Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 March 1885 — Page 1

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WHEN INDICATIONS. T v esdai . Local snows or rain, slightly colder, Jxloosivc Ppeparaiions Are being made at our factory for the Spring and Summer trade, and when the season Dpens we will be in the lead, regarding variety, quality and orices, at the W MEN CLOTHING STORE. Rare Bargains now in broken lines in every department. AN HEIRESS TO MILLIONS. Vast Fortune that awaits Mrs. Leopold Gumpridi, of New Tork. New York, March 2. —Mrs. Leopold Guraprich, of 234 East Seventy-sixth street, whose husband is a commercial traveler of middle age, is heiress to a vast English fortune. Gutnprich married his wife twenty years ago, after overcoming, with difficulty, the objections of her parents, respectable people of Karlsruhe, Germany, where the courtship was carried on. In the wife’s family there was a tradition of a rich “Aunt Rosalie” living in England. It now appears, from papers certified to by Count Herbert Bismarck, wKile Secretary of the German legation in London, that the heirs of one Rosalie Levi are entitled to a fortune variously estimated at from $50,000,000 to $75,000,000. That Mrs. Leopold Gutnprich is one of these fortunate •heirs, and will sooner or later come into a property of between $1,000,000 and $2,000,000, there seems no doubt Toward the c-iose-ef the last century Rosalie Weil, a professional uurse, went from Germany to Italy, and there met a wealthy English Hebrew named Jesua Levi, who, being in bad health, married her in order to have somebody to take eare of him. He died a few years later, leaving his entiro fortune to his wife. In 1803 Mrs. Levi died, and the English Court of Chancery took charge of her property and deposited the money, which then amounted to $2,000,000, in the bank of England. By the natural increase from interest this sum has now readied the enormous figures above given. Recently the Court of Chancery, impressed by the magnitude of the man, has, of its own volition, stirred about to find the rightful claimants, and it seems now but a question of a few months before the property is divided among those to whom it belongs. Mrs. Levi had no sisters and. but one brother —Hirsch Weil, who left but one daughter. Iter name was Lea Weil, and she married Emanuel Frank. They had nine children. All of these children married and left issue with the exception of one daughter, who is now over eighty years of ago. Mrs. Gumprich is the daughter of one of these nine children. Her share will be at least $1,500,000, aud it may be vastly greater. A TRIFLE TOO VIGILANT.

Two of President-Elect Cleveland’s Guardians Arrested by the Albany Authorities. Albany, March 2. —Two men who appeared to bo acting suspiciously in the neighborhood of the Towner mansion, where Mr. Cleveland lives, were arrested this morning at 11 o’clock by detectives Duryer and Morris, by order of the chief of police, and taken to a police station. They were identified by Colonel Dwight Lawrence as two detectives, named Thomas Craig and Theodore Waldron, employed by a private agency at No. 304 Broadway, New York. They refused to tell their business to the chief of polioe, and i-eferred to Inspector Byrnes to say wha£ it was. They were taken before a magistrate and committed for further hearing. The latest supposition is that they are detectives erajloyed by friends of Mr. Cleveland without his knowledge or tile knowledge of the authorities, to protect him from threats of violence that have been made from time to time during the hist two weeks. Auer the detectives had been committed for further hearing, a dispatch was received by Chief Willard, signed “Inspector Byrnes,” which read: “Those men are all right Let them go.” They were then set at liberty. Inspector Byrnes arrived on the 2:40 p. m. train, lie said that while he knew the men to be all right, lie could not have signed the dispatch, as he left New York at 10:30 a. m., in company with Col. Murphy, while the men were not arrested till 11 o’clock. Someone in the office may have signed it. It transpires that both detectives have been here twenty-four days, hunting up defaulters, and were at work on a trail in tho neighborhood of Cleveland’s house. Illness of Ex Secretary Blaine’s Sister. Baltimore, March 2. Mrs. Eliza Blaine Walker, who has been ill for sorno time at a ooarding-house in this city, was thought to be lying yesterday, aud her brothers in Washington were telegraphed for. Ex secretary Blaine, with his daughter Margaret, and his brother, Robert G. Blaine, came to Baltimore and spent the afternoon with Mrs. Walker. Mrs. Walker is the wife of Major It C. Walker, a retired army officer, and he, with their two daughters, Mrs. D. W. Fisk, of Montana, and Mrs. O. J. Salisbury, of Salt Lake City, are in constant attendance upon the uffiicted wife and mother. Mrs. Walker is the only sister of the Ex-secre-tary. Strifee of Texas Pacific Shopmen* Marshall* lex., March 2.—According to an agreement reached at a meeting on Saturday eight, all employes of the Texas Pacific shops at this plaee refused to return to work this morning, and the shops were silent and deserted all day. There has been no interference yet with trains, but the strikers announce that unless a satisfactory arrangement is made, all traius will be stopped except enough to caxry the mails. Eunorintondent Cummins returned from New Orleans this evening, aud a committee of strikers interviewed him. The strikers are holding a meeting to night to determine upon further action. Thk esthetic craze was not ruled out of favor by that clever satirist, Gilbert. It is a pity that ue could not at the same time drive dyspepsia •way. Fortunately there is a preparation that dixos effectually dispose of it Mr. Walter F. Middleton, of Stdina, Ala., writes: “Three bottles of MibUor’s Herb Bitter soured me of a very distressing case of dyspepsia. I keep the Bitter* in my house all the time now. it is a wonderful preparation.”

