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a ESTABLISHED 1867. THE MESSAGE MOCKED SHERMAN'S CAPTIOUS CRITICISMS REBUKED BY VOORHEES- A Field Day in the Senate l ester day in Which the First Gun of the Campaigo are Fired Tlie Indiana Senator's Strong lie ply to the Ohio Demagogue. " Br Associated I'resa to the Messenger. Washington, Jan. 4. Among the Japers presented to the Senate was 'a etter from Allen & Co., publishers of Augusta, Me., urging the necessity of . the ; issue of fractional currency. Mr. Fry who presented it, stated a3 a fact astounding to him that this firm often received in its business $1,000 a day in payment of fractions of dollars, also by Mr. Hale, a petition against any change in the fishery treaties; and- in favor of the rights of American fishermen under existing treaties and1 legi-lation; also by MrV Yoorhees, in favor of the present tariff on lumber; also by Mr. Cullom, sev eral petitions of the Illinois State Grange, endorsing the Interstate Com merce law, favoring government own ership of telegraph lines, denouncing gambling in futures, favoring tho re striction of immigration as proposed irl the Reagan bill, opposing the abo lition of the whiskey and tobacco tax, and favoring the placing of salt, lum ber, sugar, etc., on the free list. Among the bills introduced and re ferred were the folldwiug: By Mr. Cullom, amendments to bis postal tel egraph bill; by Mr. Blair, to encour age the holding of a national indus trial exposition of arts, machinery and the productions of the colored race throughout the United State?, iu Atlanta, da., in 1838 and 1SS9. Mr. Brown offered a resolution declaring that the practice of the government was correct for the first three-quarters of a century of its existence, when it collected the necessHiy revenues at ports or other boundaries by tariff, except in cases of war or oth er great emergencies, when inter nal revenue or direct tax laws were imposed, but which wero repealed as ssoou as the emergency ceased; also, that pre-ent .internal , irevenue laws were enacted an a war mea.-ure, and that it has now become the imperative duty of Congress to enact appropriate .legislation . for . .their i repeal at the earliest; day practicable. He asked that the reflation be laid on the table, and said that nest Monday he would submit 'some remarks upon it. The Senate then took up the resolution for the distribution of the -President's annual message and was adressed by Senator Shertnan. Sherman ciitiiized the message for its failure of allre'ererce to foreign ' rehttion.A atjd t interesting questions on national affairs, and for postponing all thinirs (celestial or terrestrial until the surplus of. It was Tnere was revt nue shouldbe disposed an extraordinary inessag Pi nothing new or strange about the Treasury surplus; President Jefferson aud President Jackson had met it in their day, and . the Repub lican administrations had ou many occasions siuco the war grappled with, it, either by payment of , the public debt or by the reduction of taxes. The Democratic party had had control of the House of Representatives for many syears and had not originated or pro posed a reduction of taxes. Only a Republican Congress fu tea years had by the act of March, 1883, largely re duced both internal taxes and customs. Why had not the Presideut followed the example of his predecessors by using the: powers conferred on the Secretary of , the Treasury, and applying the surplus to the reduction of the public debt? If the President had regarded, the suri 1 is as a danger, why had he not lrrn irti t .Vi?a n H n i n hour nnn l Congress to provide a reduction of taxation-, and why had not Congress ap piieu the remedy? The only answer was that tho controlling majority of the Democratic party would not allow a bill to be reported unless it contained provisions which would greatly injure or destroy domestic productiou. If it had been tho desire to reduce taxes without reducing American pro duction, tho task was easy; but the Speaker of the House used his enor. mous power (with the hearty support of the President) to prevent even the reporting of such a bill. Even without a reduction of taxation, the surplus revenue might have beeu applied for great national objects, but for the vetoes of the President and the fail ure of the Secretary of the Treasury to exercise the plain discretionary powers conferred upon him by law, and for the failure of the Democratic House of Representatives to make appiopiia tious tor some of the highest national objjets. (Among these Mr. Sherman mentioned the Blair education bill; defendeut pension bill, river and har bor bill and other legislative projects.) If, the