The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1873-01-16

! lraGt became President. our monttfy
! public debt statement exhi bits sma al,
| increase. iiic most reliable of or com
| ulercial Journals are .ty 20 means Gi.-
pleased with II. 1t is the result OF the
rapid reduction Of the revenue as the
| ieaGicg cause bat it is in part .o be.
/ attributed Ia the failure of a portion Of
the December collections TO reach the
I accounting cash;er-a failure due 70 t.
] sudden steppage of communications by
! TIRE terrible weather, with which the
year wound up.
Among the novelties Of invention de-
vIsed ny eur progressive age, is 4 meth
dfi oi manufacturing railroad iron tctth
ont manual labor i mill Of this kind
IS now under construction at Louisville
Kentucky. The rail is passed through
thirteen sets of rods by some unex-
p!ained process; thirty seconds is the
whole lime required to transform mass
OF red hot pig iron into a rail. A sin
gle n;iil. 1t i. said, can run twenty
heating furnaces and turn out l26. 900
tons CT rails per aunum. Much less
capi7al IS required, and larger quantity
0! rails can be manufactured by the new
Tneihed than by the old :ere is new
solution of the labor question, in which
the necessity for labor is practically
done away with. We will wait md
sse now il works
One acquainted with the CapitoI
can see many interesting scenes a,,y
time between the hours oi' 9 A. u aud
) Z. VI. of each day while Congress Is in
session. Your correspondent s attention
was attracted to several strangers, and
others whose faces were familiar 10 that
building IN search of the room where the
Credit Mobiiier investigation is now
going on Tho importance given to this
investigation by the news paper press
has created a strong desire to witness it,
and not approaching the fact that it is
held In q room tthe House Committee
room on revision Of Laws) of l5x4O |
fees, IN which only about fifty persons
can be comfortably seated, hundreds Of
anxious curious seekers fill the halls !
entirely ignoring principle in Geometry
thai two objects cannot occupy the same
space at the same time, ard press their
claims FOR admittance. In this eopuec- i
tlon 1t is well to observe that while the |
Police III the Capitol are faithful aud !
trustworthy. their knowledge, generally,
Vi this building. the business of the |
soyeral Committees aud The location of
their rooms, are Of little service TO
strangers who are constantly calling upon !
them for direction.
The Credit Mobilier McCon1bs, Of |
whom there is much said lately, is u
gentle man about six feet in height. well
proportioned. indica ting that he has ta-
zen good care OF himself; about ffty
years Of age, and appears in ccDyersa-
ton very much like the impeaeher, Jim
Ashley, of Ohio. After the Committee
adjourned to-day he engaged IN converse
tIud with the several correspondents |
He dida't much like the way the New
fork HINES correspondent was treating
him IN his dispatches to bis paper, he es-
pecialiy opjecting to a certain portion of
dispatch which turned out to be a copy
OF paragraph in the evening Star Of
this city. He next turned upon Paiutar
and said to him Il have from good al
thorify that You are Interesting yourself in
writing me de'Fn ard making light OF
this investigation What have | ever
specified sorael hing that Painter had
done &c wi2iah be replied whoever y,ur
Intorpians is fIe is d d--iiar.' ticC.
pTophesied that after the investigation
81 'sed, the country expected that Con
gFess would cause to be erected to the
memory of Oakss Ames for his philan-
thropfy, brass monument.
The statistics Of i'm migration Of New /
ork City show an aggregate OF nearly
800, 000 lm migrants during 1872, an IN
crease OF ever 0,00O over tha previous
year. Near ? hslf oi thenl settled in the
Eastern States, ano tbs ether half gent
vest. but few going southwark. The
German and British eieulonl amounted
10 nearly two-thifds of the whole, though
Northern and Eastern Europe have made
considerable contribution. The great
line OF IN nII grafton movement is Z -. he
tween the 35th and 10th pai allel.
In3 H:gm breath Of the Sunny South,
though released from the curse Is ziavesy.
fails to reach the hearts ri these Euro
peaa masses, or to attract them TO their
productive soil. The great forces of civ
Inza,ion are acting further northwatd,
ann thslr attractions are irrasistib!e.
The Democrats are not the pstron
saints of common schouis judging frotu
seyersl Southern States. In Texas they
ruled uninterruptbaly for twenty Ave
years, and never built half dozen free
schools In 1870 the epuhiuans took
the reins OF power, IN 1871 they estab-
ilshed common schools, and now The su
i.erintendcn: writes the National Com
iuissi"ners Of Education that he has
ll90o0 children enrolled. When these
Teioru.iss' redeemed" Tennessee
from the tyranny" of Republicsns they
turned l85. 600 children out of school,
and they arc still in ignorance and idle
ness while the State house keys jingle in
the ''reforEnlsts' pockets In Ken
tueky the ''neaer is souliess brute in
the csc Of the Democratic Educational-
there is no educational provision for the
co!ored people whatever. Georgia sue
cumbed - the 'refornists u year ago or
more and since the ohildreG of the State.
20O. .1O0 strong, have plead in vain for
schools When the Democratic Con
gressmen, who voted against the bill,
giving certain proceeds cf the public
lands to the States fnr the education Of
thpir children pruportionste to the mum
ber of their iiliterates, they blindly boas-
ted that they had yet to learn wherein
their party had ever opposed education
Nos lei them explain the whole facts
The Commissioner Of L lGcation is in
formed that an effort will be made at
the next session of the Minneso.a
Legislature to pass coz cipulsary school
lsw like that nov IN force in New
Hampshire. Some Of the Democratic
papers in Tennessee are discussing a
sTHiifSr uIuye IN rtas SIaie, ard that
organ of the Bourbons. the Cincinnati
Enquirer, fsyors ths principle.
LIFE,