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over the Commercial Bank, Los
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Awarded the Highss, Medal at visnns
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The Passage of the silver Hill has
Done the Business.


The question-shall We resume specie
payment next January ?-is yielding to the
fact We are resuming n0r. \ month ago
when gold was worth premium Secretary
Sherman declared that the gold premium
was practically abolished. Since then il
has descended to J, and has even been
quoted at !. This is so trifling as not to be
worth taking into account-and so, bust
ness men in some places are paving out gold
when they have it, just the same as silver
and greenbacks. This verities the theory
psesented by the Republican in its argument
in favor of resumption, viz, that resump-
ton would bring gold into circulation and
thus increase the supply Of money instead
of diminishing it.
The dispute about resumption in 1879
has lost its interest. The country Is re-
suming, now, nine months ahead OF the day
fixed. The financial Spectre that disturbed
Us for so many years is dIssolving into thin
air, and we find that there is nothing to be
afraid of after all. The passage OF the sill
yer bill has done the business. The high
heads at Washington AMI the great ex-
Founders of finance in the East fought this
simple measure a. an agent of disaster and
expression of dishonor; but the people tri-
umphed for once, and the result proves
that the people knew more about finance
than Nh. HAYES, Mr.. Sherman and all the
eastern bankers together. The silver bill
has not only made resumption easy, but
has brought il about, settled the money
question, and brought unspeakable relief to
the country.
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THE TRAFFIC IN POSTAGE
STAMPS.

1t will be seen by articles copied else
where, in Our columns this morning, from the
Little Rock Gazette, that special agent Small,
one Of the mos. active and efficient officers OF
the Post-oflics department has just worked
up" q case in. Arkansas which bids fair to
put an end to the pernicious habit in vogue
among postmasters at small Offices, OF traf-
fcing in postage stamps practice which
entails a loss upon the government OF more
than million dollars annually.
Under the law as it stands at present,
postmasters, at small offices. are not paid a
salary, but receive for their services
commission upon the stamps they sell
the amount Of the commission being rated
according TO the grade of the ofice-being
u the smaller offices as high as sixty per
cent. This, of course, makes a strong in
ducement for the postmaster to dispose Of as
many stamps as possible, and if he cannot
dispose Of them at par, he can make
money by selling them at
discount-even at fifty per cent. OF the reg
ular rates. As consequence, large guam
titles OF stamps have been sold-and are
now sold-at these small Offices, to dealers
in the larger cities, and leaving the Gov
eminent only forty cents on the dollar. To
put an end to such a practice as this, was
worthy of an officers best effort, and too
much praise cannot be given to Mr.. Small,
whose shrewdness and diplomacy have new
er been displayed to better advantage
than in getting this Arkansas case where
the Government could take hold of it.
This will probably put an end to the stamp
swindle,
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HOUSE.

WAsHISGroS, D. C., April 1.-THE
reading of yesterdays Journal consumed
nearly an hour, after which Mr.. Blunt
moved to go into Committee Of the Whole
on the postoffice appropriation bill.
Mr.. COX, of New York, and others OPP
posed the motion, de-iring to have the
morning hour, and it being defeated by a
vote Of 50 to 100.
The SPEAKER called committees for re-
ports.
The Committee on Banking and Curren-
cy reported bill repeating the act author
izing the coinage Of twenty cent silver pieces.
Passed.
Mr. PHILLIPS, from the same commit
tee, reported a bill providing Tor the de-
Io.it Of savings in popular loan and for
the funding Of the National debt in the
same bonds. IL provides that any person
may deposit money in any sum not less
than twenty-five cents in any postal money
order Office, and when such deposits will
reach ten dollars, then the postmaster will
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receip. of same forward to rue, and will re-
init you by draft, registered letter, or express,
cash "a, and will also give you n No. H. G.
W. & w. Machine, a No. y. r. Family Sing
er achine, or 10. Improved +. r. Weed
Machine, price So.
Sixty dollars worth Of stamps will only cost
you 81 f; that is all you will have to pay the
Government for them-therefore you VIII
make the machine CLEAR, free Of cost you.
Now, this Is an offer never made before,
and as there is nothing wrong in your ac-
ceptiDg Ii think you will undoubtedly do So
As every family needs good machine, and
now when you can get IL without otd to you,
accept the offer, and order the stamps
promptly on January LIST, ISIS,
II you accept my Offer, the stamps must be
delivered by February LIST, ISIS.
The machines are widely known, and are
dirst-claB In every respect. A great many
Eosfmdsfers have accepted propositions here
tofore, and have bought machines of me, and
they are well pleased. No doubt all of them
that Zee this notice will accept and order
again, rs IL will cost them nothing. Trusting
that you will accept. and notify me at once
that you do SO, and order the stamps prompt
ly on July LIST, ISIS.
am, respectful ly, b. b. kIRBY.
December 10, lS.7.
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FOUGHT wirB SHIELDS.

