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Year: 1876

New YORK, Dec. 26.-A despatch dated
Camp on the North Fork of the Belle
Fourche, December 21st, says: General
Crook announced at council with our In.
dian scout here to- day that the expedition
would start homeward in the morning. We
have rations for twelve days and half and
forage for week. Neither the Indians
sent to locate Crazy Horses village, MOI
those sent to Red Cloud to bring out more
Indian soldiers have Joined us yet, and our
present meagre stock of supplies, with the
limited amount of transportation at the
posts which are nearest us, will not permit
further prosecution of the present cam
paign.


Since our fight in the Big Horn Noun
tains small bands of Indian braves have
been wandering about the country in our
vicinity, and keeping watch on all oul
movements, fact which tends to make
surprise of the hostile Sioux by our troops
matter of extreme difficulty, If not wholly
impossible, even if our stock were in better
condition and supplies for the men and anil
mails were more plentiful. We are abou
four days. march from Fort Reno, ani
shall probably be back at Fort Fetterma1
about the 10Th instant.
Year: 1876

tain in receding from its former position
and the consequent surrender of Brent, the
Louisville forger, to the United States. Our
Government is not prepared to consider
the question of an amendment to the treaty
so as to increase the class of offences for
which extradition may be claimed.


The correspondence is regarded by the
Senate as confidential, and hence there is
no access to It for publication.
Year: 1876

New YORK Oct, a. Judge Shipman,
of the T. s. Court. has filed a decision in
suit of the T. S. against John Halloran
and others, which may be of interest to
distillers This was suit in which the
government sought to collect a tax upon
the difference between the producing cap
acity of distillery aud the amount O:
spirits actually distilled upon which tax
had been already regularly assessed and
collected. The government brought the
suit upon Halloran's bonds, and the surety
set up, in defense, the assessment and
previous collection of tax upon a true re-
turn of spirits actually produced and tha,
no lawful assessment had been made


Judge Shipnan holds that the section
relied upon by the government makes
capacity and not actual production the basis
of taxation, and he h lids that, as the
statute designates the rate of tax, assess
ment is not necessary to entitle the gov
ernment to recover in an action upon a
distiller bond; also that in such an action
where an assessment is not relied upon
an erroneous assessment, which did not in'
clude the amount actually due as preserib
ed by the statute, is not conclusive against
the government,
Year: 1876

Babcock's acquittal on the conspiracy in
dictment in the safe burglary case has
been foregonc conclusion for several days
past, and its actual announcement this
morning will not startle the world. That
remarkable piece of villainy,t the safe burg
larry, has been so carefully darkened by
perjury and trickery that the actors in it,
who of late proiessed to tell the truth
about it. were obliged to discredit their
statements by confessing to bearing false
witness at some of the early stages of in
quiry. We wish we could congratulate
Colonel Babcock on his acquitta with a
certainty that the truth about the neiarious
business at last was known; but the fact is
that this latest inquest has only made the
confusion respecting the crime greater still.
| N Y. Herald.
Year: 1876

According to to the revised statutes of
Illinois any person who wagers money or
valuables OF any nature on the result of an
election shall be liable to pay a fine of
81 .0c0 and undergo Imprisonment in the
county Jail Tor period not exceeding
one year. Let's declare all our bets Off
Union.


But the real reason why the post office
newspaper wants to declare them off is
fear CT losing then.
Year: 1876

the cards and dominoes, ETC., held
by each of the gentlemen by whom
they were held. This did appear
a trihe perplexing, as the gentlemen
who held the cards, dominoes, ETC.,
had been allowed to draw them
from the box and pack themselves,
and as the nature and size of the
books used made it appear to the
average mind a life study to commit
to memory any portion of them.


After this a little recess was
taken, the audience having the
pleasure Of realizing that at any
given date in the future NJ. Gaze
neuve could without difficulty in
form them or their friends of the
precise number of beer glasses
emptied and cocktails consumed.


