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He seems to think that the Government ought to let lh company alone and leave it to pro- vide for meeting its obligations in its own way, although it has thus far been en gaged In no effort whatever to make such jrovision. The subsidy bonis of the Union Pacific amount to and fall due Js'ov. 19, Those of the Kansas Tacific, now absorbed in the Union Pacific, amount to 0,303,000 and fall due Nov. 17, 1800. The company lias made no provision for paying these, and has fallen Into arrears for interest -to nearly the same amount.

Mr. Adams thinks that the Gov ernment, instead of devising a plan for collecting tho debt froni the company, ven tnougn it extend the pay ment over a period of 6ixty years, rbould permit it to go on putting its earnings into of new inc3, relying on the securities issued for the payment of its obligations. What the Government ought to do, or to have done, is to provide inexorably for the pay ment of the interest and principal of the subsidy bonds at maturity. If Mr. Adams's plan were adopted it would probably have to coma into jiofsession of the property of the company, loaded with the prior lien of 27,209,000 first mortgage londs, or lose its debt- The address of the National Committee of the National Party, regarded as an intellectual exhibition of its authors, is no doubt very ridiculous.

But, ridiculous as it is, it is even more pathetic; As a political yraptom it is iiot ridiculous at all Its authors arraign as injurious to the people very financial measure which has been beneficial to them, and call for an inflation cf the currency by tho coinaso of silver, the issue of more greenbacks, and every other device which will cheapen a dollar. Ui course me enect ot tins toward promoting prosperity and increasing the tore of dollars among the-'undollared classes would be' precisely tho effect which would be produced toward feeding the hungry by forcing the grocers to use short weights, or toward cloth ing the naked ty chopping err a foot from every yardstick. But it is not so very Ions since some millions of voters labored under the delusion now -apparently confined to a few demented persons. A recurrence or the tame circumstances would revive the old delusion in all its old force. The only means by which Congress can prevent its recurrence is to put it out of its own power to re spond to the demands ot tee people by tampering with the currency Whenever 4 the people" are persuaded they can tuy a dollar's worth of commodities, or pay a debt of 'a dollar, seventy or sixty, cf-nts.

with eighty or can read the cablei report of Lord Gxaxyille's jpeech in the House of Lords without auxn.ration for the man-xer in which it cotcl.ir.es a spirit of pro pitiation 'with a mardy dignity. The British statesman in our day may often seem to foreign critics to betray a siaju lar bewilderment find, confusion of mind, but be doe not often foil in personal dig nity. Prince Bismarck is not what would be callM a sensitive and shrinking creat ure, but Jord Granville's remarks will find their way even through his thick cuticle and cause it to tingle with an unpleasant but wholesome sensation of thame. It ia true Lord Granville's remarks do not shed much light on the foreign policy of England, but as a vindica tion from the Chancellor's reckless charges of a betrayal of confidence they will carry complete conviction. Messrs.

IIlscock and Millard, of this State, and Mr. Bavxe, of Pennsylvania, Republican members of the House of Representatives, yesterday called upon the President land assured him of their satis faction with the spirit of his Inaugural address, and their intention to heartily support him in carrying it out. This was a sensible and manly thing to do, and these gentlemen unquestionably represent wjth perfect fairness the opinion of the Republican Party throughout the country. The principal suggestion, in the annual report of. Superintendent Brockway, of the Elmira Reformatory, who is regarded as something of an expert in prison man and is the leading advocate of the piece-price plan of employing convicts, is that prisoners should have an opportunity of earning and spending money for themselves.

Practically what he recommends is that eaoh prisoner should be required to earn his own living and should be permitted to save something of for himself by earning more than a living while in prison. There is no doubt that an arrangement by which convicts could by industry and good conduct accumulate something for themselves would have a salutary effect upon their habits and discipline in prison and afford a safeguard against their return to crime on their re lease. Habits of industry, training in some regular occupation, and a littfe money saved for immediate needs would go far toward saving discharged convicts from a relapse into evil ways. The Cincinnati Commercial Uazette re marks of Mr. Cleveland's inaugural: detect no saying it that means business.

If our able contemporary will have patience it will be able before many months to re-read the inaugural and find in it a great deal of business." It must remember that a similar dullness of perception afflicted it for some time in its study of the returns of the election last Fall, the full meaning of which it does not even yet appear to grasp. PREDICTING DIVISION. Some ofAour Republican contemporaries are enjoying, it appears, very much what they think is the certainty of a quarrel of President Cleveland with the Democratic Party. They imagine that the quarrel is to come about by the rigid enforcement of the President's principles of civil service reform, and by the revolt of the office seekers of the' party against this policy. It is not impossible that these expectations, be realized: but whether the liepublican Party shall gain anything by such a di vision of its opponents will depend entirely on the position taken by the party as to the cause of the division and upon the way in which that position is defined and sustained in its nominations and in the measures which it shall bring forward.

ine quarrel, it is laae piace, wui De a very peculiar one, such as has never be fore occurred, on any considerable scale, in any national party. It will be very much scch a one as Mr. Hates threatened hia party with in 1877, but which was avoided -by Mr Hates doing what Mr. Cleveland is not likely to do back ing down. Obviously ITr.

