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NEW IJL003IFIELI), FENX'A.
Tuesday, September 27, 1S70.
llgj?- The Treasury officials arc now
paying oft the licirs and administrators of
the unfortunate victims ot the " Uneiua
disaster, besides the heirs and adminis
trators of a largo number of other deceas
ed sailors and marines. Over $2,000,000
will be disbursed in this way during the
present month.
The l'RosrKCTS are good for a long
war between the English, and French,
and the Chinese, in consequence of the
late massacres. The citizens arc so
much opposed to the foreigners that the
Governor of one of their cities was re
cently killed by the populace for expressing
sympathy with the victims of the recent
murders. When such a state of feeling
exists it will bo hard work to arrange a
peace until the people are made to feel
the horrors of war.
Foreign News.
The news from France shows that the
Prussians are gradually, but surely in
vesting the city of Paris, and have al
ready succeeded in cutting off all com
munication except through their lines.
There have been some skirmishes resulting
sometimes in favor of the French, but
generally in favor of the Prussians. The
siege of Metz and Strasbourg is still
maintained. Attempts are still being
made to negotiate a peace but iu the pres
ent unsettled conditiou of the French
government, the chances are against the
negotiations.
The Italians have entered Home, the
Pope having retired, thus ending his
temporal power. The intention is to make
that city the Capital of united Italy, and
a vote of the people is soon to be taken
to decide upon moving the Scat of Gov
ernment from Florence to Rome.
Judge Strong has rendered a decis
ion that the Government Tax on divi
dends of the Reading Railroad, were
illegally collected, taking the ground that
Congress at the late sossion repealed that
tax. If this decision is not reversed by
the Supremo Court, the effect will be to
make the Government liable for all money
collected from such source this year, which
amounts to probably over six millions of
dollars. Of course this decision is not
relished by the Internal Reveuue depart
ment at Washington, and they have con
sequently appealed to a higher Court.
It will be remembered that Congress,
at its late session, pa -sod nn amended tax
bill, section seventeen of which construed
the Internal Revenue act of 1864 to ex
tend the collection of the tax on these
items of income to and for the year 1870,
but also provided that they should cease
on tho 1st of August, lo7U. iherc had al
ready been much controversy between the
Revenue Bureau and the tax-payers ns
to the validity ot these taxes, and Con
gresa, instead of re-imposing the Income
Tax, passed an act construing former
laws on the subject..
Mr. Justice Strong, in differing from
Congress in its construction of tho law,
contends that the interpretation of statutes
is a Judicial rather than a Legislative
function, and construes the law different
ly from Congress.
ig- At Pittsburor on the 22nd iW.
the paymaster of Mr. Shoenberger's iron
mill, while walking along the street was
knocked down by two men and, who seized
a 6atchel containing $11,000 and ran into
the l'an Handle liailroad tunnel, where
the police captured the robbers and re
covered the money. The Court being in
session, one of the prisoners was at once
tried auu sentenced to tweuty-four years
imprisonment,' by Judge Stowe. The
prisoner shot twice at the policeman who
arrested him, which increased tho pun
ishment. He will be in the penitentiary
within twenty-four hours after commit
ting the robbery.
Interesting Facts Regarding Gold Coin.
Unless great cans is taken by the at
taches of the bureau where gold is re
ceived, tho Government is liable to be
imposed upon by designing men, and the
reader may think that instances would
occur where several light pieces might
be slipped into a bag of five thousand dol
lars, and the fraud not be readily
detected. Rut a perusal of this article
will convince any one that such a sub
stitution would be almost impossible, and
that there is an effectual bar at the gold
counter of the Sub-Treasury against any
cheating by any evil-disposed citizen.
WHENCE COME THE COIN.
The larger part of the coin received at
the Sub-Treasury conies from the banks
and tho Custom House. Very little is
brought in by private persons, and not a
great deal direct from brokers, because
the coin which they take in the course
of business goes into the banks on de
posit. The banks only send coin to the
Sub-Treasury when they want coin cer
tificates which, as a circulating medium
between dealers in gokl, is more conven
ient, nnd lias almost entirely taken the
place of the bulky metal.
On steamer days, or a day or two be
fore, the drafts upon tho Sub-Treasury
arc pretty heavy, alien on tho presenta
tion of nn order for coin, "Governor"
Birdsall goes into the vault with a mes
senger and brings out a truck load of
gold in bags, which arc delivered to the
porter in the main hall, tho court being
watched carefully by the officers on du
ty in the building, who sec that no sus
picious person ban access to that quarter
of the apartment. The gold is theu car
ried away, packed in kegs and boxes,
and goes out of the country. It finds its
way back again however, after a time ;
for foreigners do not seem to have a
great affection for our " yellow boys,"
asserting and not without truth that
our staudard of fineness is not so high as
that of European countries.
