vrf- u'jwfr • • L^.r ,jwt:,n* ^.^f.,.; ' -• ' - ' • .' - vtM I. VAN SLYKE. Editor ami PuMlthfcr. McHENBT, ILLINOia •gf-l "V WEEKLY NEWS REVIEW. THE EAST. Tn last of the seven huge piers for the bridge between Albany and Greenbush has b««n finished. The structure is to cost $650,- .'**000, will be about one-third of a mile in length, and has a draw of 100 feeU It will be need by the Wert Shore railway, now in prooess •f construction. THE extensive brewery of Mayer 4 Bachman, at Clifton, Staten Island, wae de- stroved by fire. The loss is estimated at •600,000. and hundreds of employes are idle. THK Mechanics' National Bank, of Kewark, N. J., which was regarded as the strongest in that city, has suspended. At a conference of the directors the cashier, O. L. Baldwin, stated that it would be useless to proceed with business. An offer by those present to subscribe $500,000 was met by the statement that $'2,100.000 woiiid not suffice. It apjxanng that Baldwin had nifde way with everything but a heavy safe, a director canned his arrest by the United Suites Marshal. While confined in his residence the cnsh ier was waited upon by Commissioner Kt asl.v, and admitted to bail in $25,000. He then istated that in 1873 he began to make loans to C. Nugent A* Co.. morocco manufact urers, without security or tlie knowledge of tb® directors, and soon lound himself in the power of the firm, who promised to restore all ad vances and protect him. The loatiw steadily in creased to $2,000,000. the void being placed in the accounts of tke Mechanics'., Bank, of New York. Baldwin claims to have lost noth ing by speculation. Under the justice admin istered in New Jersey, the accommodating cashier will doubtless end his days in prison, i The hank has a building worth £50,000. Joseph A. Halsey was President of the institution, i which has been established for fifty years, and has of late paid 7-per-cent semi-annual divi dends. On charge of aiding in the wrcck of : the 'bank, Christopher Nugent has been arrest- 1 ed, and gave $25,000 bail. FURTHER investigation into the affairs of the Mechanics' National Bank of Newark shows that the amount of the stealings is $2,- 800,000. There is a pretty general indisposi tion to believe that Nugent A Co. received any thing like this amount, and the belief gains that Baldwin lost the money in stock specula^ tion. The usual number of persons who knew all about the condition of affairs a month ago have turned up. Baldwin says he has been a fool, but not a knave. THE cost for electric lights in the Philadelphia postoffice for one month was #354, as against $1,184 for gas. THK wm. THB 'wrack of the steamer Jennie Gil christ floated down the Mississippi to Buffalo, and lodged against a tree. The corpse of Will iam Weadt, of Cordova, was found in the cab in. The body of Mrs. Mary J.Camp wai re covered twelve miles below Davenport. CL £. Johnson, of Moline, LI., and John McCall, of Le Claire, Iowa, are known to have perished, making thirteen viotuns. THE advent at Omaha of Paul Boyton on his swim down the Missouri river had the effect of turning the head of one unfortunate fellow, who jumped into the river while the crowd were following Boyton to his hotel, and, after swimming for a time, was drowned. CHIEF JUSTICE HUNTEK, of Utah, has decided that no naturalization papers have aver been issued to Congressional Delegate George Q. Cannon in that Territory, and that he is not a citizen of the United States A committee ef the Nauonnl Association of Underwriters, after studying the deficiencies of the St. Louis fire department, has given notice that rates of insurance will be advanced At the Yuican steel worke. St. Louis, the fall of an elevator crushed James McGrail to a jel ly, fractured Pat Dalley s skull, and broke three ribs for James Marrion. An hour previously Hugh Hogan was roasted with molten metal. ONE of the largest gold-bearing min- tnl discoveries was recently made in Summit district, Oolorado, by Judge Thos. li Bowen, of Del Norte, Col. It is pronounced the most remarkable and valuable gold mine being worked in the United States. Assays are now running over $20,000 in gold per ton. Bo wen was recently offered $3,000,000 eash by Eastern Capitalists for a half interest in the property, which he refused It is estimated that tlie recent overflow of the Mississippi has caused damages between Keokuk, Iowa, and Louisiana, Mo., amounting to $2,930,000. SMALL-POX is epidemic in Stearns county, Minn., and the physicians of the State Board of Health are bending all their energies to confine it to the districts now infected, and to eventually root it out altogether. They en counter considerable difficulty on account of tha ignorance of the inhabitants, who look oa the snsease as a visitation of Providence The Minnesota House of Representatives passed the Senate bill for the adjustment of the bonded debt, with an amendment that the rate •t interest on the new bonds shall not cxceed S per cent.... .The Phoenix planing-mill at 8t. Louis, owned and operated by George Breckin ridge. was destroyed by fire. The loss is at 950,000. Tue insuranoe is $26,000. KEITH'S extensive furniture warehouse at Leavenworth, JEan., valued, with its con tents, at 969,000, was swept away by firo. THB SOUTH# COL. ALEXANDER 0. TELL, one of Ikbe leading spirits of Arkansas, died at his home in Benton county Edgefield Court House, 8. C., has been almost wholly wiped out by an incendiary conflagration, which raged all day. OnJy three stores are left to mark the site of the town. The fuunes broke •ot just before daybreak in the livery stable of the Tilhiiiiu Hotel. The loss is estimated at over $100, (MM), whioh is distributed among thirty-five persons. Senator M. C. Butler loet his law library. Edgefield is about sixty <nil«M frem Columbia, m the midst of cotton pinntv nona, and had a population of about 1,000. A PARTY of officers and a posse of six teen well-armed men --do a raid on a house aear Adairiville, Ky., to capture the Juno* brothers, but found they had fed....Jeff Davids, a negro, 70 years of age, living near Abbeville, S. C., was five years ago convicted ol murdering his former master. Five times has the prisoner been placed on the scaffold foi execution, and as many tames respited through distrust of the circumstantial testimony. A second trial closed with his being set at liberty. SSVZBAXI oolored men of Sharkey , Monty, Miss., on their way to attend a fusion meeting, were fired on from ambush, Perry Thompson being killled and two others dan gerously wounded. COL. G. M. MURPHY, a leading attor ney of Hot Springs, Ark., prosecuted one Geo. ftofllrr for the murder