Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-02-05

Oconee river, s., 500; Oostanaula and Coo
sawattee, $1,000; Savannah river above
Augusta, 5000; Apalscbicola, 81, 500;
Choctawhatchie, 81 900; entrance to Cum
berland sound, 100000; E<cambia river,
$1,000; st. Johns, 100000; Suwannee,
$1,000; Volusia bar, S. 500; Alabama river,
$4,000; Big Sunfower, Miss, 1900; Noxu-
bee, Miss, $4,000; Pascagoula, Miss,
"a 600; Pearl river, below jackson, Miss,
$25, 900; from jackson to Carthage, 81. 500;
Tallahatchee, Miss, So 900; Tombigbee
above Columbus, $1,000; Yazoo, Miss,
Carolina, $1,000; CurrItuck sound,
Coanjok bay, North river and bar, North
Carolina, 10000 French Broad, North
Carolina. S5 600; Neuse river, North Caro-
lima, SIS. .000; Pamlico and Tar rivers, North
Carolina, $1,000; Duck river, Tennessee,
$1,000; French Broad river below Knox
vile, Tenn, aud the mouth of Big
Creek, SO. 500; Hiawassee river, Tennessee,
81 800; Obedes river, Tennessee, 81, 500;
Tennessee river above Chattanooga, 81 900;
Tennessee river below Chattanooga, $780,
600; Mississippi river at Natchez and
Vidalia, $4,000; Big Hatchie river, Tenn,
g.; 500; Coney Pork river, Tenn, 81. 600;
rVer Tnen G0sga E0eg Tsn5 s5 o sm.Sa rrsr
South Carolina, SIS, coo; Wappoo cut, South
Carolina, $4,000; Wateree river, South
Carolina, $4,000; Santee river, South Caro-
lima, $22 600; Pensacola harbor, Florida,
20,OOO; Tallabusha river, Mississippi, So, 500;
Tchuta Lake, Mississippi, $1,000;
seuppernong, N. c., 81 COO; Trent river,
$4,000; Ashley, s. c., $1,50O; Great Pedee,
$1,000; Waccsmaw, 5000; Chattahoochee
river, Ga,. $40, 900; Coosaw, Georgia and
Alabama, $50 900; Flint, Ca, SIS, 900; Och
mulgee, 5000; Cumberland, above Nash
vile to the Kentucky State line, SIS, 900.
In addition to these special appropriations
the Secretary OF War Is authorized to have
surveys made at various points.
THE HOUSE FUNDING BILL.
The Senate Finance Committee this morn
Ing completed consideration of the House
funding bill, and authorized their Chair
man to report it back to the Senate, with a
recommendation for its passage with the
amendments, which provide that the bonds
shall be redeemable in five years and pay
able in twenty years; that the rate of in
terest upon them shall be 31S per cent. Der
annum; the one-ten certificates authorized by
the bill shall bear interest at rate not ex-
ceeding 80 per cent. per annum, and that
interest in each case shall be payable semi
annually.
The committee strike out the fifth section
known as the Carlisle amendment" which
provided for the compulsory use of the
new bonds as security for national bank
circulation, and for change In the law
concerning the retirement of circulating
notes, and substitute In lieu thereof two
new sections, the principal feature OF which
Is the provisions that hereafter the security
given by national banks for government
deposits, and the faithful performance of
their duties as public repositories, shall
consist wholly of United States bonds.
The committee also recommends that the
al frlrf fho - t., \
placing the new bonds and certificates be
increased to one half of one per cent, instead
OF one quarter, as limited by the House of
Representatives.
THE HOUSE COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS.
at meeting to-day of the House Com
mittee on Ways and Means, Representative
Carlisle, from the sub committee on internal
revenue, reported in favor of abolisbing the
tax on matches, bank deposits Gncluding saw
ings banks) bank checks, patent medicines,
perfumery, etc. The committee adopted
the report and authorized him to prepare
bill embodying the recommendations of the
report, and report it to the committee. The
committee refused to abolish the tax on
bank capital.
Representative Carlisle also reported the
bill to regulate the manufacture of Weiss
beer, and was instructed to report it favor
ably to the House.
Representative Tucker was instructed by
the committee to prepare a substitute for
the House bill abolishipg the 10 per cent.
stamp tax on exports of tobacco.
A RECOMMENDATION FROM THE SECRETARY
OF THE NAVY.
The President sent to both houses to-day
communication received by him from the
Secretary of the Navy relative to the dis
patch of a vessel in search Of the Arctic
exploring steamer Jeanette In his letter,
which the President commends to the
favorable action of Congress, Secretary
Goff recommends an appropriation for the
purchase and equipment of steam whaler
in San Francisco as vessel better suited to
battle with polar ice than regular man-of-
war.