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O'er seas and solid grounds, doth call us all to arms: Who tor King Oeorge doth stand, tljeir lfMiors soon shall shine: Their ruin is at hand, who with the Congress join. The arts of Parliament, in them I 11111 h delight, I hate lheir cursed intent, \vli<? for the Congress light; The Tories of the day, they are my daily 11 >ast, 'I'lmi' .,,,111 will ciu.ll: :i u n u'liu t nftcl <i mi ilenee boast: Who now residence hold, 'hey have my hand anil heart. May they lor slaves he sold, who act a Wliiggisli part: On Manstield, North and l.ute, may daily blessings pour, Confusion and dispute, on Congress cveriuoi e; To North and IJJtish lord, may honors sii)! he done, 1 whh a bloek or eord, to hen. Washington. 1'. 11. lM. | 9m >*?# furarma. ? rrmr w* r*/ i Pension (Taints. I X. V. Sun.) It is notorious that enormous frauds have heen ami still are perp>*? rale.I oil I the genetouH fund voted l?y Congress for pensions, without any real eH'orl having been made to arrest I belli. or to ' put an end to the system through | which tlte Pre lnury is plundered under the disguise of patriotism. Like the Kings lor manufacturing crooked ! whiskey, for cheating Indians, tor proenting pos' al contrails, for favoring | naval jobbery, tor selling public arms, I lor promoting venal legislation, and i for ruling the District ot Columbia,! there is an organized combination for obtaining fraudulent pensions. Kueent expos ires in Philadelphia show how easily these bauds may be I committed, by collusion between the | agents who prosecute such claims as a ; 1 J ? 1 - - A ! I _ 1> j miMMl'KH, aill! COIlUMeraiCM 1!) UK' I'll- j Hon Oflioe, aided by the use <?i" ^cu- i ' nine or lorged Kcals o! the local courts, t false personation, and {:<IirieaI< d pa- j I pers. It is Imlieved that thirty or lori ty millions of dollars havr been ?tol< n in tliis way since the lirst election of Grant. This belief is not confined lo <>i?r party, hut is as strong among lioiu*st , j Uepublieans as it is anions pr<> itouueed Democrats. During i he dc' | hate on the Pension Appropriation hill | in the Senate, .Mr. Iugallb ot Kansas s;u?l: tkl believe with him that very extensive wrongs are perpetrated upon this lurid, ami that a proper examination I would show that ol the twenty-nine . or thirt y millions ol dollars that are annually paid to the pensioners ol tiiis Govornnmnt, at least live millions are fraudulently and improperly paid; r that in consequence ol recovery lioni disability, improper ratings, payments to minors who have reached the age , prescribed by law at which the peni sion shall er ase, the remarriage ot wid , own, lalse personalion?-, nun in various other ways that are familiar to the i authorities, and that are continually brought to your attention, at hast one-sixth part ot the entire amount f that is paid to pensions ik fraudulent and wronglully paid." \ This is no recent discovery. Delano and his ( lommissioner ot Pensions . knew all about the frauds, connived at them, and protected the Kin# as a . part of the political machinery hy which the Administration was uplndd [> and Grant Senators and Representatives were elected, through assess ments of money. Mr. Ingalls charges in open Senate that this system h going on now, and as an or! hodox Republican ho ought to know, lie alleges broadly, that ''at h ast live millions are fraudulently and improperly paid"?ve' ry year out ol the pension fuml,and no Senator ventures to dispute a statement which everybody believes to be short of the actual aggregate of steali n g. i ei no tnovi'.muiii v.as propuscu i<> investigate tbe frauds or to slop this ^ barefaced robbery. Mr. Ingalls, who J made the charge, had no better remedy for the evil of which he thus complained than to create forty special agents, as the late Commissioner of Pensions had recommended after a few months of experience in office, when n he was superseded hy a new partisan. More offices will not cure this thieving