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The Secretary of the Treasury has

The Secretary of the Treasury has
has issued the ninety-sixth call for the redemp-
ton of $40 bonds of 1865, consols of 1865
The principal and interest are to be paid at the
treasury on the 4th of July next The bonds
called in are the last Of the United States 5-20s
The United States Supreme Court
has rendered it's decision in the Chicago whisky
cases. The decision is adverse to the whisky
men, and reverses the Judgment of the Chicago
court The court holds as to immunity that
the District Attorney had no power to grant it,
and that the most those to whom it was granted
could expect was to secure continuance for
the purpose of seeking Executive clemency.
Federal appointments +: A. P. Nc
Cormick, to be United States Judge Of the
Northern District Of Texas; W. W. Henry, to
be United States Marshal of the District of
Vermont; JAS. R. Hallowell, of Kansas, to be
United States District Attorney of Kansas; A.
L. Thomas, of Pennsylvania, to be Secretary Of
the Territory of Utah.
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TIE ELECTION INVESTIGATION.
SYNOPSIS OF TESTIMONY TAKEN BY THE SEN
ATE COMMITTEE.

SYNOPSIS OF TESTIMONY TAKEN BY THE SEN
ATE COMMITTEE.
A Mr.. Baker testified that no person in the
Treasury Department receiving less than 5 |, 200
per year was asked to subscribe to the Repub-
lcan campaign fund. r. B. Squiers testified
that he was an assistant messenger in the War
Department. He did not subscribe any
thing Soon after receiving the circular his
salary was reduced to $50 per month. His sal
airy was reduced at the beginning of the fiscal
year by action of Congress at the same time
that other employees were cut down.
John G.. Thompson was called by the Repub-
ican members of the committee, and detailed
his connection with the Democratic Congress
sional Committee in 1878 No money was col
lected from employees of the House of Repre-
sentatives, Witness devoted most of his time
during the summer of 1878 to conducting the
campaign, but came to Washington on the
1st of every month to see to the disburse-
ment of members salaries. Did not neglect
his official duties. Duncan s. Walker, Secre-
tary of the Democratic Congressional Commit
tee in 1878, testified that the headquarters of
the committee for a portion of the campaign
were in the room of the House Committee on
Agriculture. The amount collected by the
committee WAS 81, 695. The number of docu-
ments sent out was 1881, roo. The docu-
ments were nearly al folded in the
room of the House Committee on Post
Roads and Printing. Large numbers of
documents were sent out by the committee
under the frank of members of Congress, but
nothing not privilege. Postage was paid on all
the documents not frankable. Witness read
statement showing that the, expenses Of the
folding-room for 1878 were only sos as
against larger sums ranging up to as high as
$4,000 the last ten years, Harry Cobaut,
Captain of the Watch in the Treasury Depart
ment, testified that he had charge of furnish
ing Pennsylvania voters in that department
with free transportation to tfeirihomes, and tax
receipts where they had failed to pay their
taxes, beth of which were furnished by Russell,
acting for the State Central Republican Commit
tee. George G. Gorlam was recalled, and fur
nished the statements heretofore called for,
from which it appears that Ei2 circulars were
sent to employees in the departments, 1876 of
which were not responded to, twenty-five were
returned, and g72 resulted in subscriptions
amounting 10 $3,347. He had found cases
where the circulars were sent to persons re-
ceiving salaries of less than $1,000, and he
wished to correct his previous statement on
that point. -...-...-..-t
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MISCELLANEOUS GLEANlNas.

