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*If' T VOLUME XII.—NUMBER 588. Shaking Across the Bloody Chasm. The Great Strike in the North. The strike of the coal handlers and 'Long shore-men in New York seems to be extending. At las’, account.-the strikers numbered fifty thousand or upwards, and it has been author itatively stated that the handlers of coal, from Boston to the Pennsylvania mines (including the miners), only await the word, when they, too, will join the strikers. Any attempt to transport coal from Baltimore eastward, will be met by a strike south of New York. A Philadelphia dispatch sajs: “Information re ceived in this city by the Knights is that the Pennsylvania is crippled in its freight carry ing department more than any other company. No freight, the executive board in this city were told, was shipped from New York to this city, and the amount sent from here was much less than the usual daily shipment.” And it is also stated that President Corbin of the Beading, and President Roberts of the Penn sylvania railways, have been in communica tion with the New York Knights. No action has been taken by the District Assembly, but the Locals are determined to it n I by their New York brethren, which decided to support the strikers, even to a strike, if No. 40 (this is the New York ]). A. which ordered and controls the strike) asks for it. Nothi ng will be done, however, in that direction until the result of the conference between Presidents Corbin and Roberts and the Knights is made known In the meantime should trausport by rail be at tempted I). A. No 40 will request that the freight-train men on the lines through the coal regions be called out; and if the companies suc ceed in shipping eoai to manufacturing cen ters, it has been agreed to request ah factory hands where such coal is used, to quit work. Knme -j« t'rrVred Weighers’ laborers struck for rn |0ra p ty -when the ’Loug-Sbora men responded , 0 tlleir ft pp ea j for help, the Weighers’ dernaiM xyas conceded, but in the meantime the struck, nnoj at a general mealing it was voted "that the delegates report hack to their d s- tricts that nobody should go to work till the ’Long-Shore men return to their labors. It was a unanimous vote and, as the cha'rman said, was a vote of principle, as the men are per haps throwing themselves out of work to pay a debt of honor.” The above, in connection with the great strike in the Southwest last year, and that in Chicago, indicates a condition of affairs throughout the country, especially in the North, very serious, if not alarming. But the cause of and the remedy for this condition of affairs should also be a matter of serious concern. The cause lies too deep to be exposed in a brief newspaper editorial, the remedy calls for the exercise of profound patriotic statesmanship. Perceiving the urgent necessity for investi gation and corrective legislation, the New York t leneral Assembly has appointed a special committee of four to investigate the cause of the present strike, and to take testimony. The work was begun in the Council Chamber of New York City on the 4th. The importance justly attached to this investigation may be in ferred from the fact that a similar committee of three from the General Assembly of New •Jersey are present, having been appointed to watch the proceedings and report. It is cur rently believed that the strike will result in the election of a Knight of Labor to the l nited States Senate frcjjj New Jersey. It is really cause for grttulation that legisla tors are wak ng up to the seriousness of the impending danger from these labor troubles, ai d manifesting a desire to legislate for their prevention. New Jersey Demands Constitutional and Other Reform. There is a pressing deni ind, especially from the northern portion of New Jersey, for a convention to frame a new constitution. The basis of the senatorial representation is unjust Kach county in the State has one Senator, and under the system Esiex and Ilidson, with their quarter-mil ion each of population, can have nothing more in the way of voice and vote than the small south Jersey counties with populations of iess than 75,000. Coder the present Constitution, too, special legislation is prohibited. Cities and towns have been un able to get the necessary legislation, owing to the opposition arising from other towns and cities already provided with the law, which D being carried out in a different way. The city of Trenton is without sewers. State law is necessary for the peril eti m of a general plan of sewerage. This furnishes an idea why a constitutional convention is asked for. The erection of a separate State prison for females is another question that will engender agitation. It originated last winter during the impeachment trial of the State prison keeper who was charged with the pate mity of children bom in tlie female wing of the institution. A commission was appointed to consider the mat ter, and they will report jn favor of such a prison It is said that they will recommend what is known as the “cottage system,” like that at Hudson, N. Y., and Sherborn, Mass. This system is made up of a number .