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Year: 1874

In commenting upon and constituting the
new currency act some Of our contempo-
raries seem to lose sight of the fact that
there is no requirement in the act that the
deposit reserves shall be kept at home. 1t
does provide, however, that the five per
cent. redemption deposit required to be
kept at the Treasury, may form part of the
reserve to secure deposits. Beyond this the
deposit reserves are untouched by the new
act. The reasonable construction must be
that this five per cent. may form portion
of that reserve which the old law required
to be retained at home, because that banks
having but a short line of deposits might
not otherwise be able to avail themselves of
this privilege without keeping double re-
serve which would be preiudicial to their
interests. 1t will be remembered that the
bill which was vetoed required the deposit
reserves to be kept at home, within the
vaults of the bank. 1t is clear that this
provision would have been retained by the
Conference Committee in the present act, il
such had been.the design of Congress. II
seems to us, therefore, that the construction
given to this act by the Comptroller of the
Currency in his recent letter to Mr.. Otis,
which we have already printed, is the cor
rect and only one which it will reasonably
bear.
Year: 1874




SUFFRAGE IN THE DISTRICT.


The New York World has busted itself
lately with -surmises, arguments and false
statements regarding the right of suffrage
in the District of Columbia. 1t claims that
" the first blow at negro suffrage has been
" struck by the same hands which created
" it in the interest of the Republican
party" This is all very well as piece
of political demagogism, but the World
forgets that the majority of the voters dis
franchised in the District by the recent act
Of Congress are not black citizens The
truth is that they are white, and that they
enjoyed the ineffable right Of voting for
mayor and Aldermen for years and genera
tions before the pending unfortunate mud
die occurred. The ''interests Of the Re-
publican party" had no more to do with
the origin of negro suffrage here than the
temporary abolition of all suffrage, Those
interests reside in constituencies which are
enabled to obtain voting representation in
the halls Of Congress or in legislative coun-
ellis which are supreme unto the localities
which they represent In the District we
have had Territorial government subject
to the supervision Of Congress the same as
that in Wyoming, and while it may have
been a matter of party pride that the Re-
publican candidates should be elected in the
few campaigns occurring under our Terri.
toriai form, the result either way
did not and could not have. affected
the interests. of either party. Without q
vote for President, with bare aeknowl-
edgment Of our existence in national con-
ventions, and virtually without direct rep
resentation IN Congress, our condition has
been described tersely, though not elegantly,
as political eunuchs." At the same time
it must be remembered that the World, the
Tribune, and other journals Of like Demo-
cratic. kidney, were mainly Instrumental
in forcing Congress to make the temporary
suspension of governmental functions, and
that as the result Of their labors gentlemen
have been appointed as a Commission to
govern the District ad interim who are not
citizens or even denizens. 10 ..'~'''- .-'-


We do not refer to these facts in COM
planning spirit, but merely for the purpose
of answering the Worlds argument and to
show that the Republican party has in no
way sacrificed one jot or title Of its ale.
glance TO the principle of equal rights and
universal suffrage. It is possible that in the
elections which occurred under our late
government bad men and careless men
were elected to Office; but in the Demo
cratic city of New York Tweed and his
confreres carried things with such high
hand that gamblers, barkeepers and men
who had been srraigned for the vilest Of
vile crimes were repeatedly chosen to rep
resent the people. John Morrissey came to
Congress with the Worlds support, and
Fernando Wood, who escaped the peRiten-
tiary through the statute Of limitations is
an acknowledged leader Of the opposition
in that city, and claims an apparently end
less title to a seat in the House Of Repre-
sentatiYes.
Year: 1874

As WILL be seen by reference to our
news columns the Commissioners Of the
District have, by their first official procla-
nation, abolished and consolidated a num-
ber of offices. 1t was to be expected, in
view of recent events, that they would
economic as far as possible in the expenses
of the government, which, with the light
before them, they seem to have done. No
doubt there are many Of our citizens who
will be dissatisfied, and will argue that the
Commission, being unacquainted with our
municipal forms and customs, have made
mistakes; but we are confident that they
will manfuIly and honestly correct such
errors as may be exposed in the progress of
their investigations. They impose rather
an onerous burden on the Comptroller of
tie District, and evidently reckon with
out their host" when they anticipate that
the United States Treasurer will disburse
the small sums required to be paid the
many employees of the different branches
of our government
Year: 1874

