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Year: 1878

The currency bill which we want
congress to enact.


9l.-ABsoLuTE MONEY.


Be it enacted by the senate and
house of representatives o. the United
States, that the secretary Of the treas,
ury shall cause to be engraved.
printed, and put into circulation pa.
per currency which shall be the abso.
Lutte money of the country a full and
the only legal tender for all debts
dues. customs, taxes, and demands
of every name and nature.


S2.-NOT PRoMIsORY.


The currency hereby authorized
shall read-"By act Of congress OF
(date) the Secretary of the Treasury
issues this One Dollar which by law
is the full and only legal tender for
all debts. dues, customs. taxes and
demands Of every name and nature
And it will be received at any postal
savings bank in exchange for interest
demand notes.


i3.-GCARDs AGAINST CorNrERFErT-


ING.


That the paper for this money
shall be impressed upon thin cloht
composed Of fine strong threads Of
linen, cotton and silk, with few
bright colored threads passing
through both warp and woof sufsi-
c;ently near each other so that some
of them shall cross each other in each
bill; and that the paper have water
marks. one of which shall occur in
the paper of each bill; and that the
engraving of the bills shall be on
steel. copper and wood in the highest
style known to art, and that it shall
be unlawful for any person not an
thorized by the secretary of the treas
ury. to manufacture or have in his
possession. any similar cloth or pa-
per, or any engraved plate, or part
thereof. representing or in any way
similar to the plates thus authorized.
Or shall alter. mntilate or change anv
letter, figure Or word printed On such
Year: 1878

We give this week the plan Of such
a bill as we desire congress to enact
on the f.iance issue; and to it we
invite the attention Of our Greenback
papers, and especially of members OF
Congress. We do not expect 1t IS
perfect; we only give it as a study;
but no item which it contains has
been been set down without deep
thought. We add a few explanatory
notes, and hope we have made our
ideas clear.


Instead of passing it Congress will
attempt by every subterfuge IN their
power to emasculate it of all its
strength and render it of but little
use to the people. See IT they 90
not!
Year: 1878

Dialogue between Banker and
Greenbacker.


Banker ou Greenbackers believe
inan irredeemable currency, and are
rushing the country to ruin.


Greenhacker.-Ah, that's news;
where did yon get your information


BIN the tact that you demand a
kind of money that has no value in it.


Glow have you learned that it
is necessary for money to have value
in it. in order to be redeemablel You
give your note. and the paper of the
note has no value i'm it, but when it
becomes due you pay it, So the
Greenback is redeemed by the gov.
ernment every time it receives one
from any body. 1t is not necessary
for money to have value in itself.
It's Office is simply to declare value.


B.--But there must be value in the
measure. Sir. like the yardstick for
the cloth. The measure determines
the value of the cloth.


G.-Indeed. do you think a ward.
stick of gold, would make golden
cloth. or a yard stick of wood make
wooden clothi Would not the cloth be
just IS valuable measured with a
thread. as If measured with q rod OF
goldi


B.-You evade the poiat. A piece
Of paper though stamped dollar By
the government is Of no value unlese
there is something hack Of It.
Year: 1878

and now repudiate them and retus. to
take them back for .nore than 80 cents.
Was this honest? Then they coined
subsidiary money and forced it upon
the people when dollar OF it weighs
only 3S5 grains instead of 412 IL.


Was this honest! What act has the
Republi .an party ever done in regard
to our finances which is honest !
What law have they ever passed that
is just and right! Have they not all
been in the interes.. of the bondholders
and against the interest Of the people !!
Take the national Banks: it may be
said that their bills are not money;
and they are not, but they were
printed to circulate as money. Was
this honest! And their bills can never
be at par with gold. The one can
pay a debt the other cannot, and
t lie government may resume
them out of being they can never be
81 good as gold. Was this honest! So
our present greenbacks must be made
afull gal tender-for that must be
dishonest money which the govern
ment forces a u.an to take whom it
owes, and then refuses to take it back
when the man owes the government.
The country has not seen any honest


money for the last sixteen years, nor
is there any p: :obability that it will
under Republican rule. Now Mr..
Window scratch your ticket from
beginning to end scratch it ALL
out. and then vote for the Greenback
and you will cast one honest vote.
Year: 1878

