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The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-03-24
Sch,,rz at Work

Washington, March 23.-Secretary
Schurz to-day issued a letter to the
heads of bureaus in the Interior De-
partment, requesting statement in
detail of methods of business, existing
abuses, and reductions and changes
that will benefit the department.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-03-24
ILLINOIS,

The Pilferng P. o. Clerk Escapes.
Chicago, March 23.-Fred ]. Gross,
who was apprehended yesterday in the
act of stealig letters which he was dis
tributing in the postoffice department,
escaped from the marshal's Office about
O'Clock in the afternoon. The fact
was first made public this morning.
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Washburne's Resignation.

Washington. March 23.-The resig-
nation of E. B. Washbrune. minister
to France, was to-day accepted by
Secretary Of State Evarts, who COM
plimented Washburne ON the able and
efficient manner in which he represented
the United States during the past eight
yaarq
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Hon. Danl. II. Chamberlain.


Washington, March 23.-The Presi
dent has addressed letter to Vice
President Wheeler, requesting him to
consult with Mr.. r. Hutchinson, an
attorney-at-law of New Orleans, who
is well known to the President and
believed to be familiar with the true
condition of affairs in that state.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-03-24
The Washington Monument.

Washington, March 23.-The board
of army engineers ordered to examine
the Washington monument foundation,
made careful examination yesterday
and ordered further work to cease. All
agreed that the monument could not be
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-03-24
TELEGRAPHIC

REPORTED EXPRESSLY FOR THE LEADER.
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CONGRESSIONAL.

On the II, the Vice President
laid before the Senate a commune
cation from the Secretary Of the
Interior calling attention to the
law in regard to the compensation
for the government advertising and
the complaints daily received as to
inadequacy of such compensation.
He suggests that the law I've so
amended as to allow the depart
meht to pay the same rate for
advertising as the papers receive
from private individuals. Referred
to the Committee on Civil Service
and Retrenchments.
Mr.. Cameron called mp the House
joint resolution relating to re-
servoirs to promote the navigation
of the Mississippi River. Passed.
Mr.. Edmunds, by request, in
troduced a bill to extend the opera
tons of the act of Feb. 81, 1875,
to provide for the settlement with
certain railway companies for one
years. Referred.
At the expiration of the morning
hour the consideration was resum-
ed of Mr.. Matthews resolution
declaring it the right Of the gov
eminent to pay the bonds in silver,
and Mr.. Hereford spoke in favor
thereof.
At the conclusion OF Mr.. Here
ford's remarks the Senate went
into executive session, with the
understanding that the doors
should be re-opened soon and legis-
lative business continued.
At 405 the doors were reopen
ed, and Mr.. Sargents, from the con-
ference committee on the Deficiency
Appropriation bill, submitted re-
port, and in explanation thereof
said reductions had been made by
the committee in the amount pro-
vided for In the Senate amendments,
as follows: In the appropriation
for fuel, light and water for public
buildings to the extent Of $4,000 /;
in that for contingent expenses OF
the Treasury Department, $4,000
for railway postal clerks TO s14, 900
international Postal Congress, 3d.
600; Columbian Intuition for the
Deaf and Dumb, $500. Senate
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The War Is Inevitable and let ID
Come.

How long is our government to
permit the Mexican outrage bust
ness to go on9 Every day we read
utterances of our public men to
the effect that the peaceful rela-
tons with Mexico will not he dis
turbed, when in fact a predatory
warfare has been going on along
the border for the past fifteen
years. There is no such thing as
peace or protection Of the lives
and property Of American citizens
on the Rio Grande so long rs the
Mexican flag waves on the other
side. In all her history Mexico has
not been possessed of a stable gov
ernment, she acknowledges her in
capacity to stop the raids, and there
is nothing in the future, judging of
the past, to indicate that she will
he capable Of governing herself.
Besides, her people and newspapers
show no disposition to cultivate
friendly sentiments, but on the
contrary are hostile and menacing.
They are clamoring for gore, as it
were. The feeling is illustrated
in the following paragraph taken
from the leading newspaper pub
lished in the city of Mexico:
War with the American union
is inevitable. The Mexican flag
having been insulted and tramped
in the dust by the horses Of that
republic, the national pride has
been wounded, no matter what may
have been said. Mexico reqSsres,
Mexico demands, prompt repara-
ton of the Insult offered to her ma
tionality, to her autonomy, to her
independence. The violation Of
our territory has taken place in a
manner most offensive to all feel
ings Of patriotism, and demands q
public and solemn reparation. The
American nation has insulted Mex.
leo, spurDed her banner, and this
is not the first time, but the TWEEN
tieth. Therefore, give IL hard
and bloody lesson. Mexico has
armed forces who are quite anxious
to measure their strength and
valor with those OF that republic.
With q press promulgatiDg such
and the popnlace In
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Internal Revenue.