An EXCHANGE not altogether above sus-
picion, 50 far as railroads are concerned
says: I'VE have advocated the completion
''of the Northern Pacific and the Texas
''and California railways in the interest of
''our mechanics and manufacturers, &c,
&c Now, is it MOI about time that news
paper editors should stop nonsense of this
character? Nobody believes it; the dis
guise is entirely too thin. We have nothing
to say so far as the roads in question are
concerned, but this business Of advocating
every job and scheme and project to take
money out of the Treasury in the interest
Of the mechanics or the workingmen, when
it is really in the interest of the railroad
monOpolists, is so transparent as to bring
contempt upon its authors.
Year: 1874

rifle, and it will be well for the youngest
" and stoutest chief of our tribe if he will


"bring back as many scalps, if he will take


20 as many prisoners and bear back to our
:. great lodge as many trophies as the vete-


"ran who makes this tall" This is some
what grotesque, but we have no doubt OF
it. Fernandos success in the salary grab
business is proof pOsitiEethat he can plum
der public treasury as well as any other
man. The last grand warrior of the Tam
many tribe is now Number SO" upon
Blackwell's island.
Year: 1874

those who seem to think they contain either


news or the least particle of truth, we beg to
say they do not. The population Of the Dis
trict is over one hundred and fifty thousand.
Not more than five or six thousand follow in
the train of Congress, and we hardly miss
them. To be sure some of'the hotels and
boarding houses are rather deserted, rs COM
pared with the winter season, but the only
places where Congress is really missed are in
the departments, and the bureau officers and
clerks would not be sorry If they remained
away all the time were it not for the appropri-
alton bills. eng ..r. =,
Year: 1874

TIE Pan Handle Railroad Company has is
sued an order forbidding their employees, under
penalty Of dismissal, 10 enter houses where in
toxlcating liquors are sold, and therein set an
example which the other companies through
out the country might follow with advantage
to themselves and to the country. We do not
charge that railroad employees drink to ex-
cess, but the interests conhded to them and
the nature of the duties intrusted to them are
too vast and delicate to admit Of their drink
ing at all. There can be no safety in railroad
travel until the rule is laid down by every
company and rigidly enforced. -..
Year: 1874

A WIND MACHINE was lately put in opera
ton in the British House of Commons. If we
had only known they wanted anything of the
kind we could have easily supplied them with
one or two hundred from Congress, and not
have missed them either.
Year: 1874

THE following paragraph seems to be fA-
yorite one just now with our country ex-
changes: "WashIngton, since the adjournment
Of Congress, presents an appearance Of desc
lation." Three or four lines similar in tone
and character to the above are certain to lie
sent the rounds of the press at the end of
every session Of Congress. For the benefit Of
Year: 1874

IT is notorious fact that itinerant
circus companies pay very poorly, and
that the man who does not get his money
from them in advance is not very likely
to get it at all, Col. Bangs, of the Argus,
has suffered good deal from these con-
Germs, and when "The Great European
Circus and Metropolitan Caravan" tried
to slip off the other day without settling
its advertising bill he called upon the
Sheriff and got him to attach the Rocky
Mountain bear for the debt. The bear
was brought in its cage and placed in
the composing-room, where it consumed
$l5 worth of meat in two days (the
Coloners bill was only $12) and scratched
one trousers leg off the reporter, who was
in front of the cage giving the foreman a
lecture in zoology. On the third day the
bottom fell out of the cage, and, as the
Rocky Mountain bear seemed to want to
roam around and inquire into things, the
whole force of compositors all at once felt
as If they ought to go suddenly down
stairs and give the animal a chance With
that mysterious instinct which distin-
guishes dumb animals, and which goes
far to prove that they have souls, the
bear went at once for the door of Bangs
sanctum, and it broke in just as the
OOlOuSl was III Ine nluule Ol tearing
editorial upon "The Third Term and
Our Tendencies Toward Cesarism." The
Colonel, however, did not hesitate to
knock of. He stopped at once and
emerged with fine airy grace through
the window, bringing the sash with him,
and then he climbed up the water-spout
to the roof, where he sat until hook
and ladder company came and took him
off. The Argus did not issue for a week,
for although the Colonel bombarded that
bear with shot-guns pointed through the
window, and although the fire.engine
squirted hot water at him, he got along
very comfortably until Saturday night,
when he tried to swallow composing
stick and was choked to death. When
they entered the room they found that
the animal had upset all the type, and
had soaked himsolfin ink and1hen rolled
over nearly every square inch of the
floor, while the Colonel's leader on the
"Third Term" was saturated with water
and perforated with shot holes. After
this circus advertisements in the Argus
will be paid IN advance-MdG Adeler.
Year: 1874

