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NO TICK.
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are requested to forward the amonnt due.
To each subscriber the amount is small but
the aggreate will amonnt to a large sum of
money. We trust, therefore, that every
person in arrears will consider that a per
sonal appeal is made to him or her for an
immediate response.
KeiuitUncea can be made by registered
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KDITORIAI. SOTBS.
All the stock for a second cotton factory
has been taken at Norfolk.
It is understood that Sullivan has not
vet decided whether he will accept the
Presidency of Harvard or Princeton.
The Agricultural Convention in session
in this city is a representative body of
Georgia planters and will do much good.
From all acconnts the Mahone men will
have a glorious opportunity for a “mill” in
Texas during the coming State campaign.
It really look* aa if the organized agricul
tnnstH of Georgia would go iDto the fight
on a gennine “hog and hominy" platform.
Even that great and good doctor of Bar
tow can by this time realize that the Agri
culturists of Georgia are a well “organized”
body.
It is not believed that the presence of
Hon. John Tammany Keixy in Carolina at
this time has anything to do with the Ham
burg dead-lock.
FAom latest advices, the worst men in
Washington City are not cranks. The ca
reer of HorEi.no is even more unsavory than
that of Guiteap.
Hon. H. I. Kimball is organizing a Young
Men’s party, in which Gen. Lonqstreet,
Dr. Felton and the rest of “the boys” are
already conspicuously figuring.
Ala. Kiaine has devoted himself exclusive
ly W> preparing liis remarks for the memo
rial services on the 27th, and it is expected
it will the greatest effort of his life.
Ho». W. L. Peck, of Rockdale county,
one of the best representatives in the last
.1 legislature, delivered a strong, sensible ad
dress yesterday in the Convention.
Hon. H. I. Kimball is said to be running
at large at the North in the interest of a
“Young Men's Party.” It will be liberal
enongh to embrace all between Hpixivan
and Osoab Wilde.
Democrats in caucus have decided to op
pose the tarifi measure as reported by the
Ways and Means Committee and are not in
favor of the appointment by the President
of a Tarifi Commission.
The West and the North will take notice
that in Georgia, at least “the great pot of
Htate, will not simmer with cotton seed
alone; but will boil with the bacon and
beans of a progressive people.”
It is suggested that Sullivan meet Oscar
'Wu.DEand teach him true Boston “culehah.”
Hut a. [van's gestures are said to be every im
pressive. The meeting of the iesthete and
the athlete would he dilitante.
Will the next fight in this I nion be
•waged against Stalwariism ? We await the
funeral oration of Mr. Blaine, who, it is bo
lieved, will do something more than bury
-C.esar or than even praise him.
Opr Washington correspondent indulges
in twine interesting reminiscences of “the
milt” this morning. Senators Lamar and
Hamiton, as sparrers and boxers of the old
en time, will make good reading for the re
cords of the ring.
Frye's "electric speech” on the tariff
does not appear to have taken. There’s
more nnhridled, unutilized electricity pent
up in Maine than in the positive pole of a
galvanic coil. But it has not yet proven a
good or a safe motor.
Mil Stephens’ birthday diunor Saturday
was ornamented by a handsome basket of
flowers from the White House Conservatory.
Col. Albert Lamar need feel no further
alarm over Mr. Stephens’ smelling Admin
istration bon quets, however.
President Arthur is ready now to open
up the executive dinners. A grand diplo
matic spread will be fnruished to the diplo
matic corps on the 16th inst. Mr a. Haves,
should she be present, would find something
there quite sparkling and inspiriting.
Tup. Apportionment bill presents so many
problems and perplexities that members are
driven to the verge of doubt and despera
tion. There is something for every State to
guard against, and some unlucky number
•which falls heavily somewhere.
The Kentucky Legislature is struggling
over a fish bill. The Georgia Assembly, in
their wisdom, could not make appropria
tions this year, although the measure was
ably advocated by Mr. Foster, of Morgan,
and others. legislatures certainly need
brain food.
Senator Lamar, while crossing Seventh
street, at the intersection of Pennsylvania
avenue, Thursday evening, was struck by
a passing team of Uorses and knocked down
senseless on the pavement. The horses
were hitched to a carriage, and wore being
carelessly driven.
A Richmond editor has gotten into a
newspaper controversy with Mr. Frank
Mayo, on the subject of the latter's his
trionic ability. Editorial virus was disas
trously inert in one or two controversies
tost week; besides, we warn the Richmond
editor that Davy Crockett is supposed to
be a "dead shot.”
Our honored Representative, Hon. Alix
ander H. Stephens, gave a dinner Saturday
night at the National Hotel to the Georgia
delegation, the occasion being his seventieth
birthday. Later in the evening he held an
informal reception, at his rooms at that ho
tel, and was visited by many members of
Congress and other friends.
It is even mooted in some quarters that
our I’ncle Joseth E., who was said to have
been the backl>one of the Democratic party
in the Senate, all last Fall, is to become the
second David Davis. There are some in
the South who cannot explain Gov. Brown’s 1
explanation of his own vote ; but none are
disposed to charge any defection.
The Virginia tobacco manufacturers are !
making a move to have the tax on cigars j
reduced to $6 per thousand and cigarettes
to ?1 per thousand. The Commit
tee of Ways and Means, Saturday, heard
representatives in favor of such reduction
Meanwhile the New York tobacco manufac
turers and dealers in all sections of the
country hsve united in protests against any !
reduction.
The managers of the Richmond and Dan- ,
ville Railroad have notified the Tost Office
IV part men t that after Sunday the fast mail
which leaves Washington city at 11, a. m.,
for Charlotte and points South will be dis
continued. The Charlotte (N. C.Y Observer
rightly says this fast mail has been a fail
nre and a confnser of mails from the day
it was put on. What is wanted is more ef
fective mail service, and to get this no ■
one will object to the fast mail being
withdrawn.
Bonos of the State of Tennessee “mixed
sixes, as they are called in the Stock Ex
change reports—were depressed considera
bly on the annonnceiuent of the deoision
of the United States Courts declaring the
act giving the bondholders the right of
claim, not constitntional. The litigation in
Tennessee between the bondholders and
railroad companies arose on a claim made
by the bondholders that they could hold
the companies bound directly to them on
account of the agreement made to the rail
roads with the State for its security in issu
ing its bonds to them. Prior to the bring
ing of the action the railroads had made a
settlement with the State, and had discharg
ed to the satisfaction of the latter the lien
which the State held against them. In this
litigation they are resisting an effort of the
bondholders to compel the companies to
make a direct settlement with them. The
Court has now held that the bondholders’
aHioa cannot be maintained; that the agree
ment of the railroad companies with the-
State was one in which the bondholders had
no privity, and that when the companies set
tied with the State to its satisfaction and
discharged the liens all claim was ended,
and a further satisfaction or payment can
not be required of the companies by these
plaintiffs. Saturday the bonds opened at
35)4 and withfluctuations all day dropped
as low as 50)4 and closed at 51)4 in New
York.
THE SOITH’S KIVAACiALCOADIIIOX. j
The last issue of Brailst'cCs contains an i
earnest article upon a subject which must ;
be of interest to the people of this section. v
Indeed, there is in it much thought well j
worth consideration of the council of farm- j
era in Georgia. The article alludes to the ;
fact that the financial condition of the :
planters—and, as a necessary sequence, of j ,
the merchants—in many districts of the g
South is very bad, the resuß of the small
cotton crop of 1881, of the serious failure
and sparseness of the food crops, caused by
the drouth of last Summer. The proceeds
of partial crops have enabled planters to i
struggle on to this time, although Brad- j
street’s fears that there will be much suf
taring, and a comparatively large num- j
her of failures throughout the South be- ,
tween now aDd tho time the next crop is
ma le. The following table claims to show
the unrulier of rejiorts which were received ,
saying that collections and the financial j
condition upon to January 16 were better,
or eq an! or worse, to the same date in the j
preceding year. It may be accepted as
clearly indicating the districts which made j .
good or poor crops. Many of the reports
which indicate that the collections have .
been fairly good, and the condition about *
equal claim that this is mainly due to the
better grade and price of their smaller cot- '
ton crop, and to the fact they did make a ”
fair grain crop:
Better. Same. Worse. 1
North Carolina 20 25 42 i
South Carolina 4 15 28 j
Georgia... 21 20 66
Alabama 12 18 40
Mssiseippi 19 22 35 g
Louisiana 13 18 23
Texae 39 46 69 1
Arkansan 6 9 64 €
Tennessee 8 9 29 j
Total 142 191 396 f
From Virginia, Missouri and Florida the i c
reports are more favorable, as they rely less j i
upon cotton, and their crops did well. This j (
table would indicate that in only 142 dis- !
tricts (out of 729) were good cotton crops i
made, while 3)16 districts made poor crops t
of both cotton and corn. • 1
Uradstretl’s then goes on to say : 1
As a result of this condition of such a large <
portion of tho South, not only must general i
trade suffer, but the ability of the Booth to (
raise the next cottoß crop must be seriously im- ]
paired. For in the districts where the food j (
crope failed, com and meat are now so scarce I ,
and dear that every farmer’s first care must be
to raise food, and consequently they have al- j '
ready planted a large amount of land in wheat, ! 1
oats, etc., and in the Spring must plant much j '
more in com, potatoes, etc. Again, in many j 1
districts the actual distisss has beep so great | 1
that labor has been driven to other employment j
to procure means of living, and many have gone
in the Atlantic States to work in turpentine and
lumber districts, as well as at railroad building,
while in other States railroads and cattle rais
ing havo absorbed large numbers of laborers.
Again, many of the smaller planters who hire
land will he absolutely unable to do so or to
secure supplies to live on while raising a crop
of cotton. For these reasons wo look for a se
rious reduction in the acreage to be planted in
cotton this comiug Spring.
