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American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1878-06-29
The Popular Four-Per-Cent. Loan.

WASHINGTON, June 20.-The Secretary of
the Treasury has issued circular calling at
tention to the four-per cent. funded loan of
the United States, now offered by the Depart
ment Mt denominations for coupon bonds of
$50 500, $500 and $1,000, and for registered
bonds of $50, 500, $50 and $1,000, 5000 and
SO 900, at par and accrued interest to date of
subscription in coin. The bonds are redeem
able July |, 1907, and bear interest payable
quarterly on the first days of January, April,
July and October of each year, and are ex-
empt from the payment of taxes or duties to
any form by or under State, municipal or
local authority. Upon full receipt OF full
payment bonds will be transmitted free
viii be allowed upon the amount Of subserip.
only, and will not be applied in payment of
subscription. All national banks are now in
eminent and Repositories OF public moneys
received on sale of these bonds upon com
utes of the United States. All banks, bankers
and persons are invited to aid in placing
these bonds, and can make their arrange
ments through national banks for the deposit
of purchase money of the bonds. The pro-
ceeds of the sale of the bonds will, until
further notice, be only used in the redemp-
ton of $40 6-per- bonds of the
United States under the Refunding act.
Payment for bonds may be made in coin,
coin certificates, certificates of deposit of
Government Repositories, "called" bonds,
rency drafts on New York in favor of the Sec
rotary of the Treasury. which will be receiv-
ed at coin value thereof at the National Bank
of Commerce, New York. Any payment in
excess will be returned with commission All
coin and currency drafts on New York should
be forwarded directly to the Department by
subscribers or their agents. The circular con-
tinues: "The favorable state of the money
market induces the Secretary to press upon
the people this loan, by which they can OBJ
tain direct from the Government a national
bond of the highest credit and sanction, ex-
empt from taxes, and payable, principal and
interest, in coin. Every citizen of
the United States is interested in
the success of this loan, as every
sale of these bonds enables the Government
to save one third of the interest on an equal
amount of the outstanding debt to be re-
deemed. These bonds should be the store
house for the savings of the people. No IA
cility or advantage will be given to large
subscribers. 1t is in the interest of the pub
lie that bonds be distributed in small sums
among the largest numbers If our fellow
citizens. subscriptions to an amount equal
to the bonds now redeemable would make
annual saving of $, 96l ,632, and such sub
scriptions can now be made without with
drawing from circulation any of the money
of the people. All blanks, or forms, or in
formation needed will be furnished by the
Department without cost.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1878-06-29
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

At Tamaroa, ILL.,, On the evening of
the 18th, j. McNamee shot his wife
through the head and then shot himself
through the heart. He died almost instant
ly; she retained consciousness for some
hours, but was believed to be MORALLY
wounded. McNamee lived at Anna, ILL.,,
and his wife was the daughter of Mr.. John
Little, of Dongola, Ill. Mrs. McNamee had
left her husband and was visiting at the
house Of a friend in Tamaroa at the time of
the tragedy.
According to the report of a commit
tee appointed by the Iowa Legislature to ex-
anime into the affairs of the State Peniten-
tiary, S. II. Craig, late Warden of that in :
stitution, during his six years. term of serv-
ice has defrauded the State out Of over
100000.
June returns to the Department of
Agriculture indicate an increase of fully 3
per cent in the area planted in cotton. The
average condition of the crop is better than
in June last year.
Six prisoners confined in the County
Jail at Keokuk, Iowa, made their escape on
the night Of the 18th by locking the Sheriff
in cell as he was making his nightly rounds.
Edwin A. Andrews, cashier of the
wrecked Greenwich Bank, Washington
County, N. Y, hanged himself on the 10Th.
Perry Bowsher was hanged at Chilli
Gothic, o., on the 21st, for the murder of Ed
mund and Ann Mcveigh in October last.
The centennial anniversary of the
evacuation of Valley Forge was celebrated
on the battle-ground on the 10Th, $4,000
people participating. The military were re-
viewed by Gov. Hartranft, Gen. Hancock
and others.
Two men named Pearson and Sadler
were taken from the Jail at Springfield, Tenn,
and hanged by a mob on the morning of the
10th. They were charged with having COM
mitted an outrage upon a lady named Mrs.
Groves.
At Newport, r. L., on the both, Geo.
Tiffany, II years old, son of a wealthy gem
tlenAn of New York, with his tutor, VIM.
Smith, were fishing from the rocks, when
young Tiffany lost his foothold and slipped
into the water. The tutor sprang in to save
him and both were drowned. Smith was
formerly principal OF the Dayton, Ohio,
night school.
Reports from Northern Wisconsin on
the Goth were to the effect that the Indians
there were becoming troublesome, and that
the settlers were spprehensive OF a concerted
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1878-06-29