The report of the Board of Officers
who have been investigating the case of Gen.
Ftz-John Porter has been given to the public
1t not only vindicates Porter, but implies in its
language condemnation of the men who de-
graded him. It is declared that Porter exer-
cised, on the 9th of August, 1862, the ''very
ordinary disc1 etion of corps commander" and
did his "plain Duty" while on the Goth of Au-
gust, says the report, "Gen Porter's duty was
too plain and simple to admit of discussion, and
the board is unable to find anything in it sub
jeet to criticism, much less deserving of censure
or condemnation.
During the month of March, the
mint at Philadelphia, Pa, coined 81, 123, 200 in
gold, $900,370 in silver, and $7,S16 in base
metal, total of 745, $50 pieces of the value
of 81, 031, 1856
Southern Congressman are much
alarmed at the fact that yellow fever has broken
out upon the United States steamer Plymouth,
which had been fumigated and frozen up in
Boston harbor all winter. as we'll as from the
appearance of the disease at St. John, New
Brunswick.
The Chicago Tribune says "the com
mercial world, or at least large part of it, is
at present agtated by fears for the safety of the
wheat crop in Kansas, Missouri, and Texas.
The season is an unusually dry one in those
States, and there is grave reason to fear large
falling off, for want of the moisture necessary
to nourish the growing plant"
Advices from the far North are to the
effect that Indians from Sitting Bulls camp are
raiding the Yellowstone valley, killing and
driving off all stock.
The New Hampshire Senatorial case of
Charles H. Bell occupied the attention of the Senate
| on the 18th. Mr.. Booth introduced bill to repeal
| the Atlantic and Pacific railroad grant. Mr.
ingalls, introduced bill for the relief of the CEN
trail branch of the Union Pacific Railroad Company.
resolution was adopted authorizing the President
| of the Senate to appoint select committee of five
to take into consideration all matters relating to
the Freedmen's Savings and Trust Company
The House was not in session.
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A Cruel Massacre.

The Mandalay correspondent of
Calcutta E71glishnaa71 thus descri
the recent massacre of the royal fan
of Burmah by order of the King:
council was held by the King and
young advisers, and the conclus
come to was that determination was
only means whereby he could obt
safety. The immediate execution v
therefore, ordered of every one
prison. Executioners were easily ,
tanned, and with darkness commend
the scene of slaughter. It being, be
ever, found inconvenient to get throu
the job in one night, division V
made, and come twenty were chos'
These were severely beaten and kick
the women being shamefully treatt
When ifeless they were hurled into
large we'll in the garden. Childr
were torn to pieces before tn
parents eyes, and the parents the
selves then put to death. The Mech
Prince was made witness of the mt
atrocious conduct toward his wife a
children, and saw his aged motI
beaten senseless to the ground and th
dragged to the we'll and tumbled
Thongya's family Jared the same, as al
the two Menghees, the Myodawlaw,
two sons and the Phawoon. T
Princes, instead of being put in alo
with their families, were killed last a
thrown into the river.
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Jim YOunger's Wound.

On the 21st of September, 1877
Younger brothers, now safely l.
in the penitentiary in this city,
captdred in large clump of busht
far from the village of Madelia,
posse of seven men, after severel
to-hand encounter, In which two
robbers were killed and Jim You
severely wounded by an oblong |
from a needle-gun in the hanC
Capt. L. l. Vought, who was star
within ten feet of him when he
The bullet split his upper lip, ca
away the right half of the jaw and,
etrating the back part of the tt
where it is supposed to have tn
upon the maxillary bone, lodged il
muscles of the back part of the IL
where it has been ever since. I
long time past he has not been al
do any work whatever, and it tho
he would necessarily die soon.
However, last Monday, the pr
surgeon, Pritt, made an incision i
root of his mouth to where the |
lay, but found it firmly imbedde
the muscles, and, it was thought
tached to a piece of bone. A d
two passed in the most intense /,
and agony, when Hospital Ste
Clark, at the earnest request of You
made an examination, and with p3
instruments proceeded to carefully
arate the muscles from the ragged
battered bullet. without doing any
cutting, as it lay near the salivary
and deep muscles of the throat, '
rendered it a very difficult plac
work. A portion of two days was
in this manner, when last Thursda
bullet was safely dislodged, muo
the joy of the sufferer, who is or
relieved, and whose prospects O.
covery are now good. The bullet v
undoubtedly have sloughed off in
but its early removal has relieved
of an immense amount of intense
ferlng he would have had to und
had it been left to work it's own
out.
Jim bore up under the tedious o.
ton bravely without the use of any
ulant or medicine, and says that s
600 would be no temptation to have
ugly thing returned to the place it
occupied for so long.
The bullet, which is at present il
possession, is twisted, battered
creased out of any describable 81
and is the property of Steward G
to whom it was given by Younge
the one most entitled to it. It
valuable curiosity. = Jefferson
| (M57111. Journal.
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crop reports from various points in the North
west They represent in the main most flat
tering prospect for winter and spring wheat.
Dry weather has to some extent delayed the
sowing of spring grain, but there is plenty of
time yet, and, what with the large increase in
acreage over last year, the look ahead is most
encouraging.
A fire on Fifth street and Washing
ton avenue, st. Louis, Mo-, destroyed upward
of 100000 worth of property. Two men we're
killed and several injured by falling walls.
At Chicago John Lamb has been SEN
fenced to be hung on the Doth Of June next, for
the murder Of Police Officer Race in the fall of
1878
A band of Indian chiefs from Wash
ington Territory and Oregon have gone to
Washington city for big talk and general
treaty. They represent half-dozen tribes
and about 5000 warriors They have been
wanting to go to Washington for some years.
They are partly civilized and would be danger
Gus customers in an outbreak.
South.
The negroes of Louisiana are leaving
for the North in large numbers
A small craft, bound from Cape Hat
teras for Newbern, N. c., capsized in gale
and five persons were drowned.
The trial of Thomas Buford for the
murder of Judge Elliott will begin at Frank
fort, KY, April 2S.-Gov. McCreary has Or
dered an election for May IL to select a sue
cessor to Judge Elliott
At Stephenville, Texas, telegram
from Galveston informs us, "Messrs. Ross,
Keith, and Robinson, attempting to serve writ
to arrest one Halliday, were shot and killed
Three others were wounded. Another fight
followed resulting in the death of two others ="
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DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE.


