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T. A. HAVRQN, Publisher. mm UTTERANCES. Tlio Scriptures Fuitbrtiio Message of Love; Hot Many Note Mum tho Few Passage* Announcing the Wrath of God Thao Ule Many Freclaiming HU Good* - ue*s and Merc/# y {Prom a Recent Sermon bv Ray. T. De Witl Xaimage, I>, D.) * The subject of the sermon was “The Mother of Us All,” tend the text was from Isaiah lxvi., 33: “As one whom his mother cornforteth, so will i comiorb you.” Ur, Talniage said: • The Bible is a warm let-or of affection from a parent to a child, and yet there are many who see chiefly tire Severer passages. As there may be fifty or sixty nights of gentle dew in one summer that will not cnase as much remark as one hail-storm of half an hour, so there are those who are more struck by those passages of the Bible that announce the indignation of God than fcy those that announce His affection. There may come to a household twenty or hft_y letters of affection during the year, ®nd they will not make as much excite ment in that house as one Sheriff’s writ; and so there are people who are more at tentive to those passages which aunounce the wrath of God than those which an nounce His mercy and His favor. God is a Lion, .John says in the Book of Revela tion, God is a Breaker. Micah announces in his prophecy, God is a Rock. God is a King. But hear also that God is Love. A father and his child are walking out in the fields on a summer’s day, and there comes up a thunder-storm, and there is a flash of lightning that startles the child, and the father says: “My dear, that is God’s eye.” Thttre comes a pe»: of thunder, and the father says: “My dear, that is God’s voice.” But the clouds go off the sky, and the storm is gone, and light floods the heavens and floods the landscape, and the father forgets to say: “That is God’s smile.” The text bends with great gentleness and love over all who are prostrate in sin and trouble. It lights up with compassion; it melts with tenderness; it breathes upon Us the hush of an eternal lullaby for. it an nounces that God is onr mother. “As one whom his lyether coinfoi iath, so will I comfort you.” I remark, in the first place, that Col has m mother’s simplicity of instruction. A father does not know how to teach a child the A B C. Men are not skillful in the primaly department; but a mother has so much linSieuce thi».S sue will toll a cUilrl f,, r the hundredth time the difference between F and G, and between I and J. Sometimes It is by blocks; some limes by worsted work; sometimes by the slate; sometimes by the book. She thus teaches the child, and has no awkwardness or condescension in so doing. So God,-our mother, stoops down to our infantile triads. Though we are told a thing a thousand times, and we do not undertnnd it, our Heavenly mother goes on, line upon line, preopt upon pre cept, here a little and were a little. God has been teaching some of us thirly years, and some of us sixty years, one word of one syllable, and we do not-know it yet— t-a-i-t-h. When we come to that word we stumble, we halt, we lose our place, we pronounce it wrung. Still, God’s patience is not exhausted. G. i, our mother, puts us in Ihe school of prosperity and the let ters are in sunshine and we can not spell them. God puts us in the school of ad versity Rud the letters are black, and we can not .spell thorn. If God were merely a King He would punish us; if Ife were simply a father He would whip us, but God is a mother, aud so we are borne with and helped all the way through.' i A mother t-achss her c' 11 chiefly by pictures. If she went? to sot forth to her child the hideousuess of'a inrrelsome spirit, instead of giving .«. 1 uro upon that subject she turns over a lea ' ro»:l show's the child two boys in a vrnu.jfla and says: “Does not that look horri'. 19?” If she wants to teach her child the awfulness of war, she turns over the picture-book and shows the war charger, the headless trunks of butchered men, the wild, agoniz ing, bloodshot eye of battle rolling under lids of flame, as she says: “That is war!” The child understands it. Now God, our mother, teaches ns almost everything by pictures. Is the Divine goodness to be set forth, how does God, our mother, teach us? By an autumnal picture. The barns are full. The wheat-stacks are rounded. The oattle are chewing the cud lazily ill the sun. The orchards are dropping the ripe pippins into the lap of the farmer. The natural world that has been busy all sum mer seems now to be resting in great abundance. We lo kat the picture and say : “Thou crownest the year with Thy gc Iness, and Thy paths drop fatness.” G d wishes to set forth the fact that in the judgment the good will ba divided fro .1 the wicked. How is it done? By a pi< ire; by a parable—a