Asa nation we are deeply indebted.
The aggregate is much more than
mGst people can easily comprehend.
The assessed valuation of all the
property both real and personal in the
whole state of Minnesota is less than
cne tenth part of it. 1t would take
more than ten such states as Min
nesota 10 pay it: and if we computed
the interest at 10 per cent, the interest
would eat up one whole state like
Minnesota every year. Minnesota
every year. 1t would eat I'D all the
farms, and houses, and barns. and
Cattle and horses. and agricultural i'm.
plements, and household furniture.
and cities and mills and every thing
else. The Ancient Egyptians wor-
sh!ped Il crocodile: bu. suppose IA
monster crocodile us big rs the half
OF our globe with jaws 80 extended
that they would reach from Iowa to
British America and from Wisconsin
to Dakota; should make Il dinner of
the State, and insist on repeating its
Its dinner every year; whata calamity
1t would be to the world How
many thousands would enlist at once
to Kill the monster Yet in "a Erura.
tive sense that monster lives and ia
making yearly meals of our fair
states! And yet So idolatrous are
the people that they worship the
crocodile; and will fight in maddened
rage every one who proposes to rid
the world of the monster! Is it not
most singular


1t is most singular that people want
to pay interest on a gread bonded
debt. when they can issue greenbacks
and pay off the bonds, and save the
interest.


ANOTHER srNGuLARITY.


This great debt is not going to one
person. 1t is divided up among 4
great many. and is represented by
little bits OF paper which bear in.
terest, and some crazv people propose
to change them into other bits of
paper which do not bear interest.
Now great political party comes in
and tells us that it was constitutional
to issue the interest bearing paper
but it viii be unconstitutional to issue
that which does not. In other words
that the constitution requires the
interest. the constitution upholds the
crocodile. the constitution prevents
his destruction, and enslaves the
people to this terrible idolatry. Is it
not most singular tha. this constitu
tion which the people made. is taking
the social life of the very people who
made it


1t is most singular that Republicans
admit that bond is constitutional.
but say that greenback is not. when
the difference between them is only 4
matter of interest.


Some very singular things exist.
Year: 1878

WON'T some public spirited cili-


Zen, who has money, establish a


cheese factory in Los Angeles


county? 1t is an undoubted fact


that this county can he converted,


almost III year, into one of the


best dairy sections in the United
States Even at the start the fac
tory could be kept employed. 1t
would surprise our people to learn
the extent to which the breed of
our cows has been advanced in the
last three or four years, and the de


gree to which the cultivation of
alfalfa has progressed. There is an
opening here for such factory on
legitimate business principles, and
It's establishment would be a great
stimulus to All interest which of
late years has proved the chief
source Of the wealth of central New
York. OF the Western Reserve of
Ohio aud other prosperous sections.
Year: 1878

A GOOD deal OF attention is being
given by our pomOlogists to the
cultivation of lemons. Of late.
Good lemons are always in demand
at remunerative prices. We have
bsen assured, by gentlemen who
know whereof they speak, that,
profitable as all orange orchard un-
doubtedly il, there is more net
money in growing lemons. Those
planting orchards should have
special regard to quality. Unfor-
tunately very inferior lemons, with
rind so bitter as to make them
comparatively worthless, have been
largely planted in Southern Cali
foruia. This evil is now being REM
edied. The lemon has the advan-
tage over the orange of beginning
to bear when the trees are two years
old. After that age they become
quite remunerative. Another
point in their favor is that they
bear all the year round, the ripe
and the partially formed lemons
being on the tree at the same time
as the bud and blossom.
Year: 1878

"Treating" IL defined by the
Canadian election law as "the Civ
ing or providing, or paying wholly
or in part any expenses incurred
for any meat, drink, refreshment,
or provision to or for any person,
in order to be elected or for being
elected. or for the purpose Of
corruptly influencing such per.
son, or any other person to
give or refrain from giving
his vote at such election
and Is made punishable by a fine
OF two hundred dollars. A similar
penalty attaches to bribery. which
includes the promise of an office,
whether tue office is intended to
be kept or not. Furnishing We.
hicles TO bring voters to the polls
is likewise made illegal.
Year: 1878