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CLEVELAND AND HENDRICKS. The Former Leaves Albany, and Will Reach the Capital This Morning. Mr. Hendricks Improves a Few of Ilis Moments of Departing Greatness by Visiting the Senate and House. Indiana Burbons on Hand in* Great Force, and Most of ’Em Want Offices. The Hide-Bound Hoosier Democrats Stand by Mr. Hendricks, and the Thinkers of the Party Snrport Ex-Senator McDonald. THE PRESIDENT-ELECT. He Starts for Washington, Accompanied by Messrs. Manning and Lamont. Albany, March 2.— At G-. 25 p. m. four carriages were driven to the Church-street siding of the West Shore railroad depot, half a mile below thb regular passenger station. In the first carriage were Mr. Cleveland, his two sisters, Mrs. Hoyt and Miss Cleveland, and his niece, Miss Hastings; in the second, Rev. L. Cleveland, brother of the I'resident-elect, wife and child; in the third, Mr. and Mrs. Manning; in the fourth, Mr. and Mrs. Lamont and two children. The party waited fifteen minutes before the special train was ready. The train consisted of an engine, baggage car and two sleepers. It left at sharp at 6:45. The only persons present were Dr. Ward, Col. E. T. Chamberlain, Harry Teneyck, one policeman, and several small boys. Mr. Cleveland was in excellent spirits, Mr. Manning looked cheerful, and Mr. Lamont was bright ana busy getting things in order on the train, and looking after a pile of baggage. The train slipped off quietly, without a toot or jangle of bell, and will stop only for water between here and Washington, where it is expected to arrive at 6 a. m. Transferred to the Pennsylvania. Jersey City, N. J., March 2. —President-elect Cleveland and party arrived at Marion Junction at 11:50 night Locomotive No 1058, with a crew, was in waiting, the special train was switched on the Pennsylvania tracks without delay, the engine was coupled on, and at four minutes past midnight started for Washington. No one was in waiting at Marion, as it was supposed Mr. Cleveland would go to the Jersey City depot, where a large crowd had gathered.

