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T wT Saturday the anew burst forth again
in Wisconsin and in Ontario. Both insist
that they were tho heaviest of the season.
jri.mvoro.v xews.
Washington, March 14.—Tho Repub
lican Senators met in caucus this moru
was a vast wilderness. Deer, wolves and ! probable that the contest for the organi-
ahounded. In half a ' zation of the Senate will be postponed
A Veteran Xorth Woodsman.
Rams Sentinel
Floyd F. Lobb, for thirty-six years a
hat t 1 *^travels!n~n* special pal- ! trapper and guide at Fiscco Lake in tho j lican Senate
MlBV MEL*. nn nDrisht piano, ! no:th ' voods * ia in tlje city for a few days, j ing, but did not complete their lists for
ace car, m which she has an up „ I He says when lie first reached Fiseco it committee membership. It is, therefore,
n ?mall library, a file of papers and a swing- — - - - - > - - -
ing hammock.
Nbw Ociaas8 Picayune: “Tlio man who
iiiwlrtlf an hour to spare generaUy drops in
andoecupi* 9 a haif hour that belongs to
smoother man.”
Bisswaca has a domestic unplcasantn
o„ his hands. His son Hubert has run off
wit h a German Princess, or probably the
German Princess. baa ran offwith Hubert.
F mums says that in the “paper hoop,”
dance, “the gentlemen form a erode, turn
ing their backs to a lady, who is placed in
their centre, and breaks tho hoop upon tho
lieadof the gentleman with whom aho
would dance.”
Ex-SmtrruT of State, William M.
Evarts, of New York; Senator Allen G.
Thurman, of Ohio, and Timothy O. Howe,
of Wisconsin, tho United States Commis
sioners to the International Monetary Con
ference shortly to be held in Paris, will
sail for Europe on April 2 in the Inman
steamship City of Richmond.
Tub Lenten season finds New York with
hut ouc-half the usual supply of fish at this
season. The storms have wrecked many
vessels, driven fish out to sea and caused
many fishermen to relinquish their occupa
tion for the time being. Consequently
prices for this needed articlo of food will
run high, and New Yorkers are unhappy.
Oct of the total of about §11,000,000
river and harbor appropriations, the Mis
sissippi, and Ohio, tho Missouri, the Arkan
sas and Illinois rivers get $3,532,000.
These are rivers whoso improvement ia a
va»t advantage to tho country's commerce,
and every dollar appropriated in that di
rection will tell.
Flobida full of Thavei.kks.—Tho
Jacksonville Union says: One hnndred
and thirty passengers arrived here on the
train yesterday morning. Eighty-three of
these were through passengers. Eighty-
live passengers arrived via Femondina Ex
press yesterday, from the Cumberland and
Sea Island Routes and tho Gulf steamers.
Instead of building a fashionable $1,-
000,0.(0 State-house to replace the recently
burned structure, the Minnesota Legisla
ture wisely proposes to erect a plain, sub
stantial brick building on the old sito to
cost $75,090. When the State has plenty
of money to spend on modern architectural
extravagancies a high-flying building will
be put up.
Mb. Ralzamox Richardson, of Barkliom-
sted, Conn., died recently of actual wont
and privation iu his eightieth year. His
overcoat for years was an old carpet with
holes cat through for his arms, and tho rest
of his clothing was of the same inexpensive
character. His expenses of living for on
entire year probably did not amount to
$12. After his death $23,033 was found hid
i u Id's hut.
Garfield Bboke Down.—Tho Washing-
1 on correspondent of the Globe-Democrat
says: The man attempted to see every
body for a while, but oven as physically
strong a man os Garfield broke down and
was obliged to give it up. To-day ho looks
worn and polo. Lost night, after tho rush
was over, ho was actually too ill to stand.
A friend of tho President says two more
weeks of this sort of thing and Garfield
would be a dead man.
The True Inwardness.—Outwardly, says
the Sun, the surface of the now adminis
tration seems smooth; bat inwardly, tho
Grant leaders are deeply dissatisfied and
only wait for a fair opportunity to make
their discontent known. They cannot
break ont with opposition until some pos
itive cause appears to justify it. In tho
distribution of patronage tho factions can
not escape collision, and tho first serious
jar iu this respect wilt be the signal for an
attack all along the line.
The joint committee, on tho part of the
South and North Alabama Conference re
spectively, it Is understood, will meet early
next week, at Birmingham, to consider tho
establishment of a Methodist paper to bo
the organ of that denomination in Alabama,
and to determine tho place of publication.
Although the views of the committee ore
said to be divergent as to tho location, it is
thought that they may report in favor of
Birmingham, on account of its relative
situation with respect to the two confer-
cnees.
Sanator Fair on ms Travels.—A mil
lionaire chasing a railroad train was ono of
the enlivening spectacles in Cboyenne re
cently. He ran nobly, but tho train got
away, and ho camo near being run over
by the switch engine, which was about to
take him in the rear as ho jumped the track.
Then lie captured tho switch engine and
fur-bca. ing animals
day a man could go out in a boat and
catch it half full of fish. Seven years ago
ho caught next to the largest salmon
trout that was ever caught in that lake. It
weighed twenty-six pounds, measured
three feet two inches long, and was two
feet around its body. He caught this tub
“still fishing” in a boat, off an anchor.
Tho largest known fish ever caught at
I’iseCo was a sairaon trout weighing
twenty-seven pounds. This fish was
caught by Timothy Thurman.
Last winter, while in his bark shanty, a
heavy fall of snow camo during the night,
completely covering his shanty and mak
ing Lobb a prisoner. He luckily had pro
visions and wood, but no show shoes. He
was one and a quarter miles from the
nearest house, aud it was impossible for
him to walk on account of the depth of
snow. He remained a prisoner for twenty
days without seeing a hi: man being, lotting
his fire in the open fire,.'.ice go out nights,
fearing a spark might s t his bed of hem
lock boughs on fire. Thus he remained
till a thaw came and the enow froze, form
ing a crust ou which he could walk, thus
liberating him.
One day while out fishing he saw what
lie at first supposed to bo adeerswiraming
across the lake. Lobb went after him iu
his boat. He caught up with the sup
posed deer, but looking around, beheld
instead a large bear. Lobb had too mucli
pride and grit to back out. He had noth'
ir.g but liis oats aud fislipole, yet be de
termined to have that bear, although he
knew that bruin, like ail other hears
when attacked by a man iu a boat, will
do hia best to ciiauge places and give the
whole lake to the man, while he will try
the boat. Lobb commenced the attack by
boarding bruin about midships near his
stern; bruin returned the fire vigorously
by attempting to board Lobb’s craft, as if
trying to come the whale and Jonah
dodge ou his assailant. Lobb, although
tough, thought he would not set easily on
Ills bearships stomach, so he concluded
that lie would rather trust to his boat as
a means of getting on dry land instead of
submitting to the old way.
So be retreated a abort distance. Bruin
likewise acted as if to say, “I am tired of
this kind of work if you ate,” aud was
making off, when Lobb made for him
again, tbis time running liis boat way
upon Bruin’s back, aud giving bint a
whack with his paddle near bruin’s “sky
lights” between wind aud water, which
knocked the bear’s head under water, not
letting up au inch till he killed him and
brought him to the shore.
Lobb says that during the thirty-six
years lie lias been in the woods there has
never been so severe a winter as this. He
reports also that the guides of Piseco
have killed deer and are now fishing
through the ice, both illegally. Lobb is a
strict observer of the game laws, and has
some enemies among those who have lost
net3 and night lines through the vigilance
of a man well kuowu to Lobb.
Chinese Uniirogrcsslveiiess Daring
fail Tear.
