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All communications should -.>e addn-ijied to"M Hor Intelligencer," and all checks, dra ?s, money urden, ?e., should bu modo payaoic to tno order or j E. D. Mri IRAV A Co. THE SUPPRESSED ?LOV?B BEPORT. Millions on Million? ot the riibllo Funds Stolen nnd 8qa?:idercd-Frunc? Absolute ly Unchcckod and tlio NittJup.nl Finances at tho Mercy or Thieves and Itohbors. {Continued fruin Dut Week.) At tho San Francisco Midi there was a deficiency of $235,000 in the Melter and Refiner's Office in 1856-n great discre pancy between tho Treasurer's and the coiucr'a accounts in I860,and large losses in 1870. Tho Superintendent waa dis missed forcorrupt prncticesin 1877. Losa os wero also discovered in 1870 nt thc Denver Mint nnd tho New York Assay Office. The New York accounts were ?mased by the Auditor's nnd Com pt roi er'a offices of tho Treasury without prop er examination of tho vouchers, which wero paid by tho Now York Assistant Trerusuror without tho approval of thc officers who should have loeeived the supplies. Up to 1870 tho Director seemed never to have examined tho New York Assay Office, and the mint regulations were hnrd to find there. Thc report of the Director of tho Mint for 1877 says (in tables pre pared by Martin V. Davis of Philadel phia) tba', tin' gold coinage under Director Lindeman, 1674-7 inclusive, was$156, 000,000, and greater than that of any previous four years. This wu? untrue. The coinage of 1874-7 wo J $100,000,000 ($10,000,000 more), and that for 1851-4 in clusive was $190,000,000, or $24,000,000 more. The Director alao fell into this error of $10,000,000, and understated by thia sum tho total gold coinngo of thc mints. Ho also understated thc gold coinngo 1851-4 by $1,000,000. Ho sta ted tho total 1852-8 inclusive at $233, 000,000; but his subordinate. Mr. Davis, stated ?tin tho same report, for tho Phil adelphia and Snn Frnncisco mints alone, nt $247,000,000, over $13,000,000 moro. Thus according to '.'fficial figures two of. Ibo minta coined ?-13,000,000 moro than thc whole five I The San Francisco mel ter and refiner's returns of bullion above thc amounts charged aa delivered to him in tho same report, thusmaking tho mint $36,000,1854-77 ?B credited to that mint twice in tho same report, thus making the mint expenses appear if36,000 lea? than tho tm'., i. The . ? .v York AHsay office smelter and refinor, Mr. Andrew Mason, by great caro and skill saved and turned in to the Treasury in 1576-8 $04,000 more than the bullion delivered him for treat ment waa charged at. These returns were suppressed from tho Director's re porta, being lumped with earnings, and Mr. Mason waa instructed to rctuin them os auch, the motive announced in the instructions being to sin. id tho minta from nnnoying inquiries as to why they, instead of returning a surplus Uko Mr. M asor, they charged tho Govern ment with a waste. Thun Mr. Mason waa denied tho credit ho richly deserved and was in ono report made to appear as wasting $9,000, in order to hide tho mis management of others. Tho letter order ing this suppression waa aigned aa Acting Director nf tho Mint by Robt. E. Preston, who figures unpleasantly elsewhere in connection with cotton i .-counts. In 187G Congress cut down tho appropriations asked by tho Director over $300,000, but Lindeman contrived to amugglo in a provision allowing the earnings from sep arating gold from silver, and from refin ing both, to be used in melting expenses without going into tho Treasury. Tho result ia that, evory year since, tho oarn inga have been spent in addition to tho f.un.s allowed by Congress, and $3Gv,000 yearly bavo been oxpended without Con gress suspecting it. . The New York Assay Office receipts from the sale of blue vitriol and sulphu ric liquor in 1873 were stated by tho Di rector tbere^ nt $11,860.91. Four yeara later tho annual report atated thom aa $5,802.5. Both proved to be wrong ; tho amount waa $10,300.91. Tho Director^ annual reports for 1873-1-5 state tho receipts aggregating $2,040,000. The report for 1877 shows tho samo expenditures to be $2,409,000, or over $860,000 more thau was acknowl edged at tho time. Tho expenditure:; aro shown by the yearly reporta for 1878-6 inclnsivo aa $5,062,000. Tho re port for 1877 BIIOWB them to be $5,635,000 or over $570,000 more ; $300,000 of thia suppression was in 1876, the presidential election year. Of.more than half thia $572,000 suppression there la not tho shadow of an explanation. lu 1876 the items of expenditure wero suppressed from the annual report. In tho spring of 1869, 311,400 bara of ailvor and gold bullion, whoso value waa unknown, were deposited in the New York '' Assay offley and moneys wore loaned thereon to nailing & earner and :<tbera by Assistant Treasurer Van Dyck. This waa very dangerous, for gilded bara of lead or iron could ?bus be used to bor row on without interest or security. At least one lot of boxea said to contain bullion were deposited and borrowed on in 1869, nnd iaken away on return of tue lonu without any inspection or test. This practico was broken up in 1869 by George W, Edel man, Deputy Treasurer of tho Assay Office ; but it was revived the year after Mr. Edelninn resigned by Director Lindeman, ?oncoming "British bars and sovereigns," whoso genuineness had not been tested ; and it continued till the Glover investigation began, when Lindeman stopped it.. From I8?6 io 1870 >oe New York As say office made 338 auch loans, and in many cases tho borrowers returned tho coin and took bara, leaving tho Govern ment to pay for coining the bullion de posited to obtain tho bare. In 1878 the Superintendent of the San Francisco mint sent L. Von Hoffman & Co. checks for $1,028,000 under instruc tions from Lindeman, when but $600,000 worth ot their ailver bad been assayed. Superintendent Acton of tho New