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, 1876-02-19

THE SILVER PRoBLEM.-A few days
siEce, Sargent introduced in the Sen
ate, and Mr.. Piper in the House, a
bill making silver legal tender for
sums of $40 ard under. Shortly after
it was intimated that Mr.. Linderman,
superintendent of the mint, had =
policy Of his own in regard to silver
which did not harmonic with that of
Messrs. Sargent and Piper. The latest
report is that the superintendent OF
the mint recommends rerelling the
law making trade dollars legal ten
der for any sum at all. 4 contempO-
rary has hastily assumed that Cons
gress will follow the advice Of the
Superintendent in this respect. This
conclusion is not justified by any facts
vet made known to the putlic. 1t is
quite possible, however, ;hat the por-
ton OF the law which provides for the
coinage Of trade dollars on private &C.
count may be repealed.
, 1876-02-19

Iowa has entered the field with a
candidate for the Vice Presidency on
the republican ticket. His name is
George ". McGrary, Congressman,
and the party journals are pressing his
claims with energy and considerable
unanlmity. Most of them put the
whole ticket, Blaine and McGrary.
, 1876-02-19

MORTON FOR president The same
day that Morton made his speech on
the Mississippi question, the Indianap-
oils Journal, his home organ. came
out in formal presentation of him
for the Presidency. Let Blaine learn
a lesson in tactics from thus coinci-
denee. He might just as well have
timed his great resurrection effort so
that 1t would have gone to the cOun-
try simultaneously with his nOmina-
tion by the Maine Republicans.
, 1876-02-19

The ENGLIsH CAPITALISTS in Egypt
have no longer anything to fear from
their French rivals. We cannot for
get, however, in connection with the
announcement, that the English did
everything in their power to defeat
the Suez Canal project, and that had
it not been for the French there
would be no ship channel across the
lsthmus.
, 1876-02-19

SlLvER.-At the first glance one
might say that too much silver was
being produced. If We examine the
subject carefully, however, it is prob
able that we sail become convinced
that the functions OF silver are too linn
tied. 1t has fallen, compared with
gold, simply because certain Europe
an nations have driven it from their
currency by legislation, and by tho
United States introducing its fraction
al currency. If silver conld be restor-
cd to trade, and made the common
currency for all sums of less than
dollar, and a legal tender for twenty
dollars and under, the demand for 1t
would be fully equal to the supply.
There may be something in Senator
Jones' idea that silver will be the step
ping stone 10 a return TO a gold basis
He is credited with proposition TO
make silver the basis of large transac-
tions by means of silver certificates,
to be issued in place of silver bullion,
which is TO be deposited as security,
some what after the principle OF gold
notes.
, 1876-02-19

THERE have been 1884 bills and A
resolutions introduced in the House
of Representatives, and 327 bills in
the Senate, so far this session. Dur
ing last Congress about 5000 bills
and resolutions were introduced.
, 1876-02-19

TIE WHISKEY FRAUDS in the West
are still productive of crimes. Now
it is charged that two Chicago alder
men cOnspired to destroy public
building in Milwaukee in order TO OBJ
literate proofs of these frauds. The
report is startling one, but not surp-
rising in view of the decentralization
which was the result ofthe widespread
conspiracies to defraud the revenue in
most Of the Western cities.
, 1876-02-19

THE President. makers who are so
sure Mr.. Blaine is dead, had best not
be in haste about burying him. He
will be found at Cincinnati animated
with An amount of liveliness which
would be simply preposterous in
COrrse
, 1876-02-19

BowLES on RESUNPTIoy.-The Sprinp.
held Republican inclines to the i'm
preston that IF some OF the resnmp.
tlonlsts would get over their tender.
ness for The European gold market, it
would clear up matters. We don't
believe = great stock is necessary 10
resnme on, after a proper contraction
oil TIE gTeeaGacks, but we can have
al The gold We want, even by the
hundred mi,liouS'
, 1876-02-19

GENERAL SHERMAN, while reitera-
ting his refusal TO have his name go
before the people in any shape as a
Presidential candidate, takes occasion
20 speak in the highest terms of Gov.
hayes. OF Ohio, as such candidate.
Inc Western men are making out
long list.
, 1876-02-19

GEN. JoHS A. SUTTEE has applied
to Congress for aid as compensation
for lands alleged to have been taken
from him uDjustly.
, 1876-02-19
I'D ADKERIISERS.

