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The Jasper weekly courier., 1876-02-18

protecting the public interest, and the
sworn guardians of the Treasury, are
constantly found combining and collud-
ing TO betray their trusts for price.
The Sanborn jobbery was notorious
ly carried on through the connivance Of
Sawyer, and fragrant as was that plum
der, il may perhaps be regarded as
among the small operations Of the
Treasury Ring with which he was con-
nected. But with proper administra-
ton Of the department, these frauds
never could have been committed.
Boutwell, and Richardson can not escape
from their share of responsibility for A
system which made robbery matter Of
routine.
Sawyer, by his plausibility and by
some degree Of culture, was regarded
AT the outset of his career as among the
best Of the carpet-baggers in the Senate.
But he was soon found TO be wanting in
integrity, and when he was superseded
by Patterson, enough was known by his
colleagues to justify the withdrawal of
all confidence. In the face of this
knowledge he was recommended by
most of the Republican Senator's, and
confirmed by their votes, for Assistant
Secretary Of the Treasury.
The Whisky Ring. the Indian Ring,
the Straw-bid Ring, the Navy Ring, the
Army Ring, the Credit Mobilier, the FL
Paso jobbery, the Treasury frauds, and
other villainies, are all parts and fea-
lures Of the same system, and represent
the utter and hopeless corruption of
the Republican party. Astounding as
the developments have been in the last
two or three years, they barely break
the crust Of the iniquities vet covered
up in the various departments, some Of
which can never be brought to light
without a change Of Administration.
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(Chicago Tribune. Feb. 81
THE TARIFF QUESTION.

The more the Tariff bill is discussed the
less probability there is that il will pass the
House without substantial amendment. Mr..
Morrison himself is confident that il will be
reported by the Ways and Means Commit
tee and will reach the Senate, but his opin-
ion is not shared by all other Democrats,
and not by some Of his own Committee.
Fernando Wood is opposed TO the bill.
He does not favor the tea and coffee tax
indeed, he is opposed TO the assumption OF
any definite policy by the Democrats. He
believes their policy should be TO pass the
appropriation bills and adjourn without
committing the party TO any definite propo-
sition in the currency or finance. The tea
and coffee tax Is the vital feature OF .he bill,
one in fact from which additional revenue
is expected, and H. the one that j. most op-
posed by the Democrats. The Senators Of
both parties are confident that the bill will
not pass.
The Jasper weekly courier., 1876-02-18
Grant and His Friend Shepherd.
From the New York sun. ]

On Monday night last Boss Shepherd
gave a "grand BALI at Washington,
for which six hundred invitations y
were issued to all the officials and shod-
dy society of the capital. The Admin
istration organs are quite enthusiastic
over this event, and one Of them gushes
in the following strain:
1.-The ball at Mr.. shepherds magnificent
residence was one Of the most beautiful and
altogether delightful ever given in Washing
ton. The genial, courteous host, and gen.
tie. graceful hostess understand 30 well the
art OF entertaining, that the success Of any
fete given by them i assured from the out
set.
1.-The President attended this ball, max
ing his first appearance in society thi. sea-
son. Col. and Mr.. Fred Grant. Mrs.
Ulysses Grant. and Marshal and Mr.. sharp
(Gen. Grants sister, were also present. "
II thus seems tha, the very first occa-
sion on which the President has ap-
peared in society this winter at the capi-
tai, was 20 do honor To Boss Shepherd,
who stands branded before the country
as the head of the Washington Ring,
whom public opinion has gibbeted in
the same category with Tweed, whose
nomination a Republican Senate igno-
miniously rejected, and whose opera
tions are among the great scandals Of
the times.
The President not only gave this fel-
low the countenance of his official pres
ence, but he took his whole family with
him, and sat down on a level with the
thieving contractors, fraudulent meas
urers, notorious jobbers, and colluding
clerks, who made up large part of the
distinguished company"
On the day of this ball the Senate had
up the bill for paying the interest on the
3.65 bonds, which grew out of the plum
dering Board of Public Works of which
Shepherd was the head and front. His
legacy of frauds was the subject of
sharp debate, as it had been previously
in the House of Representatives With
full knowledge of these facts, and
others still more damning, the Presi-
dent sought to cover Shepherd with the
mantle of his official protection. Gen.
Grant always shows himself the friend
of public plunderers.
The Jasper weekly courier., 1876-02-18