fishing scene. A gre >of hardy men, long-bearded, geared fot landing to the waist in water; sleeves roll i up; long oars sun-gilt: boat battered as ,l ough it bad been a playmate of the •tc. a; a full net thumping about with the fish, which have just discovered their captivity; the worthless moss-bunkers aud the useful flounders all in the same nei. The fisherman puts his hand down amid the squirming fins, takes out tho moss-bunkers and throws them into the water, and gathers the good fish into the pail. So, says Christ, it shall be at the end of the world. The bad He w ill cast away and ths good Hewill ketp. Another picture: ” God, our mother, wanted to set forth the duty ofjneigtiborly love, aud it is done by a picture. 1 A traveler bas been fighting a robber. The robber stabbed him and knocked him down. Two ministers come along. They look at the poor fellow, but do not help him. A traveler comes along—a Samaritan. He dismounts. He examines the wounds; be takes oat some wine aud with it washes the wouixie, aud Uitai be takes some oil aud puts that in to make the wounds stop smarting; and then he tears off a piece of his own garment for a bandage. Then he helps the wounded man upon the beast and walks by the side, holding him on till they come to a tavern, ge says to the land lord: “Here is money to pay the man’s board for two days; take care of him; if it costs any thing more, charge it to me and I will pay it.” Fioture: The Good Samar itan, or Who’s Your Neighbor? Does God, ear mother, want to set forth what a foolish thing it is to go away from the right, and how glad Divine mercy is to take back the wanderer, how. is it done? By a picture. A good father. Large form with fat sheep and oxen. Fine house with exquisite wardrobe. Discon tented i»y. Gees away. Gharpora fleece Kim. Feeds hogs. G eta homesick. Starts back. Sees an old man running. It is father! The hand torn of the husks, gets a ring. The foot, inflamed and bleeding, gets a sandal. The bare shoulder, show ing through|the tatters, gets a robe. \ The Stomach, gnawing itself with hunger, gets a full plotter smoking with meat. The father cau uo, eat for looking at the re turned adventurer. Tears running down the face until they come to a smile—tho night-dew melting into the morning. No work on the farm that day; for when a a bad boy repents and comes back, promis ing to do better, God knows that it is enough for one day, “And they began to be merry.” Pictures Prodigal Son Re turned from the Wilderness.” t- Bo God, our mother, teaches ns every thing by pictures. The sinner is a lost sheep. Jesus is the bridegroom. The use less man a barren fig-tree. The Gospel is ft great supper. Satan, a sower of tares. Truth, a mustard-wed. That which we could not have ncjsrstood in the abstract statement God, our mother, presents to us in this Bible album of pictures God en graved. Is not the Divine maternity ever thus teaching us? I remark again that God has a mother’s favoritism. A father sometimes shows a sort of favoritism. Here is a boy—strong, well, of high forehead aud quick iutelleet. The father says: “I will take that boy into tny firm yet;” or, “I will give him the best possible education.” There are instances where, for the culture of the one boy, all the others have been robbed. A sad favor itism. But this is not the mother’s favor ite. I will tell you her favorite. There is a child who at two years of age had a fall. Ho had never got over it. The scarlet fever muffled his hearing. He is not what he once was. The child has caused the moth er more anxious nights than all the other children. The I°. - thing she does when m regard £0 ing is to ask in f »g»rd to him. Why, the children of the family all know that he is the favorite, and say: “Mother, you let him do just as he pleases, and you give him a great many thiags which you do not give us. He is your favorite.” The moth er smiles. She knows it is so. So he ought to be; for if there is any one in the world who needs sympathy more than another it is an invalid child, weary on the first mile of life’s journey; carrying ca aching head, a weak side, an irritated lung. So the mother ougL; to make him a favorite. God, our mother, has favorites. Whom the Lord ioveth He chasteaeth: that is, one whom He especially loves he chastea efcb. IGod loves us all; but is there one weak and sick, and sore aud wounded and suffering and faint, that is the one who lies nearest and more p, rcetually ou the great, loving heart of God. When I see God esp*clally busy in troubling and trying a Christian, I kuotv that out of that Christian's character there is to couie scans especial good. A quarry - man goes down into the excavation, and with strong-ban clod machinery bores into the rook. The rock says: “What do you