combination, but rather serve to complicate it. Less of them would he a more efficient means of piotection. Legislation of no kind, can be expected to correct abuses winch are tin? natural outgrowth of a corrupt, reckless, and partisan administration of ' tfie Government. While the Presi1 dent has advisers around him, approed either because they subscribed money lor his benefit, or chosen because oi i ? % An I ndopei vv no no, s. c., sat iheir personal servility and unfitness,! venality ami jobbery will tlourish as i wlu-y have d me on a stupendous scale | nver since (Irani came in power. lie is lire first President of the Philed States who ever openly associated with notoiious plunderers; who made personal companions and confidants of notorious characters like Doss Shepherd, McDonald, Joyce, and thai crew; who gave to King ehiels oflieial protect ion and social recognition; and who has deliberately prostituted his great trust for the advantage of politiii e.al scoundrels who ought to he craekiustone in the penitentiary. fhe influence of this pernicious example has spread through and infected the whole oflieial and social nrcin'ro. 1 lion ill \Vashinglon, with rare exceptions like that ol Air. Krislow, until i I he astounding spectacle is presented ! In the world of a (lovcrnmcnt professing to ho lice, ldain, and honest, ml- j 0(1 l?y Kings ;i11< 1 knaves. It the /'residem was pure, conseieniions, ami resolute tor the right, such a system couhi not posihly stand, or have ever 1 attained its present growth. 1 letw *en avarice on tile one hand and auihition on the other, lie has encouraged the authors and ain't tors ol t hese ini.juit ies until the Adiuinisl ration has become nothing hut a huge conspiracy to debauch and plunder the < overuinent commitled to iis keeping. Its wl ole power, through every agent it can command, ami by every means however dcspcrati, even to the suborning ot w it tiesses and stealing ot papers, is openly everted to.day, not in proseculiug I bibcock, but in protecting him, with a lull knowledge of his guilt. The motive is palpable enough. Kalmuck will not consent to fall atoms il<> can never he convicted and sent to llm penitentiary without dragging down others higher and more important than lie ?s. Hence, he will never go there, even it found guilty, Kraut would iike to be spared the necessity ot :t pardon, but it the pinch comes, lie will as surely grant it as he pardoned I iogi lor stealing hah a million within sight of t he While House. A radical change of Administration offers the only remedy for the exist ing eorruption. Without that t here is no hope for reform in any true sense. Keen it Kraut was dismissed, and replaced by another Kepuhlioan of heller antecedents and repute, the evils won hi not be exlripaU'd, because the system it *e 11 is poisoned with the vii us of < H unt ism. The politieans form a close eorpoiatinu inside the parly, ami direct its management. They are tiie power behind t lie throne. There .... .. i... i... iwn: ii, in im rrn.u V iu I'l I II I i; W l> II U |>;irly :in the Hist si? p low aril a return to Honest ami simple government, i That we hope t<? <1.) next November. Tin: ujst&jc'i tiiii:w;s. ! Twelve 'I'Hmr<ani| PoIIitk Stolen to Pay l?o*s SliejiheiaPs Coiinsrl. Washington, Feb. 23.?The scent in the Senate to-day following the speech ot Senator Wadleigli on the report of I he <'on I en. nee Coinnu1t.ee on the 3.(55 bonds was extraordinary loi that sedate and venerable body. IB raid that the Board ot Audit lias actually paid * 12,000 to 'he lawyers em| p!ove?i i?y the Board of Public Work.