-f build ings within a stone inclosure, where the in mates may be graded or kept in distinct class es, according to their crimes or evident lack of morali y in order that that the irretrievably Development in Florida. The St. Johns and Halifax railway is pros pering and pushing its way southward to the material benefit of the Atlantic coast-line of the State. New settlers are continually com ing in, and the entire region penetrated by and tributary to this important road is being rap idly developed. New towns are being found ed and built up at every eligible point on Hal ifax and Indian Rivers. One mi 1 on three hundred thousand dollars were invested in St. Augustine in building op erations last year. 1 he injunction against the Florida Railway & Navigation Company, restraining them from crossing the South Flori ta at Owensboro, has been dissolved, and the work of laying the iron will go on at once. They expect to run trains into Plant City in about a month. A ne w town, Naples, Das been founded on tlie Gulf coast, which is to be improved by widening the streets, extending the limits, and otherwise. The site is said to be a beautiful one, and it is proposed to ran a boat from Tu ita Gorda to Naples at once. Ripe strawberries are shipped daily from Plant City, and have been on the market at Winter Haven for several weeks; and the plans etc., for the Presbyterian college at this place being ready the work of building will be begun wi’.bout delay and vigorously pus led to com pletion. The Citra, (Marion county) New Era says: “There has been shipped from this place this season via Florida Southern road 80,804 boxes of oranges. The report of the F. R. & N. has not been made u? yet, but will probably show about the same number. As soon as ship ments cease we will have something more to say of this orange industry in which Citra stands preeminently ahead of every other point in the state. The orange crop along the river is good, and less than ten per cent, of it has been shipped. The Coaist Defence Congress, at DeFuniak Springs, Fla., organized on Friday, the 8th. John B. Cary, of Richmond, Va., was made President, and A. T. McIntyre, of Georgia, was made one of the six Vice-Presidents. E. C. McDowall, Chairman of the Committee on Resolutions, reported a preamble and reso lutions (which were passed unanimously) set ting forth the defenceless condition of the two ocean coasts and the gulf and lake coasts, and memorializing Congress to take immediate steps to put them in a proper slate of defei.ee, and suggesting the establishment of a manu facturing arsenal in the steel ore belt in the South and the establishment of a navy yard for the construction ot war vessels at some Southern port. The Highland Press, Sorento, E a., says: “Befqre the orange shipping season opened the crop was estimated at 500,000 boxes. As the season progressed and the frill, went to mar ket by the train load, the estimate gradually went up until now some of the best infotmed railroad men place it at 000,000 boxes. Where is tlie man who said all tfcr orange trees were killed last year?” The Star, Titusville, Fla., records the fact tha’, oil the 20th of January Dr. Wiley, of that progressive village, had newly-grown Irish do- w Floods , nooa_ .1 again “W. C.T. U. Means Woman’s Christian Temperance Union. The Becent Convention in ’Washing ton—Sketch of the Society—Its Object—Short Biographies of the Prominent Leaders in the Movement. Editok Sixxt South: The Woman’s. Christian Temperance Union recently closed Ss a teacher in the 1 T man’* ro ’jpge at Evans ton. About two thomanApir, under her instruction tjVtbe® in which she tangit. S tw she became known as * jeMic ipeaker. an orator Miss Willard if vj among women. Shf is vriloq forward on the plat'om, 7™ ing, a speaking gesture might be called magn! tic.*..’ mellow, never thia, and distinct articulation null est listeners. AltogeijH piss* of get tie ess tions." She, never impi speaker on exhibition; j; spised the use of aids, Lai 1 lessons of a celebrated tributes much of her its convention here, and the tfuestions which mother as a model. In ] ila iiiamlifira rlicAiiacnS pqIIiS -’TMlKlil* Qt+onHrm COlTeSPOIlding 8eCr :t3fy i its members discussed callt d 'public attention to the piovement. But cmpartMCrely few people understand the objects of the society »od the work upon which it is eigaged, and to enlighten them the writer embraced the op portunity of getting such -facts and data as would be of interest to your numerous read-’ ers. MISS FRANCKS £. WILLARD. The movement may be said to have started in the little town of Washington, C. H., Ohio, as early as the year 1873. A few days previous the late Dr. Dio J-ewes had visited the little town in tlie course of a lecturing tour and de livered his famous lecture on “Our Girls.” In the course of his remarks he dwelt somewhat largely upon the havoc being made by tobacco and ardent spirits, and offered to suggest a new plan for fighting the liquor traffic which, he asserted, if carefully adhered to, would close every saloon in the place in one’s week thj,o. His plan was - carried into effect. A commi^i— wNm erOIRSS —rrreat noou_ * again visited the Ohio and its tr.butaries exciting widespread apprehen sions of great damage if not serious loss—but fortunately without full realization. The liigi waters prevailed over a large portion of Ohio, Kentucky and West Virginia, swelling the great rivers and their numerous tributaries and threatening inundation and heavy losses to Cincinnati, Ohio, and Charleston, West Virginia, and to the farming and lumber inter- esteem the last named State. The tributaries of the upper Cumberland overflowed their banks, the river at Nashville was so full that back waters gave trouble in the lower places and families on the low lands near the city had lo leave their homes. The Cincinnati, Washington and Baltimore, the Ohio an 1 Mis sissippi, New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio, and tlie Bee Line railways refused freight, and the Central Union depot at Cincinnati was abandoned and the six roads entering it had to start from other stations. In the Delaware river, near Shawnee, I’a., above the Delaware weter