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The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1871-03-28
THE LEGIsLATURE.

RICHMOND, March %, 1871.
Senate.
Lieutenant Governor Marye in the chair.
Prayer by Rev. Henry Wall.
PUBLIC FREE SCHOOLS.
Senate bill, No. 203, to amend and re-
enact an act entitled San act to establish
and maintain uniform system of public
free schools" approved July II, 1870,
with the amendment proposed by the
House of Delegates, was taken up and the
amendment agreed to.
GENERAL ELECTION.
House bill to amend and re.enact Sec
tious 50, 40 aud So of an act entitled an
act to provide for general election, ap-
proved May IL, 1870, as amended and re-
enacted by an act, approved July II,
1870, was passed.
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LETTER FROM J. III. sUBLETT & CO.,
Proprietors of the Spots,cood,
RICHMOND, VA, Dec. 20, 1870
MEssRs. HERRING, FABREL 4 SHERMAN-GLNrs: On
the morHing of the 25th Instant, were fortunate
enough to have one of your Herring's Patent Cham
pon safes, which fell into The cellar among burn
ing mass of ruins. After the fire. to our utmost sur
prise, found the contents consis ing of valuable
papers, money and some silverware, all in good
order. Had it not been for your Herring's Sc g we
would have lost everything.
j. nj. 9UBLE1r A Co
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Air
IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED
STATES for the Eastern District of Virginia.
In the matter of George I. Barbee bankrupt
In bankruptcy.
To Whom it May Concern Tho undersigned
John s. Fowler of Alexandria CO.. Va hereby gives
notice OF his appointment assignee of the tate Of
George T. Barbee, of Fauquer city, in said district
who.was, tho Goth day Of November 1870 adjudg6d
bankrupt upon his own petition by tho District
Court of said district.
Dated March IL, 1871.
NH l4Tusw JOHN s. FOWLER, Assignee
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HEREING,S
PATENT CHAMPION SAFEs,
The most reliable Protection from Fire now
known.
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IL IOHM0ND AND DANVILLE RAILROAD
~ CHANGE OF SCHED ULE.--0n and after JAM
UARY %, 1871,
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Senate bill for the funding and payment
Of the public debt latter having been post
poned twice, one hour each time,) came
up, aud was being discussed as We close.
Smyrna times., 1871-11-08

WHO ARE THE RICH MEN OF THE COUNTRY?
When g. w. Childs, of the Phila. Ledger,
went to Europe last summer, a banquet was
given him in New York city on the eve Of his
departure A letter-wr;ter thus refers to some
Of the guests
In these rooms were gathered a number of
men owning and controlling many millions of
dollars Each had built his colossal fortune
from the very smallest beginnings. One had
been hand on canal boat, who could now
hardly estimate his own rapidly-increasing
wealth. Another had became what is called
a merchant prince from lad in a village store.
Another whose capital is almost boundless,
habltually refers TO his early toll as a machin-
ist. There were publishers with their in
comes OF a hundred thousand dollars a year,
who began life a. poor printers bankers, who
had passed through poverty and misfortune to
Opulence; lawyers, who had grown to fame
and fortune fr',lucattt obscurity railroad
magnates, Legislators, :, and journalists, all the
product OF hard work at their start in life and
all of them abundently prosperous and happy
AS we looked through these rooms the fact
most patent was that which so much impressed
our English guest These men do not Ice
for themselves alone. They have not toiled
and accumulated TO establish great families
With more than enough for their own, and
evidently impressed by the golden truth that
the best way for man to employ his surplus is
to spend it himself, and not to burden his
posterity with obligations too often violated or
misunderstood these successful citizens are
looking about for the opportunities to help
others, and to do this while they themselves
are living. Thus one of them bestows what
is equivalent to nearly million in land and
money to establish a great institution of learn
ing; another gives royalty to every benevolent
enterprise; another, a colOred man. builds out
of his own means an asylum for the aged poor
Of his swn race another serves on great com
missions, and subscribes freely to the work h,
helps without reward; and SO on to the end o.
the chapter. - ~
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The New Observation-Disclosures
ID Down.


