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THE
WEEKLY
SUN.
VOL. 3, NO. 391 ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1873.
I
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1 U X B1bItI
THE ATLANTA SUN
from The Dally Son of February 18,1878
FREE GOVERNMENT^
Thu United States Govern meet, as
loon (led and established by the fathers,
ja a model of free institutions, the Like
ql wnich is unknown to history. Based
upon “ the consent of the governed,” it
has stood as a monument of wisdom and
statesmanship, and called forth the admir
ation and respect of ail lovers of freedom
throughout the world. As long as the
love of liberty throbs in the American
Breast, thia great fabric, sheltering and
protecting the rights of the people, will
stand us the Ararat to direot all nations
in their onward progress toward republi
can government.
The Temple of Liberty may be shaken
and seem to crumble, as it were, amid
the surges of political convulsions, pro
duced by turbulent spirits seeking power
by the oppression of the people, as we
have recently witnessed in onr own
country. This is exhibited in the ten
dency of certain political elements to
oon verge all power in the General Gov
ernment, ignoring the “reserved rights
of the States” and the sovereigu will of
the people, under pretense of pieserving
the Union—contending that the strength
of the Union lies in the “ piirmamont
power” o the Federal Government.
This tendency to Centralism naturally
earrios with it the spirit of corruption,
culminating in t e most scandalous ex
posures of duplicity, thieving and plun
dering by high officials, and by men oc
cupying the highest positions in the
Government. Men who would rob the
people ol their liberties are naturally in
clined to rob them of their treasure.
Corrupt politicians, greedy for power
and scif-aggrandizemeut, do not scruple
to resort to all sorts of schemes to carry
their nefarious ends. Thus we have con
stant demonstrations of the evils thut
form part and parcel of the downward
tendency of public aud political moral
decay.
Iu the better days of the Republic,
when the “old leaders” of the South,
and those of the North, were chosen to
conduct the affairs of the Government,
we heard nothing of buch schemes as the
Credit Mobiher, or of stock jobbing
rings among the members of Congress.
These evils Lave grown up iu tue late
yeats oi political degeneracy, now seem
ing to culminate iu the oorrupt centrali
zation of the Government.
Tne political integrity of the people, as
serting their cupaeity for self-govern
ment, planting themselves firmly upon
those great fundamental principles of
iree government, which underlie and
form the basis of our tree institutions,
•pin alone save this government from an-
arohy and despotism. The strag
gling people of other countries,
panting for the liberties enjoyed by
freemen, are watching, with intense and
nnabated interest, the progress of events
in this oonntry. Therelore, in saving
and perpetuating onr own liberties we
hold oat hope to the oppressed of all na
tions.
The asoendaney of a genuine demoo-
racy is the preservation and perpetuation
of free government. The least oonoes-
aion of Jeffaisonian principles is so much
gain to Centralism and the gradual ob
literation of free government. To admit
wrong measures as final ties, not to be
disturbed, is a concession against free
government The trne principles of free
government cannot beoome obsolete.
They are eternal, and the so-called “pro
gressive ideas of the present generation
can never obliterate them as long as the
people are trne to themselvks and to pub-
lio liberty.
Therefore, it behooves ns, as a people,
to be jealous of the blessings of free gov
ernment bequeathed to us by our fathers.
Thrones are tumbling and dynasties are
crumbling, bat the liberties of a free and
spirited people oan never be taken from
them as long as they remain true to first
principles.
THE CAPITOL IN ATLANTA.
The Borne Commercial has this to say
in regard to Atlanta and the State Capi
tol:
■-Atlanta rejoice* In tit* defeat of the bill to call a
Constitutional Convention. The Journal* of that
city aoent a removal of the Capitol la every more of
thie kind. W* are opposed to a Convention also,
and are glad of the defeat of the bill. At to a re
moval of the Capitol, however, we do aot fear that,
end were a Convention neoeaeery, thl* question
should weigh bat little with as. Atlanta It the
Capitol of Oeor.le, and vU continue to be—even
when. If ever, e vote of the people la taken on the
queetion.”