Cleveland, should such a contest come about, would have some very distinct advantages, and there-is every reason to suppose that he would be keenly alive to them and would know how to use them. In the first place, he would have the very great advantage of serving the interests of the whole people and hav ing none of his own at stake. The principle of i reform to which he is. pledged is simply that of filling all offices nnder the not involving the party policy, with men chosen for fitness, testea By open competition and probation, without regard to party. In doing this it is plain that he has nothing to gain but the satisfaction of his own conscience and the approval of the country.

Up to the limit of the powers conferred by the act of Jan. 16, 1883, he can carry out this principle at least until the close of the next fiscal year, which will take him through one-third of his Presidential term. Beyond those lim its he would have to ask of Congress an. appropriation sufficient to carry on any extension of the reform system' that he may determine to make. At this" joint any opponents he may have in hia own party in CongTess would have an op portunity to cripple him.

Tbey might, if they were numerous enough, refuse euch an appropriation, or they might even re peal the reform act, or annul it by omit ting ths appropriation needed to execute its present limited requirements. We do not believe they will do or try or venture to propose anything of the sort- They would not dare to do it. In the next place, Mr. Cleveland, sup posing that his reform policy should ex cite opposition in his own partv, would have the decided advantage of the sincere and zealous support of a very large proportion of that party. This support would come from the ablest men of the party, and especially from the younger men, with the chances of the future before ihem and with energy and ambition to win those chances, men who have no intention to tie themselves to the rotten and waterlogged spoOa" plank of the Democracy, and do not feel that they need the patronage of office to get on in the politics of the United States in these days.

This class has its representatives in Mr. Cleveland's Cabinet. and we trust that all the Cabinet are in sympathy with it. Above all, Mr. Cltvi- La.no is himself its representative and the conspicuous embodiment of its spirit-! A contest, even within the party, bet waen this class and the ordinary epoils- mongtrs would be an interesting and m- etruca ve spectacle, but it would not have the 11 arm given by uncertainty as to its resuld Sunposing and it is still only matter for ppoeition that such a struggle is unpen ding, our own party would be as severely tried by it as the Democratic It would be the height of folly to Party! infer that the mere fact of the struggle would necessarily be of advantage to us.

Any advantage we could get from it would be from heartily sustaining the The Democracy might be split on rightJ this i i.ue from -Florida to New-York, and it woa Id be no more easy than it was last year io elect a man like Mr. Blalne, In deed It would be even more difficult. THE BACKBONE LAND GRANT. Qni of the last acts of President Ar- THCRB Administration was intended to give affect to what appears its face to be ont of the most scandalous of all the land grant frauds. I The principle on whicll these cases of lapsed grants of to railroad companies have been lands dealt the ivith by the Government is beyond ornprehension of ordinary minds.

For there has been a demand for their forfeiture in order that the lands may opened up to settlement. On some thfem settlements have already been made on the supposition that they right- fully lelonged to the puplic domain when the them ilroad companies had failed to earn and to receive patents therefor. Thi grant to the New-Orleans, Baton and Vicksburg Railroad was made Roug in March, 1871, on condition that the road be i coin pleted in five years. It was not only pot completed in five years.but it was neyen built at all. Early in 1S82, long after have the grant had lapsed, and ought to peen declared forfeit and restored to the public domain, the old company.

whick maintained a nominal 'existence, undertook to transfer it to the New-prleans Pacifi Company, whose line was not the but was located on the other side of the Mississippi i River. The NewiOrleans Pacirf was under the control of the Texas Pacific and practically formed part of its line. In point of merit the transfer did not Pacif ffer at all from that which the Texas undertook to make of its unearned grant! to the Southern Pacific. The lands did bt belong to the New-Orleans, Baton Rougfe and Vicksburg Railroad Company, is not easy to see how it could and trans: er them to another corporation. especially to one which had not succeeded in any way to its rights and did not own the riute Upon which the road was to be built whose construction the land grant was intended to promote.