What is entitled the HNew Depar.
ture'' of the Democracy will be found
in the first of the series of resolutions
Which were adopted at the State CON.
vention. tits as follows:
Resolred, BY the Democracy Of Ohio,
That, denouncing the extraordinary
means by which they we're brought
about, we recognize as accomplished
facts the three amendments in fact to-
the Constitution, recently declared adop,
ted, and the same as no longer political
issues before the country.
Which are other words for saying
that, in spite of our protests,and against
our most vigorous exertions, and by
the MOST fragrant and unscrupuIous
means, the Fourteenth and Fifteenth
Amendments were engrafted upon the
Constitution that they are now accom-
plished beyond our reach,, ant outside
Of the pale of political agitation, ahd
that the Democratic party, being an or
ganization Of the present and the future,
as well as of the past, leaves the accom-
plished things of the past to press more
vigorously after the things which are
before it. We cannot afford to waste
our energies in combating matters
which we cannot better, while the coun.
try is drifting so rapidly to financial
ruin and centralized despotism.-Chl.
Adu. - ~ 20 olSH5E
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Very Well, for High.

An extraordinary statement, says the
New York World, comes to us from
Washington. Queen Victoria, we are
positively told, has opened negotiations
with President Grant for the marriage
of her daughter, H. R, H. the Princess
Beatrice, with Cadet Frederick Grant,
who is about to graduate from West
Point. The Queen proposes this union
upon the supposition that it will help to
rivet the entente cordiale between the
two countries so happily inaugurated
by the Washington treaty. If the ar
rangements can be made the marriage
will take place on the 4th of March,
1878, when General Grant enters upon
a new term of Office as President (sic) 7,
and Prince Grant becoming, under the
English law, an English subject, will be
at once appointed by her Majesty Vice
roy of the New Dominion. The idea
of this matrimonial sensation origina
ted, it is said, with Mr.. Seward, In this
connection it may be remarked that the
venerable Jesse r. Grant, Postmaster
of Convington, passed hastily through
New York city on Sunday
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The Foreign War Figures.

The war indemnity paid by France, it
is stated, will he dealt with by the Ger
man Federal Council nearly as follows !:
The military pensions fund will receive
an appropriation of nearly S192, 100000
and S32, 100000 will be invested as a
fund to cover the preliminary expenses
Of future wars Next the owners Of cap
turcd vessels and cargoes are to be COM
pensated for their losses according to
certain specified rules, and cities and
villages damaged oy bombardment or
cannonade are to be rebuilt Slrasbourg
is to receive SAC, 900, Thionville 81
100000, Schlettstadt 100000, and
Breisach 81, 100000. The services rem
dered to the German army by the in
habitants of Alsace and Lorraine are to
be paid for, including provisions deliv-
cred, horses and wagons impressed, and
similar transactions. The repair and
enlargement of the fortresses in the an
nexed territory will also form large
item of expenditure, and S5,6O0,O00
have been allotted in aid of the Ger
mans who were expelled from France
The balance, after these payments, is to
be distributed among the German States,
each State receiving a fund proportion
ate to the number of men and horses
supplied to the army. .. ..... -.
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Bowen Found CuiIty,

The trial of Ex- Congressman Bowen,
of South Carolina, for bigahy, ended
in the Criminal Court of the District of
Columbia, and resulting inathe ejury
bringing in a verdict of guilty, as in
dicted. The prisoner received the yer.
dict very calmly, but his last wife, Who
sat beside him, burst into tears, and was
otherwise much affected, The Georgia
wife was also in Court, but thought the
verdict was most righteous one. The
rascality developed in the trial in the
way of forged documents was supple.
mented by the discovery that some one
had abstracted the indictment on. which
the prisoner was being tried. He how
ever, waived that formality and consent-
ed that newspaper copy should be con-
sidered as the Indictment Bowen's
counsel moved for a new trial, and was
then admitted to bail
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GtddY:Pated d Flnnkexisnl..

