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Year: 1874




COMMITTEE-A PROVISION INSERTED PROVIDING


FoR A FUTURE RESUMPTION OF SPECIE PAY


HENTs.


IBY 1EIKGRAPH TO THE TRDUsEl


WASHINGTON Jan. 27.-The Banking and Currency
Committee at their session this morning, perfected
their Free Banking bill, making some important
changes in the rough draft adopted yesterday. The
prohibition upon the payment of interest Oh de-
posts was stricken out and, on motion OF MI
Phelps provision added looking TO future
resumption of specie payments. This provision re-
eures the Secretary Of the Treasury to retire and
destroy two millions of greenbacks on the first day
of every month and issue In their place like
amount of new notes containing on their faces a
promise that they shall be redeemed Ill gold at the
expiration os two years from the date OF their issue
The Secretary is also required to retain in the Treas
sry oh gold not required to meet the coin liabili
fies Of the Government. Mr.. Phelps was not willing
20 support bill that might involve an increase in
che volume of1he circulating medium unless Al was
accompanied by some provision that would open the
way to resumption The adoption of his amend
ment secures much greater degree of unanimity in
the Committee upon the bill than would have been
possible without it.


The fate of the bill in the House will depend upon
the action of the Western and Southern nfation-
hts. III they abandon thelT PROJECT 1Or securing
issue of rrcdeemable legal tenders, and consent
10 submit their theory that the country needs more
currency to a practical test the bill will pass 1t is
not believed that there would be much imitation
under it. The S54, 100000 of additional bank cur
Teney authorized by the act of July, $780, not
oil applied for until after three years had passed.
Its absorption about kept pace with the increase Of
the country in wealth and population 30 that there
is probably no more bank circulation now, per
capita, or per $1,000 of capital than there was in
1870 This experiment appears to have demonstrated
that there is no danger Of serious imitation to be ap-
pretended from the enactment of free banking
law. Another amendment to the bill agreed upon is
aprovision requiring banks without circulation to
deposit in the Treasury $1,000 in bonds. instead OF
one-tird Of the amount OF their capital as now re-
quiTed
Year: 1874

act required to he published Of due
compliance with the preceding sec
tion.


SEC. 3. That when such local or
special bill shall affect any matter or
things situated in any city or borough,
said publication shall be in two Of
the newspapers published in said city
or borough, if so many there be, and
if there be but one a publication in
that one shall be deemed sufficient; if
there be no newspaper published in
said city or borough, then by publi-
cation in the newspaper CT newspa
pers of the county in which said city
or borough is located, as provided in
the first section Of this act.
Year: 1874

Mas. BELKSAP. the wife of the
Secretary Of War. Is pre-eminently
the belle Of the Cabinet and her
sway undisputed. No matter how
richly she dresses. simplicity is al
ways her conspicuous feature. She
Is never overloaded with trappings
or ornaments. Her fine form always
looks well in the long, sweeping
train without any Eunchings st the
back. The corsage reveals tie out
lines of bust and waist. with only
son, rich white lace to relieve the
plainnesS. Sue +has a finely shaped
head and Ler hair i IS dark as the
ravens wing; She wears it close to
her head and as smooth and glossy
as was once considered essential for
beauty before blonde wigs and hair
a Ia harum-Scarum came in fashion.
All this says q correspondent.
Year: 1874