The wAIla wsila sTATHAkS has much larger
irrulatinn than any other paper putIshe-i IN the
Territory Of Washington, and hence offers superior
Inducements 20 advertisers who would reach the
very best clas. Of pa ayinE customers.
, 1876-02-19

The DEMOCRATIC PEEss begins to see
tLat the party majority in Congress
is liable to put its foot in it every
time it touches the currency question,
and is advising the adoption of the
passive policy. Thus, THE Baltimore
Gazette SAYS: We begin to believe
that the best thing that Congress can
do with the question of finance is to
do nothing at all. As it stands, the
republican party of the last Congress
is respon sible for the resumption act.
Let it have all the glory of it; and so
far as it is unpopular that party will
bear the odium so far as it is popu-
lar the democratic party will be
censured for any change that is made
in it, even if it should be to better it
By fixing an earlier date for resump-
ton and arranging the necessary de-
tails upon a sound and sensible plan.
No plan that can be devised will be
so good that the republican press and
speakers will not argue and declare it
10 be disguised scheme of initiation !"
, 1876-02-19
Ge@ Asrsrtiae mts.
N~0~7O-O7~7N-N0N0l7N0N0O 0ON0ON0O0ONONN0CN
sale Of am ESsE-aY Horse

NOTICE Is HEREBY GIVEN, That will sell
~ at the ranch Of ANDREW FORNEY, on Dry
Creek, one BAY HORSE, described follows /:
Five years Old, branded D on right hip, and on
taken up an estray and viii be sold at the place
above namei 10 the highest bidder :or lawful money
OF the United States, on WEDNESDAY, March let,
lo76, at the hour OF y o'clock NJ
ll-2w OLIVER DEWITT, Constable
, 1876-02-19

WASHINGTON TEaRIroRY gained 5000
new inhabitants last year by immigra.
ton.
, 1876-02-19

AN Irish doctor lately sent his bill
to a lady as follows 60 To curing your
husband ill he died"
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1876-02-04

The rafting among the dry bones
of the ringstsers of st. Louis, seems
to be pretty general as well as rank
in its hold and operations. The ef-
feet is to bring some of them down
without a shot-like DavY Crocket's
coon. An ex-collector-Maguire by
name-has thus surrendered at dis
cretion, in view of the hints convey
ed by recent verdicts. Upon an
agreement that nolle pros. should
be entered as to the charge of con-
spiracy-which according to Atty
Dyer could not be sustained before
jury-Maguire on Tuesday put in
a plea of gull ty to the other counts
in the indictment, thereby confessing
his negligence and derelictiOn of du-
ty as a Government officer in failing
to report irregularities upon thepart
OF certain distiilers. 1t would ap-
pear that Mcguire is expected to
make reparation by contributing
valuable testimony in the cases yet
to be tried. Let no guilty man es-
cape,p is like the handwriting on
the wall, in its terror.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1876-02-04
From the Chardon Republican
The HItcheoek Amendment.

Much comment has been OCCASION
ed throughout the State by the ac-
ton of the House at Columbus, DUR
ing the past week, upon the question
of SO amending the bill to re-organ-
ize the penitentiary as to admit into
it the principleof the Geghan bill.
An amendment to that effect, offered
by our representative, Mr.. Hitchcock,
as substitute to a similar amend
ment offerd by Mr.. Holloway, was
adopted on Wednesday, by party
vote-yeas 81, nays 81. This amend
ment was as follows:
"Any prisoner, upon application to the
warden, shall be allowed personal con-
suliatiOn with min lister or religious in
structor of his particular faith, under
such general regulations as shall be es
tablshed for in 'ercourse with prisoners,
made applicable to all religious instruc-
tors, and which shall not interfere with
the discipline of the prison. provided
no expense shall the reby be entailed
upon the State'
The inconsistency of such an
amendment from the Republican
side of the House is manifest from
the fact th9t the most serious objec
tion offered by our Republican press
and orators against the Geghan bill
during the last State campaign, was
not so much to its terms but because,
while entirely unnecessary to secure
religious freedom in the public 1n>
stitutions, 1t admitted the idea of
sectarian differences into the legisla-
ton of the State. We sincerely re-
gret that it should emanate from
our Representative, who though his
motives were unquestionably good,
seems to have displayed in the mat
ter considerably less than his usual
sagacity. Had the amendment been
offered by some more obscure men,
Der it would doubtless have been
promptly rejected, but, being offer
ed by Mr.. Hitchcock the majority,
trusting to his leadership, failed to
give it the scrutiny which its i'm
portance demanded. Referring to
their action, the correspondent of
the Cincinnati Gazette says: "The
Democracy in the House proved too
smart for the Republicans to-day,
and the latter put themselves in
trap" AS soon, however, as its char
acter became apparent, a party eau
Gus was called, which, after an ex-
citing debate, decided by a vote
which we understand was nearly
unanimous, to repudiate it, and thus
relieve the party of the possible con-
sequences of so great an indiscretion.
Accordingly, on Friday, the bill be-
ing read the third time, was, on mo-
tion of Mr.. Rowland, the real lead
er of the House, and acting under
the instructions of the caucus, re-
ferred to him as a select committee
of one, with instructions to amend
by striking out the Hitchcock |
amendment, in which form the bill |
was reported back to the House, and |
after some filibustering on the Dem
ocratic side, the previous question |
was ordered, and the bill passed by |
a party vote-yeas 90, nays Al. |
The Senate on the same day, by a
party vote of 20 yeas to Is nays,
passed the House bill repeating the
Geghan act, thus completing a need
ed work in manner, which notwith-
standing this mortifying little cpl
scde, prO7ed thorough and ttseVsaaa,
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1876-02-04

