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National Republican., 1873-12-10

AgrfR the expiration OF the morning hour
In the House yesterday the consideration OF
the salary re peal hill and its attendant amen1-
mcnts was coramcnccd. Conscious of some
unusual proceeding, numerous audience
quietly cnterc the galleries and settled them
selves for the mCrriment AMI acrlmony sure TO
follow IN the train Of personal controversies.
As Mr.. Hale rose 20 bring forward the order of
the day, the members abstalned from conyer
sation and all labor, to await the aggression of
the first sincere believer in the doctrine OF in
creased labor AMI responsibility AMI a CORE
spending decrease inthc cmJlumenls therefor.
Merely eommenllng the bill to the care of the
House, Mr.. Hale retired, and the field Of de-
bate was open to the gentlemen 80 intent upon
a reductlo ION of their own allowance.
The first TO enter the ariua was Mr.. Cox, ci
New York, who consumed the greater portion
of his lime In the eiGor. to establish his own In.
nocence and the assertion of.hls freedom from
| the loathsomc Odor accompanying "baCk pay"
But as this savored Of a personal controversy, In
which Gen, Ncglcy was participant the
record of the witty New York member was
closely scanned, aud the evidence ELECTED OF
his having drawn in the ncighborhood Of s2 200
as compensation for the period In which he
was but a private citizen. Elected in Noyem.
ber to M a vacancy occasioned by the death Of
James Brooks, the conscientious member who
looks with horror upon oil back-pay measures,
silly slips iuto the Office Of Sorgeant-at-Arms
and pockets the salary Of the member from the
Sixth New York district accruing between the
death of his predecessor and the date Of his
own election.
fAlthough warranted by law It's character In
this respect does not surpass the "salary grab,
but as Mr.. Cox can produce no semblanc,
of work performed, Or his ability to act as {
member OF Congress had his presence beer
needed, Ii Is hard to comprehend how he fur
nishod an equivalent for the "back pay" o.
how his aroused sensIbiliies could permit III,
contamination Of his mind by money no. oni,
not earned, but In equity not due him. Tn
production of this evidence Of recent "grlb'
evidently staggered the ready member from
New York, OuI the poor apology Of icga
wrong was adopted to meet question inyoly
Ing alone principles Of right and honesty.
But before this unhappy expose he was Il
his happicst vein, AMI believing himself clear
he prepared to be merry oyer his opponent
''uncnyilble" position. To use his owl
figure he was "as fresh as dew
lrop on rose" until the chilllui
language OF his antagonist froze the minu
particle of water aud faded the rose, mo
neut previously blooming with aii the. "a
li,nce OF childish Innocence iInriiy minus
ih,d cla,scd sInte tho .inlIinR inlerf0sniu,-Y 81
National Republican., 1873-12-10

A PRIVATE dispatch TO &. A. Wetmnrr, the
agent OF the Pacific Prcss Association In this
city, was received last evening from San Fran.
cisco, containing, the latest particulars Of the
Senatorial situation In California. According
to this dispatch the Independent faction, under
the leadership OF lioycrn)r Booth, has thus far
failed In all It's strenuous clI1rts made to secure
the Democratic vote 10 combine with their own
strength for the election OF Booth to succeed
the prcscut term of senator Casserly, resigned
The offer made by the Independents was to
graut the Democrats the election Of Senatort TO
serve during the remainder OF Senator Casscrly's
uncxprcd term, ani 10 be succeeded by Booth
The Democrats, however, have q larger rep
rcscutaiion In the State Legislature than either
the Independents or the Republicans, and arc,
therefore, persistent IN their claims. They
have determined to stanl by their caucus nom
inccs and 10 Insist on the election Of Democrats.
THE majority Of the Republicans prefer to vote
for Democrats rather than 70 see Booth elected,
inasmuch as his cdorts have all been directed
towards the annihiiation Of the Republican
party, and his success through corrupt or polit-
ical combination might " construed into the
defeat of the party, Notwithstanding the real
strength Of the Inispeu lents for Booth is less
than one third Of the Lcgi,iatur,. 1t is now
generally CONCEDED, 70 says the dispatch re-
icrred to, that Booths chances are very slim.
National Republican., 1873-12-10
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BOOTS. SHOES HATS CAIS, QENfsi YUR-
I. CioTiiiSG,
IN Dents Cashmere Salts to MATCH Ovcrcosts Tai
white Shirts and underwear.
-. Nos. isii and isls IA. AVENUE. pois
National Republican., 1873-12-10
,,,,y-NerICE no TAx.pAYERs.

