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THE DAILY PICAYUNE NEW ORLEANS, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1887. I I Bl SmSSBM i i I F0KE1GN. W-THE BRITISH PARLIAMENT. Bout of Commons. ei.

SVre-nson parliamentary Secretary for the Foreign Office, staged In tbe House ot Cojnmons tni evening that correepooueneo -h-. BrltaiD ud til. United State, "fct Canadian fisheries question would in a nors time be laid before Parliament information aoout mo dlft pateh from the Dominion GoverDmenUCOD- talning a i ta between Canada and the United Btauj. now on Its way -mm wnd pro-Gorernment could send pro posal to wasnjDu Olspaten iwu TkeLroet aster Gen- Right Hon. H.

C. saidtaat under rl. rnondlD tolnauinea. saia fca the new' tUnuc Jiatfthe Mte shillings per The new "besides extra eontractsrun thirteen months. beeinnlnK in March next.

Mr Parnell moved hi amendment to the address in KIPLT TO THE QUEEX'S SPZECH. The amendment ia as follows: -The relations between the owners and occupiers of land has not "ell disturbed in ass of those who granted their tenant, aaoh abatment as were minded by the prices of vaetoral produce. The remedy for the crisis in Irish aeraiian affairs will be found not in iSe'rertSSecy of criminal prde or in the pursuit of such confidence of the Irish th. bm for Mr. ParneU maintained that if the pui ior etopiureVicUona which he mtenaed to introduce Ust session had been passed, the edlSonol Irand would have been greatly improved.

The operations of the measure wZwhave eWually prevented the present dlsrarbed relations between the landlords "The blame for tha present serious position of domestic affairs rested with the gov- "The'goVernment despite this seemed about to renew the HISTlKB OT ATTEMPTTSG COEBCIOX in Ireland. The speaker solemnly warned the government that If they again wied coercion they would again, as they ilfi fall, when erring 'hat policy- Coercion would never bring about a better affairs In Ireland or assist In establishing peaoeful relations between the two eoun-triesT Cries, "OH oh and cheers from the Irian members. If the government's proposed alteration of the criminal procedure aots meant an attack on the richts of Irishmen, the immediate result would be that Sir Michael Hicks Beach. Chief Secretary for Ireland, and the Marquis of Londonderry. Vic roj, would find themselves rapidly descending an inclined plane, and would soon come asking Parliament for more coercion.

Sir Michael Hick Beach wished to attack the authors of the plan of campaign. He aoognt to crush the plan by mupllng his o-oponents and putting them In jalL AU past experience showed that the work of suppression would only commence when such things were done, for secret societies would epnnc up, and agrarian and political crime woald revive in their worst forms. The government had already been guilty of unprecedented action In the manner iu which they conducted the prosecution of John Dillon. They have been equally arbitrary la the methods employed to suppress the Sllgo meetings, and in the adoption method of striking off janes in such away as to exclude Catholic. The speaker asked if any government could expect anation.

three-fourxas of whose population were Catholics, would be content so aave no representation of their altn in lorr trials, in their country. Beferring to THE GJJSSBCGH ETICTIOXS Kr. declared the landlords gave to tenant a month only in which to hnd five years' rent arrears and cost. The ultimate offer made by tbe landlords to take a half year's rent looked generous, i bat the cost involved amounted to over two year' rent. The National Leame.

Parnell continued, never interfered nntil the work of eviction was in full awing. As one who had no responsibility in bringing forward the plan of campaign he could speak freely upon it. Many tenants who now had a roof over their head would have been cast upon bare hillsides but for the plan. The reduction in tbe number ot evictions for the last quarter was mainly due to the plan. Tne government waited two months before declaring the plan Illegal.

Was it illegal I That remained to be seen. la the meanwhile he attached no importance to the assertion of Illegality. The government talked of the robbery of landlords, forgetting that almost every title to Irish land was founded upon wholesale robbery acid confiscation. The bulk of tbe Improvement by tenants had been seized by land- lords who bad long been robbing the tenants of the produce of their labor and embezzling their right. Irish cheers.

Parnell went on to condemn coercion as Incitement to conspiracy. He taunted the Tories with the declaration that If they got powers of oppression equaling those of the Czar they would never be able to administer them under constitutional government, nor so long as Irish members had seats in Parliament. Cheers. Even now, at the eleventh hour, if the government refrained from POLICT OF EXASPERATION and stopped the Infliction of injustice by legal enactments and a system of repression which had done more to demoralize Irish tenants than all Fenian agitators from New York to Ban Francisco; if they would give Ireland power to-do for herself that which England seemed to have neither the wish nor the power to do, Ireland would show by her laws, tranquility and prosperity how unfairly she has been treated in the past and how unjust was the assertion that the Irish were not a law-ab lain g-peo pie. Cheers.

P. McDonnell. Nationalist member or North Sllgo, seconded the amendment. The deflate on the address, for the first time since the opening of the session, took a definite and practical form this evening, the House having an important asae in the Parnell amendments. Mr.

Parnell, In his speech, was moderate and judicious in tone. He purposely avoided absolute points of the principle of the campaign in order not to offend a number of Gladstonian members who disapprove the plan, but are inclined to condone it as a desperate temporary expedient. MIL FAJUTELL'S CteTTICISX of the successful result of the plan, and his comparison of its effect in modifying the relations between landlord and tenant with what he called tbe helter-skelter, barum-searum proceedure of the government's agents whieh had intensitied the disorder, was cheered by the whole opposition side. The speech was notable more for diplomatic calmness and finesse than for fervor or brilliance, and secured all hesitating members. Mr.

Parnell spoke with energy and at the close waa much exhausted. Mr. Gladstone promised to support tne Parnell amendment. Mr. R.

