SJw §mmtx f mrtttg ww> PUBLISHED EYEBY WEDNESDAY BT 11. G• SMITH * CO H. Q. Smith, TERMS—Two Dollars per Annum, payable In all cases In advance. Tub Lancaster daily intelligencer Is published every evening, Sunday excepted, at 6 per Annum In advance. jfftce—Southwest oobnib o* Centex UABB. goctttj. ii: ii i.* i"ru«. I’m sitting alone by the Ore, Dressed just, as i came fiom the dance, In a robe even yon\vould admire— It cost a cool thousand lu Fiance-; I’m be diainoned outofall reason, My balr Is done up In a cue; In short, sir, 1 the belle ol the season ” Is wasting an hour on yon. A dozen engagements I've broken ; I left In the midst of a net; Llkewlsea proposal, half spoken, TDat waits—on the stairs—for me ) el. They say he’ll bo rich—when he grows up— Aud ihen beudores me Indeed. And you. sir—are turning vour nise up, Three thousand miles til—as you read. " And how do I Hko my posit lon ? ” “ And what do 1 think or New York ? ” *' Anil now, In my higher Ambition. With whom do I waltz, flirt, or talk? ” “ Aud Isn’t it ulco to have ricur s, And diamonds, and silks, and all that ? “ And aru’t It « c inn go to the dltceos And Tunnels of Poverty Fiat ? ” Well, yo—lf you saw us out driving Each day lu the park. four*ln-lniod— If you saw poor de tr mamma cout riving To 100 i supornaturally grand If you saw papa's picture, ns taken By Brady, and tinted at that You'd never suspa tt bo sold bacon And flour at Poverty Flat. And yet, Just this moment, when sit: 1n: In the glare of the grand chandelier In the hustle aud gin or hetltltng The “ fi nest soiree of the your ’ In the mists of a yaz: Instead of my triumphs reciting I’m spooulng on Joseph—tn-igh-ho ! And I'm to be *• finished” hy travel Whulevei’s the nmaiilng ot th.«t O, why did pap i s rikn i ay grave l In drifting on I’wve. ty t hit! Oood night-here’- the eud of in v j an:- ; (iood night—if the loi.g.tu 1« phnis- For may ue, wl-.-b* wasting my paper, Your sun's cllmMug over the > rues. But know, tr yi u'havi-n'i gut riches, /iiid are prior, deureU doe, icni ail that, That my heart's wmtwuuv t cru in the fair. I would like in M i: Mil- I^o. The dii/./,!lny itirnil' im n li* U. And a child n k e form iu li m; von fjroet Wliiro Ihc inmirzjyr’.i ten - Is dry. I wnuH like !o l-'Mir !ho clilMn-n nicy, As tlu*y m uvh itro itrJ t ht> i liruiu*, Aii'l m.ko He lit' ivcnly ring. With tho Mivioui ’h pralsu mono. I think I would know ;i Jo veil one there, Willi n burp within In-r han-l, WMimu n 1 houyhi oi y.iei or care, In Uml bright uml happy laud. itltaceUanniuss. Tram ntud r. «r the VnU-y .Spirit. Death and the Weaver. FIIOM Till-: C I'.IOTA N, i: V 11, 11..5. 11l olJeu Limes there live- I a weaver, who had nix childrena::d was very poor. It happern d that a seventh child was horn u, inm, and lie deliberated whom he should choose as god father r'ur the little boy. “ You must ask some rich mau,” said his wife, “ who will adopt our poor lit tle child ; for the dear sunlight is more plenty in our hnne, than the dear bread.” “ Yea,” replied the huabaml, rich folks have hard hearts.” lJuthe went to a rich farmer, and made known hia request. The farmer answered him very harshly, that he had god-sous enough, aud did not want hia child ; aud bade him go to his equals. With this refusal, he showed the poor weaver the door. ' Then he went to a poor mail. But the poor man said, he could uot provide food and clothing enough for his own children, let alone chriateuiug gifts for thoae of others. .So he advised him to go to some wealthier man, and refused ilia request. Now the weaver was very unhappy, and murmured in hia heart against God and man ; and as he passed through a wood on hia way home, he began tear ing his hair in great distress, and cried out, that he could not live any longer in such an evil world, ami wished that Death would come, aud take him away from it. As he said that, a man approached him, wrapped in a Jong black mantle, wherever this man step ped, the grass and llowera turned yel low under his feet, ami the leaves of trees on both sides of his path, shrivel led up and fell to the ground. It was Death. Ho stepped before the weaver, aud said, “You called me —w hat is your wish ?” The weaver was frightened, took his hat oil’, bowed, and said : “ My wife has a little child, born yes terday, and no one is willing to be its god-father,—neither rich man nor poor mau. I called on you, because you are the friend of poor people, to .-ee if you would be god-lather to the child.” “Very willingly;” said Death, — “ Bring the child to the church to morrow, at the ringing ol the evening bell: I will come and hold it for bap tism.” The weaver obeyed, anil when he reached the font, Death catne, held the child, and gave it the name of Anasta sias. He told the Pastor that he was a traveling doctor, and had done this outof particular friendship for the poor mau. When they had come from the church to the weaver’s door, he took the latter aside, and said, “ You may, perhaps, expect some christening gift. But 1 have neither silver nor gold, for the men who come to me leave all that behind them, and come as poor and' naked as lirst they came into the world. But I will tell you a secret which you will 11 mi very useful, aud by which you may make a great deal of money. The Pastor thinks 1 am a doctor. ' So you muy give out to the people that 1 have tuught you, and giveu you a very powerful remedy.— Then, when you are called to visit a sick person, look well, and you will see mo Bitting near the patient,— either at hia head or at his feet. If I sit at the head of the bed, then say, that all med icine would be u-tles-s to him, —his sick ness is mortal; then go your way, for certuiuly and surely, he must die. But if I sit at the foot, then say that you will not fail to cure that patient, how ever dangerous his illness may be.— Give him whatever you please, and your reputation will stand high, for he will live.” With these words, Death went away. The weaver was very much pleased, and immediately began togive out that he had become a doctor ; but the people laughed at him, and would not believe him. Alter a while, it happened that the magistrate of the village fell from a high tree, and was carried home for dead. He suffered the greatest agony, aud after some days, the doctor said it was all over with him—he must die. Then there was great weeping and lamentation in the house of the magis trate. The weaver came to the house, and saw his child’s god father sitting at the foot of the bed. “ Why,” said he, “the doctors are stupid asses—they do not know my remedy, and are letting him die in mis ery. What will you give me, if I make him well aud strong again?” The magistrate’s wife promised him a large reward. Then the weaver gave him in a glass, a little water, in which he had put the .juice of aome whortle berries. Themagistrate recovered, con trary to all expectations. and the weaver received his reward. He did the same thing to several other sick people, who all recovered. Now the rich farmer, who had refused to stand god father to the weaver’s child, also fell ill; and as he did not think himself very sick, and was a mi serly man, he would have no physician but the weaver. When the latter came, the farmer said, “ You can perform one of your won derful cures 6n me easily, weaver, for I A. J. StEINMAN VOLUME 70 don’t need much medicine; we have been butchering, and I have eaten rather too much ; give me only a little of your good drink, •No-cure-no-harm-done.’” But the weaver'saw Death sitting at his head, shook his head, and answered, “ Farmer, no drink in the world can help