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TIIE TIMES PHILADELPHIA, MONDAY MOHNING, MAHCII 5, 18S3. GAY FANCIES IJf SILK. SIN BONDS. Holy Matrimony, Mothers and Daughter! Conslilered in Yesterday's Sermons The old Pagans used to spy The coda there is no telling what will be done with the liquor question, upon which the Republicans foundered last November. It is evident, however, that the Buckeye State is destined to go through another bitter campaign and to bear the brunt of this year's politics.

Tips PUBLISHED EVERY DAY IN THE YEAR THE TIMES BUILDING PHILADELPHIA HEW YORK 41 PARK ROW. precludes marriage according to the laws of the Church, and now the grieved Father declares the marriage void by the ecclesiastical law, but the bride and groom don't seem to fret about it. The usual rule of exhibiting the trousseau of the bride was reversed in this case, and the trousseau of the groom was ostentatiously exhibited at Willard's Hotel, including his gorgeously laced and milled night shirts. It is some consolation that Colorado sold only the short Senatorial term to Tabor, and that he will now cease to disgrace the first legislative body of the country with his ignorance and vulgarity. his citizenship, and he was soon afterwards elected to Congress, and has been successively re elected until he fesigned last winter to accept the Gubernatorial chair, to which he had been chosen by an overwhelming majority.

Mr. Stephens' always feeble health has been a great drawback tohis usefulness in public life, although it in no measure impaired the vigor of his mental faculties. He has been a conservative Southerner in Congress since the war, and his general influence upon the South and in harmonizing the once bitterly estranged sections, will be remembered as the best results of his statesmanship. He could do and say what few other Southern men could do and say in and of the South without periling his popular following, and he ever wielded his power for conciliation. Mr.

Stephens does not appear as a great man among the great of the country, when his qualities and achievements are analyzed. He was a clear, cold, tedious disputant full of fine spun theories, and edited several public journals to death by his elaborate leaders. He was honest, genial and hospitable. His home in Liberty Hall" at Crawfordsville, ever presented the most hospitable welcome to the friend or stranger, aud he was venerated in Georgia as one of the relics of a better age. His predominant personal characteristics are best illustrated by his free use of tho pardoning power, that nearly emptied the prisons of Georgia iu the few months he was Governor.

No man in Georgia would be so sincerely lamented as Alexander H. Stephens, and the whole country will cherish his memory with profound respect. ALEX. II. STEPHENS.

Death of the Governor ol Georgia Tbe Statesman's Last Moments. Atlanta, March 1 At about 2 o'clock this morning it was evident that Governor Stephens was much weaker and that a crisis was approaching. The doctors had a strong mustard plaster prepared and put on his wrist. They let it remain for about twenty minutes and when removed there was not the slightest sign of inflammation, showitig that there was very little vitality left. At about 2.30 o'clock his extremities became cold and clammy and assumed a purnlish hue.

Dr. Miller, one of tbe attending physicians, said: "The end is not fur off." As the end drew near Mr. Stephens was lying on liis back, with his head turned slightly to the right. The husky rattle in his throat that had been plainly perceptible earlier in the night had ceased entirely. There was no more heavy breathing and not the slightest gasping.

At 3.15 o'clock the family was called in. After breathing almost imperceptibly for a few minutes he died without the slightest tremor. The news of his death caused the profoundest sensation, as it was not generally believed he was so near death's door. To day his remains have lain in state at tbe Executive Mansion, where they were viewed by 20,000 persons. This afternoon meeting of citizens was held and addresses delivered by Senator Colquitt, Judge Martin J.

Crawford, Judge Logau, E. Bleckley and other prominent citizens. A citizens' committee was appointed toco operate with the committee from the Legislature aud the State House oflieers on the conduct of the funeral. The remains will lie in state at tho Cupiotl until the burial, which will occur here on Wednesday or Thursday. DKATH FROM EXHAUSTION.

Colonel John A. Stephens, a nephew of the Governor, said last niirht 1 have never known him to speak so little of death as during his present illness, or to make so few arrangements for the worst that might come. Iu all his attacks he has been most careful to impress on me the minutest details of his wishes. In this illness he bus not said a single word of any of his desires. This but confirms the theory of his illness.

