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The Hickman courier., 1874-03-28
The Wear and Tear of Currency.

A correspondent of the New York
Evening Post discusses an interesting
point in the currency question, which,
though it has not been touched upon IN
the congressional debates, is not new
one. as the Posts correspondent as
sumes. Something over a year ago we
estimated the entire loss of legal-ten-
ders and bank notes from wear and
Tear. destruction in fires, and by the
sinking of vessels end steamboats, at
about So, 200, 600. The Posts cores
pondent, however, prints an elaborate
table to show that the average loss has
been over l per cent. per annum on the
entire volume of paper currency, aud so
figures up a total loss of ST5, ,OOO, GOO IN
tbe twelve wears since 1861, and to sus-
tain this position, refers to Treasurer
Spinner's annual report for 1873, IN
which. after stating the amount OF
United States currency outstanding at
the close of tho fiscal year, Nov. /,
c3SS. .414. .649. %, he says From tins
amonnt there should be allowed lGge
margin for notes of all kinds that may
have been destroyed and lost, and that
Will never be presented forredemption
| ON page II, referring to the loss on the
| issue of "postal currey3y, he states
! ssTbese facts would seem to indicate
| that nearly the whole of this. issue
ORIGINALLY amounting to $40, 30, $50
Thai still exists, has been redeemed
The Hickman courier., 1874-03-28
The air seemed fulEof Katies

The air seemed fulkof Katies. I
could have stopped tit engine, if I'd
only had sense enough D know what to
take hold of to reverse tri But / was
too drunk And that hand little an
! gel stood up to it, tryihs Is warn us in
time, and we just rushea. .nlong into
pile of ties some wretck-d plac d on
the track right over " baby !-Ohl
my baby Go away, Gibrge.
There And do you Fans me to tell
you how that mangled Title ma killed
her mother? Aud do J9u want me TO
tell you [ walk a live knuderer OF nv
! own child who stood uh to save me
And do You want me q tell you the
good.fellowship you wer dlfinkin' awhile
ago brought all this on4e?
You'll let this pass by.inakin' uD your
mind 10 be moderate. ffepe you will.
[ was a moderate 'un.
%, God Oh my bs
can knock down an - a twice nv
fize 5t for or good good iss reason rge .I Barks,
III lesflQ fsQ aqBSs BSs fass1s. a:l Z : xisaceLofraine
into the German Empire, presented a
novel question OF Legislation TO the
German Riechstag last month. The
fourteen deputies allowed a seat in that
body from the new provinces, made q
formal entry on the 9th ult., and asked
a special privilege, that as they could
not speak the German language, they
might be permitted TO address the body
in French. The simple request pre-
sents strikingly the difficulty Germany
meets IN governing its new territory.
Imagine fourteen deputies in our con-
gress, unfamiliar with our language,
representing a conquered province
whose people hated our government and
people, and were only biding their
time to rise in iusurrection whenever
their former compatriots should come
to their rescue On the day referred
to the deputies formally protested
against the policy o, the German gov
ernment in its police regulations In
these provinces.
The protest was bluntly met by
Moltke and Bismarck. The former very
pointedly said IN his plea for a large
standiS army ~ that so great a work as
establishing the German empire was
not accomplished in a space of time,
sn1 what they in half year had com
quered with sword in hand they must
protect fer half century with the
sword Also" Bismarck answered the
complaints of the new deputies in a
style which was both stiuging and indi-
cative of a purpose to hold the country
for some time to come. He said:
{" We never expected that the Alsa-
tians would greet our Institutions with
applause People have to accustom
themselves to foreign institutions, and
when you have been with EGermsny for
two hundred years the results of your
comparisons viii be in Germany favor.
From the acquaintance / have made of
the gentlemen here, / believe l should
seriously endanger my responsibility if
L were to diminish the power of the
governor of the imperial province. In
France there are twenty Eight depart
ments in a state of siege. Remember
how we came to annex sIisass-Lorain
what we required was a pnlwark to de-
fend our rights. The AS4atians are GER
tainly not free from blau e for what has
They participated in the
which Ted ttsfhe war that
I,roEa ont aoefrsz, E<-,I -
Tbi@ is the bAss ard ilees
The Y y S.aSsss.lhI y E1iti
The Hickman courier., 1874-03-28
GENEPAL.