For q week or so We have heard
nothing of the progress of the
movement to organize u Demo-
cratic Club in this city. We trust
that the proper energy will be
shown in this matter. We should
also have branch clubs all through
the county. There is no royal
road to political success. 1t lies
largely in attention to details.
Discipline and organization are
the only means by which strength
can be shown at the polls. For the
last two elections-those for dele
gates to the Constitutional Conven-
ton and for a member of the
Board of Supervisors-we suffered
everything to 60 by default in the
city. In the Supervisorial election
the country Democracy came up
In fine style, and Mr.. Harmon was
elected, though he had an oppo-
nent in the Democratic ranks. In
the city not one-third Of the total
vote was polled, and certainly moi
q fifth of the Democratic vote,
This will never do. No effort


should be relaxed unit! Demo


cratic Club is organized in the city


numbering at least three hundred
members. The next business


should be TO secure hall and have


at least mouthly meetings, whicl


should be addressed by leading
Democrats. OF one thing we arr


assured, every good Democra


should take pride in seeing tina


his party holds its own. To trai


our banner just as We are about t


attain the goal after struggle o
nearly twenty years wonld be


most lame and impotent conclus


ion of splendid record. Let Dem


ocrats be up and doing!
Year: 1878

NEW STORE. The Mist took on board
Yesterday load of dry-soods and grocer
les for Mr.. j, A, Rex, of Scqnim Prairie,
who is starting a new store at Port An
gecS. We congratulate the people of that
section on this starter for an Improvement
in their town, and at the same time de-
sire to express hope that Mr.. Rex may
be successful in his venture.
Year: 1878

OUR only explanation for issuing at
this time Is in calling attention to the tact
that shipping. teiegraphic and local news
which should have been published this
week, was unavoidably crowded out OF the
regular issue.
Year: 1878

THE TERMS OF SETTLEMENT between Mica
ragua and the German government i'm regard
to the attack upon German Consul EisenStTck.
in Nicaragua, in 1876 include note Of regret
for that affair, the salute of the German flag
$4,000 indemnity to be paid to the German con
sui, the retrial and punishment of the parties
guilty OF the attack, and an additional fndem-
Year: 1878

WORK has been suspended at all the glass
factories of Baltimore, throwing out of employ
ment over three hundred skilled labOrers This
action was taken on account of the extreme
dulineSS OF the times and the limited demand
for glass. There are four factories in Baiti-
more, all in the southern section of the city
and the Anne Arundel county side OF the Pa
taDScO,-TRGLt Gazette.
Year: 1878




The House committee on the District of CO.
lumbia held a meeting today and compared
notes as to the causes which led to the defeat of
the Dill to provide form of government in
tne DlStr1ct OF Columbia. 1t was the unani-
nous opinion OF the members that the proper
sloners and the members of the council was
the MAN cause Of its defeat, although there
WEI We're @ votes cast against it because of the so
annually by the United States for its share of
the expenses of the District.


ne committee at this mornings meeting
which prescribes property qualifications, and
also the section with reference to the impOSi-
tl9n OF poll tax.


Representative Blackburn is somewhat in
dlgnant over the defeat of the bill. He says
tnat various officials to be legislated out of
pace by the bill have been sitting up at nights
10 lay plans to defeat it; that all the boards
that we've to be swept out of existence opposed
n solely on that personal ground. He thinks
that II there had not been roll-call vote that
the Dill would have passed, but that when
VINO mad a close district voted against the bill
though fear that an Affirmative vote might
nave leopardized his re- e-electiOn in view of the
GoItt oGlnm ht under which the District unhappily


The committee directed Gov. Hendee to ask
permission of the House to again report the
winch has been set aside for the consideration
OF District business. 1t will, however, require
unanimous consent to bring the bill in at Fri
DAY nights session, because when the session
was ordered Gov. Hendee said he would not
call up the bill. He then, however, antici-
pated that the bill would pass before that time.
In view OF his disappointment in that antici-
patton, he will report it on Friday night if the
House consents to it.


That COnkIinG Interview.


Senator" said representative of THE
STAR to Mr.. COnkling this morning, 'yOu
have seen the reported interview with you.
as published in the New York World from its
correspondent at Utica; is it all Straight?''