do that for?” He pai.3 powder in, he lights a fuse. There is a thundering crash. The rock ssys: “Why, the whole mountain is going to pieces.” The crow bar is plunged, the rock is dragged out. After awhile it is taken into the artist’s studio. It says: “Well, now I have got to a good, warm, comfortable place at last.” But the sculptor takes the chisel and mal- let and he digs for the eyes, aud he cuts for the mouth, and he bores for the ears, and he rubs it with sandpaper until the rock says: “When will this torture be end ed?” A sheet is thrown over it. It stands in darkness. After awhile it is taken out. The covering is removed. It stands in tho sunlight in tb a presence of ten thousand applauding people as they great the statue of the poet, or the Prince, or tho conqueror. •‘Ah,” says the steue, “now 1 understand it. lam a great deal better off now, standing a? ast atue of a conqueror than I .vould have boon down in the quarry.” So God finds a man down in the'quarry of ig norance aud siu. How to get him up? He must be bored and blasted aud chiseled ind scoured oud stand sometimes in the iarkuess. But after awhile the mantle of affliction will fall off, arid bis soul will be greeted by the one hundred aud forty-four thousand aud the thousands of thousands is mere than conqueror. O, mv friends, tod our mother, is just as kind in our ad dictions as in our prosperities. God never ouches us but for our good. I remark that God has a mother’s caoa :tv for atiiendin rto little hurts. The ither is smocked ao the broken bone of the hild or at the sickness that sets the cradle fire with fevjr, b it takes the mother Iss 111 * id u wi, *: ril the little ailments id all the I!Hie firr.i ’S of the child. If lie child h j a s itu. .■ 10 n-s hand it wants ho moth' I '.' to take it on . and not the sther. The father says “Oh, that is noth ug!” but the mother knows it is some hing, and that a little hurt sometimes is a very great hurt. Bo with God, our mother. All our annoyances are important enough .0 look at aud sympathize with. No hing vi h God is something. There are ho ohors in God’s arithmetic: and if we oro only good enough of sight we could •e as much through a microscope as rough a telescope. Those things that y bo impalpable and inflaitessimal to us _iay be pronounced and infinite to God. TRENTON, DADE COUNTY. GA.. THURSDAY. APRIL 2. 1885. I remark further that God has a mother’s patience for the erring. If one does wrong, first his associates in life cast him off. If he goes on in the wrong way, his business partner cast him off. If he goes on, his best friends cast him off—his father casts him off. But after all others have cast him off, where does he go? Who holds no grudge and forgives the last time as well as the first? Who sits by the murderer’s counsel all through the long trial? Who tarries the longest at the windows of a culprit’s cell. Who, when all others think ill of a man, keeps on thinking well of him?. It is his mother, God bless her gray hairs, if she be still alive; and bles3 her grave if she begonel And bless the rockiug=chair in which she used to sit, and bless the cradle that she used to rock, and bless the Bible she used to read 1 So God, our mother, has patience for all the erring. After everybody else has cast a man off, God, our mother, comes to the rescue. God leaps to take charge of a bad case. After all* the other doctors have got through the Heavenly Physician comes in. A man’s sins may be like a continent, but God's forgiveness is like the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, bounding it on both sides. I want to say, finally, that God has a mother’s way of putting a child to sleep. You know there is no cradle song like a mother's. After the excitement of the evening it is almost impossible to get the child to sleep. If the rocking-chair stop a moment, the eyes are wide open; but the mother’s patience and the mother’s sooth ing manner keep on until, after a while, the angel of slumber puts his wing over the pillow. Well, my dear brothers and sisters in Christ, the time will come whan wo will be wanting to be put to sleep. The day of our life will be done and the shad ows of the night of death will be gathering around us. Then we want God to soothe os, to hush us to sleep. “As one whom a mother comforteth, so will I comfort you.” “ Asleep in Jesus! Far from the# Thy kindred and tlieir graves may be; But thine is still a blessed sleep. From which none ever wake to weep.” A Scotchman was dying. His daughter Nellie sat by the bedskle. It was Sunday evening, and the bell of the church was ringing, calling the people to church. The good old man, in his dying dreams thought that he was on the way to church as he used to he when he went in the sleigh across the river, ani