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Yes, we are changed! there is not one
Throughout the earth, from whom
Seme lovely treasure hath not gone,
. Of beauty or of bloom:
And every year, and every day
A something bright shall pass away,
Until we reach the tomb!
But there shall fane each earthly slain,
And we shall be pure again.
CONGRESSIONAL.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
Monday, July 20, 184G.
The House then resolved itself into
the Committc of the Whole on the State
of the Union, (Mr. McDowell, of Ohio
in the chair,) and resumed the considera
tion of the bill reported from the Com
mittee of Ways and Means, making fur
ther additional appropriations for the pay,
&c, of members of Congress, and lor cer
tain objects of expenditure in the Indian
Department, connected with negotiations
and with delegations from various tribes
cf Indians in Mexico and Texas.
" The question recurred on Mr. MeKay's
amendment, moved audpcudingonThurs
r.y last, to amend the item for pay &c,
of members of Congress; by striking out
$IG0,700, and inserting $17G551S the
increase having been rendered necessary
by an extension of one week of the pre
sent session; the bill having been based on
" the presumption that the session would
close on the 3d of August; whereas the
two Houses have subsequently fixed on
the 10th of that month as the day for the
termination of the session.
The amendment was at once agreed to.
And the question recurred on the mo
tion made by Mr. Cobb, on Thursday
last, to strike the item the altogether from
the bill.
Mr. Stewart said he should vote for the
amendment proposed by the gentleman
from Georgia, (Mr. Cobb.) He hoped it
would be adopted; and he here gave no
tice that,if it should not be adopted in com
mittee, and the previous question should
not be called, he should himself move the
same amendment in the House, and call
the yecs and nays. He wished to see
who the gen'.lemen were who were ready
to anticipate their own pay, while hun
dreds of applicants were waiting at the
door of the House, and hundreds of thou
sands of dollars, to which they were just
Iv entitled, were withheld from them by
delay. For one, he was willing to wail
the action of the Senate on the general
appropriation bill, just as all others were
obliged to wait who were concerned in
that bill. But if the gentlemen were de
sirous of discussing amendments, he
thought they had much better turn their
attention to the amendment which Mr. S.
had ofiercd a day or two since, which
provided that, after Congress had been in
session six months,the per diem should be
reduced to six dollars; and after eight
months to .two dollars. Mr. S.'s object
in ottering this amendment had not been
to reduce members' pay, but to shorten
the session of Congress; and this, in his
apprehension, was the only way in which
that object could ever be effected. This
bill was professedly to provide against a
deficit; and Mr. S.' could tell gentlemen
that there would be other deficits of far
greater amount. There would be a defi
cit, and a very great defieiy shortly expe
rienced in the revenue of the country.
The contemplated passage of the new tar
iff bill, of the sub-tre3surv bill, and the
warehousing bill, and the land bill, taken
together, would reduce the revenue of the
country one half. And was this proper
time to provide in anticipation, for mem
bers' own pay!
Mr.Chipman here called Mr. Stewart
to order. He perceived that the gentle
man was about to inflict upon the House
another tariff speech. He hoped that he
w ould not be allowed to proceed.
' Mr. "Stewart said the House was in
Committee of the Whole ou the state of
the Union, and he claimed the same liber
ty of debate which had been allowed to
other gentlemen. This was a bill to ap
propriate money, and the money to be
appropriated was a part of the revenue: it
was certainly, therefore, in order to speak
on anything which affected the revenue.
The chair ruled Mr.. Stewart to be in
order.
Mr. Stewart said that whatever touch
ed the revenues of the country, affected
the people throughout the Union & form
ed a legitimate subject of discussion in the
people's House of Representatives. This
was a question which, as the government
organ maintained, affected the Adminis
tration only; it was a question for the peo
ple as much more than it was a question
for the Administration. He had said that
there would shortly be other deficiencies
of far more importance than that which
Uiis bill proposed to provide for. If gen
tlemen carried their proposed measures
they would find themselves without mon-
ey to pay the troops who were fighting
our battles. The House had passed a bill
creating a Treasury bank, and authorizing
it to isfue ten millions of dollars in Gov
ernment p-pcr; tut, then, ten millions of
paper money would prove but a drop in
the bucket. Gentlemen had sacrificed
their own principles, but. they had done
it in vain, professing themselves the
friends of an exclusive met alic currency,
and passing a bill which forbade any oth
er currency to be received or paid by tha
Government. They had, in the face ot
their own measures and their own prin
ciples, authorized the issue of a paper
currency. They had erected a Treasury
bank in the face of their own Subtreasury
bill, the consequence of which was that
the Treasury would not get a dollar in
bullion, but would only get back its own
Treasury notes.