SOMETHING WORTH KNowING.-Every
little while, writes a correspondent, we
read in the papers of some one who has
stuck rusty nail into his foot, or knee,
or hand, or some other portion of his
person, and that lockjaw has resulted
therefrom, of which the patient died. If
every person in the world was aware Of
a perfect remedy for all such wounds,
and would apply it, then all such reports
must cease. But although we can give
the remedy, we cannot enforce the appli-
cation Some will not employ it because
they think it too simple; others have no
faith in it when they read it; while 9TH
ers often think such wound Of small
account and not worth fussing over, un-
til it is too late to do any good. Yet
all such wounds can be healed without
such fatal consequences as follow them.
The remedy is simple, almost always on
hand, and can be applied by any one.
and what is better. it is infallible. 1t is
simply to smoke such wound, or any
wound or bruise that is infamed, with
burning wool or woolen cloth. Twenty
minutes in the smoke of wool will take
the pain out of the worst wound, and
repeated once or twice, 1t will allay the
worst case of inflammation arising from
wound we ever saw. People may sneel
at the "old woman's remedy" as much
as they please, but when they are affiict-
ed, just let them try it. 1t has saved
many lives and much pain, and is wor
thy of being printed in letters Of gold
and put up in every home.
Year: 1874

Humility is thessweetest and fairest
flower that groweth in the human mind.


Criticism is not religion, and by no
process can it be substituted for it.


You have not fulfilled every duty un-
less you have fulfilled that Of being
pleasant. eta u @
Let. friendship creep gently to a
height; if it rush to it, it may soon run
itself out of breath


Prudent men lock up their motives !;
letting familiars have a key to their
hearts, as to their gardens.


Have the courage to show your re-
spect for honesty, in whatever guise it
appears, and your contempt for dishon-
esty and iduplicity by whomsoever ex-
hibited. at T5i rae-


If all men were to bring their misfor-
tunes together in one place, most would
be glad to take their own home again,
rather than take a portion out OF the
common stock. EsH9


Morality without religion is only a
kind of dead reckoning, an endeavor to
find our place on cloudy sea by meas
uring the distance we have to run, but
without any observation of the heavenly
bodies. Z a Il


[ would rather dwell in the dim fog
of superstition than in air rarifed to
nothing by the air-pump of unbeiicf, In
which the painting breast expires valnly
and convulsively gasping for breath
Jean Paul aa1 ,


The order which is everywhere dis
cernible in nature-the order of number,
form, color and time-Tyndails phiios-
ophy does not account for, and until
such conditions are accounted for the
doctrine of evolution must needs be weak
and unsatisfactory. W |
Year: 1874

PRAISE THE CHILDREN.-Therel is an
idea that praise is too good thing to be
given to children; that it is too rich for
their mental and moral digestion. Some
parents are so afraid that child will
grow proud that they never praise him.
and this course is often disastrous. It's
apt to produce too much self-assertlon-
for self-assertion is a legitimate out
growth of withholding eommendatlon
from one who is entitled to it, or it will
engender self-distrust or melancholy
hopelessness of disposition. Praise IS
sunshine to child. and there is no child
that does not need it. 1t is the high re-
ward Of. ones struggle to do right.
Thomas Hughes says that you can never
get mans best out of him without
praise. You certainly can never get a
/ child's best out of him without praise.
Many a sensitive child, we believe, dies
of hunger for lack of kind commendation.
Many a child starving for the praise a
parent should give runs off eagerly after
the designing fattery of others. Towith-
hold praise where itsis due is dishonest,
and in the case of child such course
often leaves singing sense of injustice.
Motives of common justice as well as a
regard for the future of the child should
influence the parent to give generous
praise to all who deserve it. OF course
there is difference in the constitution
of children some cannot bear SO much
praise as others. and some need great
deal 1t should never be indiscriminate.
We remember wonderful woman who
taught school in one village until she
had educated a part of three generations
She was one of the most successful OF
Year: 1874

