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EDITORIAL. NOTES,
Ex-Gov. Hjratio Seymour is quite ill.
Pkbhipb Gen. Longstreet is engineering
"the era of good feeling” at Washington.
Mb. H. I. Kimball with SIOO,OOO is the
latest apparition in Atlanta daily journal
ism.
Auditor Massey thinks of leading a new
liberal movement in Virginia, with local op
tion as ballast.
It is estimated that the Alabama Great
Southern Railway has sustained $130,000
damages by the recent floods.
Mr. VAxoEteiLT and Gen. Grant were
out on the road after the snow storm, and
made several brushes with their fine geld
ings.
The recent fall in the thermometer has
again heightened the prospects for ice har
vesting, and large forces of men are reported
at work cutting and storing.
Don Camebon, for once, has been caught
napping in the matter of an office, and a
Hancock man has been appointed and con
firmed postmaster at Wilkesbarre.
Mr.. Stephens receives the conservatory
bouquets, but Gen. Longstreet apportions
the offices for Georgia. This is what the
new Stalwart-Independent coalition means.
There is plenty of dissatisfaction with
the management of affairs in Texas among
intelligent men of all political beliefs, but
the Democrats mostly want “reform within
the party.”
Steve Postell telegraphs to the Chicago
Iril/une that there were 5,000 people to
hear Dr. Felton in Augusta. This will give
Chicago the idea that Market Hall is a regu
lar slaughter pen of Democracy.
Ale. Scoville admits that he is consider
ing an infamous scheme for making money
out of Guitf.au’s body, after the assassin
shall have been hanged, by exhibiting it
throughout the country for an admission
fee.
Gen. Longstreet, who represents the
anti-Bonrbon element of Georgia, has super
ceded Mr. Stephens,’it seems, in “smelling
Administration bouquets.” President Ar
thur has a nose for the politician rather
than the statesman, it seems.
Among the additional cases of small pox
reported in Baltimore, Wednesday, were
James Garfield Jones, colored, aged 6
months, and Abraham Lincoln Jones, col
ored, 6 years old, both residing at No. 46
Parish alley, near Cairo street, They were
removed to the Alarine Hospital, and their
mother went along as a nurse.
The Directors of the Edison Electric
Light Company have voted to increase the
capital stock 50 per cent, from $480,000,
which it now is, to $720,000. The addi
tional stock will be offered to shareholders
pro rata at par. It is claimed that the com
pany needs more capital to carry on its en
larged business, and hence the proposed
increase.
The Nashville American is rather severe
upon Jeftersonian Democrats, ft says: “Dr
Felton, the Georgia Independent, says he
is a Jeffersonian Democrat. There are a
great many of them; but Jefferson would
not recognize himself in any of them. They
are the motliest and mongrelist of wearers
of old patch work political garments.”
■ o . ...
The. woman suffrage movement'seems to
be getting along some. It has been decid
ed by the House Committee on Rules that a
standing committee on woman suffrage will
be a good thing and it will report accord
ingly. This generation, however, will hardly
see woman suffrage in vogue. The country
is not ripe for such a radical overturn of ex
isting ideas.
Thebe is a war cloud in the East, with
Egypt as the centre of the disturbance.
England and France have come to the con
clusion that an armed intervention in the
affairs of the land of the Phabaohs is neces
sary, but Germany, Austria, Russia and
England have put in a protest, and thus the
matter stands. One side or the other must
back down or inaugurate a war of huge pro
portions.
Dr. Mary Walker has secured an ap
pointment as clerk of the Special Commit
tee on Woman Suffrage, of which Senator
Lipham is Chairman. The appointment was
brought about through a series of diplo
matic tactics to which the strong-minded
will be likely hereafter to “point with
pride," ns demonstrating the superiority of
the female intellect in matters of finesse.
Dr. Mary is an old stager at the Capitol.
It is very questionable whether the city
ought to sell out its stock in the Augusta
and Knoxville Railroad, no matter what
conditions should be attached. The road
was bnilt for the benefit of Augusta and it
should remain in the control of Augusta.
We do not know in what interest others
will use it, but we do know that so long as
the stock is held by the city it will be em
ployed for the welfare of the community.
Guiteau must be hung with a chain.
Under the old English law, from which
come the Maryland law, which is in force
in the District of Columbia, in regard to
executions, it is necessary that the prisoner
be hung with a chain instead of a rope. A
Washington correspondent, writing of this,
says a rope has been used for seventy-five
years, though good lawyers.contend that
its use cannot be maintained under the law.
It is now evident that several of the crew
of the Jeannette met with the fate or' so
many Arctic explorers and have perished
amid the eternal ice’of that desolate region.
The great majority of people will be in
clined to cry “cui 6ono. ” Why this con
stant sacrifice of useful lives in search of
• what has proven to be the unattainable?
The cause of science has already had
enough victims m this search after the
open polar sea, which, if found, can be of
no practical benefit to mankind.
Vbk past year developed more extrava
gance on the part of the people of the Uni
ted States, with respect to the luxuries of
life and ornaments for personal or house
hold adornment, than was ever seen before,
and it looks as if the present year would
show a still greater excess. The imports of
silk good during the month of January were
nearly half a million dollars greater than
they were in January a year ago, and
more than double the imports of January,
1879.
ihe Suekmas bill passed by the Senate
embodies the Ingalls amendment, which
provides for the issue of Kinds in sums of
fifty dollars at money order post offices as
well as at the Treasury ane Sub-Treasunes.
The amount of the loan is limited to two
hundred millions and it is redeemable at
the option of the Government as soon as all
the matured tives and sixes continued at
three and a half have been paid oft. There
will be about three hundred and fifty mil
lions of the latter Kinds to be paid for, aside
from those redeemed with the proceeds of
the three per cents., and is estimated that
it will take less that three years to get them
out of the way and begin on the redemption
of the proposed new loan.
lux Cincinnati Gazette puts the South
American matter in a nutshell when it says:
••If Chili would simply annex Fern, and
place her people on an equal footing with
her own. and administer the public prop
erty of Peru, wjth her own, for the benefit
of all. it would probably be better for the
Peruvians. The people of Chili are more
capable than the people of Pern; that is to
say, they see less degraded and less in
capable. There might be other annexa
tions with benefit But what Chili wants
is to take all of Peru’s public property—all
her means of revenue, and leave her Gov
ernment with no support but a beggarly
people. She wants to take Peru’s means
and avoid all of Pern's responsibilities.
’The United States, themselves the great
■robbers of the American Continent, are in
no sit ma von to set up any principle against
the spoliation of one Republic by another Re
public; still we are«not obliged to admire
the cormorant demands of Chili, as Mexico
was not to admire our robbery of her terri
tory."
DR. FELTON’S SPEECH.
The great Georgia Independent has come
and gone. He has introduced himself
among ns as a Jeffersonian Democrat, with
all the mystery and magic which that name
has come to imply, and has spoken some
things that were new and many things that
wyc good ; "but the new were not good
and the good were not new.” It has be
come quite the custom of late years for
politicians who are departing from Demo
cratic usage and contemplating plans of
doubtful propriety, to assume the title of
Jefl-rsonian Democrat, and to adopt means
and measures to which the Sage of Monti
cello was a total stranger. No man was
more devotedly attached to the proprieties
and principles of his party than Thomas
Jeefeesgn, and it was his highest boast,
that when he found himself differing from
his associates and estranged from the
policy of his friends, he wonld begin
to question his own political fallibility
and cede much of his personal opin
ions to the harmony and welfare
of those around him. Such a man was
never heard, chafing under the rules and
decisions of his party associates, and such a
mau, who never figured as an independent
or a disorganizer, was the worthy exponent
ot the Constitution of the country and the
appropriate founder of the true Democracy.
Bat Dr. Felton was never much of a
Democrat. He had scarce outgrown his
Whiggery, before he fell into an anti-
Democratic rut, which has opened up to
bim much of the fascinations of office and
pampered him with some of thetemptations
of Republicanism. He has no regard for
party organization, and never will have.
Just exactly what he proposes to do with
his new movement without caucuses, pri
mary elections and conventions does not
appear; but it is not probable that he can
fall back upon the old plan of calling the
people together in centuries and voting them
like the comitia in Rome. And if Dr.
Felton would have a new party,
new party leaders ’must arise, new
party managers if you will, to con
duct the campaign, must spring up; nor
will it be too much to assert that Dr. Fel
ton will himself be the chief party leader
and party manager. And unless his ma
chinery is perfect and his clansmen pure
ly patriotic,ambition will be followed by cor
ruption and corruption threaten dismember
ment of his party. How, then, would Dr.
Felton go about purification of methods
and correction of officials ? It would seem
to every thinking man that his work would
be where the work of the present lies—re
form within party lines and purification
within party methods. If Dr. Felton is the
Jeffersonian Democrat that he professes to
be, he will devote some of his time, tal
ents and excellent abilities to smoothing
out party disruption and perfecting
party machinery. Dr. Felton detests the
caucus and the contention. What, may we
ask, was his mysterious Alarkham House
conference bnt a caucus, and what but
worse than conventions are the audi
ences between General Longstreet and
President Arthur, and District-Attorney
Bigby and Farrow ' We apprehend that
with all these abuses and imperfections, the
people of Georgia would prefer to arrange
their campaigns and nominate their officers
in their own way in Atlanta than submit to
the dictates oi Arthur, of M ihone, of his
friend Gen. Longstreet, or of even Dr. Fel
ton and Dr. Miller.
The Chronicle does not care to rehearse
the last Gubernatorial Convention with Dr.
Felton. His own idea, that conventions
should picture solely the will of the people,
would have been outraged had that Con
vention acted otherwise than it did, as was
evidenced by the overwhelming majority
with which the people subsequently en
dorsed its actions. Dr. Felton cannot cavil
with consistency at that Convention. In
Richmond county the delegates were select
ed by primary election, and the majority of
cases where there were contesting delega
tions to the Convention was given to the
Anli-OoLQUiTT party.
We find much that is special and specious
in Dr. Felton's pleading throughout. He
has evidently dropped from the poll tax
abolition since he first gave his formula: to
the public. Finding out doubtless that
this measure would not take in Georgia, he
wipes up part of it and leaves a require
ment of one year’s taxes tor voting. As
the Doctor has shewn himgelf progressive
on this point, we will leave him alone to
still further reforms. He is at liberty to
draw on the Democratic party of Georgia
for his ideas if he really intends to be
liberal.
