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iOiciDg Over the Result.
INDIAN TERRITORY.
Opposition 30 Grants Territorial
Scheme.


Scheme.
NENITA, Indian Territory, Dec. 90
Considerable excitement exists in the In
dian Territory in regard to the recommen-
datiOn of the President in his message 10
Congress, to organize the Indian Territory
for the purpose Of locating the wild Indians
among those people. At a recent meeting
the Okmulgee Convention declined to take
any action i'll regard to modifying the
Constitution until Congress changed its
policy in regard TO the Indians of the plains.
They say, for sixty years they have been
trying TO ciyilize themselves and their chill
dren, and now to place ModocS, kickapOOS,
Arrapahoes, kiowaS and Comanches along
side them as neighbOIS, would demOralize
their children and destroy the labors of
years. Alarge numbered themtoldSuperin-
tendent Hoge that ifthe Government would
limit the boundary to the 9Sth meridian,
and adopt them as citizens of the United
States and cOnfine the wild Indians to the
country west of them, there would be no
opposition among the people to territorial
government.
a delegation Of prominent col
ored people will visit Washington in
January to urge Congress to give them their
property rights in the Territory and citizen
ship in the United States All the people
seem anxious that Congress should thiS
session give them courts, and form a gov
eminent that will protect them in all their
rights. They are now satisfied that citizen
ship and restriction of the limits of the
Territory SO as to exclude the settlement Of
wild indians in their midst will alone save
them from degradation and advance the civ
iliZation of the people.
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HOW PASTORS ARE PAID.

IIbln INT NtN AbIh 1 llllA D.
Ministers are probably no better
qualified than other men to live without
the where-withal to procure subsist-
ence, though it is a sad truth that
many of them receive hardly enough
for their services to keep body and soul
together, the salaries of pastors in
some places being scarcely equal to the
earnings of day laborers. In New
York, however, there is not much occa-
sion to complain on this score, for,
with a few exceptions, ministers are
paid as literally as any other class
of intellectual workers, and more iber-
ally than many. The highest salaries
are paid in the Episcopal Church.
though in at least one of the small de-
nominations the average is higher;
then comes the Presbyterian, Unita-
rian, Baptist, Dutch Reformed, Metho-
dist, and finally the Roman Catholic.
The following table shows the average
highest and lowest of each denomina-
ton. 1t may be promised that several
churches furnish their pastors with
residences in addition to the salaries,
and this is true Of all the Roman Cath
ohc Churches.
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DANBURY FUN.

From the Danbury News, Dec 6.
"Who cuts your clothes, Tommy"
asked visitor Of curiously ragged
boy. well" said he ingeniously,
ma cuts my pants, and pa cuts my
jackets"
What this country needs is not an
other Andrew Jackson, but a Christie
pher Columbus. We want some one to
find us.
Now that skating has set in, care
should be taken to avoid air-holes. It
is surprising the amount of moisture
an air-hole contai rs.
In view of our war prospects, it is
painful to witness the ferocious aspect
of those people who have passed their
forty-ffth year.
A Danbury woman, hearing that a
former neiglIbor, who had once tried to
injme her, mad been seen in New Ha-
ven, inquired, with burning eyes and
checks, what did she have on?"
A boy living on Sugar Hollow road
ate twenty-one buckwheat cakes one
day last week, and so disturbed his
stomach as to cause his death in three
days after. The last words he uttered
were of modest triumph. He said, Il
slung EN- -
A Troy editor took his wife to New
York Friday. The conductor, when he
came along, recognized our Try brother
rs entitled to free passage, but not
knowing the lady, whispered to him.
lis this lady friend of yours :"
No, no, said the Troy editor, in haste.
-'she is my wife.
1t was about 2'o'clock Friday morn
ing that Mrs. Rennessey, of Nelson
street, thinking she heard noise in the
kitchen, crept out of bed and to that
room to see if it was not Hennessey.
who had been expected in for several
hours. On reaching the kitchen she
found her lord and master sitting on the
floor. with his new silk hat between his
knees, and in his hat several dried her
rings and about two quarts of water.
Mr.. Hennessey was cycling the mixture
with profound qualification. John
Hennessey," screamed the lady, what
are you doing?" Me-" inquired Mr..
Hennessey. with a look Of surprise.
why, Matilda, I'm, (hic.) starting an
AhlCj ebNIbtuI ItAil III you SIISuuuS.
Mr.. O'Clarence aided Mrs. O'Clar-
ence in the domestic arrangements for
Thanksgiving by chopping mince-meat
and the turkey-stufing. There was
enough of each of these delicacies, Mr..
O'Clarence thought, to supply hospi-
tai. When he got them ready he sig
nified7T willingness to further aid her.
but she, busy elsewhere, gratefully ac-
knOwledged the kindness. but declined
further help. But when a man feels
his heart OverfOwing with love toward
his life-partner he does not stop in any
effort for her help. Mr. O'Clarence
Immediately poured the two into one.
and deftly mixed together with a long
handled spoon. Then he went down
street, the end Of his nose fairly shin
ing with good intentions toward every
body. It was near night when Mrs.
O'Clrence made the horrid discovery
that the mince-meat and turkey-stuff-
ing a half-bushel in all-were locked
in each others embrace. All the work
had to be done over again, but Mr..
O'Clarence did not participate. He was
beguiled into the cellar, and There tied
to a, beam until the ingredients were
secured against tampering with. He
says it is plain to be seen that there is
an impression in the family that he is
responsible for the trouble.
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ST. LOUIS.
Funeral of the Presidents Father-in-


