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EDI I'ORIAL SOIKS.
Motto for Cairo: “To be well shaken be
fore taken.’’
The earthquake at Scio, from all#epo||ff
was worse than the Turkish massacre s|d
invasion, of former (lays.
Thk last bouquet put upon
desk shows the way of the E^Py
flower had the odeur cT Afrique.
John Shebmax says there was no bargain
with Mahonb. There was none with Eliza .
Pinkston either, according to John.
Mahone is so excited he cannot sleep or
eat. If Washington' malaria gets a gbod
grip on him, his condition will be pitiable
indeed.
If Buknsid* lost his side whiskers and his
bank account, there would be little remain
ing, except the memory of the tailor s fash
ion plates.
Col. W. M. Wadlex was inadvertently
alluded to as Col. W. T. Wadlet. The "T"
stood for Triumphant, as the “M" stands
for Monarch.
The quarrel between Gen. Sheehan and
Gen. Hazes is said to be affecting the
weather. Yensor is suggested as a relief
to both of them. _
It is said that 2,000 Chinese have been
murdered by the negroes and half-breeds of j
Peru. Dodoeb Dawes should look into this
while be has his war-paint on.
The most withering thing said of Bubn
sn>E recently is that his grammar is worse
that Loose’s. This saves Loose from total
depravity; but where does it leave Bukn
biue ?
Me. Watteeson has begun his campaign
on paper against the Mormons, but will'
hardly lead one hundred thousand unarmed
Kentuckians to the "imminent deadly
breach.
The more Judge Lochbahe is interviewed
on Georgia repudiation, so-called, the more
the Htate credit is said to advance. Perhaps
the Judge is playing a fine game in bulling
State bonds.
Mb. Bayabd tit the proper man to tackle
John Sherman; first, because he is incapable
of dishonesty; and second, because his
financial record is more consistent than that
of Mr. Hhebman.
Recent elections have mixed things po
litically. Bt. Louis goes Republican, and
Cincinnati and Chicago, not to speak of
other towns, are comfortably Democratic.
The scratcher was vigorously abroad.
The Cincinnati Commercials Washington
correspondent says Senators from the large
States hint at future consolidations of small
commonwealths. When they try that, look
out for a State Sovereignty issue in New
England that would make Calhoun turn
pale.
Mb. Secretary Blaine is a wifferer from
rheumatic gout. It jumps from limb to
limb and hit him over the left eye re
cently. Mr. Blaine is beginning to feel
the bail effects of high living and copious
alcoholio drinking. Mr. Estill, of the
Savannah News, ought to harrow up his
feelings by that over trne tale of the condi
tion of gouty blood poisoned by intoxicat
ing beverages.
When Napoleon became famous the
Herald's College found no difficulty in de
ducing his doscent from kings and saints,
and his very name was contorted into mean
ing “the lion of the desert.” A writer in
the Courier-Journal now attempts to prove
that Robert E. Lee was deduced ’from
Duncan, King of Scotland, and directly
descended from Robert Bbuce. Perhaps
Gbant was descended from Macbeth.
"The great trouble with Senator Hoab is
a liability to ‘gooff at half-cock,’ and he
consequently makes an ass of himself every
onoe in a while.” So says the Washington
correspondent of the Springfield Republican,
who has the mastery of his own spirit. Mr.
Hoar was mad when Senator. Johnston put
npen, him the ears of Dr. Pamoloss; but
here is a home-thrust, almost as terrible as
Senator Brown’s extinguisher.
The Chicago Times says; “Blessed is it to
be a Brigadier at the tail of the Republican
kite. There’s Mahone —nothing’s too good
for Mahone, the Repudiationist. The Ad
ministration loads him with flowers and
offices. There’s Lonostreet— he’s to be
recalled from Turkey to be made Marshal
of Georgia, There are curses for Lamar,
but if Lamar -would bow down and worship
the Administration he'd be an angel who
could have anything he wanted."
The Springfield Republican sees the point
and punctures with it John Sherman's soph
istry. It shows that where the Republican
party is winning one Mahone by such a
course, it is perpetuating the alienation of
thousands of other Southerners. To have
won a Mahone may have been victory, but
to havo made his acquisition the oooasion of
embittering the vaßt South which is not yet
Mahone, is to spoil the oyster and suck the
shell.
Our old friend, Georoe A. Gusttn, has
resigned the position of executive olerk at
the White House, and become Secretary of
the Swedish and Norwegian Iron Company,
of Boston. Mr. Gustin is accomplished,
energetic, wide-awake and means "biz” all
the time. He has .made his mark at the
Federal Capital, and will become, in time,
“one of the solid men of Boston.” As he
graduated, so to speak, from Augusta, we
take pride in his success.
Mahone, the "rebel Brigadier,” is now
called by the Republicans “the eminent
Southron and distinguished Confederate
General.” We shall next see the Republi
cans offering the Hon. Jefferson Davis an
ovation and a seat on the floor of the Sen
ate, with a big bouquet from the Govern
ment green-honse before him. Courier-
Journal. Not much. Mr. Davis will not
give them a chance—
"Marcei.lvs exiled, more true rapture feels,
Than C.esar, with the Senate at his heels.”
The Greenville News thanks the Presi
dent for Blithe as Marshal and Melton
as United States District-Attorney. It is
also stated that Blithe is inclined to be
a stalwart, but is trustworthy, respected
and has brains. Judge JUilton is mote
liberal, and has always .received as large a
share of confidence and popularity as is
possible for a member of his party. By
natural instinct and tasto both will be pre
vented from acting as persecutors, or show
iag much favor to the MackxT, Taft,
Smalls, Ptbtts and Hurley gang.
Senator Vance,- of North Carolina, is a
large, rather too portly, man, with a forest
of iron-grey hair, hanging over a square
brow and giving character to merry, twink
ling eyes of a violet hue. His complexion
is a healthy bronze. One of the kindest,
cleverest and boyish of men, he is, at the
same time, masterful and full of force.
The best of stump-speakers, he has made
the mistake of reading his elaborate
speeches in the Senate, instead of speaking
them. This is surprising, and will no
doubt be corrected. His recent speech on
Mahone was witty and effective. #
—
Poor John E. Owens emulated Joe Em
mett, in his worst form, the other night, at
the Fifth Avenue theatre. His memory
failed him, and an indescribably piteous
scene followed. A correspondent of the
Courier-Journal says: "The effect upon the
whole audience, as it appeared, was toevobe
a feeling of genuine pity and troubled sor
row. The press, on the next morning,
seemed to have taken this sentiment as a
key-note, and never was an unfortunate ac
tor treated with greater or more tender for
bearance. Last night he was himself, and 1
assume, from looking at one act, that -the
piece ran smoothly through." We are
afraid that Mr. Owens has lost his fortune
in California mining stocks and seeks peril
ous refuge in the wine cup. "Alas, poor
lobick!”
Springfield Republican: The causes which
are going to bring on a panic can al
ways be foreseen, but the time needed to
honeycomb existing prosperity cannot. It
took all the time from 1869 to 1873 to
bring the last area of expansion to the
gronnd, but the causes sure to bring on a
panic began to be predicted about from the
close of the war. In the matter of excessive
railroad building, the prophets are un
doubtedly right in asserting that coun
try is just now building beyond its means;
but in the past it has taken four, six or
eight years of this extravagance to bring
the country to the end qf itf rope, an# R
hae only had two as yet. None the ids is
it trne, as in the fonf yea ST before
that the blow may fall jpanj seatori? “
DEATH OF REV. UR. IRVINE.
Though Rev. Robert Irvine, pastor for
many years of the First Presbyterian
Church in Augusta, had of exhibited
symptoms of physical weakness, none of
W could has* bfeen prepared to hear of
his sadden striking down, by brain con
jistiA and rapid dJasolation. Not many
W,n*s agl, th# sturdy look that,
like the mighty monarch of the forest,
evidently betokens a long breasting of the
storm. Bat the tempest often prostrates
the giant oak, while sparing the reed by
its side, and so cold and still and hushed
and prone npon the couch of death
reposal the stalwart form of him who
moved among us as a Titan of intellect
and whose impress upon this community
eateteteetete tee wh* Rmt
him. It was impossible for snch a man as
Dr. Ia vine to go anywhere and not take
his stand among the foremost in pulpit
oratory and a consummate mastery of
every weapon in the arsenal of human
thought. He was a positive man, and
sought to mould others to his opinion.—
He had the aggressive character of his
race and the enthusiastic temper of his
Celtic blood. There was the glowing imagi
nation of Ireland and the hard logic of
Scotland combined in an extraordinary
degree in his individuality, and no Gospel
preacher ever knew better how to blend
them in a harmony that excited the admi
ration of the most scholarly as well as the
most simple. As his body was muscular
and erect, his mind was full-orbed and
symmetric. He was a warrior always in
the lists, and an antagonist difficult to cope
with. He appeared to enjoy the contro
versies of the day, because it was an ele
ment of his temperament to do so; but deep
down in his nature there was warmth and
charitv and the brptherhood of humanity.
That be sometimes pushed his formidable
talents far into the arena of contention is
admitted. But no one seeks to deny that
he was terribly in earnest and meant what
he said and believed what he uttered. This
was sincere, and it was brave. There was
nothing of the oonspirator or trim
mer about hint or his methods; and
it may be declared with perfect ve
racity that, in the end, they who had
been most trenchantly dealt with learned
to respect the honesty of their antagonist,
and that, at the last, there was a common
agreement that lapsed into friendliest rela
tions. And so it will happen that among
the sineerest mourners for this eminent
divine will be those who were widely sepa
rated from lnm in religious dogma, but
who appreciated the majesty of his intellect
and the kindlier traits of* his heart. We
think it certain that, of late years, Dr.
Ibvink was brought into sympathy wilh a
majority of our people of all creeds, and
that there was between him and them a
genuine understanding from which all
former asperity had been eliminated. The
broad and beautiful mantle of Christian
charity cofbrJtfthe faults of both sides the
line of theological difference, ami there
were found other anil larger platforms
whereon both could stand in upholding
glorious Right and combating monstrous
Wrong. We rejoice that the last days of
our friend were, in this respect, : most hap
py, and the recollection of them will not
soon fade away. We regret exceedingly that
there should have been the slightest ob
struction to his pilgrimage to eternity, or
that any cloud should have arisen to darken
the pathway to the tomb. Of his private
misfortunes or the warfare he was subjected
to in liie ministry, we will not speak. The
secrets of the heart are left to the Searcher.
