The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

SSSlPSSPi t* ml n JL JflSht JRtlenrj $IaindeaUr, J. VA"N 8LTKE, PUBUSHZ*. cHESRT, ILLINOIS. ILLINOIS ITEMS. t - -- . •BECK ice dealers of Jacksonville are mfktag fast doable the prioe for ice they - demanded last year. IN the United States Court at Spring­ field, on the 6th, the cases of JohnT. Harper and Albert Smith were contin­ ued until the June term, upon motion of flfte defense. MH« J>ICXIHBOK, of Moline, a lineal descendant of the Puritans, has in her possession a mirror that came over in the Mayflower. The mirror is on exhi­ bition at Davenport, * APBOBIA man had lull son arrested ttbd fined for disorderly conduct, be­ cause he persisted in paying attentions to a young lady whom the paternal did Bot wink was worthy of his son. A FEW nights ago a man named Dr. Burns, from somewhere in "Wisconsin, Went to Peoria and fell in with George Ford, who was at one time a prominent memLer of the Peoria bar. As he exhib­ ited considerable money, Ford and a companion plied him with liquor, which, it is now supposed, was drugged, until lie was entirely in their power; they then carried him to his hotel, robbed him, and started out on a big spree with the proceeds, about $400. Bums returned to consciousness next day, put the police on the track, and Ford and his associate were arrested. Burns has, however, while suffering ever since the night the robbery was committed, taken a relapse, ipd is not expected to live. Drugs were unquestionably given on the night of the robbery, and were of such a powerful nature as to endanger life. Ford and his partner are held to await the result is Bums' case. Prison Life. Maj. McClaughrey, Warden of the Joliet Penitentiary, delivered an inter­ esting address before a meeting of cler­ gymen at Chicago, recently, from which we extract some items: He said that at present there are confined in the Peni­ tentiary 1,460 convicts. Of these but 14 are females. The labor of these con­ victs was leased to different contractors, who pay to the State a stipulated sum of money per man per day. The contractor famishes an instructor, and the State the keeper and clothing. The money thus acquired is used to defray expenses, make improvements in machinery, and all the necessary repairs. The institu­ tion has thus been self-sustaining. Dur­ ing last year 44,154 pounds of salt pork, and about the same amount of beef, 10,750 pounds of com meal, 6,650 bush­ els of potatoes, and 50,000 pounds of vegetables were consumed. All of this is raised at the Penitentiary farm. Thir­ teen barrels of flour are baked every day. The facilities of the bakery are first class. The clothing is graduated to the necessities of the season. The government of the prison means implicit obedience. The convict is obliged to Obey the commands of the keepers, how­ ever unreasonable they may be. But he has his remedy. He has the privilege ^ Of appealing to the Warden, who thor- * ouglily investigates the case, and, if the story of the convict proves to be true, the keeper is immediately discharged. They had, presumably, the worst classes of characters to deal with, and it was necessary that the convicts be impressed with the idea that the keeper is to be sustained in the discharge of his duty. The first offense of the prisoner is over­ looked, provided there are any miti­ gating circumstances The second of­ fense is treated in like manner. If a third one i3 committed, the good con­ duct tickets are taken away. He is also deprived of the privilege of writing or receiving visitors. His tobacco and candles are also taken away. If flagrant violation of discipline is committed, he is confined in the solitary cell, on a diet of bread and water. His confinement continues until he satisfies his keepers of his desire to be­ have himself. Formerly punishment by ring-bolts was inflicted. His hands were festened together, placed on a level with Ms chin, and then by means of chains fastened to bolts in the wall. This method is now entirely discarded, except ill cases of insanity. Also formerly he v wa« compelled to carry a knapsack, with a seventy-five pound chain in it, It has been ascertained that where men were *ubj6Ci»d to very severe physical pun­ ishment it took a much longer time to get over their rage. Besides they cherished .