EUnfTaI Oh INC k-EeSldteht y
Law.
ST. LOUIS, Dec. 20.-The remains of
Frederick Dent, the father-in-law Of Presi-
dent Grant, arrived here early this morning,
accompanied by the President, Gen. Bah
cock, Marshal Sharpe, Col. Casey, Freder-
lex Dent, and Col. Fred. D. Grant. Quite
a number Of old friends of the deceased
and intimate acquaintance Of the Presi-
dent received the remains in East st. Louis
and accompanied them as a guard of honor
to the residence of Col. John G. Dent, son
of the deceased, ;, 704 Washington avenue,
where a great number of old citizens
friends, and former neighbors of the Dent
family had assembled. Gen. John Pope
and several other military officers and u
number Of freedmen, formally slaves of the
deceased, were also present. The funeral
ceremonies were performed at 10 O'Clock,
and were very brief. Rev. John II. Brooks,
of the Presbyterian Church South, read the
services, and Rev. DR.. Morris, formerly Il
bishop of the Methodist Church North, Of
fered the closing prayer. The remains
were then conveyed to Bellefontaine ceme-
terry, where they will be buried beside
those of Mrs. Dent. The funeral cortege
was quite large. The pail bearers were Sc
lected from among the oldest citizens Sind
friends of the deceased.
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and Arkansas produce the same crop rs last
year. Texas increases hers 10 per cent,
and 50 does Tennessee, according to the
Chronicle. But Mississippi, Louisiana and
Alabama, with the finest cotton lands in
the world, show a smaller crop this year
than last. Louisiana has fallen of34 per
cent; Mississippi is, and Alabama 10 per
cent All this is still more remarkable
when we find in the compendium Of the
census of 1870, pages SOS and 500 that i'll
1860 these three States, with fewer negroes
than now, produced nearly twice as many
bales. Mississippi alone producing 1,2O3,-
600, or nearly ome-tourth of the largest
crop ever made; and Alabama producing
100000. or more than one-SiNth Of that
lage crop.
In Georgia. Tennessee and Texas Radi-
cal rule is ended. and the labor of the ne
gro is productive because regulated. In
Arkansas, Radical rule is rapidly dying out
and the labor of the negro is wellrewarded.
But in Mississippi, Louisiana and Alabama
where the soil and climate are better for
cotton than anywhere else, and where ne
groeS are as numerous as last year, the de
crease in bales is 10, Is and 81 per cent,
and 10 per cent in South Carolina. So
far as known. the seasons We're as good in
Mississippi and Louisiana as in
Georgia and Arkansas. Then why
this decrease in the production?
There can be but one answer to this queS-
ton. 1t is fo2nd in the fact that carpet
hggcrs and negroes govern South Carolina,
Mississippi and Louisiana, and no State
ever vet proSpered under that blight. No
country ever houriShed under bad laws; and
ignorant blacks. led by corrupt whites,
never vet made good ones. Is it wonder
the negro labor in these States is demoral-
lied? Can that he a healthy condition Of
society where. with the same amount OF
laboring hands, the products Of labor are
reduced from 10 to 81 per cent i'll one
wear. while, all around them, States less
favored in soil and climate increase
in similar production? Can that be wise
political economy which suddenly converts
sturdy negro farm hands into corrupt polit-
cal brawlers? Have not the Splndles and
looms of the North a deep interest in that
system of labor which is so rapidly becom-
ING demoralized that the three largest col
ton States i'm the South Weld :Jo.Ooo bales
less in 1873 than they did in 1877 WIN
this present decrease in the crop, through
mismlnaged labor, what viii be the de-
crease in ten or twenty years, when the
present adult colored cotton producers shall
have passed away?
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= IL IL II u R e.
Close of the New Orleans Meetini
Two FayOrifPs Beaten-Ralianlxel, Fall
mouth and Silent Friend the Win