The disputes of his brethren are consigned to
their properorbit. If he had imperfections,
he had also grievous sorrows. If he had
faults, he had also shining virtaes. It may
have been the province of some fellow be
ings to behold the flaws upon Ibis luminous
planet, without discerning the superior
splendor. If so, death has atoned for all,
and the wonder-working brain, that rarely
had rest or tranquility, yielded beneath the
stroke of calamity and will never throb
again. Never agnin will it conjure up the
august mysteries of the Sacred Book, lending
the wandering spirit from Marah’s bitter
water to Siloam’s healing pool. Never ngain
will it comfort the mourner, whose prop
was lost, or bind up the bruised heart of
Rachel weeping for her little ones because
they were not. Never again shall it pro
claim prophetio warning against the bar
bariwnii of civilization, grown into faahion
and almost into sanctity. Never again will
it transcend the seas and embrace the
"Niobe of Hattons” whose wail is in every
atmosphere that cirvi;inscribes the world.
The wand of the seer is broken. But his
spell remains. The band of tiu> preacher is
chill; but it has wade sunshine that dies pot
with the seasons. The heart of the great
man is pulseless; but its truest throbs con
tinue. He is dead —dead !
"But there is that within bim'wliieh shall tire
Torture and Time, and breathe though he ex
pipo.”
THK RAILWAY L4INBIILIDATION AND
THK SOUTH,
According to Mr. James, of Atlanta, who
is a very sound business man and extensive
stock operator, two vast and far-reaching
Northern combinations, the Louisville and
Nashville, controlled in New York, and the
Richmond and Danville, owuod jn Penn
sylvania, are seeking and will probably
dominate, sooner or tater, the whole South
ern railway system. In addition to these,
Mr. James mentions as powerful competi
tors, the Illinois Central, and the Central, of
Georgia. If it be true the*, rtt no distant
day, the corporations of the Hotih shall
gain dominion over the South's indusUtai j
centres, what are we to expect ? Are imr
interior town* to be made more flourishing,
or are they to become wood and water sta
tions upon the air' line route* to the North ?
Are our ports to be crowded will* shipping
and our rwmmeree nursed to a healthy i
growth and extension; orare they to simply
get the drippings of the larder, and every
thing magnetically attracted to New York
and Philadelphia? We for the
best. The Central Railway has 4£e
great things for Savannah, and promises to
accomplish wondeoi lor Charleston. It
would seem to bo the true policy of the
new railway kings to build up the country
through which their lines run and to en
courage nil of its industries. Our safety
will probably consist in the rivalry that will
be engendered for our produce, and in the
* termination of our own people to conn
ect, as far as possible, any blows aimed
at their prosperity for the special usufruct
ot the East aud West. The South is an in
comparable weal th - producer, and if she
will not waste her profits, but judiciously
invest Itou, she cannot be circumvented
even by the prodigious capital arrayed
against her. Thai. may be the better
enabled to hold her own ora) inmand some
what the situation of affairs, we Uar.9 urged
and still ue the rapid completion of the
Knoxville railroad. We have, thank God,
a soil and climate specially blessed for our
people, and indispensable for the welfare
of our cowulry. If these gitte of Heaven
could have been token from ns fay Thad
Stevens and hi* progeny, under reconstruc
tion legislation, pitiable indeed would have
been our condition. But these inalienable
heritages saved as finally, asA they are now
aiding us to become the rich land that is
sought for by capital and enterprise. The
men of the North interested in retarding
our growth know this well enough and
hence strive to keep np a sectional agitation
to frighten away investment that would
come this way. But the majority of right
minded Eastern men, whose oracle is the
Philadelphia Telegraph, are anxious to pat a
speedy end to the dead-lock in tha Senate,
because business is injured and an evil
spirit hostile to trade evoked. From this
honest Republican paper we quote the .fol
lowing words of wisdom, and no longer
wonder tnat the Jacobin Senators toy to
suppress them when Mr. Yoobhees would;
have them read :
If Congressmen were statesmen instead of
politicians, and if they legislated for country
instead at party, they would understand that
there was another than a partisan side to this
Southern question. Thera is a business side to
it, and that is the one that the oeuntry is most
disposed to consider, sad the one that the poli
ticians at Washington do not consider at all.
The country wants its prosperity considered,
and thinks it very ranch more important than the
prosperity of any party shall be helped or hin
dered. Large se this aonntrv is to ares, it is
not so large that any part of it can be in con
tentisto. with the remainder without serious
ly totorngdisc the welfare of the whole.
The South is beginning to show signs of
net recovery frees the effects of the war;
it is increasing both its agricultural and
manujkctaring rsaonrees and wealth, and
chiefly by the aid of Northern capital; it is de
veloping it* mineral reaaurcsa enormously,
chiefly by the aid of Rorthssn capital; and it Is
extending te gailroade and canals chiefly by aid
of Northern capital. On every haqd and by all
m .n ffie North and South are earning together
. K .in upon tbs strongest basis of permanent
"mtaranah-toatoiasty—that oi mutual interest. :
But while bostons is doing the work ef reoms
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CHRONICLE AND CONSTITUTIONALIST. AUGUSTA. GA.. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 13, 1881.
stiuctiou, aud doing it thoroughly well, the
blatant demagogues and scheming political
tricksters called party leaders at the national
capital are doing all that it is possible to undo 1
the work of business; and to keep the two sec
tions apart The South is growing richer year
by year, and its increase of wealth is not
ool| an addition to the general store, but it ;
flows largely into our Northern marketa. to in- '
crease the Btore of oar Northern manufacturers
and merchants; for the South ia still dependent
upon the North, and would be the test custom
er of the North if our political gamesters with
the country’s prosperity did not keep alive sec
tional animosities, and continually revive bit
terness of the war period. The South in 1879
had lees than two per cent, of her soil under
cnltivation, and vet sbe had thirteen million
acree under cultivation in cotton alone, rais
ing 5,757,000 bales. In 1830 she raised 6,250,-
000 bales, and it is estimated that the present
year’s crap will baovsr 7*lMU.fafa balsa. Mm
receipts from her exported cotton alone for the
year ending June 30,1880, amounted to the enor
mons'snm of $211,555,965, or nearly as much as
our exports of wheat and corn for the same pe
riod. Besides her cotton, there are her sugar,
tobacco, rice, wool, hemp and breadstuff). It
is most important that a section of the country
with resources so enormously valaable as those
of the South should be in harmony with toe
North; for it ia an agricultural section, while
the North is largely a manufacturing section>
and it should find in the South its beat cus
tomer for nearly all of its manufactures, just as
the Bouth finds the North one of its best cus
tomers for its cotton, tobacco, rice and sugar.
If ihe, South, however,'is to be stretched upon
the rack by the political leaders of the North,
the business men of the North will have no
chance to keep its best customer from going to
Europe to supply its wants. The whole course
of the present sectional dissension in the United
States Senate is opposed to the business inter
ests of the country, and fatal to those between
the North and South. Business has had enough
of it, and does not look with anymore favor
npon those who have brought it about than
upon the disgraceful wrangle itself.”
This is the real music of the nsw Union.
It is echoed far and wide af the South. The
South could not prosper if she were the
hell the Massachusetts Senators paint her.
The business men of the North know better.
When this kind of talk becomes commoner,
rabid political agitators everywhere will be
compelled to take back seats and give way
to men of sounder sentiments and better
hearts, not to speak of wiser heads.
DEATH OF GEM. M. W. GARY.
A few days ago, Gen. M. W. Gaby was in
Augusta, apparently in the fullness of vigor
and health. He is now no more. Oar
whole community was shocked to hear of
his sudden demise, which was as unlooked
for as the fate of
‘‘Ships that have gone down at sea
When Heaven was all tranquility.”
Death, come in whatever shape it will, in
infancy, in the young morn of life, at mid
dle age, in the twilight of existence, with
suddenness or after lingering years of pain,
is always mysterious and always pathetic.
In the case of Gen. Gabt it is peculiarly
startling, not merely on account of the vio
lent transition from lusty manhood to a
stillness of the heart, but because the life
that passed unscathed amid a hundred bat
tles should have yielded to the insidious
attack of an acute and almost unheralded
disease. We who knew best and appreciated
him most feel most keenly the loss; for
while he was stern to his foes, so long as
they kept the field in arms, he was loyal
and staunch and true to friendship. No
knightlier soul ever went forth to the ranks
of war than M. W. Gaby. No cavalier ever
wielded a brighter and better blade in de
fense of his section and his principles.
No braver warrior ever led troops into the
thickest of the fray. Few of the glorious men
of the South - the men of ’6l - ever so rap
idly and worthily rose from rank to rank un
til only the very loftiest prizes were missed.
As he was the idol of his soldiers in war, he
was .their chosen champion in the angry
truce that followed, and the peace that came
largely' through his influence and his lead
ership. He was nothing of a courtier;
therefore the mere baubles of politics were
dispensed to others. But to him, more
than any one person in South Carolina, is due
the exceptional glory of saving that Common
wealth from the “organized hell” ot recon
struction, rescuing civilization from organ
ized barbarism, and making it possible for
others to wear and hold the honors of place
and preferment that they now enjoy. He was
a serious, determined, energetic man. There
was no disguise of his sentiments, which
were fixed and ultra; and there was no hesi
tation in consummating the plans his quick
and tenacious judgment approved. He had
enormous faith in himself—miscalled vanity
—but really the individualism of a strong,
undaunted character, which knows its mas
terful power and has the valor to maintain
its hold upon the world. He succeeded as
a soldier, as a statesman, os a planter and as
a lawyer. His mind was cultivated, grasp
ing, courageous, self-possessed and as versa
tile as it was profound. Foibles he had, as'
all have; but his good qualities far surpassed
whatever was imporfect ia his nature.—
He lacked reverence, perhaps, and missed,
we think, some of the divinest gifts and
blessings ; but his natural virtues were rare
and radiant. His nobler part will be re
membered for many a day in the Palmetto
State opd in Georgia, and by all whom
he ever mot, Hie more earthly frailties
will be buried and forgotten. He had one
trait of character that proved him t.Q be, at
the core, a good man. He was the bast of
brothers and most affectionate of sons.—
Rey.offd even the devotion to his
country yef.e bis love and care for
his mother, and V* fepld it to be
eternally true that no son tbailoyes his
mother can be other than a good man, de
spite any other unfortunate environment,
IFe bid' farewell, then, to the hero, the
statesufaff. the orator, -the advocate, the
patriot, the }nie son of South Caro
lina and the pride of B.d&efteld. May the
Spring roses bloom upon bis the
turf rest lightly npon his manly form l The
£ftr th will take what is mortal to her em
brate. &qt from the clay there shall arise
tha impfarwteM’ memory of one who
scorned to bet bypftcjm fr only to be
painted as he was and, inflexible i#
and truth, bore “ahold spirit in a loyal
toraqflt.” m m
HiUOIk AND VIRGINIA.
