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Ktimes IWEEK VOL. 45. TALMAGE ON CHR|STMAS TIDE. ; THE CHANT FROM THE SKY ON THE < NIGHT JEM S WAS BORN. Enconrnircment for All the Poorly ] Started Born in the Manger nt Bethlehem*—Moat of the World'* De- ; liverers Born in Biu-n-Like Birth- 1 Pia.cea—Sympathetic Union With 1 Other World. Born in the Biblical 1 Manger. Washington, Dec. 22.—1 n his sermon to- ' day, Dr. Talmage chose the universal , theme of the season—the Christmas-tide. The text selected was, “Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem.” Matt. 2:1. At midnight* from one of the galleries of the sky a chant broke. To an ordin ary observer there was no reason for ' such a celestial demonstration. A poor man and wife—travelers, Joseph and Mary by name—had lodged In an outhouse , of an unimportant village. The supreme hour of solemnity had passed, and upon the pallid forehead and cheek of Mary God had set the dignity, the grandeur, the tenderness, the everlasting and divine sig nificance of motherhood. But such scenes had often occurred in Bethlehem, yet never before had a star been unfixed, or had a baton of light mar shalled over the hills winged orchestra. If there had been such brilliant and mighty recognition at an advent in the House of Pharaoh, or at an advent in the House of Caesar, or the House of Haps burg, or the House of Stuart, we would not so much have wondered; but a barn seems too poor a center for such delicate and archangellc circumference. The stage seems too small for so great an act, the music too grand for such unappreciative auditors, the window of the stable too rude to be serenaded by other worlds. It is my joy to tell you what was born that night in the village* barn; and as I want to make my discourse accumulative and climacteric, I begin, in the first place, by telling you that that night in the Bethlehem manger was born encourage ment for ail the poorly started. He had only two friends—*thoy his parents. No satin-lined cradle, no delicate attentions, but straw, and the cattle, and the coarse joke and banter of the camel drivers. No wondw the mediaeval painters represent the oxen as kneeling before the infant Jesus, for there were no men there at that time to worship. From the depths of that poverty he rose until to-day he is honored in all Christendom, and sits on the imperial throno in heaven. What name is mightiest to-day In Chris tendom? Jesus. Who has more friends on earth than any other being? Jesus. . Before whom do the most thousands kneel in chapel and church and oathedral this hour? Jesus. From what depths of pov erty to what hlght. of renown! And so let all those who are poorly started rentem ber th nr f’ey cannot be more ponrlv more ihiwClmlt. Let them look up to his ex ample while they have time and eternity to ’ , ~ , Do you know that the vast majority of the world’s deliverers had barnlike birth places? Luther, the emancipator of re ligion, born among the mines. Shakes peare, the emancipator of literature, born in an 'humble home at Stratford-on-Avon. Columbus, the discoverer of a world, born in poverty at Genoa. Hogarth, the dis coverer of how to make art accumulative and administrative of virtue, born in an humble home in ’Westmoreland. Kitto and Pfldeaux, whose keys unlocked new apartments in the holy scriptures which had never been entered, born in want. Yes, I have to toil you that nine out of tdn of the world’s deliverers, were born in want. I stir your holy ambitions to-day, nnd I want to tell you, although the whole world may be opposed to you, and .Inside and outside of your occupations or pro fessions there may by those who would hinder your ascent, on your side and en listed In your behalf nrw the sympathetic heart ana the almighty arm of One who one Christmas night about eighteen hun dred and ntaioty-five years ago wa® wrapped in swaddlng clothes and laid in a manger. Oh, what magnificent en couragement for the poorly started! Again, I have to tell you that in that village barn that night was born good ■will to men, whether you call it kindness, or forbearance or forgiven®®®, or genial ity, or affection, or love. It was no a pert of high heaven to send its favorite to that humiliation. It was sacrifice for a re bellious world. After the calamity in par adise, not only did the ox begin to gore, and the adder to sting, and the elephant to smite with his tusk, and the lion to put to bud use tooth and paw, but under the i very tree from which the forbidden fruit was plucked were hatched out war and revenge and malice and envy and jeal ousy end the whole brood of cockatrices. But against that scene I set the Bethle hem manger, which says, “Bless rather than curse, endure rather than assault,” and that Christmas night puts out vindic tiveness. It says, "Sheathe your sword, dismount your guns, dismantle your bat teries, turn the warship Constellation, that carries shot and shell Into a grain ship to take food to famishing Ireland, hook your cavalry horses to the plow, use your deadly gunpoxyer in blasting rocks and in patriot!*’ celebration, stop your ' lawsuits, quit writing anonymous letters extract the sting from your sarcasm, let your wit coruscate but never burn, drop all the harsh words out of your vocabu lary—'Good will to men? ” "Oh," you say, “I can't exercise It; I won't exercise it until they apologize; I ■won’t forgive them until they ask me to forgive them." You are no Christian then —1 say you are no Christian, or you are a very Inconsistent Christian. If you for give not men their trespasses, how can you expect your Heavenly Father to for ?jve you? Forgive them if they ask your orgiveness, and forgive them anyhow. Shake hands all around. "Good will to men.” Oh. my Lord Jesus, drop that spirit into all our hearts this Christmas time. I tell you what the world wants more than any thing else— more helping hands, more sympathetic hearts, more kind words that never die. more disposition to give other people a ride and to carry the heavy end or the load and give other people the light end, and to ascribe good motives in stead of bad, and to find our happiness tn making others happy, • Out of that Bothleh< m crib lot the bear and the lion eat straw like an ox. "Good will to men." That principle will yet set tle all controversies, and under it the world will keep on Improving until there will be only two antagonists in all the earth, and they will aide l»v side take the jubilant sleigh-ride Intonated by the prophet when he said. “Holiness shall be on the boils of the horses.” Again, I remark that born that Christ mas night in the village barn was sympa thetic union with other worlds. From that supernatural grouping of the cloud banks over Bethlehem, and from the especial trains that ran down to the scene I find that our world !