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The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1874-12-19
LIST OLE LETTERS.

Below is the list of unclaimed letters re-
naming in Dallas postOifice, Decembec 49,
Parties calling for the same will please say
"advertised," and give date of list. sSuch OF
them as remain in the Office uncailed for at
the end of fOnr weeks will lie sent 10 the
dead letter office.
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PS. Dealers anil Physicians ordering from
offers trim Fleming Bros. will do we'll TO wi.ts
tier orders distinctly, and toie noHc t,t Or.
c. MLaHs'a Lifr Pas, prepared By Fleming
Bros, Pittsburgh, Pa, Tie .na,srt Ling yl,,u q
biss limitations. To those wishing to give t.scm
trial, We viii forward per mail, post-la aid, to any
part Of The Un.tri States ,lc box OF Pills Tor
twelve t!irrc-cent rnSt1gs stamps, or one vial CT
Nortnf;E. Tor fonrtccn three-cent stamps. AL
orders from Canada must be accompanied by
Gweaty cents extra.
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!Dr. w. BILLIE,

A graduate OF the University of Copenha-
gen, Denmark honorary NJ. ID. from the
University Of Padoya, Italy for several
years assistant physician to the celebrated
Ricord, Paris; from
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-04-28
COMPTROLLER KNOX.

HIS REPLY TO MR.. BECI1-HIs PLAN FOR THE
REDISTRIBUTION OF NATIONAL BANK NOTES.
WAsHINGToN, April 28.-Letters address,
ed to representative. Beck by Comptroller
Knox, dated to-day, and read at the request
of Mr.. Beck in the house, calls the attention
of Mr.. Beck to his statement OF Friday that
the comptroller had represented to the
president that four millions of national
bank currency were not taken, where
there were one hundred and twenty
applicants for it, had deceived the president
and held back the circulation to save S25,-
000, 600 to his friends in the east. The comp
troller asks Mr.. Beck to cause to be read in
the House an extract from his last annual
report, showing the difficulties in the way
of the execution of the act of July 18th, 1870.
The substance Of the extract is that under
the act of July 18th, 1876 the comptroller is
required, after the $4,000, 900 are taken up,
to make a requisition upon the banks
of New York city, Massachusetts,
Rhode Island and Connecticut for q, Oe0,-
600, and If those acquisitions ere not
complied with, within one year thereafter,
he is authorized to sell bonds and deposit
legal tenders in the treasury. But there is
no provision in act for the return of the
national bank currency to the treasury for
redemption, and the act is therefore inoper-
alive, and under its provisions no consider
able amount of national bank currency
would be returned for distribution
for Is months after the reQuisition is made.
The comptroller also asked Mr.. Beck to
read copy of the letter addressed by the
former to w. w. Phelps, of the committee
on banking and currency, on the Sd Of
February last, enclosing the bill which he
prepared for the purpose ofpromptly with
drawing So, 000, 000of National Bank circu-
lation from the Eastern states, and dis
bursting the same to the West and South.
In it the comptroller requires the
National banks in the states named
in the letter to Mr.. Phelps to deposit
legal tender notes in excess of $780, 900 of
their circulation with the treasurer and re-
Quire the treasurer, assistant treasurer AMI
repositories of the UnitedStates to assert the
circulation of these banks and to return it
to the comptroller thereupon to surrender
to the banks the bonds held as securely
for such circulation. The circulation Of
the notes of banks.
which failed and are in liquidation are also to
be assorted and returned to the comptroller
for destruction, and Immediately thereupon
the amounts destroyed are to be reissued to
banks in the west and south. The comp
troller is confident that within 60 days after
the passage of such an act he can supply ev-
cry application from the west and south for
the next two years with currency withheld
from other states.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-04-28