His Fwtwre Pol Rlcti* Sslrsfiop fa a str,ct
Alliance With the R*pubU.cff.
New York, April 4 —Congressman Jor
geoevm. of Virginia, was asked by a report
er of ttte Tribune whether he thought the
Read j asters would elect a United States
Senator to succeed Senator Johnson. In
discussing the situation of Mr. Jor
gensen, who is a Republican, eaid:
"The Readjusters will not be able to ejry
tfas State or the next Legislature without
tha united and enthusiastic support of the
Republican >“ Virginia, for the reason
that Gen. Mahon*. )>}' his course in the
Senate, has alienated oi Demo
cratic Readjusters, He ptobaidy ffX the
next State eleotion will be able tosonteol;
fifteen or twenty thousand of that vote,
which, with the united support of the Re
publicans, would give him the State, aud
the Legislature that elects a successor to
Senator Johnson. While Republicans sym
pathize with M*faop,e with his liberal senti
ments, as expressed i* Ufa Senate, yet their
past experience of him, and the
with which he can change his trout, foods .
them to distrust him, unless they h#ve
trustworthy assurances from him that he
will pot act so as to disintegrate their or
eaaizaooa and leave them again where they
were in 1878. vfoip, through his influence
and money. Gilbert & Walkerwas nomi
nated by bolters from rite Con
vention. . ,
“The Administration and the Republican
in giving General Mahone the
sapport and countenance they have, have
such dteiaiops in the Republican
ranks in Virgil, M viU he difficult to
hold the r*nk And Ale fox the
straigm ot ticket. If Mahone is as s>>e M
a great political leader should be, he wjil
tale such a course as will win for him the
united support of the Republicans of \ lr-
IVithoat it he is doomed to inevita
ble fariar*. i-aa the smallaess of his vote
Irill nrove how umofc weakened he has be-
the assanhs te the Bourbon
Democrats. If he shoqld boldly
proclaim himself a Repubbcon, tee result
would be anew departure South the
building np of anew political P*y. <rf
vbteh he would be the acknowledged
leader, ihe only trouble intervening being
the debt question.”
PROBABILITIES FOR APRIL.
Fenner Figures of Wet aj
There wilt be sharp frost in the beginning
of April, with sztewfali on the 4th and sth,
but the Spring will open favorably, and
everything will be pretty well by
April 12. Floods may be expected in
Chicago about the first week in Apnl. with
high winds also prevailing in the early port
of the month. Snowfalls are probabfo
about April 5. Navigation * likely to open
on hake Ontario abase April 7.
The St. Lawrence riTar will be open
about tike 9th or 10th, and the first steam
ship will probably arrive about the 17th or
lcfa. The weather willi be very rtormym
the Lower provinces about the 20th, with
very high waters prevailing, but m the
Wert, April will be • dry month. .There
will ha warm weather ;uat followingteLe
20th. an4w.fr in than for storm* t&e>zn
and 2*th. Snow storms are probable in the
far Wert on the 25th and 26th, ndsnow
fctfa are not unlikely to occur in England
at the dose at the month. The month will
end wet and ooid, fcut 09 tfce whole will be
Ute a My month.
ROPES_OF SAND
TO BIND THE LIBERAL PARTY TO
THE SOUTH.
Repabllcama la a Vain Effort to Fasten
Mahontana Upon Us—lnconsistency mnd
Rsfbraa The Plan Falling
ugh —Eeb. Vance not Hie Dog
Tsg. Rebate in the Senate, Yesterday.
fßy Tsfogragh to the Chronicle.)
Washington, April 7.—Delay has caused
dissatisfaction among Republicans. The
situation in the Senate gets no better fast.
All business is clogged and all excuse va
porized. A gentleman, very near to the
Administration, commenting npon the ac
tion of the Republican caucus, says: “The
friend* of the Administration are disap
pointed, and to some extent pained, at the
result. They think that there is gome rea
son not made public for this action. They
are surprised and displeased. They
that the theory that Mahone will be benefit
ed by the continuance of the contest for
six months is not a sufficient argument, as
a fruitless session, lasting all Summer, is
not necessary to prove that the Republicans
are ready to help to destroy Bonrbonism.
They wonder whether there are any Repub
licans in the Senate who appreciate the value
ue of political harmony with the Adminis
tration.”' The pretext of supporting Ma
hone lias failed to convince even Mahone
himself, who unnerved by the jarring given
him by Voorhees, and sickened by the de
ferred plum of patronage, went regularly to
bed for two or three days, and left Lieuten
ant Riddlebergel to grin it out. Conkling
is provokingly cold to the whole'transaction,
and other Republican Senators are cultivat
ing the same decorous disdain. The wild
hope of breaking down the solidity of the
South by mounting Mahone on a party of
his own’in Virginia, is one which faded
even before its poetic, if patriotic, sponsors
could paint it to an admiring Nation. It is
well that these philanthropists should know
exactly the facts on which this pretension
to organize a Liberal party rests. It is not
too much to say that the spirit of the faction
now led by Senator Mahone has been the
most bigoted, intolerant and sectional of
any organization that has existed in Virginia
Bince 1865. One of their leading arguments
on the debt question, reiterated on nearly
every hustings in Virginia, has been that
the Yankees stole the negroes, destroyed the
property, dismembered the State, and now
hold the bonds, and ought not to be paid.
Every Readjuster of the Mahone stripe lias
insisted time and again that the State ought
not to pay the debt because the Yankees
hold it. And no argument has had snch
weight in confusing Virginians, and inclin
ing them toward repudiation as this identi
cal argument. The staple of the Mahone
repudiation agitation has been sectionalism,
hatred of the Northern people, and denun
ciation of the Supreme Court and its au
thority •on this subject of debt.
■The deadlock is now a question of a little
time. The Republicans are sick of their
bargains; the Administration is sick of
Mahone, and the ninety-five unpartisan
pounds of Virginia are without a keeper,
and without a party.
Nominations.
The President to-day sent the following
nominations to the Senate : Postmasters
Wm. N. Taft, Charleston, S. C.; John B.
Nicholas, at Denton, Texas; John Nichols, at
Raleigh, N. C., vice Holden, withdrawn.
SENATE.
Washington, April 7.—The Vice-Presi
dent laid before the Senate a message from
the President, transmitting, in response to
a resolution of the Senate, of the 18th ult.,
the report of the Secretary of State, with
accompanying papers, in relation to the capit
ulation of the Ottoman Empire. Ordered
printed.
The pending business—being the resolu
tion for the election of Senate officers—was
then taken up, and, on motion to go into
executive session, made by Mr. Pendleton,
was, as usual, voted down —yeas, 29; nays,
30.
Mr. Vance addressed the Senate on the
’subject of the State debt of North Carolina,
denying that her debt had ever been repu
diated, and asserting that one of the first
acts passed by the Legislature of that State
after the war had been one providing for
the payment of its indebtedness. Under
the force of the reconstruction acts, for the
first time in the history of North Carolina,
she had found herself compelled to repu
diate any of her obligations. That she had
to do at the diotation of the loyal, non-re
pudiating, honest and virtuous Republican
party of the North. It was not the volun
tary action of the people of North Carolina.
He procerded to criticise and ridicule the
acts of the Republican Legislature during
the years 1868 and 1869, instancing the
fact, among others, that that Legislature
had purchased eight thousand acres of land
for a site for their penitentiary. It had au
thorized the issue of $22,000,000 of
bonds for the purpose of constructing rail
roads, not one of which had been built, and
had then passed an aot repudiating every
dollar of the debt which it had contracted.
From the day that the citizens of North
Carolina had recovered control of the State,
instead of trying to pay the debt created by
a carpet-bag government, placed upon them
in a fraudulent manner, they had resolutely
turned their backs upon it. They never
would try to pay it. It was fraudulent,
vicious—not a debt in any sense of the word.
The Republican side, he said, coming down
to a question of election of officers, had in
quired why the Democrats would not vote
for Riddleberger ? That was a shifting
issue. The question was, how could the
gentlemen on the other side support him ?
He was a rebel, an unrepentant robel; a
Democrat, an unrepentant Democrat; a Re
adjuster, an unrepentant Readjuster.—
How could they forgive him ? What
was the object of their supporting
him ? He (Vance) objected to voting for
any man who caßed himself a Democrat
who had a surname before the woj'd Demo
crat. He objected to the mapper ip which
the Republican party had undertaken to
foist a candidate upon the Senate, because
it was in defiance to the whole plan of po
litical salvation. Riddleberger had been
taken up in his sins, unrepentant and un
shaven, and had been translated into the
heaven of Republicanism without having
tasted death. the Senator
from C'.oppectiptft (Mr. Hawley) had stated
that this inovemept vyas going fo break up
the Solid South. It reminded hip) of the
story of the boy whose dog “Tag" had (lied,
and who “bt the angels would be scared
when they saw ‘Tag’ trotting through the
front gate.'” The Solid South was to he brok
en whpp “Tag” came trotting through the
front gafs. [foaqghter.] Had so great an
undertaking ever beep inaugurated by
such small means? Did anybody pyey be
fore hear a party announee the extremities
to which it was reduced when it announced
that it relied for success on an alliance
with tho Senator from Virginia and the
election of Riddleberger to tho office of
Seyeeant-at-Arms ? Instead of the uaove
ment imiqg.- aB waß stated, an alliance to
promote tha parity Of )he Jjallot box, it was,
he said, an attempt ones itou to isqbieqt
the people of the Solid South, who had
been free long enough to gather a little
money, to the dominion of carpet-bag rule
ip Mf dfir fjjat their little savings might be
ewePf
Mr. Kellogg fortoweq pip tue subject of
the North Carolina debt, asserting that sincp
the State had been under tho control of tqe
Democrats the State debt had been scaled
down from twenty-six million to four mil
lion dollars—a repudiation of twenty-two
millions.