-•feeling of revenge. So fir no case of revenge has resulted from solitary con­ finement. There are now 200 more prisoners than when the chain and bolt were used; yet the number of punishments is 20 per cent. less. Two- -fhirds of the commitments are the result of whisky. The spiritual work has been very thorough. It is performed 'principally at night by going from cell to cell. "When a convict leaves the walls of the Penitentiary he is impressed with 'the idea that the hand of every man is raised against him. A place should be provided where he could remain until Suitable employment could be procured for xuiii. If such were the c&o6, there •would be fewer recommitments. In •California such a place is provided for him. Although our State furnishes him with railroad fate to the place of convic­ tion, and $10 in money, the first thing -that meets his sight is the one hundred and thirteen saloons of Joliet. The most difficult to reform are the thieves. Convicts for crimes against the •person are the most reliable. In very Jew instances are they ever recommitted. ThAre are thieves in the Penitentiary who have graced the cells with their presence ior the fifth or sixth time, and there is •one who is now serving his eighth term. There are instances where the interposi­ tion of the Executive is necessary, not for clemency or mercy, but for justice. •Juries in different sections of the State •have notions widely varying from those of other juries in a different locality. At •one time they will be sure to recommend ten or fifteen years as the necessary pun­ ishment. The next jury will decide very differently, and recommend not more than one-half of the punishment for a sfmilar crime committed not over a year previous. One instance would suffice io prove this. In one county of this State a man was found guilty ol stealing a horse worth perhaps $40 or $60, and was sentenced to seventeen years' imprisonment A man in a county not far dSnaat stole a $200- horse and received but three years. The Penitentiary can not be entirely reform­ atory, unless a^conrse similar to the one in force in Ireland its adopted. There, Commissioner who are thoroughly fitted, and sufficiently well paid to devote their whole time to their business, famine very critically the character and record of the convict, and are very soon able to determine when he is fit to go oat again into society. In answer to some questions, Maj. McClaughrey stated that the Peniten­ tiary has a library of 6,000 volumes. The keepers are required to abstain from all spirituous liquors. The convicts are re­ quired to do the same. Tobacco was at first prohibited, but it has since been found necessary to allow them some of lbs "weed." ̂ Illinois Agricultural The Centennial Committee of the State Board of Agriculture has issued a circular soliciting samples of agricultur­ al products for exhibition at the Centen­ nial. The circular says: " The Committee shoold embrace, in all varieties, samples of seeds of wheat, rye, barley, oats, buckwheat, flour, beans, flax, hemp, cotton, peas, broom- corn, and of other field crops, say four quarts of each ; com in the ear not less than six ears of each variety, each ear to be separately wrapped; forage plant seeds, as clove7-, in variety, timothy, red-top, blue-grabs, millet, Hungarian, and any other forage ; hemp seeds, say one quart each ; garden and flower seeds in all their varieties in sample quanti­ ties ; free seeds, such as hickory and walnuts, pecans, chestnuts, maples, elms, and other timber trees, say one to four quarts each ; tobacco seed and samples of leaf in different stages of man­ ufacture ; samples of the fiber of cotton, hem]), flax, etc., etc.; sam- 1)les of useful minerals, including iron, ead, sine, silver, salt; coal in cube blocks, 8 by 8 inches; pottery, brick, and tile clays, etc.; building stone, samples of 4 inch cubes, one side smooth dressed; bricks, samples usual size; tile, draining and roofing; commercial woods, samples 2 by 4 inches, and 6 to 12 inches long, one side and end smooth dressed. All samples and specimens should be carefully labeled, with name and variety numbered, and packed in boxes with a list of oontents inclosed, giving name and full address of pro­ ducer, sending a duplicate by mail to S. D„ Fisher, Secretary of the Board, Springfield, HI., who, on receipt of said list, with information as to the probable weight and bulk of the package, will furnish shipping cards, with directions for shipping. Packages should reach Springfield by April 10, at which time the spesiai committee will meet to pre­ pare and forward the collection to Phila­ delphia. For further information ad­ dress H. D. Emery, Chicago ; Lewis Ellsworth, Naperville, HL; 8. D. Fisher, Springfield, Special Committee." Whereabouts of Mrs. IIItem What a pity that innocent children should b© the victims of so much pruri­ ent curiosity arising out of a scandal for which they are not in any wise re­ sponsible. A few days ago, walking along Bedford avenue, in Brooklyn, I saw a bright little fellow running along the street followed by a troop of chil­ dren halloaing, " Balph