Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 January 1891 — Page 4

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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL Can be found at the following places: PAKIS American Exchange in Paris, 36 Boulevard des Capuunes NEW YORK Ollsey llonse and Windsor Hotel PHILADELPHIA A. P. Eemble, 3735 Lancaster avenue. CHICAGO Palmer II ouse. CINCINNATI 3. R. Hawfey A Ca, 154 Tine street LonSYITXE C. T. Dwring, northwest corner Third and Jefferson streets. fcT. LOUIS Union News Company, Union Depot and Southern lioteL WASHINGTON. D. C.Rurgs House, and Ebbltt House The courtesy of the Senate should have kept Senator Vest from' peaching on Senator Cameron. The Anarchists in Congress say they are fighting for free speech. They have had so little of it lately! It is apparent that a force law is needed to compel the Democrats in Congress to permit that body to do its work. Mills and Kilgore are a beautiful pair of rowdies, who would be a disgrace to any other State in the Union but Texas. Hello, exchange! Give me the Democrats in Congress. Stereotyped answer for sixty days: "They are talking now." When ft Senator has spoken two days and has had no listeners, not even his friends, he should be suppressed as a legislative nuisance. No Democrat in the House during this session has been refused an opportunity to express his sentiments upon any public measure under consideration. It was an appropriation bill which the Democrats in the House prevented the passage of by walking out of the hall and breaking a quorum on Wednesday. . "A brutal disregard of the rights of the minority" is the Democratic and mugwump expression for the attempt of the majority to perform its constitutional functiori! m Herr Johann Most, the Anarchist, will make a mistake if he leaves this country. He should remain and go to Con pre S3. He is cut out for a Democratic leader. TnE Republicans of the Senate seem to have been aroused to a sense of their duty at last. It is better late than never, but it would have come with good grace long ago. i TnE fact that the coinage committee of the House has voted to "report adversely on the Senate free-coinage bill is regarded as settling the free-coinage movement in this Congress. - Now that St. John, of Kansas, has attached himself to the Alliance in that State, and become a candidate for Senator, that organization is entitled o the prcfoundest sympathy of all humane people. . Senator Vooriiees has sent a dispatch thanking the Democratic members of the Legislature for his re-election and assuring them that he will continue to labor for "fair elections." Daniel is developing into a great humorist. A strike against the discharge of a train-dispatcher who "confused orders" is not likely to gain a great deal of public' sympathy if it be shown that the charge is true. The public has suffered too much from that sort of dispatcher. Those Republican members of the House who, by not attending to their duties, deprive their party of a majority and thus enable the Democratic conspirators to prevent legislation, deserve nil the criticism they are receiving, and that is a good deal. We hear something occasionally about State pride. It is a pity that some national pride coujd not be inculcated at Washington to induce Congrest to refrain from bringing discredit on the American name. Rut that can hardly be expected until the Democratic party undergoes an entire change. It has been remarked more than once during the prist year that the insolence and rowdyism of the minority made this ! Congress the counterpart of the one just before the war, when tho disturbances were led by men from the same section. The remark no longer applies. Mills and his following are surpassing the slave-drivers of ante-bellum days. TnE New York World undertakes to disprove the current opinion that no man ever went from the Senate to the White House, but the only instances it can find are those of General Garfield, who was Senator-elect when he was nominated and elected President, and Andrew Jackson, when he was a candidate for President in 1824, and was not elected. " The National Board of Trade, at a recent meeting, adopted resolutions asking Congress to establish a permanent bureau for the collection of census and other statistical information. The object, as expressed in a letter from thb chairman of the committee which has the matter in hand, is that the work may be perfected by the adoption of the most improved methods to be obtained by experience, instead of being left to tho

