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BRIEF SEWS SUMMARY.
The Treasury surplus for May is estimated
at $lO, WO,OOO.
According to the recent census the popu
lation of London is 3,814,571.
A’fred B. S‘rtet. the poet, died at Albany
vesterday, aged seventy years.
A patty of one hundred and twenty five
E giish Immigrants arrived at Winnipeg,
Manitoba, on Monday, in seventeen days
from Liverpool.
The death is announced of M. Maximil
ian Paul Emile Littre, publicist and phil
ologir*. and member of the French Acade
my He was burn in Paris, February Ist,
ISOL
A San Antonia special says: “Advices
from Laredo state that Thos. Worth, an
American citizen, was Killed on Tuesday
tight by the Mexican police. An investiga
tion is going on.”
A furtd ure dealer aDd sbtit manufacturer
in Philadelphia have been fined 8100 each in
the United States District Court for circula
ting advertisements of their business in the
shape of greenbacks.
Mrs. Garfield oas been entirely free from
fever since Saturday last, and is really con
yalesing. The President will attend the
grad> arirg exercises of the Naval Academy,
at Annapolis, on the 10th of JuGe.
In the Kentucky pinitentlary, John Gra
ham, a lazy white convict, paid a colored
convict twenty cents to cut off his hand at
the wrist, to keep him from hackling hemp.
The colored man did the job with an axe, at
a single blow.
Eiwin T. Bunn, a traveling salesman for
Jt-ffia-, Seely & Cos , Cincinnati, committed
suicide by jumping from the fourth story
of the Emery Hotel, in that city, to the
sidewalk. He bad been subject to fits of
despondency.
Three masked men entered the store of
McCarthy A Hagsen, at Nortonville, Kan
sas, covered McCarthy, a clerk, two ladies
ami two little girls with revolvers, secured
812,000 in cash from the safe, and made
good thtir escape.
The New Orleans Democrat ’* Sklpwitb,
Mississippi, special says; *‘T. J. Stephens
hnraily murdered an old German at Like
Providence yesterday. The murderer es
caped. There is too much rain for good
crops in this section.”
John Griscom, after his fasting, Id Chica
go, remains apparently in “a healthy nor
mal condition.” He has lost eleven pounds
in weight. “He plays games, vis ts the
theatres, and when he feels the need of
stimulation takes a leisurely walk.”
The condition of the sleeping Hungarian,
at Allentown,Pa., isdsilygrowing morecrit -
cai, and it is believed that a few days more
will end the career of this wonderful man.
He is helpless as a child, and has again
ceased to take food, nutriment now being
given him through the nostrils.
Dennis Dancahy, aged twenty three years,
was run over on the railroad at Evst Buffalo,
New Y'ork. The engineer says be was lying
on the track, and upon examining the
body immediately after it was run over it
was found to be cold, which would prove
that he was not killed by the train.
Jesse Little, a resident, of Jefferson, in
Frederick county, Md , aud in rather desti
tute circumstances for some time past, died
at that village recently, aged about eighty
three years. Policies on his life to the
amount of #68,000 are said to have been
taken lately in different speculative com
panies by various persons.
Marie Yarian, aged thirty-five, a lager
beer saloon keeper, has been arrested in
New York for setting fire to the saloon to
get #4,500 insurance. Several persons were
asleep in the house, among them a sick
woman and child, when the bouse was fired
The police had warning of the affair, and
the match had hardly been applied before
the woman was arrested.
A stage coach on the Barlow and Sander
son line, in Colorado, was robbed a few days
ago by four highwaymen while passing
through a canyon r ear Poncho Spring*.
The robbers secured SSOO in cash, a draft for
$3,300, and several gold watches and other
valuables. Later in the day the same rob
bers entered a store in Poncho Springs and
compelled the proprietor to give up $450.
They were not marked, and the leader was
'recognized as Charles Aliison, an ex deputy
Sheriff.
While Vienna was hurrahing over the re
cent Imperial marriage, a poor tailor, the
father of five children, all starving, shut
himself up in a room, butchered them, and
stabbed himself. Suspicion having been
aroused, the door of the room was burst
open, and the police found him just aiive,
but covered with blood. He sat up lor a
moment, glanced at the five corp es, and
then at a cage in which a canary was sing
ing. “Give him to the janitor,” he re
marked, “otherwise he will starve to
deaththen be lay down and died.
A terrible tragedy occurred at Coyle’s
IVrry, in York county. Pa., on Monday
Emma Myers, a girl about t wenty years of
age, lived In the family of John Coyle, who
is proprietor of the ferry. His son became
enamored of the girl, and desired to marry
her. She repeatedly refused him, and paid
no attention to bis threat of killing her if
she persisted in her resolution. Oa Monday
morn ng he followed her to the spring
house, placed the muzzle of his revolver
against her breast, and sent a bullet through
her heart. He rhen turned the pistol to
wards his own body and fired, but only in
flicted a slight wound. The murderer 16
now in jail.
At Castle Garden, N. Y . 4,524 immigrants
arrived Saturday, amt 4,197 <>n Sunday. Tne
arrivals from the Ist to the 29th of Mav, in
elusive, during the year 1889 were 52 997;
during the present year for tne same period
they foot up 74,070. For the week < nded
May 28th the arrivals were 20,178, which Is
the heaviest week ever known, the highest
previous week being the third week iu May,
1873, when the number was 18,5<>0 _ The
total number of arrivals during 1877 was
U 3.555 and during 1878, 79,801. The to ! al
number of arrivals during the first five
months of 1880 was 133,250; there have ar
rived during this year up to the 28:h Inst.,
incluiive, 179,361.
Weather Indications.
Omci Chief Signal Obskkveb, Wash
ington, June 2. —Indications for Friday:
In the South Atlantic Btatee, partly
cloudy weather, local rains, southwest
veering to northwest winds, stationary or
higher temperature, followed by rising
barometer.
In the Middle Atlantic States, cloudy,
rainy weather, easterly veering to southerly
winds, aDd higher Temperature.
In the Eist Gulf States, fair weather,
southw* st vterirg to northwest winds, sta
tionary or higher temperature and ba
rometer.
In the West Gulf States, warmer, fair
weatLer, light, variable wieds, and higher
barometer.
In Tennessee sad the Ohio valley, lccal
rains, followed by clearing weather, variable
winds, shifting to northwest, stationary or
lower temperature and higher barometer.
Another Gould Venture,
Galveston, June 2.—A special from Pal
estine, Texas, says: “At a meeting of the
Directors of the International and Great
Northern Railroad yesterday, the road was
leased to the Missouri Pacific Company for
ninety nine years. The action of the direct
ors was duly ratified by the stockholders.”
Iron Works Burned.
Richmond. June 2— Bruce & Archer’s
Vulcan Iron Works, in this city, were totally
destroyed by fire early this morning. Tne
loss in buildings, material and machinery Is
estimated at $25,000; insurance $15,000.
Twenty years of experience has firmly
rooted Tutt’s Pills in public estimation.
Their wonderful adaptability to the vari
ous forms of disease is a marvel to medical
®en of all schools They are largely used
in hospitals In Europe and America, as well
** in the army and navy. Cuba and other
countries where yellow fever prevail* con
tame nulilon* of boxes annually.
Sanvannah morning News
J. H. ESTILL, PROPRIETOR.
VIRGINIA REPITDIATORS.
mahone in the house of his
friends.
The Head J untera in Councll—Tbelr
Leader Lionized—A Tremeudoua
Advertisement— Uhai He Had to
Say His Coarse In the Senate
Unanimously Approved—A Carni
val of Oath and Gab-The Nomi
nations.
Richmond, June 2. —The Readjuster State
Convention met here to-day with a full rep
resentation from the cities and counties of
the 8 .ate. The delegates numbered over
700, and Included about 75 colored men.
