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Cabl Schubz lias now fire Otoe In*
diene in Washington u guests.
Boston end Prorldence now exchange
communications by telephone.
Tax eerniugs ot the Union Fecific
Mmi Company for the year 1880 were
$25,494,100, being en increase of $4,8S4 ;
491 over 1879.
A military commission {(considering
the propriety of (applying the German
army with a repeating rifle, instead of its
present breech-loader.
General Waxkeb has no sooner ap
proximately arrived at the population of
the United States than he goes to work on
the probable number in 1890. He says
he has made a very careful computation,
and has decided that under favorable
circumstances in 1890 the American na
tion will number 04,407,000 souls.
Paper From Cotton Stalks.—The
subject of making paper from cotton
stalks Is under experiment. G. W. Arto-
mns, ot North Carolina, has shown sam
ples of the paper, and he says the cotton
stalk has from fifteen to twenty per cent,
more fiber than the ground wood now
used.
Sanitation pays. Daring the last five
years no less an amount than $75,000,000
has been expended in works of a sani
tary nature by the various urban sanitary
authorities of England and Wales. The
steadily deer -asing death rate of the pe
riod implies that the large sumhasbeen,
on the whole, judiciously laid out.
Thebe are evils attending Chinese im
migration, but there are benefits as well.
The orientals come here a rice-loving peo
ple. They go home to extol the edible
Qualities of American bread, and already
the United States is shipping hundreds of
thousands of barrels of flour to China
yearly, with propects of a large increase.
Dakota Is growing very fast, compared
with its sister territories, but Mr. Ben
nett, the delegate, not yet satisfied, pro
poses that Congress shall give 640 acres
to every man who sinks an artesian well
on the land and gets a permanent flow
of water therefrom. It Is very sure that
this offer might be safely applied to some
parts of Arizona.
Heavy Orders for Steel Rails.—
The Iron World says 60,000 tons of steel
rails have recently been placed, through
agents in Philadelphia, with domestic and
foreign works, and the heavy demand
continues. Quotations are $58 per ton at
mill. Several quite large orders for bar
iron have also been placed at 2.40 cents
per pound, some of the orders amounting
to as much as 1,000 tons.
Mrs. Kate Chase Sprague is of me
dium height, perhaps five feet six, and lier
features still show beautiful outlines. Iler
hair, which is still abundant, is dark au
burn in color, for nature has yet spared
her gray hairs. Iler mouth is a fine fea
ture of her face and is full of white, regu
lar teeth. Iler weight is probably 140.
Her hands are symmetrical and arc al
ways encased In kids of the latest fashion.
Tiieiu: is a great scarcity of water in
New Jersey, the brooks, rivers and canals
being frozen solid, and nearly all the
wells having gone dry. In many towns
water is being supplied to families the
same as milk, ale or beer, only in larger
quantities.' Many regard the superabun
dance of the apple crop last fall as a fortu
nate circumstance, since cider can be used
instead of water. Numerous families
melt the snow for household purposes.
Of the new colleague of Conkliug, an
interviewer of the Herald takes the fol
lowing testimony: “Well, Platt has been
nearer to Governor Cornell and Senator
Conkling than almost any politician In
the State. In fact lie has always been the
connecting link between the two in politi
cal ponsultation. He is a very shrewd
and far-seeing mauager, and would be in
valuable to Senator Conkling as a sena-
-orial colleague. Senator Conkling knows
this well.”
The Boston School Committee has re
solved that corporal punishment In the
schools ought to be greatly diminished.
It is hereafter to be inflicted only by a
principal, or by his express authority, and
only at a session subsequent to that at
which the offense was committed. The
pupil must be told what this is, and the
principal must keep a record of all cases.
Corporal punishment is absolutely forbid
den in the high school, and with girls in
the grammar school.
Mb. D. Whitino, of Riverside, Cal., is
enclosing 1,500 acres of land with a stock
ade, and proposes importing one hundiel
pairs of ostriches from South Africa,
worth from $250 to $300 a bird. Ostriches
breed at four years of age, and will pro
duce four broods a year, each averaging
twenty chicks. At eight months the feath
ers of a bird become worth $5, and, as it
grows older, attain a value of over $100.
It is said that It costs no more to keep an
ostrich than a sheep.
The Hudson River Ice Crop.—It is
estimated that 6,400 men and boys and
nearly 2,000 horses are engaged in the
Hudson river Ice harvest this season, and
that about 2,500,000 tons will be stored,
the largest crop ever gathered. In 1878
the quantity housed was 1,499,700 tons;
in 1879,2,174,500 tons; and in 1880, only
161,000 tons. At the opening of the pres
ent winter every icehouse along the river
was empty, save one, aud that had only a
few tons in it.
The San Francisco Alta mu oeen mak
ing a computation of what] Kearney has
cost California. There has been a de
crease ,oi $33,000,GOO in banking capital,
the improvements of property hare been
checked, the number of depositors in the
savings hanks has fallen off, the loans of
the bauks have been less this year than
on of a bull dog until he does get it. A
the repayment by borrowers, there is no 6Uorlj “ w ith no sentiment but
new railroad building in the State, and
the home capitalists are transferring their
business to New York. California if the
only Slate that is not sharing in the gener
al prosperity of the country.
An association of physicians in Ham
burg have been studying the case of Ko
belkow, a Russian who was born without
legs or arms, or anything to supply their
place except a very short stump attached
to the right shoulder, yet who can dfink,
eat, fire off pistols, thread needles,. and
even write; indeed, can write so well; that
for a year and a half he acted as a copy
ist in Russian employ. All this hi ac
quired the ability to do with his mouth,
aided by tbs stump dependent from his
right shoulder. Althongh by birth such a
monstrosity, Kobclkow does not present a
repulsive spectacle. He has always been
in good health, cheerful, rather pleased to
see the Interest that he awakens, and Is,
bes'des, happily married and the father of
two sturdy children.
She had aued for breach of-promise and
the verdict of the jury was against her.
“Want to poll the jury?” site was asked.
“Yes, I do. Jes’gimme the pole for two
.minutes.”
Washington Letter.
Washington, January 8th, 1881.
ON THE HOME STRETCH.
This sporting phiase well expresses the
situation so far as the forty-sixth Congress
is concerned. To the hundred or more
members thereof who retire ou the 4th of
March to the disagreeable shades of pri
vale station, the time doubtless gallops,
withal, and before they can fairly rea
lize it, their heads will roll in the dust.
It is very sad, but such is life. It seems
to me that all necessary business can ea
sily be dispatched between now and the
date above named without difficulty. It
certainly can, it some of the statesmen on
both sides willtakea reef in their tongm
and give business a chance. It will be
awfully rough on some of them to do
tills, but under pressure they might con
sent to make the sacrifice. It is under
stood that Mr. Garfield doesn’t want an
extra session, and doubtless bis wishes
will be a potent factor, at least with
his party, in settling the question.