Hanbery. Conservative member for Preston, suggested tbe establishment of a sliding scale ot rents. He appealed to the government to deal with Ireland with dean hands and a clear conscience and endeavor to encourage the revival ot Irish industries Whieh England had destroyed. Tbe speech elicited cheers from the Irish benches. The Bight Honorable Hugh Holmes, Attorney General for Ireland, said the govern- mens was unable to accept a single proposition contained In the amendment.

There had been fewer evictions and the rent had been more promptly paid tnl winter tnan for seven year previous. These facts dearly proved that the rent disputes be- tween landlords and tenants were not due to the rejection of Mr. Paxnell's bill bat to the plan of campaign that had been adopted vita tne view 01 XUtTVLKO THE LANDLORDS OCT OF THE COCSTRT. Kef erring to the Dillon case. Mr.

Holmes said that any aiierauou 01 tne law was needed to deal with tbe state of affairs In Ireland, it would be directed, not against political, but against criminal action. The government would not be deterred from asking additional powers by the honorable member's threats of dynamite from America. Mr. ParneU arose to protest against the -Thef peaker said be had heard nothing personal in Mr. Holmes' remarks.

Holmes the sentence in a more general sense. He added that the government at the proper time would submit rem-' edial legislation, whieh would giro the utmost benefit to Ireland. -r Mr. Dillon said he tbonght It weald better have been reserved for the day of the trial. Ireland hated English law because, while minor offenses in the Bonth and Vfsst of Ireland were severely punished, Orangemen eouid commit murder with Impunity.

The WOM ot wvlotlons was dne to the joint aoot of government pressure and the plan ex csptiKn. eT ao, wmttnued the time would oonie whenljixlaaa' conscience woald be come awakened to the crime the country baa commitiea in muwiug sist in such scenes in behalf of men who were DEAD TO EVERY 6EXSK OF CHRISTIAN CHAR- IT I and publio duty. John Morley moved the adjournment or Although the debate la likely to last a week the government will Issne a pressing whip" for Thursday. It i expected that Ixkrd Hartlngton will follow Mr. Morley to-morrow.

Mr. Chamberlain will speak in Boo tl and aunsg me jutaier recess ana wm tmh uin Isle of Skye to Inquire Into the condition of the Crofters. GREAT BRITAIN. FarneU'i Health. Lomox, Feb.

7. Acting by his physician's advice, Mr. Parnell will go abroad to recruit his health after the conclusion ot the debate on the address. The Parnellites will oppose in Parliament an projects relative to tne liquor irum i Ireland, on the ground that the question should be reserved for an Irish Parliament. 8 The British Grain Trade.

Loxdok. Feb. 7. The Mark Lane Express, in its review of the British grain trade during the past week, says: The condition of English wheat offered has shown no improvement and as a result there has been slow sales and lower values, both in London and the provinces. The sales of Enjriish wheat during the week were 44,371 quarters at34s9d, against 67,437 quarters at 29s 9d during the corresponding period of last vear.

It Is estimated that the deliveree of English wheat from the beginning of the cereal year lS86-7 have been 18 per cent, under those for the same period in 1885-86. Country flour is 6 pence lower. Trade in foreign wheat is stagnant. The arrivals have been heavy and stocks are increasing at Liverpool, Bristol and London. The Australian shipments are commencing and the crops of the Argentine Bepublio and Chill will soon be on there way here.

Therefore if peace is maintained mere will be no chance for hither values. Flour is dull at unchanged quotations. Corn has hardened and prices have advanced 3d. Oats are firmer and have recovered 3d. Today English wheat was in bad condition, and very difficult of sale; corn was still more so oats 3d barley and peas were unchanged.

GERMANY. Dr. tVindthorst's Speech. Berij Feb. 7.

Dr. wtndthorst. tne leader of Centre (Catnolic) parry in the German Beichstag, In a political address delivered in Cologne, yesterday, tools a position of opposition to the policy recently expressed with that of the Centre party to adopt a policy of concentration on the septan nate bill in order to enable the Pope to niMt tr views of Prince Bismarck and se cure improvement in the position of the Papacy. ir. Windthorst said that the Pope's advocacy of the septennate bill was independent of the merits of the measure and arose from reasons of expediency and from political considerations.

If it had been possible to comply witn the wishes of His Holiness, he said, the centre Dartv would have done so, but nobody could aocomplisu the impossible. The Pope would not be displeased with his faithful sons In Germany for their refusal to comply with his political wishes when he had closely examined Into reasons which Im pelled them. FRANCE. Arrival of Cardinals Gibbons and Tas- chereaa. Baltimore.

Feb. 7. The Bun has the following special from Paris Th nt.imshiD La Boursome. having on board Cardinals Gibbons, of Baltimore, and Taschereau. of Quebec arrived at Havre at 7 o'clock yesteroay morning.

During the passage the weather was good, save for snow storm on three days. Jacanes Lemoyne and two others, sailors. fell from the fore top, Lemoyne going over board. The accident was tne occasion oi much excitement on board the vessel, bnt a pnest retained tne presence of mind to give Lemoyne conditional absolution while he was swept away. The ship was put atout and every enon made to save him, but without avail.

One of tbe otner sailors broke his collar bone, and the third sustained severe injuries, but both are now slowly Improving. The Cardinals both said mass at Notre Dame and took the train at 10: 30 for Pari. RUSSIA. Subterranean Disturbances in the Oil Ke-ions. 8t.

Petersburg, Feb. 7. The inhabitants of Baku, toe centre of the great Russian petroleum fields, have been much alarmed over a subterranean explosion, which shook houses and caused considerable damage. At the same time a volcano burst on Lok-bataa, 10 miles distant from Baku. For two night the volcano threw a column of lire and mud 350 feet high, illuminating the country for miles around.

