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JEFF. DAVIS AND TIE MONEY.

The more 10 Johnston's story about
Jefferson Davis and the Confederate treas
ure is sifted the less probable does it ap-
pear. Those who were i'll position to
know, and particularly Reagan of Texas,
who was the last Treasurer of the Confed-
eracy, contradict Johnston's statement
emphatically. Reagan says that in the
first place the Confederate Government
had not had such gam as 81, 500. 900 in
its possession for two years before the close
of the war that at the end it had only a
comparatively small amount, probably less
than 100000; and that this was dis
tributed among the troops, each man get
ting SIG. This is much more probable
account than Johnston's. The idea that it
could have been possible to make away
with SO large sum in the midst of the
confusion attending the collapse of the
Confederacy, was of itself enough to dis
credit it, in fact; nor was it at all credible
that such concealmept could have been
made effectual under the circumstances.
The Federal troops were sharp scented
and On the lookout for prizes, and JEFF.
Davis could hardly have found either the
time or the help to put SO bulky a treasure
in safe keeping. The truth. however, no
doubt is that when the Confederacy COL
lapsed it had reached the end of its
financial as well as its military tether, and
that there remained no "pickings" from
which anyone could have made a fortune.
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VIRGINIA REPUTATION.

A very impudent and dishonest attempt
is being made in some quarters to deceive
the people as to the facts of the Virginia
Reputation which Malone has forced the
Republicans to indorse. AS it is one
of the most infamous cases on record, and
as it involves double act of Reputation,
and as there is literally no excuse or de-
Tense for it, it is desirable that the actual
circumstances should be made known in so
full and clear way that demagogues and
falsi6ers will be estopped from further at
tempts to palliate the atrocity, or to repre-
sent it as being capable of defense or
apology. The history of the case is some-
what long, but it is necessary to state it in
detail in order to show as clearly as posi-.
bic what it is that the Malone party
are doing.
In the first place it must be understood
that the whole of the debt of the State of
Virginia now in controversy was con.
tracted before the war. Any statement
to the contrary is falsehood. The
REBELS " had nothing whatever to do
with making the debt. Nor was any part
OF it fraudulently contracted. 1t was all
contracted in the creation of internal i'm
proyements, such as railways, canals,
bridges, public buildings, etc, which the
people of Virginia heartily approved and
desired. There was no question Of its
entire validity at the time it was con.
tracted, nor for years afterwards. Snbse.
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in the intrigues by which he secured the
Speakership, and now Keifer rewards this
service, at the expense of the country, by
giving him position which he is certain to
discredit because of his notorious incapac-
ity. And the selection becomes little
short of an outrage when we reflect that
the great State of New York has actually
been refused representation on the same
Committee on Commerce which has Page of
California for Chairman. Heretofore the
Committee on Commerce has been of consid-
cradle Importance, but it is evident that it
can possess no significance under the new ar
rangement, unless it be sinister signif-
canoe. And the case is very much worse
than if the appointee had been a compare
lively young member, for Page has been
ten years in the House, and it is therefore
thoroughly well known at Washington that
the man possesses no capacity, and that he
can never rise above the low cabaliiDg and
intriguing which constitutes the states.
manship" of his grade of politicians.
1t may be cited as curious circumstance
that no member from the Pacific Coast has
been placed on the Pacific Railroads Com.
mittee, and that the Committee on Mines
and Mining is presided over by gentle
man from New York. In fact the distri-
button of committees generally has been
done in so peculiar manner that there is
| probability of much dissatisfaction among
members and the public, and of no incon-
siderable detriment to the business of the
| House.
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CURRENT MAGAZINES,