A SILVER CRY Qdaho) dispatch of
the 18Th says: The hostiles have left
STEMS Mountain, and are moving to-
ward Harney's Valley, thence to Mat
thews's Agency and Snake River, and
viii probably keep on until they effect a
junction with the Columbia River In
dams, which addition to their forces
will, they calculate, enable them to
sweep the country. Camp Harvey will
probably be captured by the Indians to-
morrow, and If so there will be terrible
slaughter of the whites congregated
there for protection. Nothing has been
heard from Howard since yesterday.
If he does not effect a junction with
Stewards forces, the party accompany
ing him from Camp Lyon could easily
be captured by savages. The general
situation is quite critical, and the mas
sacres that will be perpetrated bid fair
to exceed in numbers those of the Nez
Perces war.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1878-06-29

-McLin, in his testimony before the
Florida sub committee, gave the follow
ing interesting picture OF &C Civil-service
reform:''
Gov. Stearns was appointed on the Hot
Springs Commission.
j. w. Howells, who got up Drigger's re-
turn, in Baker County, is now Collector of
Customs at Fernandina, Florida.
Joseph Bowes, Election Inspector, charged
with manipulating votes in Leon County, is
in the Treasury at Washington.
William ii. Vance, clerk at Archer Pre-
cinct No. ., has Federal position at Wash
ington.
4. H. Black, Inspector at the same pre-
cinct, has Federal clerkship in Philadel-
phia.
Bell, Inspector in Jefferson County, re-
ceived Federal appointment.
George II. Leon, Inspector in Leon Coun-
ty, is a clerk in the Treasury at Washing
ton.
Dennis, of Alachua County, had, recently,
a position in the Treasury.
Moses j. Taylor, one of the Returning
Board of Jefferson, is in the Land ONCE at
Washington.
1t should be borne in mind that every
one of these worthless was engaged in
the fraudulent work of changing the re-
suit of the Florida election from Tilden
to Hayes.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1878-06-29
The Chicago Times Washington

The Chicago Times Washington
correspondent says of the Sherman
Syndicate:
No one has yet taken the trouble to show
what John Sherman's Syndicate has made
by the purchase of the $50, 00O, 600 1-2 per
cent 30-year bonds. 1t must be recollected
that the per cent. bonds, called the popu-
lar loan, were being taken at the rate of
50, 600, 900 per month, which would, by the
list of January, 1879, have amounted to over
$50, OO0, OO0 On the LIST of April, John Sher-
man went to New York and arranged with
his partners in the Syndicate to take $780,
600, 900 worth of bonds at 4 1-2 per cent,
paying them 1 per cent. for making the
trade. Fifty million dollars worth of 80
wear bonds at per cent. would, lat simple in
terest, cost $G0,000,000. But bankers and
bondholders always calculate on compound
interest, and the compound interest
simple interest on $50, 100000 at 4 IL per
cent. for 80 years is $66, 900, and the
compound interest for the same time at the
same rate is $3.50, 133, 800. This shows that
the trade that John Sherman made with his
partners in the Syndicate cost the already
overburdened taxpayers So, 1000 in gold
interest, and allows John Sherman and his
partners to make on the money thus wrung
from the sweat and blood of the people S2b,-
$500. That there was no necessity Tor inns
Syndicate trade is proved by the fact that
the per cent. bonds were taken at the rate
of over five millions per month, which
proves conclusively that if the l-2per cent:
bonds had been i'm small denominations and
placed at the various Government deposit
tories they would readily have been taken
by the people to larger amount
than disposed of to Sherman's Synui-
cate, and that without costing the
Government one cent for premium, whilst
the Syndicate is paid large amount. what
are the profits made by the premium on
these bonds, which the Syndicate is making,
can not he so readily arrived at, but that
shown above can easily be calculated by any
one having IA knowledge of how to compute
simple and compound interest. MOI even
Potter,s Investigating Committee could find
out what John Sherman's interest in this steal
amounts to, for it is "A steal, and every one
who knows Sherman believes that he does
not do that kind of work without having his
divvy in the spoils.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1878-06-29