General Shields says that two Of. the
bravest of his old soldiers are 10 the Senate.
Senator Oglesby was with me at Cerro
Gordo, and helped guard me when was
shot through the lungs, and Senator Dorsey
served gallantly with me in a battery OF
picked men during the late war" Of Gen.
Butler he said the other day 81 have had
but little personal acquaintance with Gen.
Butler until now. / found, however, that
my friends in New England were his friends
and 80 did not hesitate to ask him to as
sist in the increase Of my pension. / con-
slider Gen. Butler a noble-hearted, big
Drained man, and find that the Liberal el-
ement throughout New England regard
him as their champion.
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A MORAL FOR coon FRIDAY.

Mount Calvery is a marvellous scafold,
where the chiefest monarch Of all the
word loseth his life, to restore our saliva
ton which was lost, and when he makes
the sun to be eclipsed over his head, and
stones to be cloven under his feet, to teach
US BY insensible creatures the feeling winch
We should have of his sufferings. In the
passion Of our Savior, all things are divine,
and it seemeth they 60 as high as they
could be raised by that sovereign power,
Joined with extreme love. Yet he was
judged as criminal person. Everything
is most admirable in this judgment. The
accusers speak nothing of those things,
which they had resolved in their counsels,
but all speak against their conscieDces. As
soon as they are heard, they are condemn
ed, Justice forsakes them, and they are
wholly possessed with rage. Pilot, before
he gave judgment upon Jesus, pronounced
it against himself. for after he had 30 May
times declared him innocent he could not
give judgment without protesting himself
TO be unjust The silence Of Jesus is more
admired BY this infdel, than the eloquence
of all the world, and truth without speak
ing one word triumphed over falsehood. A
Pagan lady (the wife of Pilot is more
knowing than all the laws; more religious
than priests, more jealous than the Apes
ties, more courageous than the men OF arms;
when she sleepeth; Jesus is in her sleep,
when she talketh; Jesus is upon
her tongue. II she write; Jesus
., h. v,ao ha, lattar Iafapj, h,n,
the judgment hall, when all the world con-
demned him. She called him holy, when
they used him as q thief. She makes her
husband wash his hands. before he touched
the blood, the high price Of which she pro-
claimed. She was a Roman lady by ma
ton, called ..Clandius Procula. And it
is very fit she should defend this Jesus, who
was to plant the seat Of his church in Rome.
He that sendeth the showers in clouds, to
make them water the earth, is bound and
drawn like a criminal person. He that
holds the vast seas in his hands, and bal
anceth heaven with his fingers, is stricken
BY servile hands. He that enamels the
bosom of the earth, with such rare diver
sity of flowers, is most ANONYMOUSLY
crowned with a crown of thsrns. Oh, hide
Gus prodigies, which took away from us the
light of the Gun, and covered the moon with
a sorrowful darkness Behold what a gar
land of flowers he had taken upon his head
10 expiate the sins of both sexes. 1t was
made of briars and thorns, which thessearth
of one flesh had sowed for Us, and which
the virtue Of his cross took away.
EBLANA.
ST. JOSEPH, Leavenworth, Co., Kansas,
April Is.
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TIE STORY OF TWEED.