WHen the attempt was made to induce the Secretary of the Interior to issue pat- ents or this land to the New-Orleans Pacifl Company he consulted the Attor- hi ey-Qeneral in regard to the legal aspects of tUe matter. Mr. Brewster gave the that the assignment was valid, opinion and that the lands could be lesrallv patented to the assignee company. The remarkable statement is now that this opinion wasT prepared madd by ihe attorneys of the corporation to behefit by it When, the papers inline case he ere submitted to President Arthur ve them his approval, but a resolu- tion bf inquiry offered bv the vitrilant Sena: or Van Wtck caused the Secretary of tl Interior to delay the issue of tthe patents and await Congressional action. Cona-ess failed to act, and at the very close of the term of Mr.

Teller's Bervice the patents were issued. The presumption is thbt this -will give the New-Orleans Pacif a valid title to these lands, as it is in effect a conveyance from the Govern- men HA Van Wyck does not propose that this transaction shall pass without in- quirt He offered a resolution yesterday he expects to urge upon the Senate and which contains some very whicli to-dy, pointed inquiries addressed to the Secre- tary of the Interior. It is to be honed that It will be adopted, and that explicit answers will be obtained. If the trans- fer not complete and valid as it stan 1 3, steps should be taken to prev bnt its execution. It is intimated that if the Texas Pacific Forfeiture bill had pot passed patents would have been issndd in a similar manner convevine the land! of its lapsed grant to the Southern Pacific, There is no reason to doubt this as tUe merits of the two cases were sub stan the same, but the action of Secretary Teller, sustained as it was by President Arthur and other members of his (tabinet, does not seem to be suscep- tibld of any explanation creditable to them.

It wba a plain case of giving away lands tUe United States to a railroad corpora- tion Iwhich had no equitable right to them. SENATOR RIDDLEB ERGER. Rtddleberqer, of Virginia, has not Buccfceded in abusing the courtesy of the the feenate" so far as seriously to obstruct confirmation of President Cleve LAND Cabinet He did succeed in ex hibii ing himself as completely as if he had delak-ed the confirmation for a month. r. Riddlebergeb's performance is urn pie, inasmuch as he took advanta of me courtesy of the Senate to outrage thad courtesy.

The same unwritten rule wh prevents the Senate from sum marlly suppressing a bore or a boor die- tatei that any member or former member of tie Senate whose name shall be submit ted by the President shall be appointed witaout delay and without debate, There ma. of course, be occasions when this rule of by 4 nquette may properly be 6et aside onsiderations more important than thods of etiquette. But the nomination Cabinet can scarcely offer one of of the occasions. Common sense and com moil justice dictate that the President ahoild be un trammeled in his selection of the pen who are to form, not merely the heals of the executive departments, but alscJ a body of confidential counselors. If bis responsibility for the executive braich oi ine Government is to be com pletfe, nis control must also be complete and! his choice unrestricted.

This is the most wholesome rule upon which the Senate baa hitherto acted. Action upon any other theory, whenever the President was of one party and the majority of the Senate of the other, and whenever therefore the President's nominations were not such as a majority of the Senate would have advised, would bring the machinery of Government to a deadlock. None but very grave and vital objections would justify a refusal to let the President choose his own Cabinet without let or hindrance. When this obvious condition of Executive responsibility is rein forced by the courtesy of the Senate" with regard to the promotion of its own members, it seems clear that no Senator who opposes it is entitled to be classed either with statesmen or with gentlemen. This may be an entirely superfluous demonstration as it respects Senator Ito-dleberoes.

His objection to Mr. Bayard was that Mr. Bayard had introduced into the Senate a resolution denouncingssas-sination by dynamite. This resolution was so proper and so becoming that the Senate was irresistibly impelled to adopt it, and Mr. Riddleberqer was irresistibly impelled to oppose it His opposition to it was a grossness of the same kind and of very nearly the same degree as his opposition to the appointment of its author to be Secre tary of State, It is worth noting, however, how moral degeneracy comes to affect a man's manners.

Senator Riddle berqer exemplifies De Qudccey's deprecation of habitual murder as having a tendency to vice. "When once a man begins, to commit murder habitually," said the moralist, "very soon he comes to think little of robbery, and from that he goes to drunkenness and Sabbath-breakings and from that to incivility and procrastination." We haVe no means of knowing what Senator Riddle-. berqer's standards of personal behavior may have been before they were readjusted by his political environment, but it is sadly evident what they are now. His advocacy of theft in the domestic politics of Virginia and of wholesale murder in the foreign politics of the United States has blunted his sensibilities until he has made so offensive and objectionable an ex hibition of himself as must make his col leagues wish that the courtesy of the Senate might be temporarily suppressed for the purpose of permanently suppressing Riddles erger. INTO AFGHANISTAN.