THE House Naval Committee, by vote
of the Democratic members, adopted a
resolution recommending that ex-Secre-
tary of the Navy Robson and the late
Chiefs Of the various Bureaus of En-
cheering, Construction, Supplies, etc.,
be tried for corruption and malfeasance
in Office. A large mass of testimony is
published, upon which the committee
base their recommendation.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1878-06-29

AN English paper states that one of
the endeavors of Mr.. Benefits Arctic
yacht Pandora, now rechristened the
jeanette, will be to search by way of
Behring's Strait the mysterious Wrangell
or Kallett's Land. Deschneff saw it two
centuries ago; then Wrangell tried to
reach it, and the Siberians told him that
on clear days its mountains could be seen
from Cape Jakan. 1t is said that some
natives attempted to reach it, but never
returned to tell the tale. KallCtt caught
glimpses of it in 1859, and in 1867 sew
eral American whalers approached with
in 20 miles of it, but could not land on
account of broken ice.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1878-06-29

Said HAYES, with a lengthening face,
a" We must give Jim a lucrative place
In a climate that's warm,
That he do us no harm
This, mark, is a strong, special case-
But o, it is true! and tits pity
The letter fell to the committee,
And things they got hotter,
For Congressman Potter
Brought out that lugubrious ditty-
-Courier-.Tourndi.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1878-06-29

The latest news regarding the result
of the Oregon election is that Thayer,
Democrats elected Governor by from 40
to 20 majority. The Republicans elect
some of the minor State officers. The
Democrats claim majority of II on
joint ballot in the Legislature, thus as
surfing Democratic successor to Sena-
tor MITCHELL
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1878-06-29

ITALY imported seven million dollars
worth of tobacco last year, in addition
to the stock raised at home, and valued
at one and half million dollars only.
Italy has a good deal of land lying idle
which might be utilized for the cultiva-
ton of the weed, whereby many strong
arms that are now compelled to emf
CRATE might be retained in the PENN
sula.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1878-06-29

CALIFORNIA held an election on the
goth, for the purpose of choosing dele
gates to the Constitutional Convention.
In San Francisco the Workingmen's
ticket was elected by about 1000 ma
jority, and it is estimated that out of
1872 delegates from the entire State the
Workingmen will have a plurality.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1878-06-29

Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan,
North Carolina, Nebraska, New Jersey,
New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode
Island, South Carolina, Vermont and
Wisconsin.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1878-06-29

AT Finchville, KY, there is the mod
ell hog house of the country. 1t is built
of stone, with hanging roof, and a
clear stream flows through the build
ing. There are $4,000 worth of Kegs
in il.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1878-06-29
Another Confidential Letter.

