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National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1874-05-07

| v. lnese are not your exact words, Dull
understood you to say, that in your Judgment
the informality of that bid, of course, released
you from am obligation to accept It'll A. No
sir; on the contrary, l claimed that should
accept it, and made the argument to the At
| torney General that ought to be able to &C.
cept it-that lowest bid of Wood g. Co.
| Q. That was the question that you first sub
mitted to the attorney of the District of Colum
bia Omitted Statesf) A. Yes, sir; precisely.
| Q. And he pronounced against your A. Yes
| sir.
| @. Did you likewise submit to the attorney
of the District of Columbia the papers sub
mitted by Thomas Evansl A. No, sir.
Q. That, then, was not matter of discus
sion between you2 A. Not at all, sir.
O. You were not advised that the following
language in the bond which was attached Il
the various bids here, proposals for pipes and
special castings, and proposals for stop-cocks,
would have made it q sufficient bidl A. No
| sir.
Q.Iwill call your attention to the Language
which appears in the bond. The bond is ex
ecuted by Thomas Evans and Edward Hauley
and VIM. Bradley; and the condition Of thu
bond is that Thomas Evans, his heirs, execu
tors, administrators, do, and shall well ant
truly within ten days after the notice of the &C
ceptance of bids, enter into contract TO
making and delivering pipes, stop-cocks, ano
special castings, in accordance with the term
Of this bid, dated August Is, 1871, conform
| ing in all respects to the advertisement datet
9th July, 1871, calling for proposals, the sam
being hereto annexed. Were those papers sub
mitted to you together in this form, do you re
member, so that they could all be read together
A. No, sir; they were submitted in the form o
blanks printed into book which contained tn,
specifications. ... ..
Q. These are the original papers, believe
| (indicatingO A. Yes, sir.
| O. OF course your attention was called h
this bondi A. Yes, sir.
9.-And also to the afidayits Of the bonds
menl A. Precisely.
| Q. And OF course they were all considered
togetheri A. Yes, sir. But allow me to cal
your attention to the fact that the bid Is no
signed.
Q. That is true. am not discussing now tn
formality or luformality Of the bids them
selves. lam speaking now Of the bond AM
, Of the oaths of the bondsmen as TO their SUI
: ficiency and the recital in the bond which, o
: course, would enable any one to ascertain th
bids to which they related. A. Oh, precisely
There is no doubt Of that, sir.
o. You know, Of course, that this bond re
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arrived as closely to the I'LL as he could. With
regard to the I'll, he had to refer to me FOL
personal knowledge. The profile in the Office
as we now have It relative to that fill Is wrong.
Q. The profile is wrongl A. Yes, sir: that is
to say, the profile is right enough for the time
when It was taken. But there had been quite q
large I'LL made prior to the taking Of the pro
file, and happen to be little familiar with
that locality, because Travelled ovcr It, and on
account Of that familiarity gave him my views
as to the depth. &c..
q. Did you bring the committee the papers
that we called for the other day in regard to
your measurements and with reference TO that
million appropriations
The Witness. These memoranda!
Mr.. Wilson. Yes, sir.
The Witness. Yes, but they are in such q
shape that dislike to have them go as eyi'
dence. Still, ifyou desire, will submit them
Mr.. Wilson. would like to look at them.
The Witness. will produce them so that you
can examine them during the recess.