Nor does Dr. Felton’s formulated finan
cial plank, in the fairness and vagueness
with which he sent it to the country last
month, convey any idea of the wild and in
flated schemes within its broad terms pent
up. Dr. Felton would not only coin light
weight silver dollars indefinitely, but he
would spin out paper promises to pay as
plentifully as the magician draws rib
bon from hie mouth, until everybody
would have plenty of money and
waste baskets would *be full. He
would continue to load the people down
with the iniquitous internal revenue system,
just for the purpose of making miraculous
payments upon the public debt. This would
force the Government to go into the mar
kets, buy up its own bonds which its own
compulsory policy would force into un
wieldy premiums, and in Dr. Felton s haste
to pay up the National debt, he would pay
it two or three times over again. There’s
really na barm in letting the bonds run
along at low interest, paying them up as
fast as a reduced rsvanpe, which will be
sufficient, can meet them, especially when
tbeir continuance may not shock tilP busi
ness of the country by the death of its two
thousand National banks. Dr. Felton in
dulges in plenty of cheap talk about the
bondholder grinding down the laboring
man, and about Wall street controlling the
finances of the Nation. Elit who own the
bonds of the Nation ? Millions et timm rep
resent the investments of widows and or
phans of tins country; while millions of
them notably tbp four per cents.—bear
the earnings of t afcornig; men, mechanics
and farmers. And who, hi*/ we ask, are
more interested than our laboring busi
ness ai*a, in having a sound, dureuie,
National currency, which the Government
gives to-day thronch our banking system '
We admit it is not pertAij. but Dr. Felton,
in his independent wisdom, sboold suggest
another system. If so, the peopis only
ask that is his new order of banking lhe
“wildcat” be so securely chained down as
the •■tiger" is piasaly barred out. Dr.
Felton cannot come among {he progressive
people of Georgia, with their nes factories
and their railroads and foundries
mills, and cry out that corporate cap
ital is grinding the poor man " under
the master’s lash.” &»cji utterances can
do no good. Such piiilcscpby would
uca. even be encouraged in Francs, S'fcera
financial prosperity has smoothed down
the billochs .of war, and the sun
clad vines are trailing over the grave
of the Commune We repeat, we are sur
prised thas a man of Dr- Fej-xcs’s ability
and Dr. Felton b attainments should inqite
such feelings. He professes to be a man
who wonld drown aii e<v tioaalism in a
broad National spirit—and he u right; yet
he has appealed to passions which £&a be
more bitter than sectionalism, and he
would invoke a prejudice which may be
more deadly D.au civil strife. Why need
the Doctor speak &o eloquently and so ably
of the tariffi if he would array labor and
capital against each other, and make them
inimical to their best interests ? Wfiy
should he <ute hands with the Chbonicle
and CoNsirretjosajiST in opposing an
iniquitous convict syeteu*. }t he would in
stigate man to war on man and f U the land
with crime and insurrection ?
We must, therefore, confess our disap
pointment at Dr. Esbtus’s speech. He has
failed to answer his own q&asjaon, “What
is Indepenientism ?” It is not to
utter an evasion that “it means that tiie
people, the multitude, should be placed in
charge of thair own pobhcal affairs. ’ It
the peopl- are not masters in tfce Demo
cratic party it U their own fault, iior
did Dr- Felton explain just how far he was
to receive the encouragement and support
of the Administration at Wasbingio.?. and
how much of that i efifersonian Democracy
he would be willing te surrender for the
spoils of office. With Dr. Felton, the best
we can Lope is that Independentism means
Feltonism; and while there are many fe»-
lowere of his who might be willing even to
enlist under such a personal standard, all
will acknowledge that such guerrilla war
fare tends to disrupt the Democratic party.
And Dr. Felton may as well under
stand that there are hundreds of. thou
sands of true Georgians who tftiieve
that our best mission and our highest
prosperity may be attained under the
guidance of the Democratic party. It
was followed when it glowed as a pillar of
fire by night; why need it be mistrusted
when it rests as the cloud by day ? It W
CHRONICLE AND CONSTITUTIONALIST, AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY, IT PIRHU A ~RY 8. 1888
neither stagnant nor tempes'.ous, but it
moves onward before a great people. Be
hind it the people of the South are pros
pering- some struggling and some of them
fainting but the mass of the people are
j moving onward and upward too. Dr.
' Felton and his followers may call as many
■ halts and plot as many detours as they
• wish, but in this State the great Deino
? cratic party, liberal and progressive, “is
turning its face towards the morning,
and on its brow the rising sunlight of
future generations is already beginning to
be visible.”
SAVANNAH VALLEY RAILROAD’.
It is to the interest of Augusta to aid in
opening up every avenue that will add to
its trade and enhance the general prosperi
ty. It was only after persistent agitation
that the Augusta and Knoxville Railroad
became an established fact, and yet it is ac
knowledged to-day that it is one of the
most important lines coming into the city.
Although not yet two-thirds completed, and
with all the disadvantages of a new
road, it is doing a large local business, and
those who know are satisfied that the sec
ond year after its completion it will not
only pay all the interest on its bonds, but
a dividend on its stock rs well. Its value
is so well recognized that the City Council
could sell its stock in the road to-day at
par. These are not wild speculations, but
facts. By the subscription of fifty thous
and dollars the city secured the building of
this road, and gave to the commerce of the
city an important aid. The completion of
this road has led to the inauguration of
other railroad enterprises, which will not
only be feeders to the Augusta and Knox
ville Railroad, increasing its business, but
of practical benefit to the trade of Augusta.
The most important of these, perhaps, is the
Savannah Valley Railroad, extending from
Dorn's Mine, on the Augusta and Knoxville
Railroad, to Anderson, a distance of fifty
seven miles. Fifty-five thousand dollars
has been subscribed to this road by people
along the line, about one-third of which
has been paid in, and with the exception
of two thousand dollars, expended in grad
ing fifteen miles. The Committee of Man
agers of the Road, who were in the city
Tuesday, stated that if Augusta would sub
scribe forty thousand dollars, the entire
road could be graded and this connection
assured in the interest of Augusta. The
people along the line need the road and
they are determined to have it. They pre
fer to come to Augusta, but if Augusta will
not respond they npist look elsewhere and
the probability is that they will not look in
vain. The question is, can we afford to lose
such a connection as this,? The opinion of
the committee of citizens who met at the
Mayor’s office, Tuesday night, was emphati
cally that we could not, and we fully coin
cide with them. For forty thousand dollars
we can obtain a road that will pay us back
ten fold. We believe that every citizen who
shbscribes to the stock of the road will not
only realize handsomely from the benefit
to the general trade of the city, but that the
stock itself will in a few years be worth
a premium. The entire stock on a road fif
ty-seven miles long will be less than one
hundred thousand dollars. It will be one
of the cheapest roads in the United States,
and running, as it does, through a fertile
and productive section, will undoubtedly
pay its stockholders fine dividends in a very
short time. If we permit this opportunity
to pass now we may never be able to take
advantage of it again. Procrastination lost
us the trade of Elbert county. It will not
do for us to continue to make such mistakes
as this. Those who subscribe to the stock
will not be giving the money, but, on the
contrary, they will be investing their money
in an enterprise which is certain to pay
them a good interest on the investment.
Every business man knows that a hundred
thousand dollars stock on a road fifty-seven
miles long is a very small amount. The
most insignificant narrow gauge road is
stocked for a larger sum. The managers of
the road tell us that forty thousand dollars
from the city of Augusta will place the
road in a condition to receive the
cross-ties and that once done it will
be very easy to bond it to purchase the
iron. Prompt action is necessary and we
trust that it will not be lacking. If we do
not now take advantage of the opportunity
that is offered, we will see the folly of it
when it is too late, when some other place
is reaping the benefit of the trade that
should be ours. With our factories all in
active operation we require every outlet
possible, and we should hasten to open
every avenue like that now placed before
ns by the manage is of the Savannah Valley
Railroad.
STOCK LAW.
How Coluiuliia Cnnnty la Exercised Over
This Important Matter—Arguments For
“No Fence.”
(Columbia Advertiser.)
Slate Rock, Columbia County, January
16. —As this is the time of year when your
columns are not so much crowded with ad
vertisements, I hope you will allow me
space in your paper to say a few things in
favor of the stock law. The days of fence
are numbered, and the sceptre has depart
ed. The laboring people have made a dis
covery—they have found out that they
have the rails to split and the fences to
build. Fifty years ago this county had an
abundance of original forest; rails split
from such timber would last from ten to
twenty years. Now a large portion of the
i county is compelled to use old field pine,
which has to be renewed every three or
four years. Labor has made another dis
covery, and that is that rail splitting and
fence building is the heaviest tax the farm
' er has to pay, and that the major part of it
comes out of the laborer. They are mak
i ing still another discovery. It requires at
, least two months in the year to cut, split,
haul rails and build the fences, and yet
another discovery that to fence up our
■ ; stock instead of fencing them out, will add
i at least twelve or fifteen per cent, to crops
ot eycry kind. It is believed that within a
radius of thne.e miles from this place that
' there is at least three hundred miles of
' fence. Will any one say that tijnber in our
i pine fields can bo cut, split and hauled, and
the fence put up, for less than sissy dollars
a mile ? Then let it be remembered that all
■ this destruction of timber, was te of time,
• year of wagons and teams, damage to lands
■ in iiUJJ.ljng over in wet weather, cutting
' I road* through pine thickets, besides any
amount of cos* words jn splitting twisting
I ■ timber, all the expense iucuji.ed in build-
> ing three hundred miles o; fence, ig to
| fence out less than one thousand dollars'
werth of stock. The mules and horses are
ggpvided for and not allowed to run out on
I I the
-1 ' timate of tire ifuza it takes to keep up our
fence?, nearly two ui.mthe ?ach year the
same bunds and teams employe* at jpjs un-
■ ; profitable and ruinous tusiness conld ditpp
trash over their lands, drain our swamps,
> haul out and distribute manures, haul muck
( . an/ spread over onr fields from neighbor-
! ing swamjw: haul sand and distribute over
, stiff bottom iau*, haul woods’ earth and
1 spread over our gardens, imjl lav and mix
i I with our gray or sand lands, ana Uany qib
j er things could be done that now of ueces
' J jjty go undone, which would increase the
’. proau*,tjyeness of our farms in five years
■ I fifty per near..
