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Year: 1878

WASHINGTON, March 19.-The Ways
and Means Committee and the Banking
and Currency Committee each got in its
postal savings bill to-day, but the former
has rather the better of the situation, for
its bill is made the special order for next
Thursday, after the morning hour, SO as
not to ineerfere with the appropria-
tion bills or the pending special orders in
Committee of the Whole. The latter's
bill was recommitted to the committee
for further examination, but will be kept
in readiness to be offered as a substitute
for the Ways and Means bill. These
measures will be held in conflict, but the
Wsys and Means bill being shorter,
much simpler and more effective, will
doubtless stand the test, and after the
Banking and Currency Committees bill
is gotten out of the way, the Wallace
long bond bill will probably be proposed
as substitute for the first named.


Senator Wallace is of the opinion that
there is no good reason why the two
measures should be brought into direct
sntagonism. He thinks each ought TO
stand on its own merits. 1t is believed,
however, that IS the Ways and Means
bill, which Is intended to promote the
retunding of the National debt and the
loan of savings to the United States, has
the approval of the Secretary of the
Treasury, and is the only thing in the
nature of postal savings scheme that
will go through this Congress, it will
command the stronger support and be-
come q law.
Year: 1878

crime. They have prepared q rope
have made loop in it, ready to string g
up to some friendly tree the two sup
posed culprits. 1t is with the utmost
difficulty that they can be res trained to
await the action of the Coroner's jury
now making the investigation.


John Wallace is said to have killed q
man in Ohio some time ago; and George
has been living here under an assumed
name, in consequence of having commit.
ted crime in other parts.


You may expect to hear any minute OF
the lynching of the two brothers. Their
breathless bodies will probably be dang
ling in the air before you ge. this in
type. j.
Year: 1878

Excitement over the Triple Muir
der In,ense and ON the Increase
Threats OF Lynchinx-A Rope Pre-
pared aud a Loop Ready.


Special Dispatch TO the Register.


LrrrLEroS, March 20, Midnight


The news from the scene of the triple
murder, four miles from this station, is OF
the most exciting character. The sturdy
snd honest yeomsnry for miles around
are still pouring in, and the excitement
is growing more intense every hour a
large number OF citizens hsye banded
together to avenge this cowardly
Year: 1878

Frank W. Miller, New Hampshire
editor. in his very able and sensible adj
dress at the recent assembly of the New
Hampshire State Board Of Agriculture
says:


Farmers do not hang together as
they should; they are too jealous of one
another's success. If one is getting a
good thing in selling milk or in raising
any particular crop. they are too apt to
-t-tve to spoil the business by cutting


:, or by getting ava; customers
-.sho ever heard of lawyer sneaking
arou. 1 TO get case away rom broth
er of tue craft? And who ever knew a
rumseller 10 cut down prices to secure
trade? No. the lawyers and the rum
sellers hang together the best Of any
class now, and sometimes 1 am tempt
ed to wish more of them could harg to-
gether.


Farmers are too much inclined to de =
preciate themselves. If lhey get little
money ahead and think to start bank,
they will pay clerk for taking care o
the books ten times as much as either
one of them would dare ask for doing
the same number of hours work for the
clerk. When commenced business as
printer, l had been told that lawyers
and physicians must charge big fees for
their services. because it had cost them
so much to acquire their education. I
made up my mind that those men who
charged me big fees would have big
fees charged them in return. 1t has cost
me as much tn be printer as it would
have cost to become lawyer. Farmers
need as good an education as lawyer,
and better of the two. and they should
value such an education. and realize
the dignity which belongs with it,"
Year: 1878

A man on Main street. yesterday, in
formed lady, in delicate manper as
possible. that she was losing her red
flax mel skirt, and pointed to crimson
cloth around her neck. As soon as she
recovered from annihilaiio" he explains
ed that he thought they shrank from
the bottom up like an undershirt. Jhe
woman had sore throat, but she could
speak her mind all the same.-Kaokuh
Consultation.
Year: 1878

The writer of the following is
as familiarity acquainted with
the facts whereof he writes as
any man in Washington. We
omit large portion Of his let
ter which relates to matters
treated of by telegraph and
gone out of date:
Year: 1878

