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of money. What the. Commercial Gazette said in the whole controversy waa the truth. It was the truth when ft was written. It u tho truth now. Perhaps it was roughly expressed, lut it was tho truth all the . w-ume. For this Mr. Ilalstead was defeated, and lor no other reason. There was no pretense, of. ejection to him on the ground of fitness. He was rejected by senatorial frauds, because he hd the courage of his convictions and was not firraid to teli the truth. The result, therefore, cannot hurt him, but it is bound to hurt Kullty 1 Senators. 1'crhaps. too. it may lead to a line of thought, or increase tho force of a line of thouirht, that will abolish the Uuited States henate altogether, with its star-chamber proceedings, or compel a change in the methods of election that will bring that body closer to the people, and force its members outside of tho Tfinnpr Influence. Peoole would be startled to

tnow'how many seats la the United States ben-, ate were bought "with money, and how many reats are therefore disgraced. This is a business that cannot last. The people will not tolerate . it. This Kind of corruption must be wired out. -Payne thinks the defeat of Halstead lias vtndi en ted him. This is bosh. To do that would refjuiro tho defeat of nearly all the editors in Ohio, and of such Democrat as Allen (j. Thnrliian. But he is not satisfied with this, and he proposes, in order to a further vindication, to be a candidate for re-electon to the United States Senate. lie has a riffht to do that. We decidedly favor it. We dare bini to make the test. Appeal to the people of Ohio and investigation will not te Mined. The troth will bo brought to the front, andthe people who cannot be bought will seltle the corruptlonists. The issue for next fall has been made In Ohio by Mr. Payne. It rannot be avoided. The defeat of Halstead waa the result of revenge. Now let the people of Ohio demonstrate the folly of revenge. k. 8. Views of Editor Watterson. Louis vi lab, March 0. Of Mr. Halstead's rejection, Sir. Watterson in to-morrow's Courier-Journal will write as follows: . The rejection of Mr. Halstead carries with it, primarily, a warning from the Senate of the United States to the press of tho country to look to its utterances wnen dealing with that body, or any of its members. Mr. Halstead's offense to the Republicans who voted against his conUrination, or who did not vote at all, lay in his criticism of certain Kepubiican Senators who had refused to enter upon an investigation, asked by the Republican Iejrilature of Ohio, into the election of Senator Payne. The election .of Senator I'awie was notoriously open to question. With theWljrnts now before us, no intelligent Democrat doubts that it was, from first to last, a most corrupt affair. That party spirit and sympathy with un old man, whose personal ; knowledge of, and complicity with, the means to irhloh )i a j-i tx.' a. I 1 1 sofit. in thA Monnta troa ho. ' lieved by no one at all familiar with his character, should lead Democratic Senators to stand ; between him and an impending scandal, was ; natural. Hut why the investigation demanded by the Republicans of Ohio should be denied by ; any Republican Senator cannot be explained, . even at this late day. In Ohio the controversy was one of equal importance and acrimony, and Mr. Halstead threw all the combative elements ' of his essentially combative character into the - Hjrht, and especially against the obdurate Republican Senators, f'roia his party stand-point ho was entirely in tho right, ile did what any ether brave and honest journalist would have done, and should have dono under the circumstance.?. That ho may have been too rcuch lu his methods of attack is beside the question. He had the truth of it in his premises, was sincere and urright In his pnriioses. and a little access of tenaier, more or les. does not materially affect the case, lie is punished, therefore, by those of his own party whom he dared to call to account, for doing his duty as a partisan journalist, The Democrats of the henate have assisted these Republicans of the rJcnate to punish him, and thus a dual notice is served by botlt parties in the Hennte upon the journalists of America to the effect that whenever a Senator is publiclycriticised, he will bide his time to get his revenge by stabbing his critic in the back and in the dark. Without doubt the Democrats of the Senate, and particularly the Democratic Senators from the feouthcra States, think that they are getting even with Ir. Halstead for his abuse of the South. But, even if this were so, their position woidd be nt once inconsistent and injudicious. With the nsht over the confirmation of Iimar, and the ready confirmation of many confederates to foreign posts of honor, in our- ' jntn.l. it lies not in onr mouths to talk about sectional revenges. Such talk cannot fail to do more execution at the breach than at the muzzle, .and. in the long run. must recoil upon ourselves. It puts a stop to our protests against proscription and places a powerful weapon in the hands of our enemies. We do not question any Southern (senator's sincerity or rixht to vote against J!r. Halstead; nor do we Ret up any claim of Mr. Halstead upon our forbearance. We are not a ware that he, or any of his friends, have made the slizhtest appeal to us in this regard. But we thought, and we think, that it would have been far better public policy, and at the same time a far nobler revenge, if Mr. Hslstead had owed his rescue Jn tho House o his friends to those whom he has" so incessantly, and so unjustly, but so openly, assailed as the incarnation of all that is ' iutole rant and irreconcilable. Every forgiving action done, and every kind . and generous word spoken, on occasions of trouble and trial by sectional and political antagonists one to another, tends to heal up breeches tetween the iMorle and to bind un the -wonn.ls of w ar and to make the Union once more n union of countrymen and brothers. When Horace flrecley went to Richmond to sign tho bail-bond of Jeff Davis, when Lamar laid a wreath of flowers upon the cr tlinof Charles bumner, wneniue ?-ouwi accepted lirceiey ior lis Moses, when Johnson, and Lee. and Buckner followed the bier of raut to tho tomb, steps were taken out of. the moras. of mistrust and strife and toward the high and solid ground of national unification and the end of sctionalini. We had hoped that, in the case of Mr. Halstead, 'which afforded a striking opportunity for the linplay of a large and liberal party spirit, there would have been found In the trenate enough Senators from the South, big enough in brain jmd heart to tee this, and brave enough to -act upon it, and we can only regret la at in this l.ope we have been .disappointed. We are more so, leeauso Mr. Halstead 1- singularly fitted for the position to which he was named, and is personally as honora- - Me and clean a man as he is, politically, a stubborn . :ml implacable tighter: making his rejection turn. us Z?