The Virginia senate passed bill ap-
propriating 15,OOO.for the purpose Of encOur-
aging actual land purchasers and settlers to
come to Virginia. The board OF immigration
will have authority to send three commission
ers to Europe, two or three to be natives Of
Europe now residents in. Virginia.
1t is reported that the dead body
found in the road near Independence, No, a
few days ago, was that OF Albert Pinkerton,
detective who had been trailing the robbers Of
the Iron Mountain train at Gad's Hill in jan
uary last. He is supposed to have been killed
bv the Younger or James Brothers, or some Of
their friends living in Clay county.
A meeting of Louisiana bond-hoIders
was recently held in London, and resolutions
adopted denouncing the funding bill passed
by the late sess on Of the Louisiana legis'a-
ture as arbitrary, unjust and injudicious, and
calculated TO shake confidence. The meeting
resolved to take mea- -ures to resist the carry
ing into effect the provisions Of the bill
The Hickman courier., 1874-03-28

mat state to use their influence to have articles
nYe and SIX OF the treaty with China modified
80 a. 10 discourage further immigration of CHI
hese Inc committee on public lands re-
ported unfavorably on the senate bill granting
AID to the Atlantic and Great Western canal
company, and the committee was discharged
IIon lts Iurther consideration. Mr.. Sher-
man submitted resolution that the bill to
equallze national bank circulation, under discus
sion for several weeks, be made the special or
der for Monday a next and it was 90 or
morning hourE the senate pespr,e5
consideration of the army appropria-
ton bill. After several amendments were Of
Tered and rejected, the bill was passed. -. The
Notification bill was taken up. The total
amount appropriated by the bill for the next
hscal year, as reported by the committee is
SSO4, ,oUO. The amount appropriated for the
present fiscal year was 81 S47 900 The est;-
mates for the present fiscal year were 50. 326-
OOO- The revised estimates are 81 4O7 500
The amount appropriated for the next fiscal
year Is less than half that appropriated for
the present one. The fertilization bin was |
amended so as to provide tha. appropriations |
therein made should be for the fiscal year
ending June 30, lS75 and passed
In the house, on the Goth, nearly the |
entire session was consume in the discussion |
of District Of Columbia affairs
- lserrhlt . xree excnange OF chIreney. and |
asking that the volume oflegal tenders be fixed |
at four hundred millions. were referred. ~
The committee on territories reported. without |
amendment. the bill providing for the forma- |
ton Of Pembina territory. The new territory |
Is to consist Of that portion Of Dakota which |
lies north OF the forty-sixth parallel embracing
an area Of about II 900 square miles,. The |
senate resumed the consideration of the bill !
70 equalize currency, and Mr.. Morton adj /
dressed the senate at length thereon, in course |
OF which the Gus omary sparring took place /
between that gentleman and Mr. Schurz
In the house, on the 23d, bills were |
introduced: Repeating the law which forbids |
the payment for army supplies, etc, to per-
sons not known to a. opposed to the rebel-
lion authorizing III Washington, Cincinnati
and ST. Louis railroad company TO extend and
construct its line into the District OF Colum-
bia, and through West Virginia, Ohio, Indiana
and Illinois to st. Louis, aud a branch road
from some point on it in Indiana to Chicago
and giving guarantee of the United States of
its first mortgage bonds as sections of the
road are completed. Senate bill appropri-
ating 10000 for expenses of the district in
committee was passed. The cur
rency bib, after considerable discussion, was
to IL The bill fixes the amount !
Of legal tender notes at e400, 100000
The Hickman courier., 1874-03-28
IVES T.

