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QUEER NEWS FROM MAINE. A 'Bitter Quarrel Between DMessrs. Sheriman and Blaine How it ' @c¢curred and How it Ended, =~ [Bporadic Cor. N. Y. Wor'd] N , - PORTLAND, July 23. The visit of Secetary Bherman'to Maine has been attended with unlooked-for results, Concerning his ilnterview with Senator Blaine nothing has béen published save. a brief item in the:evening Ea;,»ers, which says ‘ Messrs. Sherinan and laine had-a long confidential consultation at the Preble House to-day on the subject of this year’s campaign.”’ It is in my power to give the readers of the World some particulars as to this important conference. The two eminent statesmen, I mneed hardly say, are not upon the best of terms. Each has Presidential amoitions. Blaine is disgusted because while'he was away speaking in the West last year he lost his own State, and Sherman’s visit this year puts him in a deeidedly awkward position. If Maine should go Republican the fact will inure to Sherman’s benefit, because his friends ‘will say, ‘¢ The Secretary carried 1t after Blaine had lost it,”” and so Mr. Sherman’s presence is about as welcome as that of a cat in a game of ten-pins. To my iuterview, however. ; Wien the two great statesmen had locked the door and hung a hat oven the key-hole—-luckily they did not think to look under the sofa—Mr. Sherman began the conversation.

*“Well, Blaine,”” he said,.*‘l’ve come up to haul you out of the pit, as the Book says.”’ *On, thanks,” said the Senator, warmly; “J appreciate your kindness considering the _way things look in Ohio.”’ " ** Ohio is all safe;” said the Secretary, wincing slightly; ‘ Maine is what we must seé to first, dor if anything happens to you in September what’ll become of me 1n October? I've brought up a thirteen-column s?eech that I think will kinder knock the boys.’ **There’s nothing like it,” said Blaine, contemplatively. ‘*“Morton once told me that he owed his success in Indiana to putting outa platform three or four feet long full of words like ‘hegemony,’ ‘interdependent,’ ‘eleemosynary’ and so on; then by the time that his party had spelled out and digested the eight introductory resolutions about the United ~ States being a Nation, ete., haying bhad begun and there was no time to find out what the platform really meant. I hope you've got plenty of figures in it—figures is what people cry for this year.” ! G | “Between us,” said the Secretary, confidentially, ‘‘there has been a little demoralization in the Treasury, between putting through this last assessment and preparing for the new examinations under the civil-service-reform system, and so I’ve had to paste in the Zimes’ tables of the election frauds of 1876; but they’ll do. The. footings will show the progress and results of resumption, however.” : .~ **Good enough,’ said the Senator, aprlaudingly; * but I hope you go for thz South?” ‘“Don’t you be afraid. There were some little difficulties in the argument, but I think I have got round ’em nicely. Frinstance, how do you like this passage: ‘Up till 1874 the Democratic party remained in a minority in the House. How unmindful it was of the Constitutional duties and privileges of an opposition party I need notremind you. When, however, the grand old Republicap party went into opposition and set itself to expose and combat the extravagance of the majority, what did we sec? From: $184:304,787,08 the appropriations dropped steadily to $177.370,627.81, to $154,090,943.563, to %153,544,745.56.’ Here there should be some applause marked in—lend me your pencil. Doesn’t that strike you as good—making the economy of the Democrats so praise us? Aund the remainder of that economy we willdenounce for starving the Government.”” - | “ ¢ gapital, egad!” said theSenator; 1 own I wasn’t quite elear in my mind how you were going to get round the fact that the moment | the Democrats got control of the Houge the.‘ appropriations came down. Well, go on.” ; “There was another snag in my P’ath,” “said thie Secretary, with a ciiuckle, *“but I guess I got round it all right. I allude to the fact that while you and the rest of the boys have been howling aloud that under Democratic supremacy the country was going to the dogs I have been refunding the debt. It is a little curious that as-soon as the Senate became Democratic -confidence became restored, and the moment the extra session was called and the unrepentant Rebels began to overturn the Government money was invested in National securities by hundreds of millions. Now I shall show in my speech tonight, first, that the coincidence of National confidence and prosperity with Demoecratie ascendancy is due to the fact that the people see that the Democrats do not deserve trust and that they will be hurled from power: .some of these generations: secondly, that the flow of money into tlie Treasury indicates the paralysis of all legitimate business and strade, owing to the presence at Washington ef the Confederate. Brigadiers. You see that this line of argument resembles the coontrap which was set to-catch the coon going ar coming.” i) e