THE VICE-PRESIDENT-ELECT. A Visit to the Senate and House, and His Reception by the Members. Bpecial to the Indianapolis Journal. Washington, March 2. —Mr. Headricks was at the Capitol to-day. He first called at the Senate, and was heartily greeted in the lobby. Afterwards he took a stroll over to the House, meeting many gentlemen along the way. At the House he was given a regular ovation by the Democrats. They clustered around a man who is credited with possessing sufficient influence with the new President to defeat McDonald for a Cabinet position, and viewed him with a combination of awe, curiosity and reverence. He met all the Democratic members, and after an hour at the Capitol returned to the hotel, where he was visited by numerous distinguished Democrats. His callers were more plentiful to-night than at any time since he arrived. The announcement that Hendricks had really succeeded in convincing Cleveland that it would conduce to harmony in the party not to have an Indiauian in the Cabinet seems to have impressed members of his party with the weight of his influence, and he is attracting more attention uow than a few days ago. Senator Vest, of Missouri, said to-night that ho did not believe that Hendricks, in words, told Cleveland that he ought not ask McDonald to come into the Cabinet, but that Cleveland was informed, by some means, that there was a bitter feeling entertained by Mrs. Hendricks towards Mrs. McDonald; 'that the President-elect was reminded that one administration had been wrecked by a jealous woman, and, although it was many years ago, it pointed a moral and adorned a tale that should be a lesson. It is said that Hendricks worked upon Cleveland against McDonald through John Kelly, who dislikes the latter, and is one of Hendricks’s most pliant servants. Tlie Decline of Hendricks. Washington Special to N. Y. Commercial Advertiser. The Vice president, in theory, constitutes quite a section of an administration. Sometimes he cuts a notable'figure at the national conventions, as in the case of the last Democratic assemblage at Chicago. During campaigns ho has had a prominent place. For a space after election he is flattered as if he had really been elevated to a place only a step removed from the' President In theory he is a party leader. But only in theory can he ever attain prominence except in the contingency of a vacancy in the office above him. While a President lives, the Vicepresident is a nonentity. Ho calls the Senate to order, announces the course of business, administers the rules, and adjourns the body. As to the matter of patronage, he appoints his own private secretary and the Senate telegraph operator. He can vote in case of a tie. His duties arc confined to the legislative business. lie never enters the executive sessions. He seldom has intimate relations with a President, and is rarely, if ever, consulted on questions of party policy. The highest point touched by Mr. Hendricks since his re-entoring public life was reached in that wonderful demonstration on the floor of the convention at the time of his nomination. His efforts to keep himself prominent since the election have borne little fruit His early arrival in Washington, if it was intended, as many Democrats believe, to give a chauce to gather the Washington politicians of his party about himself before the arrival of President Cleveland, has not accomplished his purpose. He has not been lionized even in a slight degree by his party, and Mr. Cleveland will uot find that anything has been successfully cut and dried for him previous to his arrival. When Mr. Hendricks stands up at noon of Wednesday, to he sworn in as Vico president, he

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will practically bo taking the political black veil of seclusion from his party and its active public affairs. Nothing but a vacancy in the office of President can recall him to political life, or make him a factor in the plans of his party. With his arrival in Washington he has reached his culmination. Except in the contingency for which the Constitution provides by designating him to act as President, ne will wield scarcely more political power than the pages which run his errands. His installation into office, by virtue of the character which custom and practice give it, works his retirement At noon on Wednesday the Democratic party will bid Vicepresident Hendricks good-bye. Only death, Os some form of disability equally startling, can call him from his seclusion. Mr. Hendrick’s Camp-Followers. Special to New York Graphic. Mr. Hendricks has an army of followers who are actively presenting their claims to office. They are seeking his intercession in their behalf with the President-elect, and the poor man is bored to death by their unceasing supplication. The Vice president has no patronage to bestow outside of ono or two small offices around the Senate. There is little reason to suppose that there will be much if any Hendricks influence around the White House. Not only are Mr. Cleveland and Hendricks wholly unlike aa regards political faith and sympathy, but the influence of Mr. Tilden with the former, of which there is now little doubt, is supposed to be enough of itself to operate againstMr. Hendricks having much to do with the administration. Tilden does not iike Hendricks, and had it not been for this Mr. Hendricks might have been nominated for President instead of Mr. Cleveland. Indeed, some think that Hendricks’s antagonism to McDonald would have been more likely to put him in the Cabinet than his friendship. At any rate it looks as if the presidential and vice-presidential establishments would be entirely distinct, and the latter have little weight with tho former. It is considered here as probable that one of the arguments against Bayard leaving the Senate in the mind of Mr. Cleveland was this very antipathy to its coming presiding officer and the enhanced necessity of having a through-going Cleveland Democrat upon the floor. Tho friends of Hendricks have, therefore, little to hope for in the way of spoils, even if there was going to be much of a distribution thereof. It is a fact that Mr. Hendricks has more political obligations and old debts of gratitude to pay than Mr. Cleveland himself. In Washington he has as many enemies almost as Mr. Blaine. A prominent man here says Indiana politics arc a stench in the nostrils of Mr. Cleveland, and that tho delegation from that State which spoke to him about cleaning out the Augean stables only increased this feeling. THE INDIANA CONTINGENT. Hundreds on the Ground and Thousands More on the Way. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Washington, March 2. —Washington holds hundreds of Indianians to night, and will have thousands of them within twenty four hours. Telegrams announcing their coming from all parts of the State have been received here today. A few of them do not want office. Major Zollinger, of Fort Wayne, who wants to be pension agent for Indiana, has arrived; also, Wra. Kabaugh, who is seeking to be postmaster at Port Wayne. Several others from that city are here, among them Wm. Jones, -who wants some kind cf a federal position, and P. A. Randall and wife, J. J. Cooper and wife, of Indianapolis, arrived to-day. Ed. Hawkins, of LaPorte, is on the ground, Ed. wants to be United States marshal for Indiana. Colonel Foray, of Connersville, is here, and would like to be internal revenue collector for that district. Henry A. Peed, of Sonth Bend, at present a special agent of the Pension Office, is in the cit. - * P. C. Hunt, of Hendricks county, Will Boland and Ed. Cassidy, of Terre Haute, came in tonight; also, Miss Cora Carlton, of Terre Haute, and her Kentucky cousin.