darper's Magazine for January, 1882, is
at hand. The illustrations are bountifui in
number and of high character, especially
those IN the article on Journalistic London
Inc leading papers are liking Goals High
way" by G. f. Muller Ancient and Modern
Venetian Glass, by J. j Jarves; Anne"
a novel, by Constance Feuimore Woolson !;
With the Vanguard in Mexico" by w. H.
bishop; Journalistic London" wv, by
promise, by r. M. Johnston: "Who were
the Pilgrims?" by William T. Davis "Eter.
Mite. poem, by Robert Herrick; g Young
Mems Christian Associations" by G. r.
Crooks; The Search, poem, by Mrs. E.
L. Corbett; Pastor Dankwardt," poem.
by Annie Fields; 1.-THE Boundaryof Greece,
by Robert P. Keep; " In the Southeast Bas-
ton" story. by T. R. Stockton; "Politi-
cal Aspects of Mormonism, By Hon. George
/. Edmunds; Christmas Song" by Con-
Stamina E. Brooks.
The Atlantic Monthly" for January, 1889
lHoughton, Miffiin & Co., BossoD). has these
Leading articles: +" Police Report" by W. D.
Aowells; A Sunday at Pores" by Eunice
Three Worlds" by J. 7. Trowbridge !;
/" John Baptist at the Jordan" by Edward
Z. Hale; Hindu Humor," by Elizabeth
Robins Studies in the South: " 1.-The
Prominence of Athleticism in England" by
A. Granville Bradley "A Midsummer Fete
in the Pueblo of San Jpaa." by ii. H;
Flower ard Fruit" by Edith NJ. Thomas.
Frank Leslie's New York; Sunday M2s-
azine for January, 1882. is on our table. 1t
is number replete with illustrations of g
striking character. and the textmatter is of
exceeding variety and interest. The cover
bears tine Likeness of the new editor, Rev.
T. De Witt Talmage, d. d.
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The HOUSE COMMITTEES.

Speaker Keller has made distribution
OF the House Committees which shows that
the Pennsylvania interest is determined
to lose nothing for want of andacity. The
presumption is that in giving no fewer than
seven important Chairmanships to Penn.
sylvania, the underlying purpose has been
to prepare for the anticipated attack on
the tariff. The Protectionists are aware,
or at least apprehend, that the coming
struggle will be the hardest they have ever
had to face, and they are therefore exerting
all their strength, and intrenching them.
selves as skillfulIy as possible. But it is
already evident that Keifer has overdone
the thing, and that his selections are likely
to cause serious dissatisfaction both in and
out of Congress. The patent neglect of the
claims of New York, for instance, is cure
neither to be forgotten nor forgiven, and
when an opportunity arises the Speaker
will be paid back in his own coin. Some
of the Chairmanships are otherwise quite
amazing for the infelicity OF the choice
Nothing, for example, could be more
absurd than to have given Representative
Page the Committee on Commerce.
The whole House might have been unsuc-
cessfully searched for more conspicuously
unfit man. He has no knowledge of Gem.
mgrce whatever. He possesses no education,
no business training, none of that extensive
information which the head of SO important
a committee ought to be distinguished
by. He was stage-driyer before he went
to Congress, and he has been machine"
politician ever since. To put such a man
on such committee does not honor his
constituents it insults the whole country
It would indeed be difficult to find COM
mittee go Insignificant that it would be safe
to make Page its Chairman. And the
motive of this choice, moreover, is altogether
too generally apparent. Page helped Keifer
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sUccoE RoR THE JgANNErrE" PARTY.

Nothing could exceed the promptitude with
which the Russian Government, and Mr..
Bennett, and the United States Government.
have proceeded to take measures for the
safe home bringing of the crew of the Jean.
nette. Mr.. Bennett has acted with char
acteristic liberality and energy in the mat.
ter. In fact he has undertaken to do all
that an individual could do in the prem
ises. Our own Government has gone to
work in a very earnest spirit also, and the
Russian Government has shown a very
praiseworthy determination TO take every
possible care of the Survivors. Until the
third boat is heard o., however, and until
the actual condition of the crew of Lieu
tenant De Longs boat is known, anxiety
must continue It is, moreover, impossible
to get at the Jeanette party in short
time, and If they should from any cause
be short of supplies in the meantime, the
worst might happen. Even with all the
appliances CT unlimited wealth and equally
unlimited energy, is viii take full month
to reach the wrecked. party, and it can only
be hoped that they viii be taken care of
in the mean time.
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TIE WEEKLY UNION.

