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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1874-01-05

Indiana is to have q new State house,
TO cost $2,000,O00, and to be free from
useless ornament. The new building will
be erected on the site of the present Cap
itol.
Gen. Gushing denies that he is the ai-
thor OF the editorial criticsn@ Judge
Williams recent opinion relating to the
Nirginius, which appeared in u Washing
ton Sunday paper.
Chicago has on hand 5000, 600 of the
funds contributed for relief purposes at
the time of the great fire. OF this sum an
expenditure of $1,000 per day is now be-
ing made for the relief of the poor
Wen, this was aggravating! A happy
Hartford couple had n silver wedding,
and among the gifts received was fine
silver tea set. Alas, they had to give it
up the next day. 1t was left by Il mistake
of the eXprcssman.
The frs. son and legal heir of Napoleon
II. has been discovered in San Francisco.
according to one of TIE newspapers OF
that city. lie is 63 yaars old, and says he
was kidnapped and brought to this country
at the age of five.
Isaac Farneman, the defaulting treas
urer of Carroll county, Ind, who embez-
zled $1,000 Of public money, has been
sentenced to the State Prison for three
years and forever disqualified from holding
any Office of trust or profit.
The people of that remarkable colony
on Pitcairn's Island in the Pacific, the
defendants of the mutnecrs of the Bounty,
now numbering Is, are very destitute,
and aid has been sent TO them from san
Francisco.
A Missouri wife lis mentioned in the
newspapers who sold her piano. bought
with the proceeds q sewing-machine and
material enough to make herself and her
husband a suit of clothes. These she
made up on the machine: and her proud
husband told everybody about it. Mark
the result. In two weeks the four sisters
of that smart woman were all married
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THE PRESIDENTS RECEPTION.

The Presidents Reception at new years
was an interesting affair. All classes Of
people were out in large numbers. The
Times Correspondence says:
Promptly at IL O'Clock came Admiral
Polo, the Spanish Minister, being the first
to arrive. He left his carriage and pro-
ceeded quietly to the Red Parlor. lie was
attired in gorgeous state dress weighed
down with gold bullion, ribbons, csorses.
and stars. His face is very pleasant one,
smooth and benevolent, awell set off by
light iron-grey whiskers. 10 appearance
he might easily be taken for an English OF
American naval officer. He was aeon.
panied by his son. Mr.. Luis Polo, and
First Secretary OF Legation Mr. Potestad
who Yielded nothing TO his chief in rich
ness Of dress. Then came Sir Edward
Thornton. the English Minister, another
mass OF moving gold lace and bullion
accompanied by Lady Thornton and The
Misses Thornton. Baron Charles Ledercr
Minister from Austria, came next, attire,
In the diplomatic full dress, aud accom-
panied by his Secretary of Legation, Mr.
PepgclmulIer, who was dressed in cos
tume tha. would enable him 10 make hi
fortune on any stage. This costume
The Hungarian full dress. lie was an oil
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1874-01-05
STATE OF MAINE.

FLASHING TOY, SS.-Court Of County Comaiis.
sionerS, at 4Ndchias, December Informed Term
Il. ID. 1873.
Upon the foregoing petition. entered in this Comi
at this Term, satisfactory evidence having been re.
ceivcd that the petitioners and ought
to be heard touching the matter set forth in said
petition, it is ORDERED, That notice be given to al
parties and corporations interested that the County
Commissioners will meet at Bosworth's Hotel in
said jackson Brook, on Wednesday, the twenty.
fifth day of February, A. ID. 1874 at nine O'Clock A
NJ, and thence proceed to view the route mention.
ed in said petition, Immediately after which view
they will give hearing to all parties and corpora
tions interested at said Bosworhs Hotel, and take
such further action in the premises they may
judge proper. And the owners of said TOWNSHIP
No. ., Range 3, being unknown to said Commits sion
ers said notice Is to be given by publishing an at
tested copy OF said petition with this order Court
thereon six weeks successfully in the "KennebeC
Journal" a newspaper printed at Augusta, it being
the State Paper, the last publication to be thirty
days at least before said twenty fifth day OF Febru
airy, that all parties interested therein may appear
and be heard if they think proper
Attest p. il. LONGFELLOW, Clerk.
true copy Of petition and order OF Court there
on.
Gw52 Attest p. II. LONGFELLOW, Clerk.
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CONGRESS-.