-u we are concerned, upon partisan objec tions w hich sQouia nave no weignt. - W e have it from very high authority that, if the name of Governor Forakerts not sent to the Senate before adjournment, the Governor will i' til patched as minister to iermany very soon thereafter. If this le so, the Democrats of the Senate will have helped tho malignant Republican of that lody to wreak their private revenge on Mr. Halstead only to saddle a man likeoovrnor Fo raker, who, in hatred of the South, lUiuMiMlw-ouiiU any other Republican in the country, on our diplomatic service. On that is sue, we have au impression that gentlemen will ilnd it as little easy to satisfy their own con sciences as to explain themselves to public opin ion, which, in the end, is tolerably just in these matters and win not give Its approval to the conversion of tiie Senate into a den of assassin. Other Press Comment. Newt York, March 30. The World, in commenting, this morning ou tho treatment which Mr. Halstead is receiving at the hands of the Sen ate, frays: - 'It is telegraphed from Washington that 'one of the points which Senators have against Mr. Hal stead is tnat ne nas sioxen uisrespectruiiy or the benate as a bod 3-, aud tho Senate has established a precedent that editors w offending shall not be on firmed. If there be any truth in this the President should, by repeated and continued nominations of outspoken editors, defend the freedom of the press. The Senate has a perfect right to refuse to connnn tuo nomination of Mr. Halateud as minister to Germany if it considers him an unfit man for the place. It has no right to reject him because be has exercised his natural and constitutional right to criticise that body, or ven to pcaK disrespectfully' or u. There is n sacred sanhedrim in this Klorious country with tho inherited privileges of exemption from criticism. The Seuate of the United states has not always comcanded or deserved the respect of honest citi zens. It merited severe censure when it det lned to investigate resionsiblo charges of flagiant briery and corruption in connection witn, tho election ot one 01 us mem uers senator Pavne. of Ohio. Mr. Halstead may have in dulged in unnecessary iersonal reflections in his comments on that scandalous refusal, but his characterization of the uction of the benate was nnnn tw j.-pi- If tho Senate shall armv Itself against the freedom of the press it wiil enter tion a hojM-less coutcst. it cannot muzzle tno press bv withholding ofiices from editors; and it willlnvitc a plainer speech than its members inv relish. Tho Post savs: ''It would be a fortunate thing for Mr. Halstead. in the long run. if ho -uouIJ be reieetcd by tho Senate and especially it he he should be rejected for his boldness in e-xposiug tho corruption by viiieh Mr. rayne w-.vh elected to succeed Mr. Pendleton in the enate and for applying the lash to tho Republican Senators who voted against an investigation of that iniquity. This is the brightest spot In Mr. Halstead's editorial career in recent 3'cars. If he is made a martyr for it. he will deserve a martyr's crown, and we shall help ao bestow it upon hiia. Tho Republican Seuaiors who voted to stifle tnnurty in that dark transaction deserved all that Mr. Halstead said of them, and more, if they now vote to reject him they wiil signalize hlin as the one Republican editor at that crisis who dared to do his duty. A Blow at Liberty of the Press. Washington, March 30.-3eu. II. V. Boynton, Washington correspondent of tho Cincinnati Commeu ial C.aejte, received the following tciepram this evening ,f "Bangor, Me., March "0. 'Mrnlie has sent the following telegram - tn the President: 'In rejecting Mnrat Halstead's nomination for the reason stated, the Senate ha struck one of the most desperate blows ever alined at tho liberty of the press. I hop you wlU resist it with all your power. 3IOKK NOMINATIONS. J. T. Abbctt for Mlmtr to Colombia and Terrell for 3UnUter to Helgluin. Washington", March SO.-Tho President aent the following nominations to the Senate to-day: John T. Abbott, of New Hampshire, to ho cavoy extraordinary and minister plenipo-

tentiarv of the United States to IheRenub-

lic of Colombia. Edwin 11. Terrell, of Texas, to be envov extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of the United States to Belgium. W Undrawn John W. llerrvman. to be postmaster at Versailles. Kv. lo bo delegates to the conference be tween the United States of America and the Republics of Mexico, Central and South America, Hayti, Santo Domingo and the Em piie of Brazil, to be held in Washington in lS&s John P. Henderson, of Missouri; uornelius N. Bliss, of ew York: William Pinckney Whyte. of Maryland: Clement btudebaker, of Indiana; T. Jefferson Coolidge, of Massachusetts; Wni. Henry Trescott. of South Carolina: Andrew Car negie, of Pennsylvania: John K. (J. Pitkin. of Louisiana; Morns M. Estee, of Califor nia: J. 11. Hanson, of (reorgia. Postmasters Cornelius B. Gould, at Em porium, Ia.: James Ogden. LatrObe, l'a.; William H. Zufall. Myersdale, Pa.; Robert A. Love, Warren, Pa.; Robert S. Barker, Lockhavrn, Pa..; David D. H. Alexandria, Apollo, Pa.; Walter W. Merry, Pouieroy.O.; rrancis rurseii. jogan, u.; jonn u. Hunirerford. Carroll. Ia.: George I. Lone. Mansion. Ia.: Hanson J. Depue, Lacon, 111.; John If. Moore. Charleston, 111.; Sylvester A. Hallou. Nanerville. 111.: John U. Eckels. Tulare, Cal.; Isadore S. Loveuthal. Modeste, Cal.; Georgia Sturtevant.AImeda. Cal.; John .vi. nacon, Oregon City, ure.; i nomas if. McDowell. Kllensbnrsr. W. T.; Sarah J. Dawson. Plnllipsburg, M. T.: Joseph J. Reid. Versailles. Kv.: Francis A. Freer. (ialesburir. 111.; Charles J. Devlin, Sprin? Valley. III.; George E. Nicholson, Nebraska City, Kan. Edwin H. Terrell, of San Antonio, Tex., who was yesterday appointed minister to Belgium, Is about forty-one years of age and a native of Indiana, lie was born at Rrookville, Franklin county, where his father, Rev. Williamson Terrel, a ructhodist preacher, well-known all over tho State, was at that time stationed. His mother died when he was but a few weeks old, and Judge George Holland, then a practicing lawyer at Brookvllle, took the boy into hia household and brought him up to manhood. His early years were spent at Brookville, but about 1 is 01 Judgo Holland removed to Richmond, Ind., aud there youn Terrell prepared mmseii for college. He graduated with honor at Dcl'auw University in 170 and afterward completed a course at the Harvard Law School. He then traveled abroad for a year, perfecting himself in the modern languages, and upon hii return to this country settled in Indianapolis. He practiced law here for about two years, being in a tinn with Judge Lucien Rarbourand Charles P. Jacobs. Having married, meanwhile, a youne lady of a well-known (southern family in fcan Antouia, Tex., he removed there m IS t o and has since been ideutitied with that place, where he has been very successful in business and is known as a wealthy and public-spirited citiien. In politics Mr. Terrell has always ueen a isepubliean, his residence in the isouth in no way affecting his principles. In 1880 he was elected a delegate from Texas to the Chicago convention, and in 198( ran for Mayor of Han Antonla, his Democratic competitor only defeating him by nlout J1M votes. In 1838 he was again selected a delegate to the Republican national con vention, and was the only delegate irom nis fctntA that was tor Harrison all the time. He made one of the speeches seconding Genera j Harrison's nomination and did good worn among the bouthern delegates at the convention. During the campaign he was in Indiana making speecne,, aiding tne state central commiuee. and In many ways neiping the party nere, ana since the election he has done much in Texas to build up and strengthen the party organization there. Confirmations. Washington, March 30. The Penate has confinned the following nominations: John Hicks, to le minister to Peru: George B: luring, to be minister to I'ojtugaL Rooert T. Lincoln, to be minister to Great Rritain; Allan Thorndyke Rice, to be minister to Russia; l nomas Kyan, to ne minister xo aiexico; x airics Egan, to be minister to Chill. Receivers of IuMic Moneys Casslns M.Barnes, at Guthrie. Ind. T.: Jacob V. Admire, at King fisher Stage Station, Ind. T. Register of Public Lands Jacob C. Roberts, at Kingfisher Stage Station; John I. Dine, at Guthrie, lud. T. George R. Ferguson, collector of customs at Relfast. Me. Roi.