The Shanghai correspondent of the
London Times writes to that paper a run
ning sketch of the; progress of events in
China during the year 1880, from which
it would appear that very little growth
has been made in any direction. Tho
dispatches between tho capital aud prov
inces are still carried on donkeys. The
canals are all choked up, and the public
works are crumbling in ruin. There has
been no progress at all in the development
oftbc couutry.by Western scientific appli
ances. The surveys made of coal and
iron fields, which arc known to exist m
the Yangtaze Valley, have come to noth
ing. The cotton mill which was to have
beeu built lias been abandoned, and the
woolen mills, which were built some
time ago at Lanchowfoo, are not yet
in operation. .There is promise oftele-
egrapbs, hut no performance. Explorers
for petroleum in Formosa came back with
broken heads. The only advance made
is in the management of their Steam Nav
igation Company, aud of this the corre
spondent says: “For the first time in its
history a proper amount has been written
off the value of the company’s fleet for de
preciation, and an lior.cst and praise
worthy attempt made to cut down all
useless expenditure and to pnt the com
pany on a sound commercial basis. Its
operations are to be extended to all for
eign countries where Chinese merchants
are established, and with this view two
of its thirty steamers have begun to ply
between China, the Sandwich Islands and
California,”
Geu. Grant aud slio World’s Fair.
New Yoke, March 13.—Tho World
of the 13th says: “At the next meeting
of the executive committee of the World’s
Fair Commission, which will be beld
Wednesday next, will probably be de
cided the question whether the fair will
take place as has been proposed, or will
bo abandoned. Gen. Grant said to a
World reporter, who had made inquiries
of him, that tho subscriptions have failed
to come in. as it was anticipated they
would, and the time is too short to admit
of tnrthor delay or uncertainties. If this
inen ne apwrei Mw - . f lair is to be iu hi, the buildings should be be contended it was bis duty to give no-
continued tho pursuit; finally, by moans or , rea( jy e ’ xhlbit9> especially these tico of the change to t.lio persons with
crowding on steam and putting tho whistle f rom distant countries. With two years
through a course of diabolical shrieks, get- t j, ere j s Rule time enough left for the ac
ting the attention of the train ahead. The compllalimcr.t of tlio actual work now,
desnerato traveller proved to bo Senator and it would be useless to go on unless
wo can begin very soon. I Have devoted
much more time to the matter than I ex-
Fair of Nevada*
The Little Eugenie.—The EmpressEn-
genio has had in all her life no more devo
ted friend than the late Prosper Merimee.
He loved her in her babyhood. A friend of
his one day mot him in the Rue de la Paix,
leading by the hand a little girl about threo
years old, with a bountiful comploxion and
charming blue eyes, and asked him where
he was going with his little charge. “I am
taking the daughter of ono of my friends
to the pastry cook,” replied Merimee, “to
buy her some cakes.” Tho fair, bluo-eyed
child was tho little Eugenie de Teba, the
daughter of tho Countess de Monti jo.
A vert singular 6tory is going the rounds
in Berlin and Paris about Count Hubert,
son of a certain Iron Prince, who is sup-
lioeed to hold the destinies of empires in
hand, and a beautiful German Princess,
the wife of a high court dignitary. The
Count left Berlin suddenly the other day,
as it is supposed on a diplomatic mission.
At the same time, however, the Princess
disappeared also, and her husband lias
obtained permission to retire into private
life. Detectives have l just discovered the
fugitives in Italy. Although the Iron
Princo has sent Count Hubert positive
orders to come home, the latter refases to
comply.
The Cleveland (Ohio) Herald publishes,
by authority, tho following concerning ex-
President Hayes’ salary and savings: Tho
whole truth concerning the alleged savings
of ex-President Hayes from his salary can
be told in a few words. The aggregate of
that salary for the four years was $300,000.
The expenses of tho position during that
time were $134,000. Had Congress refunded
the $4,000 he paid for the visiting states
men to Louisiana, Mb savings would have
been about $70,000. As it is he went out
of office with $G6,000 to be carried from
his account as President to the benefit of
his aeoonnt as a private citizen. When be
became President he was burdened with,
debts to the amount of $90,000, mostly on
account of bequests charged upon the
Barchard estate. Of this amount he lias
Paid $C0,C30 out of his savings from the'
presidential salary, so that the net available
result in cash of his presidential term is
$G,000.”
The latest novelty in spiritualism is the
production of ghostly lights in dark seances.
The luminous shapes are crosses, circles,
triangles, and other emblems, and they
fioet mysteriously over the heads of the
spectators. A Boston medium is the pro
ducer.
peeled to when I accepted the presi
dency of the commission, partly because
my departure from this country has been
delayed a month longer than 1 expected,
aud partly because I wanted to do what I
could to preveut the failure of the scheme.
Everybody seems to hold beck. The rail
road, express and steamboat companies,
tbe local transportation companies, hotels
and boarding houses, at least most of them,
fail to appreciate the benefits they would
receive. I should advise a postponement
until 1834. That is soon enough anyway,
but my impression is, the scherao will be
given up if the finance committee cannot
report $1,000,000 in hand by Wednesday.”
“In case the charter should be taken by
Chicago, as has been suggested, would you
retain your present connection with the
commission?”
“No, my interests are all In New York,
or In interests which center here.”
The Times says: Wm. A. Cole, a vice-
president of tbe World’s Fair Commis
sion, stated that, unless transportation
companies contribute about $1,500,000, we
can’c go on; that is the plain truth of the
matter.
From another sonree it has been learn
ed that two of the transportation compa
nies will be asked to contribute $750,000.
Unless the demand Is acceded to, the com
missioners will wind up their accounts and
abandon the purpose of their organiza
tion. The two companies referred to are
understood to be tho New York Central
and New York, Lake Erie and Western
railroads.
The ferret is a llttie animal of the wea
sel tribe, used in England and at the
North for routing out and destroying rats.
The SpringUeld (Ohio) Pairon says :
The country suffers the loss of millions
of dollars annually by tho ravages of rats,
when by keeping one ferret fanners could
rout the last one of these pests from their
premises. Ferrets are similar to the wes-
sel la habits and size, but they have been
domesticated and used for expelling rots
in England tor centuries. Mine are white,
very small In slae, and so tame that I can
call them to me *nd handle them ti l
please. If nurserymen are bothered with
rabbits ftirtflttf!Vbmirgumwing tbeirtrees,
with s ferret way can catch tbe last one.
No matter where they burrow, the little
fellow will start them n no time. IXI
can find where a rabbit has taken to a
hole In the ground, I place a sock over
tbe hole, let In the ferret, and in leas time
thmn it takes to tell it the rabbit is in tbe
sack.
The early bird catches tbe worm, and
sometimes a bad cold, which, however,
does no injustice to the old proverb, for
■with the aid of Dr. Bull’s Cough Syrups,
colds are of no consequence. Price 26 (
* 'cents.
postponed
until to-morrow, and that after an early
adjournment this afternoou, the Republi
cans will agaiu go into caucus.
The President sent the following nomi
nations to tho Senate to-day: Stanley
Matthews, of Ohio, to be associate justice
of the United States Supreme Court; Dan
A. Pardee, ot Louisiana, to be United
States judge for the fifth judicial circuit;
John W. Powell, of Illinois, to be director
of the United States geological survey.
In the Senate, Mr Allison presented
the credentials of J. W. McDill as Senator
lrom the State ot Iowa, and Mr. Sawyer
those of Mr. Augus Cameron as Senator
from the Stale of Wisconsin. Tho cre
dentials having been read, the gentlemen
appeared and took tbe oath of office.
