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vrrrw^r* / * •',/•v •" . •* ••• . j, . * -- ; * I. VMtLYKC. Mrm FaMMiar Sekatob McPhsbbox has purchased 100,000 acres of land in Northwestern ?**"• V-. • A oompleHi set of Waverly Novels was found among Jesse James' personal effects, and the picture he was-dusting when killed was a fete*! engrvffag.. of "Evangeline." Outlaws don't always lire in paves and eat bear's meat, . v , A Michigan revivalist goes out this season with what he advertises as " the most complete campraeeting outfit ever invented, consisting of a handsome pa­ vilion, splendidly painted, and portable stand, reed orgah and gilded tttm in the pulpit," I? some of the people who are intend­ ing to travel in Earope this Summer would change their plans and visit the wonders of their own country, of which they know little or nothing, they would have just as good a time, and leara just » ̂ ch. »t .j, „n,hW> Louisa MonIaw®, the prize b«A«ty of Forepangh's circus pibqepsfon last season, had* leg bruised in & Kentucky r»ilî )ftd collision. TSh hurts w^re not permanent, And did nOt disable her fco- exhibition purposes, yet she brought a suit for $20,000, and has obtained $1,000 by a compromise with the company. re«Wi«ghi to emerge upon tbaane* ecMi«t «4d witb him talliaforaar- tio« a« -te what are the psospeeta of brtoging the region into commercial n* lationawith civilized nations. wcn iw in curious. thoogh it lives in water, MMfe abhor salt. Fraass have been taa^bl "|| whan called by their It will not be a dozen years before George M. Pullitfan will "be the best- known American citizen in Europe. Al­ ready more than forty palatial palace ears are running between leading points, and Kings and Lords and ladies of the nobility are treated to comforts and lux­ uries in travel, by American genius, to which they hjave heretofore bdph s|»|ag- Judge Black and the Hem. Wayne HacYeagh are opposing each otiher as the leading lawyers in the case of the Contested will of the late William Gam- won, brother of Simon Cameron. Two wills have been found, disposing of $1,- 500,000, the last one giving most of the estate to the testator's daughter, Mrs. J. B. Packer. The second daughter con­ tests the'will on the grounds of forgery or of " undue influence," and produoes another giving equal shares to the sis* wn. Bbmatob Batabd has contributed to the [Christian Union a short letter on - auccees in public life, in which he states las conviction that such suocess does r liot at all involve disregard of the canons of punctiliously honorable action. He •ays of the young American who en- in politics thai " the discovery of .> ikuoh weakness and unworth may often gain and disappoint him, and he may peary of the work and long for rest; $pt his hands <&n be as clean and his *oal as white at the end of the journey fill when he set out upon it" Hobsb-thieves will do well to keep from Missouri, as Gov. Crittenden il reported, in a recent, letter to a high State official, to have said : " I will not pardon a horse-thief; I care not how many petitions request it. The sooner this is understood the better it will be for those engaged in such applications. It will be time-and labor lest. All other Criminals can entertain a hope of relief, but horse-thieves--when the prison doors close on suoh the sentence must • lie completed, so far as I am concerned, * < unless the higher interests of the State L - Remand a release for other purposes." ' : In conversation recently. Gen. Francis IB. Spinner told how he adopted that marvelous signature of his. "It was %hen I was practicing law in Herkimer joounty," he said, "years ago--well, let • fie see---ft was in 1880. Judge Osbom Was my law partner. I was scrawling With. my pen at my desk one day, and wrote my name several times in tiiat manner. Osborn happened to see it fie said, ' Hello, old Fish-hooks, I'll bet you can't do that again.' I said, 'I bet lean;' and I did. I adopted it as my jrignaiture then, and I have written my .Jfame in that way ever sinoe." • A sharp landlord in Pittsburgh go4 lid of an unwelcome tenant a f̂ew days •go in a manner not laid down in the Statutes, and stands a chance of being coo®r practical mind. •<T. Amexakdbb IL, of Russia, succeeded to the throne Feb. 18 (March 2, new style), 1855, but was not crowned at Mdfeoow until Aug. 96 (Sept 7), 186& It is now formally announced that Alex­ ander III. will be crowned at Moscow in August, or in the same month that his fatter was. It is further announced that the festivities will continue only two weeks, and that the expense will be 8,000,000 rubles less than twenty-six years ago. This rather peculiar parade of a pretense of economy may not strike the citizens of Moscow favorably, as they, like the people of some other lo­ calities, are not averse to public money being spent freely among them. The coronation will take place in the Cathe­ dral of the Assumption of the Kremlin, one of the richest buildings in decora­ tion in the world, and the ceremonies will t» of the moat imposing descrip­ tion. . Iv is not often that a more remarkable story is heard in st court-room than was told by Lawyer 0. J. Lansing, o Eureka, Nev., on trial for the killing o his wife. When he took the witness- stand, the grief in his face hushed the bar aild the spectators into a pitying silence. He began by declaring that he had consented to say what he would have to say about the dead only upon the urgent requirement of his counsel, and for the sake of his daughter. Then he gave the jury the history of his married life. Ever since 1864 it had been, he said, wretched in all wiys. HiB wife took to liquor. She was a powerful woman--fully his equal in strength. Whoa drunk, she was violent, ferocious. She repeatedly attacked him, threaten­ ing to kill him, and, as he believed at the time, meaning to carry out her threat. She threw rocks at his head, poured boiling water on him, tried on several occasions to stab him with the carving knife, once at least drawing blood. She followed him into court, making such a disturbance that the police had to remove her by force. She burst into his office and beat him over the head with a rawhide till the Blood streamed down his faoe. She beat his little danghtei with an iron poker. "I felt like letting loose all holds," he said, "and I drank heavily, too." Once or twice he decided to leave her; once he bought poison, and was on the point of swallowing it when he thought of his daughter and threw it away. Last year matters grew worse, urtil a night came when he did not dare to sleep under the same roof with her, and called in a neighbor. They tied her wrists and ankles with silk handkerchiefs. .'