War and. rumors of war in so re ot and unpeopled a region as the home of the Turcomans of Central Asia are confusing enough to the Occidental mind; but there is no other reason why they should be uninteresting to it The situation there, is mightily interesting, and even impressive, when it becomes clear to the understanding. No such interests are involved in the other questions of this time, neither in the Soudan rebellion nor in the colonial acquisitions of Germany. The Central Asian situation permits the imag ination of an American to take easy flights, and it well may arouse the British mind to a state of heat threatening actual panic, for all things are possible from it, even though the end of it should be peace. When Shere Ali sat upon the throne of Afghanistan nothing in the operations to the north gave him more concern than the future of Badghees, his fertile north western province between the Rivers Hari Rud and Marghab.

He saw that the overthrow of the Turcomans by Russia woild inevitably be followed by the Turcomans taking refuge in- Badghees, sad that this event would simply pave the way for the Russians to follow, either as the enemies or as the protectors of the Turcomans. And this is precise! the situation that the Ameer of Afghanistan and the Government of Great Britain are now confronted with. The southern boundary of Russia in that whole region which stretches eastward from the Caspian to the Oxus has re mained lor years unsettled. The con quest of Merv 6imply added a new ele ment to a situation of uncertaintv that had previously existed, and for the settle-' ment ot which Kussia does not appear ever to have taken any really sincere and final 6teps. Her Persian frontier some years ago was the subject of tedious negotiations, ending at last in a treaty which accomplished nothing definite, a commis sion having been named for the accu rate tracing of the frontier." Thus the whole matter was left in a state that permitted of tndless disputes and convenient litigation.

Meanwhile the rail way eastward from' the Caspian has been proceeded with whenever it was cohven- lent or wise to do so, and Turcoman raids nave been unable to stop the undertaking This railway now stretches a long way toward baraklis, if it has not alreadv reached Sarakhs, while the surveys for its. extension southward have been made along the valley of the Hari Rud to Herat itself. M. Less ar, the Russian envoy recently in London, made these surveys, and has become familiar with the whole region in dispute through- several years of per sonal experience there. When Russia sent him to London, therefore, she sent an en voy who thoroughly knew the countrv hi was talking about, which Is perhaps more than can be said of those with whom conversed.

Since the fall of Geok Tepe the Turco mans have found their way in large num bers into the Badghees Province as Shere ALI predicted-would be the case. Round about Penjdeh many of the Sariks tribe Turcomans have settled; further to the north the Salors, also a Turcoman tribe. have congregated, while near the entrance to the Kobat Pass camping places have been made by the Salors. Through the woac me road to Herat is an easy one and not more than forty miles length. It is a fine Russian theorv that wherever the Turcomans have camped, there the supremacy of Russia should be acknowledged, for Russian authority extends over all the Turcoman tribes.

This theory put into practice would now onng the Russians down to the very trance to this pass. Joining it to another ineory, that the frontier of a country snouid be marked either by a mountain or a nver, they have constructed a map for the general staff of the army which places the Afghan frontier still farther south than the pass along a line which, at the nearest point, is only thirty miles distant from Herat. England is pledged to maintain the in dependence of Afghanistan; aha profoundly desires its independence, and would probably be as ready to fight for it were she not pledged to maintain it; but she is in so condition to undertake a great war, and the Government policy obviously is to avoid one if possible with honor. The danger lies in frontier fighting breaking out while diplomacy is work ing delays, and in the rashness of Russians now in the field, who are ambitious to push forward to the south. When the Afghan authorities sent troops recently to Penjdeh, the Russians declared that the safety of Sarakhs was thereby threatened, and then moved southward more than fifty miles toward Herat, or one-third the whole distance to that stronghold.

That they will stop here no Englishman will believe. What is to prevent their advance over the remaining distance it would be hard to SOe During 'the Russian diplomatic delays all this and much else might with ease be accomplished. IGNORANCE AND PRESUMPTION. It appears that there is a club in this city called the Twilight Club, and that it occasionally combines dinner with the discussion of important questions. Thursday night the Twilight Club dined and discussed the question, "How Should Girls be Trained more reckless dis play of mingled ignorance and presumption has never been made by any club in this city or elsewhere.

What in the world could the sixty-odd gentlemen of the Twilight Club possibly know about training girls? They have so far as is known, been either mothers or nursery maids, and they know about as much concerning the proper way of training girls as they know about dress making. And yet these persons, not hav ing either the love of truth or the fear of female indignation before their eves, de liberately talked about the training of girls as if it were a subject witn which they had been familiar for fifty years. The debate was opened by a well-known sanitary engineer, who found fault with mothers. He said that "mothers were too timid about telling their daughters things." Are they; indeed And what might be the things" which mothers fail to tell their daughters That sanitary engineers make desirable husbands for example, or that the noblest study of womankind is drainage How does the speaker know what mothers do or leave undone A mother is not a sanitarv ar- pliance, neither does a knowledge of sanitary engineering render a man an expert in girls. The next reckless man was a physician.

