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The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-12-03

A French paper publishes the fol-
lowing text of Germany's proposals
regarding the Congo: 1.-THE dele
gates Of fifteen States, including
America, have agreed to the follow
ing declaration: In the regions FORM
ing tho basin of the Congo and its
tributaries, the limits of which the
conference will fix, there shall be
perfectly free trade for all nations.
Commodities shall be imported and
exported free of duty. except such as
shall be necessary in the interest of
general trade. The powers exercis-
ing sovereign rights In the Congo re-
gi0ns are forbidden to exercise mo-
nopolles or favors of any kind in re-
gard to trade. Foreigners are to en-
joy without distinction the same
treatment and the same rights a.
citizens of a sovereign state. All the
powers exercising sovereign rights
shall bind themselves to cooperate
in the endeavor to suppress slavery
and to promote the work of missions
and all institutions which tend to the
of the natives.
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FOREIGN.

BERNE, Dec An. HosseIl Woe T;ea.
ed President aud NJ. Buzzola, ~.
President of the national counc""
day are both radicals.
PARIS, Dec. O. Partisan Pap rry
say Miss Mickey is going 10 Il
Don Fernando Colonna, Piluo'
Galatro. N.
LONDON, Dec. "A dispatch ~;
day from Shanghai to the 1'"se' .stire
Chinese tactics appear to De 10 t thero
and allow the French to follow orin,
into the deadly passes OF Io bqed
line. The native press Is cnturlpg
Chinese will succeed Ill
TOnquin. corn.
mittee to which was reiel' y Congo
posed navigation laws for the in tho
river placed them for rev ronresent'
hands Of a subcommittee, Ipn'sny,
mo- England, France, deln Lsn.
i pa!tuasI and Belgium. Baron d deIe-
for.ugat a nne Of the Belgium 9TH the
Gates, will present inc rep Thur
committee to the coh'e
day. o-1,aree sales wess
r ada tn,da D'e Of Panams canal aIrtbar's
n ,resnit Of President 1anersss
statement to the America treaty, -
reIative to the Nlcs!s$ss
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What silly falsehoods are being
told about Mr.. Hendricks. The
last one is to the effect that he
recently entertained some of his
callers with q good deal of sarcasm
concerning the head of the ticket.
The man who believes the story is
as credulous as Mr.. Hendricks would
be foolish If he uttered all that is as
eribed to him. Some few of our Re-
publican contemporaries seem to take
great delight in circulating these
~hbrications. But they are indulg-
ing in the shallowest kind Of nom
sense and In continuing 1t make .
bid for the fidiCule II not for the CON-
tompt Of the public. r.
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Paris Notes.

PARIS, Dec. 2.-The Chamber y,
Deputies, by 372 to 1875 carried a.
amendment placing senators on inc
same footing as deputies regaro,as
incom patibility between membelsntp
Of parliament and holding otherpuv
lie Offices. Another amendment W., ~,
adopted by 26O to PAS providing s%
the election of senators by UNIVERSE
suffrage. tbo
R.naulte Moliere, secretary OF 'uo
chamber and reporter OF the com
mjtlee, trndeied his resignation a. .od
porter because the ministers oppo9 ,o.
both amendments. The deoa'e WV
adjourned till Thursday. 81 ba
A special cabinet council WIN ,or.
hello at the Palace of E!ysee lo'ln
row to consider what Course Is "an ov.
able In view of this defea! OF neg"
eminent.
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DEATH OF d. W. aRLw1CKs.