The mud emitted during the eruption already lies from 7 to 14 feet deep over a full square mile of the territory. THE WAR CLOUD. Spanish Volunteers for the French Army. Pari. Feb.

7. Le Paris expresses thankfulness because Frunceis under a republican government A King, says the journal, could never have brooked German insults. Spanish republican emigrants residing in France have decided to form a volunteer force of 2000 men to assist France in the event of war with Germany. Tbe members of the extreme Left hare decided in favor of granting priority to Gen. Boulanger's military organization bill with the view of drawing from Premier Goblet a statement regarding the political situation.

THE RAILROADS. The Ballroad Committee in Lauderdale County. Meridian, Feb. 7. Special.

The mass meeting held Saturday night to ulscuss the question of Lauderdale county voting $100,000 in aid of the Warrior coal field road, showed an active spirit in favor of the road. Tbe Chairman, Capt. Joel P. Walker, announced to-day the committee of fifteen, appointed under Capt. John W.

Fewell's resolution to thoroughly examine this and any other scheme, and report to a citizens' mass meeting to be held Saturday, Feb. 9. The committee is composed as follows Capt. Jno. W.

Fewell. chairman Col. J. R. Mcintosh, John D.

Mclnnis, W. Bobioson, J. 8. Solomon. W.

H. Curtis, John H. Sewmes, John W. Which, C. M.

Kelley, J. G. Terry, Reuben Smith. J. B.

Mitobell, J. B. Thompson, Johnson Cnlpeper, Allan Cameron. The strength of the opposition lies in the lack of information as to the backers, and in the idea that if capitalists believe tne road will pay It will be built without aid from the county. The general sentiment appears to be that Meridian must do something to attract capital.

What is needed is a short line to the Warrior coal fields of Alabama, and sbould Meridian take no interest in its construc tion, foreign aid cannot be secured. Arrangements of the Southern Express Vift'anrD Mm Vnh. 7 fi rwxr. i a 1 1 Tfc is stated here to-night that the Southern Ex press tympany nave maae arrangements with the Natehex and Vicksburg Packet Company by whieh the Southern will con- pany now have a mail contract between this city and Natchez, and are running the steamer Carneal Goldman making three trips per week to this city and are running the steamer Shaw from Natchez to St. Joseph.

The latter boat will extend her trips toVicksburg, making a daily line between Vicksbunr and Natchez. The Southern Express Company have a lease over the Illinois Central and the Natchez and Jaek-son Ballroad and If more than probable that the Southern wlU continue to handle mueh ot their present business by the new arrangement. The steamer Goldman has been run with great regularity and the promptness ot a railroad. Sarrevlng Northward from Shreveport Shuetefost, Feb. 7.

Special. The Gould surveying party have a new line nine mile from the city and are moving northward. W. 8. Fordyke, the President of the St.

Louis, Arkansas and Texaa Railway, is expected in Shreveport Tharsday or Friday morning to have a railroad talk with the people on the extension of his road to Shreveport from Louisville or Magnolia. They have a toboggan slide at Bismarck, Dak. where It la said the steel-shod toboggans aoqulre a Telocity of three miles a minute. A Nebraska City bachelor declares that the grrlr down there are so anxious to get married that a man so homely tnat the reflection of his faoe will dent a new pan" can get dozen offers In a day without asking. Brown's Bronchial Troche, are wide-' ly known as an admirable remedy for Bronchitis, Hoarseness.

Coughs and Throat troubles. Sold only in boxtf. SPORTING. THE TURF. To-Day's Race.

The following are the weights and entries for to-day's races, together with the pools sold at the Turf Exchange last night First Race Selling, welter weights one mile. Lbs. 125 125 Lbs. Cathcart 129 Berlin 135 Leroy 131 Wedding King 133 fools uatnoart "wums o. Whiskey Jack, to, Berlin $6, King George $5, Leroy $2.

Second Race For non-winners, welch off according to times deieatea. rive xuriongs. Los Lbs. Kensington. 105 Billy Smith 105 Nat Kramer.

105 Pat 105 Logan 100 Frtd Davis loo Pro bus loo Pools Logan $10. Kensington S10, Probus 16, Nat Kramer $6, Fred Davis $1, Billy Smith S3. Pat Daly $3. Third Race toeuing, six ruriongs Lbs. Lbs.

Queen Esther 84 Hlbernta 81 Gov. Roberts. 95 Our Friend. 104 Barbara 93 Little Joe 0i Pools Our Friend $10. Little Joe $6, Bar- bara So, Queen Esther to.

Gov. Roberts Si, Hiberma F2. R. M. Ma nard, of Atlanta, left for New Orleans yesterday with Mordaunt, Romp, Belle and a two year-old.

BASEBALL. The Mobile Team. Mobile, Feb. 7. Special.

The Mobile baseball company honored President Morrow's draft to-day for $1150, being the guarantee money and initiation fee to the Southern Baseball League. Manager Kelly has about completed negotiations with Duffee, of Mobile, for left field, 'Behan, of New Orleans, for first base, and Eadon, of Evansvilie, for centre field. Kelly leaves to-morrow night for Louisville and Cincinnati to complete hts team. Kelly has line judgment of baseball players and will put a strong nine in the field. Birmingham Ready.

Birmingham, Feb. 7. Special. The following are the ball players Manager Harrison has engaged: Pitchers, afford. John Dooley, Lnndis Donahoe; catchers, Strauss, Wm.

Dooley Flint, O'Kourke, id; ireK. 2D: Arundel. oD: Lary.il: Peltz. Calull, f. The New Park.

The Robt E. Lee Baseball Park Associa tion completed Its organization last night. The charter will be ready for signatures on Tharsday morning. The board has deter-mined to call In 25 per cent, on the stock suDscriDed. judge Skinner and Gov.