The committee took recess until O'Clock
TESTIMONY OF FRANCIS P. BLAIR.
Francis P. Blair, sworn and examined.
By Mr.. Mattingly: Q. State to the commit.
tee whether you have place on tho Seventh
street road3 A. Yes, sir.
O. Give the committee your views Of the
desirability of that improvement, and its condi
ton, and SO ont A. have place at the depo'
at Silver Springs. think It is an excelleni
improvement; we have good roads.
Q. State the Importance of that road as {
thoroughfsre; whether 1t is main thorough
fare or norl What roads lead into til A. 1t i
a great thoroughfare for Washington city; u
has produced great influx Of population II
that ne:ghborhood.
BY the Chairman: O. State to the commit
tee the character of the road-its present con
ditioui A. 1t is very good road, and Is grea
o. Does it run to the Maryland linel It ex
tends to your place, does it noti A. Yes, sir
to my place.
BY Mr.. MattInglly: @. State what was tn
condition of that road before 1t was improved
A. It was very melancholy road. ! had u
loan my wagons and teams to get other wagon
out of the mud. They stuck fast. / wa
called on by the people of the county to loa
them my wagon and horses to get them out o
the mud.
BY Mr.. Mattingly: Q. You testified befor
the last investigating committee, did you no,
A. Yes, sir.
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fessed to give to the measurement in that
schedule A. Yes, sir.
Q. You then, on the opposite column, gave
the amount Of payment, as by the voucher
A. Yes, sir.
Q. In your testimony you said that your
measurement was wrong-the measurement as
evidenced by the paperl A. Yes, sir; 1t was an
approximation. The first measurement against
the Government was an approximate measure
ment.
Q. You were asked distinctly II that street
or work was ever again measured, and you said
no. You answered emphatically that there
never had been a second measurement A.
do not exactly understand you. Do you moan
the second measurement against the Govern
menti Of course there was q correct measure
ment when the payment was made to the con-
tractor.
Q. You were asked that question when you
were on the stand before, and you said that no
such measurement had been made. A. We'll,
then, certainly must have misunderstood the
question.
O. Do try and revive your recollection. You
were asked further, whether you had discov-
cred that the first measurement was wrong
| from the voucher, or In what way you made the
discovery A. No, sir.
Q. You answered, from the voucheri A.
What I wanted to convey was this; these
charges against the Government were approx
mates anu DaSeQ on an average price. In tnnt
statement which submitted gave the actual
expenditures made by the board on sewers
| which are clearly chargeable to the United
States. s-s
O. But then If the first measurement was
but an approximate one, why, when you pre-
| septed the statement to this committee, did
YOU not give US the correct measurement, and
not the approximate one, If there was q cor.
rect onel A. Well, that is exactly the thing
tried to do. gave you on the second page the
correct measurement.
Q. 1 asked you then, and ask you now, e
point to anything upon that second page indi
eating any measurement whatever; get youi
schedule and point 1t out, If 1t is therei =.
WITNESS produces q paper and hands 1t te
Mr.. Jewett.
Q. Now, your measurement is First stree
northwest from Pennsylvania avenue to l
street north, $50 feet, amounting to S3,525
On the second column 1t is from vouchers of 6
Follansbee and d. r. Smith, 900 feet. What Il
there there evidencing measurement you have
Of the number Of feet in the second column
A. Certainly.
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The Chicago Illustrated Magazine.