It was exhaustion rather than disease that brouaht about his death. It was the mind and not the body that gave way." Governor Stephens made his will some time ago. Ife leaves Sin.noo in money to the children of his Into brother, Stephens, nnd the rest of his estate, with the exception of a few minor bequests, to his nephew. Colonel John A. Stephens.

What bis estate ill foot up depends largely on the sale of his "New History of the United States." He made about $30, 000 on "The War Between the States," aud his new book is selling well. Above his bequests his estate will probably pay 810,000. The Clirouiele says: "The death of Governor Stephens is a calamity to the State. All denominations and classes, irrespective of party, are profoundly moved by the death of this statesman, patriot and philanthropist. Although dead, he will live as the most illustrious of Georgians." Rose Gardens and Gorgeous Autumn Scenes Reproduced on Hummer Guwns.

New York Letter in the Savannah News. The summer silks that the quiet elderly ladies wear, the foulards, have changed very little, nor has there been a noticeable change in the small checks and hair stripes. The surahs also appear in solid grounds, checked with lines of green and gold or shrimp pink and brown upon brown or ecru grounds. But the novelties are more startling. The finest summer silks are the China silks and the Indian corahs and sursbs.

These have both light and dark grounds, but the tinted ivories and creams are the most eftective for showing up the marvelous designs. These are very large, and consist of ironical fruit, flowers and foliage thrown upon the surface In a bold, original and striking manner, yet with consummate art in the combining of forms and blending of colors and shades of color. The three most successful designs are the mango, with reticulated and laueeolated leaves; the orchid and the passion flower. The exquisite coloring which is put into these reproductions of curious natural objects, the strength and freedom in drawing and tinting, and the faithfulness make them a most interesting study, and one that can be taken up again and again and still find something new to admire. There is a musical motive, too, running through the whole, a charm of tone as distinct as if expressed fn sound, nnd which reappears in different degrees and gives a depth and meaning and expression which is difficult to convey in words.

There are other designs, one of which is called the rose garden," and another autumn leaves." Both are extraordinarily bold and effective; but who could wear them or where, excepting at a fnuev dress ball, it won be hard to say. Imagine tiie ground thickly covered with the yellow of the maple, the reds of the sumach, the brown of the dead leaves, and scattered here and there wonderful pule yellow roses, each largo enough to wear singly on a bodice. This is the autumn leaf pattern. The rose garden docs not cover up the ground entirely. The roses are of immense size that is, the yellow ones are hut softly shaded.

Lying near them ore red jacqueminots, natural in size and so fresh looking that one can almost inhale their perfume. Tiie fault of the autumn leaf design is that it looks too much like a cretonne, and indeed some ot it has been sold ior furniture covering, but it is a marvel of natural effects in bright, dead, falling, frost struck and just turning leaves, and is as much a work of genius us if it hud been put with the brush upon canvas. A NOTED SCOUT COSE. Death of Colonel Harry Ollmor, of Mosby'g Command, in Iia lliimire. Special Dispotch to TiiE Times.

Baltimore, March 4. Colonel Harry Cilmor, the noted Confederate scout and guerilla, who during the war was conspicuous for his pluck nnd bravery in various cavalry expeditious under Mosby's command, died oteigbt o'clock this evening, from a cancerous affection, with which he had been suffering for several weeks, in the forty sixtli year of his ago. Colonel Gilmor met his death with remarkable fortitude. Ho recently'snbmittcd to two painful surgical operations, declining the use of opiates, but there was no beneficial result. His suflerings for the past ten days ond up to five o'clock this afternoon were of the most intense "character.

Notwithstanding this he was comparatively cheerful. His mind was unclouded, and only a few days ago he conversed cheerfully with General Jubal A. Early, who called to see him. Governor Hamilton was among his visitors yesterday nnd many ex Confederates cubed recently at bis house. The death scene was witnessed by only his immediate family and during the lust three hours of his life he was unconscious.