We all know how it Jared with the
bean that, after being planted, was dug
up every morning to see if it had began
to grow, and which, after having made
a brave struggle for life and gotlts head
above ground, was declared out of order,
and ruthlessly pulled up and turned up
side down. Much of our interference
with children is no less impertinent, and
in its results no less mlschievous Ma
ture abhors meddling to reverent coop
GRAFTON she yields her happlest results
but she will not be diverted from her
purpose by your homilies, nor submit
her plans for your revision. Handmaiden
of the great Architect, she never loses
sight Of the original intention. If you
thwart her, it is at your peril, and she
leaves on your hands the work you have
spoiled. The child in his normal con-
dition is an embodied Interrogation. He.
cannot wait for the eyes alone to report
the objects about him; every finger-tip
is pressed into the service and made to
convey tidings to the eager intelligence.
| The little creature is overwhelmed with
impressions, stunned by the music of the
spheres, blinded by excess Of light. His
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greatest need is wise and tender inter
4 prefer; some one to walk beside him
and explain the significance of what he
sees and hears, to distinguish between
the important and the unimportant, the
high and the low, the near and the far.
Do we realize what we are doing when
we sit stolid and dumb under a child S
questions, allowing the keen intelligence
to ne blunted against our indifference,
! the glowing enthusiasm to be damped
by our apathy, the buoyant hope Grip
| pied by our unbelief? Having eyes We
see not, having ears we hear not, and
standing before the great wonder book
/ of Gods universe, We watch the turning
of its leaves with scarcely an emotion.


Verify, we need to be taught of the child.
What one IS, determines his possessions,
and whether the child shall be beggar
or prince depends upon the training Of
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receives.-Oehia Burleigh
Year: 1874

To RESTORE PAINTING PERsoNs.-It is
altogether wrong to hold up fainting
person and especially to keep the head
erect. Painting is caused bya want of
blood in the brain, the heart failing to
act with sufficient force to send the
blood against the laws of gravitation.
If then, you place person sitting,
whose heart has nearly ceased to beat,
his brain will fail to receive blood; if
you lay him down with the head lower
than the heart, blood will run into the
brain by the mere force of gravity; and
in fainting, sufficient quantity, generally.
to restore consciousness.
Year: 1874

ExTRAyAGANCE.-Next to the evil of
living beyond ones means, says DIR. Tai
madge, is that of spending all ones in
come. There are multitudes who are
sailing so near shore that slight wind
in the wrong direction founders them.
They get on we'll while the times are
usual and the wages promptly paid; but
panic or a short period of sickness
cause them to droop helpless. Many a
father has ridden in a carriage till he
came to- his grave; then he has lain
down, and his children have got out of
the carriage, and not only been, eempeH-
ed to walk. but to 60 barefoot Against
parsimony and niggardness we proclaim
war; but with the same sentence we con-
denim those who make a '.grand splash
while they live, leaving their families in
destitution when they die.
Year: 1874

An old soldier in Sicily gave his wife
silk dress. His wife died and was bur-
led in the dress. Some weeks after the
old soldier saw this dress on a woman
in the country, and, making inquiry, was
told she had purchased it from the Ca
puchin monks, who had the custody of
the village cemetery. He reported the
case to the police, who investigated, and
made the discovery that regular trade
was carried on in effects taken from dead
bodies. There was even trade in hair.
Year: 1874

TAKE TINE TO REsT.-Most men and
women must keep in the traces, and keep
pulling, the year round. All the more,
therefore, it is their duty to take things
easier as the hot weather comes on. Take
longer rest at noon. Put On less steam
when you are at work. Snatch Sunday
now and then from the middle of the
week. You can't? You can. People
find time to be sick and to die. They
can just as easily find time to rest and
keep well. Everything does not depend
on finishing that dress or fencing that
field; on putting up" SO much fruit or
catching so many customers. Better that
the children should wear old clothes
than that their mother should be laid
aside by fever. Better that the corn
crop be little lighter than that there
should be no one to harvest it. Let US
have shorter sermons and fewer Of them
on Sunday; longer recesses for the chill
drcn at school on weekdays. Put up the
store shutters earlier at night prepare
palmer meals in the kitchen. Take a
MONDAY nap yourself. and give your
employees a chance to 60 a-fshing Of an
afternoon now and then. That only is
duty which the Lord lays upon US, and
he is not SO hard master as we some
times suppose.
Year: 1874

