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A Startling Fraud.
The Democrats and the Indian Trust Ba-
renu-The Treasury Loses %, ,OOO, 900 by
Democratic Cabinet Oficers-The Result
of Secretary ChaudIer's Invesiigaiion


lFrom the Special of the. Boston Adyertiser.l
WASHINGTON July 5.-Secretary Chandler il
going on with his investigation of the Demo-
cratic manipulation of the Indian trust fund
bonds in the Interior department. and the fur
ther he goes the more rascally do the transac-
ticns appear. As soon as the examination is
complete the facts and documents will be
turned over to Attorney General Taft for such
action as can be taken by the Government to
recover the five millions or more that have
been lost. The history of the last defalcation
discovered is as follows: When the Choc.aw,
Cherokee and other Indian nations were trans
feIred to the Indian Territory the Government
gave them liberal compensation for their lands
in Georgia, Alabama, Florida and other states,
which money was ordered to be held In trust BY
the government for the benefit of these tribes,
they to receive the interest upon the sum at
hve per cent. per annum to be applied for their
benefit. Under the direction Of the interior
department law was passed in 1841, directing
the Secretary of the Interior to invest these
trust funds in United States bonds, bearing q
rate of interest not less than five per cent, and
clause was enacted in the law prohibiting In
vestment in any other securities. But differ
ent Secretaries, as is shown by the follow
ing statements, have made investment,
to the amount of two millions not only
not in United States bonds, but IN worth
less state bonds and stocks of private corpora
tions which never had value:-
Statement Sh0aoinq achen and by aohom certain
State stocks acere purchased. and the amount
Of accrued interest thereon due and imposed
Jutg1, 1885,
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HOUSE on the corner Of High Id Danforth St.,
III in the best of repair has 9 looms and large
pantry, good furnace, gas and Sebaeo water. good
cemented cellar, woodhouse and large GARDEN In
qiure at No. IS High Street.
my16dtt PETER HANNA.
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ACCOUNTS from the seat of war on the
Danube are conflicting. The Servians began
hostilities by four attacks one near Satschar,
where they were repulsed with considerable
loss; one at Babinaglana, where the Turkish
fortified camp was carried by assault; one at
Nitsch, where they were successful; and one
at Boelina, where the result was indeeisive.
Their object appears 10 be three-fold: first,
to drive the Turks from Bosnia by sending
an army across the Drina into that province
second, to join part of the Servian forces
with the Montenegrin army 10 order to expel
the Turks from the Herzegovina; third, to
assist the revolt in Bulgaria by sending armed
forces to that quarter. The Montenegrins
have compelled Mukhtar Pasha to abandon
Gatscho and retreat into Bosnia, and are now
beleaguering Modem. Meanwhile Austria is
armiDg.
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WESTERN CRops.-Crop reports from the
West are in the main encouraging. the harvest
promising go be an unusually bountiful one.
In Arkansas there is an increased area under
tillage, which has been put under grain. The
wheat has been generally harvested, and the
crop is of superior quality, though the yield
per acre is somewhat below the average. Tho
condition of the corn and cotton is good, oats
hardly up to the mark, and fruit, excepting ap-
plef failure. The Kansas wheat harvest Is
reported as greatly above the average both in
quality and quantity; corn promises well. and
the agricultural interest generally was never
more prosperous. In Texas the wheat is in
good condition. The total yield will be in ad-
vance of previous years, though the quantity
per acre shows slight falling of. Corn and
cotton will show above the average if fayoraA
BILE weather continues. Nebraska cereals ara
fiourishing except in few localities. and no
grasshoppers or other dangerous pests appear
ing. The Florida corn crop is excellent and the
cotton looking well.
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ERMs $500 PER ANNUM, IN ADVANCE.