Congress meets again to-day, and we
hope in temper 10 go forward with its
work successfully. We trust that the few
days which members have been able to
spend with their constituents will not be
lost upon Congress. The business of the
session is of such a character that all eyes
are turned towards Washington. There
have been times of course of more serious
perplexty and anxiety in national affairs,
but senators and representatives who do
not get close down to the thoughts and
feelings of the people who elected them,
would be somewhat surprised to know
how keenly their acts are watched.
There are some who affect to believe
the voters care little about the repeal OF
the increase of salaries act. Whoever be-
lieves this is deluded The act increasing
the pay was and is condemned by the best
class of republicans, by the press, relig-
ious as well as political, and the indigna-
ton against it is not as is charged by its
defenders the work of demagogues. Its
enactment was not the work of the repub-
lican party, but its repeal should be. We
hope to be able 10 announce soon that this
wrong is corrected, and that the republi-
cans in Congress have been instrumental
in accomplishing it.
The question OF supplying the wants OF
the treasury requires to be answered at
this session. After all the retrenchment
and cutting down Of expenses it is thought
there will be deficiency of twenty mil
lion dollars to be provided for by loan or
taxation. Congress may hesitate we be-
lieve to accept the calculation or PROPOSE
ton that there will be a deficiency of twenty
millions. The panic is over; business is re-
viving all over the country; the payment
of interest and dividends this month will
let loose and put in circulation large sums
of money TO quicken the wheels OF COM
mcrce and the hands of industry; conf
dencc is being restored; and AS a result
Of the activity and prosperity that are
tSdih commencing luc CoHcIS VI thC ticuS-
ury will be filled as before the financial
troubles, and that we think at no very dis
tant day. In the reaction which is taking
place the treasury will inevitably recover
a portion of the revenue lost by the panic,
for production and importation will both
be stimulated and increased to make good
the decrease during the months in which
products and imports though steadily con-
sumed were not replenished, and the rev.
enues viii be correspondingly increased.
Unless the wants of the treasury are inn
mediate and urgent it may be lifted out of
its difficulties by the natural course of
business.
With the salary increase repealed, the
finances again running smoothly, and the
session devoted faithfully in other respects
to the public interest, Congress may feel
well satisfied with its labors and will mer-
it the approval of the people at home. If,
however. no regard is paid to public SEN
timent, and such measures are adopted as
will not bear scrutiny, the consequence
,y;Il no avtrana 1;scatis faction
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Members of the Legislature

nEsIRlNG home for the winter, are informed
- that can ACCOMMODATE eight with first class
board at
Very Reasonable Prices.
A sitlng.room for their use will be provided free
of charge. MRS. II. W. MORTON,
dec3l.ftC Elm Street.
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Daily Kennebec journal
DURING THE SESSION OF TIE
FIfty.Third Legislature Of Maine,
Beginning Jan. z, 1874.
OFFICE OF THE
DAILY kESNEBEC JOURNAL,
AVN WEEKLY KESSEBEC Journal,
Ns'D " 49, .r-rr. Nnyamher lSl2

DAILY EENNEBEC JOURNAL,
Ann WEEKLY KESSEBEC JOURNAL, |
AUGUSTA, November, lsiS.J
It's unnecessary TO say that every farmer, mer
chant LAWYER ana business man. III the ota as vi
Maine will be interested in the acts qa tns fly
relation to the doings of that body WINE IN session
TIE Daily kennebec Journal will give full reports
of each days proceedings during INC sesSioN' "AN
will DE
The LEGISLATIVE journal.
s,n.crfhers will have in it a complete Daily Pa.
per with the latest by telegraph from all par
Of the world editorials, local, state, national anu
foreign news correspondents &c, ; M to he well
informed from day to day of the proceedings Oh !ne
next Legislature, and We offer 1t upon the ioiIo"ins
very liberal terms
One copy Of Daily Kennebec Journal; 10
enc address, for the session: S1Oo; ES.e
copies, Ss.s5, Ten copies, $1,000. Addi-
tfonal Subscribers taken at the same RATE
We shall depend almost exclusively NJ on the et-
forts of our friends throughout The Stale, senators'
Members of the House, Postmasters, and interest
ed parties generally, to make up large snbscrip-
tion list. A.. -, .a,1i,r
money as above to the undersigned, shall nave an
extra copy for himself; any person sehdihs the
money for ten, as above, shall have an extra copy
for himself; for every additional clno OF ten tue
person raising it shall have an additional copy ior
All clubs must be raised before the seventh day
of January as none will be received alter me ses,
sion opens; only single subscriptions at the fui
rate will then be taken. Those who want the com
pete legislative record should begin win Inc hrst
issue: back numbers can not be furnished.
Those who intend to raise clubs had better begin
in good season and not delay until about the begin
ming of the session, as some have done IN years
past to their own loss and onr great Inconvenience
Biogrsphical Notice of each Member
Of the Legislature Will be published In the
Daily KeMnebec Journal.
SPRAGUE, OWEN Il NASH,
Publishers of the Daily Kennebec Journal,
and The Weekly kenncbec journal.
New-York tribune., 1874-02-23