York Assay O in cu baa bvvu in tub habit of signing cheeta in blank and leaving them thus in the Paying Clerk's posses sion. Last year eighty-two blank checks were found in tho office with Acton's signature. Tb ia ia a virtual ci-jntlon of his duty by Acton, for he cannot know bia clerk's action uor superviso bis pay ments. A rogue in .the paying clerk's ' place, or a thief getting into tho office, could fill up a check for a million, and it might be collected and the parties disap pear before detection. If necessary the clerk's countersignature could be forged. Superintendent Dunning, Acton's prede cessor, repeatedly got checks made to bia; own order for sums duo. public creditors. Then he indorsed the checks to tho cr?d itera and turned in their receipts with the vouchers afterward. After a timo . ho grew alow about turning in the voudio. i and one day it was discovered that ho, had collected $18,000 of these ehecks himself. Lindeman employed mo*o than a acoro! of persona in plaiting mints and assay of-! fices, attending annual settlements, und' assisting bim in doing ao, for which ho spent in four yeara over $11,000. Ho j aid hia son, 19 years old and not in tho' public servie*.*, $2,755 for leos than six months' service. TIio law does not al low traveling expenses to any ono but tho Director ; to October 1, 1873, ho re ceived $4,300-charged to this account. iYrank H. Gussaway, a man of notorious character in Washington, received $1, CG8.73 for taking au inventory (IC pages of foolscap), of furniture and fix tures at tho San Francisco Mint. At the close of thc Lindeman investigation of that mint in 1877, but before tho re port was made, the Superintendent, La Grange, who was removed inconsequence of that investigation, presented Linde man's wife with $1,000, saying it was a present from thc employes of thc mint. Seine of the employes, it is said complained afterward that they were compelled to contribute and could ill af ford it. When prof. Robert A. Rogers, of Phil: adelphia, K. O. Leech of the Mint Bu reau, Washington, md A. W. Oowing, Chief of the Coining Department of the I'hiladelphia Mint, were sent to San Francisco to examine and attend thc yearly settlement of the Mint, Lindeman instructed Superint *ident La Orange to pay their traveling expenses and $10 u day to Hogers from lue profits of frac tional silver coinage. ISelorc the (Hover Committee ho swore that he had never used these profita thus, hut the record convicted him. Lindeman bought in his wife's name, in 1874, 100 shares of '-,e California and 196 shares of Consolidated Virginia, thc 'Big Bonanza" silver mines of Nevada, which were < ontrolled hy flood, O'Brien, Mackey and Fair. For theso ho paid 00 per cent, O? less, about ?25,000. Before the committee ho had called theso $25, 000 "vcr. modern' mean.-." of his wife's. In Mar? h, IH7.r>, ie bought of thc Con solidate Virginia Doro silver bullion, val :. 1 by thc sellers at $1,023,000, and paid them $1,000.000 on account without waiting for the assay to show whether it was correctly valued, or 08.3 per cent, of thc vnlue as alterward ascertained. Tho company got their money two months before completion of assay, and were tims enabled io make $15,000 in terest. In .lune, 187-r>, hu bought of them imported silver bars valued hy them at $1,000,000, and paid them $1.420,000 down over two months before completion of assay, and enabled them thus to make $25,000 interest. Thc assay showed the bullion worth but $1,437,000 or $63,000 short of tho valuation, so that he paid them in advance 98.0 ?ter cent, of tho value, running a great risk of tho over paying. Tho bullion was nani for at $1.21* per ounce fine metal, delivered at San Francisco. Tho express charges were paid by tho Government to New York from tho profits on fractional silver coinage, instead of hoing paid by the sellers, and thc charges nt tue Asaaj Ollico we"o homo by thc Government without authority of law. These expel? aos nmounted to $32,000, which mada ll? silver cost the Government $1.20 per lim ounce. The market value was $1.24.1 so that thc purchase, as well us cos ti nf $32,000 moro than Lindeman pretended cost $13,000 moro than it could ha vi boen bought for elsewhere. Lindemai also directed Superintendent Acton t< pay $9,000 more than tho assayed valut of tho gold in tho purchase, tho sell ers claiming that the assayers had math a "mistake." Acton replied that then was no a uhority io pay it, but ai Linde mai.'s direction, after seeking to throv all tho responsibility on Lindeman, h paid, and charged it to "profit and loss.1 Prof. I?. Rogers of Philadelphia, au other stockholder in tho Consolidate! Virginia, thc sellers, was employed b Lindeman to make an "examination,' and of course reported strongly in favo of making tho payment. William Y Dubois, Assayer at Philadelphia, prc tested strongly against "correcting an Bays at tho instance of outside parties saying that this destroyed tho roliubiiit; of assays. Tho payment was hidden i thc Director's annual report for 1S77, b calling it a "wastage," whon no waatag but $14,000 saving, had occurred. Th payment took placo without tho know! edge of the New York Paying Clerk, an without authority from thc Secretary i tho Treasury. Tho purchase altogellu cost about $05,000 more than was preter ded. In tho samo month Lindeman als took off tho Company's hands nearly $2 000,000 moro silver that they were am iotis to sell. January, 1875, the Bonanza stocks, ut der the efiect of wild reports about tb mines, were very high in price. Consol dated Virginia reached 850. Lindeman $25,000 worth of stock was worth om $200,000. Rut it fell by October to 21 and California, the other part of the lit unnza, to 250. So it was bulled agaii In tho summer of that year Lindema visited California on ot liri al buaine3 sought a conference with tho manage! of thc mines, and arr ?ed an inspectia of them. Ho and Prof. Rogers then t Boon after, a holder of $20,000 or moi stock in these mines, inspected thei twico. Rogers made a report valuin thom at $300,000,000, which Lindemai saying that other estimates were tc high, concurred in and published in h anuual report for 1875. This was widel circulated and jumped Consolidated Vi ginia to435 and.Californiato375. The ri: carried Lindeman'.