Tilton, where s your father ?" The first child was little Ralph Tilton, son of Theodore Tilton. He is attending a Kindergarten school on Bedford avenue, and was on his way to his mother's home. Mrs. Tilton is living with her mother--the former Mrs. Morse--on Madison street, near Nos- traud avenue. She has her two sons with her, and the father has charge of the daughters. Mrs. Morse pays the expenses of the Tilton boys' schooling, and it is believed Theodore Tilton him self is contributing largely to his wife's present support. She is a regular at­ tendant of Df. Duryea's church on Glasson avenue, and frequently appears on the street. There is a sad, weary, dejected look On her face, however, which strictly comports with the painful notoriety she has obtained before the public.--New York Letter. > A ?£ng-Ve?oa Question Settled. Hie Supreme Court has decided that the eastern terminus of the Union Pacific Bailroad is on the Iowa' shore, at Coun­ cil Bluffs, and that the Omaha bridge is a pari of the road and must be operated in connection with the whole line. This is not pleasant news for the Union Pa­ cific Company, or the bondholders of the bridge company, heretofore seated as a separate corporation, having the right to exact tolls on freight, Ac., pass­ ing over the river between the East and West. It has, however, carried happi­ ness to the innermost souls of the Coun­ cil Bluffers, who are rejoicing with ex­ ceeding great joy at their good luck. RUSSIA'S conquests and annexation of of territory on her southern border in Central Asia have been conducted under circumstances sufficiently similar to those long existing on the southern frontier of the United States, to strongly suggest the propriety,' if not the necessity, of adopting a aimiliai policy. The Khan­ ates were independent states, possessing nominally organized governments, but not holding their turbulent and reckless bbrder ruffians under sufficiently strin­ gent control to insure the safety of their neighbors. Instead of permitting her merchants and other citizens to be plun­ dered year after year by the predatory tribes infesting' the frontier, as we have done with the Mexicans, Russia JIM pro­ ceeded to occupy the country, and will at once colonize and civilize it after the Russian fashion. The absorption of Khokand, now about complete, puts the Russian authorities in a position to ef­ fectually protect their own people, and to bestow upon the inhabitants of the eonqtiered territory something like a substantial governments^^/ THEY do say of Senator Christiancy'S bride, that when the aged Senator pro­ posed she at once accepted, and returned an engagement ring to a suitor who had her promise of marriage in Qeorgia. Having done this, she urged the states­ man to make no vexatious delays, inas­ much as she anticipated that the dis­ carded Georgian might come up fspd make trouble. Very few men would care to tamper thus with the feelings of an un regenerate Georgian. OUR WASHINGTON LETTER. A. FwM of Intrigues--Investigation*-- Mow Work In Congi-rii--Reform la tho Internal BCTHB* Bureau--The BclkMp Saantloiu ,, . . [From OUT OUT Com*poiMl«nt.] WASHINGTON, March 3,1878. The winter weather of this latitude is always in February and Mra*, the worst of it in March usually. I think the ugliness of the weather has a ten­ dency to make men " ugly ;" to generate "bad blood," and draw out bad dis­ positions all around. At any rate I have often observed that " the winter of our discontent" among our politicians has often been contemporaneous with our nnuala nasty weather. And the centennial year of grace 1876 is no exception to the rule. The Repub­ licans have been having plenty of trouble within their own lines, and so have the Democrats. It may be truthfully said as to either side that at Washington everything has been unlovely and the goose has been stretched out low. The terrific snow-storm of the first of March found the political elements here in sympathetic hurly-burly. The trial of Gen. Babcock was made the occasion of a powerful eftort to get Bristow out of the Cabinet and Solicitor Wilson re­ moved. This amounted to a political conspiracy, or at all events to an intrigue so adroitly arranged and conducted that it was cousin-german to conspiracy. Many men were so far imposed upon by the conversations, acts, and boast­ ings of the conspirators as to believe that Grant and Bristow had actually quarreled. They mistook outside clamor for inside fact. Nevertheless, I believe the intrigue would have succeeded in driving both Bristow and Wilson from office but for the tremendous protest which came in here in tone® of thunder from the country. This frightened the conspirators, and they retired from the fight. They