True, there are several hundred Radical
patriots atpresentjont of a job who are sure
the country will go to the Old Scratch if
an extra session is not held and the Dem
ocratic employees “bounced,” but they
will hardly carry tho day. If the Demo
crats act with only half wisdom, ail neces
sary business caube finished by the 4th of
March and the country relieved until De
cember of any further infliction of law
making and law-tinkering. I might write
a column on the extra session question,
but, condensed, it seems to me as above
set forth.
THE CURSE
of absenteeism seems to hare settled down
as a pall on the Democratic side of the
House. Already, during the three weeks
Congress has been in actual session, the
majority has been forced by this shameful
fact to retire in confusion under the lire of
the enemy and amid their ieers and gibes.
Witness the fate of the electoral count bill.
It would hare been the same with any
other measure of more importance
which the Radicals had determined to an
tagonize. Let us hope that In the sweet
byc-and-bye, when our friends begin to
realize the delights of a minority, that
fact will keep them up to the scratch, as
it were. They Will need to be, or bear
their full share of responsibility for the di
vers schemes of Radical rascality that
will doubtless be hatched out during the
next Congress. But oh ! for one week,
say, of the old-time Democratic discip
line, when its ranks were always dressed
and its members ever ready for the word,
THE COMPOSITION
of the Garfield cabinet, and tiow that ncs-
tilent little demagogue, Mahone, of Vir
ginia, will range himself in the Senate are
two of the most discussed topics here at
present. There seems to be singular
unanimity on somo points in refer
ence to the first named matter.
Among others, that Blaine will beseem-
tary ofState, and that the East will not
have control of the treasury. Beyond this
even speculation is at sea in an open boat,
and one man’s opinion is nearly a. good,
if not better, tiian another’s, li seems to
me, Blaine wilt make a breezy official
among the fogs and “deportment” of the
State department; but won’t the late Den
Hamilton Fish elevate his diplomatic
eyebrows and shrug his dignified shoulders
at the news. Then, too, Blaine’s retire
ment from the Senate will give both Hale
and Frye a chance at Senatorial honors.
Hale will succeed the ancient Hamlin and
Frye step into Blaine’s shoes. By the
way, speaking of the ancient aforesaid, the
day the thermometer marked ten degress
below zero on the avenue, without an
overcoat, that shiny old “spiketail”
was Happing in the breeze and
his horny bauds, guiltless of gloves,
suppose all the caloric lie needed was
supplied by tbc fragrant five-cunt Havana
be was pulling away at so iudustriously.
Anyway, he looked as comfortable as ev
erybody did the reverse, now the Senate
will get along loit/iout the old chap, and
tcitfi Conger, who, it seems, has been in
flicted upon them for six years, are hard
questions to answer.
A GRAND snow
is promised at Garfield’s inauguration—
the grandest, some of the super-loyal say,
who wouldn’t take an office if it were held
out to them on a silver fork, that has ever
been seen here, and quite dwarfing the fa
mous jamboree that marked Grant’s last
inauguration. The military feature prom
ises to be a buster, but I don’t hear of any
Southern organizations that are coming,
which is bad or good for the boys, just as
you please, Such an atmosphere of loy
alty as they would have to breathe
during their stay might irritate some dell
cate lungs. The boarding house and
livery people are In ecstasies, and sit up
half the night gloating over the
ive skinning they are going to administer
to the strangers who are within their eat es
on that day. I imagine Washington "will
bo about the most disagreeable place on
the American continent about that time,
but the indications are for the largest
gathering ever known on a similar occa
sion. Amid all this fuss and feathers and
hurrah, I wonder how the new tenants of
the White House will feel. Madame G.
reported quite a rustic, home staying,
reserved body, with not the faintest idea
of “style”—quite an admirable wife and
mother, bat not at all fond of, or shining
in society. I make the prediction,^wever,
that she will get bravely over her distaste
for society sham and show. They all do
in time.
THE BEAUTIFUL SNOW
still abideth with aud boretb the average
man almost to the verge of strong lan
guage and certainly past the point of
sore feet from living in overshoes and sore
eyes from gazing on its trying whiteness.
It has been spoiled by rain
for sleighing within the past forty-eight
hours, but remains exactly in the proper
condition for slips, slides, falls and gen
eral slushiness, also profanity and evil
temper. I have never seen a heavier
snow fall, or one witli better staying
qualities. The Potomac is still frozen for
miles below here, and though there has
been a decided thaw for two days past, it
does not seem to have at all touched the
Ice in tho river. I should count myself
almost blessed it assured I would never
again see such another season. People
who “doat on” sleighing have had “rare
fun” as they call it, bnt I have my doubts
about the most enthusiastic of them. It 1
is my deliberate conviction that nobody
over fifteen years old really enjoys this
form of misery.
BISMARCK BROWN
looms largely in the Senate, and the gal
lery folk are generally quick to enquire
who that bony-faced, big-mouthed man
with the long white goatee is, sitting
so bolt upright, and paying such
close attention to what is going
on. And the unanimous verdict of these
onlookers is that he means business,
and intends to chip in no matter who
is taking a band on the oilier side, when
ever and wherever he sees his way to mak
ing a point. They mark him as one who
knows exactly what lie wants, the surest
means of getting it,and the pluck and bang-
joy in the House over his elevation, gen
eral and hearty gratitude that henceforth
hit tawlike croak will be heard there no
more, for at leatt six yean, and decent
people no longer have their eyes and ears
offended by that ugly visage and harsh,
rasping voice. To show what is in store
for the Senate, It is ascertained that dur
ing the twelve or fourteen davsthe House
was in session before the holiday recess
Conger was on his feet 165 times, anc
never without insulting somebody, or to
object to something ne had discovered
some Democrat was anxious to get
through. I indulge a lively hope tbattbe
Senate will “sit down” on him heavily,
but they will find it a very tough job.
AND SPEAKiNO
of the Senate, reminds me of the young
blood that will be infused into that body in
March. Hale aud Ftye, from Maine, will
add a laige lot of it, aud then there is Gen.
Ben Harrison, of Indiana, who will pretty
surely succeed McDonald, Gorman, who
will take Whyte’s place from Maryland,
and others who may be classed at least as
among youngish men. These young men
are bound to make themselves felt in
breaking down some of the moss-backed
stiffness ami Turveydrop deportment of
that body, but certaiuly not to its improve
ment. Blaine was the first man to carry
into that body the somewhat rowdy free
dom of tongue and manner and contempt
of tradition learned in the rough and
tumble arena ot the House, aud it will not
soon be forgotten how the seniors scowled
at him over their gold-rimmed spectacles,
or shivered in speechless indignation at
his transgressions, lhave seen some of
them sit and stare at him as if he were an
escaped lunatic aud as though they
longed to have him locked up as positively
dangerous. What Father Bassett, the
venerable assistant sergeant-at-arms,
who came in with Webster as a Senate
page, will do and how endure all'this
sacrilege, I nearly shudder to think ot.