Colonel Gilmor will be buried with military honors. The members of the Maryland Line Society, Confederate Stute Society of Maryland. Fifth Maryland Muw ns and Odd Fellows anil other societies of which deceased was a member will rtioipute in the demonstration. Prominent men hunts and bunkers have united in an ett'ortto raise subscription of ten thousand dollars lor the education of Colonel Gilmor's three or phan children, and up to this time about four thousand have been subscribed. CO UNCI IjM AX IC A VKLER3.

The Pleasant Journey Upon Which the Company "Will Kmburft To Day. About twenty Councilmeu will jio West by the train which leaves the Broad Street Depot at 11 o'clock this morning. For some months past various members of the lower brunch of the city's legislature have been talking oi taking a pleasure trip, and a short while ngo they fixed on Florida as the objective point of their journey. On inquiry, how ever, nt the railroad oflieeit was found that various difficulties presented themselves and the idea was chonged so us toexclude orange groves ond Key West and include Cincinnati, Chieugo.St. Louis and kindred cities.

A Pullman palace ear and sleeper have been chartered and the travelers intend to return by Tuesday or Wednesday week. On account of the number that are going there has been a considerable reduction in passenger rates, and some of tho Couueilmcn expect that the entire trip, including board nnd lodging, ill not cost hem more than even less than that. Among those who will beof the party ore t.Viiiuciliucn C. K. Smith, who engineered the trip.

II. C. Huiilap, Ilaltermun, Lawrence, Levi, Miller, IMii fcek, Coui ude, Willig, Joseph Grim, Merklee, Gruee and Brown. President Lex. of Common Council, will call a special meeting of that body for Thursday next, and these legislators being many miles away will, of course, be unable to he present.

Mr. Lex said lust evening that the approving of the bonds of tiie new Chief Fngineer of the Water Department, Colonel Ludlow, the question of tin. appointment ot street inspectors and various others were of too much importance to bo held over. Gallagher's Libel Arrest. From ttie Harrlsburg Patriot.

The publication of which Mr. Gallagher complains was made fn October lust. Nearly live months have since elapsed, yet Colonel McClure never attempted to evade the responsibility or shrink from the consequences of the act. A summons lo appear before any magistrate in this city or elsewhere forwarded by mail would have been promptly responded to any day since the event. Colonel McClure has been no fugitive from justice and there was no occasion to treat him as such.

No intimation of a purpose to prosecute was ever given until Colonel McClure, in pursuance of business or pleasure, or both, came to this city. '1 hen every consideration of hospitality nnd decency was outraged by his arrest. Whether the motive that impelled the action was an earnest desire to vindicate an injured character or bud an ulterior purpose it is impossible to suy, but every citizen of Harnshurg bus cause to blush to night that such on indignity upon a distinguished citizen of the Commonwealth is possible within the shadow of the State House. tVhat a Kurglar's Outfit Is. From tho Cleveland Leader.

Bank burglars' tools are generally of a very superior order, gathered with care aud pieeo meul until the kit is made up. A full kit of the best order is worth Mechanics of a superior class exist in large cities who make a specially of fashioning burglurs' tools. Iu the absence of such a mechanic the tools are collected in purls, but as this is a risky way of obtaining them it is avoided, if possible. Kits of the tobyiuau's tools are kept on hand for hire and a good collection can ho obtained iu tho centres of tho business for from $100 to JaJO. Wiggins' Own lilizzard.

If "Wiggins had dropped into Philadelphia last night he would have felt like shaking hands with and congratulating himself. If it wasn't his blizzard that made every one blue who hud to be on the street, as wind storm it certainly was stout enough tor even the prophet to identify as the child of his prognostication. Its intensity increased toward midnight, when every'hreoth of it seemed to tie iee biden. At Ibat hour the indications were that the blow would develop a strength entirely worthy of tho month of winds. The Men Who Produced Sabin.

From the Minnesota Tribune, Pep. To morrow tbe people of the State will bid a final adieu to a recreant Legislature without a tear and without a regret. And a day of reckoning will not be long postponed. Ftfmunrfft More Than alHiiheslitft. From the Springfield Republican, lud.

llep. If anything happens to President Arthur this country is sure of on able, honest and learless acting President until a new President is chosen. Neglected to Give His Name. From a Chat With Mrs. Lnnglry.