The body which elected Sykes had quorum OF
members held certificates of election which on their
face were regular and correct and had the entire
Legislature met in body the SIX Democrats from
Barbour County would. by parliamentary usage
have been seated, and the Legislature thus organ
lzed would have elected Sykes since the majority of
the whole did actually vote for him. The subse-
Quent unseating 0f six Of these members would not
affect the validity Of this election as has been re-
Sykes has legal right 10 the scat, though be was
not chosen by majority of the Legislature elected
by the people.
But the Supreme Court Of Alabama has rendered
q decision which adds o new complication to the
case. The Legislature had to elect State Printer,
and the Office is q valuable Each of the rival
bodies chose man to this Office and after the fusion
each claimed the right to retain it. suit was
brought by one Of them in the State Courts to re-
cover the Office, and the case appealed to the
Supreme Court Of the State which recently rendered
its opinion in favor Of the man chosen by the Re
publican OF Court house body. The ground OF the
decision is that the members of the Legislature who
were fualy found to be entitled 10 the seats were
members of the Legislature from the time of their
election and that therefore their action asmembers
of the Courthouse Legislature was valid. This de-
cision il will be seen, sustans the legality of the
Court-h house body and, if it is binding on the SEN
ate. will secure TO Spencer his seat. The arguments
in the case on the side of Sykes have occupied two
days and the case will continue at the next meeting
of the Committee,
New-York tribune., 1874-02-23
THE POSTAL SERVICE.
IMPORTANT CHANGES PROPOSED IN TTTF PoST-OFFICE
ADMINISTRATION BY THE APPROPRIATIONS COM
NITTFR.



lGIrRAL PRRss pIsPITCB.l
WASHINGTON, Feb. 22-The Senate Committee
Appropriations will propose several important
changes in the Post Office administration. These
were intimated in part by Senator Morrill, of Maine
in the debate which took place on JAN 20, pending
the consideration of the Post Route bill. In that
debate Mr. Morrill, alluded to the fact that the Post
master General estimates that the earnings Of the
Department will be some $29000OO0, and that there
will be deficiency of $7000,000 and over, making
over SS6. OOOOO Not dollar of this amount goes
through the Treasury of the United States or is sub
ject to its audit or control This Department there
fore is independent of the Treasury. If the Depart
ment is to be kept within its reasonable bounds,
that it will not break itself down this kind OF legs
lation must be arrested.
The Committee viii propose an amendment TO the
law so as TO provide that, after June So 1874,
veyance in the mails of samples Of merchandise,
packages of clothing, Seeds cuttings, bulbs, roots,
cicDs, samples of metals, ores and neurological
specimens and bound books shall cease, and all the
laws authorizing such conveyance shall be repealed.
The reason for proposing such repeal is that the mails
are numbered with, among other things, beehives
with live bees in them, fed with honey, and shell
tered by glass boots and shoes groceries, nnd other
inconguous articles, which sent through
the mails under the provision that every
thing except some dangerous HquldS, can be
sent through The mails if not weighing over fou-
pounds. These articles fill up the postal mail cars
and are carried by our present system like the let
ters, which must 20 as rapidly as possible upon the
trains to seek their immediate distribution: and
the effect is that an The aee0fin0dations which the
Postmaster General get upon the postal car sys-
tenn are not sufficient for the adequate, rapid and
satisfactory distribution of the matter which ought
to pass through the mails alone. The railroad com
panies are paid by weight for the exact amount
they carry and it is therefore contended that n the
mails shall be relieved from the carrying Of nerchan
disc there VIII be considerable saving to the Gov.
eminent
The effort Of the Appropriation COMMITTEE will be
to make the POst-offce Depar ennent medium trans
mitting intelligence simply, Some, if not majority
of the Committee, are ia favor of sbolshing the
postal car system ard Of repeating the clause pro-
vidog for the free delivery of letters; the latter
the ground that large spent for the benefit
Of the residents in few cities, while the people at
large are taxed to pay fOrit IL is estimated THAT
such changes woud nearly cover the amount speei-
fed as Deficiencies.
New-York tribune., 1874-02-23
INDIAN CONTRACTS.