Many old-time C~alifornians knew
d. w. Gelwicks and will be panied
to learn of his death. A Sacramento
dispatch under date of the oath ult.,
says he was stricken with paralysis
that day 1T noon and died before
evening without having regained
consciousness. Mr.. Gelwicks wac q
native of H~agerstowD, Washington
county, Maryland, and was In his
sixty-third year at the time Of his
death. He arrived in California on
July "a, 1s49. from Illinois, and be-
came one of the pioneer printers and
newspaper men of the State. For q
number of years he published the
Mountdia Democrat, at Placerville,
Ell Dorado county, which he made
one of The best and mos t influential
country papers on the coast He was
State Printer from 1867 to 1871, his
administration being distinguished
for honest and economical manage
ment of the office. After retiring
from this position, Mr.. Gelwicks
took up his residence in Oakland,
and in 1876 was elected to the Legis-
lature from Alameda county. Sub
s%equent1y he engaged in journalism
In Oakland and was appointed q
member of the State Prison Commits
sion by Governor Stoneman.
Throughout his career in this State
he was q consistent Democrat. His
integrity was unquestioned and his
social qualities endeared him to q
large circle of friends. Nj. 0elWicks
was one of the oldest printers and
editors in the Golden State and in his
death the craft has lost an honored
member, an exemplary citizen. and
q genial, whole-souled companion.
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The still-continued and cruel abuse
Of Dr. Burchard BY the Republican
press throughout the country now
culninates in the malignant asser-
ton that he is an own cousin to r.
Il. Hayes, of Ohio, and against this
calumny even Burchard himself
should protest. The Islander starts
from . supposed similarity In names,
but the divine who headed the
column of clergymen received with
such satisfaction by Blaine is Bur
chard, whereas the Ohio hen-raiser's
middle name is Birchard. It Is the
difference between "a" and 81" and
Hayes can say to Burchard, "You
slaughtered Blaine. I didn't'-as
Macbeth puts it to bloody Banquo,
"Thou canst not say I did it."
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Buffalo Bail, or Bull, or whatever
his name may be. the organiser Of
the campaign of personal defamation
against Grover Cleveland, who was
publicly branded a. . libeller by the
Republicans of that city Of all shades
of political opinion, Is out with the
old apology of good intentions" for
his conduct. We all know the COM
mon name of the place which Is said
to be "paved with good intentions."
But Buffalo Balls apology Is not ac-
oepted by the New York Nvens~g
Post, which says 1t will not do"
It says that nobody knows any
thing about his intentions but him
selk. while all can judge his acts.
We must remind HIM eta libel suit
brought two or three months ago
against the Evening Post. He must
moi let 1t drop. We want . chance
T. him In court. II We get 1t We
shall abste him without costs to tho
city vherO he livss." 81
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Says tho New York World: We
learn from . Washington dispatch
that . scheme is on foot to have
Walker Blame appointed a Judge of
the Court of Alabama Claims. Young
Mr.. Blaine is quite . snob, and he
belongs to. what is known a the
''ruling class" He has grown up
with the idea that tho chief end of
the Republic is to furnish offices to q
few distinguished men and their
male offspring. Let young MI.
Blaine be taken care Of. Unlike his
pa, he cannot console himself with
the profits Of literature. The Ala
bama Claims Court is An important
institution. Anchors may be cast to
windward there and channels of use
fitness opened up BY persons who
have been schooled IN the theory that
there should be no deadheads in big
enterprises. .
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It is apparent now that Jones, the
Plttsburg money-king, who acted as
. figure-head for the Republican ma
tiona committee. sent out his incen-
diary and alarming manifesto, claim
ing New York and West Virginia
and charging Cleveiand's friends
with intended fraud, upon anau-
thenticaied DISPATCHES gathered by
Jay Gould's servants. The poor old
noodle simply wanted to play the
role Of Zach Chandler, and he came
near upsetting the country. Jones
will not live in history IS long as
Mrs. O'Leary's recalcitrant COW, but
he has known what it was to be
stirred with heroic emotions.
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TaB L Y LUNAftOs.

- .M - s&g
In his message President Arthur
again reccmmends the suspension
Of the coinage of standard silver dol
Lars. This Wa expected. The Re
publican party has frequently COM
mitted itself to the gold or single
standard policy. It has neither love
nor respect for silver. It 10 in the
wsy Of the bondholders of the coun-
try. They are afraid OF it. They
seem TO think that sometime In the
future all the Government bonds Will
he called in and paid of In standard
dollars. They view the metal with
about the same degree OF alarm that
= drunkard with the Jim AIMS looks
upon imaginary snakes. MI. Arthur
appears tO share In the fear. he,
t.1o, Is afraid that unless the coinage
of silver be stopped 1t will bec0m
oar sole metallic currency-that 1t
will drive out all the gold In the
country.
face of the fact that instead OF less
We have more gold In the country TO-
day than was IN it when the Bland
coinage act went into operation: This
proves that there are some
things even a President of this great
country is ignorant about. Mr.. Ar
thur is also insincere in his state:
concerning the amount Of
dollars in the United States
He would leave the Inn
preston that only p per cent. Of the
whole number coined were in circu-
while the real truth Is less
than y per cent. remain idle. He
takes no account Of the 10000, 600
represented by silver certificates
which circulate side by side with
United States notes. MI. Arthur Is
not sincere in his statement OF lha
matter. But we apprehend that the
present Democratic House wilt hold
the silver lunatlcs level and that in
the course Of . year or SO a Demo-
cratic administration will sattsfac-
adjust the silver problem. In
the meantime silver fanatics will
themselves heard even should
they not be felt.
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FOREIGN.