But I don’t think bs will resign. That is
just about as unfashionable over there as
anywhere else.
A “NEW DEPARTURE.”
I heard last week that the Great De
feated, up in the seventh district, was big
with a speech wherein he intended to an
nounce a “new departure” for himself in
politics. What that means exactly 1 do
not know, unless to get closer to, if not
plump himselt into the middle of, the
Radical camp. We shall know, 1 suppose,
by waiting; bnt there is a suspicion that
William wants to make himself solid with
James, who comes to rule over us in
March, in order that matters in the shape
of Federal pap in Georgia,and mayhap an
especially juicy bone for himself, may
arrange themselves satisfactorily. I shall
be glad if William does march out of the
Democratic ranks bag and baggage. He
has done us nothing but harm, and we can
well spare him and all like him. Tohear
him talk, however, one would suppose he
had been terribly wronged by the Demo
cratic party. He prates of “bulldozing,”
and uses other Radical slang as fluently as
you please, and if you had heard him tell-
ng his sorrows and allowing his sores to a
sympathetic “patriot” from up North
somewhere, your heart would have bled
for him. But there is balm in Gilead for
ail such woes, and Garfield is a man of
tender heart.
THE WEATHER,
just at present, is about the only thing I
can think of at ail as comparable to oid
Conger in general obnoxiousness. It
snowed again yesterday to the depth of
four or five inches, which was followed
last night and this morning by rain and
sleet, and now the street situation is
simply horrible. The slush at the
crossings is six inches deep, aud the
brick pavements a sheet of ice whereon au
average man has no more chance to keep
his feet than if they were greased. When
came out this morning I found the
pavements almost desprted and people
taking the middle of the street. It was a
rough choice between breaking your le;;
or something else on the pavement am
wading in the slush, but the latter carried
the day. The three commissioners who
govern the district don’t seem to know
what their business is in such conjunctures
•r else don’t care a continental what hap
pens. But they are paid $5,000 a year,
each, to look after district matters, and 1
suppose draw their salaries with the
most patriotic punctuality. If they wsuld
only make a pretence of doing somethin;
towards rendering the sidewalks am
crossings passable it would be most re
freshing. *1 think the latter were in a
worse fix yesterday than I ever smw them,
and consequently church-goers were
made to sin in the matter of improper
laugtiagc to a fearful extent. I heard it
uorated that an enterprising party rigged
up a boat in which he ferried passengers
across the Avenue from Willard’s hotel
for five cents each, but not havjng seen
either man or boat, can’t swear to the
truth of the story.
THE GEORGIA COLONY
here are all -congratulating yotir fellow
townsman, Mr. Samuel 1. Gustin, on ills
good foiture last Friday when the House
passed the Senate bill paying him $1,129
i 'orproperty taken by the Federal forces oc
cupying Macon after the close of the late
civil war. The bill went through the
House without objection, except from that
ineffable ass, Mr. Harry White, of Penn
sylvania, who is fonder of hearing him
self talk than any man now living. Mr.
Stephens had charge of the bill, aud was
ably seconded by Mr. Blount. This claim
should hare been paid long since, being
as strong and just a one as was ever pre
sented in Congress. I offer my congratu
lations to Mr. Gustin on his good fortune,
especially when compared with another
claimant of whom Senator Garland told
the other day in the Senate. He hailed
from Arkansas, and had a claim of $2,500
against tho government for property de
stroyed by the Federal anny. He came
here in 1886, and got his claim through in
1880, out of which, after paying lawyers’
fees and other expenses, he only realized
$300! A.W.R.
bushels of sense, and a resolute purpose
that shrinks from no odds and dares all to
Win—who lias turned over and glued
down the leaves of the book of the past,
and cares less for dead men and burned
out issues, ai he regards them, than any
man lit the country. Whether lie is the
higliest type even of tho American politi
cian, and whether his career, his methods
and political philosophy,'will shrivel up
under or stand the test of history and a
pure and enlightened public judgment,
are questions which only tho future can
answer. As times go, however, and men
are rated, by what they accomplish, he
Will surely stand out a conspicuous figure
on tho canvass. Georgia has honored him
lar beyond any man’s deserts. Let us see
how he endeavors to deserve it.
r j A. W*
• Washington Citt, Jan. 10,1881.
that horrid
old creature, Conger, of Michigan, who to,
without exception, the most heartily
Jeathed man in Congress, will prove a fit
successor for the bilious and bibulous
Chandler in the Senate. I to offer
my condolences to that body, which re
ceived the news of his election with a
shudder of disgust. Think of this vul
gar malignant, whose highest aspiration
and keenest pleasure is to slander and as
perse tiie South, sitting in the seat and
wearing the mantle that once draped the
shoulders of Lewis Cass! But there Is
Fitzsimmons' Cue.
Washington, January 13.—The spe
cial agent oi the Department of Justice,
who was sent to Georgia to investigate
certain alleged irregularities in the ac
counts of United States Marshal Fitzsim
mons, ot that State, has returned to Wash
ington and prepared a voluminous report
for the information of the Attorney Gen
eral. The report shows that Fitzsimmons
has avoided co-operation with
the internal revenue officers in their
efforts to suppress illicit distilling in that
State, and has withbeld from his deputies
considerable sums of money, amounting
in the aggregate to about $5,500. That
to avoid liability under the law against
the misappropriation of government mon
ey, Fitzsimmons obtained receipts from
his deputies for the sums due upon the
plea that the receipts must be presented
before their pay could be drawn from the
treasury, and then he did not pay them.
The report says Fitzsimmons’ clerk fur
nished the agent with a detailed list of tho
deputy marshals to whom Fitzsimmons
was indebted, and of the amounts owed
each, and that Fitzsimmons finally ac-
knowledged the correctness of the list by
signing it. Wien questioned as to the
whereabouts of the money due these dep
uties, Fitzsimmons replied tliat he was
personally responsible for it. The report
will not bosubmitlcd to the Attorney Gen
eral for some days, and in the meantime
the resignation of Fitzsimmons, which is
daily expected by the President, will
probably arrive.
Yesterday, says a Rush Creek, Indiana,
dispatch to the Globe-Democrat, a par
ried daughter of Farris Dalton was bur
ied. As to customary, the lid ot the coffin
was turned back that the mourners might
view the remains. Farris Dalton ap
proached the coffin, cast oqe look at bis
daughter, and fell dead. There were also
three married sisters of the deceased pree
ent, and almost instantly they all fell In •
swoon, and with much difficulty ware re
stored to consciousness. The father never
gasped after he fell. Terror wae depleted
upon the facesof all present and a Umll
of horror shot through their very Boots.