*That is a remarkably good idea,” said | Mr. Blaine, ‘“ana I am glad to see that you sock it to the Confederate Brigadiers. Have you anything more about the Solid South?”? *‘Lots, lots,’? said Mr. Sherman, gleetully. *“You recollect Conkling’s argument about the small amount contributed to the Federal Treasury by the South. Conkling’s an ass; bug still there’s something in the idea, and 1 intend to adopt it and show that inasmuch as the people of the South appear on the returns as paying a small proportion of the customs duties and internal revenue taxes they should not be allowed so large a representation in the Goverament. Of course the argument is idiotie, ke :ause the consumer pae‘s the duty, though Ihe importer or manufacturer. hands it over to the (zovernment; still, it’ll do. It’}l satisty those who don’t know any better, and those who do will keep quiet.” : *“But, I say, Sherman,’’ said- Mr. Blaine, warmly, *“‘this won’t do .at all. That’s a twoedged sword which severs the wrong joints and marrow. For-instance, here are the returns of customs receipts for 1877, which show that in Maine we collected $367,200.86, or on an average fifty-eicht cents her head of population. Now, in" Florida, in the same: year, ‘the collections amounted to' $260,984.17, or almost $1.40 per head. Or take the internal revenue taxes. The collections in Maine last year amounted to $70,695.78, or about 1114 cents a head; in Florida they were $183,823.83, -or within a small fraction of $l.OO a head.. Now, if your argument is sound, and the average resident of Florida has more iofluence in the , Government than he ought to have, it follows that the average citizen of - Maine ought to be disfrancnised about three. and 'a half times as much, for where a Maine - man pays seventy cents into the Treasury a Florida man pays #2.40, Those figurés are all very nice, Jobn, but you'll bave to cheese them up here. Beside, the people of Maine wear homespun and cowskin boots, and your contention is that, therefore, they are not as useful and trustworty members of society as folk that wear English broadcloth and French kid. The backwoodsmen and farmers will see tbrough your sophistries in a minute and rerent the underlying imputation. And as for internal revenue taxes, great Scott, Sherman !'don’t you know' that this is a Prohibition State, and that when you declare in effect that a man is_ unfit to be. _a citizen because he doesn’t distil whisky orconsume champagne you slap every teﬂper-» ance man in the face? If you go round Maine' l;"n-e's.chimg: such doctrine the first thing you .know something’ll drop here in September, aud then good-by, John.” o ] *“ Well, if you really think they would see’ through it perhugs I had better not say anything about it, though I am convinced that that speech would kuock ’em, Bince you however, know all about Maine, what WO'ul(i ' you ﬁropose?” £ ~ ; N r I My opinion,” said Mr. blaine, *is that we ought to go back to 1861 or thereabouts. The Republican party neyer was ptrqnze%w more aggressive than during the war., We must revive the old war gpirit, whoop up the Ku-Klux, send the bloody shirt to be dyed. over in fast colors and save the Union. over, again. Unless we can do that we’ré gone up on high, with anything but a triumpbant’ noise, as the hlymn says. It begins to look as if Bayard would be nominated next year, and a 8 he comes from Delaware, iﬁich is in the Bolid Bouth, it- would be a geod idea to kill him off now.” .. L e ol ~ “Oh, I say, Blaine,you ain’t -serions fn tbat, -are you?”’ said the Secretary of the Treasury: ‘*you who know: 8o much. .bﬁ statistice and averages ought to be the last man to enter upon an inyestigation of that