you, not eyen my cure; the sim ples that can withstand Death have never yet growD. Set your house in order, for you mutt die!” The farmer laughed, and sent for the doctor, who promised him that in three days he should be as well as a fish in the water; but in three days he was buried. So the fame of tho weaver spread, as the most wonderful doctor in all the country; and in a year and a day he became a rich man, built himself a new house, bought a horse, and said to his wife. “Dear Elsie, I think myself a 3 well off as a count!” At that time it happened that he was sent for to visit a great noblemaD, who had a large castle, line Helds and mead ows, and plenty of servants, but was dangerously ill. The weaver, as soon as ho came iuto the room, saw Death sitting at the head of the bed. “My gracious lord,” said he, must go—l cannot help you.” The nobleman beckoned to his stew ard, who had a bag brought in full of gold and silver; and the nobleman said, “Dear Doctor, all this shall be yours, if you will cure me.” But the weaversaid, “Icannot.” But when he looked at the heap of gold and silver, and thought of the great posses sions and tiie comfortable life he might have, if it were liis, he said to himself. ”\yhy will Death take just the rich man ? The saying is, Death conies alike to rich and poor; and lie might as well lake twenty peasants as this man. If I could play him a trick, it would dohim no harm, and I should be rich as a lord, j and his god-child Anuslaaius would be I a little count. 1 know what I will do!” | So he made his plans, and went out. j In the yard, he called four strong; serving men, and said to them, “ Go in with ms, and stand by >our lord's bed, two at the head and two at the foot. Then when I say, ; up! 'seize the bud quickly, litt it up and turn it around, so that the fool may stand where the head is now ! ” They did as lie commamUd, and in a twinkling the godfather found himself sitting at the patient’s feet. When he saw this trick, he made an augry face, shook his list at tiie weaver, and disap peared. Tin* nobleman immediately began to get better, to his very great joy; the weaver received the gold and silver, and ate, drank, uud made merry with the noblemau until evening. As lie was riding homeward, on en tering the forest, tlie air seem; d like a noxious vapor; he felt sick and uncom fortable ; all at once Death stood in his way. He saluted him and wanted to puss onward; but Death came closer, seized his horses bridle, breathed hard ( on him, and said : “Unfaithful fellow,you have ventured to do a dangerous thing for yourself to- i day ; I will break your neck for it! ” ■ “Ah, purdun ! dear god-father!” said the weaver, —“ it shall never hap- ; peu again ! I feel so deathly sick, —as if I should fall from my horse, —would you be pleased to take me with you into your house, aud give me something to strengthen me ? ” “ Certainly,” Death snorted out. “ tie your horse and come along ! ” Death led the way forward into the forest, and the weaver followed him. At last they stopped before a black door, on which hung a shield with an hour glass engraved on it, having belujj&rfffis device the words, “To the last end. This was the house of Death. They entered theante room, in which hung a Seville, from that, t.hev nassfid into along hall, in which, side by aide, and one above another, many thousand candles were burning. Some wcrestill very long, others half, or more than half bnrut out; others again, consumed down to a short stump, flickered un steadily,as if about beingextiuguished. The weaver was surprised, and said : “ I supposed it would be very dark here ; what do all these caudles mean, and why are some of them short, aud some luug ?” “Death replied, “At the birth of every huinau being, a caudle is placed here, and every light represents a life. Some of the lights burn outslowly, oth ers rapidly,—and when the light goes out, the life it stands for must end. — Those whoa* candles are still long, have still many days before them; those whose caudles are burned far down, are near their end, and would do well to be ready for it,—fori must go andsitdowu at their heads !” The weaver wondered still more, aud after thinking awhile. “I should like to know,” said he, “ how long I have yet to live; could you not show nm my light, that J. might lind out?” Death led him on between the rows of candles, till, stopping at lust, he said. “There is your light, there is your wife's, and those of Anustaduy anti the otherchildren.” The weaver turned pale; for all the other lights burned clearly, nutl the caudles were long,—that of Auastasius longest of all;—but his was burned down to a short end, and the llame dickered as if blown by a stroug wind, and leaped and sparkled, as if ready instantly to expire. Then the poor weaverraised his clasped hands towards Death, aud plead, “Ah, my good and dear friend, through your great kindness I have be come a rich and happy man—aud now that I have just learned how pleasaut it i 3 to live, must I indeed go, and leave everything behind? Oh, think of my wife and children ! What will become of a poor weak widow, and destitute orphaus—what will become of my little Anastasius, when their head aud their provider is gone? As the saying is, •every boy can jump over a low hedge,’ oh, pity them !’ Kind Death could scarcely refrain from shedding tears at these words; but he answered, “ I cannot help it —I am the servant of one stronger than myself, aud can only do as I am commanded.” “But no!” urged the weaver, “you have only to light a fresh candle, "for me, instead of that stump! Oh, do it, —pray do me this kindness, but quick ly, before it is too late!” “ Well,” said Death, “for my god son’s sake I will do it.” “So saying he took a fash candle, ami was about to light it;—but as he took up the short, soft piece, liis hand proved too large and strong, and the light was pressed outin his Angers. In the same moment, as the flame expired, the weaver drew bis last breath and fell dead on the spot. And ever since, People have said, “Death knows no compacts;’’ ami sometimes, “One must die,-though Death be his comrade.” It is wcdl, then, not to set tin) heart ou this life; but ever so to act, that one neeil uot fear to die, nor bo ashamed to To Hake First-Ilntc Sausages. Pass your meat (without freezing) through your meat cutter, put it into a kettle and place it on a stove or over a moderate fire. Stir it thoroughly, being careful not to let it conk or burn on the bottom, while another person adds the following : Dor ten pounds of meat, three large tablespoons of salt; five of sage, two of summer savory, two of black pepper, two teaspoonsful of salt petre, pulverized or dissolved; three quarters pound of sugar. Stir until the seasoning is thoroughly incorporated with the meat; then pack in deep earthen dishes or tin pans. Set away to cool. The next day, or soon after, warm lard so that it will spread with a case knife and make a coating over the meat, and it will keep any reasonable length of time fresh and sweet Should you wish to preserve any until warm weather, take fine brown paper, cut it larger than; the surface of your dish, wet it on one side with the white of an egg, lay i t on egg-side down, pressing it gently with the hand, letting the edge come over the edge of the dish, which will soon adhere aud seclude all air. Keep it in a cool, dry place. The flavor cannot be surpassed.