.'I'll kill yon for this, sure," she screamed At daylight she promised to behave, and they unbound her. At her request he sent out for two bottles of champagne for her tc> "sober up on." He wan­ dered about all day, shunning his ac­ quaintances, trying to straighten himself np. "I could not be still in any place," he said. " I could neither stand up nor sit down--had to walk all the time." At dusk he went home. The Ohinaman had finished his work and gone for the night His wife came through the kitchen and went down cellar--as he supposed to get whisky; " she often hid a bottle down there." When she came up he spoke of going down-town. "You ," she said, " I'm fixed for you, and you shan't leave, this house !" He tried the door; it was locked. He turned around; his wife was right in front of him, her hand pressed to her hip. "I'll kill you. I'll kill you !" she screamed. In a frenzy of utter nervousness and terror he caught up something--it was a kitchen chair--and struck her. He saw her lying at his feet Then he found himself out in the street--he has no re­ membrance of how he got there--look­ ing up at the dark windows of his neigh­ bor's house and deciding not to wake him up. Then all is blank again in his mind until a later hoar, when he was standing in front of the Sheriff and uttering the words, "I have killed my wife." The jury were out twenty min­ utes. When they came back it was with a verdict-of "Not guilty." ^A TOUI jpJdw *ai suffer death be­ fore she will forsnke hereggs. A vxrt slight deefivity suffices to give the running motion to water. Thine inches per mile in a smooth, straight channel gives a velocity of about three miles an hour. The Ganges, which gathers the water of the Himalaya mount­ ains, the loftiest in the world, is, at 180 «ffies tram its month, only 890 feet above thesea, and to fall these 800 feet in the oororee of the river is said to requite more than a month. I* two cannons stand side by side on a height, one of which will send a ball a mile and the other half a mil*, the two balls, if fired together,^ reach tl£ ground at the same instant, thoogh at first thought it would seem that the ball which toatds twice m fur as the #4 ̂ would take a longer time to accomplish Thi® is because the horizontal force of the bell does not oppose in the least the downward force of gravity. If it were thrown ujpwsrd instead of horizon­ tally the projectile force would be opposed to gravity, and in proportion as the direction came near to being verticaL As horizontal foroe does not interfere with the action, of the foroe of gravity, it follows that if a ball be dropped at the instant at which another is fired, both will reach the ground at the same instant Suppose it takes three seconds for a ball to fall from the top of a tower to its foot The ball projected horizontally from the cannon, being operated upon t by the same force of gravity, will fall j just as far and will be on a level with it I Both balls fall farther and farther each second, both being accelerated in the 1 same degree, because it is done by the I same force. The same holds true in all cases. A bullet dropped from a level with the barrel of a gun, paradoxical as it may seem, will fall to the ground no sooner than one which is shot Irom the gun. Pbof. Young, in discussing the sun's heat, says that if it were surrounded by a shell of ice one mile in thickness, the inner surface touching the photosphere, it would melt its way out, in two hours and thirteen minutes. If the shell were an inch thick and 186,000,000 miles in diameter, it would be dissolved in the same time. Or, if we could build up a solid column of ice from the earth to the sun,, two miles and a quarter in diame- eter, spanning the inconceivable abyss of 93,000,000 miles, and then if the sun should concentrate his power upon it, it would dissolve and melt, not in an hour nor a minute, but in a single sec­ ond ; one swing of the pendulum, and it would be water ; seven more, and it would be dissipated in vapor. An easy calculation shows that to produce thin amount of heat by combustion would re­ quire the hourly burning of a layer of anthracite coal about sixteen feet (five meters) thick over the entire surface of the sun--four-fifths of a ton per hour on , each square foot of surface--at least eight timer as much as the consumption of the most powerful blast furnace known to art It is equivalent to a continuous evolution of more than 7,000 horse pow­ er on every square foot of the sun's whole area. As Sir William Thomas has shown, the sun, if it were composed of solid coal and produced its heat by oom- buBtion, would born oat in lees then 6, • 000 years. How Mining Will Sorely Pay. Siw?