< beautifully and gloriously and magnificently surroundoi. Ttie meteors are with ns, for one of them ran to point down to the birth-place. Tne heavena are with us. bet ause at the thought of our redemption they roll hos annas out of the midnight sky. Oh, yea, I do not know but our world may bo better surrounded than we have sometimes imagined; and when a child is born angels bring it. and wtv*n it dies an gels take it. am! when an old man bends under the weight of years angels uphold him and when n heart breaks angels soothe It. Angels in the hospital to take care of the Mok. Angela In the cemetery to watch our dead. Angels in the church ready i© tty heavenward with th*' news of repentant souls, Angels above the e °' tS " s lilt ch In News. .-. -- - . - . -. ' A ■« |I,I . r - ■■■ t _ ■ I „ t THE MOhNING NEWS, ) - Established 1850. - - Incorporated 1888. > I J. H. ESTILL, President. ) world. Angels under the world. Angels all around the world. Rub the dust of human imperfection out of your eyes, and look into the heavens and see angels of pity, angels of mercy, angels of pardon, angels of help, angels crowned, angels charioted. The world de fender! by angels, girdled by angels, cor horted by angels—clouds of angels. Hear David cry out: "The chariots of God are twenty thousand. Even thousands of an gels.” But the mightiest angel stood not that night in the clouds over Bethlehem; the mightiest angel that night lay among the cattle—the Angel of the new cove nant. As the clean, white linen was being wrapped around the little form of that child emperor, not a cherub, not a seraph, not ah angel, not a world, but wept and thrilled and shouted. Oh, yes, our world has plenty of sympathizers! Our world is only a silver rung of a great ladder at the top of which is our Father’s house. No more stellar solitariness for our world, no other friendless planets spun out into space to freeze, but a world in the bosom of divine maternity. A star harnessed to a manger. Again, I remark that that night born in that village barn was the offender’s hope. Some sermonizers may say I ought to have projected this thought at the begin ning of the sermon. Oh, no! I wanted you to rise toward it. I wanted you to examine the cornelians and the jaspers and the crystals before I showed you the Kohlnoor—the crown jewel of the ages. Oh, that jewel had a very poor setting! The cub of bear is boro amid the grand old pillars of the forest, the whelp of lion takes its first step from the jungle of luxuriant leaf and wild flower, the kid of goat is born in cavern chandeliered with stalactite and pillared with stalag mite. Christ was born in a bare barn. Yet that nativity was the offender’s hope. Over the door of heaven are written these words: “None but the sinless may enter here.” “Oh, horror,” you say, “that shuts us ail out!” No. Christ came to the world in one door, and he departed through another door. He came through the door of the manger, and he departed through the door of the sepulchre, and his one business was so to wash away our sin that after we are dead there will be no more sin about us than about the eternal God. I know that is putting it strongly, but that is what I understand by full re mission. All erased, all washed away, all scoured out, all gone. That undergird ling and overarching and irradiating and imparadlsing possibility for you, and for me, and for the whole race, that was given that Christmas night. Do you wonder we bring flowers to-day to celebrate such an event? Do you won der that we take organ and youthful voie6 and queenly soloist to celebrate it? Do you wonder that Raphael and Rubens and Titian and Giotto and Ghirlandaio, and all the old Italian and German paint ers gave the mlghtieat stroke of their ge nius to sketch the Madonna, Mary and her boy? Oh!j now I see what the manger was. Not so high the gilded and jewelled and embroidered cradle of the Henrys of Eng land, or the Louis of France, or the Fred ericks of Prussia. Now I find out that that Bethlehem crib fed not so much the oxen of the stall as the white horses of Apocalyptic vision. Now I And the swad dling clothes enlarging and emblazoning into an imperial robe for a conqueror. Now I find that the star of that Christmas night was only the diamonded sandal of him who hath the moon under his feet. Now I come to understand that the music of that .night watt not a completed song, but only the stringing of the Instruments for a great chorus of two worlds, the has*.to be carried ny earthly naliona „av ed, and the soprano by kingdoms of glory won. Oh, heaven, heaven, heaven! I shall meet you there. After all our imperfec tions are gone, I shall meet you there. I look out to-day, through the mists of years, through the fog that rises from the cold Jordan, through the wide open door of soiid pearl to that reunion. I expect to see you there as certainly as I see you here. What a time we shall have in high converse, talking over sins pardoned, and sorrows comforted and battles triumph ant! Some at your children have already gone, and though people passing along the street and seeing white crepe on the door bell may have said: “It is only a child,” yet when the broken-hearted father came to solicit my service, he said: “Come around and comfort us, for we loved her so much?’ What a Christmas morning it ■will make when those with whom you used to keep the holidays are all around you in heaven! Silver-haired old father young again, and mother, who had so many aches and pains and decrepitudes, well again, and all your brothers and sisters and the little ones, haw glad they will be to see you! They have been waiting. The last time they saw your face it was covered with tears and distress, and nallld from long watch ing. and one of them I can imagine to day, W’ith one hand holding fast the shin ing gate, and the other hand swung out toward you, saying: Steer this way, father, steer straight for me; Here safe in heaven I am waiting for thee. Oh, those Bethlehem angels, when they went back after the concert that night over the hills, forgot to shut the door! All the secret Is out. No more use of try ing to hidje from us the glories to come. It is too late to shut the gate. It is blocked wide open with hosannas march ing this way and hallelujahs marching that way. In the splendor of the an ticipation I feel as if I wds dying—not physically, for I never was more well— but in the transport of the Christmas transfiguration. What almost unmans me, is the thought that it is provided for such sinners as you and I have been. If it had been pro vided only for those who had always thought right, and spoken right, and acted right, you and I would have hail no In terest in it. had no share in !t; you and I would have stuck to the raft mid-ocean, and let the ship sail by carrying perfect passengers from a perfect life on earth to a perfect life in heaven. But I have heard the commander of that ship is the i same great and glorious and sympathetic i one who hushed the tempest around the i boat on Galilee, and I have heard that all the passengers on the ship are sinners saved by grace. And so we hall the ship, and it bears down this way. and we come by the side of it and ask the captain two I questions: "Who art thou? and whence?” and he says: “I ain captain of salva tion, and I am from the manger." Oh, i bright Christmas morning of my soul’s delight! Chime all the bells. Merry I Christmas! Merry with the thought of sins for given,* merry with the idea of sorrows i comforted, merry with the raptures to , ooms. Oh. lift that Christ from the man ger and lay him down in all our hearts! We may not bring to him as costly a present us the Magi brought, hurt we bring ; to his feet and to the manger to-day the ; frankincense of our joy, the prostration of our worship. Down at his feet all churches, all ages, ! all earth, all heaven. Down at his feet the four-and-twenty elders on their faces. Down the "great multitude that no man can number?’ Down Michael, the archan ’ gel! Down all worlds at his feet and wor | ship. “Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good-wiil to men!" BLA7.K IT BALTIMORE. An Explosion of lltnmiiiat Ina Gns Kiartn the Fire. Baltimore, Dec. 23.—An explosion of il , ' lumlnatlng gas early this morning in the ■ cellar of No. 32 West Baltimore street I caused a loss by fire of 350,000. Heidei ; berger A Co., clothiers, the occupants i of the building, lost 320.000 on. stock. The stock of Met'addvn A McKiwee, picture frame manufacturers, at No. A». and Cush- I ■ ing A Co., book-sellers, at No. ,M, were i ■ each damage*! > at No. 32. owned by the Johns Hopkin's ‘estate, wus damage*! about slxooo. Five > i the other buildings The losses are al! f I covered by insurimw. DREAD A FIFTY-CENT DOLLAR. SILVERITES TO BLAME FOR THE FINANCIAL SCARE. European Holders of American Se curities Unloading Principally Be cause They Fear the Country is to Be Drained of Its Gold—Prepara tions for the Christmas Festival Occupy Most of the Germans—The Winter to Be a Gay One in Berlin Social Circles. Berlin, Dec. 22.—Public interest in Ber lin in the quarrel between the United States and Great Britain has never been highly strained, and bids fair to become rapidly less, especially as regards the political aspect of the ques tion. On the other hand, how ever, financial anxiety is on the in crease. The operations on the bourse here, in Frankfort and in Vienna on Saturday showed a greater tendency to take the situation seriously. It is true that noth ing like a war panic prevailed, but the operators obviously got the impression that the financial position must become much worse than it is, whatever may happen, in relieving the political diffi culty. The selling of American stocks on the various German bourses proceeded ac tively and a considerable number of bear orders are reported to have been sent to London. The selling movement meanwhile is not that investors are unloading, but it is largely confined to speculative dealings, which seem calcu lated to eventually draw in genuine hold ers. The concurrence of the financial press in the gloomy view of the monetary prospects of the United States is giving a great didal of assistance to speculators for a fall. Responsible newspapers, like the National Zedtung, predict a flow of gold from the United States. In regard to a tariff war between Ger many and the United States, nobody af fects to believe that anything of the kind will occur excepting interested agrarians, who have been hoping that such a war would result in the formation of a strong agrarian and protectionist ministry in Germany. The preparations which everybody is making for Christmas, places to the na tions at large, political and financial events in the background. The members of the imperial family have returned from their tour through Burgher Fashion. The emperor is enjoying himself in the bosom of his family, and the life of the royalties at the new palace at Postdam mirrors upon a great scale most of the households in Germany. On Christmas eve the big gest event for the young princes will be “Die Bescherung,” the giving of Christ mas boxes. The distribution of gifts will be made from a Christmas tree, of which each prince will have one, their size vary ing according to the ages of the ownera. There will be a tree, too, for the little princess, Visctotia Izmise, awd there will also he trees fo* everybody in the hopse hold, down to the kitchen servants. Apart from domestic fetes, Berlin will be quiet socially until the season commences, short ly before the annual Ordensfest, which will take place on Jan. 18, the twenty fifth anniversary of the proclamation of the German empire. Chancellor Prince von Hohenlohe left Berlin on