— Ocr. Telegraph. The largest liberty is allowed in lace col lars. They may be wide or narrow, ac cording to taste, but the only ones worn in linen are narrow at the gback, and have square cornere turned in front. They are edged with a-fine Anted ruille of Valen ciennes lace, which is left standing at rha back, hot turns down with the corners in from. The Strange Gafst. In a little post town among the High lands of Scotland, far away from any great city there lived, a few years ago, a woman much respected and well be- of lowly and humble for- Mrs. Jean Anderson. She had been left a widow, with one bod, the youngest and jlast of several pro mising children. She was poor, and her industry was taxed to the utmost to keep herself and her sou, who was a firm clever lad, and to give him the education he ardently desired. At the early age of sixteen, Malcolm Anderson resolved to seek his fortune in the wide world, aud become a sailor. He made several voyages to ludia and China, and always like the good boy that he was, brought home some useful presents to his mother, to whom he gave a large portion of his earnings. But ho never liked a seafaring life, though he grew strong and stalwart in it; and when about nineteen, he ob tained a bumble position in a large mercantile house in Calcutta, where, being ehrewd, enterprising and honest, like most of his countrymen, he grad ually rose to a place of trust aud impor tance, and finally to a partnership. As his fortune improved, his mother’s cir cumstances were made easier. He re mitted money to secure to her the old cottage home, repaired and enlarged with a garden, aud lawu; and placed at her command annually, a sum suffic ient to meet all her wants, and to pay the wages of a faithful servant or rath er companion; for the brisk, indepen dent ol 1 lady stoutly refused to serv ed by any one. Untangled in busir.fsi caivs, Mr. An derson never found time and freedom for a long voyage and a visit home; till at last, failing of health, aud the neces sity of educating his children, compelled him to abruptly wind up his affairs aud return to Scotland. He was then amau somewhat over forty, but looking far 1 older than his years, showing all the usual effects of the trying climate of In dia. He was gray and somewhat bald, with here and there a-dash of white in his dark auburn beard ; was thin and a little bent, but his youthful smile re mained full of quiet drollery, and his eye had not lost all its old and gleeful sparkle by pouring over ledgers aud counting rupees. He had married a country woman, a daughter of a Scotch surgeou, and had two children, a son and daughter. He did not write to his mother that he was coming home, as he wished to surprise her, aud test her memory of her sailor boy. The voyage was made in safety, i One summer afternoon, Mr. Malcoin ! Anderson arrived with his family at his ! native town. Putting up at a little inn, I he proceeded to dress himself in a suit of sailor clothes and then walked out | alone by a by-path he well knew, and then through a shady lane dear to his young, hazel-nutting days all strangely i unchanged, he approached his mother's cottage. He stopped for a moment on the lawn outside to curb down the heart | that was bounding to meet that mother, and clear his eyes of a sudden mist of happy tears. Through the open win* ; dow he caught a glimpse of her sitting alone at her spinning wheel, as in the old time. Put alas! how changed!— Bowed was the old dear form, once so erect and silvered the locks so brown, aud dimmed the eyes once so full of teuderjbrightness, like dew-stained vio lets. But the voice, with which she was croouing softly to herself, was still sweet, aud there w'as on her cheek the same lovely psach-bloom of twenty years ago. At length he knocked aud the dear remembered voicecalled to him, “Coom ben !” (come in.) The widow rose at sight of the stranger and courteously of fered him a chair. Thanking her in an assumed voice somewhat gruff he sauk down, as though wearied, saying that he was a wayfarer, stranger to the coun try, and asked the way to the next town. The twilight favored him in his little ruse; hesaw she did notrecognize him, even as one she had ever kuown. But after giving him the information he desired, she asked him if he was a .Scotchman by birth. “Yes, madam,” he replied, “but I have been away in foreign parts many years. I doubt if my own mother would know me now, although she w f as very fond of me before I went to sea,” ‘‘Ah, moil! it's little ye ken about milkers gin ye think sae. I can tell ye there is na mortal memory like theirs,” the widow somewhat warmly replied; then added: “And where has ye lost the Scotch fra your speech ?” “Iu India—in Calcutta, madam.” “An, then it’s likely ye ken some thing of my son, Mr. Malcom Anderson. “Anderson?” repeated the visitor, as though striving to remember. “There may bo many of that name in Calcutta ; out is your son a rich merchant, a man about my age ami size, with something such a figurehead?” “ My son is a rich merchant,” replied the widow proudly, “ but he is younger than you by many a long year, and beg ging your pardon, sir, far bonnier. He is tall and straight wi' hands aud feet like a lassie’s; he had brown, curling liairsao thick and glossy, and cheeks Jik the rose, aud a brow like the snow, and big blue een, wi’aglintin them, like the light of the evening star. Na! ua ! ye are a guid boy, I dinna doubt, aud a decent woman’s sou.” Here the masquerading merchant, considerably taken down, made a move ment as though to leave, but the hospi table dame staying him, “Gin ye hae traveled a’ the way from India, ye maun be tired aud hungry. Bide a bit, and eat aud drink wi' us. Margery, come down, and let us set on the supper.” The two women soon provided quite a tempting repast, and they all three sat down to it, Mrs. Anderson reverently asking a blessing. But the merchant could not. He was only hungry tor his mother’s kisses, only thirsty for herjoy ful recognition; yet he could not bring himself to say to her. “I am your son.” He asked himself, half grieved, half amused, “Where are the unerring na tural instincts I have read about in uovels.” His hostess, seeing he did Lot eat, kindly asked if he could suggest any thing he would be likely to relish. “I thank you, madam,” he answered, “it does seem to me that I should like some oat meal porridge, such as my mother used to make, if so be you have any.” “Porridge?” repeated the widow. — “Ah, he means paritch. Yes, we hae a little left from our dinner. Gie it to him, Margery. But mon, I guess it is oauld.” “Never mind, I knowl shall like it,” he rejoined, taking the bow), and be ginning to stir the porridge with his spoon. As he did so, Mrs. Anderson gave a start, and bent eagerly toward him. Then she sauk back iu her chair with a sigh, saying, in answering tohis questioning look: “Ye miiul meo’rny Malcom, then; just in that way he used to stir his par itch—gieing it a whirl and a flirt. Ah ! gin ye were my Malcom, my poor lad die!” “Well, then, gin I were your Mal com,” said the merchant, speaking for the first time in the Scottish dialect, aud in his own voice ; “or gin your braw young Malcom were as brown, and bald and grey aud bent as old as I am, could you welcome him to your arms and love him as iu the dear auld Jang syne? Could you, milker!