still keep up a desultory filling on Wilson, but I greatly doubt whether they will be able to bring him down. If they do, score one more vic­ tory for the infamous whisky ring. The Democrats have been in trouble, too. It has looked as though they thought they had drawn an elephant and didn't know what to do with him. Just how many caucuses they have held during this wintry weather it would be difficult to tell. Most of them have been stormy, and not one decisive of any line of policy. The friends of different gentlemen who have been named for the Presidency have been uncommonly act­ ive. Then there has been angry discus­ sion on the currency question,, and on other topics in respect to whieh the authoritative creed has not yet been pro­ mulgated, - All this shows that the main business in hand is President-making. This is the principal thing with either party. One is no more to be blamed about it, than the other. But meantime Congress fails to give that large attention to the material interests of the country which they ought at this time of business dull­ ness to receive. No candid man, I think, could obsarvfe the situation here without concluding that it would be bet­ ter to have a Presidential election only once in six years. INVESTIGATIONS. I believe there are now between sixty and seventy investigation committees at work. There must, of course, be a gen­ eral overhauling. Whatever has oc­ curred of late years that has been bad or suspicious will be found out. Unfort­ unately most of the testimony given in these cases is altogether ex parte, and is to be received with many grains of allow­ ance. It is now stated by persons whose opinions are entitled to weight that it will be impossible to complete the in­ vestigations of several matters be­ fore autumn, and that Congress will take a recess during the summer, authorizing the committees to sit. I do not think this will be done. Reports spread before the country just before the elections would have no influence with the people what­ ever. They ought to have time to ex­ amine the testimony and to hear what " the other side" has to say. This idea of a recess, though now entertained by many, will most likely be abandoned. SLOW WORK IH CONGBSSS. -ho .. • Oaa W --- a few minutes after the expiration of the morning hour, Lccause there was not a single committee which had any busi­ ness to rouort. This is due to the fact that so much time is occupied with in­ vestigations. These are necessarily slew. After a while reports of investi­ gating committees will begin to come in, and then look out for lively times and exciting debates. Then the main business of the session, namely, President-making, will move on the lightning-express train, in comparison of which Ool. Bangs' fa­ mous "fast mail" will be en old-fashioned slow-coach. About the only legislative event of note of the week is this passage, by the Senate, of the Military Academy Appro­ priation bill, with a number of amend­ ments. Among these is an item for the pay of the West Point band. I beg leave to hope the House will agree to this item. I am sure the cadets would go into a decline and die but for the music of the band and the sublime strut- tings of the drum-major. Every boy of 'em would say* **J know not what others may think, out as for me give me the drum-major or give me death." Here is the very embodiment of military fuss and feathers. Abolish him? Perish the thought! 1 am bound to say, in all seri­ ousness, however, that the West Point band is the beat in the country, that music is necessary in the armys and that our gallant boys in their bob-tail claw- hammers ought to have it, at a reasona­ ble price. KTEBKATI WBVBHUB BKPOBM. There A rill shortly be a very considera­ ble reform in the management of the In­ ternal Revenue Bureau. The Supervis­ ors will be mustered out of service, and collection districts all over the country will be further consolidated. This latter reform has been going on for some time, and would have been carried out still more but that Secretary Bristow was overruled in, several in­ stances by the President, upon whom a tremendous political influence was brought to bear. The reform is one greatly needed in the interest of economy and of faithful public service. In the case of the abolition of Supervisors I am not so oertain of its wisdom, but economy will bfetbe result, and perhaps similar serriGS jDsn be as well done by officers of less grade and less pay. If so, well. If there iaanything certain under the sun, it is thifc our army of office-holders is by much too large and too expensive. M CASE OP GEN. BELKNAP. The excitement into which this com­ munity was suddenly and most un­ expectedly thrown, on yesterday, by the