The latest sensation atFW ashisgton is
astory to the effect that Negotiations are
pending with a view TO marrying q
daughter of Qucon vrronIA to son of
President GRAM, and. making the boy
Viceroy of Canada. The negotiators
expect this piece of tom foolery to inter-
twine- the heart strings of the average
! Yankee and Britisher in net of gush-
ing tenderness. .5Esst.
II may fail in this much .longsd for
end, hut one thing it will certainly ac-
complish.. 1t will cause all people above
the grade of pudding heads to set down
all parties'to the affair as a set'of shat
low hidt6mpoops;. .,.,.,,...,. -.
/ If, however, this project has for its de-
sign the Introduction of the monarchical
custom Of intermavying royal families
to 'fufther'political intrigues, it deserves
the indignation and scorn of every
/ American 7so@ F.NuEfNfF = sqspF,E
A pretty figure our vauntcd Republic
! would be cutting if its destiny is to be
determined by Q. couple of Insignificant
brats in their teens!
Fiddlesticks! --t. .,ts.
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EE-The name of vegetable woolgis
applied to a fibrous material obtained
from the leaves Of the fir, rnanufacto.
ry for this purpose having been estabs
hshed- near Breslau, in Silesia. The
species of pine thus operated upon IS
the p;nus sylvestris, or wild pine; and
it would seem that every member of the
pine tribe might be turned to similar ac-
count. The leaves of these trees on ex.
animation will be found to be, made up
of fibroas material held tegether by
rcsin6us substance. The latter may be
dissolved out by means of, alkslies, ,leav-
ing the woolly matter behind. Cover
lets, blankets, and other articles made
of vegetable wool are in use in Austria,
and especially in the public Institutions
of Vienna. The material is warm, du-
rable, and in all respects agreeable; ;
moreover, 1t possesses sthe excellent
quality of preserving q certain balsanic
and decidedly wholesome smell, which,
nevertheless. is so inimical TO insects
that they never harbor in it rs sthey fao
in almost all the ordinary descriptions
of bed material. The resinousi matter
holding the woolly iibres togetherr and
which is eliminated or dissolved out by
the alkalies, is also turned to account,
medicinal baths being made with it as a
basis, and which are found to be useful
in various chronic diseases. ~ E K
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EgWhen Holden. the Radical Go,

|. EEWhen Holden, the Radical Gov
.ernor Of North Carolina, was impeach.
ed for various misdemeanors in office
and removed, the papers in his interest
cried political persecution. In that case
a majority of the Legislature was oppo.
sed to the Governor. But what excuse
will be offered for Governor Butler, OF
Nebraska? He, like Holden, has been
impeached and removed from Office
But it cannot be said that the movement
was Democratic one, for it originated
in Radical House and followed by
conviction in a Radical Senate, against
a Radical Governor. A large section
of the party in the State was hostile to
the Governor, it is true, but the hostll.
ity was due TO his alleged misdeeds
which the Senate votes have been prov.
cd against him. 1t is worthy of note,
that justice is at last reaching the men
who, having been lifted into power BY
force and fraud, used their authority to
rob the people of their rights. 'F'"
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w There is probably no living man
in this country whose views are of less
practical importance than jeff. Davis
fact which is well illustrated by the
New York World in the following para
graph: The infamous government
of these United States is liver issue
than Mr.. jefferson Davis. He is of the
past, but this is Of the present. Mr..
Davis's Andersonville, with its denial
of medicines, is departed, but the spirit
of Andersonville lives in that tariff
which taxes fever, stricken and crushed
humanity 100 per cent. on its cloroform
and quinine. Mr.. Davis's war ship is at
the bottom of the sea, but the Republi-
can "protection" of to-day is more fatal
to American shipping tLan one hundred
Alahamas. Mr.. Davis's right of secess-
ion is gone, but the march of oppress-
ion is sounding this very hour in the
force bills which clank on the statute
book like. so many slaves chains.
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Letter From the Pope,

New YcRK, June 1S.-The HcEald,
this morning, publishes an importart
encyclical letter from the Pope, in which
the Holy Father denounces the italian
safeguards, and declares he can never
accept concession at the price of viola.
ton Of his oath! The epistle, II which is
addressed to all patriarchs, primates,
arch bishops, bishops, and other local
ordinaries in favor and communion with
the Holy See, in concluding says: God
grant also that the rulers of this earth,
whom it muchimports, that suchsape-
nicious example of usurpation as we en-
dure may not take root and flourish to
the destruction of all power and, order;
may join with one consent Of mind and
wills and that hushing quarrels, the dis
turbsnce of rebellions being opposed
and deadly councils Of the sects aban.
doned, they may unite in one move.
ment for restoring to this Holy See its
rights, and with these his full liberty to
the visible head of the. church and the
desired call to civil society,".
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-. 80 r.
Plain Propositions.