But, worse than that, gentlemen would
not get sufficient revenue to meet the or
dinary expenses of Government. What
w ere those ordinary expenses, and what
were their amount?
Mr. S, called the attention of the chair
man of the Committee of Ways and
Means to the fact, and he should like to
hear his explanation of it. The esti
mates made by the Secretary of the Treasury-,
before there was a word said about
war or the prospect of war estimates
rendered in a time of profound peace to
meet the ordinary expenses of the Gov
ernment had been more by six millions
and a half than the expenditures of the
preceding year. If gentlemen doubted it,
he would refer them the Secretary's re
port. He wished the chairman to ex
plain how it was that the peace estimates
for this year exceeded by more than six
millions the peace expenditures of the last
year; and besides this, we had a bill ap
propriating a million and a half to make
good deficient appropriations. Add this
million and a half to the six millions and
a half he had just mcmtioned,and it would
make eight millions, by which amount
our peace expenditure, for the present
year surpassed those of the last. There
stood the fact in the Secretary's own re
port, and Mr. S. challenged the chairman
of the Committee of Wavs and Means.or
any friend of the Secretary or of the Ad
ministration, to deny it. Was this war
brought about to conceal these enormous
and unprecedented expenditures in a
time of peace, exceeding by six or seven
millions the expenditures of the preceding
years? The war wonld smother up all
this extravagance, and conceal it from the
; public view. All wasteful expenditures
would now be attributed to the war. The
war would be a blanket wide enough to
cover all up.
But Mr. S. would leave this point, and
refer to a suggestion made this morning
by the gentleman from Missouri, (Mr.
Bowlin,) who had introduced an amend
ment for deducting the pay of Members
for absenteeism. Mr. S. concurred in
the justice and propriety of that amend
ment, and he believed that this word ab
srn'eeism was a new word in the debates
of Congress.
Mr. S. had seen it this morning em
ployed for the first time, in the columns
of the Union, and he thanked the editor
for the word. The government organ
said that absenteeism was the root of all
evil. The government editor had given
out that there would be no reply made by
the Whig friends of the tariff of 1812,
but that, as the new free trade tariff Sen
ators were not going to make any reply,
he, the learned editor, would do it for
them He had accordingly commenced,
and the very first word he employed was
this word of absenteeism; and a most
pov erful argument he had made upon it.
An able Senator from Massachusetts (Mr.
Davis,) had attributed the destitute condi
tion of the British colonies to the fact of
having free trade w ith England; but. the
sapient editor corrected that the low con
dition of the colonies was owing, not to
free trade, but to "absenteeism" a most
excellent word "thank, thee Jew," for
that; that they employed others to manu
facture every thing for them; and that wras
the true reason why they were so greatly
depressed. Now, Mr. S. would ask,
what was the policy of this Administra
tion? Was it any thing else but "absen
teeism," from beginning to end! Was it
not a regular system of absenteeism?
Let that policy be carried out, and all the
tradesmen and mechanics who worked
for the people of this country would be
absentees; they would not reside in this
country; they would reside all abroad;
and, what was further, not only our me
chanics and tradesmen, but our farmers
to were to be absentees. The agricultu
ral products we consumed were to be rais
ed in England. We were to have absen
tee mechanics, absentee farmers, absentee
laborers. He thanked Mr. Ritchie for
this excellent word, it was one of the
most admirable exponents of the policy
of this Administration- which he could
have hit upon. The worst of the matter
was, that the poor man knew nothing of
the subject he was writing about, and the
natural consequence was that he display
ed his ignorance. At this step, while en
deavoring to avoid one difficulty, he only
fell i:.to another; and, like the ; persecuted
fish, jumped out of the frying pan into the
fire. -
But the learned editor had given us 'a.
nother illustration of the use of this term.
He tells us that the capitalists of Boston
j had built up Lowell and Manchcstcrm I
New Hampshire; and this was ruinous to 1
TUESDAY, AUGUST 11, 1846,
Lowell and to the people about Manches
ter. This was "absenteeism." It was
the capital of Boston which had gone to '
Lowell, and it was the same thing with '
Manchester, in New Hampshire. That '
too had been built up by absentee capital j
from Boston. And now he supposed, if I
maisame capital snouiu travel uown Irom
Boston into Virginia and North Carolina,
and create other manufacturing establish
ments of similar character, at which the
surrounding farmers would find a market
for their beef and flour, their hams and
chickens, and thus be enabled to make
themselves comfortable and happy, that
too would be ruinous "absenteeism."