fects of their opponents. They would have
the American people believe that their accu.
sation of prohigacy against the Republicans
will serve as an offset TO their infamous rec
ord of treason!
The present administration is not perfect.
1t is open to fair criticism in many minor
matters, but for many things it is entitled to
great credit. 1t is entitled to credit because
since 1866 it has reduced the national debt
more than S700,000000. 1t is entitled TO
great credit because by that reduction and
its persistent efforts TO refund the national
debt at lower rate of interest (all of which
was accomplished in spite of every obstacle
interposed by the Democratic leaders) it has
reduced the annual interest from $147, ,000,-
900 in 1866 to $100,000,0 900 in 1S76-a saving
of nearly 5O,0O0,0OO year.
One word respecting the howl of extrava-
gance set up by the st. Louis Convention.
In 1S60-in the good old days of James Bu-
chanan-when three cabinet officers were
traitors, and the President and two other
ministers were imbeciles-when the afore-
ing Democrat in the land, including SAMUEL.
j. TILDEN, declared that the Federal Gov
eminent had no power TO coerce state to
stay in the Union-the expenditures of the
government amounted to S77,000,000 in
gold for 100000 population, or $3.50 per
head. In 1876 the expenses for all purposes
are So per head ON the present population.
One half of this sum is for pensions and in-
terest, leaving So in currency for ordinary
expenses against s. 40 in 1860 in gold. The
retrenchments made by the Senate appropri-
alton bills will further reduce the ordinary
expenditures so that they will not amount to
more than $2.75 per head in currency the
last year of President Grants administra-
tion against the last year of President Bu-
chanan.
Thus il appears that the present admins
tration is as economical as its last Democratic
predecessor and the increase of taxation is
due to a rebellion for which the Democratic
leaders are alone responsible.
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Political News,


Twenty German papers have declared for
Hayes and Wheeler yet MIR. Tiden expresses
the opinion that the Germans are for him en-
mGSSe.
The Tribune says there is a suspicion that
Mr.. Parker Goodwin wishes he had not sent
that enthusiastic despatch until he had seen
the tail of the ticket"
An exchange says: "The most prominent
workers for Tilden at st. Louis were men,
bers of the canal ring, which he is supposed
to be pursuing with such vigor, men who
have actually been indicted at Tiden's IN
stance. All of which shows how very much
in earnest Tilden's reform IS"
This eminently suggestive paragraph is
from the Cincinnati Enquirer: "The Tilden
managers have concluded not to abandon
Ohio entirely this year. We are told that
they will make tremendous effort to carry
the state in October. We are likely to have
an imitation of the currency in Ohio"
A Catholic exchange is pleased at the de-
feat Of Mr.. Blaine whom it considers most
hostile to the church it represents. We be-
lieve Mr.. Blaine did purpose an amendment
to the Constitution prohibiting the appropri-
alton of public school funds to sectarian
schools. Is that all? Why, then, hostile Z
David H. Downley, a wealthy New Jersey
farmer, says he has voted at every presi.
dental election since the election of Gen.
jackson, and the man he has voted for has
been elected each time. This year he will
vote for Hayes, and he says it will be useless
for Tilden to spend either time or money or
his election.
When the Democratic platform says, "Ne
denounce the policy which discards the liber
ty-loving German and tolerates the revival o.
the Coolie trade in Mongolian women i'm
ported for improper purposes" does it NEAR
to denounce the Californians for preferrinl
Mongolian women to "liberty-loving Ger
mans, for the purpose described? and if i
doesn't mean that, what on earth does i
mean ?-Sprinqtietd Union.
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Total. $50. 600
S8O9,iA0