The following recipe recently re-
ceived prize at London, Ontario, as the
best method of keeping eggs over win
ter: whatever excludes the air pre-
vents the decay cC the egg. What
have found to be the most successful
method of doing so is to place small
quantity of salt butter in the palm of
the left hand and turn the egg round in
it,. so that every pore of the shell is
closed; then dry sufficient quantity of
bran in an oven (be sure you have the
bran well dried or II will rust). Then
pack them with the small ends down, a
layer of bran and another of eggs, until
your box is full; then place in cool, dry
place. If done when new laid they win
retain the sweet milk and curd of new
laid egg for at least eight or ten months.
Amy oil will do, but salt butter never be-
comes rancid, and very small quantity
of butter will do a very large quantity
of eggs. To insure freshness / rub them
when gathered in from the nests; then
pack when there is a sufficient quan-
tity."-E. Alexander.
Year: 1874




Much has been said in America about
Mr.. Holman Hunts " miraculous" pic
ture of the 60 Shadow of DEATH" and ii
has been praised as a revelation of new
capacities in art. I saw a solemn per
son on the street with an advertisement
on his back telling where the picture
was to be seen, and a shilling passed me
into the solemn show. A moro absurd
picture was never painted. The partic-
ular pretension of this picture is its
literalness, but the litter of shavings on
the floor of the Savior's carpenter shop
seems to account fully and exclusively
for that. The "ShadoW of Death
could not fall across the light OF the
window as represented. Such a jewel
box as Mary, the mother, is looking into
vas never seen in carpenter shop.
Such silken drapery as Is trailed among
the shavings was always impossible IN
an association like that, and the Young
Carpenter, the Christ of the piece, is
the funniest fellow L have ever seen in
a picture. His only garment Is what
the Indians call breech-clout. 1t has
the advantage of being a fine article of
figured silk, and though the Savior has
been toiIing with plane and saw, and is
in the act of throwing up his hands with
a sense of relief, having accomplished
his days work and earned his bread in
the sweat of his face, there is no trace
of possible perspiration. Mr.. Hunts
Savior has a finely developed Jewish
nose. which Is all well, no doubt ; but
his hair seems a shade too yellow, and
his eyes a degree too blue for one of the
young men of the place and period
and we have to account for those hues
by considering his complexion, which
is a fine, bright copper color, producing
a most grotesqUe effect. If 1t is the OBJ
ject of art to make Christ ridiculous,
Mr.. Hunt should step to the 'front.'
london LetteL, Of NJ HdLste0d.
Year: 1874

MORE CERTAIN THAN PHILosoPHICAL.
One of the students at Davidson
College, who was too lazy to do any
thing right, was In the habit of cleaning
out his lamp chimney by running his
finger down it as far he could and twist
ing it around. After he had cleaned It
ont in this partial manner, one day not
long ago, a fellow student took it mp
and carried It to the residence of one of
the Professors, with the inquiry, Why
is It that this chimney is smoked up to
this point and no farther % The learn
ed gentleman entered into an elaborate
scientific explanation Of why it was,
arguing with great lucidness, and citing
various authorities to show the correct
ness Of his reasoning. When he had
finished, the student said to him, &c No,
sir, you are wrong" Sc Why is It, then 2"
inquired the Professor. because the
fellows finger wasn't long enough to
reach any farther, " replied the student
Year: 1874

The following unpublished letter from MT. Carlyle to Sir J. Whitworth, regarding the announcement made some months ago of the latter's inten- tion to supplement the savings of his work people by bonus upon them, was read by the Hon. and Rev. w. H. Lyttelton, at 8 meeting of the Stour- bridge School of Art l.:

