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The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-08-16
The Quarrel About the Four Fer
Cent Loan.

So long as the Secretary of the Treasury
can place the four per cent loan the public
has no interest i'll any dispute by bankers
who would like to make percentage by the
operation. 1t seems that some banks and
banking firms who were in the general CO.
partnership called Syndicate, which I'M
dertook to place the four and half per
cents, feel aggrieved that they are not also in
the Syndicate which has undertaken to place
the four per cents. All parties are reticent
about their griets but that some persons feel
sore seems beyond dispute.
1t is easy for careless or malicious persons
to make charges in such circumstances, but
nobody who knows them will believe that
Messrs. Morton, Bliss Il Co. have wronged
any one, or acted with anything but the most
perfect good faith. If, however, it should
appear to the general public that the COM
planning bankers and banks are spitefully
and alphabetically trying to prevent the
success Of the four per cent loan because
they happen not to have had a slice of the
profits of placing it, they will receive. as
they will deserve, general and severe con-
domination. 1t is matter of grievance with
some gentlemen apparently that Secretary
Sherman, finding he could probably borrow
at four per cent, refused to borrow q
final hundred millions at four and half.
But they forget that the Secretary is acting.
not as the agent of the bankers, but OF the
taxpayers Of the United States, and that his
duty is to refund the debt at as low rate as
possible
That the four per cents should for the
moment be dull is not surprising. The re-
cent great strike, with the attendant riots,
and the dispute over the State debts of vir-
ginia and Georgia, have, as our London COR
respondents observed some days ago, tenn
porarily depressed the credit of the United
States in Europe. Such matters look
more serious than they really are. 1t
will be seen presently, even by timid
capitalists there, that this country is not
given over to either lawlessness or bad
faith. The solid truth is that our federal
securities ore the best in the world; no
great nation in Europe has either the same
natural wealth or the same high degree OF
general intelligence among it's people as
this, and besides these advantages we have
an assurance Of peace which enables us to
speak of disbanding our small army, while
oil European nations are constantly increas-
ing armies and ornaments.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-08-16
ILLNESS OF RALEIGH L. DANIEL.

vRGINIA's ATTORNEY GENERAL AND FOREMOST
MAN IN CRITICAL CoND1TIoN--INcIDENTs
OF HIS CAREER.
[BY TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALD
RICHMOND Va, August Is, 1877.
Attorney General Raleigh T. Daniel is critically NJ
from hcmorrhago of the bowels and three OF tho
physicians OF the city, who have been In consultation
over him to night, declare that unless there Is do.
cdcd improvement within twelve hours he cannot re-
cover.
SPEECH BEFORE THE CONVENTION
Late Friday night Mr.. Daniel addressed tho Conven-
ton. thanking It for the by which he had been
unanimously renominatcd He had never before
spoken with more coqucnce and feeling, seemed In
better spirits but shortly aftcrward he attacked
with what he thought to be disrrhDa but what has
o-day eliminated Ia moro serious disease
MR.. DANIELS CAREER
Mr. Daniel is sevcnty-two years OF age, 10 tho Fore
most public man In Virginia. and Is rcmark able alike
as lawyer, speaker and writer. Hc was the head Of
the movement which elected Walker Governor In 1862
and addressed to President Grant the day after tho
election telegram, which became famous IN the po-
ticai history OF tho time. congratulating Grant on
the SUCCESS OF his policy In Virginia
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-08-16
Renewea ACTIVITY An Armenia.