A terrific hurricane, accompanied by
lightning and rain, passed over Cairo, Ills,
on the 18Th INST, causing great destruction.
The temperance crusade is rapidly
spreading throughout Michigan. 1t is being
very generally succsssfulin the smaller towns.
A dispatch received from Gen. Ter
ry's headquarters says no trouble is appre-
hehded from the Indians at I.eech lake. This
sorrects previous reports sent to Washington.
A special from Sedalia, No., reports
that the notorious Younger brothers, who were
supposed to have been engaged in the Iowa
railrsad train robbery some months ago, were
attacked at Monagsw Springs, St. Clair county
No, by party OF detectives, in which one OF
the Younger brothers and two detectives were
killed.
The California senate has passed a
compulsory edu,ation bill. The governor has
approved the bill providing for training ship
for boys IN San Francisco harbor. Application
will be made to the federze government for
suitable vessel. He also approved the bill
granting the right OF way TO the Texas Pacific
railway to San Diego.
Bishop Whipple, OF Minnesota, is
out ia letter in bshalf OF the Chippewa Il
dianE, in which be takes the grounda that the
state has 10 interest IN their lands He pro-
shows how they have been sronged by the
state, and Gays fhat in few years they VIII
have no means OF support.
The Hickman courier., 1874-03-28
The Hudson Bay Company.


This company, one of the oldest of
stock corporations, will shortly surren-
der is title to land and vested powers,
all the arrangements for tie transs sRr
having been made. It will still retain,
however, sc, 600 acres of the best land
in British America, besides claims upon
one twentieth of the remainder. In re-
turn for its surrender of its other prop
erty and rights it will receive 81, 800, 600
in gold from the Dominion of Canada.
This company was organized more than
two hundred years ago, and in 1873 de-
clared its first dividend. Its charter
gave the company the exclusive privi-
lcge of establishing trading factories"
Grading posts on the HUDSON Bay and
its tributary rivers. A new charter gave
it the exclusive right to trade in nearly
the whole of British America from 1888
to 1859.
The company also leased a large part
of Russian America. The capital of the
company in 1888 was about 81, 900, 900,
and was held by about two hundred and
fifty stockholders.
The stock has been sold for 400 per
cent. premium, and has always paid
large dividends The parliament OF
England made the company the judicial
authority of the section IN which Its
ira ers operated, and criminals were
confined in the company's forts, or else
transferred to the jails of Canada. The
exclusive privileges expired by limita
ton in 1859, but the company had OBJ
tanned such a foothold that the business
was maintained, Notwithstanding the
loss of us powers. Negotiations were
almost Immediately commenced between
the Crown, the Dominion of Canada
and the company for the sale of the
latter's lands to Canada for 81 500, 600,
the company to have he right to reserve
not more than 1 1000 acres around each
of the forts or stations, the whole
amount reserved not TO exceed 80, 900
acres. The deed of surrender was made
in 1869, and during the last two years
surveyors have been at work making
maps of the property transferred and
+ served. The twenty-five maps have
been completed, and as soon as the sur
veyor's wports have been accepted, the
final work of surrender will take place.
Some of the land reserved by the COM
pany is extremely valuable, as is shown
by the fact that thirteen acres of one
reservation, near Lake Winnepeg, were
sold last month for 500, 900.
The Hickman courier., 1874-03-28
FOREIGN.

The emperor of Japan has ordered
that his own income shall pay taxes equally
with his subjects. He viii pay about twenty
five thousand dollars.
The Daily News says it haH been
given to understand on good authority that
Disraeh viii be adverse to the early release OF
the remaining Fenian prisoners.
Tho Duke of Padua and other distin-
guished persons who took part in the recent
demonstration at Chiselburst, have been
removed from mayoralties and other offices
held by them under the government.
The Vose de Cuba has information of
the killing OF insurgent Col. Celisorio Peralla
and sixteen Of his men by Spanish troops
Senior YilIamel intendente Of Havana, has re-
signed. Senior Manas is his successor.
Viscount de Gortout Biron, French
ambassador at Berlin, is about to resign in
consequence OF unpleasant relations with
Prince Bismarck. An adjournment Of the
reichstag is probable onsccount Of BismaIck's
illness.
The Kingston (Jamaica) Cleaner says:
'.In accordance with instructions received from
her majesiy's government, an inquiry viii
shortly be held in respect to the British sub
jects captured on board the steamer Yirginius
and shot by order of Gen. Burriel."
The Carlists' military agent in Lon
don has received dispatch from the Carlist
Junta in Bayonne, saying Gen. Palaccios Is
pnpaieal ioIllf1i ifhGjf 42is 9Isad IlLRs "a
lila, fl miles south OF Cuenea-
The English house of commons have
passed bill appropriating $4,000, 600 for the
expenses Of the Ashantee expedition, and Mr.
Anderson gave notice that he would ask the
government whether it was willing TO co-op-
eraie with the United States in fixing sailing
tracks for vessels crossing the Atlantic.
Prince Kalakina has been elected
king of Hawaii, to osucceed Lunellllo. There
was a serious riot at Honolulu when the cleo
ton was made known. When the announce
ment of Queen Emma's defeat was made, the
mob attacked the house OF the assembly AID
beat several of its members, one OF whom AZ
terwards died, tore up the seats and desks,
and set fire to the house, when the United
States and British mariners landed and dis
persed the mob. w L. Green, minister of
foreign affairs, rendered the thanks Of the
government for the timely interference. The
king is still threatened with assassination.
The Hickman courier., 1874-03-28
Railroads in India.