as the evening bell struck up, in his dying dream he thought it was the call to church. He said: “Hark, children, the bells are ringing; we shall be late; we must make the mare step along quicker.” He shivered and then said: “Puil the buffalo robe up closerlass, soon be there, Nellie; we will soon be there.” And he smiled and said: “Just there now.” No wonder he smiled. The good old man had got to church. Not the old conutry church, but the temple in the skies “just across the river.” How comfortably did God hush that old man to sleep! As one whom his mother cornforteth, so God comforted Sim. RELIGIOU3 AND EDUCATIONAL. —The First Congregational Church, at Dover, N. 11., was built in 1633, and is still used as a place for worship. —The faculty of a Texas fenta’e col lege has forbidden the wear ng of hoops or bangs by the students.— t'iucago Her ald. —At Salem. Mas?., a citizen hires different men to attend church, paying them seventy-live cents each Sunday.— Boston Bos'. —A Fresbvterian college has been located at Jamestown, D. T.. to cost SBO,OOO. The citizens donated *lO.llOO and forty acres of land in the city lim its. The building will be erected at once. —Forty thousand dollars has been in vested in a trade school in Mew York, and about two hundred young nten are in attendance, learning how to lay bricks, to paint houses, to make pat terns. and to do plumbers’ work.— N. Y. Times. —The wider use of laymen and lay women in the church was lately empha sized at Philadelphia as a thing to. be sought. The Churchman says that if this wider use becomes a fact it means the beginning of a great stride forward. The Examin r (Baptist) says that the point is one for other Christians than Episcopalians to pond r. Lay work needs to be developed in every church. —Fifty year? ago, when Hev. Allen B. Freeman arrived in Chicago to or ganize the First Bapt st Chur h, lie had m his pocket, as all his remaining ready means, the sum of seventy-livfi cents. Not a very large capital that to move upon. And yet, with so much of a financial equipment, he began an en terprise of enormous dimensions. His capital, af’er all, was not in ignificant. It was all-sufficient, incomputable. The hand of the Lord was upon him, and the gracious end is not yeti— Chicago Standard —The Philadelphia Industrial f chonl of Mr. Charles G. Leland is highly praised by Carl Werner, one of tho high est authorities on education in Ger many. Prof. Werner declares that, simple as it seeins, Germany has as yet ignored the main principle 01 the Amer ican system: that ail the minor arts, and with them most of the ma nr, are sim ply nothing but applied design, and that this may he easily taught, a? Mr. Leland has pra -ti ally shown, to all children of from twelve to fourteen years of age. —i‘luUuUlfJUa Press. —The seed of tho petuniagrandiflora, an exceedingly beautiful flower, is worth SSOO an ounce.— Chicago Inter- Ocean. - —Pennsylvania stands first in the production of powder and New York ami Ohio come next.— Philadelphia press. FRENCH DISASTER. The Chinese Attack the French and Drive Them From Their Position. A Desperate Hattie Fought— General Ne grier Dangerously Wounded in the ,v Chest. Parts, March 29.—An official dispatch from General Briere De L’lsle, dated March 28, was received at the War Office to-day, detailing further disaster to the French forces in China. The Chinese attacked the French at Kilua and drove them from their position with serious loss, the French failing back upon Langson, pursued by the Chinese. A determined stand was made at Langson, where the fleeing army was reinforced by the French troops occupying that place, and a desperate battle was fought of several hours’ duration. The French were finally compelled to retire from Langson, leaving the Chinese in possession of the city. Gen eral Negrier was dangerously wounded in the chest. The total number of killed and wounded is very large. General Negrier’s army is now in full retreat, and closely pursued by the Chinese. General De Lisle implores the Government to send reinforce ments at once. The news of General Negrier’s defeat and retreat from Langson caused great excitement here to-day. A council of wmr was held this afternoon, but nothing is known of its deliberations. It is understood that a large body of troops will be at once dispatched to reinforce General De Lisle. The following dispatch was r< eeived from General Briere DeLisle, dated Hanoi, March 2k. “I regret to an nounce that General Negrier has been se verely wounded, and obliged to evacuate Lang Son. The Chinese in three large columns made an impetuous attack on our positions before Kilua. Col onel Jlerbinger, in the face of superior numbers of the enemy and exhausted of ammunition, was obliged to retreat to Dong