subject. Do you know -that while New England sent 377,131 soldiers to the war to fight against rebellion, the SBolid South sent almostas many—34l,327¢? But to be exact, ?ere is Maine.” With a population of 628,279, her contribution of UE}“?‘ volunteers was 72,114, or 11.3 per cent. That was a pretty good av(‘a;age, ‘becaus¢ New Bampoglre’,s was 11.2 and ermont’s 11.4.. Now, elaware, with a treason-imbued population of 112,216,. sent 13,670 volunteers, or 12.2 per cent. The Copperheadism of Delaware was more patriotie, when it came to shedding blood for the old flag, than the Radicalism of Maine, in the ratio of 15 to 14. Blaine, I guess that .cock won’t fight.”? S ‘“That cussed Sccretary of War,”’ growled Mr. Blaine, ‘‘has been putting so many Confederate Brigadiers into his department to codifg the war records that it’s as likely as not they’ve cooked the figures. Anyhow, the showing isn’t so bad in my case as in yours, because I’m only outl in 15, whereas ‘your ficures are out 240 in 70. Nice Secretar{ of the Treasury you are—there isn’t an eight-year-old boy in the common schools of Maine that couldn’t expose your fallacies.” 1 felt the sofa above me tremble as if Secretary Sherman were quivering with suppressed emotion, but he made no angry reply ; he onlv said, with a light laugh, ‘* Well, Jim, if you had gone to the front when you were drafted—or: your substitute had—that would have made the figures even, since you say you are only one out.”” e i

An awful silence followed, broken only by the hard breathing of the two statesmen as they rose from the sofa and advanced into the middle of the apartment. o ¢ Mr. Secretary,’’ said Mr. Blaine, as he moved a couple of chairs back into corners, ‘I would not take that from an{ man, nopt even if he was as big as a grain‘eleyator.” - ‘ The Senator from Maine,” said Mr. Sher“man, as if to himself, while he pushed the.table up against the wall—*‘‘the Senator from Maine, 1 believe, pays taxes on a large estate, though when the war broke out he was ‘the editor of a one-horse country newspaper, ~and his income since then has never exceeded $5,000 a year.”? - j . *‘John Sherman,” hissed Mr. Blaine, in a voice of deadly emphasis, ¢ people who live in First National Ba—7"? " Standing proudly erect the Secretary of the Treasury whistled, with the clearness and resonance of a sllvery-chimin%bell the first three bars of the * Mulligan uar(is.” They clinched and rolled over and over upon the carpet with the fury of tigers. At that instant the door was burst open and Congressman Reed dashed in. : *‘Gentlemen, for heaven’s sake,’’ he shouted, ‘‘cease this fratricidal strife. Don’t arouse the hotel !~Here, Jim, get off of him; Secr;(’etary Sherman, let go of Senator Blaine’s ear. 2 ‘““You °‘cheerful idiot,’”” hoarsely panted Mr. Blaine, ‘‘you keep away or there’ll be a Greenbacker chosen in the Portland District next year. [ can lick any Ohio man. that whistles- the *Mulligan Guards’ at me. He can’t get in any of his political assessment work here, you bet.”’ il _ ** Let us alone,’’ growled Mr. Sherman, ‘or when you’re elected to stay at home you’ll not be made Collector. Whoopee, I'll make this white-plumed knight think a whole Memphis & Little Rock Railroaa train is running over him.” : The panting combatants clinched again, but Mr. Reed threw himself upon them; exclaiming, ‘Stop! stop! There’s a World correspondent in the next room. He’ll hear it all.” The antagonists staggered to their feet, gasping for breath @and glaring at each other. *“Now, gentlemen,” said Mr. Reed, *I know nothing of the merits of this quarrel, but, so help me Heaven, there has got to be harmony in the party. If you two want to ficht, wait till after the elections—you’ll have lots of leisure then. Shake hands, or I'lll’ pound on the wall and call the World correspondent in. That’s right; now, Secretary Sherman, I’ll send out for a man that’ll paint your eye so that no one will ever guess that anything is wrong with it; meanwhile I will ring for an oyster which you had better hold against it. As for you, Mr. Blaine, I’ll lend you a pair of my pants—l don’t think you can ever pet those ménded—and give you some court-plaster to put on your ear.’’ : *“l’'m gorry I hit you, John,” sai@ Mr. Blaine, “but you shouldn’t have aggravated me. Come up to Augusta and see me trim my asparagus. You are on the rural racket, I believe.” :