The Rush to Washington. To the Western Associated Press. Pittsburg, March 2.—Tho rush to Washington through this city to-day was unprecedented. At the Union station the throng was so great that incoming passengers on trains from the West were unable to get accommodations, while sleeping-car accommodations were at premium. The day express, carrying the National Guard, left in five sections, and extra trains were leaving nearly every hour, both over the Pennsylvania and the Baltimore & Ohio roads. The Carter Harrison Club, from Chicago, passed through at noon. THE HOOSIER DEMOCRACY. All the Hide-Bouml Bourbons and OfficeHunters Stand by Hen ricks. Special to tho Indianapolis Journal. Washington, March 2.—Since the arrival of Mr. Hendricks at the capital the situation, so far as Indiana Democrats are concerned, has become more decisively and prominently developed, so that the most careless observer, who knows anything at all about the Democratic situation in Indiana, can tell exactly how the land lays. It being now settled that ex-Senator McDonald will not be a member of the new Cabinet, Indiana Democrats are not slow about expressing their opinions, and such expressions show that they are split square in two in regard to their two great leaders—thus: All the seekers for position, all the suppliants for place, all the old hide-bound Bourbons, who have not learned anything since April, 3801, and all who do not care a blank, so they get there—all these are arrayed on the side of Mr. Hendricks. On the other hand nearly all the men of standing in the party, the thinkers, the men who aro Democrats from principle and not for pelf—all who are liberal and progressive in their opinions, and who want to see the new administration, leave behind forever the issues of 1861, and place itself abreast with the more liberal opinions of 1885, and all who detest treachery and darklantern methods of killing off a supposed rival—all these are arrayed on the side of ex-Senator McDonald, and are red-hot in thoir denunciation of tho treatment he has received. These latter classes embrace nearly all the men of brains in the Democratic party in Indiana, a majority of the representatives here—in a word, a large majority of those above the rank of mere county manipulators. Aud they are in deadly earnest, too, as was* shown by Mr. Hendricks’s reception on his arrival here. Not more than two-thirds of Indiana’s representatives took part in the reception, the rest standing off withangry mien and corrugated brows, swearing mighty oaths as to what they would do when pig sticking time comes around. In a word, the political assassination of McDonald has sown the seeds of a breach in the ranks of Indiana's Democracy that will not soon be healed. Curses, loud, deep and inexpressibly bitter are lavished upon Hendricks, and by scores of men who are able to make good the threats of revenge with which they fill the air. Each succeeding day will widen the breach and intensify the bitterness, and the next Democratic State convention will resemble an abattior more than a deliberative body. Aud individual Democrats from all over tho Union aro joining in tho cursing. Wait a little while, and tho music will open from the full orchestra. There is blood on the moon, and It will soon fall on Indiana in torrents.

SHALL SLAY OR SAXON RULE? Russia Makes Demands Which It Is Declared Impossible to Entertain. The Negotiations Concerning the Afghanistan Boundary Line Reach a Delicate Stage, and War Hangs by a Thread. Possibility of a Mighty Struggle Between Russian and English Hosts, The Rich Empire of India the Prize To Be Gained, and the Afghanistan Passes the Probable Battle-Ground.

