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States. It was expected demand would speedily be nude upon this Government for the extradition of these men, who were Urv4 to have been at the head of the conspiracy that resulted in the Pbowix Park proposed to send a commission to Ireland to ascertain the true condition Of sffalr in that country. Wbti. a fire was in progress at Hanover, N. on the 5th, Prof.

Henry E. Par Spent Its Force. In spite of the self-congratulatory exclamations of some Democratic papers over the spring elections, it is apparent that the tiiUr wave which was so advantageous to the Democratic party last fall has spent its force and is slowly receding. The Democrats have won municipal victories in a number of cities, but a careful investigation shows that wherever this was the case, local issues were the causes. In Cleveland, for instance, where the principal Demo- ciliated to arouse tlu-eothuiaam or challenMi the adtniretlou of the people.

The samrr-may be said of the methods of carrying on the war, issuing greenbacks, abolishing slavery, estab-Eahlng the National banks, tho re luniption of specie payments, the payment of the National debt, and nearly every other wholesome measure that has characterized the liberal domestio policy of the Republican party. The Democracy has been compelled to acknowledge that it has been constantly and persistently in the wrong, and the attempt to indict its political opponents would result lti con Vtctinir Itself of malicer, dis BCK5EP AT SEA. Dettraetlea by Fire of the ftuwater eras ptevb off Beyaaear Karrews, B. Frighi-ful Boeaee tmmmg tne raato-Strirkea Cthewa BumrS. Victoria.

B. CX, May 4. John McAllister, who arrived at Nanahno Wednesday night from Seymour Narrows, reports the burning of the steamer Grappler within four allies of that place at ten o'clock Sunday night The fire was first discovered by the engineer and reported to the Captain. All the rsengers, one hundred in number, principally Chinamen, were In bed; An Immediate search was mads for the fire, and It was dhv covered bark of the boiler. The donkey engine was started and connected with the bose, the passengers retting out of bed in PERSONAL 1SD LITERARY.

There are three hundred women employed as journalUU in the United States. Mrs. President; Tyler dressee her hair precisely at she did when young bride in the White House. After a lapse of thirty years. Sir Walter Soott'a works are belug retranslated and republished in Krance.

Mayor Hutchinson, of Ulic, look so much like Napoleon 111., that whea Eugenie saw him In England, ago, she fainted away. VtK JJeraUl. i Rev. James Freeman Clarke, of Boston, reoontlv completed his soventy-fourth year. Physically and mentally he yet seems as vigorous as ho waa thirty years ago.

Boston Transcr)t. The youngost of Delaware's Judges, Associate Ju.lge Wales, is sixty year, old. Chancellor Saulsbury issixty-sis. Chief Justice Comegy is past seventy. Judge Houston is close on to seventy.

Judge Wootten is nearly eighty. Samuel Crump, of PHtaford, near Rochester, N. has recently sold Kathan Greeley, of Kansas City. hie of the New York Tribune covering the entire period of Horace Greeley editorship, a period of twenty-eight years. The editions were weekly and semi- J.

BADCQCK, tublitMK MAKEXGO. IIX'NOrs IiEuS OF yu'i en a wie-te BY TELEGRAPH AND From "Washington. Th public-debt- lUteuMnt far April Shows tli following: Total debt (including interest), JlSSBJSS. Cash In Treasury, Debt, has amount In Treasury, Decrease during tbe month, $2,851,401 Decrease since June SO, 1882, 1 A BFXCLU. Cabinet meetinx wu bald in Washington on the Sd, and.

the Civil-Sorr-toe Commission regulation ware agreed to Withont substantial dunta, 9 Fbxsieikt Akthck hat selected Boston, Atlanta and Chicago at name for the three new ateel erosion of the nitr. William 8. Woods has been appointed by the President District Judge for tlx Seventh District of Indiana, Tie Waltar Q. Gresham, appointed Postmaster-General. At his own request Vka-Admiral Bowen has been relieved from his post of Superintendent of the Naval Observatory, and Commodore Shot eldt has bean appointed to succeed him.

iMFOEUf atiox was received by the National Board of Health on the 3d that ninety-three deaths from yellow era- occurred In one week recently at Bio. Janeiro, at which place the disease bad been declared epidemic It is claimed by President Dillon that, Instead of the Union Pacific Railroad Com pany being indebted to the United States Government $148,961, the' Government owes the company The discrepancy arises from a difference of opinion as to what constitutes a fair compensation for carrying the mails. Dubikq the seven days ended on the 4th there were 132 business failures, against 163 for the previous week, bat SS more than in the corresponding week of ISRi. The fan-ores were distributed as follows: 5ew England Slates, 15; Middle, IS; Western, 44; Faciao States and' Terri tones, IS; New York City, and Canada, 30. The general ran of failures was Insignificant, TBI report is made by Captain Hall, of the United States Secret Service, that a new counterfeit ten-dollar note has made Its It is a photographic copy of.

that of the First National Bank of Milwaukee, and is a fair, imitation. The numbers are: "Letter 's," 2,715: Treasury, bank, 369; series of 1SSL" The portrait of Garfield and the seal, instead of being pink, are almost gray in parts; the border of the back and the lathe work are slate color, while they should be brown; and the back of the cen- ter, which ought to be green, is a pale olive. The lathe work on the portrait is poorly executed. i The East. Saw Your, and Chicago had direct tele-phonic communication on the Sd over the wires of the Postal TelegraphCompany.