Gap, there was an ice gorge, with ice piled fifty feet high, ani the water forced out of its natural channel so that it overflowed the low-lands, submerged in numerable farms and farm houses. A sudden thaw would prove very destructive throughout the valley. “The characteristics of our people have changed entirely,” said he. “Telegraphs, tel ephones and the electric light have c mie into use. Railroads have girded tlie land. A thousand and one inventions have been genei- aily adopted, and there is as much difference between the agricultuial inhabitants of the New York of 1848 and the inhabitants of to day as there is between a S *ede and a Spaniard. Mr. Sterne commented on the fact that the statesmen of 1840, who drafted the Constitu tion, were more or less influenced by the laissex alter policy then in vogue in Great Brit ain. “The less government one has, the bet ter off he is,” was the way. according to Mr. Sterne, that the question shaped itself to the lawmakers of 1840. “But since then, great monopolies have sprung up,” he continued. “Something must be done to curtail their pow er. [Applause.] The remedy is only to be found in amending the Constitution.” Mr. Sterne summed up the evil < winch need ed to be abated. In his opinion the first great evil is that the majority of cithens are too mush interested in their own affairs to have oroper regard for the welfare of the State. The second evd is the increase i number of inordinately rich and inordinately poor people found in cities—“two classes which the^ co munity would get along better without. AGITATION IN NEW YORK. corresponding seer :tarv t which she is now president, the union is large] y < 1 tit; to with p°n. brain and '■'oiyBfll In 1870-77, on invril evangelist, sfee assisted ings in Boston 6>r sevento n afterward she undertook^ , of the Chicago Post, an etcn her brother, O. A. Willard In the following year M, , president of the State Ti nip; 1,1 16 Union, got it a superior borne but not L a graceful bear- a voice which i musical and a exoep tonally fdi.es the remot- wears the em- ofound eoavic- ier hearers as a |sHe has not de- ly in life took i st and fhe at- n speech to her Sue was made to society of the growth of ti (tries* '•> I Moody, tlie pities of m sel ls. The year fef editorship taper of which pi been' editor, ’fillard, while up a petition of 180,000 nan it to the legislature abolish the whisty the indefatigable same year she was the National Union, arid ■ body has expressed i: i m work the spirit, em :y u,. , . ... leader. From this tin:' oiriliiP biBtoiY o. the • aid presented ilhi® s : praying they lccessful was work that the presidency of mat time this degree in its wiscom of its The* New South, Financially.! WASHINGTON CITY. organization has been tose| with the life of its preside*’ Another leader in U. is Mrs. Hannah f superintendent of ev tiry of the Worlc|js ^Yof Unions. She is a’ Friend father, who was man: year; best loved mere lant in Phi ceived her education inti of Philadelphia, sqpp.eateb home and abroafl and by tl of a lifetime to whatever ; s literature and friendship, years Mrs. Smith traveled i with success everywhere, convention she proved hersi. of female orators. For tin and vigor of expressing .* one of the best of speaker*! tune to hear, ai.d by all she one of the leading spirits o! She lias little of the fenr'ij. oratory. Both as tt^theirA her addresses are the modi culine of any that are -to gatherings. She will retir spring and resume her eva Mrs. Wallace, of Vn-' Gov. Lew Wallace, beep identified with fro lip its inceutio' far y, by- interwoven d the W. C. T. pith, the national work and secre- i Temperance was also’ her .mown as the elphia. She r i- ’riind’s schools it by travels at steady devotion ust ;md pn : 1st in For a number of ngland, meeting the Washington one of the first y of utterance is undoubtedly nas been my for- as recognized as the convention. her style of .pression ’ mas- at these and in the ork there, of to ea^^the saloons and personally appdal to the proprietors of the same to stop the busi ness at once and seek other means of making a living. Fifty-two women volunteered and started^on their mission. There were fourteen places in the town where intoxicating drinks were sold, and in every place they entered singing. The whole place became wildly ex cited over tlie strange procession, and the en thusiasm rose to a fev.r pitch. “The Cru sade ” as it was called, was a success, and soon’ spread all over the State with mere or less results of consequences. It is from this little germ that the present very large association has s prung. But tem perance is only one of tlie branches of the im mense tree. There are forty separate depart ments which may be included under the six heads of organization, educational, evangelis tic, social, legal and preventive. The story of these departments and of the good they do as a whole can better oe told in the sketches of the leaders than in any other way. The pres ident of the society and the leader and pro jector of all its movements is Miss Frances E. Willard. , , This well-known temperance leader was born of that strong New England stock wht ;h, when transplanted into Western soil, often finds the best conditions of growth. Major Simon Willard, who traced his line of descent to the time of the Conquest, came to America early in the seventeenth century. The an cestors of Senat ir Hoar, together with Major Willard and a few others founded Concord, Massachusetts, the literary centra of New England, which will always be associated witu the names of Emerson, Holmes, Hawthorne and l’horeau. (>ne of the Willards was president of Harvard and his son