The WEEKLY UNION is issued in semi-weesly parts,
and thus goes out to its subscribers cftener, and
and brings to them the news frester than any
weekly Journal competing with it. The WEEKLY
UNION for the first week in January, 1882, will be
the annual holiday paper of the volume, ard will be
especially valuable to all for the variety and extent
of its matter, for its commercial, historical and
statistical data and for its elaborate treatment OF
some Of the most prominent social and industrial
topics Of the day.
The WEEKLY UNION is mailed, postpaid, to sub
scribers one year for 81 so, payable in advance.
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seven languages, and they must evidently be
next to the Russians as linguists. They are
fond of literature, read and own books, keep
themselves supplied with good scientific peri
oiicals, even in the most distant parts, and
cultivate music also considerably. Sweden
is peculiarly land of song, and Du
Chaillu had the pleasure of hearing there
some magnificent voices. The hospitality OF
the psople, from the King down to the Lspp
was unstinted, and though our traveller had to
bear many hardships, and often to put up
with very unpalatable food, be adhered to
his wise resolve to live with the common peo-
pie, and to take whatever fortune came to
him. Doubtless his French lightness of
spirits enabled him to endure calmly priva-
lions which would have been much more dis
tressing to an Englishman or an American,
though when he was among the farmers his
principal danger seems to have been from
excess of hospitality. On one occasion he
drank thirty-two cups of coffee, and ate as
many times, in two days, and it is probable
that if he had not taken so much outdoor ex-
ercise his friends would quite literally have
killed him with kindness.
In both Sweden and Norway the farmers
have mountain pastures to which they send
their cattle during the summer. Here all
the cheese and butter is made, and here,
from June to September, the young girls
generally live in very solitary way, doing
the dairy work. Sometimes these sectors or
mountain pastures, are hundred miles from
the home farms, and then the girls are not
visited more than once during the whole sum.
mer. The accounts of these mountain farms,
and of the profusion of magnificent waterfalls
which make Scandinavia so romantic
region to the artist and the art.lever, are
extremely interesting also that of the many
beautiful homes which are scattered all along
the banks of the fjords, and kept in CON-
munication with civilization by means of
little steamers which ply continually through
these internal waterways. The description of
the period of perpetual daylight, when for
weeks together the sun never sets, and the
people go to bed by broad daylight,
quarian parts Of the work are of far less i'm
portancs and interest, and in fact we should
gladly have exchanged them for some more
accounts of the domestic life Of these very
amiable and pleasant people. NJ Du Chaillu
has made it moro evident than ever that the
best class of immigration is that which comes
from the Scandinavian countries, and
that we cannot have too much CT that Bind.
He has written charming work. and he has
performed his task go conscientiously and thor
oughly that his account of the Swedes, Nor
wegians and Laps will 10 doubt remain the
most authoritative extant for a long time to
ANNA
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THIS MORNINGS NEWS.

In New York Government bonds are quoted at
ISL for As of 1907; 114s for AS; 1908 for BIS
sterling, "a sOI@4 s43: silver bars, liz.
Silver in London 81 l416d consols go 51ed; 5-per
cent United States bonds extended, 1881 As l2l
SIS. 1l7l-
In San Francisco half dollars are quoted at dis
count to par Mexican dollars 91@92c.
Mining stocks were quite duh in San Francisco
yesterday, and values were generally lower, though
the decline was small.
1t is reported that United States steamer has
been fired into on the South American coast, but
the story is discredited at Washington.
The French and Arabs are still fighting in Tunis
Robert Lambert for killing Julia Clark, has been
sentenced at Portland, Or, to years imprison-
ment.
Giovanni B. Trabuco was foundlbrutally murdered
near Santa Barbara yesterday.
Judge D. II. Cowden an cid resident of Sierra
county, died yesterday at Downieville.
Fire at Lemoore Tulare county
The notorious train robber Stewart has been cap.
tured in Texas.
All the prisoners in the Jail at fernando, Miss,
escaped Thursday night
During the week ending December 18th, twenty
deaths from cholera occurred at Elwedj, Egypt.
The relations between Russia aud China are again
somewhat strained.
The body of Dora West, recently drowned in the
Chehalis river, in Washington Territory, has been
recovered.
An interesting interview is given this morning
with Lieutenant S;hwatka, the Arctic explorer, in
regard to the Jeanette.
sleet storm Frustrated the wires in the vicinity
of Albany, N. Y, yesterday.
The steamer Granger was destroyed by fire yester-
day at Charleston, S. C.
Senator MilIer's health has slightly improved, but
h } is still confined to his house.
Ex-senator Sargent is spending Christmas with
relatives in Massachusetts,
An alarming revolution is reported from Port-au-
Prince.
In connection with the no-rent movement in Ire
land Miss Reynolds has been sent to Jail a. Castle
ton for conspiracy.
Upon the inside pages of to-day's RECORD UNION
will be found vast quantity of useful and enter
tanning reading.
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AN INCOME TAX.