The uuisrsipred noflaes his friends ani tho pnhllc
gensraly that he will hereafter devote his atiruon
""VE VETSEWkL AND SPECIAL TAXES.
lsyicd n ths District ,geysrnmrnt rni ,l,g no,rl
htnirHit usturr rtntvc 10 tsSc-s rud eisna for
funding cf tsx.s, will r'cgfvr rutieulsr sttcnlion.
MY tong exp.rtenrr n lslstiy tg,i.eiyr of TAKE,
of this ely. anl NY fshiiiiaiIy with tie laws, ,nJrd
me peculiar f.cillte. f,rpil,hs All inxcsM the rcf,
lowest rates, an upon the Nst posslbll terus.
An who have tsxcs 10 piy VII do wlfl 10 riii be-
fotc payinf, wuLlAM K. nnaMuhih.,
National Republican., 1873-12-10
lrOL HILL AND NAVY

~ YARD,-pcrsons residing cast of the Cspl-
tni can have the RtptBLtCAN len at their resi-
dcnces promptly every morning by lcaying their
and address at the Residence of Grorye kr1f
(agentl, No. as Ea.l Capitol street, or NJ Daniel
kelly'sClEar store. Eighth street, between Virginia
ayenne aud !. street. sepa-tf
National Republican., 1873-12-10
..TO THE LAHIEs.

fNYefEhhON1 LIvING WlfMIN THE
" Following limits; between II STREET north
and Boundary, and seventh, stret west AMI North
Cspitsl streets, can have hercsfter the NATIONAL
At whose rrsIiencc orders and .cosnpiaints,esn be
ief'' a. well a'at 'he RhrrsliSSsjSsSS SSf9EssS,tby
jyi.-w - arl~ inseiSfS s,reet ncrtswc.t,
National Republican., 1873-12-10
Matiunal gspxbIifan

yHg RBPUyLIcJy HAS A LARoER ctRCU-
EAff0E THIN ANY 0rHgR MORNING. PsPER
IN rnE DIsTRIcT0P COLUMBIA.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-08-01
The Growing Crops.

The July report Of the Department of Agri-
culture, says q Washington dispatch, repre-
sents an improvement in winter wheat, but a
decline in the prospects of spring wheat on
account of the unreasonable weather in some
quarters, and the insect enemies in others.
The average in corn is increased in West Vir-
ginia and Minnesota, and decreased in all the
other States except Florida and Arkansas,
where it remains the same as last year. Corn
planting was everywhere retarded by the
weather, and in many cases the corn has been
several times replanted. The universal COM
plant of defective seed is made in all parts Of
the country.
The condition of cotton has been previously
given. The reports up to July indicate the
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-08-01
A Young Lady Stays a Panther With a
Pine.KnOt.

On Thursday last a party of young
women went out from Queens Run to
the mountain just back of the settle
ment, gathering huckleberries. One of
them, Jerusha Bryan, advanced little
farther into the woods than the others,
when she was attacked by huge pan
ther. Her companions, hearing the
brute scream, sought safety in flight,
but Miss Bryan, finding escape impos-
sible, determined to stand her ground,
and, Selling huge pine-kot, gave her
enemy battle. The contest was close
one for few minutes, but human cour-
rye, judgment and GOODNESS soon tri-
umphed over brute strength, and the
heroic woman soon had the satisfaction
of laying the bloodthirsty monster dead
at her feet. Her garments were torn
into shreds, and her face and arms bad
ly scratched, but she walked home with
a firm step, and the light of triumph in
her eye, and was able to give a good ac-
count of herself. The dead panther
was soon afterwards found by the peo-
pie of Queens Run, and proved on
measurement to be six feet ten inches
long. Miss Bryan is the lion Cor lion
ess) of the neighborhood, as she well
deserves to be. We doubt whether an
instance can be found on record of more
cool, heroic bravery and wise discretion,
developed by any woman, even in the
most historic and perilous days of Penn
sylvania. (N. ~ Letter.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-08-01
The GuanO Sunnly.