Of course, he said that girls ought not to wear corsets. The persistence with which doctors oppose the wearing of corsets tends to create the suspicion that corsets are powerfully prophylactic and ward off diseases that would otherwise call for the employment of (doctors. In the case of tnis particular doctor, bis suggestion that girls ought to play football shows what kind of a man he is. He remarked that there is no game that gives the muscles of the body such perfect and healthful play as, football," and that girls could be provided with gymnastic suits and per mitted to kick the ball about" It is plain that this doctor wants to set broken legs and monkey with broken ribs. He wants our girls to olav match games under the Rugby rules, to trip one another up, to indulge in scrimmages, and to tear all the clothes from thir backs and to contuse every separate organ in their bodies.

Nice training for girls this would be I Why did he not recom mend girls to enter the prize ring, and to fight under the Marquis of Queensberrv's rules? He may rest assured that when mothers learn what he has said they will not be too timid about telling him some things as to his conduct which will be very far from meeting his -views. After the doctor came a prominent lawyer and Federal officeholder. He betrayed his ignorance of girls in his very nrst sentence, for be remarked that girl is a human being." She is nothing of the sort, but is far superior to anv human being, whether in or out of a Dis trict Attorney's office. The speaker, having thus displayed- his ignorance, tm-o- ceeded to find fault with the clothing of girls on the ground that it "fetters a girl's body." luch he knows abouf.it ine xirainary everyday clothes worn by girls permit a freedom of move ment of which a boy knows nothing. it this ignorant critic undertake slide down a bannister in competition with his youngest daughter and he will find that while her clothing is uninjured nis clothing will have given way in half dozen places.

As for the ball dresses worn by girls, it is preposterous to say that they fetter the body. It is true that these dresses do to some extent fetter the wearers' waists, but it cannot be allered by any one with the slightest regard for truth that they fetter or even cover the greater part of the body. Then a famous rifleman said that father could do but little toward training a girl, and he might have added that clubman could do even less. The rifle man evidently had daughters of his own who read the newspapers, and he was very careful not to say anything that could get him into difficulties. He objected to "promiscuous hugging and kissin? but he took pains to say that this disgrace ful behavior "sometimes prevailed country places," thereby exonerating our local girls.

How did the gentleman learn that hugging and kissing prevail country places such as Long Island, in for instance? It looks as if his excess of caution had led him to compromise him self, and he was probably called upon yes terday morning, after The Tdces had been read at his house, to explain in what way he obtained his facts in regard to the manners and customs of country places. finally an ex-Judge announced it to be his decision that "as a rule girls train their fathers." Let 'us hope that this is the case so far as the fathers of the Twi light Club are concerned. Girls may not be fully competent to train their fathers. but they know enough not to dine tp-gether in order to discuss the proper way to train fathers. With all their faults.

girls have some slight appreciation of the fact that they do not know everything, and it would be an impassibility to find sixty girls in this city who would fancy themselves capable of deciding how ought to dress, what games they ought to piay, and what things a man mother should say to him. Mr. Paul Bauer, of Coney Island, was much surprised and disgusted yesterday learn, by a sentence of imprisonment for three months and a fine of $750, that the statute against pool selling will work. Of course he has always known all about the statute, but supposed it to be a rhe torical flourish, intended to soothe the sensibilities of pious persons the rural districts. His conviction will cast a gloom over the Summer gayeties of Coney-Island from which they will scarcely recover this year.

It is faintly possible that some day the Police Commissioners in this citj may agree that the gambling act is to be taken seriously. But Hope had better cease that flattering tale if she desires to preserve any reputation for veracity. AMUSEMENTS. ACADEMY OF MUSIC. A very enjoyable performance of The Pirates of Penzance" was given at the Academy ot Music last evening In aid of the Police Pension Fund.

The house was crowded in every part, and laurbter and applause were loud and frequent -The Pirates'' wear better than Pinafore" or Patience." The former waa literally done to death before iU first withdrawal irom th and Patience" depends ao largely for Its success upon the amuse ment afforded by its satire upon the aesthetic craze, that an abatement of In terest In tbat particular form of folly reacts promptly upon the attractiveness of the opera. The Pirates." too, compel wider recognition, from a lyric standpoint thtn the better-known works. The music is la Sullivan's happiest, vein; the brightness of marty of the numbers is delightfully tempered by the eleglao touch noticed In many of the composer's ballads, the concerted pieces are remarkable for freshneaa. sparkle, and elaborateness, and the orchestration throughout is dainty and substantial, and never flimsy or monotonous. It will be a long while before to original, pleasintr.

and finished an achievement claims the attention of the pa-trona of Uirht mux teal entertainment. Tb Pirates" have, of course, been rendered with more Impressiveness than was attained last night but yesterday's performance progressed so brt kly and smoothly tbat few of the best points of tbe story or score were mimed. An excellent portrayal of the Pirate Kin? by Mr. A. E.