«if6; no hoisting works--not if I know it You can fool away a good deal of good, hard coiu on hoisting works." "How in thunder do you run your mine?" " On the assessment plan, sir. That's the latest and most approved method. When we have a good map of the lower workings we don't need any works to speak of. I keep a man in Virginia at $60 a month to superintend the location and write weekly letters, and I stay in San Francisco, in my office on Pine street, and levy the assessments every sixty days; that's as often as the law allows. I am the President, Board of Trustees, Secretary, Treasurer, and everything--more especially the Treas­ urer. Of course I draw salary for all the offices, and when I get through drawing salaries I turn the rest over to the agent in Virginia to pay off the hands; he saves enough to pay himself. This is what I call scientific mining, sir. You get the silver out of the pockets of the stockholders and leave the vast ar­ gentiferous and auriferous deposits in your claim for your children, who can go right ahead and develop the mine just as soon as the public quit putting up, which isn't at all likely to happen. As long as people aro being born in Nevada and California my mine will run on like a chronometer clock." "But," said the Utah man, "my style of mining keep lots of men at work.*' "So does mine," quoth the Golden Gate chap. " Thousands of men are working night and day to pay the assessments." It keeps the country as busy as a beehive, and the speaker sauntered to the tele­ graph office to order assessment No. 36. --Xiettver JVews. failed on to bear a portion of the ex- ' peruse of testing the legality of the meas- -Ve. He told the tenant he wanted the .bouse, but would give him a better one, at the same time giving the number and ".Street of the house. The tenant, elated at the prospect of bettering his condi- *|§on, procured wagons auY loaded up his Inrniture at once, but, on driving to the ftiew location, he found it oecupiad, and O îso learned that his late landlord had .Ajjothing to do with it .whatever. The t̂enant had to seek other quarters, and aow threatens to bring suit for damages, ^Hased on a charge of false pretenses. otanlet seems to be making a stic- • 4Pess of his expedition across equatorial ^Africa. He started np the Congo river riving from the west coast eastward,' the fall of 1879 ; and a dispatch by ;tway of Paris announces that he is well %lv»nced on his road to the other side Of the continent This expedition is in many respects the most important that 'has ever been undertaken, as its purpose H mainly; o«mmt.rciai; and it is hoped ..Id open the vast interior of Central Af­ rica to the trade of the world. Stanlev not traveling an altogether unknown ' /path. Livingstone and Qameron and i Stanley himself have been over a good 'f t deal of the gronnd, and he has the ad- Leader of the Dance. 1 To be a successful leader of the ootil- lon and a dancer of note, sa^s the Hour, requires good business ability and a " A young man born with a spark of knight-errantry in his composition will never achieve dis­ tinction in this line. The sight of a new and beautiful face, or the expressed wishes of a noble matron, must never turn the rising aspirant to social fame from his well-considered course. There are dinner invitations to be returned by the proffer of his hand for the forthcom­ ing dance to the daughter of his hostess. There are prospective favors to be won by assiduity and self-restraint, and when ! our male Terpsichore declines to dance with a debutante or a wall flower, on the ! plea that he has no dance at his dis- j posaJ, he, in most cases, is speaking the j unvarnished though unpalatable truth, j Experienced danaemea have been known 1 to lay that they preferred the truth in j such cases to the subterfuges resorted ! to by partners more polite and iess cau-i did. One ingenious gentleman throve j for a while by inviting the dame de sen 1 pensees to be his partner for the cotil- I Ion, and then, by skillfully failing to produce chairs at the right momeut, shirked the duty of participating in the dance, and at the same time prevented the lady from deserting him for a more enterprising cavalier. This happy de­ vice, however, was tried once too often, and the gay deceiver met with the pun­ ishment which he perfectly deserved. " What must I do," asked a meanam) conceited man of a friend who knew him well, " to get a picture of the one I love most?" "Sit for your own portrait," was the reply. Bktant wrote of March : welcome month to me." "Thou art a„ Mr. Bryant-wtege oI diKjojMM. nappin, , ̂ „OIK)o.1uli0g-dlle oat his course. Before the dose of the this month. r- WrlUB* < ctttral reading at gem' gives several distinct products--facts, style, readiness of expression, and a cer­ tain temper or frame of mind conducive to good writing. Before writing a pro­ duction one must gather together an abundanoe of material. Facts, style, and vobulary most all be in readiness; must be saturated, as it were with the subject And yet, if the peculiar power is wanting, if feeling is cold or absent, these are like the brick, stone, and mortar without the architect and mason. It may be established as a general rule that no speaker gets worked up into much greater fervor before his audience than he experienced when he was prepar­ ing the production in his silent mom. This indefinable mood moves in ways mysterious, so much so that men have impersonated it in a goddess, and called it a muse. She is said to linger along the banks of rivers, in the leafy woods at twilight, and along the pebbly shores of the ocean. But she can be wooed in imagination in the writings of others, and carefully reviewing the paths in which she has flown in the past, we can more readily obtain her aid. And so the suggestion is offered, that, after the materials are gathered for a production, the next preparation, of equal importance, is to get the spirit as well as the facts; and this is done by carefully reading the works of the best writers, and when this is obtained, give full rein to the inspira­ tion, or afflatus, till its ioroe is spent-- Boomerang. Intimate with Hi, A pompous little fellow at a table was boasting of the great men with whom he was on intimate terms. He was in constant correspondence with Longfellow, had lunched with Tenny­ son, was in friendly relations with the Prince of Wales, and, in short, knew everything and everybody. At length a quiet individual at the farther end of the room broke in on the conversation with the qsweiaoat: "My dear sir, did yoct fcagMp't.0 JttiMr ̂ rvfiSls^ese twins when tMrw«r»Ja .Oil; eotmtry ?" Our herou wfeo evidently had a talent for ly­ ing, bat no rail gsatas, at once replied: " The Siamese twins, sir ? Yes, sir. I became very intimate with one of them, bat 2 never had the good fortune to meet the other." w CUI OR HTMMI FOCTKK. The rwMMt BMlUtae Ikat Re hum Uniii •• Bevistr the Heat Af «iw Cewt-Kartlal. • WAsmKQTO*, April 1?. lbs Prwridont has asMAsd Gen. Fitx-Jofca ia wewww to W* portion for relief from the sentence of th« ooturt-martM, that ho e&a do nothing m his oue, as It is entirely beyond his power. This action is baaed upon an opin­ ion by Attorney Qeoacal Brawatar, and reoeived the uaaainums eonoumeos at the CW>h et. The opinion of the Attorney General, after reviewing ths hlatwy of tt* emrt-m«rtM, !