vice-president. One was pastor of old South church, Boston; another the architect of Bunker Hill monument, and all of them filled positions of trust in the communities A Naw Constitution and Local Govern ment Demanded. The members of the German-Amer.’can Citi- lens’ Association assembled in force in Stein way Hall, New York.City, recently, to trans act the business of their party and to listen to some suggestions from Hon. Simon Sterne as to questions which should be taken up at the coming Constitutional Convention. Ex-Assembly man Eiward Grosse, a promi nent German-American and chairman of the Advisory Committee, introduced a resolution, which was adopted, indorsing Assemblyman Langbein’s bill raising the limit of damages, .. , . . — . where death is caused by a railroad collision or vicious may be kept frem coming in contact ot q ier accident, from 85,000, tin present limit, with inmates less hardened in wrong doing. j §p),000. Fhe govern ment will be like that of the Indian- President Leidcl then introduced Mr. Sterne, apolis institu.ion, where he strictest discipline who began by tracing the history of previous is maintained. e itepers wi be women. Constitutional amendments, and said that forty The proposed prison i be more of a reform- I y eal . s had elapsed since the Constitution hud awry and workbose than a jail. 1 he com- been sub j ect l0 a thorough overhauling. He mi tee, it is said, will rar ler recommend that sa ;d the present Constitution had been sub- the institution be erated on the grounds of sumtiaHy in force since 1840. and then recalled the State Indust i. . >> 6 s, two nules thegrea . changes whict time had wrought in above tins city where are 001 acres of laud lhe habitants of the State and their sur- t ae property of tue commonwealth. This will : roundincs obviate the neces ity for auy expenditure of 1 6 ’ funds for a site for the prison. paper bottles, capable of fu'ly withstanding the effect of alcoholic fluids, and unbreakable, a ra manufactured in the United States. Paper is first made from U a parts rag, fifty parts wood and forty parts straw stock. Both sides f the sheet are covered with a mixture of defibrinated Wood and powdered lime. Ten thicknesses of this material are placed one on ri‘ her and they are then pressed in a hot metal mold until they assume the form of half hotrie The two halves are then united un der the'influence of heat and pressure into a . . .1 I). .al/lM Jit I sin sit perfect bottle.—Boston Budget. Illinois on the Line of Progressive- ness—Liberal Legislation and Retrenchment. A bill lias been introduced into the Legisla ture of Illinois to appropriate §12,000 to sup port day schools for deaf and dumb children in Chicago. Also a bill providing that State’s attorneys in counties oi the third class shall 'urn over all fees to the county treasurer and receive a salary only—a step in the right direction. And, also, a bill to allow college graduates to take part in the election of trustees of reli gious and educational institutions. MRS. HANNAH WHITALL SMITH. where they lived. The family became scatter- 5 The father of Mis. Willard early removed to Vermont, but soon afterward emigrated to western New York, where their third daugh ter, Frances Elizabeth, was born. But the home was not permanent and Mr Wifiard purchased a large farm near oanesville, Wis , where he soon become a leader in movements tending toward the development of the State. He was also prominent in politics for vears and a member of the State Legislature. But he dii not seem to be saiistied and again moved his residence, this time to Evanston, Id., where he became a banker. In this beautiful town suburban to Chicago, the cottage was built which to mitber aud daughter is now sacred as their father’s last gift. After gradu- MKS. 7. G. WALLACE. nineteen «he became tlie wife of David Wal lace, of Ind anapolis, and reared a famriy of six children. Every thing that her son, the author of “Ben Hur,” ever wrote was submitted to her for criticism or approval, and thou’.h slie knew nothing of equity, he complimented her by saying that her unerring sense of justice at once lighted upon any defect or discrepancy in jurisprudence, while her fine literary taste was invaluable in regard to rhetorical sym metry. Mrs Wallace has been a widow twen ty-six years. She was left with a home, but with no income, and thus many years of her widowhood were spent in providing means for her children’s support and education. The story of how she became a temperance advo cate is thus told by Miss Willard: “About a dozen years ago, when the temperance ques tion was agitated with remarkable vigor, a meeting was called in its interest at one of the churches to which Mre. Wallace went. Though deeply interested in the exercises, when she was appointed on a committee she made several ineffectual attempts to rise and beg that she be excused from duty, so great was her dread of publicity. A little later she ]; -ened to an eloquent lecture on the evils of intemperance and then for the first time felt that it was her imperative duty to do what she could. She was prevailed on to consent appear, though she trembled at tlie very thought of the trial it would be to her. She hurriedly wrote a speech and in an excess of fear stood before her audience, ‘But,’ said she, ‘the moment I began to speak all terror left me and the devotion I felt for my theme o-ave me an almost superhuman confidence’.’’ To those who have read that marvelous book “Ben Hur,” by her son, the illustrious General Lew Wallaoe, the following incident will Illustrate the home qualities of Mrs. Wal lace as a panegyric would fail to do. The first time they met after the book was printed, the author asked his mother for her opinion, when she replied: “0, my son, it is not much of a story; but how dii you ever invent that mag- nicent character, the mother’” “Why, you dear, simple heart,” he answered with a kiss, “how could you fail to know that theworiginal of that picture is your own blessed self?” The writer could mention dozens of other names that deserve it, but space will not al low Among those present at the recent con vention were: Mrs. Frances J. Barnes, of New y )r k: Miss Anna Gordon, a young lady of threat prom se, who is acting as Miss Willard’s secretary; Mrs. J. K. Barney, of Rhode Island and a hundred of o'hers. . The object of the W oman s Christian tem perance Union are not very sharply defined, and include many incidental subjects that do not properly belong t > the plan with_ winch it was orga lined A As we have said the Union atiou Miss Willard engaged in teaching. _ In | inc i u des forty different departments, each hav- is(38—’70 as the guest of her friend, Miss Kate j , n , T special worK. Besides this every 8tate Jackson! she made a tour of Europe and the j ha3 a separate organization, with the authority East. The rare opportunities for stuiy in | q 0 use such means as they wish for carrying Paris, Berlin and Rome were thoroughly im- ; out t h e objects of the association. Droved and nearly every European capital was ! • • • oiwent. slip wrote often for Took a Wrong Idea of it. I don’t see,” observed Boggs, as he leaned visited. While absent she , home papers—the New York Independent, i Harper’s Monthly, and val ro^fte^rv ' back in his~ chair, “how any man of sense can She also gathered much materialfor 1 tera j , ba nj_, /e § r)0 qqq or sloO.OOOand skip work and the experience added bread, ^ ^ be ^ He is disgraced, his fu ure ruined, si°ht of ch tractor and countries. Witnessm the condition of womeu in the East and in the greater part of Europe, she was led to a prob lem which has had large answer in her later life : “What can be done to make the world a wider place tor women’” This question to herself, she says, had much to do with shap ing her future life. , Returning home she entered upon her wont lUC WlAUVSJ . ^ - , . f. aud what good can the m mey do him? “You doon’t take take the right view of it, re plied Stebbin*. “Why!” , . . ., “The idea, my dear sir. is to settle for halt the sum staler, and return home to be looked upom as a smart man and be elected president of a rival institution.” TAugusta, Ga , Chronicle.] We have carefully rea l the excellent article contiibuted by Mr. Marion J. Verdery to the North America Review concerning the fim>n- ci si condition of the South. This article was accepted in a way that was rather romantic, and yet won a pla :e where so many contribu tions never see the light, because its oppor tuneness and merit. Mr. Verdery is to be congratulated upon this exceptional distinction. All through the article there is-a minor chord of affectionate'remembrance- of Georgia, and especially of Augusta.^ It is said that an Eng lishman realizes the Latin.apbt‘rism which de clares that a man changes liis sky, but not his mind when lie crosses the seas. All who have ever loved Augusta, because of long asso ciation and tender ties, never ailow that alt'ec tion to perish even in remote or grander civi- livations. Mr. Vcrdery’s mind and heart, even in New York, turn enainoredly to Augusta. The article in the North American trapes the course of the South from the financial and po litical ruin of 1800 to the reawakening of 1880, Perhaps it did npt enter Mr. Verd»ry’s cal- Ttilation, but we do most firmly believe that ' the worst disaster that ever happened for the South was the withdrawal of greenback currency and demonetization of silver, conse quent upon the policy of Hugh McCulloch, Secretary of the Treasury, wh>, in our opin ion, is the wor-l enemy, not exce jtingGeneral Sherman, that this section has ev -r known. That the South should have recovered, in a considerable degr e, from the paralysis en gendered by thit man, is one of the -> oi’tiers of the world. Mr. Verdery traces the South through her disastrous speculative era and big gambling, from the effects of which many coiAniuuitus have never recovered wholl>. It is calculated that at least §1,000,00',000 went East and West, fro n this secim, in stock and produce gambling, since the war, and an Augusta mer chant says that if our citizens here had back what they fooled away at New Y ork and Chi cago Exchanges, they would all be rijh and need no ar ificial boom. It is true that an Eastern drummer once told ns that the South had got all that back by failing cornu ercially on the East, but we doubt his. figuring, while giving the benefit of ao ex- plaaation. ... \'i e understand that the speculative spirit is not extincteat the South, but has changed its form. The money that used to go for distant stocks and optional commodities is placed at home, much of it in the “booming” towns of Alabama, Tennessee and Georgia. This at least is, even if imprudent for iniividuals,- keeping the money at home. if the prices of municipal securities and lowering of«theiiiter^^^^^ritad the devefop- .ayshan at any time since the as he surmises, th it the accumulated capi tal of the East is about to exploit the South as it expanded the West, this section is qti the eve of transcendent and undreamed of pros perity. , , What effect the national railway law may have upon this section’s progress no one can venture to say. We prefer, as Mr. \ erdery does, to take even an op imistic view of the future, and to believe that there will be an overflow of men and money from the North that will