Dong and Thannol. lam massing onr forces of the Chu and Kep roads. If the enemy' still increases I shall retire to Songkoi. Whatever happens I hope to be able to defend the whole delta. Please send reinforcements quickly as possible.” The Cabinet met at eight o’clock this even ing. Another meeting in the morning. The Journal dee Debats says: “France will make the necessary efforts in behalf of her sons in Tonqufti. Reinforcements will be sent, not to-morrow, huj to-day. To morrow. however, we shall see with whom a French expedition to i'Snin',’ 'aiia-swys Premier Ferry will make a state ment In the Chamber of Deputies to morrow. As a result of the Cabinet coun cil to-day, Premier Ferry will ask a vote of credit for two hundred million francs, with which to arm and equip a large army to reinforce General De Lisle. A report is in circulation to-night that General Negrier died from his wounds. Kiel’s ID; be 111 on. Winnipeg, Manitoba, March 20.—A Bat tleford dispatch says: A report has ar rived that an engagement has place at Duck Lake. Seventy-five men were on their way to the lake wffien they were m Ist by a party of rebels with a flag of truce. While a 'parley w-as going on, the rebels opened tire fnom positions on both sides of the road. A brisk engagement took place, in which at least forty rebels were killed aud many wounded. The cannon did good execution. A rebel emissary, who has been an inciter iff the uprTsing, has been arrested at Fort rw. News has just been received iff the concentration of the Brees at Pound-ffiaker’s Reserve, and a delega gation is qp its w-ay to make demands. A dispatch fff>ni Quappele, where troops are stationed, says a blizzard has been raging steadily fur some time, and thesnow is now so deep that wagons are useless for trans portation north. This will delay the start ing of the expedition north till Thurs day at least. Farmers are flocking in with teams. The insurgents have captured aud removed the stock at Bo tockes. All supplies for the North are still held at Humboldt, where freighters are asking for police protection. Orders have heat issued to hold all northern mail at Humboldt. Riel’s runners have been through Quappelle Valley inciting the people, but the Indians have as yet made no movement. Fort Carlton was burned by the mounted police, who evacuated it to taka up a better position at Prince Albert. A River Disaster. Memphis, Tenn., March 27.—The Mem ph s and Mound City ferrvlioat Mark Twain, exploded her boiler at Mound City this evening. Killed —A. J. Demerirh and F. I'iest, of Louisville. A fireman and two deik-hands were drowned. Captain Gus Foffeman and Pilot Malone each had a leg broken; Mary Jones, cobred, arm broken; Frank Huskable, ba - -keeper badly scalded. There were abiut twenty people on board, including fiv> ladies. The Mark Twain wasjbuilt at thi Covington Ways, in 1876, for Captain J. D. landall, for the Memphis and St. Fran cif River trade, who sold her in 1879. Dur in; the past three months she had been rinning the ferry trade here, and was val ue! at S4,IKK*. Insurance unknown. An Ex-Governor Missing. St. Louis, March 29.— The family and frinds of ex-Governor Thomas C. Fltcher. a prominent citizen and lawyer ofhigh repute in this city, are in great dis tress at his mysterious and unaccountable al .enee from home. He has not been seen to nine days. and. although various means hare been taken to ascertain his wtaere abu's, not a trace has yet been found of hiu. He ha- a good deal of law business inWashington, and relatives in the south •vstern part of this State and Texas, but, si far as known, he is not in either place. Aiv information of him will be gratefully rtkiveil by nis friends and family. THE FRONTIER QUESTION. Russia Has Refused to Withdraw Troops From the Disputed Territory and War Seems Inevitable, London, March 27.—A special edition ol the Globe just out has caused intense ex citement throughout the city. The Glob* says it has positive information that Rus eia has refused to accede to England’s re quest for the mutual withdrawal of troop:- from the disputed territory in Afghanis tan. The Globe, in an authoritative torn further states that in consequence of this refusal Lord Granville, Minister foi Foreign Affairs, has sent an ultimatum to Russia and demanded an answer theretr no later than Monday next. The (Jobe hat on previous occasions succeeded in publish ing reliable advance news, and many' are inclined to accept present statements. Should they prove true, it is difficult to imagine how a complete rupture and a speedy declaration of war can be averted. In reply to Earl Granville’s demand for immediate acceptance or refusal of the proposition to vacate disputed territory until the Boundary Commission decides the frontier, M. de