The convention assembled in the Rich
mond Theatre, and was called to order
at 12:30 p. m" by General Stlth
Bolling, of Petersburg, who, acting in
the absence of Gen. Mahone.Cbairman of the
State Central Committee, announced that
Hon. John Paul, member of Congress, had
been selected as temporary Chairman. He
then introduced Mr. Paul, who, upon
taking the chair, briefly addressed the con
vention. His remarks were received with
great applause. Committees on creden
tials and permanent organization were then
appointed, after which a recess was taken
till 2:30.
Upon reassembling the Committee on
Permanent Organization reported, recom
mendlrg Hon. John Paul, of Rockingham,
for permanent President, together with one
\ ice President from each Congressional dis
trict, and P. H. McCall, of Pulaski, for Sec
retary. The report was unanimously adop
ted. A committee of twenty seveD, three
from each district, was appointed on resolu
tions and platform. At this point General
Mahone’s presence at the back part of the
stage became known, and immediately
vociferous calls were made for
him to address tho convention.
All efforts to bring the body to
order failing, the President called for
General Mabone to respond to the call.
As soon as he rose from his chair to come
forward the whole convention with one
accord rose to their feet, and greeted him
with a thundering ovation of shouts, yells,
waving of handkerchiefs and fans. This
deafening applause and manifestation of
pleasure continued for several minutes,
General Mabone meanwhile standing at the
froDt of the stage apparently deeply touched
by this overwhelming receptioL.
When order bad been restored General
Mahone spoke in effect as follow.*:
I greet you, iny friends aud fellow citi
zens, with my most eainest compliments,
and I beg to assure you of the supreme
gratification which I have at this assem
blage of my fellow citizens. It fills the
measure of my loyal ambition to this peo
ple and to this Suite. It testifies to me in
words of warmth, which I will never forget,
your approval of my public conduct. It
doubly assures me that there exists yet in
the bosoms of this people a true
devotion to Jt ffersonian principles of
government. It assures me that the
people of this State in their might aDd sov
ereign power are here to say to the States
of this Union that the State is to be put in
cordial relations with the government. It
assures me that in future her fate and that
of her people are to be identical, and that
her march is to be for freedom and progress
in this land. It assures me that freedom
of opinion is to be the rule in all matters
which relate to men.
You 6nt me to the national capital as
your representative, chosen without solid
tatlon on my part, except the personal re
sponsibility of my earliest devotion to serve i
this people wherever they saw fit to put me.
No sooner was I called to the capital to an
swer for you than a policy of terrorism was
put in practice to silence your representa
tive. I would be recreant to my manhood did
I not maintain that I was there to voice the
manhood of tbis people ; there to oppose
the Democratic Bourbontem which attempt
ed to dictate to the Readlueter party of this
Stale ; and not there to do the bidding at
men claiming to be the Democratic party,
but who would throttle free opinion and a
free ballot. I want no more of that De
mocracy. You are here to give effect to
equal rights, a free ballot and an honest
count; to maintain economy in the
State government and to support
the present system of public
education. You are here to say to your
representatives in Congress that they must
represent the true interests of the people
of this State, and not to reoresent a Demo
cratic Bourbon caucus. You are here to
free those people from Bourbon domina
tion,! and to lift the blight of Bourbon
Democracy which has set in upon us. You
are to restore the old State and her people
to the most cordial relations with all the
people of our common country, and to put
an end to sectional contests, and obliterate
race distinctions.
General Mahone concluded by advising
harmony and urging that to whomsoever
they gave their banner they should s'and by
him to a man in the great fight, which Is to
be made for their freedom and for the free
dom of their posterity. During the delivery
of his speech the General was frequently in
terrupted by applause, which at times was
so great that he was forced to suspend en
tirely, and at Its close he was again the re
cipient of another great outburst of enthusi
asm. This was followed by the introduc
tion of a resolution endorsing General
Mahone’s course in the United States Sen
ate, which was adopted unanimously.
The Committee on Credentials submitted
their report, which, exciting de
bate ovrr tHe contesting delegations from
Lynchburg, was adopted.
The Committee on Resolutions next n
ported a platformjof principles, which, after
being read, was adopted amid considerable
applause.
The convention then proceeded to make
nominations for State officers, beginning
with that for Governor. For this office the
following were put in nomination: John E.
Massey, of Albermarle, the present State
Auditor, Col. Wm. E. Cameron, Mayor of
Petersburg, and Gen. V. D. Groner, of Nor
folk.
The nominating speeches occupied tie
time until 7:30 p. m.. when a recess for an
hour was taken, aDd when the convention
reassembled the speaking was resumed In
seconding the nominations of the four men
tioned. This might have continued for hours
but for the timely interposition and adoption
of a resolution limiting seconding speeches
to five minutes each, and only one to each
candidate. The convention commenced bal
loting at i):35 p. m. The first ballot resulted:
Cameron 272
Massey 234
Grcner. 27
Wise 127
Train Wrecked iu Texas.
Galveston, June 2.—A Fort Worth spe
cial says : “A train on the Missouri Pacific
was wrecked yesterday afternoon bv the
giving way of a wooden bridge spanning
the Trinity river, two miles north of this
town, and the eßgine and nine cars loaded
with coal aDd Iron went down. A brakeman
named Roberts was killed outright, Henry
Fitch, the fireman, had his leg broken, ne
cessitating amputation, and the engineer,
named McDonald, received a severe shock
in jumping from the train. The recent high
water is tupposed to have rendered the
bridge unsafe.”
Tlie .Vltiling Engineers.
Staunton, Va,, June 2.—The Mining In
stitute make a visit to the coal and iron
fields of West Virginia to day. A special
trail) has been placed at tbetr disposal. At
the operatic performance given last night
for the benefit of the Confederate memorial
fund, Professor Raymond, of New York, ap
peared between the acts and made a most
bappv little address, In which, on behalf of
the Institute, he thanks the cltiiens of
S’aunton fer the cordial reception extended
and their hospitable entertainment.
The Confederate monument at Fred
erick, Rid., Unveiled.
Frederick, Md„ June 2— The monu
ment erected by the Ladies’ Monumental
Association, of Frederick county, at Mount
Olivet Cemetery, to mark the graves of the
Southern soldiers who fell at Antietam,
Monocecv and elsewhere in this vicinity,
was unveiled to-day with appropriate cere
monies in the presence of several thousand
persons.
Archbishop Purcell Sinking.
Cincinnati, June 2. —Bishop Elder, o
the Cincinnati diocese, has issued an om
ctal circular letter to the churches, asking
prayers for Archbishop J. B. Purcell, who,
the” letter says, is sinking rapidly in the
retreat in the Ursullne Convent in Brown
county, Ohio.
Veauvlna In Kruptlon.
Naples, June 2 —Slight shocks of earth
quake at Mount Veeuvius have been fol
lowed by a strong eruption. Broad and
active streams of lava are flowing down the
northeast side. _
ged Bos*, Roaches.
Rats, mice, ants, flies, vermin, mosqui
toes. insects, etc., cleared out by “Rough
£s£? He. boxe* at druggUta.
FLASHES FROM AUGUSTA.
The Central Debenture Bonds—An*
other Boom for Anguata—Colonel
Foreacre the PoaatbleSuperlntend*
ento* the Angnata and Knoxville
-The Water Workt Extension
The New Manager of the Wadiey
System.
Augusta, Ga., June 2.—Generals Alexan
der and Haskell and Mr. Wadiey are In town
to-day. Blank forms of Central Railroad
debenture bonds or certificates of indebted
ness were exhibited to day. It is proposed
to make them payable the first of July, 1891,
with interest In semi-annual payments of 3
per cent.