-! stock up to 120,01 and his official representations held tl stock up to 180 ncr original share to tl end of 1876, and to 115, till tho end 1877. Tho mines only produced about sixth nf tho amount represented, and tl stock fell in value about $15,000,000, a cording to tho Statistician of tho Unit? States Monetary Commission. Tl maintenance of tuc stock at high prie enabled tho owners to sell stoi enough to realizo about $125,0v'0,00 and tho fall caused the buyers to lo about $100,000,000, which the first so! ere pocketed by Lindcman's aid. Til Bprcad misfortune and distress throug out tho Pacific coast. Oct, 19,1877, tho Secretary of th o Tret ury signed at Liudcman's instanco i order stopping tho coinngo of trade d( lars. Lindeman managed to let tl Nevada Bank of San Francisco, o wm by tho Consolidated Virginia party ni tho Anglo-Californian Bank, know oft suspension tho samo day, though t public did not know it lill tho ne: file. ..ccond business day after the st pension tho price of trade dollars h risen 4 por cent., and these banks, havi had notice, lind bought up tho dolli md compelled traders with China buy of them tit this higher pries. ? Clov. Low telegraphed Lindeman so iftcr that tho suspension would drive i tho silver bullion in market to tho Nev Ja Bank refineries; but this had effect on Lindeman. O. H. Irish, Chief of tho Bureau of ? graving and Printing, published li winter a letter to Mr? Atkins, Chaim; of ibo House Committee on Appropr tiona seeking to discredit Mr. Glove statement about his Bureau. In this I ter he stated that the Bureau had co plctcd and delivered to the Comptrol of the Currency 2,390,000 sheets of i tiona! bank notes in tho fiscal year 187 bu t tho report nf tho Hu roan shows tl it delivered 32,000 sheets more. The 1 reno bookkeeper sworo that thcro coi not possibly bo a mistake in the port; yet examination showed that l report represented that 310,000 sheets customs cigar stamps wera delivered mi than tho Bureau claimed to havo mat Tho distinctive paper for printing I Government issues has been stored it room used exclusively for that purpi In bundles containing ono thousa sheets each. All tho distinctive pa] is stored in that room. Tho supply legal tenderetas never been exhaust that is, it has boen added to and dra from si nco 1869, and there has always bi largo quantity on band. May 1, 1877, there was stored 5n t room.tho enormous quantity of 18,71 2QG sheets of distinctive paper, ana i Chief of tho Bureau says tbero v: itored on 1st July last, 0,924,000 sh< legal teudcr paper, and there is ?to 1-4 j-;.; . .?...... " v';;,^- '-. ., . beside a large amount of national bank note, funded loan bond, and old fraction al currency paper ; of the latter, part is be ing used for national bank notes and legal tenders. It was found that the iitock of paper bad been counted but once (about five years agol in ten years. The room in which ii IQ stored is in the subbasement of the building; thc corridors leading thereto are poorly lighted, and seldom visited, except by workmen employed in shops on the same lloor. Six persons have access to this room at any timo during w irking hours, and any ono of the six c: i upcu packages of this paper that have been counted md stored, abstract from CO to lOOsheetsat a time and place the bundles so tampered where they would not be reached for years. A man so disposed may, by the with drawal of small quantities at a time, be ef ;oo in tho end a dishonest possessor of a largo Htoek of this paper. No surveil lance is kept on the movements of these men, and the theft would remain undis covered till a count was made or the supply exhausted. What has been said of the paper, ap plies also, only with a stili greater force to the custody of the dies, rolls, oed pieces, and plates from which tb ccu rities arc printed in the bureau. The purloining ol" these is especially to be guarded against, 'i bo Government has not placed such cheeks upon them as lo rentier their abstraction impossible, nor can they, by the present arrangement for doing ibo work. A bed piece is a plate of steel the size of the note or coupon, etc., li. ' e printed, having the entire of such note, tlc., ci . graved on its surface, and ibis hoing finished, the piece is hardened. A roll is a small cylindrical piece of steel having ?>n its surface, in relief, tho entire engraved work that is on tho sur face (d' ibo bed piece; this also, after re ceiving the impression, is hardened, lt is made while the steel is soft by being run over the hardened bed piece, so that the entire engraved work on tho surface of thc bed piece is transferred to its out side sur fuco by pressure. The plates are large pieces of steel from . which the notes bonds, stamps, etc., are printed, and vary in size from that of four notes, each, as legal tenders, to a coupon bond, ami are made by hav ing thc work from tho roll transferred te their surfaco by pressure. There arc three (3) bed pieces (also called dies] and three (?I) rolls, from which thc plate for each denomination of ?utes are tnndt viz: ono for tho green printing on thc hack, one for the bluck printing on I'M face and one for the red seal. Heretofore, to insure security, it wai deemed necessary to have these separat? dies, etc., and thc several printings Ol such note, made by different institutions hut John Sherman snw lit, contrary ti law, to bring this entire printing into om bureau, and