There has arisen a large number
of complaints recently of neglect
of taxpayers to deface and destroy
revenue stamps, and the Collector
has issued the following circular on
the subject, which all should read :
OFFICE OF 6rH DISTRICT, MIcmGAN,l
EAST SAGINAW, Dec. LIST, 1877.
To Dealers and others in liquors, tobacco and
Cigars
BY the provisions of section
1924 II. s, every person who emp
ties or draws off any distilled spir-
its from any caslS or package bear
ing any mark, brand or stamp re-
quired 10y law, must at the time Of
eD1ptyjng such cask or package land
not hefore), efface aud obliterate
suck mark. brand or stamp; every
person or transportation company
who receives for transportation or
transports any such empty cask or
package, or any part thereof hav-
ing thereon any brand, mark or
stamp, required to he placed on
casks or packages of distilled spir-
its, is liable to a penalty of $500
for each cask or package and any
boat, railroad car, or other vehicle.
and all horses or other animals used
in carrying or transporting the
same, are to be forfeited. Any per-
son who violates the law shall he
deemed guilty of felony and be
punished by fine and imprisonment.
The terms "efface and obliterate"
must he understood to mean com
plete destruction. so as TO leave no
part or portion of the mark, stamp
or brand legihle or ineligible.
Sections 1916 and 3406, r. S.,
make it the duty of every person
who empties (at the time of empty
ing, and not before) any stamped
box, barrel, pail, caddy, bag, YES
sci, wrapper or envelope of any
kind containing tobacco or snuff,
or any stamped box containing CT
CARS, cheroots or cigarettes, to de-
stroy the stamp or stamps thereon,
and any person who wilfully neg
lects or refuses to do so is liable,
on conviction, to I've fined $50 and
not less than ten days
or more that six months.
These divisions of law apply not
only to retail dealers who empty
packages and cigar boxes
Ivy retailing their contents, but al
so to every person who purchases
cigars or tobacco for their own use,
and empties such package. He
must destroy the stamps thereon,
and he must destroy them Wterly;
this is the language Of the law.
All empty packages on which
are found any stamps, marks or
brands which the law requires
shall he destroyed, will be seized
and forfeited. All persons inter-
ested will please make a note of
this, as the Commissioner of Inter
nal Revenue has instructed that
the penalties, though severe, must
be enforced, and that ignorance of
the provisions of the law, negli-
gence or carelessness on the part of
themselves or their subordinates.
will no longer be accepted as an
excuse.
G. V. DELAND, Collector.
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leading article is carefully directed
to allaying the excitement on
Eastern matters and counteracting
the effect of the wild rumors. 1t
concludes as follows: "No course
can be more reasonable and obvious
than that at this juncture the gov
eminent should desire tn consult
with Parliament as soon as 1t can
without unnecessary Inconvenience.
Whether they contemplate inter-
ference, or mediation, or simply
the means of securing a good
position in the final settlement OF
the question, they cannot but feel
the need of parliamentary support.
AS soon as Parliamt is called to-
gether and shall have the main
considerations on all sides OF the
great issue forcibly started and
clearly argued, the nation will have
an opportunity of weighing the
various courses recommended to it.
The Ministry will see whether they
can honorably assume, as they
have On the whole had right to
assume hitherto, that they are
carrying into effect the wishes of the
country at large, and both at home
and abroad we shall see our way
more clearly. Ii does not seem
necessary to look beyond these
plain considerations in order TO un-
derstand why the Ministers have
decided to summon Parliament at
the earliest convenient date"
London, Dec. 2l.-A Vienna cor
respondent telegraphs that although
all apprehensions of seraglio con-
spiracies and coupS P etdt at Con-
stantinople seemed to have disap-
peared the least thing is sufficient
to revive them. Thus the unex-
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1877-12-26