The editor of the Union complained of
this in dolorous strains, and yet his own
scheme was nothing else but this in a dif
ferent form. Instead of Boston capital
going to benefit the people of New Hamp
shire, and the people of Virginia, and the
people of North Carolina, this editor and
his masters proposed to destroy Ameri
can capital, and employ not only British
capital, but British labor to supply all our
wants. It was not Boston absenteeism; it
was British absenteeism. If this was the
only tune which this government organ
could play, he thought the sooner the Ad
ministration and the advocates of the Bri
tish bill stopped it the better it would be
for them; for it was playing most villian
ously out of tunc. But he wished it to
go on, for it had certainly suggested some
of the strongest arguments, against the
free trade tariff that had yet been' offered.
Mr. S. had said that the effect of the
proposed legislation wonld be to strike
down the revenue one-half. lie would
present one or two instances by way of
illustration. He would take as an exam
ple the article of iron. It was now under
a protecting duty of seventy-six per cent.
The Secretary proposed to reduce its pro
tection to thirty per cent. Why? What
for? Why, to increase the revenue.
Well, how was the Secretary going to
manage to increase the revenue of the
country by redcucing the iron duty from
seventy six to thirty per cent.? In order
to get the some amount of revenue from
this article that we got now, it was obvi
ous we must import more than double the
present amount. But how was the Sec
retary going to do this? He had no mag
ic power to increase the consumption of
iron in the United State?; and the Vffecl
of his policy, instead of increasing, went
to destroy consumption by destroying the
ability of the people to consume: yet, un
less he doubled consumption, he could
not command the present amount of duty,
far less increase it. Why, then, did he
want to reduce the duties to thirty per
cent? NVhat was it for? What object did
he wish to obtain? The only object 'lie
would obtain was to employ absentees to
the. destruction of our own laborers. This
must be the inevitable effect of his scheme
of reducing duties. The Secretary told
us in his report that he expectet! to bring
in two million of dollars from the impor
tation of iron. Now Mr. S. undertook to
say that if the bill reduced the iron duty
to thirty per cent., instead of increasing
the revenue on that article, there would be
a falling off of two millions. He put him
self on the result, and experience would
show that he was right. And this was
the great measure of the Administration?
Instead of increasing, the bill would re
duce the revenue on iron fifty per cent.
The Secretary tells us that our dutiable
imports are one hundred and one
millions; say one hundred millions; the
present duties, lie says, average 32 40 per
cent., say thirty-three per cent, and he
proposed to reduce them to twenty, or
say twenty-two per cent., one third off;
then it is manifest that to get the same
revenue he now receives, he must add
fifty millions to our imports; he must have
one hundred and fifty instead of one hun
dred millions of imports. Well, now he
would ask the Secretary and the Chan
cellor of the Exchequer, (Mr. McKay,)
why send fifty millions of dollars out of
the country to buy foreign goods without
thereby increasing the revenue one cent?
The only effect was to increase the bur
then of the country fifty millions. Now
we pay one hundred millions to foreign
ers and twenty-seven of revenue to Gov
ernment one hundred and twenty-seven
millions of dollars. By this bill we pay
one hundred and fifty millions to foreign
ers, and twenty-seven millions to Govern
ment, making one hundred and twenty
seven millions; just 'fifty more than the
people now pay; and why? To favor
foreigners and destroy Amarican labor.
That was the effect of this measure. You
cannot increase consumption; and of
course you must destroy fifty millions of
ysur own home supply to make room for
this fifty millions of increased foreign
imports. It was a system of absur
dity, and a system of destruction.