The British Consul at the port of
Callao, in Peru, in his annual report
contradicts the rumor of further discov-
cries of guano deposits. The Guanape
Islands possess still some 500, 900, and
the Macabee Islands about $50, 900 tons.
This information is down to last No
vember, when there were forty-seven
vessels at the former islands loading at
the rate of 600 tons per day, and fifteen
ships at the Macabee Islands loading ut
the rate of over 800 tons per day. The
Lobos Islands, further north, have
75O. 900 tons at the most. The whole
exportable guano now left in Peru may
be safely estimated as under three mill
ion tons, which will supply the demand
only for very few years. 1t seems that
seals and sea lions in great numbers fire.
ouent the islands where guano is found,
and that it is probable that this deposit
is made by these animals as much as by
birds. An American, Mr.. Steele, from
Michigan University, corroborates this
view of the British Consul. He has
analysed specimens deposited by seals,
and has found them perfectly analogous
to the guano of commerce.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-08-01
A Funeral Sermon-Who's Dead ?

If there is an interesting feature about
the politics of the present "off year, "
it is that while Democratic, past Demo-
cratic, Liberal, and " Independent or
gans all agree that somebody or some
thing is dead, there is most charming
lack of unanimity as to who and what is
the corpse. The Chicago Times, for in
stance, which through the Liberal farce
of last fall chung with unwavering fidel-
ity to the old party and the old prin-
ciples, is now assured that the Demo-
cratic party is defunct, dead and gone,
and that regeneration upon new basis
is the gravest necessity. So radical, in
deed, is the conversion that its chief
object in life seems to be the selection
from the files of its contemporaries of
anathemas hurled at it during the Gree
ley campaign, and reprinting them uer-
6atim Ct Hteratim against the irrecon-
cilables of its old party.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-08-01

crop to be 1915 per cent. of average, not In
Guiding Virginia, where the culture is yet
mainly experimental.
The prospective yield of oats declined dur
ing June in New England and the Middle and
Northwestern States except in Wisconsin. II
was enhanced in all Of the Gulf States except
Mississippi.
Winter rye improved in Rhode Island, Con-
necticut. New Jersey, Maryland, North Caro-
lima, Mississippi, Texas Arkansas, Ohio,
Michigan, Illinois, and Iowa. 1t remained
stationary in Georgia, and declined in ell the
other States. Spring rye was below the aver
age in all the States but five, the minimum,
T. being found in California, and the maxi
mum, ITO, in Nebraska.
Winter barley generally declined in the
South and West, where the heavy rains pre-
vailed.
The late winter told disastrously upon the
fruit crop. The injury to the apple trees was
more extensive than was apparent at the last
report. Vast numbers of peach trees were
killed. The condition of the grape crop
ranged from 81 in California to 1877 in Nsbras-
ka, 100 representing the average
The average in potatoes remained the same
as last year, or increased in twenty
two States, and decreased in all the others.
The Colorado beetle has extended it's rava-
ges eastward, being reported for the first time
in several counties of New York. 1t was still
devastating in the West but the farmers had
learned in many counties how to destroy it eff
fectually. The maximum condition of the
crop, Ill, was found in Georgia, and the min
imum 76. III Delaware.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-08-01
The South.

Baltimore has been visited by disastrous
conhagration, involving a loss of upward of
81 900, 900. Ten blocks were burned over, en-
bracing the district bounded by Mulberry,
Liberty, Lexington and Howard streets. The
number of houses burned s stated at 100 con-
sisting almost wholly Of dwellings and small
shops.
The liabilities Of II. j. Kimball formerly of
New England, who failed some time ago at AT
lanta, Ca, will amount to $4,000, 900.
The late Maj. Ewings interest in the st.
Louis Times has been purchased by George
b. Clarke and Charles A. Mantz for $4,000.
terrible smash-up- occurred on the Balti-
more and Ohio railroad, near Altamont, Md,
few days ago, resulting in the death of
persons and the woundng of three others.
man named Hall was recently taken from
his bed by mob of negroes, in Madison
county, Tenn, and hung to tree, for an
alleged outrage on an aged negress.
Memphis has been agitated by murder that
rivals in mystery and tragic interest the Good
rich affair at Brooklyn. A man named Frank
Moore was shot and killed. at the hcar of
midnight, in his own bedroom within few
feet OF the bed on which his wife was lying.
The wife is believed to have been the instiga-
tor Of the murder
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-08-01
The west.