fructify the whole South as the lands of Egypt are made to blossom by tlie fertile and swelling current of the Nile. OUR BESSEMER STEEL PLANT. America Has a Capacity of 3,500,000 Tons of Steel Rails Per Annum. The Chicago Journal of Commerce publish es reports from every Bessemer steel plant in the United States shoving that America lias a capacity of fully 3,500,000 tons of steel rails for 1887. The Journal has compiled a table as the result of its inquiries which shows a total apparent rail capacity of 3,071,000 tons. The paper says: We do not pretend that this is absolutely cor rect, nor that there will be no accidents nor interruptions to interfere with rolling the full capacity. The fifteen old Bessemer plants have a total converter capacity of 295 tons, which, multiplied by the average output of 10 000 tons per annum of converter capacity, skives a capacity of 2,950,000 tons of rails. Four other mills are adding or building con verters. Ten mills ro 1 rails from purchased blooms, in part purchased at home but chiefly imported, as by the strange workings of the tariff there is much less protection for Ameri can bloom makers than for rollers of steel The tabulated statement is supplemented with specific statements from all the steel com panies. The Journal says: This report does not include several rolling mills which once rolled iron rails, nor is it ex pected that any mill will be able t) run to its full capacity during trie entire year. Careful estimates furnished us say the rail mills have already contracted for an amount much nearer 4,000.000 tons than has been generally report ed. E ridently there is no immediate necessi ty for importing steel rails, but as the rail ci- pacity is beyoud that of the converters, the imports of blooms may amount to half a mill ion tons during the year, should the price war- raut. Just now they are relatively much higher than rails. Organization of New Industries in the South. [Baltimore Manufacturers’ Record.] The reports show that the past two weeks has been the most active ever known iR the South in the organization of new industrial enterprise«. The remarkable activity in iron interests has spread to other lines of manu* factures, including cotton mills, and a number ot new enterprises in that line are under way. The organization of iron and coal and land improvement companies has be ! n unprece dented. The capital stock of he new coal and iron companies reported during two weeks ag<T> gate over §9,000,000 and of the land im provement companies, most of which have been formed to build furnaces, iron works, cotton mills, §10,000,000. It is noticeable that there is a wide diversi ty of new industries, and while about a dozen furnaces have been projected during the fort night new machine shops, foundaries, rolling mill and steam plant enterprises fully keep pace, thus assuring a home market for the pig iron these furnaces are to produce. At Bes semer, Ala., a §-500,000 rolling mill company has been organized, and at Anniston a §200, 000 iron pipe company, the entire capital in both companies having been suliscribed al most as soon as the books were opened. This is a particularly noticeable feature of the pres ent era in southern progress, that money is most abundant and cash subscriptions are made to new enterprises by southern people, as well as by northern capitalists, with an avidity that is surprising. Reminiscences of Distin guished Public Men. Incidents Which Have Transpired at the National Capitol. By BEN. PERLY POORE. No. 172. Broderick and Terry. Broderick was last in Washington in the Spring of 1859, and’lie left New York for C ali- fornia in April, by the Tehuantepec route, joining the steamer “Sonora at i^capulco. There were many passengers on board who had crossed the Isthmus of ranfUnav among them the Hon. -William M. Gwin Every room on the ship was occupied; there was none for Brodeiijk; bat the engineer of the ship kindly gav* his, which was situated just abaft the wheel on the starboard side of the ship Hon. William Gwin’s room wat on the port side at the extreme stern, so that the length of the sa loon, diagonally, separated these two distin guished gentlemen. And this distance from each other was maintained through the voy age. Broderick did not hesitate to say whafewould be liis course when he arrived in San Francis co; he was determined to avow his hostility to Gwin, his friends, and all in that connection. This subject wafl frequently canvassed, and as often Broderick was earnestly desired tp ab stain from doing that which was certain to bring down upon him the entire strength of tie element opposed to him; but, having de cided on his course, no argument of friends could dissuade him from it. Tte first difficulty occurred at the breakfast- table at the International Hotel, San Francis co, when Broderick gave expression to bis feelings in such manner as to excite the antag onism of a person with whom he refused to en tertain those relations which gentlemen enter tain f.<r each other. It was then, and growing out of this, that Judge Terry was brought in, and took, the plate of the person above ref* rred to. He was the man of| ill others the ‘chivalry’’desired to have pitted against Broderick. A meeting was arranged, Broderick was placed in the hands of his frien'3s, and, strong and muscular as be was, he was permitted to take his ground with an exceedingly delicate “hair-trigger” pistol, which was discharged while he was raising it, tlie hall striking the ground a short distance from him. The rest is easily told. Broderiek’feli, a hall threg^-- hjs, career. He was pif^d did not materialize. PERSONAL MENTION. h's lungs finishe in. a carriage an hon.se of bi« Charles Sumner’s study, in the second story of his residence at the corner of II and Fif teenth streets, was a paradise in tlie estima tion of bibliophiles or persons of a fine-art ed ucation. To one fortunate enough ro gain an entree, it appeared almost impossible to bring order out of the great chaos of books, pam phlets, inanus iripts, newspapers and waste baskets prevailing in the room. The walls were hung with every choice engravings and photographs, ot which Mr. Sumner was an ar dent admirer having in his pos.