Hitherto the Aldine Magazine, of New York,
has enjoyed the distinction Of being the hand
soonest periodical in the country, if not in the
world; but it has encountered rival in the
Chicago Illustrated Magazine The latter pub
lication is, beyond all question, the most ele-
gantly printed illustrated magazine that has
ever been issued in the West, or anywhere
else, with the exception, perhaps, of the pub
lication above referred to, and we pronounce
it equal in every respect to that splendid work
of art. Higher praise than this it is impossi-
bic TO bestow: for every one who has ever
seen the Atdine has seen the perfection Of
topographic art. The same is true OF the
Chicago Illustrated Magazine. If there is any
superiority it belongs to the latter and. being
a Western enterprise, it commends itself di-
rectly to Western readers. 1t is published by
the American Publishing Company of Chicago,
at the extremely low price of $3.50 year. A
volume OF this splendid magazine will make a
book Of greater literary and artistic excellence
than can be bought for many times the sub
scrption price. Address THOMAS ]. NEWMAN,
Room n, Tribune Building, Chicago
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Woods Household Magazine.

Woods Household Magazine for January
contains lavish supply of first-rate articles.
IL Is now in its fourteenth volume. and every
year has increased its popularity and added
ne friends to its large list of admirers.
Though retaining its old name. il has
not the slightest connection with it's former
proprietor, but has for many months
been the exclusive property OF Mr.. $.
IL. Shutes, its present publisher. II. V. Os-
borne (Tenoroon) still continues as it's editor,
and Is the only person employed in that ca
pacity-giving to the magazine not a careless
supervision, but direct personal attention in
every department. The magazine is improv
ing constantly, and is splendidly adapted to
the members of tho household. The present
number contains three engravings and other
good things in proportion.
Price of magazine, one dollar per year, with
chrome 70 semitic, one donar and a half.
Address WOODS HOUSEHOLD MAGAZINE, New
burgh, N. Y.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-01-02

A CORRESPONDENT of the London
Lancet, the most important medical
journal published in London, relates
the following curious fact "a man in
his neighborhood had three daughters.
Wishing for son, he made a solemn
VOW that if his next child should be a
girl, he would never speak to her. The
next child proved to be son, as he
wished, but, curiously enough, he never
would speak to his fathar, although he
lived thirty-five years with him. He al
ways talked freely with his mother and
sisters, but with no one else until after
the death of his father, when he talked
readily with every one. He was called
Dumb Eli.
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THE NEW YEAR.

A gray old man toiled at the rope:
Loud rang the bell and clear:
The hour was midnight, and the tune,
The passing Of the Year.
And, AZ he toiled, the old man sang.
And laughed beneath his breath:
He laughed and sang with glee and vet
He tolled knell for death.
"Old man. said ], "this shameless mirth
Seems sadly out OF place
A solemn chant, dirge, or PRAYER
Would bear better grace.
"The Old Year dies weighed down with sin.
Weighed down with lives misspent.
Come, kneel you down with me and mourn !:
Come join in my lament"
- mourn not for the past" said he
Z" A new life begin.
] DO not ring the Old Year out
| ring the New Year in.
"Why do We wish to mourn and grieve?
This hour is not for tears;
The star Of Hope shines steadfast, pure.
Above the coming years
81 laugh and sing for very joy,
And not with shameless mirth;
Good sir, toll not for the dead
celebrate birth.
"Come, turn your back upon the past,
And bid your grief BECOME;
The night IL dark, but then, good sir,
Joy cometh with the dawn"
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Pith and Point.

WHEN does chair dislike you? When
it can't bear you.
Who is the Oldest lunatic Oh record
Time out OF mind.
WHAT is invariably the beginning of
love? The letter l..
Who is the first boy mentioned in the
Bible? "Chap. l."
WHAT did Adam first plant in the
Garden of Eden? His foot.
BEFORE states were used people null
tiplied on the face of the earth.
WHY is a whisper forbidden in polite
society? Because it isn't aloud.
WHAT route should cooks take when
they go West? The Panhandle route.
IT is pleasant to remember that not
an hour passes in the increasing march
of time, but that there is half-dressed
man somewhere on the earth, calling for
shirt.
ALPHoNso used to call his adorable
Angelina his turtle dove. He now
drops the "dove" and calls her "turtle,"
because she wears such huge shell on
her belt.
A LITTLE lady recently sent word to
her absent "papa" that she must be
excused from writing a long letter, as
she had spent very restless night with
sick doll.
The editor of the Vicksburg Herald
spent $500 on a church fair, hoping to
get the prize of $4,000 in gold, and
drew brass chain and photograph of
George Washington.
HASH will no longer be one of the
delicacies of boarding houses. One of
the main neutrality-suspicious. al
together too dear to be hashed in ce-
menting meat together.
A MAN having a bill against a dis
tant merchant, sent a letter of inquiry
to banker of that locality. The reply
was, 4" He is dead, but he pays now just
as well as he ever did"
WHEN man goes into bankruptcy
for the purpose of making money, he
always finds it more pleasant than
his creditors do. 1t is not pay-in- full
operation for him at all.
A STUDENT at veterinary college be-
ing asked, IF broken-w inded horse
was brought to you to cure, what would
you advise ?" promptly replied, ITO
sell him as soon as possible"
Mary had little lamb,
With which she used to tusse
She snatched the wool all of its back,
And stuffed it in her hustle
The lamb soon she had been feeced
And in passion flew;
But Mary got up on her
And stuffed the lamb in too.
"Now, JOHNNY" said venerable
lady to her six-year- old nephew, who
was persistently denying an offense of
which she accused him, 81 know you
are not telling the truth see it in
your eye" Pulling down the lower
lid of the organ that had so nearly be-
trayed his want of veracity, Johnny ex-
ultingly replied, "You can't tell any
thing about it, aunt that eye was al
ways a little streaked"
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The bridge to be constructed over the
Firth of Forth, Scotland, will be the
largest in the world. Its height will
be one hundred and fifty feet, and the
number of spans nearly one hundred.
The great span in the center is to be
fifteen hundred feet, or nearly one-third
of mile, in width, and the smaller
spans one hundred and fifty feet wide.
1t is estimated that the structure will
cost about ten million dollars.
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be the death Of more than one of these public
frauds now chartered as colleges and univer-
sites.