Two FavOrites Beaten-BaIIanlkel,F Fall
mouth and Silent Friend the VIM
ners.
NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 20-The fall meet
ing of the Jockey Club fourth and last day,
there was fair attendance, good track
clear and cool weather. The first race was
the Haffin stake for two year ODDS one mile,
S25 entrance p. p, seven hundred added.
OF twenty-siX nominations there were-ten
starters. 1t was won by Ballankel, BayTUm
second, Parylee third, beating Col. Neligan
Stones b. C. Sweet Boy, Jim Alexander,
Larry Halt, Stampede, Bonavertisne. Time
4:465.. Ballankel took the lead and kept it
throughout, winningby length. Cottrill's
Planter ran away, going three and a halt
miles. and was withdrawn. Bayrum was the
favorite.
SECOND RACE-Consolation purse o
$500. Falmouth took the lead keeping it,
winning by two lengths, Western Star sec
ond, o U third, beating Vidal, Tom
feathers, Quartermaster, Alorile, Mary l..
and Capt. Hutchinson. Time 1:44ga. The
Western Star was the favorite, selling in
the pool first so, | o u 10, Tom feathers,
A., Falmouth 80, Field So.
THIRD RACE--Four mile heats, club
purse 81 200.
Silent Friend. ....1 l
Bonnabel. .......-.. ~
Tom Aiken fourth. Observation-Disclosures. dis.
Time IA, S:165.
Silent Friend was the favorite two to one
against the field and won easily.
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In order that Il wrong Impression
may not be conveyed by the foregoing
table, il is proper to explain that only
a few ministers receive salaries repre-
scented by the higher figures. OF the
whole number in the city, only six re-
ceiye $1,000 or upward, while the num-
her receiving over that sum is only
thirty, and only ten of the thirty are
paid SIC, 900 or over. Six Of these for
tunate ten are pastors of Episcopal
churches. Twenty Baptist ministers
get from 81 600 to $1,000; ten minis
ters in the Lutheran church are
paid from 81, 900 to $500; forty in the
Meth3list church at the same rates;
thirty in the Presbyterian church from
81 200 to $4,000; thirty-fve in the Epis-
copal from 81 900 to $500; and ten III
the Reformed Dutch from 81 900 to
$4,000. It is safe to say that not more
than half the ministers in New York
receive salaries of 50 800, while a very
large number do not get more than
half this sum. On the whole, however,
the pastors of our city churches are
pretty well rewarded in a pecuniary
sense for their services.
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1850
CHICAGO.
Hog Statistics.

CHICAGO, Dec. 20.-The following are
the returns in round numbers of the hog
packing season to date, as compared with
the same time last season: 1S72-Chica-
60, $4,000; Cincinnati, 100000; Louis
Vile, 100000; st. Louis, 100000; Des
Moines, $4,000: Detroit, 81 900; Cedar
Rapids, Qowa) $4,000; indianapolis, Ill
900; Franklin, Und) 2l,O0O; Delphi, Qndl
1000; Sioux City, 10000; Council Bluffs,
10000.
1S73-Chicago, $4,000 Cincinnati, 12O,-
900; Louisville, 230, 900; st. Louis, 100000;
Des Moines, $1,000; Cedar Rapids; $4,000;
indianapolis, 10000; Delphi, Qnd) 1900.
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LOUISVILLE.
SwindIers in a Small Way.