Io'ai' '.So'O,OOO x8O9,l90
These stocks, which were purchased more
than half of them, by Jacob Thompson and
the balance by his Democratic predecessors in
the Interior department, were mostly the
bonds of southern states which were never
worth more than fifty cents on a dollar. and
have been repudiated during the war, but
are recorded on the books of tho department
as having been purchased at their face value:
many of them not even negotiable. The rec
ords of the department show that some pur-
chases were made of bonds identical with the
S1SO,OOO distracted by Thompson, and 1t is
supposed that his clerk sold these bonds back
to the government, although there is nothing
by which it can be proven. Under the law the
government paid the Indians five per cent. for
the interest on these trust funds and money
has been appropriated for this purpose every
year by Congress. These bonds should have
| been paying interest all the time to balance
| the sum appropriated but over So, 300, 900 have
never paid cent, when they should have paid
from the time they were purchased to the pres
ent date the sum of S2,0OS,0O0 as interest.
| The government has lost not only the face
value of the bonds, but this amount of inter-
| est, which makes total of nearly S5,000OOO
| There is no means of showing how the
| transactions were made, but it is sup
posed that these worthless bonds were pur-
| chased for little or nothing and charged on the
| books at their face value, the Democratic party
| getting the benefit of the balance. 1t is known
that the other S7S0,O00 stolen by Thompson
went into the Golfers OF the confederacy, and 1t
| is supposed this plunder was also used to pay
for the preparations OF the rebellion. 1t Is
| probable that this matter would never have
beed exposed had it not been for Secretary
| Chandler's wellknown business capacity and
| carefulness His predecessors In the depart
ment were doubtless aware that in the safe
were a quantity of State bonds, but none of
them took the care to investigate how they
| came there and whether they were legitimate
| or not. When the act was passed transferring
| the Indian trust funds to the care of the treas
ury department, Secretary Chandler examined
| every bond and certificate as carefully as If II
bad been his own personal property, and the
country now sees the result of his fidelity. As
a matter of history quotation from Jacob
| Thompson's last report as Secretary of the In
terror is apropos He said; within the fouI
years since have presided over this depart
ment not one dollar has been lost believe, To
the government by embezzlement or theft
although within that time sixty millions have
been disbursed."
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nOWN stairs tenement in new house. III Lin
IL coin st Cor. Cedar. Water closet, Sebago
water, gas. Also light express wagon for sale. In
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Nor satisfied with the excitement caused
by the Turkish insurrection France is devot-
ing its energies to bringing about ministe-
rial crisis and a possible revolution. Presi-
dent MeMahon is at issue with the Assembly
on the municipal bill. The House of Depu-
ties desires the resignation of certain MEM
bers of the Cabinet. The President will not
consent, and threatens to dissolve the Cham
ber and appeal to the country. He will not
take ministry from the Left, and should a
new Chamber be radical still another election
would be ordered
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To Rent.

THE up stairs tenement in No. 312 Congress
l. Street. One of the most desirable rents OF its
price in the city. Gas, Sebago, etc. Within three
minutes walk of post-Offce Price $780, ju9dtf
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Mystery Solved.

1t strikes at the root of disease by purifying the
blood. restoring the ver and kidneys to healthy ac-
ton, invigorating the nervous system.
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THE Democratic reformers who went wild
over Belknaps petty swindling in post trad
erships, are respectfully invited to look into
the mat ter of the Indian funds where cabinet
officers in nearly every Democratic admins
tration from Van Buren's time until Bu-
chanan's day, invested them in worthless
banks in direct violation of an act of Con-
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IT is surmised that the strong Southern
support of Tilden at st. Louis was brought
abou. by pledge from him that he would
support the building of the Texas Pacific
railroad, which will require $100,0O0,000 in
land and money grant from the government.
The Louisville COurier-Journdl is the most
powerful advocate of the subsidy, and has
been for several years, declaring that it was
the leading national issue in which the
South was interested, and that the South
could afford to support no man for the presi-
dency not pledged to that job. This paper
has been Tden's most powerful backer, and
the conclusion that Tiden has given the re-
quired pledge is reasonable enough to COM
mand wide belief among politicians.
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THE party who sent the special 10 the Bos-
ton Globe representing that large number
of Republicans in this city are openly hostile
to Mr.. Reed, the Republican nominee for
Congress, evidently drew upon his imagina-
tion for his facts or his earnest wish as par
tisan was father to the thought expressed.
There will doubtless be more of these parti-
san dispatches during the campaign as false
and as much in the interest of the Democrat
ic party as that to which we have referred.
tention to it.
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The Rev. J. S. Small, who has just gradu-
at ed from Dartmouth College at the age ol
fifty, has solved the question of the practical
bility of acquiring classical education late
in life for himse and has set laudable ex.
ample to many others who are now hesitat-
ipn
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-07-07