BERLIN, Dec. l.--Sir Edward Ma
let, British ambassador, will MAIN
tain his opposition to appointments
to the commission OF the Niger ques-
ton unless English members COM
pose the majority.
Herr Bebel's attack on the Reich
stag Friday on the military admins
tration of the government is caus-
ing a great stir in diplomatic circles.
Bebel demands q revolution of the
form of military service and suppress
sion for a year of the volontariat He
traced the u OF the budget deficit
togrowlng expenses for ornaments,
together with the fact that the coun-
try was deprived of production by
men being forced to serve in the
army. He asserted fourteen times
more success lay in the army than
among the civil population. Social
ist papers publish official statistics
and show this to be true.
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D1saUsrhD REPUBLICANS.

The disgust and chagrin Of Illinois
Republicans can be better imagined
than described when they look over
the late battle field and count the
slain. In 1880 Garfield's plurality in
that State was Al. ne while this year
with her favorite son ON the ticket,
it fell below less tian half that figure.
Still that misfortune could be borne
by the Sucker stalwarts. The re-
duced plurality didn't hurt Blaine
any more than IN increased plurality
would have helped hun. lie was u
dead duck any wav. Not SO, how
ever, with the legislative ticket.
Here the Republicans expected
better treatment.
The senate of the United States is
very close and q change of one vote
may msterlally change results. In
all the calculations made concerning
the political complexion Ct the senate
in the forty-ninth congress, Illinois,
by common consent, vas set down rs
republican. And right here ia where
the chagrin and disgust Of republic
cans come in. Illinois has . demo-
cratic legislature by . 9 lght majority.
But there are eff0lts made to upset 1t
Whenever the democrats have .
small majority in any body the first
thing that suggests itself to the aver
age republican is to count them out.
Having prOtracted the party's exis-
tence ei ght years by this means it Is
not strange thai this method should
be resorted to whenever it promises
success and the. exigencles OF tho
case demand it.
However, this year Of our Lord
1884 10 not y good year for the count
ing out process, and the indications
now are that ii the Democrats of H.
linois have . majority of one op
Joint ballot they will maintain 1t and
elect MI. John A. LOgan's successor
from the Democratic fold. This IL
devoutly to be hoped for in the in
terest not alone of the party, but of
the State, which is constantly be-
itself by sending such
men to the United States
Senate as Logan and Cullum when
possesses such magnificent sem
timber as Lyman TrumhulJ,
Carter Harrison and John M. Palmer
TO select from.
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The correspondence that passed
between Roscoe Conkling and the
National Democratic Committee.
when the latter was negotiating for
his services Immediately after cleo
tion, has been made public. 1t shows
that Conkling vas of. the same
opinion as the committee concerning
a probable attempt at counting out
by the Republicans. He declared
that he considered II his duty to give
the aid Of his advice as q lawyer,
should any such attempt be made.
Aside from this the correspondence
was merely that Of counsel and
client.
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The Panama Canal.

PARIS. Dec. 2.-The official bulle-
tin of the Panama Canal Company.
gives q resume of the statements of
Commander Gorringe, formerly of
the Uni I'd States navy, which were
published some time ago in America,
giving the result Of his inspection of
the work on the canal up to July of
this year. At that time only one
seventeenth of the part of the actual
cutting of the canal had been fin
ished, while the expense so. far in
CURED amounted to one-sixth of the
estimated total outlay. Commander
Gorringe concluded that the canal
will eventually cost $l2O, noe, 600, and
be completed at the latest by January
l. 1890. The American contractor.
Nathaniel Mckay, reports twenty
thousand natives of the Carribee
Islands employed in piercing the
!sthmus. They are mostly occupied
In cutting immense trenches through
the bills which will be carried down
to a level with the ocean. When the
work is finished and the river turned
from its source most of the arduous
part of the undertaking Will be over.
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Granted.