revelations of the offi­ cial misconduct of Secretary of War Belknap has not been equaled since the day after the battle of Bull Run. The feeling on the terrible mur­ der of President Lincoln was, of course, more nearly universal and was inex­ pressibly agonizing. But in that case there was the knowledge that the Presi­ dent had fallen by the crime of a stran­ ger. In the case of Gen. Belknap the fall, so far as is known, was by his own act; and as those who had known him longest and best had the most unbound­ ed confidence in his integrity, intelli­ gence of his wrong conduct was at first received with absolute incredulity. Then all sorts of distortions of the truth began to be whispered about, and it was late in the day before the general fact was cor­ rectly understood by the public at large. Then men began to stare at each other in blank aoiazement, and were lost in as­ tonishment and surprise. Every one looked upon it as a terrible calamity. The community was stirred as the earth is stirred by a great earthquake. The crime of selling the offices in one's patronage need 'not be characterized by me. This is the offense of which Bel­ knap stands, according to all reports, confessedly guilty. That one who spent years in the military service of his coun­ try with great honor to himself, who hM long been surrounded by troopw of friends, who might well have hoped for continued honors, should thus fall by the way is to me almost inexplicable. I hardly know how to account for it, and I will not in these mo­ ments of great feeling undertake to do so. Permit me to say, however, that there must have been some unusually powerful temptation, either of a general or personal nature, which could have caused this long honest man, a gallant soldier and the son of a gallant soldier,, to have deflected from the line of honor. It may that there is some explanation which will leave him in a position, more favorable to his reputation than at this time seems likely. If it shall so turn out it will be gratifying to me, as I know it will to all honorable men. Every per­ son of right feeling must be pained at the fill of a man in eminent place. If such new light shall appear, I will be im­ measurably happy in placing it before my readers. L. M. N. PASSING EVENTS. SENATOR SPENCER has employed ex- Senator Carpenter to defend him against the prosecution brought by the State of Alabama to unseat him in the United States Senate. PKOPLF, who intend to exhibit at the Centennial Exposition and have already engaged space on the grounds should not delay to put in an appearance until within a short time of the opening day. April 26 is the last day on which articles for exhibition can be received, but it is desirable that as much as possible should be dene before that time approaches. The great buildings are nearly all com­ pleted, and ample facilities for the ar­ rangement of goods are furnished. •AFTER a long, persistent, and, to say the least, manly fight for a throne, Don Carlos,like Prince Charles Edward Stuart of Scotland, has been compelled to throw up the sponge. He has displayed a reckless species of bravery, a goocf deal of strategy, and strong personal magnet­ ism ; but possession is nine-tenths of the law in kingdoms as in private property, and the prince who fights against a throne backed by money and an army, however able he may be and endeared to the hearts of the people, is pretty sure in the long run to lose the same. ANENT the talk in Congress of shutting miners out of the Black Hills reservation, the New York Graphic pertinently remarks : "So long as it is currently believed that there is plenty of gold in the Black Hills that can be got by the taking it will require an iron fence a iiuiiuitid ui^k) wilih uiuod picket behind every post, and a ditch wide and deep enough for a fleet of kon-clads, to keep the enterprising; Yankee from pioneering civilization into that interest­ ing region. If the Sioux will not dig himself he may as well pocket his claim and quit." IN the Kansas legislature, the other day, the general topic of discussion was the discovery that a bill passed a few days previously providing for the ap­ pointment of a County Auditor for Leav­ enworth County was materially changed after its passages and before the publi­ cation. The alterations make the Audi­ tor appointed by the probate instead of the District Judge, and increase the term of the office from two to four years. The responsibility for this proceeding is charged upon Senator Johnson, of Lety? enworth County, a candidate for the office to which the bill relates. A crim­ inal proceeding will probably be institu­ ted upon the report of the investigating committee. A GREAT many articles at present stored in