<he approval of tts ••rtinai by the Plesidont amS tho later aotfcn of the Advisory Board, consid­ ers the enastkm whether (ft 6 eompetent for the hvadwt to afford the spptteant. the relief he uka en4er esiating law aid the cii«um- stanoea of his oaae. The Attorney Gtener*L after citing Bombers of legal opinions and de- eUona, aayat " When the Praaideot pwfams the datr of approving sentence of a eotttt^aartid dismiss­ ing an officer, hia sst has sD the aoiemnit? and aKBtteMHM of a judgment ef a eonrt of law, as it bas te be performed under Um aama oonee- qnenoea. mnt, one of the eoaaequaooes ie mat when Judgment has beeo regularly entered in a oaae property within judicial cognisance, from whioh no appeal haa been provided or tahen, and it has been followed by execution, it is final and oondosivs upon the party against whom it is entered. And this efeet attache*, in my opinion, to the actio* of the President in approving the action of the court-martial diamiasins an officer after that ap­ proval has been oonmmmated by act­ ual difsmtemL Here It is proper to add that the very inquiry now under exam­ ination haa been resolved u the negative by the deliberate decision of a former administration, as appears by the message of the President of June 6,1879, transmitting to Congress the re­ port and proceedings of the board of army offi­ cers upon the case of Gen. Potter. The con- oioeion then reached was that the President was without power, in the absenoe of legislation, to act upon the recommendation of tue report fur- ther than submitting the same to Congress. "This oonclusion is a denial of the existence of any power in the President to renew and to annul and set aside the findings and sentenoe of the. coorHnartial In that cas«, as rooom- mended fay the board, and it ia entitled to great weight as Ming the view not only of the Pres­ ident himself, bat, presumably, that of his Cabinet, among whose members were men emi­ nent iu the profession of law. These opinions of my predecessors and the Bnpreme Conrt all go to establish this proposition: that where sentence of a legally-constituted court-mar­ tial, in a case withm its jurisdiction h£re, has been approved by the reviewing authority and carried into execution, it cannot afterward, under the present state of the law, be reverb sad s^t aside. The proceedings are, then, at an aid, and aotton thus had upon tho sent­ ence is, in the contemplation of the law, tinn 1 am unable to arrive at a different conclusion, and 1 aooordingly hold that, in case under consideration, the President hm no power to mvene the pwwmsdtngs the court* martial and annul its sentence. It fol­ lows from this view. that the President oan afford the appUoant no relief through re­ vision of sentence in his oaae. That sentence involved immediate dismissal from the army and disability to hold offloe thereafter. The dismissal is an accomplished fact, and so far the sentence is completely executed. The dis­ ability is a continuing punishment, :»> u in re­ gard to that the sentence is being execute. The latter may he remitted by exercise of the pardoning power, but the former cannot in any way be affected thereby. u Thou a pardon would not restore the ap­ plicant to office in the military service from which he was dismissed. This could only be done by appointment under special authority from Congress, sinoe by the general law of the military servioa appointments to the rank of General officers are to be made by selection from the amy, and all vacan&es in regiments in oorp# to the mater OoUmsl axe to be filled by promotion* acdeerog . tsjeoiority, exoept in cases of disability or other incom- "In this connection I remark that the act of 1888 referred to by Gen. Porter in his letter of mqnuai wm, as its title imports, only meant to be declarator}' of the law, namely: That an officer cashiered or dismissed by sentence of court-martial cannot be otherwise restored to nuiifcuy service than through new appointment, with the consent of the 8enate, The law is the same as to officers of the army who cease to be such in any other way. Power to appohit is not conferred by that statute. This power remains subject to general |pw, and in the absence of special authority from Con­ gress it can only be exercised with respect to a person who has ceased to be an officer in t he manner above stated where it might be equally well exercised if anch person had never been an officer in the military service. " Upon the general question considered, the conclusion arrived at is that it ia not within the competency of the President to afford the ap­ plicant the relief he has asked for; that is to say that it Is not competent for the President to annul and set aaide the finding and sentence of the court-martial and nominate him to the Senate forjmtoration to his former rank in the very respectfully, Habbis BiiKwsTra, " Attorney GeueraL** VSAIN ROBBEBY. 