Giers, Russian Foreign Minister, has promised that a definite answer will he given not later than Tuesday. Opinion in London is divided as to whether this means that war will be declared by Tuesday, or whether it is simply another expedient of Russia to gain time for further movements of troops toward Afghanistan. Great preparations are being made at Aldershot for the reception of the army reserve forces and militia called out by the Queen’s message. Quarters are ready at Chatham for a large force. The greatest activity prevails in the ordnance department in hastening the armament of vessels ordered for immedi ate service. Extra hands are employed. All available quarters at Chelsea have been made ready for occupation. It is re ported that the naval reserves wfll be im mediately called out for service. The Gov ernment has given contracts for 100,000 uniforms. In the event of war 25,000 mili tia will i>e assigned to garrison duty in Ireland, and that number of regulars be released for active service. The Government will charter and alter several of the Transatlantic steam ships so as to adapt them for service as cruisers. The America is already being fitted with guns. Offers have been made to the owners of the Alaska and the Ore gon, and it is intended to make similar use of these vessels. The offers for the two last named steamers were made to prevent their beiug chartered by the Russian Gov owners. New Appointments. Washington, March 24. —Nominations:. Henry L. Muldrow, of Mississippi, As sistant Secretary of the Interior; Win. A. J. Sparks, Illinois, Commissioner of Gen eral Land Office; Daniel McOnville, Ohio, Auditor of the Treasury for the Postoffice Departnfent. Washington, D. C., March 26.—Samuel S. Cox, New York. Euvoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary from the United States to Turkey. Postmasters— Henry C. Shannon, Erie, Pa.; William A. ' Wortham, Sulphur Springs, Tex.; Robert O. Denton, Gaiusviile, Tex.; Henrv C. Cassidy, Youngstown, O.; Henry D. Black, Coshocton, O.; Willis G. Neff, Greencastle, Ind.; Gorden Lister, South Bend, Ind.; J. Knox Hall, Toulon. 111.; Thomas J. Bunn, Bloomington, 111.: John Cunningham, Mattoon, 111.; James E. Nect, Versailles, Ky.; Frederick G. Kend rick, Mt. Clemens, Mich.; Geo. W. Cate, Stevens’ Point, Wis.: David O. Irwin, Lake City, Minn.; J. DeArmond, Davenport, la.: M. M. Ham, Dubuque, la.; Jos. Lander, State Center, la.; Win. R. White, Prescott, Arkansas. Washington, March 26. —Thomas C. Crenshaw, Jr., Collector of Internal Reve nue, District of Georgia. Postmasters— Aquilla Jones, Sr., Indianapolis, Ind.; Osbun Shannon, Lawrence, Kas.; John Mileharn, Topeka, Kas.; N. C. Ridenour, Clarinda. la.; Vincent J. Lane, Wyan dotte, Kas.: Mrs. Lizzie H. Fioklen, Char leston, 111.; Claiborne Bowman, Yazoo City, Miss. Fatal Explosion. St. Lotus, Mo., March 29.—A terrible ex plosion occurred in Coal Mine No. 7 at Mc- Allister, Indian Territory, last Friday ev ening by which twelve miners, all who were in the mine at the time, were in stantly killed. The cause of the explosion is unknown, but supposed to have been ig nition of powder. The bodies were only slightly burned, death evidently being the result of condition. Interacting- to Pensioners. Washington, March 29.—Commissioner of Pension Black has decided thatamotber can not be allowed a pension as a depend ent mother and the accrued pension of her deceased husband for the same period of time. Mexico Preparing for Barrios. City of Mexico, March 29.—Troops are practicing military maneuvers every day, preparing to enforce the position of the Government against Barrios, if it should prove necessary. Insane Woman Burned. Lebanon, Pa., March 27.—Mrs. Kittle, an insane woman, aged eighty-six years, was burned to death. Her clothing took fire from a pipe she was smoking. Several Thousand Dollars Short. Owego, N. Y., March 29. —City Treasurer Crawford, of this city, has absconded, be ing $26,000 short in his accounts of the pub lic money. - ♦ • The National Debt. Washington, March 29.—The total Na tional debt, in round figures, is $1,980,000,- 000. including the Pacific Railroad indebt edness. VOL II.—NO. 5. THE FRENCH DEFEAT. Frenzied Excitement on the Streets of Paris and in the "Chamber of Deputies, Downfall of the Ferry Ministry Amid In sults of Former Friends. Paris, March 30.