The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1877-06-19

attempt to pay more than a reasonable in
terest on the debt, letting the principal en-
tirely alone, while there is no call or occa-
sion for VI, while yet our wounds received
In battle are scarcely healed and while
public industries have hardly recovered
from the paralyzation afflicted upon them
by the war. Some have compared the pay
ment of the public debt now to person
who having been accommodated with funds
by friend who stood in need of the money
himself when he parted with it, immedi-
ately deprives himself of the money obtain
ed to keep up his business in order to re-
fund the loan, though obtained from source
able and willing to treat it as an investment
asking only a reasonable interest On the
other hand it is thought that it ought to
be matter of National thanksgiving to
know that from June 1876 to June 1877 the
public debt has been diminished over $780,
900, 1000, and during the last month nearly
$1,000, 600 have been paid on it.
During the war Arlington Heights situa-
ted Just across the Potomac from Washing
ton and at that time the estate and home
stead of Gen. Robert e. Lee, was conflsca-
ted by the Government and dedicated as q
burying ground for fallen soldiers whose
bones should be gathered from the various
battle fields. A contract was made with
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it has been said that they did it only too
thorough. 1t is now one of the most beau
tiful cemeteries in the country and for ev-
ident reasons, by far the most interesting.
Joking is out of place in such connection
but / suppose it is fact that because of
the contractors being paid by the load lin
gathering the remains) and not being spec
tally versed in anatomy, we stlewed flowers
Decoration day, and honored with equal
respect, the bones of man and mules ely
ing in this beautiful cemetery in the COM
mon commission that they both fell in the
defense of their country" All that mat
ters little, however, the place is a sacred
one and considerable solicitation is felt lest
Gen. G.. w. @. Lee George Washington
Curis-the Lee heir) should succeed in the
suit of eiectment which he has brought
against the government for the possession
of Arlington. There are many of the dead
of both armies inferred there, besides sew
eral thousand negroes, who died during
the war. 1t is revolving to think of dis
turbing those bones, but man would hard
ly want them in his door-yard and orchard
| So, if Gen. Lee is entitled to the estate, the
Government must pay him his price for it
or submit to the disturbance of over six
teen thousand graves of our soldiers.
Never was America treated with such
honors abroad as Gen. Grant is receiving.
Already he has dined with the Duke of
Wellington and numbers of other Dukes
and Duchesses, Counts, Marquises, Lords
and Ladies, and all sorts of titles. The
Prince of Wales has given him private
audience, and the Queen invited him to all
the Court entertainments. He attended
service at Westminster Abbey on Sunday,
and listened to Dean Stanley, who, right in
his sermon mentioned Gen. Grants pres
ence aud position, calling him by name and
welcoming him in England's name, GAS
a sign and pledge that tho two nations of
the Anglo-Saxon rule are still one in heart
and spirit" Verify praise is sweet to the
heart of man, and no wonder the now
free and easy ex-President expresses him.
self as we'll pleased with 'furrn lands. "
M. M. w.