'a Train of the lexa* Pacific lload Attacked by Outlaws--Four Rant- era Open Fire on the Robber*, Who aiiaihchr Plaua- Oalui, Texas, April 31 The Texas train-robbers have scored another signal victory. They came ont of their rendez­ vous in the canyons and mountain fastnesses of the Upper Brasos country last night, proceeded west a few miles, and when the train from San Francisco, on the Texas and Pacific road, pulled np at Banger station, just west of what is known as Canyon spur, they took possession. There were five robbers, four of them beard­ less youths, dressed like oowboys, and the fifth, the leader, a stalwart man, with the ap­ pearance of a desperado, wearing a heavy red shirt and a large black nlouch hat. None were masked. All were armed to tho teeth with Winchester rifles snd Colt's improved revolv­ ers. Four of the gang coiraled the conductor, Geo. Hare, the fireman, engineer and brake- men, alongside the engine, while the red-shirt leader houuded into the express car, command­ ing the mt-KSenger to throw up his hands, which was complied with as the muzzle oi a pixtol was presented to his face. The colored porter took in the situation and made a dash for the passenger conch, and roused three Texas rangers who had been traveling on the train» Kcverul weeks, sm guards, in anticipation of a robbery. When they reached the outbids the robber* opened fire on them, keeping the captive train men as bream works. Of course the rangers ntumed the fire, but without effect, as to do so would have killed the trasu men. Consequently none of the, com­ batants was hit, but a stray bnllst struck the telega&ph operator, who was retreat­ ing to his ofiico, making a slight wound on the back of one of his hands. After the leader had robbed tho express*car the gang retired iu sin­ gle file, making the trainmen follow between theim aud the rangers until they were out ef danger. It was nearly one hour before the trainmen got back to the cars. The robbers did not molest the United States mails or the passciigero, the unexpected presence of the i rangers 1 oiling a part of the plot The express the robbers car was riddled with bullets. The messenger states that secured less than $500. It is generally believed. however,, that a very large haul was made, but the railroad said express people do not propose letting the loss be made public. The rangers accompanied the wain to Weatherford, where a pursuing party was sent out, but up to this evening no arrests are reported. The railroad eftioials prsfess to knew who th« robbers are. and predict their capture. New Mexico Traia Hobben Foiled. A passenger arriving at Kansas CSty s few days ago, over the Santa Fe road, says a train was ditched near Rincon, New Mexico, and that Ave armed men attempted to rob the ex­ press car, containing §300,000 in silver from the Arizona mines, "but were frightened away by the train-men and passengers. When the oars were thrown from the track the fireman was killed and the engineer and express mes­ senger wounded. pabtt mm, ̂ [VNatfesOMcs^XMiMM.1 Tltt* in alwsys more or less tsOc about abstnet party iwnms, it has oome to be the fashion Of late yesis ̂ with some people to contend that the Republican party has performed its mis­ sion ; that it has no new ideas to ad­ vance, and that it ought quietly to dis­ band and die. The so-called independ­ ent in politics is constantly ventilating this notion, and it may be worth while to expose its vacuity. It ia certainly a blessing to the country that there are no sneh startling issues before the country as slavery and secession were. It would be a most unhappy oondition .of things if party lines ooold only be drawn upon differences that shake the very founda­ tion of the Government. In a period of political quiet and material pros­ perity a party lives and thrives, or languishes and struggles, according to its traditions. Party organisation con­ tinues its usefulness in its discipline and in the responsibility which is im­ posed upon its public men. If it be conoeded that there sure no important issues, it certainly does not follow that the Republican party should give way to some new organization to administer tht Government under the laws and in the spirit which it has implanted in the American system. Exciting issues, whether of section or class, are not so desirable that parties should be encour­ aged to invent them. On the contrary, if it were certain that a disruption of old parties and the construction of new parties would lead to a struggle over new issues, that prospect would be an excellent reason, for holding fast to the lines which now exist. The country can well ,»flbrd to' enjoy peacefully the fruits of Republican work in the past--a united country, manhood suffrage, universal freedom, the resumption of specie pay­ ments, and the assurance of permanency which a wise 6ystem of laws give to the republic. The people do not long for nervous and exciting contests. No theory of expedience oan suggest that the Republican party should su­ pinely resign the field to make room for the Democratic party. What issues are presented on that side which promise progress and development? The only headway which has been made by the Democrats at any time within the* past twenty years has been due to their adop­ tion of Republican ideas. Once every four years the Democrats produce a platform which is more or less an imita­ tion of Republican platforms of earlier campaigns. If the Democrats have one distinctive issue it is their adherence to the pernicious and dangerous doctrine of State sovereignty. The popular sen­ timent of the country ce rtainly does not favor a return to that obsolete theory, Whenever the Democrats have been temporarily restored t > power (and they had absolute ooutrol of Con­ gress during four years) they have failed to initiate any measures of import or public importance. They were never able to agree among themselves as to any measure of tax reform or public po­ litical advancement, There is nothing in the Democratic record to inspire a hope that universal blessings would fol­ low upon a committal of the Govern­ ment into their hands. But if there is no reason why the Republican party should give up the ghost in order that the Democratic party may be resurrected, it must, be confessed that a party