Valentine Reinhart, well known
German citizen of Indianapolis, COM
mitted suicide on the 4th by shooting
himself.
Byron Wether, stone-cutter, COM
mitted suicide at st. Johns, Mich, on the
3lst ult., by taking twelve grains of NOR
phine. He had been married but few
months.
Robert Mount was killed near Fem
ton, Mich, on the 27th ult., by the burst
ing of "A balance-wheel on wood saving
machine. A small piece was driven
through his body
by the premature discharge OF a
blast in the coal bank near Doylestown,
Wayne County, Ohio, on the 23d ult.,
George Seolner was instantly killed and
John Helt badly injured.
"A paymaster's car on the North
western Railroad was thrown from the
track, on the morning of the I'd, be-
tween Ishpeming and Ncgaunee, Mich,
and the paymaster, Mr.. Reynolds, and a
trackmaster, Mr.. Brown, were both
killed.
AT Kineo, Ks, recently, youth
named Nipnaw was shot twice, and ia
tally wounded, by boy named William
Heinke, the cause being that Nipnaw
had talked disparagingly of the latter's
sister, who is respectable girl. Heinke
was not arrested.
While Robert Galley was chopping
wood at Monroeville, Ind, on the 25th
ult., limb fell from tree, striking
him with such force as TO knock him
down, and, his head striking a root on
the ground, his skull was badly frac-
tured, and he died shortly afterward.
Mrs. Sophia Hertel, of 1913 Second
Avenue, New York, was found hanging
dead from the transom of door one
morning recently. She had stolen from
the side of her husband as he slept,
above the store, and hanged herself
with handkerchief. She was 55 years
old, and'was insane on account of the
marriage of her daughter against her
mothers wishes.
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lst. Louis Globe Democrat, Feb. ;.
TIE MISSISSIPPI LEVEEs.

Captain t. p. Leathers, veteran Missis-
sippi River steamboatman, who is here for
the purpose Of testifying before the House
Committee on Post-offces and Post-roads,
with regard 10 the Peterson mail contracts
on the Lower Mississippi, was before the
Select Committee on the Mississippi Leyees
this morning, by yrequest ofthe chairman, Mr..
Ellis, Of Louisiana, and gave his views with
regard to the construction and maintenance
of the levees. General Humphreys, Chief
OF Engineers, was subsequently heard by
the committee. The stealnboatman and the
Engineer accorded in their views, and agreed
that a system Of continuous embankments
or leyees along the lower Mississippi seems
10 afford the only practical solution OF the
problem OF reclaiming its alluyial basis from
inundation.
The Jasper weekly courier., 1876-02-18

The auxiliary force for the Moody
and Sankey revival at New York will
consist cf l,2O0 singers and $50 clergy
men.
The Rev. j. 5. Aver, who recently
died in Bangor, Maine, ,bequeated S25, ,0OO
to the Methodist Episcopal Missionary
Society, and $4,000 To the Preachers
Aid Society.
New York City Processes to be salts
fled with the results Of one years trial
of compulsory education, and claims
that the system has rescued 5000 chill
dren from vagrancy.
The House of Representatives of
Rhode Island have passed, without di-
vision, a bill providing that land occu-
pied or owned by churches, schools,
colleges and charitable institutions,
shall no longer be exempt from taxa
tion.
The Southern Kansas Annual Con
ference will be held in Emporia on the
1st day Of March. The Kansas Confer
ence will be held in Lawrence on the
18th day of March. Bishop Jesse L.
Peck will preside at each.
The late Miss Lucretia Creighton,
who died in Philadelphia recently, is
said TO have willed 81, 800, 900 to endow
college in Dayton, o., for the educa-
ton of INDECENT young men who desire
to prepare themselves for the Catholic
ministry. The report needs confirma-
tion.
The Evangelical Alliance of the
United States, at its annual meeting,
resolved that the Philadelphia branch
of the Evangelical Alliance be respect
fully requested to embrace suitable OPP
portunities for acquainting distin-
guished visitors TO the National Exhibit
tion with our Christian and philan-
thropic institutions.
The religious question has come up
in new form in Boston. A little girl
attendant upon one of the schools in
that city, which are kept open on Sat
urday until noon, was arraigned before
the Police Court recently under the
compulsory education act for habitual-
ly absenting herself from school on that
day. Upon the trial il appeared that
the girl was of Jewish parentage, and
her father appearing in her defense
stated that she was kept at home to at
tend divine service. The police justice
was unable, however, TO find any ex-
emption on that account in the law and
sentenced the girl to three months in
the Reformatory. 1t is not likely that
the girls parents will submit without
testing the question.
The Jasper weekly courier., 1876-02-18
FROM THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
Political and Personal New. and Gossip.