A long afottjsaion ensued, the North Caro
lina Senators “muuuati Mr. Kellogg’s
charges, and denying that the Sf®fo had
repudiated any of its honest obligations.
Mr. Ransom called attention to the fact
that North Carolina 4 per cent, bonds were
: quoted at 85 and, appealing to Mr. Sher
fii.ui, optejyyqd from him an admission that
that was a fop a 4 per cent. State
bonds. Mr. Ransom argued tP.af $£ North
Carolina bonds said as highas.apy othef Scare
bonds, it would not do to aay her name
was discreditable. He asserted that the set
tlement of the State debt was satisfactory to
a eredftepo, IfJlti that it was an honest settle-
I Mr. Rollins, referring pa tffo remark made
by Mr. Vance about carpefa-iiag'gefo) fy- .
quired how long it was necessary for a man
to live in a Southern State before he would
be recognized as anything but • carpet-bag
! B er '■
Mr. Vance replied that if he came with a
; trunk, iycnfy-fonr hours would do; but if
he carue ytth a carnejt-bag and hunted
aronpd flj.e purlieus'oj eiK®. fodjcipg fora
colored map w' cb-operate wfth” hjm iii
cheating the people, tweniy-fouy bo;pps
would not do.
Mr. Rollins said that the gentlemen on
the other side were shocked at the idea that
( Republicans should dare to give a vote for a
Readjusted jn Virginia who was with them
on the quesfiop fo g vote and an honest
connt.
Mr. Vance—“ What difference ts there be
tween counting a man out of his vote and
out of his money ?”
|lr. Rollins—“ You have tried both and
ought ip be able to answer that question
youfgeu." ‘'r Laugh tar. 1
Mr. Vance—"l havi pfo .tried both. I
have not triad either, aid the foepstor
knows I have not tried either. My State
has not tried either. The assertion was
witty, hut lacked truth.”
A colloquial debate then followed, some
what ahapp at times, between Messrs.
Vance* Dawes, pollins and Saulishury.
Mr. Call challenged aty Rep üblican Sena
tor to produce evidence'to prove there Jhad ,
been either intolerance, ostracism or vio
lence of any kind on account of political
opinions in any Southern State. He then
went into an exhaustive history of carpet
bag governments, dwelling at some length
upon foe corruptions and infamy which he
found had cWarauterusd those governments.
He was frequently jhteynipted by Mr.
Blair, who asserted that carpetbag gey-fo
ments had a&sisted materially in the pros
perity of the South. He denied that the
right'of suffrage was restricted in the South,
and ariijsised with great earnestness the
laws jrhteb, fp Massachusetts, did re
strict that rigfct. He also charged that
many voters in thaf bojto k** ll
prived pf a free ballot by the infipepte o*
money and by the influence of corporations.
This brought Messrs. Dawes ana Hoar to
their feet in emphatic denial of any such
state at facte. A long discussion en9ned,
the Massachusetts Senators maintaining
thrt£aanOTtesh£ deprived of
his right of suffrage except by his own
choice, and Mr. OaU contending that elec
tions in the Southern States were fairer
and freer than in those held in Maasa
° end of this discussion, on motion
of Mr. Burnside, the Senate adjourned un
til Mobday -yeas, 23; nays, 16. The nega*
live votse being oast by Democrats.
GEORGIA NEWS.
■ Albany is suffering from chicken cholera. J
Thomas county wants anew Court House. ]
Mr. John Marion Hodges, a well known
citizen of Butte rtfonty, is dqA
The Echo not* that the lme cold snap !
killed those frnirxree agents aflfe OgUM>c*e
county. ■ |
We learn, sayfithe Sparta a
negro girlwas s*bt by her (|othew|in jfoe
vicinity offftayffeld. Saturday nighfr *
The Banner rightly says: “There is more
bell-ringing to the square inch in Athens
than in any place we are acquainted with.”
The better class of colored men in Atlan
ta have inaugurated a movement for the re
form of the worthless portion of their race.
The tnrpentine busine-s is rapidly grow
ing in importance in Dougherty county.
Pine lands, therefore, are now in great de
inend.
The survey of the Gainesville and Jug
Tavern Railroad has been completed to
dug '"nmii lihJjnmi’i Titmi im
county.
, The Ogletlwrue Echo notes that $20,000
has already been expended on the Guaran
tee mine, aud t much more than that on the
Morgan.
The Covington Enlmirise thinks that Hon.
L. F. Livingston will be a good man to
tote the Gubernatorial “camfire" in the
next canvass.
Greenesboro has chosen the following
officers: For Mayor—James B. Park, Sr.
For Aldermen - James B. B. Park, Jr., J.
M. Storey, John E. Barnhart and J. J.
Doherty.
Albany Lodge, No. 11, Ancient Order
United Workmen, is making preparations
for entertaining delegates to the Grand
Lodge of that order, which meets in that
town on the 4th of May.
The Rome Courier states that the burning
of the church Tuesday night made the
fourth one burned in that county within
the past two months, all of them belonging
to the colored Baptists.
The Graeuesboro Herald says: “We re
gret to learn very much of the severe illness
of John C. Hart, Esq., of Union Point. We
trust he will soon be restored to his accus
tomed health and activity.”
Gath says that Atlanta’s only rivals could
be Savannah or Nashville, each in u radius
of about 400 miles. Savannah has not
been socially as wise as Atlanta; Nashville
is the railroad dependent of Lonisville.
On the first of April the law forbidding
the shooting of game bir^s—doves, quail,
partridges, wild turkeys and deer-went
into operation. Sportsmen can still shoot
larks and crows. Says tha Milledgavilla
Recorder.
Says the Griffin News, of Wednesday:
Rev. Dr. W. J. Mitcholl, pastor of the Bap
tist Church, and Miss Fannie Stevens,
daughter of Mr. George W. Stevens, of this
city, will be married at the Baptist Church
this afternoon, t 3:30 o'clock.
Mr. Hugh A. Haralson, of Rockdale
coenty, died Monday last. He was about
ninety years old; had been for a long time
a consistent member of the Methodist
Church, and leaves a large family conqec
sion and many warm friends, who regret
his death. *
The Covington Enterprise states that it is
denied that small pox has appeared in
Rockdale county. Our readers on the line
will be pleased to hear this good news, for
it was feared that the disease would spread
and cause much sickness in Middle Georgia
that might prove of a fatal nature.
Mr. Seaborn Aycook, an old gentleman of
Oglethorpe county, has organized himself
into, a dog law, and thus far has proved a
grand success. He offers a reward of fifty
cents a head for every canine killed on his
place, and within the past few days twelve
scalps have been brought into him.
SOUTH CAROLINA NOTES.
Greenville, S. C., is to have a furniture
factory.
Ninety-Six elected a <Jry ticket on Mon
day, without opposition.
The first telephone line in Orangeburg is
to be established this week.
The sales of fertilizers at Greenwood will
reach about six hundred tons.
The Grand Lodge Knights of Honor of
South Carolina meets at Yorkviile, April
19th.
The prospect now is that the railroad bv
Abbeville, Triekem and Edgefield will be
built.
A negro barber cut another negro’s throat
with a razor at Hodges, Abbeville county,
last Saturday.
The State Sunday School Convention will
bo hold in Columbia, on tho 13th and 14th
of this month.
The cotton factory investments in South
Carolina during the past four years have
paid from 17 *4 to 25 per eent.
Gsyens and McDuffie, on trial at Yorkville
last week for killing tho Indian, Harris, a
few weeks ago, were acquitted.
Mr. George G. Robinson died at his resi
dence, near Fishing Creek Factory, Chester
county, on Monday night, in tho 69th year
of his age.
Petitions are being circulated in Chester
county petitioning the Legislature to pass
a law prohibiting the manufacture or sale of
spirituous liquors.
The transactions in farm supplies are
greatly in excess of last year. This is
measurably attributable to an increase in
the farming interests.
The Abbeville Banner note# that Hon.
D. Wyatt Aiken has been quite ill at bis
home in Cokesbury, but is glad to learn
that he is now convalescing.
Mr. Stephen McCully, the oldest and one
of the most highly respected citizens of the
town of Anderson, died at his residence, in
that place, on last Monday morning.
The Orangeburg limes : “Steam having
been applied, the machinery of the factory
is now daily in motion, and the process of
grinding the cards is now going on.”
The oar shops at Helena, on the Colum
bia and Greenville Railroad, will be con
solidated with the Charlotte, Columbia and
Augusta Railroad shops at Columbia.
The Methodist congregation at Abbeville
are now greatly divided on the question of
the location of'the church organ —whether it
shall stand in front of the pulpit or near the
entrance.
The Abbeville Medium says : “The poor
old crazy negro, Abraham Martin, who was
cqnyipted t the fast term Qf the Court in
thjs poqnty, for murdering his wife, will be
hung on the 32d of this month."
The Hampton Cmrdian says : “ Mem
bers of the Legislatures in Arkansas and
Alabama are prohibited by a law of those
States from accepting free passes on rail
roads. You can’t get such a law as that
through the South Carolina Legislature,
trim it as you will.”
The Edgefield Advertiser says: “We are
deljglited to gay that the new concealed
weapons faw sepms to be working decidedly
well in Edgefield! Since the beginning of
the year the few scrimmages we baye had,
on public days, have been entirely of the
fist and skull order.”
PRESS UODtntENTS.
Amusing. If Naming Efae.
1 Nashville Amerioan, l)em. \
Conkling’s patriotic self-sacrifice in offer
ing to defeat Chandler if the Democrats
will defeat Robertson, has only been equal
ed by Artemus Ward's willingness to give
up all his wife's relatives to the service of
their country during the war.
Who Guards 111 6 Jfofat j
[Hew York Star, Tammany .]
That doddering old granny, the Evening
Post, maunders out that “tho life blqpd of
the Republican party has been the fact that
it has stood by the'public credit.” How?
When J Where ? Ip Minnesota, for in
stance? The last time the Republican par
ty “stood by the public credit” was when
they “stood by” and encouraged Hayes to
veto the Funding bill, which would have
saved the country $1,800,000 a month.