The Democrats generally are dis
posed to make Morrison's tariff bill
a party measure and rush it through
the House, while the Protectionists
of Pennsylvania and Maryland are
greatly disturbed about it, and feel
sure it will prove disastrous to the
party in those States. But they are
IN the minority, and will protest to
no purpose. The policy of the Dem
ocratic leaders evidently is to bring
the tariff question into prominence
in the expectation that its agitation
will serve to divert attention and
recollection from the disastrous am
nesty debate.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1876-02-04

Barnum is going to travel again
with the biggest show on wheels
The recent sale seems TO have been
conducted in his own interest, his
agents bought up everything of any
value. He viii travel with the new
concern as manager, and Messrs.
Smith, Nathans, June, Bailey and
Hurd will assist. We had hoped
for something entirely new and now
ell; but the programme viii continue
to be "grand quadruple combina-
tion''-museum, menagerie, circus,
and hippodrome, with a "Centenni-
al' thrown in, all under the name of
s'World's Fair" Great is Barnum,
and shows are his profit.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1876-02-04
There is trouble in the Democrat

There is trouble in the Democrat
ic camp on account of Speaker Kerr's
letter indorsing the Presidential can
didature of Hendricks. 1t is said
the letter was private one, express
sive only of the writer's personal
leanings, and not intended for pub
lication. But it got into print, and
the mischief was done. The Tilden
men, who claim to have secured
Kerr's election as Speaker, even to
the point of obtaining votes from
Indiana Congressmen opposed to
him, are in a rage about the letter,
accusing Kerr of ingratitude and
treachery.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1876-02-04

Ex-senator Robert Toombs, who
has not yet called the roll of his
slaves in the shadow of Bunker Hill
is still eating fire and trying to stir
up the embers of Southern hate
against the Union with and malig-
nant bombast and bowling denun-
citation of the people of the North.
A few days ago ne addressed the
Georgia Legislature and Others at
Atlanta on the issues of the day.
He let all the wild animals loose
again, got on the rampage, and lash
ed and tore things to tatters in a
manner which outdid any of his
maniacal rawlings prior to and dur
ing the Shareholders Rebellion.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1876-02-04


SPEAKER KERR, 1t seems has
been writing a private letterfavoring
the nomination of Gov. Hendricks
of Ind. for the presidency. II was
intended to be strictly private, but,
alas! it got into print, and is raising
the old boy with the prospects of
the man it was intended to help. 1t
illustrates the danger of letter writ
ing, and the further danger of NOM
mating candidates before the time
-borning 'out OF due season" "
Premature offspring are always pu-
ny, weakly, and frequently fail to
stand the trying season of infancy
and childhood. In the candidate
business such results are not always
calamitious, except to the restless
aspirants. Numbers are reduced to
be sure, but the timing out process
leaves a clearer field, and a better
sighting through. Lessons of this
kind, too, will serve to fix the idea
more indelibly, and perhaps practi-
cally, that we have some times more
to fear from our friends than from
our enemies.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1876-02-04
cen. Garnela ror Pre.Ident.