Friday on his way to Bohemia, to pass the Christmas holidays with his eldest son. Prince Philip. Among the hig’h society leaders of Ber lin Prince and Princess Radzewill are the only ones now here. The princess is “at home” every day from 5 p. m. until in the evening to intimate friends. Just prior to the “Ordenfest” all of the grand seig neurs will leave their country seats for Berlin. The upper house of the Prussian Diet will then begin its session and the series of court balls will commence. Each aristocratic set gives its own special func tions, society clique is more pronounced than ever, not having been modified in the slightest degree under the regime of Emperor William 11. Besides the regular court circle there is the set of officers of the First Guards, composed of members of the old mediaeval princely families. This set is so exclusive that it will not mix even with the officers of the Garde Du Corps. Then there is the Hohenlohe circle, to which belong the Furstenbergs, Schoenbergs, Hatzfeldts and other famil ies of that rank whose name® are found in. the Alamach D Gotha, and who look down upon everybody outside of their set. Those of the public official circle stand apart from the court aristocrats, the various cliques meeting only at great assemblies, where the general world goes. Then, again, the members of the haute finance form a society by themselves, and so on down. All of these circles Will be in full swing of gaiety three weeks hence, mak ing Berlin brighter and adding to the prosperity of the tradesmen, and no com plications in the east or the west menace a blight upon a good season. According to accepted reports the much talked of letters that were in the posses sion, of Baron von Hammerstein, the ab eoonding ex-editor of the Kreuz Zeitung, came into the possession of the socialist leaders in the Reichstag through the Bar on’s mistress, Flora Gaes. Fraulein Gaes was left in indigent circumstances and was obliged to leave her hotel because of inability to pay her bills, the chamber maids in the hotel holding her trunks as security for some small loans which she had contracted. The Freisinnge deputies In the Reichstag bought some of the letters from her, but the socialists are in possession of seventy of them signed by well known conserv ative deputies and officials. Most of these ' letters are addressed to Baron Hainmer- I stein, but some of them are addressed to Flora herself. It is revelations not of political scheming alone that these con servatives dread, but the letters show va rious examples of moral turpitude on their part that they would go great lengths to conceal. Baron von Stumm-Halberg, who is himself clear of all suspicion, proposes to as» ! st his embarrassed associates in the Reichstag by moving a resolution restraining the members from making any oral disclosures in debates and pro hibiting under severe penalties the pub lication of any of ttae contents of the ! letters. Baron von Stumm also seems very serious In his resolve to raise the i question of the exclusion of the socialists from the Reichstag on the ground that they have violated the constitution in receiving payment from party funds. While Prince Bismarck was chancellor a similar effort was made to repress the socialists, but it was a failure. The fizzle which Rector Ahlwardt has made in his anti-Semitlcs campaign in the United States has still further dis credited him among anti-Semites here. A meeting of the democratic anti-Semite union, which was held yesterday, resent ed the suggestion that in Rector Ahl wardt’s tour of America he was acting in any way in a representative capacity and it was explicitly declared that his trip was undertaken wholly without the knowledge of the union. The emperor has invited all of the members of the Reichstag who sat in the first session after the creation of that body tn 1871 to be present at the castle on Jan. 18, the twenty-fifth anniversary of the proclamation of the German ern | pire. It has been ascertained that of the I original body, only thirty-five are now alive and that out of thirty who formed the memorable deputation to Versailles • | upon the occasion of the proclamation of I*' William 1 as emperor or Germany the only ones living are the Duke of Ujest, the Prince of Pless. Herren von Drest, ; | Von Romberg and Von Salze and Count i Hoinpeach. The Bundesrath has three members who were in the first session of i the Reichstag and to these a special fete I will be given on Jan. 18. The ex-Empress Frederick will enter- SAVANNAH, MONDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1895. tain Prince and Princess Frederick Charles of Hesse on Christmas. Her present entourage in Berlin is limited to the household ladies of the Seckendorff , and Ruschachs families. Since her ar rival here the ex-empress has been very active in private charities and has inspected the children’s homes. She has also given several quiet evening receptions, among her guests being Sir Frank Lascelles, the British ambassador to Berlin; Prof. Wagner, rector of the University of Berlin, and a number of other notables irf literature and science. The results of the completed census of Germany shows the population of the empire to be 51,758,364, an increase of 2,329,- 894 over the census of 1890. All of the States of the empire show increases. The Vosslche Zeitung, in an article re ferring to the financial panic in New York, says: “The outcome is likely to prove to be President Cleveland’s Sedan. The economic position of* America is bad enough now, but what will happen, in the event of war?” The North German Gazette expresses fear that it will take at least a decade for America to recover the confidence of the politicians and financiers of Germany. The emperor is suffering from a cold, but his condition is not serious. A report is in circulation that Count Herbert Bismarck is about to obtain an office in the Prussian ministry, but the rumor is not generally believed in official circles. Dr. Barth, radical unionists member of the Reichstag, has made a statement that the emperor to a speech at Bres lau recently, spoke of the-cowardly burg herdom, from which nothing can be ex pected in combating the socialists. Like the story that the emperor is supporting England in her quarrel with the United States, this statement seems to be an in vention based upon his majesty’s sup posed prejudices. PCHOMBUHGK'S LIFE STORY. The Man Who Fixed the Bonndary Once a Clerk in This Country. Washington, Dec. 22.