An intelligent treeam/.p Remarked, a few
; days ato, that he had been for /eSis oppos
ed to the stock law, but that now f«'uS
outgrown it; that if he had ten votes he
. wopul put them all in for no fence. Upon
’ inquiry to |.h e cause of his conversion,
ihe eaid “Last y e w -1 cleaned up seven acres
I pine thicket land. I gqt ah r made on what
I cleaned up, and made two bale* of vcatoa.
But for the fencing ot the land I could have
cleared and cultivated twice the quantity
—so the fence cost niq.at least one hundred
doHato " kkrnnd doctrine this, and this
colored man i* not the only one of his race
with a bee in his ° n fence ques-
! tion.
I have corresponded with farmers in va*i-.
ous pfamt where the stock law has been in
operation, and in every instance the people
are satisfied after a fair .riyal. I doubt capi
tally if there is a county *ay of the States
where the stock law or no fence has
been in operation three years, if submitted ,
again to a vote of the people, the fence could ,
nst carry twenty per cent, of the votes. In- I
deed, Lie correspondent from one of the no I
fence cmmxtee .yf South Carolina, says :
“The struggle here a<? qaiyy the stock law !
was protracted and bitter. Aa.P succeeded
at last by a small majority. Tilt 'ffisfested
party was loud in their abuse, and many j
threatened to leave the county. After a fair
m.J, question was again submitted
to a vote, Uu party conld not poll five
per cent, of the t oting population." ,
More anoth “ traveler.
EVENING DRESS IN A THEATRE GAL
LERY.
Answer To a .Reekerrur li Gallery God in
Sew yora."
1? Aditor of the Sun :
Snt—l have gone to the theatres right I
along for upward of twenty years, and I’ve j
seen a good many of audiences; but
blow me if, before last night of Wallack’s I
Theatre, I ever saw swallow-tail costs « the
gallery. J always sit in the gallery, partly
because it’s cheaper, but principally be- !
cause it’s Democratic. Now, I declare it an
outrage to sell reserved s-ate in a gallery, |
xnvhow, and a high crime to let feibSz’S in
iai* dr.e&i to sit in them. What do you .
think ■ what ought to be done about
it? Gallebt Boy.
According to Qld Bow«y psage, no coats >
at all were worn in the Now, a J
swallow-tail coat, with its wide open front
and fragment of a skirt, is certainly nearer
to the tradition Than an ordinary coat. Try
to take this view of ;t; sud, anyhow, be
calm. Offenders against gffiiary boys have
been dropped over the rail ere now. but
that is an extreme measure, and it hurts j
the man dropped. He would be made a’
martyr, even though you obeyed the old in
junction, “Don’t waste hjm—kill a fiddler
with him.’’
SOUTHERN PROGRESS.
THE RESULT OF THE ATLANTA EX
POSITION.
Speech ar Mr. 11. 1. Kimball at the Nation
al Agricultural Convention—Wonder
ful Sale of Agricultural Implements—
No Olraclaui at the South—A Delegate
Find* a Hearty Welcome Where He Ex
pected to Find Hostility.
(By Telegraph to the Chronicle.'
New York, February 3.—At the session of
the National Agricultural Convention yes
terday, Prof. A. L. Perry, of William Col
lege, in his address on free trade, proceed
ed to illustrate how agriculture is injured by
the tariff in the ease of cotton ties and stee]
rails. He said in a orop of 6,000,000 bales
of cotton, if the tariff duty of 35 per cent,
raises the cost of the ties 12 cents per bale,
as is conceded by a Pennsylvania iron
maker, then the extra cost of baling one
year’s crop is $720,000, and therefore the
extra cost under the 70 per cent, duty,
which is now sought to be imposed by the
McKinley bill pending in Congress, will be
$1,440,000 on an annual crop of six mil
lion bales of cotton. In the case of steel
railsand the tariff, the Professor showed
that it costs about $7 extra for each rail of
heavier pattern,.or three thousand dollars
per mile extra for a single track road laid
with the steel rails. Farmers and planters
pay this extra cost when they transport their
produce and cotton from the prairies of the
West and the fields of the South to the place
of export. Every man helps to pay it who
sends a pound of freight or travels a mile
on steel rails. Hon. 11. I. Kimball, Direc
tor-General of the National Cotton Exposi
tion at Atlanta, read a paper on the results
of the great exhibition. In his most san
guine moment he said he had not dreamed
of such a grand composite display of every
Southern industry and resource—ores, min
erals and woods—which, in their audacity,
the Director?, building wiser than they
knew, had accumulated in this great exhi
bition. It was such an exhibition of purely
American industry as bad never before been
collected. Fifteen years had elapsed since
the old labor system had been killed. The
former master had neither money nor credit
and the former slaves were intoxicated with
the first draught of liberty. It was the old
story over again of the bow that had been
so long bent as to loose its elasticity; but
the essential elements of true mankind
which, during those four years of strife and
bloodshed, the Southern people had so ful
ly demonstrated (applause) still remained,
and gathering up the broken threads of her
former prosperity the South wove them into
the complete garment which she so lately
spread out at Atlanta. [Applause.] He was
a Yankee, born in Maine; a Republican,
and a prohibitionist, but, feeling that the
South was the natural home of en
terprise, he had builded there. He had
lived there through all the stages of re
construction and had never suffered the
slightest ostracism, and he knew that here
after sectional strife was done. The next
great result was the wonderful sale of North
ern implements and labor-saving contriv
ances among Southern planters. The sale
of the manure spreader amounted to over
thirty-six thousand dollars. One thousand
five hundred cotton planters, two hundred
new pattern carriages, five hundred car
loads of engines, plows, harrows, cultivators
and other machines have up to date been
sold in the South since the Exposition. In
conclusion, he said:. “We want men and
women of brain, who are not afraid to
work; we have discarded sentiment and
turned our attention to practical things.
There is room for all, a hearty welcome for
all and fortune for all who will come and
settle in the young South.” [Great hp
plause.]
General Tremain moved a vote of thanks,
which was seconded by Mr. Francis D.
Moulton, who said he had been a delegate
to the Atlanta Exhibition, and where he
had thought to find hostility he had found
a hearty welcome. The motion was unani
mously carried.
THEGEOROIA INDEPENDENTS.
Republicanism With a Democratic Front
—Longstreet Leatla—True inwardness of
the Coulltion in lhe State. ■
A correspondent of the New Orleans
Times-Democrat, writing from Atlanta, says
that Gen. Longstreet is engineering the
independant movement in Georgia; that he
arranged with Felton the platform which
that ambitious Congressman recently pub
lished in a Chicago paper, and that he
called together the conference of Indepen
dents and Republicans which was held
shortly after that publication, tn regard to
that conference the correspondent says :
It was nothing more nor less than a Re
publican meeting, attended by men who
claim to be Democrats. Longstreet, Far
row, Bigby, Wilson and Hendricks were
the Republicans | resent, while Felton,
Hook and Miller were the Democrats. Os
the Republicans, Farrow, Wilson and
Hendricks are out of office and hungry to
get in again. Os the so-called Democrats,
Felton is the ex-Cougressman of the
Seventh District, Clements, the irregular
Democratic nominee having beaten him
badly in 1880, Miller is such a rabid Inde
pendent that he is two-thirds Republican.'
The trouble with the trio is that they want
something. At this conference Longstreet
stated to the brethren that President Arthur
sent greeting to the Liberals of Georgia,
with the promise, “Go ahead, and I will do
for you what I did for Mahone in Virginia.”
Farrow said after the conference, in answer
to a question as to whether the movement
would'get recognition at the hands of the
Administration: “Get Presidential recogni
tion ! get it I Why, sir, we’ve already got
it.” A member of this conference said to
me a short time after the sitting, “We
discussed the best method of carrying the
State, and reached the conclusion that the
road to success lay through a promised
division of the offices among the Indepen
dent Democrats, Republicans and negroes.
There are 1,100 post offices in Georgia.
The bulk of these must go to Independent
Democrats, the remainder to the Republi
cans and negroes. The post office at
Augusta must go to an Independent Demo
crat, the collectorship at Savannah must be
given to a negro, and Conley, the present
postmaster at Atlanta, must be retained.
In some of the Congressional Districts
where the negro vote is very heavy, Re
publicans must run, bnt in the majority of
districts Independent Democrats will be
put out. In many counties negroes and
Republicans must be sent to the Legisla
ture, but, of course, the majority of candi
dates pjit forward will be Indepen
dent Democrats. An Independent Dem
ocrat will be supported for Governor,
but a Republican must be made Attorney-
General. If a Liberal Legislature should
be elected, of course they wouk] elect, from
time to time, both Republicans and Inde
pendents as Judges and Solictors, This is
an outline of the scheme. It is a good one,
and when properly backed, as it will be, by
the Administration, which means Republi
can money for campaign use, will prove
quite formidable in Georgia.”
f The poryespopdept says that the liepubli
cans and independents of Georgia contrib
uted $6,000 to the Readjuster campaign in
Virginia; that Felton will be the coalition
candidate for Governor, and that Gen. Gar
trell will be a candidate on his own account.
BRITISH MARKETS.
Colluß, Grain Ojlfpr Pfoilqiti Across
the Deean.
(By Cable to the Chronicle.)
London, February 3.—The Manchester
guardian's commercial article says : “Buy
era’arg ratjier more inclined to give small
orders, ’anil jalps aye small. Indian and
China advices are nnimproygd.”
Liverpool, February 3.—This week’s cir
cular of the Cotton Brokers' Association
says: “The cotton market opened firm.—
On Tuesday there was less demand, and
the jgapket was irregular and depressed,
but it &ap«o-*d the close. Quotations
declined; lower grades oi American, J4d;
low middling, 11-163. Sea island
small demand at unchanged rates. Fu
tures opened firm, and after fluctuating,
closed l-32d.a11-16d. lower on the week.”
