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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1881-09-29
REMOVAL Of THE REMAINS.

The combination car in which the re-
mains of the President were to be placed
had been so located that the door of the
car was directly opposite the door of the
cottage. Heavy, board planks had been
placed from the car>to the porch, strips
Tof carpeting were laid on this, and at the
appointed time the coffin, borne by the
undertakers' assistants, under the per-
sonal supervision of Majors Swain and
Corbin, was carried from the cottage
and passing through the door and line
of soldiers, was placed in the car. As
soon asi twas upon the catafalque it was
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1881-09-29

there are large ship yards. The mechsn-
les were massed about the track, and the
train passed between them in the most
absolute silence. At Wilmington the
streets were black with people. work was
suspended and thousands OF laborers
stood uncovered i'm silent sorrow.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1881-09-29

Was made at Bristol for water. Nearly
opposite the window at which Mrs. Gar
field sat was long row of tenement
houses Of a very modest character. AL
most the entire front of the buildings
was hid by black draperies. The Occu-
pants stood in front and by the door
ways gazing intently, sadly, the women
tsarfully, as the train halted. They
were looking upon the remains of one
of their number who had risen to a
higher rank than that Of kings. They
caught glimpse at the window of a wo-
man and widow who had been brought
from the loftiest heights of human am
bition to the
PROFoUNDEsT DEPTHS OF HUMAN
SORROW.
AS the train neared the larger cities
the crowd increased At Germantown
the approaches to the station were
densely packed. West Philadelphia was
reached at 12:44 on run Of ninety-fouI
miles in 152 minutes. But two weeks
ago, when the dying President was taken
to Long Branch, the same distance was
traversed in 137 minutes.
The crowd was immense. At Chester
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-05-16
The Cotton-Tie Complaint,

Secretary Window has officially in
formed the half-dozen manufacturers of
iron ties for cotton bales that he cannot
alter the tariff law, and the judicial de-
cisions and department rulings under it,
to accommodate them. The tariff law
fixes the duty on imported hoop-iron at
II cents a pound, and on manufactures
of iron at 80 per cent ad valorem.
When the law was passed, the prices Of
all kinds of iron fabrics were high, and
remained so for over ten years, and the
80 per cent. ad valorem duty was as
much protection as the home manufac-
turers thought they needed. But the
fall in prices of iron ties proportionally
reduced this duty and allowed English
ties to come in; and the home manufac-
turers, considering this hardship, APP
pealed to the Treasury Department to
change the duty from 80 per cent. ad va
loren to II cents a pound, claiming that
cotton ties were nothing but hoop-iron,
and, therefore, subject to hoop-iron duty.
But it seems that the iron cotton ties,
though made of hoop-iron, have pat
ent fastening, are made for tying cotton
bales exclusively, and are, therefore, a
special manufacture of iron and the
Treasury Department long ago ruled
that these ties are subject to duty of 30
per cent. only. As this ruling is based
on judicial Interpretation of the law
and has governed the practice of the
department for twelve years, the pres
ent Secretary declines to reverse it for
the benefit of few manufacturers. The
difference between the duty as now lev
led and the duty claimed by the manu-
facturers, computed on the amount of
ties consumed in the country, would be
about 100000. What the home manu-
facturers in Pennsylvania and Ohio are
contending for is the privilege of exact
ing this amount of money from the cot
ton planters of the South-as If the cot
ton planters had no rights whatever in
the matter.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-05-16
The Social Etiquette of the Capital.