Mr. Pendleton called up tho resolution
previously offered by him relative to the
reorganization of Senate committees. It
had beeu slated, ho said, on Friday last,
with a great show of confidence and with
very evident satisfaction that when vacant
chairs on the other side of the chamber
should have been filled, the Republican
party would have a majority in this
hall,and there had been more than an inti
mation ttiat the Democratic party was
in uuscemly haste to take advantage of
tno accidental aud temporary absence ol
gentlemen ou tho other side to seize polit
ical power aud places of iu the organization
of llie Senate—to do that under these cir-
cumstauce3 which a delay of three or four
days would prevent their doing at all.
lie did not know, aud therefore lie did
not controvert the assertion of the fact,
but ho did know and therefore repelled
the imputation. The remarks made by
the distinguished Senator from Illinois
(Mr. Davis) on last Friday sh wed that it
was utterly impossible In the present
condition of the parties that the Republi
can party should have a majority of the
duly clcctei members of tbe Senate. It
showed further that it would bo iu the
power of this party, if it chose, to enter
upou ways of abstention from voting
aud of obstruction, to which it had
been iuvited by the occurrences of the
last few days. Us did not know whether
or not an effective working majority un
der tbe constitution and laws would be
given to the oilier side of the chamber
when tbe vacancies were filled. He bad
no means of kuowing—he did not know
wliat arrangements or proffers or sugges
tions lad been made or accepted, but the
omuipreseut aud omniscient gentle
men of the press liad whispered it about
tbe capital, and liad it put into their news-
paDcrs that there had been unusual
visits to the other end of the avenue, and
they had connected the name of a distin
guished Senator with tho dispensatiou of
federal patronage aud the organization of
tho Senate. It had been whispered that
there had beeu conferences in tbe capitol
at which champagne aud satisfaction had
been equally present, and those, too, who
had been connected with tho statements as
to the organization of tho Senate. - He did
not know wliat proof there could be for
those suggestions, but they had tilled the
air for tho last few days. Tho imputation
which had been put ou Democratic mem
bers ol tho Senate was without foundation
in fact.
A motion made by Mr. Allison, that the
Senate go into executive session, was sup
ported by the Republicans aud opposed by
the Democrats. Quite a sensation was
occasioned by the tact that Senator Ma-
liouo voted with the Republicans. There
was slight applause in tue galleries, but it
was promptly checked. The motion was
rejected—jeas, 35; nays, 37.
Mr. Conkling thou took the floor, and
maintained that the Republicans were
right in not consenting to an organization
against a constitutional majority of the
Senate.
Debate was here interrupted by Mr.
Morgan, who offered resolutions denounc
ing tiic assassination of the Czar of Rus
sia and extending to tlio government and
people of Russia sincere condolence. Laid
on the table.
Mr. Hill, of Georgia, then look the floor
to continue the debate. He believed when
every seat should be filled tho Senate
would be Democratic, as it is now. If lie
was wrong iu that belief he had been de
ceived. Thirty-eight members of this body
had been sent here as Democrats. One
member (Mr. Davis, of Illinois) was not
sent here as a Democrat, but was sent
here by Democratic votes, and in words of
high and lofty patriotism and fidelity to
trust had on Friday announced that he
should be true to tbe trust which sent him
here.
The Senator from New York (Conk
ling) liu stated that the Republicans will
have a majority. How lias this beeu ac
complished ? By whom has that coalition
been accomplished by which somebody
smt here as a Democrat has been taken
and carried off by the Republican
party ? Why is it we have no right to act
on tho assumption that thirty-nino mem
bers are slil! Democrats ? Ho vindicated
the honor, integrity and fidelity to State,
people and principles of all tho thirty-nine
who were sent here as Democrats, and
denied that any one had proven treacher
ous to Ins mission.
Continuing, Mr. Hill said he did not
blamo a man for.a change of opinion, but
whom he had been associated. No Dem
ocrat had given such notice to that side,
and he (Hill) therefore assumed that no
such change had occurred.
He denied that any man had a right to
accept a commission from ono party and
execute it in the interest of another party.
Manhood, courage, bravery, fidelity, mo
rality and respect for tho opinions of
mankind required that, when a man liad
arrived at the conclusion that he could
not carry out the trust which had been
confided to him, it was liis duty to re
turn his commission aud tell his constitu
ents he had changed his mind. He did
not bclicvo that a single one oftlio thirty-
eight men elected as Democrats would
hold in liis pocket a commission conferred
by Democrats, and,without giving any no
tice to Ids constituency or his associates,
would execute that commission in advo
cacy of an adverse party. He denied the
right of the Vice President to take part in
organizing tho Senate, but would not
raise that question.
“If,” he continued, “you have but one
tbe vote will he SS to 38. Who is that
one ? [Laughter on the Republican side].
Who is that one?” repeated Mr. Hill m a
loud and excited tone. “Who is ambi
tious to do what no man in the history of
this couutry has ever done—to stand up in
this high presence and proclaim from this
proud eminence that lie disgraces the
commission lie holds? [Applause in the
galleries]. Who is it? who can ft be?
[Laughter, while every eye was turned
upon Air. Mahone, who was seated
among tbe Republicans.] Do you,” ad
dressing the Republicans, “receive him
with affection? Do you receive hint with
spect ? Is such a man worthy ot vour as
sociation ? Such a man is not worthy to
be a Democrat? Is he worthy to be a
Republican? If my friends from Illi
nois, Kansas and New York were to
come to me bolding Republican
commissions in their pockets, sent here by
Republican Legislatures, and were to
whisper to me that they would vote for a
Democratic oigauization, I would scorn
to accept their votes, and would tell them
, if they came, they would be expelled
with ignominy from the ranks of the
party.”
closed by maintaining that all who
made up the tbirtv-eight Democrats in the
Senate would stand by the constituents
that elected them. They were, he said,
elected as Democrats, and on a question
of organization, which Is a political and
party question, they will »<* with the
Democracy. . .
“You, gentlemen,” addressing the Re
publican side, “wlU be deceived if you
think otherwise, and therefore there ia no
necessity for you to enter on all this fili
bustering.” ..
Mr. Mabone, who occupied aseat on the
Republican side, advanced to the edge of
the are* fronting the clerk’s desk and pro
ceeded to reply to Mr. Hill. The gentle
man, he said, had manifestly engaged m
an effort to disetoee hi* (Mabone s) posl- j
tion on the floor. |
Mr. Hill -“I do not know what your
position is, and how could I disclose it?”
Mr. Mahone—“The gentleman has as
sumed not only to be the custodian here of
the Democratic party of the nation, but
lias tried to assert the right to speak for
the const it uency which I have the privilege
in part of representing here. He has dono
so without their assent.‘(Addressing him
self directly to Mr. nil! and advancing
toward 1dm): I owe you, sir, and 1 owe
those for whom you undertake to speak
here, nothing. [Marks of encouragement
on the Republican sido and In the galler
ies.] I come hero like a Virginian, not to
represent the Democracy for which you
(Hill) stand. I come with as proud a
claim to represent that people as you to
represent the people of Georgia—won
on fields where I have fought with
you and others in the cause of my people
ai’d of that section in the late unhappy
contest. That contest, thank God, is
over, ami as oue of those engaged iu it,
aud who lias not here or elsewhere to
mike an apology for the part he has
taken in it, I say that I am not here as
a partisan nor am I here to represent
that Democracy which lias done so much
Injury to every section of the country.
Tlio gentleman undertook to say what
constitutes a Democrat. I hold that I atn
an infinitely better Democrat than he.
[Laughter]. He who stands nominally
committed to a full vote and a fair vote
and an honest ballot should see that
they can he had had in the State of Geor
gia where tissue ballots are fashionable.
[Laughter]. I servo notice on that gentle
man that 1 intend to be the custodian
or my otvn Democracy. I do not In
tend to be run by that gentleman’s
caucus. I am in every sense a freo man
here and trust to be able to protect my
own rights and to defend those of llie people
whom I represent—certainly to take care
of my own. I do not intend [agaiu ad
dressing Mr. Hill directly] that you shall
undertake to criticiso my conduct by iuu-
eudocs. I wish the Senator from Georgia
•jo understand just here, that tho way to
deal with me is to deal directly. Wo
want no motions of discovery to find out
how I am going to vote. I regret that so
early after my appearance here, I should
have found it necessary to obtrude any
remarks ou this body. 1 would prefer to
be a little modest. I would prefer to lis
ten and to learn, but I could not feel con
tent after what ha3 passed to-day to sit
silent. The gentleman (Hill) by all
manner of insinuations; direct and indi
rect, lias sought to discover who tlio Dem
ocrat is that may choose to exercise liis
right to cast liis vote as ho pleases
and to differ with the gentleman’s caucus.