Sentences containing several words were transmitted, "and the voice of the speaker at one end of the line was distinctly recog- sued by the receiver at the other. It is announced that the spruce trees in the Aroostook district of Maine are dying from some unknown cause, and owners of forests of spruce are much troonled in con sequence. i) r'TOHf. A raw days ago a soda-water fountain exploded at Syracuse, S. fatally injuring one and seriously Injuring two other persons.

Thi Iron and Steel works Company at St. Albans, Vt-, has failed, with heavy lie- blUtle. i Tas defaulting City Treasurer of But -lalo, H. Joseph Bark, was recently sentenced to five years imprisonment in the Auburn Penitentiary. The amount of his embesslement was 547,000.

Ths announcement is made, that George William Curtis has been elected President of the New York Civil Service Reform Tan meeting at Pittsburgh on the 3d between Iron manufacturers and representa-. tives of the Amalgamated Association resulted in a rapture, ssd a great strike was said to be imminent, i i (j Has. BtrBxrjrsos committed suicide a few days ago at Oneida Castle, Yn by pouring oil over her clothing and then applying a match. Ths Pennsylvania Republican- State Convention has been called to meet at Har-risburg, June U. A rrwdays ago the failure of roster McKay, boiler and engine manufacturers at TitusvUle, for $30,080 was announced.

Br a recent explosion of gas. in a coat mine at Wilkesbarre, Pa-, two men were killed, and many tombstones in an adjacent cemetery were overturned by the toree of the explosion, which occurred six hundred feet below the surface OS the 4th, In "New York, at the election for ofBcers of the Vanderbilt system of roads, William H. Vanderbilt retired from the Presidency of the Ems, but remains a member of the Buard of Directors of each. Mr. Vanderbilt gave hie re oat for retiring to the assembled Directors, maintaining the stability and strength of the corporations; and resolutions regretting his de-term tion and eulogistic of his management were passed- In Sew York Verfcjatura on the th) passed a bill prohiUung free passes being granted to any one except railroad employes and ofaevrs.

Dtxakitb was proaonawed as simply personal warfare by the Executive Council of the Irisa-AsMricaa National Leagwe, in session at Sew York on the 4th. i Atjiscett was made by' agents of the Post-office Department on the 4th apontwe establishments recentlv carrvinr oa a ori- vate po-ofSce huiiiKM ia Sew York, Ue two concerns delivering about forty thousand letters daily oa the penny -post plan. Over twenty thousand letters and pscksges were seised. 4 A WAunro was Jswsed to 3ew Yerk bankers em the 4th against taking eleven stolen Bank of England notes for 1,000 each. The numbers include T19D te 73,1901.

As invitation has been extended to tbe free-thinkers of this country and Canada to meet in convention at Rochester, N. Aagnst 29, for a session of tve days. Ths Legislature of Sew York has adjourned sia die. The Supreme Court of Maaaadmsetts has refused to admit bail Charles Freeman, who murdered Us chili at Pocasset, in 1879, while laboring under religion! excitement. A rrw afternoon are Frank Mann shot and kilkd Jtrs.

llary E. Moore, and then himelf, at MCbury, Mass. Mrs. Moore had been living anart frtw her husband, was expecting a divorce, and rweived at- feT7witns from her murderer. A quarrel prer itted the tragedy.

Ai n-inta ejw lnvn espreaed by many vers tiiat th- reat Bmoklyn bridge ran sj 5.1" fr-e ftr aay kind of travel. 1 of the American League bs wvi y- -7vas rVeanaa, Secretary of i Leerue, to organise t. tL Vtited s-tates. It is also ker a in are nor by at on H. he a I had his skull crush od by a falling chim-1 ney.

Kight dwellings aud outbuildings were destroyed, LluBTSI.fO, it has been ascertained, caused the recent explosion in the Lehigh Valley colliery, near Wilkesbarre, Pa passing down by the wire bell-rope and igniting the gas. Frvs dwellings and some barns and sheds were consumed in a fire st Rood out, X. few mornings ago. Two children of M. tout and twelve years, periahad the flames.

Ths bill which 'practically repeals what known as the Sunday Blue laws of New York has been signed by the Gover AT Boston on the Btn tbe six-day contest between horses and bicycles ended in a victory for the horses. The total score Horses, 921 miles; bicycles, 899 miles. Msw York and Chicago were connected telephone on the 6th, and a few "hellos" were j. THX revivarists, Hoody and' Banker ar rived in New York on the 5th from En rope. Ok the 6th the steampship Alaska arrived New York, making the trip from Queens-town in six days, twenty-three hoars and forty-eight minutes, the quickest time on wiisiil i jlviw West and South.

The Grand Jury at Harrodsburg, the Sd indicted Phil B. Thompson, Congressman froua the Seventh Kentucky District, for the recent murder of Walter Davis. It was' claimed on tbe Sd by Major Wesson, a United States Paymaster, that had been robbed of a valise containing $24,000 on a train between Fort Worth and Sweetwater, While he was asleep. No due to the robbers had been found. Wesson was on his way to pay the troops on the Rio Grande frontier.