hasty legislation immediately preceding the periodic occurrence designated by the provision of tho Constitution for census enumeration. Nodoubt the present census law can be improved upon in some material respects, and the work should be taken hold of in time to have it completed before the time arrives for the taking of the next census. The work should either be assigned to some permanent bureau now existing or else the Census Office itself should be made permanent. Government work of that kind should be organized on a permanent basis, and not be left to tho chances of shifting legislation. THE DUTY OP BEPUBLICAS 8EHAT0ES. Regard for an ancient precedent led the Republican majority in the Senate, on Wednesday, to permit the Democratic minority to waste the session Mn frivolous chatter over the journal of the preceding day. The precedent permitting the debate of a measure as long as Senators desire to express their opinions is based upon the theory that debate is for the purpose of preparing members to vote upon it. The Democratic Senators have declared that this theory has been annulled, and that debate is to prevent the Senate from voting upon bills to which Democratic Senators are hostile. The theory upon which the precedent was established having been revoked, the precedent falls. So long as conditions are the 6ame, precedents have the force of unwritten law. When new conditions arise, new rules of procedure must be adopted. For example, if the Lincoln government had followed precedents, or had refused to do things for which there were no precedents, the Union would have been destroyed. There was no precedent for coercing soceding States, for raising troops to invade seceding States, for drafting citizens as soldiers to subdue seceding States, for the Emancipation Proclamation, nor many other things which the Lincoln administration did in order to preserve the Union. Democrats in the North then, as now, denounced the measures of the Lincoln government as without precedent, and extracts were made from the opinions of former statesmen to prove that such was the case, and that Lincoln's measures were unconstitutional. They assailed Lincoln and the Republican leaders much more vehemently than the ex-confederates in Congress and the Democratic and mugwump press now abuse the Republican leaders in that body. But Mr. Lincoln and the Republican leaders had the wisdom to see that thoy were confronted by new conditions, and the courage to ignore precedents fitted to past conditions and to adopt lines of action suited to the new, surroundings. Will the Republican Senators follow the example of Lincoln and his associates, ignore the precedents based upon conditions which no longer exist, and make rules suited to the emergency which, the Democratic conspiracy has created! If they realize the situation it seems that they must do this or be held responsible for the overthrow of the right of the majority to legislate, which is the essence of popular government. What the Republican masses think the Republican Senators should do is to say to the Democratic conspirators that, under the cover of a precedent which they have nullified, they shall not waste the session in dilatory tactics, and to that end announce that at a given hour a voto will be taken on a measure, and when that hour arrives shut off coy man who is talking against time and proceed to call the roll. DECLINE OF AMERICAN SHIPPING. Statistics in the last annual report of the foreign commerce of the United States, issued by the Treasury Departnient, present a startling picture of the decay of our ocean carrying trade. They show that the percentage of imports and exports carried on vessels of the United States for the last sixtyfive years is as follows: In the year 1825 American vessels were doing 92 per cent, of the carrying trade; in 1835, 84 per cent.; in 1845, 81 per cent.; in 1855, 75 per cent.; in 1800, C6 per cent.; in 1870, 35 per cent.; in 1875, 25 per cent.; in 1880, 17 per cent.; in 1885, 1G per cent.; in 1800, 12 per cent. These figures show a steady and progressive decline in our carrying trade. This decline, it is to bo noted, is not in our commerce, for that has steadily and enormously increased, but in the proportion of our commerce done by American vessels. The fact that the decline has continued under different tariff laws, during free trade aud low tariff periods as well as during protection periods, going on uninterruptedly all the time, shows that other causes than the tariff were operating to produce it, and that the tariff was not a controlling cause. No doubt the steady decline of the American carrying trade has been in great part due to the fact that for the last fifty years American enterprise and capital have been largely devoted to the development of our internal resources and domestic trade. This gigantic work has been sufficient to occupy the energy jnd capital of the country almost exclusively, and tho magnificent results which have been accomplished prove that the efforts were well bestowed. Rut while this great work has been going on our foreign commerce and ocean carryiug trade have necessarily received less attention, and the latter, at least, has relatively declined. Another and very important reason for the decline of American shipping is the fact that, while this country has been neglecting that interest, other countries have been vigorously promoting it. For many years past the United States has been conspicuous among civilized countries as the only one that gave no government aid nor friendly legislation to promote its shipping interests. While all other countries have contributed steadily and largely to this object in the way of subsidies and bounties the United States has done scarcely anything at all in that direction. What she has done is so ridiculously small in comparison with what other countries havo done that it only eerves'to emphasize our utter lack of commercial statesmanship. Great Britain has been paying subsidies I for forty years past, sometimes as much as