He seems to have'forgotten that I refused
to take part in the caucus, which has not
only waged war upon me but upou those
whom I represent—that has presumed to
teach the people of Virginia honesty and
true Democracy. Yes, sir, [ad
dressing Hill] you were duly
notified that I took no part nor
lot iu your political machinery, and tbut I
was supremely iudiUcrent to what you
did. You were notified that I should
stand on this floor rcresenting in part tiic
State ofVirgiuia. Certaiuly tho Legis
lature which elected me did not re-
quire me to state I was either a Demo
crat or anything else. I suppose that the
gentleman (Hill) could not get here
from Georgia unless ho said
that he was a Democrat anyhow. I came
hero without being required to state to
my people what I am. They wore willing
to trust me. I was elected by the people,
not by the Legislature, for ft Was an issue
in the cauvass, aud no man was elected to
the Legislature by the party with which I
am identified who was not instructed to
vote for me for Senator. • The gentleman
has been chasing all around this chamber
to see if he can’t find a partner some
where. He has been looking around to
know exactly who that Senator was who
liad tho manliness and the boldness to as
sert ills opinions in this chamber free from
tlio dictation of the Democratic caucus.
I want that gentleman to kuow, hence
forth and forever, that here 13 a mau who
dares stand here and defend ids right
against you and your caucus. [Loud ap
plause aud much laughter, provoked by
the violent gesticulation of Senator Ma
hone, who launched a defiance at Ills ad
versary in a sort ol miniature war dance.]
Mr. Hill again took the floor, and said
that he could only understand the gentle
man on the principle that a guilty con
science needs uo accuser. [Laughter on
the Democratic side.] Uonad not men
tioned tho Senator’s name or State. He
had only asked who tho Democrat was
that was expected to voto with the Re
publicans, and to his astonishment the
Senator from Virginia said he was the
man. He had not said anything offensive
to the people of Virginia, but he had said
that the people of uo section of the coun
try would tolerate treachery. Ho had
said thattbero were thirty-eight Senators
who liad been elected as Democrats. Did
llie gentleman deny ft ? Would lie say
that he was not elected as a Democrat ?
He said lie was not required to state that
he was a Democrat, and in the next
breath he said he was a better Democrat
than he himself (Hill) was. Addressing
lilmsclf to tho Republicans, Mr. Hill
said: “I commend him to you. Take
good care of him. Nurse him well.
[Laughter.] How do you like baviog
among you a worse Democrat than I
n? B
Mr. Conkling—“Oh, no! not worse-
better.” ,
Mr. Hill, (scornfully)—“Ob, a better!
Then my friend from New York (Mr.
Conkling) is a better Democrat than
lam.”
Mr. Logan—“He coaid not well bo a
worse one.”
Mr. Hill—“Never before has there
been such an exhibition in the Senate—
where a gentleman shows his Demo
cracy by going over to tbo Republicans.
I will not defend Virginia. She needs no
defense. She has given to tbe country
and the world and humanity soino of
the proudest names in history, and I say
to the Senator from Virginia that neither
Jefferson, nor Madlsou, nor Henry, nor
Washington, nor Lee, nor Tucker, nnr
any of the long list of great men whom
Virginia produced ever accepted a com
mission to represent a party aud camo
here and represented another party. [Ap
plause on the Democratic side].
Mr. Mahone, (who had returned to his
seat on tho Republican side)—“Dol un
derstand you correctly, as saying that l
accepted a commission from 0110 party
and caine here to vote for another party?”
Mr. Hill—“I understand that you were
elected as a Democrat.”
■ Mr. Mahone, (imperatively)—“Answer
the question!”
Mr. Hill (with provoking coolness)—“I
say that you were elected as a Democrat
and accepted your commission as a Dem
ocrat.”
Mr. Mahono (persistently)—“You said
that I accepted a commission from one
party and came hero to represent another
party.”
Mr. Hill (imperturbably)—“I said that
that will be the case if you vote with the
Republicans. You have not done it yet,
and I say you will not do it.”
Mr. Mahone (impatiently)—“ I want to
say, if it is not out of order here, that if
the gentleman undertakes to make that
statement, the statement is unwarranted
and untrue.”
Mr. Hill (composedly)—“Was not the
gentleman acting with the Democratic
party, and was he not elected to this body
as a Democrat? (With a fiercer tone):
Answer that.”
Mr. Mahone—“Q uickly, sir, quickly. I
was elected as a Readj'ister. Do you
know wbat Readjusters are?”
Mr. Hill-“I understand that there are in
Virginia readjusting Democrats and debt-
paying Democrats, nut I understand they
are both Democrats. We have nothing to
do here with that issue; the question of
Virginia’s debt is not to be settled in tht>
chamber. I ask tbe Senator again: Was
be not elected to ibis national body as a
member of the National Democratic par
ty?’
Mr. Mabone—“No. Are you answered
now.”
Mr. Hill—“Then I concede that tbe
Senator spoke truly when be said 'Id
not know wbat be is. (With s puzzled air):
Wbat is be? [Laughter.] Everybody has
understood that be voted with tbe Demo
crats. Did be not support Hancock for
tbe Presidency, and did be not in tbe
Presidential election proclaim himself a
Democrat?”
Mr. Hill (to the Republicans)—“I com
mend him to you. Is there any man on
that side ot the chamber who doubts that
the Senator was sent to this body as a
• Democrat? Is there a man In this vast
audience who doubts it? Is there a mau
iu Virginia who doubts it?
Mr. Hill, continuing, remarked that ho
had done what newspapers could not do,
wliat both parties could not not do, what
the whole country could not do he had
brought out the Senator from Virginia,and
In concluding said: “But now,tn tiic kind
est spirit, knowing tlio country Iron
which the honorable Senator - owes, iden
tified as I ain with its fame and its char
acter, loving as I do every line in its his
tory, revering as I do its long list of groat
names, I pciiortn the friendly otlice un
asked of inakiug a last appeal to the liou-
o ruble gentleman, whatever other fate I,-*-
faU him, to tie true to the trust which the
people of Virginia gavo him. Whoever
else may be dl appointed, whoever else
may be deceived, I appeal to tho gentle
man to be true to tbo people and the sen
timent of the party who have kindly com
missioned him to a seat in this body.”
In reply to a question lrom Mr. Logan,
who asked what right the Senator had to
dictate to tho Senator from Virginia, Mr.
Hill again rose and said: “I have not un
dertaken to do so. He can do as be pleases;
hut when he acts as a public man I have
a right to my opiulon of his public acts.
There Is not in ray heart an unaind feel
ing towards him. 1 would, if I could, res
cue him from the infamy into which oth
ers are trying to precipitate him. There
is no man in this body wiioso wbote soul
goes out more in earnest to protect the
Senator’s honor than mine. I would
rather lose the organization of the
Senate and never have a Democratic
committee here than to have Virginia soil
her honor. [Applause.] I do not say
that tho Senator is going to do it, but I see
a precipice yawuing before him. 1 see
whither potential influences are leading
him. I know the dangers just ahead—I
would rescue hint if I could. Men in this
country have a right to divide on national
Issues and on local issues, but no man has
a right to be fal«e to trust. Whether the
Senator lrom Vhginia will be guilty of it
or not, is not for me to Judge. I w.ll not
judge, but I will say, If ho votes as you
(the Republicans) want him to vote, God
save him, for he is gone
“Gcutleinen,” addressing the Republi
cans, “you In your hearts respond to
every word I am uttering when I say that
you would despise treachery, aud you
honor me to-day for making an effort to
rescue a gentleman, no*, from treachery,
but from the charge of it.”
Mr. Mahone (rising)—“I caunot allow
tho gentleman to make any such insinua
tion.”
Mr. Hiii -“I made no insinuation.”
Mr. Mahone—“You do, emphatically,
aud an unmauly one.”
After further discussion, participated in
by several Senators, Mr. Morgan’s resolu
tion of condolence with the Russian gov
ernment was adopted, when the Seuatc
soon after adjourned.