Leiui-man are placing the stock. ROWING. Beaten by Bubear. Los do W.Feb. 7.

The race between George Bubear and G. J. Perkins, for the soulliDg championship of England, 400 and the sportsman's challenge cap, took place to-day and waa won by Bubear. The race was rowed over the Tyne championship course. CHESS.

Capt. Mackenzie's Visit. Capt. Mackenzie has devoted the first two days of his slay in New Orleans in sightseeing and rest. This evening he will com mence giving exhibitions of his chess playing powers, and will play a peripnuttlo match acainst zrom nrreen to twenty -rive oi the strongest players in the city.

NEWS IN BRIEF. The London Standard's correspondent at St. Petersburg affects to know on good au- tnonty tnat mere win no war in Europe. The post otnoe authorities are making extensive experiments with a view to connect tbe whole of Germany by the telephone. rne ran aibai.

oazette asserts that England has practically decided to adopt the Lee American rme tor tne use oi ner army. Goldsmith manufacturers of cloth ing, of Philadelphia, have made an assign ment. LlaDilltlea about sioo.ooo; no state ment of tbe assets can vet be given. The members of tbe Pnlladelphla Clothing Exchange closed their doors against the striking cutters; 100 men, who have probably ten times that number of persons dependent upon them, are now out of employment. Application ha been made for the appointment of a receiver for Urn Sun Publishing Company, of Cincinnati.

The company Is alleged to be Insolvent, and an assessment upon the stockholders is prayed. The employee of the South Boston Horse Railroad Company, on account of a disagreement with the officers of the company concerning the time-tables, went out on a strike yesterday. The men ask for a ten-hoar day, which the company claims cannot be ax-ranged. A DKUXKEN KUESE Doses an Infant "VVitli Liquor, Beats It, and Drags It Crying Along the Street, TILL. RESCUED BT SOME HUMANE LADIES.

Yesterday noon a scene was enacted on Chart res, between Contl and St. Louis streets, which for a time created considerable excitement and no little indignation among the witnesses, especially the female portion of them. A drunken mulatress came along the street with a pretty little white girl child about a year old. The little one was toddling along with unsteady steps and appeared to be very tired. In one hand it held a tin box and the other was grasped in the palm ot the hand of Its nurse, who was so drunk that she could not walk straight and appeared to be in danger of falling at every step.

The baby dropped the tin box. which Lad undoubtedly been given her to keep her quiet or to amuse herself with, and continued to walk on a few steps, when she apparently became exhausted and commenced crying. The Kress became enraged at the child and commenced beating It, whereupon the little one set up scream after scream, which appeared to inflame the anger of the brutal nurse still more, and ebeoouuuenced striking the infant on the forehead with her clenched fist. After walking up the street a short distance the nurse stopped at a bud fiancler's and began thrusting the llttie dimpled hand of the child through the bars of tbe cates for the birds to peck at. Several of the eages contained Brahma and game chickens, and these pecked at the hand of the child, to the intense delight of the malicious negress.

The child's hand began to bleed, and by this time Mrs. Gadmer and several ladies, who had witnessed the brutality of the nurse from their windows, ran down stairs and into the street. They took the child from hr arms and demanded to know tne name of its parents. Tnia the negress refused to tell, and Mrs. Gadmer then sent her little son for a policeman.

A gentleman, hearing of the affair, hastened to the spot and arrested the negress, who could scarcely stand. Several ladies offered their assistance to take the brutal and drunken nurse to the lockup, to the shame of several men who stood around indifferent spectators to the scene. On reaching the station the negress gave her name as Fannie, and said the niotner of the child resided on Orleans street. The gentleman who had arrested the negress then set out in search of the parents, and walked out Orleans street inquiring en ronte for the parents. Near Galvez street he heard that a child, tbe daughter of Mrs.

J. A. Laplace, who resided on Orleans, between Galvez and Miro streets, had been missing, with its nurse, a mulatress, since 9:30 o'clock, and that the mother was almost distracted. He hastened to the house indicated to him and informed Mrs. Laplace that the nurse had been arrested and that her little one was being taken care of by Mrs.

Gadmer, at No. 94 Chartres street. The mother hastened to the side of her child and found a physician by it bedside. He said that the negress had doubtless compelled tbe child to drink whisky, and that this is what might have caused the stnpor which the llttie one was in, and not the blow administered by tbe negress. The brutality of nurses to cnildren intrusted to their care by careless mothers is orten known to people In tne streets, but rarely to the parents of the children themselves.

The action and conduct ot tbe negress yesterday should be a lesson to mothers not to allow nurses to leave their houses with children. The negress Fannie had been in the em ploy of Mr. Laplace about three weeks, and np to yesterday did not exhibit any disposition to drink to excess. The Pall Mall Gazette is Lord Randolpn Churchill, cellor of the Exchequer. Pall Mall.

Twiiirio.i not an admirer of The late Cuan- aocordlng to the Fllhoerty-Gibbet, a lively mouse In whose mind la as nimble as a winay Darn, and who Is of political gamblers." the most reckless The Indians on the Digger reservation In Nevada had a big danee a few evenings are to which many whites were invited, a number of them went la and witnessed the dance, but upon attempting to leave they found the old chief at tbe door, who toht them it eost nothing to go in, but It would cost 25 cents head to get out. THE RIVER. Helena, Feb. 7. Special.

The river continues to rise steadily and twelve miles below here is now running through the gaps in the levee made by tbe overflow of last year. The splendid condt tion of the levees on the Mississippi side increases the danger on this side, and tbe planters iu the bottom are preparing tor the worst. Barou Saba. Feb. 7.

Special. Weatner fair and pleasant. Departed ior New Orleans: City ol St. Louis at 8 A. Oliver Belroe at 9:30 A.