A tariff protects the. manufacturer on
ly to the extent that it cempels purcla
sers to buy his wares at 4 higher price
than similar wares could be bought fol
elsewhere.
For this difference in price the plum
dered purchasers receive no equiv
afent whatever Fa' R''' 90 I r
Taking money or other property with
out the consent of the owner, and with
out returning an equivalent, is the very
essence of robbery. 81 80 gia.ll.ai aa
If Horace GREELEY and other Radical
leaders choose to divide their, own earn.
ings with protected manufacturers it is
their own business. g. sis m
But Horace GREELEY and other Rad
ical leaders. have no right to compel
their unwilling neishbors to submit to
robbery. ,qt
Robbery by the legal force of pro
tective tariff impeverishes just as effec
tually, as robbery by the physical force
Of highwayman. ..,,.f- -
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Protection OF Copper.

To the Editor OF the World:
SfR: Our highly esteemed, benevolent
countryman aud fellow -townsman, Hor-
ace Greeley, will lecture tonight at
Cooper Institute to the Labor Reform
Convention on the blessings of Protec-
ton. am what is termed skilled me-
cbanic, namely, a worker of copper and
brass ornaments, chiefly for export TO
the Mexican and South American mar
ket: my trade, as may he easily asccr-
tanned, is by no means fourishing; am
neither an irdolept demagogue- nor a
"striller." Indeed, with family of wife
and six children, such luxuries are, for a
prudent mechanic, out of reach. But it
does not prevtnt my informing myself
why am slack of work, (as work by
the job, and why my wages do not as
simulate to the high price of everything
my family and SELF use 1t has been
shown to me from official statements, by
my very obliging and honorable en-
ployer, that the export trade of such az
tices as l work in has fallen off to a
marvellous degree. Here are the facts:
Export of articles manufactured of
copper and brass-1S61, S2,375,029 !;
1870, S2S6,273. ~ x -
This will at once explain the slackness
Of work and the paucity of wages.
When asked my intelligent employer
why. we have lost the export trade in
these articles, lie laid the fault ON The
high duty on copper.
In 1851, ,fwhen we exported S2,3I5 .029
of manufactured copper articles, the duty
on foreign copper was Is per cent.
in 1870, when We exported S2S6,273
Of manufactured copper articles, the duty
on foreign copper was, and still is, 45
per cent. .-
,!"Perhaps this high duty on copper"
said L to my employer with patriotic
pride, ss.is needed for the payment of oul
debt, and although poor, am willing to
suffer for the good cause" -
My employer quietly took from his
pigeon-hole a printed document entitled
Commerce. and Navigation, No. 6, Sc
ries lS70-71," and to my great astonish
ment he, showed me that during twelve
months ending December, 1870, we re
ceived the following revenue from cop
per: On copper ore, ,S4S, ,S6S on copper
S32 299.
| This at once dispelled any illusion
about paying off our debt with the reve.
nue. from copper.
wal my esteemed and benevolent feI
low ctizer, Horace Greeley, who has
made political economy study, kindly
explain to the convention and to me
for / shall surely be there-frstly, why
with a duty Of Is per cent on copper il
1860, We exported to foreign countries
. e. eht times as much of MANUFACTURED
copper articles as we did'in 1870, duty
As per cent? And, secondly, as il
clear that l and my fellow mechanic
suffer through this falling off of export
who, in his opinion, is benefited by til,
duty of .45 per cent. on "copper" No
doubling for a minute that this question
in political economy is mere fea-bit,
to answer by-so great q luminary as Mr.
Greeley, it would greatly relieve tn
skepticism on the blessing of Protection
of my fellow-mechanics and of your ser
want, NIcorEMUs HARDNuT,
No. 994 East I'D street, third floor.
World, New York, May 6, 1871.
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Absent from putty.