* ?viz.: I\? Mat a ingly, $5,000; to Stan. I ton $-1, 000, and to the notorioiiH Jlar! iuj'ton, *3,000 ?a lid he knew that his ; statement a a-* true. Every effort war : made to divert the, attention ot the I Senate irom tic su bject, but the sturdy opponents ol ll> King rolused to allow any tiling to be done hut to adjourn, ' liiAl I he Senators might ascertain toi themselves the tacts. The transaction | was denounerd f.k an unparalleled iti [ lainy, and the Henator told that tin bonds issued in payment, it their num. Iht* could he ascertained, should hi ! repudiated an a part ot the debt <>t Uk 1 District. What the Senate will do to ! morrow, w hen it in in possession ot tin ' evidence taken before the I loose Dis triet of Columbia Committee to-daj i on this subj et, can only be conjectured. In addition to the payment of tin counsel a stenographer employed b^ lies* Shepherd was paid $7,500 for re porting the proceedings, ami tin x\ utio/ml lb )jtri>! tenth was paid a !hi'<{i amount lor publishing the testimony in lull. In a word lor the service he tween 4'25,000 and $50,000 of the peo pie's money was deliherately am shamclully stolen from the District 1 and that service had for its only objec the creation of sentiment unluvorabl 1 to the Congressional Investigating Committee. It, must he rememberei that the eominitt.ee also had a corps o ! stenographers making the otliciaf re I - ? 'i'l. -- -r ... i ~ ..... ... ? .*< l.? i it m i tut; vm |ii ujr jjicii u ui tut: mm* I stenographers, it was said at the time was at 1 Josh Shepherd's own expense Tlie evidence given to-day by lb Blake, one of the Board's confrere* and B. W. Taylor of the Board c ; Audit, tells the startling story ubov ^iven. " _ ^ "In Keokuk there is a man name* John Blaster Alabaster." No need t call him hard names. ldC3Ilt el OUlMl.l 1. URD.VY, .M AllCH < End oft ho lbthciH-k Trial. St. Lor is, Feb. 'J I.?Judge Dillon, in his charge to the juiy in the Habcock case, reminded ihem that the government owed a duty to its citizens as well as to its revenue, and it lay in the province ol the jury to acquit as well as to convict. At the opening otCourt this alter noon the motion lor :i new trial in t h<> McKee ease was taken up ami the argument begun. At twenty live minutes past throe o'clock, the jury in the d.oock ease sent word that they had found a veidiet and they were immediately ushered into court. On taking their sens the foreman handed the verdict to the clerk, who read it as folioivs: 41 We, the jury, find the defendant not gudty." A Washington letter snvs: "It is understood that l'\ A. Sawyer, ex assistant secretary ot the treasury, indie led lor collusion in passing fraudulent cotton claims, called on the president yesterday and represented thai he had been unjustly persecuted. lie was innocent of lite charges alleged and not in a financial condition to stand trial. lie also alluded to the report ! that Secretary liristow had become morbid oil the subject of indicting prominent persons for political capital Idle presided, is said, agreed with 1 Mi. Sawyer, and thought, too, that the indictment business had bet n carJ ried far enough. I'nited Stairs l>isI t riet Attorney Wells mav be iustrucj ted to enter a no fie p/'os. in Mr. Sawj ver s case '* Tin; N VVAI, l>iot.M KS.? WASII I 1 Ntiiox, Kel). 2-1. ? I he 11 ouse ( <>in J niitt.ee on Naval AtViirs to day agreed ! to report, the lull heretofore introduced i by Kepresentatives \\ hit.thorne, the CMiainnan, requiring the Navy J)e; parlmcnt to make a detailed instead i of several general estimates as heretoI tore lor pay of the navy, including I I ho contingent Kind and the items lor I the hiijmort (>I the civil establishments at# navy yards and stations. The same principle is applied to all the bureaus and to the marine corps. It ! is provided that appropriations made tor one class or item ol expendituri shall not he used or expended lor any other class. The bill is trained on tin. 1 model ol the British budget and ih ex peeled ii passed to produce a required relunn in the naval service. Tin; lleccher Council Bkooki.vn, Fd>. 