Free Ballot and Fair Count.
f Chicago Inter Ocean, Rep. ]
The Republican orgaufoatipn tgust fight
this battle of the ballot with the Democ
racy singly and alone; and until it is de
cided, and all over the laud, North and
South, every man has the . privilege of
voting as he pleases, undaunted and un
oqefjicnad, tlie battle must go on. While
this questfoflfo pepdfog parties organized
on questions of finance ar? ' a 'foiifojte, and
on questions of civil service reform on im
pertinence; aud none of them, though they
may delay, can prevent the final consum
mation.
Tge Difference Between tRe Two Great
*u tt ’ u parties.
[San Francisco Examiner.)
The truth is there is tv wide difference be
tween the methods of Republicans and
Democrats. The former believe that any
thingis fair that leads to success. The fat
ter believe that failure is to be preferred to
dishonor. They think it a thousand times
batter to lose the organization of the Sen
ate ttiab fo pfofomte e Vote of a State that is
il strong political symjfafhf tfitp tpa.r op
ponent.. This may be old-fogyish, it may
be slow, and it may show little “fertility of
resources,” bnt it is just and manly and
honorable, creditable to the party, and
worthy of the men who represent it. It
ma” not seem to pay in these degenerate
ffa&," in which public life is demoralized
by such Repoblfoan msljfods the count
ing in of Hayes and tffo pforchsuc pf
Mahone, bnt the day is coming, and
is not far distant, when the better sense
of the people will revolt against those
methods and pnnish those who have prac
tised them.
' federal *H th ’
[New York Timas, Rrp.)
To give new hope to the earnest, honest,
and respectable masses of the Rapabßnsa
nartv in the South, President Garfield
heeds only to give the Federal offices in
that section to Republicans who are capable
and deserving. ThfoCfa 80 S!?* 1
Georgia, can. if they will, readily aid m the
selection of Federal officers in their sectfon
who would serve the public faithfully, with
credit to themselves and honor to their
party. Rfa at lesst certain that there are
in ail thTfcu m* StatM, from Jirginb to
the Gulf, enough ■ wp^Wi
cans, men of chai&cte* steading, “who
may safely he called to take the positions
which the Republican Administration has
to give there Becent converts from the
Semocracy, in addition to politic! trick
efS, ype aro nothing if not officeholders,
may be alite’l|fiofo4
Augusta Favorites in the Field.
(By Telegraph to the Chrontaie.)
Moan a, April 9.—Yesterday was the third
day eff the Magnolia Jockey Club races. In
the first race, a mfle and a half dash, Fellow
play won; Long Taw, second; Lord Lyons,
third—time 2:4941. In the second race, s
mile and an eighth dash, Kimball won
easily in 20811. The latt race, % mile
beats, was won by Knight Templet.
LAND AND_ LABOR.
ADJUSTING THE DIFFERENCES OF
TENURE IN IRELA’D.
Premier Gladstone rfrwfit. Ilfa Land
JMII to P*rrtßh#-FailniN d| For
me* Teffnnlff Com-
Slnf Nora. I niff Nower—X eomntts.lon
tFfIH JudlSkl Afgjufaklieu' of Relation.
WrUßr -Tbt Jpt.Rln S
ffVeihelt; * *
(By Cable to the Chronicle.)
ENGLAND.
London, April 7.-The Daily News, thia
morning, alluding to the premature publi
cation of the Land bill, says: “We believe
tho bill will consist of seven parts. The
statement that the Bright clauses of the act
of 1870 will be dealt with in the subsidiary
rnM 1 it —* -‘~ J Thß bill will lasted*
a scheme not merely for setting the Bright
clauses at work, but for more effectually ac
complishing the purpose to which they are
directed. The Land Commission is also
established by the bill, which will be a com
plete scheme for dealing with the laws.’’
London, April 7.—The Times, in a lead
ing article this morning, says: “The Land
bill, since it was first discussed by the Cab
inet, has passed through twenty-two varia
tions of iorm. It will include schemes for
the reclaiming of waste lands and for emi
gration. The amount to which the proposed
permanent Land Commission will be em
powered to draw upon the consolidated
fund, for various purposes, will either
be left open, or a maximum figure, possibly
of £10.000,000, will be fixed.”
. In the House of Commons, Mr. Gladstone
rose, at 5:49, p. m., t> introduce the Laud
bill. He was much cheered. The House
was exceedingly crowded. Mr. Gladstone
said the bill would deal both with relations
between landlords and tenants and subjects
which may be grouped as requiring ad
vancements from the Exchequer.
Mr. Gladstone, on motion on the Land
bill, said that was the most difficult ques
tion.he ever had to deal with in the course
of his political life. He felt satisfaction at
exchanging the dreary work of repression for
legislation of an improving and reforming
character. The grounds which induced the
Goverment to deal with the Land question
were net that the Irish landlords are bad; nor
that appefos to the passions of the Irish
people have been made by persons whose
wild proposals are little removed from
sohemes of public plunder; but because the
Irish laud laws contain peculiar provisions
which prevent the prosperity of the Irish
tenant. According to the report of the
Bessborough Commission, the Irish people
declare they do not desire tho extirpation of
landlords or confiscation of the property of
others; but they do desire to cultivate in se
curity the lands of the country or enjoy the
■fruits of their labor- paying fair rent for
land. These being the views of the
Irish people, wo have a broad basis on
which we may proceed to formal legislation.
It is aot just to say that legislation is
necessary because of the faults of Irish
landlords. They have stood their trial
and, as a rule, have been acquitted.
Though the proceedings of a limited num
ber of them have been arbitrary, harsh and
cruel, this is partly, but not solely, the rea
son for the necessity for the legislation we
are about to introduce. Mr. Gladstone
then referred to the partial failure of the
Land act of 1870, which he attributed
mainly, though not wholly, to amendments
which the Government had disapproved.
He then reviewed the reports of the Rich
mond and Bessborough Commissions, which
he declared, notwithstanding different au
thorities aud recommendations, had been
of the greatest service to tho Government.
The Richmond Commission, with one dis
sentient, and the Bessborough Commis
sion unanimously, agreed to recommend
ing the establishment of a Court to deal
with the difference between landlords
and tenants regarding rent. The two
great questions to be dealt with
are. First, The relations between landlords
and tenantsin Ireland; and, second, The ad
vances from the public exchequer. He de
clared that never, as a Minister, had he sub
mitted any measure with a greater sense of
the enormous moment of the topics aud
propositions involved, and he asked all that
can be legitimately done by the Govern
ment for the promotion of legislation. Shall
we hesitate to do, to procure, the passing of
an effective measure to deal with* the land
question of Ireland? He then examined
and justified in detail the principles of the
measure, beginning with tho right of as
signment or free sale, which he declared al
ready existed by common faw and custom,
Before the act of 1870 tho right which the
tenant had to assign was so small as to
be worthless. Under that act the tenant’s
right in the shape of compensation for
disturbance became something sensible
and considerable. It had been reoog-,
nized by every member of the Beaa
borough Commission; the minority of the
Richmond Commission acknowledged it,
and the majority had not a word to say
against it. He continued: “The present
bill does not introduce an unregulated ten
ant right. Provision is made for preventing
it from passing into extravagance and for
protecting the just rights of the landlords,
by bringing into fair competition tho ten
ant’s right to assign,, and the landlord’s
right to get what his land is reasonably worth.
The salient point and the cardinal feature of
the bill is the institution of a Court to take
cognizance of rent, and which will not be de
barred from taking cognizanc of tenure and
assignment. There are strong grounds for
making resort to this Court —optional instead
of compulsory. There may be tenants who
do not desire the interference of this Court.
Every existing tenant might call on this
Court to fix a judicial rent for fifteen years,
during which there could be no change; no
eviction, except for certain specified cove
nants. The Ulster custom will remain as
now—at the tenant’s option-but the tenant
will have the protection of the general pro
visions of the bill for controlling augmenta
tion of rents. The right to contract out of
the act is given where the rent amounts to
d£<2oo yearly. The Court will have fiual au
thority over all land questions. It is to
consist of three persons—one of whom
must be a Judge or ex-Judge of the
Supreme Court. Its proper seat will
be at Dublin, but extra commission
ers, and, if necessary, sub-commissioners,
may be appointed nnd*r control of tho
Central Commission, j Civil bill Courts will
be Courts of first instance. It is proposed
to assist tenants to purchase their holdings,
and to invest Courts with power to pur
chase lands from landlords desiring to sell,
and re-sell them, retaining the title as a
guarantee for repayment and against sub
division. Advances will be made to own
ers, tenants and solvent conpanies, formed
for the purpose of reclaiming land, or for
other agricultural improvements, on condi
tion that advances do not exceed the
amount the borrower had laid out on
his own behalf. Advances will also
be made to assist emigration. They will be
under the control of tbe Land Commis
sioner, subject to the consent of the Treas
urer, and will be made either to the Colo
nial governments or to companies. It is
not proposed to place any limit on these ad
vances, beyond making them secure.” Mr.
Gladstone concluded by saying: “Justice
is to be the principle to guide England in
regard to Ireland.” He completed his
speech at eight o’clock, and was greeted
with loud cheers on taking his seat.
Sir Stafford,- Northcqte and Mr. Shaw,
member for Cork county, stated that they
did not intend to discuss the bill now.
Mr. Shaw said he believed the latter part
of the bill would give general satisfaction.
He hoped that this attempt, which he be
lieved was made honestly aud sincerely to
settle tho question, would be accepted in
Ireland as having been made in that spirit.
Mr. Parnell said he did not intend to ex
press an opinion on the bill at present, but
regretted that power as to emigration was
not accompanied by others, enabling the
Land Commission to favor emigration to
land* that aught be purchased for that
purpose.
Mr. Forster took occasion to state that
the Government-would be prepared to
to tenants for the purchase
of perpetual quit rents, this being the point
which Mr. Gladstone omitted iuhisspeech.
The Lar ; d bib was then read the first
time. The portion "of tub bill dealing with
the relations of landlord and tenant was
amply covered by the synopsis telegraphed
yesterday.
The Court of Appeals has dismissed the
appeal of Rev. Alexander Mackorochio
against his sentence of deprivation for ritu
alistic practices.
In the Bow Street Poljce Court, to-day,
after much formal evidence had been taken,
connecting Herr Most with the publication
of the Freiheii, he was committed for trial
on the charge of having, in the columps of
his paper, incited the people of foreign
States to sedition add rebellion. Bail was
refused.
