The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1873-10-15

ties to which coming years may give rise.
They should be settled now, while the facts
on which they deper are in the recolectons
of all, and can be established by the testimony
of living men. The Government has receiv-
ed the money for paying these claims, and no
time should be lost in aseertaining their
amount, and settling them to the last dollar.
Well Put.
Gov. e. q. Washburn of Wisconsin made
speech in Fond du Lac, the I'd instant, from
which we make two or three extracts. He
said, speaking of the
POSTAL TELEGRAPH:
1t is a shame, that this country, where the
telegraph was first introduced, and where, be-
cause of the character of our people, it would
be used more freely than in any other country
if it were cheap and reliable has the worst,
most expensive and unreliable system of any
civilized country on earth. | am satisfied from
a very full examination, that perfectly relia-
BILE and self-sustaining system may be adopted
in connection with our postal service, that will
permit dispatch to be sent to any part of the
country for twenty-five cents for twenty words
and one cent for each additional word In the
vast and sparsely settled country of Australia,
a postal telegraph has been in operation for sew
eral years. at uniform rate of one shilling for
twenty words, and was perfect success from
the outset. The same is true of New Zealand,
where dispatch may be sent loo miles for
one shilling. Great Britain was very
slow to adopt the system-her Australian and
New Zealand colonies, whose governments are
much like ours, both being ahead of her. The
whole continent of Europe had adopted the
system with such entire success that she was at
last forced to adoptit The result is first shown
in an increase of dispatches from 127 900 per
week in February 1870, to 1863, 451 for the week
ending Augusta, 1873, the increase of business in
that time having trebled, and the increase over
the corresponding week of last year being 49,
o96. Dispatches are now sent, prepaid by
stamps for one shilling for twenty words to any
point in the United Kingdom, and at this rate
a large revenue is brought to the government
over and above expenses The average time of
sending and delivering messages is twenty min
utes Every precautlon is taken to keep sacred
all dispatches from all eyes and ears except the
operator the party sending and receiving the
same. To that end no instrument is exposed
within the hearing of the public, and the Sc
verest penalties are imposed for delaying dis
patch or revealing its contents. If you are in
any city in Great Britain and want to commu-
nicate with any person in any town in England
Scotland or ireland, you have but to write your
dispatch, place stamp upon it, enclose it in
an envelope step to the street corner, drop it
into mail box, and you may feel perfectly GER
tain that in from one to fifteen minutes it will
be passing over the wires and an answer re-
turned within one hour.
In reference to the
COMPENSATION OF CONGRESSMAN
he said: eff you expect good service you should
send men who are willing to make some
sacrifice, and whose principal compen-
sation consists in the consciousness
of duty done, and in the honor which fol-
lows public service. honestly fearlessly and
conscentiously performed. $4,000 a year, or
$4,000 for two years, is ample to pay the ex-
peuses of a member and his family for the nine
or ten months he lives in Washington besides
Lao
he embarks in a life of luxury entirely incon-
sistent with the best class of public service.
The idea that a member must keep up a GER
tain amount of style to be respected, entirely
dissent from. Brains will tell wherever they
are. No man was more respected and honored
than the late, VIM. Pitt Fessenden, yet no
man made less show or lived with greater sim
plicity. It is my deliberate conviction that
with salary of $4,000 year, You will have
better members than at $4,000. Make the
salary large, and every smart rascal in the
country will try to bride his way through, and
many will succeed; but whether rascals or not,
big pay and a life of luxury will render mem
bers lazy and inefficient.
Mr. Washburn indicated his agreement with
Democratic editor, in the following words re-
specting
bad SMELLING PREJUDICE"
The talented and youthful editor of the Mad
ison Democrat, writing from Milwaukee at the
around, the same old Bourbons who had been
wont to run the Democratic Conventions, in an
agony of spirit, in speaking of the Democracy,
and borrowing somewhat his form OF express
sion from the Chicago Times said that it was
"a bad smelling prejudice" and prayed that it
might be buried $50 deep that it may never
come to the surface again to offend the olfacto-
ries of sensitive community" to which
prayer we can all shout amen.
ADrc Tba ri
Democrat says neghborhood quarrel among
few families, living about mile from Paris
village, eliminated last Saturday evening in a
serious affray. Henry G. Hammond, painter,
and Edwin Stearns, each in gigs, were riding
from the hill, and having high words they
reached the house occupied by Lysander But
terrified. Mr.. Butterfeld heard them quarrel
ing and asked Stearns "what was up" Ham
mond had some words, when Butterfield told
him to leave, which he did. Stearns lives near
by and also left. Butterield went into his
barn to take care of the cattle, when his wife
soon shouted to him that they had come back.
Coming out of his barn with his hoe in his
hand he found Henry G. Hammond. and his
brother George R., both stout young men, with
whom he had had the difficulty for some time
They put blanket on their horse, and Butter
field saw another brother and the father Peleg
Hammond. approaching Some words passed,
when Henry G. Hammond gave the lie to But
terrified, who Immediately struck him with his
hoe on the right side of the head, cutting
through portion of the outer bone of the
skull Hammond fell on his face senseless
and has been unconscious much of the time
since. Dr.ST. III. Brown was called and dress
ed the wound, which he regards as very dan
gerous one. Butterfield was arrested by Sher-
if Stacy Monday morning.
STRANGE SUICIDE IN IowA,-On Sunday last
while young farmer uamed Michael Collins,
residing in Washington township, near Du
buque Ia, was entertaining some guests who
had paid himself and his wife visit, he had a
slight verbal controversy with his wife. When
it was over he left the house, saying that she
would never see him again From the house
he repaired to corn-field near by, swallowed
some strychnine anu then returned to the house
telling his friends what he had done Every
etfo that suggested itself at the moment was
made to save his life, but he died in fifteen
minutes Collins was about twenty-sev wears
old, and had been married for a year. With
the exception of occasional previous threats to
take his life his married life had not been
marked by any special infelicty
SERIOUS CHARGES AGAINST Coon DANrrr.
DREW. A New York special says:
There is considerable talk on the street in re-
gard to the petition to declare Daniel Drew
bankrupt. Many persons think it is true that
Mr.. Drew has been secretly disposing of proper
ty so as to escape responsibility for the liabil-
ties of Kenyon, Cox & Co.
Some declared that the charges against him
originated in his refusal to aid the firm when
it was on the verge of suspension. Mr. Scott,
the petitioner, says That his suit was for about
$3.50, 900. He deposited that amount with the
firm, who were his bankers. His complaint al
leges that Mr. Drew has mortgaged his private
residence at Seventeenth street and Union
square to his grandchildren for $250000, since
the failure of his firm, and that he claims to be
indebted to them in that amount.
Mr.. Scott believed that the mortgage was
made to enable Mr.. Drew to defraud his credi-
tors. He said that Mr. Drew was generally re-
puted to be worth from six to ten Millions
Among Mr.: Scott's charges against Mr.. Drew
is onethat he secretly disposed of some of the
assets of the firm without their knowledge
1t is alleged that they carried large line of Sc
curities tor him, and were compelled on ac-
count of their decline to put heavy margins on
them.