps twas not to the interest of
This Administration to do otherwise.
9'-How do the people relish paying the
bills of Radical thieves?
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Beechcr ON ConfessiDg sins.

If man lies think he ought to con-
fess it, but it is not expcGient to tell all
our sins openly. Nothing is more dis
agreeable to me than to hear of a mans s
ailments. If a person has sbre, don't
want to hear about it. I don't. care to
be regaled with the states eofia mans
stomach or liver. / have ills enough of
my own. Yet some people will get to-
gether and Groom and Groom and talk
about each others sickness. and about
corpses, and how many they have laid
out, and have regular grave yard ban
quet. 1t is tile same with. spiritual all
ments: There are times when man
should make confessions ofspeeific sins.
If man has been carrying. on the, liq-
uor business,and is converted, tits quite
proper that he should confess that he
has been doing the deyils work. If he
has been engaged in. any wickedness that
has been open to the whole, community,
his repentance should, be open. 1t is
not necessary to give an inventory OF
all ones faults, but 1t we say anything
It is better to be specific than generic.
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How South Carolina Has Been
- " o. PilIaEed.

The following may be taken as sam
pie of the robbery-for really no milder
term can be applied to ito which the
inhabitants of South Carolina have been
subjected, ,and which is part of the abuse
which has led to the calling of the tax
payers convention next month. The
Assembly chamber was to be fitted up,
and it was done in the following man.
ner: A clock at the entrance worth 800
is charged at S4S5 /; another inside, worth
$75, is charged at $475; for each of the
twenty committee rooms,a mirror cheap
ly mounted was purchased, charged at
1855, not worth half the money; Gov.
Scott has refused TO allow them to be
unracked. An exceedingly plain chan
delier of 100 burners, which would be
dear at 81, 900, is charged at $4,000 =
The speaker sits in front of curtain
charged at 81, 1865. draped from cor.
nice charged at 1866. Ten dozen spit.
toons are invoiced at S96 per dozen
they were so thick on the floor that for
| ty were broken during the session =
Each committee room had an elegant
china enamelled toilet set, at S65 each
But the total is most astounding-S92,
SEQ, Of which it is safe to say that less
than S9250 would have furnished the
Assembly room of a prostratcd State
acceptably.
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T L ID Il i r 8

The island of Madeira has six hum
dred species of beetles.
The Philadelphia Tract Society dis
tributed S0,59S tracts in April.
California is extensively trying the
cultivation of the ramie plant.
Philadelphia has one hundred and
eighty-four miles of horse railway.
The. new Executive mansion at Jeffer-
son City, Missouri, will cost $4,000.
Harrisburg, Pa, has fifty schools,
nearly all of which are conducted by fe-
males.
Silver-smelting furnaces will soon be
added to the list of Pittsburg industries
New York and Philadelphia dealers
have imported $4,000 canary birds al.
ready this season.
"How old was John when he died p
is the all-important question among New
York theologians. 1a4
The Ohio State Journal thinks the
Republicans will be able to carry the
State this year, if all the candidates fol
Governor vote.
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E U R O P E
versa,l,ls.. ualIy Gaining Ground

PARIS, May 1-via LONDON, May a.
The Reveil, this evening, announces that
the Versaillists have attacked Fort Issy
and were repulsed. Workmcn. who were
sent from Paris last night. had unspiked
the guns in the fort, which was thereby
enabled to make an effective resistance.
The hombardment of Forts Vanvres
and Montrouge is continued There
was an engagement before Hautes Bruy-
eres to day, and general action is ex-
pected this evening. The Versaillists
are daily gaining ground.
Another dispatch says the occupation
ofFort 1ssy by the Communists is again
contradicted, and it is said the fort is
entirely deserted.
A force Of $4,000 National Guards
has carried the Versaillist barricade in
the lower part of the village of Issy, af-
ter an engagement.
THE INsuRGEN ENTs HOLD FORT IssY.
PARIS, May 2.-Versaillists have at
no time occupied Fort D'Issy. After
its oesertion by its panic-stricken garri
son, volunteers raised by the Commune
issued from the city and not only reoc.
cupicd the Fort which they found empty,
but after hard fighting, and at great sac.
rifice of life, drove the enemy from the
trenches, carried one Of their barricades,
and regained possession of the Cemete.
ry D'Issy. They made an attempt to
retake Les Moulineanx, but failed losing
heavily in killed and wounded. Every
effort will be made to hold Fort D Issy
but should its capture appear inevitable,
it will be blown up.
LONDON, May 3-The Times special
from Paris says: efforts for concilia-
ton continue. Even the societies pro.
pose to hold monster peace meeting
on Sunday.
"The slaughter in the affair at Ca.
mart was terrible. The fighting was lit
orally hand to hand, and fully three hun
dred Of the insurgents were killed by
the bayonet." r-i.
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Death From Excessive Rope
Jumping.
From the Akron Ohio Beacon