Governor Browns action in Offering large
reward for the arrest of the masked men who
lynched the sixteen negroesa at Trenton, Tenn.
entities his opinion upon the causes Of disor-
der in that State to respect Our Nashville
correspondent gives the result Of long
interview he had with the Governor, and
it begins with the emphatic declaration that
the present troubles are due to the agitation Of
the Civil Rights bill Until this measure was
thrown as q firebrand into the South the
whites and blacks had lived for years in
amity, and this we know to have been the
fact. But since then the negroes have made
demands for social equality which tho
whites resisted. The spirit shown by
some Of the colored leaders, and
the acts of violence and outrage-for the
truth Of which Governor Brown vouches-
prove that they are not yet fit for the equality
they demand. The Governor regrets the
lynching of the prisoners, but exonerates the
majority Of the citizens of Tennessee from
approval of such deeds, and is confident that
the guilty men will be detected and punished.
This result is greatly to be desired for tho
sake of future peace in Tennessee. The only
way to deal with the disorderly negro popu-
lation is according to law, and now that
troops have been ordered to the South, we
think its best citizens comprehend the i'm
portance of prudence and of suppressing
everything that resembles revival OF the Ku
Klux and their lawless rule.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-09-05

MR. BERcH is paradox. Protesting to be
q kind-hearted man, he is constantly perpe-
trating the cruelest acts. His latest torture is
the vivisection of the Bellevue Hospital Col
lege, an operation which is skilfully per-
formed in his letter to DR.. Austin Flint,
elsewhere printed The pangs which he ac-
cuses the Faculty of indicting upon animal Is
he himself inficts upon the Faculty. But if
il is to the interest OF science that these med
zeal gentlemen should be cut up alive by Mr..
Bergh we hope they will be patient Pain
was held by the Stoics to be good, as it
offered an opportunity to show tho fortitude
of the mind MIR. Bergh does his utmost to
make that virtue common in society.
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generally followed. Bad Indians, like
bad white men, should not only be
punished for wrongdoing, but they
should be deprived of the power to repeat
their offences The general disarmament OF
the hostile Indians would be the best and
cheapest way of securing the peace of the
frontier. Indians living on agencies should
be protected by the government and taught to
rely on that protection.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-09-05