“I beg your pardon, Jim, for aggravating you,” said the Secretary, ‘‘and when I visit yvour Sabine farm I’ll give you some new points dbout lepairing fences.”’ : The gentlemanly clerk at the Preble had never in his experience had an order for one oyster without any fixings, and can’t account forthe hasty and secret visit of a journeyman painter- to the parlor .occupied by Messrs. Sherman and Blaine, except upon the hypothesis that some confidential negotiations are going on with the Greempackers. The following item is from-. the Portland Fvening Republican : . Runaway AcCIDENT.—As Secretary Sherman and Senator Blaine were driving to-day in a lonely part of the suburbs the horse became frightened and ran away, overturning the carriage and throwing out the occupants. Mr. Blaine escaped with a few scratches on the ear and slight damages to his clothing, and Mr. Sherman with a _trifling contusion upon the cheek-bone. Congressman Reed, who happened to be passing, caught the horse after it had proceeded a short distance, and. the vehicle being righted, escorted the distinguished visitors home. : - I am somewhat cramped from my long confinement under the sofa, and so defer further particulars about the campaign till tomorrow. P T ;

The Republican One Idea. While Doctor Chandler did not state very clearly il his Wisconsin speech what the ¢ one idea’ of his ¢ one-idea party’’ is—he never is very clear except when he is ranting about ‘¢ Confederate brigadiers’ or ¢ devilish rebels”’—it was evident that he meant National Sovereignty as opposed to State-rights. This may be the party’s idea now, but when the Doctor, or any other Stalwart, attempts to convey the impression that this always was, or has been for any length of time, the Reg‘ublican idea, he attempts to deceive. he occasion of celebrating any one of the party’s numerous ¢ births” is an especially inappropriate one for making such an attempt, for the birth record everywhere shows plainly what the Republican idea was when the party was coming into existence at so many different times and places. : At the birth in this State there was no intimation given of any such idea. In his own organ, some days since, the Doctor published an aecount of that birth, illustrated, it will be remembered, with 'choice selections from the organ’s stock of . advertising cuts, including the liver-pad man and others equally well known; which were made to do duty for the godfathers of the new party.” That account shows conclusively that the *‘one idea’ of the party tiy:,enr.‘;v:vas opposition to the extension of slavery, and that the idea of a contest, between State-rights and National rights had never entered the god-father’s heads. Even as late as 1860 no such idea had been conceived by the Republican pgrtg or its leaders. In that year was held the National Convention that nominated Abraham Lincoln for President. 'That conven‘tion adopted, among others, the following resolution: - . -

* That the maintenance inviolate of the rights of the States, and especially the r(iight of each State to order and cont:;?: its own domestic iustitutions according to its own judgment exclu‘aiveli. is essential to that balance of power on which the perfection and endurance of our political fabric depend ;: and we dénounde the lawless invasion by armed force of the soil of any State or Terntorﬁ. no matter under what: pretext, a 8 among the gravest crimes,”’ - Clearly, therefore, the 'Senatorial LL. D. is wron% when he intimates that his party has always been the

champion of the Nation against the State. Thatidea is of comparatively recent growth. 1t is the offspring of the necessity which has been forced upon the Republican party of seeking some new issue whereon to wage war apon the Democracy, the natural defenders of the Constitution and of the rights both of the State and the Nation.—Detroit Free Press.