It was a scene never to be forgotten by
those who witnessed it. A like instance
Is not recorded in Washington county.
The oiuic Belt Company, Marshall
Michigan, will send their celebrated
Electro-Voltaic Belts to the afflicted upon
thirty days trial. Speedy care* guaran
teed. They mean what they say.
to them without delay.
Witt*
Visiting Oarfitld.
Cleveland, January 14.—A colored
delegation visited Mentor to-day and
waited upon Gen. Garfield at his house.
The delegation was composed of R.
Elliott, Samuel Lee and D. A. Straker,
South Carolina; Henry E. Curry,
Texas; James B. Devereaux, of Georgia,
and Geo. W. Prince, Jr., Geo. Z. Mabson,
James V. Hood, John A. Leary, J. W,
Barrs and Stewart tlllrou, of North Car-,
olina. , -
On being received by General Garfield
Elliott, the spokesman of the party, ad
dressed the President-elect and, after con
gratulating him ou his election, said;
“We hare cotno to present yon a brief state
ment af our condition in tho South—not
in a spirit of dictation, but in the belief
that a fair representation of our cause can
best he made by those of us who are com
pelled to endure grievous wrongs fer
opinion’s sake. Although clothed with
the rights of citizenship by the provisions
of the constitution of the United States,
and recognized as such by legislative
enactment and judicial decisions, yet, still,
in $11 the Southern States, we are citizens
in name and not in fact.
“Our right to participate in elections for
the choice of public officers is not only
questioned,' but in many localities abso
lutely denied us by means of avowed vio
lence, fraud and intimidation. In many
Southern States, sir, the rights of majori
ties are illegally amt wantonly subverted
by the imperious will of unscrupulous mi
norities, for no other reason than this,
that these majorities consist of men who,
tree and enfranchised by the laws of the
laud, prefer to remain loyal
to the country ol which they
are citizens, and steadfast supporters
of that political party which saved the file
of the nation, and to the charge of which
can moet safely be entrusted tiie duty of
preserving the results accomplished by
the late war. The methods resorted to
by .our political opponents in the South to
deprive us ofthe right of participation in
public affairs have been so often
staled to the public and are so well
known to you that it is unnecessary that
we should enter upon a detailed state
ment ou this occasion. Suffice it to aay,
that by the inlamous use of fraudulent
tissue ballots,by the deliberate falsification
of registry books and election returns, by
the forcible ejectment from tiie polls of
negro voters by armed mobs, by murder
and a general system of terrorism, ami by
a refusal, in many instances, to hold elec
tions at precincts where a majority of tiie
voters are Republicans, elections have
been rendered a mere farce. State govern
ments have been made to derive tiieir
powers, not from the consent of the gov
erned, .but from the arbitrary will of
domineering minorities. .
“We are powerless, sir, to redress our
wrongs through the machinery ofthe State
courts, for to all iuteuts aud purposes,
they are organized against us, tiie jury
oftentimes being composed not only of
those who sympathize with violators of
the law, but frequently consisting, in part
of actual participants in the wrong-doing.”
Tim address then goes on to say that
even in the Federal courts tho colored
people cannot obtain redress of wrongs
done them, for the reason that those who
are responsible for thoso wrongs sit in the
jury box to pass judgment on them; that
this condition of affairs has created a
feeling of unrest among the colored people
of the South and led inauy of them to seek
relief in strange and uncongenial parts of
the country.
The address then sets forth the inade
quacy of educational facilities in the
South, and urges the importance of croa
ting a national system of education under
control of the Federal government. The
address then continues: We deem it our
duty, in the interest of those whom we
have tiie honor to represent, as well as in
the interest of the Republican party at
large, to call attention to
the character of Federal appointments
in the South tu the past, aud respect
fully urge that the system of placing
in public positions men uot only in want
of sympathy with the principles of the Re
publican party but who use those positions
to obstruct and hinder tiie enforcement of
tho laws passed for the protection of the
lights of American citizens, be abandoned,
ami that men who, though calling them
selves Republicans, are of no fixed or well
defined political sentiment—men who are
all tilings to all men aud nothing
to any, and who ore totally without a fol
lowing, and represent nobody but them
selves, be no longer set over us as repre
sentatives of the Federal government.
Such appointments, sir, instead cf
strengthening the Republican party, have
been a positive source of weakuess.”
Tiie address closes with au expression
of hope and belief that tho rights' and in
terests of the colored people will not be
forgotten by the President-elect in the
hour of ids triumph.
Cotton Manufactures.
Washington, January 15.—Tiie fol
lowing.!, a preliminary report to tiie Cen
sus Bureau upon tiie specific cotton man
ufacture of the United States, exhibiting
the number oflooms, spindles, number of
bales of cotton coasumed and number of
operatives employed, as reported by Ed
ward Atkinson, of Boston, Mass., special
agent ofthe tenth census on cotton manu
factures
Stalea. Looms. Spindles. No Bales. Hands
U.S.230,223,10,921,147,1,5SU,4S1,181,028
Ala., 1,000, 55,072, 14,SS7, 1,000
Ark., 28, 2,015, 720, (54
Conn 18,036, 931,638, 104,877, 15,407
48,838, —
810,
200,974,
4,800,
8&M,
0,022,
6,096,
69C.CS5,
125,014,
Del.
Fla.
Ga., ■
111-.
Ini.,
Ken.,
La.,
693
4,713,
24,
770,
73,
120,
Me., 15,978,
Md., 2,325,
Mass.04,788, 4,463,290,
Mich, 131, 12,120,
Miss., 704, 26,172,
Mo., 341, 10,312,
N.n.,25,487, 1,008,521,
N.J., 3,844, 232,305,
N.Y, 12,822,
N.C., 1,900,
Ohio, 42,
PenD,10,54T,
0,078
281
720
359
10S
578,612,
102,767,
14,328,
446,379,
R.I., 30,274, 1,649,296,
S.C., 1,776,
Tenn 1,068,
Tox., 71,
Utah, 14,
Vt., 1,180,
Va., 1,324,
Wis., 400,
92,788,
40,288,
2,648,
432,
56,088,
44,830,
10,240,
7,612,
350,
07,874,
2,261,
11,008,
4,215,
1^54,
112,3(51, 11,313
48,047, 4,159
678,090, 02,794
600, 20S
0,411, 743
0,399, 515
172,740, 16,057
20,509, 4,058
70,014, 10,710
27,503, 3,428
10,597, . 503
86,355, 11,871
161,694, 22,228
33,099, 2,195
11,009,
240,
1,312
71
7,404, 735
11,401, 1,112
3,173, 282
The above does not Include hosiery
mills, or any of the mills kliown as woolen
mills, where cotton may be a component
material used in manufacture. These
classes will be treated in a subsequent re
port by George Wm. Brown, or Boston,
special agent ofthe tenth census, on wool
manufacture in all its branches.