Death does not end all in the
case of a farmer named Rothgele,
who died recently near Gallipolis,
Ohio. A law suit is to follow. He
wants the income of his farm de-
voted to what his executors think
peculiar object, but they have de-
termined to comply with the will,
although the local court has forbid
den them to do so. Rothgele wants
the money devoted to the erection
of a monument, the plans for which
were drawn with great minuteness.
1t was to be set mp in public
place other than the cemetery, and
to have engraved upon it the tes-
tator's views of things terrestrial
There was no God but nature /;
Christ and the Bible were of pure
~ human origin; death ends all,
etc. These views were set forth
at length, and the object of the
monument was to enlighten the
mass. The executors have appealed
to the Supreme Court.
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perienced appearance of Suleiman
Pasha at Constantinople with TO-
900 men has given rise 10 the fear
that something of the kind Is im-
pending. In these circumstances,
it is not surprising that the Sultan
and his government should seek
support in PARLIAMENT and make
it share in the responsibility OF the
course to be followed. This move
ment of Suleiman Pasha and other
reports of the withdrawal OF Turk
ish field forces from about Rasgrad
seems to indicated that in the
auadrilateral the necessary garri-
sons have been left to make the
best defense they can. 1t appears,
moreover, that their energies will
soon be taxed. for it is officially
announced that Gen. Todleben has
been appointed Commander-in-
Chief of the Rustchuk army. This
looks very much as if a seige
of Rustchuk is imminent. Like
wise General Zimmerman will
probably cease the opportunity
of advancing against Silistria.
There is nothing as yet to indicate
the destination of the bulk of the
army of the Czarowitch, whether
it is to advance on Schumla or to
Join the force at Tirnova and
thence advance across the Balk-
ans. 1t will take some time before
operations on large scale will be
possible. Although the movement
of troops from Plevna in various
directions has begun, some days
must pass before the influence ut
work at front is felt.
1t is said the Porte will shortly
order fresh levy of 100000 men.
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hearty accord, it is idle to talk OF
amicable relations. They have
never existed in the past; they
never will in the future. Under
the American flag her turbulent
people will become docile, her in
exhaustible mines of gold, silver,
tin, lead and other metals will he
developed; her unsurpassed agri-
cultural resources fostered; a stable
government for all time guaranteed ;
commerce revived, and all the arts
and blessings of peace secured and
promoted. 1t may be argued that
we don't want Mexico, but once in
our possession il will be found a
very available bit of territory,
while the expence of governing it
and ensuring all that we have
noted, would he less than main
tanning an armed force on the bor-
ders to preserve a qnasi-condition
of peaceful relations. - Saginaw
Courier.
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Roosevelt, who was rejected by
the Senate for Collector Of the port
Of New York, has been extensively
"interviewed" by the press in re-
spect to his views and feelings. He
declares that on personal grounds
he was not sorry to be free to man
age his own private affairs. He
was amazed that Senator Conkling
should have told the Senate that he
was the Senator's bitter personal
enemy, and bad lost no opportunity
of denouucing him. He said he
had no reason to harbor any per-
sonal feeling against Senator Conk-
ling, whom he had never met, and
did not even know by sight; but
he considered Senator Conkling the
representative Of machine Repub-
hcrnism, which was running the
party, and to which he was deci-
dedly hostile. He believed that
President Hayes bad the support
of the people, in the Republican
party and ont Of IL, and that the
machine politicians, In breaking
down the party, wonld themselves
be in the ruins. Mr.. Roosevelt
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1877-12-26