The second portion Of the enter
tainment introduced a simple little
trick. One of the audience was
given a sealed envelope to hold,
while another gentleman proceeded
to unwind a ball of string, which
was presently cut by the shears of
the magician; in the meantime
cards and dominoes had been passed
around, various people helping
themselves, and behold after this,
when the sealed envelope was
opened, there appeared a written
statement of the exact length of
the cord cut at random and a list
Of the cards, dominoes, ETC., chosen
among the audience. After this ii
was no matter of great surprise
when another double sealed envel-
ope was found to contain a. paper
upon which various parties had
written whatsoever they pleased,
and which they had subsequently
seen destroyed in the flames of q
sulphur match.


The performance concluded with
the celebrated box mystery. Mime
Cazeneuye, under cover OF screen
succeeding in getting inside Of &
trunk, which, tied and sealed up.
was placed inside of another alsC
secured, in the space of forty sec
onds, several seconds quicker thar
the best time ever made by any
spiritually assisted performer. M
Cazeneuye proposes soon to appear
before the public, which he intend


to convert finally and forever from
all belief in spiritualism.
Year: 1876

of two Sabbaths without q whine.


The Jewish maiden takes her
bath, and as she leaves the water.
with her clothes clinging to her,
she is stalwart as a section of Solo
mons Temple. Her thick, black
hair is fit for bowstrings; like shafts
of cedar are her limbs. She lunches
heartily on cold meats and bottle
of beer, aud goes up and dresses
for her lord. When he arrives in
the stage she is on the plaza wear
ing velvet dress with an over
dress of lace curtain, a Maria Stuart
collar, big diamonds in her ears,
and a straw hat full of illusion
pinned down with a tulip of gold
and carnelian. They address each
other in three or more languages
during the same sentence, being
true cosmopolitans, and in a minute
the carriage is up for a drive. That
night, about ten or eleven of the
clock, they are eating the entire
Passover lamb, drinking cham
pagne and laughing like the hap


piest people in the world, all dressed
richly, bare headed, taking the


world for all it is worth.
Year: 1876

How n Fat Man subdued n Robber.
San Francisco Chronicle.


Yesterday morning about = o.


clock a German named Fred. Weis-
enberg, was proceeding along
Market street, near Nineteenth, ,on
his way home, was intercepted by
two rough-looking customers, who
asked him for his valuables. lie
placidly babe them go to Jericho,
and made vigorous lunge ut the
spokesman's throat, at the same
time shouting "police." The two
daring highwaymen quaked at the
sonorous cry, and turning on their
heels darted off at lively pace.
The German started after one of
them down the street, and was
gaining on him when the fellow
turned and discharged shot at
his pursuer. The stolid German,
undismayed by the flash and the
warning whistle of the the bullet
past his ear, sped on and followed
the fugitive into dark street,
where the latter hoped nimbly
over fence. TO follow the leader
in this last instance proved to be
the most distressing experience of
the evening for the corpulent Ger
man, but after much eXertion and
considerable putting he clambered
to the top and fell over with a
thud upon the prostrate body of
tho robbcr, who was crouched
under the shadow of the fence
completely exhausted, with a Der
ringer clutched in his fist. The
German took the pistol away, and
lifting his corpulent. form up allow
ed himself to drop on the frightened
man three or four times until he
begged for mercy. The captor
forced him to re-scale the fence
and marched him to prison, where
he was charged with assault to
murder and attempt to rob. In
his pockets were found number
of burglars tools.
Year: 1876

II stands in sunny meadow.


The house so mossy and brown,
With its cumbrous old stono chimney,
And tho gray roof sloping down.
The trees fold their green arms around it,
The trees century old;
And the winds 60 chanting through


them,


And the sunbeams drop their gold.
The cowslips spring in the marshes,
And the roses bloom on the hill;
And beside the brook in the pastures,
The herds 60 feeding at Will.
The children have gone and left them;
They sit in the sun alone;
And the old wlfe's ears are failing,
And she harks to the well-known tune
That won her heart in girlhood,


That has soothed her in many care,
And praises her heart for her brightness
Her old face used to wear.
She thinks again of her bridal


How, dressed in her robe of white,
She stood by her gay young lover


In the mornings rosy light.
Oh the morning is rosy as ever,


But the rose from her cheek has fled,
And the sunshine still is golden,


But it falls on silvered head.
And the girlhood dreams, once vanish


ed,


Come back in her winter time,
Till her feeble pulses tremble


With the thrill of spring-time prime.
And look forth from the window,


She thinks how the trees have grown
Since, clad in her bridal witness,


She crossed the old door stone.
Though dimmed her eyes bright azure,
And dimmed her hairs young gold,
The love in her girldhood plighted