The most complete history Of William
NJ. Tweed that was ever written, appeared
in the new York Guphic of Monday, emit
tied "A Story Without Words" and con
sisted of a series of sixteen pictures, giver
without even a single word to indicate wha
they represent, but setting forth all fht
prominent points in the history of the late
Boss so Familiarity that they will be recog
nized by all the people OF the United States
at glance, and will be read as easily as
though the story had been told in printed
| words.
No. represents modest looking you'll
at work at a bench as chairmaker-tht
occupation that Tweed followed in hi.
youth.
No. is company of firemen running
with the machine" headed by tall, strong
looking young man, with freman's hat ant
trumpet, and on his breast large figure
l-Tweed's first notoriety was as "Bie
Six"
No. 3 shows him addressing a crowd Of
''the boys" as a candidate for assistant al
derman from the 9TH ward.
No. 4 shows him with some dignity a
President OF the council.
No. 5. presents him as Grand Sachem o.
Tammany, gaily decked out in feathers ant
war paint.
No. 6 as manipulating the New Yorl
courts-standing partly concealed in rear o
the judge.
No. as managing the New York Legis
lature-with string to each member, which
he holds in one hand, and moves them al
will as puppets.
No. s shows him as President Of the
Guardian Savings Bank-gathering in the
deposits.
No. 9 as Comptroller of New York City
parceling out the plumber to his cronies.
No. 10 presents him as the imperial
Boss" arrayed Ia Cesar, seated upon the
throne and the multitude bowling down to
him.
No. IL shows him as driving in his char.
lot over the PROSTATE bodies of the tax-pay.
ers of the Metropolis.
No. IL shows him in the midst of his
ring, delving into the city treasury, thrown
into CONSERVATION by light suddenly lei
in upon them by powerful lantern mark
ed :" the press"
No. IL represents him as q prisoner At
the bar, with downcast look, while a YER
dict of guilty is being pronounced.
No. IA represents his fight from Ludlow
street Jail.
No. Is shows his return, in irons, between
two soldiers.
No. 16, marked "The End" is picture
of felon's cell, devoid Of all furniture,
and the only object within it being what
can be plainly recognized as the corpse of .
large man, with sheet thrown over it, and
stretched upon rude bench.
1t is plain, unvarnished tale, and mar
rates, without the use of 4 word, the story
of the whole life of the great Boss"
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BLOODY CHARITY.

Incredible as it may appear, it is true
that the CANADIAN Government has recent
ly donated forty Winchester rifles and a
large quantity of ammunition to the Black
feet chiefs, under the delusion that such .
gift is noble charity, to aid the Indians in
hunting. When these same arms are found
in the hands of the bloody Sioux warriors,
and aimed against United States troops,
possibly the munificence Of our neighboring
Dominion will be appreciated.
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Horses On the Ssage IN BOs
New York Tribu0e, ISL

The legitimate drama has on
come to grief in Borton, snd in n
Theatre, which ha always been e
a temple of regular business. j..
son, the manager and lessee, adv.
horse piece, and Arthur Cheney,
lord, sought to prevent its prodG
bringing a bill in equity asking fo
junction. The experts testified
had known horses TO be exhibite
stage, but it was as accessories al
the principal feature of the piec
Justice Gray held that there had
evidence that the use of horses
lure the theatre, or be dsngeror
structure. Similar representa-
often given in other theatres.
must be dismissed. So the horse
be produced, after rather extensi
Using.
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CANADIANS GOING WEST.

Emigration westward is as much the rage
in Canada rs in the United States. The
Ounadian Spectator says that the coming sea
son will witness perfect exodus from On
tario and Quebec to the new Territories Of
the Northwest. The steamboats, on Lake
Superior have started on their first trips to
Lake Superior with the advance guard,
soon to be followed by thousands who re-
gard the prairies of Manitoba and sas-
katchewan as their true land of promise.
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VIII Not Add One Particle tO the
Weight Of Evidence.
lnl.. h..,.