New York, Dec. I'm the sunar-
lor court an attachment was vranted
against the property in this state ~
Inomas Carmlchaei, of Glasvow
scotland, IN an action bron~hf h.
aenry b. Wells to recover $a0o n091
.pr services rendered In procnr;n~
s4o purchase for Carmichael 81 The
Mlnnie Moore silver mine. Iocat4d in
au auo. The same court also eran,ed
w attachment In an action h-o'ont
y sue same plaintiff against Henry
n. Sawyer and Edward Evera,t -
$4l 500 tor services rendered
from ~ procuring the loan of money!
..Jm carmichael to purchase ms.
n u.uety and aid. them form a COM
EoI1-s ~ work . mine in Central Citv.
G G"iolado, owned by the RichardsSn
~olo ana Silver Mining comnanv
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New York, Dec. 1.-The man
ayers of tne,Actors' fund bene1t met
this afternoon at the Grand Opera
House and passed resolutions thank
ing Governor Cleveland for his &C.
eptance of an invitation to be pres
emit at the benefit Thursday, and 1or
his kind words regarding the pro-
fession. The Governor and party
will occupy three boxes on the occa-
sion. The same COMMITTEES that
waited on the Cover nor started to.
night for Washington to request
President Arthur's presence at the
performance. .
Il mad dog made people scatter. at
the corner of Houston and Mulberry
streets this afternoon. In the midst
of the excitement Il well-dressed gem
tleman made q run for the rabid AMI
NAL, picked him up by the nape OF
neck and cut his throat with . pen
knife, saying quietly ut the same
time: THAT'S the way We do 1t IN
Massachusetts"
JOS. ". McVicker, pool seller, who
shot and killed Frank Gordon last
midnight on Blocker STREET, was
held for further examination at the
TOombs to-day.
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And now it is admitted by ''our
friends the late enemy" that Mr.
Cleveland's administration of ma
tltnai affairs will be quite conserv-
alive" Indeed. Then if there be
no return Of negroes to slavery"
no payment of the rebel debit" NO
pensions to rebel soldiers" no
''opening Of the ports of the country
to free trade;;" no "destruction of the
national banks" and the country
will not go to the '"demnition bow
wows' in the next four years why
should not every conservative Re-
publican enroll himself under the
banner of the proud old Democracy?
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A FAST HCORD

In 1881 Grover Cleveland was q
private citizen of Buffalo. On jan
uary l, 1882, he became Mayor OF
Buffalo. He had not completed his
term of Office before the State of New
York called him to preside as its
chief magistrate. On March 4, 1885,
he will be inaugurated President of
the United States, although bis nat
ural term of Office as Governor of the
State of New York does not expire
until 1885. Such is the record Of .
man whose public life has warranted
his promotion faster than he could
serve. He would be put up higher
than the Presidency before his term
IN that Office is out, If there was any
place In the gift of the American peo-
pie superior to the Chief Magistracy.
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rHB o1v1L snn Won Law.