21. ? After : healed debate the Council have or dered another investigation of tin scandal. Henry C. Brown appeared beI'oim the committee and read Bin statement Bene,her and lofty others were present Bowen turned to leave the room when he says the doors worn locket on him and he escaped by the bad door. Bowen relumed to give bin statement lot he press. Mr. White says Bowen road hi statement, consisting ol tifty-lw pager*, hut failed to give names d.uef ' It refers to scandal ten or iwcnt; j years Ago. The jury at St. Louis acquit Bab 1 cock. This is not surprising. Th whole power nnd influence of the Pres ident an t his nearest friends have heei i earnestly applied to produce such : ? i result. Hut the tacts proved on th ' ' triwl are not obliterated and will no ' he forgotten. Now, wait and so ' Secretary Brislow driven out. Pittsburgh, Keb. 2M. -Vl'lic nit r i glycerine magazine ol the Robert 'Torpedo Company, at St. iVlersburj. ? (Marion county, exploded with tcrnli . I violence at about six o'clock this eve * ning, tearing the building to pieet I and instantly killing dailies B u ntil 1 an employee of the company, who \va | at work in the maga/.iue. r j A little f<*l! o\v lining told by - yonman to get ?>fl lii-h knee, t 1i.il 1i i was loo heavy to hoi.I in tint- wa) j math' quite a sonsation am >n g the pei . h<)iik present l>y yelling hack. "To r? heavy, hey ? Sister S*l weighs , I hutched pounds more than I, :in<l v<> j j held her on your knee lor four lioin . hir'L night." j | A11 American sent a consignment <\ hay and manure forks to Shellieh I* England, where they create<l quite ( ' sensation. He proposes to sell tint , 1 "right there," in competition with tl ^ i Shellield manufacturers. In circuit t jsaw'H we are underselling the Englis j mannlacturerK. The year opei r gloomy in Sheffield, and America , competition in her products is tl cause of It. An upright but uneducated jjudt] I closed a sentence with the followin touching reproach: "Prisoner at tl j bar, nature has endowed you with ! good educat ion and respectable famil ,j connection; instead ol which, you j. 0 prowling around the country stealii duck." \ % / c "i \ V ?. : t t, 1S7<>. ^'O. 10 ? ' I 1.tilling Land. 1 I i Much of Liu' reading which forms j the literature ot liming land is of Keglisli origin. Knglish wheat groweis 1 are loud in their praise ot lime, but it j must not be forgotten that the best , wheat laud "I Kngland is its dry land, I and that the Knglish whe.at growers use manure much more liberally than 1 our farmers, as a rule, are accustomed to do. Ot itself lime is no bonetit to tho < 1 plant, li acts chiefly in preparing jollier material lor food-Lime is louml in the analysis <?! plant remains, but : 1 it seems to be. taken up only when m combination with something o!h??. J J 'radicalIy our tunnel's iiml henchl Iroin it only w lien :i tieuvy <1 lessing of stable manure given with the lime, I or when a large amount ol vegetable matter is already in the land. ill-is, ' it u piece ol woodland he newlv brokjen up, a Inning <*t the land is as good as a heavy eoat of manure. Swamp ' muek with a iinle lime adileil, is in ute <)t coiisidrrablv more value. Simply oats or wheal stubble limed and turned down, has given good crops, and ' I even gii'i'ii manure, such as clover, it l limed before being turned under, is | much more poweitul in its action on ! the succeeding crop, than it the simple ! green crowing crop alone is used. But it the lime alone is applied to land, J and that land has heou alrea ly well winked, or il naturally light and poor | then,' is no surer way to make the i povely worse. it is <i good old maxim that. circumstances altercates. In no firming opetation can this be better | applied than in tlie use ol lime. It is a capital Omul; in some eases, hut a I very had agent in many others.? Ucvm<iti town I'dtijritph. Fault rinding with ( liiMreu. (Children are more hurt by indiscriminate, thoughtless hiultdiudiug than hy any other one tiling. Hiten u child hasall the "ensit i vein ss and all the susceptibility ol a grown person, added to the faults ol childhood. Nothing about him iM right us yet ; he is > immature and tunny at ail points, and everybody teils al perleet liberty to ! criticise liiin right and lelt, above and below, till he lakes refuge in - callous hardness or irritable inorosu; I liens. A bright., noisy boy rushes in from I U 4 1 I f k < t I on irol' f/k I j ? 