y wet blanket has been thrown over the
wild cat method of building railroads by
asking for state and congressional charters
and subsidies. The House committee on
railroads and canals have adopted the fol-
ing resolution:
Resolved, That it is not expedient to recon-
mend 10 the House the granting of any charter
ola railroad from state TO state, unless satisfac
tory evidences shall be produced TO the commit
tee that capitalists ready 10 subscribe for the
full amount of the stock and proceed TO construct
the road forth
This action debars all further considera'
ton in the House of the charters and
subsidies now pending therein. and it effec-
tually reverses the usual order of procedure.
Capitalists are not in the habit of subscribe
ing the full amount of stock to construct a
railroad, and then going to some legislative
body and huinbly begging for charter.
Nevertheless the above resolution seems to
offer good working rule for the committee.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-04-28

u.s., including house rent; together with sfrni-
laf Information In regard 10 other countries, IA
lar as practicable. He shall also collect digest
ana arrange for the use Of congress statistics in
EsgaTa 70 raiIroads and canals; the quality and
KIND OF freights, number OF passengers, casual.
Ties occurring TO passengers and employees and
sucn otnsr information as will present full K
hibit OF their condition and operation. 80
He is also to collect statistics relating to the
trade between the different states and terri
tories, the quantities, value and kinds of
freights transported over the railroads.
canals, lakes and rivers, and also by sea and
along the coast, etc. The amount to be ex-
pended, however. for the above purpose is
MOTTO exceed $4,000 pear. This bill is one
OF great Importance, as it is destined to place
very valuable statistics concerning our
mercantile interests within the reach
OF congress and OF our state legis-
latures, thus enabling them to act
on these subjects with Intelligence, certainty
and promptness. The ignorance OF the av-
erage congressional comnsittee on the statis-
tics relating to commerce and kindred sub
jeets, would be disgracefusn it was net for
accurate statistical informstion to be found
elsewhere. Such information in the possess
sion of several committees at the beginning
of the present session would have greatly
expedited their business, and saved unneces-
sary expense.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-04-28
THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL TUESDAY. APRIL al IA

their friends, competing for appointments,
have before brought to bear upon the de-
partments in the direction OF favoritism
they have diminished the Intrigue and
pressure, before too frequent, for causing the
removal of worthy persons for the
mere purpose of bringing other, perhaps
inferior, persons into the service. There are
also competitive examinations for promo
ton, and these examinations call for and
test practical knowledge in regard to the
duties of the place sought, and hence must
vary greatly in the different bureaus. 1t is
also part the new system that clerks and
officers are not to be compelled to pay any
partisan assessments; in this respect
they are at liberty to do as they
choose. Against the charge which
has been brought that the rules were
borrowed from England, the commission ac-
knowledge that they have done so to a linn
tied extent, by introducing those most APP
plicable to republican institutions, nor can
they see ANYTHING wrong in this decision.
The report next points out the
evils resulting from giving the power
Of nomination to members OF Con
gress. They say that nomination by con-
gresham would be equivalent TO an appoint
ment. The report next proceeds at length
to answer many popular objections against
the system. 1t shows that these rules bring
Offices nearer the common people, and that
that they increase the sense of official re-
sponsibility to justice and character. The re-
port closes with Recommendation of witch
ing simplicity. The committee have such an
enlarged faith in human rectitude and
especially political righteousness that thus
ask us to be satisfied to accept the WILL II it is
not possibleto achieve the deed. That is to
say, let us pretend to admire the pretence of
reform, permitting the reality to come on
with the millennium.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-04-28

The secretary of war has sent to the House
a communication from the President OF the
Argentine Republic, requesting that four or
six young men of that country, graduates of
its military school, may be permitted to
enter and pursue a course of study at the
West Point military academy at the expense
of the Argentine government. This appli-
cation has been referred to the committee
on military affairs. The request is certainly
complimentary to the excellence of our
military instruction, and one in no respect
differing from similar request to patronize
our literary institutions excepting the gov
eminent limitations which surround the
graduates of that school. The only apparent
practical objection is that the admission of
these students opens wide the doors for hum
dreds Of others from foreign countries.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-04-28

