Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1870-03-17
Our Warrington Letter.

WAsHINToN, d. C., March IA, 10.
For the Belmont Chronicle.
A feverish excitement has prevailed
here during the last eek that is rapidly
becoming epidemic The telegraph from
tile Capitol anxiOusly feels the pulse OF
The New York Gold Room and as each
little f1uctuatiOn is made public, the
commotion it produces shows how deep
ly the people feel on the question of a
| return TO specie payments.
Every little straw Is seized upon and
twisted i'll every way to affect she preci
GUS metal. Should Gen. Graut look un-
usually taciturn over his morning cigar,
up goes the markets 4 fraction. III Sec
relary Boutwell, ventures in q little tight
hearted Jocularity, the Bears pulls down
the market another fraction. The Hon
Member from BuncOmbe gets through "a
tiresome three hours grafton on The
funding bill, when one of his prosy re-
marks sent by telegraph, causes the SEN
sltive coin to shrink still smaller. Geo.
Francis Train stands Oh his head to re-
store the equilibrium of his too power.
iul brain aud TO view the world Ms 1t is,
and the announcement of the fact causes
another lively sensation, which extends
from the Capitol 10 Gotham. Thus il is
from morning until night, constant
game of see-saw and the yellow metal
seetnes In the tauldron as active As flea
in d hot skilled. The price however, is
falling steadily, and like some victim
in quicksand, the struggling Bulls only
sink the faster in their despe ate efforts
10 prevent the downward tendency.
Great activity prevails among poll
licians and diplomats over the. Cuban
question. Gen. Queseda with his staff
arrived here as agent of Cespeues, aud
was favorabiy received by the President,
Who assut ell him of his full sympathy
with The Ca Sc of the revolutionisIs. A.
the Ebbet House, where Gen. Queseda
has established his headquarters, fire.
quenJ meetings are held OF the friends o.
LIE Cubans, prominent among whom
are several members of Congress art
Senators who express themselves slr1t .
ly in favor of Cuban ,nd .pendence
Senator Morton reported an important
bill lately which was adopted by the
Committee on Foreign Relations, lex
cept Sumner) and which provides, that
vessels fitted out here for an European
Prince or State against an American
colony. claiming its independence, are
to be confiscated and the persons punish
ed as criminals. Herein lie two impor-
tant points: first the Monroe doctrine,
according to which the independence of
America from European powers is to be
feared and maintained, is acknowledged.
Secondly: Spain has hitherto been al
lowed to fit out vessels against Cuba,
because Cuba had not been acknowled-
ged as belligerant. This belligerancy
question is dropped in this bill and the
outfit of vessels prohibited against any
American colony claiming ..indepen-
dence, even if such colony is not declar-
ed belligerant...
AS the sickening details of the Oneida
disaster received az the State Depart
ment fully confirm the first reports of
.he gross inhumanity of the Captain of
the bombay, We may expect this week a
stirring resolution in the House calling
upon Secretary Fish to demand from the
British Government that full inquiry
be made iutO the affair." and if the al
legged culpability of Capt, Eyre be sus
tained, that he tie punished to the full
extent of the law. The statement upon
oath of Lieut.. Clement that Capt Eyre
ooa-tingly Y said II have to- night cut the
whole quarter off the d-d Yankee
frigate aud served her bloody well right"
fixes stain AMI crime upon the Com
mander of the Bombay that no admir-
hilS "uitc-WhSu CdD ctVer or rSu Tapr
diplomacy easily condone.
With the return of Gen. Stevens from
New Hampshire, the House Committee
on Naval Affairs will resume considera-
ton of the question of Naval rank and
will positively push it to conclusion.
.ivlng to the Staff Officers a positive
rank, similar to that which il accorded
to the Staff in the army
1t Is thought that the bill To make
Alaska a County attached I'd Washing
ton Territory, will cut down the expense
Of our new purchase TO six or eight
thOusanu dollars per annum.
From all parts of the country petitions
are pouring in, hostile to the re-enact-
ment of the Income Tax Law which has
expired by Limitation. II is understood
that Secretary Boutwell, is strongly in
favor of this mode of adding to the rev.
enue, but Congressman say they cannot
disregard tue protests of the people
through the county press and several
have frankly admitted that they fear
more the honest rebukes of their couu-
ty papers than the severest criticism
through the columns of the Metropolitan
dailies. This unwilling confession is u |
most glowing tribute to the growing |
power of our tireside weeklies through |
out the land, and every farmer, every |
mechanic, yes every citizen should be |
forward in sustaining the home journal
that is thus regarded as the real exponent
of the wishes of the people.
'.... ARLINGTON.