A FEW FINANCIAL FACTS. Extracts from a Recent Speech by - General Ewing, at Lancaster, Ohio, Mr. Ewing said Mr. Sherman claimed great credit for having successfully funded $847,000,000 of the public debt into 5, 4} and 4-per-cent. bonds since March 4, 1877, and reducing the interest paid by the Government about $10,000,000 a year. It appears, however, by the finance report, that the interest on the ‘public debt paid in 1877 was $97,124,000, and last year $102,500,000, and this year $105,000,006. In other words, in 1878 and 1879 over $13,000,000 more of interest on Government bonds' has been paid than when Mr. Sherman took charge of the funding operation. That large sum is what the operation cost. It is made up of bonuses in the shape of double interest and of commissions paid to the syndicate. Meantime Mr. Sherman has increased the ' principal of the bonded dg,bt $86,000,000. It will take the savings of interest by refunding for eight or ten gears to pay off this increased bonded debt and the bonuses and double interest, and get even on the entire ol;:era.tion. The speaker claimed, further, that American capitalists had bought the 4-per-cent. bonds, being' exempt from about 2} per cent. of taxes, which other property pays, and because the industries of the country have been so broken down that capital had better get 6} per cent. assured by the Government than risk an investment in almost any industrial pursuit. Mr. Ewing said: ‘I assert and am able to prove that after all of the $430,000,000 of taxes paid by the people, paid since 1866; after the nominal reduction of the public debt $528,000,000, and after the funding so far accomplished, the public debt of tbe United States to-day is a far greater effective burden on the people than it was before the first dollar of it was paid. Measure it by things which have to be sold to pay it; by pork, corn, wheat, beef, horses, labor. It takes fifty per cent. more of labor, land or products to pay the interest than it took five years ago. How is the country benefited by a nominal reduction of $10,000,000 of interest when the reduction has been accomplished only by adding fifty per cent. to the amount of labor or property which it takes to' ny it? ; i o Do you recollect, my friends, what | 'Mr. Sherman promised a year ago as ‘the result of resumption? That gold . ‘would flow out in ecirculation and that ‘'we would have a fuller volume of money actually current and consequently a general restoration of prosperity. Well, we have had gold resumption for over six monthspast. We have had, moreover, for three years past two unparalleled favorable coincidents —enormous crops at home and a great foreign demand " for our surplus. ‘A kind Providence, looking down in pity on the industrial distress inflicted by the ingenuity of theorists and usurers, relieved its asperity by bounteous harvests at home and eager markets abroad; but for our self-inflicted troubles, these great crops would have flushed our country with exuberant prosperity. . ‘“But in spite of these good providences, in contradiction of the pledges of gold resumptionists, which led the ’ people to a patient but longing endurance of their trials, the promised prosperity has not come. The paperdollar is equal to the gold dollar, but the gold dollar 18 ingeniously kept hoarded in the Treasury. The money actually current is no greater now, if as great, as it was one or two years ago. Every little debt you owe still nettles you. Every large ‘debt still threatens you, with the loss of your home, yogr farm, your factory, or your store. Every tax you pay calls for more labor or product than before. Wages do not increase, laborers still hunt for employers instead of ~employers seeking | laborers, and it is at last becoming apparent that the condition of things last year and the year before is to become the permanent condition. under . the established gold prices of labor and property,”’ o e He then touched upon the questions of specie payments, and claimed that owing 'to various causes gold prices were one-third lower than bi-metallic prices. ' ““Mr. Sherman says in his last annual report that the present law providing for the coinage of $2,000,000 a month cannot stand without in time overthrowing the exclusive gold standard. He has prevented that result heretofore by hoarding the coined silver as a resumption fund, but he knows there is & limit to the amount of money which the people will suffer to remain piled 1n the Treasury, and that the day will come’ when they will demand that a very large proportion of that lioarded silver shall. be apg{l}ied to the extinguishment of the nded debt, and in that way the country will be forced from the gold level of prices to a bi-metallic level. Therefore he says that -the time will soon come when this coinage of the old silver dollar must cease. Neither he nor his party has any intentions to permit values to rise above the low golcf level. Hence the question must yet be settled whether we are to have and maintain the gold standard only or restore the bi-metallic standard by the unlimited coinage of silver, . o L e D ~ “1t was the agitation against the total destruction of greenbacks by the ‘Western and Southern Democracy and. the Nationals which, against the determined opposition of the great mass of the Republican {)arlcg, established the greenbacks now in ciéulation as a ‘'part of. the.permanent currency of the cquntry. ﬁg e money - power regards'the costless greenback as 4 standing menace to its partial control of the currency, and an obstacle to that complete control which it desires and intends to secure. The paper currency ‘will not be left half oostress and half subsidized, half issued by the Govern- |

ment and hulf by private corporations. It should and will be issued wholly by one power or the other. Give the Republican party a new indorsement, denominated and controlled as it is by the National Banks, and you will find that either throtigh a contrived Judicial decision or directly by legislation your greenbacks will be wiped out and the money power will give you just as much or as little paper money for your business as it pleases, and will regulate the value of your labor and property to suit itself. ;