appropriations had been made for these purposes, and for coa t de fences-the" present condition of the , treasury, which now so alarmed the Presideut, would not have existed. Mr. Sherrnan was willing to correct the I irregulairties of the tariff and to re duce the surplus, not by vicious and undiscriminating process of horizontal reduction, but bv such methods as wouldl relievo the tax payer without injuring the laborer or- great produc - tive interest of the country. He pre ferred that policy which looked to the interest of the American nonta. .rather than to those ot foreign nations. He preferred a policy of reducing prices by home competition rather than by foreign competition; of the opening raw materials by in creased production; by improvement of rivers, and harbors, and by railroad competition. Whatever might be said of I other nations, protection to home in- austriejs, (as emooaiea m the tariff laws) was best for this country, and he for one, proposed to maintain it ever against the advice of the Presi dent. ,i Mr. Voorheesthen addressed the Senate on the same subject. The sub ject of taxation, he said, was as old as the government itself, and yet it was as fresh, and full of interest to-day to the laboring classes of mankind as ever at any former period of the worjd's history. A contraction of the volume of cuirency had always been a policy marked by disaster andsuffer ing, and accused by every friend of the general welfare of the country. But when that abominable policy was" still farther aided and executed by snatcbintr, as it were, money of the people from their ver hands, at often millions a month without necessity, excuse or palliation, every honest mind had to revolt against such wanton robbery. It was a crime against every house, every fireside and every hying man and woman in the United States. It was a. crime national in its proportions, gigantic in its strength, omnipresent in its visitation and brutal in its ra pacity. And yet, the day before the recess, the Senator from Colorado (Teller) had sneered at the idea of the surplus being of any consequence, aud the Senator from Onio (Sheiman) had also declared, not by cable from Paris, but oa the floor of tne Senate, that, it was fortunate for the country that there was a surplus of fifty-five mil lions in the treasury. It would be for that Senator, if; he should become the Republican candidate for the presi dency next summer to explain to the people why it was gathered into the treasury in excess ot all uses, pre scriptions and wants of the govern ment, insteid of remainiug in the pockets of the people. - There was in the Republican press and among Republican politicians a determined, per.-istent and brazen campaign of mendacity on this subj-ct, and it would continue in the .councils and field work of the Republican party, day by day, morcing, noon and night, until the frosts of next November came to wither and blast alike their falsehoods aud their hopes. .Ho denied that tho President had departed one jot or title from the declaration of the last Democratic plat fofinon the subject of taxation. That declaration had been bold, ex plicit aud peremptory. It was mude in a few, plain, strong words, the meaning of which it was impossible to pervert or misunderstand. Inci dental protection to home manufac tutors had always been the policy of the Democratic party. It was recog nized in the last Democratic National platform. He rejoiced in every ele ment of American success; he was pioud of the inventive genius of the country, and of its vast establishments where skilled labor abounded; he looked with delight on cotton mills, coal mines, blast furnaces and rolling mills of the South, as wefl as on those of New England, Pennsyl vania and inauy western States; he would encourage liiiem m tlieir gigan tic career of development and useful ness; and, he held that the policy of the Democratic party had beeu always ample fdr their prosperity and pro gress. That was the only safe policy fr the xVmerican manufacturers them selves, if it were once clearly under stood that manufacturers as a class, demanded that they be enriched by means of fraudulent taxes, that they accept the guidance of the leaders of t! e R-putl can party and join in their praise, then indeed perils would envi: rou the manufacturing interests of the country such as was never known be fore. If the Democratic party, with its record of more tuau fitiy years in the administration of the Government, and its frank and coLstant declaration of principles was to be charged withthe lolly ot free trade every time an at tempt was made to modify the tariff, the people would vtry soon, and very clearly