which is strongly intrenched in the public con­ fidence is better prepared to take up and work out aaj live and burning issues that may vase th&u.wouid be a new party which might be constructed to await their coming. As a matter oi foct, the Republioan party always finds something to do, and generally does it promptly and effi­ ciently. The present Congress has al­ ready accomplished in one session more useful public business than has been doihe by. all $he Congresses that have in­ tervened since the Republicans con­ trolled both houses before. Bv the time the present Congress shall have adjourned, effective measures will have been taken to repress polygamy, to re­ strict Chinese immigration, to regulate the count of the electoral vote |in such manner as to avert future dissension, and probably to inaugurate the scheme for readjusting the tariff upon a more equitable and enduring basis. Any one of these accomplishments is of 'more value to the people than ail the legisla­ tion to which the Democrats can point while they were in control of Congress. It is folly to contend, therefore, that the Republican party is out of ideas or that there is nothing for it to do. In spite of some distressing factional troubles, it actually does more than the Demo­ cratic party, which is united in the common purpose of securing the spoils. Aside from all this, there is one issue which will give the Republican party vitality and foroe so long as that issue •hall be in doubt in any section of the country--viz. ; the freedom of the bal­ lot. So long as the Democratic party in the South shall refuse to recognize this essential oi free government, just so long may it be confidently expected that the Republican party will be on hand to battle for it. Race prejudices, class dis­ tinction, State sovereignty heresy, fraud, intimidation and violence as the ruling elements of a popular election, and all the striking features of Bonrbonism at the South must be defin­ itively and honestly foresworn before the Republican party will retire from the field. In the meantime this party organisation, which on more than one occasion has developed the rare faculty of correcting its own mistakes and pun­ ishing its o wn offenders, will continue to protect its past achievements, which are represented in the constitution and laws of the country, and will be quick to ap­ propriate all new issues looking to the welfare of the American people -- The Soatk Cttwiku BalMoseip United States District Attorney Mel­ ton finds Soatit Carolina a cheerful place in which to perform the duties of his office. His prosecution of Bates and others, accused of obstructing a United States Supervisor in the discharge of his duty, and of stuffing a ballot-box in Acton precinct at the general election of 1880, which resulted at the close of last week in a verdict of guilty on two counts, so enraged the good citizens of Columbia that they seriously considered the propriety of burning him in effigy, but better counsels finally prevailed, and, according to a corraspondent of the Charleston News and Courier, " the conflagration will be delayed until the work can be more effectively ' done by that interesting individual who is said to keep a lake of fire and brimstone for ready use in all such emergencies." The lines of Col. Haskell, however, one of the attorneys for the defense, have fallen in pleasant places, for at Cheraw, immediately on the receipt of the paper containing his speech to the jury, "a beautiful bouquet of choice flowers was forwarded to him with a card attached, bearing the following words : ' To Col. John C. Haskell, from admirers in MttBgrORE, BESOLTKB. Mmy Oesfldentlf Be • at Tfeoee Dafi. (Vtaa tkHMr Teak Trlboue.] It is understood that at a special meet­ ing of the Demoeratio National Commit­ tee, shortly to be held in the sand lots at San Francisco, the following resolutions will be unanimously adopted, mid rap­ turous applause: Betohmd, That if the Democratic party is to stay the Chinaman most go. Resolved, That when w« have asserted in our platforms, as w® have so fre­ quently. that we welcomed all men of all climes to America's great opportunities we did not mean all. Wa always made a distinct mental reservation in favor of any foreigners whose exclusion from oar shores might furnish us with more or less party capital Resolved, That believing we can make votes by setting our faces like flint against the Chinese, we aooordingly set our fhoes like flint against them. Betolved, That in taking this position we are not treating the Chinese any worse than we treated the black men of our own beloved country before I860. Resolved, That if we could by so do­ ing be sure of electing our ticket in 1881, we would advocate the erection of a picket fence forty feet high around Ireland, with a sentinel perched on every picket to shoot down any and all natives who attempted to break through and emigrate. Resolved, That that is the sort of party that we are--our abstract beliefs do not at all affect our actions; our "con­ victions" are one thing, and we have plenty of them, but we never allow our convictions to interfere with practical pipe-laying. Resolved, That in Denis Keariiey we reoognize a statesman of the antique mold, and that we will lead where he will follow or follow where he will lead in a campaign against the Chinaman. Resolved, That a copy of these resolu­ tions be circulated on the Pacific coast, coupled with an earnest request that those who read them will vote early and often for the Democrat ticket in 1834. A. T. STEWART * CO. Bawae Extraordinary DevelopmMit (Hew York Telegram to Chicago Tribune] Some extraordinary developments in connec­ tion with the k. T. Stewart estate have been nutde in the course of an investigation as to the oatuee of the suspension of buainees of the firm of A. T. Stewart A Oo. White the publication of nainea would at the present time be premature, the facts stated can be relied upon as authentic to the last degree. It. la