Bradstreet’s, however, affects to sec some
thing assuring, if not inspiring even, in its
present picture of the South. The ultimate
result of this stata of affairs, it thinks, will
bo that planters must and great
ly curtail buying on credit; and that they
will raise enough food to supply their
needs. Thorough reform, it rightly says,
can only come with complete abandonment
of tho loose credit system, with gradual sav
ing. Planters are forced to borrow during
a year like this; hnt steps Hhonld be taken
to “pursue such a course as will bring re
lief from tho money lender’s exactions at
th.e earliest day possible.” Planters should
more than ever before realize the necessity
of diversifying their tillage. Tho old idea
that no other crop than cotton will be ac
cepted us security fias doue much to de
moralize the plautiug interests of the South.
Wo think that probably the shortness of
this year’s cotton crop, and the dep)orablo
condition of many districts of tho South,
havo been exaggerated by Bradstreet’s. We
cannot but hope that the picture is over
-1 drawn. But that this has beon a disastrous
year for Southern planters and Southern
business, cannot be denied. We shall look
for something interesting and important op
this subject from the present convention
of the farmers of Georgia.
TIIK STATE AOHIOIhTPItAI. SOCIETY.
Augusta is honored by the presence of
tho members of the State Agricultural So
ciety. The intelligence and virtue of the
State have worthy representatives in the
ranks of the organization, and the proceed
ings of the Oocrention are 1 eing marked by
dignity, wisJom aud experience. Thoopen
ing exercises of yisterday WBTe cordial and
hearty on the part of the city and empty,
and the responses by officers of the Society
were manly and assuring. Further than
these preliminaries, the Convention may be
1 said to have hardly begun, <*pd yet enongh
has been developed to show that the
1 farmers of Georgia have met for earn
est deliberation upon matters of business.
The discussions yesterday afternoou upon
imported machinery brought out many
■ points ot interest to farmers and nianufac
-1 tutors, and incidentally touched upon the
policy of the planter toward the tariff, as
-1 footing a warier of vital interest to this
country at the present time. Another paper
upon the small grain eropj furnished much
material for the improvement of the tillage
l of tho Southern farm and ia rich who mi
i portant suggeations. Thera are also qnes
r tions relating to the fence law, which each
i county seems to be settling for itself, *od
i which are attracting wide attention from tho
. people, to be (acuted at this time.
Such a meeting but be of the greatest j
importance to the highest interests of the j
1 State. The farmers of Georgia void ip their
■ efforts the wealth producing power of the ,
’ Commonwealth. The success of the farmer
means the prosperity of all business; the
’ failure of the farmer means the demoraliza
* tion of the finances and commerce of the
’ country. The time, therefore, when the
yeomanry of the land coma together to rea
son upon planting interest, to e, change
, experiences and to suggest reforms, is a pe_
( nod of congratulation for business men of
, every class, while a thorough organization
of the plautara of Georgia is most whole
some and moat important for all.
Augusta, then, welcomes to tlie city the .
farmers of the State, and will aid her best
■ efforts to make the deliberations ptßg£snt
j as well as profitable.
- -
DUNK WRONG.
Ocorgc Allen, rutlM-of llu S„ P. & W.
lijr, Tnk*» »N,iBW,
(Savannah News.)
! George Allen, the Cashier of the Sevan- j
! na'u, Florida aud Western Railway, is a df
j faulter to that corporation to the amount
j (so far as has been ascertained! of about
j six thousand dollars. The defalcation was
discovered on the 4th, but tvothing has
I heretofore been said about it, as it Sraa not
known what action would be taken. It woe
discovered on Saturday that Allot, had left
: the city, and the afi’air has become so notori
i ous that further silence on the subject j
| would accomplish nothing.
| As he was only nominally cashier, it was
i at first a mystery how he got the oppor
| tunity to appropriate such a sum without
j detection, as the first “conversion” took
j place last November, but when explained,
• the aiotta.* operand! is very simple. Tus
j financiering was done by filling in larger I
amounts tu the check.*, which were made
payable to his < Allen's) order by the treas
urer. than wore set forth in the stubs of the
! check book, and then changing and re- j
] changing the balances ia the bank book, so 1
j that the overdraft would not be discovered
when the treasurer examined the balances.
; This continued until the changes ip the j
i figures in the lv>ok attracted the attention
| of the officers of the Savannah Bank and 1
Trust Company, wheve the account was
kept, and an investigation was made by
Hon. W. S. Chisholm, the Vice-President of
the Rail*ay Company. Allen was charged
i with the crime and acknowledged it. The
1 money is supposed to have been lost pnt- \
| ting lip margins to speculate in futures.
THE IKDRPBKDKm.
lion. Jtmt s 11. 4 Hr«t luw«<t For liic j
Office of Goirrnur.
(Carteravilte Free Preaa.)
There are a number from which to choose.
Os these we uiav mention Judge Hook, Gen. j
G art red. Judge'A. R. Wright, A. H. Cox, ,
Harry Jackson. Tom Glenn, Judge Pouand
others, and still they come. It is possible
the Independent standard may be eooimit
j ted to the bauds of some of these brilliant
■ 1 vonug men; men who are not complicated '
in any manner with the old rotten machine- p
ry of onr past politics, and whose ability
I fit them for any position within the gift of
j the honest people of this grand old Com
' mjnweaitti. From all the information we
, . can gather, Hon. James H. Hook, of Rich
mond conntv, just at this time, seems to be
the choice of the Independents of the State;
’ a pure man, personally, irreproachable in
■ character, an unquestioned Democrat, life
I long devotion to his State, fine intellectual,
abilities, thoroughly committed to the cause i
of the people. This popular demand for j
J edge Hook may be transferred before the
early Summer to some of the above named
gentlemen. We only give what we under
stand seems to be the popular wish at the
present.
From this distance it really looks like Mr.
Blaine and Gov. Brown were slowly moving
towards each other.
■BBONICLE AND CONSTITUTIONALIST, AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 15. IHI-3
GLIMPSES OF YANKEE LAND.
STITCH! STITCH! STITCH!!
The Sewing Machine un<l the Machines
Thai Make It— A Great Intiactry Under
Review.
(Cor. Chronicle and Constitutionalist.)
Bridgeport, Conn., February 6.—The
dramatization of Jules Verne’s romance
“Around the World in Eighty Days” repre
sents an EngUriiiuaii and an American
tonring India in company, and accidentally
coming upon a scene of heathenish cruelty, j
no less then the attempted cremation of n :
living Princess along with the corpse of her i
husband. As the horror stricken girl, bound |
band and foot, was being laid upon !
the fagots the Englishman, assuming a j
statuesque attitude, exclaimed; “In the i
name of English civilization I protest !
against this outrage." As the Pagan priests, !
not heeding the dignified protest, were ap- j
plying the torches the American became beli- j
cose, whipped out his revolver and shout- I
iug: “In the name ot Americau civilization,
I prohibit this outrage!” shot down a half
dozen priests and rescued the girl. And it
is probable that at the time Thomas Hood
was writing his “Seng of a Shirt,” bewail
ing the hard lot of the sewing woman, with
her stitch, stitch, stitch—l say that at that i
very time some Yankee was scheming for
some device to lighten the burden of her
toil. It ss hardly probable that the first ex
perimenters in this direction looked for
very large financial returns; they were
inspired, more likely, by a desire
to rescue woman from the drudgery
against which the English poet was pro
testing. The difficulty the early work
ers contended with was that of inter-lock
ing of two threads which appeared requisite
1 for making a serviceable stitch by mechani
cal means. One A. B. Wilson conceived the
| idea of a rotating hook, and his jack-knife
; converted the end of a broom handle into a
little wheel with a slender projectile point
which obediently did the inventor’s bid
ding, and shortly afterward—this was in
1849—he was giving exhibitions of his in
vention in New York on a day when a me
chanic from an interior town chanced to be
in the metropolis. Walking in front of the
old Sun building the latter, whose name was
: Nathaniel Wheeler, noticing a crowd in
| doors, entered to take in the sensation,
I whatever it might be. To his shrewd per
! ception there appeared in the crude little
I seeing machine great possibilities and he
i engaged with the inventor to build SCO
jof them. Thus met for the first
| time two men whose names have since
| become familiar the world over, for there
is no civilized part of the globe where
the Wheeler A Wilson sewing machine has
not found its way. It is in the manufacto
ry of this company-tlie most complete of
its class in the world-that I propose de
scribing lmw a sewing machine is made,—
In no other manufactory has the writer ever
seen so vast n congregation and variety of
ingenious mechanical appliances under such
a perfect system of operation. The perform
ances of goipe of these aro as wonderful to
see as tlie most dexterous
Tricks of larger<te nt a I ta.
And it is possible that they may bo found
as difficult of description, but if I can im
part into a written account of it a tithe of
the interest a tour through the various de
partments has afforded me, the reader will
derive entertainment from it. Over
eight acres of ground, comprising
threo entire blocks, are covered by
the bnildtags; twelve hundred operatives
and mqre Ilian two thousand machines
are employed. Five large engines, with an
aggregate of 500 horse power, are required
to run the works - and the exclusive pro
ducts engaging the services of all these
human and mechanical agents, are the
Wh eelcr & Wilson sewing machines.
It is enlirely foreign from the purpose of
this sketch to discuss the question of the
relative merits of any of the many makes of
sewing machines kept before the public by
their manufacturers; that discussion I re
mit to the übiquitous selling agents, three
or four of whom have possibly called at the
home of tho reader since the beginning
of the perusal of this paper. As a matter
of information, however, I may state
that there are two separate, lead
ing systems of aawing machines -one
using a shuttle, aud the other a rotary hook,
for interlocking tho threads and so pro
ducing a stitch. An unknown number of
makers of sewing machines use the shuttle;
but the Wheeler & Wilson Company are the
sole makers in this country of machines
with the rotary hook. This much is also
beyond controversy : that the rotary is ca
pable of far more rapid operation than the
shuttle motion, and is also lighter and the
parts less subject to wear.
There’s Millions In It.