$0,000,000 a year. Last year Franco paid for this purpose, $0,703,778; Italy, $3,503,033; Germany, $3,131,610; Belgium, 430,127; Spain, $1,571,035; Brazil, $1,700,000; Australia, $280,000; Japan, 500,000; the United States paid only $109,827 to American steamship lines, while it paid $400,000 to foreign steamship lines for mail service. During the year 18S9 England paid her steamship line to Australia, for mail service, $413,052; the United States paid her American line, from San Francisco to Australia, $35,580; and this was a large increase on our part, since 1888. England paid her Brazilian line $107,000; we paid ours $13,722. England paid her East India and China line $1,300,000, or $580,187 more than the gross amount received for postage; and, to her West Indian and Central American line, $437,985, or $220,202 more than the postage received; while the United States paid her line to Venezuela $5,773. England paid her line from Vancouver to Japan and China $300,000, while the United States paid her line, from San Francisco to those countries, $14,446. Such facts as these ought to make Americans blush and hang their heads in shame. To this utter lack of commercial statesmanship and this miserable policy of neglectinggreatnational interests for. peanut partisan politics is due in large degree the decline of American shipping interests. Yet the Democrats in Congress to-day are ready to exhaust every parliamentary device and resort to every form of obstruction and filibustering to prevent the enactment of measures to restore American shipping. Their sole object in public life seems to be to make the United States the laughing-stock of the world. ANOTHER NEW SENATOR. It 6eems we are to have a new Democratic State Senator. Not that there is to be a special election in any senatorial district, for no Senator has died, and there is no vacancy to be filled. But another defeated Democratic candidate for tho Senate has decided to contest the seat of the sitting Republican member, and, of course, he will be seated. There are other ways of creating vacancies than by death, and other ways of filling them than by popular election. A Democratic majority can improve on these old-fashioned methods. Death is sometimes slow in coming, and when it does come there is the necessary formality of issuing a call for a special election, some delay in preliminaries, and a possibility if not certainty of defeat at ; the polls. A much more expeditious and, from a . Democratic point of view, satisfactory way, is to unseat a Republican who has been elected by the people and seat his defeated competitor. The Jeffersonian simplicity of this plan commends it to the Democratic mind. It has always been popular with them, and the more they try it on the better they like it. The new Democratic Senator, that is to be, is Capt. M. W. Barnes, late Democratic candidate for the office in Howard and Miami counties. Though defeated at the polls, his final success is foreshadowed in an announcement by the Sentinel that he has determined to-eon-test the seat. The official returns show that Hon. R. J. Loveland, Republican, received 5,579 votes, against 5,551 for Barnes. Mr. Loveland' s majority was not as large as it might have been, but it was sufficient to give him the certificate, and the seat. Captain Barnes accepted his defeat gracefully until tho seating of McIIugh' iu place of Osborn, and that set him to thinking. Seeing bow easy it was to overcome a small popular majority, and how ready the Democrats in the Senate were to override the election law and nullify the will of the people, it occurred to him that ho might as well have a seat in the Senate as McIIugh. Tho more he thought about it tiie more he thought he would like it, until finally he determined to bring his case before the Senate. As a contest by a Democrat in this Senate, is equivalent to an election, the friends of Captain Barnes can safely congratulate him in advance on his election. Senator Loveland may as well pack his gripsack and get ready to go. I Poor Mr. Mills. His bad temper has been his undoing, but if it had not been for wicked Speaker Reed his friends think he might have been saved from such a disgraceful exhibition of it as he mado on Tuesday. As it is, they admit that his chance for reaching the speakership himself vanished that day in his intemperate outburst of wrath and vituperation. One of his friends and admirers 6ays in a special to a mugwump paper: His infirmity of temper has been the worst load he has bad to carry; for every Republican satirist knows that he has only to arouse Mr. Mills's blood to make him commit some fatal error. With snch a man iu tho chair and a sneering, cold-blooded opponent like