—An interesting fact in connection with the famous Schom burgk line, which has escaped observa tion, is that the man who provided the British government with that boundary came to this country from Germany when he was 22 years old, and after working for some time as a clerk in Boston and Philadelphia, became a partner in a Richmond, Va., tobacco manufactory in 1828. The factory was burned and Schom burgk drifted to the West Indies, where, after unsuccessful ventures, his botanical work attracted the attention of the Lon don Geographical Society, and secured means to explore the unknown region of the Orinoco, where he traveled from 1833 to 1839, when he discovered the Victoria Regia illy and numerous plants. This work led the British government to com mission him to suggest a boundary be tween Venezuela and Guiana and to mAke further explorations. The line was drawn and he was knighted byxhe queen for his services. Schomburgk, until his death In 1865, continued in the British consular ser vice, but devoted himself to geographi cal studies, being a member of the princi pal American and European learned so cieties. STAND DY TRff TRENIDFAT, N k * Prof. Von Holtz’s Views Not Those of the ‘University of UhlcaM*<j. Chicago, Dec. 22.—Prof. von. Holtz of the University of Chicago is being round ly scored by the faculty sor k his recent ex pressions against President Cleveland and his attitude on the Venezuelan question. The officers of the university fear Prof. Holtz's opinion will be interpreted as an expression of the sentiment of the uni versity, which, in fact, is directly opposed to that of the German student. President Harper, Prof. Judson and Sec retary Goodspeed have given out signed statements, the following being Presi dent Harper's: “The message and policy of President Cleveland on the Venezuelan question meet my earnest approval. Whether the Monroe doctrine Is or is not a part of the system of international law is immaterial. It is a part of the settled foreign policy of the United States. Whether t'he President’s interpretation of the doctrine in the present case can be found in the phraseology of the message of 1823 is mere pettifogging. His inter pretation is a logical deduction from the spirit and purpose of that message. The United States cannot permit the forcible extension of European territory on this continent. That must be resisted by all the means in our PRAYERS FOR PEACE. Rev. Dr. Parker of London Says the Two Nations Must Be Friends. London, Dec. 22.—Speaking at the City Temple to-day, the Rev. Joseph Parker, D.D., said: “Do not trouble yourselves with the thought of war. There will be no war. England and America cannot do without each other. War would be sui cide. We send to-day a message from our hearts to our fellow Christians in America. We must act in a spirit of mag nanimity and concession. We miss Henry Ward Beecher. He could and would have spoken the word of reconciliation, I call upon British and American Christians to unite in prayerful counsel in the interests of peace.” Mr. Parker prayed in a similar strain, the congregation giving a hearty amen to his supplication. i The Men’s Sunday Union, which is com posed of the workers in the East End of London, have adopted a resolution send ing a hearty Christmas greeting to their brother nation as an expression of their ! opinion that a war would be unnatural I and un-Christian, and should be forever impossible. | UNCLE SAM CHEERED AT COLON. ; Colombians and Venezuelans Rail? nt the Consulate. Colon, Dec. 22,—There was a grand de monstration last night at the American consulate here, in honor of the United States, for its attitude in support of the Monroe doctrine. Many prominent Colom bians and also Venezuelans, who either reside or are visiting here, were present. Much enthusiasm was manifested and the American government was, through the consul, heartily commended for the action it has taken. The streets in the vicinity of the consulate were filled with cheering crowds. POWDER FOR THE GOVERNMENT. The Works nt Santa Crus Filling nn Order for 123.000 Ponndn. Santa Cruz, Cal., Dec. 22.—The powder works here are rapiUy filling an order for 125.000 pounds of government powder ordered a month ago. Government con tracts are frequently filled at the works, but no order so large as the present one has been received at this time of the year The men are working night and day to fill it. Whether thie rush has anything to do with the war scare no one is pre pared to say. A Rc-mun Editor’s Deluaion. Rome, Dec. 22. —The Popolo Romano, commenting on the financial effect of Preaident Cleveland's message on the Ven ezuelan affair, says it is of the opinipp that the common-sense of the American people will punish the President’s impru dent affrontecy. CONGRESS TO PROVIDE CASH, r THE WAYS AND MEANS COMMITTEE TO PUSH ITS WORK. Brief Amendments to the Tariff Law to Be in Force Thirty Months to Bring in $30,000,000 to $35,000,000. A 3 Per Cent. Bond to Maintain the Gold Reserve to Be Authorized. The Tax on National Bank Circula tion to Be Reduced. Washington, Dec? 22.