LiyEßWoi., Feprparv 3.—A leading grain
circular says the grain trade during the
week has been very quiet. On the spot
prices were with difficulty maintained, and
there was an occasional slight decline in in
ferior grades of wheat. Some cargoes off
the V.eye rather dearer. • Buyers were
reserved, awaiting arrivals. Corn on the
spot was scarce and & penny deafer. In to
day’s market wneat was in moderate de
mand. Choice qualities of red and white,
on account of the scarcity of other kinds,
brought about previous rates. Flour was in
aver,age request. Corn wis rather dearer.
London, February IJ.-—Tha ~jse in the
bank rate tended to check reviving trade in
Mincing Lane markets during the week.
Plantation Ceylon coffee has fallen 2s. At
the £rst public sale of the Netherlands
Trading Company prices went 2 to 2l£c.
under valuations, but belter sorts sold rath
er above. The company's unsold stock is
471,000 bags, with 246,000 bags afloat.
Sugar was weak; crystallized West Indian
receded 6d. to Is. In tea, low grade Congo
an> Jpdian slightly declined. Spices were
quiet. The speculative demand for white
pepper has subsided
THE PERIL OF NEW TOBK.
Tpc City In Constant Danger Os a Disas
’" ■ trons Conflagratton.
New iobk, February 2.—A few days ago.
Chief Bates, when questioned as to the dan
ger of a part of New lotk being destroyed
by fire like Chicago, Boston, Portland and
other eittea, replied that such a calamity
was not an that the appli
ances at the command of the *re depart
ment for fighting fire had not kept growth
with the increase in the difficulty of con
trUiin'’ fires, and that with high buildings
in narrow ateezt; great expanses of floor
not divided by tliok W3,'ls and the like, it
would be impossible to say hzw far the
fire department would be successful in'pre- ,
venting a fire once started in a great build
ing item sweeping over part of the city, if
a gale was blowing a‘ the time.
Chief Bates said yeste.aay that he was
still* of the same opinion, and that tea
burning of a district was dot an impossibil
ity as lone as buildings seven or eight sto
ries high Were erected in streets thirty-five
or forty feet wide, tye thought that no
building should be higher tnan the street
was wide, and that if they were higher, •
extra means of exit should be provided
above thirty-five feet. His attention had
never been called particularly to the burn
ed building, although it had come under .
his notice, like all large building;. I
STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY.
Convention in Thia City On the Four- J
teenth Inal.
The Convention of the State Agricultural j
Society will be held in this city, on the j
14th inst., and promises to be one of the
most interesting that has ever met in Geor
gia. There will be a large number of dele
gates in attendance from all parts of the
State, and many matters of importance to
agriculture and commerce will be discussed.
The committee of arrangements in Augusta
have prepared a full list of delegates, which
will be placed this morning in the Chroki
■ule office, on Broad street, where it can be ,
inspected by all who desire to do so. The I
i committee request citizens who expect to
entertain any of the delegates during their
' stay in Augusta,to look over the list and
! designate those whom they desire to so en
tertain. The committee are anxious that i
I this should be done by next Thursday at I
! the latest, in order that they may know de- I
finitely what arrangements to make.
AUGUSTA AND KNOXVILLE RAILROAD.
Rumor That the South Carolina Rail
road Is Endeavoring to Buy the City’s
Stock.
It was extensively rumored yesterday that
the Augusta and Knoxville Railroad stock
’ held by the city of Augusta had been sold
Ito the South Carolina Railroad. A repre- '
sentative of the Chronicle called on the i
Mayor and asked him if there was any truth
in the rumor. His Honor said there was
not. He had heard the rumor himself, but
it was not true.
The city owns $50,000 of the stock, i
or 2,000 shares. This, with the stock re- j
cently sold by the State of South Carolina tc. I
a citizen of Augusla, forms a controlling in- I
terest in the road. The rumor credited the |
South Carolina Railroad with endeavoring i
to purchase both these blocks cf stocks. ;
The control of the Greenville and Columbia |
Railroad by the Clyde syndicate cuts the
South Carolina Railroad off from the upper
part of South Carolina. By obtaining the
Augusta and Knoxville and its connections
the South Carolina Railroad would be en
abled to reach the section traversed by the
Greenville an(j Columbia.
MILL SITES AND WATER POWER.
The City Authorities Determined To Ex
ercise Caution In Making Contracts.
A representative of the Chronicle met
Mayor May. yesterday and asked him why
it was that the Canal Committee did not let
the corporators of the Inman Manufacturing
Company have as much water front as they
asked for, on the canal.
“Because,” said his Honor, “the city
does not intend to sell to any company, at
the nominal price of SIOO per acre, more
land than it requires for manufacturing pur -
poses. Why should the city sell to the In
man Company, or any other company,
double the quantity ,of land which is
needed by that company? If the city
should sell any company double the quan
tity of land required by that company for
its buildings, what is to prevent the Com
pany from turning that which they do not
need to speculative purposes ? In other
words, the company might sell the land,
which it procured from the city at SIOO
per acre, to others at SSOO. The city de
sires to encourage manufacturing and will;
do so by every means in its power, but it
will not divest itself of all its land along
the canal to a few corporations or indi
viduals. It is perfectly willing to sell the
Inman Company all the land, at SIOO per
acre, that it requires for manufacturing
purposes; but not more. The committee
also require that the mill of the size desig
nated, when the land is bought, shall be
built within two years of the date of
purchase, otherwise the transfer is null and
void. The committee will also be careful
iu granting water power, to see that no
company gets more water than it requires “
This conclusion of the city authorities is
eminently correct. There would be no
equity iu allowing a few companies to pur
chase all the land owned by the city along
the canal at a mere nominal figure. In a
few years other companies that might de
sire to erect factories would be under the
necessity of paying large sums to parties
for sites which they had purchased for SIOO '
per acre. The city should be very careful,
both in alienating its land on the canal and
in making water contracts. Much of Au- 1
gusta’s prosperity depends upon its mauu- 1
factories, and we mustjook to the futureas '
well as to the present.
LETTER FROM ABBEVILLE.
The A. K. Roail—The New Town of
McCormick Steam anil Electricity—
Gohl anil Manganese—Tile Sale of Lots
Wednesday,
(Cor. Chronicle and Constitutionalist.)
McCormick (Dorn’s Mine), Abbeville
County, S. C , February 4. —Now, we are all
smiles anil activity. The cars are running
regularly to this point, the switch is in
place, the large tank erected, and the plans
being drawn for such a depot building,
telegraph and express offices, as will be an
ornament to the town, a credit to the rail
road company and Mr. McCoymick, who
has contributed largely towards its erection,
and a delight to the people. It is eminent
ly proper that the station houso for such a
city as we expect to build here should be a
model of taste—neatness and convenience—
for people will imitate, and ho who takes a
step forward in such matters is truly a bene
factor. Mr. McCormick well understood
this when he declared, two days after the
great Chicago fire, when the city was in
ashes, and other men questioning whether
it would ever be rebuilt, that she must not
only be rebuilt, but
More Magnificent and Grander Than Be
fore.
When he commenced others followed. He
now declares we must first erect a suitable
depot building. Then we must be prepar
ed for the large business the junction of the
Savannah Valley Road with the Augusta and
Knoxville at this iroint, next Autumn, will
create. That road will be built and come in
here. And the Abbeville people are invit
ed to come here also with their road and are
promised the iron if they will do so. This is
their natural outlet via Augusla to Charles- -
ton, Port Royal, Savannah and Florida, and
we fear if she waits much longer Abbeville
will be oi the historic with only her O. H.
left her. Her people can reach the factories
in 60 miles this way, and how far is it to
any others ? If she does not do this speed
ily those of her live men who desire to con
tinue business in upper South Carolina had
better come to McCormick at once.
Some'bujldjngs are already going up, but
many business bouses are to be constructed
of brick, and cannot be commenced until
Summer. Arrangements are made to start
a brick yard on the edge of town as soon as
the weather will permit. The frequent ex
plosions under ground tell us that the
miners are at work, and piles of ore are rap
idly increasing, notwithstanding the little
mill is kept puffing and pounding away.
It will be lively, indeed, when the twenty
stamp mill is kept running day and night.
The railroad will not be in condition to
transport ip large quantities the manganese
till May or -[pup, pnd nothing more than
prospecting is being done at that enterprise.
Then it is said from five to ten oars per day
will be sent from here to New York and
Boston via Augusta and the Atlantic.
Mr. McCormick understands the value of
these mines and the town site which bears
his name, will ppsh thepi on with his
means apd his great productive energy.
Many applications' faavp keen made for
lots at private sale, but none will be dis
posed of until after the auction sale on
Wednesday.
We have made some allusions in this let
ter, which will show you what some of the
knowing ones think of our prosperity. We
have a location where a large inland city is
needed and the industry of our extensive
mines, with the wealth, force and experi
ence of Mr. McCormick to help us build it.
We feel good. Those who come early to
join us will divide the benefits with us. We
shall welcome the Augusta people on Wed
nesday, who come‘either to buy lots on
which to erect branch houses or for specu
lation. Arrangements have been made for
a large excursion, and we hope to see the
oars crowded.
The name of our post office will soon be i
changed from Dorn’s Mines to McCormick, '
and a telegraph operator statjoned here.
In a short time we shall yead tpe Ohkoni- ,
cle in the morning and be in commuhica
tion by wire with all the world. Such
events must “stir ’em up.” Let us encour :
age the intellects, fortunes and energies
which bring forth results like these.
We will iteap yas of opr progress,
which shall be rapid. T. E. E.
RAILROAD MATTERS,
(Abbeville Banner.)
, Ths Savannah Valley Railroad officers, we
j learn, have become diegusted w;th the delay
I of the Charleston and the South Carolinafiail
! road in coming to their aid. 4 delegation
| representing this company are now in
i Augusta to make some arrangements with
, that cjty. We wish them great success.
! Augusta |s a live, energetic town, and
knowing the advantages to be derived from
a railroad connection with the Savannah
\ alley, we are inclined to the opinion that
our neighbors will not let this opportunity
. pass. By consolidating the Savannah
; galley the Greenwood Road, a most
valuable highway woqid be opened up to
that growing city. The road now in opera
tion could be utilized in connection with
the Savannah Valley Railroad from Troy, a
distance of perhaps fifty miles. We wish
the Savannah Valley Railroad the largest
measure of success.
