Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-10-30
LONGSTREET.
The Ex-confedsrats- Republican
Suspected Of Dishonesty.
Frogs Not eree-Acton and His Certificates
Political POints-A New General
-TpingtO Reach the Sen.
ate by Water,
The TARIFF COMMISSIONS WORK.
LONGSTREET.
THE TARIFF COMMISSIONS WORK.
Speeial Dispaseh 10 he Reais,et.

| lnE lAhlft SUMMlSSlUNS WURk.
Special Dispatch 10 the Register.
| WARRINGTON, October 29.-It has leaked
out here to-day that ex-Confederate Gen.
eral James Longstreet, W no soon after the
close Of the war repented so sincerely and
successfully that he secured succession of
snug berthS at the hands of the Repub-
hCans, which have enabled him to live in
comparative luxury and ease, without
making any corresponding effort in the
way OF exercising either mind or body,
has stung the hand which fed him, and is
defaulter 10 the Government to a large
amC unit. Longstreet was appointed by
GIANT to the United States Marshalship
Of Georgia, where he has remained undis-
turbed up TO the present time, neither
Hayes or Garfield making any attempt 20
remove him. Nothing Is Known outside Of
/ 0thclal circles Of the probable amount Of
Uncle Sans funds appropriated by the re-
| pentant Confederate, the authorities to
! whom the matter was mentioned refusing
| TO talk on the subject. Ii is thought, how
| ever, that friends will make good the
| missing funds and that no arrest will be
made.
Secretary French on Frogs.
WASHINGTON, October pa curious case
has just been passed upon by Assistant
Secretary of the Treasury French. Under
the trea'yo of Washington fresh fish from
the British provinces may be imported
into this country free OF duty, and under
| this provision several barrels Of frogs legs
were shipped en- route for New York by
some Canadian dealers. The customs
authorities, being somewhat dubious as to
| whether frogs could be classed as fish, de-
| tanned the consignment, and referred the
| case to the department. Secretary French
decides that they can not be classed as
| fish, and must pay duty.
Gold Certificates.
The total amount of gold certificates
| which have thus far been sent by the Treas
/ ury TO the Sub-Treasurer at New York Is
! 1885,, 800 100. There had been signed to
| OctOOer - SlO2, 29n, 600 of which $4,000, 800
| were in $4,000 certificates, requiring 5000
| signatures; $l5, 900 OUOin =, 900 certificates
/ requiring 5000 signatures: 50 900 900 In
| 81 900 certificates, requiring 5000 sigma
| lures; s., $4,000 in $500 certificates, requr
! ing I, 900 signatures; S40O, 900 in 800 certi-
! ficatrS, requiring 1 900 signatures; $25O,OOO
| in $50 certificates, requiring 5000 sigma
lures: and Sl50.OOO in go certificates
/ requiring 800 signatures, making a total
| of 5000 signatures, or an average OF $50
| day. IL Is easy from this statement to
| see that if any considerable number of the
! $40 certificates are 10 be used much time
will be necessary under the present system.
| IL required as many signatures, for in
stance, to sign $4,000 of the $50 certiti-
| Gates as it did to sign 50, 5OO,OOO of the $500
| certificates, while the $4,000 OOO of the
larger certificates were signed with but
1000 more signatures than the $l4O.0O0 of
| the so certificates, which is all that have
been issued OF this denomination.
New York.
The action of the New York Evening
| Post in throwing up the sponge, and de.
clariug that the election of Folger is a
hopeless task, and that the election OF
] threC-fOurths of the Congressman by the
Democrats is a foregone conclusion, has
added considerable to the dependency OF
the Republican leaders here. They attempt
to offset its effect, however, by asserting
| that things are Frightening up in Indiana,
| Illinois, and the Northwest, and profess to
have a very hopeful feeling as to the result
in that section. They say that the furry
| created by the result in Ohio has about
Z
! will speedily counteraCt the ill effects of
the October voting and result in decided
| gain before election day arrives. This,
! however. looks as though they were mere
| ly---ah cling 20 heap their courage mp, as
| no one about Democratic headqasrters ap-
pear to have any information, nom the
West or elsewhere, which could be con-
strued into anything IKE areyival among
the Republicans.
Brigadier General Mackenzie.
! Mackenzie, the new Brigadier General,
recalls good many "reminiscences to the
| army and navy people here. Slidell, the
Louisiana statesman and the fellow-priSon-
er of Mason, was his uncle. SlidellS name
was Mackenzie when he lived in New
| York He changed it on going 10 LOuisi-
| ana SiidelIS brother, and the new grner
ais father, was q captain in the navy in
lS42. He hanged at the yard-arm Midship-
| man Spencer, son of the Secretary of War,
who was convicted by a court. martial on
| board the brig SOmers of heading a mutt
| ny. Spencer and the other alleged mutin-
| eers were very young, and there was much
| reason TO believe that their sO-called con-
| spiraey was merely a sChoOibOys' froliC.
| At ali events there was very little justit-
cation for the extreme haste manifested by
| Capt Mackenzie or for the intlictiOn OF the
death penalty on such young culprits,
even il they were guilty, and his act crea-
ted loug-las sensation. Gen. Macken-
zie's regiment. the 4th cavalry, is the sue
ceSsor of the old lSt cavalry, OF which Lee
was colonel, J. f.. Johnston Lieutenant
Colonel, George II. Thomas Major, and
| Hood AdJutlnt.
Secretary Lincoln.
There is rtory not IN general circuls-
| tiOn here, andall the more interesting for
that reason, nat goes TO show that Secre-
tary Lincoln is or has been seeking to
reach the Senae by the canal route. The
army enginees were very warm in their
recommendation of the Hennepin canal,
project during the last session. That
attracted SOmelttention and remark, be-
cause it is not Sual for the engineers to
view these publG works from other than q
strictly professional standpoint, A friend
of one OF the hieeSt officers in the engi-
neer corps askeuhim what was the cause
of this unusual lLerest of the corps in the
canal, and he rephd that Secretary Lin
coin was the cause it. The other half of
the story is that tn gentlemen in Illinois
who were most actiN in promoting the in
tereStS of the canal ere engaged in work
ing up the SenatOriaprOSpects of the Sec
retary of War. Of c(rse there is abund-
ant room for speculaOn rs to which is the
cause and which is Il effect, and the Sec
retary'S interest in thcauSe and the inter
est of the friends of Il canal i'm the Secre-
! tary'S, may have becra coincidence. The
value of the canal t0he northwest is a
sufficient reason whyny man from Illi-
nois should favor itnd the professed
champions of the cant in Congress were
Iowa men.
CAPITAL ClIINGS.