find out that suck assaults were only made to divert public attention from the evil designs and schemes of plunder, of which they were ihe vic tims. He. could not believe, however, that the sagacious and patriotic busi ness men of the country, who con trolled manufacturing industiies would penult themselves, for political purposes, to be put in atutude of unjust, selfish, over weening avarice, aud of unfairness toward the great niass-of, his countrymen. Proceeding to discuss the message of the Presi dent," he said that it was a pleasure to him to declare that this rematkable State paper was true to the piinciples and teachings of the Democratic patty from its foundation by Jefferson years ago to the present day; and that tne thanks of tho laboring and busi ness clases of the country were due to the executive for seizing on that vital isuo with the grasp of a strong, hon est man, and lor presenting it to his countrymen in such shape and light that it neyer would d.sappear uutil the wrongs threin presented were exposed and iedresi-ed, and uutil the outrages of overtaxation ceased. Iu thepies ent age of swollen pretences, of shal low aristocracy and of gilded vulgari ty, the splendid utterauces of the President's message fell on the minds of the people as a token, as a promise of relief, reform aud redemption, from one who had Lever broken -pledge or forgotten public duty. The President had declared for the lowly and op pressed. Since the inatcbless'and im mortal inaugural of Jefferson, on the 4th of March ,71801, no communication had ever emeuated from a chief mag istrate of this government more able, more elevated in statesmanship more humane and benevolent in its purpose, or more couducive to the ereneral welfare and -good gov- ernment, than the message under con sideration. At the close of Mr. Voorhees' speech Mr. Sherman moved that the message be referred to the finance committee; but action on that motion was with held to give Mr." Teller an opportunity to make some remarks. Mr Teller spoke briefly in replv to Mr. Voorhees' criticism ot his (Teller's) former statements. The resolution to -refer the Presi dent's message to the finance commit tee was not acted upon. The Senate, at 3:05, went into secret session, .The nominations of Inter state Commerce commissioners were referred, upon motion of Mr. Cullom, WILMINGTON, N. C, THURSDAY, JANUARY 5, 1888. to the Inter-State commerce com mittee, of which he is chairman, and at 3:50 the doors were opened and the Senate adjourned. HOCSE OF REPRESENTATIVXS. Mr. Mills, of Texas, stating that the Speaker would not announce the com mittee's to-day, asked unanimous con sent that members be permitted to in troduce bills for reference. Consent was granted and the Speaker pro ceeded to call the States in their al phabetical order. 7 Under a call of the States a great many bills and resolutions were intro duced, and referred, among them the following: By Mr. Herbert, of Ala bama, to regulate the jurisdiction of circuit couit commissioners; by Mr. Wheeler, to provide for the reduction of customs duties; also to establish a court of appeals; also to amend the civil service act; also granting pen sions to survivors of the Indian wars who have attained the age of seventy years; also to establish signal stations on the West Indian Islands; also for the temporary support of common schools; also tor the refunding of tbe cotton tax; also to remove the tax from tobacco and spirits made from fruits. , By Mr. Springer, of Illinois, to pro vide for the organization of the ter ritory of Oklahoma. The bill pro vides for creation of a new territory! out of the public land strip and all that j part of tbe Indian territory west of the five civilized tribes, covering an i area about as large as the State of Ouio. It provides all the machinery for a territorial government like other territories, but does not assume any jurisdiction over the Indian tribes, except in conformity to treaty stipulations. Section four opens the publfc land strip to settlement for homesteads only, and sections five and six pro provide for the settlement of the Cherokee outlet and Oklahoma lards by actual settlers, through a commis sion to be appointed by the President to negotiate with the Cherokees, Creeks and Seminoles, so far as such negotiations may be necessary'; sec tion seven contains stringent provis ions ' to prevent fraudulent entries, and requires three years actual resi dence before any patent shall issue to settlers; all sales, assignments, tran.