Hon. Allen D. Candler, of Gainesville,
President of the Gainesville. Jefferson and
Social Circle Narrow Gauge Railroad,was in
the city to-day. He hypothecated here
eighty thousand dollars of first mortgage
bonds of the road at favorable figures. This
road is forty two miles long, and thirty miles
or it are now under contract. Seven thousand
dollars per mile will build and equip the
road, which taps the Georgia Rtilroad at
Social Circle, about one hundred miles
above here. It will be a valuable feeder to
Augusta and to Mr. Wadley’s Dew system,
bringing down much of the business now
monopolized by the Atlanta and Charlotte
Air Line.
It is said that in the event of the lease of
the Augusta and Knoxville by the Clyde
syndicate, G. J. Foreacre, former Superin
tendent of the Air Line, will be President
of the Augusta and Knoxville Railroad and
Ita extension. President Verdery is fully
favorable to the lease if the proper guaran
tee bond is given by General Haskell.
Prominent citizens of Augusta, on being
Interviewed to-day, expressed themselves
in favor of Mayor May’s plan to issue $400,-
000 of new city 6 per cent, thirty-year bonds,
to enlarge the Augusta water works and
adopt Dr. Azel Ames’ drainage and sewer
age system.
John w. Green, of the Vicksburg and
MoDroe Rosd, is to be General Manager of
the Wadiey Railroad system,with headquar
ters in Augusta.
MATTERS AT THE CAPITAL.
Tho Star Route Prosecution*— Like*
llhood that They will Go Over till
September—The President and the
Cotton Exposition—Off (or a Trip—
The National Board of Health.
Washington, June 2—The cases against
the star route thieves are very nearly ready
for presentation to the grand jury. They
will hardly be presented at this term of
court. The next term convenes June 20th,
and the court usually takes a recess until
September, so that the presentments may
not be made until that date.
If, however, the Attorney General ex
presses a desire to have immediate action
the court will go on, and the grand jury will
have the evidence laid before it as soou as
it is drawn. The Attorney General said to
day that there was no hurry in the matter,
so it will most likely go over to September.
He also said that when he went before the
grand jury for the indictments he expected
to be so fully prepared that they would be
forthcoming, and that a successful prosecu
tion would follow. All of the cases will not
be presented at once.
Dr. H. V. M. Miller left Washington last
evening, and sailed from New York to day,
in the interest of the Atlanta Cottoa Expo
sition. President Garfield, upon whom he
called, expressed much Interest in the
Exposition, aud hoped it would prove a
great success.
At the annual session of the National
Board of Health the present officers were
all re elected for the ensuing year. The
Louisiana quarantine matter, which was
under discussion yesterday, was disposed of
to day, the Executive Committee being em
powered to use its discretion relative to re
quiring vssssls bound for New Orleans to
stop at Ship Island or Port Eads. The Board
then adjourned sins die.
President Garfield will take a trip to For
tress Monroe to day on the United States
steamer Dlsp&tch.
THE NEW YORK STOCK MARKET.
Closing at tbe Highest Figures ol
the Day.
New York, June 2 —The stock market
was strong and buoyant in the early deal
ings, and at noon prices had advanced % to
3* per cent., Peoria, Decatur and Evans
ville, Memphis and Charleston, Erie Rail
way stocks and Lake Erie and Western
leading the upward movement. Subse
quently there was a reaction of % to
1 per cent., which was quickly re
covered, Dut tbe market continued
unsettled until after the second board,
when the general list became strong, and
closed at about the highest figure of the
day, the advance on vpsterday’s closing
prices ranging from %to% per cent., Peo
ria, Decatur and Evansville, Chicago, Bur
lington and Quincy. Lake Shore, Michigan
Centra], St. Paul, 'Memphis and Charleston,
and Elevated Railway shares being most
prominent therein. Boston Air-Line pre
ferred, which was last quoted at 48, sold up
to Ht, aud closed at 53%. Sales aggregated
387,401 shares.
QUEEN CITY JOCKEY CLUB.
Fifth Day of the Nptlng Meeting.
Cincinnati, June 2.— This was the fifth
day of the Queen City Jockey Club’s meet
ing at Chester Park. The following is a
summary of the events:
The first race, mile heats, best three in
five.
Pacific 1 1 1
Mary Anderson 2 4 2
Edwin A 3 2 4
Belle of Nelson 4 33
Louise Gwynne... 5 dls
Vixation 6 5 dls
Time 1:54, I:s4}*, I:s*.
The second race, for all ages, a dash of
two and a half miles, was a walk over for
Bancroft.
The Consolation purse, mile heats, was
won by Burge, Alice Coulter second, Harry
Gow third. Time 1:52, 1:52K. I:s3}*.
An extra race, a dash of half a mile, was
won by Sarah Bernhardt, Springbok Alley
second and Gussle M. third. Time 53
second*.
The Coasting Firemen and Coal
Heaver* Strike.
New York, June 2.— The firemen and
coal heavers employed on the various coast
ing lines which centre here, who struck
yesterday for an advance of $5 per month
in their wages, are still holding out. Ud
to last evening only the Pacific
Mail steamship line bad acceded to
tbelr demand. This morning Ward’s line
gave an advance. A lot of green men
were engaged for the Western Texas, of
the Mallory line, leaving port to morrow
for Florida, and the Flo Grande, of the
same line, leaving Saturday for Texas. The
Alexander line refuse to be dictated to by
the men, and expect to have a full crew of
green hands by the time of sailing. Trouble
is anticipated from the strikers congre
gated In the neighborhood, some of whom
are under the Influence of liquor and
threatening in their demeanor.
The Work of the Mexican Congress.
Citt of Mexico, June 2 —Congress has
adjourned sine die, its labors giving entire
satisfaction. Its action taken on the tariff
question, it is calculated, will Increase the
revenue over five million dollars. No
action was taken in regard to the English
debt. The House banking bill, which
failed In the Senate, excluded this debt
from the banking scheme. The Executive
will very soon make use of his authoriza
tion to contract for New Orleans railroads.
The Topolo Vampo Railroad scheme will
probably fail.
Russian Rioters Punished.
Kieff, June 2. —The ringleader of the
anti Jewish riots here has been sentenced
to three and a half years penal servitude
and the loss of bis civil rights. Three of
his most active accomplices have been sen
tenced to eighteen months, and twelve oth
ers to short terms or imprisonment.
The Serulln de Lisle.
London, June 2.—A Paris dispatch says:
“The scrutin de liste bill, but modified in
several of its lDsignlfisint details, will
probably pass the Senate by a majority of
about thirty votes. It Is doing President
Grevy wrong to suppose that he is inspiring
useless resistance to the measure.”
A Ten Million Mortgage.
Austin, Texas, June 2. —The first mort
gage bonds aud trust deed of the Chicago,
Texas and Mexican Central Railway Com
pany, in favor of the Central Trust Com
pany of New Yrok, amounting in the aggre
gate to $10,600,000, was filed with the Sec
retary of State yesterday.
THE UNITED KINGDOM.
ARCHBISHOP CROKE’S MASTER
LY REVIEW OF THE LAND
QUESTION.
A Clear Presentation of the lasne and
Sensible Counsel—Forster Still in
Ireland Cardinal Hanning and
tbe League ol the Cross—The Late
Riot at Clonmel.
New York, June 2.—A Dublin dispatch
announces that Archbishop Croke con
cluded at Thurles yesterday one of the most
extraordinary campaigns ever known in
Irish ecclesiastical history. In the forenoon
he made a remarkable appeal to Mr. Glad
stone to put a stop to evictions. “The
word ‘eviction,’ ” he said, “in the sense in
which it is used here, is scarcely known
in any other country in the world. There
is no such word and no such thing else
where. It is a word of vile omen. It is a
word that imports the depopulation of our
country, that imports the degradation of
our people, that imports the flying of them
beyond the waters to foreign lands in quest
of the means of livelihood, carryißg with
them a spirit of vengeance against wbat is
certainly the greatest empire in the world,
but which is no less certainly an empire
which has treated Ireland worse than ever
an empire treated a dependency. Let no
man henceforth be turned out of bis land
unless It is q -ite clear that the money which
should have met his engagements was waste
fully and foolishly dissipated. It was only
the other day that the venerable parish
priest of Moycorkey told me that when he
became priest of that parish it contained
twelve hundred famll'es, and there are at
present only four hundred.”
