Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-02-09
DOMESTIC NEWS.
Capital Notes, from Our Own Cores
pondept,

manufactured III ILLS COuubEl cuiOh-
ing purposes, is heartily approved by the
Commissioner of Internal Revenue, and will
be strongly urged upon the attention OF the
House Ways and Means Committee, as soon
as the funding question and a few other
special subjects-like the sugar and steel
rail ntroversies-concerning which the COM
mittee has recently heard extended arguments,
shall have been disposed of. 1t is Mr.. Davis
intention to obtain an opportunity to make
an argument before the committee in person
In explanation and advocacy OF this bill, and
also Of his bills providing for protective
tariff on Chinese rice, nut-Oil and mustard
seed.
The report telegraphed TO one or two Cali
fornia papers that Senator Grover is dying in
New York State of softening of the brain is
wholly untrue. His wife has been seriously
ILL., and he himself has recently been little
under the weather. but letter was received
in this city from him to-day in which. under
date of Danville, N. Y, February 9TH, he
writes about various matters in his usual
clear and business-like style, and says he will
return to Washington very soon.
No appointment TO succeed Indian Com
missioner Hayt has yet been determined
upon. Secretary Schurz is said to have re-
marked to-day, upon being asked when a
new Commissioner was to be appointed, that
he intended to clear out the house before
putting in new tenant" From this it is
of course inferred that additional removals of
Indian Bureau officials or employees may be
expected shortly.
The Negro Exodus" Investigation.
WASHINGTON, February 7th.-Before the
Senate Exodus" Committee to-day Leonard
G.. A. Hackney, Prosecuting Attorney for
the District of Shslbyville, Indiana, testified
that 26 colored emigrants arrived at Shelby
vile December 18th last. The Mayor called
meeting of the Council, and provision was
made for the destitute. About 20 came for
ward. These men are scattered in or about
the town. The witness had heard of two or
three other companies coming near Shelby
vile. The county is Democratic. but the
Congressional District is doubtful and very
close. A meeting of citizens was held, at
which it was resolved that the law of 1852,
inhicting penalty of $500 upon any one who
should bring pauper into the State should
be enforced by the proper officers. There is
no doubt that all Democrats dislike to see
the emigrants come, and probably the most
respectable Republicans do also. The labor
ing class generally discouutenance the move
ment The demand for labor in Shelby coun-
ty is fully supplied. There is even conf
plant of scarcity of work.
Milton M. Holland, member of the Wash
ington Emigrant Aid Society, testified that
the object was solely charitable not to pro-
mote emigration, bu: to aid emigrants. No
political purpose was connected with it. On
their request, about sixty euigrants were sent
to Ohio, instead of Kansas. The Society has
no agents whatever. So far from the move
ment being Republican, the Society felt very
hard toward Republicans because they had
not contributed much money. He criticised
the action Of two CabiEet officers, who had
subscribed $50 each to the Irish Relief Fund
and nothing to aid colored emigrants. Wit
ness is a clerk in a Government Department
Samuel A. Perry, a mulatto, testified that
lately there had been much distress among
negroes chiefly on account of poor crops, and
the severity Of the Landlord and tenant and
other laws. One hundred negroes got to.
gether, and endeavored to get some Northern
capitalists to help them emigrate. There was
no thought of an exodus. They forwarded
petition to the National Emigration Aid So
ciety setting forth these facts. Perry and
man named Williams, as agents, were sent
West to look for suitable location, their ex-
penses being paid by the colony. They
finally reached Greencastle, where some
colored men told them they could do well in
Indiana. They got ont lot of circulars
favoring immigration to Indiana, and went
back to North Carolina.
Cross-examined by Voorhees-Was slave
before the war, to as good man As ever
lived named Perry Had never advised any
one to 90 to Indiana. He wrote home from
Indiana to his friends that if he owned lot
in Indiana and one i'll hell, he would sell the
Indiana lot and reside in hell. If the indus
trial and financial condition Of negroes was
as good in Indiana as elsewhere, witness
would like to see enough negroes sent there
to revolutionize things" politically. He
did not hear word about political intrigues
when he was in Indiana. He consorted
mostly with Republicans, but so he did at
home. 1t was natural for him to do So Wit
ness declared that he was done with the exo-
dus. He was advising people TO so back.
ExportabIe surplus of wheat in Australia,
new Zealand ana chile.
New YORK, February Tth-The Commer-
cidI Bulletin says Private and better in
formation than the newspapers afford place
the surplus of wheat this season, in Australia
and New Zealand. at 375, 600 tons. Mercsn-
tile letters from Victoria and New Zealand
estimate the probable surplus of those Cello
MES at 80, coo tons respectively. So great
has been the pressure for vessels TO carry the
Australian supply that freights from that
country to England have risen from 35s to
65s per ton From these sources England
apparently expects to draw %, 200, 900 bushels
Reports from India, also, warrant the ex-
pectation of an unusually large crop, but no
difnite estimates are given. Chile also
stands among the tropical countries that
have an unusual surplus OF wheat for export.
No definite estimates of the Chilean crop
have yet appeared. Putting together the
exportable surplus from ell aforementioned
countries, the aggregate may perhaps be
taken at 275, 900 bushels above the average of
late years.. and beyond what was expected
when estimates of the result of harvests of
1879 were made up. The bearing of this new
fact upon prospects of our own exports is too
u -. l.
stocks of wheat are ample enough to enable
that country to wait for these supplies from
the Pacific, and it is to be expected that
. every effort will be made to postpone pur-
chases in the United States.
Industrial statistics.
NEW York, February 7th.-Late indus
trial statistics furnish the following facts
We sent last year TO Europe 100000
hides.
All iron establishments in Youngstown,
Ohio, are running on full time.
The combined length of new railroads pro-
jected for 1880 will be 5000 miles.
Brocton, Mass, shoe shipments are almost
four times as great as they were a year ago.
The Camden Tool Works have resumed
work After an ideness of twelve years.
All the wooden mills in Eastern Connects
cut are running, some of them night and day.
In the car-shops in Middletowu, Pa, which
are soon to resume work, 800 men viii be EN-
ployed.
A silver mine has recently been discovered
in Garrett county, Maryland. The ore yields
Sis to the ton.
The fifteen car manufacturing establish
meats OF the country turned OUT 81, $50 cars
in eleven months.
The lead mines near Pheaixville, Pa,
which have been Idle for Twenty-Five years,
are now being worked
Over 1,5Oo persons are employed in chair
making in Gardiner, Mass, turning out over
s.. 1000, 600 worth annually.
The Southfield co-setrshops at New MARI
bore. Mass, are running night and day, and
turning ont 80 dozen coFsets week
The Delaware Rolling Mill, at Phillips
burg, Y. J., which has been idle for many
years, is again in operation under new man
agement.
All the iron mines. in New ersey are be-
Inc worked thoroughly, and ten OF her fifteen
blast furnaces are running, with three to be
lighted som.