Has never grown dim or old.
They sat in their place in sunshine,


Till the day was almost done;
And then, at its close, an angel


Stole over the threshold stone.
lie folded their hands together


He touched their eyelids with balm;
And their last breath floated upward,


Like the close of solemn psalm.
Like bridal pair they traversed


The unseen mystic road
That leads to the beautiful city,


"Whose builder and maker is God.
Year: 1876

The will of Henry Raine, a London
brewer reveals a new sort of benevo-
lence. Before his death he established
an asylum where forty girls are trained
for domestic service. On arriving at
the age of twenty one any girl who has
been educated in the asylum and can
show that she has behaved well may
become a candidate for marriage por-
ton of $500, for which six girls are al
lowed to draw twice each year, the lst
of May and the 9TH of November. The
portion drawn in May is given after a
wedding, OH the 5th of November, mon
ey is given in like manner on May-day.
Year: 1876

AVARICE.


No more thus brooding DER you heap,


With avarice painful vigils keep;
Still uLenjoyed the present store,


Still endless sighs are breathed for


more.


Brethren More welcome that the
first cheering rays through the storm
clouds; more priced than Gods great
gift of the life sustaining air we breathe
or that diyinely impregnated essence,
the immortal soul, is dollar by the
avaricious man. He is a maelstrom in
the current of mans social and business
relations, and every dollar coming with
in his reach is as greedily taken into
the vortex aud as certainly lost to the
world, as is the i'll fated ship that goes
down at sea. His heart is the shrine of
lucre, erected on the graves of human
virtues. The cry of the helpless, the
voice of reason and the precepts OF
christianity, fall UNDECIDED on his deaden-
ed ears, while the jingle ola dollar is
the sweetest symphony and thrills with
delight the withered chords Of his
dwarfed and witted soul. Like a beast
of prey, he hovers around his species 10
sacrifice them, and denied himself of
proper bodily sustenance and necessarles
in his greedy race for gold.


My brethren, of all the rotten crafts
gliding down the rutfed stream of time,
his is the most piratical craft of all. He
will board every vessel in his power,
and extort a ransom from every indi-
vidual, and his miserable soul decreases
as his Golfers enlarge. A dollar is the
sheet anchor of his hopes and desires,
and in the pursuit Of wealth, wrapped
in the impenetrable folds of seltishness,
this worshiper at the shrine of the
almighty dollar wears his useless life
away.


In the beginning of life the dollar
was his nursery cry, in liies conflict the
dollar is his battle cry. He grasps a
greenback with such greedy tenaclty
that the portrait of George Washing
ton grows red, and Christopher Colum-
bus on the other side, is sorely inter
upted in his geographical discoveries
and thinks America rather tight place
to 1--we in.


My brethren, the everhowing stream
Of time that bears on its bosom the
frail barks of all manking, can never be
stayed in its ever onward course to the
great ocean of the hereafter, and this
grasping, sordid, avaricious, character,
in his pirate hull, will be wrecked amid
sea, and Death, the unsympathetic old
chap, will bait his hook of retribution
with a silver dime and angle his Gallons
soul from his miserable body and flip IT
into eternity on three cent piece.


Let US sing brethren.
Year: 1876

The scales for weighing bullion a.
the Carson, Nevada, mint are so nicely
adjusted as to tell the difference between
the weight OF black hair and that of a
gray hair from the same head. They
sometimes fall through. An effort was
made the other day to make them tell
the difference between the weight of the
honesty of an Indian agent and the
weight of the dishonesty OF convicted
horsethief, but they couldn't do it,
somehow.
Year: 1876

