Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1881-02-25

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and half millions, Massachusetts, abou
three and half millions, and Pennsylvania
less than three millions. A number of othel
States have silk manufactures but their pro
duct is much smaller, not amounting alto
gether to half million dollars in value year
1y.
A traveller can cross the Atlantic in pret
ty> ssshort metre'' now, but it is affirmed that
it win soon be possible to cross it in six and
a half days. During the present year four
new steamers are to make their advent upon
the Atlantic. These steamers, says Mr.. Al
exander, of Boston, are as much superior in
point of size, speed and internal accommoda-
tion to the steamers that have lately been
running upon the ocean as they were ahead
of the steamers of forty years ago. One, the
City of Rome, is to be ready in July next.
for the Inman Steamship Company. That is
to be the largest passenger steamship in the
world, next to the Great Eastern. Her
length is to be 500 feet, her beam 80 feet,
her tonnage 8 1900 tons, and her horse power
| $500 horses. The other three steamers are
the Servia building for the Cunard line, only
| little less in size than the City of Rome
| the Partisan, building for the Allan line,
which is to make her first trip to Boston in
| the course of few weeks The fourth
| steamer is being built for the Williams &
Guion line. She is to be called the Alaska,
and is to cross on the route between New
York and Liverpool in six and one-half days.
Matthew FL. Carpenter, who died yesterday,
was born in Moretown, Vermont, in 1924.
Obtaining an appointment to West Point in
1943 he remained there two years and then
entered the Office of Rufus Choate and was
admitted to the bar. He took up his resi-
dence in Wisconsin in 1S4s and practised his
profession there. In 1869 he was elected to
the United States Senate as the successor of
Mr.. J. r. Doolittle. At the expiration of his
term warm contest ensued, and he was de-
feated by Angus Cameron by the united votes
of anti-Carpenter Republicans and Democrats
At the expiration of the term of Senator
Howe, in 1879, Mr.. Carpenter was again a
candidate for his old place and was success |
full. Mr.. Carpenter was not a college bred
meu bat nevertheless was brilliant scholar |
and very hard student. In his law practice |
in Wisconsin he achieved distinction at an /
early age, and soon took rank as one of the |
first advocates and most powerful orators in
the West. During the last five years he has
probably argued many causes in the Su-
preme Court of the United States as any law
yer in the country. He was one of the coun-
sci for the Democrats before the Electoral
Commission in 1877 and made one of the ar
guments on their side in the case of Louisi-
ana. He was not man given to display, but
made many warm friends wherever he went. |
correspondent of the Worcester SDy and
other northern papers has been writing let
ters from, the South which do not suit some
of the South Carolina Democrats. One of
them, in letter to a newspaper, says con-
cerning the correspondent: "I do not think
our young men should be blamed if they give
him genteel cowhiding' But the Colum-
oia Register thinks that such treatment would
De mistake and gives the following elegant
y expressed advice ''If our young men
very much blamed all through the State 'for
giving us away to the impertinent Vermont
'ub. 1t would be anything else but a gen.
eel transaction, or a manly one, to catch one
ooor, half crazy, insolent fool. down South
oy himself and to dress his hide with hide
hat was not made for an ass but
or an animal that has no teeth in the upper
aw. Our advice is: Let the man alone |
f it amuses him to write bitter letters |
If us to Vermont let him write. Who
ares? They cannot think much worse of
f1,V &l,,, a. Io
lone for all the epistles this unhappy and
rate Rice may indite. So, too, if he is dis {
'osed to lecture about treating negroes as {
what harm, in the name of kind
eaven, can come of it? A few half-w1tted
olored upstarts, who were disposed to be ,
nischievous anyway, might thus be induced {
D be somewhat more declared than other
7ise, and provoke difficulty with somebody,
erchance, and little sooner than they 9TH t
rwise would have done; but this is really l
bout all of it, after ALL"
bill designed for the relief of the bank t
upt city of Elizabeth has been introduced in
ae New Jersey Legislature. Ever since l
lizabeth defaulted in the payment of the !
lterest on her bonded indebtedness two :
ears ago the citizens and the city's creditors s
ave been disputing over basis of settle
lent. The creditors demand all Of their :
loney, and have already secured judgments L
yainst the municipality for large amounts r
he people of the city do not feel able to pay =
alf of the amount due Compromise has s
zen up to this point impossible. The bill h
,acts that whenever any city shall have d
'ased for two years to pay the interest on :;
bonded Indebtedness the Council shall VI
ave prepared a statement of the valuation Il
the taxable property of the city, of the | Il
Mount of the Indebtedness, of the amount a a
,eded to meet its current expenses, of the fe
Mount of State and county taxes assessed, of es
q amount of unpaid taxes and assessments, al
I'd of the amount that, in the opinion of the -
ouncil, would be realized from a forced
le of the property on which the taxes re-
ain unpaid. When this statement shall .
we been prepared the Council shall COM h
lte what proportion of the city debt can be IL
i'd and the people will be requested to vote h'
q special election on the question whether 70
e city debt shall be paid on the basis pro- W
sed by theSCouncil. Three ffths of the at
loie nunaoer ol Votes VIII pe requIreo u
tify the proposition of the Council If the ~
ople ratify, then the Council shall levy q A
< for the amount required, and fix time ds
len the payment shall be made. Railway fe
$ already practically undergone pert of ~ ~
3 operation, and her Council have decided hi
at they can afford to pay 25 cents on the WI
liar. Next Tuesday the people will, by tn
te. saw whether they will pay that amount ,
not. Elizabeth will be able to do a little ce
tier than Railway, and may feel herself in pc
sition to offer her creditors 40 cents on pc