But gentlemen w ere in love with the
scheme and the party had ordained that it
should be tried. Let its advocates go home
and tell the shoemakers and carpenters
and blacksmiths and tanners and hatters
that they had voted to take 20 per cent, off
those articles which were the products of
their labor. Tell the shoemaker that the
Secretary of the trsasury proposed to
bring into the country one , hundred and
fifty thousand dollars worth more of shoes
for the purpose cf increasing the revenue,
Tsui itiof flio roil ffpft wnnld hp to rp- !
duce the revenue; and when these honest
and hard working men asked their repre
sentatives why tRcy voted for such a
scheme, their only answer must be, to
break up your labor. Let them go into
their districts and tell the hatters that the
Secretary intended to bring in fifty thou
sand dollars more of foreign hats. Tell
the blacksmith that Mr. Walker intended
to bring in fifty thousand dollars of iron
manufacturers. Go tell the tailors that
he intended, in a like manner, to bring in
two hundred thousand dollars worth more
of ready-made clothing, reducing the pro
tection on that article from fifty down to
thirty per cent., and let them understand
that the fruit of this retorm would be to
reduce the revenue and reduce the price
of their work twenty per cent., to throw
multitudes of them out of employment,
and to supply the place of them in the
market by the labor of English and French
shoemakers, English halters, English
blacksmiths, and English tailors, and how
was it probable these men would be
pleased,& what was of more comsequence
to gentlemen, how was it likely they
would vote? TA. gjeat restlessness was
here manifested. Mr. S. said he knew
it was a very unpleasant topic in ccrlain
quarters, but what he said was true, the
gentlemen would find it to be true. He
warned them to remember his words, just
so sure as they passed this new tarifl bill
so certainly would they destroy the reve
nue, destroy the country, aod destroy
their parly; and, if the last 'was the only
consequence, he would not regret it it
would be a godsend to the country. lie
told them bafore hand they would not
have money to pay the ordinary expenses
of the Government, let alone the expen
ses of the war.
Mr. S. was willing to risk all he had
iri the world on the correctness of this pre
diction. Let gentlemen carry out the
ad volorem tariff, their subtreasury bill,
and their warehousing system, and they
would not get next year onehalf the reve
nue that they got this not half mark
the prediction. Yet their scheme was
called a revenue measure, but it was in
truth a system to encourage fraud and
perjury, to cheat the Government of rev
enue, and the farmers of their market,
and labor ol its employment, and indus
try of its just and fair rewards.
And here Mr. S. would take the liber
ty of suggesting to the chairman of the
Committee of Wav s and Means the prac
tical contrast between the sliding scale of
Sir Robeit Peel's bill and the ad valorem
scale of the new tariff bill. By the bill
of Sir Robert Peel, when the prices ran
down, the scale of duiies ran up; and
when the prices ran up, the scale of du
ties ran down; but the scale of the chair
man's bill worked in a manner directly
the reverse of this. When the price abroad
ran down, the duty randown; and when
ihe price ran up, the duty ran np with it.
Sir. R. Poel's scale prevented fluctuations
of price, and the committee's promo'.ed it.
Mr. Joseph R. Ingersoll begged Mr. S.
to call it the Secretary's scale, and not
the scale of the Committee of Ways and
Means.. It was the Secretary's bill, and
nobody else's.
Mr. Stewart resuming, said, come, the
bill from where it might, it would give the
It
laborer protection when he did not want
protection, and would take it away from
him when he wanted it the most. " When
the prices of his labor was high, foreign
goods would be kept out by a high duty,
but when the price of labor was low,
foreign goods would be let in upon him by
a proportionally low duty. When iron,
for example, was sunk down to twenty
four dollars a ton, and of course would
be largely imported, then the duty was
but seven and a half dollars, but when iron
rose to fifty dollars a ton, and could not
be imported, then the duty rose to
fifteen dollars. Such was the practical
operation of this ad volorem system; be
sides, it was a system of fraud and per
juries, by which dishonest foeigners were
enabled to destroy drive out of business
every honest American importer. Could
any man deny the truth -of this? Why,
then destroy the present admirable tariff,
that has worked so well, and adopt such
a miserable and rickerly system as this?
Why destroy a tariff that had paid since
1842, inclu sive, no less than $34,307,224
of the principal and interest of your pub
lic debt, and leaving ii . your Treasury,
on the 1st of July, 1945, a balance of
$7,658,306, which, added to the above
gives a surplus revenue, over and above
the ordinary expenditures, of $41, 965,
520, derived from the tariff of 1842, in
eluding the payments of that year. This
he stated from official annual Treasury
reports ot 1843, page 31, of 1844, page
19, and of 1845, page 25. Yet this tar
iff, which had yielded this large surplus
is to be destroyed in the midst of war,
and, instead of doubling the duties, as
was done in the last war, it is now pro
posed to reduce them one third.