I have a lovely collie, a parrot and nn excessively ugly but fashionable German dog, with very short legs and long body. STATE NEWS IN BRIEF. Charles Fuli'ord was shot and killed by John Hamlin, a Swede, at Niles Valley, Tioga county, a tew days ago. The murder was unprovoked. Near the Tillage ot Cameron, iu Cameron county, there live ten farmers whose farms join one another.

These ten farmers have ten babies whose ages do not vary more than threo weeks, one from another. The tract of 90(5 acres of land in Mahnnny and Ryan townships, Shuylkill county, that recently wns sold to the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Company, once was sold for 78 cents to sutisly buck claims for taxes. A widower iu "U'cllsboro married his dead wife's sister, who had a daughter. In a year or two wife No. 2 died nnd he married the daughter.

Ho thus becomes not only his wife's husband, but also her uncle and stepfuther. "While Dr. Guerstiey.of Fraukford, wns visiting a sick woman in Kowlundsvillc, two children poured a pint ot molasses into bis tall hat. 1 he physician did not notice that his hat had been tampered with until ho put it on his head. II.

M. Mead, proprietor of a hotel in Corry, recentlv (ought for fifteen minutes in a closed room with mad cut. After Mr. Mead had been badly cut about (he race ond neck, a chambermaid came up with a poker and killed the cat. It is reported in Danville that the North Branch Canal ot the Pennsylvania Railroad will be abandoned and the Nanticoke dam torn away during the spring.

The freight of the canal will bo carried by tho North and West Branch Railroad. At sale at William Umbenhower's, in Penn township, Berks county, few days ago, there was sold for six dollars on old tushloned pleasure sleigh which bad been purchased by Mr. limbenhower for seven dollars at sale held at the same place and on the same dute just fifty years before. Tut! Chinese nnd Indians speak most favorably of Hr. Bull's Cough Syrup.

Price, only 25 cents. grant all things to them that wait," and the large and earnest congregation assembled at the West Arch Street Presbyterian Church, Eighteenth and Arch, yesterday morning, looked as if the proverb was at last fulfilled in the history of this particular church. It is one of the purest, most harmonious and most chaste church buildings in this city. The congregation was one of the first to take the fashionable step westward, but, though it has always had good ministers, the crowd never took to it. A good many people had the habit of joining it for a little while and then leaving for other and more congenial spiritual atmospheres.

With this sort of experience Rev. Dr. Edwards and Rev. Mr. Willits came and saw and worked and left without conquering permanent success.

The present minister, Mr. Hemphill, is a much lighter man than either of his predecessors, but so tar he has attracted a larger congregation than they. It is now au earnest people. The music is spirited and tbe congregation sing with a will. Yesterday morning Mr.

Hemphill preached from the text. Psalms, 116, 10: "Oh, Lord, truly I am thy servant: Thou hast loosed" my Mr. Hemphill pictured a freed slave girl who had been purchased from bondage.and said her condition and her gratitude were typical of the Christian's true position in liie, Man was really born in sin; a miserable slave by nature, his general gratitude to God for the general blessings of life and his good works were useless until he realized bis sin and guilt aud bondage, and until ho had a sense of forgiveness and a perfect gratitude to a perfect God his lite was not Christian was all selfish legal service to some small fraction of the Almighty. Mr. Hemphill seemed to bo very earnest about the doctrine of "sin bonds," nnd the doctrine of forgiveness and legal redemption.

He did not say much about the actual bonds, of over dressing, bad temper, bad digestion, and a thousand little twitching. of things the members ot the congregation were thinking about. Nor did he touch the beautiful and heroic processes by which ninny of them were fighting against those sin bonds but it wns a most gospel sermon. Culvinistic imputation with a good deal of rhetoric, but little applt cation to the actual experiences and wants of tiie hour. The sermon was very long and many of tha people grew very weary of ft.

Wasataka Yamanaka, a Japanese student from Marshall College, Lancaster, delivered an interesting address at Christ Reformed Church. Sixteenth and Green streets, yesterday. The pastor, Rev. G. II.