Wii»tr tjre Matter t
Hope deferred maketh theheert sick, and
we are lead to ask, why this delay in prose
cuting the work on the Greenwood and
Augusta Railroad ? Although it has been
alleged time and again that the officers of ’
tins company hsd all the money they '
wanted, yet they’ have net raid a mile cf
track a week, since that part of the work 1
was commenced. The cars seem to linger j
at Jennings’ and Dorn’s Mine, and the ,
people begin to fear that there is some (
mystery connected ]rith the delay.
Bank Statement.
(By Telegraph to the Chronicle.)
new 7ob& February 4.—The weekly
statement of the Associated Banks shows
the following changes:
Loans ieerease.ss,Bßs,soo
Specie decrease 1,735,700
Legal tenders decrease 930,200
Deposits increase 216,500 :
Circulation decrease 48,400
Reserve decrease 2,720,025
The banks now hold $6,381,825 more
;hanlegal requirements.
‘ I AM GOD’S MAN.”
GUITEAU’S DEFIANT RESPONSE TO
THE DEATH SENTENCE.
Scenes tn the Court Room—Judge Cox’s
Address—The Assassin's Poise and Man*
net—A Flighty Harangue and a Cool
Conclusion—He Is Not Afraid to Die.
(By Telegraph to the Chronicle.)
Washington, February 4.—After the mo
tion for a new trial had been overruled,
Guiteau, who had been permitted to resume
his seat at the counsel table, called put:
“If your Honor pleases, I desire to ask if
there is any motion that I ought to make to
rescue my rights?”
Scoville tr ed to prevent his speaking,
but he retorted : “'Well, I don't want any
advantage taken of me. I want to know
how much lime I shall have to prepare my
appeal to the Court in banc."
Scoville —“Please keep quiet; we haven’t
reached yet.”
Guiteau (with much excitement) —“1
won’t keep quiet. I’m here and I propose
to do my own talking.”
Judge Cox then informed Scoville of the
rules of practice applicable to filing of his
exceptions, and after this matter had been
arranged, Col. Corkhill renewed his motion,
saying : “It is now my duty to ask for a
sentence of the Court.”
Judge Cox (to the prisoner)—“Stand up!
Have you anything to -ay why sentence
should not now be passed upon you?”
Guiteau (still sitting! -“I ask your Honor
to postpone sentence as long as possible.”
Judge Cox —“Stand up ' Have you any
thing to say why sentence should not now
be pronounced upon you?”
The prisoner then arose, pale, but with
lips compressed, and desperate determina
tion stamped upon his features, in a low
and deliberate tone began, but soon his
manner became wild and violent, and,
pounding upon the table, he delivered him
self of the following harangue: “I am not
guilty of the charge set fortii in the indict
ment.. It was God's act, not mine, and God
will take care of it, and don’t let tbe Ameri
can people forget it. He will take care of
it, and every officer of this Government,
from the Executive down to that Marshal,
taking in every mau on that jury and every
member of this bench, will pay for it; and
the American Nation will roll in blood if
my body goes into the ground and I am
hung. The Jews put the despised Gallilean
into the grave. For a time they triumphed,
but at the destruction of Jerusalem, forty
years afterward, God Almighty got even
with them. lam not afraid of death. lam
here as God’s mau. Kill me to-morrow, if
you want. I am God’s man, and I have
been from the start.”
Judge Cox then proceeded to
Pass Sentence,
Addressing the prisoner as follows : “You
have been convicted of crime so terrible in
its circumstances and so far-reaching that it
has drawn upon you the horror of the whole
world, and the execrations of your country
men. The excitement produced by such
an offense made it no easy task to secure for
you a fair and impartial trial, but you have
had the power of the United States Treas
ury and the Government in your service to
protect your person from violence, and to
procure evidence from all parts of the coun
try. You have had as fair and impartial a
jury as ever assembled in a court of justice.
You have been defended by counsel with
' zeal and devotion that merits the highest
encomium, and I certainly have done my
best to secure a fair presentation of your
defense. Notwithstanding all this, you have
been found guilty. It would have been
a comfort to many people if the verdict of
the jury had established the fact that your
act was that of an irresponsible man.’ It
would have left the people the satisfying
belief that the crime of political assas
sination was something entirely foreign to
the institutions and civilization of our
country, but the result has denied them
the comfort. The country will accept it as
a fact that that crime can be committed,
and the Court will have to deal with it with
the highest penalty known to the criminal
code, to serve as an example to others.
Your career has been so extraordinary that
people might well, at times, have doubted
your sanity. But one cannot but believe
that when the crime was committed yon
thoroughly understood the nature of “the
crime and its consequences.” (Guiteau —“I
was acting as God’s man,”) “and that you
had the moral sense and conscience enough
to recognize the moral equity of such an
act.” (The prisoner—“ That’s a matter
of opinion.”) “Your own testimony
shows that you recoiled with horror from
the idea. You say that you prayed against
it. You say that you thought it might be
prevented. This shows that your conscience
warned you against it, but by the wretched
sophistry of-your own mind, you worked
yourself up against the protest of your own
conscience. What motive could have in
duced you to this act must be a matter of
conjecture. Probably men will think that
the same political fanaticism or morbid de
sire for self-exultation was the real inspira
tion for the act. Your own testimony seems
to controvert the theories of your counsel.
They have maintained and thought honest
ly, I believe, that you were driven against
your will by an insane impulse to com
mit the act; but your testimony showed
that you deliberately resolved to do it, and
that a deliberate and misguided will was
the sole impulse. This may seem insanity
to some persons; but the law looks upon it
as a willful crime. You will have due op
portunity of having any errors I may have
committed during the course of the trial
passed upon by the Court in banc ; but,
meanwhile, it is necessary for ma to pro
nounce the sentence of law—that you be
taken hence to the common jail of the Dis
trict, from whence you came, and there be
kept in confinement, and that on Friday,
the 30th day of June, 1882, you be taken
to a place of execution, within the walls of
said jail, and there, between the hours of
12, m., and 2, p. m., you be hanged by the
neck until you are dead, and may God have
mercy on your soul.”
During the reading Guiteau stood ap
parently unmoved and with his gaze rivet
ed upon the Judge, but when the final
words were spoken, be struck the table vio
lently and shouted: “And may the Lord
have mercy on your soul. I’d rather stand
where I do than where the jury does and
where your Honor does. I’m not afraid to
die. I stand here as God’s man, and God
Almighty will curse every man who has
had a part in procuring this unrighteous
verdict. Nothing but good has come from
Garfield’s removal (and that will ba the ver
dict of posterity) on my inspiration. I
don’t care a snap for the verdict of this
corrupt generation. I wonld rather a thous
and times be in my position than that of
those who have hounded me to death. I
shall have a glorious flight to glory, but
that miserable sooundrel Corkhiil will have
a permanent job down below, where the
devil is preparing for him.” After ap
parently talking himself out, the prisoner
turned to his brother, and without the
slightest trace of excitement, conversed for
some minutes before being taken from the
Court room.
Disposing of Hie Body,
Scoville says “that the brain would have
to be taken out for post mortem examina
tion. I thipk that the relations favored the
proposition. ] have nothing to do with it.
It rests with his brother and sister. Be
sides. the body is not for sale now, for there
is a motion for a new trial pending. I don’t
object to having the body embalmed. The
proceeds, if there were any, would bo de
voted to paying Guiteau’s debts. The sur
plus I would propose to une ip aineliorating
the condition of the ipsape, oj to establish
ing a fpnd so; - tfoe promotion of the anti
capital punishment doctrine. The body
would nave to be cremated or sunk in the
deepest part of the sea to save it from body
snatchers. It would be taken likq Stewart’s
body, and perhaps exhibited about the
country, strung on wires, by some quack,
I understand this appayatps preserves meats
and vegefabjeg so that at the end of two
years they are just as fresh as when new
I would rather have my body exhibited pre
served in a natural state than have jt eaten
by worms. His relatives wopld rather know
[bat bis body was in the hands of some per
son who would take care of it, than abandon
it to the body snatchers.”
■ The impression prevails that the execu
j tion will take place not later than June 30,
, and in view of the recant proposition to
I make a public spectacle of the murderer’s
' body it is thought that Jjudge Cox will exer-
I cise the discretion giyen hijq by the Revised
I Statutes, and include in the sentence the
I disposition also of the body. Section 5,340
l of the Revised Statutes provides that “the
I Court before which any person is convicted
of murder may, in its discretion, add to the
I judgment of death that the body of the of
| fender be delivered to a surgeon fa? dissec
tion, apd that the Marshal who executes
such judgment shall deliver the body, after
execution, to such surgeons as the Court
may direct, and such or some per
son by him appointed, shall receive and
and take away the body at the time of exe
| cution.” As both the sisters and the brother
I of the assassin Api-esaed a strong de
i sire for a post mortem examination, and
| have denounced any speculative disposi
! tion of the body, the Court may feel dispos
i ed to gratify their wishes in this respect.’
In an interview last evening the assassin,
who became much excited as he talked,
sometimes stamping his feet with rage, said:
“I want good lawyers to argue this ease.
Scoville is a poor man and I am sorry for it.
If I had $5,000 I would give it to my sister.
When I get out of this and get to lecturing
I will haye plenty of mopey. J don’t want
Scoville io have anything to do with the
case." Guiteau’s attention being called to
the reported arrangement made by Mr. Sco
ville with a Philadelphia firm to exhibit his
body, he said: “I won’t have anybody
meddling with my body. This thing has
been done without my consent, I don’t
want my relatives to make any money out
of it. Scovilie had no business tb do it. I f
intend to wi’l my body to some institution, f
but I will have use for it myself for a long ;
time/’
Mr. H. H. Colquitt.
(Albany Rews, ;
Mr. Hugh H. Colquitt, a brother of the
Governor, was on a train the other day be
tween Chattanooga and Atlanta, and was
interviewed by a Cincinnati journalist.
Ip speaking of the coming campaign, Mr.
Colquitt seemed to be more interested in
the United States Senatorial matter, and
said, according to the reporter, “he thought
his brother, the Governor, would be surely
elected to succeed Senator Hill.” He
intimaUd also that hjs broth?; was sanguine
on that point, although he would not say
that the Governor was positively a candi
date, but left the impression that the Sena
torial fight would be between his brother
and Mr. Hill.