At Helena, M. T- Henry Forham was hanged on the Sd for murder. knbral Crook had crossed into Mexico on the Sd, and was in the Sierra Madra Mountains in pursuit of the Apaches. The Mexican authorities co-operated by sending two companies to the frontier. Other troops were in the field.

As appeal was issued on the by the Red Cross Society at Wesson, Miss-, to the charitable everywhere for aid to continue the needed relief to ths sufferers by the re cent cyclone. Rations were being issued daily to nearly four hundred destitute people. (M I n' A strike ofjeleven hundred stone-cutters and plasterers at St. Louis occurred on the Sd. They had been getting three dollars and fifty cents per day and demanded four dollars.

A colored man named Amos Bailey, who. killed a former in Franklin County, was taken from the Sheriffs custody few days ago by an armed mob and hanged to a tree. As order was issued by the' President of the Loois villa, New Albany Chicago Railroad Company on the Sd directing the cessation of all unnecessary work on Sunday. The order states that efforts will -be made to abrogate mail contracts that involve the necessity of Sunday trains, and that in future no excursion trains will be run on, Sundays, not even, to camp-meet Jt- t.f a i A TOtjKQ girljiamed Clara J. Wilson, confined iiireAtehison (Kan.) Jail for attempting to set fire to several buildings, has become a raving maniac, and has been incarcerated in the Kansas Insane Asylum.

A mad dog bit Edward Lilly, a negro near Fayetteville, NC, recently, and he became so frightened that he died before reaching borne. A band of eighty Canada Indians were captured on the 2d near Bear Paw Mountains, in Northern Montana, by Lieuten ant Anderson, of Tort Assinaboine, in command of a mounted detachment of infantry." They were taken the fort, and by order at General Rugsr were liberated and driven across the boundary This was the third band of Crees driven back North since April 1. Ox the 3d another judgment was secured by Mrs. Myra Clark Gaines against the city of New Orleans for AT Baltimore on the 3d there were over eleven hundred arrivals of immigrants. 1 Bv a recent explosion of gas in the Ref uge Oil Mill at Vfcksburg, two young ladies and a roan were fatally burned, and three other men were badly injured.

The ladies and their male escort visited (he mills to sea the machinery, and the lamp he carried caused the accident. The Ohio Republican State Convention will meet at Coliunbns on the 5th of June, and tbe Iowa Republicans will hold their State Convention at Des Moines, June S7. Dcnnca the two days ended at noon oa the sd Louisville, shipped pounds of manufactured tobacco. There was great activity fa the trade. i- Ftum different parts of Texas advices on tbe 3d reported great activity among the stock men, and a great number of cattle oa the trail for the North.

It was estimated that the "drive" greatly exceeded that of last year. r. cii, FiFTT-srit perfect skeletons -were found in an ancient mound near Lenoir, N. the other day, many being Of gigantic sise with remarkable heads. A sirens abock of earthquake was ex perienced at Helena, M.

shortly before noon on the 4th. t.S Amo Bajley, who murdered Mr. Cain, a white man, near Little Springs, Miss was taken out of jail by a mob a few evenings ago and lynched. Fire on the 4th destroyed the principal business portion of Union City, involving a loss of over 50,000. The following murderers were hung est tbe 4th: John Lee colored a Gainesville, Robert Batter at Columbia, D.

T. Walker at Trenton; Ga. After the banging of Walker a row occurred among the spectators, during which George Bird, brother -of -the Sheriff, was killed, and several other persons were injured, Owwa to domestic tnoubles Nicholas Mills, a Baltimore car-driver, committed suicide the other day by crushing in bis forehead with a heavy spike hammer. Thi failure of Harris Co, bankers at Olathe, Kan with liabilities estimated at foOvOOO, is announced. The estimates of the profits of the recent dramatic festival at Cincinnati were Joan Hiavxt, while carelessly handling a riflle in a Chirag shooting-gallery the other day, shot and instantly killed his brother Martin.

The Piegan Indians, who were said to be starving, left their agency, northwest of Fort Benton, M. on the 5th, and were making for the Sweet Grass Hills with the intention of killing cattle found. Ox the 5th three tramps wer for being implicated in the robbeey of Major Wesson, army paymaster, en Texas Pacific traia a few nights ago. Notes of a large denomination and $9tt in gold were found on them. Foreign IotelUsecee.

the Id tbe foUowins; prrta were indicted for murder at Dublin, Ireland: Joa Walks, recently arrived in this coaatrv; P. 3. Mirilan, of tbe trith H'vU, Sew York, and 1 ctr Tynan, commonly b-n as 1 1 1, who was rupcocedto be is the United murders. A rsw evenings ago, while the miners were ascending the Vale mine at New Glasgow, N. 8., tbe rope broke, and the cars were hurled down the shaft, kill.

lug four men and two boys and injuring five other men, some fatally. Anvrcxa of tbe 3d from Victoria, B. state that the steamer Grappler, running between Puget Sound and was burned on the night of the Sflta and sixty were reported lost. The sdo Urns were mostly Chinamen, who became uncontrollable when the fire broke out, and jumped into the boata to their own destruction. A fight recently occurred between the Federal forces and bandits near Flapla- pam, and five of the latter were killed.