Shippers by the Illinois Central, the Wabash
railroads have brought charges of extortion
against these lines before the Illinois Board Of
Railroad and Warehouse Commissioners.
The indianapolis Exposition building is al
most completed. Cost, $4,000.
The city of Detroit bought a lot of stuff for
matchmaking, recently, and 1T turns out to
be largely composed of lead ore taken from
some of the mines near the city.
Henry Milward, for many years one of the
largest provision dealers in the West, died re-
Gently at his residence in Chicago aged AZ.
The Apportionment Committee in the Ohio
Constitutional Convention has reported in
favor Of adopting the cumulative system of
voting at elections in that State, as now prac-
ticed in Illinois.
All the parties engaged in the kidnapping
OF Lord Gordon have been committed for
trial by the Manitoban court
horrible tragedy was recently enacted at
Pleasant Hill, Neb. A German named
Scholtz beheaded his sister with an Ak. and
then ended his own life by cutting his
throat.
The Texas cattle fever is spreading in North
Missouri. Over 200 head of native cattle have
died of it in one county-Caldwel
The grasshoppers are ravaging the grain
fields of Nebraska.
Eight convicts escaped from the Missouri
Penitentiary last week. One Was recaptured
and another shot.
balloonist at Princeton. ILL.,, the other
day, made en- ascension to the clouds head
downward, on a single trapeze. The local
paper pronounces it 1.-THE most daredevil
sight ever witnessed"
The Kickapoo indians are to be removed
from Mexico to Kansas, under the auspices of
the Indian Commissioners.
Three persons were killed near Knights
town, Ind, few days ago, by the bursting of
thrashing machine.
The steamboat interests of st. Louis have
forwarded to Washington a remonstrance
against the further construction of the bridge
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-08-01

Summarizing: with the Chicago Times,
Democracy is dead with the World,
Republicanism is dead with the En-
Quirer, Liberalism is dead with the
Post, Democracy and Liberalism are
dead and with the Commercial, every
thing is dead, save Halstead and Has
saurek. SO cheerful funeral party
never before was witnessed-hideously
cheerful in view of the fact, patent to
all others, that whatever other funerals
take place, that of their political hopes,
one and all, is certain. - Cincinnati
Times
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-08-01

THE Hon. Gerrit Smith, admitting
that intemperance is gigantic evil, yet
doubts whether legislation is the best
way to abate the evil.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-08-01
washington.

A doubtful report has reached Washington
that a battle had been fought on the Mexican
frontier between Col. Mackenzie's forces and
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-08-01

a body of Mexican troops, in which Col. NJ.
was killed. II needs confirmation.
An abstract has just been finished showing
the condition of all the national banks i'm the
country, from which it appears that the total
resources of the 1867 banks amount to
81, $50, 677, 92S.S6; liabilities, same.
The Postoffice Department is now supplying
the small offices with postal-cards.
Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1873-09-20

In the general panic in Wall street
Fisk / Hatch have failed. (The rotten
ones will come to the surface now, We
may feel pretty sure.)
Sam Wilkinson, the Secretary of the
n. P. r. r. is out in card asserting the
solvency Of the company and promising
that the January interest on the bonds
will be paid. He comes up smiling and
predicts that the road will be built any
how. Doubtless the next Congress will
be asked to help the work along by e1-
tending the time allotted for its finish
ing, and. maybe, with the credit Of the
Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1873-09-20

contracts, and that kept it alive it
was land-grsb and that gave it a
plausible showing ; it was a huge
bubble and therefore it burst. The
averment by the New York Express
that the popular war upon railroads
was the cause of this disaster is sus-
piciously boshy. The Northern Pa
cific Railroad has died of inanition
and self developed nothingness and
if its tumbling to pieces has any
effect upon the interests of the Pa
cific coast it will be to appreciate
the stock Of the Central Pacific
Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1873-09-20

CHIEF JUSTICE CoCKBuRN seems to be
trying to prove Caleb Cuahing's stric-
lures upon him to be true. The last
thing of his doing is to forbid the Itch
borne claimant from making stump
speeches between sessions. It Is Diff
cult for an American to understand the
authority under which q Judge acts
when he prescribes itigant's conduct
outside the Court House.
Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1873-09-20
THE POLARIS CREW SAFE.