to havo the entire engrave! stock of dies, heil pieces, rolls and plates for printing legal tenders, bonds, nm thc backs, faces and heals of each, heh in ono vault. The custodian lo thi vault and his ns-if tauts alono have ac eesstoit; in tho course of their dail, duties they go in and out nt pleasun and thero is no difficulty securing fo unlawful purposes thc hrd pieces fror which thc back, tho face, and th seal nf any denomination of notes, frot ono dollar to one thousand dollars, or a of them, are printed, and make froi them rolls (au operation of but few minutes), hy which au unlimitc number of plates can be prepared. These bed pieces are rarely called int uso after the roll has been made, tho st of three could bc- conveniently carried i au inside pucket, and as thc preparatio of a roll requires buta short time, the* bed pieces could be taken away nt til cloxo of work, and restored in the mon rig, until one of each denomination hu been obtained, and by them plates pn pared for printing millions of dollars i genuino notes. Tho vault coutaiuir this material has often been left ope und accessible for hours at a time lo ai one who could get into tho Bureau. It is strange that each of the last thn Presidential elections hu* been follow! by a Treasury announcement that lnij amounts of "counterfeit" notes we ti flout. In IMHO th?! whole issue of leg tenders was withdrawn and replaced, c tho ground that they had been large and skilfully counterfeited. In 1S7:1 tl wholo issue of $500 greenbacks-nboi $35,000,000-was withdrawn and r placed in tho samo way. In 1S77 counterfeit $1,000 note was announce Ono of the oiliest engravers in thc cou try testifies that when a note is so lil the original that it cannot easily be il tooted-as these and other "counterfeit: are saul by Treasury officials to be cannot really be a counterfeit, but mu be a genuine note surreptitiously printi from genuine plates, or from secret r productions of theso plates. Other e perts testify that a genuino plate, aft being secretly made, can be altered wi a graver in small details enough to ma it seem counterfeit to any non-expert. In 1805 Hank Hall, a noted count? feiter in New York, hired two pis printers named Lankton, to go to Was wigton, get employment in tho Priutii Bureau, and theo steal copies of ov.? noto plato tho Government was usiti They did steal copies (by printing i lead sheets instead cf paper) of Bevel notes, and could havo stolen all had n tt quarrel sprang up. A brief inspection of the Treasure books revealed the fact that $19,000.0 of notes were at ono timo secretly aftV for several months, tho Treasury stal menta being false during that time that extent ; and the fact of that sect Issue remained unknown till lighted by the Glover committee. Tho boo wero falsified, and a balance forced conceal this secret issue, by untrt stating that $19,000,000 had been dept ?ted as temporary loan, when no su ileposlt took place. From lSt>7 to 187d, whilo the arnon of greenbacks authorized hy law v ?356,000,000, ho Treasurer's books vealed tho fact that repeatedly t amount afloat was $2,000,000 above t authorized amount in the middle of I month, enough being turned over for < itruction on the last day of tho mot tn bring *!>? tota! ?*own te OOO 9 und in other months tho circulation v cut down as much ns $12,000,0110 bel tho published figures in tho middle the month, enough being taken from I unissued notes on hand on the last c to make up the sum to tho lawful figi an statement day. Gen. Spinner sworo that tho pul [tobt statements did not agree with books ; that he .'.id not approve of thc that his name was pul to them with bis authority ; that ho was not allov to publish truthful statements; t balancea were forced in theso statemoi md that ho finally got tho law t han; io as to relievo him of the duty be i not allowed to perform. In nearly tho whole ?i tho fiscal y I860, tho Treasurer's books show t :he amount of compound interest m jutstanding was from $5,000.000 to $ >00,000 moro than the published d itatements showed. One month it ?2G,000,000 lees. Three different itt nents of the sum outstanding Juno 1865, were published, (littering many i ions, and none of tho threo was true. Secretary McCulloch publicly acknc ;dgod some ye irs sinco that on ono o< dor ho caused $4,000,000 withdn jreenbacks, that lind been paid off Yere to bo destroyed, to be counted published in the debt statement as "< >n band I" Tho first mao who was entrusted . :be destruction of withdrawn nc Charles H. Cornwell, Chief of the lemption Division of the Trcasui >fltce, waa caught stealing tho notes tissuing them. The amount thus i med is not known, but it is cstimatct udgca nt over $100,000. Tho sec ?h tc f, Frank Jones, was delected in n . ing a false certificate of destruction of $40,000 worth, aud C?cn. Spinner, Secre taries Boutwell and Bristow, and others, persistently refused to investigate tho matter, though about $800,000,000 of notes had passed through Jones' hands in perfect shape, much of it never even having boon issued. Tho checks and pr?cautions against theil in destruction i re found to have been grossly neglected nod disregarded in many respecta. (Jen. Spinner swore that "they have a rule thai nothing must be divulged that takes phu c in the Treasury." The report concludes hy Ktating that many of these and other matters need much more investigation ; that by no other method can thc people learn thc truth about the Government, or Congress get thc information neccusnrv to legisla* lion ; that thc Treasury i? fu?l of oppor tunities for wrong that have doubtless been largely used ; that that JUS well as other Departments is ru;; by a liing; that the Government h;.s far too much to do to do it honestly or well, and that' ti ly by wholesale cutting down of Govern ment power ami u wide abolition of Government