Stoddard and. In respect of sinrinr at least a capital delineation of Mabel by Miss Gertrude Luther, were conspicuous feature of tbe affair, while Mia Alice Bamett's Hutb. Mr.TJ. H. Parson's Major-Geo-eral, and Mr.

H. Clark's Frederick are next to be mentioned aa painstaking and effective efforts. The three daughters of tbe Major-General bad pretty aod sDrirhtly representatives; the chorus and especially the female chorus waa In aa good form aa If tbe opera bad reached its one hundredth nicrht, and toe orchestra accompanied tbe sioirers to perfection. The lively lmpreetfon produoed by tbe singing of tbe poUcemen'a chorus by 40 members of tbe foroe In full ant-form can be readilv lmaa-ined. anil the seriousness with which tbe amateurs fulfilled their new duties, and the earnestness tbev threw Into their unisonous declaration tbat a policeman's lot is not a happy one" called forth prolonged hilarity.

Tbe Inevitable encore followed tbe chorus, and waa responded to wltb a new set ot rhymes, bristlina- witb local hits. Tbe performance of "Tbe Pirates" will be repeated tbls afternoon and this evening, tbe proceeds of the three eotertalmenU going to aid tbe tame worthy cause. MR. BOOTH WILL NOT RETIRE" Boston. March 6.

Mr. Edwin Booth, was seen by Thx Timxs'S correspondent this evening and questioned as to the truth of the rumor, which has found some credence In dramatic circles, that he intended retiring from the stage at tbe end of tbe present season. Mr. Booth aald tbat he was glad to have the opportunity to con-trad lot the report, and that be had no auch in. tention and neither had he entertained any.

He naa aireaay signed a contract to perform witb Mr. K. M. Field, of tbe Boston Museum, hia present manager, for next season. From this city Mr.

Booth 'goes to Philadelphia, where be will play an engagement of two weeks, which will close the present season. On each night of nis periorroance oere jnr. uootn nas played to a crowded bouse. Hia performance of Sir Olio Overreach, tbe first be has given of Masinger's nero lor many years, aas maue a strong unprea- aion. GENERAL MENTION.

Herr Sonnenthal is to be tendered a reception at the Lied eric rani Clubhouse on Sunday evening. The second of the Beinrich-Hehson Classical Song Recitals" is set down for this evening. It will be riven in the concert ball of tbe Metropolitan Opera House, and tbe programme to be interpreted will include com positions by Mozart. Schumann, Schubert, Gounod, and Mackenzie. J.

H. Mapleson has secured tbe Academy of Musiolora three weeks' season of Italian opera, commencing late in April. Previous to tbe performance under his management it la understood tbat tbe Englisb opera bouffe troupe under tbe direction of Mr. Robert Grau will occupy tbe honse and aive a fort, night's representations at ultra-popular prices. TEE CROP PROSPECTS.

EXCOCBAGn0 REPORTS FR03C WASHINGTON TERRITORY ATP OREGON. Pobtxajto, Oregon, March 6. The crop prospects in portions of Eastern Washington Territory and Oregon for tbe coming season are very encouraging and the promised yield Is large. Walla Walla County In Eastern Washington Territory and the four attached townships of Umatilla County, Oregon, according to tbe latest and best estimates, have 223,000 acres, principally wheat which with 25.000 acres more to be sown in tbe Spring, In wheat oats, and barley, signifies a harvest of 7,000,000 bushels. Umatilla County, Oregon, except four townships, has, say, 300,000 acres of i.

000,000 bushels: Columbia County. Washington Territory, has about 75,000 acres of 2.000,000 busbelf, a total of U.OOO.OOu bushels, and more probably tban leas. Tbe weather since last Fail has been of the most favorable character, and thus far everything points to a larger harvest and more bountiful yield by from one-third to two-third tban ever before known, and as tbe crup Is in on Bummer tallow ground by far tbe largest average per acre is promised. In Southern Oregon Roque River Valley and Umpqua Valley the crop prospects, were never known to be better. Tbe snow, which fell heavily during December and January, has about all disappeared, and the ground thus protected by the snow was not frozen, and the water was all absorbed.

Farmers put in a large amount of wheat labt Fait, and it all looks very thrifty. Thus far there bave been no frosty nights, and tbe weather Is fair. Tbe grain prospects never looked more encouraging, in Eastern Oregon, in tbosa very extensive reiriona lying east of tbe Cascade Mountains, tbe outlook tor a large crop ot grain tbe romina season was never more flatterinr. Umatilla County alone ia one of the heavlect grain yielding sections In Eastern Oregoo. and the acreage is one-third larger tban two years ago: and allmost all tbat will be tbraabed was sown last Fall.