“ Our experience has demonstrated that no matter how glentiful ‘may be the supply of the gold and silver, the greater part of the money actually current will always be paper. On the volume of money actually current depends the price of labor and commodities. As that volume rises prices go up, and as it falls they.go down. The whole volume of the money current has rarely been over a fiftieth part of the aggregate value of the property of the country; -yet when the money in actual circulation is reduced $?7100,000,000, that reduction shrinks the value of labor and groperty to fifty times the sum of the currency reduction; also, when the current money is increased $100,000,000 it adds fifty times that sum to the aggregate selling value of other property. SO, too, when the volume of currency diminishes and . prices consequently fall, all business becomes unprosperous, while when the currency is being increased values rise and business becomes good again. “ The power to control the volume of currency, affecting, as it does so profoundly, the general prosperity, is in its nature a sovereign power. The welfare of the people demands that this power to' expand or contract the currency, to raise and lower values, to give prosperity or inflict distress. shall not be committed to the hands of private individuals or corporations, and least of all to corporations representing the holders of public and private debts, whose wealth is increased by every fall of prices, and is diminished by every rise. It should be exercised by the Government alone, in such a manner as shall give to the debtors, taxpayers and industrial classes the assurance of justly established and stable values.

“1f two or three thousand private corporations, acting as they always do in the interests of the holders of money securities, are permitted to control the value of currency at their pleasure, there is no lituit to the injury and loss they may inflict upon the people, or to the -wealth they may theinselves accumulate by hidden and concerted measures of expansion and contraction of values. It was precisely this danger which led Jefferson to resist the incorporation of the first Bank of the United States under Washington’s Administration and to oppose the renewal of its charter under Madison, and which led Old Hickory to make his grand and successful fight against the re-charter of the bank.” ' The speaker claimed further that the substitution of legal-tenders for National Bank notes would save the country $10,000,000 per annum, and with these notes bonds could be purchased, canceled, and interest stopped.

; Hiunts to Bathers. The Royal Humane Society of England has issued the following seasonable advice to bathers: ¢¢Avoid bathg within twe hours after a meal, or when exhausted by fatigue or from any other cause, or when the body is cooling after perspiration, and avoid bathing altogether in the open air if, after being a short time in the water, there is a sense of chilliness, with numbness of the hands and feet, but bathe when ‘the body is warm, provided no time is lost in %lettin% into the water. Aveoid chilling the body by sitting or standing undressed on the banks or in boats, after having been in the water, or remaining too’ long in the water, but leave the water Immediately there is the slightest feeling of chilliness. The vigorous and strong may bathe early in the morning on an empty stomach, but the young and those who are weak had better bathe two or three hours after a meal; the best time. for such is from two to three hours after breakfast. Those who are subpject to attacks of giddiness or faintness, and who suffer from palpitation and other sense of discomfort at the heart, should not bathe without first consulting their medical adviser.” After bathing, a vigorous use of the towel is very beneficial, and should be followed when necessary by moderate exercise till a gentle reaction sets in. The old notion about the danger of plunging into cold water when the body is heated has long ago been exploded.. In fact, it is now clearly established that the eolder the water the hotter should be the bather. Fever patients, it is well known, never take cold, even if wholly immersed for brief intervals in ice-water. If the body is not already in a vigorous glow, bathing is sure to do more harm than good.—Exchange. _

A GERMAN paper publishes a column of Roman Catholic statistics for the world. The grand total is 216,000,000, distributed among the continents as follows: ‘Europe, 153,444,000; Awmerica. 51,400,000; Asia, 9,167,000; Africa, 1,695,000; Australia, 650,000. Of the countries, France leads with a population of 86,405,000. Austria-Hungary comes next, 28,357,000; Italy third, with 27,942,000; Spain fourth, with 16,912,000, and Germany fifth, with 15,950,000. ' The United gtates is credited with 8,000,000, ' about 2,000,000 more than is claimed by American Catholics. Brazil has 10,800,000, British America 2,100,000. - Professor Schem, of this country, gives the total of Catholic population at 209,000,000, some 7,000,000 less than the German statistician. He gives the total Protestant go%llation, at 113,700,000, and that of the Eastern churches at 88,000,000. From this it appears that the Roman Catholics atilr. outnumber all other Christians combined. f —lt is strangely singular how much the boy with & pair of new suspenders hates to wear a coat. : : —The man with a marble brow ought to have a cool head.