Johnston, said the speaker arrived in California only six or seven years ago, but soon became a convert to Christianity. He came to Marshall College to fit himself for missionary work in his native country. Mr. Yamanaka spoke from tho text: Lo, I am with you alway, even to the end of the world." He praised the heroic devotion exhibited by converts and missionaries iu Japan in the face of the greatest persecution for having told the people tho plain story of the Scriptures. He attributed the persecution to ignorance, us tho people did not know Christianity was tho true faith.

The principal work had heretofore been confined to tho seaboard cities, but of late they bud penetrated to tho interior cities. One Christian university had been established and was iu charge of a graduate of Audover. Even the Buddhist priests had come to recognize the importance of the work, and were now distributing anti Christian tracts, iu which they confess that Christianity is spreading like lire ou the plains. A sum equal to liud been contributed by the con verted Japanese themselves in the past two years to be expended in sustaining the missionary work. Rev.

Dr. A. J. Roland, of tbe Tenth Baptist Church, Eighth above Green, preached on "Future Probation," last evening, from Corinthians 10: For we must all appear before the judgment seat ot Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his Ibody, according to that he hath, done, whether it tie good or bad." He said the ago is one of scientific research, extending even to the Bible. This is ns it should be.

The Bible can stand the test. According to modern notions God must use all possible means for the rescue ot mankind. This sentiment is a reaction from the old ideas of punishment. Some seek refuge in tiie idea of annihilation, or a conditional immortality. God will bo merciful.

Paul said that tho heathen would be judged fn the light of their own consciences. Joseph Cook holds that some may bo illuminated in the hour of death. But a future period of probation is a slenderly supported theory. Death ends our hopes and the possibility of our accepting the truth of the gospel. Rev.

Dr. Tiffany preached last evening in the Arch Street M. E. Church, Brond and Arch, on Mothers and Daughters," from the text Ruth 1, 19: "So they two went until they came to Bethany." The church was crowded, evidently in expectation of a popular discourse on the modern relations mothers and daughters, hut the sermon was a plain Biblical talk. Dr.

Tiffany elaborated at length on the position of ltnth and Naomi ns mentioned in the text, and then asked the question, the mothers of to day really take the course of Naomi and Ruth? Too muny, he said, were anxious that while their daughters should bo Christians they should also enjoy the riches and honors of Moub. Many mothers spend more days In a single year consulting with their children about dress than they do moments in a lifetime praying with or lor their spiritual good. If Naomi hud pursued that course Ruth would never have turned out as well as she did. Mothers and daughters were urged to follow their example. Rev.

George McClolIan Fiske preached last evening on Holy Matrimony" at St. Murk's P. E. Church, Locust, above Sixteenth street. He took the high religious ground that marriage was a sacrament typified by the union of Christ with His Church; that this godless ago hud made it fashionable to heathenize marriage.

Matrimony simply meant motherhood, and this sacred central thought of the relationship was perhaps the deepest human aspect of it. He spoke of divorce as tt common abomination, and pointed out some of the evils that are eating at the heart of society by reason of tho frequent divorces of these days. AU tho wealth of the world could not compensate one for a tainted manhood, such as divorce led to Many marriages were bargains with tiie devil, but the preacher did not state how such bargains nnd tha devil were to be treated, except by bearing the burden to the bitter end. It was au excellent discourse, and delivered with evident earnestness aud sincerity of couvlction. Odd I'ato of a Georgia Sparrow.

From ttic Thomasville Knlerprise, "While Dr. J. T. Metcalfe was out on one of his hunts in the country the other day he came across a sparrow which had been decapitated and transfixed on a thorn. Tiie doctor's intimate knowledge of the habits of the genus avis led him at once to understand Ihe cause of so novel a sight.

It seems that this sparrow hud fallen a victim to a rapacious bird, known as the butcher bird," which strikes its prey with its beak, kills it, mill off its head and impales it on tt thorn or twig fur greater convenience iu pulling il to pieces. Fights With Samson's Weapon. From Texas Sittings. In (he matter of destroying Englishmen O'Donovan Rossa is a long range bore. Vncte Sum's Solid Armor.