—An active, vigorous campaign ou a much larger scale will be commenced at once against China. Re ports of an impending declaration of war have caused a panic on the Bourse. The Radical press publish violent articles against the Ministry, denouncing their pol icy and accusing them of incapability in the administration of the Nation’s affairs. These journals say the cabinet should be asked to resign, and, refusing, should be impeached for neglect of duty. A council of Ministers was held, pre sided over by President Grevy. He in sisted on prompt, vigorous action on the Chinese question, and declared that noth ing short of decisive, complete measures M ould satisfy the people. After an excited discussion the council .decided to ask the Chambers for a credit of two hundred mil lion francs ($38,580,000). It was also de cided to mobilize two full divisions of the army, including four Brigadier-Generals for service in Tonquin. Admiral Cour bet’s fleet will be reinforced at once by ten thousand sailors, marines and several mqro vessels. Seldom has there been a day of such intense excitement as this. Mol*s of excited men have been parading the streets all day, calling down execrations on the government for its shameful Chinese campaign. Recent French r verses in China seem to have put the populace beside themselves with rage. Nothing less than the immediate resigna tion of the Ferry Ministry will appease their anger. A howling mob assembled in front of the Chamber of Deputies. The crowd repeatedly endeavored to enter the building, each time being driven back by the military. In the Chamber the scene was one of wildest confu sion; pandemonium prevailed. Mem bers of the Bight fiercely attacked the Gov ernment for duplicity in keeping the coun try ignorant of the true state of affairs un til it could no longer be kept back, until the few loyal sons of France sent against the Chinese hordes had been sacrificed. The tu mult on the floor was intensified by the occu pants of the gallery, who applauded every speech against the Ministry, and inter spersed their applause with cries: j“Resign 1” “Resign!” “Down with the Ministry.” In tho midst ot the turmoil Pre—-f- ■ I=l <r cil of Ministers held this morning. 'Tie w r as greeted with hisses from all parts of the Chamber. .Silence finally was restored, but the Premier had no sooner concluded his remarks than the tumult broke out again. The Right almost in a body yelled “Down with the wretch!” Hardly had the utterance escaped the. lips of the former supporters of the Govern ment whon V M. Cleinenceau, chief leader of the Radicals, was on his feet, aud, pointing in the direction of the Right, denounced them as traitors. The noisy scone was momentarily brought to an end by a motion of one of the Depu ties that they at once proceed to vote on the |Government's proposals, which was adopted. The result showed that the pro posals had been rejected. When the an nouncement was finally made, M. Ferry tendered his resignation and that of his colleagues. This was greeted with wild applause. The Chamber was then cleared. Fast Failing. New York, March 30.—The crisis has been reached in General Grant’s sickness. The worst is now looked for a( an early moment. It is not a question of weeks nor of days, but of hours. There can be no doubt that the end is rapidly approaching. The continued presence of at least, one of the physicians in the house, their guarded expressions when asked about, the General, and the unconcealed anxiety and depres sion of the Grant family, proved this, even though definite information from the sick room cannot be obtained. The pe culiar nature of General Grant’s disease, and its' tendency to assume a more aggra vated form without a moment’s warning, render it impossible to predict just when another outbreak like that of Saturday night will occur. The physicians expect it at almost any time, and one of them is authority for the assertion that when it does come, it will in all probability be the end. The only indication of the approach of this is in the General’s gradual loss of vitality. His bodily strength is fast wast ing a wav, and the weaker he gets the greater is the danger that the disease will overcome him. The Profits that Broke Mr. Fish. New York, Match 30. —In the trial of Ex-President Fish, of the Marine Bank, to day. it was shown that some of Fish’s profits from the firm of Grant & Ward in 1883 were: January, $34,000; February, $29,000; April, $21,000; May, $31,000; Jum # $.V2,000; July, $43,000 August, $13,000. " UNITED STATES SENATE. Kperial Session. Washington. March 26.-The Senate met at \\ . t later went intoexecu fjve'l’eVJion.' After some further discussion of the Weil and La Abra treaties, thoy were postponed until the next session, Mben the floors were reopeued, Mr. Mermans resolution, providing that a t ™',L n of two Senators he appointed to w ait up n the President and inform him that it he has no furt ht v communication to make the .t n «»£%£ to -BfcytStSJa immediately tow.it rented «£ they tiad performed then a n> Senate ident had expressed a wish that Tbur9 . the Senate adjourned until Monday. reading , h e Washington. Maren w. executive ses- nopened 3 jourued.