Washington, March 15.—When the
Senate met at 12 o’clock the desk of Sena
tor Mahone was decorated with a hand
some basket of flowers.
Tho Vice President gave notice to the
gal eries that any manifestations of ap
proval or disapproval, such as bad been
made yesterday, were in violation of the
rules of tbe Senate and an insult to that
body, and that if they were repeated to
day he would order the galleries cleared.
He also trusted that those persons who
were entitled to tho privileges of the floor
would not In auy way contribute to disor
der.
Mr. Voorlices called up the resolution
offered by him yesterday, calling on tiic
attorney general for information as to the
names of tho deputy United States mar
shals appointed in tiie State of Indiana to
attend the polls at the election held in
that Stale in October last, together with
the respective localities where such mar
shals were placed, and also tho names of
such general marshals as were appointed
iu regard to such election.
On motion of Mr. Edmunds, an amend
ment was adopted calling for any informa
tion in tho possession of tho attorney gen
eral bearing upon the necessity for the
employment of such marshals.
The resolution as amended was agre'd
Washington, March 10.—Iu tho Senate
the organization resolution was called up,
whereupon Mr. Cameron, of Pennsylvania,
moved to adjourn, bntylelded to Mr. Vest to
offer a resolution requesting the President
to communicate to tho Seuate the corres
pondence and accompanying documents
between the governments of the United
States and Mexico during the years 1859
to 1801, inclusive, in reference to the pro
posed treaty between said governments,
and also the correspondence during the
said years between the State Department
and the United States Minister at Mexico
In reference to any proposed convention
or treaty between the two governments.
Adopted.
Mr. Davis of West Virginia offered a res
olution directing tho committee on public
buildings and grounds to take into con
sideration 'lie condition of public build
ings in Washington City, looking to tho
future needs of the government, and re
port at the next session of Congress.
Laid upon the :able for action when tbe
committees shall liavo been appointed.
A motion to adjourn was lost, yeas
28, nays 35—Mahone not voting, and was
followed up with a motion to proceed to
the consideration of executive business,
which was also lost. Yeas 32, nays 34—
Mahone voting In the affirmative.
Another dilatory motion having been
voted down, Mr. Cameron, of Pennsylva
nia, called attention to the: faetthat there
were appointments on tho table which
should be acted upon immediately, and
he therefore moved to go into executive
session. *
Mr. Groome sugg'sted that the nomina
tions could not be acted upon for want of
committees.
Mr..Farley said that there appeared to be
a disposition on tbe other side to do no
business whatever.
Mr. Dawes asked the Senator from
Calafornia to inform the country 011 whose
motion the Senate adjourned yesterday.
Mr. Fatley replied that tbe record
would show that Tact. Dilatory motions
had been made and it had become evi
dent that the Republican aids did not in
tend to do any business.
Mr. Saulsbury thought that the remark
made by Mr. Dawes was unjust, and that
the Senator knew it to be unjust upon the
Democrats in this chamber. He know
that the Democrats had been attempting
to organize the Senate so as to proceed to
public business. He (Saulsbury) referred
to the action of the Republicans in the
last Congress who, he said,bad interposed
dilatory motions against the consideration
of nominations which had been sent in by
a man who had been elevated without
right to the Presidency.
Mr. Cameron, of Pennsylvania, asserted
that the Republicans desired to proceed to
work as much as tbe Democrats, and that
therefore he bad moved to proceed to ex
ecutive business. The motion was lost.
Mr. Beck said that as there was a Re
publican President backed by a Republi
can House, it might be better for the Dem
ocratic party that he also had the Senate
at bis back, and had the credit of all that
was good and the responsibility of all that
was bad; therefore, he (Beck) was not att
tempting to hold on to a few privileges,
and tie thought Jfist the Seuate might os
well adjourn, and made a motion to that
efleet, which was agreed to at 1 o’clock.
Washington, March 10.—Among the
nominations sent to the Senate to-day were
tbe following: L. Dana Horton, of Ohio,
to be Secretary of the Commission on tbe
part of tbe United Stales to attend tbe In
ternational Monetary Conference at Paris;
Postmaster—Robert F. Mllnes, at New-
nan, Ga.; Collector* of Customs—Alex
ander V. Davis, District of Beaufort, N. O.;
Thomas F. Black, District of St. Mary’s,
Ga; Thomas L. Broadwater, District of
Vieksbuiv, Mias.; Surveyor of Customs—
Joseph Z. Gaston, Port of Chattanooga,
Toon.
Washington, March iff.—J. Stanley
Brown haa been appointed private secre
tary to the President. Brown is a young
man about 24 years of age, and was fore
marly stenographer to Major Powell, of
tbe Smithsonian Institute, and went
with Gen. Garfield in the same capacity
while tbe latter was still is the House of
Representatives. He was at Mentor dare
ing the campaign, and has been acting as
tbe President’s secretary since tlio inau
guration, although Coi. Rogers has nomi
nally held that position.
OIL.
The Mania for Wild Speculation—
Betting on the Price-— ltuotblncks
Who Turned Into Millionaire* nod
Millionaire* Who lmt Their All-
A Plucky Woman.
Special Cornscondence qf Ike Times.
One might spend weeks in tho oil re
gions listening to the local historian as ho
narrates stories of the past two decades—
of towns and cities depopulated in a week,
of fortunes won as by the turu.ng of the
die aud lost as quickly, of tin filing: acci
dents, of hairbreadth escapes and heroic
dariug. From Stump creek. With its mys
terious “wild-cats,” on the South, to Clean,
iu southern New York, there is not a
town or hamlet with its tavern that has
not its misanthrope, who sits, with his
clay or cob pipe, and croaks from morn to
eve about the evils of the oil Imshiess. If
one is acquainted with the feelings of such
a one and secures for him a strange mix
ture of pure alcohol, kimmnl water and
old rye, his tongue will bo loosened and
be will t Ik for hours concerning the past,
present aud probable future of tue region.
The oil business is confined to a great ex
tent to the Bradford field, In McKeon
county. Oil Is still produced to a certain
extent for a distanco of seventy mile3
south of this, but Bradford and vicinity
produce live-sixths of all the oil at present.
The daily production by the best calcula
tions is at present about 67,000 barrels.
The consumption Is about 40,000 barrels,
leaving 27,000 barrels of stock to be run
into the United Line, as they call ft here,
and stored away in hopes of a future mar
ket. Two months ago the prod'ictlou was
estimated at 75,000 barrels, so that it lias
decreased 4,000 barrels each month. Tho
immense iron tanks that overlook the tops
and guard the base of these mountains like
castles of old, liad the amount of oil in
them increased from 10,000,000 barrels on
January 1,1SS0, to 21,000,000 on January
1,1SS1. Tbo oil is all takeu care of aud
stored away by the United Line, men
tioned above. They build these huge
tanks, holding 25,000 aud 30,000 barrels,in
different parts of the region. Whenever a
new well is struck and “ilo” comes to the
surface, this company connects the well to
its main line, and about ouce a montli the
oil is run into the line, tho man receives
Ids money fur it, and stock certificates are
issued for speculation on ’Change.
the speculative mania.
The speculative mania has existed
since the first oil well was sank near Ti
tusville. From timo to time it has taken
different forms, but it always ends in the
same way. Fortunes are won to-day and
lost to-morrow. Men who are money
kings one week are curbstone brokers the
next. At first tbe speculation was In oil
land or what was supposed to be such.
When oil was first discovered and its com
mercial value ascertained men knew but
little how to so about producing ft. The
idea prevailed that all this area of coun
try, and 110 one pretended to determine
Us extent, was underlaid by a vast sea of
oil, aud that all that bad to be done was
to secure land, siuk a well to the required
depth and strike oil. Laud was, of course,
in great demand. Men from neighboring
States rushed in and a market
was obtainable for any tract.