Germany, Austria and Russia yesterday
formally reoognized the Kingdom of Rou
mania.
The Lord Mayor of London has
1 opened a subscription at the Mansion
House for the relief of sufferers by the Chio
earthquake. Newly £IO,OOO for that pur
pose has been raised in London.
In the House of Commons, to-day, Sir
Henry James, Attorney-Gen oral, replyiug
to a question or Lord Spenoer Churchill,
of' which he gave notice yesterday, as to
whether persons contributing articles to the
Freiheit are liable to prosecution, and
whether two members of the Government
did so contribute, etc., declared, upon the
authority of Sir Charles Dilke and Mr.
Thomas'Brtetey. jhat the charge is utterly
unfounded; but he said, ia View of the dig
nity of tbe charge, he must call upon Lord
Churchill to place it in the hands of the faw
officers, and to inform the House and coun
try of the nature of the information upon
which such groundless charge was based.
GREECE-TURKEY.
London, April “Raiee’ correspond
ent af Athens, referring to tifo hole pf the
Powers on the frontier question, delivered
to the Greek Government yesterday, adds :
“Premier Coumoundouros has promised to
reply to the note. It is easy to foresee that
unless some form of coercion is used the
Government must refuse the proposals. The
nation considers itself engaged to Epirates
in a mapper which will not permit it
to withdraw,' except under necessity. I
believe the Ministry would aocepf the terms
of the Powers if popular opinion permitted.
The question lies between coercion and
war. The addition of Treveeo would prob
have enabled Greece to accept the
term#;”
NATAL.
London, April B. —A dispatch from New
Castla*. Natal, says the Boers are daily in
fringing the peace, refnsing to surrender,
farms and houses and assaulting proprie
tors if they attempt to take possession.
The law is powerless.
Eastern hay sells at one dollar and a half
per hundred weight m this oity.
IS THE FRyiT KILLED !
[Anderson lutelligencer.]
The cold has not killed all the fruit, and
it is generally thought that enough is left
for ordinary use.
[Sparta Times.]
The knowing ones in this community
differ in their opinions as to whether the
young fruit is killed.
[ Orangeburg Times,]
The late cold weather has, doubtless, de
stroyed all the fruit. Good-bye to peach
pies and apple dumplings !
[ White Plains Report.]
The recent extreme cold has materially
damaged the fruit. We heard a gentleman
say the other day that a peach during the
coming season would be good for the tooth
ache.
[Griffin Sews. ]
Mr. D. J. Thaxton, a Butts oounty farm
er, ffks in town yesterday, and expressed
the opinion that while the fruit in his
county is greatly injured, there is much of
it unhurt.
[Covington Enterprise.]
Two-thirds of the fruit has been killed
by the late freeze, yet it is said that the re
maining third, if saved from further frosts,
will supply an abundant yield for those
who have orchards.
[Abbeville Medium.]
Sbme fears have been entertained that
the recent protracted cold weather will dam
age the fruit crop very materially. Inves
tigations have proven, however, that slight
harm has been done this far.
[Monroe Herald. ]
During the past week we have had more
ice than was agreeable to the remnant of
fruit blossoms. And now we might as well
make up our minds to do without such
things another year, or buy them at fancy
prices.
f Oglethorpe Echo.]
There is a diversity of opinion as to the
fate of the fruit crop, some persons con
tending that it is not all killed. We think
there are very few peach blooms untouch
ed in this section, and the crop will be an
almost total failure.
[Greenesboro Herald.]
There is a difference of opinion about the
fruit; some say it is all killed, the peach
especially, while others say there is plenty
left. There is one thing certain, if it can
stand such weather as we have had and live,
it can stand anything.
[Tkomasville limes.]
Many vegetables are killed, and it can
not be questioned that the fruit crop is
very seriously damaged. Many think that
it is entirely ruined. From personal ex
amination, we are inclined to think that we
will yet have something like half a crop*.
OUR HOME ROADS.
Haw the Railroad Movement Is Opening
Up Georgia.
Augusta and Elberton.
[Elberton Gazelle.]
Should the lease be made, Augusta’s great
hope will lie in an independent road in the
up country. To complete the new road to
Greenwood, and then run a line to Elberton
aud also to secure good rates to Charleston
or to Port Royal, would make our favorite
city independent of this new combination.
Augusta has hundreds of friends in this
part of the State who would aid her in time
of trouble.
[Oglethorpe Echo.]
The Broad River Railroad,
Since our last issue the prospect for the
early completion of this road has continued
to brighten. • Tuesday the engineer, Mr.
Lurnloy, arrived and is now at work survey
ing the line. He first walked over it and
expresses himself as highly pleased with
the practicability of the route. The people
along the line are thoroughly enthused with
the importance of the enterprise. Elberton
will build a road and connect with us at
Broad river, we learn. The Gainesville and
Jefferson Road has been graded seven miles
at a cost of but S7OO a mile, and SIOO of
this for culverts, very few or none of which
will be required on our line. The Hartwell
Road —only ten miles long -is running five
trains a day and not a single share of its
stock can be bought. The Directors of
the Georgia Road wMI meet next week and
will doubtless take some official aotion m
regard to aiding an enterprise that will
prove one of the most valuable feeders to
that great thoroughfare. Our people only
await their decision to begin work in
earnest.
The Northeastern.
Athens is this week alive with railroad
excitement. Several roads are bidding for
the lease of the Northeastern, but it is
thought the Georgia will be the successful
competitor. They promise to extend the
line at once to Clarksville and eventually
on through to the West, connecting the two
depots at Athens. This will make one of
the greatest trunk lines in the South puss
directly through our conuty, and be of in
estimable benefit to this section.
The Rumored Tripartite Railroad Ai
llance-
[Savannah Sews.]
Our dispatches yosterday morning an
nounced that it was generally believed that
the recent rapid advance in Georgia and
Central Railroad stocks was due to the
friends of the Central having secured a con
trolling interest in the Georgia Road, and
to a triple alliance between the Central,
Georgia and South Carolina Railroads,
which alliance is backed up by the Louis
ville and Nashville.
The officials of the Central are very re
ticent over this rumored alliunce, as is
their wont, it being the wise policy of
that line never to divulge any of its plans
or contemplated operations until they are
finally consummated. Indications, how
ever, strongly point to the fact that such
alliance has virtually, if not actually, been
effected. The advance in the stock of the
roads interested, whioh we have noted,
the general report to that effect in circu
lation in this city, Augusta aud Charles
ton, and the strong probability that the
steamers of the Ocean Steamship Com
pany, heretofore running solely between
this city and New York, are hereafter to
touoh also at Charleston, and run from
that port in connection with the South
Carolina Railroad, are all very conclusive
evidences that this tripartite alliance is a
substantial fact. And when to these indi
cations is added the recognized necessity
for the formation of such an alliance to
protect the commerce of this section
against the “ Clyde syndicate,” whioh is
seeking to stretch from Richmond and
Norfolk, Virginia, in this direction, and
build up those cities at the expense of
Savannah and Charleston, it is, we think,
safe to conclude thut the aforesaid alliance
is already virtually accomplished.
It is needless to state that this combi
nation will be of great advantage to this,
State and section. It will tend effectually
to oheckmate the efforts of rival combina
tions outside the State to draw off from us
our legitimate trade. It will secure to our
Georgia roads the business they at present
control; it will secure to our city the high
position which she now holds in the com
mercial world, and will place us, yet
moro certainly than ever, in direct and
close connection with the great West.
JAY GOfJLU OBJ T||B SOVTH,
He Find) Order and Industry Every
where Prevailing.
Mr. Jay Gould, who has returned from
his Southern trip of two weeks, was inter
viewed Tuesday by a New York reporter,
to whom he gave a cursory account of his
trip. When he spoke of the South as a
whole, Mr. Gould said: “On this trip I saw
what may be called the old South as distin
guished from the Southwest, which I visited
recently. I went and returned through
Virginia and the Carolines, keeping pretty
close to the seaboard; that is ( f took the
most direct route te Florida, and though I
did not return by exactly the same route, I
did not leave tho seaboard States at all.
There are several obvious reasons why the
old South should not be, comparatively
speaking, as progressive as the South
west. In the first place, it is more thickly
settled; the opportunities for immigrants
are not so great as they are in a vast
and new region for example, like Texas;
the cost of keeping up the fertility
of long worked lands in much greater than
that of reclaiming virgin soil. Railroad
travelers, too, pass necessarily through a
great extent of territory which is low,
marshy and unattractive, and the railroad
facilities are not so good as they are in the
Southwest. But if you take info considera
tion the lppg-esfablished (deqs and old
habits of tie old people, their forward
movement is obvious and remarkable. The
South seepis t° me to be actually'.turning
its face toff£gds the Riling sun,' not in any
political sense, bat in its new and visible
appreciation of industry, economy and en
terprise. That perfect order reigns is clear
from the way in which Eastern capital is
going in there. I find the whole country
dotted with industries, backed by capital
from the East.”
In speaking further of the South, Mr.
Gould said; “I was more pleased- with Sa
vannah than wfth any place visited,. It is a
beautiful place, and will be a very rich
place 'dfie of these 3av. Augusta, too, is
thriving. It looks like a New England town,
with its manufactories. There is a cotton
mill in progress of completion there now
that will employ 1,500 hands, and there are
several other cotton mills in the place.
Eastern capital is largely invested there and
will continue to be. What I saw of the rest
of Georgia wakes tge regjet tfmt I could not
visit Atlanta, because of its growing impor
tance as a railway and business centre, which
makes people call it the Chicago of the
South.”
He had no opportunity to visit the miner
al regions of the South, and especially of
Alabama, and, therefore, could not form any
estimate at the value of the interests devel
oped thefe. But fie did not besitate.to say
that what he .had seen convinced him that
the old Sonth is to-day an excellent place
for Eastern capital, and that the people
of the old South are infinitely more inter
ested fn the development of their own wel
fare and of the National prosperity than they
are in politics. 1
Cotfoa ir, England,
(By Telegraph tothe Chronicle.)
Livebpool, April B.—This week’s circular
of the Liverpool Cotton Brokers’ Associa
tion says: “Cotton has been in better de
with less pressure to sell. The mar
ket wae ftrpa agd a notations advanced.
