The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1880-02-03

contested nomination Of DR.. Phillip S. Waller
to be chief of the Bureau uf Medicine and
Surgery and Surgeon General Of the Navy
| which was confirmed by vote of b against s.
! BUFFALO, Jan. 2G--Parnel and Dillon
have prepared the following appeal to the
people of the Dominion of Canada: ''The
| extreme urgency Of me distress in Ireland has
induced lis to call to the people of Canada.
Famine is already upon the people of tlie
west of Ireland. Thousands are at this mo-
ment starving, and up TO this time the British
| government has taken no step to save the peO-
pie from this awful fate. We appeal, then,
| to the people Of the Dominion to assist us in
saving the lives Of the peasanly, until we
shall have succeeded in aiOusing the govern
| ernment to d sense oiits duty. The necessity
| is pressing, even if the government were To
move at once, which they show no sign OF
| doing. The machinery employed 10y them is
so cumbersome that no relief could reach
! people for aDOut six months, in which inter-
val thousands must perish Let relief COLL
mittees be founded in every city and town i'll
| the Dominion, and all subscriptions issuing
to the credit of the Irish farmers relief should
| ne placed at the National bank of Montreal.
| j AUGUSTA, Jan. 2G.-'rhe Fusonlsts seem
to remain firm but will not attempt TO tran
| sact business but will meet and adj djourn from
day to day until the decision of the court is
received. Should it sustain the Republicans,
most Of them will take seats in the legislature.
1t is thought that every Senator with posi-
BILE exception of one, will take his seat. The
The legislature will enter at once upon the
despatch of important business before them
without further preiminaries. The troops
will remain here until matters have settled
down to peace basis.
WASHINGTON, JAN 2G-The colored exc
dus committee heard Warren G. Fearing,
colored secretary of the Emigrant Aid Socl-
ETY., and his employees, Washington executive
officers, who testified they had recently heard
many reports Of dissatisfaction among the
colored people of North Carolina, and the de-
sire to emigrate was increasing; he also said
that the blacks were highly pleased with their
Indiana homes. Mr.. Otuy colored principal
of Howard University, testified he had been
in North Carolina frequently of late years,
and was now identified with the emigration
; movement. When the blacks were fleeing
from oppression to st. Louis, en- route for
Kansas, a meeting of the National Emgrant
Aid Society was held to aid them, and it was
suggested there that the tide be partly divert
ed from the single State of Kansas and that
it would be well to send a portion to Indiana,
that being a doubtful State. The witness,
, Otuy, alone protested against using his peO-
pie as political tools, which III the South had
not redounded to their advantage, for the kr-
klux had piled them with buck shot and they
received no protection from the National gov
!, ernment. The witness. therefore, withdrew
' from the society. He had reliable informa-
ton that the colored men in North Carolina
had been ieluded by the glowing accounts of
Perry, Williams and Taylor, who promised
the ignorant blacks that the United States
= would aid them and pay them wages regular
ly, and give them clothing, etc. The first
! batch who went were well received and
- - their letters to their friends started general
~, Iva,
ment of all intelligent colored men and every
i coloreu paper in South Carolina opposed the
S exodus. There was liberal provision in the
c State for the education of colored people III
n the schools and eleemosynary institutions, and
, declared that he never saw such poor, igno-
II rant colored people in North Carolina as he
u saw in Oberln, Ohio, the paradise of colored
people. Colored men were thriving, indus
t. trious, and often rich in the South.
9 Senator Blair will cross examine the witnes:
II Friday
e PORTLAND, Jan. ZG.-rhe press tomorrow
will publish an expose of the formation o
:, circles of the g Brick Pomcroy League" il
, Maine with State circles devoted to commtl
Il nistic doctrines and their cXellion is employed
"a in endeavors to seize the State government
There are five circles known in Cumberland
-, and some in New York, Knox and othe
- counties. This organization is managed b.
l, advanced leaders of the Grcenback party ant
~ the mass of that party are still ignorant O
" their existence.
DEs MONIES, Ia, Jan. 2G.-A canvass 0
Of the State Senate to-day resulted: Blaine
* 81; Grant, 81 Sherman, 2; Edmunds, =
re Washburne and Garfield, l each. The Dem
it ocrats voted 2 for Tilden, 8 for Seymour,
le for Thurman, l for David Davis. Green
le hackers, for Ben Butler. A total canvas
lc of the legislature shows, Blaine 81; Gran
le u.
S, WASHINGTON. Jan. 26.-The decisive vot
n. of 175 against 81 by which The House OF Repre-
d. senlaIives adopted Judge keiley's resolutio
IL declaring that the negotiation of Il commercia
ct treaty fixing the tariff duty without the concur
le renee of the House of Representatives woul
5, be in violation ,of the constitution is a har
le blow to the Choteau project, and possesse
al additional significance from the fact that yer
e industrious efforts have been made since las
ne Monday to diminish the unavoidable majorit
at by absentecism or other indirect means SO a
IN to cause the resolution to fail foi want of til
lS requisite two third majority.
he Gov. Pitkin, of Colorado, was on the ti0t
er of the House to-day and had a long consulti
e, ton with Representative Beltord touching I'll
rs Ute Indian question.
Il. The .Stnl' says Senator Sharon has take
so the pains to deny that he has drawn 4 cent I
e. his pay for tie present Congress.
'rs AUGUSTA, Jan. 26.-l}oth branches OF Il
he Republican Legislature passed resolution
re providing for a constitutional amendmcl
ng e!ecting the governor by plurality instead
ch il majority vote. The Senate appointed
nd committee of investigation on the enlistmel
ng and enrolment of men and on loss of Il
to State seal.
rs New ORLEANS, Jan. 2G.-The Steambo
re, Chalmer, with 2.1O0 bales of cotton on boar
at was totally destroyed by fire 10 miles abo
.rS Red river Eight lives were lost, being tV
lie chanbermaids, two cooks, two cabin boy
Il one fireman and one deck hand The DC
ate and car q were valued at one hundred Al
W, thirty thousand dollars.
WASuUNGToN Jan. 26-rhe House Col