Garfield Anecdote.— Garfield is
not a very expert horseman, and he some
times shows a little absont-mlndedness
that amuses bis neighbors. It is his habit
to drive to church on Sundays with his
family, unattended by a servant. He will
not allow his team to stand out. in the
cold daring service, but unhitches and
pats his horses in a friend’d barn near the
church. One Sunday some time ago, af
ter service, tie hitched his span of black
colts to his wagon and forget to buckle
tho lines to tbe bits. The consequence
was that when he got into the wagon and
Marted the team he came very near hav
ing a*runaway. When tho team was
stopped and the lines . buckled, an old
farmer gravely remarked: “General, you
will have to do better than that when you
take the reins of government, or the polil-
cal mules will get away with you.”
Within the pest three mouths not less
so 2.609 German tnunlfrnoU have sailed
om Europe for Texas direct, landing at
Galveston. In this wear they make the
voyage more cheaply then If they went by
r of R«f Yen; hot they experience
ditertveetage ef finding no provision
made for their reospUso. and hundreds of
men, women and children have bad to
pare cold nights on the wharves without
shelter of any Mad. They also fall into
the hands of so-called emigration agents,
for whose restraint there is no law in
Texas, and against whom there Is bo pro
tection, as In New York. Tor these rea
sons Gorman papers raise a note of warn
ing to iatelftgmt Immigrants.
Bibles With Queer Names.
An interesting collection of Bibl es was
recently exhibited in London, which com
prised copies of ail editions that, because
of peculiar errors of the printers, or from
some other reason, have been known by
strange names. Among the Bibles on ex
hibition were tbe following:
“Tbe Gutenberg Bible.”—Tbe earliest
book known, printed from movable metal
types, is the Latin Bible issued by Guten
berg, at Meutz, A. D. 1450.
“The Bug Bible”—Was so called from
its rendering of Psalms xci, 5: “Afraid of
bugs by night.” Our present version
reads, “Terror by night.” A. D. 155L' '
“The Breeches Bible.”—The Geneva
version is that popularly known as tbe
Breeches Bible, train its rendering of
Genesis iii, 7: “Making themselves
breeches out ol fig leaves.” This transla
tion of the Scriptures—the result of tbe
labors of the English exiles at Geneva—
was the English Family Bible during the
reign of Queen Elizabeth, and until sup
planted by the present authorized version
ofKing James L
“The Place-Makers’ Bible!’—From a
remarkable typographical error which oc
curs in Matthew v. 9: “Blessed are the
placemakers,” instead of “peace-makers,”
A.D. 1602.
“The Treacle Bible.”—From its render
ing of Jeremiah viii. 22; “Is there no
treacle (instead of balm) in Gilead ?” A.
D. 1568.
“The Rosin Bible.”—From the same
text but translated “rosm” in tiie Douai
version. A. D. 1009.
“The He and She Bibles.”—From tho
respective renderings of Rath, iii. 15—
one reading that “Sue went Into the city.”
The other has it that “He went.” A. D.
1611.
“The Wicked Bible.”—From the fact
tliat the negative has been left out of the
Seventh Commandment (Exodus xx. 14)
for which the printer was fined £300. A.
D. 1631.
“The Thumb Bible.”—Being one inch
square and half an inch thick; was pub
lished at Aberdeeu, A. D. 1670.
“Tiie Vinegar Bible.”—So named from
the head-lino of tiie 20tli chapter of Lake,
which reads as “Tho Parablo ofthe Vine
gar,” instead of “the Vineyard.” A. 1).
1717.
The Printer’s Bible.”—We are told by
Cotton Mather tliat In a Bible printed
prior to 1702, a blundering typographer
made King David exclaim that “Printers
(Instead of princes) persecuted him with
out a cause.” See Psalms cxix, 161.
“The Murderers’ Bible.”—So called
from an errbr in tbe sixteenth verse rf the
Epistle of Jude, the word “murderers”
being used instead of “murmerers.” , A.
D. 1301. ' r ' 177r
“The Qaxton Memorial Bible.”—Whol
ly printed aud-boniid In 12»hours, but
only 10S struck off. A. D. J1877.
For bibliographical information about
all printed Duties, the curious reader is
referred to tiie admirable and exhaustive
work of Henry Stevens.—Fair Jfessen-
ffff- ■ '• j
Quite to the Point.—This, from an
e.<ft*ange, lias a moral in it which is not
without_ pertinency to insurance mana
gers: “Thereto a class ot business men,
or rather men in business—for there is a
distinction with a 1 difference—who per
sistently refuseJJ to advertise in any paper.
When sncli people are approached for an
advertisement, which may return its cost
ten or a hundred fold, they have a stereo
typed answer: ‘We never advertise; our
business is large enough, and we don’t
care about extending it.’ And yet these
same men, whenever their interests are
threatened or attacked by injurious
legislation or evil practices in trade, are
foremost in Soliciting the aid of the press,
and imploring its‘influence’In defeating
the obuoxious measures. It never occurs
to them perhaps that the influence which
can avert or change legislation to not less
powerful in directing the currents of trade
to those houses most deserving of it by
their enterprise, intelligence aud liberal
ity. Tiie same remarks apply with equal
force to some of our financial corpora-
tinn«
tiOBS.”
A Bible Four Hundred and Four
Years Old for Roanoke College
Ex-Governor A. U. Rice, of Massachusetts,
lias presented to the library of Roanoke
College, Viiginia, a very rare old Latin
Bible, printed in black letter with rubri
catcd capitals, on vellum, 644 pages, folio,
well preserved. A translation of the title
page, which is in tiie back of the book, is
as follows: “Here ends the apocalyptic
book of the blessed Apostlo John. In the
year of the Lord’s incarnation one thou
sand four hundred seventy-seventh, and
tiie third calends of August. A very ex
traordinary work of the Old and New
Testaments, with canons 'aud concord
auccs of tiie Evangelists. To the praise
and plory of tiie holy and inseparable
Trinity and tho ‘impressum’ of the im
maculate Virgin Mary. In the royal
State of Nuremberg, by Antobius Cobur-
r, a resident of the same State, by whose
industry also it was mado with the
utmost diligence and skill; it happily
ends. Praise to God!”—Boston Tran
script.