Prom ap apparently trifling invention has
been built up an pjjterprise, the wealth of
which runs up into the millions, and the
trade of which, Briarean armed, reaohes
over the American Contineht and across
both oceans. In one of the dozen superb
offices of thp company hero, Mr. Nathaniel
Wheeler, for thirty years President of
the company, is as actively engaged
ill the management of its mammoth
attairs, as lie was thirty-three years ago
1 in his workshop at Watertown, Conn.,
when filling hi.i contract for making
500 machines for A. B. Wilson. Probably
I should exclude politics from my snbjecf,
but I confess to a sense of pleasure at see
ing so uncompromising and influential a
Democrat ae Mr. Wheeler being accredited
—as with one accord he js by the public—
t with the development, organization and
success of this immense industry.
I In the first apartment entered, after loav
( ! tag the offices, my escost, a mechanical ex
| pert, points ont the several uses to which
tho machines aro put. On a table, which
, is supplied with steam power, are several
t sewing maebipp!?. Stopping before a No.
8. the size most popufor for domestic and
light manufacturing work, be presses a
, foot on a pedal, and a soft, purring noise
greets us, while tho needle and needle bar
lose their identity in their rapid up and
down motion, making
Elialien Hunitreit Sltlrhcs Per Miniitr.
I thoughi of Tom Hood as I watched the
piece c>f cloth Bitting zeroes the feeder ;
his pegassps would haye drooped hi* fines,
short ot' breath, ia tho following of this
; needle with its “stitch, stitch, stitch.” It
is the susceptibility of these machines ts ;
*nch high speed, and the greater durability I
: of Uie rotary motion which gives them their j
i unri«siud popylarit-rwith manufacturers of j
| light goods. For instance iR Trov, N. Y.,
and vtainlty, where the making q* cuffs,
collars and shirts is so largely carried •
on, more than twenty thousand Wheel- j
er & Wilson machines - have been sold, j
Among »im ten different sizes, I am shown
machines lo» eiffobtag Loots, shoes and ,
other leather goods, o*u» ivy fo X--! u G hats,
and another for sewing stra» gvOCc. e
novelty among the attachments is onecaile.d
the compound feed, which makes a zig rag \
stiUh in. idant to hosiery and some special
: ties in fancy work. There is a button hole
machine, and sm atfoonmeur c ? Tforittag
button holes, *rhioh is supplied wRu otlua ’
machines. Still another attachment of con
summate ingenuity, is the seam-trimmer,
which neatly pares away the leather fro#/
tuoi? edges as it sews the seams for boots or
shoe*. The room we are ia is used by two
men solely for Assigning and experiment- :
ing. and one of them tens mt that he has
jso occupied*it for fonrteen years. Re shows
uie * pase of rotary hooks —lO7 in number j
representing 107 experiments made in j
j the hook within eke 14 years; no two in the :
case are entirely alike, though to my eye, j
nnpixotdced in such delicate points, each !
I ot the number was indentieal with the other I
| one hundred and six.
A Midiukti Maze.
i Wj were descending a stairway from the |
! experimenting room, when I glanced :
through a window, at the side of a landing, ;
: into the main factory for metal working, a ;
bedizzentag multitude of machines and ;
i moving men, stretching away a length of j
300 feet and a width of 210 feet. In lieu
j of a description ol this apartment an enn
, meration is given of what it contains.
1 There are in operation in it mefre than 1,-
000 separate machines, driven by 1,676 j
j belts of the total ieugth of 39,510 feet, or ;
• 90 feet less than 7miles, and this is ex- j
j elusive of short feed belts of whi/h there are
N probably as many more. The men operating
the machines are more than 400 in number. ,
The machines are ranged in lines running
the length of the room, with graceful aisles
between.
‘•We make every part, whether of wood,
or metal, entering into our machines, down ’
j to the most infinitesimal screw," remarks
j my escort, "and here you may see ths pro
' cess of making the latter.” We had stopped
opposite a machine, at one end of which a
small steel rod several feet in length hod
just been placed in position, by an opOTk
tire who had now gone elsewhere. Sfc*,
automatic machine, with its hundred ctOHra
eccentrics, joints, jaws and motions tnipi
steadily working, and one by one, dropping!
into a box beneath, tiny screws, threaded I
and Leaded and slotted. Oi a neighboring
machine is fastened a wheel, into the’circle
of which, little by little, as it revolves, a
groove is being ent for holding the round
belt which runs the sewing machine. Furth
er on another automatic wonder is shaping
tho little wheel, chiseling out a serpentine
groove, and cutting with superhuman skill
the delicate curved hook at its side, which
gives to the Wheeler & Wilson machine its
distinctive character from all others. One
class of machinery is doing turning work,
another drilling, anothertrimming, another
poliahii’g, and yet I have described only a
fraction of the multiform operations being
performed by these thousand and odd ma
chines, nor can I undertake a full descrip
tion. To illustrate the diversity of their
work: The rotary hook undergoes just 130
diffetent operations between the iron store
room and its fitting into position for sewing.
Each machine and each operative has a
special work to perform. The operative
who supervises the turning of tlis
band wheel is in another part of
the works from the one who turns
the shaft on which the band wheel is to
be fixed. But each part is made to guage,
and so all are interchangeable. This feature
is one of the first requirements of the man
agement, and so a force of twenty men are
engaged exclusively in the inspection de
partment, whose duty it is not only to see
that each piece is sound and well wrought,
but that it is of perfect guage.
The forging room where great drop
hammers beat iron and steel upon, or into
dies for producing desired shapes, contain
nothing calling for special mention, nor the
polishing room, where dozens of emery
wheels are glinting space around them with
showers of glowing sparks, as they take off
the rough surface and brighten the work.
But the next apartment visited where the
Handsome Japanning
Is done detains us longer. This coating is
the most tasteful and durable covering that
can be put on iron or steel. The various
metalic parts, when the mechanical work
on them is finished, are brought here. After
the Japan is applied by brushes they are
placed on shelves, in large brick ovens, of
which there are twelve 10 by 15 feet in
size, and subjected to baking heat for about
twelve hours. After recsiviug three coats
of Japan in this manner they are rubbed
down with pumice stone, when they are
ready for ornamentation. Some of the ma
chines, inlaid with pearl, are Oriental in
their beauty of decoration. In the next
room we inspect wo see the process of elec
tro-plating, which is given all the bright
parts for the sewing machines.
There are other departments in this build
ing which will bo best visited later, and so
to keep tho horse well before the cart, we
■will take in the foundry, woodworking and
needle works, returning afterward to the
assembling room. From the room—where
by roasting them ia furnaces and then when
red-liot dropping them into cold water—
tho metalic parts aro case-hardened, we
enter a subterranean avenue, passing the
large stock room for iron and steel, and on
•the opposite side the coal cellar, which is
an acre in extent. Wo emerge from the
tunnel, by which we have cdtne under a
street, into the foundry rooms, which are
in a separate block from that we have been
in. The moulding room where the band
wheels, legs, pedals, and machine heads are
ca3t, is reported to be the finest in the
world. In tkfo next, adjoining, is a me
chanical wonder, which automatically, by
one operation, drills and countersinks every
hole, seven in number, in one of the legs
or iron supporth of a sewing machine. The
capacity of tho foundry is twenty-five tons
of castings per day. >
lltkiv Nectlln Are Made.
If the reader will take in hand a
No. 4 Wheeler & Wilson needle aud
examine its form, it will occur to
him that the mechanism for its
making must be delicate beyond ade
quate description. Small as it is toward the
poiut whore the eyo is, it will be noticed
that an oblong groove is cut into it, anil
that upon its Bliunk or larger part, “W. &
W. Mfg. Co.” and its number are stamped.
The first notable process in needle making
is the cutting of steel wire into pieces about
an inch in length, which are called “blanks.”
These are emptied by the thousand into the
hopper of another automatic machine which
with marvelous rapidity, one by one, draws
down three-fourths tlie length of the blank
to smaller size, but leaving the short shank
larger for being held by the needle bar.-
After being pointed these “suaged” blanks
now g® into automatic grooving machines,
throe of which are tended by one operative.
As one blank is delivered another with cun
ning intelligence drops into place and is
chased by the delicate chisel forming the
groove and then discharged to make room
for the next. Now the grooved blanks
are taken to a little machine into
which they are fed by a girl, and faster
than yon could pick them up, singly, they
are lettered aud numbei-ed. Further on at
the same table another girl is twirling the
grooved and lettered blanks in a dexterous
manner between the jaws of a little machine,
which keeps up a snipping noise, as she
moves a little lever up and down with her
right hand, every movement of which
punches an eye in a needle. The reader
may judge the rapidity of her work, by
what she accomplished; she must see that
the needle is in proper position before she
moves the lever, and she must move thiß
lever with her right hand for each needle
punched, and yet this girl punches an aver
age of eleven thousand needles per day,
and has a record for one day of eleven
hours of sixteen thousand. The next pro
cess is the scouring of tho eyes of the
needles; several girls are engaged in thread
ing needles, a hundred perhaps being
strung on to one thread after the manner of
stringing beads. A number of these strings
are pnt into a species ot loom, and the
needles moved up and down the threads
until the eyes are rubbed smooth. This
machines scours about 20,009 needles per
day. The straightening and polishing are
others of the 75 processes through which
the ueedies are carried.
Across another street, and entering th»
third block occupied by the buildings of
the Wheeler & Wilson Company, we are in
the wood working department, where the
| case work is made two buildings, each two
j stories, as 4 each 625 feet long by 50 feet
, wjde, Hero hundreds pf planers, saws,
| scrolling, eatving aud qtfcep njaphijaeg ary
| busily working, but tho rooms aie us 1 1 eo
j from dust almost as the 3uow covered
streets without. A system of pipes, sup
plied with draught by exhanst fans, draw
’? the fiugt.. BAwdnsl and shavings from
j each cjadiine, f chimney draws smoke,
j and rejnoyes fifiefo hundreds of feet
|to a "shaving bouse, ’• »ne»se ijicy are
; taken to the boiler rooms and used as fuel.
] In this department walnut and mahogany
' ere wrought into the tables, covers and cab
inets l.» iL : machines. Sonpe ot tho latter
i embody obarn>iGg yGtivtr.iences and artistic
| beauty of finish, reßdejtag ti- I L. decided
| ornaments in the most ridhty furbisijeq re*
I idence.
