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An old law-book, published many years ago has just been hastily re issued as"a new book," withouteven a suitable revision ol its obsolete statements. Do not confound tbat work witb Cax*EßLi*'s Law-Boo* bob tub People. julyJiimfi. J ATEST STYLES J WINTER GOODS MRS. E. V. HOWRY Um jait returned from Philedeiphiß end New York, tad bow opened R itoek ot the luted ttylee of MILLIXER V. DRY GOODS. FANCY NOTIONS, or, the locai representatives from the city of Philadelphia, he thought very like ly, might ask for a small appropria tion, as if part of the duties which pertained to the Naval Committee were to be surrendered by that com mittee to the representatives from Philadelphia. But this led to an in- ■ inquiry. I ascertained from the Na vy Department that while my friend was making his statement to the House, jwinted in rose colors, on that very day the Bureau of Dock and yardsin theNavalDepartment were ma king out an estimate for League Island of £soO,. This hits not yet come here, although Admiral Porter thought it had ; this has not yet reached here and will not until this bill is disposed of. But I state to the hou-e that there is prepared an estimate for League Is land of SBOO,OOO to follow this bill.— This is perfectly plain from the report of the Secretary himself, from which I take these extracts: This (removal) the Department has been and is anxious to accomplish; but it needs an appropriation for tbe pre paration of the new yard, and without this it cannot move. * * * * The annual expenses for this yard are, for these reasons and thoe before giv en, much increased; and it is not doub ted that the savings from this source and from the expenses now incurred of maintaining two establishments with the money which can be realized from the judicious sale of the laud now occu pied in the heart of the city, will go very far toward repaying the expenses of establishing the yard at League Is land. I trust therefore, that authority, if it be necessary, be given to the De partment to transfer the working yard of the Philadelphia station to League Island as rapidly as is consistent with the interests of the -erviee, and to dispose of the present yard as por tions of it shall be vacated, and that an adequate appropriation will be made for the work necessary to be done be fore any part of the present yard can be sold. "Before any part of it can be sold for the very apparent reason that be fore you can .-ell that yard and move the buildings and machinery from it to any other place, you must have a place to stand upon; not under water, but raised from nine to ten feet by bringing the earth from the banks of the river on the Jersey side, or some where else, and lifting it up. There fore, sir, while 1 do admit that the time will come when the van! has to be removed, I was correct the other day in the assertion I made that this bill involved the expenditure of mil lions of dollars, and should not be pas sed through under the previous ques tion. And now let me ask whether it is wise, and whether it is best to make this appropriation? Let us not do anything inconsistent with our duty in regard to the public expenditure on the plea that this bill does not provide for the expenditure of money. I do not intend that the House or any mem ber of it who casts hi:- vote for this bill shall escape from voting with the knowledge that such a vote implies al so the voting for &■*>(),OtW and for a pla cing of sd,o,ooo)besides at the absolute disposal of the Secretary of the Navy. And now I ask the gentleman wheth er it is best to take the course proposed in this bill? This is a new public work ; it is not a public work already begun and carried so far that it would be impossible to stop without sacrifice, it is not Commenced as yet. Is there an absolute, pressing, overwhelming necessity now of undertaking this work at this time, or is the Treasury of the United States in possession of such superabundant funds that we can undertake it at this time? It becomes the representatives of thepeople to an swer both these questions; and if I have your patience I propose, Mr. Speaker, as well as I may be able to dis charge my duty in answering both these questions. Sir, it is a time of peace; there is no preying neces sity for the enlargement of the na w cards. The navy yards of the country were sufficient for the war. At any rate, the war uasa success with the navy yards at their present capaci ty and power. There is no occasion, therefore, in this time of peace for building up new navy yards in this country. And there is behind this a question which 1 have no time to di-cuss at present, but which ought to be settled before we launch upon the expenditure of money either for new yards or for the enlarge ment of old yards; and that is wbeth it is best for us to maintain this vast expenditure on navy yards at ail. The British navy for some reason or other, depends upon private yards. Ninety per cent., lam told, of all the work done upon the British navy is done in private yards. Admiral Porter says, in evidence which I have before me, given by him