From the Knoxville Chronicle, Rep. A tariff is a shield ami not a sword it protects us, but stabs no one else. llnx Adeler's Slory. Jim Itim.nv's Luck, RlOi.KV'S Ll'CK, Jim Kioi.r:v's Lcc Jim Ituu.F.v's Ll'CK, Jim liuu.KV's Lock, Jim Ui dcuy's Luck, Just Bol In the VolIK W'KKItCY. Kkw York Wbkki.v.

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WnlniH Stu cef, Announce Unit loti.ouo persons have successfully Inhaled tiie gas ior the extract ion ol'teeih at his olliee. asnmrr Rubber Watei iroof iiieiil. B.Lkvicks' Son Co, Headquarters, 724 CulstncT Speaker Keifer's farewell address is, in the main, in very good taste, and is proof that the evolution theory may be true. It is probably the most sensible speech he ever made and proves that the man is not entirely above those improving influences which accompany great responsibilities. It is really gratifying to be able to say something kindly of Mr.

Keifer, even if it is nothing more than to declare that nothing became him so well as his taking off. He entered the Speakership by means ol a bargain and proved himself a small and bitter partisan, often without the least occasion. He permitted himself to be used by men not overscrupulous and at the eud of his first session had secured, if he did not deserve, the ill will of the minority. But his second session showed a marked improvement as if he were chastened by the refusal to pass a resolution of thanks and had, thereupon, resolved to win this stock favor if nothing more. It is probably reassuring to him to believe that he will never again be called to so important a position and to know that his greatness is all behind him.

The New The new Tariff law was passed iu both branches of Congress on Saturday, as reported from the committee of conference, and was promptly approved by the President. It was passed in the Senate by a vote of 32 to 31. Of the negative votes, all were Democratic hut Cameron of Pennsylvania and Van YVyck of Nebraska, nnd the affirmative votes were all Republican but Davis of Illinois, Mcpherson of New Jersey aud Mahone of Virginia, and two of them are not classed as Democrats. Mitchell of Pennsylvania was paired with Johnston of Virginia, who would have voted against the bill, thereby relieving Mitchell if he. had desired to vote in the negative.

Had he done so, the bill would have lallen, but ho very wisely decided not to vote at all, and the Tariff was thus saved by a hair breadth escape on a question of punctilio. In the House, the bill passed by the decided vote of 152 to 110. The affirmative votes were all Republican but Messrs. Beltzhoover, Bliss, Ermentrout, Hardenbiirgh, Hardy, Harris, Klotz, Morse, Mutchler, Randall, Ross, Scoville, Shelley, Sneer, Wilson and the two Virginia and Pennsylvania Wises. The negative votes were all Democratic but Messrs.

Bay ne, Campbell, Cook, of Iowa; Dawes, Er rctt, llubbell, ilelvinley, Miller, Rice, Robinson, the two Ohio Taylors and Urner. The distinctive Greenbaekers voted solid against the bill. The Pennsylvania members gave 19 votes for the measure, five Republican votes against it Messrs. Payne, Brunt Campbell, Errett and Miller with Mosgrove, Cur tin and Walker absent and paired. The high Protectionists of Pennsylvania and Ohio united with the Pree Traders to defeat the new Tariff, but there were just enough moderate Democrats in both Houses, of whom Senator McPherson and Ex Speaker Randall are typical men, to give the country a reasonably fair Tariff and assure tranquillity to the business interests of the nation.

The chief objections to the new Tariff on the Protection side came from the iron interests of Pennsylvaniaand the wool interests of Ohio, but they were wisoly overruled for their own good. Had the report of the conference committee failed, the Ta riff issue would have been plunged into an inharmonious Congress and compelled to run the gauntlet of a Presidential contest. There would have been at least two years of the most depressing uncertainly in all business circles, and it is not at all clear that a more favorable result to Protection could be obtained by dinging the question inlo the whirlpool of a Presidential struggle and trusting to the Congress of 1385 to settle our Tariff policy. The Tariff on iron and steel is not what our manufacturers demanded but it must be remembered that they have greatly weakened their cause by tho abuse of Protection in the past. Tho greed of our iron producers inflated the price of iron when a sudden demand was created several years ago, and thereby flooded our market with foreign iron to destroy themselves, and the high Tariff on steel was prostituted to extortion.

