Stevens County tribune. (Morris, Minn.) 1877-1880, 1880-01-15
MILITARY PROJECTIONS.


of Jefferson G. Davis. Lieutenant Col. r. B.
Ayers, Third artillery, will be colonel of
the Second artillery. Other nomina-
tions to be favOrably reported include Major
James NJ. Whittemore, TO be Lieut.. Colonel
of the ordnance department, vice
TreadweIl, deceased; Major Joseph Stewart,
Fourth artillery, to be lieut.. colo lei Third ar
tillery; Major &. A. De Russy to be lieut..
colonel Third artillery; Major Geo. l.. Freb-
ger, paymaster, to be deputy paymaster-gener-
al with the rank of lieut., colonel, vice Prince,
retired; Capt. Joseph G. G. Lee, assistant
qaartermaster, to be Qnartermaster with the
rank of major, vice James, retired; Capt. Chas.
w. Howell, to be maj or of engineers, Capt.
Clifton Comfy to be major in the ordnance de-
partment; Capt. Eugene B. Beaumont to be ma
ior of the Fourth cavalry; Capt. Richard Loder,
Fourth artillery, to be major of the Third artil-
lery; First Lieut.. d. D. Wheeler, First artillery.
to be assistant quartermaster with the rank of
captain.
PAY OF MARSHALS.
Mr.. Mcmahon, of Ohio, who is chairman of
the sub-com mittee of committee on appropria-
tons, having in charge the marshals' appropria-
ton bill, says that nothing will be done by the
committee in the direction of preparing the
bill until after the marshaIs' accounts are re-
ceived from California. He says that they
will help To give some idea of just how much
money ID wanted IOf eIeCLlOn purposes, ana
that of course the committee will not allow for
adehciency to this extent.
WOODS REFUNDINa SCHEME.
Fernando Wood has fully matured his
scheme for the refunding of the outstanding
6 per cent. bonds. The reasoning of SeCre.
tary Sherman as to the practicability of ne
gotiating 81 per cent. bond at par was, Mr.
Wood said to the GLOBE correspondent to
night, fallacious. IL is true that under Or
binary circumstances the per cent. bonds
would have to sell at LOG before the 81 pei
cent. could bring par, bat the per cents. sold
III New York to. day at $l.04, and with the in.
creasing demand tor investment securities,
there Is reason to believe the market will GO
even higher. The secretary does not make due
allowance for the difference between business
capital and the rates of interest it demands and
those which sufficient for the purpose OF
permanent investment. The United States
must have its securities hold high place 10
the markets of the world until it shows q reso-
lutte confidence in them itself and proper
esteem for its own credit. Mr.. Wood believes
that there will be no difficulty in
negotiating the sum he indicates in
his bill at 81 per cent. The saving
ELECTED by this scheme over that OF Secretary
Sherman's per cent. plan, it is estimated
would be more than So, O00, 600 annually. One
feature of Mr.. Woods plan on which he de-
pends to make his 81 per cent. banks negoti
ate, is the long time they will have to run. A
fifty year bond at 81 per cent. ought, he says,
to be easily negotiable when 4 per cent. bond
redeemable in twenty-seven years, fetches
l04. MIR. Wood looks with great confidence
TO the West to support his scheme, which ii
now imperiled by the strenuous opposition OF
the old syndicate and treasury influences gen
orally 10 any cutting down in the fune.ing
operations.
CENSUS SUPERINTENDENT.
The superintendent of the census will prob
ably have the list of supervisors ready to be re
ported to the Senate on Wednesday. Although
mach has been said about Democrats being ap.
pointed to these offices, it id believed that nc
Democrat will be appointed in any Northern
State.
NATIONAL BOARD OF HEALTH.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 1.-THE annual report OF
the national board of health, containing an
account of operations of the past year, will
probably be transmitted to Congress to- NOR
row. The work of collecting information and
advice from the principal sanitary orgauiza-
tons and sanitarians of the United States as to
the best plan for national public health or
tine, both maritime and inland. is reported as
having been quste successful. and after care
fully examining the data thus collected, the
board is OF opinion that the conclusions hereto.
fore published by the American Public Health
association at the meeting of that body at
Nashville November 10, 1879, may
be taken fairly representing
the opinions of the leading sanitarians and
most important sanitary organizations of this
country. 1t has been decided by the board
that for the present complete quarantine es.
Establishments are only needed at Boston, New
York, Phi1adelphia, near The mouth of Cbesa-
peake Bay, Charleston, Savannah, near Bruins
wick, Ga, or Fernandina, Fla, near Ship
Island Miss, and at some points on the Texas
coast. The total expense of establishing quar-
autine stations at Chesapeake Bay, the one near
Brunswick and the one at Ship Island, which
are considered the most imp ortant, is estimated
at $40, COO, and as each of them is for the pro-
lection of several States, it Is considered to be
eminently proper and desirable that they
should be equipped and maintained by the
United States.
1t is the opinion of the board that if during
the present winter, at all points where fever
has prevailed during the past summer, care be
taken TO obts ia Thorough ventilation and expos
ure to cold of all houses and enclosed spac> e.,
and all bedding, clothing ETC., and if local SAM
tation be vigorously and properly carried out
there will be little danger of epidemic yellow
fever next year from causes now existing in the
ountry.
1t is believed inspection stations for steam.
boats should be established on the Mississippi
river at New Orleans, Vicksburg. just below
Memphis, and at Cairo, at which all boats
should be examined by competent inspectors
and certificates as to the sanitary condition of
boat given. The cost of establishing these sta-
tons is estimated at $35, 600. Expenditures of
the board from date of organization to De-
cember 81, 1879, were $l54, 000. Estimates for
defraying future expenses of. the board sub
mitted are foliows: From January l to
June 80, 1880. $2S4, $3.50; from July /,
1880, to June 80, 1881, 1902 O60. 1t is
also advised that an appropriation of about say
800 600 be made to hold in reserve for emer-
geucy of the occurrence of such an epidemic
as that of 1879, and to be used solely for the
purpose of inland quarantine in case of such
outbreak.
AMERICAN MANUFACTURES.
The United States consul general of Mexico
writes that the superiority of American manu-
features is beginning to be generally recognized,
and they are gradually but decidedly super.
seding European articles of a similar character.
THE DAR1EN CANAL.
The United States minister to Colombia Sc
verely criticised the provisions of the Wyse
contract with the Columbia government in be-
half of the De Lessep's project for an inter-
oceanic canal across the isthmus of Darien, and
sets forth the unsatisfactory character OF the
conditions contained in that instrument for at
tanning the object for which it was executed.
The minister AIDA: 1.-The political condition of
this republic is not of such a nature "a to at
tract the investment of many millions in such
enterprise. Even the existence of the govern
ment and union is threatened. There is even
present danger of the secession of the State
of Panama
THE UTEs.
The Ute delegation arrived this morning.
They were met at the depot by two employees
of the Indian bureau, who escorted them to
their quarters at the fremont house. and kept
strict watch on them during the day. The hotel
has been besieged all day by crowds of curious
people, anxious to nee the Indians, but all
were disappointed, as the officials Of the inter