Evening Star Newspaper, June 3, 1871, Page 6

HIGH TER HARK. a tare BA Thrilling Adven: on BDediew BY BRST BARTS. Let me recall « story which never failed to sions apon Dediow Mi was bi recorded in the coun! pany had the story pp | the lips of the actor. cannot hope to catch the ee of mining jineation, for my narrator was a ‘woman; but I'll try to give at least its sub- She lived midway of the great slouzh of Ded- Jow Marsh and a good-sized river whieh de- benched four miles into an estuary formed by the Pacific Ocean, on the longs sandy peninsola which constituted the north- western boundary of a noble bay. The house 4m which she lived was a small frame cabia, raised from the marsh a few feet by stout Piles, and was three miles distant from the set- Slement upon the river. Her husband was a Jogger—8 profitable business in a country where the principal occupation was the manufactare of lumber. when her It was the season of early sprin husband left on the ebb of a high t Raft of logs for the usual transportation to the lower end of the bay. As she stood by the door Of the little cabin when the voy. departed. she noticed @ cold look in the southeastern sxy and she remembered hearing her husband say & bis companions that they must endeavor toc)m- plete their voyage before the coming of the southwesterly which be saw brewing. And that mght tt began to storm and biow harder than she hai ever before experienced, and some eat trees fell in the forest by the river, and fe house rocked like her baby’s cradle. Bat, however the storm might roar about the ttle cabin, she knew that one she trusted hac driven bolt and bar with his own strong hand, and that, had be feared for her, he wou'd noi hare left her. This. and her domestic duties, and the care of her little sickly baby, helped to keep her mind from dwelling on the weather, except, of course, to hope that he was safely harbored with the logs at Uto the 4 But she noticed, that day, when she Went out to feed the chickens and look after the cow, that the tide was up to the little fence of their gardeu-patch, and the roar of the surf on the south beach, though mi! ‘ay, she could bear distinctly. "And she to think she would like to have some one tu talk with about mnatters, and she believed that, tf it had not been So far and so stormy, and the trail so impassa- Die, she would bave taken the babe and have = over to Rackman’s, her nearest neighbor. jut them, you see, he might have returned in the storm, all wet, with no one to see to him; and it was a long exposure for baby, who was Groupy and ailing. But that night. she never could tell wh; didn’t feel like sleeping, or even lying down. ‘The storm bad somewhat abated, bat she still “sat and eat,” and even tried to read. I don’t know whether it was the Bible or some profane a ‘ine that this poor woman read, bat most probably the latter, for the words all ran together and made such sad nonsense that she was forced at last to put the book down and turn to that dearer volume which lay before ber in the cradle, with its white initial leaf as Jet unsoiled, and try to look forward to ita mysterious future. And, after the everything cradle ,sbe thoaghtof and every! '. Dut still was wide awake as ever. it nearly 12 o'clock when she at last lay Gown in ber clothes. How long she slept she could pot remember, but she awoke with a @readful choking in her throa! herself standing, trembling all 0 middie of the room, with her baby clasped to her breast, and she was “saying sometuing.”” ‘The baby cried and sobbed, and she walked up and down, trying to hush it, when she heard a scratching at the door. She opened it fearfully, and was glad to see it was only old Pete, their dog, who crawled, dripping with water, mto the room. She would like to have looked ont, not in the faint hope of her husband's coming, but to see how thi looked; but the wind shook the door so say- agely that she could hardly hold it. Then she sat jown a little while, and then walked up and down a little while, and then she lay down again a little while. Lying close by the wall Of the little cabin, she thought she heard once er twice something scrape slowly against the Clapboards, like the scraping of branches. ‘Then there w: he that seemed creeping from the back door toward the centre of the room. It was’at much wider th: er, bat soon it swelled to the nd began to spread all over door and threw it wide Open, and saw nothing bat water. She ran to the back door and threw it open, and saw nothing bat water. Then she remembered hearing her busband once say that there was no danger in the ti r that fell regulasty, and People could calculate on it, and that he Would rather live on the bay than the river, whore banks might overtiow at any time. But Was it the ti So she ran again to the back door and threw out astick of wood. It drifted Sway toward the bay. She scooped up some She ran to the fr water and put it eagerly tober lips. It was hand eweet. It was the river,and not the tide! it was then—O God be praised for his zood- Ress! she di ; itwas then— biewea be ur, for it wae His mercifal Band that awful moment—th 2 & garment, and her trembling ceased. It was then and thereafter that she never lost her selr- eo, through all the trials of that gloomy Bight. <ne drew the bedstead toward the middle of the room, and placed the table upon