A GREAT WAR POSSIBLE. Russian Demands Which It Is Impossible for England to Grant. London, March 2. —During tho last few days sinister whispers have been passed around that the highest officials regard a war with Russia as a certainty, and that not only the summoning of the reserves meant preparatios for this, but that the Guards, ostensibly bound for Suakim, are really going to India, and would land at Kurrachee, a seaport town west of the mouth of tne Indus, and proceed thence by the Seinde valley and the Bolan pass to Kandahar. It would be impossible to separate the wheat from tho chaff in these stories, but it is certain that the information came from well-known officers of the Guards before they embarked, and that tho city takes so much stock in these stories that there has been a heavy fall in all Indian quotations. Russia’s representations on the subject of Herat are entirely characteristic of her—affably disclaiming one day, as they do, the bare idea of aggression, and the next explaining what calamities might arise from an Afghan invasion of the Turcoman lands. The latest news is the petitions in Herat for a Russian protectorate, and of a request of Prince Koraskoff for the Czar’s permission to send a scientific expedition into the disputed country; and this is held now to have an unusually ominous look, and to lend confidence to the story that Lord Dufferin demanded largo reinforcements, and is going to mass the troops as near the danger points as possible. It is highly characteristic of the English Intelligence Department that London gets the most of her news from the vicinage of Herat from Russians, and lies at the mercy of every Moscow rumor or canard. Teheran advices state that Sir Peter Lumsdcn, British special commissioner on the Afghan frontier question, has reached Galran, or Girlin. The Russians have advanced their pickets south of Puli Khatum to Zulfugar and Peujdeh. A Persian paper states that the Ameer of Afghanistan has been ordered have the road from to fVshawur, by way of Cabul, immediately put iA repair, to faciliate the march of an Indian corps to occupy Cabul. A medical inspection of every regiment in the British army was ordered yesterday, and is in progress to-day. It is undoubted in some circles that war with Russia hangs by a thread. The negotiations between Russia and England respecting the Russo-Afghan frontier are said to have reached a delicate stage. M. Lessar, Russian commissioner, hasurgedsuch sweeping demands that England cannot accept anything approaching them, and a complete collapse of the delimitation project and an early advance of Russian troops toward Herat is expected. Granville, British Secretary of Foreign Affairs, to-day sent, a long and very important dispatch by telegraph to De Giers, Russian Foreign Minister, regarding the occupation by Russian troops of points on the Afghan frontier. His language is very firm, and almost equivalent to a formal ultimatum. It plainly intimates that Great Britain is resolved to protect, at all hazards, the strategic points in Afghanistan. Russia is also warned that Great Britain will under no circumstances entertain the question of cessiou of any portion of the territory belonging to her ally, the Ameer of Afghanistan. A copy of this dispatch was sent to Dufferin, Viceroy of India, who i6 instructed to reassure the Ameer of Afghanistan of continued friendliness. Granville has effected an agreement with tKb' Russian government on the Afghan frontier question. The final point in dispute—the right of the Afghans to occupy Penjdeh—has been referred to an Anglo-Russian commission.

THE PROBABLE BATTLE-GROUND. An Interesting Chapter About Afghanistan and Its Hardy Inhabitants. For a century past Russia has been slowly but steadily pushing her way across Turkestan in pursuance of a well-defined policy of aggression in the East Already she has absorbed nearly the entire littoral of the Caspian, the Khanates of tho Khiva and Bokhara, the celebrated Merv oasis, and has practically made herself tho ruler of all tho central Asian territory from the sea of Azov to the northern slopes of the Hindoo Koosh range. England has viewed Russia’s advance towards tho frontier of India with suspicion and alarm, but somehow Russia has always succeeded in temporarily quieting her fears. At first Russia affirmed that tho Lower Oxus would bo the boundary of her conquests in Turkestan; but she passed that limit long ago. Then she assured tho English