Warren at 11 A. John H. Hanna at Port EaOs and barges a 4:30 P. M. No boats np to-day.

Natchez, Feb. 7. Special. River rising. Departed up Leathers at 7 A.

Golden Rule at 8 A. M. Down Pargoad at 9 A. with 1940 bales, 3700 sacks seed, 680 sacks meal and 2-J8 barrels oil. The Arthur Lambert and barges passed down at noon.

Delta. Feb. 7. Capt. Jno.

A. Btevenson, 15 Commercial Place Eads and barges down at 6 P. M- N. Davis, Master. Vicksbubg.

Feb. 7. Special. The river went up 30 inches to-day; at 6 o'clock this evening tne gauge marked 31 feet 4 inehes. The Lourey and barges passed up at 10 A.

M. The D. C. Fogel, with lour corn barges, passed down at 4 P. M.

The Anchor Line steamer City of Cairo telegraphed that she will arrive from Memphis at 10 A. M. to-morrow. There are 1600 bales cotton and 1000 sacks seed in sight for the Leathers to-morrow. She will no doubt come up to the city landing, as there is ample water for the largest boat in the river.

The Rule will get 150 bales of cotton and 100 barrels of oil here. The Helen Mead was withdrawn from the Tallahatchie trade to-day and left this evening, It is said, for Moore's landing, below Natchez, for 11,000 sacks of seed for the Refuge Oil Mill. Gbkemville, Feb. 7. Special River 13 feet and rising.

Up U. I. Schenck at 4 A. M. got 600 bales of cotton here at Barnes.

City of Cairo down at 3 P. M. had 650 bales for reshipment at Vicksburg for New Orleans. Harry-Brown, with tow of coal, down at 3 P. M.

Memphis, Ten Feb. 7. lSpecial.1 The Future City passed here to-day bound for St. Lou Is. Memphis, Feb.

7. River rose 4 inches. Departed Future City to St. Louis at noon, Kate Adams to Arkansas City at 6 P.M. Weather cloudy.

Cairo, Feb. 7. Special. The river rose 9-10 since last evening. Toe gauge reads 40 feet 5 inches.

The rate of rie during the last twenty-four hours was a llttie greater than lor the previous day, but the tributaries have, nearly all begun to fall and it is likely the ri-e will gradually slacken up. The weather is warm and raiuy. The steamerB Helena and David R. Powell started up the Mississippi this morning for St. Louis bnt both returned in a few hours to wait for the ice to tbln out a little more, ihey got about a mile above this city when they encountered considerable loe and a heavy fog which made progress dangerous.

There is no ice at Cape Girardeau or Grand Tower. It is banked up just above this city by the back water from tne Ohio, which ia teu or fifteen feet higher than the Mississippi, and prevents that srream lrom running out rreeiv. Capt. LSroiaskl will start the Baton Rouge and Providence, of the Anchor Line fleet, here and for St. Ljula to-morrow morning.

Tnelr crews will arrive during the night. The John Glluiore will leave to-night for Boimont to take a tow of five barges to New Orleans from there, and to pick up several more oo the way. She will leave Belmont to-morrow. The Granite State arrived at 11 A. M.

and left at 2 P. M. for below, adding several hundred tons here. The New Mary Houston came down trimmed up in splash boards on her guards, but she made some additions of paHHengers and freight here and departed for New Orleans at 8 P. M.

She picked up considerable corn on her way down from points about to be flooded by the river. The Wyoming came up from New Orleans at 8 P. and put olT a lot of cotton for re-shipmenu She will go up the Mississippi to-morrow. Louisville, Feb. 7.

Special. The river coinoieuc-eu to fall here at 10 P. M. last night and up to 6 P. M.

this evening had declined 5 inches. The marks to-night show S3 feet 2 inches in tbe canal and 30 feet on the falls, and falling slowlj-. Reports from above are that all the up streams are falling. All danger at this point is over. The highest point the river reached was 30 feet 7 inches in the canal.

The Smoky City left for Orleans, towing eighteen boats ot coal and four full Perry Welks and John Douglas are her pilots. Belie and McGowan arrived from Pittsburg with coal and returned with empties. The Iron Cliff, purchased at Evansvilie by Capt. John Stout, passed up for tbe Kanawha River: aho will be used in towing cook The Little Sandy was sold to-day to the 6elar Cooperage Company for $1500; she will leave in a few days for Paduoah. Weather cloudy, mud and threatening.

CLNCLNJiATl. Feb. 7. The river continues to recede gradually, having declined to 54 feet 2 inches. The weather is cloudy but not rainy, and so long as that continues there Is no fear nf a flood.

Evakbville, Feb. 7. itiver 43 feet 1 inch aud rising aiowly. It has almost come to a stand. Departed last night: Buckeye State for Cincinnati tnis morning.

Rainbow for Louisville; this alternoon. Bowling Green for Bowling Green. Weather cloudy and misty. St. Louis, Feb.

7. No arrivals or departures. The river has risen 6-10, with o1 feet by tho gauge. The weather is quite son and the river is nearly clear of ice. It is believed that navigation south is now resumed for the season, and as soon as tne ice blockade in the back water above Cairo Is broken or runs out.

boats will come up from below. The barge line and four steamers are loading at the levee for speedy clearance. The Osage and Gasconde Rivers, southern tributaries ot the lower Missouri, are booming from recent heavy rains in tne Ozark Mountains, and a considerable rise is expected to take place here this week. MARINE. New Yoke.

Feb. 7. Arrived Steamers Westland from Hamburg, and Germanic from Liverpool. Queesstowtj, Feb. 7.

Arrived: Steamer British King from Pniladelyhia. Feb. 7. Arrived Steamer California from New York. Daring the voyage 110 head of cattle died.