Tile press and people of Atlanta have
been modest enough in regard to the re
moval of the State CapitoL It was
brought here against their votes, and as
it has cost the city und State a great deal
in its being brought here, they are not
willing that it Bbould be removed.
Taking into consideration all questions
in connection with this subject, we do
not know that onr city is greatly benefit-
ted in dollars and cents by having the
Capitol here. It is a serious question
whether the city has lost or made by the
operation.
But aside from any interest Atlanta
may have in this question, we believo it
would be bad policy to remove the Capi
tol. Its present location is the most ac-
cessable to all points of the State. Onr
railroad facilities reach out and peTmeate
a greater proportion of the State than
any other city in Georgia. Therefore,
it is more convenient to the people ot the
State that the Capitol should remain
where it is.
The people of Georgia can have no
quarrel with the citizens of Atlanta in the
location of the State Capitol in our midst
—for it is well known that they polled a
heavy vote against the ratification o: the
State Constitution that brought it here.
COMPARATIVE FIGURES IN CONGRESS.
Iu the 42(1 Cougress, we have 52 Re
publicans, 17 Democrats and 5 Liberals
iu the Senate ; in the House, we have
134 Republicans, 104 Democrats, aud 5
Liberals, giving the Republicans a major
ity of 30 iu the Senate, and 25 in the
House, and on joint ballot a majority of
55.
So far as members to the 43d Congress
have been chosen, we have 49 Republi
cans in the Senate, and 23 Democrats
and Liberals ; in the House, 193 Repub
licans, and 92 Democrats and Liberals—
giving the Republicans a majority of 26
in the Senate, anu 101 in the House, and
on joint ballot, a majority of 127.
The 43d Congress was elected under
the new apportionment which gives a
gain of 49 members to the House. From
♦.he loregoing figures it will be seen that
the whole gain of members under the
new apportionment in the lower House
we t to the Republicans, while the Demo
crats and Liberals, in point of members,
fall 117 short of their number in the
present Congress.
In other words, the blander of tbe
Democratic party in 1872, has lost ns 17
members in the House, while the Repub
licans have swelled their majority from
25 in the 42d Congress to 101 in the
43d.
These figures are simply given for re
flection, and as an appeal for the unity
and harmony of the great Democratic
party ou correct principles.
THM BONN COURIER.
We are glad to observe that the Cburier
has donned, partially, a new dress—its
reading matter being now printed from
new long primer type. Tbe advertise
ments have not yet been re-eet in the
new type, whieh, when done, will give
the Courier a handsome appearance. Until
then, the improvement will not be so
apparent We wish the Courier the
greatest snooeas. Edited and conducted
with ability, and being located in. oae of
the beet towns in the State, it is a flour
ishing and influential ^ouruaL
toff' It is said la ’.ies use newspapers
for bustles. We don't see h**w so delicate
a fact can be known tp gentiemeu except
*hi\q going through the'giddy maces, of
the round dance, whan tne band gently
steals its way arooud the waist
THE PERSS TAN.
The failure of the present General As
sembly to relieve tbe Georgia newspapers
of taxation shows a spirit of injnstioe
to the press we could have scarcely be
lieved It seems to ns there ia a
want of intelligent information on the
part oi a majority of the Legislature cn
this subject entirely inexcusable. They
seem to Lave a sort of prtjadioe they
cannot overoome. They don’t seem to
understand the principle that the press
is the greatest educator in the land, and
that knowedge ought to go to the people
free of taxation. They don’t seem to
oom prebend the situation on this point.
They are blind to every thing upon this
subjeot except a morbid prejudice they
cannot overcome.