FURNISHED CONGRESS As 10 1nR TX
TENT AND NATURE oP THE CONTRACTS SINCE
July, 1S73-NTEREsTING ACCoUNTs-GEN. G. NJ.
DODGE one OF THE HEAVIEST INDIAN CON-
TRACTORS ON TIE FRONTIER.
!rReN REGULAR CoRREsPQB1ENT OF THg TRIBUTl
WASHINGTON. Feb S2-About month ago the
House passed resolution asking the President TO
furnish statement of the extent and nature of the
contracts, purchases and expenditures for the In
dian service made since July l. 1873, setting forth
which, any, were made or entered into witheut
conference with the Board of Indian Commissioners
appointed by the President. and the extent and
description of contracts and vouchers objected to by
said Commissioners, and stating to what extent pay
ments have been made thereon against their re-
monstrance. This information has been forwarded
by the President TO Congress, with a long letter
from the Secretary of the Interior arguing that 1T
was by no means necessary that the accounts and
vouchers should be examined by the Indian Com
missioners or the Executive Committee OF the Board
The Secretary says it will be gratifying to him II
Congress will make the action of the Executive
Committee final and relieve his Department Of such
responsibility. II this is not done he asks that the
Indian Commissioners may be required to hold their
sessions in the Indian Bureau, where all the facts
are at hand Al From an examination OF these
accounts it appears that for half the
DScal year eHuluR juno oV hcAe thO
Bureau has, in the classes of expenditures described,
exhausted S4,635, zoe Of the appropriation for the
current fiscal year.
There are many interesting items in the account
furnished. The Hon. Granville NJ. Dodge, who was
a general in the Union Army. member Of Congress
subsequently from Iowa, and largely interested,
while in Congress and since, in the Union Pacific
Railroad, of which he was at one time Engineer,
occupies the most prominent position IN connection
with the expenditures. Gen. Dodges latest achieve
ment, to which the attention of the public has been
attracted was his famous trip into Texas, through
it, and out of it, with Deputy SerReant-at-Arms at
bis heels who had o subpoena 10 bring him before
Wilson's Credit Mobier Committee, to give testi-
mony regarding the mysterious distribution of an
Immense sum of money that had fallen into his
hShds as special counsel fees Dodge now turns mp
as one OF the heaviest Indian contractors on the
frontier.
Inc nrst heavy contract awarded TO this gentle
man, according to the report. was made by Com
missioner Smith himself, on the first day of the
nscai year-namely, July l. 1s73-and was for beef
eattie Tor the fankton Ssntee, Sioux and Cheyenne
Riyer agencies amounting TO the sum of sl7541s
q. NJ Dodge tno date), corn and nat. wbetstope
Agency Gi'a, not approved by Indian Commissioners
q. NJ Dodge tno date. corn for Red Cloud Agency.
$685. not approved g. NJ Dodge, July l. 1919 nr, day
Oh which contract could be made 1000 pounds Of nour
furnished Indian Department May H. 1878 ;2eio; g. NJ
Dodge, JuJ O. 1916 hetf cattle iaTH.shac Ma, 10 nd ~
isis sHb1t a. 10 DodSo. beef tI6 VI sbe,.
New-York tribune., 1874-02-23
A CURIOUS RAILWAY CASE.
LEGAL Ruus on THg PIEDMONT RAILROAD - GIN
PUrIER IN 4 NEW FIELD.