Buttermilk.—a Detroit, puysician as
serts that for a hot-weather drink nothing
equals buttermilk. It is, lie says, “both
drink and food, and for the laborer it is
the bast known. It supports the system,
and even in fever will cool the stomach
admirably. It is also a most valuable
domestic remedy. It will cure dysentery
as well and more quickly than any other
remedy known. Dysentery Is really a
constipation, aud is tho opposite of diar
rhoea. It is inflammation of the bowels
witli congestion of tho ‘portal circulation,’
the circulation of blood through the bow
els and liver. It is a disease always prev
alent in tho summer and autumn. From
considerable observation I feel warranted
tying that buttermilk, draulc moder
ately, will cure every case of it—certainly
when taken in the early stages.”
Vas t efforts were maun by tne Russian
govorn ment 10 destroy tho grasshoppers.
The work was carried on for about three
months, and occupied in one district,
Gori, no fewer than 20,000 people per day.
These colossal Efforts resulted in cutting
down tho ratio of crops destroyed to two
>er cent. While many roubles’ worth of
lay and com were saved, the enterprise
cost the government 200,000 roubles.
Many thousand acres of fields and gar
dens were neglected by their owners be
cause the extra work in the grasshopper
districts was more remunerative.
Republican Success in the French
Elections.—From tho latent accounts
Republican success at tbe municipal elec
tions is assured in Lille, Raubaix, Nan
tes, Angers, Olais, Nimes, Vannes, Mon-
taph, Dijon, Nice and most of the large
towns. The Republican papers publish
congratulatory articles on the result of the
elections, which is considered to have
made the breach apparent between the
Republicans and irreconcilable Radicals.
Anecdotes of Toombs.—Mr. Stephens
recently (old his guests tho following an
ecdotes of General Toombs: It seems
when tiie General was a candidate for re-
election to the- Legislature, one of his
votes in the previous session was very un
popular with his p opie, and a certain
“smart Ellick,” had posted himself on the
record to turn down tho vigorous young-
tribune. Whilo TOouibs was speaking,
rose with the journal of the House and
said-111 a whining {fine of voice,. “Mr.
Toombs, .1 find onepr your votes here
which I don’t like.” “Yon are' d—d
lucky,” says Toombs, “to find only one of
that sort. There’s a devilish sight of them
that I don’t, like.” It to needless fo say
tiiat the self-appointed critic retired m dis
gust. * ' ' "
Another time Toombe bad voted a very
bad vote ou some question, and he wad
interrupted by an opponent during his ad-
;ss. who asked him in a,taunting way,
if ne had him: “What have you got to
say about this voter* “It Is a d—d bad
vote,” said Toombs. “What have you
to say about it?” The gentleman,
ike the boy tbe calf na over, bad aoth-
iug to add.
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Columbus Times'. Mr. MR - Walker,
formerly chief freight clerk at the South
western railroad depot, died at his home
in this city Wednesday night. He had
been a suflerer for several weeks, but bis
afflictions were borne with that fortitude
which characterizes a Christian man. He
has a large circle of frienda who will .re
gret his death.
CMffZfififo
Washington, January 13.—In the
Senate, Mr. Eatou, from the committee on
foreign affairs, reported adversely on sun
dry bills relativeT5~The Japanese indem
nity fund, and favorably, as substitutes
therefor, two new bills.
Mr. Withers, of Virginia, introduced
bill authorizing tbe United States Com
mercial Company of Virginia to do busi
ness in foreign countries.
In the House, under tbe call of*com
mittees, the following bills, etc., were re
ported: .
By Mr. Colorlck, of Indiana, from the
committee on elections, a minority report
declaring that neither J. C. Holmes nor
W. F Sapp have been legally elected
from the eighth congressional district of
lows. Also s similar minority report in
the case of Wilson vs. Carpenter, from
tho ninth congressional district of Iowa.
Both reports were ordered to be printed
and laid ou the table.
By Mr. Johnson, of Virginia, from tbe
committee on military affairs, a bill for
tiie relief of Brigadier General and Brevet
Msjcr General E. O. C. Ord. Referred to
the private calendar. It authorizea his
retirement with the rank, pay and emolu-
uments of Mqjor General.
By Mr. Vance, ot North Carolina, from
tbe committee on patents, s bill to reduce
the fees on patents and caveats. Referred
to the committee of the whole.
Tbe call of the committees having been
concluded, the House, at 12:40, os motion
ofMr. F. Wood, of New York, went
into committee or tbe whole (Mr. Covert,
of New York, in tbe chsir) on tiie fund
ing bill. The pending smendment was
that ofiered on yesterday by Mr. Randall,
of Pennsylvania, authorizing the issue of
bonds in an amount not exceeding six
hundred and fifty million dollars, which
shall bear interest at the rate of 3 per
cent., redeemable after blank years.
Washington, January 13 In the
Senate, Mr. Davis, of Illinois, introduced
s bill relative to increase -in tbe pay of
letter carriers In the Urge cities. Re
ferred.
The resolution for the extension ofthe
franking privilege of Senators and Repre
sentatives was then taken up, and after
discussion was, on motion of Mr. Davis,
of West Virginia, referred, by a vote of
28 to 23, to tbe committee on post-offices.
At tbe expiration of the morning hour,
the Senate resumed consideration of
tiie army appropriation bill, and devoted
most of the afternoon to a discussion of
the clause relating to the payment for
government transportation ou the land
grant railroads.
Mr. Edmunds ofiered the following
amendment, which was adopted by a vote
of 23 to 18: “For payment for army trans
portation lawfully due such land grant
lailroads as have not received aid in gov
ernment bonds, to be adjusted by the prop
er accounting ofli:ers in accordance with
decisions of tbe Supreme Court in cases
decided under the land grant acts, but iu
no case shall more than 50 per cent, of
tiie full amount of service be paid until a
final judicial decision shall be bad lure
spect to each case in dispute.”
Mr. Edmunds suggested that the amend
ment reported from the Senate committee
appending tbe proviso that “suchpayment
shall be accepted as in full of all demands
lor said services,’? being apparently super
fluous, be stricken out. Agreed to—ayes
23, nays 22.
The amendments made by the Senate
committee to the other items of the bill
were agreed to as reported.
Pending action upon the bill, the Sen
ate at 5:40 adjourned.