the Patent Offioe at Washing­ ton are being prepared for shipment to the Centennial. Among these is the original Declaration of Independence. A double-proof-against-fire-and-water safe has been made expressly for this document, and it will be guarded as though the country could not exist if it were destroyed or stolen. Franklin's first printing press will be sent, if an ar­ rangement can be made which will save it from falling to pieces in transporta­ tion. George Washington's books, in which he kept an account of every cent received and expended in the most exact and truthful mannet, will be shown, to all the little boys to prove that story about the cherry tree which so manv wicked newspaper writers make light of. THE Washington correspondent of the New York Tribune says the House Com­ mittee on Indian Affairs will, when it is called again, report a bill for the transfer of the care of civilized Indians in the States of Now York and Michigan from the General Government to that of the States in which they reside. This will be the first step in an important move­ ment, which the advocates of it hope will finally result in a satisfactory solu­ tion of the entire Indian question.* The majority of the Indian Committee, it is believed, will favor the transfer of the Indian Bureau to the War Department, and report a bill somewhat similar to that already agreed to by the Committee on Military Affairs. The President has recently expressed liimself as opposed to this transfer, and in conversation with members of the Committee on Indian Affairs has stated his objections to it in very pointed language. r GEO. S. STEVENS, Judge of the Coun­ ty Court of Nelson County, Virginia, is to be removed from office by act of the House of Delegates. The Judge is fond of draw-poker, and according to the tes­ timony is quite successful at the game. One Sunday in January last, and on sev­ eral days thereafter, he engaged in his favorite game with William H. Fowle, a member of the House of Delegates, and on these divers occasions managed to extract from this foolish Fowle money, checks, and bonds to the amount of 87,200. This Fowle having lost his feathers, complained to his fellow-dele­ gates, or in some way got the incident before them in such shape that a com­ mittee . of investigation was appointed, which found the. facts to be as above stated, and recommended the removal of Stevens on the ground that the exalted moral worth necessary in a jurist to com­ mand the confidence of the people is in­ compatible with indulgences in games of chance for money. THE EMMA MINE SWINDLE. THE FRONTIER. Cton. Sheridan Aska for the EstaKlMnmit ot Two Military Posts on the Yellow­ stone--His Opinion pf the Black Bills . u<l other Reelons Farther West. The Military Committee of the House of Representatives having requested Lieut.-Gen. P. H. Sheridan to supple­ ment his testimony on military affairs, recently given before the committee, that officer has made the following ad­ ditional suggestions: It will be seen that he has cut down the appropriation required by the bill introduced by Mr. Maginnis from $300,000 to $200,000. In view of the immigration to the Black HillfL and the present military expe­ dition, this communication of tne Lieu- tenant-General has peculiar interest: HEADQUARTERS MILITARY DIVISION OF MIB-1 SOUM, CHICAGO, 111., Feb. 26, 1876. J The necessity for two military posts on the Yellowstone has been apparent to me for two yearn paat, ami I have recommended their estab­ lishment in my annual reports. So strong haw I been convinced of tlua necessity that I have, without any expense to the Government, mad* an examination of the4¥eHowstone River, SAD Belectod the points at whioh they should be built. The Indian question in the Black Hills must now be settled by the establishment of the Indians on the Missouri River, and, in the ac­ complishment of this purpose, the two posts mentioned will have to be located, one at or near the mouth of the Big Horn River; the other at or near the mouth of the Tongas River. Theee posts can be supplied by steam­ boat up the Yellowstone, and can be constructed of material fonnfl in Ww vicinity of the points selected. I think I can have them built for $100,800 each; in other words, I will try to build both for $200,000, instead of the F300,000 mentioned in the bill. The Black Hills country will probably be cov­ ered with towns and villages during the next five or sis years. Its value will cause the ex­ tension of the Northern Pacific Railroad on the south side of the Yellowstone, as far aa the Gallatin valley, in Montana, and will also build another railroad from North Platte Station, on the Union Pacific Railroad, to the ll'ack Hills. I am of the belief