-ession one of the most extensive and valuable collections in the country. The situation of the study was very cheerful, and tlie furniture was rich with- oi t being gaudy. Here and there portions of lounges could be detected amidst tlie mass of books and papers, while occasionally a mod erately clear view in perspective could be ob tained of a full-lenith chair. If askei to “take a seat,” a visitor would find it no easy matter to comply, and if he attempted to sit down without an invitation he would b? wor- derfully surprised with the sudden growth of the furniture. It would require numerous ex periments for one to learn through how many inches of official letters he would have to plunge in order to reach the inkstand or pa per-cutter. Here one found a simile to the “Tomb of the Scipios,” where the statesman could call before him authorities on civil, ec clesiastical, military, naval and social matters, and have then! repeat again the i ruths with which his speeches were fortified and sharp ened. P roffitt’s Speech in Congress Ggorge H. l’roffitt, when a representative in Congress from Indiana, said that a verbal skir mish between one of his colleagues and a mem ber from Pennsylvania reminded him of a cir cumstance which occurred in the Indiana Leg islature: “I had made some remarks, sir, up on a subject of some importance. I was fol lowed by a gentleman in opposition, who im mediately commenced misrepresenting my languige. I corrected him, sir. He received my explanation aoparently in all sincerity, but continued to nr isreiresent me. I again, sir, with some little warmth, corrected him, and complained of the course he seemed determin ed to pursue. The gentleman, after a mo ment’s hesitation, cast an imploring look up on me. and with much candor said: “Well Mr. Proffitt, I know that you did not exactly use the language attributed to you; but, sir, I have been for six weeks preparing a speech on this subject, and, in order to give it effect, it is necessary for some person to use the language a;tr but-d to you. I know of no person who can stand it better than yourself, and so you must excuse me.” Carl Schurz. Carl Schurz was a dual man, as he used to appear in the Senate, blending into one the best and most characteristic types of the Ger man and the American. His physical fibre is German, as also are his philosophical aptitudes, his scholarship, his intellectual thoroughness, his polyglot facility, his refinement of spirit and of manner. All these he owes to the felic ity cf birth and breeding and heroic early man hood in Germany. But his next felicity was he What the People Are Doing and Saying. Brigham Young is dead again. :or ; elect Davis, of Minnesota, is in t*n£t~_£o»m. — General Maxey, even if he has been defeat ed for Senator can get along. William R. Travers is very low and-weak and not likely to live many days. Dwight L. Moody, the evangelist, celebrated his fiftieth birhday in Chicago. Cardinal Gibbons, it is said, will plead the cause of Dr. McGlynn at Rome. % Spurgeon’s health is failing, but he contin ues to preash to immense congregations. Mrs. McClellan, widow of the general, has established herself at Florence for the winter. Justin McCarthy is of the opinion that Gro ver Cleveland is as good an Irishman as Blaine. The Marquis of Londondery, Lord Lieu tea- ant of Ireland, offers to sell his Irish estates to his tenants. Secretary Manning’s demand, “Untax the clothing of 60.000,000 people,* seems to wake about 60,000,000 echoes. Henry Watterson cqnnofc be B^id to have a • cast in his eye. As'&n admirer dpt it, he has the glower of genius.. Judge Haas- a Catholic and a supporter of the Septenna e bill, was ehosen as candidate for member of the Reichstag. Count di Robilant, Minister of Feteign Af fairs, has resigned, and the resignatiea of Pre mier Depretis is likely to follow. A lunch fir two walking delegates, Including two bottles of wine, and costing §10.70, is an incident of the New'York strike. There is no longer any donbt that Mr. JSe»- retary Manning will retire from the Treasury shortly after-the, adj jurnment of Congress. Ex-Governor Ireland will be permitted to air his talents among the denizens of Seguin, Texas, hereafter, instead of Washington City* - The rumor that Mr. Waller, American con sul general in London, has been summoned to . Washingtc n to confer on foreign affairs is de nied. Hon. David Tarpie, Democrat, of Indiana, has betn elected United States senator by U legislature to succeed Gen. Harrison, lican. Mr. Call, in the' senate, introduced « joint 4 resolution, providing for the estabiUhment od a national quarantine at a station near Cedar Keys, Fla. ) The ghost of Stonewaf Jackson appeared last week to some stud ' Military Institute at Let; muuuut, ■ «F - On account of the expected tough weather next month, the yachts entered for the oc>an race are being provided with iron booms. We have no yachts, but as to the iron booms—well, it’s a poor town in this section that doesn’t possess one.