1 I in/if 1 ?>y , \ ? . V ? ? 1'/ I V. I I lain I 1 I W t I I V I tiling he hits on !iis heart, and Number One (lien out, "Oh, you have left the door open! I do wish you wouhl'nt always leave the door open! I low \ many times must J tell you to I . wipe your I'eot ??"Now there f> you have thrown your cap on tht ho|a again. When will you learn 2 to bane; it up ? I )on't put your slate there; that is not the place for it." , ' How dirty your hands are! what have you been doing? Don't sit in 1 1 that chair; you, break the spring i j bouncing." "Mercy! how your hair looks! Do go ii p stairs and comb it." t "There, it you haven't torn the braid all oil' your coat! - -Dear me, what a s boy!" "Dont speak ho loud; your d voice goes through my head." "I <. war.'t to know, dim, it it was you that l* broke up i tin I barrel that 1 have been saving lor brown Hour." "1 believe it was you, .h*!i, that hacked the side of my razor." "Jim's been writing at e mv desk and blotted three sheets *>1 i- tlie b?'ft paper." a Now, the question is, if any. of the a grown people ot the family had to e run the gauntlet of a string ot critiit cisms on themselves equally true as e those t hat salute unlucky .Inn, would they be any better matured about it than he is? No; but they are grown ? up people; they have lights that * others hio bound to respect. Kvery b I body cannot toil litem exactly wli it (! j he thinks about everything they do. '* j 11 every one ?!??', would there not he j terrible re tet i-?n ? ? _ I 't !?: "I. 11. m. . . ii. Some <>f the Ihiropcan nations am 'still CHgagl-d III fl V V IS 111 ?* (' X | > Ot IIC II IS j to eradicate duelling trom their lerri' torios. I fiiln rto all such ;i11<*iri|4t * 1 have been aimed at that diic ol the I duellists *A ho h i<i the best ol it in the li field. lint a governm?'nt lias at l.i>t j hit upon t In; very original au<l novel plan ol inflicting a vindictive puni-m* 1 incut upon t ho body ol the shun (l This is the IGvariaii Government, I which has carried out a signally se,J V( re sentence upon a certain Conn/ killed in a duel, close to Munich, by an oflicor ol the royal anuy. The oio laws ol the country recognize in lads a | only a sort ot suicide, and condemu the persons killed in them to all the h , penalties attaching to suicidal acts. K> One ol these consists in'the denial to the defunct ot the rights ol burial. Accordingly, the body ol the deceased Count was carried off from the bands ,t 1 of those relations and friends who H. . were about to perform the luneral a rites, and handed over to the disseoly ting room ot the Munich Hospital. ,,, Great efforts are, it seems, being made )(, ' to secure tile remains from the ig j nonnnious late, and Irom au inglorious I % \ > ADV K'.ITISEMENTS hisortt"! at $1.00 jwr square for first, l.ly com - f ?. ?m i junscqueiit insertion. an ? Olio incn sj>.i''? wnl constitute a *q u.uo vliothor in 'iiuvi ?' or display type; less tli.m in iin*li will l.tr charged for as a squaie. >lm riiiuUos fVco. Death* and funeral notices free. Religion* n?>ti"hh of ono square f ee. A liberal discount will be made to those whoso advertisements ,are to be kept in to lireo luontlis oi longer. interment in the common burial ground. Hut if those atcempts tail, it 1* expected liiat a death-blow will be given to duelling in Bavaria. JSreios and Courier. * Newspaper Toilets. [From Washington I.efter to Cincinnati Gazette. J There is an anecdote of the (JongresHrnan who proclaimed that a rigid system of economy must be practiced, as the various failures here, there and everywhere had dwarfed the amount of his annual inoo no. "But what am 1 to do for parly dresses!" asks the anxious wile. "Leave that to in , my dear, and 1 will arrange it to your >a islaotion," soothingly replied the legislator. ('ailing in a reporter, he set before him ?i te.opting array ot edibles, with wine u tough Lo semi warmth