' Jn the several departments we have visii
| ed, Ravy Loci; finished, since we started on
i our tour, some of v-acL m the 1,001 parts
which go into the construction oi tho Bop
-1 oral machines, bat not an operative of ihp
; hundreds we have seen could put a ma
j chine together. A most intelligent, order
ly, industrious and skilled class of apr-ra
; tires they are, but each has a specific work
jtc perform. But now we return to the
j blook m buildings first entered and wind
: up our observational! whal ;s known as
Tlie Aiiemblinfij Rocm*
Here, from the finishing shops, are brought
ajl the parts and the work of putting them
j together is done. From table to table the
head of the machine is transferred, as each
' receiving an additional part, until com
plete in its equipment it goes under a belt
, to be “jacked,” or in other words, to have
its bearings run dawn. A score of them, at
j high speed, are being watahed by inspec
| tors, who are sure of their perfect perform
■ auee before they are tnmed over to be num
bered and transferred to the packing room.
It is interesting to speculate upon the fu
ture of the sewing machine. Its present
j achievements are greater than is generally
' known. I should have referred in another
| place to a machine being made here for pur
poses of bookbinding, which stitches paper
j together with more rapidity and uaiformi
|t j* than is possible by hand. The Wheeler
j A Wilson Company, in addition to the im
provements being sought after by their own
: experts, are in the market u «ii times for
, the purchase of any valuable improvement
' inveuxsd outside. And I may remark that
! to make the best pissible machine appears
to be the aim of this company, rather than
to make cheaply and largely, for sailing rap
idlv. .
MtotiHfrwi Notes.
In the packing rooms I saw twenty-five
! hundred machines boxed and marked for
iohipment to London, England, while an-
Epther large shipment was being made ready
[for San Luis Potosi, Mexico.
I In company with one of the Wheeler A
Wilson Manufacturing -Company I visited a
manufactory of ladies' shoes and another of
corsets, each of which is using more than a
hundred W. & W. sewing machines.
Connected with this company is an in
ventor, E. S. Boynton, who has a fortune in
several new inventions he is bringing out.
One of these is the book stitching machine
already mentioned; another is an indicator
for railway care, which is posted forward,
with a pointed heading reading: “The next
station is—” Upon arriving at a station the
engineer shifts a lever and the indicator in
each car throws np a card bearing the name
of the next station. Another is an auto
matic indicator for railway stations, which
tells the leaving time of the next train, its
destination, and all stations at which it will
stop. The first of these are being made for
the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. The
general managenent of the lines of that
company told Mt Boynton its need of some
device which would do the service named,
and entrusted to him, regardless of expense,
the furnishing of it. He has succeeded
perfectly. * Russell.
LETTERS ifROM WASHINGTON.
(From a Staff Correspondent.)
Washington, U C., February 8, 1852.
The Rational Republican, of this morning,
contains a leading editorial which is, to my
mind, a most sijjiifieant utterance. I in
close it for referesce or publication, as you
see fit. It is a strenuous appeal to the con
scientious of its party to throw their prin
ciples to the dogs rather than lose suprema
cy at Washington, and to form any alliance
at the South, no natter how paradoxical or
base, so that the organized Democracy of
that section can Vb defeated. It concedes
that without snchfan unscrupulous policy
the Republicans Hill not only lose the next
House and Senate, but that the Presidency
itself, with its prodigious patronage, may
suffer tremendous change. Never was there
such an open and indisguißed admission of
the weakness of the Republican machine,
and the crucial nacessity, in place of prin
ciples, to establish any dishonest craft in
order to presa've position aud plunder.
The Democratic party of tho South is to be
ruptnred, therefore, per Jas et tufas, by any
hook or any ertok, merely to consolidate
the Republicar faction and maintain its
grip upon power. The people of Georgia
and other Soutlern States may henceforth
understand that tlie Independent movement
is a Republicar one, directed from this oity,
and that its sob object, outside«f providing
places for someof the leaders, is to make the
next Senate and House Republican—a con
summation tint is not now probable and
cannot be a fiture possibility except by
Democratic betrayal. Let it be thoroughly
established then, by the press, that an
Independent revolt moans a Republican
campaign, and that no Democrat who de
sires the triumph of his party, in the Com
monwealth. tin Senate or the House, not to
speak of the Presidency, can consistently
aid or comt'ortany flank operation beyond
the lines ot the regular organization. If
the articlo in the Republican means anything
it means that the party once victorious
under Lincoln, Grant and Garfield is disar
ticulated und<r Arthur, and that nothing
can save it from overthrow but Democratic
defection in the South. Why, in this su
premo moment, the Democracy ot the South
should forsake their colors, only to fasten
Republican domination upon the country,
is to me incomprehensible, unless our peo
ple believe that they will fare better under
their aneient enemies than under their
steadfast friends. If that be so, let the
Independents come outas Republicans, pure
and Rimple, for the work they are doing is
for Republican ascendency in all branches
of the Government and nothing else. The
National Republican knows that. President
Arthur would net otherwise countenance
the ci usaclr-s.' The people need have no
doubt upon the issue. If any other conclu
sions can be drawn from the article in the
newspaper organ, I do not perceive them.
The language used by the Republican lias
the merit of lucidity and frankness. If I
have missiaken its deductions, let ilie error
be corrected, but it will require superna
tural perversion to twist auy other meaning
than that I have, given it from a text so open
and above-board. And so, if any Democrats
have been led astray, under the supposi
tion that tlizy were not helping Stalwart
Radicalism, the sooner they return to their
allegiance the better they will find them
selves, in the long run. At present, they
are engaged in pulling chestnuts out of the
fire for the Republican monkey, and the
Stalwart organ here gives them just that
kind of an advertisement and nothing more.
Mr. W. L. Roy all, an eminent Virginia
lawyer and writer, has extensively circula
ted a pamphlet reviewing Gen. Mahone
and his record. He sneers at the Read
jusler-Radical’s military carter—which may
boa mistake —and handles him without
gloves as an original Democratic bulldozer,
railroad wrecker, baffled aspirant for office,
ending as a communistic demagogue,
triumphant only by a snap judgment, Gov
ernment aid and widespread popular dis
honesty on the debt question. Royall sub
mits proof to show that President Arthur
has become particeps criminis in a scheme of
repudiation that defied a Supreme Court
decision, and that he has also to share in
the odium of the corruption of the Judiciary
of Virginia, a crime without precedent in
the history of the Commonwealth. The Re
adjusters have eleoted as Superintendent of
Public Instiucticn, an ignoramus who can
not spell the commonest English words,
and placed upon the bench a Judge who
•never read a law hook, and a man who has
been proved so habitual a cheat in card
gambling that bo respectable or fair-mind
ed faro dealer would touch him with a pair
of oyster tongs. The summing up of the
debt, question is a masterly effort, and Ar
thur’s coraplieitv in fastening shame npon
Virginia for purtisan ends is exposed with
merciless severity but within parliamentary
limits. A good deal, no doubt, can be said
on tho otherside; but Mr. Royall has put
hia case so vigorously that no man need
wonder wh/ thoimajuls pf Cpnsprvatjve Re
publicans shrink from such a coalition as
that of Mahone, and have brought them
selves under the lash and menace of tho
National Republican.
My attention has been called to the foot
that there has been one Democrat elected to
Congress, in the Eleventh New York Dis
trict, sinoß 1862, prior to Mr. Flower’s suc
cessful candidacy. Mr. Wilis was the man.
Jt js sm example* of the swift oblivion that
bafaii’a op piapy ppljtipjaiss thaj he should
have been so soon forgotten, i cbeeriully
make tlie correction and revive his memory,
which will Dot long survive the dinners of
his present successor.
I find that there is little or no talk in
Congressional circles about the Blaitie-
Artlmrcontroversy. That matter is not ripe
enough yet for serious eliscussion, and is
conLoed principally to newspapers. Young
ilr, "B«l);mht afid tjie Jtaw York Herald and
Sun seem to monopolize thg queßfion at
present. I dare say it will com?) up before
the Senate and House in due course of time,
but it is not exciting any special attention
around the Capitol. Mr. Belmont, who
seeks to make it a National issue, is a young
Representative, in his 31st year, and new to
legislation. Ije is said to be generally mod
j,st slnijfomi and imbitious. Efe has a boy
foh lopji, pejldipr Jkandsoriie nor uncomely,
and but for the japt pf Iqs jfejng the son of
a miUioueiio would hardly attra&t mugh' no
tice. As money is, however, the prime ob
ject of worship on the part of the great ma
jority of the human Tace, Mr. Belmont can
count upon a certain species of importance
to nothing else, although making
no unseemly PAj-'k.jo of bis father's shekels.
I judge from current rumor that the
report of 320 as the ratio of
apportionment defeated. Robin
son, of Massachusetts, wu" “ally advances
to the Republican leadership of the House,
jt £ pair of black eyes yesterday.—
Georgia upd bouih .liijoljna are quite cer
tain of an additional piember, fio mpitez
what figure bo adopted. Rhode' Island is
rampant at the uttempt to wrest from her
one of her Congressmen, although she dis
franchises thopiacds pf her poor white
citizens. She is just now appealing to fitate
sovereignty, in blatant terms, apd looks to
her ambassador! in the Senate to correct
any wrong don* her in the House. We
bsaf nothing about “ the heresy of States
Rights,” st tjjfo time, from Rhode Island.
The “heresy” iaomjUid, apd the Nation is
spelled with a title “n.”
Senator Van® says his colored butler
feels somewhat aggrieved at my report of
the lun that “old Zeb” had poked at his
spiks-tail coat. The children plague him
noy? and offend bis dignity. Gen. Vance,
the Senator’s bisther, c&ljed at the house,
the other day, and asked ?f "old 7 eb” was
in. The butler, not recognizing the Ganeral;
bridled up reientfully and staring at
the visitor, oddly said: “Perhaps, sir,
you refer fio Senator Vance.” The General
felt abashed al ss.cj) a show es authority,
and mildly made the et»rzoxt;on. No man
in public life b more thoroughly Demo
cratic and approachable than Senator
Vance, but his butler will not permit any
tricing with hi* majestic calling.