The iron interests staggered under the load of their own record in the battle for a new Tariff, and they are wise who shall speedily learn that, the highest possible duties have been secured for them. There was quite as much merit iu the claim for larger duties on wool as there was in the claim for larger duties on iron, but both have obtained all that the country is now willing to give, aud probably more than could be secured in a future revision of our Tariff. It is fortunate for both political parties as well as fortunate for the general business interests of the country, that the Tariff issue is settled for years to come, and tiiat it will practically disappear from our national contests until most of our present Presidential aspirants shall have passed away. There will be blatant Free Traders and clamorous prohibitory Protectionists to be heard hereafter as heretofore; but they will be only tho ''end men" of the political shows, and uufelt in the control of parties or administration. Our vast and varied industrial interests will adjust themselves to the new Tariff policy, and they will dread change.

Tariff tinkering will be in disfavor with all parties, nnd the inexorable laws of supply and demand will be accepted by all. The Republicans escape a fearful responsibility by the passage of the new Tariff. Had it failed, the inevitable unrest and paralysis of business would have held the majority party as answerable, and the Democrats would have been compelled to accept a most unequal battle iu 188 1 in the Tariff States of New York, Connecticut, New Jersey, Pennsylvania nnd Indiana, with danger of a Tariff epidemic in the Virginias, North Carolina, Alabama, Louisiana and Texas. Both parties have bceu lucky; the majority Republicans in giving the country a Tariff, and the minority Democrats in getting a Tariff in spite of their regulation stupidity. Considering the grave peril that threatened the business stability of the nation, we heartily welcome he enactment of the Tariff of 1883.

Death of Alexander H. Stephens. Alexander H. Stephens is dead. He has filled a most conspicuous place in the political history of the last thirty years.

lie was a leading Whig Congressman from the old Augusta district in Georgia when the Missouri Compromise was ruthlessly repealed in 1854, and it was to bis parliamentary skill that the measure was Anally successful. In the slavery dispute that followed he naturally drifted with Clingmah and others into the Democratic ranks and ended iu the secession movement of 1801. He met the secession issue with unusual candor and defined the foundations and structure of the new Confederacy with a frankness that was complained of by the more reckless secessionists. He proclaimed that slavery was to be the corner stone of the Confederacy, thus boldly avowing the truth that most ot the Confederate leaders sought to conceal. Ho was chosen first provisional and then regular Vice President of the Confederacy with Davis as President, but he soon became estranged fmi the Davis administration and seldom appeared in the Confederate Senate during the last three years of the war, while his State, under the administration of Governor Brown, was openly hostile to the Davis government.

At the close of tho war ho was imprisoned in Fort Warren for a time, but was released mainly on the appeal of Governor Curtin. He soon took tip the question of reconstruction and his Crawfordsville speech on the duty of the South was one of the first important responses from that section to the logical results of the war. He was one of the first of the Southern leaders to receive restoration of delivered by carriers for twelve cents a week. Mail Subscription six dollars a year, or fifty cents a month, postage free. SUNDAY EDITION, double sheet, two dollars a year, postace free.

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Address all Letters and Telegrams to THE TIMES Philadelphia nilLADELI'IIIA, MARCH 5, 1883. (y York lli anoli Ollit of The Time, 41 arlt Kim'. JRif TtioTiim' is fi.rsalc in Yorlf v'lr lnorniiiK nt 7 o'clock lit all tlic i im ill ltolel anil news Miami. To go out filibustering is not the worst way to get rid of a Congress, after all. It pretty effectually killed all kinds and manner of jobs and sent tbe lobby home without much spoils wherewith to pay bills.

REPRESENTATIVE EUTTEI! WORTH, of Ohio, hung to his whisky bill till the last moment, but he accomplished nothing with it. It is fortunate, ior a number of reasons, that But terworth is not a member of the next Congress, lie has been a disgrace to the late House. His blackguardism and vulgarity made it unsafe lor ladies to visit the House, and he has been the representative ot some pretty bad lobby jobs. The people of Cincinnati did a good day's work when they reformed Btitterworth out of Congress. He carries considerable of his own kind of company with him into private life.