NO, have not seen it, and cannot give an
answer till do responded the Senator from
New York; But have this moment re
me that columns OF a reported conversation
with me have appeared in the World and
that is the first information on the subject that
has reached me. Before having seen the arti-
it; but l can very frankly say that from the
tenor and spirit of the interview, as briefly
outlined by some of my friends, it is impoSSi
pie Tor me to remember when | have commit
ted myself to any such utterances. If / have
been correctly informed, the article purports
and afterward written out to some
party in Utica. Now, have not been at home
1or many months, except on a briefviSit on the
conversation then on political questions, and
| nave not expressed myself politically to any
friends in eXtenSO for a long time. You are
therefore at liberty to state that l cannot re-
call any circumstances within the past few
months to warrant any such interview as |
learn has been attributed to me, and feel per
1ectly sure that if there should turn out to be
some plauSlbility in portions of it, some one
TO me unknown Just now, has been guilty of
petraylng private conversation
Year: 1878

CANDIDATES FOR NAVAL PROMOTION.-Sen-
atOr Sargent yesterday introduced a resolu-
ton calling for information as to the physical
condition of Captains Nicholson and JefferS of
the navy, applicants for promotion to the rank
of commodore. He seems to have an idea that
the adverse report of two boards should be
sustained by the Naval Committee
Year: 1878

THE PROPOSED NEW BUILDING FOR THE b.
REAU OF ENGRAVING AND DPRINTING.-Senator
Morrill,, from the committee on public build
ings and grounds, reported to the Senate yes
ha eneeten Of
the Bureau of Engraving and Printing and all
other mechanical purposes of all other DEPART
% Bane and Is to
posed the bill because it was not definite
enough as to where the building should be
located: The former wanted even the remote
possibility that 1t could ever stand on the pub
lie grounds between the Treasury and the
river removed, because there was the making
OF an elegant park there which would be dis.
nsured by such building. Senator Morrill,
tanned for $500. and it was the intention to
have 1t stand there. The bill was reeommtted.


WM. H. HUNT, OF New Orleans, in reply to a
telegram from the President, says he will con.
sent to be nominee for the collectorShip of
that city. The Louisiana Senator's will not
sustain him for that position, but will offer no
objection to his nomination as Judge of the
court OF claims in place of Judge Peck. The
New Orleans custom house is now in charge
OF special agent.


A DELEGATION OF CIGAR MANUFACTURERS
from Baltimore and New York, had an inter-
view with the commissioners of internal reve-
nue. this morning, about the coupon stamps
iOI eisars wnieh 1t IS stated, the committee of
Dill. The delegation protested against the
use OF this stamp, as tending only to the
Denent OF the inventor and to embarrass the
trade. They nope to have hearing before
the ways and means committee Tomorrow.
and viii recommend change in the law re.
qulr1ng manufacturers to brand their names
on the caution notices on boxes or packages
containing cigars and to leave it optional with
the manufacturers, whether they brand their
names or not. They want a number substitu-
ted for the name. As the law now stands, it
is claimed that it Injuries the jobbing trade.
The internal revenue officials do not object to
the proposed change.
Year: 1878

Now that the harvest is nearly over it is ascertain ed beyond a peradventure that the wheat and barley crop in Salt River Valley is large. The Gila Valley usually produces an enor- nous quantity of that grain but this year very little has been raised there, ow- ing to the lack of water for irrigation. The late abundant rains will insure fodder in the Northern part of the Territory but 1t has come to lcte for the corn, so that crop will be nearly a failure this year. This state of affairs in the surrounding country will give the farmers of Salt River Valley a market for all their grain at remuner- ative prices. Barley has advanced a quarter and wheat half a cent since kar- vest began, with an up ward tendency.
Year: 1878

Forth they set at early morn, Happy in their hope, Adown the path and through the corn And by grassy slope; Then OCT a stretch of clean sca-sand. And reached aislippcry pier; And the brother raised his hand, And said, "We'll cast lines here" And. oh, the tremor of her heart AS tackle straight he set, She deemed her brother had more art Than any angler yet. And at each bite she felt glow Of pride, that made her speak In louder tones; there came a flow Of blood to either cheek. At last catch the silvcry sides Came twinkling OCT the pier She shrieked with joy; but soon the

 [tides Of joy were changed to fear. As full she looked upon the thing That writhed before her eyes, The heart felt for ifs suffering, She burst in tears and sighs! And all her day was clounded dim With thoughts she could not speak The voice was low: she stood by him But pale was now her cheek. Her first glimpse of the ill and pain That haunts the world. that day. Disturbed her heart, and nc'rc again Will she so gladly play. An, little maid, that mystery

 O'crshadowed all our work, And unto many, as 10 thee.