functions and offices can despotism and national ruin be escaped. Remarkable ''rayer of the I.nte Prince Louis Napoleon. A prayer in tho handwriting of the Prince Imperial has been found among papers in his di sk at Camden Place, lt is published by thc London Morning /'oxl, which adds: "The elucidation of his high character alone justifies thc pub lication of ll sacred document, which will prove lo the world how intimately he was penetrated with all the feelings which most become a Christian, and which give higher hopes than are afford ed by the pains and perils of ibis transi tory life." Thc following is a transla tion : "My God: I give to Thee my heart, but ?ive lo me faith. Without faith lhere is no strong prayer, and to pray is a longing of my soul. I pray not that Thou sbouldst lake away the obstacles on my path, but that Thou mayst permit me lo overcome then. I pray not that Thou sbouldst disarm my enemies, but that Thou sbouldst aid me to conquer myself. Hear, t) (?od! my prayer. Pre serve to my affection thoso who aro dear to me. Grant them happy days. If Thou only givest on this earth a certain sum of joy, take, () dodi my share, and bestow it on tho most worthy, and may tho most worthy bc my friends. If Thou BCckest vengeance upon man, sinke me. Misfortune is converted into hnppiness hy the sweet thought that those whom wo love are happy. Happiness is poisoned by the bit ter thought, while I rejoice those whom I love a thousand times better than myself are suffering. For me, O God! no more happiness, l'a ko it from my path. I can only find joy in forgetting tho past. If I forget tncee who are no more, I phall bo forgotten in my turn, a.id how sud the thought thal makes ono say, 'Time effaces all.' Tho only satis faction I soijk ia that which lasts forever, Hint which is given by a tranquil con science. O my God ! show mc ever where my duty lies, and give mo strength lo accomplish it always. Arrived at tho term of my life, I shall turn my looks fearlessly to thc past. Remembrance will not bo for mc a long remorse. Then I shall bo happy. Grant, O God ! that my heart may bo penetrated with the conviction that those whom I love, mid who are dead, shall see all my actions. My life shall be v ..thy of their wituess, ami my innermost thoughts shail never make them b'ush." A WHALE TunEsiiicu.- The schooner Marthn, from George's Hanks, brought, with a coigo of f?b to this port yesterday, thc largest whale threaher remembered by old market men to have ever been seen in this city. It was caught in a pound net at Wood'n Hole, Mass., on Tuesday, nud waa killed with a lance. The last one exhibited in Washington market was fifteen years ago, and it was .so small n specimen of its kind that some fish dealers believed that it was a species of shark. The tish that arrived yesterday was exhibited by C. A. Lewis. It was very nearly fourteen feet long, and it monopolized the entire front at the stand. Persona stopped to examine it, and all day long a throng was press ing around it. Jiaif of tho length of tho curious fish was body and tho other half tail. The tail tapered oil'gradually, und had been looped up by a rope at tached to a beam above. The weight of the creature was OOO pounds. The naked skin on the back mid sides was a uniform bluish drab color from thc snout to the tip of the tail. The tail was as much a separate part of the body as a dog's tail is of its body, which appearance made it resemble a land or amphibious animal more than a fish. The eyes were as Inrge as n cow's, and could bo rolled ir. iheir Bockets. The mouth was comparatively small, and thc teeth short, sharp and of a uniform length in both jaws. Sticking straight up from the middle of the back was a dark fin, eleven inches long, of the same color as tho body, tough and com pact, yet neither bony nor bard. The fish yielded like caoutchouc to thc finger, but on releasing the pressure the skin sprang back to its original form. The body from end to end, seemed a mass of cartilage. The long tail ia used by tho animal Uko a rawhide in attacking its cmemy, tho whale. It forms a sort of alliance with tho sword-fish, tho latter thrusting its sword into the whalo from below, and tho thresher attacking it from above. Tho threshers run in schools, and from len to twenty will attack a whale it once. Thoso wno havo witnessed a combat between threshers and whales say that it is an exciting spectacle. The ivater flies in showers of foam in all di rections, as tho threshers hurl themselves tt ibu whales like ?nunritcu cowhide*. Tor hours they rain blows on tho head ind sides of the hugo animal. Between tho piercing thrusts of the swordfish and thc flail-like blows of tho thresher, n whale rarely escape*. From tho carcass the victors get their food for many a day afterward. Through the little slit in the ?ide of tho thresher exhibited yesterday Dozed blood os rod as that of a land animal. The f^?l?a u-om f<->iir in number ;m each side.-iVt-'c York Sun. FAITH.-Tho following isan incident on tho recent return ot somo British officers from Afghanistan' Sconc-The wildest part if tho Khyber, with barren rocks towering m all sides; an English officer riding \Iong, escorted by a motley company of Maliks and tribes-men all armed to tho teeth ; moro aroied Afreedccs in tho mid lie distnnce ; aweary, lonely figure toiling in thedusty road in huge black boots, face burned a brick rod p.nd frinoed by a sea <. ly sandy beard. The figuro is clad in a thick wadded garment and has a bundle on its back. "Halt ! Who aro you ?" "Tur Icestani." "Whereare your comrades?" "I am alone." "Where are you going?" "To Mecca." "How will you get there ?" "God will help." "Peace bo with yon." "And . Uh you." The figuro moves off, uni tho armed circle break up. This poor devotee had tramped hundreds of miles through hills and valleys, swarm ing with cut throats, sccuro in bis simple Taith which lind lcd him to leave dis tant Turkestan in quest of the still more listant Mecca.