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Show CORINNE DAILY IpURNAL. Wednesday Horning, Hay 3f 1871. Jr HISTORY. One of the Salt Lake dailies, professedly discussing the attitude of parties, holds, that if the Republicans continue the policy of high taxation, and exercise the bitter and implacable power of a conqueror without magnanimity, over the States lately in rebellion, they will be unsuccessful in 1872, etc. the Republicans shall continue the policy of high taxation, is altogether incomprehensible in view of what the Republicans have done. About ten years ago the country was torn in two by a gigantic revolt of one section of it against the established government. The party which stood by that Government in the four years war which followed, was obliged in so doing to tax everything and everybody. To do this, required a system of laws and officers almost uuknown to civilized man A conscientious government. eouhl- - neither eat, drink, sleep, work, walk, ride, drive, nor die without finding it necessary to pay a tax at every turn. There was a tax on every horse, mule, sheep, ox, cow, and on all they produced. Taxes were simple and compound, plain and involuted, rectangular, circular, and quadrilateral. They enveloped every man and every industry. The war for the Union ended ago, leaving us with a liquidated debt, with accrued interest, amounting to a little more than $2,S00,000,000, upon which the annual interest payment was $ I til, 832, 051. On the 1st of April, 1871, the principal of this debt had been reduced $531 ,683, 760, nearly $100,000,-00per annum, and the annual interest payment to about $114,000,000. Part of this reduction of interest was due to the refunding of bonds bearing 7.30 per cent. into. bonds bearing G per cent. These C per cents, are now being refunded in 5 and 4 j per cents., and when it shall have been done, the interest will fall below $100,000,000 a B - si-rea- rs 0 pay-xnen- ts jear. Meanwhile, taxation has been steadily reduced and simplified. In July, 1866, Congress repealed taxes which had the year before $66,000,000. In March following, like taxes, to the .amount of $40,000,000, were repealed. In February, 18G8, there were $25,000,-00- 0 additional repealed, and by theacts of March and July, same year, $45,000,-00- 0 more. Finally, by the act of July, 1870, $50,000,000 more were taken off, making a total reduction of internal revenue taxatiou in about four years, of $226,000,000, besides the repeal of about $30,000,000 of tariff duties, by act approved July 14, 1870 in all, $256,000,000. . The last reduction only went into full operation on the 1st of May, for which cause the country does not yet feel it, and many intelligent persons do not even know it. After this date no .special taxes are levied except ort manufacturers of, or dealers in distilled and fermented liquors and tobacco. There remains the income tax it is true, but with the exemption doubled and the rate halved, and divested of its inquisitorial features, since no one not having a' clear incomq of more than $2,000 a year is required to make re turn at all.. It. was retained by Bou-wel- l, Sherman, Schenck, and the to strengthen its credit sufficientlt, to enable the Government to refund ity 6 per .cents in 5s and 4Ls, and thus operation having been at last successt fully inaugurated, the income tax is sure to be repealed at the next session of Congress, so that it will never have to be paid again that is to say, tor any year subsequent to 1870 hut a Senate committee has been constituted to examine the whole question of taxation, including that oT the . reduction nud readjustment of the tariff during the congressional recess of this Summer. As the Result of that committees investigations, there is little doubt of the d pro-duce- rest-solel- y not-oul- y abolishment; of the internal revenue bureau altogether, and the readjustment of the tariff to the satisfaction of th class known as Revenue Reformers. So much for the financial policy of the Republican, party, taken as a whole. No Government was ever administered on earth more judicioulv, considering the circumstances, than that of the United States during the last ten years, viewed from a financial standpoint. That a system of high taxation was forced upou them by the rebellion, is true; that they have continued it longer than was necessary, or misapplied its proceeds, cannot be maintained at all. 0 It may be said that paying