Augusta seems to have more - water than
land about the canal.
Mil. FISHBURNE AGAIN CAUSES EX
. CITEMKST IN COLUMBIA.
He Attacks Lieutenant-Governor Kenne
dy For h Decision Made in the Senate,
and Strikes Him Over the Head With a
Stick.
(Special to the Chronicle and Constitutionalist.)
Columbia, S. C., February 3.—During the
debate on a bill in the Senate, to-day, Sena
tor Fishburne, of Colleton county, was
rulbd out of order by the President, Lieu
tenant-Governor Kennedy. Mr. Fishburne
appealed from the ruling, and the Senate
sustained President Kennedy. Just as the
Senate adjourned Fishburne approached
the President and demanded an explana
tion of him, which Gen. Kennedy attempt
ed to give, when Fishburne interrupted him
and said: “You are a liar.” Gen. Kennedy
struck him with his list, but other Senators
interfered and separated them. Gen. Ken
nedy then, with several Senators, left the
State House. He was overtaken by Fish
burne at the gate of the State House grounds,
and grossly insulted, but further trouble
was prevented by the interference of friends.
A short time afterwards Fishburne again ap
proached General Kennedy and asked if
he was armed. Upon Kennedy’s reply
ing that he was not, Fishburne dealt
him a blow over the head with a heavy
cane. General Kennedy struck him with
his fist and a fight ensued. Beftre much
harm had been done they were again
separated. Mr. Fishburne had been placed
under a peace bond for a. similar difficulty
with Senator Smythe, a few days since.
This evening his bondsmen delivered him
to the officers of the law and asked to be
released from further responsibility. The
affair creates great indignation. Gen. Ken
nedy greatly regrets the difficulty, but feels
that he could not have acted differently and
preserved his self-respect. His friends are
very much incensed at what they consider
an unprovoked and unwarranted attack.
L. A. R.
(By Associated Press.)
Columbia, S. C., February 3. —Senator
Fishburne was released from jail Wednes
day afternoon, giving his bond for $2,000
to keep the peace. Yesterday he occupied
his seat in the Senate and spoke on the
Stock law. To-day the debate was renewed
and Fishburne wan compelled to take his
seat by Lieutenant-Governor Kennedy, the
President, bn account of being out of or
der in his remarks. When the Senate ad
journed Fishburne approached the Presi
dent and asserted that his rulings bad been
unfair to him. Kennedy replied: “Oh.no,
Fishburne, I treated you as 1 would have
done any other Senator.” Fishburne re
sponded: “You are a damned liar, sir;”
whereupon Kennedy struck him. They
were separated. Fishburne followed Ken
nedy up the street, cursing him, and finally
overtook and struck at Kennedy with his
stick. The blow was warded off by a gen
tleman with Kennedy and the party were
separated. Fishburne has been committed
to jail.
CHIMES AND CASUALTIES.
Memphis, February 4.—Robert Ross, col
ored, was sentenced to-day to be hanged
April 7th, for the murder of Henry Burcb,
last August.
Galveston, February 4 —A Wells Point
special says: “D. W. 0. Site was executed
here, yesterday, for the murder of a peddler
named Caugur. The prisoner protested his
innocence from the scaffold. The execu
tion was witnessed by hundreds of people.”
Fredericksburg, Va., February 4. —A
severe northeast snow storm has prevailed
in Northern Virginia for 15 hours past, ahd
is still raging. Now it is 12 inches deep on
a level, and drifting badly. Railroad trains
are delayed and communicationjby country
roads is cut oft
New Yobk, February 4.—The bodies of
three of the unfortunate- victims of the late
fire in the old World building were found
to day. One was that of Joseph Cunning
ham, foreman of 77<e Observer composing
room; one supposed to be that of Alfred
Harris, assistant foreman, and the other is
totally unrecognizable.
Nashville, February 4.—Kellogg’s Ho
tel was totally destroyed by fire, about
twelve o’clock last night. Thirty-five peo
ple in it barely escaped in their night
clothes, many of them leiping from second
story windows. Joseph S. Swift, who is
nearly blind, and James Reardon, blind, on
route for Cincinnati, narrowly escaped un
hurt.
Lynchburg, Va;, February 4.—A young
stoic clerk named Atkinson was foully
murdered last night, at Sycamore, Pittsyl
vania county, by a man named i'atea, who
escaped. It is not known what incited the
murderer to the deed. The two men left
the station together, which was the last
seen of them until this morning, when the
body of Atkinson was found on the side of
the railroad, with a heavy log of wood
across it.
Later developments from the Pennsylva
nia homicide indicate that l r eates, the mur
derer, suspected Atkins of intimacy with
his (Yeates) wife, and called at the latter’s
place of business and invited him to take a
walk, and next morning Atkins was found
near the railroad, his brain pierced with a
bullet and a heavy timber across his body.
Yeates has not yet been captured.
Buchanan, Va,, February 6.-Edward
Martin, of this place, shot himself through
the heart last night, while delirious from
typhoid fever.
New Orleans, February 6.—lt was Fer
nand Derance, the eldest of the three
brothers, who attempted to suicide, instead
of Henri, as telegraphed last night.
London, February 6.- -The Swedish bark
Asia, from Liverpool for Pensacola, was
passed on the Ist inst., abandoned and
waterlogged. There were no trace 'of the
crew.
London, February 6. —The British steamer
Cosmo, last reported at Sebastopol, from
Calvert via Norfolk, has founded in the
Black Sea. Ten corpses have washed ashorp
from a vessel near Kilia.
New Yobe, February 6.—A Vicksburg,
Miss., special sayS: “Mr. Lappington, his
sister and little daughter, while going to
church in Union county, yesterday, drove
into a swollen stream and all were drowned. ”
Richmond, Va., February s.—The latest
intelligence from the Midlothian mine dis
aster is that the miners at work clearing the
shaft discovered one body, but it was so foul
they were forced to suspend operations and
come out.
New York, February 6.—Workmen dig
ging in the ruins of the old World building,
this afternoon, found portions of e body,
which is supposed to be all that is left of
Miss Johanna Ryan, the last of the known
victims of the fire.
Utica, N. Y., February 6.—John Walsh,
a saloon keeper of Little Falls, kicked his
wife to death in the presence of his four
children yesterday afternoon. Walsh is
supposed to be an ex-convict from Australia,
and to have drowned his first wife. He is
now locked up,
St. Louis, February 6.—An explosion
yesterday afternoon of a large tank in the
East St. Louis rendering works, situated
north of the National Stock yards, almost
completely demolished the building. John
Casseca was killed and Jerome Tyler and
John Mayerhofter were seriously injured.
Loss, $15,000.
Petebsbubg, Va,, February 5. —The body
of Albert Hall, aged 70, a watchman in the
cotton factory here, was found early this
morning in the weavers’ room. He had
been burned to death and the body was
horribly disfigured. There was a lighted
lamp in the room. How the accident occur
ed is a mystery.
New Obeeanb, February 6 —Henri Der
rouce, nineteen years old, the youngest of
three brothers now under sentence of five
years imprisonment for killing C. C. Mix,
Jr., tried to kill himself last night in the
parish prison, by shooting himself with a
pistol which he had managed to obtain.
The wound is not considered dangerous. i
Petersburg, Va., I'vhruary 6.—Ephraim
Fields was fatally shot at Weldon, N. C.,
Saturday night, by a watchman named
Gray Latham. He was committing depre
dations on the premises of T. L. Emery.
Several men were on the watch for thieves,
and, while moving in the dark, a watchman
named Richardson was mistaken for a thief
and was painfully shot in the leg.
I Cincinnati, February 6.—A- special dis
patch to the Times-Star from Catlettsburg,
Ky., says William Neal was to-day sentenc
ed to ba hanged on April 14th, for the
murder of Fannie Gibbons, at Ashland,
Ky. Neal made a speech, protesting his in
nocence. Ellis Craft, who was convicted
Saturday, will be sentenced to-morrow proba
bly to be executed on the same day as Neal.
Nashtuxe, February 6. —A desperate fight
occurred gt Rock Island, Warren county,
last njght. Four men attacked Jack Grib
ble, a ferryman, because he refused to ferry
them across the river, which was high and
dangerous, and cut him severely. While
retreating Billy McCarpenter pursued him,
snapping a pistol ;n his face, when Gribble
shot him through the heart, killing him in
stantly.
Lvnchbubg, Va., February 6.—Officers
started for Chatham to-day with Yates, the
Pittsylvania murderer, to lodge him in the
county jail, but learning that a crowd of
about three hundred people had congre
gated at Sycamore station, the scene of the
murder, with the determination of lynching
the prisoner, he brought back to this
city and sent over this evening on the fiast
mail, which makes no stop at Sycamore.
Richmond, Va, February 6.—At 1:50,
p. m„ yesterday, a relief party descended
the shaft at Midlothian mine god cn their
return reported pure ais below. At half
past twe, Superintendent Dodd, with a
third of the party, made the descent, re
maining nearly an boat. They explored
the tunnel for some distance, and at the
month of one of the
ty of the engine they discovered a body
whjeb is supposed to ba that of the colored
fireman, Robt. Summers. This body, to
gether with the one discovered Saturday
night, was brought to the surface last even
ing. It is expected that a more satisfactory
exploration will be made ta-day.
Supply of Cotton.
(By Telegraph to the Chronicle.}
Nxw XOBK. February 4 The total visible
supply of cotton for the world is 3,120,982
bales, of which 2,533,506 are American,
against 2,830,814 and 2,453,300, respec
tively, last year.
THE THREE PER CENTS.
shkhmaivs bill passed by the
•SENATE.
Deiuturalß and Kepubllians Vole For
It and Democrats anu Republicans
Against II—A Hall of Records— Arrears of
Pensions*
(By Telegraph to the Chronicle.)
SENATE.
Washington, February 3. —Mr. Mahone,
from the-Uommittee on Agriculture, report
ed, with amendment, the House bill appro
priating five thousand dollars for packing,
transporting and arranging the agricultural
and mechanical specimens presented to the
Agricultural Department by exhibitors at
the Atlanta Exposition. The amendment
includes, also, expenses voluntarily incurred
by the exhibitors in transporting the articles
to Washington. After an explauation by
Mr. Mahone, the bill was passed.