-Indian ??onecr. Conn BRKAD.-If you want dolic'iou* corn bread, make it with Dr. Trice'* ?ream Baking Powder and you will be tlelightcd with it. Breakfasting on corn bread made with Dr. Price's Baking Powder, will not lenvo a hoavy( leaded feeling in ins stomach, sc ofter, felt after tho uso of 8aleratus and adulterated bak ing powders._ TI?KY II AVG COME! THOSE ORA1N ORADLES wc spoke O', and wo hope you will call and sec them. Wo can ofter yon ha ryal ns. A. 6. TOWKKt? A CO. 45 Years Before the Public. THE GENUINE DR. C. MoLANE'S CELEBRAI t l) LIVER PILLS, FOR THE CURE OF 1 lepatilis, or Liver Complaint, si V I MA AtiU SICK HEADACIIB Symptoms of a Diseased L iver. HAIN ??i the light side, under thc 1 edge of the ril>s, increases on pres sure; sometimes the pain is in the left side; the patient is rarely able lo lie on thc left side; sometimes the pain is felt under thc shoulder blade, and it frequently extends to thc top of the shoulder, and is sometimes mistaken for rheumatism in the arm. The stomach is affe< lcd with loss of appe tite and sit.kness; thc bowels in gen eral arc costive, sometimes alternative with lax ; thc bead is troubled with pain, accompanied with a dull, heavy sensation in the back part. There is generally a considerable loss of mem ory, accompanied with a painful sen sation of having left undone some thing whi< h ought to have been done. A sh. it, dry cough is sometimes an atter ?.ant. Thc patient complains of weariness and debility; bc is easily startled, his feet are cold or burning, and he complains of a prickly sensa tion of thc skin; his spirits are low; and although he is satisfied that exer cise would bc beneficial to him, yet he can scarcely summon up fortitude enough to try it. In fact, he distrusts every remedy. Several of the above symptoms attend the disease, but cases ha\w occurred where few of them ex isted, yet examination of the body, after death, has shown the LIVER to have been extensively deranged. AGUE AND FEVER. DR. C. MCLANE'S LIVER PILLS, IN CASES OF AOUE AND FEVER, when taken with Quinine, are productive of the most happy results. No better cathartic can be used, preparatory to, cr after taking Quinine. We would advise all who are afflicted with this disease to give them a FAIR TRIAL. For all bilious derangements, and as a simple purgative, they are unequaled . SETT ARE OF IMITATION?. The genuine are never sugar coated. Every box has a red wax seal on the lid, with the impression Dr.. MCLANE'S LIVER PI I.I.S. The genuine MCLANE'S LIVER PILLS bear the signatures of C. MCLANE and FLEMING Hans, on the wrappers. Insist upon having the genuine T.<R. C. MCLANE'S LIVER PILLS, prepared by Flem ing Bros., of Pittsburgh, Pa., thc marl et being full nf imitations of the name Ufr* T.nn*>^ spelled differently but same pronunciation. YELLOW FEVER-BLACK VOMIT. It I* loo ?non to lo reel tho ravage* of this terrl lilo disease, which Till no doubt return In a more inallguant ami vlnile.lt form In tlie Tull ol' 1879. ME RB ELL'S HBPATINE, a Remedy discover ed In .Southern Ni:Ma and med with mich wonder ful results in South A ("erica where the most ag gravated cases of fever aro found, causes from one to two ounces of hilo to he altered or strained from fho blood each timo lt -tasses through the Liver, as long as an excess of nile exists. Hy ita wonderful action on the Liver and Stomach thc HK.I'ATINE not only prevents to a certainty any kind of Ferer and Black. Vomit, but also eures Headache, Constipation of the Bowels, Dyspepsia and all Malarial diseases. No one need lear Yellow Fovcr who will expel thu Malarial l'oison and excess of bile from the blood by using MERRELL'8 IIEPATINF, which is sold by all Druggists In 23cent and 81.00bottles, or will be sent by expresa bv thc Proprietors, A. V. MEltilELL Jt CO., I'ulla., l'a. Dr. Pemberton'* StUlingia or Queen's Delight. The reports nf wonderful cures of Rheumatism, Serofulf., .Salt Rheum, Syphilis. Cancer, Ulcers nud Sores, that como from all parts of the country, aro not only remarkable but sn miraculous as to bo doubted was it not for the abundance of proof. REMARKABLE CCRE OF SCROFULA, Ac. Case oj Oil. J, C. Branson. KraasTOX, iii., September 15,1871. OBltTS-For sixteen years I have been a great snfierer from Scrofuln lu its most distressing forms. I have been confined to my room and bod for fif teen year? with scrofulous ulcerations. The most approved remedies for such cases had been used, ami the mast eminent physicians consulted, with out any decided benefit. Thus ttrostra* "si, dis tresied, desponding, I was advised tty Dr. Ayer, of Floyd County, tia., to commence tho use of your Compound Extract StUlingia. Language is as In sufllcteiit to describe the relief I obtained from the use ol thc Stillingia as it ls to convey an adequate Idea of the Intensity of my siitfcring before using your medicine; stilllcient to say, I abandoned all other remedies and continued tho uso of your Ex tract of Stillingia, until I can sar truly, "I am cured of all pain," of all disease, with nothing to obstruct the active pursuit of my profession. Moro than eight months have elapsed sinco this re markable cure, without any return of tho disease. For tho truth of the above statement, I refer to any gentleman In Barlow County, (ia., and to the members ot the bar of Cherokee Circuit, who are acquainted with mc. I shall ever remain, with the deepest gratitude, your obedient servant, J. C. BRANSON, AU'y at Law. A MIRACLE. WEST POINT, OA., Sspt. 16, 1K70. GKXT.I-My daughter was taken on thc 35th day of June, I8f>3, with vh.it was supposed to be Acute Rheumatism, nud wea treated for the name with no success, in March, following, pieces of bone bo gan to work out of tho right arm, and contluucd to appear till all tho bone from the elbow to the shoulder joint came out. Many pieces of bono came out of thc right foot and leg. The case was then pronounced one of Wbito Swelling. After having been confined altout six years to her bed, I and thc case considered hopeless, I was Induced to I try Dr. Pemberton'* Compound Extract of Stillln- j gla, and was so well satisfied with its eticcts that 1 nave continued tho uso of lt until tho present. My daughter was contint.) to ber bed altout six years boforo she sat up or cvon turned over with out help. She now sits up all day. and sews most of her time-has walked across ino room. Her goneral health is now good, and I believe abe will, a? her limbs gain strength, walk well. I attribute ber recovery, with the blessing of God, to the uso of ymir Invaluable medicine. 