As Andrew fitirke is to confer with the
President and Jommtbsuner Baum. I pre
sume that Mr Farrow and Mr. Speer will
have to wait a little longer than they ex
pected for the spoils, if indeed they get
them at «J». Peace may be patched up" and
all hands satiated, hat fam told that Ranm
is raging around like a bull with his tail
up,” full of ight. The President, with
Speer on oae ade and Raum on the other is.
I suspect, in tnat perplexity of mind which
assails the hungry horse between two bun
dles of hay, or line a man who has two
sweethearts, lut does not care to court thpm
at the same tine. I would be glad myself
to see Baum’s whole revenue system wiped
ont entirely, sad care little which man is up
permost meanvhiie. But it )S a very pretty
squabble as it stands.
Senator Brown has resumed his seat, after
a week’s absaice in Georgia. He wears a
smiling countenance and is evidently con
tent with the appearance of matters at
home.
Senator Hill suffered more from the latest
operation performed upon his mouth lhaa
was anticipated, but is doing well. He will
hardly return to Washington before the
end of the month. Great hopes are ex
pressed that he has passed the Rubicon of
danger, and that his valuable life will bo
spared for many years yet of triumphant
eloquence.
Mr. Bayne, of Pennsylvania, labored hard
to demonstrate, to-day, that 320 was the
proper ratio of apportionment. As this
gives his State three more members, he had
every inducement to favor it; but I have
yet to find any person who listened to his
speech who understood what he was talk
ing about.
Mr. Coke’s s ’eech had been in type for
three weeks and was so often revised that
the printers began to get discouraged.
Some laughter has been created bv Sena
tor Williams' grave statement, in his
speech, that epsom salts and castor oil are
“aiticles of prime necessity.”
Delegate Cannon denies in an excellent
card the report in the newspapers that he
proposes to review the lives of certain Sena
tors and Representatives who are attacking
Mortnonism. He says that a cardinal prin
ciple of his creed is the minding of one’s
own business and allowing others tho priv
ilege of conducting their private affairs as
they sec fit. The Puritan spirit is based on
a reversal of that golden role, for according
to Henry Ward Beecher, "the Yankee pries
into ever? man’# basin, ss and puts his
hand into every man’s pocket.”
Senator Jones, of Florida, will, it is said,
soon bring to Washington a rich New Eng
land wife. He has been a widower for
about one year. He ia now 48 years of age
and one of the tallest aud portliest of Sena
tors. From the carpenter’s bench ho drifted
to a law office and is now in high repute as
a Senator. By dint of native talent and
application, the once poor, uneducated
Irish lad has attained eminent position.
He has a magnificent head, thatched with
crisp yellow hair. His face is ruddy and
beardless. At a distance, he resembles an
overgrown boy. His voice is thin and rather
weak, in startling contrast with his robust
frame and masculine intellect.
Some very beautiful eulogies were pro
nounced upon the late Hon. M. P. O’Con
nor, those of E. John Ellis, of Louisiana,
nnd Martin Meginnis, of Montana, being
perhaps the best.
Senator Mahone appears to be gradually
working into some kind of fraternity with
several Democratic Senators.
Senator Test, in a neat little speech, took
occasion to proclaim that just as he would
havo, under other circumstances, voted the
last dollar and last acre to pension Con
federate soldiers, so he would never oppose
any enactment looking to the proper re
ward of Union veterans. Mr. Maxey, of
Texas, while endorsing all that Vest said,
lasped Ingalls for attempting to saddle
upon every ex-Confedoralo Senator and Re
presentative the folly of a few of their
number. He proposed to legislate on his
own responsibility and without regard to
outside opinion. These two short speeches
rather took the sting from Beck’s blunder
and Ingalls’ tannt. For a moment there
was promise of an old-time altercation, but
iDgalls was mum and the*bther Republi
cans relapsed into their scrupulous avoid
ance of sectional debate.
Senator Butler will very likely secure an
expression of favorable opinion relative to
pensioning needy survivors of the Mexican
war. It is entirely problematical whether
any money will follow these good resolu
tions.
Corkhill has been banqueted by some
newspaper men for convicting Guiteau.
Porter is to be feasted by New York lawyers
for the same thing. Blit Dr. Noble Young,
who really gave the jury a pretext for their
verdict—if-any were needed—has not been
mentioned in a gastronomic way.
There is wide difference of opinion con
cerning the practicability of the Eads Ship
Railway. Some contoud that it is bound to
be a success within five years. Admiral
Ammon and Mr. Stephens have no faith in
it at all. The latter applies to it the lan
guage used by Gov/ Crawford about per
petual motion: “The scheme is just as im
possible as tho attempt of a man to lift him
self by the seat of his breeches !” The
world-renowned engineer, Sir Edmund
Reed, hasmot the least doubt of its feasi
bility. As To a man being able to elevate
himself by the seat of his pantaloons, I be
lieve that an enterprising Yankee would in
vent some planter its accomplishment, if
there were any money in it. J. 11. R.
Washington, D. C., Fobruary 9, 1882.
The attempt of Senator Harris, of Tennes
see, io carry out the caucus resolution look
ing to the election of Neil Brown as Read
ing Clerk of the Senate was unexpectedly
defeated by Hon. Joseph E. Brown, who saw
in it nothing but evil. His x-ote made a
tie, which could not be decided by that of
David Davis, whoso affirmative ballot had
been cast in regular order. It hail been un
derstood that several Republicans would
favor the resolution, but, when the test
came, with the exception of Mr. Ingalls,
they were hostile to an emphatic extent.
Bather than imperil the present organiza
tion and precipitate a sectional debate, lead
ing to undesirable complications, the Geor
gia Senator had the nerve to bnffls a
movement he had never sanctioned.
His action is approved by many of
his associates, who perceive the* utility
and wisdom of letting well enough alone.
If they maintain that attitude Mr. Harris
may judiciously let the maker drop or else
be admonished by a worse defeat that he had
better have done so. His State has already
a preponderance of patronage in the Sen
ate, including his own son, and tho addi
tion of Neil Brown to it is regarded as
something akin to greediness. Tbis is the
status of the case, as I write. What form it
may take later on, in case of Mr. Harris
possible persistence, no man can declare
with certainty.
A Republican called my attention to Mr.
Speer hob-nobbing xvith Senator Mahone
tbis morning. I do not know that there was
any political significance ia it.
Mr. Beck’s impolitic allusion to the ar
rears of pensions has furnished the Repub
licans wiih some much needed capital for
home consumption, and compelled the
Democrats to make defensive explanations.
Plumb and Teller made buncombe speeches
to day, which will be utilized among their
constituents, and Mr. Harrison essayed to
match Mr. Yoorhees on the same line.—
There was a deal of craft displayed by tho
Republican speakers in avoiding all direct
attacks upon the late Confederacy, but
their implications were of a character to
evoke from bouthern Senators such re
sponses as were calculated to break the in
direct assault. Mr. Garland, of Arkansas,
led off in an excellent address. He is just
fifty years of age, hut does not look more
than forty-five. He is a man of fine pres
ence and thoughtfully benignant counte
nance. His face is clean shave?) and a trifle
clerical. His eyes are dark asi a his hair,
which is clipped to Regulation shortness. He
is a lawyer of distinction, qoa his intellect
is as broad, calm and judicial, as his sou! is
lofty and serene. His learning and good
sense equal his honesty, and he commands
universal respect. There is something love
able about him, for he never assumes any
airs'of hauteur so common to many in his
position, and no barriers ’of reserve are
thrown up around him to repel the contact
of the humblest of humanity. Ife started
ont by good naturedly twjtting Ml Beck for
traveling out of his \yay, in a speech on the
tftßijf, to charge a wjgd-rpill tliftf had noth
ing to do with it. He had shat at a buck
and peppered a doe—the gun, meanwhile,
kicking over the sportsman. He endorsed
what Vest had said the day before, and ap
proved the amendment of Senator Butler
relative to Mexican war snrvivors. The pen
sioning of a common soldiery of a common
country would always he favored by him.
Senator Brown followed in a brief speech,
overflowing with reasoulng, patriotic
apd tho' happiest'illustrations.
He was averse to reopening a case that had
been closed. A large number of the sol
diers of the Union had been already paid
.their pensions, and it was only justice that
all should share in the common bounty.
Otherwise there would be perpetual agita
tion. The Rword had settled questions
that could not be arbitrated in the forum,
and those who had failed in the' strife sub
mitted ip gooff fait!;. fjoutbpßn ’'people
had found this to he the best country in
the world after all, and they cling to it with
rirideand reverence that outlived animosity
4>r disaster. He was opposed to all agitation
of dead issues and only solicitous of the
present good and future prosperity of the
Republic. He thanked the distinguished
and able Senator from Kansas (Ingalls) for
according with Senator Butler in favor of
pensioning the valiant survivors of the
Mexican war and the Indian wars. He
hailed with delight such a practical exhi
bition of the era of good feeltag betweep j
thJ eemfyuii- The yteaah and English had
once wrestled for supremacy on the heights
of Abraham, in Canada, and the red flag of
Britain had waved in triumph over the
bannered lilies of France. But the traveler
in that country, where the two nationalities
dwe*l in harujOjiy iogetae* pov, fo<*y'be
hold a stately monument erected to com
memmorate the valor of both, and while the
heroic image of Wolfe adorns one side of
the marble shaft, the intrepid face of Mont
calm ornaments the other. By order of the
President, the English flag had been s?lut
ed, last year, at Yorsfowu, ra tor eh of
peace between ancient foes. The war be
tween the States was over; peace and
union reigned supreme. Men of the South
were glad to pension Union soldiers who j
deserved well of their country, and it wa3
an auspicious sign that men of the North j
j were willing to substantially remember and
rewara man. Southern warriors who had !
carried the banner of the jinibu against
savage tribes and to the halls of the Monte
zutnafi.