At the period of the year when the in
terest on the public debt is paid, the gold
conies into the bub-lrcasury vaults al
most as fast as it goes out. I he creditor
of the Government no sooner receives
his interest than he hastens into the
" street," where ho exchanges his coin
for currency, receiving the benefit of the
premium. 1 he broker sends the gold to
the bank at the close of the day's busi
ness, and that institution in turn suffers
the coin to flow back into the Sub-Treas
ury. A small proportion stops on tho
way, resting either in the vaults of tho
bank or going to other cities, but a glance
ot the Treasury reports will show that
the amount in the vaults is kept at about
a uniform figure.
Where about twenty-five or thirty-five
millions of gold are'kept circulating about
in the manner above described, the task
of examination is not an easy one, and on
some days the musical ring ot coin is
heard in the Gold Room of the Sub
Treasury from morning till night. No
matter if a bag of gold that has been
issued one day is returned the next, its
contents must be re-examined as carefully
as if had been away a year, and search
made for pieces that have been tampered
with. As each bag is offered lor deposit
or exchange, its contents are emptied
upon a table, the hand of the clerk is
rapidly passed through the pile, while
his eye and ear are alert for peculiar col
ors or peculiar sounds. If all its correct
the coin is counted by throwing into a
tray one-fourth or one-eighth of its amount
pile by pile.
Then this small lot is placed into one
pan of the scule, and sufficient of tho
uncounted coin is poured into tho other
pan to balance it : then the contents of
one pan are poured into the other, and
the empty one filled, and so on until the
clerk is satisfied that the amount disigna-
ted on the bag is correct. A receipt is
then given, or the exchange is made as.
required, and the bag is tied up and fjont
into the vault for safo keeping. If errors
are discovered in tho count, the coin is
sent back to the depositor for correction.
One would think from the description
above that it would be an easy matter to
smuggle a base coin or one that had been
tampered with, uuiong a lot of gold. Rut,
indeed, it is extremely difficult, if not im
possible; and during the twenty or
twenty-five years that " Governor" Rird
sall has been in charge of tho Gold Room
not a single baso or imperfect coin has
been received, though thousands have
been detected. His sense of hcariug has
been trained by long practico, so that if
a single base coin or one that has been
filled, were placed in a lot upon the table
he could detect its presence by the sound
and his practiced eye would enable him to
nnd it immediately. 1 his may appear in
credible, but it is nevertheless true, as
has been shown on various occasions
when visitors have been present. A lit
tle explanation will enable the render to
be convinced.
Coin is tampered with generally by
filling, for no counterfeiter would be so
foolish as to issue a coin entirely of base
metal. The process of filling is one re
quiring great skill: and those who resort
to it have brought it to such perfection
that they have been, in some instances,
obliged to mark tho pieces so filled to
prevent being subsequently deceived
themselves.
They first split tho coin with n very
fine saw. Then the inside of the two
halves is carefully dug out, and the cavi
ty is filled with a material which in the
exact weight of the abstracted gold.
The two halves are then placed together
and subjected to heat and strong pres
sure which completely unites them. The
milling on the edge of the coin must then
be rctouchod, and this is done with a tool
which betrays the manipulation and as
sists the practiced judge to detect the
fact that the piece has been tampered with
if it has recently been done. Some
times these coins are put into circulation
or at least were when gold was a cir
culating medium and by abrasion with
other coins after a little while the milling
becomes smooth and closely resembles
a perfect piece.
Any one who has had opportunities
for the examination of any considerable
amount of gold coin must have observed
that they arc of various colors, from a
brassy hue to a copper color. This is not
true with the coins of other countries
which are uniform, and is accounted for
by the fact, that when gold first poured
into the mints from California, it came
in large quantities, and faster than the
machinery of tho mints could accommo
date. Consequently the silver was suf
fered to remain in larger proportion than
the standard regulation exacted. The
early California coinage is lighter in col
or than any of the productions of tho
eastern mints, but is now of a uniform
standard.
Tho coin which is received at the Rank
of England is examined by machinery.