GLAbCOW, Feb. 7. Arrived: Steamer State of Georgia from New York. Southampton, Feb. 7.

Arrived Black Watch from New Orleans, Maumlang from Galveston for Bremen. Poist De Grave. Feb. 7. Sailed: Marseille for New Orleans.

Liverpool, Feb. 7. Sailed Legislator for New Orleans. Hamburg. Feb.

7. Arrived: Alva H. and Bandringhani. for New Orleans. Bremen, Feb.

7. Arrived Corona and Bt. Louis from New Orleans. Havre, Feb. 7.

Arrived: Trojan from New Orleans. HOTEL. ARRIVALS. ST. CHARLES HOTEL.

Barn et, Waco, Texas; Mr and Mrs Goldsmith, New York Heidenheimer, Galveston, Tex II Rugr, St Paul Chas San -fort. New York: Tassy, Sherman, Tex Foote, Philadelphia Fletcher, New York: A Fort, Meriden, Conn Brown, Cincinnati; Jas Valentine and wife, London, England Monroe Ogden, Macon. Ga Fulton, Galveston; James, Kansas City; Mr and Mrs Edwin Price and maid; Miss Fanny Davenport; Smith, Chicago; Coolde Barnard. Fullman, Boston Brown. Baton Rouge; Mil Tobias.

Cincinnati Harmon I) McEnnis and wife, Philadelphia; II Hopkins. Barahoo, Wis; Jackson, New York; Hume, Arkansas Chas McCleland. Forsyth. New York; Hey man. wife and two children, Shreveport; Peter Trezevant, Louisiana.

CITY HOTEL. TEH Robinson, A Baton, Datesburg; Stanley French, Brooklyn Leonard. A WomacJt and wife. 8t Helana; Shelby, ElllsviUe. Miss; White.

White and wife, Railroad Mrs Jessie 8ebastian, Morton, Tenn; Pike, NewY'ork; WH Woods, Ido Grove. Iowa; Shaffer, Louisiana; PG Aw berry, Georgia; Johnsou, Baltimore; Fletcher JonnG Shena, Mobile; Felix Drey tons, DOMc-Raney, Mississippi; EJEngman and wife. Lower Coast; DSP Moresby. Concordia, La; Chas Guild and wife, Dallas; A Hunton. Kansas City; Furlow, Refuge.

Miss; Misa Sallie Winder, Mrs Thomas Winder, Geo Cragon, Jr. Terrebonne A A Douglas. Pilot Town. Va. HOTEL VONDERBANK.

Bernstein, Hyenas. Snreveport. La Hewitt. Mansfield. La; Lowenstein and son.

NY; Sumrali. Olive, Tex; Fitton, Worcester. Mass Rindfleisch. Milwaukee, Wl: Hitt, Amrusta, Ga Douglass, Grafton, Mrs Ham-mersley and daughter. Cleveland, O.

HOTEL DENECHAUD. Slawson, Tex; Simpson Homer, La; 8 Jenks, Howard. Madison, Brown. NC; Mrs Diokson, Mrs Sher-work, Miss Waldron, New York KiddeiL, city; Williams. Boston; Hull and wife, Jackson.

Miss; Davln. DF Myers, Birmingham, Ala; Geo Harris, Miss; Antonle Majiques. Belize. Jesse Merrill, of Lake Byron, D.T., went to a spring one day last week, and seeing several fish vlaylng in the water hurriedly "got a pitchfork and with it drew out twenty large ouffalo fish, one of them weighing over thirty-six pounds. He caught enouga to last tha neighborhood several weeks.

Even Dakota fish-ponds are above the average In FIFTEEN TEARS. Dr. Ford Receives His Sentence from aJudgw Roman. Dr. T.

G. Ford, of Shreveport. was ar raigned before Judge Roman yesterday for sentence. It will be remembered that he was indicted by the Grand Jury for the mur der of John Kirkpatrick, who. it is claimed, lured Mrs.

Ford from home and family. On the day set for the trial Dr. Ford created a sensation by miking the taking of testimony unnecessary and pleading guilty of manslaughter. Yesterday he was again accompanied by his counsel, Judge C. H.

Luzenberg, A. H. Leonard and R. N. Ogden, and again there were a large number of spectators in the courtroom.

'Have you anything to say said Judge Roman, as the prisoner stood before the bar. "Nothing, except what has already been said," replied Dr. Ford. Judge Roman then spoke a follows The court takes it for granted that your plea, as recorded on the 2d ot this month, was made by you with a full understanding of its exact meaning law. The presence of such counsel as assisted you then, and their action an yours In the premises, precluded all other conclusion on the par tot the court.

You have admitted unusual as is the fact under similar circumstances that you violated the laws of the State of Louisiana, and that yon are guilty though not to the extent charged of the killing of John Kirkpatrick. It Is not the province of the court to consider the motives which may have induced you to assume the position you now occupy at this bar. There is nothing, under the statutes, to prohibit the offering of a plea of guilty by an accused party, nor is there any reason for it not being accepted by the representative of the State, with the sanction of the court, when its ulterior result would not cease to be a vindication of the law. "On trials tor murder," reads section 785 of the Revised Statutes of our State, "the jury may find the prisoner guilty of manslaughter." Your plea possesses no other significance than would such a verdict, had it been brought iu by a jury, and amounts, in law, to precisely the same thing. Manslaughter the crime to which you plead guiity is the unlawful killin of a person, without malice, either express or implied.