This utterance of Senator Brown made A j
deep impression, and there the whole mat- !
ter should have rested. But Mr. Beck, with j
his fatal facility for blundertag, emitted !
a doleful croak about “ extravagance,’’ i
“fraud,” etc. He professed to know that
quite a number of millionaires now Con
gressmen would participate in bounties
given to Mexican war veterans, and his soul
was disturbed at the very idea. After mut
tering something about his inability to see ;
where the money was to come from, and an- i
other growl at “fraud,” he subsided.
There was an old soldier who listened to ■
Mr. Beck with ;11-eoneealed indignation,
and that was Senator Maxey, of Texas. Ex- !
cept Mahone, this Senator is the thinneßt
and meagrest man on the floor. He is now I
57 years old, and looks all of that, although '
his hair, worn long and well greased, has no
suspicion of grey amid its plentiful dark- :
ness. His tuft of beard is silvering rapidly, j
His face is spare, grim and hawk-like. His
tall figure is what Voltaire described him- ■
self to be in the presence of M’dlle De Livry
- “an ezclamation point.” A graduate of '
West Point, promoted for valor in Mexico, !
and a mighty warrior of the Confed-!
eracy, the gaunt Texan has not alto- j
gether lost in the toga of the law I
tht maif'ai spirit that onee flashed t long
his uplifted sword. He had not fearid to
take Ingalls by the ear, yesterday, and he
had roughly shaken Beck about the pre
tended wealth of Mexican veterans now in
Congress, when his pungent speech was .cut
short by an announcement of the arrival of
the time for the pronunciation of etrlogi es
on the late H. P. O'Connor. Very appro
priate remarks were made by Senators
Butler, Bayard, Jones of Florida, an. 1
Hampton; but the Republicans were dumb.
I do not care to probe their motives, nor
does the dead man need their praise any
more than he recks their silence. The
Democratic Senators who so recently ten-*
dered their tribnteß to Matt Carpenter must
have been amazed thi t no Republican Sena
tor conld be found who would rise to the
height of appreciating the pure character,
the generous heart, the exalted intellect,
the matchless eloquence and the Christian
death of M. P. O’Connor ! J. R, R,
SUDDEN DEATH.
Grn. Win. PlncKne Dirs at the Globe
Hotel hast Night.
Last night, at 9:40, Gan. Win. Macßae
breathed his last at the Globe Hotel, in this
city.
Last Wednesday, Bth inst., he arrived in
Augusta from Wilmington and registering,
“Win. Macßae, North Carolina,” was as
signed to room No. G. For the past two or
three days he has been feeling badly, al
though, yesterday morning, he came down
stairs and seemed able to get about. I* ist
evening, however, he was seized wit-1 1 a
chill, and Dr. R. G. Hitt was summoned to
his bedside. Everything possible was do ne
for his relief, but it was early evident tl lat
his disease was most vigorous in its atta ck
and alarming in its nature, and at twei ity
minutes to ten General Macßae dii;d,
from congestion of the lungs. His body
was soon taken charge of by an-undertaS er
and prepared for the shroud'. lie was ala ae
in the city, and his remains will lie in sts te
at the Globe until to-morrow, when re! a
tives will reach the city. Mr. Walter Ms e-
Rao, of Wilmington, N. C., brother of t:ue
deceased, was immediately informed of t.tie
death of the General, and made all diri c
tions bv telegraph ns to the disposition of
the body. Col. R. H. Anderson, of Atlanta,
Superintendent of the Western and Atlantic
Railroad, was also wired of the occurrence.
The dead man had received every attention
and care from Messrs. Atkinson and their
employes of the Globe Hotel, who h ave also
taken charge of tho body, and will, turn it
over to his brother to-morrow.
Gen. Macßae was one of the f oremost
railroad officials of the South. Asa civil
engineer aud manager, he had no s ciperior,
and until three months ago had V leen Su
perintendent of the Western and Atlantic
Railroad. Lately Vie had been in terested
in building the Belt Railroad aro and At
lanta, and was probably in Aug nsta on
business appertaining to that enter} irise.
Gen. Macßae wa3 in the prime of life,
was unmarried, and was a man of fi ae phy
sique as well as of professional attaii iments.
He had friends all over the South, t tho will
regret to hear of his sudden death.
FOOD FOR ft INFLECTION -
A Ur publican Faper’a Appeal To Re pub*
1 leans.
(Washington National Republican, Feb. Bth.)
Beware the leaven of tho Pharisees.
Your party cannot live without growth. Do
not fear to fellowship with y our enemy’s
foes. Do not fail to rebul ;e any who
narrowly repel recruits. Vhe Bourbon
Democracy never forgives .anybody for
desertion. When you find a rebel against
Bourbon authority you have 1 ound an ally
in the cause of law and order. You cannot
control this Nation with the v otes of those
only who were opposed to the extension of
slavery in 1856 or 1860. You cannot have
a mojority in either House of Congress by
tho votes of. those only who wore on the
Union side during the rebellion. The
Southern States have been dis icordant and
alien since the war, except whe n for a brief
time they were controlled by external
power. The faint-hearted p ortion of tli6
Republican party in the No:rtb long ago
gave up efforts at preserving oi der and pro
tecting rights in the South, and that region
became a L’onrbou absolutism. The South
ern Republicans were abandoned, and they
ceased struggling for party sui ;oe.ss. They
are now divided into two etas.sos—the one
allying itself with the erns ade against
Bourbon rule and the other holding back,
and thus indirectly aiding the Bourbons,
in order to keep the party small; the one
struggling to make friends fo:r the Nation
and it 3 laws among those who were not so
before, while the other encou rages a con
tinuation of the sullen policy; the one aims
at anti-Bnurbon control in the Statzsl&a well as
in the Nation, and realizes th at Bourbon
Motes mil have Bourbon Representatives at
Washington: the other strives on !y to make
delegates and committees and to demand
the Federal offices in consideration'of their
use. To the liberal class, the blacks
naturally belong, as shown in Virginia.
Republicans of the North will do well to
look at the situation. If they are willing to
affiliate with all who are opposed to Vie restora
tion of the Bourbon Democracy to power they
can secure for that purpose tiie next House
of Representatives and half of tho electoral
votes of tho South in 1884. If they adhere
to a narrow, close-communion policy, the
next House of Representatives is already
lost; and as such a policy would be a with
drawal from the Virginia Liberals it would
make a Republican Senate impossible in
1883. The National Republican is for no
compromise with the ouemy and for no
lowering of the party flag. It advocates
affiliation with Southern Liberals as against
Southern Bourbons, and it will oppose so
called Republicans who aro on the other
side of this proposition.
There is treason in our party, and it is
not hard to trace. The very highest in
rank in the Bonrbon empiro are now in
treaty with Republicans who hate our party
and seek its overthrown. These traitors
are among the greatest sticklers for the
integrity of the Republican party where
ever they believe such a course is surest to
defeat Republicanism. They are going to
do all the harm they can ns Republicans
before they declare war, 4nd then they will
be found lending themselves as tho figure
heads of a sham Liberal movement in the
South to be controlled by the Bourbons and
Pharaohs of that unhappy region. Tho
Republican party can ward off all danger
by keeping within oall of the anti-Bourbon
element of the South. Soon enough their
aid will be needed to help us tight the
alliance between Bourbons and false Re
publicans.
THE CROPS.
(Griffin News.)
Farmers are busy fencing up their stock.
A&GranJe Reporter.)
An unusual breadth of land has been
sown in Spring oats.
(Newberry News.)
There is, or was last week, a fifty acre
field almost white with cotton, in the wes
tern part of this county.
(Barnwell Sentinel.)
From the number of larks and other de
structive birds that have made their appear
ance on the farms near the village, it is be
lieved that our planters are going to have
trouble with them about the time corn
planting commences.
(Thomasville Enterprise.)
Watermelon growers are active in prepar
ing their ground and putting out fertilizers.
Extra efforts will be made to secure early
stands.—White frosts on Wednesday and
Thursday mornings last. Very little, if
any, damage was done.
(Correspondence'Columbus Enquirer.)
Having traveled through the counties of
Coweta, Fayette, Meriwether, Troup, Har
ris and Muscogee, it will be interesting to
your readers to learn that a large acreage of
small grain is sown in each of the counties
named above. The farmers appear to have
come to their senses, and are now indica
ting by their acts that they intend in future
to turn thei* attention to raising home
supplies than so? many years.
(Yorkvfile (8. C.) Enquirer.}
After but three or four days of sunshine
during the month,of January, February was
usherod in bright and clear, and the weath
er has so moderated that Monday and Tues
day were almost balmy and Spring-like.
With a continuance of dry weather the form
ers will soon be able to commence opera
tions; for, notwithstanding the large amount
of rain that has fallen, we are informed that
uplands are drying off rapidly and in some
localities are ready now for the plow.
(Dawson Journal.)
There seems just now to be considerable
apprehension about the future of our oat
crop in this section. Some complain that
it is too promising to last long. (Others cay
that its destruction is threatened by the
Hessian fly, and yst' otners me to be found
WnQ have seen indications of rust.—An
' interview with Mr. O. C. Cleveland, who
has just retnrned from an extensive trip
through the country, develops very cheer
ing news as to the prospect of sm?,l, grain
crops. He says the oat, c *os, especially, is
looking well, «ad promises an unusually
large yield. He thinks at least 25 per cent.
1 more of oats have been sown in Southwest
Georgia than in any previous year.
(Oglethorpe leho.)
Jlyery stranger that comes to our town has
something to say in regard to the amount of
grain that was sowed the last Fall; and, no
wonder, for no matter what direction you
go the fields on the roads;'’, q are up with
navs u( kheap and we are glad this is not
confined to aloDg the road. We do not
know, perhaps, what will sive the country,
but we this to be one of tb.e best
signs we have seen since c'ne war.—East
Tuesday we had a conversation with a gen
tleman that Uvea above Cherokee Corner,
and he informs us that he thinks his section
will buy bat little guano, plant more grain
and less cotton this year than for several
years. We only hope other portions of the
county will do likewise.
No Starvation In Louisiana.
(By Telegraph to the Chronicle.)