government that the integrity of Merv would be respected. Within the last two years sho has left Merv far behind her. Next she affirmed that she had no intentions whatever of having anything to do with the western capital of Afghanistan, but the knowledge that Russian troops have appeared within thirty miles of Herat has onco more seriously awakened England’s suspicions that Russia has really sinster intentions with regard to her East Indian empire. Strength is lent to these suspicions by the fact that a few months ago tho government of India dispatched a mission under Sir Peter Lumsden to settle the delimitation of northern Afghanistan, hut Russia, instead of waiting to learn the results of this mission, has never ceased to push on until now it may bo said that sho has a foot in tho most vulnerable part of Afghanistan. What England fears is that by that power of intrigue for which Russia’s oriental officers are remarkablo, the Czar may get tho Ameer of Kabool in his power, and this arrangement might, of course, open a passage to India for the Muscovites. So jealous *is England of Russia obtaining the ascendant political influence at Kabool that in order to prevent this sho has not hesitated to mako two costly and sanguinary wars upon Afghanistan. The war of 1840 ’42 was precipitated by the appearance in the northern capital of a Russian officer named Vicovich, who was supposed to bo exorcising on behalf of the Czar, strong political influence

over the Ameer. Englared declared hostilities, and the Czar, anxious to avoid embroiling himself with Great Britain, disowned all knowledge of Vicovich, who thereupon committed suicide in sheer disgust at the perfidy of his employers. The last war was again caused by Russian intrigues in Kaboot. The Ameer Shere Ali chose to receive a deputation of Russian officers, and to declino to receive a mission sent to him by the government of India. Lord Lytton, then the high priest in the East of Earl Beaconsfield’s aggressive foreign policy, at once declared war against Shere Ali, and in rapid succession there followed the flight and death of Shere Ali, tho massacre of Sir Louis Cavagnari and his companions, the capture of Kabool and Kandahar, the deposition of Shore All’s son Yakoob Khan (now a state prisoner in India,) and the elevation of the JBokharian Abdurrahman Khan to the musnud at Kabool. It is worth while to recall these few facts in order to understand England’s feelings when she now finds that Russian troops are actually at the “Gate of India,’’ as it has become the fashion for Sir Henry Rawlinson, Sir Lewis Pelly, and other rabid Anglo-Indians and Russophobits to ca.il Herat These gentlemen hold that Afgahnistan must, at all hazards, be kept as a kind of buffer between India and Russia’s Asiatic possessions, and it cannot be denied that they have a large and powerful following in Great Britain as well as among the Anglo-Indian officials of the East. The passes by which alone it is possible to invade India from Afghanistan are the Jugdulluck defile, ending in the Khyber Pass; the Shuturgurdun Pass. 13,000 feet high, terminating in the long and tortuous valley of the Kooram; and the Bolan Pass, stretching from the vicinity of Kandahar to a point near the river Indus. Men who have actually seen those awful passes doubt whether it would be possible for Russia, even with an Afghanistan coalition, to penetrate successfully into the northwest of Hindostan. Afghanistan is ramified by great ranges of formidable mountains and keep and dangerous rivers. Running east and west and dividing the Kooram Valley from the Khyber Pass, the Sufeyd Koh, or White Mountains, rise to an average height greater than Mont Blanc, and finally twist off north and south so as to form a high eastern wall for the famous Logar Valley, which is the granary of the country, and extends all the way from where Kabool sits enthroned upon a high spur of the Hindoo Koosh to the gates of Kandahar. Tho Siah Koh (or Black) Mountains fill the southern portion of the country with a shattered mass of Titanic precipices and canons which are infested by wild tribes who do not care oven for the authority of the Ameer, and plunder and murder at their own sweet will, without being any respecters of persons. Then, again, stretching from north to south along the west bank of the Indus, the great snow clad Suliman range forms what at first sight would appear to be an impenetrable wall between Afghanistan and Hindostan.

