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From Washington.
The Struggle Over the Civil Bill—-The Anti
Chinese Bill, etc.
[Special to the Baltimore Sun.]
THE SUNDRY CIVIL BILL.
Washington, February 27.—The
Senate committee on appropriations
were engaged a very long time to-day
over the sundry civil bill. About two
hundred amendments to be proposed to
the bill were before the committee,
many of which will be included in the
bili when reported back to the Senate,
which will probably be to-morrow.—
The bill is changed very materially
from the shape in which it was passed
by the blouse.
THE CHINESE QUESTION—VISIT -OF A
CONGRESSIONAL DELEGATION TO THE
PRESIDENT.
A Congressional delegation, consist¬
ing of Senators Sargent and Booth, ol
California; Mitchell, of Oregon; Jones,
ot Nevada; Representatives Williams,
of Davis, Oregon; of California, Wren, of and Nevada; ex-Representa Page and
tive Phelps, called on the President
to-day. They were in conference with
him about an hour, and urged him to
sign the bill restricting Chinese immi¬
gration to this county.
Senator Sargent commenced the ar¬
gument, and pictured the evils, moral,
commercial and national, which come
with the Chinese. He reviewed their
histoiy in this country and the evil
results which their presence have been
productive. He called attention to the
deterioration of American labor which
existed wherever the Chinese had found
their way. He also stated that a veto
of the bill might affect Republican in¬
terests in California disastrously. All
tlie other gentlemen made similar ar¬
guments. • They also called attention
to the numerous petitions from the
West fora riddance of the Chinese, and
presented a number that had just been
received. The President lisieued at¬
tentively, and) frequently questioned
his visitors. When they had finished
their arguments he stated that he, too,
had received many appeals from the
people in the from West to sign the bill, and
also petitions the same and other
sections not to sign it. He was glad to
hear all he could on the subject, and
would carefully consider the arguments
that had just been made. When the
delegation with left a majority of them left
the impression that the President
would not sign the bill.
THE CHINESE BILL.
One of the Pacific coast Senators in¬
cluded in the delegation jwhich went
the White House to bulldoze the Presi¬
dent, into signing the Chinese bill,
he President is thoroughly satisfied that
will not sign the bill. It
stated in some quarters that the Presi¬
dent will seud iu a message
the bill.
Tho Way They Do Things
Nevailty.
An immense mass meeting will be
held at Vnginia City, Tuesday night,
to lake action on the anti-Railroad
which comes up m the Legislature
EK'iiow. Tlnee thousand people
present, and the excitement was
tense. Senator Lane, who 1 opposed the
bill, \\as asktd, !>} i evolution, to
immediately. hang members
Propositions to ^ of ^
legislature who were bought were
ceived with cheers It was proposed
to start a procession ot men to walk
Carson in the morning and demand that
their delegates pass the bill. A
xnittee ot twenty-three met, and passed
resolutions that the proposed
stratiou be done away with, as
feared banging aud bloodshed.
A committee have drawn up reso¬
lution* to send to Carson to-morrow
morning intense by delegates, expressive
be feeling here, and declining to
responsible for the consequences in
case the procession starts.
Romance in Albany.
How a Clerk Drove a Horse Car for Fun
and Did a Heroic Thing.
[From the Pittsburg Telegraph.]
In staid, respectable, solemn old
Albany there have been some roman¬
tic "high jinks” of late. Henry, a
handsome clerk in a well known busi¬
ness bouse, frequently driver rides named home Bill. in a
street car with a
One night Bill intimated that he wanted
to go sleigh riding with Mrs. Bill.
Henry offered to take Bill’s place and
drive the car during the night. Bill
reluctantly assented.
Now, it happened, as the local
chronicler most beautifully remarks,
(hat “the wind was keen, and Henry
found that an old army overcoat did
not fully protect him from the chilly
blast. The moon was up, and its gentle
effulgence filled the world with a soft
and tender light.