the Philosophical democracy we can think OF
no more admirable selection than MIR. Tilden.
But unfortunately there are not enough philo-
sophers to carry convention or an election.
Here, then, lies Mr. Tildens glorious and
honorable ineligibility. Governor Dix is said
to be anywhere from seventy-six to eighty-two
years of age. ltwould not surprise US to learn
that he was really hundred. But against
Mr.. Iilden he would have, as things now
look, an easy victory. There is more life in
his old body than in that of two-thirds
of the young men now in politics, not even
excepting Fenton and Cornell. General
jackson and John Quincy Adams were men
who, the older they grew, the more the people
yearned to vote for them. Although General
jackson has been dead for thirty years there
are honest citizens who still insist upon Civ
ing him their suffrage. General Dix has this
quality and if he we're to die tomorrow be
would poll better vote than many living
gentlemen mentioned as his successor. Can
the democrats find man of this temper2 Can
they not find such q man as Edwin D. Morgan
in their ranks? We mean q citizen who, like
Mr.. Morgan, represents the business, living,
practical Commonwealth Of New York. Is it
necessary always to have lawyers and poll
ticians? Is it not pity to damage as useful
a citizen as MIR. Tilden by forcing him into
such an unequal race as contest with Gov
ernor DIX? And is it not also blunder to
submit the democratic party, now recovering
from a series of unhappy mistakes-nomina-
tons of Blair, reflections of Chase exaltations
of Tweed and so on, and needing all the aid
that can be gained from popular candidates
and a generous policy, to any new expert
ments? The democracy want candidate for
Governor who will help carry the State, not
man whom it will be necessary to carry.
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away.

ONE HUNDRED YEARS ago to-day the first
Continental Congress assembled in Carpenters
Hall, Philadelphia, to demand of Great Britain
redress OF the grievances the colonies endured.
1t was then that Patrick Henry made the
noble declaration-the key note of union
in the Revolution 1.-THE distinctions be-
tween Virginians Pennsylvaniaps, New York
ers and New Englanders are no more. am
not a Virginian, but an American. CEN
fury has passed, and yet how far are many of
our public men from possessing this pure
spirit OF national patriotism
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The AUSTRIAN EXPEDITION TO THE POLAR
REGION. members of the Austro-Arctc
Search Expedition have been heard from after
shipwreck. They passed two winters on the
ice and travelled seven months on sledges A
large tract Of land was discovered to the
northward of Nova Zembla. There is little
doubt that the full report of the new dis
covery will be quite interesting and very USE
full to the cause OF science
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-09-05

DESTRUCTION OF THE Town OF BRAzos
SANTIAGO. -Brazos, the port of Brownsville,
has been swept away, 1. occupied an ex-
posed position on sandy island. Scarcely
any effort had been made to guard against the
action Of the sea, which frequently threatened
its prosperity during the spring tides.
1t was Of importance as the landing
place of passengers and goods for Brownsville
and the Rio Grande towns but contained
only few houses and small population.
Fears are entertained for the safety of the
latter. who are said to have taken refuge in
boats the wooden houses having been foated
AWAY.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-09-05

CHARGE OF ILLEGAL COMMITMENT has
been preferred against another police Justice,
but not under circumstances which show an
improper motive. Judge Donohue, however,
said he intended to make this o test case as to
the powers of magistrates to commit. The
necessity of such inquiry is not to be ques-
toned, if it be true that there are now four
or five thousand persons on Blackwell 8
Island who were committed withnut commit
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TEACHING THE INDIANS LESSON. The
operations carried out so successfully about
Washita by General Davidson reflect in
finite credit on that gallant soldier. Not
only has he whipped the redskins, but he has
shown proper appreciation of the mode of
dealing with them in the hour of victory.
General Davidson has disarmed the hostile
varrinrs--an examnle it wonid he well to hava
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ance with the forms prescribed by the stat
utes. We notice that Justice Wandell refuses
to commit Libby Doris upon the bench war
rant issued from the Office of the District At
torney, and her case is likely to be somewhat
embarrassing to our authorities.
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GENERAL SHER1DAS's NOTICE TO GOLD Hunt
ERs bound for the Black Hills is calculated to
be decisive. Threatened with the burning of
their wagons and with arrest as trespassers,
we dare say that the parties who have been
equipping for the Black Hills will give it up.