LOUISVILLE, Dec. 20.-During the past
two weeks the city has been visited by
numbers Of professional swindleTs, who
have in a small way had various successes.
The last swindle was by two parties styling
themselves Raymond & Co., who went
among merchants for advertisements to be
placed on time card in stations along the
entire line of the Louisville and Nashville
Railroad, and after presenting their patrons
a copy, they left in the usual fashion, with
money collected. They exhibited forged
certificate on the. Superintendent Of the
railroad and other documents. Raymond
& Co. succeeded in getting several adver-
tisementS. Detectives have the case in
hand
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IT is related of one of the children of
Mrs. Sigoulney. of Boston, whose family
was lost on the Vile du Havre, that prior
TO their sailing, though elated with the
prospect of voyage, she persisted in say
ing: "But we are all going to be drowned!'
Had they reached France in safety, nothing
would have been thought of the childish
expression, Int now it is remembered as
almost prophetic.
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CINCINNATI, Dec. 20.-The officers of
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad here are
advised that on and after next Monday
passenger rates from Baltimore to Cincin-
natl and other western cities, will be re-
duced 20 to 30 per cent. below the present
rates.
The stockholders of the Chesapeake and
Ohio Railroad reelected the old Board of
Directors to-day and the Board recognized
the same as last year.
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THE VIRGINHUS.
Fresh Complications Threatened.
Reported Demand by Spain for
the Return of the YES
sci and Survivors.
No CHRISTMAS saIute.


LONDON, Dec. 20.-Special dispatches
from Madrid say there is great rejoicing
there over a rtnnor that the Government of
the United States. has decided that the Vir-
ginius was not entitled to carry the Ameri-
can flag. The Times commenting on the
report says such decision would be con-
sistent with truth and justice.
Are We 10 Prosecute Them?
WASHINGTON, Dee. 20.-The Secretary
of State when questioned relative to the
status ofthe Virginius survivors,, said it
would be improper at this time to say any
thing on that subject.
a Startling RumOr.
MADRID, Dec. Pot is reported that
the Cabinet has decided to make demand
upon the United States for theretur Of the
steamship Virginius and the prisoners and
crew recently surrendered. 1t is also said
that in accordance with this decision, Pres
ident CASTELAR, has written to Minister
SickleS.
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FOR Il IG n.
Bengal Threatenediwith Famine.

=
CALCUTTA, Dec. 20.-One-half the sup
ply of food in Bengal is exhausted, and 1t
is believed a famine cannot be averted.
PENANGE, Dec. 20-The Dutch troops
in Acheen are in possession of all the
country on the left bank of the Acheen
river.
LONDON, Dec. 90 The report that
Barthold, of the French legation at st.
Petersburg, has been appointed Minister to
Washington is confirmed.
Cartagena-SicEIest to Resign.
MADRID, Dec. 20.-The troops besieging
Cartagena advanced to within 800 metres
of that city yesterday and took some pris-
oners. The Intfansigentes made several
sOrties, but were repulsed. The Minister
Of War has complimented the commander
of the government forces.
Gen. Sickles, American Minister, has de-
termined to tender his resignation.
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AuOtisPF AHaSsi2,

BosToE, Dec. 20.-By the deed Of en-
dowment Of the school at Penikez, given
by Mr.. Anderson, the tobacconist. Prof.
Aeassiz had the right to select his successor
as President, aud he choose his son, Alex
ander AgaSSiz.
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Foreign Mails.
NEW YORK.
CHASTITY Frauds i'm the City Of
Churches.