From our dispatches it appears that the
Turks and Russians are again in collision
on the whole front in Armenia. There is
fighting at Arabian and on Ismail Pacha's
front, and the Russian centre, heavily REIN
forced, is about to resume, with new
vigor, its interrupted advance. 1t will
not be regarded as the best augury
for success in that quarter that there
has been no change of commanders. An
interview has been published in which
General Mellikoff explained his remarkable
retirement as the consequence of his solicit
tude for his wounded. Apprehensive lest
the Turks should slaughter these he aban-
doned all the objects of his expedition in
order to put them in place OF safety. That
is humane and tender hearted, but it
is not war. In this country we had
one campaign based on those humane
principles. 1t was not o success, and the
general who was able to say at the
close Of a great failure that though he had
done nothing else he had ''saved his men"
was not respected even by the men them
selves. General Mellikoff-if the report Of
his conversation did him no injustice
saved the lives of his wounded, but at what
all expense! At the expense of the lives Of
all the unwounded soldiers, who must
now be killed in order to put his
army in the position from which it
was Withdrawn with such sentimental
intentions at the expense OF the
splendid prestige gained by his rapid ad
vance, which would by this time have
greatly counted in the negotiations for
peace at the expense perhaps, OF dragging
out the war in Asia till next year. Such is
the cost Of the humanity of good inten-
TONS Fifty thousand valid men are given
to save the lives of twenty thou
sand helpless ones. There can be no
great confidence that the Russians will
achieve any solid success in Arme-
mia while it's forces are commanded
by soldier who acts in the gravest emer-
gencies on non-military reasons. None
were so strangely surprised by Mellikoffs
retreat as the Turks themselves, for they
knew that such an army as he had could not
have been sent to the right about by any
fighting they had done, and they could
scarcely have hoped that such lucky adj
venture would befall their cause as
that their reputation for barbarous
cruelty should practically defeat an
army on which their fighting had
made no impression. General Melli-
kotfs account of the causes of his retreat
justified the Russian commissary depart
ment, which it was thought must be gravely
at fault and was honorable to his frank
ness but if it had brought about the
appointment Of his successor. the world
would have more faith in the intention
of the Gar to insure by all the means in
his power the success of his army. Another
unfortunately human impulse on the part
of the commander in Asia will exhaust the
season, and the faet that they have still
only Mellikoff to deal with half justifies
the Turks in the fancy that the war in Ar
menia is practically at an end for this year.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-08-16

The WEAruER.-'The area of low pressure
which was on Tuesday in the Lower Ohio Valley
and lower lake region, moved eastward to the
Middle Atlantic coast during yesterday, attended
by very extensive rain area. From the Missis-
sippi to the British Provinces the rains were
general but detached areas of precipitation
passed slowly over the South Atlantic States.
The pressure westward of the Mississippi and
southwark of Dakota is rising, but there are i'll
dications that another area OF low barometer is
advancing from Montana toward the upper lake
region. The pressure is also low Oh the Pacific
roast, indicating the approach of depression
to Oregon. The temperature has risen in the
Northwest, but has fallen eastward from the
Mississippi Valley. Southwcstery winds pre-
vail in Dakota and the. Eastern Cult. north
westerly in the Mississippi Valley. northcry
in the lake region. the Ohio Valley and the West
ern Gulf, southcastcrly to nortlcastcrly along
the Middle and Eastern Atlantic coast. Except
In the Lower St. Lawrence Valley the winds are
very moderate. Tho weather in New York to-
day will be- clo,rly or partly cloudy. with rain,
spd cool. but will clear toward evening.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-08-16

TIE RAILROAD COMPANY has been let off
easily by the Coroner's jury in the Oceanport
disaster. A mild censurc aus to the speed OF
trains does not amount to anything The qnes-
ton whether one man was sufficient to attend
to so important point seems to have been en-
trcly forgotten in the inquiry.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-08-16

PoLYGAMY IN UTAH simply means slavery
slavery of the soul as well as OF the body. When
the wives of the Saints have lost their charms
they are compelled to work for their masters
and support them in idleness. Tho letter of our
correspondent on this point is of special interest
ind shows a now phase of the Mormon iniquity.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-08-16

DoNAHUE, the striker, is far reader with his
pen than with his tongue In court yesterday
he could not say word, but he will probably
write % couple of newspaper columns giving his
crazy ideas about the labor question before the
week ia mt
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-08-16

In TILE PROPOSED international pigeon shooting
match amateurs only expected to CONTEST.
A letter from the gentleman who was commits
stoned by the English clubs to breach the snb-
iect here is elsewhere printed
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-08-16

TENNESSEE shows us little disposition,to pay
her debts, even the interest OH them, as Geor
gia. The letter, elsewhere printed, shows-a con
dition of affairs anything but creditable to bel
government.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-08-16

The HERALD special nescspapcr train to Sara
foga, Shavo't aud RichJicld Springs, Lake Lat-ee
and Lake George and all intermediate points, ria
Hudson Rirer, Albany and Schenectady, runs
eresy S't,day during the summer. season. Neus-
dealers must send IN their orders direct to the New
YORK HERALD.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-08-16

WALL STREET YEsTERDAY.-Tlc stock market
was more active and was generally stronger.
In this upward movement Western Union still
leads the way. Gold advanced to 1865. Gov
eminent bunds were firm and States and rail
roads strong Money on call was easy ut zig q
3 a l., per cent
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-08-16

from Our reports this morning the probabilities
are that the areaater IN Ne,O YorL today ,rM be
cool and cloudy, or partly cloudy, ,riM raiN bat
ell clear t0,card crc9ia1
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-08-16