before a committee of this House,that we spents4Bo,ooo,ooo for our navy yards during the war, and that we have nothing at all to show for it now, that we have no navy as the re sult of the money so spent on our yards; and he suggests the building of a merchant marine, semi-warlike steamers asa substitute for all our navy and he tells you that he would advise the building of every one of them in private yards, because they can be built cheaper than in public yards. The vessel that sunk the Merrimacand saved Philadelphia and New York and Boston from destruction was built in a private yard by a private individual, and in ninety days. I say Ido not en ter into that question now ; but it is a question that ought to be settled be fore we expend this money. But I do desire to call your attention to what the Secretary has estimated and proposes to expend upon other yards in addition to what he proposes to spend on the Philadelphia navy yard. Mr. Myers—l wish to ask the gen tleman a question before he passes from this subject. I desire to know wheth er I am to understand the chairman of the Committee on Appropriations that it is his opinion, or the opinion of Admiral Porter, that our navy during the war effected nothing toward crush ing the rebellion ? Mr. Dawes—l do not know what the gentlemen understands. I neither said so myself, nor did I say that Ad miral Porter said so. Mr. Meyers—You said thes4Bo,ooo,ooo expended for the navy during the war were useless. Mr. Dawes —I said that Admiral Por ter stated that *480,000,000 had been ex pended for the navy during the war, and we had absolutely nothing to show for it to-day. Mr. Dickey—Will my colleague on the Committee on Appropriations yield to me for a question ? Mr. Dawes—My friend will excuse me; I cannot yield to him. I under stand that he represents on this occa sion the State of Pennsylvania, and not ihe Committee on Appropriation-. But I was going on to say that in addi tion to that *8(X,OJ0 the Secretary of the Navy propose-* besides to expend iu the navy yard at Portsmouth. New Hampshire, $577,856, against $50,000 expended last year; at the navy yard at Boston, 1747.341, against SIOO,OOO la-t yei.r; at the navy yard at New York, $333,511, against SIOO,OOO la.-t year: at the navy yard at Philadelph ia, $111,985, against $35,000 last year; at the navy yard at Washington, $561,- 775, against $50,000 last year; at the navy yard at Norfolk, $358,313, against $30,000 last year; at the navy yard at Mare Island, $93,423, against $30,000. . He thus proposes to expend ujKtri navy yards, besides this $300,000. a total of ■53,507,394, against $151,000 ia-t year. Mr. Scofield—Does the gentlemen re fer to the estimates for last year or to the appropriation *? Mr. Dawes—l am speaking of the appropriations. Mr. Bandall— Will the gentlemen al low me to ask him a question? Mr. Dawes—l will answer any ques ! tioas if it can lie understood that my ! time shall be extended. Mr. Randall—l hope that will be understood. The Speaker—The gentleman has half an hour remaining. Mr. Randall—l wish to ask the gen tleman one question. Mr. Dawes—ls it understood that it wiil come out of my time? The Speaker—The chair so regards it. Mr. Dawes—Then the gentleman from Pennsylvania will excuse me. I maybe pardoned, as a friend of this Secretary and of this administration, in what I may feel compelled to say In reference to either his estimates or the the estimates of the whole administra tion, when I say that the estimates of this Secretary m reference to these ex penditures do not inspire me with en tire confidence. I know he speaks of eeomomy and the saving of money, but, sir, the great point upon which I find that he has expended bis energies is upon the promise he holds CP* to the House that he will save $3,000,000 upon the article of coal alone, the whole estimate for which for the last two years was less than sl4o,<*>o fi year I Sir, that is an achievement of mathematics that finds its parallel only ia the attempt to save $5,0rK),006.by a* bolishing the franking privilege, when ait the paper bought by this govern ment and thirty letters a day to ever) member sent through the mails at reg ular postage would pay less than five hundred thousand dollars. I hope to seethe franking privilege abolished, but on no such absurd pretense as that it will save $5,000,000. 1 really think that if the mathematicians who put these figures in the heads of these Sec retaries could be brought to light and set to work the public debt would be paid before the expiration of this administration! Laughter." These are "mint annia and cumin," but the "weightier matter" is the contrast in the footing of this Secretary—s2B,44l,- 761.37, estimated for this year, against $15,956,606 appropriated last year.