Ice 4s.s .r# E -+ ~. f=
From the Akron Ohio Beacon.l
BY notice elsewhere, it will be seen
that another death has occurred in our
city from excessive rope jumping, lit
tie daughter of James A Moody having
died on Monday evening from inham-
nation Of the bowls, brought on by over
indulgence in that exercise. While rope
Jumping may be a pleasurable and
healthful recreation, within reasonable
limits: the tendency to excess in the ex-
citement of the exercise should lead to
disuse of the practice entirely. In this
case we learn that on Thursday, in the
strife with her companions to see which
could jump the greatest number of times
without stopping, the deceased accom-
plishcd the feat something over three
hundred times, after which, feeling great
ly exhausted, she sat or laid down upon
the grass for considerable length of
time, probably taking cold by so doing.
The next morning, though complaining
to her companions of being sore and
lame, before entering school she made
one hundred and seventy consecutive
jumps more. About eleven o'clock she
was compelled 10 return home from
school, severe Inflammation of the bow
els rapidly developing itself, from which
she died three days thereafter, as above
announced ~ il
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Napoleon and Eugenie.

A correspondent writes from Eng
land 1t has become quite usual thing
with many Londoners to spend their
Sunday church hoars at Chiselhurst,
and between half past ten and eleven,
and one and half past one o'clock, every
Sunday, streams of people are to be seen
hanging about the line of way between
the Camden House and the little Roman
Catholic Chapel about half a mile off,
The worst of it is thai the crowds dis
play an amount of curiosity that is posi-
lively rude, and must be very annoying
to the Ex- Empress and her household.
70 keep strangers out of the chapel
which she attends, heavy charges are
made for admission, yet the curious can
not be kept out. 1t is curious to notice
the reaction which has set in with refer,
ence to the Emperor Napoleon; a ''res-
toration'' of the Empire may be nearer
than many Of US imagine. sja,. s,,
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Principal Masch4 4, 1869, s2,49l, ,s9s, 90
Paid under Grant, 223,0S3,67;
The Morgan Raid claims.

A clanse in the General Appropriation
Bia, before the Ohio Legislature, to pay
the claims Of citizens along the line OF
the JOHN MORGAN raid, for property Ia
ken and destroyed, not only by MORGAN
but by tue United States troops, was
stricken out and then The bin passed:
Pennsylvania has paid S50O,00O, claim
edeby the citizens of Chambersourg, fol
property destroyed by both armies.
The State of Indiana has eeinpensa-
ted hertitizens for property destroyed
by the MORGAN raiders, and has beer
fully reimbursed by the General Govern
ment.
In view of these facts the Legislature
Of Ohio should have enacted law fol
the, full adjustment Of all claims for de
struction of property by MoaGaN's mer
and the Government troops. Aside
from the action of other States. a law o
that nature should have been enacted.
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Radical Economy.

In the last two years the expenses of
Congress have increased a million dollars
over the two years previous to them. 1t
has cost $4,000 more to collect the
revenue from customs. The miscella-
neous expenses, including buildings, have
increased a million dollars. The United
States Court expenses have been 81 600
OOJ more than they were in 1868. The
miscellaneous expenses of the Interior
Department haze odranoed $500, ,000-
The expenses Of the Pension Depart
ment are S11 100000 more. Those OF
the Post-of1ice Department are SS00,o0O
in excess of what they were two years
ago. Such is Radical economy.
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A Curious scene in Court.