-fers or mortgages of lands prior to the issue of patents are prohibited and declared null and void. A pro vision is made for the settlement of other unoccupied Indian lands, but in alt cases said lands are to be re served for actual settlers only and at a price not to exceed '$1.25 per acre; cattle cases are declared void and contrary to public policy, and it is made the duty of the President to re move losses from said lands; all grants heretofore made" to railroads aro for feited and the power to crealeany public indebtedness by voting bonds or subscribing for stock in railroad companies or other corporations, by territoriaK legislature or by town ships, cities or counties, is strictly prohibited. By Mr. Adams, of Illinois, for the removal of dangerous aliens from the territory of the United States. ' ! By Mr. Dibble, of South Carolina, placing jute on the free list; to re im burse depositors in Freedmans Savings and Trust Company. By Mr. Rowland, of North Carolina, to repeal the tax on tobacco. Similar bills ware introduced by Mr. Johns'on and Henderson of North Carolina, Mr. Payne, of Pennsylvania, Mr. Houk, of Tennessee, and others. ! Several other Postal Telegraph bills were introduced; also bills to reduce letter postage to one cent an ounce; affecting national banks; authorizing the issue of coin certificate?; amend ing Pacific railroad acts; affecting fisheries; concerning warehousing of distilled spirits; regulating immigra tion; pension bills; woman suffrage amendments; for the purchase by the treasury of outstanding bonds; for a national quarantine; repealing duties on sugar and molasses for the 11th census; extending the eiht hour law to letter carriers;prohibitihg convict labor on public works; for a u aiform system of bankruptcy; repealin j the civil ser vice law; amending the civil service law; for international arbitration tri bunal?; calling for information from about all of the executive departments upon various topics; changing the time for the convening of Congress; author izing the President to veto single items in appropriation bills. Nine hundred and two public bills were introduced coveting every c nceivable su' ject of legislation. Included in this number were bills for public buildings in every State in the Union and territories; among those in the South are the following: By Mr. Davidson, of Florida, at Tallahassee; by Mr. Grimes, of Georgia, at Col umbus, Ga.; by Mr. Catching?, of Mississippi, at Vicksburg, Miss., by Mr. Johnston, of North Carolina, at Asheville, N. C.; by Mr." Henderson, of North Carolina, at Statesville, N. C: by Mr.Bowden,of Virginia, at Nor- olf,Va ; by Mr. Bone,of Virtiniatat Fiederie&sbunr, Va.; by Mr. Yost, of Virginia, at Staunton.Va. Adjourned. The House Committees not yet Completed Bv Associated Press to the Messe nxer. Washington, Jan. 4. Speaker Carlisle expected to announce the House committees to-day, but owing to the necessity for consulting a few members whom he wished to re-assign to other committees than those , upon whicn he had originally placed them, and to the fact that some of them are not present at the capita! to day, he was unable to carry out his intentions. He spent the mommer hours before the assembling of the House to-day m his private room at work on committee lsts, but he was so besieged by mem bers, who had learned of his intentions to change their assignments that he was unable to make any appreciable headway in adding the finishing touches to his work. It is his present expectation, howeyer, that tbe list will be finished to-nipbt and annonnced to the House to-mbrrow. ' FIGHTING WARRIORS DEADLY COMBATBETWEEN UNITED STATES SOLDIERS. A Cheerful Bow in SU Loali Btrcn Whlt and 111 ck Troop. n TTlalelk the Latter Foathi Koblr ot Carried Off All th Honor New Yorker Hooted. Br Associated Press to tbe Meseeojrer. St. Locts. Jan. 4. A revolt oc curred at Jefferson barracks yester day evening, between white and col ored U. S. soldiers, that resulted in the injury of many men, and probably will cost three their lives. At this time there are many recruits at this station, and yesterday they drew their first pay and made an onlought oa the sutler. Numerous brawls resulted and a erowd from New York resented the familiarity of the colored troops and a fight followed. The guard house was filled with disorderlies and still the rows were kept up. Late in the afternoon a drunken colored trooper was seen pursuing a fourteen year old white girl, and a party of white troopers were soon after him, and in due time handed him over to the officer of the day. This seemtd to enrage a number of his comrades, and tUey forthwith left the barracks, starting for Carondelet. On their way they fell in with a squad white troopers and proceeded to take vengeance. Tne white soldiers made their escape with a few bruises and made their