There were forty financial failures in
New York during March, with total liabilities
of $3.50, 449, and assets amounting to $211.-
754. iF~
Serious riots occurred during the
progress of the election at Flatbush, L. l., and
half of the Brooklyn police were summoned to
the scene of conflict.
The extensive rendering establish
ment of Swift & White, on Barron island, New
York harbor, burned last week. LOSS, $780,
GOO; no insurance. )
The increase of immigration to New
York from foreign ports during the first quar-
ter of 1879 is nearly 80 per cent over that of
the corresponding period last year.
The Atlantic coast has been visited
by severe gale, and many disasters to ship
ping are reported.
Several large buildings on Fourth
street, Philadelphia, used for variety of man
utacturlng purposes, were burned last week,
the pecunlary loss being placed at $3.50, 600
One fireman was killed and three severely in
jured by falling walls.
William H. Vanderbilt has Just paid
the sum OF $4,000 to the daughters of Horace
Greeley. This was the amount borrowed from
Mr. Greeley many years ago by Cornelius H.
Vanderbilt. The Commodore refused to re-
cognize the claim, and once had a character
istic interview with Mr.. Greeley about tbs mat
ter, in which the railroad millionaire was badly
worsted He made no provision for the debt
In his will, and the daughters would not have
been able to collect the claim, even had they
been disposed to make one. ~
West.
Chicago elevators, as per official re-
turns, contain 7,409,420 bushels of wheat,
2,9l6,S4l bushels OF corn, sol ,254 bushels of
oats, 100 bushels of rye, and 694 566
bushels of barley, making a grand total of
1179l 1874 bushels, against 2, 79s, 092 bushels at
this period last year.
Gen. Daniel Cameron, an old Chicago
Journalist, and prominent local Democratic
politician, died in that city, last week, of con-
sumption. He served through the late war,
and was made a. Brigadier General for brave
and faithful service. Gen. Cameron was q
native of Scotland
There were packed in the West, last
winter, the enormous number of 1880 600 hogs,
or nearly 100000 more than the previous sea-
son. B3 .@B'a9 @ba Il saAA 80 u
The Chicago Tribune prints copious
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present state of things is allow
continue. The export trade from
erpool to the United States is SO
that when the restrictions on til
portation of United States Gait
removed it is intended to make th
ward voyages with water ballast
ship-owners being unwilling to scr
for the little outward freight re,
carried as ballast at nominal rates
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EngIand's Extremity.

David McIver, one Of the proprietors
of the Cunardf line, and member of
Parliament, writes in London paper
that he does not, know of any nation
whose trade prospects are SO gloomy as
Great Britain British exports to the
United States are comparatively nothing
in the volume of value. The balance
of trade is SO Overwhelmingly against
Great Britain that he sees nothing ex-
cept ruin for home industries, whether
manufacturing or agriculture, if the
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PROMINENT PEOPLE.