-ert Adams, jr.. to be minister to Brazil; Iinsingli. Mizuer, to be minister to tho Central American States. ' W. L. Scruggs, to be mluistcr to Venzuela. W. o. Bradley, to Ikj minister resident and con sul reneral to Corea. W. S. Tipton, to be United States marshal for the Eastern district of Tennessee; Tyro Glenn, to lie marshal for the Western district of orth Carolina; Marion Erwin. United States attorney lor the Southern district ot Georgia. George Chandler, of Kansas, to be first Assist ant secretary of the Interior. TIIE AMERICAN CONFERENCE. I'lan and Scop of the Proposed Conference of the American Republics. Washington, JIarch SO. Tho persons named by the President to-day to be delegates to the conference between the United States of America and the Republics of Mexico, Centra) and South America, Hayti, fc?an Domingo and th's empire of Brazil, to be held in Washington during the present year, were nominated in accordance with tho act of Congress May 24, 1S38, which authorizes the President to invite the several governments of the republics of Mexico, Central and South America, Hayti, San Domingo and empire of Brazil, join the United States in a conference to be held at Washington at 6uch time as be may deem, proper for the purpose of discussing and recommending for adoption to their respective governments some plan of arbitration for the settlement of disagreements and disputes that may hereafter ariso between them, and for considering questions relating to the improvements of business intercourse and means of direct communication between said countries, and to encourage such reciprocity commercial relations as will be beneficial to all and secure more extensive markets for the products of each of said countries. In forwarding invitations, the President ia required to set forth that the conference is required to consider tho following: First Measures that shall tend to preserve tho peace and promote the prosperity of tho several American states. Second Measures toward the formation of an American customs nnion, under which the trade of the American nations with each shall, so far as possible and profitable, be promoted. 1 bird The establishment of regular and frequent communication between tho ports of the several American states and the ports of each other. Fourth The establishment of a uniform svsteiu of customs regulations in each of the independent American states to govern the mode of importation and exportation of merchandise and port iluea and charges; a uniform method of determining the classification and valuation of such merchandise in tho ports of each country, and a uniform system of invoices ami the subject of the sanitation of whips and quarantine. Fifth Tho adoption of a uniform system of weights, measures and laws to protect the patent rights, copyrights and trade marks of citizens of either country in the other, and for the extradition of criminals. Sixth The adoption of a common silver coin, to be issued by each government, the same to bo legal tender in all commercial transactions between tho citizens of all of the American states. Seventh An agreement upon and recommendation for adopt iona to their respective governments of a definite plan of arbitration of all questions, disputes and differences that may now or liereaf ter exist between them, to the cud that all diiiicnlties and disputes between such nations may be peaceably settled and warn prevented. Kighth To consider such other subjects relating to the welfare of the several states represented as may be presented by anv of said states which are, hereby invited to participate in said conference. The delegates to this conference on the part of the United States are to serve without compensation other than their actual, necessary expenses. - Tho several other htates participating in tho conference shall bo represented by as many delegates as each may elect: provided, that in tho disposition of questions to come before the conference no state shall be entitled to more than ono vote. The Secretary of State is required to pav for tho daily publication in the English. Spanish and Portuguese language of such of the proceeding of the conference as that bodv shall determine, and upon its conclusion snail transmit a report of the same to Congress. Soldiers Records yjMX-Ul to the IiilUnaiMli Joum.il'.Vasiungton, March 30. Tho secretary of War has issued orders correcting tho military records of Indiana Midlers as follows: The discharge of Henry F. Perry as private Company U, Thirty-eighth Indiana Infautry Volunteers, Dec. 4, lbC'2, is amended to tako

effect sept, 27, 1862: his musters Into the service

as second lieutenant, nrst ueuienani, ana as captain same company and rennient, leo. o, l?ui April 2, lbd3, and June 2, lRr,3. are amended to date Sent. '2i. 1862. Aoril 7. IStUi. and May 4, 1863, re pectively; he is mustered into service as major, same regiment to date Nov. 4, 1BC4; his discharge as captain, same regiment, by Paragraph 19, special orders. No. 75, Feb. 15, lbd, War Ieparttnent, Adjutantgenerals utllce. Is amended to read major, ana he is mustered for pay in tne advance graaea during the period embraced between the afore said dates. The discharge of William Miller as first sergeant. Company B, One-hundred-and-flrst Indiana Infantry Volunteers, June 25, 1865, is amended to take effect April 30, 1865; he is mustered into service as first lieutenant, same company and regiment, to date May 1,1665; mustered out and honorably discharged as first lieutenant June 25, 1865, and he is mustered for ray in said grade during the period embraced between the aforesaid dates. The discharge of J. W. Baker as first sergeant. Company A, Fourteenth Indiana Infantry Volunteers, Dec. 3, 162, is amended to take effect Sept 1H, 1862, his muster into service as second lieutenant, same company and regimeift, to date Oct. 1W, 1862; his discharge as lieutenart, same regiment, by Paragraph 21, special orders, No. 73, Feb. 13, 1863. War Department, Adjutant-general's office, is amended to read first lieutenant, and he is mustered for pay in the advance grade during the period embraced between the aforesaid dates. Hie Charges Against Wolfley. Washington, March '30. The latest charges against Lewis Wolfley, who has been once confirmed as Governor of Arizona, but is now held up by a motion to reconsider, are said to relate to his fcerviees as internal revenue agent in Louisiana. They are to the effect, it is reported, that he took money from distillers to enable them to continue to do business in violation of the law. Mr. Wolfley says the report doubtless was originated by some one affected by his action In closing certain distillers in Louisiana. J. W. Klder was given as the name of the man who would appear to-day and make oath to the truth of the charges, but he failed to show up. lroceedlng of the Senate. Washington, March 30. The Penate met at noon. The Vice-president announced the appointment of Mr. Farwtll as a member of the select committee on transportation and sale of meat products in place of Mr. Cullom, excused at his own request. The Senate then, on motion of Mr. Sherman, proceeded to consideration of executive business. While the doors were closed the following general business was transacted: The resolution heretofore offered by Mr. Sherman for the appointment of a committee of two Senators to wait on tho President and inquire whether he had any f urther communication to make to the Senate, was taken up and agreed to, and Senators tiherman and Ransom were appointed. The resolution offered yesterday by Mr. Dawes, calling for Information as to the Langford claim for Indian lands in Idaho, was taken up and agreed to. Mr. Allison offered a resolution calling on the Secretary of the Treasury for information as to trade between the United States and Mexico. The resolution heretofore offered by Mr. Mitchell, instructing the committee on mines and mining to continue its inquirv into the causes of delay in settling uncontested claims in the mineral division of the General Land Office, was taken up and -agreed to. The vacancy on the committee on civil service, retrenchment, etc., caused by the resignation of Mr. Chace, was filled by the appointment of Mr. II logins. Mr. Mitchell Called attention to the vacancy on the committe: on railroads caused by Mr. Wolcott's resignation, but no action was taken. Mr. Piatt remarking that there were several other vacancies on committees, and that the question had better lie over for the present. The resolution heretofore offered by Mr. Dawes, to pay Henry V. Poor $."U0 for services to the committee on foreign relations, was taken up and agreed to. The benate, at 3:10, adjourned till Monday at 1 P. M. Removals In the Interior Department. Washington, March 30. The Secretary of the Interior to-day issued tho following important order respecting removals: "Heads of bureaus and other officers of this department will not call for resignations except by direction of the Secretary, and in making recommendations for the dismissal of employes will please state specincally the reasons therefor, and must state whether there has been due examination of all papers on file in the appointment division, aud there must be transmitted to the Secretary all papers bearing on the subject aud the recommendations. John W. Noble, Secretary." Fifth Division Railway Mall Service. Washington, March 30.