Mr. S. said he had risen this mornin
unexpectedly. He had not intended to
make a speech, and had already said more
than he bad intended. He was opposed
to this appropriation, and would vote
for the amendmeni proposed by the gen
tleman from Georgia, (Mr. Cobb.) ,
The- question recurred cn Mr. Cobb's
amendment to strike out the item for pay, !
&c. of members; when i
Mr. Stewart moved to add to Mr. Bow
lin's amendment the following additional
proviso:
"Jlndbt it further provided. That
the pay of members ot Congress, after
the session shall have continued six
months, shall be six dollars per day, after
seven months four dollars per day, after
eight months two dollars per day."
This was rejected.
And the proviso of Mr. Bowlin was
then also rejected, without a count.
Movements ou the Rio Grande
The New Orleans Times" of.the21st
instant embodies in its account of tfic late
nows from the Rio Grande some informa
tion which we have not seen in other ac
counts, as follows:
"The steamer Big Ilalchcc reached
Camargo on the evening of the 13th,
having on board troops and provisions
a company of the 7th Regiment. Two
companies of the same regimeut had pre
viously arrived on the steamboats Browns
ville, Enterprise, and J. E, Hoberts.
The river was falling rapidly, and the
Rancheros were resuming their usual oc
cupations. Col. Hays's Rangers were
not there at that date. They, however,
had been in, after making a reconnois
sance of the country as far as Monterey.
Our informant states that it was reported
by the Rangers that they had penetrated
to the precipitous cliffs that overhang
Monterey, when a trooper (a very adven
turous soldier named Cimkixs) reached
a point overhanging the Bishop's Palace,
which commanded a view of the whole
city. The utmost activity seemed to pre
vail among the Mexicans, who were busi
ly employed in repairing the old fortifica
tions and erecting new ones. The num
ber of troops was not ascertained, but,
from the movements observable, it was
evident they were preparing every means
of defence.
" General Taylor is now encamped
with four. regiments, (Colonels Walton's,
Davis's, Dakin's, and Marks's,) with the
Alabamians, under Captain Desha, at
Bucna Vista, on the borders of a lake, sev
enteen miles north west ol Matamoras.
The health of the volunteers here,
with General Taylor, had much im
proved, owing to the fine air they enjoy
ed and splendid encamping ground they
occupied.
, The steamer fiercer arrived at the
mouth of the Rio Grande, all safe, on the
17th iust. There were no signs of Mexi
can soldiery in the vicinity of Camargo.
This town is but a paltry one, after all, as
regards houses and population, the for
mer not being over twenty.
" Capt. Walker had returned from
his expedition to Monterey, and delivered
a report, which is said to be a very inte
resting one, of the state of the country
through which he passed, the lulling
places, itc. There is no probability of
any opposition being made to the advance
of the American troops between Camargo
and Monterey, and, from what could be
collected, the Mexican force concentrated
at the latter point is extremely insignifi
cant. Nothing regarding the reported ap
proach of Paredes with the army of re
serve of an authentic nature has been as
certained at Headquarters, although
scouts are out in some numbers for that
purpose. Every thing however, seems
to announce that the possession of Mon
terey will be fiercely disputed, as it is,
by nature and art, one of the most power
ful strongholds in Mexico. The inhabi
tants and soldiers arc daily employed in
improving defences."
Transporting a Steamboat over
Land.
The transportation of the steam packet
Julila Palmer, of about four hundred tons,
around the falls between Lake Superior
and Huron, has been commenced. She
has already been raised seventeen hun
dred feet, and moved more than half the
distance with complete success. The
following extract from a -Buffalo paper
contains the particulars of this astonish
ing enterprise:
Saclt De Marie, July 9th, 1816.
Thus far we have met with success far
beyond our most sanguine hope. We
have overcome all obstacles, such as ra
vines, rocks, hills and morass, with ra
pidity and 3afety truly astonishing, and
are now on the summit level, 1700 feet
from the water of our staring point, in
101 working days, and without accident
of any kind. This hauling as thoroughly
tested ana proved the superiority of the
strength ana fastenings of the vessel, as i
.l; '
ocry uimg oeionging to ner engine iwi-,
ler, boats, sails, rigging, furniture, pro vis
ions, and a goodly number of nanus are
on board, and she makes no complaint.
Ahead of us all is smooth sailing, a queer
name to call it by 2500 feet to the water i
1-11 1- 1
above the portage, which with ordinary
success will be overcome in thirteen wor
king days. Then for a good launch and
fair start upon the father of Lak?.