PROMINENT PEOPLE.
JOHN B. GoUGH is lecturing in En-
gland.
SENATOR HAMLM always wears claw
hammer coat.
Mrs. EMMA D. E. N. SoUTHwoRTH is
at work on her sixtieth novel.
SENATOR GRooME, of Maryland, looks
like a butcher about to knock down
an OK.
BARONESS RoTHsCHILD, at a recent
ball in Vienna, wore 100000 worth of
diamonds.
The youthful Napoleon bears the
reputation, in Europe, of being young
blackleg.
SENATOR JONES, of Nevada, has in
vested largely in railroad stock in Vir-
ginia.
EDITOR JOSEPH MEDILL, of the Chi
cage Tribune, is pleasure-seeking in
California.
SENATOR FARLEY, of California, has
long face, the more heightened by a
| long chin beard.
| EX-SENATOR SAWYER, of South Caro-
lima, is now clerking in Washington on
a $1,000 salary.
SENATOR HOUSTON, of Alabama, has a
bald strip over his head, with flap of
gray hair on either side.
Ex-SEcRETARY BELKNAP is nWashing-
ton q goodly part of the time, as agent
for a stamp for marking letters.
SENATOR PENDLEToN blinks about the
hall, and walks into the Senate chamber
as if he had a ramrod down his back.
Ex-ATToRNEY GENERAL WILLIAMS
has good deal of law-practice in Wash
ington. His wife is travelling in Europe.
SENATOR WALKER, of Arkansas, who
succeeded Dorsey, has long face, a
brown beard, good head, and quiet
ways.
EX-SENATOR SARGENT has gone On a
cruise in the Saratoga" to Madeira
and the Azores, as the guest of the
commander.
EX-PosTMASTER GENERAL CREsWELL
is President of national bank at Wash
ington, and one of the Commissioners
for winding up the Freedmen's Bank.
Mr.. Jonas, the new Senator from
Louisiana, a Jew among the Gentiles,
is dapper little man with black mus
tache, young face, black hair, and a
nervous manner.
EDITOR STOREY, of the Chicago Times,
is building for himself and his young
bride a fine suburban residence, and sur
rounding it with full-grown trees con-
veyed from Indiana. One red maple
thus transplanted is sixty feet in height,
and whole platform car was occupied
by it on the journey.
The Emperor William visited Field
Marshal Won Room when the latter lay
dying. He arrived unexpectedly, and
Won Room, who Immediately recognized
his sovereign, pressed his hand between
both his own, and exclaimed, Majesty
what a pleasure!" The Emperor re-
piled, {" l have many reasons for being
grateful to you," and then, with tears in
his eyes, took touching leave of his
faithful servitor.
OLD Seth p. Ames, a relative of Cakes
Ames, had but one thought as he ap-
preached his 10th birthday. The thought
was to build boat, launch it upon Lake
Saginaw, near which he lived, and sail
by way of the great inland waters, the
st. Lawrence river and the ocean, to
the place of his birth, at New Bedford,
Mass. He was rich, but his children could
not prevail upon him to travel over
land; SO he turned the little craft out
with his own hand, and last week had
the qualification of seeing her bob on
the ripples of the lake. Exposure dur
ing the launch gave him a cold, the cold
ran into pneumonia, and old Seth died
his purpose unaccomplished.
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PENDANT
The public debt statement for April
is as follows
Six per cent. bonds. 80. 1858, 424,750
Five per cent. bonds. 80. 703, 266, $50
Four and a half per cent.
bonds. ................ $50, 900 ,0OO
Four per cent bonds.. 49,4OO,OOO
Navy pension fund. ...... 140, 900, 900
Total coin bonds. go. $4,000. 091 400
Matured debt ........... 7,672 100
Legal tenders. 1886, ,941
Certificates of deposit.... 27,6S0000
fractional currency 10, 925 ,662
Gold and silver certificates 1881, 800
Refunding certificates. 5000
Total without interest $ 400 O32 9O3
Total debt. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 81 422, 796, 1853
Total interest. ...................... 1901 900
Cash in treasury, .................. 400, 7S7 45S
Debt less cash in treasury .... s., OF, JOG 265
Increase during March ............... S92, 724
Decrease since June 81, 1873. 8,6S6,575
CURRENT LIABILITIES.
Interest due and unpaid. ............$ 532S 020
Debt on which interest has ceased. 80. 1872 100
Interest thereon. Observation-Disclosures. 325. 776
Gold and silver certificates. ..... 1881 23O
United States notes held for redemp-
ton Of certificates of deposit. 1880 600
United States notes held for redemp-
ton of fractional currency. ....... 7s,455, 991
Called bonds not matured for which,
per cent. bonds have been issued. POS. 447 700
Cash balance available April l, 1879. ia, $50
Total. Observation-Disclosures 420, 7s7 ,45s
AVAILABLE ASSETS.
Cash In treasury. .................$ 42O.7S7, 45S
Bonds issued to the Pacific Railroad ..t
Companies, interest payable in law
full money: Principal outstanding. s. 64,623 sic
Interest accrued and not yet paid. 96a.s52
Interest paid by the United States.... 41 1874
Interest repaid by transportation of
mails, etc. 1O,7O5, O52
Balance of interestpa by the United
States ............... s1O6s, 69a
During March the United States
minis coined $5,577,OS6 The total number of
standard silver dollars coined up to April was
28, 774,95O.
The President nominated David T.
Corbin, of South Carolina, Chief Justice of the
Supreme Court of Utah; Thomas s. Wadsworth,
of Illinois, Receiver of Public Moneys at La
Mesilla, New Mexico; Oscar Hatfield, of New
York, to be United States Consul at Batavia:
and John Harris, of Pennsylvania, to be United
States Consul at Venice.
The organization of q National Emf
grafton Aid Society, having for it's object the
regulation of emigration from the South to the
West, has been perfected at Washington, by
the choice Of National Executive Committee.
consisting of the following gentlemen: Senator
Window, President; Senators Hamlin, Chan
dler and Teller, Representatives Garfield,
Charles G. Williams and Jorgensen, William
T. Chandler, George G. Gorham, Joseph II.
Rainey, the Rev. J. E. Rankin, A. M Clapp,
Toh IL TT rr 49, IA
Prof R. T. Greener Secretary, M. NJ Holland,
| J. M Adams, M Howard, H. W. Mendenhall
and O. s. B. Wall.
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The ladies of Concord, N. r., ca
$50 votes at a late School Board ele
ton.
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WASHINGTON NOTES.