In the Criminal Court at Washington,
on the 2Sth ult., quite singular scene
occurred. Upon the occasion of the
sentence to death of murderer, feel.
ing reference to the mother and sister of
the condemned brought the wretched
man into state of audible weeping g,and,
as the Judge proceeded, he himself be-
came overcome, and, together with the
criminal and many of the spectators,
there was crying all around. Were
there none there TO weep for the mother
and sister of the murdered man? But
perhaps their grief had been assuaged
by the laps of time.
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General Grant as a Conversation
ll-.r. fsf ....-

A Lafayette lind. correspondent of
the Commercial, in giving an account of
the reception of General Grant at the
home of Congressman Orth, who resides
in that city, says: 81 was amused with
one lady, who failed utterly to engage
him in conversation. She is brilliant
talker, and is not easily silenced. but she
could not get rid Of his monosyllabic
replies. 'Oh! she exclaimed, with in
tense modification, 'if could only talk
horse, would bring him out =" Such
is lady's idea of the refinement and
intelligence of the President of the Uni
ted States.
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GENERAL SHERMAN.
He DOnI Think Much or Congress
slOnal ReCOnstruction,

General Sherman attended a supper
given in bis honor by club of army of:
ficers in, New Orleans one night last
week and, in response to repeated and
urgent calls, spoke substantially as fol-
lows:
GENERAL sHERMAN'S SPEECH.
/ believe this Government will keep
on growing until it spreads itself over
the entire American continent, but in
order to gain this much desired end and
to maintain ourselves as a free and in
dependent republic,we have got to show
MORE CHARITY TOWARDS EACH OTHER.
1t has been remarked by some gentle
man who has preceded me, that it was
generally conceded by the soldiers of
both armies at the close of the late civil
war, that if the questions and all mat
tiers Of the settlement of the differences
between the North and South. were left
to the armies,it would be settled at once,
and everything would become quiet and
orderly. | so believed, and before sign.
ing the agreement with General Joe
Johnston, called together all the Gen
erals under my command, and without
a dissenting voice they agreed with me.
I believed they surrendered in good
faith, and would have lived up to the
very letter of the agreement, and in my
opinion if there had been
NO RECONSTRUCTION ACTS OF CONGRESS
and the armies been left at the time to
settle all questions of difference between
the different sections Of the country, the
people would have at once become quiet
and peaceahle. probably have as good
means of information as most persons
in regard to what is called
THE KU-KLUX,
and am perfectly satisfied that the thing
is over estimated and if the Ku-Klux
bills were kept out of Congress, and the
army kept at their Legitimate duties, there
are enough good and true men in all the
Southern State to put down all Ku-Klux
or other bands of marauders.
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syThe Overland Monthly runs on

:. ESThe Overland Monthly runs on
in this unfeeling style: "a baby is not
pretty-your pardon, but it certainly is
not, as shall put you in the way of
proving. Magnify your naked innocent
as many diameters as may be necessary
to bring her up to the stature of the
woman--whom, of course, We will sup,
pose to be chiseled in marble-or, say
the Venus de Medici. Now look at them
both together. By the aid of certain
ingenious apparatus, have made this,
or at least, practically similar, expert
ment, and nothing could induce me to
repeat it. The eliecs is appalling! The
babe appears frightful monster; a
great, lubberly, hideous deformity, with
the look of an ediot From this 1 judge
that baby is tolerahle only by reason
of its minuteness-like aspidcr."
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Ey1he New York Ecening Post
(Republicap) says: "The San Domingo
scheme, with the unconstitutional meas
ures by which it has been promoted; the
Ku Klux legislation, and the neglect OF
revenue reform, are political errors and
National misfortunes." 4s
All the work of the Radical majority
in Congress. The People will rebuke
Raeicalism at the Polls the coming Fall.
Bayonets won't avail them against the
determined will of an outraged and
wronged People.