It is said that two hundred persons who are known to be members of the Patriotic Brotherhood have left Crossmagien, County Armah, Ireland, and its vicinity, because of revelations made recently implicating them in unlawful acts. The Government of Mexico has contract ed with a French firm for improving Vera Orni harbor at a cost of $10,047,000. The work is to be finished twelve years. niUJAX Maronkt and James Mullett pleaded guilty ontheSd at Dublin, Ireland, to the charge of conspiracy to murder. Brsistss failures in foreign countries occurred on the 4th as follows: Guma sugar and commission merchants at Ma-tanaas, Cubs, for Frits Andres, cotton merchant at Liverpool, for and Remorg, a corn-dealer at Antwerp, Belgium, for $300,000.

At Constadt, Russia, the discovery of a manufactory of explosives caused the ar rest oa the 4th of many naval officers, alleged to be interested in the illegal work. At Dublin on the 4th Lawrence Hanlofl, convicted of the attempted murderof Juror Field, was sentenced to imprisonment for life. A fcxd is being organized by the Irish Nationalist party in London for the relief of the families of Irishmen who have been arrested for political offenses or who have been obliged to fly the country. Another attempt was made on the 4th by Mr. Bradlaugh to take his seat in the English House of Commons and he de manded to be allowed to take the oath.

The privilege was refused by a vote of 271 to 1S5. The Journal, of Dublin, says the British Consul at New York had been advised of the sailing of the dynamite conspirators recently arrested, in England and had cabled his Government of the fact. This, it was claimed, proved that informers existed even in the New York Irish secret societies. The death of Rev. Josiah Hensoh, who is said to have been the original of Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom, occurred on the 5th at' Dresden, Out, at the age of nine'Y-four years.

At Vienna striking bakers engaged in a riot on tbe 5th, throwing up a barricade in the street to resist the police. Another mob wrecked the building of the Bakers' Asso ciation. Both bands were dispersed after severe fighting. The arrest in New York of Henry Mcr- rott and Mary Pesun for the robbery of $7TiO0O worth of diamonds from a Paris jeweler, Is announced. They admitted the crime.

As engagement took place on the 5th be tween the Apaches and Mexican troops in Suequeach Canyon, in which the Indians were defeated, with the loss of twenty- seven killed and a large number wounded. The loss of the troops was slight. Ixstructioxs have been given to the French Minister of Commerce to examine into the pork question, with a view to rescinding the order against its unporta. tion. The Chilian troops under Colonel Canto had two engagements recently with Peru Monteneros, defeating them on both occa.

sions, a can non and forty rifles. Br the recent explosion of a powder mag azine on Priddy's Head, Portsmouth Har bor, two persons were killed outright and five others were fatally injured. Is the city of Tabrees, Persia, an earthquake a few days ago demolished many buildings and killed several persons. It is said that two hundred persons who have reason to believe themselves to be in eluded in the category of "suspects" have K-ft Dublin since the beginning of the sec ond private inquiry into the murder con spiracy. LATER.

The exchanges at twenty-five clearing- bouses in the United States for the week ended on the 5th were $087,79040, against 18,432 the week previous, indicating a general improvement in business. The Welland and New York canals were opened on the 7th for the season. A dispatch of the 7th from San Fran cisco says that Theresa Fair, wife of the Nevada Senator and millionaire, had filed petition for divorce on the ground of her husband's infidelities. Current rumors were to the effect that Senator Fair would allow the case to go by default, and had al ready arranged that bis wife should receive $3,000,000 cash and real estate. Jons Caixahaic filled his three-year old boy full of whisky Wobnrn, the other night, and, when the child refused to drink more, the father threw it in his face.

Tbe little fellow died in convulsions the next momiug. Unfavorable weather in England ceasing anxiety in regard to the harvest. The two little children of a colored wom an prihed in ber burning house in Chicago on the morning of the 7th, having been locked in a room during the mother's tem porary absence from home. The issue of standard silver dollars for the week ended May 5" was corre sponding period last year, $143,000. The Methodist ministers in joint conven tion oa the 7th at Cincinnati determined to call a Slate Convention of and resolvedupon vigorous temperance action.

Six thoroughbred yearling colts belong ing to J. A. Grinstead were burned in their stable at Lexingtew, a few days ago. The loss was $10,000. Twextt-two buildings at EastSt.

Louis, HL, were destroyed by fire on the 7th, and fifty-four families were rendered homeless and penniless. The United States Supreme Court oa the tta derided that a Legislature has tbe power to regulate both freight and passea- Sjer charges. A severe snow-storm raged on tbe 7th at St. Pierre Miguelon, Quebec. Is tbe Continental Colliery, near Ash land.

Pa-, oa the 7th gas generated by small locomotive suffocated many men. Some were revived with difficulty, and three were thought to be fataly injured. Is consequence of refusal to work at re- dared wages, fourteen hundred shoe-makers at Tlarliebead, were lucked out on tbe 7th. The suspension of the Pittsburgh Nail Factcries for two weeks, to go into effect oa the 7th, has been postponed indefinitely. Trade was reported good.