 Has turned the bright to dark.
Year: 1878

GOVERNMENT HAY PRESSING IN: AND.-The English govern ment does not appear to be satisfied with the density obtained by ordi- nary hay presses. We read that the plant of hay pressing machinery which has been in course of erection for some time past in Royal Dock yard at Woolwich, was officially tested on the goth ult., and it was found that, with the aid of this ma chinery, which is worked by hy- draulic power, three ordinary trus- ses of hay can readily be compress ed into somewhat smaller bulk than that of one single truss in the space of three-quarters of a minute. The pressure applied amounted to, no less than two tons on the square. inch, and so powerful is the plant that as many as six trusses can be- pressed into the compass of one, and the machinery is capable of turning out 300 tons of compressed hay per week, or double that amomnt if working day and night.
Year: 1878

Los Angeles RepWblioaH: As an indication of the mineral wealth of Arizona, we were yesterday inform ed that the ore from the Clifton cop per mines is so rich that it is hauled by teams six hundred miles to the Denver and Rio Grande narrow gauge railroad, and then sent all the way to Baltimore, Md, for reduction, There ought to he enterprise suffi- cient to bring this ore to California for reduction and for manufacture into the variOus articles of necessity for which this valuable metal is used,
Year: 1878

THE true source of city, county and State prosperity lies, not so much in the amount of population, as in the number of bona fide prop erty-holders. It makes vast diff erence with a man who lives in q house or on a piece of land, whether or not it belongs to him. if he is simply a renter, he feels little or no interest in the property aside from the present benefit he can derive from its occupancy. There is little stimulus urging him to improve the property. and thus to increase its value. Personal own- ership is essential to this, as it is also necessary to the promotion of local, as well as a State and county pride and patriotism. A man will always feel deeper interest in his home, and also that county and State in which his home is located. The general interest is his interest, while his individual welfare is bound upon in that of his State. Feeling and knowing this, he is ever ready and willing to put forth all reasonable efforts to promote the welfare of the Territory, whether in the direction of agriculture, com merce, taxes. or in maintaining the integrity and honor of his native land and against intestine or foreign fOeS
Year: 1878

This gentleman is now in com- mand of the Department of Arizona he having relieved General A. V. Kauz several days ago. He is what we call West Pointer having graduated therefrom in 1S47. He was assigned to duty, and re. mained ill the regular army until 1858, when he resigned and returned to the walks of civil life, and entered upon the prar tice of law. At the beginning of the civil War he entered the Union army at the head of the First Michigan Regiment of volun- teers. In 1862 he was taken pris- oner. and with others confined ill Libby Prison. and after his release until the close of the war command ed the First Division of the Ninth Army Corps. General Willcsx comes to us well recommended, both as a soldier and a gentleman. IE appearance he is about five feet ten inches high. and weighs about one hundred and sixty pounds. He is about ffty-fve years of age, and is quick in both his mental ana physi- cal activities. and no doubt is a man of great courage, and would prove himself a successful Indian fighter if occasion should call him and his command into the field. We sin cerely hope that under his admins tration of military matters ill our Territory that there will not be a rep etitiOn of the unhappy and unfOrtu- nate conflict of opinion as to how the Indians should be controlled and punished that has formerly ex- isted between the heads of the civil and military authorities of the Ter ritory. We see no reason whatever why there should not be perfect ac- cord between the civil and military authorities of the Territory in the matter of protecting life and pro perty from troublesome Indians, and the general public will demand that personal or private opinion shall give way to public peace and necessity.
Year: 1878

ONLY a few weeks ago we ad- vised the Board of Supervisors to take measures to prevent the spread of the smallpox; the only new case we have to report is that of E. T. Hargrave, one of the two Supervis- ors that was present at the meeting following the appearance of that article. When he recsvers he will no doubt favor the taking of precau- tionary steps.