SalECAAtS-
New YORK, Dec 20.-It is reported that
frauds have been discovered in the Coron-
er's Office of Brooklyn; that large numbers
of fictitious inquests have been made; the
inquisition papers being made out ON ply
sician's certificates and charged for as if in
quests had been held on the bodies; further
more, that within three years six hundred
and twenty-three bogus cases of smallpox
have been charged for.
Squandered Charities.
The Committee of Supervisors now over
hauling matters find that monies appropri-
ated by the Brooklyn Commissioners of
Charities have been squandered i'll the
most outrageous manner, double prices
being paid in nearly every instance for the
purchases made. No vouchers have been
returned.
TelegraPhic Competition at an End.
1t is now stated authsritatively that the
transfer of the Pacific and Atlantic Tele-
graph Company to the Western Union was
completed yesterday, with its five thousand
miles of line and ten thousand miles of
wire. BY the terms of lease the Western
Union, which already owns three-fourths
of the stock, is TO pay four per cent per an
mum on the whole capital Of two million
dollars.
BankxruptS.
Howes I& Macy, who suspended during
the recent panic, were declared bankruptS
by default to-day, failing to put in an an
swer to the petition that they be 50 de-
clared.
legal SwindIerS.
1t is understood the Ring prosecutors,
after the trial of the leaders, willcommence
suit against some well-known law firms to
recover a portion of the enormous fees re-
ceived from the city.
Tammany ON the Ring
Tammany Hall General Committee in
session tonight adopted resolution con-
graduating thepeople Onthe conviction of a
member of the late ring, and saying justices,
iuries and attorneys who have been thus
faithful to society are entitled to the graft
tude of all good, honest citizens.
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&sTIIERE is one good thing about babies
say late traveller; ''they never change.
We have girls Of the period, men of the
world, but the baby is the same selfpos-
ses sed, fearless, laughing, voracious little
he athen i'll all ages and i'll all countries"
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ANYTHING in reason we are willing to
accept from Boston, but when they talk Of
fifty odd offers of marriage within year to
one young woman with two wooden legs
we really wouldn't.
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THE COTTON CROP-ITS POLITI-
CAL LESSON -

From the Augusta (Ark.) Bulletin.
The NclC York Financial Chronicle of
Nov. 10 puts the cotton crop Of 1872 at B.
10000 bales, and estimates that of 1873 at
3,5S0,0O0; a decrease of $4,000 bales. 1t
gives comparative tables for both years thus:
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WASHINGTON.
EfnAnGasa

WASHINGTON, Dec. 20.-The ourstand-
ing legal tenders are 80, 903,2lS.
The internal revenue receipts for the
month are 5,396;0TG and foe the fiscal wear
45, II9,567.
Foreign Mails.
The Postmaster General announces he
will arrange a system by which the Euro
pean mails will be despatched from New
York four times week on steamers sailing
on any given Tuesday, Wednesday, Thurs
day or Saturday, which according to the
post record, best fulfils the three conditions
of speed, security and certainty.
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The Poor LabOring Men Appeal for
Money.

a large meeting of working men Of this
city was held tonight at the Court House
to consider the needy situation Of thous-
ends out of employment. The burden of
the speeches made was that the working
men want either paid labor, or money to
enable them to get through the winter. A
petition was framed, addressed to the Cen
eral Council, asking for immediate action
in the way OF assistance in labor on public
works or an appropriation Of money.
Gay CHANDELIERS.
The large number Of gamblers who were
forced to discontinue faro in this city by
the police regulations, and took their tools
to Jacksonville, Ind, where they have had
a full swing for months, within the past
two days have been drivenfrom the tOwnby
the pressure brought to bear on them by the
Jacksonville reporter for the Courier
Journal. Three large, well patronized faro
banks have been broken up without the aid
of police by popular indignation, resulting
from exposures of the gambling localities.
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If the report from Madrid that
Spain demands the return Of the Vir-
ginius, does not prove an idle canard,
it must be that the Madrid mob has
broken loose again and cornered Cas-
telar. This dispatch is not Especial, ="
and comes direct from Madrid, where
the government exercises a censorship
over the telegraph. So that whether
true or not, the CASTELAR, government
has chosen to allow this startling story
to be published to the ends of the earth
this morning.
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CALIFORNIA.
Rnnth ELECTED Senafnr

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 20.-In Joint
convention to-day, Booth was elected on
the first ballot. Booths vote was sixty.
One member was absent.
Rejoicing Over the Result.
There is much rejoicing here and at Sac
ramento over the election of Booth and de-
feat Of the railroad monopoly. The result
will give unbounded satisfaction through
out the State.
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TENNESSEE BONDS closed in New
York last evening at 80 for the old
issue and SO4 for the new.
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CoTToN is quiet in New York at a
decline to l6c for middling.
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sss :1$: $ &c @ 4; s sss . :g
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GOLD touched 1l04 and 11Os in New
York yesterday, closing at 11Os@l104.