it, and on that rhe put the cradle. The water on the tioor ‘was already over her ankles, e house once or twice mored so perceptibiy, and seemed to be racked so, that the closet doors all flew open. Then she heard the same rasping end = egainst the wail, and, jookiay out Saw that a large uprooted tree, which lain pastare, the house. Luckily its soil and kept it from ing current, for it had struck the house in its full career, even the nails and bolts in the piles could mot bave withstood the ehock. The hound Bad lea upon its knotty surface, and crouched ‘near the roots shivering and whining. A ray of hove flashed across her mind. She drewa Ty blanket from the bed, and wrapping it about the babe, waded in the ing waters to the door. taining a footing on its slippery surface, and, twining an arm about its roots, she held in the ‘Ctber ber moaning chtid. Then somethin, @racked near the front poreh, and the whole + front of the house she had just quitted fell for- ward —just &s cattle fail on their knees before they lie down—and at the eame moment the reat redwood tree swung round and drifted jay with its living cargo Lato the black night. For all the excitement and danger, for all her Soothing of her crying vabe, for all the whist- ding of the wind, for all the uncertainty of her ® Bituation, she still turned to look at the deserted and water-swept cabin. She remembered, even then, and she wonders how fuolish she was to hat Ume, that she wished she had Pat on another dress, and the baby's best clothes; and the kept praying thatthe house Would be spared, so that be, when he teturned, would hare something to’ come to, and it Wouldn't be quite so desolate, and—how coald be ever know what had me of her and baby? Ands* ‘be thought she grew sick and faint. But fhe bad someting to do besides worrying, fo® whenever the long roots of her ark struck an obstacle. the wheie trunk made balf a revolu- tion, and twice dipped her fn the black water. ‘The hound, which” kept distracth were left alone. ea ed. aden), ~ eu 3 eames White dunes on the ahead, and she judged the tree was movin, ine 00 See the riper. It must bo about slack water, and si ably reached Zormed by the ‘confluence ‘of the tide Pine waters of the river. Unless the the ¢' strike one of wooded promon: insula, and reet ll daylight. ton, he. heard voices * Ditterdy. When she raised her bead of the surf was behind her, Ber ark bad swung up the water to cool her found that t was as salt as was a relief, though, for ‘that she was drifting with the wind went down, and the been the night when the sb lntted out from the world. thought, too, of mariners cli: to spars, Of poor women who were lashed to rafts, Bhe aod aod beaten to death by the cruel sea. . She Had it not been for her baby, who wasailing and croupy, bad it not been for the sadden screaming and crying. Then the plover flew up and piped mournfally, as they wheeled around the trunk, and at last fearlessly [it it like @ gray cloud. Then the flew over _ ge tag 3 and protesting, an: PI ts gaunt on ae — = ; But, strangest wi , larger than a dove—like 8 pelican, but not a pelican— circled around and around her. At last it lit upon a rootiet of the tree, quite over her shoulder. She putout ber hand and stroked its beautifal white neck, and it never appeared to move. It stayed there so loeg that she thought she would lift up the baby. to see it, and to attract her attention. But when she did so, the chtld was eo chilled and cold, and hed such a blue look upon the little lashes, which it didn’t raise at ail, that ehe screamed aloud, and the bird flew away, and she fainted. Wc li, that was the worst of 1 t was not so much, after all, self. For, when recovered her senses, it was bright sunlight, and dead low water. ‘There was @ cunfused note of guttural voic about her, and an oid squaw, singing Indian “ bushaby,” and rocking herself from side to side before a fire built on the marsh. before which she, the recovered wife and mother, lay weak and weary. Her first thought was for her baby, and was about to speak, when a } squaw, who must have been a mother herself, tathomed her thaught and brought her the *mowitch,” paie but living, in such @ queer little willow cradie all bound up, just like the squaw’s own young one, that she and cried together, and the old squaw and the young squaw showed their bij white teeth glinted their black eyes an said, “Plenty get well, skeena mowitch,” “wagee man come plenty soon,” aud she could have kissed their brown faces in her jay. And then she found that og 4 had been gather- ing berries on the marsb im their queer, comical baskets, and saw the ekirt of her gown flatter- ing on the tree from afar, and the old squaw couldn't resist the tempation of procur- a) heron ing a new garment, and came down and ro! sod obild. And of course the the old rowan gt arment to the old squaw, as yon may imagine, oa when he came at last mud ceahedun to ber, — about ten yeors older in his anxiety, she felf so faint that they had to her to the cance. For, you see, he knew noth- ing about the tiood until he met the Indians at Utopia, and knew by the signs that the poor woman was his wife. And at the next high- tide he towed the tree away back home, al- though it wasn’t worth the trouble, and ballt ‘another house, using the old tree for the fow dation, and called it, after