A bill providing an income tax has been
introduced into Congress, but for what
reason it is impossible to say. The prin-
ciple of this tax is very Objectionable, and
it is the hardest of all imposts to collect.
Experience has shown that in this country
it must always fall with special severity
upon the large class of poor people with
fixed incomes, while the wealthy are enabled
to escape it at pleasure. During the re-
bellion it led to an immense quantity of
perjury, and therefore lent its aid to ex-
tend the Generalization which war, and
above all, civil war, inevitably produces.
AT the present time, when the Government
does not know what to do with its surplus
revenues, and when Congress is kindly and
thoughtfully providing an outlet in the
Pension Arrears Bill fraud, it is particu.
larly inopportune to propose an income
tax. The country is now so prosperous
that it can afford to put all taxation in the
least onerous and most economical forms,
and an income tax is at once the most
burdensome and the costliest to collect.
There is, however, one comfort, namely,
that no such tax is at all likely to commend
itself to Congress, which body has at least
the intelligence to comprehend what would
be decidedly distasteful to the people, and
to avoid such measures
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THE MISSION OF TIE ALASKA


General Hurlbut appears determined to
do as much mischief as possible before he
is superseded, if the latest story of his
exploits be true. For it is stated that he
has actually dispatched a United States
man-of.war to carry succors and munitions
to some Peruvian dictionaries who are
contending with the late Dictator, Pierola.
1t is even said that General Hurlbut
wished the Alaska to aid the Calderon
faction with her guns, or to land her sail
ors and marines for the same purpose, but
that the commander of the vessel had sense
enough to refuse to 60 so far as this. If
this story as told is true, however, he has
gone very much too far already, and it
might almost be thought that General
Hurlbut had design for illustrating the
weakness of our navy, by forcing a col
lision with the Chilean ironclads. Moth
ing, however, could be more undiplomatic,
and, in fact, scandalous, than the mission
ON which this scatter-brained envoy has
sent the Alaska. The United States has
no business with either Calderon or
Pierola, unless, indeed, it has determined
to encounter all the consequences of an
armed Intervention between Chile and
Peru. Or if it assumes a protectorate over
Peru it must expect to be asked to guaran-
tee Chile's war indemnity. But of course
nothing of the kind is in contemplation.
No doubt the simple truth is that General
Hurlbut has lost his head completely, and
that he ought to have been recalled per-
emptorily when he first manifested his
unfitness for the post to which he had been
appointed for no defensible reason. II
he is not recalled or disowned soon, how
ever, Re will certainly entangle us in a
serious difficulty.
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GUIrEAU's NAIL.