A PERILOUS COUNTRY. The rough sketch of the general configuration of Afghanistan, which is probably the wildest country on the face of the globe, and the worthy homo of about 4,000,000 courageous, powerful, handsome, treacherous, and fanatical tribesmen, wiH probably give the reader an idea that a Russian invasion of India is by no means such an easy task as it has become the fashion of a good many English statesmen to imagine. These get most of their ideas from books and excited pamphlets written by men who have really no knowledge of what an awful country Afghanistan is. If they were once to attempt the journey from Peshawur by way either of the Khyber Pass, or the Kooram valley, they would probably concede that so long as the government of India is able, by her network of railways through the Punjab. Bongal, Bombay, the Presidency of Madras and central India to mass along the northwestern (frontier and vulnerable point, the integrity of Victoria’s eastern empire cannot be •much harmed by Russia for many a day to como. One thing is certain, that it would take several months for Russia to cross, with an army, to the Indus from Herat, and in that timo England could easily fortify the passes in such a way as to make any attempt to traverse them next to an impossibility. Already she has powerful garrisons at Rawul Pindee and Peshawur, to guard the entrance to the Khyber; at Kohat and Thai to guard the Kooram Valley; and at Quetta and Hyderabad Sind to perform a like office for the Bolan. The fact that out of sheer gratitude Abdurrahman Khan may consent to philander with the Russians who are now supposed to he knocking at the “Gate of India,” is being dwelt upon by the Russophobists of England, for they cannot forget that when he was compelled to fly from Kabool lie received an asylum in Russian Central Asia for many years, as well as a pension from the government which enabled him to reside at Bokhara with considerable pomp. Gratitude, however, is not a trait of the Afghan's ’character. He is shrewd enough to perceive in which direction his interests lie and to follow that direction either by treacherous or straightforward means. Abdurraham is well aware that he was propped on the throne by British bayonets, and that for the price of his friendship to England he receives a large monthly subsidy which ho could not very well afford to dispense with. He would, therefore, probably refuse to enter into any compact with Russia to the detriment of England’s interests in India, and it is safe to say that if he opposed a Russsian advance from Herat or from any point along the valley of the Mourgh-Ab—-for it must be borne iri mind that, according to shibboleth of the Russophobists, Merv is tno “key to India”—any direct attack upon India by Russia would prove simply disastrous. The terrible nature of the country would prove to the Ameer a tremendous ally, as may be readily imagined by any one who recalls the massacre of 16,000 British troops in the Khyber defiles in 1842, or the striking fact that during the last invasion of Afghanistan the road from the Indus to the Sliuturgurdun Pass could be followed simply by the skeletons of men, camels, horses and mules that lay bleaching on the ground in a line extending 200 miles, If England suffered such terrible losses with her bases of supply tolerably near along the northwest frontier of India, it is impossible to imagine what Russia’s losses would bo when her nearest base of supplies is in the heart of Turkestan. Thus it is improbable that Russia will ever venture to undermine England's power in India by open warfare, but thero is no reason why she should not seek to do so by intrigue. There are many nativo princes and chiefs in India who possess powerful armies, which are 4 at present merely ornamental, for the troops of the British government do the garrisoning of the country and guarantee the independence of each principality. Several of theso Princes are ambitious enough to aspire to possess military power in reality as well as in semblance, and they are not so much in love with the English raj, or rule, that thoy would not listen to any covert suggestion that Russia might make to them concerning the subject of achieving their independence. Scindiah, the Maharajah of Gwalior, the best nativo general iu all India, has 40.000 well-trained Mahratta troops, and lie would certainly be one of those Princes who would not object to strike a blow at England, which he conceives to have done him a grievous injury by seizing the great rock fert tress of Morar. The Nizam of Hyderabad, the most powerful semi-independent Prince in Iliadostan, lia3 an array mainly composed of Kopillas and Arabs, who would rise in a moment if they got a preconcerted signal. And so with tho armies of other native princes that could bo named. Another element in the general consideration of the case is that thero are 50,000,000 Mohammedans in India who aro watching the career of the Mahdi in the Soudan with breathless interest, and who regard every blow that the Prophet strikes at England as a blow also at tho‘ fetters which chain them down beneath tho yoke of a Christian government. Thus Russia has amplo scopo for attacking England in India by intrigue, and this is much more to be fearod by the Russophobists than a Russian invasion by way of Afghanistan. Those who hava tried it say thero is only one good cough medicine, and that is Dr. Bull’s Cough Syrup. It is cheap too, only 25 cents ft bottle.