way to the Darracks, where they soon made up a party to handle the colored men. Armed with re volvers and carbines they started in good order for Carondelet, but before they had gone far they were ordered to return and disarm by the officer of the day. They refused to return to their quarters, but laid down their arms at once and then proceeded after the enemy. At River Des Peres bridge they met the colored troopers returning:. An encounter immediately followed, and knives, clubs and rocks were used. The fight was one of Ides peratiou and the white men's superior force was offset by tho discipline of the colored troops, who had entered a second term of service. For half an j hour the battle was waged without ad- vantage to either side, and on the bridge and road and river-bed men lay exhausted and beaten. Finally thebeiigerents.blindedand played out, withdrew. A colored trooper report ed the affray at Carondelet station. He was locked up by the white patrol, and a wagon was sent to the scene to gather up the injuied. In the mean time white soldiers had gather ed "in force and marching to the station, demanded that the colored trooper be i ven to them. The officers reiuo. and preparei tor tue assault. By this time news of the 'battle had reached the barracks and four troops of cavalry were ordered out and ar rived in Carondelet in time to save the police from attack. The mutiners dispersed, but they were arrested in detachments on a general order to arrest all troopers. The bar racks at Carondelet and intervening country assumed a military aspect, and all night the soldiers' tread and demand of "Halt!" rang out. The dis turbance was quelled, and to day there is peace, though bruises, black eyes and gashes on half a hundred heads still tell the tale of the struggle, while in the hospital at the point of death lie troopers Livingstone, Peterson and Krummeknocker, all white. At one time in the afternoon over 300 men were looking for a row. SUB-TROPICAL EXPOSITION. Florida, the Bahamas and the West Indies Will Display their Products at Jackson ville A Prominent Featurp? AVill be a Camp of Seminole Indians. 1 By Associated Press to the Messenger. Jacksonville, Jan. 4. The open ing of the Sub-Tropical Exposition has been fixed for January 12. The pro gramme of the opening ceremonies is published to-day and includes a pro cession, music and orations byH. W. Grady and the Governor of the State. The exposition will be unique in its character, and will consist chiefly of a display of the characteristic products of sub-tropical Florida, the j Bahamas and the West Indies. The mam build ing is three hundred and five feet in length by one huudred and thirty-two in width, and it is very handsome and ornate. It is intended to be a perma nent structure, and the exposition will be open about three months every winter. Beside the main building there are a spacious annex and several smaller buildings. An interesting feature of the exposition will be a camp of Seminole Indians brought hero from the Everglades. Special excursion trains will be run from ad jacent States on the opening day, and many thousands of visitors are ex pected. -. . More Coal than They Expected. By Associated Pres3to the Messenjrer. PlTTSBUfcG, Jan. 4 This morning the tow boat Little Bill in attempting to pass through a narrow passage made by lowering of some of wickets at Davis Island dam, struck one of the broken wickets and knocked it down, clearins the channel for a space o- 200 feet. Boats are now passing threugh the opening made by the accident and about three million bushels of coal will get out for shipment to Cincinnati and Louisville, instead of one million bushels as expected. The river is re ceding slowly with seven feet one inch in channel. Presidential Nomination. By Associated Press to the Ijessenzer. Washington, Jan. 4. "he Presi dent has sent to the Senate tke follow ing recess nominations: Betiton J. Hall, of Jowa, to be Commissioner of Patents, to be inter-State Cononerce Commissioners: Thos. M. CoolVy of Michigan; William R. Morrison, of Illinois: Augustus Schoon maker, of New York; Aldace F. Walkfhr, of Vermont and Walter L. Bragg, of Alabama. A SEVERE VISITATION. A Cidrable Port! of t KiUt Part or IW a a fort U Swept Away hy Flr Th 1am lltltnatd at Aboat Sir TH M Dollar. Partially Covered tr lr ane. j Special Telegram Vi tho Mcsctyrer. Beautort, N. C, Jan. 4. The fire alarm was sounded at 2 o'clock this morning. The fire originated in Tyre Moore's store. The losses are as fol lows: John D. Guthrie & Co., dry goods and millinery, It store and stock; Tyre Moore, about half the stock lost; Taylor & Buckman, two stores and over half the stock