Keed on the floor, there is no telling what would happen. If Mr. Reed could only be ruled off the floor when his term as Speaker has ex-( pired, the prospects of the gentleman from Texas might be better, but alas, he cannot, therefore, again, poor Mr. Mills! TnE report comes from Canada that the Dominion Ministry has returned the trade-reciprocity proposals of President Harrison's administration to the Foreign Office with a note expressing hostility to full and complete reciprocity but favoring a reciprocity of natural products. That is, Canada's Ministry desires to secure the market of the United States for its farm products, its lumber and fish, amounting to millions of dollars an nually, by offering us its markets for the same articles. That is reciprocity of the j ug-handle variety. The Toronto Globe, the Liberal organ, declares that the proposition of the administration to open both countries to all the products of each is the real reciprocity that Canada needs. This is true. Free trade between Canada and the United States is ot vastly more importance to the Canadians than to the United States. In reply to tho suggestion that free silver coinage would benefit tho "debtor classes" and enable them to get even with the "creditor classes,7 the Boston Journal says that, in Massachusetts, the creditor classes are: First, tho wageearners, artisans, mechanics, factory

hands, clerks and salesmen; second, persons of all classes who have deposits in savings banks, and, third, those who have insured their lives' foQ the benefit of their wives and children. Now, who are the classes that want to "get even" with these creditor classes by establishing a depreciated currency? In commenting yesterday on the resolutions of the Marion' County Medical Society denouncing the appointment of Dr. S. A. Elbert as a member of the local pension board the Journal stated, on the authority of a well-known member of the society, that Dr. F. C. Ferguson, who introduced the resolutions, was an applicant for a position on the board. Dr. Ferguson says this statement is incorrect, and tho Journal hereby gives him the benefit of his denial. A Philadelphia paper discovers that Governor Pattison's inaugural address, delivered on Tuesday, was largely made up from his inaugural of 1882 and his annual messages during bis first term of office. Aa proof the paper unkindly prints the passages in parallel columns. There is no room ''for surprise at this threshing of old straw. It is only a fresh demonstration of the fact that Democrats never learn anything new. In the Wisconsin Legislature a Democratic member introduced a resolution to print 5,000 copies of the Governor's message, of which 3,000 should be in the German language. On the same line was a resolution introduced by the Hon. Mr. Kruszka, member from Milwaukee, providing that the Common Council proceedings of that city be printed in the Polish language. English is not yet forbidden to be taught in the schools. Whatever the outcome of the trial of J. A. Wood, at Richmond, there can be no complaint on either side. The judicial investigation into the killing of Blount in the Eastern hospital has been complete and so eminently fair that but one exception to the rulings of the court has been noted a remarkable fact, when the importance of the case is considered. . Tfie Philadelphia Record has coined an entirely new epithet for the national elections bill. It calls the measure "this colossal federal juggernaut.'? That is very picturesque, and, as it is not copyrighted, Democratic papers ought to adopt it generally. They must have something very strong to designate a bill to secure honest elections. TnE fact that a Republican member of the New York Assembly was absent because of death in his family relieved the Democrats of the necessity of calling in the self -confessed,, forger Demarest to elect Governor Hill United States Senator. But for that circumstance HilFa election would have depended upon a self-confessed criminal. Toe Board of Public Improvements in St. Louis has just received bids for the street sprinkling of that city. The lowest bids for this year aggregate $224,687, against $122,546 last year. The average -number of miles of streets sprinkled daily last season was 804 miles. This year there will be 410 miles to sprinkle, placing the cost of street sprinkling at $543.50 a mile. It takes money to fight dust. - - f The New York Tribune knows a man who, being annoyed by the tact that one side of his mustache grows twice as fast as the other, found an explanation in the circumstance that he eita at a desk with one side of his face turned to a window, tne light from which stimulates the growth, on that Eide. This explanation is probably incorrect. It is more likely that one side of that inustachetwas planted in the dark of the moon. Three days before he died old King Kalakaua was made a "mystic shriner," but it is not believed that membership in that remarkable order was the cause of his death. ' C. A. Nf.wton, Greencastle: Write to John T. Doyle, secretary of the Civil-serv-I ice Commission, Washington, D. C.