The State of Georgia is the only conn-
try in the c.vilised world that taxes its
press, and it never was done in Georgia
until Radicalism came into power and
found the press of the State arrayed
against its oppressive measures and oor
rupt mal-administration of the govern
ment. That party levied a tax upon the
press, wnich even the corrupt and vindic
tive Bollock hesitated to oolleoL
Upon the asoenaancy of the Democra
cy to power in the Bute, wnich is so
greatly due to tbs great power of the
press, we, tbe members of tne “Fourth
Estate,” have oome forward, in the most
respectful terms, and asked the Demo
cratic members of the Legislature to re
move the obuoxions and unjust tax levied
upon ub by »..rangers aud aliens of our
State, and we are ur* ated with oool indif
ference. _
The LaG range Reporter says the
Senale “made an aw of »^if” in passing
the KuKux bilL Such an am would
certain > Oo a great bydra-hfeaded tnou-
a er with its eighty-eight *** »lfsticking
out. • * v
SPIRIT OP TOE GEORGIA PRESS.
The Chronicle and Sentinel, discussing
the subject ot another investigation ot
the bond question, makes tbe strong
point that “a reeolation passed the Legis
lature by an immense majority, over act
ing Governor Conley’s veto, in Decem
ber, 1871, to have th- bond matter ex
amined, and Gov. South—then Speaker
of the House—and President Trammell
appointed a committee to oonduct the
investigation. Upon that committee
were Bnch men as Thomas J. Simmons
and Garnett McMillan. The Democrats
wished an investigation, the Republicans
opposed it, the bondholders opposed it.
These latter gentry did not wish the
“equities” examined then, and violently
contended that there should be no
probing of the villainies attending the
issue and negotiation of the fraudulent
securities.”
The Chronicle asks:
Why, then, their present solicitude about the equi
ties ? In spite of their objections the committee
made a long, laborious and careful examination of
the subject matter referred to their consideration.
Their report was singularly able, elaborate and ex
haustive—meeting and disposing of every legal and
moral queaUon connected with the subject. The
report cost the State in the neighborhood of $10,000
—money well spent. Why, then, the necessity of
another investigation T It is claimed that
Messrs. Simmons end McMillan did not perform
their duty faithfully t We think not. Is it contend
ed that the bondholders did not have an opportuni
ty to be heard T They were given an abnn iance of
time in which to prepare and make their statements,
and the testimony of most of them was reduced to
writing and published. Mo other investigation is
needed, and no other investigation should be made.
If the Wall street gang and their allies are so anxi
ous lor another examination, why is it that they
hare tailed to take advantage of the resolution passed
by the Oenera 1 Assembly at its last session ?
Oar Georgia exchanges are still clang
ing away at the bond question. There
is a great division of opinion iu regard
to it. To tell the truth, we very
much doubt if any of them understand
the question thoroughly, and we are in
clineu to think some of our friends of
the press have waded into deeper water
in the discussion of this perplexing ques
tion than they imagine. The various
letters written by prominent gentlemen
on the subject seems not to have had the
effect of elucidating the matter with any
thing like general satisfaction—for in
stance, the Savannah News regards Col.
Gardner’s letter “as an able legal argu
ment,”
—"but it will hardly serve to convince the Legisla
ture and the people of the State that stultification
and compromise with fraad are the best or only
means of preserving the honor and restoring the
credit of the State."
Aud of Ex-Governor Brown’s letter,
the News thinks that it—
—**ia what might have been expected from the po
litical and personal friend of Bullock, Kimball A Co.,
and will be roceived as such by the true men of the
Btate. Ingenious, sophistical and demagoguelcal as
It is, whatever it may have cost, its influence upon
the minds of reflecting men in favor of Ool. Snead’s
black mail scheme, will hsrdly be worth the price of
Its pnblioaUon in the Constitution and Sew.
The R >me Commercial says an “ eternal
fitness ot things is clearly shown in Joe
Brown’s advocacy of the claims cf the
holden of illegal bonds. Joe Brown
aided to count Bullock iuto the Execu
tive Chair of Georgia,” and, therefore,
“ it is eminently fit and proper that he
should now Btep forward and lather the
bastards — among them these illegal
bonds—that he aided to bring into exist
ence.” Concludes the Commercial:
To one intent and purpose, at least, the people of
Georgia are Bourbons. They will not taslly forget
those traitorous sons—once honored—who In the
hoar of calamity Joined their enemies to despoil the
fairest land that the eon ever shown upon.