In the House, after a long discus-
siou, ia which a considerable num
ber of the members participated, the
amendment offered by Mr. Randall yes
terday was amended so as to make the en
tire sectiou read as follows: “That all
existing provisions of the law authorizing
the refunding of the national debt shall
apply to any bonds of tbe United States
bearing a higher rate of interest than 4}
per cent, per annum, which may hereaf
ter become redeemable; provided, tliat in
lieu of the bonds authorized to be issued
by the act of July 14, 1870, entitled ‘an
act to authorize tne refunding of the na
tional debt,’ and acts amendatory thereto,
and certificates authorized by the act of
February 20,1379, entitled ‘an act to au
thorize the issue of certificates of deposit
in aid of tiie refunding of the public
debt,’ tho Secretary of the Treasury is
hereby authorized to issue bonds in tho
amount of not exceeding four hun
dred millions, which shall bear
interest at the rate of 3 per cent, per an
num, redeemable at the pleasure of the
United States alter live year3, and paya
ble ten years from date of issue, and also
certificates in the amount of not exceed
ing 300,000,000, bearing interest at the rate
of3 per cent, per aunum, redeemable
at the pleasure ot the United States after
one year, and payable in tan years from
date of issue. The bonds and certificates
shall be in all other respects of like char
acter and subject to the same
provisions as the bonds authorized to
be issued by the act of January 14th,
187ft, entitled an act to authorize
tbe refunding of the national debt,” and
acts amendatory thereto—provided, that
nothing in this act shall be ss construed as
to autborize an increase of tbo public
debt; and provided, further, that before
any of tbe bonds or certificates authorized
by this act are issued, it shall be'the duty
ofthe Secretary ofthe Treasury to pay on
bonds accruing during the year 1381 ail
silver dollars of 412| grains, and all gold
over and above $50,0^9 in the treasury for
redemption purposes; and provided, fur
ther, that the interest on the 6 per cent,
bonds hereby authorized to be refunded
shall ceaso at the expiration of thirty
days after notice that the same have
been designated by the Secretary of the
Treasury for redemption.”
Mr. Randall's amendment, as tlms
amended, was then adopted—yeas 128,
nays 2.
A number of other amendments were
offered, but all were either ruled out on
points oftwitar or rejected.
Without concluding the consideration
of tho bill, the committee rose and the
House adjourned.
Washington, January 14.—Iu the
House, no attempt was made this morn
ing to proceed to the consideration ofthe
funding bill r and the House ia now in
committee on the private calendar.
In the Senate, Mr. Hoar presented, with
a petition in iu favor, a bill to provide for
retired and retiring Presidents ot the
United States.
Mr. Johnson, of Virginia, from the com
mittee on agriculture, reported the differ
ent bills before the committee on the snb-
ever, on tbe bill tbe Senate adjourned till I committee on various points ia bill
Monday. ..... when the hour of adjouromeet earns, and
In the House, at 4:15, the committee f tbe committee adjourned until Monday
root and reported about a dozen bills to next. On motion of Mr. WhittMOrne, it
the House, but upon tbe first bill acted was agreed that ax=Secre:ary of the Navy
upon no quorum voted, and tbe House Thompson, as a representative of the
adjourned until to-morrow. Panama Railroad Company, shall have a
Tbe Senate iu executive session to- hearing next Monday. Cspt. Eads, to
day confirmed the nomination of Luke oompanied by bis counsel, Mr. Cochran,
Lea, of Mississippi, to be United States I was present during tbe meeting to-day and
district attorney for the Southern die-1 will probably be heard also by the com
mittee on Monday.
coughing oa lying down! A share pals now
and then la the region ofthe heart and shoaL
deni A chlBr sensation down the back! If
eo, delay is Aeagereas. “ Slight eold*,” If
* alight eofda.” If
■RrtnOptlon, when
the remedy, If applied promptly, weal* here
everted all denser. Wmr nr*afy-Cve eeaae
you can gel the remedy which the tut ef
twenty year* has proven to ho the asset vat,
cable Lang Balsam ever disarmed.
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plea?ant sleep end yea will wake la the
morning, cough gone, lungs working firmly,
and breathing easy. It 1* a piereuPVe sad
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Washington, D. C., January 13.—In
the House, tbe Speaker proceeded to call
the committees for reports. Mr. Geddas,
of Ohio, chairman of the committee on
the library, reported a bill authorizing
the construction of a building for the ac
commodation of the Congressional lib
rary, which was referred to tbe commit
tee of tbe whole.
The call of the committees having been
concluded, tbe House, at 12:40, went Into
committee of the whole, Mr. Covert, of
New York, ia tbe chair, on the fund in.
bill, all debate on the first section am
amendments thereto being limited to ten
minutes.
The pending amendment was that offer
ed on Thursday last by Mr. Anderson, of
Kansas. , fl .
Mr. Brice, of lows, inquired of Mr. An
derson what be expected to accomplish by
hto amendment, which provides for the
retirement of national banknotes and for
the issue of currency notes.
Mr. Anderson replied that by issuing
currency notes when tbe national bank
notes should bare been retired the coun
try would gain this: That tbe United
States would be the only power having
anything to do with the money ofthe
country.
Mr. Ftye, of Maine, gave notice of a
substitute which he proposed to offer for
the first section, providing for an issue of
bonds and treasury notes to tbe amount
of $620,000,000, bearing 3| per cent. Inter
est and redeemable after one year.
Mr. Anderson’s amendment was then
rejected by 46 to 108.
The next amendment was that offered
by Mr. Dibrell, of Tennessee, imposing
an income tax, the revenue ot which shall
be exclusively used for the payment of
bonds and notes herein authorized to be
issued. The tax is fixed at 3 per cent, ou
all net incomes of over $3,500 and under
$5,000, and at 4 per cent, on all net iu
comes of $5,000 aad over.
Messrs. F. Wood, of New York, and
Frye, of Msine, raised the point of order
tliat the amendment was not germain,
and was substantially similar to bills pend
ing before the House. The chair sus
tained tiie point of order, and the amend
ment was not admitted.
Washington, January 15.—In tbe
House, Mr. Bland ofiered an amendment
to the funding bill, providing that nothing
herein contained shall be construed to re
quire the payment of gold and silver coin
held for the redemption of certificates is
sued thereon, nor to reduce the amount of
coin held for redemption purposes below
$50,000,000, nor to require tbe payment of
coin which may be necessary ’to redeem
the public debt ou which interest has
ceased. The amendment was rejected by
57 to 98.
Mr. Warner offered an amendment pro
viding that tbe Secretary of the Treasnry
may in bis discretion make the interest on
the certificates payable every four months.
Rejected
Mr. Phillips offered an amendment pro
viding that tbe certificates shall be issued
in denominations of $10, $20 and $50,
either registered or coupon. Adopted. , —
Mr. Price offered an amendment re- »i««P» Appetite aad i
pealing the tax ou bank checks. Ruled I Return when Hostetler’s Stomach Bitten
out on a point of order. b systematically used by a 'Mileus dys-
Mr. Singleton, of Illinois, offered a sub- peptic sufferer. Moreover, sIdotbr brain
stitute for the first section—the amend- sympathizes closely with the stomach and
meat providing for dischaiging the debt I its associate organs, the liver and tb* bow-
redeemable in 1SS1 by tbe payment front I els, as their derangement is rectified by the
tbe treasury of $185,000,000 and by the action of the Bitters, mental topondeney
issue of $400,000,000 In treasury notes produced by that derangement dlsappean.