-The Postmaster-gen eral, upon tho recommendation of General Superintendent Bell, has appointed Alonzo Burt superintendent of the fifth division of the rail way mril service, with headquarters at Cincin nati. O. Mr. Burt was removed from the same position in 18SG. He ranks as one of the ablest men in the postal service, and his reappoint ment, it is said, will strengthen the department restoring it to a high degree of efficiency. Ilond Purchases. Washington, March 30. Bond offerings at the Treasury Department to-day aggregated $601,500 Ah per cents, at $1.08 to $1.088; $492,500 were accepted at $1.09. The bonds purchased to date, under last April's circular, amount to $137,282,100. and cost $148,170,500. The $51.337,300 4 per cents, purehascd cost $05,925,890, and the $7 5,944,800 4a per cents, cost $32,IMl.UUl. Personal Notes. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Washington, March 30. M. O. McLain and John L Dille left for thelt homes in Indiana to day. The White House was open to callers upon tho ladies of the President's family this afternoon. Mrs. Harrison, however, was unable to be down stairs, and "Vfrs. Scott Lord, Mrs. Harrison's uls ter, with Mrs. Russell Harrison, assisted by Miss Ada Murphy, saw the visitors. Mrs. Harrison does not expect vo leave the city very soon, but noies to recuperate in ner family circle. Mr. and Mrs. John K. Beail, who have recently moved into tneir new nouse on Georgetown Heights, last evening gave a large dinner party in honor of their guest. Miss Chandler, or Mil waukee. The others present were Mr. and Mrs. Kussell Harrison. Mrs. McKee and Miss McKee, guests at the White House: Sevellon A. Brown and wife, Mr. and Mrs. and Miss Thompson, Miss Greer, Miss Foster, Miss Anna Wilson, Dr. Ruth, Mr. Iddings, Mr. Norton, Mr. Fletcher, Mr. Bowers, Mr. Barnett and Mr. Uuff. Miss Emily Orr, of Evnnsville, Is visiting the family of CoL J. W. Foster. Miss Eleanor Foster will accompany her guest home when she returns, and will spend the spring with friends in Evansville and Indlanaoohs. Lieutenant and Mrs. John F. Parker, the latter being Mrs. Scott Lord's daughter, and niece of the president, nave gone to iiqua. o.. to visit Lieutenant Parker's parents. Lieutenant Parker has recently returned from a three years cruise. Miss Ada Murphy, who is so well known in tho city, and was with Mrs. Senator Sabin when she was here, is in the city, the guest of Mrs. George U. Williams. 'I lie many friends of Mrs. sabin in this city will regret to learn that she is in New York city under treatment for a painful ill ness. Mrs. James E. Campbell is in Hamilton, O., for a week's absence. Harry C. Sillraan, of Detroit, Mich., has been appointed chief of the Indian division, Secre tary's otnee or tne interior Department, vice 11. a. lielt, resigned. CoL J no. C New left on the B. O., at 3 o'clock this afternoon, for his home at Indianapolis. Herbert R. Hess, of Indianapolis, is at tho Klggs. Mrs. Harrison has been advised by her physi cian to go to the sea shore as soon as her health will permit, fcne will take her daughter, Mrs. McKee. and her two grandchildren. Mrs. Har rison 1ms been confined to her room for two days. She is still suffering from a severe cold. The Acting Comptroller of the Currency to-day authorized the First National Bank, of Harrisburg, I1L, to begin business, with a capital of $50,00O, and the Farmers' and Mechanics' National Bank, of Ft. Worth, Tex.; capital, $C50,uuu. Losses by Fire. St. Lons, March 30. A tire at Camden, Ark., yesterday, destroyed business property worth $30,000; insured lor $14.UOO. C. D. (iee. grocer. and A. IM Morgan, druggists, were the heaviest lowers. Pitts bckg, March 30. The elegant residence of Walter Ferguson, on Ambersou avenue. East End. was destroyed by Ure about 8 o'clock this morning. Loss, $40,000; partly Insured. The origin of the nre is unknown. St. Cloud, Minn., March 29. The Minneapolis & ortnern co.s elevator, in tne .Manitoba rail road yards, caught fire at 1:15 this afternoon and was destroyed. Twenty thousand bushels of wheat M ere stored in the elevator. Estimated loss, 40,000; insurance unknown. Long IsanpCitt, N. Y.. March 30. A steam still at the Empire oil-works exploded at 2:30 P. M. to-day. The tlaiues extended to the sheds and immense coal-bins, and then spread to tho 'Ix)ng Island foundry, the Nuter ink-works, the New York iorn and chemical-works, George E. Buter's storage shed and A. H. Hew's flower-pot house. More than an an acre of ground is burned over. The loss is estimated at $150,000. Foundered at Sea. Mobile, Ala., March 30. The French bark Lecoq. loaded at Pnscagoula bv Hunter. Beuu k Co., with lumber for I)akar. St. Louis, Sene gal, foundered on Saturday, thirty mile off lascaKOula. Captain Chatelard, his wife, child and all hands were lost, except one sailor, who was rescued alter telng four dayaexpo!ed. Vitality, exhausted bv overwork or diseases is quickly restored by use of Ayer'a Barsapanua,

NEWS FROM TIIE OLD WORLD

A Collision Off the French Coast Causes Loss of a Vessel and Fourteen Lives. Kemains of John Bright Placed at Rest at Kochdale Political Complications in Ger manyGeneral Foreign News by Cable. FATAL COWJLSION. Ocean Vessels Collide In a Fog;, and Fourteen Lives Are Lost. Ostentj, Belgium, March IX). The steamer Countess of Flanders was run into off Dun kirk, at 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon, by the Uelgian mail boat Princess Henrietta. The collision occurred during a dense fog. It waa at first reported that the Countess of Flanders immediately sank. A later re port, however, says she is safe, but that her captain, first lieutenant, nine of the crew and three of the passengers wera drowned. Advices received here this afternoon re garding the collision state that the former vessel was cut m two, and that the fore part at once sank. The Princess Henrietta took tho after part in tow and started for this port, but had proceeded only a 6hort distance when the portion of the wreck which she had in tow capsized and went down. The Countess of Flanders plied be tween Ostend and Dover, and was on her wav to Dover when the collis'on occurred. The Countess of Flanders's mails were lost. After the collision her boiler burst, blow ing the center of the ship to pieces, and killing all the engineers, tno captain and others who were with him on the bridge, and tho passengers in the vicinity. I'rinco Leopold, of Belgium, who was one of tho passengers, escaped injury. CHINA'S NEW RAILROAD IS ltLOCKKD. A Powerful Organization of Nobles Develops a Successful Opposition. Tien-tsix, Feb. 2. It is now certain that tho fifth prince, the oldest surviving brother of the Emperor Tao Kwang, and uncle of the present Emperor, Kwang Hsu, has formed a combination with the Emperor's tutors and the leading men of the six boards of government, and has succeeded in blocking all plans for the extension of the Tien-tsin-Kaiping railroad toward Peking. Tho throne has been forced to withdraw its sanction for the extension, and to forbid all further proceedings on the part of the company. The