off a year of the principal of the debt, was had policy. But it was necessary in order to fund the 7.30 bonds, first into 6 per cents, and now into five and 4$ per cents. The compensation lies in the fact that, by this payment on tin principal and this refunding, more $100,-000,00- than 150,000,000 per annum interest money will be saved from this on. TELEGRAPHIC! With the bonds refunded in 5 aud 4 per cents, there will-b- e no more strain-in- g 9 to pay off more than the one per REPORTED CP7 C:U T PO. THE qSXTXXK I U1.T JOCT.XAL ht TUE ATL.1XTIC AXb FJWiriO COMPACT. cent. f the principal of the public debt i Or per arinum required bv the Joint Resolution of Congress of, 1862. Earthquako in Chili. And as to the Republicans exercising the bitter and implacable power of a OOTTSCHALE ASSASSINATED. conquerer without magnanimity over the States lately in rebellion, it is equally nonsensical with the above considered r ' utterance of our cotemporary about tax- Foreign News. ation. ,, rs vao. - The very day after Lee surrendered, the leading Republican paper began to urge full and complete amnesty for the late rebels. It has never ceased urgin' it, and six years to a day from the date of Lees surrender the House of by the decisive vote of 134 to 46, passed an amnesty bill granting full pardon to every one engaged in the rebellion former Congressmen, members of State Conventions who voted for secession, army and navy officers alone excepted. After one of the most stupendous, dangerousj desperate, and most causeless revolts of history, costing the country half a million of men and ten thousand millions of money, there was not an execution, not a trjal even, the principal actors were simply debarred from taking an active part in the government of the country they had so nearly destroyed for six or seven years, until foreign influences should have thrown the protection of great andjust laws around rich and poor, black and white, high and low, alike. They were only debarred from power that this humane end might be reached, and after showing that it must be reached, if at all, without their ageuev, and in opposition to In all this; where is the want of magnanimity, where the wanton exercise of the power of a conqueror, where indeed any hut the most beneficent exercise of power? Those who mouth such stuff as this of our contemporary that we have been consider-ineither know not or care not what they say. The Republican party will go into the Presidential campaign of 1872 with a record that will ensure them success a brighter, purer, more gallant and glorious record, it is impossible to conceive of a popular party. It vindicates and justifies popular institutions beyond question or cavil. Repre-sentative- s, . Washing tox,"J May 2.t A Tribunes ; special says the Seeivtary of the Interior is highly pleased with the result of the new system in awardiug contracts for Indian supplies. Judge Burton, Secretary of the San ThVim?d Commission, arrived here Sat- urday, from his home in Kentucky, and has token charge of the preparation annals; A special to the Herald, dated Valparaiso, April 3d,, says that on the 25th Chili was visited by the most severe earthquake experienced since J851. Being (hurchf holiday, and people busily engaged in their devotions, at 11a. in., without the usual premonitory rumbling, the earthquake hurst upon them, aud for more than a minute the walls and roofs of the churches and houses swayed fearfully, making openings in many Window glass was broken places. and the shock most violent. The cries lf the terrified multitude added more horror to the scene. In a moment the streets and public squares were full of people on their knees, beseeching for merev. Not until some time after the departure of the movement was any degree of tranquility restored. In villages south the alarm aroused even greater fright. Some of the buildings offered but. little resistance; shock about the same. The phenomenon was rcpeatcl three times the last at 5 p. m., with increased Violence. After 10 oclock no repetition of the movement took place. Loss of life not considerable. In fine dwellings were injured, and in Valparaiso many buildings damaged. In the harbor, vessels at .anchor in a storm, and several tossed as though s. small boats aud steamers driven ashore by the force of the shock. The route taken was from east to west. It was the most disastrous shock that has befallen Chili since the burning of the church