The pieces are placed in a hopper ond the
machine set in motion. The light coins
are thrown out, but those of exact weight
are passed. No care is taken to detect
filled pieces, and therefore coin which
has been tampered with by filling may
pass through tho machine, so long as it
is the exact weight, and not bo discov
ered until some person accidentally brings
the fraud to light.
f&& On the afternoon of Thursday
last, a young man named Thorn while
standing in front of tho New York Times
office observed a young man leap hurried
ly from a third avenue car, in company
with another. Scarcely had they reach
ed the sidewalk ere tho car was stopped
and an old lady alighted, screaming that
she had lost two thousand dollars.
Mr. Thorn, thinking that one of these
men had stolen the money, seized George
Hilton, a young fellow 20 years old, who
was one of them, and had just entered
the Times publishing house.
Finding that his companion, consider
ing discretion tho better part of valor,
had deserted him in this his hour of need,
Hilton surrendered, and hoping to pur
chase his liberty by so doing, handed
back $224 in cash, and bonds worth in
all $2,000 to the old ludy.
Ssg Tho result of the wear in coin ',R
a direct loss to the government; sirfl i
is true, but still a loss. An tinrntc
made us close as it is possible, inke it'
shows that tho govern-Jient j
gainer by the destr action t,f tVctionl
currency, and p.jm0 have estimated that
the profit '.o the government Arising from
the destruction of vtam in process of
circulation is eumcK3it to del ray the cn
tiro cost of tuanufutctwiviug the fractional
currency from Jar to year, and also pays
for the engraving and printing of legal
tender notes. This is no inconsiderable
it-em, as oivq may well imagine, and on
the sooro of economy it would be better
for tho government to adhere to the frac
tional currency for the future instead of
resuming specie payments.
JtSy A young fellow iu Nashua, N. II.,
recently got angry with his sweetheart,
und for revenge took her to ride and left
her on tho steps of a country hotel, sev
eral miles from home to find her way
buck as best she could. The girl one
cveuing afterward induced him to drive
her to visit a sister twenty miles distant,
und while he was out of tho buggy en
deavoring to decipher tho name on u door
plate, she drove off und left him to go
home when ho got ready. The fun cost
him $20.
Miscellaneous News Items.
tW Chicago's population is put down at
848,709 a gain of 203,755 in ten years.
The business portion of Rockville, Ind.,
was nearly all destroyed by a supposed in
cendiary lire on last Saturday night.
tW An incendiary, on Sunday evening
exploded a magazine at Fairport, Ohio,
containing about three tons of nitro-gly-cerine.
HA curiosity in the shape of a time-table
of the Pacific Railroad rendered in tho
Chinese language, lias made its appearance
in tho West.
tW A trout was caught from Otsego lake
a lew days ago, which weighed 31 pounds,
measuring 07 inches in length and 21 iu
girth. It was sold for ten dollars.
E3T On Thursday last, while Mr. Thomas
Wcscott, of Sterling, was chopping wood,
ho had his leg so badly jammed by a fall
ing tree, that he died on Friday from the
loss of blood.
There is a general cry made by rail
way passengers against tho extortionate
prices demanded for sleeping car berths on
most of tho lines and with good reason,
too.
U3T Some mean thief at Laynesborough,
Minn., recently took advantage of the ub
senco of a family at the funeral of one of
its members to steal tho sheets and pillows
from all the beds.
t3T Tho people of Harrison county, Ind.,
were excited a few days sinco by tho dis
covery of a vein of gold by laborers who
wcro engaged in sinking a well. Tho ex
cavation will be continued.
KS" Thirteen cotton factories, located in
the vicinity of East Haddani, havo been
compelled to entirely suspend operations,
on account of having no water to turn their
wheels. They were employing about 700
men.
EST" The Internal Revenue Department
has decided to prohibit tho use of beer bar
rels in all cases where they havo in them
two holes for spigots, as it is calculated to
ofler inducements for defrauding the reve
nue. EST Keziah llinton, a colored domestic,
who had lived thirty-five years in the fam
ily of Dr. McDowell's family, at Bloom
Held, N. J., has confessed that sho fired his
barn, poisoned tho well, and stole tho fam
ily silver.
EfF" An Irish woman living near Jack
son, Mich., whilo engaged in hanging out
her washing, recently, was bitten in the
face by a potato bug which sho brushed oft'
the line. Her face immediately commen
ced to swell, and sho rapidly grew worse,
and died after three days of agony.
tW In the Pension office the cases for
commutation of lost limbs are being dis
posed of as fast as they come from tho
Surgeon General. During the past ten
days the work has averaged one hundred
and twenty cases per day. Up to date, 18,
627 cases havo been allowed.
tW At Colorado, recently, Wm. Heany
was detected in the act of coramiting an as
sault on' a little girl Bix years of nge, a
daughter of Judge Hughes. Whilo being
conveyed to the jail he was forcibly taken
from the officers by a crowd of citizens and
tarred and feathered and driven out of the
town.