Nrw Op.ue*ns, February 11.—The Pico
yum. publishes interviews with several
prominent citizens of North Louisiana,
some of whom reached the city yesterday,
in regard to the report of starvation prevail
ing in that section of the State. Each and
every one of them state that Buch reports
are untrue. The crops in that part of the
State were short and there is but little
money, but no distress prevails that cannot
be relieved by the people of the respective
parishes. Gov. McEnery haa received a
number of dispatches in reply to inquiries
from him to citizens of North Louisiana,
denying the statements made in the pream
ble adopted by the Columbia; Caldwell
parish, meeting*
FORTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS.
BUSINESS IN THE SENATE AND HOUSE
YESTERDAY.
The Pensions Arrears Resolution—D. F.
Kliby, a Cashiered Colonel, Appointed
a Captain In the Army.
(By Telegraph to the Chronicle.)
SENATE.
Washington, February 10. — A resolution,
offered by Mr. Windom was adopted, call
ing for the report of the Treasury Cattle
Commission on the lung plague, or conta
gions pleuropneumonia.
Mr. Edmunds gave notice that the Judi
ciary Committee would, on Tuesday, ask to
have the bill regarding polygamy in Utah
•considered, and hoped it would be disposed
< if on that or the following day.
Mr. Morrill said after the Pension Arrears
r esolution was acted on ho would antago
e ize all measures with the Tariff Commis
s ion bill.
The remainder of the morning hour, un
ti 1 l :30 o’clock, was consumed in consider
it g, without action, of several measures of a
st rictly private interest. At 1:30, the Pen
sion Arrears resolution was Again taken np
and Mr. Maxey resumed his remarks in
support of the amendment, declaring in fa
vor of an enlargement of the Mexican war
pension list, lie alluded to the exception
al features of that war as one in which our
volunteers carried the flig- upon a foreign
soil, as one whose results in the acquisition
of territory were of material benefit to the
country and eulogized the services of our
little army in their successful campaigns.
Mr. Beck said the principle had been an
nounced that arrears of pensions should be
given to pensioners of all our wars, irrespec
tive of their circumstances, and that if this
was carried out it would bankrupt the coun
try. He would vote for properly guarded
legislation to pension the deserving of
our veterans, but not those of them who
did not need this aid. At 2:10 the resolu
tion was laid aside by general consent. Mr.
Frye proceeded to address the Senate upon
the tariff, Mr. Morrill’s Commission bill be
ing informally taken up to permit his re
marks. He announced himself as a protec
tionist upon principle. At 3:35, npon the
conclusion of Frye’s remarks, consideration
of the Pensions Arrears resolution was re
sumed, and Mr. Call, who was awarded the
floor for a speech upon it, yielded for a
motion for an executive session. Pending
action, Mr. Lapham introduced a hill to
establish a mint of the United States in
Ne'w Yorkcity; also a joint resolution direct
ing the joint Committee on Printing to
contract with the reporter of the trial of the
nmrderor of President Garfield for tho pub
lication in book form of an official report of
the trial. The Senate then, at 3:45, went
into executive session, and, at 4:05, ad
journed until Monday.
HOUSE.
Mr. Prescott, of New York, moved to
lay aside the consideration of private busi
ness for the purpose of permitting the
debate npon tho Apportionment bill to
be continued, but failed to obtain the neces
sary two-thirds vote, and the Speaker, as
the regular order, proceeded to call commit
tees for reports of a private nature.
At the conclusion of the morning hour
Mr. Prescott, of New York, made another
attempt to bring up his Apportionment bill,
bnt was again unsuccessful and the House,
at 1:10, went into committee of tho whole,
Mr. Joyce, of Vermont, in the Chair, on
the private calendar.
The first bill on the calendar, authorizing
the President to appoint D. F. Kirby to a
captaincy in the army, gave rise to a" long
discussion, the facts being that Colonel and
Brevet Brigadier-General Kirby was cash
iered from the army for drnnkenneßS and
conduct unbecoming an officer. The op
ponents of the bill contended that with
that record staring Congross in the face it
conld not afford to grant the relief asked
for. After determined opposition a vole
was taken on laying the bill aside for favor
able consideration, and it was agreed to,
96 to 55. The committee then rose and
reported the bill to the House. Mr. Bragg,
of Wisconsin, immediately moved to ad
journ, but yielded to Mr. Hiscock, of New
York, to report, the immediate Deficiency
Appropriation bill and to Mr. Blackburn,
of Kentucky, to report the Military Academy
Appropriation bill, which woro referred to
the committee of the whole.
Mr. Hiscock gave notice that he would,
on Monday, call up tho Deficiency bill for
consideration.
Mr. Bragg’s motion was theu rejected,
and the bill for the relief of D. F. Kirby was
ordered engrossed and read a third time.
Mr. Bragg called for the reading of the
engrossed bill. hopiDg thereby to delay ac
tion upon it, but the advocates of the bill
had had the bill engrossed before hand,
and it was read. The hill was then passed
—yeas, 97; nays, 63.
Mr. Cravens, of Arkansas, introduced a
bill authorizing tho Mississippi. Albu
querque and Inter-Ocean Railway Company
to construct a road through the Choctaw
and Chickasaw reservations. Referred.
The Speaker Jaid before the House a com
munication from tho Secretary of tho Treas
ury, transmitting a list of officers and em
ployes of tho Internal Revenue Bureau and
the Department of J notice, who have been
killed or wounded in.the enforcement of
internal revenue laws. Tho number of em
ployes killed is 27, nnd the number wound
ed 50. The names of eight persons are also
given who were assaulted and wounded for
supplying the internal revenue officers with
information. The Honse then, at 5:05, ad
journed until Monday.
SENATE.
Washington, Febinary 13.—Mr. Harris,
of Tennessee, introduced a bill for a pub
lic building at Chattanooga.
The Senate, under the Anthony rule, took
up and continued the consideration of bills
on the calendar unobjected to until 1:30
o’clock. The following Senate bills were
passed: To amend article 103 of Rules and
Articles of War (imposing limitation of two
years from date of enlistment against prose
cutions for desertion). To promote the
efficiency ot the navy, making drnukenness
or incapacity, arising from misconduct, and
not contracted in tho line of duty,.a suffi
cient reason to prevent an officer of the
navy being placed on the retired list, and
allowing him, upon a discharge by the
President, one year’s pay.
The Pension Arrears resolution came up
as unfinished business, bnt was laid aside
temporarily.
Mr. Dawes, as Massachusetts, by special
assignment, then addressed the Senate in
favor of Civil Service Reform. His remarks
were made upon the reference of his bill
providing for entrance into and promotions
in the civil service of the Government by
competitive examination, whiefc, was taken
up to enable him to be heard upon it.
Mr. Pendleton also, spoke on the same
subject, after which the subject was dispets
ed of by reference of the bill to the Oomit
tee on Civil Service.
Air. Plumb, from tho Committee on Pub
lic Lands, reported favorably a bill to pro
vide for payment of what is known as the
five per cent. oiaitn of public land States in
regard to lands entered within their limitß
by military scrip nnd land warrants.
Air. Call, of Florida, introduced a bill to
grant tho right of way over public lands
and military reservation to the Jacksonville,
St. Augustine and, Halifax River Railway
Company.
The Senate confirmed John Gallagher,
or., of Pennsylvania, Consul-General at Rio
de Janeiro, and the following postmasters :
Charles S. Moss, Franklin, 'l,'oim.; Owen T.
Holmes, Leesburg, Y<v: Wm. A. Pattie,
Warrenton, Va.; Lenns North, Brunswick,
Ga.; Davis, Athens, Ga,; also,
Xho3. B. Johnson, to bo Collector of Cus
toms, at Charleston, S. O.; Commodore
Febiger, to be Bear Admiral; Capt. Jno. L.
Davis, to be Commodore, and Col. D. H.
Rucker, to be Quartermaster-General, with
the rank of Brigadier-General,
Additional bills were introduced, as fol
lows :
By Mr. Vance, of North Carolina -For the
relief of officers o.n the retired list of the
army and navy. It empowers the President
fto detail such retired officers as may apply
to him for employment in the Indian and
Pension Bureaux, Life Saving Service or
other branches of civil'service, such officers
to receive while performing this duty full
pay and allowance of their rank and no
more. After executive, session the Senate
adjourned.
HOUSE.
I Mr. Bead, of Maine, asked that the Ge ■
neva Award bill be made the special order
for Tuesday, 21st inst.
Mr. Buckner, of Missouri, objected.
Mr. Williams of Wisconsin, Chairman of
the Committea on Foreign Affairs, reported
a Resolution calling on tho Secretary of
‘ State for all correspondence relating to
perils to American missionaries in Persia;
also, for information as t-n the propriety of
establishing diplomatic relations with
Persia. Adopted,
The House passed a bill providing for the
payment of claims of clerks in the Census
Bureau, which were assigned to other posi
tions before the appropriation for their pay
ment was made. Under the call of States,
a number of bills were introduced and re
ferred, among them a bill,
by Mr. Ellis, of Louisiana—To authorize
the constiuction of a ship canal to connect
Lake Ponchartrain and Mississippi river.
By Mr. Carlisle, of Lentncky— I "2x> amend
laws relatingio internal reverse, and fixing
a, tax «n each proof gallo a t 50 cents.
By Mr. Herndor f 0 f Alabama—Granting
the right of over public lands in Ala
bama, to grant lands in said State in
ai.i of the Guif and Chicago Air Line Rail
way, and for the benefit of pnblic schools in
said State.
By Mr. Warner, of Tennessee—To repeal
the law chartering National banks, and to
abolish National hanks.
The Senate amendment to the House hill
for the relief of colored emigrants was con
curred in. Mr. Anderson, from the Com
mittee on Agricultural, reported a bill en
larging the powers of the Department of
Agriculture. To the House calendar.
The morniDg hour was dispensed with
and the consideration of the Apportionment
bill was resumed. Mr. Prescott, of New
York, stated that ho was directed by the
Committee on Census to call the previous
question when six hoars more had been
consumed in debate. A»very noisy discus
sion arose as to whether the time devoted
to debate upon the bill could not be so
limited that a vote could be reached to
morrow evening, but there was great di
versity of opinion as to the exact limit to be
placed upon the debate, and no definite
settlement was arrived at, though Mr. Pres
cott gave notice that he would call the pre
vious question at the end of six honrs’ de
bate. The bill was debated by several
members until 4-30, when, without action,
or taking up other business, the House ad
journed.