proposals sent in for the rails and cross-ties have been rejected, and the loan offered by the Hong Kong and Shanghai Hank has been, or soon will be, canceled. The combination against the progressive movement has more strength, organization and respectability thau anything of the sort seen in China for many years. It was organized by one of the ablest and most courageous Chinese otucials, belonging to several of tho irreat boards: and it controls the voting power of them all, with a strong contingent of men of rank, several of them very near the throne. Ihe movement against the railway and its extension was primarily directed against the Viceroy Li, wno was recently Btncken recovering, lie will, of course, light vig orously against the reactionary measures of the government, for, if successful, they are necessarily a death blow to all that re mains of his policy and prestige. He is said to be somewhat encouraged by the success of the mining operations carried on by Prof. Church in Mongolia, and will make a desperate struggle to vindicate the wisdom of the advice ho has given to tho government in regard to railways as neces sary to the defense of the country, as well as to tne development or its resources. It has also become known that the direct ors of the railway company nad "been compelled to bind themselves to avoid all com petition with boat traffic on the Pei-ho aud with cart traffic on the highway between Tien-tsin and Peking. Under these circum stances tho road, if completed, would have had hard times for a few years; and it is not strange that it was unable, in face of such restrictions, to secure a single dollar's subscription to its capital stock from the Chinese merchants and gentry. It is now conceded here that railroad building is at an end in China for the present, and that the Conservatives have gained complete control of the young Emperor and his surroundings. This must prove a serious blow to his father, tne seventh Prince, and also to tho Empress regent, both of whom had given aid and counte nance to the introduction of the railroad, as well as to other progressive measures recommended by the Viceroy Li. GENERAL FOREIGN NEWS. Funeral of John Bright at Rochdale Trib utes from Distinguished People. London, March' 30,--The funeral of Mr. John Bright took place to-day. Crowds of people lined the route of the procession from One Ash, Mr. Bright's late residence, near Rochdale, to the cemetery. Among those present were: Right Honorable Joseph Chamberlain, Sir Wilfrid Law son, Mr. Jesso Collings, Mr. Arnold Morley, Mr. William Rathbone and Gen. H. Lynedoch Gardiner, C. B., equerry in ordinary to Queen Victoria, who represented her Maje sty. A number of deputations headed the procession. ' Fifteen carriages containing mourners followed the hearse. Eight of Mr. Bright's workmen carried the coffin to the hearso and from the hearse to the grave. When the coffin was deposited in the gravo the mourners gathered around in silent meditation, according to the custom of the Quakers, to which sect Mr. Bright belonged. Ihe dean of rounders' College afterward delivered an oration. He spoke of Mr. Bright as a man of great simplicity, who did not attribute his tal ents to his own efforts, but considered them gifts from God. k our wreaths remained ou the coffin when it was lowered into the crave. One was 6cnt from Biarritz bv Queen Victoria. Attached to it was her Majesty's autograph. Another was from the Pnnco ana Princess of Wales, with a card bearing the words: "As a mark of re spect.77 The third was from Mr. Uright's work-people, and the fourth from Miss Cobden. Attached to Miss Uobden's wreath was a card inscribed: "In loving memory of my father's best friend." Germany's Press Penal Law. CopjTirlit, 1889, by the New York Associated Pess. Berlin, March 30. A rupture in the government groups, arising from their disagreement ou the press penal law is certain, unless the bill Is materially modified. The National liberals de clare against the bill. The Conservatives and Free Conservatives are ready to submit to any repression, though there are symptoms of a reaction even anionic them. The scml-oflicial press the Cologne Gazette, the Magdeburg Gazette and others who venture to criticise admit that under the law there can be no freedom' of discussion, and that the Liberals are Justified in arran ping to resist the bill. These comments have given rise to reports that a commission of the Bundesrath has greatly modified the bill. It is unlikely that the proposals are beinjy inspired by the Kniperor. with whom the absolute regulation of the press is a ret project. His departure froni the usual etiquette of the court to attend the parliamentary dinner at Priuce Bismarck's was. due to a desire to conciliate the Deputies. He had a long conversation with Herren Bcnnijrsen, Miquel and Frankenstein, and was jrraclously familiar. Even if the leaders are seduced, the bulk of the Nationalists would not assent to the bill. It is probable that the government will rely on the Center party, thus causing an evolution in party grouping. The Vossische Zeitung predicts a Clerico-Conservative coalition, a majority of the Nationalists Joining the I'rogTessbU and thus forming a liberal opposition strong enough to imieril the passage of tho bill. Cambridge Defeats Oxford. Loxnox, March 30. The annual boat-race between crews representing Cambridge and Oxford universities was rowed on the Thames to-day. The course was from Putney to Mortlake, four miles aud two furlougs. Large crowds witnessed the race, A light breeze was blowing, but the water was smooth. There was a tendency to for. An excellent start was made. Cambridge at once took the lead, aud at Hammersmith bridire, 15j mile from tho starting iolnt, was a lentrth ahead. Both crews were rowing well. At this time a heavy rain was falling. The Oxford crew shortly afterward became confused and steer-d badly, spjashin? tome, and almost collapsed. Near Barnes bridge, five furlongs from the finish.

Oxford made a Una 1 spurt, but failed to reach the Cambridge boat, the crew of which, rowing well, won by four lengths. The time of the Cambridge crew was 20 minutes and 14 seconds.

Sensational Scandal in Austria Losdo.v, March 30. Court circles in Vienna are in tho throes of a tremendous sensation, owing to the discovery of a scandal whose features are not altogether of the ordinary character. Recently, Count Paul Festich surprised his wife, who was one of the ladies of the Imperial court, flagrante delicto with a son of Baron Bleichroder, the noted banker ot Berlin. The Count condoned the offense of his wife, and challenged lilelchrodeT to tlgnt a duel. The enauenge was accepted, and at the appointed time the Count was on the ground, but his antagonist did not make his appearance. He waited two hours, and finally returned to bis home. Arriving there, he found that his wife had fled with her paramour, leaving a letter imploring her husband to take care of her four children. It is not definitely known where the couple went, but it is supposed they are in Paris. Chamberlain's Failure. Special to the Imhanaxwlis Journal. Londox, March 30. Mr. Chamberlain's eulogy of John Bright, in the House of Commons, last evening, was a great disappointment to his friends, and is generally thought to have been an egregious failure. Not once did he rise to the level of the occasion, while his petty allusions to Incidents in Mr. Bright's career which he could not commend were simply contemptible. General reeret Is expressed at the absence of Mr. Parnell, as it was expected that he would make the best speech of the evening, next to that of Mr. Gladstone. His absence was due to the exigencies of a conference between himself, tir Charles Russell aud Solicitor Lewis, at Sir Charles's chambers, concerning the opening of bis defense before the commission, on Tuesday. The Strikes In Germany. Berlin, March 30. The strike outbreak is so general that it would appear to be an organized co-operation of the