The House adopted the amend meat increasing the army to 25,00O by a vote of115 to 106, the Repub- heansvoting solidIyin the affirmative. This unanimity IS accounted for by the fact shat the army stood by Re pubIicauism in the last election, and at is bidIing took the cotton and sugar states by the throat. This bill

 transfers the management of Indian agencies to the army because citizens are not honest. l. would seem that congressman have q just sense of their dispostoa to steal an measure ey- eyy osher mans morals, who enjoys the e.eeaye franchise by their own half bushel. The bill may stick In the senate because of some one or more objectionable features and con seaaenslg may be 50 amended as to male 1t objectionable to the House.
Year: 1878

There are many who still remember
with pleasure, the sociabls given by the
Harkins Senate during last season, and
still refer 10 it as one Of the mort pleasur-
able affairs of the Ball Season, AID we
know that the mere announcement of the
fact, that the young Senators are arranging
another of their popular sociables, is guar
anteeing an evening of rare pleasure to all
who may attend.


NJ The evening of the goth Of January
has been set apart by these young gentle
men, as the ones, upon which they propose
to meet their many friends, and while
away the hours in tripping the light fan
tastic. No pains are being spared to make
the occasion pleasant one, and the young
men composing the Hartford Senate, are


even now strenuously preparing for this
event, and we may safely venture the as.
sertion that those who attend this Ball on
the 29th Of sfJanuary will at least spend one
evening untroubled by the cares Of life.
Year: 1878

The Potter Committee held a meeting
to-day, at which it was determined that 8
subcommittee should be sent to Louisiana
- continue the investigation there in case
further grant Of money is made by Con-
gress for the use of the committee. Chair
n,an Potter is to be one of the proposed
subcommittee, and is to select second
Democratic member before next Thursday,
Until which time the committee adjourned,
and when the Republicans will n sme one
If their number to complete the sub COM
mittee. Nothing was said to-day by any
member in regard to cipher kilograms"
The only other business transacted was the
appointment Of Representatives Springer
and Hiscock to open and report on some
formal documents obtained from Florida,
which bear upon questions of the validity
Of the commissions of several Justices Of
the Peace. etc, who certified the correct
ness of certain election returns.
Year: 1878

the correctness of the translations in every
material respect.


That is not the end, though there the case
might rest if only the character OF individuals
WAS concerned. No enemy can possibly wish
to place Mr.. Tilden in worse position than
that in which his own card and his continued


intimacy with Mr.. Pelton place him. But the
men who do not venture, even in unsworn
statements, 10 dispute the genuineness OF dis
patches published, or the correctness of trans
latons given, and who have been giving to
tins day the best possible proof that they have
no ground of complaint in the matter, will
next be required to state, under oath, what
they know about it, If they then deny, either
the genulneness of any important dispatch, or
the correctness of the translation given. 1t Will
quickly be made to appear whether they are
or are not guilty of perjury. In the mean
while, it is not at all surprising that, know
ing what they know, they commence no suits
for their vindication.
Year: 1878

:


We do not like to say II, but really 1t does
seem 10 us that the fuss which women making
over the failure tine WOmeu's Hotel in NeW-GOrk II
neither wise nor digned. There In the proceedings
OF the Cooper Institute meeting element OF spieiul
ness that uc disagrecable The speeches ana re7o-
lntioos are pitched fTetful, gcOding key, and viii
therefore have little weight with the public As for the
pledges which some OF the women are making
not 10 trade at Stewards, they are undlgniaed
ana sillv and whatever uaue they have Will inure
to Judge Hilton and mis- partners as so much
gratuitOus advertising. One such letter as Miss
Anna q Bracketts In THE TRIBUNE is worth a hundred
times as much as all this manifestation Of passionate
resentment the part OF few whose title 70
sneak their better than that OF the aiOfs OF
TOOey-s TO speak IN the OF the people OF Eng
land The worst Of 10 Is that many sensible people
really bnk and insist that the Cooper Institute meet
ing Is an illustration OF the folly which would ensue
from giving women the ballot
Year: 1878