BUBBLES IN TIIE AIR. Crashed Him. "You see; he called me a hog' . :. And you hit him, I suppose! "Oh, no. I called him a bacillus. Similes. Yabsley Look cere, Mudge, don't you think It is time for you to stop a while! Why, when I saw you last night Mudge Last night! I only had two beers. I was sober as a judge. Yabsley May be you were. But I took you to be full as a Senator. Somebody Must Do This. In order to till a long-felt want this is submitted: There was a young fellow in Chile, Whom wine-bibbing had made very aile, He wouldn't be quietIn fact, he ran riet, And knocked a man down with a bile, Great Scheme. '8ay! I think I've hit it,' said the seedy man. 4,!it whatt Polioyr "Policy be blowed.- No, I mean I've got a plot for a drama. Going to hare a real boiler-shop in the second act. "Don't see much in that.' "You don't, eh! That's all you know about art. It'll catch the admirers of the realistic and the Wagner devotees all at one feU swoop, as Billy ihakspeare says. Bee!" Unconsidered Trifles. Ethel Towne having departed from Terre Haute, that village will settle down to its wonted quiet except when one of the new electrio cars jumps the track on Main street It la to be hoped, in the interests of harmony, that the Decatur, 111, young woman whose noe -was patched up with the ribs of a oat may never meet the New York boy lately repaired from the leg of a dog. Sevei-l able editors far from the scene of operations have solved the Indian problem by putting tho red man to work theoretically. It is a solution beautiful in iu simplicity. All it lacks Is the cooperation of the Ind ian. 1B0CT PEOPLE AND THINGS. The editor of the New York Dry Goods Journs 1 is named George Washington Bible. Bishop Hake, of South Dakota, who has lived i.mong the Indians for so many years, has ac luired the bad habit of smoking. The late Baron Haussmann'a rule for success in life was always to flatter the wives of the Deputies who voted appropriations. It worked like a charm. Renewed efforts are being made in this country and in England to secure the pardon of Mrs. Maybrick, who was convicted at Liverpool ot poisoning her husband. George Grenfell, the English missionary in Africa, never fired a shot at a native. He simply married a black woman and after that he found it easy to get along. Mr. BesantIs contemplating the organization ot an authors' club in London. It

is to differ from the New York society of tnat name iu its admission of women to its membership. Sigkor J ess ad a, of Genoa. Italy. leader in the great lace industry of that oonntry, has specimens of the fabno woven in the year 1400. He considers these the earliest productions of the art. Olivk Tiiokne Miller has within the past four months posted from bar home in Brooklyn no less than twenty thousand printed slips asking the women of New York not to wear birds or their plumage. Tue Empress of Austria intends having "The Dying Achilles," Professor Kersten's marole group which created so much sensation in 16S4, brought from her country residence near Vienna to adorn her new home in Corfu. The Weimar Society for the Circulation of Good Literature has distributed since last March 300,000 copies of wholesome tales and novels. At the same time it has increased its membership to 5,000 and has laid by 10,000. Mrs. Edison, the inventor's wife, is quite a clever musician. She takes great interest in her husband's work, following with tbe keenest interest the successive steps in the processes by which he thinks out hia inventions. Ax old schoolmate of Rider Haggard says that at college the future author of "She" was not accounted clever. He was a plain, matter-of-fact boy, who lived simply. He had a preference for traveling, however, which he indulged immediately after graduation. Indians educated at the Carlisle school are not showing up in an enviable light in the Western disturbances. Three were killed and another wounded in skf.rmishcs with the soldiers, and others are uader arrest for forgery. Judge William P. Lrox, of the Wiscon- , sin Supreme Court, who will become chiefjustice on the retirement of Judge fcole a few weeks hence, has held his present office for twenty years. He is a native of Columbia connty and won a brigadier's stars in the civil war. Elizabeth Bisland, whose clever series entitled "An American Woman's First Season in London'' made so favorable an impression on the readers of Harper's Bazar, is a young, brilliant and versatile woman, exceptionally beautiful and winsome and f assessing that charm above every other, a ow, sweetly-modulated voice, with sweet Southern intonations. Capt. John Ericsson, the inventor, made in his will specific- bequests of $120,000, but it turns out that his estate does not exceed $90,000, and his executors, George II. Robinson and C. S. Bnshnell. havA begun a suit in the Supreme Court of New York citv for