her, ‘Mary's Ark! But you guess the next house was bailt above high-water mark. And that’s all. Not much, perhape, considering the mslevo- lent capacity of the Dedlow Marsh. But you must tramp over it at low water, or paddle over it at ‘tide, or get lost upon it once or twice in the fog, as'I have, to understand properly Mary’s adventure, or to appreciate duly the blessings of living beyond high-water mark. Hew Fruits by Crossing. The following description of the methods of obtaining new varieties of fruit, and particu. larly of the apple, by cross-fertilization, is the substance of the remarks made by J. J. Tuomas in his recent course of lectures at Cornel! Uni- versity; and they may prove interesting t» our ce readers who may desire to experiment in this way: We plant apple seed or pear seed, and eut of many thousand seedlings some may chance to bear very fine fruit. The seeds of the best va- rieties will be more likely to produce good sorts, than those of worthless fruite. The seeds of a Fall Pippin or ofa Spitzenburgh, will be more likely to give us some good new vacrietics, than orrrciar. LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES, Passed at Third Session of Farty-first Congress. \GEYERAL WaTURB—No. 47.] ‘iations to supply de- for the service ernment fiscal year June . eighteen hundred and seventy, and June thirty, eighteen hundred and sev- ss and for former years, and for other [Be enacted by he Senate and. House of Repre. sentatives of the United States of America in Con- orese assembled, That the following sums or so much thereof as may be necessary, be, and the fame are Sek y, Sees for the objects hereinafter expt , namely : SENATE. ~ To pay an additional ineer an- assistant thorized by the Senate, at the rate of one thou- *and four hundred and forty dollars per annum, commencing on the first day of December, eigh- teen hundred and seventy, for the fiscal year ending the thirtleth day of June, eighteen hun- dred and seventy-one, eight hundred and forty doliars, For eteam-pump for the heating and venti. lating apparatus of the Senate, under the direc- = of the Sergeant-at-arms, one thousand dol- r8. For expenses of heating and ventilating appa- ratus Of the Senate, one thousand dollars. HUUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. For cartage, three thousand dollars. , For laborers,one thousand six hundred dol- lars. For furniture, and repairs thereof, two thou- sand dollars. For fuel, two thousand dollars. For paying teller in the office of the Sergeant- : obo » One thousand two hundred and twenty ars. neous item of the contingent ten thousand doijlars. For the following sums Gue under resolutions of the House passed during the first session of the Thirty-ninth Congress, namely: To the late first assistant doorkceper, eight hundred and torty dollars; to the superintendent of the docu- ment-room, cight hundred and forty dollars; and to E. Spicer, late superintendent of the folding-room, seven hundred and twenty dol- lars; to John J. McEihone, Wm. Hincks, W. Biair Lord, D. Wolfe Brown, Theodote F. An- Orews, and William Henry Burr, reporters for the Congressional Globe during the first session of the Lhirty-ninth Congress, seven hundred dollars each; in all, six thousand tour hundred dollars, additional compensation for the Thirty- ninth Congress. For compensation of the tally-clerk of the House of Bepresentatives, from the first day of February, eighteen hundred and seventy, to the fir oft July, eighteen handred and seven- ty-one, six hun and twelve dollars, the same making his compenaation equal to that of his predecessor, (R. U. Sherman,) and as fixed in the legislative bill for himself. To pay Rivee and Bailey for the reporting and publication of the debates and proceedings of the Forty-tirst “Congress, under the joint resolution aparoved March three, eighteen hun- dred and sixty-nine, and contract of April fourteen, teen hun and sixty-nine, so far as may ave been provided for by law, ane hundred and twenty thousand dollars, or 80 much thereof as may be necessary. PUBLIC BUILDINGS UNDER THE TREAS- URY DEPARTMENT. For continuing the work on the building for t office and court-house in New York city, to applied only to finishing the foundations up to and including the sill course, and recetving and setting the granite of the first story above that course, and subject to no other limitations or restriction, five hundred thousand dollars. For the butik for post office and sub- treasury in Boston, the unexpended balance of a) — remaining on the thirtieth June, eighteen hundred seventy, appropriated for [rye al of site of the same, which Was covered to the — the provisions of section five of the act of July twelve, eighteen hundred and seventy, {s, with the sum appropriated by the act of duly fifteen, eighteen hundred ani seventy, hereby reap; ed and made avail- able, — with sum of sixty-four thous- and two hundred and seventy-eight dollars and seventy-five eents, to enable the Secretary of the Treasury to pay the award for the neces- sary land condemned under authority of the State of Massachusetts for the purposes of said Dullding; fOF purchase Of title in passaze-way, eight too dollars; and for expenses of legal proceedings, four thousand dollars, or @0 rach thereof as may be necessary, subject to noother restriction except that