The TESTIMONY Of u witness in an iiEvestiga-
ton before Mayor Ely, elsewhere reported, is a
curious commentary ON the mode Of doing bust
ness in some of our courts.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-08-16

THE DECISION Of the Supreme Court of the
United States on the subject of charter taxation
is Of interest to railroad men and others who de-
sire information on that point.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-08-16

WILL THE GUNsER investigation overcome to
close! Every day new-theory of the murder
Is started, but the end seems MS far off as.ever.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-08-16

Our CoRREsPoNDENCs from Varna gives a
picturesque account of life in q Turkish town
and an idea Of some of.the miseries and.horors
OF the Eastern war.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-08-16

full dispute indicates on how small pre-
text our wise rulers can interrupt the func-
tions ola department. whose activity is pre-
sumably important to the people.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-08-16

MIR. ELLIS LAwYERs.say in his defence that it
is always necessary to nurse new banks. De-
positors are very apt to object to having them
nursed ut their expense.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-08-16

IT Is ESTIMATED that the number Of living
Mexican veterans is upward of nine Thousand,
svery one of whom is periodically anxious to
aave his name ON tho pension rolls.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-08-16

If THE AMERICAN TEAM shoot ON the day Of
the match as well they shot yesterday the
chances OF the United Kingdom representatives
will be slender
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-08-16

TIE PRESIDENT will find it more difficultsthan
he suspects to adopt the Canadian system of
dealing with the Indians. The Indian Ring lis
stronger in Congress than lie imagines.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-08-16

The reform in the Now Orleans Custom
House gives Nj. Blaine an additional grievance
against the administration.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-08-16

The CoTToN CRop in August was never'bcttcr
than this year.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-08-16
ADJUSTMENTS TONIGHT.
Il r IPL e SH f. e II
NEW YORK, THURSDAY. AUGUST IS, 1877.

The HERALD ,rW be semitic any address, free Of
fcstogc, for One Dollar per month.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-11-21

that Il sinking fund established on a
basis of semi-annual payments of $780,
600, commencing on January l, next
compounded at the rate of 6 per cent.
for the term Of twenty years, would
pay all but 100000 Of the second
mortgage.
The fact that the companies are max
ing these concessions show that they
feel that congress and the people are in
earnest in demanding a settlement and
the payment of this. enormous debt,
amounting at maturity to $l23,0O0,o 900.
If congress succeeds in compelling the
payment of this debt, due the govern
ment, the people will overlook all use
less discussions of army appropriations.
These railways owe this amount to the
government and are abundantly able to
pay it and should be compelled to do SO.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-11-21

The great retail dry-goods store of
Field, Letter & Co., of Chicago, took fire
on the evening of the 14th inst. and was
wholly destroyed. The loss on the
building is about 100000 and on goods
81, 500, 900, with insurance of about one
third the amount on each. A heavy
rain and streams of water from nearly
the whole Chicago fire department
seemed to have no effect in subduing
the flames.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-11-21

ments of all debts against the United
States, or IN exchange for coin Or bull
lion.
Mr.. Deering offered an amendment
to postpone the year of resumption
from 1879 to 1880; also to authorize
the reissue of legal tender notes, and
to make them legal tender notes for all
debts public and private.
Mr.. Ward offered an amendment,
that nothing in the act shall affect the
payments of debts due on the first OF
January, 1879, in payment of wages or
IN debts that may become due after
that for the payment of wages of labor,
but that such debts shall be legally pay
able only in such coin or notes as Shall
be legal tender.
After further debate the matter went
over without action and the house adj
journed.
November 15.-A remonstrance was
presented from forty-five national banks
of Boston, against the passage Of the bill
for the reconciliation of silver. The
petitioners set forth that they were re-
quired by law to hold many millions of
United States bonds, and are apprehen-
sive that the passage Of the bill will
greatly Idepreciate their value and
have bad influence on the business
of the country. Referred. A petition
from colored citizens of Mississippi was
presented. asking an appropriation to
aid them in emigrating to Liberia.
At the expiration sof the morning
hour, the senate proceeded with the
consideration of the army appropria-
ton bill. 1t was finally passed with
amendments reported by the committee
on appropriations, and also the amend
ment providing the army shall not be
recruited beyond $4,000 men, instead
of 10000 as authorized By the house.
HOUSE.
November 15.-The committee on
foreign affairs has agreed to recon-
mend the passage Of the bill providing
for Am erlcan representation at the Paris
exposition. The bill now agreed upon
proposes a total appropriation of about
$4,000.
The following bills were introduced
and referred.
1loVIuilS lOI tiIe pay llleHC Oh uutles
on imports in gold, silver and legal ten
der notes; providing for cheap transpor-
tation between tide-water and the At
lantic, and the Ohio and Mississippi
valleys; a memorial of the state grange
of Texas for the appointment of the
commissioner of agriculture as cabi-
net officer; for the construction Of a
railroad from New York to Council
Bluffs, Iowa.
Mr.. Cobb, from the committee on
mileage, reported !badS adversely the
bill allowing members mileage for at
tendance on the extra session. Laid on
the table
The house resumed the debate on the
repeal of the resumption act After a
long discussion the house adjourned
without taking a vote.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-11-21