MARRIED AND CRAZED IN A WEEK.-
One OF the saddest records we have ever
made in these columns, says the Marion
(Cal) Journal, is the following; About
two weeks since gentleman from this
county, who is one of our most prom
inent business men, was united in mar
riage with a charming and accomplish
ed young lady from one of the cities of
the bay. The couple went to San Jose
10 spend few days of that usually
blsstul period, the first Of married life.
Their union took place on Sunday, and
very early the next Thursday morning
the bridegroom was awakened by hear
ing his young bride engaged in prayers.
Suddenly her praying was changed to
singing, and this was followed by loud
laughter, until the horrible fear took
hold of the gentleman mind that his
beloved wife had lost her reason.
Thinking that change and the quiet
of country home would be beneficial,
the couple started at once for home.
The lady's malady grew steadily worse
on the journey, andno benefit was derlv-
ed at their new home, and few days
since it was necessary to take her back
to her parental associations, in the hope
that a mothers care would prove the
panacea The spectacle as the party
passed down the road was one of the
saddest and most pitiable that could be
imagined. The bride of week had
become ravlng maniac, wild and vio-
lent, requiring the strength of several
to hold her. Her husbands grief was
terrible beyond expression.
Year: 1876

Representative wilson ot Iowa recently ihllo-
duccd a Joint resolution for an amendment t" the
Constitution providing that after the year lSS2
the annual meeting of Congress shall be III
January, and the terms OF Office ol Senators
and Representatives shall end on the 3lSt OF
December. The change is intended to abi1dge
the long interval which now occurs between
tho election of Representative and the open
ing of the Congress in winch he is 10 serve.
By the Constitution Congress has power to
prescribe the time of its assembling. aud
also the time and manner of holding
elections for Senators and Representa-
tiyes; but as the proposed reform could
not be conveniently adopted without shorten
ing by about two months the terms OF Sena-
tors and Representatives Ill Office at the time 1t
takes effect, a Constitutional Amendment in
stead of statute Is proposed as the means oi
carrying it into operation.


The dearest desire of every COngrcS-mans
heart nowadays is to amend the Constitution.
The fashion of tinkcring at that instrument
threatens to destroy the popular respect for
the safeguard Of our Liberties, an. 10 pro-
posal for change ought to be listened To unless
the eravest reasons can he urged III IT'S sup
port. Certainly the present system OF choosing
Congress thirteen months III advance OF -
time of meeting is highly Objectionable and
we have had striking experience oi its
eylls this wear. 1t was the old belief
that hv postponing the work Of legislation
until the passions Of election time had been
amply cooled we secured Congress compare
lively free from the influence Of popular
clamor, and made of il dgnficd and faith
IL II, tltn Oi
munity fIcm serene elevation and acting for
il with all the cOmpOsure OF superior wisdom.
But the further We 60 in our experiment Of
popular government the more clearly are We
convinced that the safest way is to tru" the
people. The average virtue and wisdom oi
the community il always higher than the Wiz
tue and wisdom Of Congress- so that the more
closely Representative expresses the temper
of his constituents the more likely he Is to b'
right.


Besides, it is a bad plan to send n Congress
man back for reelection when only halt his
term has expired. During the first session he
is..iInid and in a season OF political uncrr-
taintv like this he is unwilling to do anything.
During the second session, if be has been de-
feated, he is reckless. Last year, for instance,
the infamous Force bill was nearly imposed
upon the country by the votosof Congress
men who had Just been beaten at the
polls and had nothing to look forward
to except consulships and post-oiliceS ;
and next Winter we NAV anticipate
tronble with the infationists who see that
their political career is run. If Congress
man had TO serve his whole term before he
went back to the people to give an account OF
his stewardship there can be no doubt that
we should get much better service than we
get now, and Congress would he what it ought
to be. but is not, an expression of the popular
will
Year: 1876

il easy to conceive OF circumstances under when
such system would promote instead OF m-
minish corruption. The proposal to issue con-
solidated stock on account Of outstanding as
sessment bonds and stocks, is well enough
but might go further. If we cOuld have the
great mass of our city obligations funded INTO
a single consolidated loan, we should have less
mystery about our finances, and more active
demand for economy from the taxpayers
Tho provisions preventing the prevalent
habit of beginning an improvement with low
estimates, then running up the cost and
forcing the city to complete, at whatever
expense, the work to which it hes committed
itself, seem well guarded, and are soreiy
needed. That for'idding any Judgment against
the city on any contract beyond the original
appropriation therefor, would he particularly
beneficial.