said the fact that Mr. Stewart totally ignored all blood relations in hia will might have passed unchallenged and not canned any special attention to the matter, but the anxiety displayed and the repeated declarations made in private and in the newspapers by the beneficiaries of the will that Mr. Btewart did not bMS any blood relation* living showed to the uen minds of speculators in this city that Stewart's heirs by the wili felt tender on this spot, and were more or less in dread that blood relations would crop up, just as rome of them did. Those who did appear were cared for, the last of them receiving a certitied check for $15,000. These facts clearly and confiden­ tially enough demonstrated to the speculators referred to thr.t the matter was worth looking after. A number of meetings worn held in the private office of a large banking firm on Wall street, at which a scheme was de­ veloped and arranged to form a syndicate for the purpose of procuring heirs and lighting the matter in the courts. If they were to be bought off the mrioe would have to be exceed' ingiy large. There warn some $90,900,000 at stak&.and these bold speculative spirits wece unanimous, for it was a plum worth trying to climb a tree for. The scheme was entered into with enthusiasm, and the firm in whose private offloe the scheme was ooscocted arranged to furnish all the money necessary, they tocomelnfor a large percentage on the amount obtained, and to bear the lotw in the event of failure. A prominent law firm was consulted, and they agreed to take the matter in charge and perform all the legal work on sim­ ilar terms as the bankers. These preliminaries having been satisfactorily settled, a couple of trusted men we«e emnloved to work up the matter by IinnEhg up ?e&SveS of Rr. SKwart and procuring the necessary proofs of kinship. Last Biimmor these agents sailed for Ireland, Mid proooeded direct to the County Antrim, in the North, where Mr. Stewart was born. They visited all the small towns around, aud spent weeks among tho peasantry taking down the names, ages and pedigrees of all the Stewarts they oould find. They then put up at a hotel in the Town of Bailymena and went to work to sift the mass of dates they had collected. They selected the aarnw of several of the Stewart people whose consanguineous claims oould be lbs most ea£% mid certainly demonstrated in & court of law. Continuous cor­ respondence was kept up between these agent* and the law firm in this city, who sent over to Ireland full and prompt instructions on all points in procedure. OW moth-eaten registers in the baptistries of old churches were carefully gone over and the neo> esaary transcripts made, and their correctness certified to before local magistrates Affidavits of the selected daimants, supported by other affidavits of old residents and persons pos­ sessed of genealogical knowledge, were written and sworn to before competent officials. After spending some six weeks at this work the agents, with » couple of trunks full of docu­ ments, returned to New York and reported to their employers in ponton. Everything was favorable so far. It had been fair --"'"C with every indication of a prosperous voyage and a golden cargo. Copies of the mors important of these document* and the replies reoeived from these agents are now in ~ " whose . • Which the State •aywThw eeded to the Mate 1* the asedanatEr""'* "-Bl theobjectsof*this g pose, in sash meaner as Atf he ' by Congress." The asl fei llm < its submission to a vols «f S* !*-»-- not. The oMset o( the bsB to question of the right of the VketheQrteinal Code at tUsp SnSStt!? MTM WIMi Both houses met on the 15th, bet simply ,* wad the JoimMbaada4Joiiin,s«Kff̂ B£# fag to show ap in either the Santa or Tim TUiisililii is una units wt and Bnatorial* Jftrst District--Math, Tenth, and that i the Xievaclfc ward north of Tan Duron i Seoood--Fourth waidsovtho£ street, *ad Hyde Park and Uks, Third--First, 8eoond,ThMwa>d% andltaMb street ' ' Tavlor street, Sixth--Eighteenth ward, the Sixteenth ward east of Sedgwick street, and all of the Fifteenth ward, and the towns of Lake T?aw and Staae- tou. j 4 -Si Seventh--All of the country towns o^ .ppak county excepting Hyde Pafk, and Lake View. Ninth--Thirteenth ward and Fourteenth ward, exoentmg that part which is east of waukee and j&sniand avenues and south of C*v bourn place, Eleventh-Twelfth waid, Klartnth" w*d couth of Yan Buren street, andftbe Eighth ward north nt Taylor street ! 1 Thirteenth--Seventeenth wards the Sixteenth west of 1 t aimS aC ~ * - f j r> part of the Fourteenth ward tyiusf eaat at *101- wankee and Ashland avenues and south at Cfti*'- bourn place, "Rr" Eighth--Boone, MoHenry and Lafca' '-$£• Tenth--Winnebago and Ogla. • * * . Twelfth--Jo Daviess, Stephenson an9 Q&» roll. * 5 Fourteenth--Kane and Dn Paaa ' ?'•- Fifteenth--Will. . , i S Sixteenth--Kankakee and IroqtxftS, ̂n Seventeenth--De Katb, KendaUaZt flisftg) Eighteenth--Livingston and Ford. Nineteenth--Whiteside and Lse. - Twentieth--Woodford and Taas*«K ' xis/:.K -'ijV Twenty-first--Rook Island sad Heon.̂ , *< * < :• • Twenty-second--Stark aud Knox. ' 'l-1'. • Twenty-third--La Salle.' « f "T - ÎVenty-fourtii--Mercer, Henderson sad mfc.' Mi* "* 'w 'V Twenty-sixth--Peoria/ • Twenty-seventh--Wanren and IBaDotMHighL ' < Twenty-eighth--MeLean.' : I* * .