that the largest deposits of gold are further west than where the miners are now working. Hie headquarters of Wind River are gold-bearing ; the Owl (.'reek Moun­ tains are ; the Liig Ilorn Valley is gold-bearing ; Powder Rivet' is gold-bearing ; also Clark's Fork of the Yellowstone. Besides this, the Black Hills have abuudauce of good tim­ ber for tiie treeless countjy south of them and west of the Missouri River. The success of all these interests depends on the establishment of the two posts. Military operations have now been com­ menced against the hostile bands of Sioux, 4>y request of the Interior Department, and I con­ sider the appropriation so uecenaury that I es­ pecially request immediate action on it. (Signed), P. H. SHEBIDAH, Lieuteuant-General. SILVER CURRENCY. Preparing to Resume--The Amount of Silver In the Treasury Vaults. The Washington correspondent of the New York Tribune telegraphs as follows: The House Appropriations Committee have devoted much time lately to con­ sidering the policy of recommending tho Secretary of the Treasury to begin silver substitution without delay. The S?eret«ry r»Jr^?.dy hns full poww fa the premises conferred by the first section of the Resumption act, but he hesitates to follow his instincts without sharing the responsibility. He said recently in a committee meeting that he would like to have some expression of opinion from the members or some directions from Congress before beginning to replace fractional currency with silver coin, for, said he, if it fiils where will the lightning strike? The discussion this morning indicated that the majority of the committee favor the proposition. The subject comes home to them, as they are asked to pass a special bill for $300,000 to enable the department to resume printing greenback currency. The Secretary then proposes to put out silver in place of fractional currency, and the oommittee are of opinion that either one or the other is unnecessary. It yearly costs nearly a million dollars to print, cpunt, fmd reduce fractional currency. If it* is replaced by silver, which is worth less according to the market reports, it will cost nothing, for the silver is already on hand and oeing coined. There are, according to reports, about $14,000,000 of silver coin in the Treasury and Sub-Treasuries. This is lying idle, and even the interest at5por cent, would amount to 8700,000. _ Thus we have a million and a half, which, at 5 per cent., would pay the interest on 830,000,00a For several days the Treasury hits been busy sending silver coin to the different sections of the country to the Sub-Treasuries, Postoffices, etc., ready for orders to pav out for fractional cur­ rency. Even the order on the proper officials has been prepared at the depart­ ment, and nothing now remains but for the Secretary to affix his name, and fourteen millions of dollars in silver coin go jingling into the pockets of the peo­ ple. The Nevada mines, alone, will, iu two or three months, when the shafts and mills are completed, produce $7,- 000,000 a month of gold and silver. If the people are disposed to fill their stockings with silver coin and lay them away, there may be plenty more to take their place. Cton. %chenek*a Connection wtm tfco, --Tho Story of James C. Lyon--A CompI eated Piece of Buaineaa. The House Committee on Foreigî Affairs has been investigating Gen* iSchenck's connection with that institul* tion. Among other testimony was that of James E. Xiyon, of Wis., one of the owners of the Mooit lode, which afterward became the Emm% , mine. This -witness testified that th$ mine was an unmitigated fraud front."1* the beginning. When suits arose th#ff Directors liad great difficulty in obtain#! / ing a trial in the courts of Utah, becaus# Judge McKean was engaged in trying iifi1' his own court a case in which he was in* <'.? terested, being President of, and a larg^rf stockholder in a company engaged litigation with another similar mini company. McKean was also interests to the extent of 8100,000 in the Tunnel*. ling Company, wkich organized with , capital of $1,000,000. The othe#« justices were joint partners m thdM Emma Mine with interests adveredR-V to him. The Marshal of the Territory '̂ was also interested in Emma mine stocky \ - Therefore it was considered necessai^ :' to effect the removal of Judge McKean, and the assistance of Senator Morton wai . called in as an attorney, he being prom­ ised $20,000 if the schemes of the specu­ lators were successful; but that, gentle­ man declined to have anything to do with the affair when he ascertained thai; the parties wished to use his political, influence as a Senator. Lyon was tf^: / receive $500,000 as his share" of the plunt* ,„i„ der of the English