The Cable brings the 6ollow ing graft
flying announcement
London, Sept. 1916 a. m.-The
whaling steamer Arctic for Dundee,
passed Peterhead last night with the
crew of the Polaris' who had been
transferred from the whaler Ravens
craig. which rescued them from boats
on the Goth of July, twenty miles south
of Cape York.
OF course a vessel will be immedi-
ately dispatched to recall the ships sent
in search of the Polaris and her crew.
Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1873-09-20

FRANK PREUSS.
m erchant Tailor,
81 NORTH CARSON ST., a.
~ (Thexter Block Ipresent my
thanks to the prhtnc "a general fer the IA
patronage which receive. and by those -A
favors I am enabled to buy for cash the BEST
and LATEST STYLIS OF GOODS which the
market presents. have returned from San
Francisco where purchased and have now on
exhibition at my place Of business, q stock Of
New Goods consisting Of
French Beaver, French Ouatins, Eng
1ish Meltons, Scotch Goods. Trfcota
French and English Cassimeres,
Also French Plush 4 Velvet vestings,
Which will compare fav0rably with those Of any
house on the Coast. Ihope to retain my friends
favors in the future. and by patronizina home
made trade will secure good it and irst-class
workmanship. Please come and examine my
stock. FRANK PREUSS
se2o-U Merchant Tailor.
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NEW TO-DAY.
SPECIAL MEETING.

"A ENGINE COMPANY NJ will BE- held
HIS Saturday EVENING, September Goth,
1873, at y O'Clock. By request . full attend
ance is desired A. CURRY. Foreman.
J. T.. BCEKER, Secretary. se2o-lt
Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1873-09-20
ERN PACIFIC RAILWAY BUB-
BILE.

The railroaders are hurt and give
signs Of their injuring. What has
come upon the C. P. Company
is in part the penalty of dabbling in
political ventures. Tie disaster
Hh;ch has faller :Pon Jay Cooke &
Co. is the result of attempting to
build railroad out of whole cloth.
The effort has been . tremendous
one. Its success would have been a
marvel. The failure is the failure
of an attempt to make . projected
railway build up q new country. 1t
was an experiment in reversal OF the
natural causes of railway expansion.
The premises were false and there
fore the outcome is q failure. There
are millions of acres falling within
the N. P. r. r. grant-but they are
mainly, of desert lands lying on an
4" isothermal line whose meander-
ines will not be faithfully described
until they are Bonded up into the
Arctic Zone. There is . harbor
which freezes solid at the eastern
terminus. Duluth } an uninviting
and almost uninhabitable desert in
tervening between the terminal
points and a sparsely populated,
pine clad shore and q harbor where
az vet no commerce comes, on the
West. Bonds with no stronger
security than a second mortgage
upon q stretch of railway-iron lying
upon the surface of treeless alkaline
wastes and prairies where for five
months of the year quicksilver be-
comes of the consistency Of solder.
and where, for o thousand miles or
more not one village stands, ought
to be difficult to place upon the mar
kst. Jay Cooke & Co. undertook to
back this desperate project and failed.
There never was such a land grant
made to any Railway Company be-
fore-but after getting west of the
Red River of the North the more
lands the company own the better
its chances of freezing to death. The
Red River of the North, itself, is al
most as mythical as g. Alph, the
Sacred River" of the poet. 1t has
been represented by subsidized
newspaper correspondents to be
Z" navigable for steamboats," For
nine months Of every year it can't
float saw log. In the summer time
much of its bed is as dry as the
street yonder. Here and there are
green puddles where the waters of
Spring have not wholly sunk NJ
evaporated. The narrow valley of
this arroyo contains some strips of
good wheat lands but the tillabls
acres are comparatively few and in
considerable. Carleton, (CoGn)
went out into the Saskatchewan VAL
ley as the paid writer of the COM
pany. His letters, extolling the
climate and giving ford descriptions
of the soil are mere romances, done
by the job. The wonder is that solid
business men like Jay Cooke & Co.,
should be carried away by such mere |
dreams and theories as those which
inflated this project with something
like life. But is Mr.. Jay Cooke a
solid, sound, cool-headed man
Isn't he, rather, an accident, and
fancy fnancier? The thing which
has swamped him he could not have
been we'll acquainted with if his
judgment is sound. His downfall |
reminds one of Louis Napoleon's-
that is, the causes which have pre-
ceded it, do. When the Emperor