1t appears that Guiteau has arrived at
the dignity of a daily Email. 1t would
no doubt be interesting to know who the
correspondents of the assassin are. Judg-
ing from hints he has dropped during the
trial it is to be feared that some of those
foolish women who are always ready to
condole with murderers have begun to
write to this one. 1t is true that if all the
other "cranks" corresponded with him he
might have wheelbarrow full of lette s
every day, but then "cranks" do not as a
rule believe in one another. 1t is stated
that on Thursday Guiteau had as many as
twenty letters. Were they from admirers,
or were they threatening letters? Prob
ably not the latter, because he was mani
testify elated by them. Presumably they
were from morbid sympathizers, who are
beginning to believe that Guiteau really is
a "big" man, as he says. 1t is perfectly
clear that he is enjoying himself now more
than ever he did in his life before, and that
his trial will compensate him for whatever
penalty he may be sentenced to.
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A Coroner's jury at Shakespeare, N. NJ,
lately held an inquest over the bodies of
the two rustlers who were found swinging
to the timbers of building in that town
one fine bright morning not very long ago.
The men were hanging shackled together,
and had evidently been drawn up from the
floor, the ropes having first been thrown
over the timber. The inquest decided that
the deceased bad come to their deaths
by suicide"
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TIE ACCIDENT TO THE qssNEssEF.


The flagship Tennessee has been run
down, and apparently almost sunk, by a
collision with an ocean steamer in fog.
The steamer cut her down to the waters
edge, and it is well that she did not go
down then and there. The accident serves
to show how little the vessels of our navy
are fitted to encounter the rough usage
which war entails upon such ships Ram.
ming has become one of the recognized
methods of naval warfare, but it is appar-
ent that one stroke from the PROV OF an IRON
clad would send such vessels as the Ten
nessee to the bottom In five minutes. In
fact if we should unfortunately become
involved in war with a power possessing
ironclads, we should be obliged to keep our
navy under bck and key, for we certainly
could not afford to let such floating cofins
go to sea and face the enemy. It is quite
time that reformation of the navy was
begun.
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This is Picture of Freddy's Rabbits.
But it is the Picture OF Fox. The Fox
is very Fat Where are Freddy's Rab-
bits? Freddy's Rabbits are in the Fox.
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DANGERS OF SUBMARINE TELEaRAPHY.

DAhG6hS VI SUBMARINE IGLEGRAPHY'
a recent dispatch states that twenty.one
telegraph and cable companies in England
have memorialiZed the Government to
place submarine cables under the protec-
tion of international law. They have
reason for this request, for it has only
recently been discovered that submarine
cables are at the mercy of all the world
when once they have passed the statutory
three leagues which confne the maritime
jurisdiction of their respective countries.
The open sea is lawless territory. No
Government has any special rights there,
and since submarine cables are things of
the present day altogether. no interna-
tional legislation has been had for their
protection. As the case stands the subma.
rine cable companies cannot protect
themselves at all. They are unable to
recover damages against ships that break
the cables with their anchors. In short.
they are exposed to the most serious in.
juries, and are entirely defenseless. Under
the circumstances all civilized Govern
ments will have to agree upon some COM
mon maritime regulations or laws, for
clearly it viii not do to leave the now in
dispensable cables without any safeguards
whatever,
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FOREIGN.
SIN Fighting In Tunis.

shhA
TUNIs, December 23d.-General Logerot
defeated an Arab troop nesr Manila, after
severe loss, and after an obstinate and pro-
longed resistance.
The Trouble In ireland.
LONDON, December 23i.-Donshue. land
agent and clerk of tbs Tobberioarry County
Sligo) Board OF Guardians, was fred upon in
his office last evening, and dangerously
wounded.
DUBLIN, December 2Sd.-At Castleton to.
day Miss Reynolds, charged with aiding and
abetting criminal conspiracy to prevent the
payment of rent. was ordered either to find
bail to keep the peace for xix months or un-
dergo months imprisonment. She refused
to give bail and went to jail.
Mount Eesuyius
LosDoS, December 23d.-The eruption of
Mount Vesuvius has assumed large proper
tons.
Excitement at San Domingo.
SAN DOMINGO, December 14th.-The news
that United States war steamer viii sur
vsy SANTANA Bay caused such excitement
that the authorities prepared two war schoor-
ers-the Thunder and Capatillo-to watch
the American name Of. war
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weather PROBABILITIES.

wAsHIseros, December 2Sd- Midnight.-Indica-
tons for the middle and north Pacific coast region
Partly cloudy weather and local rains. For south
ern California: Clear weather.