A STRUGGEE FOR LIFE, Arrival in New York of Three Sure vivors of the ‘“State of Virginia’— . Graphic Narratives, : | ' The Rev. J. H. Warfield, of Boston, and Daniel Clark and wife, of Buffalo, three of the survivors of the wrecked steamer State of Virginia, arrived in’ this city on Friday, by rail from Halifax, The last two named give agraphic account of their experiences. ; When asked to relate her experience Mrs. Clark said: ‘“ When the State of Virginia struck in the fog on that Saturday night there was no panic on board; even the ladies expressed their belief that the ship wouldp soon float. There were many of us in tears, as we all realized the danger of attempting to land through the surf. On Sunday morning, about ten o’clock, there were. fourteen of us, all women and chi'dfen, who were lowered into one of the surfboats which came alongside from the island. When coming toward the breakers the men incharge of the boat turned it and attempted to bring it to land stern foremost. Then a great billow struck us, and it seemed as if the boat was going up in the air on an end. *The surf was rolling mountains high. Then the boat turned right over, and ‘we all went into the water together. I was so dazed by the suddenness, of the catastrophe that I ' was only partially conscious. I teally cannot now. describe my peculiar feelings. I went under the boat, and, while in that position, I managed to get hold of a life-preserver. When I came up it was on the opposite side of the boat, and I managed to get hold of the keel. The next wave righted the boat, and immediately another huge billow struck it and swept me clean over. Then I was carried by the waves again toward the life-boat, when a man got into it and stretched out one of his .hands. Mrs. Moutin, of New York, who' was struggling: in the water beside me, seized hold of the man’s other hand. He dragged us into the boat, but in an instant we were again hurled out by the breakers. I saw my companions about me struggling in the water, but did not see them drown. ¢ Just before we reached the breakers I saw a boat behind us in which was my husband. 1 have not the slightest idea how 1 reached the land, nor have I any conception of the manner in which 1 got a life-preserver on me while under the keel of the: surf-boat. When I was able to collect my thoughts ‘ 1 gazed around me. DMy clothing had been nearly all stripped from my person by the waves. Then I saw the bodies of Mrs. Walker, of Eimira, and Miss Coleman, of Albany, on the beach, where they had been cast up by the breakers. Both were quite dead. When I was getting into the boat on leaving the ship one poor woman who was drowned, and whose name I did not know, asked me for a pin. I gave it to her and she pinned her money to the waist of her dress.. When we were preparing 1o gef into the first boat Capt. Moodie’s daunghter, a most interesting young lady of twenty years or thereabouts, was urged by her father to enter. She clung to his neck, and, kissing him, refused to he parted. He urged her to go into ‘the boat and | save herseli. Finally she reluctantly gave her consent. Then the boat was lowered, butimmediately Miss Moodie’s feelings overcame her, and she begged piteously to be allowed to remain-and share her father’s fate. She was pulled again on board, and se her life was saved. We were rowed away. After reaching land I was unconscious for a long time. I was so much overcome by fright and suffered so much from my injuries that I could searcely realize what had taken place. It seemed all like & dream to me. I suppesed that the boat following us Waus aulso swamped. I knew my husband was in it, and I was more than overjoyed when I came across him twenty six hours ‘afterward,. When Mrs. Widestrand, | who ‘was in our boat, was thrown up on the beach she had, as she suppeosed, her son John in her arms. In a frenzy of excitement, on struggling through the surf to the beach, she exclaimed, ¢I have him, I have him,’ at the same time clinging tenacicusly to the strap of his little ulster. To herhorrcrshethen discovered that the buttons had become unfastened, and that in her struggles the child had slipped out of his coat. Her grief, when she discovered that he had fallen from her grasp and been drowned before her eyes, when she thought kim Saved, was uncontrollable. We did all we could in our sorry plight to comfort. the heart-broken woman.” - Mr. Clark seemed to have the events. ‘which oceurred immediately after the ship struck vividly portrayed ia his memory. ‘‘A few minutes before the ship struek,” said he, ¢ Captain Moodie had given orders to altér the vessel's course. He evidently knew he was approaching land. When we struck the shock was slight. None of us felt much alarm, as' the Captain thought we would float off with the midnight tide. The fog was very dense, and all this time the engines were being reversed; | but we were wedged in the sand and seemed to settle into it further and further. It was a time of supreme suspense for all. I was in the second boat, following the one that was capsized. I cannot convey to you my feelin% of anguish when I saw that boat fu “qf passengers, my wife among the number, hurled into the seething waves. The officer in charge of our boat, when, he saw the catastrophe, gdve orders to return. When :we again got on the | deck of the ship there was intense ex- | citement. I cannot begin to faithfully | portrayit. We sympathized with those | who had lost friends, and all of us em- | braced each other as if we were broth- | ers and sisters, and thanked God that | we had been spared. I was half crazy | in -fmy anxif;_ty to know the fate of my ,' wife. B s el