'viii ii gratitude, I am yours truly, Vt. B. PLANTON. WKST POINT, OA., Rcpt. IC, 1870. OES IS-The above certif?calo of Mr. Vt. ll. Ulan ton we know and certify to as being true. The thing ls so ; hundreds of the most respected citi zens will certify to li. As much reference can Ito given as may be required. Yours truly, CRAWFORD A WALKER, Druggists. HON. D. H. WILLIAMS. Of six on all Ge gai Ou Su bv wli Nc ap] Cl BU rh ea. I An 1 ? "I J. I Boi tor, cid X mn . A Th Tl Cm ti DR. PEMBERTON'S BTILWKQIA <s prepar ed by A. F. M 1.1:1:1 LI. A CO., Phila., Pa. Sofd by all DruirulsU In si on IW.MI..-, ?- .bj express. Agents wanted to canvass everywhere. Send for Dook-"Curious Story"-!roo to al). Medicines eent to poor people, payable lu iustall nirnts. ^ ^ i i, i i i i i i i i . Greenville and Columbia Railroad. CHANCE OF SCHEDULE. On and after Monday, June '/nd, 1S79. the passen ger Trains over the Greenville and Columbia Rail road will bo run daily, Sundays excepted : UP. Learo Columbia at..10 S5 a m Leave Alston.12 20 p m Ijcave Newberry. 1 33 p m L?ave Hodge*." 4 27 p m Int netto?. f. 03 ?i ra Arrive av Greenville...... , so p tn DOWN. Loare Greenville nt.". fi 45 a m Leare Brilon. 8 3.1 s ra Leave Hodges. 0 55 p m Leave NeTDorry.12 45 p m Learn Alston. 2 17 p ra Arrive at Columbia. 3 ?A p m ANDERSON BRANCH A BL VE RIDUE R. R. UP. Lcavo nelton. ti M p tn Leave Anderson._ 6 SO p m Lcavo Pendleton. 7 45 p m 1. ..Perryvlllo. 8 20 p m I<carn Seneca city-.". 8 30 p m Arrive at V.* xl ball a.-. 9 00 p m DOWN. Leave Walhalla.ti 15 a m Lcavo Seneca City"". 5 45 a ru Leave Pcrrrrllle. 5 55 s ta la.,- Pendleton.". ti 44 a A Leave Anderson._ 7 35 a m ArrlTe at Belton.-._.. 8 15 a ta THOMAS DODAMKAD.tieu. Suti't aUICK SAL.ES AND SIV??TJWi FROF?TS IS our motto, and wo can make lt to your interest to call and so? tia when you nrc in need of anything. We will sell you good Hoods at low prices. A. B. TOWERS A CO., No. I Oran it? How. April 17, 1870 | 40 Yu nm kin pt for wil _J Atl o iyi Arr I. a Arr Ux Ari Arr I-oa Tl litj Enal A ch, 0 Cul rap i fiSll RELIABLE. 1 .:(-??n>j LIVER IKYIGORATOHJ I .. . i..r i Family lt^mody for "-*?? - ?"( tho Liver, Stomach -It in Purcly^^fo* j : tblc.- It nover . : i' i. t' M-It is ittiartic uud ?*W . * \acr Wi, ?s - KBR^f^ in my practiccf Band by the public,} ?** far moro than 35 years,? with unprecedented results.? - OE.ND FOR CIRCULAR.? >. Y. Wi SANFORD, MiOi, iflWYOUKc'rrYS AIT OKl'OUIST WILL TKLL tor ITS REPUTATION, g I??ITHS WORM OIL! ATHBKS, UA., December 8, 1878. \ few nights since I gave my son one dose thc Worm Oil, ?nd the next day he passed teen larine worms. At the same time 1 pave c to my little girl, four years old, and she sseil eighty-six wo.ms from four to li ficen .li.) loiif?. W. P. PHILLIPS. Wt ill M OIL for Bale by Druggists gener y. Prepared by E. S. LYDON, Athens, orgia. Price 25 cents. March 14, 1870 35 _ly i.i.MiiiM' n r.u ?f M \\\\IT FIHi; k 11 ?r :utiv?. t,,R'r ? rill I ?-???fgetie canvassers tn en in a pleasant and profitable business, od mun will lind this n rare chain. TO 9IAKE MONEY. ch will please answer this advertisement letter, enclosing stamp for reply, staling int business they have been engaged in. ne but those who mean business need t>ly. Address. FINLEY, HARVEY ? CO.. ?larch 20, '79-ly Atlnnta, ?a. SSS Is a perfect BLOOD PURIFIER, and ls tho ly purely VEGETABLE remedy known ?OFCI ce, that has mode radical and PERMANENT ina ofSYi'UlLis und SCROFULA In ull their gos. 1 It thoroughly removes mercury from tho ?cm; ii rviicyea tue agonies of mercurial euin&Usm.and speedily cures all skin dis se.. .'or sale hy SIMTSON, REID & C derson, S. C. Vpril 17. 1870 40_ ly 1ER WHEELS, JHE POOLE & HUNT LE F P*L TURBINE. STEAM ENGINES AND BOILERS, ACHINE MOULDED GEARING, ?IU?TD?&. KILEYS AID mott i SSOJlTIft POOLE &. HUNT, WANTED! No. 1 YOKE of OXEN. ' APPLY TO M. Matthews, Belton, S.O. (Formerly of Ninety Six,) [ANU FA OT U R E R of thc Palmetto Cotton Oin and Condenser. Agent thc New Economizer Steam Engine and 1er, the Farquhar Thresher and Separa , Saw Mills, Crist Mills and other Ma llory. iep?iring faithfully done. Letters by ll receive prompt attention. ipril 3,-1870 33 2m e Nineteenth Century adds tho Einhth Wonder of the World. Lie Holman liver Pad, PLASTEltS ami SALTS, rcs without medicine, simply by nbsorp lori. A sure cure for Dyspepsin, Tor pid Liver, Biliousness, and all such Diseases. Call at once, yo invalids, lu inc Tu?u uT Anderson only by 8IMFSON, REID A CO., Benson House Corner, larvh 20, 1H7Q_30_ly LUMBER! LUMBER ! LAROE lot of gwod Lumber is kept L constantly on band at my Lumber rd nt the Dine Ridge Depot in Anderson, I enters for large or small lota of any d desired will be promptly filled at low rcs. Mr. Robert Maj field is my agent tho sale of Lumber at Anderson, and 1 furnish nnj* information desired to -mw wisliim? to mnkn nn order. JOHN KAUFMAN. on 30, 1870_20_ly tania & Charlotte Air Line R. R. n ?nd ?Uer Sunday. .Tune Ist, 1S7U, Double Dal 'r?lns will run on thia rond os follows l OOIKU EAST. NIRIII Mail and Pusacngcr Train. IVP Seneca.9 00 j? ni TO Si iieca..9 Ol ?i in Day Passenger Train. ITO Seneca.9 12 ti ni viiSoncca._.9 i:i a m (i OI Nt; WEST. Night Mall and Passenger Train. Ire Seneca.fl 33 a rn ve Seneca. 