WASHINGTON, June 10.-The Consul at Can
ton reports to the Department Of State on the terrible
tornado that passed that city the 11th OF April
last causing great destruction OF life and property The
whirlwlnd from the sea in the form OF water.
spout and struck the shore the foreign settlement OF
Shameen, passing thence in a northeaserlY direction
through the crowded part OF the city OF Canton. The
average breadth OF the track marked by the tornado ~
600 feet I'm the native city 1t Is estimated that 10000
persons were killed.
Year: 1878

place. where be took dinner He then took the mail
train for NewYork. The person with whom be stayed
In this city received letter from Tim tonight saying
that by the time the letter was delivered he Geisticn
would be dead
Year: 1878

A Mr.. Staples Of n. Y. writes to
the Adrooate that he is surprised to
find no plank in the platform abolish
the electoral college. The following
is the EDITORS reply:


The electoral college is not respon-
Sible for the hard times.
1t did not drive labor to tramp and
beg.


1t did not produce the financial
wrecks that are strewn along the
channels of trade.


1t did not beggar and impoverish
the people.


Its abolishment would not restore
prosperity, feed the hungry, clolhe
the naked, or turn humanity from the
down grade of moral degradation it is
now travelling.


1t would do nothing to relieve the
present sufferings Of the people.


Why. then, load down our platform
with side issues that can be settled
after we get into power!
Win the victory first, and then re-
gnlate those things afterwards.


How much would be made by bolt
ing the party on account of this OmiS-
sion. when no other party has adopt
ed it!


All our platforms have too much
plank, and that wide old man, Peter
Cooper, is out in letter to all Green.
back votes throughout the country to
drop all other, all side issues, and
concentrate their whole energies to q
few points-to pay up and destroy all
government bonds, to wipe out the
National Banks. and make the nation
al Greenback currency the only abso
lutte and full legal tender currency OF
the country. Then we will discuss sec
| Onu any meaSures
Year: 1878

Ii gold existed in the earth as
plentiful as iron, and could be as
easily obtained, it would be of no
more value. Nay, it would not be as
useful. The scarcity of the one,
and the universal predominance of
the other, show the relative impor.
ed to the two metals Iron exists in
the sun, but not gold. Iron exists in
man, but not gold. Iron was dis
covered and used in the first ages of
the world. Tubul Cain. the grand
son of Adam was a worker in iron.
The ancient Greeks used it as their
money. and it had this advantage over
gold: it was so cumbersome that none
could be very rich; and as a conse-
quence none mere extremely poor. 1t
resulted in munich greater equality
between people as to this worlds
love of avarice. With less avarice
there would be less swindles and
wrongs among men. and there would
be more friendship and sympathy.
Why not make us iron money! This
is certainly an iron age. and the iron
ruls of doing to others as others do to
you. is the best one which people re-
gard as practicable. Iron money
would have a pretty solid basis, as
every one admits who has seen the
Iron Mountains of Missouri; and
nobody would think of stealing the
basis and running away with it. But
Oh what an enormous howl would
come up from the bondholders and
bankers was such proposition
seriously entertained 1t would
eclipse in eternal oblivion all that
they now utter in derision of the
"Rag-b baby"
Year: 1878

One of the most plausible objections
of the hard-money apapers to an Issue
of national Greenlrsck currency suffi-
cient TO pay off the whole of oar
bonded debt is. that such an issue, by
flooding the country with them. would
depreciate their value, till they be.
came comparatively worthless. Now
we request any one who may enter
tain this idea to work out two prob
lens, and give us the result. Our
interests are identical in this matter.


We are in search Of light.


l. With a government Greenback
made by law a full ard perfect legal
tender. so that it will pay every gov
ernment duty, custom or tax as we'll
as a gold dollar, 80 that it will pur-
chase as much of everything, and pay
as much everywhere as gold dollar.
how can it possibly fall below that
gold dollar in par value ! Take an
illustration: No amount of postage
stamps printed and distributed
throughout the country would depre-
ciate their price and hostage paying
value one mill. Make Greenbacks a
full legal tender, and receivable for
all taxes, debts and dues, public and
private, and like postage stamps they
would never be worth less than their
face.


