Weekly Trinity journal., 1872-03-02
WASHINGTON, Feb. 8, 1872.
PAYING Orr THE MORTGAGE.

mortgaged and he was not only paying
the interest promptly but one-twentieth of
the principal per year, and everything
under his management seemed prosperous
there would no doubt be envious fellows
who would criticise his wagon because it
was painted green, deeming red a faster
color and the garments of his family,
and the expensive sleigh and skates OF
his boys, because these are all extrava-
gances in the eyes Of the people anxious
to condemn their neighbors. Now the
monthly debt statements show that since
Grant came into Office, t,0o haadred and
ei9htySeUen millions of the public debt
have been paid, and the annual interest
charge has been reduced nearly eighteen
millions of dollars. The statute books,
show that since the first of
March, 1869, taxation has been reduced
to the extent of tCo hundred millions
of dollars per year. These sums are so
enormous that few people have any idea
of their meaning, yet, in the face Of this
fact, general cry Of thieving and cor
ruption is raised against the administra-
ton, and individual deialcations-gener-
ally of small amounts-are cited as proofs.
AS long as the world stands there will be
rascals in office, for we find them every
wherein church and out of fit-but happy
the nation that has 50 few that its surplus
is regularly applied for the payment of
debt instead OF being wasted on extrava-
giant schemes, or doled out us subsidies to
great monopolies.
In the only city where Democracy has
had complete control and counted its ma
jorities by thousands, the public debt has
been increased hundred millions of dol
lars and the regular annual expenses
were swelled to the enormous sum Of
lifty-three millions, which is more than
the entire civil service of the United
States has cost from year TO year.
1t would evince great want of consid-
GRAFTON on the part Of the people, involv-
ing serious consequences, il they were to
discard an administration that has done
so well, because few ambitious men
demand its destruction.
EQUALIZING BoUNTIEs.
The late soldiers are petitionng Con-
gress by thousands for an equalization Of
bounties by which they shall receive
SS 3315 per month for the entire term they
served the Union, deducting all bountes
for the sum total heretofore paid.
ARIZONA AND MEXICO.
Mr.. Mccormick, Delegate from Ar-
zona, recently delivered to Secretary Fish
IA letter from Governor Stafford, of that
Territory, detailing numerous outrages
committed on the border by marauding
parties from Sonora, Mexico. In several
instances entire families OF settlers have
been murdered. The Governor, with a
party Of armed m eli, lately pursued some
of these bands, who, however, escaped
capture and found refuge in Sonora.
Repeated appeals have been made to
the Governor Of Sonora for the punish
ment Of parties guilty Of committing
these crimes within the Arizona lnes.-
Under the extradition treaty, the citizens
of one country committing depredations
in the other cannot be surrendered after
their return to their own country. The
people Of Arizona therefore, unless some
steps be taken by the Mexican Govern
ment to stop these raids, will take the
remedy in their own hands.
In connection with these Mexican out
RACES, new stories founded thereon, at
tributing every conceivable depreciation
to the Apaches, are circulated by the
frontiersmen. There is nothing so much
like a God-send, in the estimation Of
many of our newspapers, as a story about
Indians scalping white men on the border.
There is, however, too much method in
this madness to serve the ends Of Justice,
but good deal in the interests of war
on the peaceful Indians, for the purpose
of stealing from them lands which the
Government is bound in honor TO secure
them permanent possession of.
SENATOR CuANDLEK's SPEECH.
The speech of this gentleman contains
Il number of figures and facts which com
mand a perusal. The kid-gloved Senators
who are nothing it not rhetorical were
astonshed at the sledge-hammer manner
in which they were handled, and the
groans Of their pet organ show that they
were severely hit. have seen Chandler
upon the stump and in my opinion there
are few speakers who can iniuse so great
an enthusiasm into a crowd or stimulate
them to greater activity. They feel that
he is not only thoroughly in earnest, but
believes everything he utters. Senator
Chandler is moreover SO used to viliica-
tion that he does not scare worth a cent.
GREELEY FOR GRANT.
Mr.. Wakeman, a Fenton Republican,
in speech in the New York Legislature
said to the Grant Republicans 1ou
need expect no real trouble from the men
who read the Tribune, and ] predict right
here that the morning after the Philadel-
phia Convention is held you will find
General Grants name floating at the
masthead of the Tribune"
CONGRESSIONAL,
The Senate Is still hammering on the