By degrees, says an exchange, very
stiff system of etiquette is being built
up in Washington, and in time, visitors
to the capital will doubtless find but
slight difference between the society
laws there and those of Europe. Until
now, the most difficult question has
been that of precedence" at
receptions. dinners, etc.-a rather
novel issue in country where the only
inequality should be that of intellect.
But now, the disturbing issue as TO the
number and "class" of people the wives
of the Cabinet officers shall call upon,
personally" or "by card" On
the one hand, it is claimed that
it is the duty of ''the ladies of
the Cabinet" to return all calls. On the
other side, it is claimed that no visits
save those of Senators and other promi-
nent officials and their wives, or of the
most intimate friends, should be re-
turned ''in person" and that all other So
cial obligations should be returned "by
card" The chances are that the latter
claim will be confirmed and that it will
thus become incorporated in what is
called "the social etiquette of the CAPT.
tai"
The matter is one of grave importance
to the American people, and Lord Ros-
coe should, as soon as the question of
Senatorial courtesy" is disposed of,
bring the subject before the Radical
caucus for settlement.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-05-16

The Chief of the Star Mail Bonanza.
When, about the time of the October
election in Indiana, Mr.. S. w. Dorsey
was posing before the country as PFesi-
dent maker, his stalwart service to the
Republican party and to General Gar.
field won for him distinguished praise.
He figured as sort of Hercules who had
come in at the eleventh hour to put his
shoulder to the wheel of the machine and
lift it out of the mire upon the solid
ground. The oracular promises of
victory that were proclaimed in
his various kilograms from the front were
rather startling to many, who took them
for so much brag, but they turned out to
be true, and it was realized that Dorsey
meant business from the start, and knew
all along what he was about. After all
was over an admiring and grateful pub
lie was informed that the ex-senator from
Arkansas wanted no Office as reward
for his great and successful services. The
magnitude of his private interests was
declared, upon his own authority, to de-
bar him from taking any place whatever
in the civil list. He was understood to
be so well fixed, in fact, that not even a
Cabinet position had any temptations for
him. There were whispers of colossal
mining speculations in which he had
grown rich, and Of future ventures in
the same line in which he was to wax
still richer.
Like the North Carolina carpetbagger,
Tourgee, of the Fools Errand," the re-
suits of whose literary labors" are said,
by himself, to be worth several times
the salary of any Office, Mr.. Dorsey has
been giving out that his participation in
politics is of purely patriotic and per-
sonally disinterested character. I'm
fortunately, however, for MIR. Dor
sey's claim to permanent popular
applause. it turns out that he is pretty
nearly as selfish in bis politics as the
rest. 1t appears that he is not wholly
guiltless of making money out of the
paternal government, and good deal of
it, and in ways, too. that might be con-
sidered by strict and captious moralists
somewhat illicit. The mines" that the
thrifty Dorsey has been working, or
some of them, at least, are
found to be bonanzas connected with the
transportation of the mails in the will
dernesses of the great West. 1t looks,
in fact, as if he were one of the worst
of the star route crowd. What further
developments of good men gone wrong
may be in store by the time this bust
ness is turned inside out, no one perhaps
can tell; but after the exposure of the
stainless Dorsey the country may pre-
pare for almost anything.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-05-16
DnYiI-WnrShin.

Hoodooism has broken out at Wash
ington. 1t RACES in the Senate as badly
as it does in Ashantee. The New York
Tribune ascribes all the ills which threat
en- the Republican party to this super
stitious fetichism on the part of Repub-
lican Senators. They have "fallen into
a species of deUil-s0Orahlp;" Conkling
presumably being his Satanic majesty.
The situation, it says, is bad one;
"The situation is thus not free from
endorsements, and no one pretends that
it is. 1t calls for energetic, intelligent
and courageous handling. This it is
hardly receiving. All day yesterday
and the day before, Senators who recOg-
nize the utterly unjustiflable character
of the claim Mr. Conkling is setting up
were going about, in caucus and out of
it, to devise some impossible means of
placating him. They seem to have fallen
into a species of devil worship, which to
a certain class of minds is more natural
and easy than religion"
1t need astonish nobody. Any party,
says the Hartford Tines, that gets its
political reading out of such newspapers
as the New York Tribune and its echoes,
might naturally enough fall into devil
worship. 1t is but an added step in the
pathway to darkness.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-05-16
The CoMardIH PernYians.