the cost of said build! sha!l not ex. in the ultimate total under ul scedlings from an apple having a flavor like that t A u or vaener ‘ar w pote In planting the eae, ong million five hundred thous- scstoct 5 Herbal. votkall more proseltroiais | “yor cembiaticg the cowttouss Welling’ at sede ote eas Pear, than by planting the | sacison, Wiscontin, thirty-four themes tant spate ot a choke peer. Bat we mast romomber | oi ohty-ewo dollars aid sovety-fom ee that these well-known and excellent fruits were oc completing the couttivese Cahtitee at obtained in the first place by exc oan rere Portiand, Maing, fifty-six thousand ei, \t kuee SS ee gly%© | dred and rixteen dollars and six:y-fo. r< “nts. fall back more or less towards the condition For completing the work on the bl. ng for a ae oe i. ae appraiters? stores in Philadelphia, 1 't) seven en thousand tr re ry - Alea a ag rch gel op yr so goud | outand five hundred dollars: Provided, That as the Spitzenburgh itself, in all particulars, It is, therefore, @ very slow and uncertain pr: cess to raise new sorts by means of chance seed- ings. But we gain a great point in mixing two good sorts t by crossing. You may be familiar with the manner by which the vui of common indian corn became mi. by the pollen from the anthers of the tasse! talling on the stigmas on the silk of the ears. Yellow, white and red corn thus beco: together. In a simtlar manner we cr varieties of the apple. But as the anthers and stigmas are in the éame flowers, and not separate as in corn, the pollea from those flowers would be more likely to fertilize their own a and thus defeat our intention, and we are obliged to clip off the anthers-witn a scissors fine pair of before they burst, and then carefully bring the polien from the other tree to ferti the stigmas of this. Suppose, for example, we wish to cross the Khode a Greening with the Esopus Spitzenburgh. We selecta branch of the Greening when first said butiding shall also be used for a bonded Wwarebouse. For repair of the custom-house building at Sandueky, Odio, ten thousand dolia-s. For desks, tabies, chairs, cases, shelving for Ble-rooms. boxes, and repairs of furniture in ‘freasury Department, ten thonsand doilara. For repairs and a Of pablic build- ings, fifty thousand dollars, ‘or furniture and repairs of furniture tor public buildings, twenty-five tuousand dolar For carpets, oll-cloth, matting, rugs, chair. covers, and cushions, repairs and puting down of carpets, and other necessary misvelancous items of the same kind forthe Treasury Deparc ment, ten thousand dollars, TREASURY DEPARTMENT. MISCRLLAREUUS. For compensation of twelve watchmen ad ten laborers, fifteen thousand e‘ght hundred and forty dollars. For salaries, travelling, and other expenses of superviring and local iuspectors of steam-ves- in bicom, and carefully cut oat all stamens. | sels, twenty thousand dollars. ‘Then to the bees and the winds from For — for use of the Internal Revenue carrying len from other parts of the same | Office, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. tree, tothe sogmas thus deprived of stamens, For wi of workmen and adjusters in the we enclose the branch in thin translu- | branch office of the United States mint at San which will admit t, a1 Francisco, California, twenty-eight thousand en een oe enmears® be us to burst in | dollars. yellow dust from anthers. We take a quen- For executing contract to facilitate communi- tity ene point of the finger or | ea‘ion between the Atlantic and Pacilic States on 8 camel’ ‘peneil, and lifting the oilcloth, | by electric forty thousand doliars. touch the stigmas of thé Greening flowers. We | "To reimburse tof. i. Sploner the sum by him ave now accomplished a ss feat—for we | paid into the United 81 treasury to replace have, by means of those ute tc | the deficit resulting from the embezzlement by bodies (emalier than the floating particles of | Charles C. Edwins, vered in September Gust in the air,) effected a cross between these | last, five thousand seven hundred and fifty-eight two The spyles resulting ; dollars and twenty-nine cents. from will, to outward a) "i For co! ‘two as=istants in the office be Greenings; but the sed within wil between thetwo. We plant them, and they grow and bear. It must be exceedingly interesting to walk along these rows of seedling trees, ws the sorts are swelling and ripening int» a new exist- ence, and see what eye has never before lookedon, the varieties of all imaginable grades between the Rhode Island ing and the Spitzenburgh. Possibly we may have ob‘ained among them all & new sort of great excelience, which may yet me famous throughout the country. Naw, when the seeds of fine apples are planted, the: havea tendency to deteriorate; a hig! point of exeelience having been reached in the it, the pro; will probably be a notch or Woo welows an many of the new trees perhaps Several notches below. So with the crosses—we shall bave a good many new ues among the seedlings just mentioned that will be decidedly inferior to the Khode Island Greening; and we shall find them growing on trees as crooked as the Greening, and as feeble, tender, and unreli- able as thatoftheSpitzenburgh. Such trees we do not want, and they will have to go to the brasb-! There will be many more that may have ome Cget peery mixed with more bad ones—apples