So much may be said of the bill from hrst
reading. Its general tendency is good. IL
seems in many particulars more carefully
guarded than most of the Albany legislation to
which this city has been treated 4; and there
can be little doubt that its effect upon the
growth of taxes and the city debt would bo IN
q marked degree astrngeut and wholesome.
Year: 1876

fTTY FINANCES AND PtBLIC HOHhS


All hasty legislation concerning conpli-
Gated financial system is to lie regretted ; and
the first object of any legislation on such II
subject should be To make the system more
simple, safe, and direct Mr.. Noodih's bill,
we hear is likely to pass II demands the
closest scrutiny, and should not be passed
without the previous approval of those
most familiar with the workings of
the present system. But its aim seems
10 he in the right direction. and
many of the reforms which it institutes
are plain to tho most casual observer. Thus,
40 long as we have dcmagogues in Office and
a rabble ready to demand more than the
market pay for less than the standard days
work, there can be no question that il is bet
ter to have public Improvements dOno by CON
tract. So long ~ the pTctenso OF a sinking
fund is kept up, there can be no question that
if ought TO I've kept up honestly, and that the
diversion of two or three millions each
wear TO pay the current tax levy should
DO stopped. There can be no question
that current expenses should be honestly paid
out of the current taxes, and that the whole
business of borrowing for such purposes should
be poremptolily and finally stopped. And
there can be no question that, for the present
at least, 1t Is wise to limit the amount to be
raised in any one year for city work author
lied by special laws to one million dollars,
and to compel an open and honest tax for any
moro money required for such work.


There may be some doubt as to the wisdom
Of requiring four-ffths vote of oil the men,
hers In the Board Of Aldermen Oh any ordi-
nances involving tho expenditure of money
This puts it completely in the power of a small
fsotious minority to defeat everything; and II
Year: 1876

when THE TRIBUNE began, four years ago,
the exposure OF the Brooklyn Ring, ii seemed
a hopeless task to reform that corrupt political
organization. 1t was probably the strongest aud
most sagacious Ring which has ever existed in
any municipality of the States. Its managers
were eagacious men, who made haste slowly but
trod the road to power and riches surely;
to-day they can SHOW good and consttu-
tional law for every job they concocted, and
point to triumph at the polls for nearly every
partisan scheme which they plotted. They stole
discrectly, and in doing 1t masked themselves
behind reputable men whom they duped into
fathering their plans. They had no avaricious
Tweed to make them odious by his desperate
thefts and no Garvey to betray them for his
own safety McLaughlnism was absolute In
the General Committee Of tho dominant Dem.
Year: 1876

The failure of the bill In the House for an
amendment to the Constitution which shall
limit the Presidents Office to single term, Is
not likely to be the end of the movement. A
large majority was developed in favor of the
resolution, though the requisite two-thirds vote
was not obtained.
Year: 1876

A long list of suits against dealers in
watered mil was closed yesterday by the
payment of fines imposed by the Court.
This victory was attained by the Board of
Health on strong and abundant scientific evl-
dcnce of the practical utility of the laciometer
in deciding the simple question whether mix
is greatly watercd. The general character 0i
the milk sold in this city has greatly improved
under the pressure brought to bear upon the
dealers by the Board of Health yesterdays
results will help to make the change for the
better permanent one.
Year: 1876

ONE MORE UNFoRTUNArE.-A day or
two since, a rather respectable look
ing young woman with a woe-begone
countenance, stepped on board the
Kalama boat at Kalama, and inquir-
ing for the purser, informed him that
she was the unfortunate dupe of
young man who had gained her afec-
tions and promised his protection
through life; that she had not cent
in the world, and being dcsirous of
going to Portland in search of work,
she begged him to allow her a, free
passage. The gentlemanly officer, al
though somewhat staggered by the
confession, made some inquiries con-
cerning her antecendents, and then
handed her ticket. She arrived In
the city in due time and walking
ashore with the balance of the passen-
gers. She has snot been seen since;
but we trust that she has seen the err
ror of her way and has determined to
live correctly in future. Such cases
occur almost every day, and it is real
.ly mystery that parents do not take
better care of their daughters and
shield them from the arts of the de-
signing villain.-Por1ond Standard
Year: 1876

have taken up on my ranch on Squaw
creek one stray mare, dun or mouse col.
ored, with star in forehead Has no
brand. Also one two year old filly, same
color, belonging to the mare. The owner
is hereby notified to prove property, pay
charges and take them away.


DENNIS CROWLEY.