A Washington special says: Capt.
Paul Boyton, who has recently returned
from Peru, was in the city yesterday.
AS an incident of his trouble, tie Cap
tain related the following in response to
a query as to the bravery of the Peru
VANS. He said: "They are not very
game, and many of them are very
cowardly. The battle of Mirahores
was the hottest kind of fight. The air
was filled with bullets as with swan
of flies. The foreign Ministers were
scared almost to death. l saw Minister
Christiancy running under full sail across
the field toward Lima. He was in his
shirt sleeves. 1t was a goas-you-please
race for life. The Peruvians were ut
terly routed. Even the mules, with the
ammunition in sacks on their backs,
stampeded, and the powder for the
fighters ran short. All steered for Lima
There murder and rspine reigned with
bloody hands. was placed at the
head of company of Americans, and,
with other foreigners, fought for order.
The negroes were the most savage
portion of the mob, The poor China.
men were indiscriminately butchered and
robbed.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-05-16

The Shanghai correspondent of the
London Times has attempted to defend
the atrocious opium traffic which Eng
land forces on China for the sake of the
Indian revenues. The defense is a
specimen of thorough casuistry. 1t
amounts to this: that if tine British cease
to send opium to China the Chinese will
grow it for themselves Mr.. F. Storrs
Turner, Secretary of the Society for the
Suppression of the Opium Trade, has
answered this argument in a pamphlet.
He shows conclusivelY that the growth
of Chinese opium is not so dangerous a
thing as the continued growth of the In
dian poppy. The former drug is not
so deadly as the latter. Besides, the
growth of the plant except for medicinal
purposes is illegal in China, and what
ever mischief it would do must be done
surreptitiously.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-05-16
A SOrr0Mfnl Figure.

Here Is a specimen of the negroes who
were bamboozled and enticed by the
friends of the Chicago Inter Ocean and
made to go to Indiana. 1t is a shame
and outrage that such white rascals can
thus fool the negroes and escape unpun.
ished. The Washington letter in the
Richmond Dispatch gives the follow
ing:
81 saw a well known Washington col
ored man at the Baltimore and Potomac
depot kindly helping with their luggage
a dilapidated colored party, of which a
forlorn-looking colored man was the
head, and l afterwards asked him who
they were. He said: DO you see that
man? Well, he went from North Caro-
lima out to Indiana, and is now going
back home on money white man in
North Carolina he used to live with sent
him. While out there he lost his wife
and his children. He didn't save any
money, and had to burn ''bresh" for fire.
wood. The white people, he says, don't
like colored folks, and colored folks
don't know how to get along with
Thorn ~
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-05-16

The post Office commission that has
been for several weeks investigating star
route crookedness at Memphis, report
that there has been wasteful and extrav-
agant expenditures in the contract ser.
vice. A number of mail routes have
been established for the sole benefit of a
ring of contractors. These fraudulent
mail contracts include land and river
routes in Arkansas and Louisiana, and
on the Mississippi river. 1t has also been
proved, says the AUalanehe, that Mem
phis is an excellent point from which to
begin star route investigation, and the
investigators have secured a great deal
of valuable information concerning the
contractors ring
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-05-16

Tribune says.
'It is not defended by many Republi-
can newspapers, but Is as obnoxious to
the anti. Cameron wing of the party as it
Is to the Democrats themselves. 1t seems
to be designed to punish the supporters
of Galusha A. Grow and the anti Grant
delegates at Chicago. But as the repre-
sentatives of these factions, together
with the Democrats, constitute MAORI
ty of the Legislature. 1t will be impos-
sible to force the apportionment through.
The Philadelphia Press says that on
the basis of the election of
last fall, the new districts would give
the Republicans majority of ninety on
joint ballot. But the party does not
claim to have relatively that strength In
the State. The making of an apportion-
ment so manifestly unjust would be
short-sighted and foolish in the extre.
As the Press points out the adoption of
a similar measure in 1870 resulted IN the
choice of Democratic Legislature and
the election of William A. Wallace to
the United States Senate. The proba-
bilities are that the whole matter will be
permitted to go over until next winter. "
When Republican apportionment is
so bad that even Republican journals de-
nounce it, it must be very bad indeed.
Yet it is safe to predict that the Penn
sylvania apportionment will, in the end,
be adopted-denunciations to the con.
trary Notwithstanding. The lame and
impotent conclusion of the Republi-
can fight against Cameron last
winter proves that the "boss" has the
party in that State completely under his
thumb. If Cameron wants the appor-
tionment he will get it. no matter what
the consequences. His tools in the Leg
islature have never failed to do his bid
ding, and will not in this instance.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-05-16