in Santiago a few years since, ONWARD i V and the narrow escape from a like caWe are said to live in an age of pro- lamity .a few, .months since in the same : 'k gress, aud although in the face6f great city. calamities men may be inclined to quesNew York, May 2. The Tribune tion such a fact, the saying is eminent this morning publishes a queer story rejust. Wise men, some from the east, and others from the west, tell us to hope for garding the sudden death of Gottschalk, While making the best; and although the heart may, at the' pelebrpted pianist." for a concert near Rio times, grow sick, the recommendation is arrangements Janeiro, he incurred the displeasure of practically good. With a certain sqliool the college boys at that place. After of prophets to whom everything in the the concert he was prostrated by a blow present is out of joint, to whom Locks from a sand-bain the back ; he was by, Hall. has become a creed, and the stunned and death was the cycles of Cathay a necessity, we have no momentarily final result. It is not known who were , sympthy. Such meiv can see nothing assassins. the them but selfishness, nothing New York, May 2. A (special correbeyond but the indiscoverable bourne. To their jaundiced vision, the Repub- spondent at Berlin telegraphs that on lican party arc a set of humbugs, Sunday a council of war Avas held to and the Democrats nothing but worship- consider the situation of Paris. Bispers of mammon. This is a miserable marck was present, anr it Avas agreed creed false, withal, aud against which to notify the Versailles government that we desire sturdily to protest. The land a further limited period Avouhl be allowin which we live and move and have our ed for the restoration, of authority and being, is, in all sincerity, sulficiently cor- the enforcement of order and the fulfillrupt. Yet in days that are pasf and ment of the treaty stipulations, after gone it was worse. In these days it is whih Germany) will toko independent worthy of better men, and our duty as action to establish laAV and order in citizens should be to ascertain if it can- Paris! Tlie" dispatch will emphasize the not he elevated still higher. The time Avish of Germany not to interfere in the was when religion was confined to priests internal political affairs of France, but and cloisters, when the rites of heathen- Avill add that such interminable civil Avar, ism were blended with the incense that originating in revolution and characterascended to God. Time was when edu- ized by disgraceful excesses, cannot cation was nestled in the same retreat, longer be tolerated for the moral and vhen the lamp of learning fluttered fee- material interests of Germany, as AAell bly, and ignorance, like a thick cloud, as the Avholc of Europe, avIio arc sufferbrooded over the land. Time was when ing. wealth and honor could only be vindicaPrivate reliable information leads to ted by the sword, when morality, at a theb(fiief,tluit it is the intention of the discount, was not valued for its own sake. Germans to restore the Regency as the These days are happily gone, and with1 next legitimate government iu the event them the orgies by which they were char- of the Versailles government being unacterized. Let us then lay aside the able to assert its authority. spirit that sighs for the past, that dreams, PakisJ ilay 2. The Comntune has The world about the good old times. cited serious 'charges against Clnseret, is moving on to that far off divine event and a suggestion has been made to shoot of which the truest poet of our times has hours. himC within T.48 ; ; Let us ?& try to believe sang so sweetly. with him, that somehow good will be Vrrsaii.les, May 2d. The Clamafte the final goal of ill and work, heart, Railroad Station was captured last night hand, and. brain, to clear the .way for a by rthe Chasseures at the point of bayon et. Three hundred insurgents were happier dawn. ' 1 killed iu the action. The, chatteau of A correspondent of the San FrancisIssy, the defence of which the insurgents co Alta at Magdelena Bay, Lower Cal- had temporarily, abandoned, was simuloffice sends branch to the that ifornia, taneously .attacked by two regiments of of a tree thickly covered with oysters Versailles troops. Three hundred closely clinging to the bark. This novAvcre found in the deserted casel fruit is found in great abundance tle Avho surrendered to the assailants, in the loealtty from which our correspon- and will arrive here y as prisoners dent writes, and the trees, which grow of Avar. V . , at the waters edge partially submerged Fort Issy is, in consequence of the remost of the time, are encrusted with cent victories, completely surrounded by a heavy growth of the bivalves. The Versailles troops. The truth of the ruspecimen received at that office is about that disturbances have occurred in two inches in diameter, the rough" bark mors, is ofiieially denied. ' y Lyoqs, of which is well covered with ousters of The result of the recent elections is fair size, though somewhat ancient . by this time. satisfactory to the Government. their-influenc- 1 r . 