Advitbi from the fruit growing portions of tbe State of Nebraska indicate a more than usually good crop of all kind of fruit this year. victory in Ohio Is reported, a targe tirnnoer or KcpuDticansOTpportctt the -IVmooratio nominee- for Mayor. In Cincinnati the Sunday law and Liquor question influenced the voters. In Kvansville, the Democrats are in favor of the repudiation of local indebtedness, a remedy of financial evils which the majority of the citizens eagerly indorsed. In Michigan the marriajre "between Greenbnckers and Democrats, from which the two parties are now eagerly seeking a divorce, gave the opposition ummunl and unexpected strength, and the Republicans, who were careless and negligent, were beaten.

In Kansas and in some cities in Iowa the Liqttor question influenced the result of the elections. But in none of them has there been any feature which could be explained to indicate a continued success of Democratic doctrine On the in Ohio there can be shown a strong reaction toward Republicanism, and the defeat of Sprague in Rhode Island, in spite of the help of the successful man of last fall, Ben Butler, shows clearly that Republicanism there has lost none of its influence, but has, on tlie contrary, been strengthened. -The careful political observer will have discerned the change in the situation some time ago. It came with an important change or rather important progressive step in the Republican party. There was a rupture in its ranks last fall which has been at least temporarily, but, as we hope, permanently healed.

The Republican President further conducted the party in the right direction when in his message he recommended the reformatory measures, which the country desired, and which the party or its representatives afterwards made a reality. The Administrative appointments helped to silence the discontented factions and to prevent the malevolent criticisms of the opposition. The Republican majority in Congress acted in the most satisfactory manner: it passed the Civil-Service Reform bill in spite ot a slrons: opposi tion, it lessened taxation by reducing the tarifl' and the internal taxes, it rejected a River and Harbor bill, and showed in many other particulars a progressive, reformatory and patriotic spirit. Ihe Uemooratson the other side have not made good use of the power which tliev secured. Governor Butler's Ad ministration has not jiroomnlUheil nnv reform.

Governor Cleveland has-! showed himself the tool of monopolies, by vetoing some most popular meas-1 wires, which were calculated to affect'! this or that corporation, and wherever the party was successful it shows now that Democratic talking and promising is an altogether ditlerent thing from Democratic acting and fiilfillinr. The Democratic party has shown cidedly reactionary tendencies, but does not show itself anywhere equal to the situation. -The lie-publican party, in the twenty years of its power, has had to deal with the greatest questions which ever the Government of the country was called upon to solve; these questions have been successfully disposed of. During that time the Nation has prospered as never peo 1 i i .1 pie did liefore, and the country has de veloped in even- direction, hat the party made mistakes, and some serious ones, is admitted. But- the people are becoming convinced that these mistakes are light in comparison with the crimes of the 'Democratic party, whose pretensions of having reformed and wanting to reform everything else are false ami deceiving, and when' thev are called npon once more to pass judgment on the tvo, "common sense and common justice will not let them doubt how to judge the two.

Ilurlinglon Uawkcyc. A Noticeable Fart. It is a noticeable fact that there was no serious and candid attempfto indict the Republican party for public mis-managumcnt bv anv one of the dozen Democratic statesmen who spread them- I selves in set speeches at the Iroquois Club pow-wow, recently held in this city." There were the usual amount of partisan insinuations and unsupported assertions that naturally belong to alter- dinner Democratic harangues, but not one of the speakers set himself earnestly at work to impeach the great Republican party's conduct of public affairs during the twenty-three years that it has been in charge of the Federal Administration. This is all the more noticeable for the reason that -all the speeches were the prepared and studied efforts ot their authors, and all of them, writh one exception, were in type from the prepared manuscript of the speakers before the banquet took place. It is significant that none of these big Bourbon guns loaded up wflth a long list of charges against their political opponents with which to make out an indictment before the people.

Surely, if the career of the Republican party for over twenty years has not been in the highest degree salutary and consistent with the claims of patriotic duty, some of these professional politician would have- found it out and proclaimed it. It is, therefore, highly complimentary to the party now in power that so little fault be found with it, and that on an occasion like the banquet referredTto an occasion designed to promote the interests of the Democratic party the opportunity was not embraced by some one to contrast the virtues of Democracy with the vices of Republicanism. That it was not done is prima-facie evidence that it could not be done successfully, and hence not one of the bibulous Bourbon orators dared to undertake to assail the Republican management, even in a set speech concocted beforehand in the solitude of his stily. This was a sign of wisdom on the part of these banqueting statesmen, for the reason that almost every important Question of public policr that has arisen Lsince the inauguration of the first Re publican Administration under Sir. Lincoln has been settled in acctrdanoewith the demand of an enlightened public sentiment, and in defiance of the protests of the Democratic party.

The Southern half of it. and the larger half, aided and encouraged by the Northern half, was responsible for secession, rebellion and the horrors of a bloody foor-vears civil war, and it fought all and, singular the measures that were intended to settle the controversies growing out of that terrible event There is nothing in the altitude of the Democratic party connected with re-btilioa or that is cal- i i 1 loyalty, and such stupid blundering as belong in the category of crimes. Chi cago Journal. A Few Pivotal Factors, It la morally certain that the Forty- eighth Consrress will be in session when both parties make their Presidential nominations next year, whether the Conventions be early or late. From the first that session will bo almost wholly given up to tho manufacture of political capital to be used for campaign purposes.

