The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-01-08

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Ohio, as successor to Judge Durell IL
Louisiana, still hangs fire in the Senate,
on account, 1t is said, of the opposition
OF Senator West, who was not consulted
by the President in regard to the matter.
A BILL amendatory of the Pension
law has been introduced in Congress by
Representative Albright. 1t proposes
that all persons now entitled to pen
sions, who have lost an arm below the
elbow or leg above the knee, shall re-
ceive $40 per month.
A BILL has been introduced in Con-
gress to abolish all internal revenue
taxes, except those upon distilled spir-
its, fermented liquors and tobacco,
snuff and cigars, and increase the tax on
distilled spirits to eighty cents per gal
Ion. 1t also repeats the second section
of the act of June 6, 1872, which made
a reduction Of 10 per cent. on the arti-
-cles therein enumerated, thus restoring
the duties on said ar ticles to what they
were prior to the passage of the act.
A CLERGYMAN who has Just returned
from the grasshopper-devastated por-
ton of Kansas writes letter to the
Chicago Times, in which he represents
that the restitution there is far greater
than has been repre- sented. Land agents
are endeayoring to misrepresent the
condition of affairs for the purpose of
encouraging emigration. The settlers,
says the writer, are limited TO a very
meager allowance of food-scarcely
enough to sustain life for a limited
period. 1t is his opinion that large
number Of people will die OF starvation
unless more subsistence is furnished.
THE Subcommittee of Congress, APP
pointed TO investigate the condition of
Louisiana is now in New Orleans
taking testimony. IL is composed of
men of high character. Mr.. Foster, of
Ohio, distinguished himself at the last
session by his course IN the Sanborn
investigation. Mr.. Phelps, of New Jer-
sey, is recognized as one of the ablest
and most honorable Representatives in
the House. Mr.. Clarkson n. Potter,
the Democratic member of the Com
mittee, is q man who commands the
respect of both parties. We shall be
greatly surprised if such a committee
as this fails to pursue the strict line of
duty which lies before it.
Mr.. +. 3. ELLIOTT, Of the Bureau of
Statistics, has been making some care
full computations to-day, to ascertain
the relative value of United States sill
yer coin and fractional currency, in or
der to determine how great an appre-
citation of the latter will be necessary
to make both OF equal value, and con-
sequently to ascertain whether the sill
yer coin portion Of the new currency
bill is likely to result as its authors
nominally desire. According to Mr..
Elliott's calculations-based upon the
market value of silver in Londor-$1
in silver is now worth $101 94-100; or,
in popular phrase, silver is now worth
not quite per cent. premium in cur
rency. He is of the opinion that this
slight difference between paper and sill.
yer may be reduced to nothing by the
administration before the Mint is ready
to put in circulation any large amount
of silver coin.
THE venerable Gerrit Smith, whose
name has been prominent before the
public for more than half century,
has gone the way of all earth. He was
born in Utica, N. Y, March 6, 1897
and had therefore reached the ripe ole
age of II years. He graduated from
Hamilton College, which was the re
cipient of his generosity a short tim,
ago, IN 1918, and being LETT with ore o
the largest landed estates in this coun
try by his father, had devoted himsel
mainly to its care and improvement
In 1895 he joined the American Colo
nization Society, to which he contrib
uted very largely of his labor and hi
money, but ten years after he withdre,
from it and connected himself with til
American Anti Slavery Society.
1852 he was elected to Congress, bu
resigned before his time expired, hi
constituents being dissatisfied becaus
he refused to attend night sessions, th
Kansas Nebraska bill being pendin
at that time, and the discussions bein
more than ordinarily exciting and in
portant. Mr.. Smith, however, had q
aversion to being out of bed after
o'clock, and, rather than depart frol