1 r 4 e. -- g San-tiagoseve- w ' 1 1 '- " g X nd . , A new iosed in mak- at times as an esculent for coffee, in ing bread, as a substitute the brewing of beer as well as for fattento be ing farm animals is now begining Used in making syrup, Tar surpassing that of the beet, and even of the sorghum in delicacy of flavor, while the yield is much more abundant. The a orage production of a bushel of sweet potatoes, A- The organ of A Moixo Mountain. of the Zurich Society of Natural History publishes a curious account of the traA'els of the glacier of Monte Rosa For fifty during' the lust sixty yours years it steadily and surely approached the toAvn of Zermatt, moving at the rate of abont three feel a Avcek during the spring months. Its Avay Avas through pastures and grain fields, over Avliich it Its passed like a devouring pestilence. Vo In looking Tenacity over the records of the toAvn of Boston the other day, it Avas discovered that the offices of Register of Deeds and ToAvn and City Clerk, have been held by two families during the past one hundred e and thirty years more or less. The and MeClcary families seem to have had a life lease to them. A relation of the Allines Avas register from 1750 to 1766 ; and twenty-fou- r years after an A llinc took the position, and when he died was succeeded by his sons, the last one whom died a few months since. Office. Al-lin- Boston has also had three ToAvn Clerks Avhose term of office has embraced one hundred and seven years. John Oliver was the first Town Clerk (in 1641); and William Cooper held the office forty-nin- e years. When Boston Avas incorporated into a city, in 1702, Samuel MeCleary was chosen Clerk, and held the office until removed by death in 1822 ; ho was succeeded by his sou, av!io still holds the office and probably will until removed by the same agent. Many of the county and city officers are old standbys, and v of old and honorable families. The action of the Grand Jury in discharging Leonard for the killing of . ' S a $ 4 Com-monis- ts . RiVer RAILROAD LINE -J- LJSTD- DENNIS J. TOOHY, ATTORNEY A.rJ? LAW, REPORTER OFFICE, CORINNE, COMMISSION COUNCIL BLUFFS TO CHICAGO WITHOUT CHAivgjn MERCHANT The Shortest and most Desirable Ottunura, JUone, X)es AL DEALERS IN d r Burlington 1 KINDS Rouf0 o Beokuk, Galesburg, lourln, Jjogansport, Lagfbyettr, -- OF- India Wnrinnatt, STAPLE AND FANCY Detroit, Groceries, Liquors,. Tobaccos, -- AND- Toledo, JPlttsburg, Buffalo, . 1UelpMtt'r Balthnove, Llbaug, Ane 1'orA, Washington, Boston AtlD ALL EASTERN CITIES O w S combined with Pullman's Dining Cars thrUKh '"! httndl(d chS?frgCChetkP1 Ask for tickets via the Burlington Route. SaSMT"1 A. K. TOUZA LIN 0 Gen 1 r 5L UTAH. niySdtf BUILDING STOISK. IS PREPARED FP. WIXSCIIELL iu;uitity of TO Riiy W. MOUSE, General Agent!'1 my2-tl4w- tf , LAKE SHORE AND MICHIGAN SOUTHERN R. R. , BETWEEN CHICAGO. OFFKR & BUFFALO. All the principal Railways of the Northwest and Bout Invest connect at Chicago with- the great - INDUCEMENTS GREAT TO THE- LAKE SHORE LINE - RUNNING THROUGH BETWEEN j CHICAGO, GRAND RAPIDS, Cleveland, TRADE! AND NEW YORK f Merchants Buffalo, Rochester 0--0 ' Witliout" Clinnjjc. trains on lino " and Freighters are Invited to Call ; ' this are Passenger with, all modern improvements for the equipped comfort ami safety of passengers, such os Patent Coupler and Platform, Baker do SuUtks Car Heater t Creamer'sPatent Patent Safety Brakes, and Car roll's Ventilators. . --AND- Exmnino their StDck and Prices. my2dtf These combined with elaborate and elegantly furnished and fitted - DAY AND NIGHT COACHES, ' this the most popular and desirable routo ! between the West aud East. Make I. M. BARRATT, THROUGH TICKETS CORINNE, Can be procured at nil principal Ticket Offices ,t the Northwest and Lou, invest, mid at tlio Comnu-uy- s