lest; Charles Clauson, bakery and fixtures with family wearing apparel lost;" Dr. T. B. Delamar lost a portion of bis drugs; Wm. SabUton, two stores; fix tures and the greater portion of s'ock lost; S. W. Gabriel, dry goods and clothing lost store but saved half of the stock; Chadwick ft Jones, whole sale dry goods and groceries, lost store and probably quarter cf the stock; Captain Thomas Thomas, four stores and about quarter of the stock lost; Robert Roberon Jt Bro., store and probably quarter of the stock lost; Yr. F. Dill & Co. lost store and a small amount of stock. Very nearly all were insured. All were wooden buildings. Many merchants on the opposite side of the street moved, and their goods were damaged in hauling. Fortunately all. through the fire it was calm. Tho citizens, both white and black, worked hard to save the prop erty. It was seen that to save the balance of the row it was necessary to pull down the town hall, which was done and by tha means the fire was stopped. The loss is estimated at be tween fifty and sixty thousand dol lars. t 1 ALABAMA'S CONVICTS. They are Farmed Out in a llody for-a 1 riod of Ten Yenrs to the Tennessee Coal, Iron & Railroad Company. Bv Associated Press to tho Mcsscneer. Montgomery, Jan. 4. The State of Alabama has let out all of its con victs on a ten year's contract, to the Tennessee Coal, Iron ahd Railroad Company, They number about COO and the average, price is $13 per mont;h each, which is $4 tnoretban the State has ever before received. The convicts will all be worked in the great Pratt coal mines near Birming ham. The contractors agree to con struct entirely new prisons in accor dance with the best modern plans, as well as school rooms for the convicrs, and dwellings for teachers, and to pny the teachers themselves. Tho Pratt mines supply coko for nearly all of the furnaces in Alabama, and pro duce more than 3,000 tons per day. This contract for convicts is therefore regarded as highly important, since it secures the furnaces against a possible failure to obtain a full supply of coal on account of strike, etc. One of the three State Inspectors of convicts i required to be always at the prison3. . Sparks From the Telegraph. By Associated Press to tbe Jlessenjrer. An eighteen hundred ton bark be lieved to be an American vessel, has been wrecked at the entrance cf Waterford (Ireland) harbor. Her crew consisting of twenty-five persons, were all drowned. The Pope in couu e of his reply to the Italian Pilgrims yesterday, de- dared that the Roman question couldl not be regarded as merely an Italian one. It had a universal character throughout the Catholic world. The revival of the question made him con- fident of a settlement in accordance with justice. Luther J. Cox and H. M. Mitchell of Baltimore, grain commission mer chants, tradrng as S, J. Cox Sc Co., made an assignment to day for the! benefit of creditors. Bond of trustee is $10,000. A Pennsylvania railroad miner's train crryiug 500 men returning from work wajs wrecked at Shamokin last night by a sill wedired ou the roadbed. This is the third attempt to wreck the train. The miners are very anury and threaten, vengeiiance. No person was seriously injured. The miners riding on the train are Knights of Labor working at mines paving their price. They do not understand the anuim.ut of the wreckers but believe it is some dissatisfied parties who desire stoppage of mining in interior regions, j Murder in AVanhlozton Connty. Bt Associated Prefei to the Messenger. Raleioh, Jan. 4. The dead body of an itinerant clock mender was found in the wood, four miles from Creswell in Washington county yesterdjy. Ap pearances indicate tbat he had been murdered. His head was horribly crushed and he had been dead appar ently four or five days. Three negroes have been arrested on suspicion, and one of them has confessed. to seeing another kill him. A letter in the dead man's pocket showed his name to be E. Dawman. Robbery was the object of the murder. Persecuted on Account of Hi Politic. ' By Associated Press to tho Mcs&ecger. Washington, Jan. 4. The Secre tary of the Treasury has rf quested the Attorney General to instruct the Dis trict Attorney of tbe Eastern District of Virginia, to institute criminal pro ceedings against the persons impli cated in the recent attempted assassi nation of Light Keeper OdelL of Cape Henry station. The Department is informed that tbisofSeer is being per secuted on political grounds, and will use its power to protect him; in the performance of his duties. PRICE FIVE MOVING FORWARD! NORTH CAROLINA'S BIG DAY IN THE HOUSE. Mr. Header fierr T1iro ltU tUlat to the Kepeal of Itrrt & Tase Mr. Ittadroaa mil for