—For the first time since the short session of the Forty seventh congress, in the winter of 1882-83, qongress will enter holiday week to-mor row with the intention of sitting through the season usually devoted to recess. The occasion for this unusual zeal and devo tion to public interests was President Cleveland's message on Friday last, which asked the congress not to take its usual respite from labor at this season of the year, but to remain and provide the leg islation necessary to relieve the financial situation of the government. The House will enter upon this work promptly to morrow, through its committees announc ed on Saturday. The members of the ways and means committee will meet at 11 o’clock and proceed as rapidly as may be with the consideration and prepara tion of a bill or bills to meet the condi tion which confronts them. The measure of relief which it is ex pected that the commiittees will propose will include, each in one bill or several, as may be deemed most expedient, brief amendments to the tariff law, not involv ing general tariff revision, such amend ments to expire at the end of thirty months; authority to the Secretary of the Treasury to issue a 3 per cent, bond as a popular loan, to maintain the gold re serve, and for no other purposes, with a provision that the redeemed greenbacks shall not be used to meet current expenses, but be retained as long g,s necessary as part of the redemption fund; authority to issue to national banks circulating notes up to par of the bonds deposited as se curity therefor, and to reduce the tax on national bank circulation, and authority for the issue of certificates of indebted ness to meet any temporary deficiency in receipts until the revenue can be provided. It is estimated that these proposed tariff changes will add from $30,000,000 to $35,- 000,000 to the income of the government. Although there is some criticism of' this scheme from the republican side of the committee, it is not likely to manifest iteblf in any other form, and the proposi tion will receive the united support of the majority. One suggestion was that the Reed substitute .for the issue of gold bonds, made in the last congress when financial schemes were being considered, should be reported and passed. While it is not probable that the com -will be ready to report to the., House before Wednesday or Thursday at the earliest, there will be no adjournment for more than a day or tw 5 © at a time, until the proposed -.relief shall have oeen enacted. Should this be accomplished this week, the House will probably then indulge in a three days receSte over the New Year holiday. In the meantime, the committee on banking and currency will be at work, on a bill to remodel the financial system of the country, in the hope that it will be ready for report to the House when busi ness shall be regularly resumed in Jan uary. Although the Senate will be nominally in session this week it is believed that there will at no time be a quorum present. A financial debate may be precipitated Tuesday if Mr. Vest presses the resolu tion for which he asked immediate con sideration Saturday. This resolution di rects the Secretary of the Treasury to coin, the silver bullion in the treasury and apply the silver dollars so coined to the redemption of the treasury notes issued in payment of the bullion under the Sher man act. If the Senate should be in a humor to permit t'he resolution to come to a vote, it will surely pass, for the silver men are In the majority by at least a dozen, and, possibly, fourteen, votes. The resolution of Mr. Butler, pop., of North Carolina, directing the Secretary of the Treasury to meet the obligations of the government with silver, whenever that money is of less value than gold, is also on the table, and may be the subject of a speech at any time. It IS likely that the Senate will meet ontly at intervals, for, as all legislation relating to finance and the revenues must originate in the House, until some meas ure is sent over from the House, there will be little occasion for the Senate to remain in session. Now that the holiday recess has fallen through the republicans may urge the democrats to at once fill their committee lists, but there Is little probability of this being done until the new year is inaugurated. Taken altogether, the com ing week in the Senate promises to be unproductive, unless the unexpected hap pens. PORTO RICO TIRED OF SPAIN. Steps Taken at New York to Organize a Revolution. New York, Dec. 22.—The Porto Rican colony in this city held a meeting to-day to discuss the organization of a Porto Rican revolutionary party. Dr. J. K. Alio Henna presided. Among the Porto Ri- I cans present were Senors Terreforte, Forest, Besosa, Figuervo, Castro and Me li no. Speeches were made reciting the wrongs i to which Porto Rico is subjected sub jected under Spanish rule and a junta was organized with Dr. J. Julio Henna as president, Juan Terreforte as vice president, S. Forest as secretary, Gumer sindo Rivas. Sotoro Figuervo and Manuel Bosezo as the board of finances. A committee was then appointed to can vass the city for subscriptions. Those present contributed SSOO for the cause. COXEA EXPECTS NO CONFLICT. The War Scare Only a Scheme to In crease the Army and Navy. Nashville, Tenn.. Dec. 22.—Gen. J. S. ■ i Coxey, whose whereabouts has caused some newspaper talk during the past few days, turned up unexpectedly In Nash ville to-day. He came from the sooth. In talking of the controversy with Eng land he said there would be no war and expressed the view that the whole matter ■ was simply a scheme on the part of Pres ident Cleveland to increase the army and navy and so maintain the control of the money power by force. RUSSO-AMERICANS READY. Their National Society Ready to Fight England. Shamokin, Pa., Dec. 22.—John Glovra. president of the Russian National Socie- ■ ty of the United State®, stated that at a > meeting at the officers of that association i last evening it was resolved to lend ail ’ ; aid possible to President Cleveland in ■■ case the United States became involved i in war with England. There are .said to i ! be over 200,000 members of the society In ■ . this country, many of whom are trained J soldiers. ( WEEKLY 2-TIMES-A-WEEK $1 A YEAR 1 < 5 CENTS A COPY. I I DAILY, $lO A YEAR. J RISE OF THE MISSISSIPPI. The Water Up 22 Feet at St. Louis Since Thursday Night. St. Louis, Dec. 22.