Great is London journalism.
There is an essay writer in England
under the name of Hampden who
gives the English mind intellectual
food of an easy digestible sort,
through the columns of the London
weekly paper. In recent issue,
speaking learnedly of the Indian
troubles in America, he says
"Sitting Bull, the Chief of the
Sioux, has fed the States with all
his band within a days march OF
Windsor, a town on the colonial
side, opposite Detroit !" He for.
gets to state that the worriors
comes into Detroit every week
with load of baskets and AK
handles, and exchanges these USE
full and desirable articles for a very
inferier quality Of whisky.
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Mr.. Waldron, United States Mar

Mr.. Waldron, United States Mar
shall of Tennessee, has plan OF
utilizing electricity in preventing
disasters at sea. The method is a
novel one, whether it is practical
BILE or not. 1t unites telephone,
electric light and fire alarm tele-
graph in one combination against
marine calamities. He says: "My
plan would be to have anchored
buoys in deep water, say five miles
from points of danger, or farther
out if necessary. TO one class of
buoys | would have an electric can
die on top of a pole or rod of any
required height from the buoy,
this candle to be lit by an operator
on some convenient point on shore,
the electric circuit to be opened
once in every ten minutes. These
flashes can be seen at sea twenty
miles from thirty foot pole. For
foggy weather, | would have a bell
with heavy hammer, such as we
use in fire alarms. These bells to
strike every five minutes during
the continuance Of mnrky weather.
1t might he well to add a telephone
to these bnoys, so that persons in
distress conld communicate with
the office on shore. One buoy can
carry a candle, bell and telephone.
Buoys of this character, placed
outside of Cape Hatteras, would
have warned the Huron, and saved
her."
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Joyce can now finish his book at
his leisure, and will not have
to have his thougtts disturbed by
the necessity of daily doing the
State a service in a prison garh.
The President has been pleased to
give him a free and unconditional
pardon. Joyce expected the prison
doors to be opened before Grant
retired from office, but he was dis
appointed. Hayes, however, has
now taken his turn at releasing the
whisky thieves. The Executive
action is hardly in consonauce with
reform but may have been rea-
soned that it was hardship for
Joyce to suffer when others Of the
whisky conspirators, after serving
part Of their sentences, had tasted
the sweets of Executive clemency.
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There are some disadvantages in
being a native of Japan. When
the japanese individual desires to
deposit money in the bank of Eng
land, the gold coin is melted into
bars, weighed, and the amount put
to the Japan persons credit. This
bank will not accept the coin of
several foreign lands except on said
conditions. Some of the Chicago
hanks acted on pretty much the
same principle. Money deposited
there melted away, but the amount
was to the depositor's credit-on
the books.
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War News !!
Special Correspondence from the
Seat Of Var.
MIR. CLIPPERS, Correspondent.

Pera, Dec. IA A circular of
the Porte states that the Porte de-
sires to stop the effusion of blood,
therefore it is ready to come to
terms, and appeals therefore to the
feeling Of justice of the great pow
ers, but is not yet at the end of its
resources, and is ready to sacrifice
all for the independence and in
tegrity of the fatherland.
London, Dec. 14.-The Times
correspondent ut Plevna telegraphs |:
Grand Duke Nicholas told me Os-
man Pasha reported his force at
81 900. At the same time the Grand
Duke seemed doubtful IL there
were so many. About sixty can
non and many hundred Wagons
are among the trophies. Osman Pa
sha had three weeks provisions still
on hand, and ten days rations In
his transport train for the whole
army. The immediate cause Of his
abandoning the intrenchments was
the breaking out Of an epidemic
among the troops. There we're
forty to fifty dead bodies q day in
Plevna. There were no men avail
able to bury them, and the mortal
ity was increasing. Eight hundred
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A statement Of the current ex-
penses in South Carolina in the
years 1872, 1873 and 1877, respec-
lively, shows what Democratic rnle
is doing for that State. In 1872
the legislative expenses and those
for salaries, contingent funds, pub
lie printing and Innate asylum ag-
gregated 81 ,090,070. In 1873 the
expenditures for similar purposes
were sl,046,367. In 1877, under
honest and economical Democratic
rule, the expenditures for the pur-
poses named have been reduced to
$685., 800, or considerably less than
one-fourth of the sum expended
under Republican rule in either
1872 or 1873. 1t is quite natural,
with results such as these, that the
people Of South Carolina show lit
tie disposition to return to rascally
Republican government, with the
enormous unnecessary burdens such
government entails.
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Another ferry .hoat collided wit