The house of representatives is likely
to spend great deal of time upon the
resumption repeal bill, and it is doubtful
whether a two weeks DISCUSSION will
change a vote on the measure The
bill will pass the house by a small ma
jority, but it is extremely doubtful about
its getting through the senate. and there
is only possibility that the president
would sign it in any event.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-11-21

THE senate would pass and the presi-
dent sign the silver bill, it is believed, if
it is put in proper shape, but it is doubt
full whether the house would pass it as
it now is if it were again before that
body 1t is quite certain that both the
senate and president favor the remone-
tization of silver, but to what extent Of
coinage is not so certain.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-11-21

WHAT CHINAMEN PICK UP.-About
$4,000 worth of gold dust per week is
sent down to the mines from the lava
beds. This is taken out by Cinnamon.
About this rate has been taken out all
summer Sixty thousand dollars per
month is a pretty good sum to be taken
out of diggings that white men refuse to
work Or have anything to do with. Our
figures are correct, being taken from
Wells, Fargo & Co. books. The amount
of dust that is daily coming in from the
river claims is very large. The yield
Will be nearly as great as in the palmy
days of long ago, when this was the
banner gold producing county.-OreuAe
Gal Mercu1y.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-11-21
A GIRLS REVENGE.
The Death Penalty for a Criminal Assault
Instantly Enforced by Her Own Hand.

Columbia Is. CO Dispatch to n. 7. Herald
The monotony of the State trials was
broken to-day by hearing on an appli-
cation of writ of habeas corpus in the
case of a young girl, sixteen years of
age, who was committed to jail this
morning. The case is a peculiar one,
and has created quite a sensation in
this section. The circumstances are as
follows, in brief: The young girl, Miss
Sallie Wood, returned to her home
about twenty miles from Columbia,
yesterday morning, and there found a
neighbor, Samuel Henry, awaiting her
arrival. She invited him into the house,
which they entered together, when Hen
ry quickly seized her, violently attempt
ing an indecent assault, and throwing
her on the floor. =
The girl, however, succeeded in free
ing herself from his grasp, and obtain
ing pistol from the next room, re-
turned Immediately and fired upon her
assailant with such deadly effect as to
kill him instantly, the ball penetrating
his breast. Henry was married man
and the father of three children. The
families of both parties are respectable,
well-to-do country people, and have been
intimate for years.
The young girl, accompanied by her
brother-in-law, came to Columbia this
morning and surrendered herself to
the officers of the law, going quietly to
jail, from which she was released few
hours later on consent, an order being
entered requiring 81, ZOO bail, which was
quickly found.
She may be subjected to the incon-
venience of trial, but has been acquit-
ted already by the powerful verdict of
popular opinion.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-11-21
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER p, 1877.

THE state debt of Wisconsin, accord
nc to the state treasurer's report, is
s, 90, o57, all of which, except $14,057
is due to the trust funds Of the state.
There are only $4,000 of state bonds
outstanding.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-11-21

THE Charlottesville (Va.) Chronicle
says: "A farmer living near Charlotts-
vile informs us of the curious opera
tons ofthose industrious little insects,
the ants, in one of his fields. A few
weeks ago he sowed timothy seed on
the field with his wheat. The wheat
has come up nicely but examination
shows that the grass seed has been care
fully gathered by the ants and deposit
ed in piles at the entrance to their sub
terranean obodes, with a view to a plen-
tiful supply of food during the winter.
All over the field are these little mounds
oftimothy seed, and a great deal of it
has been carried across the public road
and deposited in an adjoining field"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-11-21

ALBERT, a French murderer, who
threw an old woman into well at Tour
Malakof, was executed on October 25th.
The executioner failing to keep him in
a proper position, when the knife fell
half his shoulder was cut off with his
head. A journal critically remarks that
it is a long time since there was so un-
successful an execution.