—Nashville American. that, as early as his twenty-third year, came to America. It was at the right moment every way. Had he waited ten years he would have hardened into maturity, and could never have yielded to the fusion of a complete Euro pean personality with a complete American one The fusion is perfect; for this extraor dinary man, while he is a genuine German, is a genuine American, too. He has assimilated every creditab'e national quality. He is a live Yankee mitigated by a German accent. His sympathies, oriles, aspirations are thoroughly American, and he understands our institutions and our political life as spontaneously as any native. Keating and Bacot The late Col. Keating Simonds was one day arguing a case in court, in which the late es teemed Col. Harry Bacot (H. II. Bacot, Esq.), who was rather of diminutive proportions, was the opposing counsel, and missing a large folio volume which he (Col. Simonis) had brought with him into court, to use as an authority, he moved himself from side to side to look for it, exclaiming: “What has become of my law?” “Ah,” said he, with ready wit, on espying it, at the same time lifting up his tall form to its fullest stature, “I see how it is; my learned and ingenious friend, not content with using potent argument and his own authorities against me, has actually bottomed himself on my law!” and pointing to the huge volume serving as an elevated seat for his diminutive and unconscious adversary, he drew it from its hiiing-place amidst the almost unextinguisha- ble laugh ter of the judge, bar, juries and by standers. Spies says lie was born wi j an old robber’s castle. He is i days in a condemned felon’s cell. Moral: Don’t be born in a robber’s castle. . Mrs. H. C. Meredith, the widow of Gen. Meredith, took charge of his immense cattle business after his death. She lives at Cam bridge City, Ind., and is known as the “Catt e Queen.” Wilson B irrett, upon being asked the other day how old he vas, said: “When I play ‘Chatterton,” I am 17; when I play “Ham let,” I am 20. That is all I am going to toil anybody about my age.” W. II. Smith, tlie leader of the House of Commons, is a cold, hard-hearted business man, incapable of stirring an audience. His speeches are laborious and unimaginative ex positions of facts, figures and arguments. Gen. Horace Porter said the other night that no description of a woman could be happier and juster than that famous one : “C rporeal enough to attest her humanity, yet so trans parent that the divine light shines through.” Henry George is nothing if not original. At agreattemperai.ee meeting in New York City he advanced the following novel views: The sale of liquor cannot be prohibited. A law cannot, be enforced when it is agsinst public opinion. Emperor William, of Germany says, “once before we had to dissolve the Reichstag, owing to its refusal to vote on arny bill, and the dif ferences between the government and the par liamentary majority were only brought to an end by a foreign war.” Hon. Geo. H. Pendleton, U. S. Minister to Germany, arrived in New York on January 31st. Minister Pendleton was asked on his arrival what the general war feeling was at the German Capitol. He replied that the situation was very much strained. Victor Hugo used to appear in the list of Senators under “V”. M. Yves Gayot has himself cata oguefl under “Y,” and M. Mau rice Fame under “M”—ludicrous attempts to leparate themselves from the common single Republican surname. Mme. Modjeska says Boston is so English a city that if Queen Victoria were to become the owner of America, and come hither, the Bos tonians would promptly welcome her and say: “Here we are; we have been waitinz for you all those years and are your ever faithful sub jects.” The Philadelphia Press almost unanimously disapproves the action of Gov. Beaver in sign- in" the bill imposing four new police magis trates on the Quaker City at an annual cost of §12.000. The Ledger says that lhe bill “is for no other purpose tiian to give a bonus of §3,- 000 a year each to four ‘practical politicians’.” Beaver’s first important political move seems to have been a faux pas. .Times F. Hudson, an editorial writer on th* Pittsburg Dispatch, has received a letter from Mr. Reagan, in which the latter offers to name him to the President for appointment to the commission provided for in the inter-state commerce bill Mr. Hudson is the author of a book lately published, called “Railroads and the Republic,” is a Republican in politics, and generally reputed to be wealthy. William H. Crane, the comedian, tells this Dew story of his boy: “His mother asked him the other day whom he had been playing with, and he answered that lie had been playing with old Juie Seligman’s little boy. ‘Hush, my dear,’ cried his mother, ‘that’s not the way to speak of Mr. Seligman His name is Julius, not Juie.’ ‘Then,’ replied the precocious child, I suppose that my papa’s name is Billions.’ ” Dr. Windthorst, Prince Bismarck’s chief foe in the Re’chitag, is described as a little man very ugly to 1 ;ok at, with eyes like a frogte and mouth reaching from ear to ear. He is opposed to Bismarck ostensibly on patriotic but really on personal grounds, his grievance being that in 1866 by the annexation of Han over he was eliminated from a fat office which he had held in that kingdom. He is the re verse of Bismarck in nearly all respects. Bis marck is big, Windthorst little; the former rough and overbearing, the latter polished and suave; the one a sturdy Protestant, the other an ardent Romanist; the Chancellor proud of his big, blacksmith-like hands, the Opposition leader vain of his lily-white fingers over which a manicure spends an hour a day, and finally Bismarck a deep drinker of gosd German beer, and Windthorst a free tippler of choice brands of French champagne.