Counselling the people, he said, at the
same time: “If evictions are to go on I
would advise you how to act. Don’t bring
yourselves into collision with the au horl
tles. They are too strong for you. If not
even for conscience sake, for our own pre
servation, for the sake of expediency, if net
for principle, we must act on the defensive.
We must offer a passive resistance to those
opposed to us, and lnthatjchey will get tired
of the contest, because a whole united peo
ple have never yet been defeated.”
In another speech in the evening, the
Archbishop declared that the agitation
was not due to Davitt, nor Parnell nor their
followers, but to the fact that there was a
mighty grievance, and that the Irish peo
ple at last contemplated it manfully, and
were determined to remove It. With
out the priesthood of Ireland, it would
have been impossible for the movement to
reach Its present mighty dimensions. It
had been said that Mr. Parnell did not wish
the co-operation of the priesthood, but the
Archbishop declared authoritatively that
two years ago Mr. Parnell waited on him in
Dublin and literally weDt down on his knees
to ask him to use all his Influence to have
the priests join the movement.
He concluded with the following declara
tion: “I have to say that this movement is
not a revolutionary movement in the strict
sense of the word. It is a constitutional
movement. It is a lawful movement. It is
a movement which we Intend to pash for
ward by moral force alone. We do not
intend to violate aDy law. We Intend
to exhaust ail constitutional remedies. We
are perfectly certain that the elasticity
of the constitution will allow us the means
of working energetically to the last,and final
ly achieving the result we aim at. We wish
to produce an effect upon Eogland, not by
physical force, or by any manifestations of
physical force, but by moral means. We
do not intend to do Injury to any mortal
man. We recognize the rights of the owner
of the soil, and we recognize our own rights
at the same time; and while we give to
‘Caesar the goods that are Caesar’s,’ we
will assert for ourselves the things
that are ours. What we want
is a chance for our lives In our
own country, and we will forget the past.
We will forget the numberless tyrannies of
England. We will lorget all the tears we
have been obliged to shed. We will forget
the massacres that have been committed,
the extermination of our race and the down
fall, so far as It was possible for them to
accomplish It-, of our dear country, and we
will begin anew the 3Core with the domi
nant country. Will let her see that
we are not only able to flourish abroad, but
that in our own land we cannot be eup
prefsed. I hear of a disagreement among
the leaders of the people, but these things
are exaggerated. Our phalanx Is unbroken.
Our spirit Is unsubdued, and the result is,
therefore, as clear as day. We must suc
ceed”
London, June 2.— Mr. Forster, Chief
Secretary for Ireland, will be detained some
days longer in Ireland, owing to the aspect
of affairs there.
In the House of Commons to day, Mr.
Gladstone, replying to Mr. Chaplain, Con
servative member for Lincolnshire Middle,
said there was no foundation whatever for
the statement that the Irish Executive has
represented to the Cabinet the necessity for
suppressing the LaDd League. Replying
to Sir Stafford Northcote, Mr. Gladstone
stated that shots were exchanged at Scariff,
but that nobody was shot on either side.
Limerick, June 2 —The statement is de
nied that three policemen have been killed
during an eviction riot at Scariff, county
Clsre. The people fired on the police, who
returned tbe fire, killing one of the rioters.
About a hundred shots were exchanged.
The Assistant Secretary and a member of
the branch of the Land League at Kilby,
near Kells, county Meath, have been ar
rested under the provisions of the coercion
act on suspicion of mutilating cattle.
The Daily Reiot, in Its leading article this
morning, says: “It is understood that the
suggestion which Mr. Forster, Chief Secre
tary for Ireland, has to make to his col
leagues for the restoration of order in
Ireland, will be submitted to a Cabinet
Council to-day.”
Cardinal Manning told a deputation of
tbe Catholic League of the Cross yester
day that he had not ordered the refusal of
tbe use of club halls for Land League meet
ings, but he desired that the League of the
Cross, as a body, should not ally itself with
any political movement.
The dispatch from Clonmel yesterday,
announcing the death of a policeman and
the precarious condition of a number of
soldiers from injuries received in the riot
there on Tuesday, was exaggerated. No
policeman or soldier received dangerous
iDiury, though several were knocked down.
In the House of Commons this evening
Mr. Gladstone said the report of an affray
between tbe inhabitants of the islands off
the coast of Donegal and the crew of the
gunboat Goshawk was untrue.
Railroad* in Canada.
The Canadian Parliament has just
issued a blue book containing statistics
of the development of the Dominion’s
railway system. It recites that in 1875
the entire railway mileage in operation
in Canada was 4,483i miles, the cost of
which had been $299,782,557, or upward
of $66,000 per mile; and during that
year the profit earned by all this mile
age was only 1J per cent, on the invest
ment In 1878 there were 6,143 miles of
railway in operation, with 1,763 miles of
additional in process of construction.
In June, 1880, the date to which the date
in the blue book is brought down, there
were in operation 6,891.18 miles; under
construction and on which track bad
been laid, 338 55; under construction,
1,077 67; total, 8,308 49. This mileage
did not include 208 miles of the
Grand Trunk and 21 miles of the South
eastern Koad, situated in the
United States. Every road in the
Dominion shows an increase in the
freight and passengers carried in 1880
over 1879. The Grand Trunk shows the
largest increase, the Canada Southern
and the Great Western Railways being
next in the order of increase. These
Canadian railways have cost $871,051,-
392. About 40 per cent, of this total is
represented by bonded debt and pre
ferential shares; more than one fourth
represents government and municipal
aid, leaving the ordinary share capital at
about one-third of the whole. The rail
ways of tbe Dominion oarned last year
$23,561,447.
Two lovers were out for a morning
walk in the leafy aisles of a New Jersey
forest. The birds sang blithely upon tbe
boughs, the early sunshine quaffed the
dew from grass and petals, and all na
ture seemed to rejoice like a bride on her
wedding day. Tbe maiden gathered
violets, arbutus and cowslips, while he
gathered what he supposed to be a white
kitten that had taken refuge in the hol
low stump of a long departed tree. Mis
erable fatel Strange catastrophe! Un
happy man! Referring to the incident
afterward in a letter to a friend, the
maiden wrote: “If George were boiled
for a thousand years in the hot springs
of Iceland, I don’t believe he’d ever
smell sweet again.”— Waift,
SAVANNAH, FRIDAY, JUNE 3, 1881.
Letter from Bradford County, Florida
Hampton, Fl‘a., June 1 .—Editor Morning
Xu i: Allow me space in your valuable columns
for a few words from this portion of Florida.
This part of Bradford county, like a great
many other parts of the Bute, has been set
tied mostly in the last three or four years by
Northerners and foreigners, very little being
known of it before the culture of oranges and
vegetables caused such a rush of emigrants
while now it is engrossing the attention of a
great many wealthy Northerners, who contem
plate purchasing homes in our genial clime,
where they will be comparatively free from ice
and entirely free from snow.
Th e por{)on of Florida cannot be beaten for
raising vegetables and oranges, the soil being
light, fertile and easily cultivated.
Mr J. D. Jeffords, Roadmaster on the Atlan
tic, Gulf and West India Transit Railroad, has
realized from one acre of Irish potatoes #159
above expenses, besides shipping a great many
cabbages and beans, which yield a fair profit.
Cucumbers and Irish potatoes are, however,
acknowledged to be the most profitable crop.
A great many are planting cotton, and crops
are looking well, notwithstanding the unfa
vorable spring.