The Griffin News publishes the letter
ot Mr. John H. James on the bond ques
tion and says:
The grounds taken by Mr. James are new and
novel, and he dieenssee it la a manner that demon
strates whether he be right or wrong, that he hss
the dearest understanding of the bond situation o
any man who haa yet expressed his views on the
subject.
Tne Hamilton Visitor is opposed to
the compromise. It says:
For onr own part, with the limited information ot
the ma tar whicl^we possess, we do not see how
Georgia can pay these bonds, and at the same time
Tw.(tt(,(n her honor and the rights of her citiaene.
She ought not to be expected to do It.
As there will be no action by the Leg
lal iture on the bond question this ses
sion, our brethren of the press will soon
drop the subject themselves.
Tbe Bam bridge Democrat wants the
Oapitol carried back to Milledgeville.
It says:
Mow that the people of Georgia have an adminis
tration of * h -*- own selection for the first time since
the Capitol waa removed to Atlanta, and In order
that It easeh aone of the infection left in the stmoe-
phereby the Bnllockltoe, by all means send the
government bank to the virtuous, tbe quia* and tbe
bistort* dd dty of MlDsdgs vllia
TOE ELECTION IN THE BTH CONGRESSIONAL
DISTRICT.
We most respectfully call the special
attention of onr readers in the oounties
of the Eighth Congressional District to
wit: Greene, Oglethorpe, Elbert, Hart,
Lincoln, Wilkes, Taliaferro, Hancock,
Warren, McDuffie, Glasscock, Jefferson,
ashington, Johnson, Columbia and
Richmond, to the day on which the elec
tion has been ordered, to fill the vacancy
occasioned by the death Gen. A.
R. Wright, which is Wednesday the 26th
ns tank
This week’s issue of onr weekly edition
will be tbe last to reach many of our
readeis in those counties before the elec
tion takes place. In view of that fact,
we most respectfully urge our friends of
tbe 8th to their duty. Let no one forget
the day, and let no one be absent from
the polls who can be there. “Theprice
oi liberty is eternal vigilance.”
While we have no fear of the defeat of
Mr. Stephens, it is always best for every
one to perform his duty. For this rea
son we say let our Democratic friends
make lus election more than doubly sure.
The Democratic electors of the
several towns of Connecticut will meet in
convention at Hartford to-morrow for
♦he purpose of nominating candidates
for Btate offloers.
ThbCincinnati Times and Chrontae
wants to know if “there is enough left
for the vindication of Pomeroy.” As the
“Christian statesman” belongs to the
Times and ChronicL’a p rtj it ought to
be Mole to answer its owu question.
In New York there is one death
t-acu (mi U> every eighty-two people.
There are 82,000 poeb ffioes in the
Cult*A States. Five hundred are kept
LiJT (SriOML
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Elias Howe, Jr.—In an elaborate
work entitled “Representative Men of
the North and South,” recently issued by
the Atlantic Pa dishing Company of New
York, a sketch of the life of Elias Howe,
Jr., the inventor of Sewing Machines,
appears with an excellent steel engraving,
which is pronounced by those who have
seen him in life as remarkably fine. In
view ot the magnitude of the trade which
has unsen in Sewing Machines, the ines
timable bene'its which have accured to
man, and especially to womankind, us the
fruits of this invention, a sketch of the
life of Mr. Hosve will, we think, be in
teresting to the readers of The Sun.
Elias Howe, Jr., the inventor of the
very popular sewing machine which
bears his nume, and now an almost iu-
dispousible in every household, was born
ut Spencer, Massachusetts, iu 1819. His
parents were people of slender means,
wuo by economy and industry supported
a family oi eight children. At six years
of age the subject of our ske'eu, with his
brothers anu sisters were compelled to
work at such employment as they were
able to perform, and when Elias was old
enough he assisted his father on his farm
an’in u mill for the manufacture of cot
ton, of which he was the owner. At the
ago of eleven years his parents put him
to work with a neighboring farmer, with
the intention of remaining until he at
tained his majority, but owing to an in
herited lameness in one year he was
obliged to return to his home, where he
remained until he was sixteen, helping
his f.ither in the mill as before. Hear
ing from a young friend, of the great
cotton mills at Lowell, in his native
State, he with reluctance procured his
parents’ consent to go thither, where he’
soon obtained a learneris place in a large
cotton manufactory, which he retained
until the financial crash of 1837, when
most of the mills of that place were
obliged to cease business. Being out of
employment, be proceeded to Cambridge,
where be found work in the large ma
chine shop of Ari Davis, where, after re
maining a few months, he went to Boston.