The Akron Argus nominales Gen
Garfield for the Presidency, aud asigns
the following weighty reasons therefor
He (GarfisldD is confessedly one of the
ablest men in the ROuse. II is said be
does more hard wo rk than any man in
CoDerrss. His. enc rgy, his infexibility
of purpose, his thF Oughness OF work, his
promp tness in the execution of every
public duty, his wonderful faithfulness
at the post of duty, and his moral cour-
aye in every emergency. are but Com
mensurate with his powerful intellect
gal faculties, his Knowledge of all politi-
cal governments, b is researches into his
tory, his eOmpre hension of political
economy, bis po 1ers of analysis and
nratory, his thOro ugh Acquaintance with
the political, moral and educational con-
ditiOn of our country. He would make
as gned Presid dent as Blaine, Bristow,
Hayes, Morton or Conkling, if not bet
ieV in some respects. We re gard Gar
f,.ld as one of the ablest statesmen In the
of America
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1876-02-04

The practice of declaring bogus
dividends for the purpose of infu-
encing the stock markets is attended
with disadvantages, as several rail
road companies have learned who
were called upon to pay the Govern
ment tax on such dividends. Ex-
Senator Scott, now the Solicitor of
the Pennsylvania Railroad, is in
Washington on an errand of grace,
mercy and peace. Several insolvent
roads which declared dividends that
never existed, and on which the tax
is not yet paid, have sinee fallen un-
der the control of the Pennsylvania
Company, and ex-senator Scott is
laboring to secure remission Of the
government tax in such cases.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1876-02-04

The Nation, TO which we are accustom-
ed TO look for honest expressions OF
opinion. is unequivocslly with Blame in
his attack upon JEFF Davis. 1t says:
There are good many reasons why
amnesty should be refused Jefferson
Davis, and we agree with Mr. Blaine IN
thinking bis moral responsibility for An
dersonVille one of Them. Mr.. Hill, of
Georgia, an ex-Confederate Senator, who
replied to Mr. Blaine, had right to deny
this responsibility, but be made great
mistake in attempting to whitewash the
Rebel prisons He WAS addressing men
whoh seen the skeletons that came
alive out of AndersnnVille or had surviv-
ed the horrors of Belle Isle, and he
might as well have offered statistics to
prove thst there had been no Rebellion
as that the names of those and other
Southern prison camps are not justly to
be forever infamous as scenes of needless,
wantOn, deYilish inhumanIty. It IS worth
while to remind Congres3men, too, that
Wirtz was found guilty by cOurt-mar-
tial Of "cOnspiring and confederating'
with Jefferson Davis, aud others, in the
cruel treatment of Federal prisoners, for
which he was hung. It would be SIM
pie stultidicarion to amnesty his military
superior, who looked upon his conduct
with Indifference or approval.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1876-02-04

We were probably in error in assum-
ing The other day that Senator Sherman
b ad written anything IN behalf OF Gov.
Hayes which would materially advance
his prospects. The analysis of his letter
by our Washington correspondent gives
the estimation in which Sherman's in
dorf,ement is held among the ohloans in
the Capital. viz:
1t is noteworthy that the phrase 10
wi ich Sherman declares for Gov. Hayes
is anything but satisfactory to promi-
nent Ohio friends bere of the latter.
They Indignantly assert that. II Sherman
had sludiously designed TO damn Gov,
Hayes wiili-faInt praise, the letter could
not have been more ingeniously framed
for the purpose. Especially offensive
10 them, as coming from the Ohio Seua-
tor, is what they style the palronizing
illusions, that Hayes was "a good sol
dir, though not greatly distinguished
that, "as member of Congress, be was
not leading debater nor manager 10
party tactics" :" and that, on the currency
question, he is thoroughly sound, but is
not committed to any particular meas
ure so as TO be disabled from co-operat-
ing with any plan that may promise sue
crss." "Thai, in Short" said promi-
neni Ohio journalist. sis saying that
Hayes amounted 10 nothing in partlcu-
lar as soldier; less as Congressman;
and that he has no principles in parlicu-
lar on the currency issue on which he
made the late canvass in Ohio, that
brought him into national prominence.
Sh erman's letter makes out that Gov.
Hayes would be pretty good sort OF a
Frank Pierce fgurehead President,
" hich is not the sort of President the
pc ople of this country have any use for"
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1876-02-04

The Centennial Appropriation bill
has run the gauntlet of Confederate
hate and revenge, and passed the
House by a vote of 147 to 1SO. The
Southern Democrats were still in had
humor, and the entire South contrib
uted but "a affirmative votes, II of
these being given by Republicans.
Amendments were adopted making
the 100000 a loan instead of
gift, the Government to be re-im-
bursed out of the first net profits of
of the Exhibition. The bill is quite
certain to pass the Senate and re-
ceive the approval of the President.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1876-02-04

The Canadian Centennial Commits
sion report their work in a forward
and satisfactory condition. New
Brunswick will contribute column
of polished red granite sixteen feet
high by three and a half feet in di-
ameter, raised on base of brown
olive and gray stone. The Manito-
ba collection, which consists princi-
pally of agricultural products and
Indian works, is already for ship
ment. Nearly all the specimens
from British Columbia are now at
Montreal.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1876-02-04
rHE woRs oE THE PooR.