trade centers. In Hamburg the masons, plumbers and carpenters are out on the refusal of their employers to increase their wages. The workmen's syndicate approve the strike, and men accepting the employers' terms will be excluded from the privileges of their unions. At Elberfeld and Barwen, the manufacturing works are closed and the men are out. At Crefeld, the workmen will strike on Monday unless their demands are granted. At Nurembnrg il. a .4 . - , iue carvers aim lor-masers are out. I lie iseruu masons, at a meeting on Wednesday, decided to inaugurate a general strike in the building trades. Priest Indicted for Murder. Dublin, March 30. A prima facie case has been found against Father McFadden for par ticipating in the murder of Police Inspector Mar tin, at Gwecdore, in February last He will be tried at the first assizes. Police Inspector Martin, with a party of policemen, attempted to arrest Father McFadden for offenses under the crimes act. The time chosen to wake the arrest was immediately after the priest had celebrated mass, in his chapel. Members of the congregation rescued Father McFadden from the police, and he had nearly reached the door of his house when Inspector Martin seized him. At that moment a stone waa thrown. Which struck the inspector on the head, inflicting injuries which caused his death a short tune after. Foreign Notes. The Passion play will be given at Oberammergau in the autumn of 1800. The texts and musio have been revised. Ex-King Milan passed through Scrvia, yesterday, on his way to Constantinople. Speaking at the Pirot railway station, he adlured the neonle to keep faithful to the new King and regency, anu 10 ooey we government Henry George has been addressing Immense audiences in ales during the week, and has everywhere met with an enthusiastic reception. Jle will speak in London again next week, beginning in weunin8ier unapei on Monday. Count Herbert Bismarck says he has made ar rangements for a grdnd public demonstration on tne occasion or emperor imam's visit to England. An English snuadron will meet the Ger man squadron aecompamng the Emperor, and iesuve receptions wui oe given at Lonuou tmd WincLsor. The Denver Dank Robbery. Denver, Col. March 30. V. II. Clark the man who was arrested last evening on suspicion of being the man who robbed the First National Bank of $i!l,000, and subsequently released after D. II. Moffat failed to identify him, was re-arrested, and will be held to await further developments, on the charge of being an accomplice, lie positively denies any connection with the affair. Detectives, while searching the building in the vicinity of the bank, to-day, discovered in the hallway leading to the Zollinger Printing Company's rooms, a light brown overcoat, in the pockets of which was a loaded revolver and a bottle, supposed to contain nitro-glycerine, which evidently had been thrown there by the robber as he passed through the building making his escape. The find was taken to police headquarters, the lottlo and contents to a chemist Analjsis of tbe deadly explosive proved it to be simply a bottle of castor oil. No other new developments have been made in the case. Clark came here recently from Grand Rapids, Mich., where his father is engaged in tho lumber business. Hoon after his arrival here, he opened a loan office for the purpose of loaning money on chattel mortgages. This he gave up two montna ago and became interested in a poker club-room in Hallock & Howard's block, and was in these rooms at the time of his arrest Labor Items. Pittsdubo, March 30. The indications to-day point to a general shut down of the coal mines along the Monongahela river on April 1, as has been intimated for some time past A number of the operators partially closed down their works to-day. They say that by Monday nearly all the mines will be shut down, to be closed until the miners agree to a reduction in wages to 22 cents. The shut down will affect G.OttO miners. There are now about 6,000,000 bushels of coal loaded and ready for shipment. Harrisbubo, March 30. Notice was given at the Pennsylvania steel-works, about a month ago. of a proposed reduction In wages of employes. esteibay the schedule of reduction was posted. It makes a reduction of 5 per cent in the wages of unskilled labor and lO per cent in that of skilled labor, and will take effect on Monday. Lancaster, Pa., March 30. Notice has been posted in the rolling-mill of the Columbia Iron Company that the mill will shut down on April 0, owing to dullness of the market. Telephones and Electric Railways In Con fllct Akrox, O., March 30. The first case in court involving a conflict between electric street-railways and telephone companies in regard to their respective rights to earth and air on city thoroughfares, was decided here to-day. Judge E. H. Green refused to grant the Central Union Telephone Company an injunction- restraining the Akron Electric Street-railway ( 'ompany from extending its line in the city. The telephone company claimed that induction from the electric raUway wires makes it impossible for many of its subscribers to use their Instruments. ExCongressman John A. Wise, of Virginia, aipeared for the electric railway, and A. A. Thomas, of Chicago, for the telephone company. The latter gives notice of appeal. The Lake Shore's Acquisition. Cleveland. O., March 30. Frefident Fowler, of the N. Y., O. & W. railroad, under date of today, has issued the following circular: "Mr. J. E. Childs, having resigned as general manager of this company to take the position of assistant general manager of the Lako Hhore & Michigan bouthern railroad, John B. Kerr has been appointed acting general manager, and will act in that capacity after this date until further orders." At I'resident Newell's office, this afternoon, it was stated that no circular had been issued, but one will make its appearance some time next week. Mr. Childs Will lo in Philadelphia next week to assume his new duties. Charged with Attempting Bribery. Pittsburg. March 30. RIehard Sea udrett, secretary of the board of school controllers of Allofrheny City, and William Hadtleld, a prominent ivery man of the same city, were arrested today on a charge of attempting te bribe J. G. Ebert, a councilman, to vote for Thomas G. Parke for chairman of select councils. It is alleged that Pcandrett furnished the money and that Hadtleld placed $500 in the hands of a young man named Fisher, which was to be paid to Ebcrt if he voted for Parke, hcandrett and Hadfield deny the allegation. They will waive a hearing to-day for "court trial. The affair has created a sensation in Allegheny City, and is tho general topic of discussion. Racing at New Orleans. New Orleans, March 30. To-day's races were run over a fast track. The weather was bright and warm, and there was a large attendance. First Race live furlongs. Duhme won in 1:034; Orange Girl second, Catherine B. third. Second Race Three-fourths of a mile. Tudor won In 1:18; Boot Jack second, Annawan third. Third Race One mile. Jim Williams won in 1:44 2; Sillick second, Leman third. Fourth Race One-half mile. Los Webster won in 54 seconds, after a dead heat with Lexington; Ecstasy third. Minister's Home Blown Up. Pidenham, Ont. March 30. About 1 o'clock this morning the Methodist parsonage, occupied bv Rev. R, tftiUwell. was shattered by dynamite. which, it is supposed, was placed on the floor of the veranda, lho doors were blown off, the glass in the windows broken, and the house otherwise damaged. None of the occupants were hurt There ia no clew to the ierpetrators of the deed. American Lard Pronounced Unfit for Use. St. Loris. March -30. Late advices from the City of Mexico say the board of health of that city has pronounced American lard an adultera tion, unlit for use, and prohibited its sale. This actiou has been sustained by Minister Rubio.aud will be ettectivctnrougnout the Republic, and in structions have been given to all custom-houses.

THE SOUTII PACIFIC CYCLONE. Concluded from First Page.