lst. Louis Republican, Feb. s.
"cRooKED" POSTAL CONTRACTS.
Capt. scudder testified to-day before the
for mail service between ST. Louis and
Memphis was 1900, and that was the low
est bid put In. Peterson's bid at ~. 900
was accepted, and he afterwards paid scud-
der $40, 900 for carrying the mails. The bids
put In AT that time being shown Capt. Scud-
der, he was Of opinion that all excepting his
own were 4" straw bids.
WAR CLAIMS.
A bill OF considerable general importance
and much special interest to Missouri was
introduced in the House last Monday by Col.
Philips Of Missouri. II provides, in sub
stance, that all claims for forage and sub
sistance supplies furnished the army during
the late war, which are now prosecuted be-
fore the Quartermaster and Commissary
Generals and Third Auditor Of the Treasu-
ry, shall be tried and determined in the
United States District Courts, Just as actions
are now brought between individuals In
civil cases. The process provided for the
adjudication Of this class Of claims IL almost
precisely that which exists In England un-
der the name Of ''the petition Of right, -
and II j. thought will give such claimants as
can prove up their claims by good legal tes-
llmOny certain ana speedy ftlle1, Nhlle
barring the collection of large number OF
claims which the Government does not hon
estly owe, but against which IL has al present
most sufficient protection. IL has transpired
since the introduction Of the bill that il was
introduced at the request Of Secretary Bris-
tow, and embodies change in the method
OF prosecuting those claims which he recon-
mended most earnestly in his last annual re-
port. The bill is now before the Judiciary
Committee and Col. PhiliDs states that In Il
very favorably considered by Mr.. Knott and
other members OF the committee with whom
he has conyersed concerning the principle
involved.
The Jasper weekly courier., 1876-02-18
The Bloody Shirt Business.
IAdvertlsement in Indianapolis News

Advertisement in indianapolis News
1t having come to my ears that GER
tain designing individual named Blaine
is endeavoring to palm Off spurious
article of bloody shirt upon the public,
| hereby give notice that ! am the sole
manufacturer of the genuine article |
feel confident in asserting that the pub
lie will not be deceived by the unscru-
pulous proprietor of the mushroom
concern, which has just started, so long
as the goods Of the old reliable Outrage
Mills are upon the market.
OLIVER T.. MORTON.
Sole Proprietor Of the Only Recogniz-
ed Outrage Mills.
The Jasper weekly courier., 1876-02-18

In the Neurological Department OF
the Philadelphia Exhibition will be "A
column Of coal 100 feet in height. II is
TO be brought from Tennessee in AS few
sections as possible, and General Wilder,
President Of large coal and iren inter
est in that State, has set men To work at
cutting the shaft. It's remarked IN this
connection that the column will be one
Of the most striking objects in the Ex-
hibition.
MIR. Hathaway, who was deputcd
by Fall River manufacturers To go To
England, and ascertain whether cotton
goods could be proitably exported to
that country, is on his return. Mean
time exports are increasing. A new
and most extensive market is also open
in China, where the reputation of Brit
ish good is very low, on account Of over
sizing and adulteration. Ii is a strange
fact that, Notwithstanding the known
superiority Of the product of many
American mills over the British,
some New England manufacturers who
turn out goods of excellent quality, palm
them off on the market as imported from
Great Britain.
The Edgar Thompson Steel Works
have filed an order for GO foot rails.
Several advantages are claimed for
rails of this length. They cost no more
per pound than 80 foot rails; and as two
crop ends are saved, the cost of produc-
tion is considerably lessened-no way
of using crop end. economically having
yet been devised. The cost Of laying is
lessened fewer fish plates, etc, are
required; and as the hammering caused
by the rolling stock in passing from rail
to rail is lessened by one-half, the wear
and tear of rails and rolling stock must
be greatly diminished. On bridges,
also, the strains will be greatly reduced.
The practical results Of the use of these
rails will be awaited with considerable
irterest-Chicago Raiiroad Recie'c.
The Jasper weekly courier., 1876-02-18

.-Thirty-two sales Of short-horns took
place in Kentucky last year, in which
l,553 animals were sold for $665, 1856.
The value of the butter made in the
United States in 1875 amounts 10 S42O,-
100000. This is equal to the combin-
ed yield of gold and silver and the cot
ton crop.
A company is about starting a great
farming enterprise in the foot hills be-
tween Marysville and Smartsville, Cal.
where they have in body 200 acres
Of land. Orchards of orange trees,
English walnuts, almonds, and pecans
will be laid out, and much ground de-
voted to wheat, clover, alfalfa, and sheep
raising.
The Jasper weekly courier., 1876-02-18
INVESTIGATING Az ALLEGED LoBBYIN
OPERATION.