SULTAN Murad appeals to the palates OF
his soldiers, as well as to their hearts. He
has been treating them to strawberries and
curd, the oriental equivalent of our straw
harries and cream
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The President received an autograph letter
from the Emperor William OF Germany on the
Fourth congratGlating the country on the occa-
sion of the hundredth anniversary of the Dec
laration of Independence.
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To Let.

A NICELY furnished room on second story, with
n. board in private family. House contains all
modern improvements. Location, Congress Square.
Address P. o. Box S97, Portland, Me.
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The difference between the receipts and ex-
penditures is about $s4,OOO,OOO which was
devoted to the payment of the national debt
which was Incurred to put down rebellion
which the present Confederate leaders in the
House and in the Convention adopting this
platform melted. Nor did the author of
this Confederate platform deem it worth
their while to add that of these expenditures
of 1870 $129, ,235, ,49S in gold equivalent to
155,00O,O0O in currency was required to
pay the interest on the debt aohich pas in
Cured in consequence Of their reasonable
attempt to destroy the nation. They also
forget to state that over $2S,OO0,O 900 of this
large expenditure goes to pay the pensions of
the men and the widows and orphans Of the
men who were killed by the leaders of that
Confederate Convention and the men they
represent, while defending the Union against
their assaults. The people of this country
can forgive, but have not the power to forget
that the leaders in that Convention and THE
CONFEDERATEs WHO CONTROL THE PRES.
ENT CONGRESS HAVE BURDENED THE CoUN-
AN ANNUAL TAX TO PAY INTEREST, SINK
ING FUNDS AND Pensions AS LARGE AS is
REQUIRED ANNUALLY TO MEET THE CUR
RENT EXPENSES OF THE GOVERNMENT!
They regard this demand of the Confederate
Congress and the Confederate Convention at
st. Louis as impudent and arrogant in the
extreme.
But why do the platform makers take the
revenue of 1870? Why go back six years for
comparisons? Simply for the purpose of de-
ceiving the people whom the Democratic
leaders for twenty years have been treating
as children or fools to be duped by cheap po-
litical tricks. The late Mr.. Manton Marble
who wrote the Tilden platform imagines that
the intelligent people of this country will for
get or never knew that the federal taxes have
not been greatly reduced since 1870. Is he
still presuming on the incredulity of the
American people? Because after ten years
experience he found that his style of English
was above the comprehension of the average
Democrat, does he presume that intelligent
people are to be entrapped in his fallacies aud
caught III his utCelJSG ue tQldl reCclptS Ill
1875 for all purposes was $2S4,O21, ,771-a
sum $166, 900, 900 less than the sum alleged to
have been raised in 1870. The expenditures
for 1876 for all purposes were $274, ,623, ,593.
Of this sum $103, ,545 went to pay the in
terest and $29,456,216 the pensions required
by theexpense and bloodshed of the Confeder-
ate-Democratic rebellion. This leaves $142,-
O73,632 for the ordinary expenses of the Gov
ernment and in this amount will be found a
dozen millions which is directly chargeable to
the rebellion of the loud-mouthed Confeder-
ate reformers who met at st. Lonis and d-
vided Mr.. Tilden's barrel of greenbacks.
The Confederate platform throughout gives
the impression that Federal taxation is on the
increase and that the national debt is still in
creasing. One can pardon the Confederates
for this offense. They we'll know the damn
ing infamy of their record. They would
draw attention from it to the trumped up de-
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To Let.

FVtWO frst-class Tenements to let in Fremont
Il Place, opposite Park. Inquire of E. PONCE
corner Middle and Exchange st, or JOHN 9. PROC
TER, 25 Exchange st. ju24tf
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House to Let.