— Now, sir, this is a public work ; it is a new public work. There is no necessi ty, no pressing necessity of commenc ing it to-day. Does this load of esti mates justify us in supj>orttng this proposition ? Why, sir, this book cf estimates contains estimates for appro priations for public works of $24,625,- 173.65, against appropriations for the same objects last veap- of $5,493,900 ! Sir, the admiuistraiLui of Andrew Johnson surrendered to the allegation that it had been profligate in expendi tures. The people tried it uj>on that charge and found it guilty, and took from it the sceptre of power, and put it in our hands upon our professions of economy in the administration of the public service. And the people intend to hold us to our profession and prom ise. What is the first evidence we have put forth to he country of our disposition to carry out our pledges ? I hold in my hand the book of esti mates for the fir-t year of this admin istration. And while I know the un gracious position I occupy, I propose to speak plainly, but to speak truly, to my party friends on this side of the House. 1 know that while "faithful are the wounds of a friend," there is not much ease remainiug to the friend who inflicts them. Now, sir, what did Andrew Johnson, in the last year of his administration estimate that he would carry on this government for? He estimated that he would carry it on for $303,000,000, and we cu; down the appropriations $20,000,000 be-low his estimate. But his own estimate of the cost of carrying on the govern ment, which the peopleat the polls de clared to be profligate and unreasona ble, was $393,000,000. Now, sir, what does our own administration estimate that it will carry on the government for the next year? The sum estimated for is $331,097,174.62, an increase over the la-t estimate of theadministration of Andrew Johnson for 1869-70 of $28,- 097,174.62. But we cut down his esti mate- $20,000,000, so that the exact dif ference between this book of estimates for the present administration and the appropriations made the last year of Andrew Johnson's administration is $49,662,537.01. it is due to the Post Office Department to -ay that there is an error of $7,000,000 in the footing, which reduces the amount to some 42,- 090,-'iW. But behind and not entering into th>-se estimates is the little sugar pium of s>oo,ooo that my friend from Pennsylvania Mr. Scofield proposes to prepare the way for the local represent atives from Philadelphia to advocate here for League Island. Back of it, too, is the Bay of Samana and the Is land of St. Thomas, at $7,500,009 in gold. And back of it, too, is what ev ery one who has heretofore been in this House knows as the millions of dollars that will come back on these appropriation hills from the other end of the Capitol. All these items are to be added to the figures I have given.— Sir, here and here alone, upon this floor, are the pledges of the republi can party to be redeemed. We can have no aid from the other end of the avenue, we can have no aid from the other end of the capitol. It is here and here alone that the pledges are to be redeemed. And they shall be re deemed in this House. Here is a pub- lie work which is proposed to be com menced anew, not partly finished, hut a new work not required by pub lic necessity, not required by the exi gence-- of any department of this gov ernment. Now, when we are consid ering that question, I put it to the rep resentatives of the people here wheth er we will inaugurate new public works upon the broad estimate of $?4,- 000,000? It is here In the matter of public works that we can cut down these estimates. I complain of the oth er end of the avenue, that with all its professions of economy— Mr. Stiles—Mr. Speaker Mr. Dawes—l cannot yield now. Mr. Stiles —I desire The Speaker—The gentleman from Massachusetts Mr. Dawes decline- to yield, and it is not in order to inter rupt him. Mr. Dawes—l have a right to com plain of the other end of the avenue, that with all its professions of econo my and reduction of unnecessary force ia the departments, with all the her alding by telegraph and otherwise of i;- purpose of reduction, there is not one of these departments that does not estimate to-day, in the book I have before me, for an increase of expendi ture over the appropriations of last year, save only one, and that Is the poor, unpopular Attorney General. I hope it is not because of this remark able trait in his character that it iseon tempiated at the other end of the Capi tol to relieve him from further public service and to drive hiui into private life. There is no reason why we should refuse to consider questions of this kind when we are commencing public works. I know the importance of many of our public works. I do not profess to speak at this time for anybody but myself; but I do not be ; lieve that the Committee on Appro priations contemplate or desire, by any means, general warfare upon public works. They recognise the necessity, of completing those already begun, the necessity, it may lie, of be ginning others; but in considering questions as to beginning public works they propose to ask this House to stand by them in scrutinizing to the | utmost farthing the proposed expendi ture. Why, sir, there is the post office in New York city, which the architect of the public buildings says will cost us $4,000,000; and the superintendent of its construction says that the granite to be used in building it will cost $1,500,000. No man can tell what the post office in Boston will cost.