American' flfere was Jneireaaed basineass
with a hardening market, and quotations
advanced l-16d. for medium and #d. to a
farthing for lower grades. Sea Island was
in limited demand, and lower grades have
the week, prices closing fully better.
SIGHTING SUCCESS,
PIERCING THE RIFTS >N THE LAND
OF THE SKY.
Tile Wioie Augusta and Knoxville Rail
road System Spread Oat Before Ur—
Staking Off the Line From the Hilltop*
of the Carolina*— Piercing Cumberland
Gap—Worth a Million of Dollar* to
Augusta—Shall the Clyde Syndicate
Bottle U* Ut> t
The Chronicle’s Spartanburg special
yesterday morning laid bare the muscles of
the Augusts and Knoxville Railroad connec
tions. It touched a nerve-centre in Augusta;
for, “taking one consideration with another,”
the city is more interested just now in an Inde
pendent route to the West, than in anything
else. The recent heotic pulsations of Georgia
and Central have given premonition sufficient
that the Clyde Syndicate, or the Louisville
and Nashville, might soon ooptore the Geeafto
Railroad. The State Road, at least, is uncer
tain. Neutral now, an expiration of its lease
and contemplated sale of the road, may put
the entire State at the meroy of an alien enter
prise. Augusta must protect herself; protect
this seotion of Georgia, protect Port Royal aud
Ch&rfeaton. Just as Atlanta, then, is assert
ing her independence by encouraging Gen.
Gordon to build the Georgia Western, so Au
gusta must second Mr. Yerdery in his efforts
to complete the Augusta and Knoxville.
Our Bridge anil Bonds.
Taking up the Augusta end of this liuo, we
find that track-laying is going rapidly on
twelve miles above Augusta. Work has com
menced on the bridgo over the Savannah
River, sixteen miles above the city, so that
when the rails are laid to the river the bridge
will be finished and trains can go right over
uninterruptedly. The Augusta and Knoxville
Railroad Company are offering uo more bonds
on the market, and holders are sticking to
them, believing that the strength of recent com
binations will carry them to par.
Tile Carolina Connection*,
Once finished to Greenwood, and the Directory
have ample means for that—two routes open to
Spartanburg. The present route is up the
Greenville aud Columbia Railroad ana Air
Line to Spartanburg—thence to Henderson and
Asheville. By the Chronicle’s special, how
ever, the tormation of the Greenwood, Laurenß
and Spartanburg Railroad, sixty-six miles in
length, does away with this circuitous route,
and gives a straight Northern Air Line from
Augusta to Asheville, N. 0.—176 miles. The
counties of Laurens and Spartanburg are fully
alive to the importance of this route, and there
is little doubt of their subscribing the neces
sary stock. It was a fortunate thing for the
Augusta Road that the Clyde Syndioate or Rioh
mond and Danville combination did not buy up
the Spartanburg aud Asheville Railroad, as
threatened; else one of our most important
Carolina connections would have been wiped
out, and we would have beon bottled up as
Charleston is now. As it is, this everlast
ing R. A D. management is threatening to
steal from Augusta aud Charleston the new
territory of the Caroliuas and Tennessee, by
the completion of the Western North Carolina,
which now is operated by the syndicate, and is
being pushed through to Tennessee. The Gov
ernor of Tennessee has signed the bill to ex
tend the time for the completion of the East
Teanessee and Western North Caroliua Rail
road. He had already sigued the bill under
whioh the East Tennosso, Virginia and Georgia
Railroad will be enabled to extend their linos
to the Warm Springs in North Carolina, at
whioh point it expects to meet the Western and
North Carolina Railroad. All this is for the
benefit of Richmond and Norfolk. Dnloas Au
gusta, then, makes sure of her Carolina con
nections, we may got euchred in. our plana by
the great corporate power of Virginia and the
East.
Spartanburg and Aslieville,
There seems to be no reason, then, to doubt
that the Spartanburg and Asheville Railroad
has been bought in by its own bondholders and
in their own interest. Steps will bo made to
complete it at an early day. A short history of
this road may be interesting just here. The
organization of the oompany was effected at
Hendersonville, N. C., 31st July, 1874, by the
consolidation of the Spartanburg and Ashe
ville Railroad of South Carolina, and the
Greenville and French Broad Railroad of North
Caroliua—Hon. C. G. Memminger, of Charles
ton, being President, and E. G. Allen, Esq., of
Asheville, Vice-President. The capital stock
was the present and future subscriptions
which' then, or soon after, were : Bonds of
Union county, S. 0., $150,000; bonds of Spar
tanburg county, b. C., $100,000; bondß of
Henderson oounty, N. C.. $100,000; bonds of
Buncombe oounty, N. C., SIOO,OOO. The ob
ject of the enterprise was not only to open to
their natural market an outlet for the products
of the mountain districts penetrated by the road,
but to feomplete a link in the project of 1836
the Cincinnati, Cumberland Gap and Cbarlee
ton Railroad—for connecting the great business
centres of the Ohio Valley with the seaboard.
Spartanburg, the Southern terminus of the
road, is the Northern terminus of the Spartan
burg, Union and Columbia Railroad, distant
directly 176 miles from Augusta. The prop
erty passed into the hands of a Receiver in the
Fall of 1878, the grading at that time having
been completed to Hendersonville, a distance
of about fifty miles, and the traok laid to within
seven or eight miles of that place. It was esti
mated that to complete the grading, ready for
track from Hendersonville to the W. N. 0. R. R.
Junction, about nineteen miles, would require
$50,000. The mountain district, of which
Asheville is the railway centre, lias always
sought a Southern market, and the Western N.
C. Railroad Company is conscious of this.
Once at Asheville, then connections with the
East Tennessee and Georgia Railroad branch
on the Tennessee State line, even now going on,
will be speedily insured. This branch con
nects with the E. TANARUS., V. and Ga. Railfoad at
Morristown, 42 miles from Knoxville, securing
our connection beyond peradventure. Even at
Morristown, however, the missing link passing
through Cumberland Gap, at the corner of three
States, Virginia, North Carolina and Tennessee,
promises speedy completion. This line has
for a long time been graded, or the greater
part of it. It will place Auguata uearer Louis
ville and Cincinnati, by over 100 miles, than
around by Chattanooga, as at present. In fact,
these places will be in closer aud more direct
connection with Augusta and Charleston than
with Baltimore or Richmond.
Moat Important far Augusta.
Said a prominent citizen of Augusta yester
day : “We must have this line. Wo are fn
extremis. If necessary and possible, we must
subscribe one million of dollars to put through
this grand project. I would be willing to ask
the people of Georgia for an amendment to the
State Constitution, giving Augusta authority to
subscribe one million dollars to complete the
line. It is our best hope, if not our last.”
Remarked a well-known A. A K. iDrector:
“We are bound to put through this line as
mapped out in. the Chronicle’s Spartan
tanburg special. It has been all along
my., favorite route to the West; because
it is the natural route. One thing more—we
must fix this line, just as Cincinnati did when
she built her Great Southern Railroad—so that
it will foreverjremain independent— consecrated
only to the good of Agusta and her seaports.
I would be perfectly willing to give up my stock
now if the completion of the road could be in-'
sured, and such seourity guaranteed. And I
think the other Directors will do the same.”
The City of Knoxville.
It is only necessary to say that the City of
Knoxville, now looming up rapidly in import
ance, is moriug to meet us at the other end of
the line. It is a plucky little oity. The census
of 1880 shows the present population to be, in
cluding suburbs, about 16,000 inhabitants.
The oitv stands in a healthy location upon a
group of hills, 1,000 feet above the sea level,
and the climate is salubrious, both in Summer
and Winter. It hag many.handsome.roßidences
and grounds, a fine custom house building, aud
the business portion is solidly built. It is the
center of a fine agricultural district—eggs,
butter, poultry and grain being produoed in
large quantities in the vicinity—coal, marble,
iron ore, lead, zinc and lumber are found in
abundance in the surrounding oountry, and af
ford large manufacturing advantages. Facili
ties for transportation of products are afforded
by the Tennessee river, and the East Tennes
see, Virginia and Georgia, the Knoxville and
Ohio, and the Knoxville and Augusta Rail
roads. The completion of the two latter roads,
at an early date, will greatly inoreaso the trade
aud prosperity of that oity.
THAT 910,000.
The Real Holder of No. 14,016 Found at
Last.
\ Raleigh (2V. C.) News and Observer, March
31.]
On the 9th of March the News and Ob
server announced that one-half of ticket No.
14,6116 in the Louisiana State Lottery, which
drew the capital prize of $30,000 in the
drawing of March Bth, waß held in Raleigh.
Ever since that time the inquiries as to who
was the lucky man have been constant, and
do efforts have been spared to find him. It
was at first reported that the city editor of
this paper held the ticket. Then it was al
most asserted that Mr. H. F. Hliiter was tho
lucky individual, and we were on Saturday
night assured by a- gentleman that the last
named party was the holder of the half
ticket.
But the public were all wrong. Yester
day the right person’s name was revealed.
Information came to us from a perfectly re
liable source that Mr. Peter M. Wilson, Sec
retary of the State Board o.{ Agriculture, was
the fortunate person. Soon alter we received
this definite information a reporter called on
Mr. Wilson at his office, in the Briggs build
ing, to make inquiries as to the matter. Mr.
Wilson declined to make any statement
Whatever as to whether he did or did not
draw the money. He had been informed
of the fact that he was to be called on by
us, but it was his pleasuro to make no state
ment. He neither denied nor admitted the
soft impeachment.
The news of Mr. Wilson’s great good for
tune will give general pleasure not only in
this city, hut in all parts of the State, for
his {riendg are legion. A gentleman of much
modesty of manner, he rather dislikes noto
: riety of this sort, and certainly receives
Dame Fortune’s favors quietly.
THE HOG PRODUCT.
Statement of the Provision Market For
the hast Year.
(By Telegraph to the Chronicle.)
Cincinnati;, April I.— The Price Current,
this morning, publishes its annnal state
ment of the stocks of provisions in the coun
try on March Ist, embracing stocks at all
interior packing points and large cities in
the West, also at seaboard cities and in trans
it, showing an aggregate stock of 414,225,-
000 pounds of meat, including pork, or 54,-
400,000 pounds less than at the same time
last year.' The stock of lard is 86,425,000
pounds, or 79,890,000 pounds less than a
year ago. This makes an aggregate decrease
of 134,290,000 pounds-equal to the
product of 760,000 hogs. The paoking in
the West, since Maroh Ist, is reported at
385,000 hogs to date, against 700,000 hogs
last year,
THE LAST SPIRE.