of a Dr. Lyman. Sadlei was acquitted, and then vowed vengeanoe against Murphy. Murphy heard of the threat, •ought out Sadler, and shot him four times, inflicting fatal wounds. •KMISIiAI- payment of Confederate bonds, whioh acoounts for the speculation in the article. It is announced that Solicitor Raynor will endeavor to have the deposit t urned over to the United States Another search rmml, the United States ship Alliance, has returned without find- iag any traces Of the Arctic cruiser Jeannette. Commander Wadleightvports that the ioo off the coast of Greenland has been heavier and extended mifeh further south this year than usual. A PANAMA letter states that the oanal builders are still suffering from yellow fever. There is some excitement among the Colom bians anent the threatened employment of French convict labor, which would necessitate the introduction of French troops In Au gusta, Ga., Confederate bonds have been sold At from $10 to $11 per 91,000. The Pall MaA Qewitr states that not a single penny is in the Bank of England to the creclu of the. late Con federacy.... At Castle Garden, N. Y., 39,264 •migrant* landed daring the past month, an increase of 8,562 over the arrivals of tho pre ceding month. THB Methodist Episcopal Conference of the United States voted $24,000 for mission ary work in Germany and Switzerland, f 9,618 for missionary #©rk in Denmark, $13,9t3 for Norway, 96,000 for Siberia, $22,350 for Sweden, $13,250 for South America, and $62,259 for North India... .Adelina Patti arrived in New York from Europe last week. A large number of friends went down the bay to welcome her. She responded to an address in French by ons in English. WASHINGTON. GKH. DBUM, in his annual report to the General of the Army, says the losses of the army during the year were: Deaths, 248 ; dis charges, 6,564 ; desertions, 2.361; total, 9,173. Number of recruits assigned, 3,805 ; number of soldiers re-enlisted, 1,964; total, 5,769. This shows an increase of 1,260 discharges, 13 deaths and 318 desertions. The General recommends a change in the method of pro motion to the rank of field officer below the rank of Colonel, and this end, he thinks, ' can only he attained by promotion in the army instead of by commission in a particular regiment Gnitean, the assassin, is excited because his hortlier-in-law i§ pleading insanity in his behalf. Me insists that the Almighty inspired him to kill President. Garfield. FOLLOWIM« is the regular monthly public-debt statement, issued at Washington en the 1st inat.: Six per cent bonds, extended ..$ Five per cent?, extended Fcnr and one-half per cent, bonds Four uorrcent. bonds. Refunding certificates Navy pension fund Total interest-bearing debt M:.tim-d debt . I^Ki'itonclcra $ MA, 711,054 O-'U beaten of deposit... 8,310,UM Uc.d and sliver certifi cate ; 71,535,59# Fractional currency *,098,151 161,876,0M 401,504,900 3(0,000.000 738,749,7)50 698,050 14,000,000 $1,MS,728,760 13,744 305 Total without interact. Total debt Total interest...,.v Caph in treasury Debt loss cash In treasury... Decrease during October Decrease siuoe June 80, 1881 Current i.abilittss-- . » Interest due and unpaid ;....( I>ei ' on which interest haa eeaaed...... Interest tli-reon Gold and silver oertifloatee T7&?ied S'u* note* held for redeniptioa of cortifi irate* of deposit Cash balance available NOT. 1J188L... <38,«T9,7ST $l,7»5,r-H4,4G6 13,321,548 56,004,345 ' 3,041,671 13,746,305 8»L,»/>5 71,635,570 *,319,000 144,4TJ3,41S Total $ 340,9t;0,a71 Available anaets-- Cash in treasury $ 240,960,'.71 Bonds iMued to Pacific railway compan ies, interetrt payable in lawful money, principal outstanding $ Interest accrued and not yet paid Interest i>aid by United States Interest repaid by companies-- Inter tie i repaid oj transportation ef mails By ca*h payments ef e per eeuv ot net earnings Balance ef interest paid by tbe United States c ined during October-- Eag;t:.s Htlf-eiLRlee i Staiukud silver dollars Cents 44,623,512 1,2'J2,470 71,407,U72 14,682,941 66C.193 86,149,182 t.i • %,* i'.C u«« •«) 1 > V- ) mm ito.4 \w trJ.-. si v. m'i i » «« ' V AFACHKS haw appeared on Mexican •Ml* where they killed a family near Magd* .'iena. Gen. Otero sent oat a foroc of troops i• iooo-operatc with the Americans. JOSEPH CAMPBELL, at Bluffton, Ind., and Mias Louisa Eelsey, at Oelina, Ohio, were lurried by telegraph, there being a minister and a wedding party at each end of the wire. Valentine Yeske, a Cincinnati batcher, made a murderous assault on bis wife wfth a knife, gashing her throat .fearful manner. He then drew the across his own throat, inflicting what lieved to be a fatal wound. His i nrobably recover. Yeeke had been for several days. DK. RICE, of Merton, Wis., mibpcenaed as a witness in the ti to testify that he exammed"~fcim three years •go, and found him suffering from softening Of the brain. LARGE pnrchaaes of Confederate bonds an being made in Philadelphia, for English customers. The Treasury Department has in formation that interest on the fund in the Banb of England to the credit of the Conf ederate States is annually collected by Jeff Davis and Judah P. Beiijauiin. London capitalists have re tained Mr. Benjamin to recover the money in C48.5M 755,^00 2,850,0J« 4,15U,008 COL. GEOROE COWIE, Chief of the Fifth Auditor's office in tho Treasury Depart ment, was requested to resign for passing an illegal claim tor $2,000 John Walling, 4 lunatic from OmesYille, Pa., who was once ar rested in Washington and sent homo, reap peared at, the White House, fully armed, with the intention of killing President Arthur and seating Dr. John Ncebling in tho executive chair. It required several men to take a re volver from the madman, when he became as mec-k as a lamb, and was sent to the Govern ment Asylum. He had been living quietly at the capital, and it is strange that he had not attacked the President on one of his daily drives. A DECISION made bj Attorney Gener al MacVeagh, of importance to those interest ed in mines, is that the President has no legal right to include in reservations of land for Gov ernmental purposes mines which have been located in accordancc with legal forms. CAVEATS on file in the Treasury De partment show that there are ontatanding f 2,511,040 in stolen registered bonds, for which new ores have been issued. It bas been dis covered that tbieves lend their plunder to dis honest officials of banking and other large cor porations, to be died away as legilimate securi ties, rcotiviiig as compensation a sum equal to the legal interest. The Metropolitan Bank, of New York, reoently found among its assets $50,000 in stolen registered lx>nds, placed im the vaults by a middleman of the thieves, and the offender is serving a term in prison In his annual report, Qen. Hazen, chief signal officer, states there has been a de cided improvement in the weather predictions made by his department. With regard to the forecasts made for the benefit of ootton growers, he says he was obliged to reduco the number of signal stations on account of insufficiency of the appropriation Attorney General MacVeagh protests that h# can not be justly charged with abandoning the star-route cases, as he long ago gave noticc that he would only take tbem to the Grand Jury, and employ eminent counsel to frosecutc them. The ringstcrs now assert that MacVeagh ha>; skipped out of the row, and that James is preparing to follow. ' Thb annual report of tha Pension Bu reau abows that the 30th of Jane, 1881, there were 368,830 pensioners, a net increase during the year of 18.028. The aggr. gato annual value of all pensions was f28.71/.