2. We have one more problem to


work out. We want but one money
for all people and that absolutely the
best. That can't be gold, for there is
not enough of it. 1t cannot be silver
for the same reason. But it can and
should be the Greenback. But we
cannot make this absolute and divide
its reign with the metals. Hence we
propose to demonetize both gold and
silver, and make the Greenback the
ONLY legal tender Of the country.
Now, solve this additional problem.
II the Greenback will pay any debt
that gold can pay. buy anything and
as much as a gold dollar can. but if on
the contrary gold or silver dollar
must be exchanged for Greenback
before it can pay legal debt, before
it is receivabI. for customs or taxes.
how is it possible for the gold dollar
to be at par with the Gr@enback! Ii
cAnnut ray as much debt. for the
hr-ss- v'-. rt-~- yc- sx-.a-ge ]. 1oz
Year: 1878

Gen. Garfield of Ohio says he is
willing to continue as many green
backs in circulation as can be main.
tanned at par with coin. The Erening
Post calls this heresy. Hear the
follow:


This is a dangerous heresy. It
provides in effect that every paper
dollar redeem ed or paid in gold shall
be put into circulation again, not for
the present merely, but for all time. .
What calamity would befal the
country were greenbacks to be re-
tanned as our permanent paper cur
rency for all time


The Post says: 1.-The way to crush
out the greenback heresy is not to
compromise with it, but to oppose it
at every STEP That is the way to
put 1t. No compromise with green
backs. Oppose them, fight them
block their way. and you will "crush
them out with a vengence."
Year: 1878

in business upon cash basis! Busl-
ness done with ready pay grows but
never initiates. Imitation is the product
of credit and of credit alone. There
fore the true infationists are the
upholders of the banks, and Of that
system which makes credit necessi-
ty.


In the Greenback system no person
would get any of them but those to
whom they were due; and if these
persons could not advantageously use
them in the transactions Of business.
they would deposite them in Postal
Savings Banks.


If you say that the presence of
Greenbacks might initiate business;
we reply SO much the better. The
more business is inflated the better
for the people, provided that every
one pays as he goes. 1t is not Green
back pay, it is the credit system which
is the bane of the business world.
And the less money there is, and the
harder the times are, the more will
credit initiate. When Greenbacks
were plenty. there was no imitation.
or very little at least. But when
they were contracted. and disappeared
from the field of usefulness, then
credit was obliged to supply their
place, and credit being imitation
multiplied bankruptcies all over our
land.


Is this not so! When do people fail
in business money is plenty,
or when money is scarce! When we
ascribe the ten thousand failures
which have occurred within a few
past years to the retirement of green
backs from circulation, we place it
where it belongs to the expansion, of
of bank credit. We close in the
language of an exchange:


The two old parties are the advo-
Gates of imitation. and the Nationals,
are the enemies of imitation.


We challenge any and all of the
loudest howlers of imitation from the
ranks of either of the old parties to
prove that they are not the imitation
lists of the period.
Year: 1878

The secretary Of the treasury di.
reefs that on and after the 10Th
instant, the treasury in Washington
and the several sub-treasuries will eX-
change standard silver dollars for
United States notes. Does the secre
tary think that all the people in the
country are foolsl Does he not know
that the notes are lighter, can be
placed in n smaller compass, and more
easily carried about than the silver.
and that every common sense man
would take them in preference unless
he is compelled to take the silver
But there are two other important
objections TO forcing the silver dollar
upon the people as money. The first
is, the paper is inexpensive and costs
us nothing; while the silver costs us
the interests on the bonds which were
given to purchase it. The second is,
by using paper instead of silver,
leaves the silver TO perform its mis-.
sion in other ways. thus virtually
doubling the working capital of the
country. This is consideration
more important than most people
think,
Year: 1878

a Greenback will want something for
his trouble. The grocer will not be
willing to give as much for it. for the
same reason-the trouble and cost OF
exchange. The collector when offered
the gold would shove it from him,
and nobody but poor printer would
be likely to take it at par.


Such is the reign we ask for the
Greenback. No divided throne-we
do not intend she shall have any part
ners-the topmost seat we ask for her.
Having for the base of her empire
the granite hills Of our country, and
the affections of our people, let the
silver and gold glis.en at her feet,
while ''Heaven's eternal sunshine
mantleS o. Ell her head"


Now tell us how it can ever be pos
sible she can depreciate, OF lose that
sceptre of value which the strong
arm of government places in her
hands!