investors in tho mine^*' and because it was not forthcoming h§:- now exposes the scheme. He says the# the sale to the English capitalists wa§ * made by wholesale corruption and brib* " ery. He charges that Prof. Sillimafc received $20,000 for making a favorable report of a mine already exhausted; thai Gen. Schenck was given 600 shared with the guarantee that they shoul# yield him £20 a share; that Baron Grant received $500,000, Jay Cooke, MoOul* loch & Co. $125,000^ and othegrs stilt other specified sums, On June 4, 1872, Lyon testifies, the Emma Mine literally caved in, or col­ lapsed, and has not since been repaired. When ex-Senator Stewart was asked hoy they could satisfy the English stockholdr ers for the non-production of ore, hi replied that was easily arranged. Tliejf could say the snows of Utah were so deep as to prevent hauling, but they could make up for lost time during thft summer. Mr. Park wrote to Anderson* connected with the company, on the 29th •f July, 1874, after his return from Salt Lake City, that while he expected to see in the Emma Mine large beds of ore, the sight of them went far above hit expectations. There was no report con­ cerning the vast products of the mini but what fell far short of the truth. Oft such false representations the stook as ft oonsequence advanced. Gen. SeheKk'ft statement to the Eng­ lish stockholders materially differs from the above. It is to the effect that he, ap well as the Englishmen, had been swiii- • died, and all that can be justly Md al his door is the charge of gross impro­ priety in consenting to the use of life name as a Director in a mining comjmngr while he was the United States Minister at the Court of St. James. The General says he first met Senafcj* Stewart and Trenor W. Park in a Lo|r don hotel in company with Mr. Evarts, who was then on his way to Geneva to represent the United States as counsel in the Geneva case. Mr. Evarts intro­ duced Park, and at subsequent meetings he and Stewart urged upon Schenck tile value of the Emma Mine shares as an in­ vestment, till at last Park offered to ad* vance the money on Schenck's note, with security for one year. It was not until after this that Gen. Selienck was request­ ed to become one of the Directors, as he says, and he only consented after the question of propriety had been settled by the showing that other men promi­ nent in diplomatic circles were serving in a similar capacity in other stock com­ panies. His confidence in, the schema betrayed him into giving it this addi­ tional Indorsement, and when he retired from the Directory his letter of resigna­ tion expressed continued confidence in the value of the mine. By the following card it will be seen that wlkdsise Sohenck asks an opportunity £0 La fully heard on the subject: LONSON, March 1. • In "ome IstsSan papers tins morataig iram publiaked te!1 aphis 4ispatobei purporting le givo a report of Lyon's tes»dmony before a ootn- mitfcas of Congress. I denounce his whole ' statement concerning me as a tissue of infa» snous falsehoods. Having obtained leave front my Government for the purpose, I shall sail m the next steamer for the United States to con­ front my calumniators and vindicate my repu­ tation. R. O. SCHXHOK. The matter is to be thoroughly inves­ tigated,,, and it is probable that tne oom­ mittee will be granted leave to sit during the recess of Congress. Mr. SchenoE has telegraphed Ms attorney to retain the professional servioes of Wm. M. Evarts, and to beva Perk and Stowart summoned. A FBOGRAMME is on foot to call a con­ vention to be held at St. Paul on the 3d, 4th, and 6th of July, or about that timo^ to which are invited delegates from every county in the State, to represent the breeders of horses, e&fQe, hogfl̂ sheep, poultry, and the dauy interest^ in .order to form a stock-breeders' asso-. ciation through whioh to disseminate the practical knowledge as to the breed­ ing and cross-breeding, feeding, handling, and the general improvement of each of the above hrmatow of in­ dustry. ON® of the great feateres of the Philo- delphia Exposition will be the engine in machinery hall. It will supply the power for all the machinery in a building cov­ ering seventeen acres of ground. It has tne capacity of 2,500 horse-power, and will cost, when completed, $70,00t American mechanics will be proud to show that engine to their Earopeen neighbors. PAT HAWES, the piL^an, who was driven from the vestibule of the New York Postoffice, still holds the right to keep the stand. He was elected to Con­ gress from Nebraska, but was ruled out because his State was not entitled to. two Congressmen. Ho will run again thift fall, and if he is not elected he will re-open his New York pie-stand.-- York Herald.