In that region there will be err little grain sown this Spring. A larre quantity of Summer fallow was sown last Fall. Columbcs, Ohio. March The Stare crop report for March was forwarded to Washington to-day. It shows per cent, of the corn crop of laS4 still on hand, and 4 per cent, of the wheat crop.

Tbe report says that it la too early to form a clear estimate on the condition cf Winter wheat, aa snow still covers a great part of it. In tbe southern part of the State it is badiy damaged, indicating tbat tbe crop of th state cannot reach 7S per cent, of a full average. TO MARRY AIT HEIRESS. Nczvo Laredo, Mexico, March 6. Gen.

Trevino, commander of the army in Northern Mexico, baa arrived in Xnevo Laredo, from Monterey, to consummate arrangement for his forthcoming marriage with Seooiita Guadalupe Zembrano. whose father is the oartner of ex-Gov. Madera, and one of the wesutbiest merchant of tbe Republic It expected the nuptial ceremony will be one of ttae nrst brilliant tbat baa ever taken place in Northern Mexico. SOCIAL AN2 POLITICAL. It was the Edj bI or nothlnr.

ana made just a iittie more noise there would be use xor we Enqvirw. There nave been 1 children born at the Hartford Hospital since tbe 1st day er May last and they were alt boys not a' gu4 aqiosg thea Hartjorn (Con.) CouranU Ba Mine. Philibert Marian, living "Wolfe-street, gave birth to throef cttldraa Wednesday, one a girl aod the others boy. TW and the mother are weU. Montrtal (CaaaS Witness.

A man who attended the lav of let' at the Opera House last week didn't find 0u which actor was Hamlet until tbe closet sow. bavin taken Hormtio for the melancholy until thn rimr, oe Girls, beware of thettranslent vonn- Ha is alick-tongued. perhaps, and well dreste but one good farmer boy or mechanic whomyiw knw thoroughly and don't know any serioui Herald. We venture to sav that mnr half of the members of the orasent never mw ine Mate Constitution. That, flairrant violations rf 1)1.

TT. ji pjitt. pruTisionS cf 1 A person of qnlet and conservativa habits may find it somewhat discomposing to tax breakfast under one Administration and dinner Under anathor 14, it i7 Withof 1 bein much toe worse. oroeeSr Several leading Biddeford Republican! have made aa agreement not to smoke axain until the Inauguration of another Republican ciockstrucma- xsoKiawn 1 jzo. journal.

a ludicrous mistake of theedpyist, one article lathe written warrant lot town meetinr nnxtA 1 A. Office in Wliithron, reads: "ToraUeasum or money for the support of poor and other wu. vera. umi.un jtrurncUL Will Texas Senators and ReDresentativea eontrol tbe Texas patronage? Ayal The first time a Carl net officer steps over on that territory ocum.r uju iieiievea oeiongs so mm. thin Will JSma A k.

i wo tuv aipu, lucn, hua If UB1KT ben. tbe crash of a storm of awful dimension. iiuau iunm. The Faculty of Harvard Colloie, tfca Rev. Henry M.

Dexter, and other clergymen, aa wll aa H.n,v r.h, TiuiH the Legislature against the further extension ot nnuwKUKo may i power, but It 1 not always Indicative of good sense. TauntonlMaaa (ratelu. The South Carolina and Massachusetts delegation in Congress affiliate wjth each otaet In a remarkably amicable way. Geo. Maclgault said tbat during the Mexican war taa Mm thing happened between tbe soldiers of the twe Commonwealths.

HoMhingto Orrtgpandanl at-AugiiMa (Go.) Chronicle How to make home happy" 1 what a Vermont minister lectured on rwvnn wn -tell you bow to do it: If you are the fight sort v. uiu juu van uo lb oy staying at tom sons or tbe time; if you are tbe wrong sort or man you can succeed lu making your bomi bapcy by staying away from iu at. a ttxxnt VU) ileascHgcr. A Bridgeport gentleman had a lot of tame quail stolen from bis premise a few night ago. A correspondent or a Bride-sport paper note a a remarkable coincidence thai quail was served at the board ot Trade suppet the next evening, although quail are "out ol eason" in the market.

-Bartjurcl (Conn.) lint The House of Representatives on Saturday last adopted a design for a new State tag. The design is as A whit bar and a rod bar run horizontally, tbe red bar above th white. Near the staff the color is blue to a depta or one-third of the flag. In the centre of this blue poruon is tbe coat of arms of the Slats in gold. KatetoU (A.