When man from the older states comes
out West for the first time, he is quite as
founded by the system of electioneering. It
is altogether fresh and instructive to sec
candidates announce themselves and go
about the streets asking men to vote for
them. Ons promising feature of the farmers
movement is a disposition to "sit down" on
this bold and impairment practice. The
farmers of Edwards county, Illinois, accord
ing to a correspondent of the Chicago Tri-
bune, "are determined that no man can get
a nomination for any Office who announces
himself as candidate" That rule carried
out would 90 tar to purify the political
heavens. How refreshing it would be- and
equally strange, TO see the peoplein conven-
ton. or otherwise, consulting together as TO
who of their number was best fitted to serve
them in official position; to see them,
after having agreed on some proper party,
calling for his consent to have his name
placed before the public for their support; in
short, to see the Office in the hands OF the
people seeking the man to fill it. instead of
a dozen men, fit or unfit, scrambling and
clamoring for it. The modesty that comes
OF good breeding must be annihilated before
the act can be tolerated of publicly assum-
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-04-28
1t has occurredto the auditor of the stata

1t has occurredtO the auditor of the stata
all the wealth of the state is not included in
the taxables. BY the 9TH section of the as
sessment law, certain classes of property
are exempt from taxation. There are rea-
sons beyond that of mere curiosity that the
value OF this part of the states wealth
should be ascertained, both in tho aggregate
and in classification. Mr.. Wildman has
addressed circular to all the county aud
itors, asking them to furnish the desired
information. To facilitate the reports, he
has prepared also blank with columns
and the following heads: Property of the
United States, Church Property, Benevo-
olent and charitable institutions, fire en-
gines, implements and buildings, education
al institutions, ard "all other property"
County auditors arc requested to till and re-
turn this blank, giving the fair cash value
of all the property described according to
the - best of their knowledge and belief"
There will be " food for thought" in an ex-
hibit OF this sort. The amount Of such prop
erty which is exempt from taxation will
probably surprise those who have not
thought abost it. There are several aspects
in which such information will figure to adj
vantage in the statistical information con-
corning the state of Indiana.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-04-28

New York has been treating itself to new
state house for year or two past. The es-
innate and the actual expense of this won
derful structure are confusingly unlike. The
The patriots who first plead for its erection
have become strangely silent concerning its
economical aspects and one or two of them
have been known to thrive on contracts not
altogether disconnected with the building.
The edifce is just getting under Roadway,
hardly above the stone and cement. and its
cost to date is over s1,OOO,OOO. All this
profuseness of architecture is produc-
tive of '.jobs" and plumber to an unlimited
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-04-28

Marriage by proxy is a very ordinary thing
among kings and royal personages. In this
country Of republican simplicities young
folks generally prefer going through the
formsin person. One case, however, is re-
ported from Bonaparte, Iowa, which fairly
deserves general attention, as it opens a way
for diseonsolate lovers, not hitherto thought
of. For instance, in the aforesaid Bonaparte
town Jack and Gill were greatly in
love with each other. Some adversities had
to be overcome before the nuptials could be
celebrated, among them the appeasing of
angry parents and the absence of a minister.
Bonaparte is without men of God. but it so
happened that just at the time the loving
couple saw the coast clear there was no min
lister in town. 1t is with love, like law,
to conquer difficulties. The man was
equal to the occasion. He took his love to
to the telegraph office. Keokuk, the near
est city, was called" minister was select
ed to take his place at the Keokuk end
and the couple at the other. The instru-
ment was then set to work. The ceremony
was curtailed to accommodate itself to the
circumstances, and the responses were
flashed back almost as soon as
the queries. Those who have enjoyed the
canopy of wells and orange blossoms at the
altar, as well as all who expect to, can con-
ceive the hilarious joy of the two who safe in
the little telegraph Granny in the little back
wood town and Joined themselves together
as irrevocably as though the Archbishop of
Canterbury had set the Episcopal chrism on
their foreheads. The ice once broken we
shall hear of other fond hearts electrically
united in bonds that hold till death, or
divorce, do part?
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-04-28