Another ferry .hoat collided with
n vessel at New York on Tuesday.
No schooner is safe unless there is
n high wind to enable it to get out
of the way. If the New York peo-
pie would subscribe to get a sort
of dummy vessel to be anchored
ont in mid stream so that the ferry
boats could run into it whenever
they felt disposed to, it would be a
great saving to commerce in gen.
eral, and much handler for the fer
ry-boats, because as it is now they
have inst to take whatever boat
they get, and sometimes they have
to pass whole day without col
lision.
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The suggestion is made in some
quarters that the difference between
Hayes and the Republicans in the
Senate is all due to the NEEDLE
someness of Secretary Evarts, in
assuming to control New York APP
pointments with which his depart
ment has nothing TO do. 1t j.
further suggested that if the solu-
ton Of the problem arising from
the New York Offices he left to
Secretary Sherman, to whom the
officials in question are in a meas
IRE responsible, satisfactory set
Element will soon he effected. 1t
certainly seems that Evarts, ms a
member of the cabinet, has little
better right to have voice in the
matter of appointments than a
Senator of the United States, and
quite reasonable that Hayes, in
making selections to office in New
York. should consult the man
whom he has honored above all
others in New York State. So far
as the Sherman suggestion is con-
cerned, it is quite probable that
the Secretary of the Treasury
would effect solution of the prob
lem which would be satisfactory to
the "machine" men. There is as
little reform in his composition as
there is in Conkling's, and any Re-
publican who should pick him mp
for reformer would soon let him
drop.
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The Senate is generally looked
on with pride by Americans as
about the nearest thing to a tie
that can he obtained for the money.
Latest advices from New Zealand
show that a similar political body
is about equally balanced there
In the New Zealand Parliament,
the Premier, Sir George Gray, has
been kept in Office by the casting
vote of the Speaker.
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ALPENA WEEKLY ARGUS,
Wednesday, December 90, 1877.

A new cloth has been invented.
1t is made of the down Of birds.
1t is waterproof, and is five times
lighter than wool, and three warm
err. The inventor does not state
its cost, but probably a good
estimate can be arrived at by
placing the two figures together
and roughly calculating it SO times
costlier than wool.
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must be sad when he reflects that
the Republican Senate is nearly all
machine" There were only five
who did not take their places when
Conkling gave the word.
, 1877-09-10
THE FISHERY COMMISSION.


HALIFAX, N. g., Sept. 9.--Thc International
Fishery Commission, previous to their recess,
spcht sevcrnl days In debating the question OF
awarllng compensation to Great Britain for the
advantages accruing to American fishermen in
British waters Of tsansAipptng cargocs and buy
lng tcc, bait, and supplies. This point was a
prominent feature In the British case, and a
hravy clnLm WAS founded thereon. 1t II under
stood, however. That tho Commission garu tho
uuaninoua decision tl,at thcy werc Incompetent
to awar.i compensation for thess privileges,
slr l.. 7. tislt stated, when thu decision
was given, tlat he lid not feel
tue Commission WIS competent to
consider III, the questions brought before
Ii. hut there was no help for It. They mcrc
bound By tho strict working of ths Washington
trraty. Tho idea of the Americans seems to he
that 10 largo a number of peop!c being lntcxst-
I'd III tho tralo with the American tlshcrncn will
prevent the dominion Government tEo:n Inter-
turing with t'lpa! 1t they can under present
1axs, or introducing new legislation for such
purpose. l,ts decision teatis lo the bclicf that
all disputes relatyu to thc Sorth American
tslles1es rannot tyen llpw bc nmleably sutued
under tho articles .! tho Washington treaty.