Common sense is an clement in which
many persons are sadly wanting. Com
mon sense implies sound perception, cor
rect reason, mental capacity, and good
understanding. tits not to be acquired
entirely by education it is a sort of in
stinct. 1t may be polished and made
more acute by experience. There is a
great deal of sound philosophy in lit
tie common sense sometimes, and the
exercise of it upon certain occasions
would save many men'from much subse-
quent humiliation. s,
Year: 1874

1t is better to yield little than to
quarrel great deal. The habit of stand
ing up, as people call it. for their dit
tle) rights, is one of the most disagreea
BILE and undignifed in the world Life
is too short for the perpetual chickering's
which attend such disposition; and
unless very momentous affair indeed.
where other peoples claims and interests
are involved, it is question if it is not
wiser, happier and more prudent TO yield
somewhat of precious rights than squab-
bic to maintain them. True, wisdom is
first pure, then peaceable and gentle.
Year: 1874

An exchange says: ''There is a most


undoubted opportunity for the Granger
organization to vindicate its sympathies
with the oppressed farming interest in
Kansas and Nebraska. 1t can act with
that promptness which is impossible to
unorganized charity dependent upon the
uncertain sympathies of the mass. Let
the farmers help the farmers who are
sufferers by no fault of their own, and
thus emulate and exceed. if possible, the
benevolence of commercial communities.
Year: 1874

He who betrays another's secret be-
cause he has quarreled with him was
never worthy the sacred name of friend
breach of kindness on the one side
will not justify breach of trust on the
other.
Year: 1874

The habit of taking strong drink is
like river. An occasional glass is of
little account, men say, and they take it.
Then they drink oftener. The river
grows broader and swifter. but they do
not think of this. They drink yet
oftener, and after awhile the little stream
of habit has grown to be wide, roaring
torrent, and little further on is Death.
Year: 1874

THE LAWYER S PITCHER TRADE.-0n
Monday of week before last J. d. Stod-
dard Esq. Of St. Johnsbury, took 2
large water pitcher over to Burnham's
grocery and remarked, indifferently, that
it was rather larger than he needed. and
asked Buruham If he swould exchange
and give him smaller one. Burnham
wanted to know if he would exchange
even. Stoddard supposed q large pitch
er was worth more than q small one. but
it was little matter, and he wouldn't
mind about any boot He wanted
pitcher that he could ILL., Seeing
quarter of dollar in the trade Burnham
hastily passed down the size desired and
Stoddard departed. Then Burnham
took his pitcher to the door and raised
it to his eyes to see how far it was to
the bottom of it. Instead of seeing the
bottom he looked fright through the pitch.
er into Higgins window on the other
side of the street. Supposng this cs-
tablishmcnt had been photographed on
the bottom of the pitcher, he turned it
round, looked through the other way,
and there the store was again hen he
tried to measure the depth of the pitch
er with his arm, but it wasn't long
enough to find the bottom Setting it
down upon the table. he thought about
that quarter ola dollar which he couldn't
see any more Then it occurred to him
that the pitcher was altogether too large.
and that if Stoddara's head was any
where about the premises he would see
how many fractions Of creckery aud old
law he could manufacture by bringing
the two mugs in violent contact
But. anticipating Burnham s. probable
desires, Stoddard had removed his era
mum from Burnham freehold to an OBJ
scure place where he could enjoy refec-
tions in safety. We have been particular
in the relation of this transaction for the =.
purpose of convincing the public that
Burnham has no further ambition to
make quarters by exchanging crockery
and has retired from the business
| LgnsdOn- Union r -.-r .-.i
Year: 1874