wi sma!!, and on and teeble trees; others trees, but the a B on end stra sourend of thé tor gress, to date from Feb- rrary first, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, whose employment is hereby authorized at twelve hundred and eighteen hundred dollars, ively, thousand dollars. or outfit and extraordinary clerical of the commission to revise the United States statutes at large, one thousand dollars. For the col and publicationof the re- = Of the toreigm claims commissions between United States and other couvtries, to be ex- under the direction of the Secretary of tate, three thousand dollars, but not to exceed three thousand dollars. ¥or alterations and extension of the Treasa: building, forty-nine thousand seven hundred and thirty-four dollars and forty-one cents, ‘To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to Bey, the present district attorney of Nebraska is salary for the four years ending June thirty, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, eight hun- dred dollars, LIGHT-HOUSE ESTABLISHMENT, For repairs and incidental expenses in refit- ting and improving Ught-houtes and buildings counected ; aye »Aity thousand =. for sul yin, ie -bouses and beacon- lights onthe ‘Atianti Guir, Lake, and Pacitic it_we hope to find one | Costs with oll, wicks, giass chimneys, and or two, out of the great multitude, where by a | Clee: mater ale, and repairing aud ig very rare chance or combination, ‘all the good | 10 repair the iNuminating ap; Seger oints will have met, and made a really exoel- | 87d all other necessary expenses ent and nam variety. in, suppose | With the a fvrrempeetrs oa tide, joer owe, /adpo wi tone ielargor ana | Tepeiing, Tomeving, wai supviging Toman st fruit, like the Graven- pon aed spindles, and gare end tor ‘are later. We cross them, | C>éins, sinkers, and other like finy and perhaps out of @ great multitude, we may | thousand dollars. the of PUBLIC PRINTING. ‘Summer Hose, or w For the public printing, one hundred and same thing, 6 the two | twenty-five are : ided, That later apples a month or two earlier. Or no printing shall be hereatter executed except mer Rove, which is exce!- | on order under the direction of heads of aes aD, whish paper by the two houses of Congress, ‘Bat huality ic | “For paper for the pablic printing, nifty thous. et . : Reet and dollars. Le For the public the For fund ot toe omee art the Gas gressional P: , fifteen hundred dollars. DEPARTMENT OF STATE. compensation of the For raising new fruits arsistant secretaries, cier! watch: ‘never been ft into exten seams abd atone tae bundree eed iste $ ives some sk = srapte, Capers und coventy-Ave cents. i ta newspaperset the Sesten eet ere and a ae in the chy of Washington encores, and rz. g are. For con’ ——— ‘fty-three doliate and pre me their braaches oan salaries of United States ministers abroad, Mand a good chance to sereniy-tre ail be i soe _ cohive pend > hereatter no salaries shall be paid to two min- the crossed fraits, Faen pasted, ‘ oe mir aan ~ Not Ciovsland, eioed | «29 Teet 2% prions tn Chine, two thousand hew and excellent cherries, some of Rey epee Nerd sy lle Sod in countries, eighty thousand dollars, Spd the time and means oe naea Eines! Hoan oe sand ndvdive hundred bewrr-nesoap ua as a and fifteen cents. tations pete, Loh ‘To pay the salary of the United States Sot me st Hi and Osaca from the time pe mere rus eat def a Seventy-one, PENSION BURBAU. valent Macht, mithchgers. wre ot Pi , ©) |, Watchmen, and labo: rere in Lis ofhce, ten thousand three han- dred and care-oigh doliars and three cents. bian! stationery, furniture, and Eesllaseons s Mice, two sand four hundred doMars; for seven laborers. five thousand and forty dollars; for two assis: Qnt messengers, one thousand four hundred and ‘lara. Pen ae? INDIAN OFFICE. To enab‘e the Secretary of the Interior to pay balance due on the indebtedness incarred for the Indian service in Ostifornia by Austin Wi- ley, former superintendent of Indian affairs, ten thousand five hundred and fifty-nine dollars = fifty-four cents, or so much thereof as may necessary. For subsisting seven hundred and forty-seven Ponea Indians from December first, eighteen hundred and seventy, to —_ first, eighteen bundred and seveaty-one, inciudi: Nabiltces for the pur, al ine 5 en thon~ sand eight hundred thirty-six dollars and sixty-four cents. For biank books, stationery, furniture, and miscellaneous items in the Indian Office, iifty- one dollars and ninety-five cents. PATENT OFFICE. For casual repairs of the Interior Department building, five thousand dollars. For salary of one examiner in charge of in- terferences, and one first and one second assis" ant examiner in the Patent Uftice, five thousand mine bundred do}lars. 4 a five clerks of class two, seven thousand jollars. For five clerks of class ame, six thousand dol- For the steam-heating apparatus in the [nte- rior SS building, six thousand nine bund and seventy-five ‘Toltares For expenses of packing and distributing con- gressional journals and doeuments, six hundred and thirty dollars and sixty cents. For salaries of eight watchmen in the eral service of the Interior Department build- ne five thousand seven hundred and sixty lars. ° ‘To enable the Secretary of the Interior topay the freight on the law Mbraries authorized to be purchased for each of the Territories of Ida- ho, Montana, Utah, Wyoming, and Arizona by the act of July fifteen, eighteen hundred and seventy, one thousand two hundred and fifty- five do) ) OF so much thereof as may be neces- Mining statistics: For collecting statistics ot mines and mining, to be expend. 