Elias was of rather a roving disposition,
fond of his joke, and even at. the age of
twenty, was in manner more boy than
mam Owing to his constitutional de
bility, heretofore referred to, steady labor
became irksome and at times even pain*
fuL Don ng all this time Elias was in the
habit of reflecting upon the art of sewing,
watching the process as performed by
hand, and revolving in his mind, whether
it was within the compass of the me
chanic arts to do it by machinery. This
seemed to occupy his entire attention ;
and sometimes while visiting a shop
where army and navy clothing
was made, he would look at the heaps of
unsewed garments, all cat alike, all re
quiring the same stitch, the same number
of stitches, and the same find of seam,
and say to himself, “what a pity this
cannot be done by machinery 1 It is the
very work for a machine to do ;** bat at
this time he had formed no serious
thoughts of ever making a sewing ma
chine.
While yet a journeyman machinist at
which he earned nme dollars a week, he
married. Ia time the care of a wife and
children increa-ed his responsibilities,
and his labor upon heavy woik so fa
tigued h:m that he sometimes became too
exhausted u, eat, frequently going to rest,
longing, it i* -aid, “to lie in bed for
aver.*' In 1843 be caught the inventor’s
mania, and driven by necessity he
comm cased msking the machine
which he had heard yean before
would be an “independent fortnne” to
the inventor. At first, much time was
lost in experimenting, and his first de
vice was a needle pointed at both ends,
with tbe eya in the middle, that should
work up and down through the cloth,
end carry the thread through it at eaoh
thrust. For many days and nights he
brooded over this conception, and
finally abandoned it At length, near
a year afterwards, he formed the idea of
using two threads, and making a stitch
by the aid of ashnttle and a needle, with
the eye near the point which after several
rnde experiments he found would sew.
At this time Elias had ceased to work as
a journeyman. His father had removed
to Cambridge, where he had started a
machine for catting palm leaf into strips
for hats, wbioh he subsequently lost by
fire. Elias was bo poor at thia time that
he coaid scarcely support his little
family; nor could his invention be tested
except by making a machine of steel and
iron, and be without as much means as
would purchase the rough material.
At length, in the fall of 1844, George
Fisher, a former school-mate of his, and
who had prospered in business at Cam
bridge, entered into partnership with
him, to bring the invention into nse.
The terms of this parterahip were these:
George Fisher was to receive into his
honse Elias Howe and his family, board
them while Elias was making the ma
chine, give np his garrett for a work
shop, and provide money for material
and tools to the extent of five hnadred
dollars; in return for which he was to be
come the proprietor of one-half the
patent, if the machine proved to be
worth patenting.
For two years, 1844-3, Mr. Howe
worked at this machine, completing it
in May of the latter year, and July of
that year made two suits of woolen
clothes, one for his partner, and one for
himself on it. This was the first of all
sewing machines. Like a-1 new inven
tions of that day for saving labor, the
Howe Sewing Machine had its oppo
nents, and the tailoring fraternity of
Boston were not backward in their op
position, and would have destroyed it,
fearing it would injure their trade, but
concluded that no machine could be
made that would answer the purpose.