>,1)67. The iksxmui I disbureuiieiifai of the office, however, largely exceed thk stun. For instance, the total amount paid for pensions during the year (exclusive of certain arrears in claims allowed prior to Jan. 35, 1879, was $49,723,147, the difference being accounted for by arrears of pensions, or "accrued pensions," covering periods dating back to the discharge in each ease of the soldier still living, and in claims of widows or minor chil dren In reviewing the business of the treasury for the year, Treasurer Gilftllan says there is no provision of law requiring a specie reserve for the redemption of United States notes, bnt the stock of coin has been maintained at about 40 per cent, of the greenbacks outstanding. By order of the President, the pension agency at St. Louin is to be removed to Topcka Jan. 1. and Nathaniel Adamn has been appointed Agent. The Pension Bureau reports its aggre gate annual burden at %2H,769,%7 The State Department kiitnirs nothing of any Confederate moneys in England, and will not make tho new financial craze subject for any diplomatic cor respondence. POLLTICAL* JUDGE FOLGER will not enter on his dutltife as Secretary of the Treasury until the cases now pending before the New York Court of Appeals are disposed of. SECRETARY WISDOM is said to have proposed to President Garfield at Long Branch, the weak before the latter was shot, a plan of civil-scrvice reform for the Treasury Depart ment. This plan, which met with the approval of the late President, proposed to allot to each State a number of appointments ; the ap pointment of a committee of three in each State before whom candidates for the places should be examined at leant once a year, the examination to be so conducted as to' test the experience and capacity of the applicants; ap pointments to be made from among those who btood liighent on the list, according as vacan cies to which the State of the applicants was entitled occurred. It was also contemplated tbiit, otber things being equal, soldier*, their widows and children should have a prul'era-ice. THE President has appointed Clifford Stratham Postmaster at Lynchburg, Va., in place of Wilson, suspended, in acoordmce with the programme arranged by the last Senatorial caucus. THB canvas for the Speakership of tha House will commenoe soon, as prom inent members are already engaging quarters- The caucus strength of the Republicans is esti mated at 150 votea, with 76 neccssary to secure a nomination. Ex-Congressman liainey, ool ored, of South Carolina, and McPhersoo, of Pennsylvania, an candidates for the Clerk ship. THE President has received a number of protests against the retention of Publio Printer Defrees, urging the appointment of a younger and more active man... .It is said President Arthur has offered the position of Becrotarv of the Interior to James A. William son, of Iowa, formerly Commissioner General of tho Land Office The New York Hi.rald publishes an interview with Secretary Blaine relative to the new Cabinet He says it will be " Grant from top to bottom after Jan. L" Blaine will retire m December. raBEraif. RETURNS from the country districts of Germany oonfirm previous impressions as to the result of the late election. The Conservative- Clerical combination has been defeated, Bis marck haa been rebuked, and Liberal ideas and principles have achieved a triumph as re markable as it was unexpected. All the members of the Center and advanced Liberal party of the iast Reichstag who pre sented themselves for re-election have been successful. Several noted Radicals will have an opportunity to discuss Bismarck's policy and principles in the next Parliament.... Two wrecks, iavolving considerable loss of life, are reported off the Australian coast The steamer Calcutta, from Melbourne for Sydney, went down, and all on board, twenty-two per sons, perished; and the ship Omba, from Batavia for Melbourne, was lost with all hands M. Gambetta has accepted a Cabinet position from President Grevy..... The Land Leaguers gathered at Paris hesitate to transfer their official he&dqaarters to French soiL Parnell sends out a protest against the substitution of tenant defense associations for the branch leagues. Some crops gathered by emergency men were maliciously burned at Ballyduff, in presenoe of a large crowd. While serving summons in Connty Mayo, the police were attacked by a party of 700, who were fired upon. Many thousand tenants in Weetmeath and Iiossoommon will take ad vantage of the Laud Commission. Cells have been prepared in Armagh jaii for Parncil and forty others. Capt Dugmore, an Englishman, bas been arrested under the Coercion act .FATHER CONWAY, a Sligo priest, was suspended by his Bishop because of his too ardent Land-Leagueism, but his parishioners will have none or it, and declare that no other priest than Father Conway can officiate in their church. Additional troops are being sent to Ireland, and a iiymg column is held in readiness to proceed to Westmeath or Roscommon. A Dublin butoher named Duff, who killed a po liceman in a riot on the 15th of September, haa been sentenced to death. Two persons were fatally shot and twenty person* were wounded in a riot at Belmullet, Mayo. A renewal of the disturbances is feared, and reinforcements have been sent forward. The Land Court made their first decision under the new set on the lBt inst It was in favor of a reduction of rent for the next fifteen years. CovUn Via• Kaoji raloagcj fmm prisOli OH SIC- cotlnt of ill-health Heavy snow-storms are reported throughout England, two feet having fallen in some of the midland counties. FOUR persons have died from the •ffeets of wounds received in the conflict be tween the people