THE WOES OF THE POOR.
Why do NOT the poor of New YORK gel
on better? Why is II that man on
salary Of sI5 a week cannot support his
family decenily9 SIS week would be
verv comfortable subsistence in a coun-
try town. 1t would support him and
leave him something over to lay up for
a rainy day. True, it would, but in New
York it is the merest nothing-if mea ns
starvation which is not even genteeL
Why isit9 The answer is easy. enough
The poor artisan or iaborer on SIS a
week might live on 1t and save money
if he could get what he lives on at any
decent price-but be don't II potato=
are worth, we viii say, $I-OO bushei'
by the bushel, what do you supp ose "a E
laborer paws for them BE can't buy
busbel at once. for his little SIS wont go
srenoueh He has to pay 81 for rent
If his rooms. which is nearly half of his
INCOME for place for him and his to
live and sleep, leaving him s. week
for food and clothing. This would an
swer if he could only buy his food in
such quantities, and at such places a s
food car be procured at reasonable
prices But he cannot do this. for be has
not money enough. A barrel of pota-
toes cost, we will say. $S.50,-shauld he
buy barrel be would have nothing left
for other articles Of food. 50 be buys
half peck of potatoes, for which he pays
forty cents, or at the rate of $500
busheI, instead of about dollar. His
coal would cost him only aboat $6 a ton.
II he could buy ton, but he can't; he
can buy bushel, though, just enough
TO last him day or two. ani for tut
the dealer makes him pay 20 or so cents.
and when be has to get a peck ins tead
Of a bushel, the extortion is still more
And as it is with his coal and potatoes,
so it is with everything. he never has
money enough to buy anything in guam
tity-he lives from hand to mouth, and is
consequently, compelled TO pay four
prices ior everything. 1t is a decent
fortune to ave retail store in
q poor neigh5Lrhood, for the profits made
from poor people are immense. And as
there Is NO credit given, the trade is sure
There is no such thing as getting up in
IN the world for a laboring mar. in New
York, unless streak of luck comes.
This season has been exceptionally hard.
Tor labor has been scarce aud wages cor
low. How they 1--we at all
IS more than can understand.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1876-02-04


There are few if any respectable
journals in the North that indorse or
approve the speech of the late rebel
General Hill on the Amnesty bill.
On the contrary, it is pronounced
as not only in exceeding bad taste,
but an actual Haunting of the rebel
fac in the face of the North. AS a
style of the criticisms passed upon
it by Union men who heard Hill de-
fend his own and others infamy, the
following from the Chicago IFi5-
aa'ae's correspondent will be read
with interest:
The scene in the House was one
to make one forget that secession is
a crime, or that there has been a
civil war. That Ben. Hill should
appear in the American Congress at
all is a curious political anomaly !;
that he should appear as the eulogist
and apologist of JEFF. Davis, and to
defy the loyal North, is a fact
which the future historian will re-
cord with incredulity. 1t was a speech
which all Union soldiers will read
with amazement, pain and anger.
There were in it the crack of the
old slave-whip, the trucuient threat,
and the plantation swagger OF the
old days. The old slave dogma
that there is no virtue except in vio
ience was again exernplifed. Ben.
Hill, in the name of the United
South and speaking of it as a for
eign country, has returned to threat
en-to nulify-the acts of the Gov
erment which he betrayed, and to
denouncc determination to control
the Government which he dlsowned
and which has pardoned him, pro-
testing that he was a citizen of the
whole country. The speech was mar
row, bigoted, and meanIy sectional.
1t showed the bitterness of an un-
conquered and unsubdued Rebel.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1876-02-04

Edgar Faweett's new novel soon
to be published by G. W. Carleton
& Co., is entitled "Asses' Ears" and
we don't know where the author col
lected his materials, but it may be
well enough for some of our COM
petitors to feel around to see if they
have lost anything.