Mr. Teller, from the Committee on Pen
sions, reported the original bill as a substi
tute for one on the subject granting to Lu
cretia A. Garfield. Sarah Childress Polk
and J ulia Gardner Tyler, widows of ex-Presi
dents. life pensions of five hundred dollars
per year, from September 19, 1881; that of
Mrs. Tyler to be in lieu of the pension
heretofore granted her. Put on the calen
dar.
Mr. Hoar reported from the Committee
on Privileges and Elections the Senate Dill
fixing the day for the meeting of Electors of
President and Vice-President, providing
for and regulating the counting of votes for
President and YYoe-President and the de
cision of questions arising thereon. He
said the bill was identical with the one re
ported by Mr. Edmunds, from the J udiciary
Committee, and passed by the Senate in
1878. The report now made was a unani
mous one, except as to a single member of
the committee, who was not present when
ths bill was considered. Mr. Hale asked
for the printing of the bill at length in the
Record, and it was so ordered.
On motion of Mr. Logan, the bill for
the distribution by the National Board of
Health of pure vaccine virus to the people,
was taken up by unanimous consent. The
committee amendments were adopted and
the bill passed.
The Senate resumed consideration of the
Three Per Cent. Bond bill and Mr. Voorhees
completed his remarks. The pending
amendment of Mr. Hawley—limiting with
drawals of bank circulation, under the
fourth section of the act of 1874, to five
million dollars per month and requiring
thirty days previous notice thereof—was
then adopted. No further amendment be
ing offered, a vote was taken upon the final
passage of the bill and it was passed—yeas,
38; nays, 18. The vote in detail was as fol
lows: Yeas -Aldrich, Anthony, Beck, Blair,
Call, Camden, Cameron of Wisconsin, Cock
erell, Coke, Conger, Davis of Illinois, Davis
of West Virginia, Dawes, Farley, Ferry,
George, Gorham, Hale, Harrison, Hill of
Colorado, Hoar, Jackson, Jonas of Florida,
Lamar, McDill, Mahone, Maxey, Mil
ler of California, Mitchell, Morrill, Pen
dleton, Plumb, Ransom, Rollins, Salsbury,
Saunders, Sawyer and Sherman —3B. Nays'—
Bayard, Fair, Garland, Groome, Hampton,
Hawley, Ingalls, Johnston, Lapham, Mor
gan, Platt, Pugh, Slater, Vest, Voo bees,
Walker, Williams and Windom -18.
Messrs. Allison, Harrison and Van VVyck,
in favor of the bill, were paired with
Messrs. Brown, Teller and Grover. Messrs.
Butler, Frye, Jones and Vance, against the
bill, were paired with Messrs. Cameron, of
Pennsylvania; Hill, of Georgia; McMillan
and Kellogg, respectively. Mr. Sewell,
against the bill, was also paired. On mo
tion of Mr. Ingalls, his resolution declaring
that the Pension Arrears law ought not to be
repealed, was taken up and laid over as the
unfinished business for Monday—Mr. But
ler having appended te it an amendment
declaring in favor of pensions to soldiers of
the Mexican war. On motion of Mr. Vest,
the Senate bill appropriating $200,000 fora
site near the War Department building, for
the erection thereon of a brick and metal fire
proof building as a hall of records of the
War Department upon plans heretofore
submitted by the Quartermaster-General
and under his direction, was considered.
The committee amendments making the
hall the receptacle for legislative as well as
executive documents were agreed to and
the bill passed. The Senate spent several
hours in discussing, without action, an or
der of business proposed by Mr. Anthony,
extending the morning hour until 1:30
o’clock, apply the five minute rule to debate,
etc.
On motion of Mr. Morrill, the House bill
admitting free of duty goods in bond con
tributed for the relief of colored emigrants
from the Southern States to Kansas, was
passed. At 4:20 the Senate adjourned till
Monday.
HOUSE.
The House proceeded, as the business of
the morning hour on Friday, to the call of
committees for reports of a private charac
ter. Mr. Rice, of Massachusetts, from the
Committee on Foreign Affairs, reported a
bill for the relief of the captain, owners,
officers and crew, and their heirs and as
signs, of the Privateer Gen. Armstrong.
Referred to the Private Calendar.
After all the committees had been called
the House went into committee of the whole
on the private calendar, Mr. Dingley, of
Maine, in the Chair. The first bill was one
reported by Mr. Kelley, of Pennsylvania,
from the dioiAmittee on Ways and Means,
releasing the Philadelphia and Reading
Railroad Company from the tax assessed on
wages certificates heretofore issued by the
company. The bill gave rise to consider
able debate, which was opened by Mr.
Hammond, of Georgia, in opposition. The
amount issued was §4,837,000, and the tax
$483,700. By a vote of 109 to 45 the bill
was laid aside, to be reported unfavorably.
The committee then rose and the bill was
reported back unfavorably and was laid on
the table (that is defeated). Amotion to
adjourn till Monday was rejected—yeas,
104; nays, 105; and then, at 5 o’clock, the
House adjourned till to-morrow.
Washington, February 7. Petitions for
woman suffrage were presented from various
States, apd by Mr. Hoar, from citizens of
Massachusetts (of whom 10,349 are resi
dents of Boston), for civil service reform.
Mr. Hawley, also, presented one on this
subject.
Mr. Morgan, from the Committee on
Public Lauds, repotted with
amendments, the bill granting the right of
way over the public lands in Alabama, and
to grant lands to said State in aid of the
Gulf and Chicago Air Line Railway Com
pany.
Mr. Plumb, on behalf of the minority of
the committee, said they would present
their views in opposition to the bill here
after.
Mr. Morrill, from the Committee of Pub
lic Buildings, reported favorably the Senate
bill authorizing and directing the purchase,
by the Secretary of the Treasury, for public
use, of the Freedmen’s Bank property and
the real estate and parcels of ground ad
jacent thereto, belonging to the Freedmen’s
Saving and Trust Company, located on
Pennsylvania avenue, in Washington. Mr.
Morrill, having asked its immediate consid
eration, stated that the bill was identical
with the one reported in the last Congress
by Mr. Pugh; that it proposed to pay, not
the actual cost of the building —5258,000
but $250,000, and that, in his opinion, the
property was Worth to-day $50,000 more.
Passed.
Bills InUoJu.ed.
By Mr. Hawley, of Connecticut— Retiring
Quartermaster-General Meigs, with the rank
and pay of Major-General.
Mr. Morgan offered a concurrent resolu
tion, as fallows:
That the increasing commercial inter
course between the people of Mexico and
the United States, and the relations of
friendship and good will between the two
great Republics now so happily existing
and so gratifying to the people cf both
countries, make it proper Ihat tfie trade and
commerce of the two countries, whether on
overland, or by sea, in, ships owned by citi
zens in either country, should be regulated
by a treaty as reciprocity mutually advanta
i geous to both countries.
He asked that the resolution be printed
and laid on the table, as be desired ta apeak
upon it hereafter. It was so ordered.
The pending resolution, ottered by Mr.
Vance, calling so; information in regard to
alleged irregularities in the Sixth Internal
Revenue Collection District of North Caro
lina, was withdrawn, the infcrmati.m hav
ing been famished.
After the morning hour the resolution
that the pension arrears legislation ought
not to be repealed, came up as unfinished
business, but was laid aside informally with
the assent of its author (Mr. Ingalls).
Mr. Williams, to whom the floor was
specially assigned, then proceeded to make
a speech on the tariff, the Morrill Tariff
Commission being taken up for this pur
pose. He avowed his opposition to the
measure and favored a tariff revision by a
joint committee of the two Houses. He
favored a tariff for revenue. At 2:15 Mr.
Williams concluded and the Senate resumed
considertion of Mr. Ingalls' resolution de
claring that the pension arrears law ought
not to be repealed. Mr. Ingalls moved to
modify,the amendment, declaring in favor
of pensions to soldiers of the Mexican
war, so as to limit it to the needy or dis
abled. He then spoke at length in advoca
cy of his resolution. Senators Vance and
Hawley also spoke upon the resolution.
Without action it was laid aside for an ex
ecutive session. During the day Mr. Plumb
reported favorably from the Committee on
Public Lands the bill granting the right of
way through the public lands to the Palatka
and Indian River Railway Company. Bills
were introduced by Mr. Harrison, defend
ing the powers and jurisdiction of the jJia
sissippi River Commission; authorizing the
appropriating of l>nd and material for im
proyenjent of Inc Mississippi and its navi
gable tributaries; prescribing the mode of
assessing damages for property so appro
priated and providing penalties for acts in
hindrance of the proposed improvements.
After the executive session the Senate ad
journed until to-morrow.
HOOSE.
Mr. Belmont, of Naw York, offered a res
olution, calling on the President to furnish
the House with a transcript of the letters of
Jacob R. Shipherd, of New York, dated
June 2, August 9, September 29 and No
vember 15, 1881, and the replies thereto,
now on the files of the State Department;
also, copies of any other letters already
communicated, from which the names of
persons or firms have been omitted, and re
questing the President to inform the House
what measures hod been taken to recover
the letters declared to be missing from the
files of the Department. Adopted.
Under the call of States, the following
preamble and resolutions were introduced
by Mr, Springer, of Illinois :
Whebeas, There has appeared in the
pur P orts to be a circular
lettei, dated “Department of State, Wash-
M”’ 1 I J 0v o embe 1 r 29 ’ ‘«SI,” and signed
by the late Secretary of State in the name
and bv the authority of the President of
the United States, addressed to the Repub
lics of North and South America, inviting
each of them to send two Commissioners to
a Peace Congress, to be hold in u l6 c j ly ot -
Washington in November, 1882, to act
with two Commissioners to be appointed bv
the United States, for the purpose of con
sidering and discussing tho methods of
preventing war between the Nations of
America; and
Whebeas, The President, in his late an
nual message to Congress, made no men*'
non ot a matter of such great importance
to the people of the United States; there
lore,
Resol red, That the President be requested
to inform the House, if not imcompatible
with the public interest, whether said cir
cular letter is authentic, and if so, to trans
mit a correct copy thereof to the House of
Representatives, together with all corres
pondence in relation thereto, and to inform
the House to what Governments said circu
lar has been addressed, and under what
provision of the Constitution or law of Con
gress he finds authority for taking a step
having such important political bearings
and consequences.