and the police at Belmullet, Mayo, and six more deaths are expected. A further outbreak is looked for. Several thous and applications have been made to the Land Court lor rent adjustment Bishop Butler, of Iiimerick, it is stated, has intimated to Father Bheehy that ho had better not return to the Diocese of Limerick during the present exoitement At St. Petersburg the police arrested a man and woman engaged in preparing dangerous explo sives. The Nihilists are still scattering their socialist publications, in spite of the authori ties, even into the barracks of the Imperial Guard. The unhappy Czar has recently re ceived many threatening letters The nego tiations between England and France for a new commercial treaty between the two conn- tries have failed, and the British Commission ers have quit France. IN a speech delivered in Dublin, Miss Jlelen Taylor, the daughtra of the great En glish political economist, John Stuart Mill, said: " Never did Austria commit in her provinces in Italy any atrocities to be compared with those now perpetrated in Leland under the Glad stone administration. I have traveled much, bnt the only country where the things happen ing in Ireland would be possible is that country which is ruled by the Turk." O'Hagau, the retiring Lord Chancellor of Ire land, intends to largely increase the magistracy, appointing many Catholics. Attorney General Hugh Law will succeed to the Chancellorship. The police of Limerick have been provided with revolvers. A tenant farmer near Comgan, named Doherty, was murdered in jail after having paid his rent....The peo ple of Alsace and Lorraine arc evident ly dissatisfied at German rnle, and are quite anxious to get back under French rnle. At the reoent elections the pro-French candidates were elected from every comtitu- •ncy in the two provinces, and by sweeping majorities in all but one instanoe The Lon don Timet thinks the Confederate bond sen sation is entirely due to the action of a clique who are prepared to run up the price of any rubbish wherever there is a chance of alluring tho public into joining in the venture. NATIONAL FINANCES. EXTliA SENATORIAL SESSION. On the opening ef the Senate, on Saturday, Oct 29, llr. Hill, of Georgia, offered a resolu tion that appointments to Federal offices ought not to bo made for the purpose of influencing elections in the States, bat objection was made to its consideration. In executive session, several Senators who had been arrested for absenting them Helves were arraigned and reprimanded. Messrs. Sherman and Bayard were appointed to wait on the President and lenrn if ho bad any further busi ness to place before the Senate. On their re turn inJm tho Executive Mansion Mr. Bayard offered a resolution of thanks to President pro tem. Davis, which passed unanimously, and an adjournment sine die took place; Mr. "Davit* ac knowledged the compliment in a few *ords. Tiie Kanate confirmed John L. Bevemlge as United States Assistant Treasurer at Chicago; Sydney H. Bitch, as Surveyor of Customs at Port Jefferson, N. Y.; Frederick Kmflcr, Ten sion Agent at Indianapolis; 11. <J. F.ltnter, United States Attorney for the Western Dis trict of Louisiana; Chales Pay ton, of Massa- chusci tH, Charge d'Affaires in Denmark. Consuls General -- Ferdinand Voglcr, of Ohio, at Frank fort; Simon Wolf, of the District of Columbia, at Cairo. Consuls--Silas P. Hubbell, of New York, at St John's, Quebec ; George W. Roose velt, of Pennsylvania, at Bordeaux ; Jesse H Moore, of Illinois, at Callao ; Charles K-'hlo, of Indiana, at Sydney ; J. A. Leonard, of Minne sota, at Leitb, John 8. Robeson, of Ten nessee, at Tripoli; Volney W. Smith, of Arkansas, at St. Thomas: William P. Pierce, of Georgia, at Cienfur^os; Collector* of Customs--Jon» A. Tibbita, Dis trict of New London, Ct.; Cbarles T. Osborn, District of Suj>erior, Mich. Surveyors General --Jacques A. Gla, of Louisiana; John S. Har ris, ef Montana. Register of Wills, District of Columbia --Hiram J. Ramsdell. Postmasters-- John M. Patton, at Yillisca, Iowa ; Mrs. Jane Baldwin, at Council Bluffs; E. R. Hastings, at Carroll City, Iowa. A Fearful Penalty. The Austin Colored Invincibles drill in ^ their hall once a week. Capt. Skidmore, wlio has been recently elected, is determined that discipline shall bo maintained. After drill wan over, h© made a brief speech to tho Invincibles about the necessity of their attending drill regularly. He said: ' 'I wants de members ob dis command to understand onct for all, dat we meets for drill reglar ebery Friday ebening at 8 o'clock in dis heali hall, and de mem ber what fails ter put in an appearance will be--" ' "Shot to deff?" interrupted Corporal Jim Webster. "Drapped from de ranks for a desert er?" asked Lieut. Sam Johnsing. "Wussen den dat ar," continued the captain, amid a solemn silence that was almost painful, "de member what fails to appear, will be looked upon as habin' been absent from de drill."--(Texas Sittings. & > •( TreMitrwr Gllllliaa's Yearly He pert. 11m report of United States Treantnr Gilfil- lan for the-fiscal year ending June SO, 1881, •howa an increase in the raoeipU over those for 1880 from every source. Increase in customs, j f11,637,811: internal revenue, $11,255,011; sales i of pablit? lands. $1,185,386; miscellaneous sources, t3,"t77,702; total increase, $27,255,681, | which, added to the not reduction of $6,930,070 j in expenditures, makes an increase in tlio sur plus revenue of $34,185,751. j The net revenues were $360,782,202, and the j net expenditures $260,712,887. The excess of the receipts over payments was $100,069,404, of which $90,872,261 was expended in the re demption of the public debt The balance in the treasury increased $48,- 667.603, from $203,791,321 at the beginning, to $252, 458,925 at the end of the fiscal year. The amount expended on account of interest and premium on the public debt ran down from 498,652,895 in 1880 to $83,569,989, a reduction of $14,982,905. The balance standing to the credit of disbursing officers and agents of the United States with various ottices of the treas ury, June 30. 