A safe ill gentle nisalbs, recom
mended for the care of aft diseases ef
the stomach, liver and hewetaw They peilfy
the blood. Increase Urn, appetite, case* Ike
body to Tike oa FIcttL and by their Tonic
ActionontheDigeitircOrgansJufitlar Stools
are produced. As a cure fer CMQe as4 F*-
Ter, Dyspepsia, Sick Headache, BfOaoe
Colic, CenatipatleB, Bfceoaroftero, Files,
Palpitation mf tb* Heart, Fata ia OM SMe,
Back aad Ialu, aad Feasis Imp.
larltiea, they are wisbaat a rival. If yon
d.) not “ feci very well,” a siafie pm at bed-
ti:no stimulate* tho stomach, restores the
appetite, and imparts vljor ts the (TStem.
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ject of pleuro-pneumonia among cattle.
He said that quite a number of these biib
had been referred to tho committee, but
that their propositions were,so varied, aud
the subject Itself to large and difficult,
that it had been determined to report
them back without any recommendation,
letting them go upon the calendar, to be
called at any time.
Mr. Johnstdh',Th>m the select commit
tee on the Yorktown centennial celebra
tion, reported favorably the House joint
resolution authorizing aud requesting the
President to extend to the government
and people of Prance an invitation to
join the government and people of the
United States in tbe bbservanoe of the
centennial.anniversary of the surrender
at Yorklown, Va. He said, in reply to
Mr. Anthony, tliat tho bill did not pro
vide an appropriation, but thatau amend
ment in that regard could be mado when
the bill was taken tin.
Washington, January 14—In the
Senate, Mr. Sauisbury gave notice that he
wookl on Monday move to lake up the
Kellogg case.
The Senate then resumed the consider
ation of the army appropriation bill,
whidi, after some discussion, was finally
PMM&. O . , ... £ J]
Ou motion of Mr. Windora, the military
academy appropriation bill was taken up.
It was reported fro.u the committee ofthe
whole without amendment, and passed.
It appropriate* $532,000, which is $72,000
■a than the estimates.
A bill was also passed, appropriating
$2,500 to defray the expenses of the inter
national sanitary conference, called in
Washington January 1st.
On motion of Mr. Brace, the Sonato
took up the bill authorizing the purchase,
by the Secretary of the Treasury, for the
public use, of tbe property known as
tbe Freedman’s Bank aud the real estate
adjacent thereto. Without action, how-
bearing 2p;rcent. interest. Rejected.
Mr. Carlisle, of Kentucky, offered an
amendment authorizing tiie Secretary of
the Treasury to make suitable rules'and
regulations to carry this act into elicet,
provided that the expense of disposing of
tiie bonds and certificates shall not exceed
iofl per cent. Adopted. He also moved
to strike out the fourth section of tiie bill
and insert an amendment authorizing the
Secretary of the Treasury to use, if. lie
deems it necessary, not exceeding $50,-
000,099 of the standard gold and silver
coin in the treasury iu tiie redemption of
the 5 and 6 per cent, bonds of the United
States authorized to be refunded by this
act, and to apply the surplus money in
the treasury to the purchase and redemp
tion of United States bonds, provided tliat
the bonds so purchased or redeemed shall
constitute no part ofthe sinking fund, but
shall be cancelled. The amendment was
Mr. Hutchins, of New York, moved to
striko out the fifth section of the bill. He
did not believe tliat trio loan could be ne
gotiated at 3 per cent., and argued against
a 3 per cent. loan. He claimed that a 3
per cent, bond could not be floated, and
tiiat within four months there must he a
contraction of currency to the extent of
nearly $400,000,000. Tiie House was put
ting it in tho powerof the banks and mon
eyed men to bring about such a calamity
ami financial commotion as had never
been seen.
Mr. F. Wood said that lie diflered in
his views very much Trim his colleague,
(Mr. Hutchins). He, (Wood) for oue,
would never concede the right of any
moneyed corporation to dictate to the
government what it should or should
not do on the subject of its~ own
credit and its own money. He did not
believe that it was absolutely necessary to
take into consideration the fact whether
or not tkas banks would take these bonds,
Congress was not to bo alarmed at threats
nor intimidated by innuendo. No depres
sion ofthe money market would be or
could be made in consequence of the p&s-
ge of this bill, but it would strengthen
public credit. Let Congress do what was
right and tho banks would do what was
profitable. He condemned the shameful
policy of the government iu asking and
humbly beseeching syndicates and bauks
and capitalists in Europe and New York
to be so kind as take Us 4 and 4} per cent,
bonds. [Applause ou the Democratic side.]
The time had arrived when Uncle Sam
was stalwart and stood upon hi* imperial
powers. He (Wood) would never consent
in tbe last expiring days of a public life
or forty years, that this great country
should hawk its credit in the money mar
kets of the world. [Applause.]
Mr. Carlisle, of Kentucky, moved to
strikeout tbe oighth suction aud insert in
lieu thereof a proviso that, after the 1st of
May, 1S81, the 3 per cent, bonds author
ised by this act shall be tbe only bonds
receivable as security for national bank
circulation, or as security for the ssfe
keeping of public deposits, but that when
such bonds deposited shall be designated
for purchase or redemption, tiie banking
association depositing the same shall
have the right to substitute oilier
bonds of the United States;'provided,
further, that no bond on which interest
has ceased shall be accepts.1 or continue
on deposit as security for circulation or
the safe keeping of public money; and in
case the bonds so deposited .shall not be
withdrawn within thirty days after inter
est has ceased, the banking association
shall be suhjeet to the liabilities provided
by,section 524 pf the revised statutes. It
repeals the fourth station of the act of
1874, and relnacts sections 5159 and 5100
of tho revised statutes.' The.committee
then rose aud the llou^e, at 4:05, ad
journed. ’,
Washington, January 15. — The
special committee, of tile nonse upon
inter-oceanic canals field a meet
ing to-day, to consider the bill which pro
vides for tbe ipeorporation.of the Maritime
Canal of Nicaragua. Mr. S. S. Phelps,
representing that company, appeared be
fore tbe committee and made a statement
in support of the proposition. He. ques
tioned tbe accuracy of the report made by
Mr. Nimmo, chief of (lie bureau of statis
tic* of tho treasury department, some
months ago, as to the tonnage that would
probably pass through an inter-oceanic
canal and showed errors mode by him
(Nimmo) iu his calculations a::.l that tho
tonnage would be at least 3£ million tons.
Assuming that 3,000,000 tons would pass
through the canal annually, the traffic
would produce (with a toll of $2.50 per
ton) $7,500,000 a year, or a not gain of
$6,000 ,000, equivalent to 6 per cent, on a
hundred roiilions. Mr. Phelps was en
gaged in responding to members of thq
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