CJJk cum. We presume but few persons tn the Stata would recognize tho flag of tbe Stat ot Georgia if they saw it. The flag was changed by the Legislature of 1878-v. and tbe one-adopted then Is a vertical band of blue near the 'smff. occupy-Ing ooe-Uiira tbe vntire space.

Tbe remainder is divided into three horizontal parallel bands, tbe upper an1 lower scarlet in color and tbe middle band white. Col aiJrti (Go.) Lnquirerun, Charles Henry Small, of Topsbam. Deputy Sheriff or Sagadahoc County, while engaged in conversation with one of the Brans-wick Selectmen in their office at that place on day last weea was suddenly taken violently insane. He was taken to bis home in Top ham, where he bat present quite ill. Xo cause 1 assigned tor tbe sudden change of mind.

Ha Is a weii-knowa violinist. Lcwulon Journal. A friend of faultless spirit, but of an ex-ceedingly3mmoral orthography, suggests tb of pepper as a preventive ot drowsiness durti't public worship. Admirable! Let It be of tlx scarlet hue. and put it In tbe eye freely aU without regard to cost.

Perhaps a lighted mates applied to tbe end of tbe sleeper's uos mUol also have a reviving effect The best remedy it genuine piety. RcHmond Fa.) ReUgvou Herald. Yesterday morning a Notre Dame-tret merchant was np before the Recorder charge with having a flaa- suspended over tbe street ic front of his store cootrary to tbe city by.uws, A short time ago he was fined $1 for tbe taint offense, but be claimed that it was an ornaaent to tbe city and retused to remove it. This twinr tbe second offense, be was fined $4 aod coat. ni tbe naa- had to come down.

Montreal (oanau A gentleman in the outskirts of Sheltoa who own and occupies a farm, ha been gives' peremptory notice to quit tba premises by k4 tenant, who I as worked a portion of tb lasd. Said tenant claims to bave received a direct communication from th Lord giving him a title aald premise, which ts above and superior to ao earthly titie, Notwithstanding this notice, purporting to emanate from tn highest trtnuoal tbe earthly Claimant propose to stand I ground. Iterby iunn.) i ranter ipL If the advocates of con tinned silver coinage are treated with scant courtesy, they tiM themselves alone to blame for it. They msk It impossible to respect toem. On can respect man who is poorly Informed.

On can respect man whose own logic is weak, or wbo has been misled by the sophistical arguments or other. But no one can respect a liar. The fundamental errors of the silver men are not error of opinion, about which toere may be bonaat di Serene, but errors of fact, about which there can no Question at ail. st. Paul (Minn.) Pioneer Prut.

E. B. Stealing, of this city, who has vain able stamp collections, and who is aa enthusiast in their collection and preservation, shows la a State-street store window a revenue stamp of the tive-tbousand-dolJar denomination. It is as clear and clean as the day it leit tna press, being beautifully engraved, and to sue 44 by 'S-i inches. It i in a frame, on tbe lower part of wbicb there Is an lnciiption.

ttatiag among otber thing tbat this is the largest aod bubet value adhesive stamp ever issued by any Govern ment ic tbe wond. 2 reaton (X J-) (iaitiit. Such provokingiy; lazy and ihlltlest creatures 1 never saw id my experience before, aod hope I never will again, as these Southerner. They will sit about in kitchen, hall, and parlor, servants and unstresses, and allow th postman to rinar ix times before they aatwer tbe belU A gentleman wbo called to seesm friends who bad rooms In a private bous. toid me tbat be rang ten 'loud rinas at the b.l and distinctly beard vetoes and footstep about the halls beiore he an entrance.

Asif-Or torn Correspondent of the W'U.) Jour naU Dr. Bryce read a paper at tbe meetiai of the Young People's Association in cccnectiof with 8t- Andrew's Churcli. last evening, entitled Tbe Pathway to Health. Througo Healthy Houses and Economic Cook-nr." Toepaierwss very interesting and intructive. and was littered to with attention for neany two hours by to large number of members present, hr.

Bryos advocated tbe open mz of a putnic dining tous in tbe city. He was of the opinion U.at it would be practical to Ornish hotui st a properly conducted dining bouse tor two cents eaco. Toronto Canada) ObAe, We are Informed that by the publication of a "Tira" clipped from one of our xchaagei we have aroused the ire of a gentleman la o-r town. We would regret it very if we could see bow tbe "yarn" could by any mean be made applicao! to any individual In our midst, sine it C's to no ooe. such a one sees fit to anply to hlmseif tba weJ-known Biblical text.

Tn gu.ity man fleet when no one Io conciusioo we are not cowardly enough to bide bebrnd a newspaper clipping to sling mud. but if anytody ebootet to make a cap or btmse.f. we have no objection to hi wearing lUiivaca Jtxati PUnUesk f..