The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1848-10-30
INTELLIGENCE By THE MAILS,

INTELLIGENCE By THE MAILS.
| WASHINGTON, Oct. 70, 1913.
Issue of Stock Corcoran and R,ggy-A Word 10
the Weked-TSeanvy Notes and Stock The
Washington Monument and the Ne,o York Com
mtfee-Progress of the IVork-A Pwgii,a,e
Rencontre an the Orphans Court-Cass and
ZayiOr, &C., &c.
The amount of stock OF the loan of 1919 issusd
this week on foreign account, has been unusualIv
large. II Is as follows, ending this afternoon
England. $4,000 Germany .... IS 900
France .... $4,000 Brazil. -. . 10 0oo
Belgium -. 5000 Spain ....... :. 600
Ca"nuh .''...... o,0V
Iotais "''... .,....s.., $500
OF this amount, about $3.50, 900 was transferred
by Messrs. Corcoran & Riggs, beng the first
stock issued for them on foreign account. since
mr.. Corcorans recent sale In London. In the
return, last week, typographichical error made
us state that "some" Of the loan had been issued
to their account, whereas we wrote "none" A
good many OF the papers In Philadelphia, Halti-
more, and elsewhere, are in the habit of appro-
priating the returns of stock Issued-whicb are
procured exclusively by the Herald--ss well as
o oh paragraphs from our letters. We have no
objection to Ihis paragraph piIferng If it ceased
lneIt; on' these depredators also purIon the typo.
graphical mistakes which sometimes occur. This
IL Unfair. AS Tor The news let il go; but the errors
q nm
generous and rngen,emany to take Them FOO
During the past few days barge amount of
treasury notes have been funded in stock of ~
NJ rev DAYS since, IN advertlng 20 the National
Monument we stated that there was apparently
great waste OF labor IN hauling the stones on to,
the foundation by man-power, instead of In the
usual way, by horses. The monument committee
In New York have written to the committee here
in consequence, stating that the publication has
done great deal of injury to the collections,
and requesting contradiction or explanation OF
the statements We regret extremely to learn
that our paragraph has affected the contributions
to the fund but, as we made no comments, and
merely stated fact, 1t must be conceded that It
is Athe fact itself, and not our remarks which
caused the injury; We are glad to learn that
horse isnow used on one side of the work, and as
soon as the castings for the ra-tracks are
finished horses will be used upon every side:
the reason, IT is asserted, men were EMPLOYED.
being That the castings were incomplete TIL now
The work, as we stated in our former letter, IS
eng proce eded with rapidly, under the superIn-.
tendence of Mr. William Dougherty; and compe-
tent judges assert that so far it contrasts avorably
WIN any similar undertaking, either IN Europe or
this country. The stones, many of them weigh.
ing at least ten tons, are embedded IN cement,
and lap over one another IN such a way as to
llrmly 6lnd the whole INTO solid mass of mason
y his 1t will be understood, is merely the
foundation OF the shaft column, which IS to rise
towering INTO the air, five hundred feet from the
earth The sol nd foundation is to be twenty seven
feet, and is eighty one feet square at the bottom
gradually diminishing to ffty-eIght feet six inches
square, which will be the base of the column.
The centre OF tine column from thence to the top
Will be open, the walls being fifteen feet thick
1t is the Intention OF the building committee to
purchase steam-engne of 40 horse power to
raise the stone, saw the marble, &c. There are a
great many delays incident, of course, to the COM
mencement of a work of the magnitude of the one
IN question, more particularly when begun in a
hurry. And we have no doubt that the monu-
ment committee will do all IN its power to eco
nomcally carry out the intention of the donors.
sui, we shall feel 1t our duty to watch the pro-
gress OF this great national work and whenever
we see anything which we believe to be susceptible
Improvement we will frankly state it,
A .disgraceful scene took place in the Or
phan's Court, yesterday, between two brothers.
In-law, the one lawyer and the other doctor
Charges were banded back and forth, of "cheat-
ing "robbing," &c, till at length the two bro
hers-in- law, very much to the establishment of his
honor, the Judge, commenced bout of fisticufs.
tat gentleman present, endeavored to quell the
BATTLE, and received, for his pains, we'll planted
" hlt'' from each OF the combatants. THIS salts
fed the stout lover of peace. who Immediately
vanished, and permitted the belligerens to fight it
out at their leisure. After several rounds the
gentlemen" got tired of their amusement, and
the court adjourned.
1t is difficult matter to decide winch party is
most sangune as to the result in November
Shington, the famous periodical man, states,
however, that ever since the results of the Penn
svlvania and OHIO elections have become known,
Taylor amanacs and song books have sold hun
dred per cent better than Cass literature of the
same stamp. This IS conclusive; but of what
we don't pretend TO say. OMEGA