The above is especially commended
to the careful consideration of Hon.
r. X. Burrows, of Pine City. When
he has solved the problems we should
be pleased to hear from him. His
queStiOn-How is coin to be obtained
by the Treasury!-is answered by
saying, the same way that coin can
always be obtained by every One-by
purchase. But when all government
bonds are paid and destroyed, the
Treasury will need no coin. 1t can
then all 60 into the channels of use.
Year: 1878

ment Of the Greenback cause. They
think this a favored time to en-
courage women to take part in the
primary meetings as we'll as to make
herself eligible for the important
offices held by man. 1t is also an i'm
portant object to furnish women
speakers to enter the campaign for
the deliverance Of the country An
this hour Of peril. One lecturers
name is already nrolled-Miss G. A.
Blodgett Of New York City, and is
said to be an able and efficient lee
turer in the Greenback cause.
Year: 1878

Our people are in debt twelve bill-
ions of dollars for government, indl-
vidual. and corporate obligations.
These debts represent an annual in
terest charge of eight or nine hum
dred millions year, Our govern
ment taxes, national municipal. and
State, are about seven hundred and
fifty millions annually. Excluding
the taxes for the interest on bonds,
the two sums together represent an
animal charge of nearly fifteen hun
dred millions year. This sum is
about twice the amount of the annual
increase of wealth in the United
States, after deducting expenses ; and
Ii equivalent to an interest of six per
on Il sum greater than the present
selling value Of all the property. real
and personal. in the United States.
Yet there are people who are afraid
we shall have some greenbacks with
which to pay debts and buy what we
want. Now we want all beople who
oppose what they call the imitation of
greenbacks, to show if they can how


our debts can ever be paid without.
Year: 1878

The National Bankers Association
have receetly had Il meeting to devise
means whereby they can secnre more
legislation in favor Of banks. They
do not make quite money enough yet
to suit them. But if unemployed
laborers meet together and pass
resolutions to petition congress for
legislation in their behalf, all the
bankers will denounce them as Com
npuUiSfS,
Year: 1878

Post Office box Fl. Office No. l5 East Third
Street, W here he will b. glad to make the ac-
Quaintance OF any Greenbackers W no may be
in the city at any time, and have little spar
time.
Year: 1878

The Democratic plotters at Washington
are beginning to feel alarmed over the threat
ened collapse of their scheme. The unquali-
fled charge of forgery which Secretary Sher-
man makes leads them to believe that the
evidence upon which they have relied may be
wholly untrustworthy. They have not at
any time had anything in the nature of proof
against the President. But they have be-
lieved that the alleged Sherman letter was
genuine, and have thought that if they could
fix its authorship upon the Secretary, the
next friend of Mr.. Hayes, it would be easy
to throw suspicion upon the President. That
they were parties to the forgery is not prob
others, readiness proceeding from the con-
viction of their own weakness under tempta-
tion, they did not doubt for moment the
genuineness of the letter. They knew that
under the given circumstances they would
have pursued the course indicated by the
alleged correspondence, and they judged the
Secretary to be like themselves. His def
ance, and the dete rmination he expresses ol
convicting his de,famers Of perjury, have
opened theft eyes and demonstrated to them
the weak foundation upon which their
charges of fraud rest. 1t ought to be said
that not. all the Democrats were so mlsled'
One of the most prominent Democratic mem
bers Of the House is represented as ridiculips
the idea that the copy which was being
shown as letter of Sherman's was genuine
on the ground that the Secretary would no
be fool enough to write such a letter.


The trainers of the Potter resolution ar
quite as unhappy in the rest OF their evl
Year: 1878

1t must not be forgotten, too, though 1t per-
haps cannot be put down among the direct
causes of socialism, that "the achievements of
science" in increasing our powers of material
production, coupled with the incessant boasting
of scientific men and philanthropists about
what science may yet accomplish in the future,
have filled the working-class mind with fantas-
tic dreams as to the possibility of machinery
displacng manual labor and enabling the race
to multiply ad hbitum without Inconvenience.
Consequently when population follows close
on the increase of production as it has done, on
the whole, even during the past fifty years.
and the poor still continue poor and anxious,
they begin to suspect some trick or fraud on the
part Of the capitalists. They are undoubtedly