Offices, No. 60 Clark street, Chicago? (TWO DOORS EAST OF METROPOLIAN HOTEL,) K. MORSE, 8terU IRj,8e,1tr Agent, Chicago. .. " 2 Ia"6 f Salisburys LINE PORT BENTOlK, J CALIFORNIA CANNED FRUITS. MONTANA,J- EAST AND WEST. United States Mail AND Goods Packed to Insure Safety and Wells, Fargo & Avoid Extra Weight. t ... Agent for Barratt & Co., Crystal Palace, Salt Lake City, THE QueenNwnre, GlasHwnre, Montana Street, COACHES , U0lSE,) Wholesale and Retail dealers In QUEENSWARE, , New Coaches , I Etc. Etc., and QUICK TIME. niy2cltf NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC WH5RES CORINNE Good Stocky liar Fixtures, Etc., LEAVE , Silverware, UTAH, Cos Express daily Helena and Fort lienton, Montana, and connect with pasnenger trains, both ways, of tho Central Pacific Railroad. DEALERS IN E. CONWAY, - Carrying the SUPPLIES RECEIVED FROM UTAH GHANITK on the car t tin Repot at ?:.00 a perch. This is far superior to any ImiMing material in the country for permanent improvements. mySiltf (EAST OF TUE OPEEA ' r ERKINS, C. E. Ticket Agent. J. of' : - CORINNE, ! TWO EXPRESS TRAINS DAILY J GROCERIES, Gilmer I TIM. HENDERSON, Agent, CORINMC. my2dtf BY A DECISION OF THE of the Third Judieiul District of iUaho, Territory, the Act of the Sixtli Sosaibn tho Legiidative Assembly of the Territory of of Idaho, exempting the bona JUh settlers of Oneida county from paying toll on all Toll Roads in Oneida county, and the act amending section six of the original charter of the Oneida Wagon Road, in accordance with the rites fixed by the County of Oneida county, April lltli, 1870. Therefore, Notice is hereby given that the following are the legal rates of toll which will charged and collected on and over the Oneida Wagon Road: , P. J. McNAMARA, Importer and WHOLESALE DFALER IN CHINA, IQ,UORS, GARB, 17 INE8. 0 GLASSWARE, TOBACCO, HABJOINE8, CUTLERY, RATES OF TOLL : CHAMPA &3tE8r a For Com-missione- rs 1 ... each team of two horses, mules or and wagon, . . oxen, - to-da- ; isbouri "Wholesale and Retail dealer in Scanlon has created considerable excitement in Chicago, although public sym- FAMILY & pathy and tone of the press were Avith PROVISIONS, the accused ; yet this extraordinary acSTAGE & EXPRESS SUPPLIES, tion of a Grand Jury has taken every-bod- y FROM WINES and LIQUORS, by surprise, and has proAokcd severe comments from the press, all of Miners and Freighters Avhicli claim that this summary disposal TO of the case will elicit reflections more VIRGINIA CITY, . serious upon the modes of justice and laAv in Chicago. HELENA, . AND TOBACCO and CIGARS, ' , Wholesale Grocers Avas arc deeply imbedded in the soil. ' i Chicago, Burlington & heralded by great boulders yvhich is kept constantly moving before it. Serious apprehensions were at one time entertained for the safety of the toAvn, Avhicli lay directly in" its track. But during the last ten years this ice monster has changed the direction of it movements, and thus the danger has been averted; but the fields through which its track lay can never be again cultiated, on account of the many immense fragments of stone by Avhicli its course Avas thickly marked, and which approach f RAHS0H0FF & CO., -- the yam variety being preferred, is alleged to be over two gallons ; and as an a verage yield per acre, on poor and sandy soil, is from 150 to 180 bushels, the product must necessarily be from 300 to 350 the gallons of syrup. This must opeu to view of the piney woods agriculturalists a new and most profitable industry, one cultiman, Avith a mule, being able to vate at least fifteen acres in potatoes. The residium, after the juice for syrup has been extracted, is pronounced a valuable edible for man and beast. TtlUtlK LltlEt UECT Industry. The sweet potato l For each additional span or yoke, For each horse and rider, For each pack animal, . . . For each head of loose stock, used for working purposes, For each head of loose stock known as herd stock, - commonly . -- . FURNITURE, LAMPS, CHANDALIERS, PLATED - 1214 10 Agent, April 8, 1871. PRTpaiN Call and examine our facilities" Goods!! tor JobHork. All orders will receive mySdtf ' FINEST IMPORTED WINES . prompt ".. A BRANDIES . All Goods Warranted as Bold Famam Street,, No. 180 -- . Between 10th and 11th Sts, my2dtf COLORS MADE A SPECIALTY attention. Meerschaum & other Pipes. r - II. O. HAREESS, AND GENERAL House Furnishing- 25 25 -- WARE, Bar Furnltnre,. 00 OMAHA, NEB. ' ALL ORDERS PROMPTLY . ATTENDED TO. my2tf . |