4 under the direction of the Secretary of the Treagury, one thousand five hundred dollars. For salary and commissions of the register and receiver of the land office at Susanville, Cali- fornia, three thousand dollars. For incidental expenses of said office, five hundred dollars. GOVERNMENT HOSPITAL POR TRE INSANE, ly the deficiency in the appropriation ries and wages for the month of June, undred and seventy, and outstand' Dills due June thirty, eighteen hundred an seventy, three thousand five hundred dollars, To supply the deficiency in the appropriation for support of the hoepital for the current year ending June thirty, eighteen hundred and sey- enty-one, twenty-two dollars, POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT. The following sums are hereby cee ed for the seryice of the Post Office Department out of any moneys in the treasury arising from the revenues of said Department: For mail-locks, keys, and stamps, fifty-five thousané dollars; for advertising, twenty thou- sand dollars: Provided, That hereafter the let- tings of mail contracts in Maryland aud Virginia shall be published in one newspaper only. Far additional pay of nine temporary laborera, two firemen, and one watehman, at one hun- dred and twenty dollars each, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars: Provided, Vhat their entire pay for the year ending June thirty, eighteen hundred and seventy-oue, is thereby not increased above seven hundred and twenty Goliars eac! atpum. For eight porary clerks, for two months, at one hundred dollars per month, one thousand six hundred dollars. For temporary clerks, to be employed as ooca- sion may require, ten thovurand dollars. For Freparation of the Post Uitice Directory for eighteen hundred and seventy, twelve hun- dred collars. And to much of the first section of the act approved July twelve, eighteen hundred and seventy, a8 states the total eum of the appro- priations, for compensation ot the Posti General, assittants, superintendents, chiets of divi ion, chief cletks, clerks, messengers, as- sistants, folders, firemen, hmen, and la- borers, is hereby connected, and, in lien of the sure there stated, declared to be three hundrea an¢ fifty-four thocsand eight hundred dollars, which is the true total of the specitic appropriations for the abo cited purposes, more tully set forth in said act, avd shall be so construed. To supply deficiencies in the revenue of the Post Oftice Department for the figcal year end- ing June thirty, eighteen hundred and eeventy- one, payabie out Of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, four million six hundred and eighty-five thousand and thirty- two doliars, or 0 much thereot as may be neces fary: Provided, That no part of the romney hereby sppropristed shall be applied to the payment or what is known as the Unorpenu 4 claim, WAR DEPARTMENT. Fot the purchsse of horees ior the cavalry and artillery and Indian scouts, two hundred thousand dollars. For the purchase and manufacture of cioth- ing for the army, and for camp and garrison equipage, two hundred thousand dollars. For contingencies of the army, to enable the Secretary of the Treasury to settle the accounts of disbursing oiticers for expenditures already lawfully made, a transfer of otter balances on the books of the treasury to this account is hereby authorized to the amount of one bun- dred and fifty thousand dollars. ‘To pay fees of attorneye-at-law employed by the War Department; expenses of suits incurred evious to act of dune twenty-two, eighteen undred and se’ , creating Department of Justice; the costs and charges of State peniten- Uarier; the care and maintenance of United States militery convicts confined in them; the pay of detectives and scoute; and for compen sation of provost marshals the Secretary of Wer in eighteen hundred and sixty-two, the appropriation for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and sixty-nine and eighteen hundred and seventy having been exhausted, twent;-Lre thousand dollars, For the purchase of medical and hospital Supplies, pay of private physicians employed in emergencies, Of hospital attendants, ex- pag tnd urvey in ts, of medical examin- ng boar: Medicel dollars. , an cidental expenees of the department, ove huncred thousand To pay the costs and charges of Btate peni- tentlarics for the care, gree yo main and medical attendance, aud like necessaries United Siates mili convicts confined there- af or Fopairin and puttin, roof on the ‘or z new on cadet quarters at Wést Poise, Tecently destroyed by fire, forty thousand dojlars, or so much thereot as may be necessary. PAYMASTER GENERAL'S DEPARTMENT. Pay of the army: For pay to officers, nine hun and cight thousand three hundred and bas Tee and thirty-three cents. Mi —— For allowance paid to officers of the army wi Aravelling on duty without troops, "Gakiego acters tion: Pr lot soldiers: payment to Giechatgod soldiers for clothing not drawn, Bine hundred and nine thousand four hundred and eighty-three doilars and twenty cents. QUARTHEMASTER GENERAL'S