1E INDIA ST., in Cammett Block, between Con-
oO gress and Federal Sts., containing 13 rooms,
gas and Sebago. Possession given July l. Apply to
JAS. R. LUNT &c Co., Druggists,
ju2SdH SAG Congress Street.
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Report from Il Practical Chemist
and ApOthecary.
VEGETINE
Will Cleanse ScrOfula from the
System.
HONEST OPINION.

MIR. H. r. STEVENS
DEAR SIR-This is to show that my son was taken
sick in January 1864 with Scrofula which came out
in large sores and ulcers on his leg and hip His leg
was swelled more than twice its natural size. He
had several doctors of high standing in their profess
sion-two from Boston and three from Charlestown-
without getting bit better. He was obliged to lie
wherever he was placed, for he had no use of his
limbs whatever. When we had given up all hopes of
his living we were told to try VEGETINE, the great
blood remedy; and he had taken it but short time
before we could see great change. The sores
bad that we had to change the cloths four five
times day. Still, he was getting better; for he
could move his limbs and help himself little. He
was soon able to sit up in bed and, by constant use
of VEGETINE, it has cured him. He has lame
leg, which he will probably have for life; but we all
honestly believe, if we had used VEGETINE before
we had bothered with those doctors it would have
saved the of his leg, and restored it to natural
health. hope all those troubled with Scrofua will
read this testimony of me and my son. who is now
well and able to speak for himself.
CATHERINE MAHoNEY,
DANIEL MAHONEY
10 Trenton St., Charlestown, Mass.
May 10, 1872.
The above plainb but honest statement conclusively
shows the quick and thorough cleansing effects of the
VEGETINE in Scrofua.
VEGETINF is acknowledged by all classes of people
to be the best and most reliable blood purifier in the
world.
Ycgetine is Sold by all Druggists.
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FNENEMENT in No. So Franklin Street, opp.
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Ten Lies to the Line.

AOA AAOc W OuC AhuC.
The Democratic Confederate platform
adopted at st. Louis, is beyond question, the
most wonderful political jugglery ever put
before the people of this country. This is as
1t should be since the real author, Mr.. s. j.
Tilden, is undoubtedly the most adroit politi-
cal trickster within the limits of the Repub.
lie. The whole manifesto is full of falsehood,
Misrepresentation, evasion and deceit, but
the following contains so many lies and de-
ceptions that one can but notice it:
Our Federal taxation has swollen from S60OOO, 900
In gold in 1860, to 900 in currency in 187O
our aggregate taxation from $154, 900 in gold in
dsSs to so in C. cyl IN ls7 or in
per head. Since the peace, the people have paid to
their Xgatherers more than thrice the of the
national debt, and more than twice that sum for the
Federal Government alone.
Let us compare few of the above asser-
tions with official figures and facts and from
one series Of lies and deceits learn that in the
construction Of a Confederate Democratic
platform, truth or even an approximate ac-
curacy of assertion is regarded as a non-es-
sentia.
According to the Treasury reports, Federal
taxation In 1860 yielded $56,054, ,599 instead
of 10000, ,OOO-an amount entirely inadequate
to defray the expenses of the Government
the third year of the Buchanan administra-
tion. To meet the expenses of that year,
the national debt was increased $40, 1856, 70S,
making the receipts of the Treasury from
revenue and loans $76, ,S41 ,4O7. The disburse-
menfs for the same year fiscal year ending
June 30 1S6O) were $77,055, ,125, of which
So, ,144,920 was for interest on the public
debt and 81, ,1OO,s02 for pensions, leaving for
the ordinary expenses of the Government,
about 10000 in gold.
Passing by the evident purpose of the
writer Of the resolution to convey the impress
sion that the Buchanan administration cost
but $60, 900, 900 in 1860, and that the Repub-
lican administration of 1870 spent $3.50, 900, 900
to "run' the Government, let us proceed to
investigate the statement that Federal taxa
ton in 1870 amounted to $450,000,0OO. The
actual receipts of the Government in 1870
were:
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