Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1879-01-09

ing used an absolute form of a
boiler in naval vessels, viz f: those
known as the water leg boilers.
Messrs. Farrow, consulting en-
gineer for the John Roach and
Morgan Iron Works, Erastus W.
Smith, Superintendent for the
Providence and Stonington Steam
boat Company, David Smith, Chief
engineer United States navy, Geo.
B. Whiting, engineer United States
navy, engaged for many years in
designing naval machinery, and B.
F. Garvin, chief engineer of Kit
terry Navy Yard, and during the
war chief engineer of the North
Atlantic Squadron, all testified to
their preference for the water leg
boilers, on account Of their>>dura-
bility and facility for repair The
difference between the cost of the
water bottom and Wator legged
boilers was not material.
Representative Clarkson Potter
arrived in Washington this morning,
and has called a meeting of his com
mittce for to morrow.
A meeting Of the House Commit
tee on Banking and Currency has
been called for Friday.
The Committee on Ways and
Means commenced this morning the
series of meetings at which it pro
poses to hear the representatives of
the sugar importing, sugar produc>
ing and sugar refining interests of
the country in regard to the modif-
cation of the sugar tariff. The first
hearing to>day was given to the
deputation from Baltimore. A Pc
tition, signed by the leading sugar
firms of New York and Baltimore,
was presented, asking that a COM
petent expert in the manufacture Of
sugar be sent to Demerara to exam
inc, personally, the manufacture of
sugar on that island, and see
whether the sugars are, as alleged
by the Government, artificially col
ored.
Senator Thurman, in his letter to
the committee of invitation Of the
Democratic banC let at Columbus,
Ohio, this evening, expresses his re-
gret that the severe weather pre-
vents his attendance, and offers some
reflections on the toast, Jackson
ian Democracy" on which the SEN
ator had been appointed to speak.
He writes: wish to to call atten-
ton to some of the most marked
characteristics of the Democracy of
the time of Andrew Jackson. / re-
fer to the time when he was a cans
didate for President and when he
filled the Presidential chair. First,
The Democrats were then eminent
ly, if not pre-eminently distinguish
ed by their devotion to the Union of
the States, North and South, East
and West. That sentiment was
cherished by every true Democrat.
Subsequent events chilled, and at
length for q time suspended
it in the South, but the happiest
circumstance of our present condi-
ton (thanks to the influence of the
Democratic principles) is that the
love of the Union is everywhere
restored, and that its preservation
is fixed principle of the Demo
cratic party in the South secondly,
The party was equally distin-
guished by its love of the Consti-
tuition. 1t sought to preserve it in
its vigor and benefcence by giving
to it a national and rational inter
probation, and 1t battled, manfully
and constantly, against those lati-
tudinarian constructions that threat
ened to convert the Government
into an unlimited centralized despot-
ism, and on the other hand, against
all that menaced the existence of
the Union. And permit me to say,
that the principles of Jacksonian
Democracy in this respect, are as
important to-day as they ever
were at any period in our
history; thirdly, the Jacksonian
Democracy were the determined
foes of the monopoly. They could
not be otherwise, for the very
foundation of the party was the
doctrine of equal rights. BY what
ever names they may have been
called, there have been, and per-
haps ever will be, but two great par
ties in America-the Democratic
party, asking nothing but equal
rights, and an opposing party,
whose leaders have ever sought, and
ever will seek, special privileges