a judicial construction of the will. The question they present is whether any legacy shall have preference. A medical gentleman, of Philadelphia explains Dr. Koch's statement about his lymph in this way: "It wasn't written for laymen, but it can be made clear enough. Let us suppose that the bacillus is but a small mosqnito; that it stings the flesh and injects a vims. Now, Koch takes the mosquito, kills it, extracts the virus, dilutes it for it is more powerful than the strongest drng known and then preserves it in glycerine." - Stepniak is a perfect type of the Russians who starve in small German university towns in. order that they may talk freely against the Czar and hear German professors deliver radical lectures. He has the coal-black eyes. Hushed cheeks, great fluffy pile of dark hair above the high, sloping forehead and the nervous, harsh I voice that are so familiar to all.who have frequented the cheap little beer-gardens of Heidelberg, Gottingen and Jena. The late Duke of Bedford is said to have j told the Queen of Holland, who asked him j some years ago what his income was, that it exceeded $1,500,000 anntially. His property had gradually increased in recent years, and he was supposed to be the richest man in the English peerage. The famous Covent Garden market in London was entirely owned . by the Duke, who levied tolls on every cart approaching within a quarter of a mile and every flower and- parcel of fruit sold in the market, placing them by means of various pretexts. TOE BACK QUESTION IX AMERICA. 1 The London Times Thinks the Only Remedy for Existing Evils Is in Emigration. London Cable Special. The following is the full text of this morning's Titnes'a leader on the negro question in the United States. Extracts from it have been already-published, and it has excited a great deal of attention: We publish to-day the conclusion of a series of remarkable articles on the negro question of the United States. Nothing atfecting the future of America is of greater moment, and even now the crisis may be at hand. It will be admitted by all who read our correspondent's -icicles that they present the subject in its full gravity and are models-of careful, dispassionate Inquiry as to the matter which conflicting Interests and passions have obscured. He has not merely descried the unique condition of the Southern States be propounds for our consideration and criticism a remarkable solution of the problem which cannot long be disregarded. More than 6.500,000 negroes live among the population of whites. The two elements do not mix. and to aU appearance they never will. Their attitude is one of antagonism, discontent and perpetual danger. The Constitution recognizes the negroes, but for them that Constitution is the greatest of political fictions. Tbe letter of the law excludes then from no position, but race Is stronger than law, and the spirit in which the law is administered is such that there is no common ground for them and the whites. The line is drawn more sharply than iu the days before emancipation. Contumely, blows and often a cruel death are punishments for all attempts to overstep it. If there are now no Legrees there are white mobs equally brutal and tyrannical. The slave hunts of past times were perhaps not much more numerous and barbarous tnan lynching upon the unfortunate negroes by ruffians with shotguns and revolvers. While constitutional amendments, intended to be the freedmen's charter, and the ballot-box have proved unavailing to create genuine equality, they aerve only to bring about an organization of political hypocrisy, under which more than six million blacks, nominally endowed with aU the rights of citizenship, are really in a state of perpetual ft 1 i C ft Things have grown yearly worse Instead of better. It was hoped by many at the end of the war that, left to themselves, they would wither away and die out when brought into close contact with civilization, but the prolific negro sets at defiance such hopes and refuses to be effaced. He is often immoral, thriftless and altogether uicleanly. The mortality among the negroes is amazing, but the rate of increase is still more so. They die like flies in the large cities of the South, but then, as our correspondent says, they breed like flies. The black belt is becoming blacker. In 1910. according to careful estimates, the colored population in it will be one million in excess of tbe white. Reconstruction on the lines adopted at the close of the war is already a failure. To all appearance it wiU be more conspicuously so ten years hence, unless strong measures are taken to end it. This condition of things is fuU of grave danger. The present generation is not responsible for it; the fault lies with many now l)eyond the reach of censure. No good can come of criticising In a captious spirit the policy pursued toward the