DEPARTMENT. For extra pay to soldiers employed under the Girection of the Quartermaster’s it in the erection of barracks, quarters, storehouses, 3; in the construct roads and Cc t Labor for periods of not than ten days, including those em: red as at div: an department ig or toand from the frontier and militar anbot A Of the inter: Oftcers Killed in’ acton ot Bagh od when on duty in the field or at on nt bie of laborers rmaster’s = ment, inctading the hire of interpreters, tples, for wo to officers of the two dollars: ded, ‘That no of thie appropriation ins een tees hich fare or may be fixed by the Postmaster , in pursuance of the second section of two hundred and chapter thirty of the statutes of eighteen hundred aad sixty-six. CHIEF ENGINEER OF TRE ARMY. For annual repairs of the President's house, three thousand nine hundred and four doliare and eighty-four cents. For refurniehing the President's house, eleven thousand four bundred and sixty-four doliars and -nine cen! to ene up deficiency in appropriation for Capitol police for the fiscal year ending Juve inte Eighteen hundved ond. soventy-one, eleven thousand five bundred and forty-four dollars, as follows: For one cay » two bun- dred and eighty. it doliars; two lieaten- ants, at three red dollars each, six hun- dred | dottars: for twenty-five privates for twelve months, at three hundred and etghty-four dol- lare each per annum, nine thousand and six hundred dollars; for three privates for eleven months ot three hundred vow pe dol- = each per annum, one thot and Gfty-six jars. BUREAU OF FREEDMEN, REFUGEES, AND ABAN- DONED Laps. Fer pay of medical officers and attendants in Frecdmen’s Hospital and Asylum, at Washing- ton, District of Columbia, five thousand dollars. Fer medicine, medical supplies, and rations, twerty-fve thousand dollars. 1 For clotBing, two thousand five hundred doi- ars. For collecting and payment of bounty and other claims to olored soldiers, saflors, mariues, or their beirs, forty thousand dollars. For rent ot building (outside of the District of Columbia,) four thousand five hund: doifars. ‘i heer! stationery and printing, five usand eliars. Fer mileage and transportation of officers and agente, four thousand dollars. - al telegrapling and postage, one thousand jollars. Fer unfalfilled contracts for the erection and repair of school buildings and asylums, forty thousand dollars. NAVY DEPARTMENT. Bureau of Provisious and Ciethi visions for the officers, seamen, and marines of the navy, five hundred thousand dojars. Marine Corps: For clothing for non-commis Stoned officers, musicians, and privates of the marine corps, ffty thousand dollars; for fuel, ten thousand doilare. TERRITORY OF WASHINGTON. That there be, and bereby is, appropriated, for amount to pay expenses of legislative assem- bly of Washington Territory, per diem and tulleage of members, pay of officers, and print- ing for the session commencing Octwber, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, nine thousand one hundred and twenty-nine dollars and ninety- one cents, or 80 much thereof as may be neces- : For pro- sary. For deficiency in appropriation to pay the salary of governor, secretary, and judges of the ‘Territory of Dakota, for the year June thirty, eighteen hundred and seventy, seveateen hundred dollars, or so much of the same as shall be necessary for that purpose. For the payment during the fiscal year ending June thirty, eighteen hundred and eeventy-one, of — under the act of February fourteen, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, granting ie hgntee hundred and twel and the war of eighteen hui welve, widows of deceased soldiers and two thousand dollars: ; That the provisions of the act of en- titled “An act to define the duties ot pean sgents, to prescribe their manner of Paying pevsions, and for other purposes,” appro’ July eight, eighteen hundred and seventy, shall be, and the same is hereby, declared to’ be ap- plicable to all pensions granted by virtue of the said act approved February fourteen, eighteen hundred and seventy-one. Sze. 2. That there be, and hereby is, appro- Ppriated, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of two million seven bw and fitty thousand dollars, for the expenses of collecting the revenue from customs, tor each half-year from and after the thirtieth day of June, eighteen hundred and seventy, and, in addition thereto, such sums as may be received during said hatf-year from fines, penalties, and forfeitures connected with the customs, and from fees paid into the treas- ury by customs officers, and from storage, cart Sge, drayage, labor, and services; and the res- olution * making YF getaway for the ex- penses of collecting revenne from customs,” approved May three, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, is hereby repeajed. Approved, March 3, [GENERAL NATURE—NO. 48.) An AcT making appropriations tor the support of the army for the year ending June thirty, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, and tor other purposes. Be it enacted by tha Senate and Houte of Repre- sentatives of the United States of America in Con- gress asermbied, That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, out of any moneys in the treasury net otherwise ap- propriated, for the support of the army for the year tee Juno thirty, eighteen hundred