/ All through thistouchingiittlespeech the widow’s eyes had been glistening, and her breath coming fast; but at that word, “mither,” she sprang up with a cry, and tottering to her son, fell almost fainting on his breast. He kissed her ; kissed her brow and her lips, and her hands, the big tears slid down his bronzed cheeks, while she clung about his neck and called him by all the dear old pet names, and tried to see ia him the dear old young looks. By and by they came back, or the ghosts of them came back. The form in her embrace grew comelier; love and joy gave it a second youth, stately and gracious the lirst she then and there buried deadjin her heart a sweet, beautiful, peculiar memory. It was a moment of solemn renunication, in which she gave up the fond maternal illusion she had cherish ed so long. Then, lookingupsuddenly into the face of the middle-aged man who had taken its place, she asked: “Where hae ye'left the wife and bairns?” “At the inn, mother. Haveyou room for us all at the cottage?” ‘ ‘lndeed I have- twagood spare rooms wi’ large closets, weel stocked wi* linen I hae been spinning or weaving a’ these laDg years for ye baith and the weans,” “Well, mother, dear, now you must rest,” rejoined the merchant tenderly. “Na, na, I dinna care to rest till ye lay me down to take my lang rest.— LANCASTER PA. WEDNESDAY MORNING DECEMBER 15 1869 There’ll be time enough between that day and the resurrection to fauld my idleness. Now ’twould ba unco’ irk- Bat go, my son, and bring me the wife—l hope I shall like her; and the bairns I hope they will like me.” I have only to say that both the good woman’s hopes were realized. A very happy family knelt down in prayer that night, and many nights after in the widow’s cottage, whose climbiDg roses and woodbines were but'outward signs and a Pypes of the sweetness and blessedness of the love and peace there in. Josh Hillings Papers. The District Suoolmasler There is one man in this basement world .oat i always look upon with in ix t pheelings of pitty and respekt. ‘‘Pitty and respekt,” as a general mixtur, don’t mix well. You will find them both traveling around amungst folks, but not often growing on the same bush. When they do hug each other, they mean sumthing. Pity, withoutrespekt, bain’tgoi much more oats in it than disgust has. I had rather a man would hit me on the side ov the head than tew pitty me. But thare iz one man in this world to whom i always take oph mi hat, and remain uncovered until he gits safely by, and that iz thedistriktskoolmaster. When i meet him, i look upon him az a martyr just returning from the stake, or on his way thare to be cooked. He leads a more lonesum and single life than an old bachelor, and a more anxious one than an old maid. He iz remembered jist about as long and affektionateJy az a gide bord iz by a traveling pack pedlar. If he undurtakes tew make his tkol lars love him, the chances are he will neglect their larnin, and if ho dou’t lick them now and then pretty oftun, they will soon lick him. The distrikt skoolmaster hain’t got a friend on the fiat side of the earth. The boys snowe ball him during recess ; the girls put water in his hair dye ; and the skool committee maik him work for hafT the money a bar tender gits, and board him around tlio neighborhood whare tbev give him coffee,sweetened with molassis, tew driuk, and kodfish balls 3 times a day for vittles. And, with all this abuse I never heard ov a distrikt skoolmaster swariug enny louder thau—Condem it. Don’t talk tew me about the pashunce ov anshunt Job. Job had pretty.plenty of biles all over him, no doubt but they were all of one breed. Every young one In a distrikt skool is a bile of different breed, and each one needs a different kind ov poultiss tew git a good head on them. A distrikt skoolmaster, who duz a square job and takes his codfish b iwls reverently, iz a better man to day tew have lieing around loose than Solomon would be arrayed in all ov his glory. Solomon was better at writing prov erbs and managing a large family than he would be tew navigate distrikt skool houses. Knny man who has kept a distrikt skool for ten years, aud boarded around the nuberbood, ought tew be made a mager gineral, and have a penshun fur the remainder uv his natral days, and a boss to do his goin round in. But, as a general consequence a dis trict skool-master haint got enny more warm friends than an old biiud fox houn haz. He is jist about as welkum as a tax gatherer iz. £He iz rtspekted a good deel az a man jz who we owe a debt uv 50 dollars to, aud don’t mean tew pay. He goes through life on a back road, as poor as a wood sled, and finally is misled—but whatever becums uv his remains i kan’t tell. Fortunately he is not oftenasensitive mau, for if he waz he couldn’t enny more keep adistriktskool than ho cauld file a cross cut saw. Whi iz it that theze men and wim men, who pashuntly, and with crazed brain, teach our remorseless brats the tejus meauin uv thealphabet, who take the first welding heat uv their destinys, who lay the steppin stones and enkur rage them to mount upwards, who hav dun more hard and mean work than enny klass on the futaool, who hav prayed over the reprobate, strengthened the timid, restrained theoutiageous, and battered the imbecile, who hav lived on kodfish and vile koflee, and hain’t been heard to aware—Whi iz it that they are treated like a vagrant fidler, danced to for a night, paid oph in the morning, and eagerly forgotten? I had rather burn a coal pit, or keep the Ilya out uv a butcher’s shop in the mouth uv August, than meddle with the distrikt skool bizziness. A Murderous Frenchman Becomes a Child of Nature. A wild man, who is being chased by parlies of hunters and hounds, lives in the woods fifteen miles northwest of Sioux City. The Sioux City Times soya of him : “This singular being is entirely cov ered with a seemingly heavy coat of dark colored hair, ami ho is as agile as a cat aud as fleet as a >!v.er. Old settlers in the region where Lhe wild man has been seen, state that about twenty-three years since a Frenchman, with his wife and three children, settled upon apiece of land on the banks of 'he Big Sioux. At that time the only occupants of this section consisted of the Indians, who were the sole owners of Dakota, some half breeds and a few French settlers, most of whom took squaws for their wives. It is related that the Frenchman alluded to did not live agreeably w4h his family, that his affections were lavished upon the dusky daughter of an Indian chief, that the white wife, learning of this, upbraided her husband for the symptoms of his waning affections, and that one morning a friendly Indian visiting the claim of the Frenchman, discovered the dead bodies of the wife and children lying on the floor. “An examination discovered the fact that the throat of the w6man had been cut from ear to ear, and that the elm-" dren had been clubbed to death by blows on the head with the stock of a gun or some similar weapon. No clue to the murderer was ever discovered. “The Frenchman has never been seen in the country since. The suppo sition now is thathe committed a triple murder, that reflecting on the horror of his crime he became insane, took to the woods and resided there since, and that the wild man that has lately been seen and the French settler of twenty-seven years since is one and the same person, ft is well known thatmany years since tiie majority of the Indians who resid ed in the Big Sioux Valley were, on account of the scarcity of game, com pelled to go further West, and as it is only within the last two years that the section of country alluded to has become settled, it was very possible for a man to live there without being discovered, or any person knowing his whereabouts. The whole affair ia wrapped up in such a singular mystery, that we refrain from comment or surmise until we can speak intelligently upon the subject.” From Josh Billings’ Farmers’ Almanax When the roosters are observed be fore daylight in the morning soreing amung the klouds and