Mr.. Charles w. Green, secretary of the
Agricultural congress- has accepted an iIcvi-
tation to address the farmer. OF MDnroe
county at Bloomington, Indiana, on Star
day, May 9Th, upon 1.-The Real Issues h.
vowed in the Farmers Movement" Nh
'ereen has been for some tine identified
with the effsrts of the industrial classes, par
tieularly the farmers, and his influence is
co-extensive with the operations Of the ma
tional congress. He win be listened to by a
greater audience than that which assemblies
at Bloomington.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-04-28

7Afr Face-ooth-ways Boutwell, in his
speech Yesterday, said that Mr.. Sumner was
not Always practical statesman. He meant
undoUbtedly by this that the late senator
was SO impractical as to have opinions and
even to- express themi that he did not sec
ms was siear toeontrset and expand the cur
rency at the same time; that he was SO lack
Ing In worldly wisdom as not to be able to
support TIE enactment of a law, szd to op-
pose It's execution in tbs same breath, and,
worst OF asi, that he was such a child in
politics as to sometimes incur the enrsity of
others. Wien ealogy comes to be pro-
nounced over Mr.. Boutwell,, it can be said
that he, at least, was always a practical
at
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-04-28

ing that ones owl qualifications fit him for
pre-eminence amon.g his fellows, and to re-
ceive their preference. In the abstract, the
idea is sbhoITent to goC d taste and at vari-
ance with the speech and demeanor of men
in good society everywhere But usage has
modified the public sentiment in this Ie-
spect somewhat, and the custom has gone so
far that none others can be chosen than such
as offer themselves tn person or by proxy as
candidates. If the new era of farmers con-
troll shall make # politically fatal in
every instance for man to sug-
gest his own name, either in public or
private, for Office. If it shall determine that
those only can be elected to Office who wait
until they are called upon by their nefgh-
bors and countrymen to come forward, the
abuses of office-holding will come to an
early end. AS it has been for a long time,
the people had no alternative but to select
from number of self-imposed candidates,
often none of them acceptable while the
men whom they would gladly see in their
official service were out of reach of choice.
Let the people select without being ridden
and biased by persistent aspirsnts, and they
will choose we'll. Honest and competent
men are well known, and if honored by the
voluntary good will of their fellows, they
would esteem it pleasure, as it would be a
credit to take official positions.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-04-28
OBJ SemtimeI.
TUESDAY. APRIL q.


A special commissioner OF the Cahaolah
authorities mas been in Washington trying
to ascertain the feeling OF congress on the
subject of reviving the old RECIPROCITY
treaty between that country and the onlteu
States. There seems to be no just reason
why there should not be free and un-
trammelled exchange of products between
the two countries, limited only by fair
schedule of revenue profits. New Ep land
anG New York need the coal and timber OF
Cana while the latter desires the products
of our manufactures. The Northwestern
States might do a good business with The
Red River settlements if it were not TOR the
exorbitant duties on exports and imports,
which now practically shut OIL ali CONNER
cial relations. The commissioner is en-
couraged to think that a reasonable formal
proposition from Canada will be fsvorably
entertained by the United States govern
mert -a. --.f4
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-04-28

Oliver refuses to make faces at Conkling
but says If the imitation scheme il finally
foiled in congress, he and his folks viii take
the stump and make it an issue. Hsrefuses
20 call Grant names. Now more consider
ate than 10 1867, when he had no such scru-
pie. He amiably says that the president
misunderstood the intent of the imitation
bill and that the next ne-will be signed; il
not, then be will take the stump as he did
when Johnson found policy.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-04-28