The first railroad in India WIS compile
ted and the first train of cars started in
1852. Since that time over five thous-
and miles Of railway have been built
and put into operation. The East In
dia railway, northwest from Calcutta,
extends fifteen hundred miles, and the
Great India Peninsular railway,
northwest from Bombay, with its
branches, is about the same length.
Passengers by this line are now less
than three days between Calcutta and
Bombay, thus saving the long sea voy-
age around Cape Comorin. In spite Of
the restrictions of caste, railway travel
ing is very popular with all classes Of
the natives, who are packed promiscu-
ously in the cars and, in fact, this
very mingling is doing more to break
down the distinctions of caste, which
have so long and 50 widely separated
the different ranks, thaEcould possibly
be done by any appeal to reason or conf
science. Science and civilization wd
thus rapidly breaking down the barrier5
of superstition and prejudice, and
promoting practical brotherhood, and
preparing tho way for the progress q
trnth.
The Hickman courier., 1874-03-28
Dickens aud the women's Crusade.

The following story by Dickens will
be read th satisfaction, we hope, both
by thosee Who favor and those who op-
pose the new crusade against intem-
perance:
Once upon time, as Mr.. Dickens re-
lates in his '' Tale of Two Cities" there
that xdu is m to bQdysnatchef. HspsTop'i bg the
name of Jerry CrurTcher, in whose house
the scene of our tale opens, just as the
hero awakens after a night spent at his
favorite occupati n.
Mr.. Cruncher reposed under patch
work counterpane, like a harlequin at
home. AT first he slept heavily, but
by degrees began to roll and surge in
bed, until he arose above the surface,
with his spiky hair looking as if it
must tear the sheet to ribbons. At
which juncture he exclaimed, in voice
of dire evaporation:
''Bust me, If she amt at it again !"
A woman of orderly and industrious
appearance rose from her knees in a cor
ner with sufficient haste and trepidation
TO show that she was the9person re-
feTred to.
agin, are YOU ---s7r
Alter hailing the morn with this sec
ond salutation, he threw a boot at the
woman as a third.
What" said Mr.. Cruncher, varying
his apostrophe after missing his mark,
What are you up to, Aggerawayter?" ?"
81 was only saying my PRAYERS.
"Saying your prayers You are a
nice woman What do you mean by
hooping yourself down and praying
agin me?'
81 was not praying against you;
was praying for you.
You wer'nt. And if you were, I
won't be took the liberty with. Here
Your mothers nice woman, Jerry, go
ing a praying agin your fathers pres
perity. 4 p've got a dutiful mother,
you have, my son. You've got reli-
eious mother, you have, my boy going
and Hopping herself down, and pray
ing that the bread and butter may be
snafoheS out of the mouth of her only
MasteN Cruncher (who was in his
shirt took this very i'll, and, turning to
his mother, strongly deprecated any
praying away of his personal board.
"And what do you suppose, You con-
ceited female" said Mr.. Cruncher, with
unconscious inconsistency, Z" that the
worth of your prayers may be? Name
| the price that you put your prayers at. "
They only came from the heart,
Jerry. They are worth no more than
that"
"Worth no more than that ?' re-
peated Mr.. Cruncher. They amt
worth much then. Whether or no, /
won't be prayed agin, tell you. !
can't afford it. m not going to be made
unlucky for bur sneaking. If yon
must go Topping yourself down, flop in
favor of your husband and child, and
not in opposition to 'em. II had any
but an unnatural mother, might have
made some money iast week, instead OF
being counterprayed and countermined
and being religiously circumwonted into
the worst of luck. "Bu-u-st," said
| Mr.. Cruncher, who had been all this
time putting on his clothes, "if l amt,
what with piety and one blowed thing
aud another, been choused this last
week into as bad luck as ever a poor
devil of an honest tradesman met with.
Young Jerry, dress yourself, my boy,
on your mother now and then, and il
you see any signs of any more Hopping,
| give me call. For 1 tell you, here he
addressed his wife once more, 81 won't
be gone agin in this manner r'
The Hickman courier., 1874-03-28
CONGRESSIONAL.