A writer in the Boston Adoertiser,
commenting upon the French operations
in Tunis, asserts that the raids of the
Kroumir are only a pretence. The real
objects of the French are three in num-
Der: First, the establishment of the Sus-
sa Railway, which is intended to connect
Sussa with Tunis. project which is OPP
posed by a rival Italian railroad com
pany. Second, the recovery of the En-
fida, a strip of territory 300 miles square,
which was sold to the Societe Marseil-
laise. The Tunisians afterwards desired
to keep it, and intrigued, with the help
of one Joseph Levy, British subject,
to do so, hoping that the British Gov
eminent would support its subject,
which that government has wisely de
clined to do. Third, the French propose
to establish a protectOrate as guaranty
for the future, and that protectorate
means French dominion, which would
be the best thing for Tunis.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-05-16

Finding that it was impossible to COM
pete with the emigration agents of other
States at Castle Garden. as most of the
emigrants arriving there have already
determined upon the point in the Unian
at which they will settle, the State of
Missouri has wisely sent an agent to Ger
many to turn the food of emigration to-
wards that State. He finds considerable
difficulty in the enterprise in consequence
of the many obstacles the German Gov
eminent places in his way, but has, new
ertheless. been successful to an unex-
peeted degree, and announces that he
will be able To turn five or ten thousand
Germans into the direction of Missouri.
The news of the severity of the late win
ter in Wisconsin, Iowa and other States
to which the Germans have been in the
habit of emigrating in the past has just
reached Germany, and those who are
now leaving that country are anxious to
settle in warmer and more comfortable
climates, and will do so if the advantages
Of the South are properly laid before
them
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-05-16
Secretary Window told th

Secretary Window told the New York
merchants at their anniversary dinner
that as long as the United States have a
market for what they have to sell, they
will continue to lie prosperous. When
the outside demand ceases there will be
home glut, low prices and hard times.
To prevent the coming Of this day Of
evil the markets of the world
must be opened for our productions.
These are very wise and true words
But the policy of Window and his fel.
low protectionists, which closes our own
markets against the nations with whom
we may hope to extend our trade, runs
counter to their preaching. They ask
other people first to trade with them,
and then slam the door in their faces.
Under our tariff system our exports must
be always confined to raw material, which
foreigners can buy of us at better adj
vantage than they can buy Of others
Such trade we enjoy in spite of our
Windows. Their talk of opening the
markets Of the world is the idlest drivel
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-05-16

An interesting article in late number
of ScTl5ner's Monthly brought the history
of the Pitcairn Islanders down to the
present day. That thrilling volume
known to youthful readers of adventure
as ''The Mutiueers of the Bounty" ceus-
ed its narrative somewhere in the COS.
The Scr5ner article took the story up at
that point and brought it forward to
date. The writer OF the supplementary
history is one of the Islanders, a Miss
Rosa Young, who is described as being
% years of age. as straight as an arrow,
as fleet as a deer; one who has never
known the touch of a shoe, who can
swim like fish, and climb like squir-
rel, and is withal as good as she is grace
full and accomplished.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-05-16