Land was bought iu tho morning
aud sold before night for five times the
first price. Men became rich. The money
of Wall street flowed into the region and
the natives secured it. Tho belt theory
obtained promlneucc soon after and land
was not saleable unless it was on a belt
or supposed belt. This theory, aud there
is little doubt but it is the correct one, Is
tbat the oil runs in belts or subterranean
streams. Asaruto it follows a straight
course, and good territory can generally
be told by the compass before the well is
struck. Some of tue belts are wide and
some very narrow. Very few people
were benefited by the speculative price
paid for laud. A few old farmers hoarded
it away, but the large majority of them
went wild with excitement and the money
went into the ground in tbe shape of dry
holes or wells that had no oil in them.
BETTINO ON THE PJtlCE.
Speculation on the price of oil was the
next form, and the one that finds promi
nence to-day. Magnificent oil exchanges
were erected in Oil City, Titusville and
Bradford. Here speculation is indulged
in on tho price of oil, tho oil certificates
being the basis. One instance of how
men become rich in this speculation oc
curred In Oil City. Two brothers, by the
name of Goettlu, in ISC0-7 were boot
blacks around tho streets of tbe oil towns.
They made a good deal of money for boy?
and saved it. When they had a few hun
dreds saved they look a flyer on the mar
ket. They were successful and doubled;
success still followed them, aud to-day
they are anioug the wealthiest and most
successful speculators in tho region. The
magnificent generosity of oil men is well
known. A poor and needy woman has
often had thousauds of dollars raised
for her among a crowd of
oil men, and in a few
minutes she was raised from pov
erty to opulence. They spend money like
water and no towns in tho couutry will
show belter dressed men and women than
these. They all almost universally wear
diamonds upon tlieir shirt bosoms, which
in many cases they are forced to pawn for
necessities before they havo become even
accustomed to them. Speculation is the
life blood of Oil City. When the market
is dn!l,inactive for a few days.it is noticea
ble at every place. Business stagnates,
men get the “blues” and the town is dull
indeed. But let the market be variable,
fortunes are being made and lost, men
are excited, the streets are alive with oil
brokers rushing back and forth between
bauks and exchange with certificates,
drafts, checks and even money in their
hands. Tho wives of the brokers crowd
to the exchange and filling the visitors’
gallery watch the operations of their hus
bands.
A PLUCKY WOMAN.
Some time ago, in ono of these ex
changes the gatiery was filled to over
flowing. The market was leaping up at
tbe rate of ten cents an hour. One of the
heaviest buyers was on the wrong side.
He saw his fortune disappearing like mist
at the rate of $25,000 ' au hour. For
six hours this continued ami he was forced
to “lay down,” as it is called; to be an
nounced a bankrupt, in other words. His
wife was » witness to tbe whole scene. An
hour before the worst came she left the
exchange, walked into a dry goods store,
took oil her seal-skin sack and sold It.
From tbat place she went to the jeweler’s
and disposed of her diamonds and all her
silver. When her husband re
turned home, disconsolate and down
cast, she met him at the door dressed in a
neat calico wrapper. He bad been a clerk
before fortune smiled upon him aud she
a modest school tehcher. She informed
him that she had discharged all the ser
vant* and that they would live as for
merly, she doing the work. She handed
him $5,500 as the result of selling her
jewelry, and told him to tue it. Joy and
hope beamed in his eyes and found a
place in bis heart again. . He went again
to tbe business. I11 one montli be liad
regal ne 1 his former position, bad redeemed
everything his wife bad pledged, and was
living as formerly. Tlires times within
six years was this man saved in this man
ner by bis wife. To-day he is one of the
most daring and successful of our specu
lators. This is one story. Here is an
other. A young man in Franklin wished
to marry. He was well-to-do, bad a snug
little sum in tbe bank, but the specu
lative mania caught him. He in
vested it all - iu oil. The market
that bad been going up, up for four days,
turned the very day he bought, and In two
abort boars be saw his saving* of years
disappear. It maddened him. He took to
drink, became unfit for business lost bis
position, tbe love and respect of bis wife,
tor be bed married, and gradually sank,
•top by step, until be Is to-day a maudlin
barroom drunkard. Home* have been
ruined, hearts broken, lives destroyed, men
erased, by tbis existing Insane pamiouthat
never quite them until they have lost all
they possess—except in a very few case*, |
where they bod the hardihood to fly while
their pockets were toll. This happens
about as often as It does in tbe live* of !
C biers. These men, as a rule, live tost i
; end it is very seldom that one with j
gray bain ia found among them.
A 31XSTE11Y NFPMW(WI>.
Thnrlow Weed Gives tbe True Story
of Morgan'* Death lor Exposing Ma
sonry.
Chicjgo Tribune.
Tliurlow Weed was asked by a special
i correspondent of the Press yesterday cou-
; earning the recent murder of a son of
Judge James Giilis, of tiffs State, in Alt.
Mount Pleasant, Iowa, last week,presum
ably, on account of the death of Morgan
during the anti-Masonic excitement. “I
knew him very well, ami he was a very
worthy man, as were all those engaged in
the persecution of Morgan. It became a
political issue, without auy intention on
the part of the anti-Masons, and the latter
became a strong party. Judge Giilis was
not tried for tbe murder, but for abduct
ing Morgan. The facts in tlio case
were % about lliese: Morgan was
a ’ drunken stonemason and
a member ot the order of Free Masons.
With the' help of a country printer he
printed an expose of the first three degrees
of Masonry, ami was about exposing the
Royal Arch degree when the Masons de!
tcrmlned to put a stop to it. Morgan had
come to me—I was In the uowspapor busi
ness In Rochester at the lime—to print his
book, but he wanted me to taka an oatli of
secrecy before I began tbe work, aud I
would not do so. The Masons had Mor
gan arrested on a trumped up charge of
pvtit larceny and lodged in jail. They
than made arrangements to carry him off.
A party of them, including Giilis, Nicholas
G. Cheesborough (whose'daughter called
on me not half an hour ago), and
James Whitney aud others, vent
to the jaii, aud after considerable
parleying with tbe Jailer’s wife, limy
prevailed on her to givo Morgan up. The
idea of tho Mavons were simply to get
Morgan away from tho bad company he
was in, in which case the Masons believed
be would give up his design of exposing
tho secrets of the order. They proposed to
buy him a farm in Cauada and turn him
from his evil ways generally. The plan
was now changed to provide lor Morgan
by sending him away from civilization In
the employ of the Northwestern Fr.r Com
pany. There were several meetings of
the lodge aud chapter at Niagara on the
subject, but many Masons refused to have
anything to do with the scheme. Then
tlio matter became imperative. Some
thing had to bo done, and at once.
“It was found to be dangerous to re
cede or go on. After Morgan had been a
prisoner In the magazine for three or four
days there was a large meeting of Masons
to install an encampment in a Canadian
town near by. Prominent men were
present, including memoerc -if tbe Nmv
York Legislature, and the evening ended
with a grand supper, at which excited
speeches were made by several prominent
members of the order on tho ease of Mor
gan. At last the chaplain was called on
for a toast, and lie gavo the following:
“The enemies of the order—may they
find a grave six feet deep,, six feel long,
ami Fix feet due cast and west.” This
contained a hidden significance, and Co 1 .
King, who was at the table, called four
gentlemen outside, aud a carriage he
ing called, they were driven to Fort
Niagara, where they arrived at 4 o’clock
in the morning. Morgan was called up,
and was told that they had made arrange
ments for his welfare—bought him a fai in,
etc. He went with them, end they took
a boat and rowed out fuur miles into
Lake Ontario. Here they wouud a rope
leaded with sinkers around Morgan, and
threw him overboard. A man at the fort,
whom I afterward looked up in a mo
ment, saw the boat leave with six men and
return with hut five. Of course all these
facts were denied, and the world said tbat
the committee that investigated the mat
ter were politicians, and were moved by'
interests other than those of discovering
the truth.