1881, was $24,936,307. j The receipts for the fiscal year on account of i the Postoflico Department were $39,757,664, and the expenditures $38,544,935, of which amounts $24,702,708 were received and expended direct ly by Postmasters. | The unavailable funds in th* treasury | amount to $20,521,632, an increase since the last report, by reason of taking up certain items previously carried in cash. At the close of the year there was held by the Treasurer in United States boudn $360,509,900 as security for tha circulation of national banks, and $15,- 295?500 as security for public deposits in national-bank depositories. During the year $276,899,700 in bonds was deposited for these purposes, and $277,527,350 withdrawn, exceed ing by far the transactions of any former year. CURRENCY OUTSTANDING. The amonnt of United States currency out standing at the close of the year was $362,589,- 437 ; redeemed during tho year, $71,069,974. Total redemptions sinoe frit issue of currency, $2,300,141,073. United States bonds amounting to $86,804,- 050 have been retired during the year. The aggregate retired by purchase, redemption, conversion and exchange, from March 11, 1869, to the close of the fiscal year, was $1,983,- 844,800. Coupons from United States bonds of the value of $22,797,667 were paid during the year, and quarterly interest on registered stock funded loans, amounting to $44,455,790, was paid by moans of 305,105 checks. National-bank note'w received for redemption during the year, $59,650,259. The aggregate redemptions, uuder act June 20,1874, ha»*b*«n $1,099,634,772. GOLD AND SIX A HI. Comparing tho condition of the treasury Sept 30, 1881, with the condition the same day last year, the most striking changes are the in crease in gold coin aud bullion and standard silver dollars on hand, and in silver eertificatss outstand n#. Deducting gold certificates actu ally outstanding, the gold belonging to the Government Sept. 30, the last four yeare, was $112,602,622 in 1878. $154,987,371 in 1879, $128,160,085 in 1880, and $1<;9,552,74# in 1881. The gross amount of gold and silver coin and bullion hold by the treasury, without regard to obligations outstanding against it, ranged from 8163,969.444. in 1878, to $222,807,368, in 1879. to $214,-303.215, in 1880, and $269,706,998. in 1881. The increase lawt year was $55,400,000, of which $39,150,000 was in gold, f ml $16,250,- 000 in filveir. The increase in gold was greater and in nihrer less last year than any vear since the coinage of thr! standard silver dolfax began. The United States notes on hand rlightly in creased last ver.r. notwithstanding the urgent Eublic demand for circulntion. The amount on and above the amount required for payment of clear ng-houHe certificates is $20,000,000, againKt $18,00.),000 a year ago. The practice the past year haa been to make 10 per ocnt. oi' all payments in silver dollars or certificates, 40 per cent in gold coin and 50 per cent. i:> nofes. To this rule there is one im portant. exoeption. Under an arrangement be tween tuo treasury and the New York Clearing Houso all payment* by the treasury to this in stitution, aggregating #275.000.000 a year, must be made in gold coin or United States aotes, stand ird silver dollars not being receivable un derlie rules, although silver certificates are now being paid it Lv tho treasury to some extent in large (lenomitmtions, in lieu of gold coin, for usu'.< m tho payment of customs dues. Aside fi ora any personal vi"ws as to the expediency ef reviv n^ the silver dollar, the Treasurer says it woul 1 s :e«E|h wi«--e for any brandi of the Gov erns#: ).>4^Bpou'3ge an arrangement by which coin, v. h'el; tn 1J .v haa made (nil legal tender, is discredited. Tho aswts of the Government, includ ing funds iu'ldfor redemption of gold, silver fciid currency cei tilicntes, is $331,9S1.210, hav ing nereased more than $64,000,000 last year, aud larger th.ui on the corresponding date in any year i-iiiee 1878. The increase is due in ch:ef psirt to deposits on account of silver cer tificates. which amounted to $45,600,000. THE RF9ERVK FUND. In referrimr to tho reserve held for the re demption of United States notes, the Treasurer says: There is no provision in the law re quiring specie rest rve for redemption of United States notes. In the preparation for the re sumption of specie payments a fund was created in the treasury under section 3, Re- suinpiion act of 1875, by the sale of $96,500,000 in bonds, and the accumulation of surplus revenue to protect outstanding notes. The amount of this fund has never been definitely fixed, but it has been maintained at about 40 per cent, of United States notes outstanding. It has usually been assumed that a reserve of 40 per cent, is sufficient for the protection of United Htatos notes, but, under the method ef computation, the reserve is not merely 40 per cent ofliaiilitv represenied by United State* notes, but tilKO 100 percent, of all other liabili ties. So far as go'.d, silver and clearing-ho«M certificates are conoerned, it is necessary, under the laws authorizing their issue, that their full amount should be set aside in gold, silver and United States notes, respectively, as funds for their redemption, but as to other liabilities there is no such obligation as this, and it is submitted no higher reserve is required for their protection than is required for the pro tection of United Slates notes. In the changed condition of trade and commerce, unless some calamity shall overtake the nation, there seems to be no probability of a run upon the reserve of the treasury. The total demand for coin in the redemption of United States notes aggre gated since redemption but $12,029,086, and no notes whatever have been presented far re demption since February, 1881. r TKE SPECIE RESERVE. Should there ever be a run on the specie re serves of tho treasury, United States notes will be made the basis of demand, and not the other matured obligations, which compose the very varied current liabilities of the Govern ment. The excets over demand for liabilities of the Government, other than United States notes, is shown by a tabulated statement to bo $146,443,491. Consider ing these liabilities as a whole, the Treasurer says; "It is olear that whatever percentage the reserve will protect United States notes will protect the other liabilities. The Treasurer does not attempt to say what this percentage should be, but is of tho opinion that a uniform percentage should be fixed for all current liabilities other than the three classes for certificates, and the excess of cash in the treasury should be expended, from time to time, in the purchase or re demption of the public debt, according to some definite and publicly-announced plai^ Should this be done the policy of the depart ment would cease to be the subject of specula tion and influence in the treasury, and the money mar Wet would be reduced to a minimum. During the last two years there lias been a isteady increase in outstanding notes of denom inations of £20 and under, and a proportionate decrease in notes of higher denominations, hundreds alone excepted. STANDARD MLVELL DOLLARS. The total a mount of standard silver dollars coined