uttering lamen tashuns, then look out for some sudden weather and a severe pucker in the 'money market. When you see 13 geese walk Injun file, and toeing in, you can deliverately betyure last surviving dollar on a hard winter and a great fluctiousness during the next season in the price ot cowhide boots. If pigs squeal in the night, and grass, hoppers come oph of their roosts and mingle in a free fight, yu may hope for high winds in a few weeks, and also the typhus fever in yure naborhood. When spiders are seen climbing up the wall backwards, and frogs cough az if they had the hickups, look out for rain. This is also a sure sign that children will have the measels light. If bees hang around their hives, and mules are seen in a brown study, a storm of some kind is cooking, and yu will notiss the market for herring is very cadaverous and chilly. Just before a heavy sno storm, of 3 foot deep, chimbly swallows are un kommon skarse, and in the moral worald there iz a grate lazyness in the agytashun of the temperance question. When hens lay 2 eggs a day, and men cease to bragg and wimmin cease to cackle, then Injun Summer draws ni, and the Milleniam ain’t fur oph'. Embroidered cambric cuffs, with small gauntlets of very open embroidery, and collars of the Shak spearean style are much in yogue. TAB DEPARTMENT REPORTS. Ecpoit of Secretary of the Trea ary. Secretary Boutwell, in his annual report to Congress, wljich was submitted yeater day, treats flret of matters of administra tion and then of measures of public policy, and gives a very clear and comprehensive statement of the national finances. In the first division of the report the Secretary compliments his various bureau officers, commends fhe report and administration of the commissioner of internal revenue, &c. The following are the more important statements given: The revenue receipts have increased $14,- 431,333, for the first five months of the pres ent fiscal year over the same period last year, which is regarded and announced as a compliment to the ability and integrity of the persons employed in that branch of the public service. The cost for collecting the customs dues was $1,001,647 less the last fiscal year than the year previous, without any loss of efficiency iu the service, but on the contrary, it is believed the means em ployed for the detection of smuggling are better than ever before. Incidentally the appraiser’s department is commended in this connection. Daring the last fiscal year $286,073 were paid to certain revenue officials and inform ers in cases arising under the cnstoms rev enue laws. A large additional sum was also paid through the internal revenue of fice ; the policy upon which this is done is that it stimulates officials to greater activity in discovering frauds, but in many cases frauds are not stopped in the outset, but al lowed to go on until a result is reached, which will inure to the benefit of the offi cers and informers, instead of checking criminal practices at tho outside. The Secretary is clearly of the opinion that the government ought to rely upon public officers for the proper performance ol their duties, without stimulating them by any contingent advantages. Ho recom mends an increase of tho salaries of custom house officers ; and the abolition of the sys tem of giving to them a share of flues, pen alties and forfeitures will be an additional reason for the increase of salaries, There are now 5-1 special agents in the fiervieo of the department at a daily pay of S3GB 85. The organization of the special agents and assignment to districts is con sidered a good feature of the service The Secretary gives considerable space to details concerning the manufacture of government note and bond paper in Philadelphia, the printing of money and bonds, Ac., the gist of which has heretofore been given in vari ous forms. In regard to measures of public policy Lreated of by the Secretary of the Treasury, the following embrace all of Mr. Boutwell’s recommendations: THE DETRECIATED CURRENCY. The depreciation of the currency is due to two causes—first, an excessive issne, and, secondly, to the want of faith in the gov ernment ; and the extent of the influence of the first named cause cannot be ascertained until the second is removed substantially. Whenever our credit shall be so much im proved at home and abroad that holders of our bonds are disposed to retain them, even when the public mind is excited upon financial subjects, we shall be able tojudge moro accurately the extent of the over- issue of paper money. It is also true that the quantity of currency necessary for the trausadion of the business of the country cannot now be tixed accuiately. SiDce the close of the war the wants of the States of the South have increased, ami, consequent ly, a large amount of currency has been withdrawn fjom other sections to Mi|- !y the demand there created. The an. ..uit necessary for the purpose of the Sou. :j will steadily increase for the next two years. The construction of the Pacific Railroad is likely to result in the substitution of paper for coin by the people on the Pacific coast. It is prouable that the demand for paper for that purpose will not be less thau thirty mill ions oi dollars. As a consequence, a very large quantity of coin will be with drawn from circulation, aud thus practi cally the coin will be increased upon the Atlantic coast, aud the paper in circulation iu the States east of the Rocky Mountains will be materially reduced. These changes will tend to diminish the difference between paper and coin. SPECIE RESUMPTION' The anility of the country to resume spo cie payments will not be due to auy special legislation upon that subject, but to the condition of industries, and to its financial reiatious to other countries. These, of course, will be more or less dependent upon the general policy of the government. The war exhausted the country of its ma terial wealth, aud the .States of the South were literally Impoverished. A necessary condition for the resumption of specie pay ments was the development of the indus try ol the natiou, both South and North, aud the consequent accumu’ation of the movable products of industry to such an extent that our exports of those products should bo equal substantially to our im ports. So long as it is necessary to pay for merchandiza imported, by the transferor government bonds or other evidences of indebtedness to other countries, so long it will be impracticable to resumo and main tain specie paymeuts. When the products of industry exported shall bo equal substantially to the products of other countries imported, there will be no demand for specie for export, except what may arise from the circumstance that our bonds held abroad are sent home, sold in our markets, and the proceeds exported in.coin. When the creditor the country shall be fully established in Europe, and there shall be no doubt either of our ability or disposition to meet all our obligations, bonds heretofore, and now to a large ex tent, held bv merchants and bankers, will be transferred to capitalists for permanent investment. When this change shall have takcu place, the probability of our securi ties being sent home under the influence of political or financial disturbances in Europe will bo very slight; and when, as a con curring fact, our exports, exclusive of pub lic securities, shall be equal to our imports, specie payments may be resumed without even a temporary embarrassment to the business of tiie country. SHIPS AN ELEMENT OF STRENGTH. One of the most efficient means ol strengthening the country in Us