“Just as I was leaving Chicago, at the
close of the proceedings of tbe convention
which nominated Mr. Lincoln. I was
mortified and even much disgusted at the
defeat of Mr. Seward, and was sending
my baggage to the depot. Colonel John
Whitney, one of tlio five men who took
Morgan out in the boat, camo tome and
said: ‘I want to swear to wbat I told
you about the Morgan matter, aud if you
survive me I want you to publish it.’ I
promised to write out the statement,
which contained substantially tbs tacts I
have given you, and intended to do so, but
the campaign came on, the war broke out,
and I was sent to Europe by Mr. Lincoln
aud I neglected ft. While in London I
wrote to Whitney, asking him to go to E.
B. Williams and let him write the state
ment. When I got back home that letter
was returned to me from the dead letter
office, and Whitney hud died a week be
fore it should have reached him. I was
always sorry that I did not writo ont the
statement in Chicago.”
N. T. Central..141
1 W.St-L. J: P... LT--
Eric 47-V 1
do.pref'd.... tS!
L ike Shore.... 1 fit; (
| M. A C 4 !
HI. Central....133V
1 Rock Island... 132
Na-h. ifc Chat.. ta_*
1 W. U. Teieg'h.. M3V
Lou. ,fc Xa?h.... 5i
1 Ala.Statc bonds;
Pittsburgh 128
I Class A,2 toS.. 71V
Chi. & North.. .122 1
Class A, small. Tt«
do, pref’d.... 132 V
das B. Ft Pi
Class C, 2 to 5.. >■ l?.;
Gold $83,08G,512 I .Silver.,....$3,4>T,XC
COMMERCIAL.
Jlnocm I’ott-'ii Statement.
Office Tki.kobapii and M kngfb,
March 10.—Evenia*?-
The market to-day was nominal tut lot
for middling.
Received to-day by rail....
“ “by wagon.
Shipped “
Sold “
10
Activity la Locomotive Work*.
Business in the several large locomo
tive aDd car shops East is brisk. The Ma
son locomotive works are giving constant
employment to S09 men, and the Taunton
locomotive works to 300, while the Was
son car works at Springfield are employ
ing OOO hands, and are turning out one
passenger and five freight cars per day.
The New York, New Haven and Hart
ford car shops are turning out tho last of
400 freight cars tor their quota
in the Union freight line. In other
sections of the country there js
similar activity. The Ilarrisburg, Penn.,
car 3hops are hurrying to completion the
last of an order for'l,000 freight cars re
ceived from the New York Central last
October, and havo just received another
order from the same load for 1,550 more
cars. Or 105 now engines recently order
ed by W. H. Vanderbilt, 80 are to be
built at Schenectady and 25 by the Grant
Works at Patterson. Of recent orders
for freight cars, tho Texas Pacific is hav
ing 000 bnilt at Huntington, Penn.; tho
Missouri Pacific, 1,100 at Stanton, Penn.,
and the Northern Pacific, 1,509 at Day-
ton, O., while the Connotton Valley has
also ordered 1,000.
A Five-etoiy Bmmgmr.
A miserable-looking old man. with the
upper part or his face covered witha cloth,
ou Tuesday evening begged in front of
Terrace Garden, in East Fifty-eighth
street, says a Gazette New York special.
On Ills breast was* placard, on which
was inscribed: “I am a poor man, blind
for seventeen years. Please make a small
gift.” He was recognized as John Kohler,
an Importer, well kuown to the police. In
the Yorkville Police Court Justice Kil-
breth committed him to tiie care of the
Commissioners of Charities and Correc
tion. The policeman who arrested him
said Kohler had on his person when ar
rested a bank book calling for $1,580 in
the Seaman’s Savings Bank, and that he
owned a five-story building at 16 Bowery,
valued at $40,000. Kohler said tbat he
was penniless.
FINANCIAL.
STOCKS AND BONDS IN MACON.
OOBBBCrCD con.T m
LOCKETT <t BOND. BROKERS.
Maootr, March 18.--Guorgia 6 per cent,
bonds,due Georgia do(old)
100@lO7; Georgia 7 per oent. bonds (mort
gage) 109)l@lll; do bonds (gold quarterly
coup.) llGqtll8; do bonds, doe 1896,122
@124; do 8 per cent, bonds 102 a 11.5;
Northeastern R. R. bonds (indorsed) 108
@110. Central R. R. joint mortgage 7 per
cent, bonds 115(3116. Georgia R. R. 6
per oent. bonds 104(21Q6>4. Western R. R.
of Alabama 1st mortgage 116)^(3116; do
2d mortgage 117(3118. Mobile and Girard
R. R. mort 116(3118. Montgomery and
Enfanla 1st mortgage indorsed C. and S.
W. roads 103>f@104><. A and G. R.R. oon-
eoHdatod mort. 109(3110. City of Macon
bonds 99@100. City of Savannah bonds
£6@87. City of Atlanta 6 per cent bonds
1«S»10B, City of Augnftta 6 per cent,
bonoa 8onthweatam ‘R. R.
Central JA B. stock
11O<3110«. Augusta and Savannah R. R.
otoefc ltt@nC Gt
117®11S.
Georgia R. R. stock
Market* by Telegraph.
N*w Yoax, Noon. March 16.—Stocks
steady; money fl@6; Exchange—long
$4.80, short $4*2jf; State bonds dull-
Government securities quiet.
Sinw Yoox, Evening — Money 8(36;
Exchange $4A0; Government securi
ties steady; new 5 per oent* 101%) 4W per
cents 111.*; 4 per cent* 113Jf; State bonds
active.
STATEMENT:
Sfook on hand Sept. 1,1880.. 9g* '
Received to-dny 1-4
“ previously 00,376— Ct>^2K4
Shipped to-day 77
“ previously........ 53,911— Ciy**-
Stock on hand this ovening-..
COTTON.
Ltvkcpool, March 16.—Noon—Ootfrsnr
steady; middling uplands 6}£; miihninjr.
Orleans 63-16; receipts 20,800 bates, I'.fKft
American; salos 10,000; speculation ;m&.
export 1000.
Futures—Futures quiet; upltads i.nr
middling clause, March delivery or-'.SA'j •
; March mid April 6 5-32(j? : A;-m-
and May 6 5-32(<:3-lfi; May and JunoG
6%; Jane and July GR'(26 9-32; July uui
August 6 9-32(25-16; August and Septem
ber —; September and Octobm -
6 3-I6@—: October and November 0 .
; November and December 6..
New Yonx, Noon, March 16.—Cotton.:
steady; sales 1507; middling upland? WJijr
middling Orleans 11.
Futures steady; March 10.49; Apex.
10.43; May 10.51; Juno 10.63; July 10.70;,
August 10.75.
New Yon:;—Evening—Net receipts
gross 4913. Fntures dosed stcsffyjr-
Mloe 167,600, ns follows:
March..-10.67(110.63 August...10.97(31 OO?:
April.... 10.C7@10.ti8 Sepfber.10023MM
May ....10.74@10.75 October-lO.^ 10.40s
Juno.... 10.81,ti) NovTier .10^5@MXSX
July 10.93@ 10.91 DeoT>cr..l0.25@ia2r
Cotton steady; middling uplands
middUng Orleans 11. Sales 1214 Lata*.
Consolidated net receipts 132233 batesr-
exports to Great Britain 18,595; to Freraoe.-.
£351: to continent 9,131; channel >
Galvkjtov, March 16.—Cotton quiet;--;
middling lbX; low middling 3j& goocv- *
ordinary 8W; net receipts 2114; grass. =.
tales 1716; stock 99,168.
Noofolk, March 1G.—Cotton
middling 10)^; net receipts2379; gross. ~-
sales 828; stock 19,935.
Baltxuobk, March 16.—Cotton eiuiet;-
midJling lOJf; low middling 10’f; goocl
ordinary 99-16; net receipts 225; grass 3GFp.
sales —; stock 9,319.
Boston-, March 16.—Cotton dull; nod
dling 11: low middling 104^; good emit—
nary 9#; net receipts 8AJ; gross ; radar.
—; stock 9560.