Under these interesting conditions of
climate and landscape, Henry heard in
the far distance shouts of men, follow¬
ed by a clatter of horses’ feet. The
sounds grew louder, and presently he
saw’ a horse attached to a cutter gal¬
loping rapidly down the street. The
reins were dangling over the dashboard,
and the sole occupant of the sleigh was
a lady. Quickly winding the reins
around the brake handle, Henry jump¬
ed from the car, and, whip in hand,
stood lacing the horse, which was not
ten yards away.
It was a moment of awful peril. He
was struck, but grasped the bridle,
stopped the horse, a ad fainted on the
cold, cold pavement. The uncle of the
young lady, with whom she had been
driving, and who was thrown out just
above Dove street, came up in breath¬
less baste. He saw that the brave
driver was uncared for, and he directed
that he should be taken to his residence,
not many blocks distant. When Henry
had been conveyed into the spacious
hallway and laid upon a lounge his
consciousness returned.
While the wound was being dressed
the uncle looked at the invalid criti¬
cally, and thought be was the first car
driver he had ever known to wear
diamond studs and cuff buttons. Henry
apologetically : “I came here un¬
false colors.” ‘ O, never mind,” inter¬
the other, ‘‘we owe you a debt
gratitude which we never can repay.”
long after the rescued young lady
her mother came where Henry lay.
the whole story came out. At
last‘account s Henry was 3till a priso¬
ner ; the young lady whom he rescued
is reading Longfellow and Tennyson to
him by the yard, and rumor babbies of
wedding bells in the future.
The Chinese Ahead of the Negroes.
The San Francisco correspondent of
the Baltimore Sun (democratic), under
date of February 1, writing of the
Chinese schools, says:
Rev. Otis Gibson knows more of
Chinese capacity for improvement than
any one else on this coast, except a few
pessons who have been missionaries in
China and who indorse his report^. His
mission is the education of Chinese in
San Francisco, with efforts to change
the complexion of their superstitions.
We cannot improve They on the moral laws
of Confucius. are identical in
China with ours in Christendom, and
they form the base of all religions;
from the beginning there has been no
essential variation. The trunks only
differ in form and structure, and in the
mythic story of who planted it, and
when and where and by what miracles
the lowly believed that God directed
the planting. Otherwise the fruit
all is alike in moral nutriment, adapted
to the various peoples.
The reverend missionary wisely ad¬
mits the merits of Confucius; claiming
that for this age and for this country
our doctrine is better adapted, and may
be accepted without disparagement to
Confucians. This is the shortest and
easiest way to win converts. A public
examination of Chinese scholars gave
convincing proof of the capacity of that
race for intellectual advancement far
beyond that oi the negroes. If
sharp at a bargain be any sign of
Chinamen are fully our peers. As a
further test, they get perfect mastery
oi modern machinery in less time than
i our Chinamen own average apprentices.
:t l] are more reliable and
j quiet* at figures. They have a de*
cimal contrivance of balls, sliding on
; wires, that counts up in a trice, and
j unen uigiy, iraetiouai values, which
! accountants cypher out by
rules ot painful complexity ' and oft
petit-mu.
—♦—
On Saturday afternoon, a lad
Stephen Morgan was m a
shop watching when some men buckshot engaged
target practice, and glancing, a entered
the target,
the lower lid of the lad’s eye. He
not cognizant of the presence of
ball until some hours afterward, when
the eye began to pain, He rubbed it,
and presently the shot rolled
beneath the lid. The eye is much
flamed, but it is thought no serious
suits will follow .—Ownberland News.
SAVANNAH, FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 28, 1879.
BY TELEGRAPH.
Daring Highway Robbery.
MAJORITY REPORT OF THE
TELLER COMMITTEE.
Harbor Appropriation Bill
CO UNTY JUDGES INDICTED.
New Orleans, February 27.—A
dispatch to the Galveston Neios from
Mason, Texas, says : “Last night a stage
with four passengers was halted near
Pegleg station by two highwaymen.
The prssengers were ordered out singly
and valuables taken from them. The
mail bags were rifled.”
Washington, February 27. — The
report of the majority of the Teller
Committee speaks of extensive frauds
in South Carolina by the use of tissue
ballots and the exercise of violence by
Democrats against Republicans and
other opponents. It also charges intim¬
idation and murder in Louisiana, and
concludes by claiming that Congress
should take measures to protect peace¬
able citizens, as those States have failed
to do so.