SENATE. #
Washington, February 14.—Tho Commit
tee on Civil Service was authorized lo send
for persons and papers upen the statement,
by Mr. Hawley, that the committee desired
this authority, so as to enable them to pay
the mileage of several gentlemen-whose
presence they desired. .
At 12:30 tho privileged morning business
having been finished, the calendar became
the regular order of business under the An
thony rule until 1:30.
Mr. Edmunds moved a suspension of all
standing orders to take up the Anti-Polyga
my bill. The discussion of this proposi
tion used up the morning Lour, but was
voted down—2l to 29.
Upon the expiration of the morning hour
tho Pensions Arrears resolution came up as
unfinished business. Mr. Edmunds again
moved to proceed with the Anti-Polygamy
bill, bnt said he would not ask a vote on
the motion until eeveral Senators who had
given notice of set speeches on other sub
jects to-day had been heard. Ry unani
mous consent, unfinished v business was
then informally laid aside, and Mr. Slater
spoke upon the important to the com
merce ot the Northwest of the improvement
of Columbia river.
Mr. Vance then took the floor for a speech
on tho tariff. Ho deplored the burdens of
the high protective policy which fell with
the greatest weight upon the agricultural
class aud did more to retard the growth
and impair the wealth of the South than
any other cause. This policy, he thought,
illustrated the general drift of Congressional
legislation in enabling one section of the
country to absorb and utalize the emolu
ments and benefits of the Government to
the exclusion of another section. This
tendency was manifest in the disposal of
the public lands. Os tho total given in aid
of the construction of railroads the North
secured the lion’s share of 32,488 000
acres as against 12,000,000 acres allowed to
the States of the South. Railroad corpora
tions of the North had received for building
railroads 139,241,000 acres, while the only
Southern corporation that had recoived any
thing—if, by a poetic stretch of imagina
tion, the Southern Pacifio conld be called
a Southern corporation—was given, 9,-
520,000 acre 9. 4,500,000 acres had been
given in aid of Northern oanals and not a
solitary acre for this purpose in the
South. As to the amounts for agricultural
purposes, the disparity was snch, Mr. Vanoe
thought, as to put to shame a man who ac
cused the South of illiteracy, and boasted
of tho North’s superior intelligence, be
cause, while 70,217,000 acres ot the com
mon property of the people had been given
for the support of schools in the Northern
States, but 6,431,000 had gone to aid the
South. Upon Northern internal improve
ments the Government had expended $59,»
661,000, and for similar purposes in the
South, $22,259,000. The calculation show
ed, as the grand total of money and bonds
expended by tho Government forthe benefit
of the North, $275,362,000, against $94,-
814,000, and the donation of 246,449,000
acres of land, against 28,319,000 acres. Be
sides this, soven-tenths of all the emolu
ments of public offices were enjoyed by
Northern people. Denouncing protection
as robbery, and referring to the text of the
Supreme Court decision in support of his
assertion—that this term had been applied
by that Court to the present system—Mr.
Vance ridiculed what ho called the hypoc
risy of the manufacturers—the cry of “Pro
tection to American labor.” He denied
that protection built np a home market, ex
cept for the manufacturer.
On the conclusion of Mr. Vance’s remarks
the Pension Arrears resolution came Up,
and Mr. Call, who was awarded the floor
npon it, deferred his remarks until to
morrow. Air. Edmunds theu asked for a
vote upon his motion to take np the Anti-
Polygamy bill, and after an arrangement
which entitles Mr. Call to retain the floor for
his speech to-morrow on pensions, the mo
tion prevailed and the bill was taken up
and laid over as the next business in order
after Mr. Call shall have finished his re
marks.
Bills were introduced by Mr. Call, to ex
empt a vessels of less than 25 tons, in the
inland waters of the United States and not
engaged in the transportation of passengers,
from inspection and license.
Mr. Morgan offered a resolution', which
was referred, requesting the President to
bring to the attention of tho Government
of Nicaragua tho necessity of arranging,
by convention, for the final settlement of
all unadjusted claims existing between the
United States nnd Nicaragua and of
of either of said Governments against the
other Government. Adjourned.
HOUSE.
1
Under a call of committees the following
j reports were submitted :
By Mr. Willetts, of Michigan, from the
a Committee on Judiciary—To prevent per
. sons living in bigamy or polygamy from
' holding any civil office of trust or profit in
7 any of the Territories of the United States,
and from being Delegates to Congress. To
the Honse calendar.
By Mr. Hammond, of Georgia—Amend*
. ing section 1090 of the Revised Statute/i,
I relating to interests in judgment rendered
j by the Court ol Claims, so as to provide
f that in cases where judgment, applied for is
. in favor of claimant or the same is affirmed
. by the Supreme Court, interest thereon at
, the rate of 5 per cent, shall be allowed from
r date of its presentation to the Secretary of
j the Treasury for payment. To the House
calendar.
Bills were reported by Mr. Vance, of
North Carolina, from the Committee on
Patents—For thh extension of lettters pat
ei;t for improvement in the eclipse cotton
■ gin -to the private calendar. By Mr. Orth,
- from the Committee on Foreign Adairs—ad- ’
versely a resolution (originally oflered by
. Mr. Robinson, of New York) calling on the
Attorney-General for his opinion as to
1 whether if Joseph Warren Keifer, Alonzo B.
l Cornell or Charles Carroll should be arre-st
, ed in the British Empire without having
committed any crime -if the English Gov
ernment, by suspending the writ of habeas
1 corpus, conld lawfully nrrest him. on in
definite suspicion, without trial or without
the right of the United States to demand
his release. Mr. Robinson, of New York,
desired to debate the resolution, but the
Speaker hqjd that the pending matter to lay
it npon the table was cot debateab'a. The
resolution was tabled—yeas, V) 7■" navs
103. ’ J ’
Mr. Orth also reported adversely a resolu -
tion requesting the President to communi
cate all correspondency with the British
Government on file v*. the State Department
in reference to H,e. case of D. H. O’Connor,
a citizen of tt\s> \Jnited States, now impris
oned in Iwir.nd. Mr. Orth stated that the
papers to had already been asked
fc« By a previous resolution of the House,
under guise of parliamentry inquiry,
Mr. Cox, of New York, managed to get in
a few remarks in support of both these reso -
lutions, declaring that there was underlying
the first tho great principle of American
citizenship, and that the second was neces
sary to show the State Department that Con
gress was urgent in this matter. The Honse
refused to lav the motion upon the table
71 to 79.
Mr. Cox thereupon offered an amendment,
requesting the President to obtain for D.
H. O’Connor, and other American citizens
now imprisoned, under suspension of
habeas corpus, by the British Government in
Ireland without trial, conviction or sentence,
a speedy and iaiv trial or prompt release.
A point of order was raised that the
amendment was not german to tho subject,
and the Speaker sustained the point. This
started a lively debate, in which Mr. Robin
son, of New York, led off and boro the chief
part. He questioned tho manhood of any
member who would vote to table such a res
olution. He declared that he had not been
able to got fair play on this floor. He had
been repressed and sat upon. The Com
mittee on Foreign Affairs and the State De
partment alone seemed to be unaware of
the fact American citizens were imprisoned
in Ireland. Mr. Robinson then proceeded
to name some of tho American citizens im-.
prisoned in Ireland. There was Mr. Mc-
Sweeney, of California. He bad a certificate
of naturalization on which was engraved
the American eagle, but the tyrannical des
pot paid no more attention to it thanrif it
were a crow or a oormoranl. Another pris
oner was Michael Hart, of Massachusetts.
AVculd Massachusetts stand by and let acit- .
izen.rot in a foreign prison ? No country,
ancient or modern, had ruled with an iron
hand so terribly and tyrannically as did
England to-day, Referring to newspaper
criticisms upon his course, he said he could
not get representatives of the press to do
him justice. He was not talking about Ire
land, but about unjaat imprisonment of
American citizens. He wanted to say noth:
ing about Ireland, and yet he was repre
sented as spending the time of the House in
talking about it.
Mr. ftobinsou’s remarks took a very per
sonal turn and were largely directed against
Mr. Robeson, of New Jersey. The latter
obtained the floor and replied in the same
strain. Mr. Robeson yielded the floor to
Mr. Orth, to allow him to demand tho pre
vious question npon the resolution. The
confusion, which had been ail day very
great upon the floor, was increased as
Messrs. Randall, Cox and Hooker, of Mis
sissippi, rose with points of order against
the Speaker awarding the floor to Mr. Orth,
contending that >s the recommendation of
the Committee on Foreign Affairs had not
been agreed, to, tho control of the measure
had panned out of the hands of Mr. Orth,
and that tho Speaker should recognize the
opponents of the committee’s recommenda
tion.
The Speaker overruled the point of or
der, and held that as no onehad claimed
the floor to take control of the measure, he
was bound to recognize the gentleman from
Indiana (Mr. Orth) to demand the previous
question. From this decision Mr. Cox ap
pealed, but the appeal was tabled—yeas,
123; nays, 112. _ ,
Mr. Blount, of Georgia, a member of tho
Committee on Foreign Affairs, stated that
he had never heard the resolntion consider
ed in committee, nor had any other member
of the minority members done so.
Mr. Williams, Chairman of the commit
tee, stated that he had not understood that
the resolntion had been considered, and
nothing abont it appeared on the minutes
of the committee meeting. He had been
informed, however, that just prior to the
adjournment of the meeting Mr. Orth had
stated that if there was no objection he
would report the resolution to the House,
and that hearing none he had done so.
Mr. Randall then raised the point of or
der, that as the resolntion was not a report
from the committee, it was not in order.
The Speaker held that the objection came
too late.
Mr. Randall stated that he wished to call
the attention of the country to the faot that
the resolution had come to the House with
out the consent of the committee.
Mr. Orth stated that he had no objection
to that action, and the resolution was ac
cordingly recommitted, with instructions as
stated.