Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1875-07-31

by long practice in shooting Indians
prairie hens and antelopes in the dense
primeval forests around New York, Bos
ton and Philadelphia.
MILWAUKEE has cheap Sunday lee.
ture association, and among the lecturers
engaged for-the season are Charles Brad
laugh, Bret Harte, Mrs. Scott Siddons
Carl Schurtz, Susan B. Anthony, James
T. Field, Whitelaw Reid, Paul B. Du
Chaillu, r. III. Dana, Jr., Prof. Pepper
and S. S. Cox.
The Chicago Tribune has begun the
practice of quoting, the price of green
backs in gold,instead of the cost of gold
in greenbacks. Its leading daily edito-
rial reads-"Greenbacks closed at S731,"
varied from day to day by circumstances.
This serves to show exactly what the
greenback is worth.
POSTMASTER GENERAL JEWELL has
decided to allow no assessments for po-
litical purposes to be made upon the
clerks under his immediate charge, and
will not allow any employee to be dis
for failing to respond to an as
sessment. Good! That is long stride
toward civil service reform. Isn't it about
time the brass-collar papers were setting
up howl at Secretary Jewell?
If any bold adventures want to be-
come gold-diggers, they must seek some
other place than the Black Hills to find
it in paying quantities, for Prof. Jenny,
the national geologist, who hassbeen for
some time in that section, says the best
yield he has seen is three-quarters of a
cent to the pan. This would not buy
one meal day for a gold-washer. The
Chicago Inter Ocean has made futile
effort to arouse a gold fever about this
fOrlOrn region.
CHARLES O'CoNOR, the great lawyer
who secured Tweed's conviction, has
written scorching letter reviewing the
recent decision of the New York court of
appeals by means of which Tweed was re-
Gently liberated. He says the decision of
the court is directly contrary to former
decision of the same court as now consti-
tuted, and gives the broadest intimations
Of his belief that the recent decision was
obtained. He also intimates
that steps will probably be taken looking
to the impeachment of the judges.
THE count of the treasury funds showed
no discrepancy in the sixteen mil
lions on hand, and Gen. Spinner retires
with well earned reputation for honesty.
The result of the count is specially pleas
ing to those who favor the more general
of women in the lighter
grades of service, for larger proportion
Of women have been employed in the
treasury department than in any other.
IF these women Gen. Spinner has always
)een firm friend, and when the news
If his resignation was spread through the
treasury building hundreds of them were
affected to tears-the best testimonial of
his real worth that has yet been given to
his honest old Watchdog of the U. S.
treasury.
PROF. SWING in the Alliance of last
week, in referring to the sensational style
N which Plymouth church raised Mr..
Beecher's salary to 100000, says: $50
ar as that salary spectacle was designed
% be rebuke to the world, or to any
part thereof, it was mistake of judge
nent, for the world h done nothing
worthy of rebuke, or of death for atone
nent. Why get mad at anybody and
hus seek revenge? The public has done
nothing wrong. Henry Ward himself
had told Storrs and Burlington, and all
he rest Of mankind, by letter, that he had
,een standing on 'sa ragged edge," and
lad been living in ga cave of gloom" and
hat he ''couId wish he were dead,n and
10 on to wonderful extent, and hence
ne and Plymouth church should not get
mad if Burlington and Storrs, and all
those solemn fellows, did for while be-
ieve that Henry Ward was really in some
cave of gloom" etc., etc. The blame, if
blame there be, should rest upon the pc
,uliar literary style Of Brother Beecher."
THE Detroit Post thus figures up that
the net result of the finance bill passed
last winter, which allowed free banking,
thereby giving every state which thought
It wanted more currency the privilege Of
establishing just as many banks as it
pIeases, has been that the number Of
banks has been diminished, rather than
There has also been deposit
of greenbacks made at the Treasury by
banks desiring to wind up, or to diminish
their circulation, of nearly $20,000,00O.
the currency has been prac-
tically diminished about $23,OOO,OOO.
And yet there are to-day lying idle in
the vaults Of tthe banks all over the
United States and in the National Treas
ury, and in various depositaries, State,
National, corporate and private, about
5000, 100000 in currency, which amount
represents the surplus for which the
business of the country has, at present
no safe and profitable use. If one-half
of this amount could be stricken out OF
existence, there would still be left suf-
ficient surplus over and beyond the bust
needs of the country. Currency is plen-
ty; it is piled up in heaps; not dollar OF
it lies idle because it's owners wish it to