The House Judiciary Committee began
this morning the investigation, under the
Holman resolution, into the circumstances
connected with the passage OF the bill char
tering the Memphis and III Paso Railroad.
in 1863. Charles Morton appeared before
the committee and submitted list of per-
sons who, il il alleged, were paid by Fre-
mont for their services i'm securing the pas
sage Of the bill. The witness, and the COM
mittee affect great secrecy. but
IL Is well understood that the list includes the
names of several prominent men, some Of
whom are now in Congress, and others con-
nected with the public press. and not a few
well known venerable lobbyists. II is al
legged that $40, 600 altogether was paid out
in money, besides ~ 900 900 or 81, 900, 600
promised. Gen. Fremont l. here, and,
though appearing a. witness, has had sew
cral interviews with members of the Judi
ciary Committee.
The Jasper weekly courier., 1876-02-18

Mr.. A. c. Tucker, of Choppers De
pot, has left at our Office the famous
grasshopper that set upon sweet-po-
tato vine and got bit upon the snout by
an ungentlemanly June-bug. Ii Is an
active and energetic thing, and hops
about in the confines of its cage like a
hungry dog in a meat-house. IL chews
tobacco with as much grace a an Ar
kansas legislator, and squirts the am
Der about like Shelbyville street
sprinkler II is also the same ident-
ical grasshopper that employed it.
self last summer in destroying Mis-
sourian's crop Of tobacco, and who,
when the gentleman went out to see
about it, set upon the fence and spit
tobacco-juice in his face. The impu-
dent thing. II will return to its home
in Kansas in few days, which place 1t
will reach in time to look after the ear
" potatoes, etc.--Sheiby (Ky.) Sentinel.
The Jasper weekly courier., 1876-02-18
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Personal and Literary.

Mr.. Benj. p. Shillaber (Mrs. Part
ington) is about TO make a visit to Cali
fornia.
Joe Jefferson, the actor, amuses
himself in his leisure hours by painting
in oil
Ernest Longfellow, the Boston ar
tist and son of the poet, is going TO pass
a few years in Europe.
Robert Dale Owen has promised to
give public readings in Marquette,
Michigan, where he is at present stop
ping at the house of his son. He pro-
poses to read "Enoch Arden"
--Signor Medcro Sayini is an Italian
so prolific that he brings forth new
novel, it is said, every month, each one
having a poetical title, and having pre-
cisely one hundred and forty-four and
a half pages.
Mr.. Samuel NJ. Shaw, OF the Coop
erstown On. Y) Freeman's Journal,
gives an account of call which he
made, during recent sojourn in Wash
ington, on the venerable Francis u.
Blair, who is now S5 years of age and
in feeble health. Mr.. Blair was some
what surprised when told that the num-
ber of years devoted TO journalism by
Mr.. Shaw exceeded his own. During
the visit Mr.. Blair spoke gratefully Of
the assistance which, while editing the
Globe, he had received from his wife,
who, although only two years his junior,
still accompanies him on his horseback
rides in the summer season.
Dudley Buck, whom Chicago can
almost claim as one of her own musi-
clans, and Sidney Lanier, young
Southern poet, whose magazine con-
tributions have attracted agreat deal Of
attention, are about 10 shake hands
across the bloody chasm, the latter hav-
ing been selected to write the text of a
cantanta for the Centennial Musical
Festival and the former to set il to mu-
sic. So far as the musical part of the
work is concerned, we know that the
selection Is a good one. II Mr.. Lanier's
muse is as accomplished as Mr.. Bucks,
their union will result in a very notable
creation.-C Chicago Tribune.
The Jasper weekly courier., 1876-02-18

Of England. The House Committee on For
eign Affairs was to-day instructed to look
into the Emma Mine aud the Machado busi-
ness, and the Secretary Of State was re-
quested ~ permit the committee 10 learn
what the State Department files say about
IL. The resolution was something Of a SEN
sation, n IL was introduced By Pierce, OF
Boston. Republican member. There was
not dissenting voice. The committee H.
instructed TO 90 In person To the State De-
partment, and g mime the correspondence.
The Jasper weekly courier., 1876-02-18
lChicago Inter. Ocean. Feb. (. !
THE nIArK HILLS.