E3F" A well of water in the town of Rc.j.
ding, Ct., on premises in possession of ono
family nearly 200 years, and never
failed in its supply is now dry, as a e many
others in different parts of the c,mltry. A
gentleman in Hartford, disgurjCeQ wjtu ti,e
quality of the city water, verted to his
well, which had been for cen year8 ciosc(i,
and found it dry.
S-Our Consul ftt shen-leiu wrltes here
that there will M several emigrants from
that portion of England to this country,
with a vie' t ,.ni; 1,,, West nt-inci.
, t vvr uviini) i -j '
'"j Minnesota. Among them thcro
wUI do ft member of tho English Parlia
"nt, who will be accompanied by several
young men anxious to expenonee lite in
our country
13?" Mr. Suiwnur Clark, of Cornvillo, Me.,
a ftsw days sirce was digging a ditch
through a piece of low ground, flnd when
at a depth of tM'eo or four feet ho struck a
vein of pure water that gushed out two or
more inches in diameter. As he stood look
ing at it a fish five or six inches long ap
peared, and at length another, until m had
gathered thirty. The fish reseWrletl What
are usually known as chubs.
tW Tho development of tlfo Illinois coal
fields is claimed to be ilvto'td A farmer near
Snrimrfleld. who tlitHVcrlft 'tWt such a coun
try could not be desttrted by Providence to
be without fuel. " wood is nearly
con," said he to himself, "and there must
Iks ooal." In this Almost whimsical faith
lie suwk a shaft 'one hundred feet, and then
struck veil dt bituminous coal, which ho
is now ftifniwg to the amount of 1)52,700 per
week.
tW Tho Whisky Ring is coining to life
again in some sections of tho country, nnd is
threatening to use its power against the
Republican party if the Internal Revenue
liurcau insists upon affixing tho Tice meters
to distilleries. In one or two instances,
candidates for Congress in large distilling
districts, have even appealed to the Bureau
not to enforce the law loo rigorously. Com
missioner Delano is, however, deaf alike to
appeals and threats and will not submit to
any dictation, lie says the law must be
strictly enforced without regard to conse
quence To yield to tho Ring in this par
ticular would be to give it a new lease of
life and induce it to make other demands.
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Pensions, bounties, and all kinds of war claims
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heirs of soldiers who are entitled to pensions and
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hen widows of soldiers die or marry, the minor
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Pennsylvania R. R. Time Table
NEWPORT
STATION.
On and after May 20, 1H70,
rnsneiifeier train
will run us luuons;
WJiNT.
rittsb'g Expr's. (l'1ag)4.-lt A. m. daily exe't Sunday.
NV'av Passenger, 9.13 A. M., daily except Monday,
Mail, in.it i. 2.11 P. M. daily except Sunday.
A mixed train With passenger car attached, will
leave Harrisburg at 5 o'clock p. m., and Newport
at 6.40 IK lit.
EAST.
Fflsl l.lne 4.10 a. m., dally except Monday.
HAttrisburg Accom. 11.31 a. m., dally " Sunday.
Man, 7.03 r. v., uauv except sunua
.1. J. BAltt'LAY, Agent.
DUNCANNON STATION.
, On and aftcrSunday, June 12tli, 1870, trains will
leave Duncunuon, as follows :
EASTWAltn.
Fast Mno. (Flac) 4.35 A. M.. daily exceiit Monday
JIarrishurg Aceom. 12.04 p. M., dally " Sunda
Mall 8.28 P. m.. daily " Sunday
WKSTWAH1).
Way Passenger, 8.33 A. m., dally except Monda
Mail, 1.40 p. M dully except 8unda
i nro r iciym, i -ass. tar uuncueu, e.uu f. m.
WM. V. KING, Agent
Stng-e Line Between Newport and Ne
(Jerinantown.
CJTAtJKS leave New Germantown daily nt foui
o'cKx-K a. in. l.anuisDurK at 7. so a. in. ureen
park at 8 a. in. New Itlooinflvld at ! n. m.
Arriving at Newport to couuevt with the Ac
eonnnodalion train l-limt.
itctiirniuu leaves Newport ou the arrival of th
Mall 1 rain irom I'lilluUelplila, at z.;ju p. m.
Z. ltlCK. Proprietor.
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