to Sept. 30, 1881, under tho act of Feb. 28, 1878, i» $98,322,705, of which nearly 34 per cent, is in circulation aud the remainder in the treasury. The amount coined last vear was $27,753,955, of whioh $9,589,420 went into circulation and the remainder are in the treasury. eous ideas upon this subject. They feel almost disgraced if they have to arrive at a mature age, and are not yet able to write Mrs. before their names. Their whole ambition is to get a husband, by hook or by crook, but get him somehow they must. Consequently they take the first man who offers himself, whether he really suits them or not Now, girls, do not marry in haste. Get the best education possible, help about domestic affairs, and enter upon some trade or profession for which you have a taste and master it. Skilled labor is always well paid. I>on't spend your time re pining because you cannot see the com ing man. If you never see him, you can live useful, nappy lives. You think if you had a husband you would have a strong arm on which to lean, a sharer of sorrow and trouble. Alas ! many a slender woman has had not only to stand alone, but also serve as prop for children and husband, and very few wives lind in their husbands ail the sympathy and companionship they de sire. If you are good for anything you will not be hurt by remaining single, neither will you be elevated by becom ing "John's wife." Do your duty in life and you will count for one in the world, whether married or single. ADDITIONAL NEWS. Single Women. A clever old maid once said that it was fur better to be laughed at because you were not married than not to be able to laugb because you were. There is sound logic in ' that. It is well for woman to marry if she meets a good, true man who loves her and, whom she lovos ; but if she be not suited, better, fi<r better, that she remain single. The majority of old maids are helpful, lova ble and sweiot-tempered, and fill their allotted tncho us acceptably, as do their married sisters. Are they not more to be honored than they would have been had they m»rried merely for a home or position ? Our young ladies have erron- I* is stated in a Washington dispatct that the order of the War Department, rescind ing its order for a court-martial to try Masor for tho attempt upon Guitoau's life, has caused considerable comment, some intimating that its purpose was to let MaBon off without trial. At the War Department the officers say that evi dence going to show that Mason is really in sane has been submitted. Upon receiving this the Department recalled the order for the court-martial, and directed that Mason be placed under medical surveillance, with a view of ascertaining whether or not he is insane. He is now in charge of surgeons at the Arsenal, who are keeping a close watch upon liim. If they report him insane he will be sent to the Government Asylum without trial; but, if they report him sane, another court-martial will be ordered to try him The President has designated Nov. 24 as a day of national thanksgiving John W. Foster, Mister to Russia has tendered his resignation. HJCNBV KINO was hanged at Platts- burg, N. Y., with a rope which had done dutj on fourteen similar occasions. He was a thlei from New York city, where he killed a police man who sought to arrest liim, five' years ago, and was sent to Sing Sing for life. Last July, after his transfer to Dannemora prison, he mtir- deied Michacl Hamilton, a fellow sonvict, in a quarrel about the assassination of the Presi dent Marchbank, formerly corresponding clerk of the Mechanics' National Bank uf New ark, N. J., who defaulted in the sum of $50,- 000 about two years ago, has been arretted for the crime. A small depositor has attached the bank. THE Apaches are reported to be depre dating in the Saturipa district of Sonora. Five men, two women and one child are reported to have been killed by the red villains At Tiffin, Ohio, a divinity student, named Chares Madder, killed Miss Phebe Baruard ou the street because she did not reciprocate his love. THE bill providing for the admission of Dakota as a State has been already prepared, and s«;ne Bonators and Congressmen have pre pared h{ioeehe.H in support of the, atUnistiou. The bill wdl bu pushed vigorously. IN response to invitations from prom inent Lund Leaguers, desiring him to go to Ireland a? a representative of the sentiment <.i the American people on the Irish question, Wendell Phillips sendii a letter of thanks, and staling that he has not the ability to aid Ireland in the struggle, hut that it is of the greatest importance that England should be.dfieated in her endeavor to enclave Ireland, lit; wisi.es the Irish cuuae a hearty godspeed. A DUBLIN cablegram reports a bloody collision between tho police an i people of Ogonnelloe, m whioh several jporsous were in jured on both sides. Belfast Comirji8.don>:i s of the Land Court have reduced tue rents i..f tenants on Archdeacon Crawford's estate 30 per cent., and the feeling auioug the landlords is becoming mors hostile toward tho c.iurt,' whdu the tenant* are becoming riconeiled to tho Government's, action in br-.-akuig up the Laud Lei:gtte, m con.-ei|ueuet) ot the favorable interpretation ol the Luui act toward tho tenantry everywhere France has asked liussia for an explanation <jt the arrest of three Frenchmen in .St. Peters burg Turkey is preparing a naval expedition to punish the rebellious Arab tribes... .Bosnia and Herzegovina wiil adopt the Amunan sys tem ot military service. JMlietics on the Billows. They were an utter--too utter--crowd, and right back of them sat a big, flat- flooted chap, on his way to the lumber camps. "I think this lake breeze quite too exhilarating for anything," observed a young man who ate dinner with a pair of green kids on. "I've got something that beats it all holler," chipped in the big man. "They filled the bottle right up for a quarter. I don't want to buck agin the saloon on board, but if you say you've got cramps you shall have a pull at it." If green kids had 'em he wouldn't own it, and to cover his embarrassment an other of the party with eye-glasses and a white neck-tie remarked: "Roll on, thou troubled waters, roll." "Oh, you'll pit roll enough before you git across Saginaw bay," replied the big man. " Time this breeze has been blowing an hour you'll -feel like an old dish-rag hung up to scare the crows away." Wliito neck-tie gave him a killing stare, but it glanced off, and one of the ladies said: "He struggled bravely with the storm- lashed sea." " Who was that, ma'am ? P'raps you mean my old pard. Yes, he struggled bravely, and if this old lake wasn't jist R-biliu' then I