1 he second anniversary of the Alachua Coun
ty Sabbath School Association took place at
Gainesville on the 26th ult., lasting until the
28th. On Saturday, 2-?tb, an excursion train in
charge of that most courteous and efficient
conductor, Mr. Saussy, was run from Lawtey
to Gainesville, to take visitors who wished to
remain only Saturday, the picnic day, the fare
being only fifty ceDts for the round trip. By
half-past seven o’clock your correspondent,
with fifteen or twenty Sabbath-school
children, were awaiting the train at this place.
The train arrived at half-past eight, and we
were all soon comfortably seated and in antici
pation of a nice ride and a pleasant day, and
we were not by any means disappointed.
At Waldo, the next station, we awaited the
train from the Peninsula Road, which con
nects with the Transit Road at that place.
Waldo is an unpretending place. It has seven
stores, two barroom*, an art gallery and a ho
tel. The Santa Fe Lake Canal Company’s
office is also situated here, tbe canal extending
within a few hundred yards of the depot.
Mr. Kenard owns a beautiful orange grove
near there The people seem busy planting
cucumbers, juiging from the number of patches
we saw. On arriving at the depot, which is
three-quarters of a mile from Gainesville we
were met by a good many of the citizens and
escorted to Oak Hall Grove, where the exer
cises of the day were to take place.
Gainesville is a very pretty town, and Is
building up very rapidly. It might be called
an immense orange grove and cucumber
patch. Every available spot and yard is either
planted in one or the other, though the orange
trees are not looking as well as those between
Starke and Waldo, on the line of railroad.
On arriving at the grove, we were greeted
with a song of welcome by the Sabbath schools
of Gainesville, after which all dispersed to
enjoy themselves as best suited their inclina
tions.
Oak Hall Grove is a beautiful plce, and, if
planted in Bermuda grass and properly fer
tilized, could be made one of the prettiest
places iu Florida. The United States Land
Office building is situated In the middle of the
grove.
At one o’clock a sumptuous repast was
spread by the good people of Gainesville be
neath the umbrage of those magnificent oaks
and all were invited to partake. The invitation
was received with pleasure, and all were soon
busy appeasing the demands of the inner man.
After dinner the young folk indulged in many
merry game*, some of the older ones joining
them, no doubt feeling young again under the
exhilara’iog effects of the enthusiasm of their
youthful companions Good order pr vailed,
and peace and plenty reigned supreme
throughout the day, a few indulging in a little
of the ’’o’er joyful,” but not to excess.
At 3 o’clock we retraced eur steps to the
depot and soon the conductor’s warning “all
aboard” was heard, and we bid farewell to
Gainesville, carrying with us fond recollections
of those happy hours as we re-echo the words
of the last song sung.
“If thy will, O Lord, we pray thee
Grant we all may meet again.”
Nothing occurred to mar the happiness of
our return except a few who had not joined
the temperance society and consequently were
pretty boisterous. One young man lost his
nat, being thus rewarded for his meritorious
conduct while under the influence of king al
cohol.
A few ripe peaches were visible now and
then through ih) day, and looked very tempt
ing.
Bradford county is noted for its good health,
no malaria existing of any consequence. Chills
and fever almost unknown. Measles and mos
quitoes are, however, very plentiful, the latter
especially. A good many very pretty lakes in
this vicinity furnLh good sport for the fisher
man. The weather has been very dry for some
time, but yesterday a good rain fell, and all
nature looks refreshed.
The Weekly News is the most popular paper
of this section, and is gaining ground rapidly.
Long may she wave. More anon.
P. W. T.
Let ter from Leon County, Fla.
Ckntreville, Leon Countv, Fla., June I.
Editor Morning News: We are just now pass
ing through, as the average African terms it, a
dry .drought, and a severe dry drought it is, for
it has been six or seven weeks rince we had
anything like a good general rain. In the
meantime, however, we have had one or two
light showers, which did no material good,
except to settle the dust. And, really, our
condition is beginning to become alarming, as
the corn crop in our section is very backward
and small, a great deal of it not more than
knee high to a man of ordinary size, while it
should be, and usually is at this date, shoulder
high. But notwithstanding the severe drought
through which it has passed, and what is still
upon it, where it has been properly cultivated
it retains a green and healthy color, and we
hope yet to get rain in time sufficient to pre
vent an entire failure.
As is usually the case in our county, our
planters are again purchasing large quantities
from the Northwest of bacon, corn and hay,;all
of which is to be paid for, if paid for at all, out
of tbe cotton crop, which promises now to sell
for not more than six or seven cents per pound.
Will it ever be thus? Will the planters never
see the necessity of making provisions, or will
it go on this way until the whole county is
bankrupt? As yet most of our people stick to
cotton and seem determined to fight it out on
that line. I suppose they go it upon the prin
cipal of th# boy who went to mill and carried
a stone in one end of the bag to balance the
corn in the other end, because, said he, “that is
the way daddy done.”
Some of our neighbors, realizing the necessi
ty of anew departure in agricultural pursuits,
bave this year tried an Irish potato crop for
market, and a few of the number bave met
with fair success in raising and marketing
them, while others have made a signal failure
But those failing are not discouraged,and intend
to try again. The failure to raise a marketable
potato may be accounted for in two ways. One
is the extreme dry weather; the other, the
want of experience in fertilizing, planting and
growing them. The latter they claim to have
bought and paid for this year, and hope lot
better seasons when they plant again.
Cotton is looking vigorous and healthy and
promises well; in fact, I have heard several
say their crop of cotton was never better. But
the disasters attending this crop are numer
ous and destructive, and we cannot tell how
soon it may be attacked by one or the other of
its enemies. The writer was shown on the
2fith of last month a cotton caterpillar nearly
grown, a"d known as tbe second crop of tbe
worm. This, in all probability, will be with
us what is known as'a caterpillar year, and the
cotton plant may be destroyed before it ma
tures more than half a crop. And then with a
debt on hand contracted for bacon at ten to
twelve cents per pound, and corn at one dollar
to one dollar and twenty five cents per bushel,
and hay at one dollar and fifty cents per hun
dred to pay,where will we stand? and what will
be our condition?
The oat crop is generally very fair and would
have been the best raised here for years had
the earth been more moist. Harvesting has
already commenced and will save many dol
lars to our people. Gardens are almost an en
tire failure; vegetables are parched almost
unto death. Taken all together we have but
little at this time to make us happy and cheer
ful, but we hope for better times. J. B. C.
An Early Clonded Administration-
Bad Appearance.
Springfield Republican, Garfield paper.
Since President Garfield took office he
has made the following thoroughly bad
appointments: James G. Biaine, to be
Secretary of State; Stanley Matthews,
to be Justice of the Supreme Court—a
bad egg, left unhatched by Hayes, now,
unfortunately, a full fledged chicken by
a majority of one vote in the
Senate; William E. Chandler, to
be second law officer of the gov
ernment—fortunately rejected by the
Senate; Gen. Kilpatrick, to be Minister
to Chili; Wallace R. White, of Maine,
to be Public Prosecutor for Washington
Territory. There are several other ap
pointments which are cloudy, but the
above have already proved a serious
damage to the administration. The nomi
nation of Robertson for Collector of the
New York custom honse is not objec
tionable personally, but is justly so on
the ground that a good official i's super
seded in the trial of a valid experiment
in reform and a partisan of the President
is rewarded, and there are others of the
some character. Morton as Minister to
France is an appointment which the
President seems to have as good as prom
ised in order to secure support in the
campaign.
According to the Boston Economist,
the total production of gold in 1380
throughout the world amounted to sllß,-
000,000 ($89,000,000 of which was pro
duced in America); of silver, $94,000,-
000 (of which $76,000,000 was produced
in America); total of both, $212,000,000.
The largest production in anv one year
was in 1853—0f gold, $236,000,000; sil
ver, $49,000,000; total of both, $285,-
000,000. Since that year the annual pro
duct of gold has diminished one-half,
and that of silver has nearly doubled.
CONKLING'S CANVASS.
THE BALLOTING YESTERDAY AT
ALBANY.