Major John NJ Wilson, United States
Engineer, has been surveying two posi-
BILE routes for a ship canal to connect the
Ohio river with Lake Erie; the first by
way of the Erie and Wabash canal,
which can be enlarged at cost of $24,-
236, 600; the second by the Miami and
Erie canal, at a cost of sos. 557, 0O0
These are the routes so earnestly advo-
Gated by the New York Herald as a
means of securing communication with
the Mississippi valley and offsetting the
new barge route. The Chicago Tribune
thinks the figures are incorrect, and
places the least cost of either enterprise
at not less than $SO.O0O.OOO.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-05-16

General Beauregard originated the
cable railroad, and sued the California
companies for infringement of patent.
The case was finally compromised on
agreement that the companies should not
extend the use of the cables for street
car purposes away from the Pacific
coast. The rights of General Beauregard
are recognized by the Chicago com
panies, and he will be paid a royalty for
the use of his invention in that city.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-05-16

The test of strength between Garfield
and Conkling will probably be made
upon the confirmation or rejection of
Robertson to-day. There is hardly any
doubt of his confirmation. Indeed, we
can see no good reason why any Demo
cratic Senator should vote against the
confirmation of Robertson. Conkling
charges that he bargained with Garfield
for the New York offices. Well, the
Democrats refused to countenance the
Malone Gorham bargain. They should
on the same grounds refuse to ratify the
Garfield Conkling bargain. -
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-05-16

Republican papers in Connecticut and
Massachusetts,. which published, and
pleasantly commented on, extensive ac-
counts of the great Republican dinner at
Delmonico's, in honor of Dorsey, last
February, now published the kilograms
showing the overwhelming proofs of
Dorsey's frauds and guilt in the Oregon
star routes, and maintain concerning the
subject grim and curious silence.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-05-16

Malone, as an assistant Repuhican
member of the senate, was manufactured
nv apans0 OF the Conkling facion, but
failure to secure the promised reward,
and the outbreak of the GARFIELD Conk-
ling fight, have necessitaed a readjust-
ment of his fractional reldiots. and he is
now said to be on the ,oirt of joining
the administration win, tlat being the
only quarter FROM wbch he can reason
ablv exnoss any shfe Of the ''spoils
p- isn't the man to allow the "new
South" invention % absorb his active
mind.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-05-16

In 1872 there were 437, 100 immigrants
to the United States. This was the
largest in any one year up to 1880, when
the number reached 500, 703. But 1881
promises to surpass last year, if the
stream continues through the year as it
has been thus far. Since the year 1861
twenty years-the number aggregates
5. 635. 925.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-05-16

The biggest robbery of the star route
robbers is the route from Fort Worth
to Fort Yuma This route was raised,
or to use Mr. Brady's term. expedited, %
without the slightest justification, from
$134, 900 to $299, 900. A poor old man
by the name of Chichester is known as
the principal on this route, but he is not
a gamer to any considerable extent.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-05-16

The New York Times believes that
''the time viii come when the rings that
have plundered the Treasury of the
United States by means of contracts for
carrying the mails will take their place
in history and in the estimation of the
American people by the side of the most
infamous Organizations of their kind"
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-05-16

Now, that the New York Worlds Fair
is dead, number of other cities will
compete for the prize. Chicago and st.
Louis have already mace application,
and it is now said that Boston will GER
tainly give a grand fair in 1888. The
latter enterprise seems really to have
some backing.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-05-16

There is a real estate boom in New
Orleans. The making all manufactures
free from taxation for ten years, the Jet
ties. the restoration of decent State gov
e-.arnant are the causes to w.hinh A. -
proved condition of affairs Is attributed.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-05-16

The electric light has taken ano'he.
bulge. The City of Richmond used it
in her late trip from Liverpool to New
York. and it proved highly successful
The Inman Line will adopt it for all its
vessels. and it viii probably be used by
other transatlantic steamship lines.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-05-16

Ex-senator Thurman is coming to the
front as the Democratic cndidste for
Governor of Ohio. The patty could not
get better one.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-05-16

Nearly all the third term papers of
last summer fight nit Conkling; those
that opposed tie third term idea are
with Garfield,