LEGAL ELIus on THG PIEDMONT hAlLhOhb - 'i-N'
PUTIER IN 4 NEW FIELD
IRY TELEGRAPH 10 THe TRIBUNE.l
WAcIuNGToN. Feb. %. - Some interesting facts
have come TO light III relation TO the repeated
otteppts 20 confscate the line Of railroad between
Danville, Va, and Greensboro, n. c., which show
that Gen Buffers pretonatural activities have been
recently employed in this new and unexpected field
At the end Of the war the road, then known as the
Piedmont Railroad, was seized by the United States
officials as the property of the Confederscy. 1t
was at the time in the possession of the
Richmond and Danville Company, which had In
1862 received loan Of 81 100000 from the COnfeder
ate Government, OF which $685. 600 in bonds and
the remainder in currency. The Richmond and Dan
vile road executed mort gage TO secure the repay
ment of tins lOan Finding, however, that they
could not sell the Confederate bonds the Company
locked them up in Richmond bank and issued their
own bonds 10 build the connecting link of road to
Greensboro which was subsequently of such
great importance TO the military operations of
the Rebels. An arrangement was made with the
Confederate authorities for the return of the bonds
and the cancellation OF the mortgage, but it was
never carried out. The mortgage, however, was not
recorded. In December, 1885, the road was restored
to the Company by order of the Secretary of the
Treasury, after the question Of its real ownership
had been fully investigated, the Company agreeing
to pay S35OOOO for iron tbat had been put upon the
line IN 1862.
The old mortgage was discovered in Washington
among some Confederate papers captured in Rich
mond, and on this evidence a suit was brought to
oOnfscate the road, which was subsequently with
drawn by order of the Attorney General Another
effort was made by the persons seeking to get pos
session Of the road, perhaps wishing TO blackma it,
and the case had second hearing in the Treasury
Department When Solicitor Banfeld decided that
the Government had no right TO the road. There
npon Gen. Butler, who had appeared as counsel in
she case got it transferred TO the Office of the Attor
.ieyeStnefSi, where another examination was bad.
which resulted in the withdrawal Of the suit IN the
Richmond court.
The next move was TO carry the caso to Congress
Early the present session Mr., C,towe Of Virginia
got resolution passed directing Gen. Buffers Com.
nittee on the Judiciary TO inquire into the title of
the United States 10 the Piedmont Railroad sub
eoramittee had tie matter in charge and arguments
LaVe been heard on both sides When the case first
rame up in the Committee objection was made to
Buffers having anything to do with deciding it, on
the ground that be was the attorney for the parties
seeking possession of the road under the Govern
ment claim. He magnanimously declined, il is said.
70 sit as judge ia the case.
New-York tribune., 1874-02-23
A MOVEMENT IN THIS CITY.

TRINITY CHURCH NOT TO ENCOURAGE THE LIQUOR
TeAFFIc-sYsTEMATIC vIsTATIoNs TO BE MADE
BY LADIEs-TEMPERANCE CONFERENCES.
The temperapce movement which is sweep
ing with power several OF the western States
and which within the past two weeks has developed
considerable strength in the immediate vicinity OF New
York now arousng the friends OF the cause through
ont this city and Brooklyn take some progressive
measures toward the overthrow of the liquor traffic
The deep religious interest the beginning OF the Lenten
season. general quiet in business circles, and the
unusual gree Of destuton all contribute 10 make
liluor-seng unpopular and drunkenness shameful
There could indeed hardly be- favorable time for
widespread in behalf OF temperance. Here
a. elsewhere women are making plans and undertaking
the work.
The most notable step taken thus far the decision OF
the Trustees Of Trinity Church. the largest religious
corpor this country TO lease none OF their build
ings 10 liquor dealers. Few have supposed tnat the
number OF Trnitys liquor saloons reached to as now
said to be the case. Many of the leases will expire
NAV T. and none Of them will be renewed. Other leases
It is thought may be given by those who hold them
but at all events Trinity Church will not be known
hereafter as tho landlord OF large quordeang inter
est Among the leases which will expire on May are
those of the saloon the OF Canal Hudson
sts OF the Study" Hudson.st, and Of the Adri-
attic 4" at Hudson and Barrowsts. This action on tho
part of the Trinity trustees has hastened IL is said
by the urgent entresy Of the OF the parish al
though for long time OF the trustees have felt
their position be indefensbe, and have sought 10
bring about the happy result that has ut last been
reached.
The womens movement in this city has had Its origin
IN the union temperance and prayer meetings ct
Dcemss Church of the Strangers. held under drec
ton Of MT McMullen, of the active OF Good
Tempars. These meetings have been In progress for
about year. Stimulated by the present excitement IL
ha. haAa Aata .tnaAf fha tuAn NJ
meeting TO establish smiar In various parts OF the
city, and to push forward campaign ssanst intemper-
ance In this city far practicable. The meeting yes
terday afternoon devoted TO the Developments or
plan Of action Mr. McMullen stated that he could not
advise the women to adopt the methods in use oy their
Western sisters since no beloved hoy woaid yield very
dinaront resus here than were bcss reached IN the