Still No Result—A Recess To be
Taken To-Day Till Tuesday—Cor
nell Loomlue Up—The Rosa Re*
turns to New York.
Albany, June 2.—The following is the
result of the first ballot to-day for the
vacancy caused by Mr. Conkling’s resigna
tion:
Conkling 34
Jacobs 52
Wheeler 19
Rogers ll
Cornell 21
Fenton 2
Pomeroy 1
Elick 1
Folger 2
Crowley 1
Bradley 1
Tremaine 2
Chapman 1
Dutcher l
Lapham 1
Fish l
The Assembly, by a vote of 61 to 56, has
adopted a concurrent resolution for a recess
from Friday until Tuesday next.
Tbe following Is the vote to fill the va
cancy caused by Mr. Platt’s resignation:
Platt 28
Kernan 53
Depew 28
Cornell 11
Lapham 8
Evarts 2
Ward 3
Folger 3
Crowley 3
Miller
Dutcher 2
Wadsworth 2
Geo B. Sloan 1
J. Van Cott 1
David Rumsey 1
Finley 1
The joint session then proceeded to take
another vote to fill the vacancy occasioned
by the resignation of Mr. Conkling. Mr.
Cowles changed his vote from Conkling to
Cornel). Tbe vote was as follows:
Roscoe Conkling 33
Wm. A. W’heeler 17
John C. Jacobs 52
Geo. B. Bradley 1
Sherman 8. Rogers 15
Governor Cornell 20
Ruben E. Fenton 3
The others scattering.
The second vote to day for a successor to
Mr. Piatt resulted as follows.
Thos. C. Piatt 28
Chaui'cev M. Depew 30
Francis Kernan 52
Governor Cornell 13
The remainder scattering.
New York, June 2.—The Albany special
of the Evening Post says: “The large gains
for Cornell for the short term and for De
pew for the long term, Indicate that the
administration men will unite on them by
to-morrow. An Important conference in
reference to this subject will be held to
night.”
Mr. Conkling left by steamer to-night for
New York, being called there by legal busi
ness. He will return to Albany as soon as
it is completed.
Glimpse at New England Morality.
Wilmington (N. C.) Star.
The prevalence of the divorce mania
in New England is still one of the topics
of the press of that section. Rev. S. W.
Dike, of Vermont, is lecturing in C©>
necticut ou the subject. He shows that
in New England in the last year there
were 2.013 divorces. There is no doubt
that the abuse is very great, and that the
Scriptures are disregarded in most in
stances. The New Haven liagister says
that the loose morals of that county and
of Hartford county are greater than m
Chicago, proverbial for the same thing,
and that not one-fourth of the divorces
were granted for Scriptural causes.
We must give one paragraph
from the Register that should, teach
the philanthropists of New England that
they have under their noses the greatest
possible offenses that demand tine prun
ing knife and the cautery. Ic would
really seem that there are enough cry
ing evils at home demanding their atten
tion without coming a thousand or two
thousand miles southward to pry into
other people’s shortcomings. When
they have ceased to disfranchise tens
of thousands of white men, and when
they have ceased to destroy the
sanctity, purity and beauty of the
marital relations by easy laws and
flagrant abuses; and when they have
cured the damning curse of prostitution
and illegitimacy and other startling
crimes against decency, civilization,
morality and national progress, they may
then mount tbeir studs "and go off in
quest of other conquests in the grtat
field of reform. Let them first set their
own houses in order before endeavoring
to inquire officiously into the manage
ment of tbe households of other peop'e.
Let them be first true to themselves and
then they will not be false to others.
But to the extract from an editorial in
the New Haven Register. It says:
“Instances of couples agreeing to live to
gether for three months after marriage, and if
it was not satisfactory to agree to a divorce,
are not wanting, and many instances of peo
ple obtaining two, three, and sometimes even
four divorces are known. Mr. Dike, from a
correspondence witn one hundred cities and
large towns in New Fngland, gathers the testi
mony that while there is less open and flagrant
crime than formerly,the crime against chastity
has increased with great rapidity, that the birth
rate is correspondingly low with the increase
of divorces, that the number of illegitimate
births has increased from 8 in 1,000 In 1860, to
17 In I.COO in 1879, and that the birth rate is
probably lower than In any European coun
try.”
We mentioned before that in New
England a lecturer said that the divorces
in the Northwest were a genuine pro
duction of that section. In one county
in Minnesota. Hennepin by name, in ten
years there were 289 divorces granted,
or one in every fourteen marriages.
With such figures and facts the wonder
is that all the Gcd fearing or virtue
loving people in the North—if there be
such—do not rise up and demand a re
form. Some of the best people are be
coming alarmed. Only the other day
Professor Phelps, of the Andover Theo
logical Seminary, sounded a note of
alarm. He said—and mind you it is a
New England man talking—a man of
learning and of character :
••We are not hair awake to the fact that by
our laws of divorce and our toleration of the
social evil we are doing more to corrupt the
nation's heart than Mermouisiu tenfold. Vice,
avowed and blatant and organized, to a large
extent nullifies itself, so far as self-diffusion is
concerned. But vice, lurking and still, trickles
into all tbe crevices of society. A nation of
Mormons is impossible—not so a nation of lib
ertines.”
Any people who depart from the law
of Christ and make lax laws for lustful
people, are simply legalizing adultery,
corrupting the hearth-stone, destroying
society, and diffusing Morraonism under
another guise through the North.
A Startling Disclosure.— By an
act of Congress, Dr. Dodge, of Fond du
Lac, and Dr. Nauman, of this city, are
making a thorough medical examination
of each of the inmates of the National
Soldiers’ Home, situated just outside of
the city, for the purpose of deciding who
shall and who shall not remain. Tbe
investigation made by tbe physicians
discloses some startling facts, and shows
that nearly one half the inmates are
drunken, lazy fellows, who never re
ceived any wounds during the war; and
it is the intention of the commandant to
discharge all these persons to the num
ber of nearly two hundred and fifty. The
physicians will make a report soon, in
wh ch they will recommend that about
one half {he inmates be discharged.—
Milwaukee News.
By way, perhaps, of signalizing his ac
cession to the chief editorship of the
New York Post, ex-Secretary Schurz de
clares that Republican defeat is probable
in 1884 unless the party and the present
administration “resolutely take in hand
all those things in which improvement
is called for —our fiscal policy, the pub
lic service, the relations between the dif
ferent sections of country, and so on.
Only in this way can it s'tart again the
conservative current in its favor, with
out which the mere tricks of party man
agement or campaign work will be just
as unavailing as they would have been
without it last year.”
Mr. Grant.
Rew Orleans Times.
Some time since the Times proposed,
in all seriousness, an amendment to the
Constitution of the United States, that
each outgoing President should betaken,
the day after the inauguration of his
successor, and solemnly shot by the
drum major of the Marine Baud or some
other high official, and buried, with all
due honors, in an appropriate manner.
Among many reasons which commend
themselves to the thoughtful mind for
an amendment of this sort one main
reason is that it will effectually’ prevent
ex Presidents from cheapening or dis
gracing the high office they have once
held. We should be spared the painful
affliction of seeing the hat sent round to
keep an ex President from starving, of
seeiDghim become a free lunch fiend
and a deadhead demon, and a general
pauper on the scraps from rich men’s
tables. He has held the highest office
possible extant in the world at this pres
ent time, and it is disgraceful that he
should be a lick kettle in the kitchens of
vulgar rich men, speculating knaves
who make him “President” <rf this or
the other wild-cat fair or company, and
dole him out his clothes and cigars, for
the use of his name.
We have at present two ex-Emperors
on our hands. They are both healthy
and it is very likely we shall add one to
their honorable brotherhood every four
years for some time to come. They are
likely to be a growing embarrassment,
and we see no effectual means to deal
with them except in the way of the
Times amendment.