Danville, Feb, 27.—Judge Alex.
Rives is holding United Spates Court
here. Five County Court Judges have
been indicted by the grand jury to-day
for tailing to allow negro jurors to serve.
Great indignation prevails.
Washington, February 27.—The
Senate Committee on Commerce report¬
ed the river and harbor appropriation
bill this afternoon, with amendments,
proposing numerous changes, The
committee recommended the following
among the additional items of increased
appropriations for the improvement of
livers or harbors named: Norfolk, $
000; Appomattox i iver, $10,000) James
river, $15,000; Currituck sound, N. C.,
$25.1)00; Cape Fear river, N. C., $75,
000' Neuse river, N. C., $24,000;
Charleston harbor, 3. C., $100,000;
Brunswick, Ga., $100,000; St, John’s
river, Fla., $7,000; Pensacola, Fla.,
$10,000; St. Mary’s river, Fla., $50,
000, Vicksburg, Miss., $23,000. The
committee struck out the appropriation
of $1,500 for the Roanoke river, N. C.
Washington, February 27.—A deci¬
sion has been rendered by the Attorney
General that Congressmen elect are
entit'ed to the franking privilege from
the commencement of their term of
seivice, whether sworn in or not. This
gives the members elected to the Forty
sixth Congress that privilege from the
4th of March next.
A Dreadful Minder.
A Drunkard Shoots His Mother-ia-Law in a
Most Cold-Blooded Manner
[From the New Y’ork Herald.)
A horrible murder occurred in the
suburbs of Nashville, Tenn., Tuesday
afternoon. Thomas Meirimon was in¬
toxicated early in the morning, and,
after biutally beating his wife, went to
the house of Morris Osborn, his father
in-law, where his daughter was stop
ping. He asked for his daughter
Carrie, whom he said he wanted to
come out before the muzzle of his shot
gun. Feaiing he would kill her she
refused obedience to his request. Mrs.
Caroline Osborn, his mother-in-law,
came to the door, however, and told
him not to go on that way. At that
moment he placed the gun within
three feet of her abdomen, and, before
she had time to retreat into the house,
fired, filling her groin with slugs. She
fell upon her head out of the door a
corpse. Turning immediately upon her
husband Merrimon said to him: “Don’t
you say a word, for if you do I will
kill you.” Deceased was sixty years
old.
Merrimon fled through the large
canebrakes ten miles distant. A Sheriff’s
posse has gone in pursuit, The Deigh
borhood is greatly excited and incensed
at the murderer who is threatened
with Lynch law if captured,
One of the most remarkable facts in
j Gt-rman university life is the extraor
dinary decrease m the number ot stu
| dents of theology. The decrease is so ^
great that in several States there j la
i been ^n insufficiency of < candidates for
the pulpit. At Kiel there are at present
\ 24, at other German universities 28
students ot theology, altogether 52.
Fifty 16S'students years ago there were no less
of theology m-' at Kiel aloDe.
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The Wilmington (Del.) Evc p Even
which*had inomys: “Twenty years ago thrs
been in existence for
j j than owed a century ’little as a borough and city,
but a over two
I thousand dollars, all told. Now it
a bonded and floating debt of about
one and a-half million of dollars,
Meanwhile the taxes have not
but steadily increased.
j Important results expected
are to
j low Lord Duflerin s appointment
British Ambassador to Russia.
Address to tlie Country by Green¬
back Members-elect of tlie For¬
ty-Sixth Congress.
“ To the People of the United States :
The National Greenback Representa
tives elected to the Forty-sixth Con¬
gress, feeling the grave responsibility
imposed upon them, have met in cons
sultation, and deem it proper to advise
you of the results. The need of a more
perfect organization engaged our seri¬
ous attention. As against labor and
capital invested in productive and
commercial enterprises elaborately the and money tho¬
loaning interest is
roughly organized. This gigantic power
embraces the national administration
and Legislature, the machinery and
leadership of the Republican and Dem¬
ocratic parties, and more than two
thousand national banks, forming a
banking system, yet in the infancy of
its power, whose operation has trans¬
ferred the control of issuing and r<-gu
lating the volume of the paper nuniey
from the government, where the con¬
stitution vests it, to these corporations,
whose directors are not responsible to
the people. Back of this organization,
the inspiring and controlling it, is arrayed
colossal money power of Europe.