When public men accept high trusts,
Ind receive liberal compensation, they at
least owe their services, such as they
may be, to the country. President
GRAsr has culpably failed in this respect.
and his conduct deserves the sternest re-
bnke.
s There are now absent from duty sew
eral OF the highest public officers, among
whom may be named the following:
+ President GRANT, salary $4,000 pc:
annum.
CoLuMBus 0ELANo, Secretary of the
Inter o., salary $4,000 per annum.
W. w. BELKNAP, Secretary of War,
salary $4,000 per annum.
A. T. AKERMAs, Attorney General,
salary ZOO per annum.
+. E. SPINNER, Treasurer of the Uni.
ted States, salasy $4,000 per annum
with go per day, and 10 cents per mile
additional, while travelling in Europe fol
health and pleasure.
W. A. RICHARDSON, Assistant Secre
tary Of the Treasury, $500 per annum
with $40 per day and 10 cents per mile
additional while in Europe.
Besides these s'distinguishedr officials
q large number of principal clerks have
been or will be sent to Europe, under
pretext of some connection with the
proposition.
.tsiThe people are taxed to support this
idieness and neglect OF duty, while their
interests at the same time are wholly
diregarded. T.. -al
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Foot Amputated.

An old citizen of Powhattan, named
Thomas Day, was obliged to submit to
the amputation of one of his feet on
Saturday last, The operation was per-
formed by Drs. Allen and Baird Sof this
city, and Drs. Armstrong and W ever,
of Powhattan. Although Mr. Day is'a
man "a years of age, and has been twice
stricken with paralysis, he bore up ua.
der the operation manfully, and ii was
performed in manner commensurate
with the highlleputation of The surgeons
having the case in charge. The aihpu.
tation was rendered necessary because
OF senile gangrenc having set in. The
foot was taken off just above the ankle
joint. 1t was found that the principal
artery in Mr.. Days leg was completely
ossiGed - Wheelfag Register, ,es Nv
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Ex.secre,ary seward In Asia.

New YORK, June 11.--Hon VIM. II.
Seward and party arrived at Suez on the
9th ofMay, and became the guests of the
Khedive. They were taken by special
train to Cairo, where an elegant palace
was placed at their disposal. Subse-
quently they visited Thebes and the Pyr.
amids. Upon their return they would so
to the Holy Land and Constantinoplc.-
Under frman of the Sultan, Mr., Seward
will be the guest of the nation.
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photographers TO be EmplOyeA
by the Government In ilse Prose
eCutIOn of Frauds. srle .srsaf,s orS

The art Photographic will hereafter
be employed to aid in the detection Of
frauds in the Treasury, and in tile. pros,
ccntion of frauds through the United
States Courts. II often happens, as in
cases where there have been duplicate
payments to army officers, that the orig.
inal receipts on the pay rolls on file in
the Treasury Department are all the ey-
idence 1t is required in order to avoid
the danger of losing these, that the
Secretary will cause to be prepared GER
tilted Photographic copies of, these pay
rolls, which may be transmitted 70 the
District Attorney wheneverneeded. The
Department have recovered more than
twenty -four thousand dollars whicIfahad
been fraudulently paid to the army last
year.. One case is reported where reg
ular army officer, by committing perjury
tbirty-fiye times, fraudulently obtained
in one year thirty five monthly payments
more than he was entitled to. isa5ik 90
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EgT The fight, in the New Hampshire
Legislature last week was hard one, but
the victory was complete. Look at the
results of the election in that State
Three Democratic members of Congress
(the entire delegation, a Democratic
Governor, aDemocratic Council, a Dem
ocratic Senate, Democratic House, and
a majority of the counties Democratic.
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Horace Greeley in the South is not
Horace Greeley in the editorial sanctum
Of the New York Tribune. In his Mis-
sissippi speech to the colored audience,
he said: 81 greet you here as citizens who
will in time feel honor in the glory OF
Stonewal jackson as well as in that of
those who were in the opposing armies
cheers; who will glory alike in the glo-
ry of R. E. Lee as well as those who
fought against him
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HThe postmaster editors all over
the country are belaboring the Demo
cratic platform with frantic zeal that
entities them to the "favoralle conside-
ration OF the President. ~
Iftbey would charge advertising rates
for their sable editorials on this subject
IL would amount to more than their sala-
Yies as fe leral officials. GRANT would
certainly be unrcasonably exacting to
demand of them more than this.
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PARIS AS IT is.

All those palaces which made Paris
the wonder and admiration of modern
times are heaps of smouldering ruins
her finest boulevards shattered, her gar
dens laid waste, her cutters running
with blood, and an awfu. pail setting
down heavily over her dying agonies as
she completes, in compliance with "the
ineXorable logic of facts which has
formed her only religion. her own sui
eide. s|