Up to four years ago ex Presidents
were generally harmless old gentlemen.
When the country or the party had got
done with them, they retired to a farm.
But four years ago we got anew style
of ex-President on our hands. Mr.
Grant had tasted blood. He didn’t want
to be ex President at all. He had never
been able to make his living on a farm,
in a tannery, nor anywhere else. He
couldn’t get a doiiar ahead, except when
Yankee Doodle paid his bills, and not
many dollars then. Mr. Hayes takes to
Freemont and his corn crop, pumpkins
and pigs quite naturally. He will be a
good fence viewer, justice of the peace
and judge at county lairs, and a happy
old fogy for many years.
But our Ulysses doesn’t like being ex
President. He never was successful or
respectable till we made him General
and President. He doesn’t know any
thing about pumpkins or pigs, and
camp meetings and not county fairs
were Ulysses’ weaknesses. He has hob
nobbed with the Emperor Ushang
Whang, of the Cannibal Islands, and
taken his beer with Victoria in his dead
head trip as ex-Emperor of America
round the universe, and be sees no love
liness in settling down to fatten pigs and
be a moral Solon in the swamps of
Suckerdom. He wants to keep on being
President,
He is not much in the way of the
country. The country has got through
with him. But he is a dreadful nuisance
to the Republican party. It has our
sympathies. He rides it like the old man
of the sea. It has tried to bribe him with
a World’s Fair, with the Presidency of
a wild cat railroad; with unlimited free
lunches, drinks and cigars; with a hat
ful of contributions from all the bond
holders and monopolists. But the old
gentleman must be quiet. He owns the
Republican party. He saved it,
at all events, twice. He spread his
name over its corruptions, knaveries, dis
graces. He had the distinguished honor
of presiding eight years over the mean
est and most debauched administration
the country ever knew—an administra
tion which will go down as a monumen
tal infamy to all time, with his name at
the head of it. He was the first and
highertothe only President of the United
States who used the office not as a trust
but as a reward, a vulgar prize, won for
personal uses. He has the distinguished
honor of being the first man who cap
tured that great place and used it for
himself and his friends—and such friends!
And he won’t forget it. The world is
changed. The country is changed.
llone3ly has come in or is trying to.
Modesty has sent a card with regrets.
Belknap, Landaulet Williams, Tom
Murphy, “the Grant crowd,” have be
come too old. Everybody knows it ex
cept Mr. Grant. He and his adminis
tration smell strong in the nostrils of the
party. But the stubborn old man won’t
see that he is a nuisance, that “the vete
ran lags superfluous on the stage.” The
“silem soldier” we all admired (and
whose silence some of us thought was
owing to the fact that he had nothing to
say) has taken to writing letters and
speechifying.
It is a pity he did not remain silent.
His speeches and his letters are fast
ruining a splendid fame. It is the case
of an ex President disgracing his dignity.
He can’t retire gracefully. He thinks be
owns the country, at least the Republi
can party. Mr. Hayes feeding his pigs
at Fremont, Ohio, is a respectable figure.
Mr. Grant, the pensioner of stock gam
blers and shoddy millionaires, the pen
sioner of the dirtiest and meanest plutoc
racy that was ever seen in history, writ
ing silly letters, insolent and dictatorial,
to his “party,” is the most unhappy
figure on tbe national canvas.
But he is the Republican party’s prob
lem, not ours. We speak because we
have a lingering respect for “the silent
soldier” yet. If he has any friends we
plead with them to take charge of him,
and save him from ruining a splendid
fame, from going down as at the last the
poor tool of dirty politicians, who for
their own mean ends make a fool of
him before a people who h ive honored
him quite as much as he deserves, and
who don’t want him, nor his ways, nor
his Belknaps, his Murphys, his Wil
liamses, nor any of the “Grant crowd”
any more forever.
His speeches and his letters, since “the
silent soldier” became the gabbling poli
tician, are a living argument for the
solem shooting of all ex-Presidents on
the fifth of March. Let the Times
amendment pas !
A Fisiiy Story About the Presi
dent.—A Washington special to the
Courier Journal says: “The story print
ed to day to the effect that while Garfield
was a member of tbe House and ‘visit
ing statesman’ duiing the electoral
troubles, he received a draft of $12,500
for services in securing the release of
certain imported goods held in bond be
cause,of irregularities, has caused con
siderable talk here. A gentleman who
says he has seen the draft has said to
your correspondent that some days ago
it was placed in the hands of a newspa
per correspondent by ex-Senator Pome
roy, of Kansas; that the correspondent
now has it; that the correspondent told
Senator Cockrell the other day that he
had it, and that Pomeroy had showed it
to ex Senator Conkling, and acquainted
him with all the facts relating to it.
Pomeroy is now here, and his frequent
conferences with the correspondent re
ferred to has given rise to considerable
speculation. Although a story of this
kind is generally looked on as fishy, yet
the peculiar circumstances of the case
appear to excite curiosity.”
But yesterday the noisy crowd Bore
them along with loud acclaim; To Grant
and Conkling, grand and proud They
pointed, with their spitless fame. But
fame is false, and friends are weak. And
power and patronage are strong, While
they who fawn your aid to seek Desert
you with the gathering storm. So they
who stood with heated breath, And
cheered for “Grant and Conkling too,”
Now, “Crucify them to the death,” Is
shouted by the yelping crew .—Stalwart
Bard.
The New York World claims to have
“unimpeachable authority for the state
ment that Secretary Blaine declares him
self to have had no conversation what
ever with President Garfield about Mr.
Robertson’s nomination before it went
to the Senate. Secretary Blaine asserts
that the nomination is to be looked upon
as the act of the President in everv
sense.”
ESTABLISHED 1850.
PLAGUED BY PESTS.
An Army of Locmti Destroying Co
lombia’s Crops.
A gentleman just returned from the
United States of Colombia says a great
locust plague is desolating the country,
and is rapidly bringing the inhabitants
to starvation. During a railroad trip
from Salgar to Barranquilla the gentle
man witnessed a terrible devastation
effected by the pests. “The surround
ing lands,” he says, “were as utterly
barren of livo vegetation as though some
great fire had swept through them, burn
ing and blasting everything in its track.
The once magnificent groves of cocoa
nut trees were to be compared to noth
ing but a forest of bare poles, without
a single green twig or leaf. Millions
upon millions of locusts filled the
air like great clouds, and the atmosphere
in some places was quite hazy, as a con
sequence. The ground presented a re
markable appearance, and, as the train
traveled along, the insects were so thick
that they looked like small yellow waves
as they jumped up and down. Not a
stalk or a blade of grass was anywhere
to be seen. The locusts alighted upon
us until our clothes were covered with
them. When we tried to remove them,
they showed their ravenous condition
by attempting to bite our fingers.
The farmers are in a state of terror,
as they are perfectly helpless befote
the plague. 1 learned that the wheat
crop is almost entirely destroyed,
and orders have been sent to New
York for large shipments of flour to
supply the necessities of the people.
There is no immediate danger of a
famine, as the natives can live upon a
very small amount of food, and the most
of them have a stock on hand. Should
the locusts remain until the raising of a
second crop there will be great cause for
alarm. The whole country is in a state
of excitement, and at Barranquilla I
witnessed nightly a procession of priests
and people, who marched through
the town and called upon the patron
Saint of the parish, St. Nicholas,
to intervene and save the land from de
struction. Every one carried a lighted
candle. In the midst of the priests there
was borne an image of St. Nicholas.
The procession shouted their prayers
and sang their litanies in an earnest man
ner. The smallest children carried can
dles, and seemed to be impressed with
the solemnity of the ceremonies.
These processions are going on all
over the country. The supersti
tious populace imagine that the
locusts have been sent by heaven as a
punishment for some great national sin
of which they are guilty. The locusts
came from the interior of the country,
and I was informed that all the vegeta
tion in the vicinity of the Magdelena
river was eaten up long ago. The
locusts are about as long as a man's mid
dle finger. They are of a yellowish
green color, and make a loud, aggrava
ting noise while flying through the air.