It has controlled Legislatures and ex¬
ecutive officers, largely subsidized the
mdiciary. 1 ress and engendered the purity of the
'
By ^ and the
means ot usury appre
ciation of the value o- money by con
tracuon it has absorbed the accumu
laied wealth of the nation and gained
a mortgage upon the indebtness productive power
Oi tne future. Tae of the
people, private, national, corporate, municipal,
State and is more than the
entire property of the country would
bring in the money. immense This indebtedness gained ex
presses capUl by
the money J brokers. Through P the terrible
pressure of l its •. annual i interest - , produc- ,
tive F- and i commercial „ -i energy , have r , been
paralyzed, and the masses of our people
have been plunged into a condition of
vvhich incieasing poverty, want them and misery
is embittering to a degree
perilous to the peace of society and the
stability of our government.
“The agents of the monev power
have sought to blind the people to its
spoliations by charging their distress
to their extravagane; by a false clamor
for ‘honest money’ and by the promise
of speedy relief through the resump
tion of specie payments. What they
call resumption has come, but the dis
tress intensifies and the prospect under
their policy darkens. We have reach-.
ed a dread crisis. It is the mission of
our party to meet this crisis ana avert
die measureless ruin it threatens. To
do this we must overthrow the power
ful and intrenched banking p.ystem and
restore to the government—where places the
fun lamental law it—the sole
power to issue money, regulate its
value and determine its volume. We
must stop the increase ot interest
bearing indebtedness, and as speedily
as possible, in accord with the letter of
the or'ginal contract, cancel that which
has accrued. We must secure a volume
of full legal tender money equal to the
demaads of prosperous, productive en
terprise.
Ours is a gigantic . task , * ; only , by .
the united efforts of those who suffer
can we accomplish it. We are fully
convinced that separation from the old
parties, whose leadeis machine!} and
press are mostly allied with the money
powei, is Demanded. mpe.ied >y thiei
conviction we have resolved to act
together in organizing tne next House
ot Congress, that we may the better
secure such legislation as will accom
pliah Id the desired result. We are assur
that enough have been members elected entertaining hold the
our views to
balance of power. We propose to
wield that power for the sole purpose
of embodying our principles in law.
‘We call upon you to unite iu pre
cin L town - cit X> county, congressional
district and State organizations for the
[same end. W'e also invite ail Green
! ^ K : and Labor Club3, by
[organized or chartered, to place
selves in communication with their
i5 i’ ecave county and State
tlullS , and through them with the
’( ua! " e r8 of the National Executive
, ..... Washington D. We
j Committee, t
earnestly caution the suffering against
a11 wbo t0 inspire to disloyal acts,
lor even threats. Treason would
madness, because the ballot is in our
hands.
“The administration la what the
votes * o1 taie people they i have made change it, and
within two years can it by
the same peaceful process. We
i relief only through the ballot.
| future is full of hope. Our party
gained more than a million of
within the last year, and we
assured from all parts ot the nation
that the nomination which gave us
that unparalleled advance in 1880 is so increaa
tug as to make success certain,
Therefore let not the suffering yield
despair nor the justly indignant
to violence.
Gilbert de la Matyr,
Chairman Committee on
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
The French Chamber of Deputies
will Will prooaoiy nrnhnhlv get rrof over the difficulty
about the De Broglie ministry by
vote of censure.
In Massachusetts there is a law on
the statute books which provides that
if a negro “strikes any person of the
English ot Christian nation, he shall be
punished by a severe whipping ”
The beading of an account in a San
h ^ rancisco newspaper, of a mining ac¬
cident, “One Man and Twelve Chinese
Killed, is an indication of the prevail*
ing prejudice on the Pacific coast.