In the senate, On the 18th, after vari-
v.- ...ir,1se.1,a- = --enlossals and petitions were
disposed or The BIN TO equafize the distri5tI-
tiUn OF currency was taken mp, and, after
some discussion, SAs laid over. The army
bill was considered, and the amendments re-
ported by the committee were concurred IN.
The most important of the ecommittee's amend
ments reduces the house appropriations. for
pay of the army travelling expenses, etc, from
$Il, ,450, 600 to I'll, 400, ,00O It strikes out the
provision that more than ten cents per mile
shall be allowed for travelling expenses. 1t
reduces the house appropriation for subsist-
ence from 81. 452, ,416 to 80 400, 000 and redu-
ces the appropriation for quarter-master's 8
supplies from 81, SOC, 600 to 81, 250, 600. The
appropriation for Incidental expenses is re-
duced from 81. 800, 000 to S1,200.O0O, and that
for the hire Of quarters from Il, 5OO, OO0to 81 :,
400 900. That for the preservation Of cloth
ing from moths is reduced from 900 to
$50, 600. The committee heretofore recon-
mended that the house appropriation of Si0.-
600 for medical works for the army medical
army museum and surgeon-generars Office be
reduced to So, 900, but to-day advised that that
amendment be withdrawn and the amount
be left as fixed by the house. Pending the dis
cussion the sena'e adjourned
In the house, on the 18th, the session
was devoted exclusively to debate on the bill
to regulate Interstate and railroad commerce,
on which subject written speeches were deliv-
cred The evening session was given to the
| bill to revise andconsolidate the statutes. The
attendance at both sessions was small and
the proceedings devoid OF any geneeal inter-
| est.
In the senate, on the 19;h, a bill
amendatory of the act to prevent the extermi-
nation of fur animals in Alaska was passed f.:
also to authorize the employment of certain
alien engineers and pilots; also appropriating
| SIC, 600 to pay the expenses of the joint com
mi,tee to investigate into the management of
affairs 10 the District Of Columbis. The rest
of the session was consumed in considering
the army appropriation bill.
In the house, on the 10Th, the princi-
pal business was the consideration OF the leg
isiative, executive and judicial appropriation
BILL But small progress was made.
In the senate, on the Doth, resolu-
tton OF the Legislature of California was pre-
| sented, protesting against any further subsidy
to the Pacific Mail steamship company, and
iastructing senators and representatives from
The Hickman courier., 1874-03-28
Protecting Southern Seaports From
Yellow Fever.

Representative Bromberg's bill to es-
tablish a national quarantine system is
opposed by many of the New York
members on the ground that it would
interfere with the state quarantine es-
tabllshment. = Mr. Bromberg replied to
this objection hat this would not nee
essarily be the case, for the state Off
cials could enforce any local regulations
after the government officers had exam
ined a vessel. In reply to the objection
that 1t is not a legitimate function Of
the general government to look after the
health of the people, the author of the
bill refers to the fact that in 1865, when
the rinderpest prevailed in Canada, con-
gress prohibited the transportation of
cattle except under such regulations as
the president might prescribe. If it is
competent for congress to legislate for
the health of the cattle of the country,
he thinks there can be no question as to
its power to mako regulations to guard
the hEblth of citizens The chief OBJ
jeet q the bill is to protect the south
ern seaports from the introduction of
yellow fever. Local quarantines have
been found to be insufficient. They are
almost always enforced too late, because
the loca& a&huthorities hesitate to admit
the dan ger that exists for fear of injur-
ing business by creating alarm among
the people, and when they are enforced
they do not protect southern cities from
the introduction of the disease by per
sons who have landed on other parts of
tho coast and enter them by rail.