IRON JOHN SHERMAN TO JAMES E. ANDERSON
Jim Anderson, my 10, Jim.
When first we were acquafnt,
You hadn't kalsomined yourself
With pugilistic paint.
But now your jaw is oiled, Jim,
And am shaking in my shoes
Jim Anderson, my 1o-
Jim Anderson, my 10, Jim,
We planned the fraud thegither,,
And promised that we never would
Go back on ane anither;
We juggled the returns. but James,
jim -James, how could you blow
And peach on me and Rutherford
Jim Anderson, my 10?
Jim Anderson my 10. Jim.
promised we would pay,
But you despised clerkship at
Three dollars every day;
Old Evarts should have sent you on
Consul to Callao-
But hindsight isn't foresight much.
Jim Anderson, my toi
Jim Anderson, my 10. Jim,
Twas not fair divide;
Yon stole the mule for us and then
We wouldn't let you ride.
And Stanley NJ. is sick, Jim,
And Hayes is lying low,
And Pm the deadest sort of duck,
Jim Anderson, my 10!
-Neac York Sun
Extract from Gen. Beatty's speech
in the Ohio Republican Convention:
81 wish to amend the report which has
been made to you by the Committee on Res
olutions. The Administration has been in
dorsed. Now, what have you indorsed!
are the Southern policy, the Ciyil-service
policy and the Financial policy. Now,I un-
dertake to say that the Southern policy OF
this Administration is an outrage upon the
rights of the Republicans of the South. The
Civi-service policy is sham, and the veto OF
the Silver bill was an effort to defeat the only
measure which made resumption possible
without universal bankruptcy. [Applause,
poUfusionl If 7
understand this Southern policy renewed
applause and hisses]-I hear the geese who
are kissing to-day, and give you notice that
piucked in October. Renewed applause
and Kisses and cries of 'that's SOL Mr..
Chairman, if 1 understand this thing which
you call the Southern policy Of the Admin
party has been disappointed, humiliated
and betrayed. 1t is a policy by which
two Republican States Of this Union have
been turned over into the hands OF rebels
is a policy which has conciliated Democrats
by sacrificing our friends. 1t is policy by
which he has wronged the Republicans OF
put Rutherford B. Hayes into the Executive
office. 1t is policy of cold. blooded ingrat-
itude. Loud applause and extensive hiss
ing and confusion.1 And, SO help me God,
upon that PLATFORM" Applause and Kisses,
with cries of "put him down, ""get out, ~ and
''go on."] Gen. Beatty, resuming-"I sim
ply desire to say word more, and don't
care about saying that. (Cries Of go on.'l
desire simply to say that this policy of in
gratitude, of treachery to the party, has been
tried before in this country, and it never led
either to honor or success. 1t was tried by
Willard Fillmore, by John Tyler and by An
drew johnson, and it left them without
party and without following. For twelve
mrnths these questions have been argued
before the people of the United States, and
ali oil dau for he mas twelve months
the Administration has been losing friends,
and if you undertake to indorse the Adj
ministration you insure the defeat of your
ticket"
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1878-06-29

FIFrY-rHREE carriages followed zee
All Yeu, a Chinese merchant of San
Francisco, to the grave, and the mourn
ers were dressed in white.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1878-06-29

Her cross-examination, conducted by
Gen. Butler, developed numerous dis
crepancies in her testimony.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1878-06-29

GEN. MCKENZIE arrived at Eagle Pass
on his return from his Mexican raid on
the 22d. He penetrated about As miles
into Mexican territory from Newtown,
the place of crossing, where he was
confronted by a detachment of Mexican
troops under Colonel Valdez, who for
babe his further progress. To
this General Mckenzie replied
that he should force a passage if neces-
sary, and overawed by his determine
ton, backed by a superior force of
troops, the Mexican commander thought
wise to retire. One account says Nc
Kenzie recovered 400 head of stolen
stock; another one says he made no
captures.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1878-06-29

Mrs. jerks, wife Of Captain jerks,
testified before the Potter Committee on
the 22d that she was the bearer of the
Anderson-Weber letter to Sherman,
asking for written guarantee; that she
did not deliver the letter to Sherman,
but opened and read it, and then dictat-
ed herself the reply to the same, which
she claims is the only original of the So
called Sherman letter. Who wrote the
letter at her dictation she refuses to tell.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1878-06-29
Nebraska's Cattle Shipments.

There will be about half a billion of
dollars worth of cattle shipped over the
Union Pacific road this season to the
East; and is not the business of sut1i-
cient value to give it some protectionP
Allowing the steers to be worth $40
each on the range, this would give 49,
100000 cattle to be shipped from that
region. Again, allowing 90 cattle to
the car, it would require 625, 900 cars to
transport them, or 20,833 trains of 30
cars each, or about 20 trains day for
every working day in the year. The
$50, 600 credited to the Texas drive, and
those already shipped, would be but
drop in the bucket, to say nothing about
the entire number of cattle contained in
the whole country. The whole number
of cattle of every kind, young and old,
according to the census of 1870, was
%, 800, COS. Nebraska is fertile and
also great State so far as territory is
concerned. The actual cattle carried
by the Union Pacific out of Nebraska
for the year will show this statement to
have been drawn with very flexible
string to the Western Nebraskidn.
JOURNALISM seems to be IN rather
bad way in Bolivia just now. Accord
inc to a letter from La Paz, the new
President, Gen. Daza, will not allow any
criticism of the acts of his Government
in the press, and visits with severe pun
ishment journalists who venture to dis
regard this prohibition.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1878-06-29