I think wc shall be rcadv to
nog tnc
Vol. 4. No. 39.
starting b
Thennom
bell by the first of August.
eter at 90 deg. in the shade tr
day; we are anxious to get on to the lake
to get cool. Daylight from half-past two
j A. 31. till hall-past nine l 31. ami moon-
'.light for the balance. Beautiful even-
ings.
A SCEE 1 COAGRESS.
We expect quite a scene in the House
of Representatives in a day or two. -Gen.
McConnell, of Alabama, a few day.-!
since, in the House of Representatives,
proposed to locate a Land Office sums
where in his District for the convenience
of some of his constituents. A member
from Ohio (Mr. Sawyer) moved to lay
the motion on the table. The following
conversation then occurred:
Mr. McConnell What has become of
my motion Mr. Speaker?
The Speaker It was laid on the ta
ble. Mr. McConnell At whose instiga
tion? The Speaker On motion of the gen
tlemen from Ohio.
Mr. McConnell Which gentleman?
Was it Sawyer?
The Speaker nodded assent.
Mr. McConnell (addressing Mr Saw
yer) Old Sausage, if you ever put your
finger in my mess again, I'll present you
with a fat sausage, which will last you
for a few days. (I omit some hard
words.)
The next morning General McCon
nell was up very early, went to the mar
ket and bought a very large sausage, a
bout six inches long, and nearly as ma
ny in circumference, which he carried up
to the House of Representatives. He
laid it on his desk during the day, but
had no opportunity to dispose of it.
Some of McConnell's colleagues have
been trying to dissuade him from carry
ing out his purpose. They say it will
give the Ohio man cause of offence. He
says he intends it for that, and swears
that the first opportunity he will present
him with the sausage accompanied by the
best speech he can make on the occasion.
N. Y. Tribune.
Sub-Treasury and xYcsurj Notes,
This Administration stands before the
People in a singular attitude. One of it
leading meaures was avowed to be a Sub
Treasury. The House af Representatives
therefore, passed a bill providing that
from October next the Gavcrnment should
neither receive nor pay out anything but
Gold and Silver. And yet that same
House of Representatives, before its mem
bers leave Washington, has passed a bill
authorizing an issue af ten millions of
Treasury Notes ! The Sub-Treasury
Law rejects the notes of specie-paying
Banks; but Congress authorizes an issue
of paper which does not even rest upon a
specie
basis
The
government has
spent its surplus. It has rendered the
Public Lands valueless for all the purpo
ses of Revenue. It is about to emascu
late the Tariff. And then, to carry on
its War, it puts "irredeemable paper cur
rency" afloat. Yes, while repudiating
the notes of Banks whose paper repre
sents specie, the Government resorts to
"shin plaster promises" to pay its cred
itors !
We do not see, after passing the Treas
ury Shin Plaster bill how the Senate can
have the face to touch the Sub-Trecsury
abortion. It requires great assurance, on
the part of the Administration, after issu
ing paper without capital, to say that it
will neither receive nor pay out Bank
Notes. But we suppose our Govern
ment is about to imitate the example of
the Matron who, after living for years in,
dependence upon her neighbors, finally
becoming the owner of a "brass Kettle,"
made proclamation that thereafter "she
should neither borrow noi lend" Alb.
Journal.
SOLDIERS PAY.
Major-General; $376 per month; aul
to ditto, additional pay, $38; Brigadier
General, $246; aid to ditto, additional
pay, 28; Colonel of Infantry, $166;
Lieutenant-Colonel, $145; Major, $129;
Capain, 80; first Lieutenant, $65; Adju
tant, $33; Surgeant, $13; Corporal, $10;
Privates, each $8; Colonel of Cavalry,
$184; Lieutenant-Colonel; $102; Major,
141; Captain, $106; first and second
Lieutenants, eash $90; Adjutant, $100;
Privates, self aud horse, $20.
Bank Robbery. A man went into the
bank of the State of New York, in Wall
street, on Wednesday afternoon, and pre
sented a check for $1600. The telhr
took the check, and went to the book for
the purpose of comparing signatures, and
while he was gone, the man who present-
cd the check seized a pile of fiify doinr
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o i s iving on me,counter.K Deiore me letter
had returned, made off with 'hrm, io the
amount of $2,5t'0. There has Iwn do
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almost needless to say that the check was
a forgery, so that the robber fc guiltv of a
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double crime.
The Governor f New
York his fc
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