It is a killing supposed to have been done in the heat of blood, and while passion presumably blinds the better reason of man. But it is termed felonious homicide, none the less, and as such is and should be severely punished though, owing to its being imputed to the Infirmity of human nature," as the books have it, it aflVcts the liberty only, anu not the life, of him who may be adjudged guilty of it. Section 786 of our Revised Statutes says: "Wnoever shall be convicted of manslaughter shall be fined in a sum cot exceeding t'2000 and imprisonment at hard labor not exceeding twenty years." Thomas G. ord, to all intents and purposes, you stand convicted ot manslaughter before this court not by the verdict of ajury regularly impaneled to try your case, but by your owa free and voluntary admission to that effect. You are, so to speak, the only witness whose testimony was heard in the case at bar, and with no possibility of doubt or cavil, in the eyes of the law, that testimony shows you to be guilty of manslaughter.

It is clear to the court that no other living person could know more about the oommisston of tbe act for which you were indicted, than you yourself can or do know. Tnat aot is to be measured by the interpretation which the law alone puts upon it. With this view of the case, and gnided by no other consideration thau a sense of duty, with due regard also for uie peace and quiet of this community, the court does now sentence you. Thomas G. Ford, nnder your own plea, and by virtue of the section of the statutes already recited, to pay a Hue ot 50 cents, inclusive of costs, and to suffer imprisonment at hard labor, in the Stato Penitentiary, for the term ot fifteen years.

Tne Doctor returned to the dock aud soon afterwards left in company witn a deputy sheriff to walk to the Parish Prison. Steps to obtain his pardon are already in progress. Woman Suffrage. Tbe comparative unimportance of woman suffrage in the whole pi ogress of women, or even in comparison with the "emancipation aocomplisned within the lifetime of Lney Stone, Is strlkincly brought out in her own speech at the Womau Suffrage Convention last night. Fifty years auro the appearance of a speaking woman on a platform was a signal for a riot; young clerks were given a half -holiday to go and naze such outrages of what was then common decency as Abby Kelly Foster, now apotheosized with Garrison.

Now women are besought to come to every platform. According to Lucy Stone's own summing up last night, when tbe move meut for the equal rights of women began, married women had ho legal existence. They could not own a dollar of personal property, not even when they had earned it. T'-iey could not be guaruians of their own children, could not mace a will, could not make a contract or carry on business and be legally en titled to the profit of It. They did not own their own clothes.

They had no right to be buried in the family lot. Now, one alter another, many ot these shameful disabilities have been removed. There is scarcely a Northern State that has not changed some of these laws for the better. Surely it docs not matter then so very much, since all this has been accomplished without women's voting, that the suffrage is not Immediately forced upon them for it would nave to be forced upon them in the present attitude of the vast inijority of the sex towards tbe question. Voting will be but an Incident in tue' immense progress of the sex since the days of the Old Testament harem, but some otner incidents will probably take precedence of it, such as full coeducation and the development ot the business and in one y-makiug faculty more extensively among women, wide as has been that development already.

The vote in the United states Senate this week shows which way the tide sets. Woman suffrage received sixteen on the roll call, seven votes were paired, and one Senator, Mr. Plumb, was absent, who afterward said he wenld have voted for it-Here, then, are twenty-four Senators openly in favor of the measure, with forty-one against It. As the New York Time says, At the present stage of tbe agitation tnat is not a desperate showing by any means." The progressive section was in favor, too, and the backward section solid against iu As the Herald points out Examining the division list we find that the sixteen yeas were Republicans to a man, and that the nay column was composed of eleven Republicans and twenty-three Democrats. Thus the Republicans gave a majority of five for the principle ot woman suffrage, while the Democrats cast a solid vote against.

An analysis of the division by sections is presented below ANALYSIS BY SECTIONS. Yeas. Nays. New England 4 2 Middle States. 1 6 Western States- 9 7 Pacific States- 2 2 Southern 8taies 0 17 Total 17 34 It will seen that New England and the Western States gave a small majority for the resolution, that the Pacific section was tied on the issue, and that in the Middle States and the South woman suffrage had only a solitary supporter.

Boston Transcript. THE PASSES. Poet Eads. Feb. 7, 6 P.

M. Wind west, light. Arrived at Blast night: Steamship Louisiana, Gager. master, irem New YorE. to A.

Moulton Co. Last nicht: British steamship Red Be a. Baker master, from Liverpool, Jan. 19, to DeWolf Hammond. Steamship City of Dallas, Read, master, from Belize, Honduras, to Maebeca Bros.

At 8:30 A. M.f French man-of-war Le Bou-vette, Boetizel, commander, from Havana via Key West and Pensaeola. At 4 A. British steamship West Indian. Bertie, master, from Liverpool via West In dies and Mexican ports, to bl.

J. Sanders. British ship Gov. Wllmot. Clague.

master, thirty-four days from Rto de Janeiro, In ballast, to De Wolf Hammond. Italian schooner D. Cefalu, from Ruatan. to D. Cefalu Sc.

Son. No departures. Mrs. Collier, of Oakland. CaL.

has brought suit for divorce against her husband because he frequently went fishing, did not supply her with a sufficient quantity of butter and eggs and often complained because he had to eat a cold supper after a day of piscatorial sport. Her sister testified further that Mr. Collier refused to attend church for rear he would hare to put 5 cents iu the plate. The wife of an Atkinson. merchant showed him a telegram purporting to come from her mother.

Baying that she was very sick and asking her to go to her. The husband helped his wife to start, and. not hear-iur from his mother-tn-lw in due time, telegraphed an inquiry as to her condition. The answer was tnat she was well ana had been, and now the husband wonders if a handsomer man has coaxed his young wife away. The weather is' delightful now can oa W.

B. Leonard. 70 Baron ne street, and hire one of his fancy Turnouts, and take a drive up St. Charles Avenue. 'V- GEN.

WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN. He Celebrates His Sixty-Seventh Birth dav To-Dar. Gen. Wm. T.