 "I have heard of your offer on behalf of the thrifty work people of Darley, and of the thankful acceptance of it by the district authorities of the place. I cannot resist the highly unwonted de- sire that has risen in me to say that I highly approve and applaud the ideas you have on the subject, and to declare in words that in my opinion nothing wiser, more benefc1ent, or worthy of your distinguished place as master of workers has come before me for many 8 year. Would to heaven that all or many of the captains of industry in England had 8 soul in them such as yours, and could do as you have done, or could still further cooperate with you in works and plans to the like effect. The look of England is to me at this moment abundantly ominous. The question of capital and labor grow ing ever more anarchic, insoluble alto gether by the notions hitherto applied to it, is pretty certain to issue in petro- leum one day, unless some other gos- pei than that of the Dismal Science , come to illuminate it. Two things are pretty sure to me. The first is, that capital and labor never can or will agree together, till they both first of all de- eide on doing their work faithfully throughout, and like men of conscience and honor, whose highest aim is to be- have like faithful citizens of this uni verse, and obey the eternal command ment of the Almighty God, who made them. The second thing is, that sad der object than either that of the coal strike, or any conceivable strike, is the fact that. loosely speaking, all England has decided that the proftablest way is to do it's work ill, slimly, swiftly, and mendaciously. What a contrast be- tween now and, say, only a hundred years ago! Atthat latter date, or still more conspicuously for ages before that, all England awoke to its work with an invocation to the Eternal Maker to bless them in their days labor, and help them to do it we'll. Now, all Eng land, shopkeepers, workmen, all man ner of competing laborers awaken, as if with an unspoken, but heartfelt prayer to Beelzebub "Oh, help us, thou great lord of shoddy, adulteration, and malfeasance, to do our work with a maximum of slimness, swiftness, profit, and mendacity, for the Devils sake, Amen ?"
Year: 1874

A mass meeting was held at Wellsburg
last Saturday in the interest OF this road,
the purpose being 10 elicit such an Gx-
preston Of popular sentiment as would
warrant the County Court in submitting
to a vote ofthe people at an early day the
question Of the county assuming her por-
ton Of tho remaining Indebtedness OF the
road, Ohio county agreeing to assume her
shareO and thus setting at rest the agIta-
ton about sale Of the road TO satisfy
some $4,000 Of debt. The general feel.
ing was in favor Of saving the road, 80
much so that the County Court yesterday
passed an order submitting the question TO
d vote OF the people on the 23d day O.!
January next. The order comprehends
two questions, viz: delegating the neces.
sary power to the County Court to trans.
fer Brooke county's interest in the road
whenever satisfactory guarantee Of its
completion can be given by some party
or corporation willing to undertake it, and
voting $4,000 as Brooke county's share oI
the debt still outstanding against the road


It is believed that the people will vote
the necessary power to the County Court
aud also IN favor Of assuming the $4,000.
Year: 1874

From the chicago 1IluuHo'l


The scientific and tho religious world
arc both badly in need OF theory about
Adam and Eve. Now that science has
exploded tho six day story oil Creation,
and nearly all clerical thinkers have
acouicsced in It's denial Of the Hebrew
parable or myth, the position Of our two
common ancestors has been extremely
perilous. The Church is 10th to let them
90 and tho school Is 10th TO let them stay
The two opposing armies would probably
IKE TO be reconciled, even II some Of the
more bellgerent chiefs have not had
their ali Of fighting, The announcement
Year: 1874

There they sat on their
trunks until Deacon Buckley
Of the other church came along
when they told him their tale
OF wrong-and he took them
home with him.


The next day he Wss so anx.
lous to forward them on their
journey, that he carried them
ten miles and left them Ut the
house of'another minister.


Of course the affair made q
great deal of scandal in Brook:
ville-but some people were
sensible enough to commend
aunt Peggy.