Completion qtf tk*e Sbenendoeh Volley
‘ Railroad—Novel.
(By Telegraph to the Chronicle.)
Habbisbubo, Va., April B.— The last spike
in the line of the Shenandoah Valley Rail
rood, between Hagerstown, Ml., and
Va., waß driven at Luray, on
April sth, in the presence of a
Urge crowd and amid great enthusiasm.
Bands of music played lively qira while the
spike was being driven in its. place by Hon.
Wm. ifilues/ former President of the road,
who made the spike himself in his own
blacksmith shop of iron dug upon h\<j
premises.
FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL.
Movement* In Wall Street Yesterday—Re
viewing the Grain Trod* in England
—The Market* Generally (Inlet.
(By Telegraph to the Chronicle.)
New York, April B. —The stock market
opened generally Arm, but speculation was
weak and declined steadily throughout the
rest of the day, closing weak with a down
ward tendency at or within a fraction of the
lowest figures of the day. The decline in
prices from the highest point ranged from
% to % per cent. —the latter in Reading—
other ooal shares,| Nashville and Chatta
nooga and Grangers being also prominent
in the decline. Indiana, Bloomington and
Western was notably strong and advanoed
6V£ per cent, on the day’s transactions.
United States Express rose per cent.
The transactions aggregated 237,U00 share*.
London, April B.—The Manchester Gao. -
titan, in its commercial article, says: "There
is fair, inquiry, but it is mostly fruitless,
owing to the firmness of prices. The pro
duction in most departments is well nnder
contract, nnd sellers are moro disposed to
advance than to reduce prices. The borne
demaud continues to improve, but progress
is slow.”
Liverpool, April B.—The leading grain
circular says : “The grain trade has been
very steady, with little apparent activity;
various spot markets continued strong and
prices, except in a few cases where they ad
vanced a shilling, were maintained. Off
coast business was stagnant, there being
ouly one cargo in that position. Grain for
sbipineut aud on passage was firmly held.
On spot, sinco Tuesday, wheat has been
slow and unchanged. Corn was held for a
penny advance. In to-day's market there
was a quiet feeling and an average attend
ance. Wheat was slow. The consumptive
demand was unchanged. Flour waa mac
tive. Corn, mixed American, on account of
scarcity, advanced two pence to three
pence.”
London, April 8 —ln Mincing Lane,
market transactions are still very restricted,
but some increased demand is expected
after Easter, as the weatheris favorable and
trade reports from several quarters are im
proved. The total stock of coffee in Euro
pean ports, at the end of March, was about
140,000 tons, which is probably more thaa
at any former period. At the Netherlands
Trading Company's sale this week, good
ordinary Java barely realized valuations,
other qualities were unchanged. ’1 he gen
eral result was satisfactory. Other coffees
were quiet. Common descriptions in many
cases declined. Borne new crop East India
sold at full rates for good to fair. Ixiw
sugars were firm. The West India supply
continues limited. Cargoes of Brazilian
maintain prices. Refined was firm, licet
sugar is slightly higher. Teas continue
very dull, and quotations for inferior com
mon congous are lower than ever previous
ly. The market hAS been slightly better
since the presentation of the budget. Rice
was unchanged.
FINANCIAL FACTS.
Weekly Bank Statement—New Nark
Stock Market—Honey In Knglnnd.
(By Telegraph to the Ohrooiole.)
New Yore, April 9.— The weekly state
ment of the associated banks shows the fol
lowing changes : Loans increase. $4,956,-
300 ; specie increase, $2,818,000; legal
tenders decrease, $237,800; deposits in
crease, $7,293,100 ; circulation decrease.
$4,500; reserve increase, *757,52." Tho
banks now hold $2,205,175 in excess of legal
requirements.
New Yore, April 9, midnight.—The
stock markot wns strong at the opening,
and on advance of \ to per not.
waa recorded, the latter in Reading, but at
the first Hoard speculation became weak,
and a decline of to 31£ per cent, took
place, in which Reading was again most
prominent. Toward noon the market as
sumed a firm tone, and under the leader
ship of Reading, prices rose \ to 3 per
cent. Indiana, Bloomington xnd West
ern sold up to 5V4 per cent, and closed at
tho highest point. The general market was
extremely dull iu late dealings and closed
fairly steady. The transactions aggregated
160,448 shares.
London, April 9.—The Economist of this
week says: “The rate of discount for hank
bills of sixty days to three mouths is
per cent., and for trade bills of sixty
days to three months, per cent. The
Stock Exchange opened firm at the begin
ning of the week, and particularly for home
investments. Foreigns, soon be
gan to show signs of weakness, incited by
the Tunissian difficulty, which has cast a
gloom on all European bourses except for
Egyptian and Hungarian securities—the
latter being sustained by large impending
conversion operations, with which theKotbs
childs are intimately connected. There was
a partial relapse in home securities on Fri
day in consequenoe of money becoming
more in demand. There has been a good
recovery in gas shares upon the subsidence
of the electric light scare. American were
well sustained. In railways, Cairo and
Viucennes have ross to 3 per cent.”
A STRANGE FORMATION.
Wreath* of Flower* Foriutd In ike Bot
tom of a Pol.
Wo were shown the other day, by Mr. B.
M. Evans, n curiosity which is creating con
siderable exoitement in the New Territory.
It is a wreath of perfect flowers worked in
form around the bottom of n pot. It seems
that some person had been boiling clear wa
ter in a common boiling pot, and upon
allowing the water to stand some time and
finally emptying it, a perfect flowery con
formation was visible about the bottom.
The wreath was worked, seemingly, in the
Hand deposit in tho bottom, with roots upon
the water line, and summits of the flowers
converging to the centre of the bottom. Tho
figures are perfect forms of cresses or some
water plant, and are strongly and perfectly
wrought. We understand that the pot ih tho
object of superstitious admiration in tho
New Territory, and that the wreath, which
can easily he effaced by rubbiDg the sand
from the bottom of the iron, is held in rev
erence there. The figures are probably the
result of some familiar crystaline freak of
foreign substance in the boiling water.
PULLMAN'S NEW TOWN.
Mammoth Work, ami UorlDe Engine—
• The Pullman Car Company.
Chicago, April 2.—This afternoon a party
of railroad men and representatives of the
press, on invitation of the Pnllman Palace
Car Company, rode out to Pullman, the new
town where the company’s mammoth works
have just been erected, for the purpose of
starting the Corliss engine. This ponder
ous affair, the one which was on exhibition
in the Philadelphia Centennial, is the larg
est in the world. It weight! 350 tons, and
was brought here from Philadelphia on
thirty-five cars. It was intended to have
Gen. Grant to start it, as he had done in
1876, but he being unable to attend, Mias,
Fannie Pullman, oldest daughter of Mr.
Geoige M. Pullman, raised Uio lever which
set the ponderous machine in motion, and
it began to work us noiselessly as though
only an ordinary sized engine. It is to be
kept constantly in motion and turnish pow
er for the entire works.
At an annnal meeting of the stockholders
of the Pullman Car Company to-day, 45,UN1
shares, or three-fourths of the entire amount
of stock, were represented. It was voted to
increase the capital stock thirty-three and a
third per cant., making the total amount
$8,000,000, the stockholders of record yes
terday to have a reasonable time in which
to subscribe for nn additional amount at
par. The reasons for the increase are the
large increase in business, the erection of
new works and the general expansion of tho
industry. The Directors say there ie a rea
sonable certainty of remunerative dividend'*
on the entire amount of stock.
A WONDERFUL MEMORY.
Blind Tom Plays Correctly Ma.lc Heard
Twenty-one Year. Before.
Staunton, W. Va., April 4.— To yor.r cor
respondent a gentleman, to-day, relufed tba
following: “The most wonderful feat of
memory I recollect of was displayed by
Blind Tom on the stage while giving a con
cert here recently. Twenty-one years ago,
in 1860, Prof. E. L. Ide, a music teachei
at the Wesleyan Female Seminary here, at
tended one of Tom’s concerts at Frederick.
Md., and, to test the genias of the hov’.
played a German waits, then but little
known, And made some little changes of
his own in playing it. Tom played it off
at once correctly. The other night Prol.
Ide went on the stage and asked Tom whai
was the name of the hall in which he plaved
in Frederick in 1860. Tom, without hesi
tation, gave tho name of the hall. He wau
then asked who played for him, and ho gab*
Prof. Ide. He was then asked to rep.
the piece that had been played lor hi,,.
then, and sitting down at the piano he ac
curately gave it as he had heard it from
Prof. Ide, twenry-one years ago, note for
note, including the change made by the
Professor at that time.”
TIIB SUBMERGED DISTRICT*.
The Flood Subsiding—The Work of Ri ( .
cuing Victims at the Over Dow.
(By Telegraph to the Chronicle.)
Chicago, April a— A dispatch from Yank
ton, Dakota, says the flood is subsiding and
the Missouri river is now at that point with
in its banks, although, bottom iands in
some places are still submerged. Altogeth
er about one thousand people have been
rescued from farm booses; many, however
have not been reached, owing to the im
passable oharaoter of the ice walls surround
ing them, and it is feared they may perish
from hunger and exposure before relief cad
reach them. The question of providing for
survivors who have lost their all is pressing,
for there are thousands who have been
duced to. absolute want.
Rcaconafklti’ff Con (Htiea,
(By Cable to tha Ckroaide. >
London, April 9, -A bulletin issued at
II o’clock this morning says: “Lord
Beacoftafleid has been rather restless and
less inclined to take nourishment.”
Lord Beaconsfield passed a quiet day
He is not losing ground, but is weak aud
his condition is such as to cause great
anxiety. A bulletin,' dated 9:30, p. m.,
says he passed the day free from any symp
toms of chest affection or gout, but that he
has felt aud is weak. Drs. Kidd and Bructg
will remain with him during the night. ■
The Milledgeville Recorder says: “We
.speak from personal experience in com
mending to o readers and the public
what is said about the Gilder Pills. They
are invaluable. Ex>.”
Great Bargains in Boots, Shoes and Hats,
at Wm. Mnlherin A Go’s, 913 Broad street^