The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1879-02-27

Regiment, under Works command.
| They are at Washington, awaiting orders.
| Many of the miners have fed to the
mines, where they have enough provis-
ions to withstand quite siege, and fears
are felt that bloody outbreak may occur
at any moment.
No YELLOW FEVER AT NEW ORLEANS.
! NEW ORLEANS, La, Feb. l9.-Re-
ports having been recently published of
/ the existence Of yellow fever in New
Orleans, the statement is made that such
/ reports are untrue. No cases nor deaths
from yellow fever have occurred here
this year. The statement is signed by
many prominent citizens and officials,
including DR.. Samuel Chopin, Presi-
/ den. Of the Board of Health Governor
Nichols, Mayor Patton, and Perry
Nugent, President of the Cotton Ex-
I change.
VARIOUS CAPITAL NOTES.
/ WASHINGTON, Feb. 20.-The President
and Mrs. Hayes have invited all the Sen
ators and members of Congress 10 meet
! the diplomatic corps at the White House
next Tuesday evening.
There was much surprise among the
| Illinois delegation at the nomination of
| Lawler to be Postmaster in Rockford
instead of Smith, the editor of the Gazette
who is the present incumbent, but Con
gresham Lathrop and ex-Congressman
HurlDurt, who were opposing Smith,
seemed to have their way.
The sale of four per cents have drop
ped down for the past few days, being
only S1,750,000 to-day. There are fears
in the Treasury that the reclzlessness of
this demagogical Congress in their lavish
| appropriations have injured the govern
ment's credit. 4 prospective deficit of
! so, 600, 600 in time of peace is not tho't
to be in the direction of good business
| management.
Finley, admitted to a seat in the House
over Bisbee, who was rightly elected,
viii have twelve days to serve, and Will
draw for pay, mileage, and stationery
the comfortable sum Of $l4, 600.
Pinchback, of Louisiana, left for hone
to-day, where he viii enter upon his
duties as revenue agent. His friends
| think he deserves better than this, one
of them remarking that for the thimble-
| full of colored blood in his veins he would
now be in the United States Senate in
stead of Kellogg.
THE CHINA TRADE.
New YORK, Feb. 20.-The CONNER
ciol Bulletin to-day, assuming to speak
| for the merchants here interested in the
China trade predicts direful consequences
should the Chinese bill become a law
The Bulletin thinks: "All treaty rights
now existing will be swept away. Dip
lomatic usage and common sense alike
must repudiate the assumption that one
of the subscribing parties to treaty can
| abrogate or abolish so much Of it as it
has ceased to approve, and insist at the
same time upon holding the other party
to the observance of the remainder. As
| Webster said, a bargain or treaty broken
on one side is broken on both sides" 1t
no longer exists. Americans have now
no rights in China which the government
or people there are bound to respect. In
all probabilities one of the first effects of
the notification of the treaty will be to
deprive US of steam com munciation with
Asiatic ports, and drive from the Pacific
the only steamship line that carries the
American flag in that part of the world
Its most lucrative business Of late has
been the passenger traffic. Deprived of
that, it is doubtful whether, under the
steady diversion of the tea and raw-silk
trade by the cheaper Suez Canal route,
sufficient business would remain to
enable them to pay their way. We know
this is the conviction Of merchants who
are engaged in the China trade. Our
exports to China have grown under the
Burlingame treaty from $4,000, 600 in
1869 to $4,000, 600 in 1877. The com
merce we have been building up will be
transferred to our rivals, the English,
French and Germans"
HAYTI.
New YORK, Feb. 20.-The West Indian
steamer, just arrived, reports another
revolution in Hayti.
In one engagement that took place by
moonlight the government forces lost
thirty-fve killed and eighty-nine wound
ed The loss Of the insurgents exceeded
these figures, and all of them captured
were promptly put to death.
EIaIGRATIoN.
GENEVA, Feb. 20.-A number of young
citizens of Zurich have started for Geor-
gia, where it is proposed to establish a
Swiss colony under the auspices Of the
Workmen's Society. Others will follow.
CINCINNATI, o., February 21.-The
Enquirer publishes an article giving the
views of the distillers of Cincinnati, in
which they charge the Chicago distillers
with crooked work in some way. They
say that Chicago whiskey is being sold
in New York every day at just what it
costs to make it in Cincinnati, and, as it
costs fully five cents per gallon for trans
portation, there certainly must be some
thing wrong.
PROBABLY LOST.