Senator Pendlston, OF Ohio. = the
father Of the present civil service
law. He h . Democrat and the law
H. Democratic measure. It has not
been carried out under Nj. Arthur's
administration nor never would be
under the administration Of . Re
publican President. II Blaine had
beer elected he would have filled
every federal Office Wit. Blaine men,
and would have been reelected four
years hence. No one who knows
anything about Mr.. Biaine's
political methods will dispute
this assertion. But now that .
Democrat is elected w hears great
deal about the beauties Of the civil
service law. Our Republican breth-
rem have developed an amazing love
for 1t They are unwearied In its
praise. Well, this il all right. It 10
q good law and Democrats have been
aware of the fact . long time. But
they have looked in vain for . Dem
ocrat whom it has benefited. There
are over . hundred thousand federal
oface.hOlders in the United states
but Democratic federal 0mce-holdere
are a. scarce % hens teeth. There
may be q few ten or twelve dollars q
year postofices held by them, but can
q Democrat be found In q lucrative
federal Office? We have not heard
of one.
Now what should be expected of
Mr., Cleveland under this condition
of affairs? There Is no doubt he is
we'll disposed to ward civil service re.
form, and in It's broad philosophical
aspect 10 friendly toward the law.
About fourteen thousand positions
are held under the civil service law
principally clerkships in custom
houses and in the Government De-
partnlents ut Washington. There
are over eighty thousand that do not
come under itS provisions. OF course
it would be absurd IN the extreme to
Mr.. Cleveland will re-
tain in office all this vast army Of
ofice-h0ldeIs. He should
not, nor could 1t be expected he
retain them In positions |
may be turned against him
and his policy. In dieplaoing them
he would violate NO rule Of the civil
service nor do an injustice to them.
man of these eighty thousand
wOTked and voted against the Demo
cratic party, and should make room
Eor those who are willing to support
he policy of MI. Cleveland In the I
administration of national matters.
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c.rta Harrison says one OF inc
.nscts Of CIeveland's election WIZ
Il the checking q the stendsncy
under Republican rule 70 snIo"
power into the federal courts. ine
marshal will no longer ~
intimidste honest voters nor encou,
age fraudulent votes. onl.sa
States marshal and . United o'"tee
district attorney will not, after next
March, use their Office for partisan
purposes as they have done IN inc
nast and are now doing in the city OF
Chicago; and inside Of twelve
months there will be thousands OF
Republicans who viii not be ashamed
OF being called ''mugwumps," ana
some will wish they had voted Ior
him ga
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A Salt Lake Tribune special from
New York says that Mr.. Maeinnis
goes early to Washington for the
purpose Of presenting to the Score
tary of Interior the earnest protest OF
the people Of Montana against the
proposed lease of the Grow reserva-
ton In that Territory to syndicate
of Colorado cattle7growers who, on
account of the senatorial contest In
Colombo, and their prominence In
that State, it is feared have extraor-
binary influence with the Secretary
of Interior.
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NIGHT DISPATCHES.
The Interstate Commerc
Bill in the House.
Proposed Impeachment OF q
q. s. Marshal
Attempted Shooting Of q Sup
posed Murderer:
Meeting Of the Electoral Col
lege Of New York.
Probable Cost Of the Panama
Canal Discussed.
The Chamber Of Deputies
Gain q Victory.

NEW York, Dec. 2-The suit of
David Stewart W. C.P Huntington
begun to-day in the Supreme Court
before Judge Van Worst and . jury.
Joseph II. Choate 10 one Of Ste warts
counsel and Roscoe Conkling one OF
the LAWYERS for Huntington. ChoAte
in opening the case SAID: In 1854
Huntington soldto Stewart &0shares
of the Central Pacific railway stock.
Stewart had this stock until April,
1870, when Huntington told him
there was trouble In the company;
there had been an over issue of
stock, but that out of friendship be
(Huntington) would take Stewards
stock at par and interest. The same
offer was made Aspinwall, but the
latter was going to Califbrnla and he
(Stewart) wanted to have Hunting
ton hold tho offer open. until Aspin-
wall should return better informed,
but Huntington was In q hurry and
he at length got the stock prior to
Asplnwall's departure. The terms
were that Huntington should pay par
and interest, and if he subsequently
bought and paid more for any stock
he should then pay to Stewart and
Aspin wall the difference between the
par value paid them and the ad-
vanced price subsequently paid;
then, if on the return Of Aspinw wall,
Stewart and he should wish to re-
po- sess their stock Huntington PROM
ised to return it. AspinwalI went
West and learned thai the stock Was
bringing rom from $500 to $5N per
share ana telegraphed hack 10 re-
cover the stock FROM Huntington.
but the latter refused to give up tue
stock. ChOste said Huntington,
mark Hopkins, Charles Croker and
Leland Stamford had organized u
duplicate of The Credit MoOiiier and
it Was absorbing most OF the Central
Pacific, but that the weste IN stock
holders had in April, 1870. discovered
the big game OF the q~uartette aud
had begun moving against them aud
that was the occasion of trouble with
Huntington, and not any over issue
of stock; ana that was the reason he
was willing to promise stewart al
most anything to get his stock and
forget every promise over made to
keep 1t, when Stewart found he Was
duped and sought to repossess it. The
is still on trial.
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Labor Notes.

PITTsBURG, Dec. 1.-The Edgar
Thompson steel works, employing
5000 men, will close down the
latter part of next week and remain
idle until after the holidays unless
mere Is an unexpected rush of orders.
A ten per cent reduction at the
american iron works and Lewis
foundry was accepted by the en-
ploves a"d work continues as usual
The proposed reduction at Nc.
KEGS flint glass factory has been
Withdrawn and the men resumed
work at the old wages.
The meters at Hussey, Howe E.
Co.'s steel works, whose wages were
recently reduced IS cents per ton.
meet tomorrow to consider the re.
duction.