line at all times commanded. Tbns influen ced, large sums are placed on deposits wit h banks in the cities, especially in the city of New York, which is the great centre of trade and finance for the Atlantic coast. In the ordinary coarse of trade the currency of the country tends rapidly to the cities, and it is unwise to stimulate this tendencv by artificial means. Bat tne evil does not end with the im poverishment of the country. As the banks in the cities maybe called upon at any moment to respond to the drafts of their depositors, they decline to make loans re presenting such funds upon commercial paper payable on time, but insist upon mukiDg call loans, as they are termed, with goverment bonds or other obligations pledged as collateral security. Merchants generally will not borrow money in large sums payable upon demand. The conse quence is that the moneys thus accumula ted in the city banks are loaned to persons engaged in the speculative pursuits. The extent of this evil is seen in the fact that, of the bank loans in the city of New York in October, IS6S, §98,000,000 were upon commercial paper and $08,000,000 upon de mand, with a pledge of collaterals ; and in October, 1860, $99,000,000 were upou com mercial paper ana $59,000,000 upon demand' In the lormeryear 41 percent., and in the latter year 37 per cent., of the loans made by the New York banks were upon de mand. A furtherresult is seen in the fact that parties, borrowing money upon commer cial pa|>er for legitimate commercial pur poses, pay froth three to six per cent, addi tional interests pen annum as compared with persons who borrow money for apocu lalive purposes. I therefore respectful ly recommend that a law bo passed prohib iting absolutely the payment of interests by banks upon deposits, and limiting also their loans upon collaterals to an amount not exceeding ten per cent, of their capl tal. I am satisfied, also, that the practice of certifying checks, oven when funds are in the bank to tbe credit of the drawer of the check, is fraught with evil, and that it ought to bo entirely prohibited. Internal Revenue.—Report of Co turn is. •loner Delauo Tbefollowingextracts from Flon. Colum bus-Delano’s reporr, transmitted to Con gress to day, will bo found to contain all the matters in which the public is most di rectly interested:— RECEIPTS FOR THE FIRST SIX MONTHS OF TIIE FISCAL YEARS IS6S AND 1860 COM- A comparative statement is submitted, showing the totul receipts from the same general sources of taxation for the first six mouths of tbe fiscal years 1808 and 1869: From July to December, ihjs, Inclu- sive ' From July to December, 1869, Inc'lu* Total gain for first 6 months ofISSSLS 1,186,358 The following table exhibits the less and ■gain on the several articles subject to taxa tion during the same periods, aDd explains (he sources from which the gain was made : Comparative table shouAng the aggregate receipts from the same general sources of revenue, taxa ble under existing laws, for the first six months 0/ thefi.cal years ending June 30, 1868 and 869; also, the gain or loss, aud gain or loss per cent., of those in the latter over those in the former period. Receipts for the first Sources of six months of fis :al Gain, Rexcnue pear. •Loss. 1868. 1860. Pp'rits Tobacco .... .. Fermented Dl- £0,537j91U $19,121,402 $9,580 522 10,059, to) 9,991,224 *08,282 3.015,475 3 083,311 52,836 3 210,0 !) 3, M 0,075 •29,981 2 201,589 3.930,093 1,000,104 Quors Uro-6 receipt. Sale* Income, lucluii lng salaries 21,801 1U 13,053,015 *8 7-17,191 Banlts and banlc 1,401,370 1,239.005 *155,311 er>. Special uxes not elsewdereenu rnerafed 5 109,P50 13 G7l 3uG 019 Legacies fr'.i.fi.i 5-P>,AO *Kr7.104 Successions 511,577 481,054 *I!,SiS Artlcieslns-ched ule A.... Pas> ports tins 578,391 341.G28 *234.768 20 305 13,040 ‘7 325 773,878 B>i, 1 10 79,238 481,27 1 491,227 U. 950 Pen-titles Net receipts 'ruin stamp 6,540,377 7,148,692 608,365 Total «66,110 030 $(57,296,388 $1,189,558 Total gain for the above period sJ,lBfl,3'jB, or 8 10 per cent. Luring this period the amount gain ed on spirits is The amount gained on stamps is (505,3<*3 The amount gained ou sales is 1,150(3,101 The greatest loss from sny one source of taxa'lon for thlipi.rlod was upon incomes, which amounts to _ Iu special taxes, not Included under spirits, tobacco, etc., the loss was 1,435,619 RECEIPTS FOR THE LAST SIX MONTHS OF THE FISCAL YEARS 1868 AND 1869 COMPARED. A comparative statement is submitted, showing the receipts from the same sources for the last six months of the fiscal years isGS and 1869: I-'rom Jan. to June, isni). Inclusive.... soo,’>l2 700 “ " “ 1808, “ 01,170,048 Total gain of last six months of 1860 I u considering the large increase of reve nue from distilled spirits for the last six months of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1860, the subjoined facts should be remem bered. There were in bonded warebonses on Ist July, 1868. as shown by the accounts kept in this office, 27,278,420 gallons of spirits. This included all claims for leak age then outstanding, and a large quantity claimed to have been destroyed by the burning of several bonded warehouses, as well as certain amounts which had pro yiously beeu withdrawn upon fraudulent bouds and were still unaccounted lor. Under the provisions of tbe act of July 20 1863, as amended, all spirits in bonded warehouse ut the time of the passage of tbe act were required to be withdrawn and tbe tax paid thereon prior to July 1,1869; and by this requirement 24,383,9*51 gallous of spirits were necessarily furceJ upou the market during this fiscal year, and served, to that extent, to increase the revenue from this source; while on the Ist of July, 1809. there remained in bonded warehouse of the new product only 16,663,333 gallons. It thus appears that the quantity of spirits in bond, to be withdrawn and tax paid during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1870, is Jess by nearly eight million gallons than the quantity whicu was compelled to be with drawn and tax paid for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1869. Tbe following table shows the recti pis for distilled spirits and fruit brandy for tbo four years ending June 30, 1869 Vear. Spirih. Jlrandu IH6S s2S),l9.S,'>7' 15 B>3 493 S 4 1M57. 28,2X1.. 64 31 £6B MS 03 13.416,002 74 871,638 *4 81,225,212 11 510,111 57 TOBACCO. Referring to tbe comparative statements of receipts for different periods so far as tbe same relate to tobacco, I bavo to say thut, during the first six months of the fiscal year 18G9,the gain in cigurs over tbe corres ponding period for the year ISOS was fifty six per cent. The loss on chewing and smoking tobac co for the same period was fifteen per cent; tbe increased revenne from these articles under the law of July 20, 1868, not being realized until after January 1, 1860, while on cigars tbe appreciation commenced im mediately after the passage of tbe law. The number of cigars returned for taxa tion during tbe last seven years is as fol lows : 1861, at an average tax of 82, 57% per 1861, at an average tax of $23714 per J.IXX) .. 192,780 700 1865, at an average tax of 818.20 per I.UCO 693,230.939 1866, at, a uniform tar. of 810 per IOcO 317,143 894 1867, at an average tax of 80.66> a per 1,090 183,803 456 IR6S, at a uniform tax of 85 penlOOO... 590,335,052 1869, at a uniform tax ot 85 per 1,000... 