Ex-Gov. JOHN C. BROWN, of Ten
nessee, sent to Secretary Sherman a
draft for SS27.63 to meet his share of
the expenses of the Louisiana Commits
sion of last year, of which he was a
member, and for which Congress neg
lected to make an appropriation. Mr..
Sherman returned the draft to the send
er, by order of the President, who ex-
presses the belief that Congress will
yet make an appropriation to cover the
expenses of the Commission, as has
uniformly been done under similar ex-
traordinary circumstances
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1878-06-29

By clerical error in engrossing the
Sundry Civil Appropriation bill during
the last hours of the session, the section
providing for the continuance of the
Hot Springs Commission, which was
created in 1877, to appraise and sell the
Government reservation, was almost
entirely omitted, so that the intend
ed section is rendered wholly
nugatory. In order to rectify the
error, as far as possible, Senator Dor
sey, who had the matter in charge, had
a copy of the amendment engrossed, as
agreed upon by Conference Committee,
and obtained thereto the signatures of
the conferees on the part of both houses,
and will present the same to the Presi-
dent, with the request that he, by exec
utive order, reappoint the Commission
ers and authorize them to proceed with
the work until further action by Con-
gress.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1878-06-29

THE Iowa Republican State Conven-
ton, held on the 18th, nominated Capt.
j. A. F. Hull, of Davis, for Secretary
of State, and j. r. Powers, of Cass, for
Register of the Land Office. The other
incumbents were renominated. The
platform indorses the financial policy of
the Republican party as having resulted
in the practical resumption of specie
payments, and denounces any change
in policy as wholly evil and injurious.
On purely political questions the plat
form is extremely radical. The Presi-
Dental title is declared to have been
definitely and finally settled by the For
ty-fourth Congress, but further than
this there is no allusion to the Presiden-
tial office or its present incumbent
Hon. j. F. Wilson made speech con-
graduating the Convention upon the
radical stand it had taken, and eulogiz-
ing General Grant. His remarks were
greeted with loud and continuous ap-
plause.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1878-06-29

TIE National Greenback-Labor party
of Missouri held Convention at Sc
dalia on the 18th and adopted resolu-
tons demanding the unconditional re-
peal of the Resumption act and National
Bank laws; the issue of absolute money
in greenbacks, equal to gold and
silver; redemption as fast as posi-
BILE of all outstanding bonds, the
Government to loan money at
2 per cent. interest to States, coun-
ties and cities, to pay their bonded
Indebtedness; no exemption from tax
alton of stock, bonds, or credits; plac-
ing an income tax on all prop
erty, rights, credits, annuities and
gains; opposing all double taxa
ton on debts secured by mortgage !;
demanding the cutting down of official
salaries, the enforcement of the eight
hour law, the improvement of Western
waters, the establishment of industrial
schools, ETC., etc. The Convention
adopted a final resolution, pledging
themselves to have no utilization with
either the Democratic or Republican
party.
THE repeal of the National Bankrupt
law, to take effect September /, puts
the question of bankruptcy back into
the hands of the States, whence it was
taken by Congress. The old State laws
will be revived, or in many cases new
ones are likely to be made to meet the
emergency. Only 25 of the States have
insolvency laws which will become
operative, and there is little uniformity
about their provisions. The % are
California, Connecticut, Dakota, Della
ware, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa,
Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine,
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1878-06-29

The Maine Democratic State Con-
vention, held on the 18th, nominated
Alonzo Garcelon for Governor. The
resolutions oppose an irredeemable cur
rency, and favor the gradual substitu-
ton of greenbacks for national bank
bills.