Without attempt-ins to forecast the plottinffs and coun- terplottings of the next session at Wash ington, or to predict what is reaiiy wholly uncertain, it may be well to take account, in leisurely way, wnen no contest is upon tis, of a few cardinal facts or factors in the case, and discover if possible the probable pivot of 1884. In 1880 there were 369 electoral votes; in 1884, tinder the last census and apportionment, there will bo 401 votes. The lowest number of votes possible an election in 1880 was 185; in 1884 it will reouire 201. Garfield received 214 to Hancock's 165. The States which voted for Garfield have made on aggregate gain of 17, 20 gross gains and three losses.

The States of Maine, Yermont and New Hampshire each lost one, and the gains were: Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Massachusetts, Michigan, 2 Minnesota, Nebraska, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, 1. Tho other States in which gains were made are Southern, and were, in 1880, Democratic, namely: Arkansas, Georgia, Mississippi, Missouri, lj North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia, West Virginia, 1: total, 15. The States may be clarified as Republican, Democratic and doubtful, thus: IIEPCFMOAX. A New rat'lroffoii 8 13 Pennsylvania 30 9 Hhortn Island 4 ft Vermont 4 II Wisconsin 11 1.1 Total ...154 DEMOCRATIC. 10 Mississippi 7 New Jersey 3 North Carolina 11 4 South Carolina.

12 Tennessee 12 Texns. is West Virtfinia. Si Onlonulo ronnecticut Illinois Iowa Kitnsas inino Massachusetts. Michig-an Minnesota Alabama Arkansas. Delaware Klori'la Geortria.

Kentucky 11 Total. SI 12 noiTwrrru California hLw a Kew 80; Totals The Democrats insist that Kew York not a doubtful State anv longer, and the Renublieans noint to "the fact that i. wmu mis Kivns imm'u us m-Muiwiai voice for the Republican candidate, including Fremont. It was one of the eleven Republican States in 1856, and has never faltered at any Presidential election since, however much wobbling it may do between spells. New York, however, is really a doubtful quantity at all elections.

State and National. If Governor Cleveland should make and, like Tilden and Sev- mimr before him, carry the Convention, he would probably carry the State. Fur the purposes of tliis calculationwe will take both of these States out of the doubtful list. The result would then be. Republican, Democratic, 16: doubtful.

V. California is almost sure to go Republican. Notwithstanding the infamous Morev letter it-was carried for Garfield in 1X8 It ought uot to be classed as a doubtful State, especiilly since, the Chinese question has been settled to the satisfaction of the Pacific slopo. Nevada is not so calculable, and must continue to be reckoned as doubtful. Taking California out of the du bious category and placing it where it belongs, the result stands: Republican, 185: Democratic, 18o; doubtful, 30.

With all the States classified with one party or the other, except these three, Indiana, Virginia and Nevada, Democrats stili have an advantage, for either Indiana or any two of the three States would give them a majority of electoral votes. Indiana alone, or Virginia and Nevada combined, would either crive the Democrats 201 votes to 200 for the Republican ticket. On the other hand. the Kepublicans could lose one ol the two minor States if they carried Indi ana and the other one. Indiana anil Nevada added to the list give as the net result 203 Republican electoral votes, and Indiana and Virginia 212.

Virginia is much more likclv to go Republican than Democratic Mahonc and his fellow Rcadjustcrs have got a firm grip upon the State, and already announce that they have done once for all time with the old rlourbon part v. This means, of course, that they will pool their issues on the Presidency with the Republicans, and if that should be done, and no break occurs anywhere along the line, that would insure Republican victory in the Old Dominion in 1884, and the situation will be well enough understood a year hence to eliminate the State from classification as doubtful. Assuming Virginia to be Republican the case stands, Republican, 197; Democrats, 186; doubtful, 18. We have now reached a final analysis. Indiana i a necessity to each party.

Nevada alone wonld give the Republicans 200, just as near as Tilden came In 1876. That little State may therefore be eliminated from the doubtful category, and Indiana stands out, not by any forced construction, but by a natu ral sequence of probabilities, as the pivotal State. It was not so in 1880. Then New York held the balance of power. Had its 35 votes been taken from Garfield's 214 and added to Han cock's 155 the latter wonld have been elected; but now the scepter has depart ed, and, politically speaking, Indiana is tbe Empire State, provided, of course, that in its teal to capture Hoosierdom the Democrats do not sacrifice New York.

They will find it no easv task, to ride both of these horses. Indiana cannot be put off strain with the Vice-Pres idential sop, and New York's Governor wonld scorn to be the tail-feather of a prairie-chicken. If, on the other hand. McDonald should be set aside for Cleveland, or any other man, there would be blood oa the naooc Chicago InUr Ocean. Mrs.

E. J. Parker, of Sonth Nashville, has been working en a quilt for three years. It is just finished. Tbe quilt contains 14.8S8 pieces.

A'. O. Fic- aytmc great excitement. The fire, which bad hold of the bulkhead and canvas, broke out, and the captain ordered Pilot rianklin to bead the vessel for the ancourer shore. The passengers were so excited that they began crowding into the boats, which were envel oped In smoke.