-logy has charge of all data received by the department relating to the meteorology of tiie various oceans of the glole. hut the facilities for publication are such that, not on -tenth part of the information at hand can be published, and almost all tho time of the division is taken up in the preparation of the monthly pilot chart of the North Atlantic. This great disaster lends redoubled force to the urgent recommendation on the April chart, published to-day, for the establishment of a more comprehensive system of telegraphic weather, reports from the West Indies during the commfirhurricaiieseason, July to October, for the benefit of the Gulf and Atlantic seaboard, and the commerceof every nation frequenting these waters. "The amoan islands," Lieut Dver sayu "are in the southern hemisphere, and the hurricane mouths are therefore the summer months of that hemisphere, that is, December to March, inclusive. In the West Indies the terrihe tropical cyclones that originate there as gigantic whirlwinds rotating in a direction against the hands of a watch (as you look at the watch laid down with the face up), moves bodily westward, theu northward into the tmperat zone, and eastward again in higher latitudes. In the southern hemisphere, bowever about Samoa, for instance tropical cyclones that originate near the equator have an opposite rotary motion, revolving in a direction with the bauds of a watch, and move bodily westward, then curve to the southward away from the equator aud then eastward again in the south temperate zone. The hurricane that struck iamoa with such furious intensity ou the15th inst, originated, probably, some 300 miles, to the northeastward of tho islands, in about latitude 10 degrees south, longitude 105 west, and moved rapidly southwestward, directly toward them. If the signs characteristic of tho approach of a hurricane were observedlone, feathery cirrhu clouds, a thickening veil of cirrhus clouds, halos and tiery tints at dawn and sunset no doubt all possible precautions were taken to ride out the storm at anchor. The center of the hurri- ; cane must have passed directly over or cry near me naroor, ami in tne case oi a very severe tropical cyclone, as this must have been, absolutely nothing can resist its fury. Iu the great hurricaue that crossed the island of Cuba in October, 1S44. for example, seventy-two vessels foundered at their anchors, in a few hours, in the landlocked harbor of Havana, a port almost unrivaled for the security of its anchorage. Lieut. 11. G. Davenport, U. S. N., the navigating ollicor of the Nipsic, was on duty at the hydrographic oflice in Washington as lato as 1887, and a- receut report made by Turner, LL. U.: The climate of the island is variable, and there is much bad weather, parttularly during the winter months, when long anu heavy rains, attended at times with high winds and northerly gales, are frequent. The normal reading of the barometer is about 29.9 inches and the temperature is about 80 in summer and 78 in winter, the maximum, in seven years observations only reached 935, and the minimim 05. Such uniformity of temperature is, of course, almost unknown in the temperate rone, where the cxtrems of temperature, as well as the daily range, are very great. Tho weather is ofted cloudy aud rainy. -with frequent squalls, accompanied by thunder and lightning, jiarticularly at night Between the months of December and Arnl cyclones are expected if the barometer fall and the winds come from the north. Hardly a year passes without hearing of one of these gales in the neighborhood, their course being generallv towards E. 8. E. In April, 150, one swept over the center of Upolu. In April, 1855, another "skinned," as the natives call it everything all along the east coast, but between 1855 and lbol, no cyclone visited the island. Mr. Hayden, in charge of the publication of the pilot chart visited Havana last September on purpose to study cyclones, and his description of the great hurricane of August, 1S7H will be of interest. What a tremendous engine of destruction! Let us watch its origin and progress. Imagine to yourself a hot, tmltry August day in the tropics, off the Cape Verde islands, about the northern limit of the belt of equatorial rains and cal u is, where the northeast trades have been fitful and irregular. The uniformity of the trade sky is disappearing, and the little masses of cumulus clouds that have flecked the sky from zenith to horizon, gather together here and there at if undecided what to do, and now and then rise in tall, massive columns, that grow before the eye, and mount higher and higher, till one laztlv wonders how high they will rise before they reach some upper current that will scatter their beautiful crests, and spoil their snow-white symmetry. In the distance an occasional dark mass is seen, from which heavy rain is falling, with sometimes a broad flanh of pale heet lightning. In one of the tall masses of cumulus, off to the westward, taller and more majestic than its mates, a slow, gyratory motion can be detected, which, gathering strength, rapidly draws in the warm air from below, saturated with moisture, and sends it aloft into cooler and cooler refrtons, to add raphlly to the growing and darkenng mass of clouds. Anew feature catches the eye; long, graceful, snow-white, feathery plumes reach out at the top of the mass, projected against the deep, clear azure ky. Beneath them the sharp-rounded, upper edges jjf the now dark and threatening cumulus Ik-gin to grow misty and Indistinct, and the inner shaft of the ladiating cirrhus plumes are lost to sight in this new misty veiL Gradually, faint and then sharp, dark horizontal lines appear against the cumulus, and rapidly grow in stratus clouds as though a fine rain were falling and settling at the level. Below, the distant horizon is now obscured by heavy rain. Off to the northeast some little trade-wind clouds are moving this way. Watc hing them a moment as they rise toward the zenith. Home mysterious force over there to the westward seems to attract them, and their paths curve that way. What does it mean! you say, and, looking Jn that direction, you see more little patches of scud moving across from left to right, and notice that a breeze is springing up from the wet, while the barometer is falling slightly, and the whole great mass of clouds is moving weft want A hurricane has had its birth, a great cyclonic storm has started on its westward march towards Saint Thomas, Halt eras, Cajo Race and Norway. One of our eastern tornadoes is to this monster as an electric light to the noonday sun, and the tornadoes in the records of the signal office rolled into one and added to it would hardly add appreciably to its energy. Let us now take our station in advance of the approaching storm and await its coming. Whirling along its ocean pathway at an average velocity of nearly twenty miles an hour, it sends out a long, rolling swell a thousand miles in advance aud is heralded by a long, high, feathery plume of cirrhus clouds, radiating far lieyond the slowly thickening cirrhus veil that easts its pale halo over sun and ' moon, and at dawn and twilight envelops heaven and earth with an awful fiery glare like the light of gome conflagration. Soou the massive, leaden colored cloud bank heaves in sight above the horizon, a great mountain rane Ossa piled upon I'elion and flying scud forms overhead aud drifts to lee wnrd, not with a surface w ind, but with a marked angle to the right, moving wuu me umior current or tne great whirlwind. At intervals fine, musty rain seems to grow out of the air and then vanishes again and the squalls freshen. The barometer sinks lower and lower, heavy clouds cover the whole horizou. and the low, distant moan gradually changes into the shrieks of a thousand demons when wrenching at the stout masts and spars, tearing the storm canvas and fluttering pennants, hurling tiinler and masonry into heaps of shapeless ruins, driving wild breakers high upon iand, laughing, to scorn the feeble strength of man. huddeuly a pause, silence, calm; the warm, bright sunshine of a summer day. A brief glimpse of heaven, and then another seeming eternity of belt From "Seas and Skies in Many Latitudes," by Abercromby, among the tiles of the meteorological division the following description is taken: Taking the world over, the most violent hurricanes seem to be those of the. West Indies and the Mauritius; then would come the October cyclones of the Bay of Bengal, and next to these tho typhoons of C hina seas. The May cyclones of th elndian coasts, and the rare hurricanes in the isouth Pacific, from New Caledonia to Tahiti, might probably be classed together as of a seo ondary degree of violence. Cyclones In the Arabian sea and on the west coast of Mexico are so rare that one cannot generalize uiton them, and then the list of hurricane countries is exhausted. Much has been written about the handling of ships in hurricanes, aad elalwrate maneuvers described which they are to ierform near the center of a typhoon. Many a ship has been saved by skillful sailing ou the out skirts of a cyclone, and evn after the characteristic squat' j and driving rain have commenced; but when i. :ar the center she gets in the kernel, as it were, of the hurricane, aud the wind comes in great gusts which no canvas can withstand: when tho roaring of the wind is so tremendous that no voice can be heard, when the sky, and cloud, and ejieud rift are made up iudistinguiabably from one another into a general darkness then It is as lniossible to give an order as to oln-y it. and the sailor can only hope that her tiinliers may not ojen so us to spring a leak, and that her steering gear luay hold good, so that she may not beach and Iks overwhelmed by the waves. The German Iosses Bf.rulx, March .00. Advices received by the naval authorities here report that tho storm ragt'd during the 10th and 17th inst. FiveoU'iccrs and seventy men from tho Kber, and twenty from the Adler were drowned. Tho Olga was stranded, but her crew was saved. All tho merchant vessels anchored at Samoa foundered. ' BunUbed for Illegal Voting. WiiEKLivi. W. Va.. March :0.-In tho United States Court, this morning. Judge Jackson senMaxes t. oun, mis morning, uuuge jacKson sentenced George B. liale, charged with voting 11-

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gaily, and who pleaded cnilty, a week aeo, t pay a fine of $ioo and le imprisoned In tho countyjail three months. In p.uMiis sentence his Honor took occasion to deliver an earnest address uion the loNrtauce of chirking the growing tendency to use money improperly in elections and deprecated the rapid increase of partisanship, in which he thought be saw a decided menace to the liepuWic.