— Are we going on with such expendi tures at that? Are we going to ex pend upon League Island $3,000,000 of value in the old navy yard, together with SBOO,OOO of a new appropriation, when that work em just as well as not wait five years? I see no reason for these vast outlays at the present tirn in that direction, unless it be the reas on kindly stated to me and hinted to members of this House in a paragraph in a Philadelphia paper, a paragraph intimating that the republican party will make a mistake in treating Phil adelphia so badly as to refuse the pas sage of this measure. I understand what that means. Perhaps that was the reason why my amiable friend on the other side of the House from the first district of Philadelphia Mr. Ran dal, i chimed in fur once in the grand quartette of the Philadelphia members while their colleague from the Erie district t Mr. Soofield) led the music aid kept time behind them. The gentleman from the First district of Pennsylvania under.-tands what spend ing $3,000,000 for the benefit of any party means, and I suppose that is the reason he came to the aid of his col leagues of the Second, the Third, and the Fourth districts in the grand music with which we were entertained the other day in support of this prepara tory bill "laughter which my friend from the Committee on Naval Affairs offered. Two thing-, Mr. Speaker, seem to be desired by this administra tion. At the other end of the avenue they are bent upon paying the public debt: in this House we are constantly crying out for a relief of the people from taxation and the burdens of that j debt. I apprehend that neither of these objects can be accomplished without that other thing, which seems to have been overlooked on both sides —a reduction of expenditures. How do they propose at the other end of the avenue to pay the public debt un less they reduce these expenditures? How do we propose to relieve the peo ple and the industries, the enterprise, the capital of this land from the bur den of taxation under which they are groaning except it be by reducing the _ public expenditures? I tell my friend from Maine Mr. Peter- , who has emancipated him self front care about the pennies and ha- gone in a vain search for a dollar without any cents in it upon which he proposes to economize, that the pen nies taken in the form of taxation from the spike-, the cordage, the sails and the rigging of the shipping of Maine are what make the commerce of the country- decline. I teli my friend of the Committee of Ways and Means that the industries of the land, which are flocking to, their door, groaning under the burdens of taxa- 5 tion, complain that the expenditures of this nation are unjustifiable and without proper regard to economy, or to the necessities of the case. I call upon the members of this House to stand by the Committee on Appro- , priatious in the pledge which is given this day to the country that they will cut down these estimates of the depart ment- below the figure at which they were fixed by Andrew Johnson's ad ministration, which the people, for that among other reasons, deprived of political power. In order to do this member- must foergo any private in terests, any imaginary political gains by the expenditure of public money in particular localities. They must rise above such considerations, and look to the general result upon the public welfare. Under such a policy the thousand busy fingers of indu ry will wake with new life, entorpri-e I wiil take courage and burst the iron bands by which it is now bound, and this country will advance in prosperi ty and development. Public works will goon of themselves; private en terprise will push them forward. The nation in year-that are to come will build navy yards at League Island and at New London, and if that -booid appear to be wise policy wiil amplify • others, at Boston, at Portsmouth and all over the country. But to day the policy is a reduction of expenditures, that thereby at thi- end of the avenue the people may be relieved from the burdens of taxation and that at the other end of the avenue the public i 4 j debt may be paid. .Sir, it is from this view of the ease, believing this to be a test question, that I shall be com pelled to move to lay this bill upon the table, and to call the yeas and nays, so that the people may know who will stand up in this House and , oppose this attempt to curtail the expenditures ofthe government. I do not, however, propose to do it until my friend shall have an opportunity to debate his bill as I fully as he desires; but then, sir, with the declaration that this is but to pre pare the way for an appropriation, al ready estimated for, of $300,060 to be* ; gin a public work which the necessi- I teis of the service do not require, I shall ask the yeas and nays on the mo j tion to lay on the fable. It is stated, in eonnecction with Mr. Delano's modified instructions to reve nue officers in regard to the produce bro kers'tax and farmers who will sell their owu crops, that a resolution will be in troduced shortly in Con gross, with a view to obtain a more satisfactory con struction of the law. Comtnisiouer Delano has already ordered that the law shall be constructed with the ut most liberality, giving farmers the beuefit of all doubts respecting liabili ty. VOL. 65.