South. The Times then proceeds with a sketch of the condition of the negroes since tbe war and tbe scandals and corruption in the. South, referring to War mouth and Kellogg in Louisiana, bcott and Moses in South Carolina. It continues: The white has for the time the mastery. The truth i he must rule, no matter at what coYt. In these circumstances our correspondent says, and calls weighty testimony in favor of his prolMal, that there is but one way of escape. The negro and the white man cannot live harmoniously together. Contact is evil for both. The negro ought to go. The government ougnt to assist him to emigrate. Our correspondent formulates a plan of assisted emigration and compensation, and points to the central belt of Africa as the country marked out as the natural home of the neirro. where, undisturbed by race jealousies, be could work out his desUny in more favorable circumstances than are pcMlble in America. The operation would be costly, but is, not beyond the resources and revenues of the States. We know objections are taken to this proposal in the States. We anticipate it will oilend many prejudices in this country, but our correspondent may fairly call upon his critics to describe another mode of settlement equally permanent and equally honorable It is an extreme measure. Justified only by tbe serious condition of affairs, but such is the condition ot the Southern States. The gloonile&t predictions of tho reconstruction policy of the Kepublicans have been f ullilled. It is es'wcially their duty to bestir themselves and endeavor to put an end to this chronic disorder and periL

niGII "WINDS AND FLOODS

Ice Gorpesand Heavy Rain-StorrasCaurD Considerable Damage in the East Fears of New Erglanders Aroused by t-Terrifla Gals Wilkesbarre and Other Placet Under W&ter-Costly Dams Washed OaU New York. Jan. 22. Much rain has fallen over New England and the Middle States to-day, and to-night, from many points come the tidings of freshet and threatened flood. Bridges are being swept away iu Dutchess county. New York, and at Wassaic to-day two women and a team were drowned in a swollen stream. In the Mohawk valley breaking up of ice in tho river is feared. There is an immense ice gorge near the Tribes hill, and people living on the low lands are becoming frightened, fearing a flood. Tbe ice is piled to a great height. Tne people liviug along the banks of the Mohawk are ready to leave their homes at a moment's notice. On the lower Hudson there has all day prevailed tho fiercest gale and rain-storm of the season, and some places are completely flooded. At Highland Light, Mass., a ternfio southwest gale has developed since morning and telegrapbio communication is cut oil. The storm is likely to cause consider able damage in the bay and about Province town. The combination of a heavy fall of rain, a very high tide and a strong wind blowing the water in from Long Island sound caused the Housatenio and Nauga tuck rivers to rise to-day in an alarming manner. Between 1 and 2 o'clock this alter noon the water rose fourteen feet. A terrific rain-storm, accompanied by high winds, prevailed at Danbury, Coun., and is doing a vast amount of damage. The water in a till river has risen above- its banks and the lower floors of factories along its boundaries nro flooded. In all parts of tbe city cellars are flooded and streets are about impassable. The schools are closed and business is practically suspended. It is reported that several washouts have occurred on the New York & New England railroad east of that city. In Wateruury. Conn., the rivers are rising, merchants are flooded out and factories are closing because of high water. ' A large jewelry-shop for the Norton Jew elry. Company at Chartley, Mass., nearly completed, was blown to the ground about 2 o'clock. There is fear that the ice on tho Norton reservoir may break up, and if this should happen the big dam may give way, causing a loss of thousands of dollars. Near MouBon, Mass., the railroads are tub merged and piled with ice. which has crushed the telephone and telegraph poles. Houses and barns are flooded and stock is suffering. . f DAMAGE IN VERMONT. At Three Rivers, Vt. it is feared that the bridge of the New London Northern railroad may be carried away. Two miles east of the village the tracks of the Boston & Albany railroad are eighteen inches under water. Many cedars at Palmer. Mass., are flooded, and the water is five feet deen in the union passenger . station. Roads aro badly washed, and the dam at the reservoir of the Palmer Water Company carnj near being washed out. There was a washout on the New London Northern road a mile north of Palmer. About 11 o'clock the water came pouring? down from the hills west of Harrington. Mass., and in a short time the sowers were) choked up. The water swept down so suddenly that merchants had no chance to . remove their goods, and many hundred dollars' worth were ruined. The fire depart ment was set at work pumping out the eel lars containing the most valuable goods. Cellars of private residences were flooded and furnace fires extinguished. 