and Seventy-two: For expenses of the Commanding General's office, five thourand dollars. For expenses of reeruiting and tranepertation of recruits, one bundredand twenty thousand five hundred and eighty doMare. For contingent expenses of the A¢jatant Gene- Tal’e department at the headquarters of m:litary Sone and Gepartments, five thousand doi- s. For the expenses of the signal service of the army, five thousand dollars. For pay of the army,and for *pryment to discharged soldiers for clothing not drawn, twelve million three hundred thoarand dollars, of which sam one hundred thonsand dollars, and no more, may be expended for pay of lo- dian sconte. Palade ceed to ree oe army for ansportation of themseives ir when traveling on duty, without troope, esconts, fs aime , one hundred and fifty thousand dol- hed ert os Se cancun os pest com Ly it menibers, and withesees while on court ne ttral service, and traveling clerks, and postage on and telegrams received and sent by othoers of = army on public business, one hundred For subsistence of regular troops, and Indian scouts, two million nine hundred thousand dollars, of which sum fifty-five thous- and Collars, and no more, may be expended for rat "For regulat supe of the @ uartermaaster’s For the regular supplies of timartersdepartantcelatng ot erase in ey . ten days, un the acts of Mar. ol fem n Gays, under ol! ch : the and hospitals, in the construction of other constan' bencred and nine! and Ai ei hundred and four, including heeaquarters; expenses of expresses sod neat the frontier posts and armies tp the field; of ea Corts to pi and and to at uch poste their situation, require it to eres geet on ome : For bire of fer officers on military ae repo. eo for #afe-keoping of stores, and of CLOTHING. Mighly Important to the Pabiie CLOTHING! CLOTHING !! CLOTHING !!1 penses as are not provided for other esti- mates, embracing all branches the military service, fifty thousand dollars. For of medical and hospital su plies, e y Dospi "SoS del eecal wees of as boards, and inci expenses department, two bundred thousand lars. For the Army Medical Museum and medical and other meceseary works for the library of the Surgeon General's office, seven thousand dol- lars. For trials with torpedpes for harbor and land detense and to instruct the engineer troops in their practical constraction and application, ten thousand dollars. For completion of barracks and officers’ qnar- ters at the engineer depot at Willet’s Poiut, New York, twenty-five thousand dollars. For repairs and preservation of bridge equip- age, te® thourand dollars. ‘or purchase and supply of material and labor for repairs of quarters amd barracks at engineer posts, two thousand dollars. For the ordnanee service required to defray the current at the arsenals; of receiy- ing stores and issuing arme and other ordnance supplies; of police and office duties; of reuts, tole, fuel, and lights; of stationery and ofice furniture; of to and instramen nts for 2s of ublic anim: forage, and vehicles; incidenta’ Expenses of the ordnance service, including those attending practical trials and tests of ordoan-<, small-arm! Preserving, and clea ‘dnance stores on hand in the arsenals, — thousand dollars. sea-coast cannon, and carriages same, two hendred thourand dollars. For purchase and manufacture of other ord- ning & nance stores, to fill requisition of troops, ify thousand dollars. For manufacture of arms at the national ar- mory, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Bec. 2. That the President of the United States shall be, and he is hereby, authorized to nominate, and, by and with the advice consent = aforesai: And each de considered, and rejeutea as unjust and tmvalid, shall likewise re- ported, with the reasons therefor; and no claim- ant shall withdraw @my material evidence sub- mitted in support of any claim. Seo. 3, That said commissioners shall each take the oath of office provided by law to be taken by all officers of the United tes, and ehall proceed without delay to discharge their Guties under thie act. The President of the United States shall designate in his appoint- ment one of said com: to be president of the board, and shall be suthorized to tllany vacancy which may occur, by reason of death or resignation, in said board; and ea: com- mirsioncr sball bave authority to edwinister oaths and #firmations, and to take the deposi- fons of witnesses in all matters pertaining to their duties. The said commisioncrs shal! meet and organize said board, ang bold their sessions at Waeb: ion. Two members of the board shall constitute ® quorum for tho transaction of buriners, and the agreement of two shall decide all ey np yee a sioners shall have authority to make and pub- jure, not inconstetent lish rules for their ‘with this act, and oo notice of their eball to this act into effect ts here! F made, out of acy meres, in Go otherwise appro- call will copvinee you of rare bargains at mm Oo: 943 PENNS YLVABIA AVENUE, WW Ast paltry mAnUrActUEING NEW STYLES OF MEN'S, YOUTH’S AND BOY'S iG, Which we offer at the LOWEST PusORS. myl0-2m Gentiomen who, desire to dress well and tamtefuity, a Secommended to Kxamine our Stock of READY-MADE CLOTHING AND FUENISHING GOODS. a P FOR CUSTOM WORK which we make te onter at chert motien. 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