The success of Gen. Crook, command
ing the Department of Arizona, in his
management of the Apache Indians, has
demonstrated what can be accomplished
by decided but just and honest policy.
For Gen. Crook is about the only one
engaged in the Indian service who has a
policy that is plain and at the same
time commendable iu its purposes and
sagacious in its methods. A somewhat
novel but highly ingenious and service
able device for fixing the responsibility
of their conduct upon the Indians them
selves more closely, and also protecting
them against the inscriptions greed of
Indian agents, is his plan of checking
them like pieces of baggage, each war;
rior carrying with him constantly his
metal check with his number and tribe
/ stamped thereon. The officer in charge
keeps record of each, with the number
OF members IN his family and descrlp-
tion of him. Offences can be traced to
their authors more readily by this means,
and as the issue of supplies is made ac-
cording to these checks there is less
chance for imposture on the one side or
fraud on the other Gen. Crooks re-
port shows how this worst of all North
American tribes has been advanced NOR
ally and industrially, until it is at least
partially self-supporting. If few more
such men as he were entrusted with the
solution Of the Indian problem it might
not prove SO troublesome and discredita-
BILE matter as now.
Year: 1874

New HAMpsHTRE PoLITIcs. = The Z
Prohibitionests Of New Hampshire met
in convention at Concord on Wednesday.
December 9th, and nominated Nathaniel
White, of Concord, for Governor. Their
action will undoubtedly result in elect
ing the democratic ticket In advance
of the meeting Of the convention the
republican journals referred to its prob
able actions as follows: alt seems to be
their determination to nominate a full
ticket of state officers in the hope of
driving the republicans to support it in
order to succeed. The state is always
very close, and if the prohihtionests
make no nominations the republicans
will stand good chance Of success. If,
however, the former persist in their de- :
termination, there is 40 hope that they
will secure enough republican support to
succeed, although they will draw off
enough to throw the election into the
hands of the democrats again. There
is no doubt that The party will go on,
without reference TO the course Of the
prohibitionests
Year: 1874

teachers, but her success lay in her gift
of praising with discrimination. A
bad boy who was a good scholar got
praises for his brilliancy sandwiched be-
tween her abomination of his bad be-
havior, and so was won to better life ;
and we recall good girl who had no
gift for learning rapidly, but who was
saved from utter despair by the praise
she got for her untiring industry. Into
the discouraged heart of the children
the praise of the teacher came like sun
light; and the virtues, like fruit, can
only ripen in sunshine.
Year: 1874

gave assurance TO the scat
tered and remaining few of
those who were but yesterday


in arms against that flag, as they eager
ly gathered about him, offered forgive
mess and All early restoration TO all
rights in the old government, and to the
humble and long oppressed, rescued from


a sarvi,ude dishonorsble alike to human
i,v, and to that flag of freedom and citi-


zenship in that great republic forever.
Who shall measure the usefulness ot the
life Of such man, and who shall hope to
do his memory justice? In the course OF
time, come what may, whether repub-
lie grounded on the immovsble founda-
tions Of justice and freedom,
approved after long experience ot
human happiness a. ths best
Year: 1874

The choir then sang "Rest spirit, rest, "
and at its conclusion two sisters represent
ing Charity, seated on either side of the
statue, rose and amid breathless silence
raised the red, white and blue drapery
from the marble form of the President.


President Edwards of the Normal
University then read poem written for
the occasion by Joseph Judson Lord
Year: 1874




President Grant surprised the SEN
ate and country, last Friday by SEN
ding in the nomination Of Caleb
Cushing to take the place of that OF
Atty Gen. Williams for Chief JUS
tice. This was no less surprise TO
Mr.. Cushing himself than to every
body else, as he had made arrange
ments to leave for Madrid on the 24th
to relieve Gen. Sickles. A week ago
the Democracy were bowling against
Grant because Cushing was not made
Chief Justice; now they must remain
dumb or only growl that he was not
made Minister to Spain.
Year: 1874

The Commissioner Of Internal
Revenue is encouraged by the re-
ceipts Of the Bureau SO far in the
present month, and thinks they will
soon increase to the average figures
before the panic.
Year: 1874

A romantic land-Buit, which will not prob.
ably bo fruitful Of anything but expense and
annoyance, is now on trinl ut Pittsburg. It
involves the titlo to ninety acres of land in
the heart Of tho city. Tho claimants will
probably compromise for enough to buy them
a corner lot in a cemetery and Scotch
granite monument.