“On Monday, about eleven o'clock in the morning, we were all landed on the lee side of the island. Seven boatloads, including the baggage and provisions, were transferred from the ship. Captain Moodie, his daughter and mysel? went to the ligglthou‘se.- “On the way we metthelighthouse-keeper, who told us to put the baggage back invo the boat and go down the shors to Governor MacUonald’s house, which was' about nine ‘miles away. In my excitement and anxiéty I walked the whole distance, scarcely knowing why I did so. On the way I met Mrs. Porteous, of New York, wha was in the

capsized boat. Te. my great joy she told me that my wife was safe. Shortly atterward I met my wife: Shall I teil you that she fairly screamed with joy, and that we both fell on our knees and thanked God that we had been spared from the waves!”—N. ¥. Herald,July 28.

- FACTS AND FIGURES. THE iron-rail trade has fallen off from 324 000 tons in 1873 to 21,000 tons in 1878.. .. i A MILLION dollars’ worth of chickens are shipped out of East Tennessee annually: G : i THERE are about 400 stock fire 'insurance companies in the United States, representing about $100,000,000 ‘in capital, about $175,000,000 in assets, and having $8,750,000,000 at risk. There are about 600 mutual fire insurance companies, whose assets and amount at risk are not definitely known; but probably they do not exceed $30,000,000 nominal assets nor $75,000,000 at risk. - i . ; - THE average of mortgages upon the fa.‘rm'm%‘ lands of -E{-gnce is but 5 per cent. InEngland it is 58. The United States has but 3,000,000 proprietary agriculturists. -France, with a vastly smaller area, has 6,000,000, 5,000,000 of whom are small farmers. England has but 25,000 landholders, and 12 per cent. only of the people till the soil; the rest are engaged in manufacturing and other pursuits. One million are paupers. THE British Wesleyans are surprised and alarmed at the decrease in their numbers, as shown by statistics just collected. It appears that, though upwards of 30,000 new members were received lastyear, there is a net decrease of 3,308, which is shared by nearly all the districts. The losses are largest in agricultural sections and manu?acturing centers, and a%) attributed to éemi--gration on accountlof financial depression and strikes. . e THE mercantile failures in England during the first half of 1879 numbered 8,900. During the whole of 1878 the failures numbered 15,950, and during 1877, 11,022. Commenting on the reorts of these failures, the London g’imes says that in two chief industries there are signs that the suffering has been severe. -The failures in the cotton and in the iron trades during the past six months have been in excess of their ‘due proportion. In both of them the failures for 1878 were more numerous than for 1877. In spite of these clearances the failures for 1879 have been more numerous still. o

AT the last meeting of the Geographical Society, M. de Lesseps made some. communications respecting his Panama Canal scheme. As 'in the case of th Suez Canal, he himself, he said, 'wb’ulg alone be responsible to the public. He was going to ask them for 400,000,000 francs. The caution money of 2,000,000 francs required by the Government of Venezuela had already been paid in. The total expenses of construeting the canal M. de Lesseps does not think will exceed 750,000,000 francs, and he believes it will not take more than eight years to'becompleted. He endeavored to show that the difliculties to be overcome are not so formidable as those encountered in making the Suez Canal.

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