The Portland daily press., 1882-08-17
Miscellaneous.
THE BANKERS.
Annual Meeting OF their Association at
Saratoga.

Annual Meeting OF their Association at
Saratoga.
SARATOGA, August 16.-The Bankers Asso-
citation began its annual session here to-day
with a large attendance. President Coe intro
duced to the convention VIM. III. Foster OF
Salem, Mass, who has been cashier of bank
SO years. The president, in his opening ad-
drecs, congratulated the association on the
generally favorable financial condition under
which it meets. The serious apprehensions OF
commercial revulsions have been dispelled by
the prospect of an abundant crop. The ne
glect of Congress to relieve banks OF the excep-
tional war taxes is great disappointment. The
continuance of this repeated toll drawn from
the resources of the country has also further
effect to hasten UNNECESSARILY the extinguish-
ment of the public debt and thus disturb the
foundation upon which rests the present ma
tional currency and existing monetary system.
Addresses were also delivered on banking in
the West by A. d. Lynch, president of a bank
in Indianapolis; on the future currency OF the
country by Prof. Atwater of Princeton, N. T.;
and on our financial situation and the dangers
of the future by John Thompson of New York.
Death of Senator Benjamin Harvey Hill
ATLANTA, Ga, Aug. 16.-About 2 o'clock
this morning Senator Hill was found to be
rapidly sinking. He breathed with much diff
fculty but continued to sleep however, and a
few minutes after six his death occurred with
out a struggle. He died from exhaustion.
For several hours before his death it was evil
dent that tho end was near. After daybreak
his family were summoned to his bedside, and
there were present at his death Mrs. Hill, his
wife, B. Ell. Hill, Jr., and his wife, DR.. r. P.
Ridley and his wife, Senator Hills daughter,
Charles d. Hill, his son, two nephews of the
Senator and DIR. Wright, the attending sur
geon. Four hours before the Senator's death
he made sign for a hypodermic injection OF
morphine, which was administered. He ap-
70 ha ka and oOpanioua gavarql tinnaq
but could not speak. At 6.15 he was apparent
ly awake, when he gently closed his eyes and
died without even a tremor.
The funeral will probably take place Satur-
day A committee of Senators is expected
to be present.
Lamar, Morgan, Beck and Salisbury, accom-
panied by Col. Sneed Assistant Postmaster of
the Senate, and Dalton, Superintendent of the
State Folding Room, leave tomorrow morn
ing for Atlanta to attend the funeral of Sena-
tor Hill.
The death of Senator Benjamin Harvey
Hill, of Georgia, which has been for some days
expected, and which occurred at o'clock this
morning, at Atlanta, removes from public life
one of the best known and most highly re-
pected of the members of the upper branch Of,
our national legislature Senator Hill was
born in Jasper county, Georgia, Sept. IA, 1928
received classical education, graduating with
the highest honors of his class at the Universi-
ty of Georgia in 1874. He was admitted to the
bar in 1845, and soon after entered the arena
of politics; he was member of the Georgia
House of Representatives in 1851, was defeat
ed for Congress as Whig in 1855 by less than
100 votes, and in 1857 was defeated as the
American candidate for Governor by Joseph e.
Brown, Democrat, by narrow vote. He was
a member of the State Senate in 1859 and go.
When the State Convention to act upon the
secession ordinance was called in 1861, Mr..
Hill was chosen member, and actively resist
ed the secession measure as long as resistance
was practicable. He decided, however, to fol-
low the fortunes of his State, aud was elected
delegate 10 the Provisional Confederate Con-
gress, and was afterwards Senator from Geor-
gia In that Congress. In May, 1866, he was
arrested at his home at La Grange, Georgia,
and was confined in Fort Lafayette till July
of that year, when he was released on parole
He was elected Representative to the Forty
fourth Congress, and was reelected to the
Forty-tifth, resigning his seat. however, to
take his place in the Senate, to which he had
been elected for the full term beginning March
3, 1877 While in the House he made repu-
tation as one OF the most brilliant and out
spoken members from the South, somewhat
Jealous and impulsive, an illustration of which
was his notable speech in reply to Mr.. Blaine,
which he made inI1876, FLOR which he was most
severely criticised throughout the North. He
hes been regarded as one of the finest orators
in Congress and one of the ablest statesmen
and politicians of the South. For the past
year, however, he has been absent from his
seat for much of the,time, owing to the terrible
disease of cancer, which has finally resulted
fatally. Senator Hill's personal character was
above reproach, and he has been for many
years deyout communicate and prominent
layman of the Methodist Episcopal church
South