I fear they will stay all summer, unless
the lack of food compels them to mi
grate.”
Women Preachers.
Here is what the Presbyterian General
Assembly, recently in session in Buffalo,
N. Y., have to say on this subject:
“On the call for the synodical reports,
all were passed, except from Illinois
North. In the committee’s report upon
the record they object to the fact that an
address was delivered to the Synod by a
woman. The committee say that while
woman is to be highly commended in
the performance of the duties of her
divinely-appointed office in the house
hold, which is scarcely second to any
other in its endowment of power to
build up the kingdom and promote the
glory of God on earth, and while woman
is also to be highly honored and to re
ceive all proper sympathy and encourage
ment in the world for the evangelization
of the world and the rescue of the
fallen, which she is now doing with
the noblest devotion and energy, and
which has been crowned so signally with
the divine blessing, yet it seems to the
committee that such action is a departure
from the rule of practice laid down in
the word of God. While a single de
parture from & divine rule of practice
may not result in serious evil, as a single
violation of the laws of health may not
cause disease, yet such departure, if it
come to be a rule of action, and an es
tablished custom, will, like the habitual
violation of the laws of health, result in
evils that are both serious and inevita
ble. The high character of the impulse
by which and the worthiness of the
object for which the departure is made
will not avert the evils. The General
Assembly, our highest authority in the
interpretation of the proper rule of faith
and practice which we have in the Word
of God, expressed in the year 1852 its
disapprobation of such action in the fol
lowing terms, viz : ‘Meetings of pious
women by themselves, for conversation
and prayer, whenever they can be con
veniently held, we entirely approve, but
let not the inspired prohibition of the
great Apostle of the Gentiles, as found
in his epistles to the Corinthians and
Timothy, be violated. To teach and
exort, or to lead in prayer in public and
promiscuous assemblies, is clearly for
bidden to women in the holy oracles.’”
Silk Making in California.
A San Francisco correspondent of the
Baltimore Sun writes: “Silk making
has taken anew start in California.
Besides the factory in San Jose, two or
ganizations of earnest women, assisted
by competent and ready proffers of
means, as well as co-operation of work
ing experience, have been making prepa
rations to introduce this industry on a
wide basis in this State. They solicit
letters from all parties having mulberry
trees to give a statement of the mulberry
trees they have, and to say if assured of
sales they would multiply the trees
and raite cocoons. They promise
to establish filatures to reel tbe
silk from the cocoons, and
(when waranted) to build factories to
work up the raw material as fast as pro
duced. This is work for incorporate
capital, but the rearing of silkworms
must be left to individuals. Every
farmer in all silk countries, and every
family having but an acre, finds time in
the season of forty days for its women
and children to make extra income in
this way. It is employment that im
proves health, recruits the muscles of
labor, refines the morals, enriches the
diet, multiplies schools and churches,
beautifies the homes and elevates the
social condition of all the surrounding
people. Having traveled and observed,
we declare that in the sum of its adapta
tion to the siik culture, no other country
can compare with California.”
The Amount of Gold and Silver Coin
In Circulation.
The estimate of capable and trust
worthy statisticians is that the amount
of gold and silver coin in circulation in
the fourteenth year of the Christian era
was $1,327,000,000. During the dark
ages, when Europe had relapsed into
barbarism, the precious metals, to a great
extent, disappeared and were reduced in
1492, or about the time of the discovery
of America, to $192,000,000, of which
$135,000,000 were in silver aDd the ratio
of silver to gold from that period, for
nearly four centuries, varied but little
from that of 154 to 1. With the con
quest of Mexico and Peru a strong cur
rent of both gold and silver set from
America through Spain into Europe, so
that in 1843, or just five years before
the discovery of gold in California, the
silver in the world’s possession has
reached $2,053,000,000 and tbe gold
$4,885,000,000. But the ratio still re
mained the same. In the interval, how
ever, of one-third of a century only, or
between 1843 and 1878, each have in
creased, but gold more rapidly thq n
silver, and overtaken it and practically
changed the proportion previously given
to an equality, for $7,000,000,000 in gold
and tne same amount in silver were then
found to be in existence.
The New Washington Ufa Jf
Washington Cor. Providence Journal.
The protracted session of the Senate
has given the Senators an opportunity
to see this metropolis in its beautiful
vernal attire, with its green lawns, its
many thousand shade trees in leaf, and
the numerous exhibitions of flowers in
the front yards of residences. Really
our Solons can regard Washington as a
city in which the whole people take an
interest, and in whose embellishment and
improvement every State oan take a cer
tain degree of delight and pride.
The view from the balcony of the Con
gressional Library just now cannot be
suipassed in any city on this continent.
The city lies at the spectator's feet, and
Pennsylvania avenue stretches out be
fore him, even its mean looking houses
acquiring a sort of beauty as being com
ponent parts of a vista. Vistas are al
ways beautiful, and this one, terminating
with the President's house and the
Treasury iu the distance, will, at some
future day, be one of the most beautiful
in the world. Looking directly west
ward, the mall spreads out before him,
with the quaint but picturesque build
ings of the Smithsonian Institute, the
National Museum and the Department
of Agriculture relieving the monotony
of its once desert waste. Afar off the
huge white obelisk of the Washington
monument rises, its top swarming with
workmen, and designed to become a
noble and commanding structure. When
the monument is finished, and the
grounds of the mall are laid out as a
public park, there will be no more beau
tiful view than this anywhere.
The grounds of the capital are already
extremely beautiful, and those surround
ing the President’s house, which have
always been admired, are now more
worthy of it than ever. Lafayette square
is an attractive appendage to these, and
open spaces at the intersections of the
various avenues and streets will
at some future day lie planted and
embellished, so as to make an abundance
of gardens and shady promenades all
over the city. There are no grand palaces,
such as make a splendid attraction in for
eign capitals, but the President’s house is
elegant and appropriate, and fully satis
fies all our republican ideas on this point.
But the capitol is as grand a government
building as can be found in the world,
and, besides its vast ness ami elegance, it
has advantages of situation above those
of all the European palaces. The In
terior Department is a noble structure,
and the post ollicc is scarcely inferior to
it. The colonnade of the Treasury is
deservedly admired, and the new build
ing for the Stale, War and Navy Depart
ments is a magnificent and stately pile.
The plan of Washington has been ridi
culed tor its vastue&s, "and it may have
seemed ridiculous to have a few thousand
people scattered over a place that would
lodge a million and call it a city. But
the designers of Washington had ealeu-'
laled for futurity, and already it is be
ginning to show that it will be large
enough for its pirn. Within the
past" twenty years its population
has more than doubled, and many
of the present generation w’ill live to
see it a compact as well as an elegant
city of several hundred thousand inhabi
tants. The plan, besides being vast, is
perhaps the finest ever conceived for a j
great metropolis. Paris, in spite of its j
boulevards, its Rue tic Itivoli, and its j
Champs Elysees, can never be made as j
superb a city as Washington must be- j
come in the course of centuries. The
universally wide, straight streets and the
grand avenues radiating from the capitol
aud the President’s bouse gives it an ad
vantage in variety and circulation that
no European capital possesses.
Senator Rollins, of New Hampshire,
has a big fly in his pot of ointment. His
term of office will expire before long.
Pipe laying for anew Senator is already
in a state of forwardness. Rollins is I
very desirous to succeed himself in the |
Senatorship, but a cold and relentless 1
fate in the person of William 11. Chandler |
frowns severely upon him. There are
other candidates, but Chandler, his ap
petite for office whetted by his recent
set-back in respect to the Solicitor Gen
eralship, leads them all, and has got his
eyes “sot” on the Senatorial toga In a
very aggressive fashion, that bodes no
good for Rollins’ prospects.
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