social and business intercourse. Well, 10
show how things change, that country sur
prised itself little while ago by turning its
back on both parties. even though the party
of one, which had polled itself for Fremont
in 1856, had grown into pretty big sized
family. when the farmers stepped in to
divide counsels. They had conyen-
ton called there the other day, called
by the farmers, openly and above
board. The leading granger of the state
Mr.. Smith, made some very pointed re-
marks on matters and things. Both parties
or what had been parties were present and
listened attentively to the gospel of reform.
They saw no reason why the farmers should
not have as much right, for instance, as the
mechanic to say what he wanted rom
the public servants. On this side OF the
line. the party folks haven't reached such
lIberality of sentiment. So soon as the
farmers, having discovered the futility of
trusting in parties, give indications OF
working out their own salvation,
the organs and managers set
to work to decry the movement and lmpeach
the movers. First, the action is denounced
in varying Billingsgate as fraud, and I'M
puted to the personal manipulation of rest
less politicians throughout the state. But
the most bitter plant is made against the
possibility of the patrons of husbandry be-
ginning the WORK, which was one of the
primal conditions of the organization, relief
from the burdens which at present aff1ict
them. The cry is raised that the indepen-
dent movers have attempted to commit
the patrons of husbandry against the
rules of their order, and that
wicked fraud has been perpeGrated, because
a few hundred farmers, whose lists are
daily increasing, have asked the people to
meet in convention on the 10th of June, out
of the party harness. There is urgent need
of reform in political practices and methods,
but these PARTISAN whippors-in would, a
thousand times, rather see no re-
form, than the destruction OF their
old party machines. The real anxiety
is not for the grangers' welfare as an organ
ization, but by knavish pretense to prevent
the members Of the society, because they
are grang9rs, from taking any action as free
citizens. The object is to use the organize
ton as a restraint preventing its members
from exercising their rights as citizens, un-
der vague impression that thay are COM
the order. 1t is pretty thin, but
the case is desperate. the party letters are
both burdensome and rotten, and any expe-
dent is to be adopted to hold the parts to-
gether- This will fail. The people are not
fools. Parties have had their day. The daily
revelations of the strength and spreading
of the movement have inspired
more circumspection in dealing with the
movement, and their object may now be to
beguile the farmers into casting their for
tunes with the parties in the June conven-
ton.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-04-28

The House committee on manufactures
have proposed bill, which will soon be in
troduced, to extend the duties of the chief
of the bureau of statistics. Heretofore, this
gentleman has only been recognized as
chief, at salary of $500. Hereafter, ac-
cording to the bill, he will be known as
chief of the bureau of statistics:
And it shall be the further duty of the chief,
under the direction of the secretary of the treas
sury, to prepare and submit annually TO con-
gress statement OF the rates of wages paid to
workmen employed in the leading Industries of
the United States; the wholesale price of lead
ing articles of merchandise in the principal
markets of the country, and the prices OF the
principal articles Of subsistence and domestic
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-04-28

What the travels and labors of the trans
portation committee brought forth was
presented to congress yesterday. Mr.
Chairman, Window, accompanied the report
with brief speech, stating the substance
of said report, which is in favor of four
great national routes of transportation, to
be assisted by the government. First, the
Improvement of the Mississippi river,
at cost of sl6,O00,OO0; second, a
continuous water line on the north
by the Fox and Wisconsin rivers
and the northern lakes. This will
require $40 OOO, 900; third, the Central or Ka-
nawha route from the Mississippi river to
the sesboard, which will cost from SIS, 600, 900
upward, and a water, canal and rail route by
the Ohio and Tennessee rivers to the Altar
tic. The whole work called for by the re-
port will make total expense of about $685..
100000. AS to the way by which the COM
mittee propose to raise the money the
favorite promise of the spendthrift
when he wants to secure a
special indulgence is proposed, viz: spasm
of economy in something else. Mr.. Window
recommends economy. But if a tax is abso-
lutely necessary, he recommsnds that the tar
if be restored on tea and coffee to build his
railroads. The committee are sanguine
however, that such an expedient will not be
necessary, but that under the stimulus Of
this great system of national improvement
the increased business of the country would
paw the cost easier than it can meet existing
obligations without such improvements.