In regard to the rumorcd movement Of
troops in the Department Of the Platte, the
Secretary OF War says he has no definite in
formation. General Crook, the commander
of that department. has orders TO keep
miners out OF the Black Hills, and, as il l.
now notorious fact that the hills are full
of them. there j. no doubt the General in
tends To make another raid like that OF last
spring at once, and bring the enterprising
prospectors OIL the reservation. The Sec
retary Of War says that, ~ long a the
treaty with the Sioux stands a. IL does At
present, mining in the hills is unlawful. and
the Government will prevent IL IL possible.
Gen. Crook has positive orders 10 maintain
the conditions Of the treaty n far as possi-
BILE, and he is responsible for any violation.
The General has not communicated his plans
for the removal Of the miners TO the Secre-
tary, but it il known that his intention is
To 90 after them as soon as the weather will
permit. Those who have broken the patrol
made by them when released last spring will
be imprisoned and tried by the courts.
The Jasper weekly courier., 1876-02-18

William Cullen Bryant could not
90 TO a Williams College dinner SO he
POLITICALLY wrote: "Old age shrinks
from cold as from reminder Of the
graveyard. and loves warm corners and
aesiles in snug nccks aat u the VIM. =
The Jasper weekly courier., 1876-02-18
The Latest Found Out.
From the New York sun. ]

No surprise is excited that indict-
ments should have been found at Wash
ington against Frederick \. Sawyer,
late Assistant Secretary of the Treasury,
Haines, late Commissioner of
ms, w. III. Barstow, clerk in the
ury, and others, for conspiracy
raud the Government through a
claim, in which forgery was one
elements of success. Like the
cases Of Sugg Fort and Witowski,
only a surface indication of deep
Of corruption.
erever the public service is probed
IN, rottenness is found TO exist in
rining degree. And when inves-
N shall uncover tke frauds that
een perpetrated since Grant and
lew came into power, hundreds Of
,ns will not foot the bills. Assist
ecrctarics. comptrollers. auditors,
: and commissioner. eh=.eea sit.
The Jasper weekly courier., 1876-02-18
lst. Louis Republican, Feb. 9.l
THE BANKRUPTCY LAW.

Notwithstanding the large majority by
hirh ih1 LIN th.. laxs-
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1876-11-15
AN UNFORTUNATE cIRCUM-
STANCE.

Unfortunately for the country. the
Presidential contest is to be decided to
. great extent by the Returning Boards
of South Carolina. Florida and Louis
lana. These Boards are composed OF
the most INSCRIPTIONS men in the
country. The people have no conf
dencs 10 them; and although one of
them--that of Louisiana--is the crea-
turs of Grant, it il evident that even
he has no confidence in it. from tbs
fact that he named commission to 20
to New Orleans aud be present at the
canvass of the returns. The returns
from all three of these States indicate
that they have given Democratic ma.
jorities, but the canvassers have it in
their power to declare them Republi
can. That they intend to do 80, can
scarcely be doubted unless prevented
by the presence of such men as Gov
Palmer and Senator TrumbuIl. of ILL
nois. Gov. Curtin. of Pennsylvania,
and O number of such other distin.
guished and conservative men, who are
now in the South, and have invited BY
telegraph many Of the leading Repub-
shcans Of the North to joiatthem and
witness the canvassing of the votes.
Governor Tilden has received 1874 elec-
toral votes, and at least 10000 ma
jority of the popular votes 10 the States
where the fairness of the election il
not disputed; but in the face of these
facts the carpet-baggers of the three
Southern States above named, may de-
clare their electoral vote for Hayes, and
thus give him q majority of one in the
Electoral College. They know it will
not answer their purpose to throw any
of them out, a. that would give Tildsn
. majority, consequently all Of them
will be counted; and unless the Demo
cratic majority in each of them is 80
large that it cannot be overcome except
by the most glaring frauds in counting,
their vote will be given to Hayes. This
will leave the matter with the Senate
and the House of Representatives,
where, possibly, il may be decided i'm
partially, and to the satisfaction of the
people.