In a few weeks after Mr. Howe gave
them a specimen of its work, offering to
sew np any seams that might be brought
to him. One unbelieving tat'.or after
another brought a garment, and saw its
long seams sewed perfectly, at the rate
of two hundred and fifty stitches a min
ute, whieh was about seven times as fast
as the work could be dene by hand. For
two weeks he sit there daily, and sewed
up seams for all those who chose to bring
them to him. At last he challenged five
of the swiftest seamstresses in the city to
sew a race with the machine. Ten
seams of equal length were prepared for
sewing, five of which were laid by the
machine, and the other five were given
to the girls. The gentleman who held
the watch, and who waa to decide the
wager, testified upon oath that the five
girls were the fastest sewers that could
be found; -nevertheless, .Mr. Howe fin
ished his five seams a little sooner than
the girls finished their five, and the um
pire, who wss himself a tailor, has sworn
that “the work done on the machine was
the neatest and strongest.”
At this time the maehine had not been
patented, and to effect this he shat him
self np in Mr. Fisher’s garrett for three
or four months to make another to place
in the Patent office, and in 1846, seeing
no prospect of an income from his in
vention, he engaged as an engineer on a
railroad, bnt after a few weeks service
fonnd it too laborious for his strength,
and was obliged to give it np. On Sep*
tember 10th, 1846, lettere patent were
issued. Mr. Fisher having np to this
period supported Mr. Howe and his
family, and having invested in the enter
prise same two thousand dollars, lost all
confidence in its success or its ever pay
ing anything. Not so with Mr. Howe
and on the 5th day of February, 1847,
with the assistance of his orotber, he
started for Enpland, where he first met
with encouragement, selling the machine
be had brought with him to a Mr. Thomas,
who employed, as is stated, 5,000 persons
in the manufacture of ooraets, shoes, etc.,
for £250, with the right to patent it in
England, he giving Howe £3 on every
maonine sold.
With this £250 he supplied the wants
of his family, yet in tnis country, who
joined him soon after. Here he rented
a small shop and borrowed a few tools,
with which he began to construct his
fourth machine, and notwithstanding the
strictest economy, he was obliged to
send his family home, not having means
to support them. In three or four
months from this time he finished this
machine, lor which he eoold only obtain
from a poor man £5 payable in a note.
In the meantime Mr. Howe beoame so
reduced in efreamstanoas that he was
obliged, among other things, to pawn
his letters patent to bring him to bis na
tive land, arriving in New York in April,
1849, when he again sought and obtained
employment in a machine shop. In a
few days he received news that his wife,
then at Cambridge, was dying, and so
poorjwas he, that he was obliged to bor
row tan dollars, which sufficed to oring
him to her bed-side to reoeive her last
breath. . .
About this time several ingenious TV* r \
some having seen the Howe MacfcfBI,
turned their attention to inventing in
the same direction and imitating his de
vices. Their productions were vwf*
poor, rovgh imitations, bnt poor as he
was, he resolved to resist suoh infringe
ments, at first writing polite letters wan
ing tne infringers to desist, and offering
to sell them licenses to continue. ARr
bnt one were disposed to acknowledge
his right and to accept his proposal.
That one indnoed the others to resist*
when, by the aid of Mr. George Bliss, oi
Massachusetts, who bought the interest-
of Mr. George Fisher, Mr. Howe’s for
mer partner; suit was commenced, which
was slow in its progress as snoh suits gen
ermlly are.
In the year 1854 this case was tried
before Jndge Sprague, of Massachusetts,
who decided Mr. Howe’s patent valid*
and further remarked that there was no
evidence in the case that left a shadow
doubt that for all the benefits conferred,
upon the public by the introduction of •
Sewing Maohiae the pnblio are indebted
to Elias Howe.
TKUCGKA P HIC ITKMH.
Washington, Feb. 17.—Mr. York, ot
Kansas, testifies that he persuaded
Pomeroy to place money in his I ands
for corrupt purposes in order to betray
Pomeroy. The majority of the commit
tee report in favor of expulsion oi Cald
well.
The President approved the act pro
hibiting gift enterprises in the District
of Columbia.
The Star says Secretary Boutwell, feel
ing confident of his election to the Uni
tea States Senate to succeed Mr. Wilson,
has tendered his resignation, to take ef
fect on the 4th of March next. On Feb
ruary 3rd he wrote a letter to the Presi^
dent resigning his Secretaryship, his re
signation to take effeot February 15th.