don't want a cent. .Tim was a good swimmer, but he had to cave at last. The whole group gave him a looking over, but he was shot-proof, and, turning to Green Kids, he asked: " Think you coiild save yourself if this boat went down'}" No answer. "Yer possibly might," continued the man. " f went down off that p'int above us about ten yvnrs ago and got through •it. but it w'.is a }K)\\t rful tight squeak. If I'd had on oue o' them shirts as but ton behind J'd bin a goner. What's the styk o' yours, aiy son J" Thev rose up as one, locked arms and ]>as»ed int.) the cabin, and the big man looked alter thorn and whistled. " Maybe theyJUain't used to traveling fust'Olass and being prtlite to strangers ! Bu I I '11 forgive 'em. Lands 1 but won't the starch begin to peel off as soon as we slide around the p'int and git to feel the sea! Yum! yum ! But it will be too enthusiastically billowy for anything!" --Detroit Free Press. WHAT is that which has three feet but no legs, is all body but no limbs, has no toes on the feet, no head, moves a great deal but never uses its feet for that pur pose, has one foot at each end and one in the centlr of the body ? This is a queer creature in some respects, and is very popular among the ladies and some gentlemen. It never walks out, but goes with one foot where the head might be, dragging the other foot behind. These feet have nails, but no toes, no heels and no bones in the feet. Answer --A yardstick. WE appreciate no pleasures unless we are occasionally deprived Qf them. Re straint is the golden rule of employment. IRISH TENANTS. Irelud Under tUe Land IAW M tlm pand with the United States. [From the New York Tribune.) 1. Security of Tenure.--In the United States long terms are very unusual in farm leases. Tenancy is generally reg ulated by written agreement; if the tenant is allowed to remain unmolested a month after the close of a stated term, he cannot be disturbed for a year; but, when notice is given in time, tenancy cannot be .prolonged with out the landlord's consent and on terms to which he may be willing to ac cede. When there is no agreement the presumption of law sets the limit at one year. In Ireland, whenever the rent is fixed by the Land Court or by agree ment, the tenant cannot be disturbed for fifteen years. In the fifteenth year he can apply to the court and secure a new settlement for another term of fif teen years, and so on. An Irish tenant who pays his rent has permanent secur ity of tenure, whereas an American ten ant, if he cannot bring his landlord to terms, maybe dispossessed whenever his lease or agreement expires. 2. Rents.--Rents are regulated in the United States by lease or agreement, •whether paid in money, shares or pro duce, and at the expiration of a stated term the t enant may be dispossessed, if he is unwilling to accept the landlord's conditions, unless there are restrictive clauses inserted in the contract. Under the Irish Land act the tenant is pro tected against arbitrary increase of rent. If the landlord raises the rent the tenant may agree to the increase, or he may lay the case before either the Civil Bill Court or the Land Court, and the rent which may be fixed by agreement or by arbitration cannot be altered for fifteen years. Wlien there is no increase, the tenant may apply to the same courts for a readjustment of the rent, if he con siders it too high, and the rates which may be adjudged reasonable will con tinue in force for fifteen years. As the Land Court, as constituted at present, includes two friends of the tenant class and one representative of the land own ers, the rights of the occupiers are am ply protected. 3. Improvements. -- In the United States a tenant makes repairs and im- Srovements at his owr. risk, as the law oes not recognize his right to them except under covenant in his lease. Un der the Irish Land act, rent cannot be based upon any repairs or improvements made by the tenant or his predecessors in title, unless he has been directly com pensated for them. ELs right to those repairs and improvements is never for feited except by agreement or sale. If he leaves his holding voluntarily, or is ejected by process of law, he is compen- Bftte^l for them. ^4." Tenant Right.--The Irish tenant has also certain rights of possession which are formally recognized in the Land bill, and now have a permanent value. If his rent is increased, and he doe« not wish to make terms with the landlord or to appeal to the Land Court for a revaluation, he can sell his holding with tho improvements for what it will bring. When he is ejected irom that holding or is forced to dispose of it through the intervention of the Land Court, to whioh the landlord has access uuder certain restrictions, he is com pensated ior his tenant right. Tho landlord has the privilege of buying the tenancy at i price privately arranged or publicly fixed by the Land Cour., but, I if he does not avail himself of this I right, the tenant can get what he can j for it in open market. In the United I States, tenancy is not recognized aa a cl iss of property distinct from the land itself-ina privilege%hioh can be bought and sold, and for which compensation must be made in cases of ejectment. 5. Acquisition of Holdings.--An Irish tenant who wishes to purchase his hold ing outright, can apply to the Land Court to fix the price and to advance three-fourths of the purchase money; and the landlord may agree to leave the remaining fraction due upon the security of the premises. All advances from the court are repaid by an annual sum for thirty-five years, at 5 per cent, or the tenant can make his payments more rap- I idly and on better terms, if he prefers. provision is also made in the Land act I for aiding tenants who owe arrears of j rent and for enabling them to make a i fresh start. In the United States ten- | ants receive no assistance bylaw orpub- l lie credit in purchasing their farms or in paying their debts. I 6. Ejectments.