WrLinsGTOX, March 16.—Cotton vea.it;-;
middling 10)f; low middling 9 9-16,- goodl
ordinary 8; net receipts 06} gra&» 5
sales ; stock 5234.
PfltLADELrniA, March 16.—Cotton slcady-..
middling 11&; low middling 10Jf; gooe,
ordinnry 9X; net receipts 174; gross - -
sales 238: stock 16,061.
Savajwah, Mirch 16.— Cotton quieto;
middling M 1 .,'; low middling P-ti
ordinary 8V; net receipts 1782; grew
: sales 1900: 6tock 69,2-41.
New Orlean's, March 16.—Cotton Smc:
middling 1Q&; low middling gotoi- ;
ordinary 8j£; not receipts 1,903; gnse >
2,018; sales 6250; stock 311,914.
Mobile, March 16.—Cotton quiet; mid
dling 10W; low middling UVf goodf
ordinary S)@ net receipts 353; gross et
sales 500; stock 50,461.
Memphis, March 16.—Cotton quieiri.
middling lOif; net receipts 2030; riiinmenl* .
2458; sales 2650: Ktock 86,082.
Augusta, March 16.—Cotton qultfr.
middling 10%; low middling 9)f; good,'
ordinary 8%; net receipts 312; gros3 ——(r
sales 638; stock .
CnABLESTOx. March 16.—Cotton steady ,
lni-Y I -i . 1>- low 1:, I > 1 —vjC
ordinary 10; net receipts 1422; gross USg-'
sales 2000; stock 51,066.
MACON PRODUCE MARKET,.
OOBBECTED daily BY
T. a JONES. MERCHANDISE BROKEK-
Maooh, March id.— Bacon — shouldera-
7; clear rib 9jf« Bulk meats—slicchhszc.
6>f; clear rib sides 8Jf. Hama—Sugar-cur*®.
IDs®——- Bagging—IV to II3. Tic*—
•Bandies $2255. Lard—ivorccs 11Y; tale
12)f; in bucket* 13. Bran—Per 10& &L3K.
Hay—Per 100 $1.50. Com—White, by cac-
load, 75; mixed, car load, 73; very sranroa.
Oats—Feed .58: rust-proof 85. Salt—V£*»-
giuia $1.50; Liverpool $L20,@12i5. Moor.
75; boited 80. Grits $1.25. Flour—Fane*,
per bbl., $850; choice $7.00; extra fancitj;
$6.75; family $6.50; extra $5250. Coffee—
Common 13; fair 14V; good 15; p/Csaa*
17(3 ; Java 29. Molasses—Choiea CoLe,
bbl~\, 50; do comou 40; sugar-house, hhebi*.
80; do, bbls., 33. Syrup—Georgia cant
syrup 45; Golden 50; New Orleans, choica,-,
55; do prime 50. Sugar—Golden G MS;
brown 9s Coffee C 9}f; white, extra C-.lOVs,.
standard A 10V: granulated IT: ptnvdenaa
11V: Biee7V@7*f. CandissiS. Mate**?
*2.85. Potash $3.00.
Provision Markets by Telegraph.
Baltimore, March 16.—Flour aelirejr.
Howard street nnd Western superfine -
@4.00: extra $4.10@5.00; family $U$0*~
6.0); City Mills superfine $3^!5@4.03: extrai
* '.10(35.00: family $6,100 cJS-THo bran*?
. 100(86.26; Patapsco family $7.00. Wheat t
—Southern steady; Western higbor-p
Southern red $U6@19s amber $1.22@2Sr,
No. 1 Maryland $12S5@24V; No. 2 Wester*,
winter red spot Sfarcn $U9*'iKSVk
April $1.20@20h,'; May $E20^@2ogy
Juno @ : July (3 • Gams-
—Southern firm: Western steady; Southern.
white 57@—; yellow 58V@ Oatsfiroar
Western white 46(347: do mixed 44@4&.
Louisville, March 16.—Flour taweef;
extra $82i5®32»; A No. 14.7o$@5.00; choice-,
to fancy $5.75(26.25. Wheat firm at $1X0*
@ . Com firmat46V@47. Outs»taM&>
at 38VO —. Pork steady at $15.75@v us
Lord nominal; prime steam—. boat-
meats steady; shoulders 5)^; clear rib suh*
8; clear sides 8.45. Bacon firm; sliauhKro:
5X5; clear rib sides 8V@—; clear-
9V. Sugar-cured hams steady at 10@—«»
Whisky steady at $1.05. -
Cincixxati, lfarch 16.—Floor active: fans-
ily $4,8051.5.10; fancy $5225(35.75, Wheoto
strong; No. 2 amber $1.06® 1.07; do ra&
winter $1.07@1.0$. Com strong: Ni*. fir
mixed 45KO—. Oats strong: No. 2 znixedf
37)4(338. Pork quiet at $15.50@—. Ims&J.
firm at 10.65@—. Bulk meats firm; shooi,.
ders 5; clear rib sides 8; clear
—. Bacon firm; shoulders cifeoz-
rib sides 8V; clear sides 9. Wlaskyp
steady at $1.06. Sugar easier; hards 3VJ-J
10V; New Orleans(^<<58. Hogs firm; cara
mon $4.75(35.60: light tSSSSMw i.ackftK-
$5.80(36,80; bntfhers $6.25(<n>.75.
St. Louih, MnrchlO.—Flourliigher; triplet
extra $4.75@-5.00; choice to fancy
(35.75. Wheat higher; No. 2 red thlf
$1.02V<3 for cash; @ for April; 1
$lj06V<SffV for May. Corif higher:
for rash; (3 for April: —<j|.
— for May; 41Jf@42 for Jane. Outs highar-:
345^0345^ for cash; ■■ (*?■■— ■ for April.".
Wluskysteady at $1.06. Pork * irong$JG.7E-'
@ . Lard higher at 10.G0@ . tairt-r
meats firm: shoulders 5.10(3-—; clear tit.
sides 8(38.25; clear sides J?—. Bacoc.,
strong; shoulders 5^; clear rifi sides 1
-; clear sides 9@—.
Chicaoo. March 16.—Flour steady: rent
winter $5.09(36.00; fair to choice——
Western spring $4.75(35.75. Wheat ffnru.
No. fired winter <: do Chfcisgc..
spring 1.03(2 for cash; ).02!t(@02J^ Swr
April; (3 for May. Corn udisot.
38V(339J* for cash; @ for Aiuift.
42V<*42*f for May. Oata active;
for cash; (3 for April:
for May. Pork lower ut $15.005/.—. 'Las*,
weak at 10.65(3——. Balk meats eastes;.
shoulders 5-iOta —; short ribs 8.10(3—: ehuct
clear 8.30. Whisky steady ot $1.06,
New Orleans, March 10.—Coffeo sate-tap
Rio cargoes 101^(313V* Sugar kmiT;. .-am a
mon to good common5/f(3dIf; yellow <dac~
ifled8(38a£. Molasses steady; centrifugal
‘20(337; prime to choice 36(351: Rico scfcroq;
firm ; Louisiana, ordinary to choree, tjL
@6*.
New kork, March 16.—Coffee turn;
Rio in cargoes 10*£(3I4,V: do in job Iota —
(3 . Bngar firm; Cuba 7@7)$4 sas**
vado 7.VC3—; centrifugal 8)f(2—; fain, tot
good refining 7, l ^(37;\; prime 7)^(3
refined active, standard A 8)*(3—. Sfoite
sea quiet; New (Ir'eans HOtofiA Rioo £m
at 5@7. Roein firm at $L8U<31.85. 'Pur.-
pentihe weak at 4CW(3 . Wool
domestic fleece 386150; pulled 21(345: ins
washed 14(336; Texas 14(3W>. Freight*
dull.
Navel Stereo.
WrLMixoTON. March 16.—Spirits
pentine firm at 43. Rosin quiet
for strained; $1.60 for good strai
firm at $1.65. Crude turpentine
^.75^- for hard; $2.75 for yelkm