-—WHOLE N0.3,&3. m-MOROCft. A mocking bird—A bird that can sing and won't. How much does a fool weigh gener ally? A simple-ton. Why is the world like a piano ? 'Cause it is full of sharps and flats. Summer complaints—hot vreather and dull business. A schoolmaster "struck He" the oth er day—a juven-ile. The fittest dower for a widow—A wi-dower. Why is laziness like money? be cause the more a man has of it the more he wants. The original meaning of ehignon is cabbage. Heads of cabbage—oh la dies ! John Martin, the Irish patriot, advo cates the settlement of Irish country - men on the lands of the West. Why is a washerwoman the most cruel person in the world ? Because she daily wrings men's bosoms. Why did William Tell shudder when he shot the apple from his son's head ? Because it was an arrow escape. "Ah.' Pat," said a discontented hod carrier, "don't take up this mode of life. It has too many ups and downs in it." A landlady in Boston, it is said, make- her biscuits so light, that the lodgers can see to go to bed by them. Saves kerosene. "I do declare Sal, you look pretty e nough to eat." "Well, John, ain't I eating as fast as I can ?" replied Sal, with her moath full. A wholesale house in this city ad vertises ; "Wanted—women to sell on Cornrui—ion. And this is Boston! Cool. A despondent editor remarks that if the country grows much worse he shall publish notices of births under the head of "disasters." Wanted—A cover for bare suspicion a vail for the face of nature, buttons for breaches of privilege, binding for a volume of smoke, eeinent for broken engagements. A little girl excited by the brilliant display of her aunt's gold plugged front teeth, exclaimed: "Oh, Aunt Mary, how I do wish I had cop[>er-toed teeth like you." A little boy having broken his rock ing horse the day it was bought, his mamma began to scold, whenhesilen ced her by inquiring: "what is the good of a hoss till it's broked. Resolutions have been offered in the Kansas Legislature asking Senators Ross and Pomeroy and Representa tive Clarke to resign, for their action in the impeachment trial of Es-Presi dent Johnson. "Figures will not lie," Is an old, and med to be a well credited saying. But the introduction of hoops, crinoline, hips, bustles, false calves and breast works, has played the dickens with the proverb. That was a freak of the carpenter who ran through the streets with his hands about three feet asunder, held up before him, begging the passers-bv Dot to disturb him, "as he had got the measure of a door way with him.'' An individual at the races was stag gering about the course with more liq uor than he could, carry: "Hallo, what's the matter?" criedaehap whom the inebriated man had run against.— Why—hie—why, the fact is—hie—a lot of my friends have been betting on the race to-day, and got me to hold the stakes." John Randolph was one day, while p.mtlng with the asthma, looking out of his window, and was almost deafen ed by the uoise of a bawling fellow who was selling oysters. "The extrav agant rascal" said Randolph, 'he has wasted in two seconds as much breath as would have served me for a month.' A lady thought it would look inter esting to faint away at a party, when one of the company began bathing her temples and head with vinegar up on which she suddenly started up and exclaimed : "For heaven's sake, put nothing on that will change the colorof my hair." "Fanny, don't you think Mr. Bold is a handsome man?" "Oh, no! I can't endure his looks, he is homely enough. ' "Well, he's fortunate, at all events, for an old aunt has just died, and left him twenty thousand dollars." "Indeed! is it true? Weil now, since I come to recollect, there is a cer tain noble air about him ; and he has a fine eye—that can't be denied ?" "Did you ever see one of these here hoop-snakes?" asked Mr. Furguson.— "Me and rnv hired man was down there in the home lot, by the side of the road, and we see something rolling down the hill, and says I, 'I guess that isone of them hoop-snakes coming a long.' My hired man. he was afeerd. and elitn up a tree, but I took my hoe in ray hand, and went out and stood side of a tree in the road, and as be came along I stuck out ray hoe handle, and he hit it a slap, and he made a noise just like a pistol? and sir, it waru't mor'n a minit afor that are hoe handle was swelled upas big as mv leg!" '•Excuse me for troubling you," said a gentleman one day to a noted philan thropist, 'but there is in your neighbor hood a poor woman in the hist extremi ty of misery. If she has not the necessa ry sum to pay her rent to-day, she will be turned into the street. The sum needed is twenty dollars.* The philan thropist took the requisite sum from his pocket, and asked his visitor the poor woman's address. "You ran give it to ir.e," lie replied, taking the money and putting it in his pocket. "I am the landlord Here is the receipt for rent. How joyful she will be wheu you give it to her