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REPULSED WITH HEAVY LOSS The Beleaguered Garrison of Kassala Makes a Determined Sortie, Bnt the Forces of Osman Digna Succeed is Driving Back the Egyptians, and Inflictinga Very Heavy Penalty. Twenty-Eight Ofiicers and Six linn-’ dred and Thirty Men Killed. Wolseley’s Eyesight Affected by the Sand, and the Intense Heat Causes an Outbreak of Fever Among His Troops. THE WAR IN TIIE SOUDAN. Unsuccessful Sortie by the Garrison of Kassala—The City in Danger of Capture. London, March 2. —Dispatches from Assab Bey, received this afternoon, state that the garrison of Kassala —who have been defending the place for a year—recently made a sortie, but were repulsed by the rebels, with a loss of 28 officers and G3O privates. According to advices from Massowah, the garrison of Kassala is reduced to an effective force of 600 men. The town is closely besieged, and the garrison short of ammunition. The Egyptian government at Cairo has abandoned all hope of relieving the town. The destination of the fourth Italian expedition to the Red sea is supposed to be Trinkitat. The government has chartered seventy-five vessels for transporting troops and supplies to Suakim. Dispatches from Korti state that General Wolseley’s eyes have become affected by the glare of the sun, and that the intense heat has caused an outbreak of typhus fever among the British troops. General Wolseley has ordered General Brackenbury to return to Korti, and not proceed o his march to Abu-Hamed. The Mudir of Dongala suspects the Vakeel of Dugyet of negleoting to pursue and attack the rebels. The War Discussed in Parliament. London, March 2.—ln the House of Commons Mr. Henry Labouchero, Radical, moved the resolution which he gave notice of last Friday, “That tho House of Commons regret3 that the militia have been embodied, because it indicates a resolution on the part of her Majesty’s government to interfere in the Soudan by force of arms.” He followed up the introduction of this motion by a vigorous denunciation of the course the government was pursuing in the Soudan at the present time. The motion was lost by a vote of 149 to 19. Fitzmaurice, Under Secretary for the Foreign Department, said the sortie and defeat of the Kassala garrison by El Mahdi's Arabs occurred on the 2nd of February. He explained the difficulty of relieving this garrison by saying it wa3 so far inland, being 280 miles from Suakim and 293 miles from Massowah, on tho Red sea, that relief could be afforded through, frontier tribes only. The Marquis of Hartington said the question of continuing the present policy of the government in the Soudan had boon decided by last week’s debate and last Friday's vote. lie defended the sending of the guards, who, ho said, expected to be employed in war whenever serious operations were needed. It was not intended to call out the reserves, he said, just yet, “but the government will not hesitate to do so,” the war secretary added, “if it should become necessary ” In regard to the colonial offers of military assistance, the secretary said the government had not declined any of them, but was now communicating with the colonies for the pnrpose of ascertaining in full the exact nature of the assistance which colonies would render. In the House of fjords, this evening, the Queen’s messages embodying the militia and extending the period of active service with the colors, were made subjects of discussion. Earl Morsley, Under Secretary for War, responding for the government, said recruiting for the British service had for some time been proceeding briskly, owing, perhaps, to hard times and depression in trade. The increase in the army during the past year, from recruiting alone, amounted to 9,000 men. The Duke of Cambridge, Commander in chief, said the government had accopted the offers of military assistance made by the colonies, providing tho aid should be required. After further discussion, both the Queen’s messages were adopted.

CUNNINGHAM. AND BURTON. The Solicitor Proposes to Prove the Latter's Connection with Recent Explosions. London, March 2. —Tho examination of Cunningham and Burton was cont inued to-day. The witnesses introduced testified that Burton was the owner of a box containing twenty pounds of dynamite, which was discovered in the parcel room at Charing Cross railway station shortly after the explosion at Victoria station, one year ago. Mr. Poland, solicitor for the treasury, stated that tho government would show that Burton was connected with a Fenian conspiracy in the United States. Tho solicitor then gave the dotails of the plots to explode London Bridge, the Parliament house and the Tower —say mg he would show that Burton was connected with all these plots. Mr. Poland said the government would show that Burton arrived at Southampton on the 20th of February, 1884. At Southampton ho bought the portmanteau found at (’haring Cross station, which contained dynamite. This portmanteau was similar to the one found at Paddington station, which also contained dynamite. The plan had been to blow up four of the principal railway stations in Loudon. Tho dynamite was packed into the portmanteaus, with American clock-works set to strike detonators at a certain hour, and one portmanteau, so charged, was to be left at each of the four doomed stations. Mr. Stock, of Liverpool, testified with tho greatest reluctance and reserve until Mr. Poland threatened him with tho penalties for contempt, when he said: “I keep tho Liverpool arms. On the 20th of December 1 spoke to tho prisoner Cunningham, on the Adriatic landing stago. I solicited him to stay at my hotel, ami he conseutod. lie carried a bag and a small bundle. I believe I directed that his trunk, which he said was on the landing stage, should be taken to my house, whither I walked with Cunningham. lie stayed three nights with me. I never knew his name.” THE RECENT ENGLISH BLUE BOOK. Its Publication Denouuced as a Lack of Courtesy. Dublin, March 2. —The North German Gazette accuses Great Britain of having shown a lack of courtesy in allowing publication of the blue book concerning New Guinea ami Samoa, without first asking Germany wliothersho agreed to such publication. The Gazette draws attention to the fact that the book roporUcoufident *®^