tfcK. tloaal Cemetery at Utary. SpecUl DUpatrfc to MfrKr. r Mts'Kxoni Bureau, 0l5FX)UBTi:.TJI STKSCT. X, W Washington-, D.C, Jan. 4. North Carolina went in trocg to day ia the Qoums for a repeal of the internal revecuo taxe. Mr. Hetsder- son introduced a bill for a total peal of the tax on tobacLo and re its product; one for repeal of I the tax on iruit orandy and one for the total re peal of all internal taxes; Mr. John ston one for the repeal of mtercal rev enue; Mr. Nichols one for the rrr of the tax on biu&dy, another for the repeal of that on tobacco and a third for the repeal of the whole tfiterrial duties. The latter also ictrotlapfd & bill to aid common fchooU; Mr. John tou, one to erect a public building at Abbeville, one to pay mail carriers in North Carolina and f oroc other States ptior to May, 1SS1, aUo cue tl pen sion soldiers of the Indian wr.; Mr. Henderson introduced a bill which helps to puncture the infnroou't lie of the Ionia, Michigan correspondent, Jt provide for an appropriation of $-0,000 for the improv mcnt of the National Cemetery at Salisbury. He m.so luirouureu a run io erect a mou ument on tlie battle field of tiuilford Court House. Maj Latham has a bill providing for life f-aving itations at Cape Lookout and Ocracoke inlet. The Secretary of the Treasury to-day appointed Ceo. Blow eu4odian of the Government property, at the discon tinued litrlit at Pamlico Point. " Senators Rauom and Vance, and Representatives Latham, Simmons Rowland, Nicboh-, Prown, Hendcron and Johnston were in their seats to day. . AuoUmt Kilrail CullUlon. Dv Afsociated Pres to tho Mineriri r. - Galveston. Jan. 4. The north bound pashtnger train on tho Mis souri Pacific lailroad, which 1 f i Gal veston at 0:30 oVlock this morning, when within four miles i off Houston. uear Harrijburg St.ntiou, eollilled with a section of the St. Loui roui li-botn d express. Both locomotives were badly wrecked. None of the p:-en;er8 were "'. killed or injured. Engineer Ward, of tho north bound train, and a mail agent whoi-o name is unknown are the only ones reported injured, but neither of them are .seriously huit. VIOLENT HURRICANE. , Greut Dainace Done to Shipping nl Property in the Irish C'hannisl Ame'rl ran Mail4 Delayed. By Cable to the Mcsenrc r. London, Jan. 4. A violent hurri cane is 'raging in the Irish channel, and great damage has been done to property and shipping. The tteam ship Ohio, which had ttormy weather after leaving Liverpool, arrived at Qaeenstowu this evening. She wukuq HOle to tako on board tbo American mails owing to bad weather, and will be obliged to postpone her depatt tire until to-morrow -morning. A portion of Faftnet Rock has tumbled into the ea. The light keepers are ieriifi-d, fearing that the ea will underu ijo the rock. It is impossible for loat to approach. A large veyfrel ha been wrecked off Uuncuinnon, and all hands are believed to be lost. KnglUh Fabric. By Cable to the Mc-aienircr. Manchester, Jan. 4. The G, ardim says: "Busme-s opeua .quietl partly owing to the holidays and partly to tho wide divergence between mtSU r and havers. Tnere are very few orders for Indian staples. The Cuina demand in quite Small, ibe buyers wanU b?'tjg already satisfied at lower rates. For minor foreign markets sales are num erate. Home sale are very few. In several departments the production is well and sorneiioips fully euk'atjed, and in view of the continued Orraneiu of cotton much confidence U felt iu the maintenance of f ull raten of cloth de partments, the advat.c doe tot uf uce to covt-rr tho rie iu cotton yarn and consequently mauufhet urtr are not wiUtog to eugage important for ward contracts uutil margins improve. Exp rt yarns ate exceedingly firm, bat there is poor inquiry and very Jtf tie business. Cloth is quiet throughout, Product rs met witn poor uees in trying to establish btjrber qaotationn. Heavy goods are st ealy. There iconic busines, chiefly in small quantitiei. 1 S. Soprtme Court Marshal. By Associated Ire. to tie Meoxer. WA.rNOTO.vt Jan. 4 The U. S. Supreme Court reassembled to day for the first time since the holiday recess. No decisions were rendered, but the Chief Justice read an order appoint ing John Monrgomety Wrichr, Mar shal of the cour; in place of Nicolly. Wright was tbertfoie sworn in and qualified; 1 A Brilliant Young Ujr iiUU lllml. By Associates Pre to th Meseoc-er. Galveston, Tex., Jan. 4. Major W. hi. Jerdone, ex-State Snior from Galveston, and one of the most brilliant young lawyers in Texas, stabbed himself in the bowels ibis, afternoon. He committed the deed io a fit of despondency. It is thought his injuries will prove fatal.
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