through 11 is veins and generous throlm to his heart-strings. "Now, m v friend," said 1 he M. ('., "I want to employ yon t < describe my wife's dlosses this winter, or rather she will describe them, ami you can insert the descriptions in sour various papers. Hero's tflo for y mr liouhle and a seat at our tahle when you're hungry." Alter this, Mrs. .M. C. appeared clothed in such goi geoufincss as was 1 .. I - 1 :11 1.: urujr u i, > oii|ii|iii'il ill .ill Ills glory, yet hut wardrobe wan exceedingly cireitntscnbi d. Of course, pelsous present it the various parties, likewise attend ?l I?y Mrs. M. 0.. were aina/.eil hi llie r portorial skill wliicii could, cliiiinele >n like, change her dresses, so cons' an t ly worn, to such varying hues; l?ut the Madam's far, distant iricuds and her husband s constituents rea I the description, and thought how ri ii their represcntatit had grown, and what a very >|ueen of fashion and el eg tore his wile had l> come! And the M, (J. gloried in tl.o coup d'etat, which had provided his wile an elegant outfit lor $10 and a dinner ! There i- no comparison between the two p isons, as Mrs. Grant, has a very gencous wardrobe, and is made to do duly in one parlicul.i'' toilet, while the o*. her was decked in rainbow hues out of her limited allowance, yet I c iii never read lie* description of Mrs Grant's one particular toilet without recalling the a!?o\ i anecdote. Ilea !y, however, I o ? i wish that mo ?.notions "pink silk trimmed AUlh ex. juisito hands ol o lric.lt leathers hi tiding harmoniously into the lingo <>l the silk," could be cither worn out <>r temporarily laid aside. Alter all, variety is thespico of life, and one w >utd lather see h df a dozen pretty drones ol simple and inexpensive uialcri d than one toilet ?>n each and every o icasiou, be it ever so magnificent ami <> a I v. A Lawyer Oulwittwd. A similar case to iliat of tlio Presbyterian clergyman commemorated in the liMli I 1 ? . I... I / / . . | uuin'i r> 1/1 ipvci M ijin* <11 mi(iry //'cr wer's occurred in Massachusetts lv>w.i ot high repute <( uite a number ol years ago. Tim town, now a city, maintained a high school, according to lau . A teacher was employed, at a certain salary, by the yen*. Alter a while I?i s services were a ?L loitnd satlstact<?r ' ! to the school committee, and the.r : chairman, a smooth-spoken member ?? j tin; legal proteseon, was deputed i ? 1 perform the ungr irious task ot intone * ' nig the master oi the state ot the ensu. i Alter the setilem nt ot preliminaries, the point was re i -lied ami the propriety ot the mas i s resignation n diplomatically a i I politely suggested. The incumbent, t! not dot qualified t, i teach such a so . >ol, was a shrew I Yankee, lie ex ? cssed ins willingncws to leave so read it . that the cummin man became uuo enmotdy grucion-. ... the success ol his uission. "but.,' ?.?i 1 the worthy peda; ?guc, "it my serve s arc not satisl icto y here, they may bs in some other pla and as I must g , . my living, I pros .me you will give in . a recommendati.f i?' "Certainly,' rep.I the connuitt man, thinking oily ol leiie.ing i town ol an inelticic u inslm to ; accordingly drew up i- piper un t/i T\1, Tliu master read it, and 1 highly flatislactoi y. "And now sai l he. oliiMt'iinr ?-?? l.u ---in J -? ?<" cihjmw 4luj)oii this recommendation I -< weil fitted to teach, 1 will thau y> to pay n?e the rest ot uiy salary . ? thunexpired halt year.' The LhwviT was caught, an 1 ih* * _ n ' money was j> iid. ? Editor's Dit > w l'k in J Jar per's Magazine. It seems probable that the Ion Augustus II. Garland will be o en Senator from Arkansas to * d Powell Clayton, the carpet b .er. whoso term expires March 3, Mr Garland is the piesent gover e?r oi Arkansas, and by his judicious con servativr course under oircunast oices which required the exercise of '-treat sagacity, firmness and tact, h line commanded the respect ot his political foes, as well as the warm approbation \ ot the native citizens oi the Staaa* ' ' ' " ^S l