In the Oliver Cameron suit at Wash
ington, the jury rendered verdict for the de-
PENDANT
The public debt statement for April
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1879-05-16
KISIOMs az HPRIMG rL1fE

Oh tender lilac blossoms, swaying in the
breeze of May, .-
oh robin rocked upon their stem, to sing
your matin lay,
What angel hand placed thee. this morn
before my window pane.
To wake my heart to memory, my eyes TO
loving rain?
There comes picture from the pages of the
long ago,
A curtained chamber hushed and still, a
lamp whose shaded light
Is dying in the rosy dawn which just has
vanquish'd night.
With drapery diaphanous, window broad
and low;
A far recess, a snowy couch, and there a
mother lies,
Upon her arm, herfirst born babe, gift from
paradise,
Whose life she counts in hours, upon her
thin, white finger tips,
With fearful smiles and glad Thanksgiving
trembling on her lips,
A breathing wonder-dfmpled rosy darling
soft and warm,
And yet a soul immortal, she must shield
from every harm.
Bliss of holy motherhood, depths of love be-
fore unknown!
Words are too weak, her unvoiced ecsIacy
must rise alone.
But moi upon the Iilacs which embower that
window wide,
A robin lights and sings, and triIls his CHEEKY
music tide,
And from each slender chalice, lifting up its
purple cross,
To gem those graceful plumes, 10 clouds of
incense toss.
Of further ritual there was no need. the
mothers eyes
Beheld her prayer upborne by this to fairer,
purer skies.
The vision changes, fair young girl is ly-
ing cold and white
As sculptured marble, dead, in the spring
time of her joyous life,
Dead in the sad home where so late her
laugh and song were. rife;
And in that lonely mothers heart are agony
and night.
Oh! what shall voice her anguish now; what
burst of song or bloom
Her heart will not reject, ice-cold in shadows
of the tomb!
The voice of heaven alone has power to rend
her SOULS dark pail:
BE still, and know blest eternity shall
pay for all!'
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1879-05-16

The radical difference of opinion found
among Republican members and Senators
in regard to the manner in which the Pres
ident will treat the appropriation bills,
after the Democrats will have ceased
their tinkering indicates that things are
badly mixed. One says he will approve,
another that be will not, leaving the
listener to solve the conundFum as bsst
be can, and in so far as obtaininga reliable
opinion is concerned one might just as
well give it up at once. But this point
seem assured, that Senator Edmunds ex-
haustive speech on the measure will de-
termine Presidential action. The full
scope and bearing OF the Democratic swim
die has been left to him to fathom and he
will not be found wanting, There are
more Legislators waiting for his views than
for all other Senators combined because his
faculty for going clear down to the bottom
in legal intricacies and for tearing speoious
sophistries to tatters is superior to that Of
any man at the Capital. IL he expresses
an unseen danger then Mr.. Hayes will veto,