1 he llousa tonic track at the lower end of tbe village was submerged, covered with several feet of water. A terrific rain-storm swept over tbe Wyoming valley this morning, continuing until 3 p.m. Over one-third of Wilkesbarre, Pa., is now under water, and traffic is sutE ended on the street railway. 1 he steameating plant ia submerged, and two Are engines have been pumping water out all the afternoon. The gorge in the Susquehanna now extends from Tnnkhaunock to Nanticoke, a distance of thirty-seven miles, and it is feared that to-day's storm may cause the river to back up and flood the valley from end to end. It was rumored today that tbe Tan khannock bridge had been swept down by the torrent, but up to a lato hour the rumor had not been verified. A dam at Hiberma, N. Y., on Wapping creek, has been broken, adding tbe water of a large pond to the already swollen stream. The rush of ice and water struck the large iron bridge on the Central & Western railroad just below tbe dam, and moved it several feet out of line, stopping trains. An iron highway bridge was destroyed and part of the mill at Hiberni torn away. At Pleasant Valley, a few' miles below, the people of the village wero; driven into the second stories of their houses, and were only able to get about in boats. Two or three bridges were carried away on the New York fc Massachusetts railroad, near Pine Plains. People residing iu the vicinity of Cape Henry were terrified' last night by tho storm. Houses swayed and trees were bent to the ground. Many inhabitants gathered their valuables together, ready to leave, as every moment they expected to see their dwellings blown out to feea. The velocity of the wind reached forty-five miles an hour, and was somewhat in the form of ft cyclone. LARGE DAM WASHED OUT. Early this morning the water in the Hon satonicand Naugatuck (Connecticut) rivers began, rising, and by noon seven feet of water was falling over the dam. The meadows were flooded, as also was the Derby Driving Park. Large quantities of lumber 'flowed down tbe stream and over the dam and lodged against the railroad trestle. A gang of six men who w ere at work on tbe railroad bridge which was wrecked in last week's flood had a very narrow escape from being swept from tho pier.' All of the factories were closed down at "" n and large crowds gathered along tbt r. Ffcars were entertained that the dan aid not withstand the pressure, eo fore. i Curley, of the water company, stationed sentinels along the river at 6 o'clock and arranged to havo an alarm sounded in case of danger, so that the people could seek places of safety. At 7:4 P. M. the gate-house on ths west end of the long dam began to waver, and tbe danger signal was at once given. Five mi.iutes after the signal was sounded the gate-house was twisted around by a large body of pack ice, and this movement was clonely followed by tbe giving away of a section of tbe dam three feet in depth and about three hundred feet in length. Just before the dam gave way the gauge showed seven feet ten inches of water going over the dam. The gong continued to eouud and the people rushed from their houses amid great excitement. The immense volume of water rushed down tbe river, and the paper-mill and Albert Daggett' postal-card factory were the heaviest losers. Two hundred feet of the llousatonic railroad trestle waa carried away at the same spot as in last week's flood. A pile-driver was sweptdown the river, and two men bad to jump to save themselves. Tbero is now four feet of water on the Derby railroad tracks and trains have stopped running. A number of factories will be compelled to close. At midnight hundreds of people were flocking to the scene and great excitement prevails. So far no serious accidents have been r-' ported. The dam, which was built in 1870, was 500 feet long and twenty-two feet deep. It cost $1,000,000 to build. In Sheltou, Mass.. May Chillinger was thrown down by the forcoof the wind and rendered unconscious, and in Birmingham Captain Robert Majr was blown over and severely injured. A train on the Derby road wa stalled between Ansonia and Birmingham, the water extinguishing tbe Are, and another standing at tbe depot had to pnll out suddenly to avoid the same trouble. . Blizzard In Minnesota. Crookston, Minn., Jan. 2, Something of a blizzard has been in progress since 'noon. Some snow has fallen, but it has drifted badly. The storm is general up and down, the valley. , G. P. Pratt, a New York Wall-street broker, shot and killed himself at Rabway, N. J., yesterday. It is reported that business troubles were tho cause of the a r.oida,