--In the United States j recovery of rent and ejectment for stipu lated cause are by summary process be- j fore a Justioe of the Peace, witli'right ol \ jury. In Ireland, an evicted tenant j entitled to compensation for his im- | provements and to the privilege of sell-, | ing his tenancy ; and, if the rent has | been fixed for fourteen years by a com- t petent tribunal, he can apply to the Land Court for a stay of proceedings, which can be granted with compensa tion to the landlord for any temporary damage that lias been sustained. Under the act of 1870, a tenant capriciously ejected for any cause, except non-pay ment of rent, is entitled to an additional compensation for disturbance varying from one to seven years' rent. From this comparative view of the two land systems, it appears that an Irish tenant has extraordinary rights and privileges under Mr. Gladstone's act which American farm tenants have never enjoyed, nor once thought of de manding. A tenant in this country has no security against dispossession or an arbitrary increase of rent unless he se cures it for a stated period in his lease or agreement. He has no right to any improvements he may make and he de rives no special privileges from occupa tion. There are no statutes enabling him to redeem his farm when once sued in ejectment. He receives no aid from the State if he wishes to acquire his hold ing permanently, but has neither money nor credit, or if his rent has fallen into arrears and he is penniless. On the other hand, an Irish tenant has perman ent security of tenure at a rent which tribunals, constituted in his interest, consider fair and reasonable. He is com pensated for improvements made by himself or his predecessors, and has the privilege of selling his rights ol possossioR in open market. Ge is protected against arbitrary ejectment and enjoys unusual facilities in paying his arrears of rent and in purchasing his holding. Nature may be against him ; agrarian pauperism may have paralyzed his energies; but British law is now un equivocally on his side. His brethren maybe prospering in America, "the Irish paradise," but they are dependent entirely upon their own exertions and are not favored by exceptional legisla tion such as the Land Act. birds sing; it is to hear news from east, west, north and south; it is to read old books and new books; it is to see pict ures and hear music; it is to have Sun days ; it is to have breakfast and dinner and tea; it is to belong to a town and have neighbors, and to become one in a circle of acquaintances; it is to have friends and love : it is to have sight of dear old faces, and it is to know them selves thought of many times a day, in many places, by many children and ; grandchildren, and many friends." ..ir Adnlteration. There seem to be very1 good reasons why the pessimists should call a halt upon the genius of invention until some force can be made available to regulate his movements. It is very generally acknowledged that the world is growing better as it grows older, and no doubt it is, but the progress of invention and dis covery, although in the maiu beneficial to mankind, is bringing forth things that must of necessity exert an injurious ip-\ fluence. Charles Reade, in one of life' novels, apeaks of some old solid silver plate, made in the ancient days when things were made honestly. " Not," he says, " because the workmen were more honest than they are to-day, but because they didn't know how to cheat." As the world grows older, people learn more and more how to cheat, and the people.who don't want to be cheated have to study closer and closer tc learn how to circum vent it. It is a good deal like the inventions of armorers. Every few years a gun is produced, the projectile from which will pierce any known obstruction, and then other armorers exert themselves to get up an armor that it cannot pierce. And so it goes on, and the wonder is where it is all to end. It is so with in vention and discovery in other directions. Chemists are finding out more and more how to adulterate food and its ingredients until it is almost dangerous to eat any thing but primary substances. Ever and anon accounts appear in the papers of a family poi- oned by eating or drinking this, that or the other, until one hardly knows what indulgence of appetite may be considered safe. There is a standing appeal to legislation to correct these evils, but legislation, although it may have mitigated the danger, has not, as yet, entirely removed it. It wouid seem to be an easy matter to treat this subject in a way to assure the people that what they eat and drink need not prove in jurious on account of impurity or adulteration. If there is an offence in the calendar calling for'the most condign | punishment, it is that of adulteration. J Let us have laws, and an enforcement of I them, that will make it safe to eat and drink what purports to be healthful and nutritious. --Bodon Budr/et. Too Mnch Grammar. "" [Indianapolis Keview.] The Journal deals a square blow at the present subtilized system of grammer, and it would have done nothing but good if it had hit a harder blow at the waste of time and labor applied to grammar in any form. Richard Grant White, one of the ablest of our physiologists, and certainly the most thorough English scholar we have, denounces the whole grammar system in our schools, and the scores of text books applied to it, as the least useful, if not an utterly useless, part of our school course. He may go too far, but there is one thing as certain as the existence of a language, and that is that no child, no man, no woman, ever was the better writer, speaker or thinker, for a minute and accurate mas tery of the '^predicates," "subjects," "logical predicates," "copulas" and other technilogical rubbish of improved pedagoguism. No writer, in doubt about the construction of a sentence he is trying to make express what he thinks ever recurs to his grammar to settle the question, any more than the controver sialist refers to his "barbara celarent darii," and his "unusual affirmatives," "peculiar negatives," "conserves," and "contradictions," to see whether his ar gument is sound. We don't say that grammatical studies are wholly useless, but we do say most positively that they are of too little use to be given the time and attention required to be given by our present Procustean discipline. In practical life and use of language, oral or otherwise, for practical purposes, the grammar is of very nearly no use at all. A month's study of the highest grade of the high school will put a pupil in pos session Of the philosophy of it, and that is all there is of it but its weary unmean ing technology. It is no more fit to be taught to lower-grade pupils than a glossary of medical terms. COPYRIGHT laws are so inexorable in Great Britain that no one can sing any selection from a composer's works without paying royalty. Even the organ-grind ers are subject to the law. The heirs and assigns of Offenbach demand royal ty from those who sing any of the tunei of the great composer until 1930. THE tongue of a fool is the key of his counsel, which, in a wise man, wisdom hath in keeping. ' THE MARKETS. NEW YORK. BKCTM $7 25 @12 25 Boos 6 75 (n t; it) COTTOW LI FLotnt--Superfme 4 so i... 5 26 WHEAT--No. 2. 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