That resignation has not yet been with
drawn, but has been verbally modified
at the request of the President, so as to
take effect without condition on March
4th.
Washington, Feb. 17.—The House*
under regular call, on the bill introduced
bridging the Arkansas at Dardanelles.
Mr. Merriau introduced a bill to
provide for resumption of specie pay
ments.
Mr. Hoar made the point of order that
no notice had been given of ti e intro
duction of the bill.
Mr. Merriam said that notice had been
given, but lie admitted that he had
chauged the title since giving notice.
This was fatal and the bill waa with
drawn. Mr. Packer, of Indiana, from
the Committee on Foreign Affairs, re
ported a bill to encourage and promote
telegraphic communication between'the
United States and Asia, and moved us
passage under a suspension of the rules,
which was agreed to : Yeas 136; nays 52.
The bill confers upon the East India
Company authority to lay cables between
the two countries, provided the laying be
commenced in two years, aud diiects the
Secretary of the Navy to place vessals at
the disposal of the company for sound
ings and the transportation of materials
and supplies; the Government to have
priority in the use of the lines, which
shall, at all other times, be open to the
public upon payment of regular charges.
Mr. Maynard, of Tennessee, moved to
suspend the rules and pass a resolution
devoting evening sessions on Wednesday
and Thursday to debate upon tne bill to
refund certain taxes collected ou raw cot
ton. Rejected—aves 93; nays S3.
Senate.—Mr. Morton presented a reso
lution rescinding rule 22, regarding the
counting of the electoral vote.
The naval appropriation bill passed.
It goes back to the House for concur
rence.
Mr. Sawyer, from the Committee on
Education and Labor reported.without
amendment the bill appropriating §8.090
to the Leland University at New Orl .na *
and $5,000 to the Angnsta, Ga., Insti
tute, to be expended in the erection of
school buildings for treedmen.
Mr. Pool, from tbe Committee on Ju
diciary, reported without amendment to
the House bill declaring it to have been
the trne intent and meaning ot the aot
of Jane 8, 1872, amendatory of the bank-
rapt law, that the exemptions allowed the
bankrupt by said amendatory act should
be the amount allowed by the constita- -
tion and laws of each Stite respectively
as .existing in 1871, and that snoh ex
emptions be valid against debts contrac
ted before the adoption and passage of
such State constitution and laws, as well
as afterwards, and against liens by de
cree of any State or Conrt notwithstand
ing any decision suioe rendered.
Madrid, February 17. — CasteHar is
about to send a circular to foreign pow
ers to prevent their intervention in ths
affairs of Spain. It will assure them
that the Republio is not aggressive ia
character, and does not seek to interfere
with other nations.
Marqnis de Bonille, French Ambassa
dor, had a long conference to-day with
Oasteliar. Orders for the dis
patch of troops to Malaga have '
been countermanded. Tranquility has
been restored. Three decrees have
been published abolishing the regulation
requiring officers of tbe army to take po
litical oaths.
Brigadier General Gracera has bees
appointed military governor oi Madrid.
General Pavia, on taking command of
tbe army in Monte, issued a proclamation
appealing to the insurgents oi tne
barque Provinces and Navarne to Jv
down their arms and return to their
homes, promising that they shall not be
molested for the post if they comply.
The defeat is officially announced of*,
strong Oar list band near Bayonne.
Don Carlos has arrived in St Jean de
Lur, 10 miles from his place*
New York, February 17.—The funeral
of ex-Mayor Kableflasn to-day took plaoe
this evening at his lata residence in
Brooklyn.
Richmond, February 17.—Heavy rainw
are reported from all sections of the
State daring the past two days, and
heavy land slides on several railroads,
causing detentions of trains. The river
at Lynchburg is about fourteen feetfe
above the usual levee. At this point ik
is about ten feet which will be gtnatlj
increased by the flood from above.
Boston, Feb. 17.—A resolution in Ute-
House to-day to go into election to-mox.—-
ovr for U. S. Senator was laid over.
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