6 M a in Day Passenger Train. Ive Seneca.3 13 p ni ve Seneca..3 16 p in brough Tickets on sale at (inlucsvlllc. Seneca r, (?rcenvllle and Spartauburg to all pointa t and West, W. J. HOUSTON. (J. r. and T. Ap .il. FRESH ARRIVALS. NOTHER lot of beautiful Calico, l inne, L Long Cloth, i.'ottonades, Ginghams, >ckcd Homespun*. Coahmarcta^ .tc. A. D. -i OWE fis ?fe CO. ipriiJ7, 1870 _40 _ ANOTHER LOT d? well-selected Goods that will not full ' to please thc eye and flt Ibo nurso. I early and oltsn. Thej' aro going off idly. A. ll. TOWERS A CO. F. W. WAGENER & CO., CHARLESTON, - SOUTH CAROLINA, Cotton Factors, Wholesale Grocers, AND LIQUOR DEAIiEKS. AGENTS FOR Oriental (Jun Powder, Fruit? and Flower? Smoking Tobacco, Celebrated Reversible Cotton Tie, Wagener and Georgia Orange Fertilizer?. Bi?t" Pamplea of anything in our line neut on application with pleasure. F. W. W AUENER. <>. A. WAGEN KR. A prH 10. 1870 3'J_ly EXTRA FINE FLOUR, CHOICE N. O. MOLASSES, And BACON in abundance. Call in get Prices before Buying. AKI NH VARIETY OF HBO COFFEE, from lue. to IMO. per pound. Tbero aro some Colleen higher, but none better. Staple Dry Goods, Hats and Shoes, AT GREATLY REDUCED PRICES. SCYTHES AND CRADLES, HOES and PLOWS, And other Fanning Implements for sale nt the very lowest cash prices. REED & HERRICK. AjfPil 17. 1X7!)_33_ly " m jam i KI_inmw ai wii-iwii II III ? wu un-I-winima-mn ?- -III ?? ut ? ??! a ??Mil Timi STILL FURTHER REDUCTION IN FREIGHTS AND PRICES OF ALL CLASSES OF GOODS. * ~?"STE now have ill Store, nod arc receiving from tho Northern and Western marketa a W full Stock of GENERAL JIEKtHAJiDWK. Ono Ca?' Load o?* Baooii, Ono Car Load ot* ITloiii*, Ono Cai* Load i.V. O. BioiasHC?. In addition to these things, we have a fresh stock of Groceries, Dry Goods, Hardware, Hoots, Klines, lints, Caps, Clothing, Gins?, Crockery mire, Sec.. Sec., nil of which will be sold low for cash or barter. If you want anything kept in a well-assorted stock of tho above articles, or those usually found in first-class mercantile houses, call on us for it, nod wo will supply you at tho very cheapest [trices. BARR & CO., NO. IO GRANITE ROW, ANDERSON, S. C. P. S.-All indebted to the old firm of BARR & FANT arc notified to call and mako pnvment of their Kotes and Accounts at once. Feb 13, 1ST!?_12_ly GREAT REDUCTION IN PRICES OF HATS rillTHIIfi MUK MM ?AK Kniwa wLv ! SSSSiUt) VVVBV Hil? VIIVLVy In order to reduce my stock in those lines. GROCERIES AT LOWEST PRICES. EEAH,D'WAHE3 IIROIET AND BUCCY MATERIAL. ?^,0?SEWING MACHINE,SgJ*-?Z not haul Machines about to sell them-therefore do not have to include any expen ses in the prices. AGENCY FOR FIRST-CLASS FERTILIZERS. C. A. REED, Agent. Jan 27, 1870 _ 13 FURNITURE, FURNITURE. CHEAPER THAN EVER. TOLLY tho Lender of LOW FRIO ES. ~|"^00K at sonic of the figures at which you can buy Furniture at in Anderson : Good Hani Wood Cottage Bedsteads at $2.50; jvithnut Slats and Castors, $2.00. Towel End and Drawer Washstands, $1.35. Large Wardrobes, ill.OD. I ?argo Tin Safes, with two doors and drawer, $5.50. Good, strong Rocking Chairs, $1.40. Cane Bottom Chairs, per set, $0.00. Painted Chamber Sets, consisting of Dress Bureau, Bedstead, Washstand and Table, $11.00 ; with four Chairs and Rocking Chair, complete, $19.75. Walnut Chamber Suits, consisting of high head-board French Bedstead, Bureau, with Arch Standard and Glass, Washstand and Table, $23.75; with four lino Walnut Chairs and Oval Back Rocking Chair, $32.75. And everything else in proportion. I have on hand a very large Stock, from a fifteen dollar Suit up to a two hundred dollar Suit. I claim to sell cheaper than Greenville, and will duplicate any bill that can bo bought there. G. F. TOLLY, Depot Street. Oct 4,1877 12 BRADLEY'S PATENT PHOSPHATE AND COMBA?IEE ACID PHOSPHATE. WE ore ngenls for the above celebrated Fertilizers, having sold Bradley's Pateut for sev eral years, we know it to be good. As to the ACID there is nono better. Seo Mr. B. A. Davis' certificate attached. Could give more, but one is sufficient. Our terms areas favorable as any Standard Guano. Give us a call before buying. A. B. TOWERS & CO. ANDERSON, S. C., Sent. 30. 1878-3Te.ur*. A. I!. Tower? & Co.-Dear Sirs : I beg leave to say to yon that I am well pleased with tho Bradley's Guano that I bought of you last Spring. In tact I do not thins there Ls any other guano ?QU&] to it except iwrhni? ono other, and thcro is no man who bas used a greater variety of fertilizers than I have. I shall want it again, and n great many of my neighbors expect to use it next year, just from Boeing my cotton. II. A. DAVIS. Feb 13. 1870 31 VlJ^QIlsriA COLUMBIA, A. J. DOD AM EAD, IEE OUSE, s. c. PaopniKTon. THIS House is conveniently located-tl Main street, near State House-being within five minutes' walk of the business portion of tho city and tho depot. Tho rooms are large and well ventilated. Beds clean and comfortable. The table is supplied with the best tho market ailords.' Rates reduced to suit the times. Board and Longing, par day, $1 50-ministers, $1.00. B. A. WILSON, Manager. Dec 5. 1878 21 Buy only the NEW IT IS VHS Only Sowing Machino ? ll I. il PAS A It has Solf Sotting Keod. s. l'crer Zre?-z tho Tarca*, r -.r Z\z:zi Stltcht'. I- -.ie laghtcik ?u:.r.i- i ~.'???i Simplest, the M?sl :>?!. ?nd in Every ?tes??>rtt The Best Family Sowing: Miine! The "HEW AMERICAN? 'j more work with laoor,ll>*ii application. 'I (itel not g?t ont of orriW, and .vi'l ri ic",oe. illustrated Circuler furnished A G Ell'-'.. V.-ANTED. J. 8. D0V1.? Mona?er. iii N. Charlea Street. llaltlr orv, lld. C. A.. REED, Andoraon, S. C.