.TIIE FAMILY I'lIYMCIAX. A Tie for the Prevention of Disease by Rular Tests of tbe Individual Health. A. n. Smith, M. in Arril Harper. He should have coustant opportunity to know lust w hat is the phj sical condition of each member of the family iu the absence of any manifest evidence of disease. To this end periodical examinations should be made of such a character as to reveal anj lurking morbid tendency without waiting for its development into actual disease. There should be no such thing as a discoverable atlection remaining undiscovered. Death from unsusjweted heart or kidney disease, for example., should cease to be possible. There should be no more histories like the following, now no frequently repeated: A person supposed to be in good health isfj hastening alone tho stfeet, perhaps hurry- , ing to catch a train. All at once he is scon, to stagger and fall. I'assenrby rush to hi assistance, but ho jrasps a few times, ami before any aid can be rendered he is de.nl. An autopsy reveals that he had fatty do-, generation of tho heart, and the extra do-' maud made iiKn the heart by the unusual exertion which was more than its enfeebled, walls could respond to. He was not awaro , of the existence of this condition, but if his j doctor bad merel3' laid his linger on the j pulse his suspicion would have bcen: aroused, and listening to the heart, would immediately have continued it By proper treatment andthe avoidance of severe ex-, ertion tho catastrophe might have been: averted for inamy jears, and th usual! limit of life might perhaps have been at-' tained. Or again, a gentleman who has thought himself quite well goes as usual in tho morning to his place of business. A few j hours later he is brought home in a carriage in a state of iincousciousueKS. In spite of the most prompt aud judicious treatment he does not recover irom his coma. On the contrary, convulsions set in, and in the courso of a few hours ho dies. I'uknown to him or to his family he has' been sutVeriug from, Hright's disease, tho, symptoms being latent up to the last moineut. Vet a very simple examination, would have revealed to his doctor tho j actual condition of allairs, and by proper care and proper treatment the fatal tennination might have been almost indefinitely j deferred. i The records of examinations by tho nhy- 1 sicians of life insurance companies show, numerous instances in which very serious I disease exists without, being suspected f either by the patient or his fiiends. Thi j fact, in addition to the frequency of casts : such as those described above, is enough to J show the extreme importance of a system! by which tho actual condition of iersons not consciously ill should be periodically investigated. ; In view of this, it should bo a part of tho 1 i . il. . ! I 1 - 1 uuiy oi tno iamuy puysician to mate a, thorough physical examination of every member ot the family at least twice a year and in the case of a feeble or delicate person at much shorter intervals. The results of these examinations should be fully recorded, aud the record kept in, the possession of the doctor, to be transmitted to his successor. A record of this kind would possess immense value, not only forthe persons immediately interestedhut also for their posterity. It is bv know ing tho vital history of the parents that wo know what to expect in the children. Heredity is an influence which it i diSieult; ; to estimate, for the reason that the abseuca j of records prevents our tracing it backward,! in tho family history. Yet we know thatJ this inlluence may shape the physical des-l tiny oi generations to come. ur. jioimes has said that the proper time to begin tho treatment of some diseases is a hundred years before the birth of the patient. Ho might have added that tho treatment some times needs to be continued for a hundred! years after his death. 1 But the opportunity a fTorded to the fam-i ily physician to ward oft' injurious influen-i ces from those under his care might be extended much farther. It should be withiaj were suitable to a given youth, and what, in tbe interests of his health, should bo avoided He should be able to prevent a. feeble, ill-nourished, narrow-chested, lad' being put behind a desk inacounting-room. where the tendency to pulmonary diseases already existing would certainly bo de-I veloped. He should have such a voice ia the selection of boarding Hchools as would prevent the children being sent' . to institutions iu unhealthful localities.) or in which there was danger fromi defective sanitary precautions. In the so-I lection of a uew dwelling, and even in! c hoosing a summer resort, his judgment as.' to the topography and sanitary conditions; should have a controlling inflence. Hisi supervision should extend to a proper) adaptation of educational methods to thev capabilities of the several children of tho family, and to the order in which their j faculties develop. On this latter point it is high time that the influence of medicine; should be felt in pedagogies. Mental physiology should lie at tho foundation of every school curriculum. It is incongruous that at this age of the world the devel opment of the niiiid should be intrusted un reservedly to theses who have not even th most elementary knowledge of the mind' organ, the brain. . "Where the Hoses llloom. httsbnrg Dispatch. Most ofthe roses that New York bellc wear are raised in tho pretty village of Madison, in New Jersey. Probably moro roses are grown there and sold than in any, other place in the world. There are eightylive enormous green-houses in the town,' and 150 people are employed in the cultivation of roses. At least a score of men have grown rich from tho sale of the queen of flowers. Un an average 40,000 cut roses are shipped from Madiuou to New York every day in the year. Fronv dune to .September m the shipments; are heavier and aro not" cou fined to New'. York. Long llranch, Manhattan Ieachandj a score of fashionable seaside resorts taken thousands of tho toscs. The roses aro' shipped in small chests, each secured with . a lock and bearing tho grower's name. Tho chests aro returned empty in tne evening. Hoses picked late at night are in the hands of tha vlinli!ipt ilciilprn in cv York bv Q o'clock the next morning. It is seldom that. the supply of the early morning is not exhausted soon alter dusk. Those that aro not sold are readily kept until the day after, particularly iu cool water. The Prescription. Murray's Mapann. There was, some time ago, a doctor whoso morning levees wore crowded beyond description. It v as his pride and boast that he could feel his patient's pulse, look at his tongue, probe at him with his stethoscope, write his prescription, pocket his fee in a space of time varying from two to tiro minutes. One day an army man was shown into the consul ting-room, and underwent what was called the instantaneous procss. "When it was completed the patient shook hands heartily with the doctor, and said: "I am especially glad to meet you, as have often heard my father. Colonel l'orfster, speak of his old friend, Dr. J "What!' exclaimed tho doctor, "are you Dick Forester's son?" "Most certain!.' I am." ".My dear fellow, fliug that infernal prescription into the lire, and sit down quietly and tell mo what's the matter witl you." He Wanted an At. Time. Tramu (to woman, who has given hira a loaf of stale bread) Now, if vou'll show mo the way to the wood-shed 111 get the ax and "Why. you dear old fellow, 3ou mustn't think of cutting wood: vou'ro too weak. "Oh. I didn't want the ax for that. Ijust thought that I'd like to cut oil' a chunk of this bread if I've got strength enough." Evarts's Little Joke. Pittsbun? Chronicle. Senator Sherman moved that a committr of two be appointed to ask the lresident,if he had any further communications 'to make, in view of adjournment, and Senator Kvarts, in view of the lean bone which tiio Iluckoye State gets, suggested that theresolntiou read, any further couimuuicationsin regard to Ohio, whereat the Conscript Fathers laughed, all except Sherman. m ... . , See that the labels on new. planted fruit trees are not too tight, the wire cutting inta tho wood making it liable to break and stopping tho flow of nap. Tun Or.NTi'KY fur April (page Co) describes the "Linden llloom" lYrfume, which) : . . . ... .... 1 . 'r. . I l.. K i is " iniuiai. iuu miui vau irv w I taincdat drug stores.