—Since Thursday night the Mississppi river at this point has risen twenty-two feet, which is un precedented in the same length of time. The boatmen and dwellers on the river bank were taken unawares, and the loss is already very great. A number of shanty boats were swept away. In one of these, “Sandy Hook,” a dance was in progress last night, and the revellers were not aware of their peril until the boat struck in a tree. The American bottoms are half under and the loss of stock in consider able. At 6 o’clock to-night the gauge read twenty-four and one-half feet, whereas Thursday morning it was only two and a half feet. Meager reports, due to breaks in com munication, show that the flood covers the Mississippi valley from the lowa line to Cairo, His. At Warsaw, Mo., the Osage river flood ed the town, and the last dispatch was sent oat by an operator perched on a desk four feet high, while a boat was moored to the door. At Fairfield, on the Osage, the water is waist hig’h in the stores, the tracks are gone and no mail has arrived* since Tues day. At Taborville, the Osage was fourteen miles w’ide, and a mill and all the bridges were carried away. In Union county, Joseph Eckert, a sur veyor, went down with a bridge across the Bourbois and was drowned. The St. Louis mail reaches Carthage by coming 220 miles around through Kansas. All the small streams have but com menced to pour their floods into the Mis sissippi, and a repetition of the disastrous floods of former years is predicted. BUNCE’S SRUADRON. It is to Be Joined by Battleships and Its Departure Delayed. Washington, Dec. 22.—Secretary Her bert had a conference to-day with Rear Admiral Bunce, commanding the North Atlantic squadron, in regard to the sail ing of that fleet for the West Indies and nearby South American waters. The ad miral was at the department Thursday to receive verbal instructions preparatory to the sailing of his ships, but owing to the absence of the secretary in New York, failed to get them. He was notified, however, to meet the latter to-day for a conference. In the meantime a suspicion would like ly attach at this juncture to the sailing of the squadron for the vicinity of the Venezuelan coast. Secretary Herbert, of course, consulted with the President as to the best line of action to be adopted. The interview between the secretary and the admiral to-day lasted for quite a while, the latter having come on from Fort Monroe, his squadron being anchor ed in Hampton roads. The admiral was originally given sailing orders for Satur day last, but they were subsequently amended, and it is learned to-night that the time of the departure is indefinite. The present composition of the fleet will I <>© Hugmentf'i ~by the addition of the Maine and possibly the Texas, both bat tleships. As the Texas will have to undergo an other trip trip, and the Maii,.e is not yet fully provisioned, it can be seen that the sailing of the squadron will not be for some time. MACEO’S AIDE-DE-CAMP HERE. He Bears Dispatches to the Revolu tionary Leaders in New York. Key West, Fla., Dec. 22.—Castro Pal omino, aide-de-camp to Maceo, passed through this city last night en route for New York. He is the bearer of Important dispatches to leaders in this country. He reports that Maceo and Gomez are both In Matanzas district with 14,000 well equipped men. He says that the insur gents had several engagements during the past week, the most Important being at Pomoguerra and El Flore® in the Cien fugos district, both of which were favor able to the insurgents. He also states that both Gomez and Maceo entered Mantanzas without meeting any opposi tion from Spanish troops and that the in surgents are anxious for an open battle, being confident they can defeat the Span ish troops. Madrid, Dec. 22.—A dlspatcM to the Heraldo from Colon, Cuba, says that heavy firing has been heard in the direc tion of Managua. It is believed that the insurgents have entered the province of Matanzas byway of Palmalo, after a sharp fight with the government troops under thee ommand of Col. Hernandez. A TEA DEALER BURNED OUT. Ten Thousiiud Chest® on Hund—The Total I-ohm $ 100.000. Cincinnati, 0., Dec. 22.—Fire this even ing destroyed the five-story building at 214 Wall street, occupied by W. W. Thomas, wholesale dealer in teas, spices, etc. The entire contents of the building were burned. Ten thousand chests of tea was the principal stock on hand, all of which was lost. The loss will be SIOO,OOO. The insurance will cover about 80 per cent. The firm was the largest wholesale tea house in the country outside of New York city. The Cincinnati Scale Company and the Howe Scale Manufacturing Company are also losers to some extent by Water dam age. GOLD PILING UP AT CINCINNATI. The Yellow Metal Pouring Into the Sub-Treasury. Cincinnati, Dec. 22.—G01d is pouring into the sub-treasury at the rate of SIO,OOO *a day, and the local reserve is increasing at a rapid rate. The German National tele phoned the sub-treasury that it was ready to turn over all the gold it bad on hand if wanted. The gold on deposit here now Is only a little less than $2,000,00*). A LAWYER SENT TO PRISON. Two Years Given Him on Conviction of Grand Larceny. St. Louis, Dec. 22.—Jeff Storts, a lawyer of this city, why has earned notoriety by appearing as defendant to a score of criminal charges, was "landed” in the criminal court yesterday, where he was convicted of grand larceny and sentenced : to serve two years in the penitentiary. Storts Is a good lawyer and was once a member of the state legislature. Coming to the Exposition. Anderson, Ind., Dec. 22.—The Anderson, Marlon and Muncie High School parties, 309 strong, left yesterday for Atlanta to visit the exposition and the battlefields. The purpose of the trip is to study the south, and especially the battlefields, and the party will be gone teh days. T»4-o Steamers in CoHiaion. London, Dec. 22.—The British steamer Cayomono. Capt. Pope, from New Orleans Nov. 29 for Antwerp has been in collision with the British steamer Achilles, which ; was outward bound. The Achilles' star board quarter was damaged and she re turned. The Cayomono apparently sus tained no damage. MONDAYS! -AND- I THURSDAYS! LONDON EDITORS ON THE WAR. THE STANDARD PRINTS A CONCILI- ATORY ARTICLE. The Sober Second Thought of the American People Counted on to Avert a. Conflict Between the Na tions—The London Times Still Blowing in Savage Fashion. London, Dec. 22.