The shrieks of the China men were terrible. Mr. McAllister then went aft to clear fou boats that were being crowded by Chinamen, who were yelling like demons. The steamer being under way and the smoke pouring aft caused so much excite ment at the stern that it was difficult to launch the boats. One boat was launclied.

a Chinaman and white man getting into it. McAllister jumped overboard and climbed into it afterward. There was no oars in tbe boat, but they sailed her with a broom and bamboo stick for aides Island, the nearest shore. When half way to the island they saw that the steamer had become unman ageable through the burning of the wheel ropes, and had changwl her course for aides Island. She passed McAllister and turned again when near theYaldes shore.

A number of tbe passengers plunged overboard. McAllister pk-ked up a man named lioe and two Chinamen. The steamer kept going backward and forward in an erratic manner, tbe passengers Ark-king and euine tor assistance and tlie names spread ing rapidly. Having landed those picked tip, McAllister, guided by the light of the flames, proceeded where the vessel bad made the last turn and picked np Steele?" tne engineer, some white men and Chinamen, about a boat-load, and made for the shore. He had great difficulty in landing, being so' near the narrows.

He did not venture out again. He lighted a fire for the men who had been in the water over an hour and were dead with cold. By this time the steamer's engine had stopped, and, catching in the eddy, she grounded at a point in Duncan Bay close to the Vancouver shore. She was wreathed hi flames from steni to stem, and several explosions took place at intervals- She burnt lor hours, and at daylight no sign of tier could be seen. One boat thrown from the vessel was turned bottom up and the largest boat was filled in lamu hine throuch bungling.

A small boat was successfully launched, and picked up the mate and several white men, names unknown. At daylight, Smith, the ship's boat. proceeded to the Vancouver shore for help, where he found a trader, who sent Indians In canoes to bring the survivors into camp. where food was prepared. Captain Jaggers was last seen in midcnrrent with a life-pro- server on.

Pilot Franklin was last seen in the pilot-house, herecially doing his duty. He may have reached the Vancouver shore, but little hope is entertained of this. McAllister estimates the loss of life at sixty persons at tlie lowest. The steamer Alexander has just left for Coiuox and tlie scene of the wreck, being sent forward by order of Mr. Duusniire.

Freeman, the Forassct Fanatic. AKXSTABUt, May 2. Charles F. Freeman, who, four years ago yesterday, butchered his little daughter in tlie belief that he was the Christ of the nineteenth century, was brought into the Supreme Court here yesterday to --be tinally disposed of. Freeman was indicted for the murder and adjudged insane.

The indictment was thereupon placed on file, and he was sen tenced to the Dan vers Insane Hospital. He eaine into court on certification from the au thorities of the latter institution that he has regained the use of his mental faculties and is no longer a fit subject for their care. A good deal of expert testimony was given to show that reeman was never insane except upon religion, and that he has now fully recovered his reason upon that point. i reenian hurtseu testihed, but broke down when he came to the traredy, and was ex cused from relating tlie occurrence. On cross-exam ination he said: I experienced religion when twenty-one years of age: was connected with tlie church in Lvnn for two years; never experienced any revival feelings.

Noticed when I was in Pocasset and took care of the church my religion increased. Fifteen months before the terrible act I had testa and complied with them for the act, and fully believed at the time I was doing Cod's will. It occurred to me that it was an insane act about two years afterward. Never evaded tlie law of tbe land, but thought I should obey God rather than man, as done by Jonah, Daniel and others. I have not, in my estimation, been insane for about eleven or twelve months at the least.

1 have had grief and sorrow in relation to tlie art, and, as I fully Know the results, should never associate with those persons who hold similar relig ious views. 1 realurt the great calamity. I was very much overworked prior to tint time. I never slept and had no appetite-Four weeks prior to that time I did not fast, as was represented, bid because I could not eat 1 could converse on any subject ration ally except religion." The court, Judre Cobum, decided the question of insanity in the affirmative, and remanded tlie prisoner to in tlie custody of tlie Sheriff, where he mill remain until a question of habeas corpus, to be raised by his counsel, shad have been decided. A Eailroad to Be Kan en Keligieui to Be Kan en Principles.

Locisvnj-E, Ky, Stay Tuesday Colonel Bennett 1L Young, President of the Louisv ille, Xew Albany A Chicago Railroad, issued an order that, so fu as possible, no work be done or trains be ran on that road on the Sabbath- lay. Only passenger- trains will be run on that day In carrying mails. and efforts be made to arrange for their discontmnance. In eases of nerishable goods or live stock freight trains will run when necessary only. The order further says: "Ton will in future run no excur sion trains of any kind for any purpose during the Sabbath.

This order applies to amp-meeting trains. If the Christian peo ple can not find other places ror worship this company will not violate Divine and civil law, and deny its employes the essential rest of the Sabbath to 'carry them to the" camp-meeting ground. 1 am alse informed that a number of the company employes, have eonscirntiosa scruples against any work oa the Sabbath Dav. There are likely others who do not feel so strongly oa this subject Under no ordinary eirrumstanres must any employe who objects oa the ground of hbre-ngious coovirtirwts be erdered or required to do any service Sundays. If any difficulties arise in the exeeanon of this regnla- tien yea will please report then to me for consideration, and yea will also notify the enploves of their right oa conscientious ground? to be roily protected the observ ance of the day of The annual enraninRtent of the Stat troops of Michwan has been nxed at Island Lake, neat Brighton, and will- begin Augusts.