There was something singular yet
forcible in Commodore Vanderbilt’
declaration that he put his trust in
Providence “because Provide nee was
square as a brick.”—“ Graphic.
A daughter of the late Brigham
Young was asked recently in Washing¬
ton how she had been treated. Her
reply was : “By members of Congress
and the press very well, but by Christ¬
ians badly.
It is thought possible in Paris that
the French Government will abolish
the rank of marshal in the army.
General de Wimpffen is said to be
earnest in recommending the abolition
of all the great commands, as decreed
by the Assemblies of the First. Repub
lie.
Lapis-lazuli, once worth its weight
gold, can now be manufactured by
the ton. At any moment we may find
ourselves able to convert the refuse oi
coa j tar into quinine, water into an
available fuel, and possibly, even as the
alchemists used to dream, lead into gold.
_ mi" jy y Times
^^chbahop a i i • i. of r Adnanople a i • , is . not
, l;
' °' K .'V 0,1 r io “ ccount us y ' n J llre f ■>» Turkl!h ' was
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8y m P. a •. P [, lnce T Lobe k »°f , has pro
mised - that the Russians will endeavor
to , discover the guilty - 1k parties. :. He ft
4 Q .7 ex
, • d_weie
^ ? IDe a 10se llH a - ieKe
nieMei , f lor f fear of opulttr
a P u P nsla &
.Afghan fanatics who attempt to as
sassinate English officers are, if caught,
promptly shot and then burned. This
latter process prevents them from going
^ Heaven,^ killing Englishmen. which is their I his chief treatment object
n
°^ w \^> . enthusiasm ^ ^ thought, of moderate the children the of patri- the
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Ameer
Mr. Jacob, a clever Paris detective,
said that he could always recognize a
man, no matter what were his disguise,
simply by the expression of his eyes,
On one occasion, on abet, he went to
the jail of La Roqnette, and from five
hundred or more convicts a dozen were
paraded in coverlets and hoods, so that
only their eyes could be seen. He
named each one as he passed,
The inhabitants of Finland, Russia,
bury the dead only on Sundays. To
preserve the bodies for the day of
funeral they are put in the cellars
where milk, butter, cheese, eggs, and
other taken articles ground are kept. The doctors
have against this custom,
and have given alarm by declaring it
to be one of the surest ways of propa
gating such contagious diseases-as chol
era and typhoid fever.
President Grevy’s salary will be
n20 .000, with an addition of $10,000
{or table money) and $20,000 for office
expenses. fj He is a man of composed
an vvell balanced mind, whose pulses
beat no quicker “Monsieur after his elevation than
be f ore> Gambetta, my bed
will not be altogether one of roses,” be
said with demure good humor to the
g re ^ tribune who called to congratu
j ate b j m
Tk drffioult.ee ... . which , . .
Arcbb,sbo , f. P Pu t ce11 of Cincinnati, m has
’
lnTol , ved se .™ t0 ,ncre »“ ratlier
than diminish, , and are causing great
uneasiness, not only to his creditors,
but to the body of Roman Catholics
throughout his archiepiscopate. His
liabilities beyond are now $3,000,000, reported to be con¬
siderably and so far
exceed his assets, or what they will
realize under the most favorable cir*
cumstances.
The speculation for a rise in wheat
has made fair progress in the past
week, notwithstanding the adverse
position .......... of American statistics. The
visible supply in caches the markets the^large of the
North gregate and^ of Wester 20,737,000 bushels against ag
9,285,500 bushels at this date last year,
i Receipts at the principal W estern mar
i^f 3 since August 1 last amount to
64,800,000 bushels, against 51,500,000
for the corresponding penod last sea
son.
“Come and dine with me to-morrow,”
said Abernethy, the famous English
surgeon, to a young medical student
from Boston who had brought him a
letter of introduction. “Come at
sharp, and I’ll give you roast beef,
^tatoes with their jackets on, and a glass
cf as and good we’ll port drink as you can get in Lon
don, to the memory of
the greatest man the world ever saw:
your American rebel, George Wash¬
ington.” How many Americans would
say as much of one to whom they owe
* so much ?
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