But Mr.. Granger is still
keeping a hote5 and Is we'll
patronized by the travelling
public. If you should happen
to pass through Brookville, you
will save a dollar or two by
stopping all night with Mr.:
Granger. He won't mind it,
he's used 10 it.
Year: 1874




Catarrh is not a disease Of
mans nose. 1t is disease of
the man, showing itself In his
nose. The blood which Is now
in my brain is before l am done
writing this sentence back III
my heart, and off on visit to
my feet, and now it is distribu:
ted to my liver, stomach, kid:
neys-every part. Every part
of the body is fed every mo:
ment from the same blood
Every atom of every organ and
tissue Is obtained from that
blood, and every minute all this
blood comes back mixed and
lntermixed. Now, do you sup:
pose that one part of the body
can draw away from the rest;
get up a disease and carry on
an independent operation of its
own, on its own responsibility


A man has a catarrh dis.
charge from his nose. he ID
an editor, and mostly confined
to sedehtary habits. His di.
gestion is veal, boWsib cohstis
pated, head dull, and general
condition altogether unsatis-
factory. He comes To me With
long story about bis catatrh;
and finally wishes to know if l
have any confidence in the ad:
vertised cures for this disgust
ing attiictioh; would be willing
to take anything or do any
thing if he could only get rid of
that horrible nuisance, etc.


"Will you do exactly what
will advise for a weekn


ayes; 1 wouldn't mind stand:
ing on my head for that length
of time, if I could only reduce
myself to the decent use of one
pocket handkerchief a day."


"Eat a piece of beefsteak
half as large as your hand; one
baked potato, and one slice Of
bread for your breakfast; d
piece of roast beef as large al
your hand, with one boiled pd;
tato and one slice of beef, tor
dinner; take nothing for sup
per- and 60 to bed at $50 o.
clock. Sleep, If possible, half
an hour before dinner. Drink
nothing with your meals, nor
within two hours .afterward:
Drink as much cold water on
rising in the morning and on
lying down at night as you can
! conveniently swallow, and you
may add draughts of cold water;
If you wish, before eating yotir
, meals. Live four to SIX hours
in the open or, riding in the
; saddle and walking. Baths
frequently, and every night oil
going TO bed rub the skin hard


With HAIR gloves In less than
, a week one handkerchief wilt
/ do you. And you haven't


touched your nose in the ws5
Of treatment" g q
Year: 1874

The Lives Insured by the Society are carefully
selected in different parts of North America and
Europe, furnishing, by this broad field of opera.
tions an additional and exceptional safety to the
Policy holders. The assurances are made only on
the Mutual Principle. The Surplus Premiums are
returned annually to the Insured.
Year: 1874

1t may not have dawned upon the Presi-
dents mind, but it is probably apparent to
most of his political advisers, that it rests in
great part with the Administration to deter
mine whether the Republican party shall
finally go to pieces during the next two years.
or shall recover from this disaster and begin
a new career of usefulness. If national af-
fairs are to be conducted with the same scan
dalous dishonesty and seiishness which have
characterized their management heretofore,
nothing but stupendous blundering by the
Democracy can save the Republican party
from irretrievable ruin. If the President how
ever, could be induced to set about genuine
reform, and to keep it up for year, the hon.
est mass of the people, who have not forgot
ten his military services and have not yet en-
trely lost faith in his substantial rectitude,
would hasten to support him, and those who
reluctantly went over to the opposition last
Tuesday would gladly return to their old
political faith.


The President has his opportunity just now.
Louisiana has apparently, we may even say
certainly, been carried by the Conservatives,
and q plan is maturing to count out the sue
cessful candidates by process similar to that
employed in 1872 The leaders in this con-
spracy are Gov. Kellogg, Marshal Packard
and one Herwig, who is the right-hand man
and General Order warehouse keeper OF Col
lector Casey. In the execution Of their design
they depend upon the countenance of the Ad-
ministration and probably upon the active in
teryention of the Federal troops. One word
from Gen. Grant would stop the whole
thing. One word to Packard and Casey, hint
ing that the President could not afford to
carry Kellogg any longer, and had no desire
to interfere with the domestic concerns of the
people of Louisiana, would settle the most
serious of the Southern difficulties at once.
VIII Gen. Grant speak that word


We are not without some slight hope that he
may be induced to take this course, because it
can no longer be of any use to him to do other
wise. Nothing can prevent terrible over
hauling Of Louisiana matters by the next Con-
gross. The petsons who claim an election 70