•« * Twenty-ninth--Logan and Ifaeoo. I:"- Thirtieth--De Witt, Piatt and'Ol»mpaignJ;:-:y ;̂ISiPS Thirty-first--Vermillion Edgar. ' ** Thirty-seoond--Douglas, Ooles and niiHij r * land. T\ x Thirty-third--Fulton and Schuyler. " > v' Thirty-fourth--Mason, Msnacd, Brown. , p ̂ 'r-' Thirty-fifth--Adama. ' ' ;• Thirty-sixth--Pike, Oalhoon and Jsrsey. Thirty-seventh--Morgan, SOOTT »ni %S1Il : Thirty-eighth--Maooupin and MnntjiMWii 1 Thirty-ninth --ftangftimm • W , Fortieth--Christian, Moultrie ani w Forty-first--Madison. " Forty seoond--Bond, dintcn and Wall> ; ~ ; 1 aigtoa, *-• Forty-third--Fayette, Effingham imd Kan** Forty-fourth--day, Ihfchnrt, Wayne ani v.. M',' Kdwards. ' Forty-fifth--CUck, Jasper, Crawford, Law renoe and Wabash. the hands of a Ksntleman whose offioe is on Wall street. What has occurred since the re­ turn of the agents has not trans pi-ed. The matter, however, has not got into the courts yet, and whether any settlement haa been come to, or the " speculators " have been deterred by threats of prosecution, is a question that for the present must lie in abeyance. " Magic If wakens and Pmaaatv* Hound." It is ralated of Fredarwk Chopin that his power with the pianoforte was suoh that he could hush the pupils of his father's school even in their most unruly momenta. One day, when Professor Chopin * was out, there was a frightful scene. Barcinski, the master present, was at his wits' end, when Frederic, we are told, happily entered the room. Without de­ liberation he requested the roysterers to sit down, called in those who were mak­ ing a noise outside, aud promised to im­ provise an interesting story on the piano if they would be quiet. All were in­ stall tlv as still as death, and Frederic sat down to the instrument and extin­ guished the lights. He described how robbers approached a house, mounted by ladders to the windows, but were fright­ ened away by a noise within. Without delay they fled, on the wings of the wind, into a deep, dark wood, where they fell asleep under the starry sky. He played more and more softly, as if trying to lull children to rest, till he found that his hearers had actually fallen asleep. The young artist crept out of the room to his parents and sis­ ters. and asked them to follow him with a light. When the family bad amused theutselves with the postures of the sleejx'rs Frederic sat down again to the piano and struck a thrilling chord, at whioli they all sprang up in a fright. A hearty laugh was the finale of this musi­ cal joke. "Dwo vas sehoost enough, bndt dvee vas too blendty," remarked Hans, when his best girl asked him to take hor mother along with them to the dance. Forty^eventh-- Fort7-eighth--Monroa. Bandolnh Forty-ninth--Saline, Qattattn, Pope, and Massac. Fiftieth--Jocdnon, Union and Alex Fifty-first--Franklin, Williamson, and Pul&iki Nothing was dons in tha Legislature on the 17th, as there was no quorum present in house. On the t8th brief sessioiM wen by both houses, but nothing whstover-̂ ntodMia. the Republican caucus notnarisff oompletefl Us plan of apportionment. The session of the Senate was ti>ort sag? sweet as usual, on the 19th. Senatorbampb*B introduced the Congressional and Senatorial Apportionment bills adopted by the Jeittt1] publican caucus, and they were read\a: timo. ordered printed and referred to the i Committee. This sraeh asooupl a motion to adjourn was pot .and samsd.fife the House, the Committee en ApprqaoatfaHMi reported favorably upon the Senate bmib.ppf- vidofor the ordinary expanses at the Mats Normal School, and the hiH.wjM - second reading. Mr. Gallup, at ducod a Congressional apberitod object of which was to giv* the ] thuteen districts and his Democratic "tMRkMl seven. Befened to lbs Oongrcssiaasl tiooment Committee. Mr. Btrattaa, of from the Canal and Bhrar Improvement 4 snittee, submitted the rmmrt rsmmri|fi the passage of the Senate bill ] cession of the canal to th The repcrt was adopted, and the M* tttwoiMt to a seobnd raading. Mr. Parrish, at troduced thecancws Senatorial AppsrtHwwpt bill, and it was referred to the Appoctinuussjl , Qomiaitte* The criminal oodje ̂ ~ : '-""v y>* ajoinfrwotatton byIBsrrht of the attention of the Judges at the w this State to that portion of the Governor's relating to lbs criminal «•*> and UMQitojr * fcdviesblflu and the resolution was adopted. A iwoint** w" adopted, instrnctingUM Judiciary Ooot- Hoittee to report on Msnd*?, April tt, on ttt* revision of the erisaiasl ooOn, In addition t» the instruction already gtrsn to that enmmittas to report on the advisability of the appoint- meat of a eooiuiissmak . Wins the Ooagrewionel Apportionment bit msm up la the Senate «n April 90 Ife. ChlUi (Democrat), of Mocgaa, adnd fa- a j"Ttf"f" - jnent of ite consideration in order to jftv* tta- inii'd to prepare and pKinut eii|>' nority bilL He thought Us partf sboattfevt at least that much lime to got rtadr ansMNaa from a Demoeratio standpoint, when i| was known that the Republicans bad twenty-eight days on the m jeci Mr. Campbell (Republican) hoped that the motion to postpone Itt prevail He thought the Democrats balsdH as tuuch time to work up a sobene » nap tha : Republicans. If they had net irt|£ro*ed Vt l£Sv' were to blame and uot the FifiiiliHinsn 'tis"' Merritt supported Calkm's motion to ] Mr. Gallon dared the AepuhlioBastod bill. They were conscious, said Ins _ not defensible. The motion tn fimipnswijrae jfrgr' ft at- <1 i'.va ftrict party vote, IS yeasandjjflSHpl': Amendment after amendmea Democratic members, each of manly voi^d down by the ^publicans* i as a motion to rt commit. Mr. ocrat), of JLenaid, said tiiat, »s far as naif see. uothing was left for the l>,'mooratie sjttaOf the Senate to do but mukx a si hort prayerW fore execuiMu. Alter a proktitfteii eonteat tte Dtiiiocrats himlly gave up the «ght, sad tho bill, by a otnet |>arty „ wm ordered to a third reading. The 1 Apportionment Mil-was then resul a tinir, after a motion to adjourn had h»*n < feattid. Tho Ik-publicans deu-rmined to *>t 1 out. The Di.-nu^rat-* returned to th-f which was carried on npon Ite aasM' linstMl had been pursued itgaiast the Coagiaertanrt biH. fiowever, it w;>» uot cominaed Mr Ions. The till was ordered to a third tfio inp. aft»r which the Semtc ad|SMnwd> In t'i«> Hon-*-, tlio Senate bill to eads tfMb IllinoM and Michigan canal to tha Ml Governmeur came np for cio»' kitirsttea seeo:td naditu;. The oiU wt mads 111 nwilt onler for IWtay, April 24. and a meaMiM)6 was mlopted the Governor Caual Citui»ttwk>ou«rw to iuauah aseal«ua«at at r the amount of Uwis UohkIi* «!>• ;v r Brmbdiks are tlie poison oi all the cobra. - m •aid to be known. til;' saak«a» «$xcept that e( --•mm