991,53),914 It will be seen that during 1866, when the tax was at a uniform rate of ten dollars per thousand, only 347.443,894’cigars were returned for taxation, while under the pre sent law there were returned for the year 1869 nearly three times the quantity, with tbe tax at tbe uniform rate of five dollars per thousand. The amount of tax collecl ed on cigars was for the fiscal year of 1869 §4,957,679 1866 3,474.438 Showing an increase of revenue on one article for 1869 over 1866, at half the rate of taxa tion of. $1,483,241 REVENUE STAMPS. The following table is submitted, show log the net receipts from revenue stamps from March to October, inclusive, for the years 1868 and 1869 1863. 1869. ............ 1,458,393 21 1,466 801 >3 1,210,817 14 1,465 333 30 1,125,639 85 1,3/7,007 23 1,(05,180 15 1,208 977 61 1,133.769 31 1,225 150 8» ■ 1,165.513 21 1,250,513 74 1.c67,'33 89 1,271,301 Si March April..... May — Jane.- July Augnst September. October ..... 9,850,451 81 10,798,896 15 This shows an increase in rsyenue, from stamps, during this six months, of nearly one million dollars. This increase, though considerable, is by no means reckoned sat isfactory. It has resalted mainly from the policy of this office, in April last, requiring all stamps to be so placed on the lnstrn* NUMBEE 50 ment of writing as toexbibit the entire face of the stamp, and prohibiting the practice which had prevailed extensiyeljof covering the supposed half of one stamp by the at tachment ofanother, when in fact the stamp was cut in two, and one-half used to repre sent a full stamp in another instance. The gross receipts from stamps for the last fiscal year were $16,420,710. For the current year they are estimated at $17,500,- 000, but it is believed that this tax ou«ht to yield at least $20,000,000.- INCOMES FROM INDIVIDUALS. ( The total amount collected on the I annual list ol incomes for IGS7 was»S27 -117 swj. For .. .. iri'ayj’ars For ISC9 np to November To voj’gso This last sum will be increased to'an amount over twenty-six millions. As this tax expires with the assessment for IS7O, it will be for Congress to determine whether we can part entirely with the re ceipts from this source of revenue; and, if not, whether any substitute can be devised more just and equitable, and less burden- some to taxpayers. If the income from this source cannot be spared from the general receipt, und other objects cannot be found more acceptable as a substitute, it is for Congress to determine whether or not the tax shall be renewed. In considering this question,after determ ming the total amount which ought to be realized from internal revenuo sources, and considering carefully what will be realized by the present system, without resorting to incomes, the question will present itself, whether the entire income tax, as now as sessed, shall be revived, or whether it shall be renewed at a less rate of taxation. My opinion is that, so long as a large internal revenue is required by the financial neces sities of the Government, u portion of that revenue should be collected from income*. The reasons for this seem apparent and forcible. This tax readies simply the pro tits of trade uud business, and tbo increased wealth of individuals from investments. If the tax were paid as those prolUa and ac cumulations accrue, it is believed that it would be thought objectionable, but, being required to be paid all at ono time, and often after the income has been reduced by the expenses of tbo taxpayer, or reinvested in business, it seems more onorous, und is more seriously complained against. The objection most frequently and earn estly made against this tux is that it leads to a system of espionage into private atfuirs that is not only offensive but sometimes in jurious to individuals. I do Dot see why this objection may not, with equal force, be urged against all luxes upon personal property. Such taxes can not be collected without ascertaining the amount of tuxable property possessed by the taxpayer. The law imposing a tax upon incomes does nothing moro than (his, if so much. It simply requires a tiutbfut and honest statement of the actual income of the taxpayer during the preceding year, which can be complied with as easily, and with as little exposure of private affairs as any other law—national, Stute or muuioi pal—which seeks to raise revenue from the personal estate of taxpayers. After all, it is but a tax upon the increas ed wealth of the nation ; and when it is understood that Government securities are exempted from taxation, and that the in terest on tbeso securities produces a large amount of the income of taxpayers, I sub mit it it will be wine to abolish the income tax so long as the labor, industry, and business of tho country are directly-or in directly subjected to any considerable tax ation. EXPENSES OF COLLECTING THE REVENUE. Tiicre were pititiforexp- n*ea Incitimil to toe collection if Uiu revcmio for ISCB _.{S T 713 '‘ll ForlSW. ' v ' ' Decli.ci me nmuuui. p:u Deduct for printing sta upa, etc.. 25 other Notices— Executors’ -.atiiwi, „„„„„„„ 2.50 } Administrators’ notices, 2J>O Assignees’ notices, 2^o Auditors’ notices,2.oo Other “ Notices,' 1 ten lines, of less, three tim08,..,„^,.-^..„..„. m( .«.. 1,50 *lfcor to the voluntary efforts made through - out the country m the cause ot lodianclvill zation—a result desirable in itself, and cer tain to make easier tiud more satisfactory the duties of tho officers ol the bureau. The experience of the Inst summer, Im perfect as it has necessarily been, warrants confidence in the sjsto n adopted. Tho ro port of ibo Commissioner, with the reports of the Inspecting Committees, and other documents appended, show that the general condition of u>«» tribosis muon more peuco lul than wo had rensou to expect. No gen eral or formidable liostilitieM have broken cur, and it is believed that the inlltteuce of nearly all the older ami more experienced chiefs has been in favor of peace, and of friendly appeals to us to e rry out our treaties with them. Small bands of tsevoral tribes hnvu been goilly of pillage and mur der, and have been severely and justly puu isbed by tho troops ; but oven these colli sions have not disturbed the quiet of tho greater portion of the Indian oonntry. The encouragement of education among the freedmen of the Southern States, which has heretofore formed h very import out part oflhe labor of the “Fieodmen’s Bnreau,” is necessarily very closed allied to tho gen eral scopo o! tho duties devolving upon tho Commissioner of Education. I would ro apectfnily suggest tho propriety of uniting the whole in this office, with suitable powers and provisions for fostering education and increasing intelligence among tho recently enfranchised people. JUDICIARY EXPENSES. Tho amount paid duriug tho flsoal year ending Juno 30, lSfiD, for oefraying expon «os of the Courts of the Uuit-d Statoa was §1.5)99,701 50 ; and tbo other expenses, in cluding fees to district attorneys, U. S. Commissioners, clorksof courts, and rent of court rooms, etc., make an aggregate) of $2,075,892,89, being s2Sti,7ls) ill iu excess of the expenditure during the preceding year. In addition to the estimated receipts from lines, penalties nnd forfeitures, one million two huudred thousand dollars (§1,200.000 ) will bo required for this service during tho next fiscal year. This sum is less by three hundred thousand dollars §.190,000 than that appropriated for tho present year, Tito Currency. REPORT OF TUG COMPTROLLER. The total number of banks organized up to October, ISC9, Is 1(594. Tho number in active operatlou Is 1020. Tho total amount of papsr money issued to September 30 is §299,789.5'9.5. Tho total amount of bauds held by tho United Slates Treasurer to se cure the redemption of tho circulating notes of national buuks, on Septeuibor 