By Mr, King, of Louisiana—A bill ap
propriating SIO,OOO to enable the Com
missioner of Agriculture to investigate the
origin and spread of Cocoa grass.
By Mr. Mills, of I'exas -A resolution call
ing on the Secretary of the Interior for in
formation as to the number of acres of
public lands that have been granted by
Congress, both directly to corporations and
through States; what railroads have been
subsidized and the number of acres granted
to each; also directing him to report to the
House the net earnings of the Central Pa
cific, Kansas Pacific, Union Pacific, the
Central branch of the Union, Pacific and
Sioux City and Pacific, from the commence
ment of the operation of each of said com
panies to the present time. Referred to the
Committee on Public Lands.
By Mr. Houk, of Tennessee -A bill for
the payment of loyal claimants.
By Mr. Wise, of Virginia—A bill to com
plete the monument to Mary Washington
Mr. Burrow, of Michigan, moved to sus
pend the rules and pass the bill defining
the qualifications of Territorial Delegates in
the House of Representatives. It. provides
that no person who is guilty of bigamy or
polygamy shall be eligible to a seat in Con
gress as a Delegate from any Territory
The House was in a very inattentive mood'
and when the Speaker put tho question
there were few responses. He, however
declared the motion carried and the Dili
passed. It was only then that a burst of
laughter apprised many members of the
measure which had been adopted.
Mr. Bayne, of Pennsylvania, offered a
resolution reciting the allegation that
Thomas Shields and two other citizens of
the United States were confined in a jail in
Mexico for a breach of a civil contract; that
they wrote to Minister Morgan, but received
no answer, and directing the Secretary of
State to examine into the matter and re
port the facts to the House. Adopted.
Mr. Joyce, of Vermont, moved to suspend
the rules and pass the bill for the appoint
ment of a commission on the subject of the
alcoholic liquor traffic. Mr. Bragg, of Wis
consin, demanded a second to the motion
It was seconded, 72 to 60, and there being
uo desire expressed on either side to dis
cuss the question, a vote was taken upon
the adoption of the motion. The motion
was lost—yeas, 112; nays, 98-not the
necessary two-thirds in the affirmative.
This was a strict party vote, except that
Beltzhoover, Culberson, Jones of Arkansas,
Ladd, Simonton and Vauoe, voted with the
Republicams in the aflirmative, and Davis
of Illinois and Young and Guenther, of Wis -
consin, with the Democrats in the negative.
The House then, at 4 o’clock, adjourned.
WASHINGTON NOTES.
Washington, February 7.-ITie considera
tion of the Shellenberger bill for the sup
pression of polygamy in Utah, which, as
previously reported in these dispatches, has
been favorably recommended by the sub
committee of the Judiciary of the House of
Representatives, has been postponed till
Wednesday next. George Q. Cannon has
asked a hearing before the full committee
on that day, and assigned aa a reason for
delay the recent death of one of his wives.
His opponents assort that this motion is
made merely for delay, and that his visit to
New York, the other day, was for the pur
pose of securing the co-operation of certain
large mercantile firms having extensive
dealings with the Zion’s Co-Operation, of
Utah, to obstruct legislation which might
affect the existing condition of things in
that Territory.
The President nominated Anselem New
berger, as Collector of Customs on Natchez,
Mississippi; Thos. N. Cooper, Collodor of
Internal Revenue, Sixth District of North
Carolina; B. Odell Duncan, of Sou-’a Caro
lina., to be Consul-General at Naples. H. C.
C. Ashwood, of Louisiana, to be Consul-
General at Trinidad.
The House Committee on Elections, to
day, refused to consider the protest of Mr.
Dibble, sitting member from tho Fifth
District oi South Carolina,- and ordered
him to file a brief. Thia case is docketed
with the committee as “Mackey va. O’Con
nor.” The committee have decided that
Dibble must file a brief, and defend his seat
in the same manner that O’OoHnar would
have been required to do had he lived and
taken his seat in the House.
Secretary Folger han requested the resig
nation of the fallowing employes of the
Treasury Department: Oobaugh, Captain of
the Watch; Norton, Clerk in the Light
House Board, formerly of the Custodian s.
office; Skeen, foreman of laborers, and
Hatch, storekeeper of the Department. Nc>
reasons are given for these requests, but ala
have been under fire in what is known as
the “Meline investigation” of the Treasury
expenditure.
Washington, February 7.-The Secretary
of the Treasury has issued the 108th call
for the redemption of bonds. The call is
for twenty million dollars of 6 per cant, ex •
tended bands, and notice is given that the
principal and accrued interest will be paid
on the eighth of April next; and that inter
est will cease on that day. Tho following
is the description of registered bonds, oi
the act of July 17th and August sth,
1861, continued: Fifty dollars No.
1,951 to No. 2,150, both inclusiva; on®
hundred dollars No. 13,701 to No. 14,
700, both inclusive; five hundred dollars
No. 1(1001 to No. 10,700, both inclusive.-
one thousand dollars -No. 48,901 to No.
51,600, both inclusive; five thousand dol
lars—No. 16,151 to No. 16,850, both inclu
sive-ten _thousand dollars—No. 32,551 to
No. 34,950, both inclusive. Total, twenty
million dollars.
The House Committee on Banking and
Currency authorized Representative Marsh
to-day to report favorable to the House bis
bill, which provides that Treasury notes of
the United States, known as legal tender
notes, shall be liable to State taxation on an
equality with gold and silver coin during
the time they continue to be redeemable in
coin by tbe Treasury, and no longer. *
The House Committee on Pout Offices and
Post Roads to-day instructed Representative
Lacey, of Michigan, to report to the House,
with favorable recommendation, tbe bill
providing for the establishment of postal
savings banks.
MEW YORK STOCK MARKET.
(By Telegraph to the ChroninM. >
New Yobe, February 7,1.1,a. m.- -The stock
market opened %al per. cant, higher than
yesterday’s closing prices—the latter for
American Express, while Richmond and
Danville opened 2 per cent, higher, and
Marietta preferred, opened at 13% —an ad
vance of 1 % per cent. In early dealings au
advance of Jgal per cant, wae recorded-
Kansas and Texas and Minneapolis and
•Manitoba most conspicuous in the>
movement.
New Vobk, February 7, noon.—Stocks
dull and prices tending down ward, {Money,
6. Exchange— long, 483%; short, 488%..
Governments fairly active, Tennessees be
ing in demand. State Bonds irregular.
Naw Yons, February 7, p. m.—Exports
of domestic products for the week were val
ued at $969,200. Share speculation open
ed firm and %al par cent, higher than yes
terday's closing quotations—Mie latter for
American Express, while Richmond and
• Danville opened 2 and Marietta preferred
1% per cant, higher; Alton and Terra Haute
, and Boston Air Line preferred, however,
were % per cent, lower. In early dealings
the market advanced %to 1 per cent., ir,
which Minneapolis and Manitoba, Kansas
and Texas and Marietta second preferred
.were most prominent; Denver and Bio
■ Grande, however, sold down 1 per cent- at
71. Subsequently the general list dfdined
P er cent-—the latter for Pacific Mail;
but at the second Board an advance of %a
1% per cent, was recorded—Central Pacific
and Denver and Rio Grande being promi
nent in the upward movement, while Rich
mond and Danville sold up 3 per cent. —at
250; reacted 1 per cent., but immediately
regained 1 per cent. In late dealings the
market was irregular and unsettled and
continued so to the close, changes, hqw
; ever being only fractional, except in cases
of Richmond and Danville, which receded 1
per cent., Metropolitan Elevated, which
advanced 1% percent., and Cleveland, Co
lumbus, Cincinnati and Indianapolis, I per
r cent. Richmond and Danville closed 4 per
cent, lower. The. market closed fairly firm at
a fractional decline from the highest point ot
day.
Sales aggregated 225,000 shares.
Exchange. .". 483% do. new 73%
Gov.-New 5’5... .122% Virginia 6’s 35
do. Nev? 4%’g.. 114% do. oonsoi’d 62%
do. Sew 4’8.... 118% do., deferred... 15%
MCney 5 3 Adams Express... 147
Coin.. 76,865 Amer’uExpress.... 92
Currency 4,538 Ches. A Ohio 24%
Ala., ol’s A, 2 to 5. 81 %Ohicago 4 Alton -.135
Ala.,cl’s A, small.Bl 0., St. L. 4 N.O. .80
Ala.,cl’sß,s’s...loo%oons. Coal 31%
Ala., ol’s do. 4’s. 83%De1. 4 Lack 127%
O. and Northw’n. 133%F0rt Wayne 133
do. preferred.. 143%Han1 4 St. Joe f 94%
Erie 40 Harlem *250
East Tenn. B. R... 14%Houston 4 Texas,. 81
Georgiaß.R 167 Manhattan Elev’d..s3%
Illinois Central...lß6%Metropolitan Ele. 88%
Lake Shore lll%Mioh’n Central. ...86%
1., and Nash’e 94%Motile A 0hi0.... 80
M. 40 75%N. J.Central 95%
N. and Chat’s 83 N. 4 W., pref d... .51
N. Y. Central 131%H. Y. Elevated.... 107
Pitjrbnrg 133 Ohio 4 Miss .... 34%
Riohm’d and Algh 31 do., preferred.. 79
Rioh’d AD. R. R.. 245 Pacific Mail 44%
Rook Island 133%Panama 188
W.. St. L. A P.. -. 36%Quioksilver 12
do. preferred.. 67% do. preferred.. 60%
W. Union 81% Reading 62%
Georgia 6’s 105 St. Louis AB. F 41%
do. 7’a,Mortg’e.. 108 do. preferred... 57%
do. Gold 115 do. Ist pref d.... 94
Louisiana cons... .67%8t Paul 109%
L. Carolina 80 do. preferred. ...122
Ndo. new 20 Texas Pacific .... 48%
do. funding 10 Union Pacific 11Q
do. special tax.. 6%U. 8. Express 75%
.Tennessee6’s......7o%Wells A Fargo... 126
•Offered. fßid.