1t is not necessary tobelieve Mr.. Beecher
a saint in order to believe that the latest
phase Of the scandal with which his name
has been connected is more discreditable to
his enemies than it can be to him. The
American people have a keen sense of fair
play, and strong love OF it, and they are
very quick to make up their minds as to
the point at which just prosecution ceases
and malicious persecution begins. 1t is be-
cause they believe that point to have been
reached by the publication of Mrs. Tilton's
letter that they will, almost with one ac-
cord, condemn the attempt TO revive the
scandal, which seems to be foreshadowed
by that publication. And they will con-
denim il, not alone for the sake of Mr..
Beecher, but for the sake of public and pri-
vate morality, which are affected by it,.
Mrs Tilton's letter will not add one parti-
Gle to the weight of evidence against Mr.
Raochor
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ADJOURNMENT Of the Wrong

The telegraph Of today, April
form, us that Mr.. +. z. Baker, W
previously been sppointed an b,
member Of the commission, has beer
by President HAYES, the appointing
by Mr.. Gray. We believe We sp,
sentiments Of nineten4wentieth
people Of Kansas, when We say that
pointment Of Geo. A. Crawford, VI
resignation Of Mr.. Gray, would ha
the appropriate, and under all
stances, the just one to make.
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ov-u CoREeCN WaRKETH,

Mr.. Louis ]. Jennings says in his latest
letter from London to the New York World
that there will be demand for grain on the
other side Of the Atlantic such as has not
been known before. He adds-
Myimpression is that you have still anoth.
er harvest to reap out Of the misfortunes OF
Europe. Already has the Government sent
over for horses, but there will be stores Of va
rious kinds wanted from you in the course Of
the present preparations, even If war does
not break out. 1t is not possible that all the
requirements of . large military and naval
force can be supplied from our own resources
alone. II seems rs IL you, who lost your
trade ~ a war, will by. another war regain it.
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Io.rRna,lxrx ENGLAND.

Mr.. L. J. Jennings, Of New York, Lon
don correspondent of the World, notes a
growing respect for the brethren of the
quill in London. A large number OF them
were present at the Prince Of Wales last
ball, at the special invitation of his royal
highness, and Mr.. Jennings says:
In these days, all doors are open to the Jour-
nalist. And the time is evidently rapidly
approaching when the press will represent
the most powerful profession or calling even
in England. / remember the day when all
newspaper writers but the Times men were
looked upon as the widest sort of Bohemians.
Now We are all such "swells' that We refuse
TO yield the palm to anybody.
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The Way the ..Gnm Department., il
Regulated NJ yassar.
New York Herald LIZ

Perhaps the meanest thing, speaking ar.
tistically, Is the way they run the gum de
partmrnt at Vassar College. Gum, for rea
sons best known to the faculty. is left of
the catalogue; and 80 the girls have to
chew it all over the tweniy-four hours. In
the history class. for instance, just as the
girls all get the gum soft on the molar-,
along comes the questions, "What year was
America discovered And then comes
the distressing answer from the whole class,
"Ajum, whajum, oigh, ech, wah." This is
gum for 1892
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DON'T NEED AID.

Hearing that certain parties had started
out to solicit laid" for the benefit of those
injured by the fire at East Leavenvorth,
last Sunday, the people Of that village state
through one Of their citizens, that they are
not in need Of assistance. The following
was received yesterday:
EAST LEAvKxwoRTH, No., April ISIS.
EDITOR TINHs-Dew SIR learn there are
parties in your city, soliciting aidlfor those
Of our citizens who were burned out on Sum
day last. Will you please denounce them %
frauds, a. We have not asked assistance from
any one, or authorized any one to do 20 for
us Respectfully yours,
c. L. BANNING.
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Distinguished American Traveller
Abroad.
TInter-Ocean, IL.

lnter-Ocean, IL.
Among the foreign travellers from Ameri-
ca this year no one has created a more pro-
foand sensation than the potato bag. He
has arrived in Belgium hearty and we'll,
and is proceeding TO business at once. Two
years ago the writer saw, while sailing upon
Lake Erie, these great travellers miles away
from shore, riding on the waves, apparently
As healthy and happy as il sitting on the
blossom OF an early rose. Just how they
crossed to Belgium, whether a. first-class
passengers or in their own canoe, w. are IN
advised.
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ENDORSED.