30, is §342,- 475,100. , Congress is recommended to pass an act requiring all banks that go in liquidation to deposit l*gal lender notes for their outstand ing circulation, and take up their bonds deposited with the Treasurer within sixty days from the date ol the vote of tho share holders to go into liquidation. The Comptroller repeats ills recommen dation of lust year, for the establishment of au agency in New York in tho intorest and under the control of the national banks, for the redemption of all their issues and for the transaction of all their business. Tho amount loaned by the national banks to tho business interests of tho country will average about §700,000,000. The average dividends made by the bunks duriog the Inst year will probadly not exceed teu per cent, upon their capital ufter deducting taxes and expenses. As the premium on gold shall diminish, tho average'profit will conform to tho law which governs nil busi ness, It will be a fair living profit, and no more. There uro two requisites to a sound enr reucy— convertibility and elasticity, aud either of the two involves tho other. Tho present currency of the United Stutes pos sesses neither of these requisites. During (he past year it has neither increased nor diminished, but stands about as it did this - 6.735,477 lime lust yeur. Only u sound currency will promote the material prosperity of tho people,and the Government can realize no profit from anything detrimental to their interests. As o currency, Government is sues are uoi profitable, ah a loan without Interest they are equally unprofitable, be came injurious to the national credit, and add euormously to the expense of tho Gov ernment. The Government should provl ie for tho withdrawal of its own noies, uml prescribe tho condition upon which, and the agencies through which u better currency may be provided. There should be.blit otto paper currency in the country, und that should emanute from a source thut is influenced by und is amenable to tho laws of trade.— No check or limitation should be imposed upon it other than the law i f supply and demand. Free banking under proper restrictions, is advocated. A self adjusting system of currency is tbe ooly one that is adupted to the exigencies of trude aud to tbe wants of Ihe country, und it is a vital question at this . 409,395 time whether this result can bo reached be fore the return of specie payments. If pos sible at all, it is only possible through the ngeucy of the national banks.— The machinery of the Government is not adapted to such ends, and it is only possible upon the adoption of a policy which will tend graduully but surely to a resump tion of specie payment. Looking forward to the day when uniform values shall agulu prevail, by wise legislation,now a banking system can be established truly national in its character and scope, which will furnish a sound currency of uniform value in every State of the Union. .Heporl of Ibe Reerelnry of War. [The following extracts from the War Office report contain all the points of gen eral public interest: War Department, ) Washington City , Nov. 20,1809. J There are twelve departments and tbreo districts, each under the command of a general officer, and the departments are formed into four military divisions, com manded by the four generals next In ruuk to the General of tbe Army. The regular army consists of live regiments of artillery, ten of cavalry, twenty live of infantry, the battalion of engineers, aud the corps of ca- latter undergoing Instructions at the Military Academy. All the regiments ure on dut}'. After the consolidation made in nccorii ance with the act of Marcli 3, 1809, there remained, on November 1, 599 unuliached officers. All of these huve been assigned to duty excepting 150, who are “awaiting orders." a reference to the question of reduction, 1 concur with tbe report in recommending that authority bo given to retire a greater uumber of officers for cause than is now allowed by law—7 per cent, of the officers of the whole army. The present maxi mum of tho army is 52,231 enlisted men. Relying on two-thirds for actual service, the number of men is 34,822. By tho plan of organization submitted in tdo report there would be 42,050 men. Two-thirds for actual servico would bo 29,750 men, be low which it would not be prudent to go, as the necessities of the couutrynnd tho great extent of territory to bo protected will require every man ol that nnmber. The expenses of the Quai termaster'a De partment during tbe fiscal year ending June 30, 1809, were $21,908,431.03, a redac lion of fourteen and a hall millions below those of tbe preceding fiscal year. There have been paid for water transDor tation during the year $1,424,222.82, and for railroad transportation, $2,253,30-1 30. Of this amount $933,1G6.21 was paid to the Pacific railroads, ono-half being paid in cash, and tho other half retained in the Treasury to meet the interest on the bonds guaranteed by tho United States. During the year 90,000 persons, 3,700 animals,'and 02 000 tons of stores have been moved by wuter, and 00,000 persons, 14,000 animals, and 40,000 tons of stores by railroad. 27,000 tons of stores bave been moyed by contrac tors lor wagon t ransportation. Tho Pacific Railroad has occupied some of the princi pal routes of formor wagon transportation, and has saved tbo Government much mo ney in supplying the posts along its lino. Tbe current expenditures of the Medical Department during the fiscal year ending June 30, ISG9, were $233,501.21; the total expenditure of that department, including "wardebts" aod “reluudments,"wass7oB,- 305.36, and the available balance on hand at the close of tho year was $1,792,050.73. Tbe health of the troops bas been good. Yellow fever bus appeared at Key West only, and at this point there Were forty three cases and twenty-one deuths ; but by the prompt removal ofthe troops to a new station the ravages of the disease wore at once stopped. The total number of cases on the sick list during tho year was 104,- 235. The average number constantly on sick report was 2307, or about 5.5 per cent. The number of deaths was 548, of dis charges for disability, 1128. The number of commissioned medical officers for duty on Juuo 30, 1809, was 101, being au average of one medical officer to 204 men. Thoox perionce of tbe past tbreo years bas shown that tho present organization of medical staff Is satisfactory. The operations of the Freedmen’s Bureau have been closed, except the educational and bounty divisions, and two hospitals for freedmen. The number of officers, agents and clerks has been reduced from nine hundred and one to one hundred and fifty-eight. No further reduction la prac ticable eo long as the prosont operations shall continue. The bureau has had under its care, up t0June30,1869,584,178 persons. All tbe hospitals but two nave now been closed or transferred to tbo civil authorities, and one of the remaining two is about be ing closed. There will then remain butone, which is located in tho District of Columbia. In eaoh State at least ouo normal school bas been organized. Seyeral chartered colleges for freed people are In operation: also a university, in the District of Colum bia. In tbe 2118 schools under the care of the bureau, and officially reported, the number of teachers employed Is 2455, and the anmber of pupils is 114,522. Adding those estimated in private und Sabbath schools, the number under instruction of some kind during the lust year is uot less than 250,000. The freed people ure doiug what they can for theirowneducation, hav- Qwttnued on fourth page « EDUCATION,