The cotton miTts of tbe South give rat pkr-nxst to abct 400,000 people. weekly, and were sold for fifty dollars. Mrs. Susan Boylston Treadway, the grand-daughter of President John Adams and tho niece of John Qmncy Adams, is living in Baltimore at the age of eighty-six. Mrs.

Treadwav has been twice nn inmate of the hito House, the first timo at the early ago of four years, and her recollections of events and distinguished people extend over a period of eighty years. Chicago Tribitm. "A Scamper Through America" is the title of a new book written by an English giant in intellect an.l just published in London, which deserilH-s, among other interesting things, a visit to the Hoffman House hotel at New York, where they have the finest drinking bar in the world, presided over bAhc notorious Fiske, who got off so easily after a short incarceration for shoo'tin" Mr. Seward on the staircase of the FiflTi Ave.iue Hotel. -V.

Y. Times. Governor Crittenden, of Missouri, is said to be. very vain-for so able a man." When the "Legislature appropriated S100.IXK) for the State University, he sent from Jefferson City to St, Mollis and bought a ten-dollar gold (H-n with which to sign the bill. 1 hen he sent the pen as a present to James Rollins, accompanied by a letter saying that the onlv time the pen had been dipped in ink" was to.

sign the bill appropriating $100,000 for the University. Chicago Times. Marie Roze is the only singer of distinction who isn't afraid of catching cold. Nilsson treats her throat-as eho would a sick baby: Kellogg was afraid to venture out of doors twenty-four hours before she sang; Hank gin's to lied and remains there in complete silence six hours before she appears in concert Abbott has the doors ami windows of her room hung with bed blankets st a draft strike her precious person: (ierster wears a heavy-shawl uhil? walking the halls, of her hotel; but Marie Uoze Is as careless of exposure aa a lhrati). HUMOROUS.

A man of pliu-k A Burlimton i'rec Tress. Marriage is a -lottery, bul we have not heard that love letters arc denied-the privilege of the 'An Old Song Revised: Whal Is a tHni without a suil? A'lien. my lover, aitcu' AVIjhI is it monkey wilhont a. tail? A dmle, my lover, a du'l-- "SjIcheVt "Unspotted from. the world" is tho title of a new hook.

It is evidently the history of the career of a defaulting Ar. Y. Journd'. The lirst passenger train passed over the Pemigewasset Railroad a short time since, if that word should ever got upon the track then- will be a fear- fnl sma-h-up. iV? Jnurna'.

A young man. while out Juinting for his father's pig, accosted "an Irishman as follows: "Have you seen astrav pig about Pat resjwndtif: 'Faix, how could I "tell a tray pig; from any other?" They are not very fashionable out on the Western frontier, but they know how to lead the gcrman. Tbe other day some vigilant put a rope around a German horse thief neck and led him to a tree. lnrkm Times. Teacher how stupid yon are, to be sure! Can't multiply eighty--eight by twenty-five! I'll wager that Charles "can do it in less than no time." Absurd pupil "I shouldn't be surprised.

They say fools multiply very rapidly these days." The editor of tho. Breckemiilgo (Ky.) Acws savs put the -The Beautiful Snow' in tv in tho fall of 1852, when Faxon, of tlie Buffalo -i i 'I'L .1 dogs of The-Beatltiful-Snow war are let loose strain. Ih tnnt tVM. Heard in the great West: Is that the Big Bonanza mine over Yea." And did that big pile of -erw come from it?" "Yes." "All right, I will stake out a claim right hen, goj back East and form a company." But there is no ore iu this part ot tlie dis-) trict, you know? Aever mind about that I can say there plenty of ore In sight." rtiiladdphia Sem A man who bourht a bsdlv-fit Una- suit that was much too large for him, was constantly taken to task by his good wife for his folly. One evening as their little daughter was retiring, they were much surprised to overhear the following conclusion of her evening prayer: "Please, Cod, make pa over again, so as his clothes 'II fit him, and then ma won't nag at him no nurai Aew 1 or ter.

--1 wish yoo wonld have the pegs properly taken from these shoes," said a Chicago girl to arishoe dealer, Irom wbomlhe had purchased pair tlie day before, "thev hurt me ao I can not wear them obliging answer. bnt I am afraid vou will have to wait a day or two." "Why so? Well, we already have a job i the kind at the foundry, and the steam peg scraper Is not in verv good working order." St. Republican. "And you say that yon are innocent of the charge of stealing a rooster from Mr. Jones?" asked In Arkansas Jndge of a meek prisoner.

Yes, sir, I am innocent as innocent as a child." "You are confident that you did not steal the rooster from Mr. Jones?" Yes, sir, and I can prove it. I can prove that I didn't steal Mr. Jones' rooster. Judge, because 1 stole two hens Mr.

Garston the same Jones Uvea five miles from Garston" "The proof is conclusive," aaid Lbf adge; discharge the prisoner.".