The New York Tribune observes that the
Republican journals are entirely unani-
nous in the belief that it is of more i'm
portanoe TO carry the Congressional cleo
tions this fall than to snub the President.
We endorse its suggestion that future Re
psblicnn caucuses would do well to proceed
on that basis.
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a Question which Possibly b,

sooihoi, ~.
We heard of a farmer Yesterday
trying to borrow money al one per
month, to carry Jour thousand bu
corn for high prices. We think
miss IL. The late rise in corn I
caused slolely by the cutting of
and not by any generl rise in the
markets. The railroads are liable
to terms asy day, and wSsn they d
corn will go again.
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Juss About All Sense,
[Chicago POST

Alexander II. Stephens, take him all in
all, is level headed man. A Georgia
paper has, in all sincerity, spoken of him
as an available candidate for the Presiden-
cy in 1880. Alexander says, however, that
he will never permit his name TO be used
until he has lost his senses, and at present
it is generally believed that he has about
ninety pounds on hand.
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OLD MONTGOMERY.

Montgomery Blairs Maryland PROPOSE
ton to reopen the Presidential controversy
was introduced in the lower house Of Con-
gress one day this week, and the prospect is
that it will be unceremoniously rejected rs
soon as it shall come to a vote. Alexander
II. Stevens, of Georgia, takes the lead in
opn0sinc IL
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Hard Times and Dc,eitusiOn In Ne.
ISalt Like Tribune lal

The Virginia papers are warning labor
ers to keep away from that city, and wish
the Coast papers 10 announce the fact that
l,5OO men are out of employment They
cay superintendents OF the mines and mills
are besought and begged hourly for work
to relieve the actual want and hunger OF
the applicants Virginia is good place
to stay away from, if it is the home OF the
Great Ronanzas
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Shakespeare, Posted Up TO Date.

shakespeare, Posted Up TO Daic.
lChicago Tribune, III
1t certainly cannot be said:: of Mrs. Tilton
that
She lets concealment, like the worm,
Feed on her damask cheek.
The fact is, she does not seem to be able to
conceal worth cent To alter a somewhat
noted passage Of Shakespeare to fit the case,
it would read thus:
She never held her tongue,
Nor let concealment, like a worm l. the bud,
Feed on her da;nask cheek: She pinned in
thought,
And, with green and yellow melancholy,
She sat, like Patience, on a monument,
Smiling at Henry Ward Beecher.
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No Secret POliiicAi societies for This
O~"""V
Troy Chief, Is

llrOy Cnlei, Is.
1t seems to be pretty well settled fact
that the new New National party is as.
Stunning a secret character, and is develop
ing many of the principles OF Communism,
the very worst thing that can enter into
politics. The wisest statesmen that Ameri-
ca ever produced, have concurred in the
opinion that secret political societies are
dangerous to free government. Any mat
ter concerning the public welfare, that can
not be known by and discussed before the
public, is against the public good. In Sc
cret political societies, ambitious, designing
and INSCRIPTIONS men get in the lead,
and manage the machinery so as to
make themselves the representative men,
thereby cursing the country with worse
set of shysters, knaves and pIunderers than
ever get into power by sny other means.
Look at the men who are leaders in such
secret organizations, and you will find them
to be pretenders and charlatans, who could
never command a respectable following in
an open public. We thought that Know
Nothingism had given the American peo-
pie enough Of that sort Of thing, for one
century, at least. And we think the fate of
this new party will show that such was the
fact. In country like this, where all are
free to speak and vote az they please, such
an organization should not be counte-
Danced.
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The London Posi- says Gortchakofs circu-
lar recalls to mind the story Of the old
farmer who was always willing to hear the
other side, because nothing that anybody
could say to him would change his mind.
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CArrAIS EAps reports the jetties at the
mouth Of the Mississippi riverR success.
He says in another month he Idl have
twenty-iour feet Of water in Tie chanuel.
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A Mighty slow Road to Wealth.
St Ionis Journal Il

The Hannibal Courier has healthy lit.
tie libel suit on its lap-from the same
source whence came the proceedings agains,
the Moberly Monitor. The aggrieved par
ty is DR.. Conway, an itinerant temper
ance lecturer on the narrow guage plan
We suspect the good doctor will never live
in palace if he looks to libel suits for
wealth,
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church, but as that gentleman is reported
absent in Texas, enjoying the bliss that
cones from an ignorance OF Mrs. Tilton's
''new departure" the attempt was given