—The Daily News un der the caption of “Sober Second Thought,” will discuss the situation in that light. It will say: “It would be improper and ungenerous to attribute the change of opinion to the chilling in fluence of a financial panic on a people so self-reliant and courageous as those of the United States. They would never be turned from any supreme object of pa triotic effort by misgivings respecting their own power. No American can have stronger belief than we in the potency of the great country and its people. It is because we so strongly believe in the power and will of the American people that we rejoice in their rapid, change of opinion.” The paper then proceeds to blame Mr. Cleveland and says that the sooner his language is forgotten, the better it will be for all parties, including himself. The commission, it adds, will be regarded not as an international tribunal, but as a form of domestic inquiry designed for the better information of the American peo ple and their rulers. It may be positive ly useless. Its very appointment is in one sense an admission that the state de partment believes that the Venezuelan claims are exaggerated, and that no fur ther action could wisely be taken until Washington discovered some firmer basis for negotiations than the shifty state ments of the little military despot at Car acas. It adds that there is every reason to believe that the terms of credit and standing propose a very different line of demarkation from Venezuela.” The Times will to-morrow say: “Al though the reaction may not yet be tri umphant, it is satisfactory to find that Americans, whether they dislike us or not, are hesitating to incur the guilt of breaking the peace of the civilized world for such a contemptible cause and in vindication of claims repudiated by all the nations of the old world. \ “President Cleveland's manifest inca pacity to understand the effect of what he w’as doing when he sent such a war like message to congress has shattered the confidence felt in him as a pillar of sound finance and a mainstay of the pub lic credit. The renewal, therefore, of his proposals of current reform, after he him self has made them impossible has dash ed the hopes of his friends and set his op ponents to work to turn his errors to ac count. It is now clear that Mr. Cleve land’s financial proposals have no chance at all of passing. “Deeply as we must regret that the j controversy has arisen we can, at all events, rejoice in the demonetrartion it has afforded of the unity of our national sentiment, and especially the attachment of our Candian fellow subjects of the crown. Good may come out of evil if the incident should lead the Canadians to strengthen their organization for de fenab ■» V' ,o.d.non!“h üb-at- tome tc a-tra'-n every ne<c to retairi that indisputable command of the sea on which, tne em pire depends,” . ■ - she will -ts tbs names of the gentlemen suggested as members of the Venezuelan high commis sion are above suspicion for integrity, ex perience and good judgment. Unhappily, the body itself is in a diplomatic sense hors de concours. Its findings will not be recognized by Great Britain. The Standard, taking its text from the financial situation that has resulted front President Cleveland’s message, will, in its issue to-morrow, lecture the United States on its economic policy. It predicts that unless America abandons its pres ent fallacies and dishonesties the day must coma w’hen it will be neither able to bor row or pay. This, it adds, would be only an epfeode in the history of a great peo ple, but the sufferings of a generation having to bear the burden would be great and memorial. It advises the United States to fall back on the declaration of Mr, Gladstone, “That only common sense Is required.” DISTILLERY FACTIONS AT WAR. One Side Asks for a Receivership for the Property. Owensboro, Ky., Dec. 22.—Suit was brought yesterday by the Fidelity Trust Company of Louisville, executors of the Callahan estate, against R. Monarch, president of the Daviess County, Glen more and Eagle Distilling companies, ask ing for a receiver for the Daviess County Company and making sensational charges against Mr. Monarch. It is charged in the petition that he set out deliberately to defraud the minority stockholders ana wlllfullj’ withdrew from the concern over $1.00,000 since 1889 and appropriated It to his own use. The suit is the outcome of a disagree ment between the Callahan and Monarch Interests in the concern. Mr, Monarch also owns the Glenmore and Eagle dis tilleries, and it is claimed he had drawn from the Daviess County Company for the benefit of the other two concerns. STEAMER SPREE SAFE. The Vessel Reaches Southampton Under Her Own Steam. Southampton, .Dec. 22.—The North Ger man Lloyd steamer Spree, which strand ed on Thursday last on Warden Lodge, near Totland bay, Isle of Wight, was got off at 1:50 o’clock this afternoon. She ar rived hero at. 3:40 o’clock under her own steam, but assisted by tugs. She is mak ing no water and has apparently sustain ed no damage. She will go on the dry dock to-morrow for examination. She is already roehlpplng her boats and rear, which were removed in order to lighten ; her. ' ■ AN ENGLISH STEAMER SUNK. Five of Her Crew Drowned u» th* Result of the Collision. London, Dec. 22.—The British steamer Alicia, from Middleborough for Bilboa, has been sunk in collision with the British steamer Nettley Abbey, from London for Blvth. All the people on the Alicia, with the exception of five, who were drowned, were rescued by the Nettley Abbey. The i latter vessel was somewhat damaged. I The Alicia was an iron schooner-fig ged. screw steamer of 907 tons. She. was I built at Hartlepool in 1880, and was own ed by R. M. Middleton, Jr. A Papal Delegate to Mexico. Rome, Dec. 22.—Monsignor Averadi, who the Vatican a few days ago decided to ap point apostolic visitor to Mexico, was to day consecrated a titular bishop- He will have no diplomatic relations with the Mexican government, his mission being solely to the clergy of Mexico.. A Hotel and Three Store* Iltirned, Bluefield, W. Va.. JDec. 22.—The Central hotel, Cohen’s clothing store, Tomney's bakery and Evans & Thompson’s meat market were destroyed by fire this morn ing The total loss is $15,000. The Doily ; Telegraph plant, located in the same I block, vias saved. A Rebellion in China. Pekin. Dec. 22.—The Dungan rebellion has broken out. The rebels are now fight ing among themselves. NO 98.