Sherman, of the retired list irmted Btates army, was born Lan caster, Ohio. Feb. 8, 1820, just sixty-seven years ago today. He graduatea as est Point In 1840, served thirteen years in the army on the Plains and then resigned. The breaking out of the war tonnd him located in Tunisians, where he was rresioem oi Stat University, a famous military school in Rapides parish.

He entered the war as colonel in May, 161. and passed through all the grades of rank to the highest. He accepted the surrender of Gen. Joseph E. Johnston at the close ot the war.

tTo v.m rt1rri from the command ot the army three years ago for over age. jrxsiJEEDS AND MISHAPS. A Frolic and a Fit. vut.niav ninmini; two white men named R. A.

Falrexand Gus Williams wete arrested on Rampart street, between Lafayette anu Poydras streets, for being drunk, disturbing the peace and malicious mischief. Snortly after being locked up Williams fell in a fit and became unconscious. The charity wagon i A u'iilUni. a kr.n Tj the hOSDl- tal. where restoratives were applied and ne recovered, alter wuica no ma the station.

Kickers in Trouble. a nn tha nnrnitr of Basin and Customhouse streets, M. A Spencer and mm -i p.rrflAn. all colored. had a row, during which Louisa was kicked In the left side ana painxuuy mjuioi.

was attended to at the hospital and the Spencers were locked up. Yesterday they were arraigned before Recorder Burthe and remanded in default of $1000 bonds each. A Hand Crushed. About oViock yesterday morning at the Lane Cotton Mills a young white man named Henry Leonard had his left hand severely injured. He Is the engineer, and while attending to the machinery bis hand was caught iu the pump and Injured.

He waa oonveved to his home. No. 83 Calliope street, where ne was attended to. A Vicious Spring? Wagron. Yesterdav forenoon, about 11:43 o'clock, on the levee, head ot Uruilnes treet.

a white man named Vlzzo Calooue. ased Tl years. was knocked down and run over by a spring wattou and slightly injured about the head. The driver ot the waon at once drove off. aud escaped before tue arrival oi tae ponce.

A Youns Thief. ttfiArnnnn ArwuHal ftnmmers nf K.il.n al A And 1ICDU.U) X' Johnson streets, a white boy named E. F. dchweninger ior stealing a iov i ewvuco valued at 931 from a bakery at the above corner. WANTED IN MOBILE.

About a month ago Cnief of Police Crow ley, of Mobile, came to New Orleans In search of a boy named Alvin Brown, who bad cut and severely wounded a negro at Mobile. Brown resided in this city at No. 40 South Yillere street, and, accompanied by several detectives. Chief Crowley proceeded thither. Rrown.

however, could not be found and a guard was placed around the house. Brown did not appear and Chief Crowley abandoned the case Ior tne ume. no leit unonpugn of Brown, and last night, at 8 o'clock, Deteo-rivM Gaster and Cain, saw the boy at the corner of St. Charles and Perdido streets. They arrested him and wired the information to Chief of Police Crowley at Mobile.

1 ne Doy will be sent oacx to mooue to-mor row or the day after. A New Resurrection. The Alleged Discovery of a Blasphemous Fraud About to Be Perpetrated py tbe Mormons. a snecial dispatch from Lincoln. says Two miles south of this city stands a palatial residence owned by an English gentleman, long Identified with the Mormon Church.

The residence has been untenanted for the last two years save by an old ser vant named White, wno at one time was connected with the Jezrels. of Ixndon, a sect similar to the Mormons. Wnite oiaims he was defrauded by them out of his prt)erty, and latterly became converted to the Mormon faith. He was con sidered a trustworthy man. and was, there fore, partially through necessity, taken into the confidence ot the leaders ot toe Mormon Church of Zion.

which, according to his statements, is about to perpetrate a fraud to which he is unwilling to become a party. He says Two months ago there arrived at the mansion house an old gentleman having letters from my master in London, the purport of wnich was to obey his every wish, and to keep his preoenoe a secret to all ex cept those to whom he saw fit to reveal himself. Within a week persons began to arrive at the house In twos and threes, lney were from Salt Lake City, and held long whispered consultations with my mysterious guest. At first I uid not care who or what he was. Little by little I gathered from stray remarks that he waa a person of note, and soon after the truth burst upon me that he was none other than Brlgham xoung.

the great prophet of our church, who is to apparently be resurrected from the dead and preach to tbe people of Zion as one having returned from the grave to tell what lie beyond. That his death and burial were a deception will soon be seen by the whole world, while thousands oi cis ignorant believers bow at hi feet and he dictates to them tbetr ways of lite. My guests or visitors are men ot high standing, as their appearance indicates, and it was in conversation with one of them, wno supposed from the way I talked that I knew, tnat all my suspicion were verified. My Informant said that Brlgham Y'oung had risen from the grave in Salt Lake City and was instructing his disciples here in older to prepare the people tor the great event of his coming. My only reason for telling these facts is that I am an old man, witn out little to gain in this world, and 1 do not want to see people deluded as I have been.

The Jezrels absorbed my competence, and now tho Mormon have broken my faith." The old man told the story with a sincerity that warranted further Investigation, and a merchant who formerly did business in Salt Lake City drove out to the mansion yesterday and rapped at the door. Receiving no response he started around the House to apply at the rear, when, through a bay window, he saw the form and features ot an old mau who was sluing inside. As he was unaware of tois presence, the merchant approached to witnin a few feet of the window, scanning the old man's faoe elosely and stepping back immediately pronounced the man to be Bngham Youne, whose marked features he had often studied in Salt Lake City, and which once seen, he says, ean never be forgotten. For a few minutes the man eat silently and then raised his. hand to his brow, revealing a Bear about the wrist that still further establishes hi identity- It Is a well-known fact that the elders of the Mormon Cnorch throughout Utah and Arizona have ot late been preaching the return of the prophet.

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