It does not appear that the closing scenes of Congress were unusually disgraceful, but there was enough suggestion in twoo three speeches made by members of the House to satisfy the country that some of its statesmen were not any too sober in the early hours of Sunday. There were several references in what is by courtesy called debate to the amount of whisky which had been taken. The members laughed as if it had been a good joke. It is not probable that the people whose interests were so largely in the hands of these members can regard the tiling as a joke. It was a time not for drinking and carousing, but for the exercise of coolness and clear judgment to prevent any unworthy legislation in the natural contusion and excitement of the closing hours ot the session.

It is not easy to point with pride to the late House. Tins suit of Michael Clcary against the Mayor has the merit of originality. Mr. Cleary and Mr. Sullivan proposed, some time ago, to give an exhibition of the manly art of pounding one another, whereby they expected to reap pecuniary profit, but the uuapprecia tive Mayor iorliado the performance.

Mr. Clcary now sues the functionary for damages. If this suit succeed it will open up a new field of speculation. The faro banker whose place has been pulled might sue the police for interfering with his business, and the burglar, foiled in his designs, might recover the value of the goods he expected to carry away. The disposition ot the police to interfere with various peaceful industries has long been a subject of complaint and Mr.

Cleary has constituted himself a champion of the oppressed and intends to vindicate the right of every man to break heads and laws at will. Tin; Western papers publish an array of alarming reports of riots among iron workers at Carondelet, miners at Sulphur Springs, paper makers at another place and sundry minor disturbances that suggest at first sight a very uneasy state of affairs. Carefully examined, however, these reports generally resolve themselves into examples of what the police comprehensively describe as drunk and disorderly." At Carondelet, where the iron workers have been on a long strike, two ol the strikers got into an altercation in a tavern a policeman interfered and the crowd in the tavern set upon him. Out of this grew the reports of a riot, and it illustrates pretty well the kind of influences that usually breed disorder. Idleness and drink are the great breeders of mischief, not deliberate lawlessness, and when we hear of rioting we can usually trace it to the saloon.

Tin: Legislature is already lired of the Saturday sessions and it has actually held but two of them. The Senate adjourned over from Friday until Monday without any nonsense and the House had no quorum on Saturday. This is not what is wanted. The people can excuse tbe statesmen if they do not care to do more than three or four days' work a week, but the people do not waul any trilling about it. reason Saturday sessions were demanded was that the necessary work of the Legislature might be transacted within the hundred days of the regular session aud the heavy expense of the extra fifty days saved to the Slate.

A reform like this is very desirable, aud there was an encouraging belief when the Saturday sessions were voted that the Legislature had caught the spirit of the people in this matter. If, however, the Legislature is to treat its own promises as insincere, it may as well repeal its Saturday sessions resolutions. At last the Democrats have accomplished something by filibustering. They kept. Samuel Lee, a South Carolina colored man, out ot Congress for the traction of day, or an hour, and consequently out of the two years' pay and mileage, which Mr.

Lee was probably even more auxious to secure than to have the honor of being a member of Congress. The elections committee were opposed to Lee and so reported, but he lobbied his case so effectually with the Republicans that a majority of the House came to his aid. The Democrats were not pleased with this result and filibustered so pltickily and successfully that their man, Mr. lvichardson, was kept in. Lee can, therefore, take his allowance for expenses and go home without either the name or the emoluments of a member of Congress, with the encouraging assurance that although he did not receive many votes, he had the narrowest kind of an escape from being carried into the House in spite of this fact.

The only State to hold an important election this year is Ohio. Consequently the last election was scarcely over and Congress was not out of the way before the next campaign began to be discussed. Candidates for nomination have been put forward, but as it was discovered that their aspirations were likely to suffer from an early frost they were quickly withdrawn. Judge George Hoadley, of Cincinnati, has bceu considered the most promising Democratic candidate and his name was quite generally agreed upon. But some slight opposition began to manifest il'self and Mr.

Hoadley's friends took occasion to withdraw him, with the manifest intention of entering him for the race again at a later day, The Republicans were so much demoralized by tho last election that they have not yet sufficiently recovered to bring out their candidates. They still have the Legislature, nnd such bodies are quite as uncertain in Ohio as elsewhere, bo Now that Congress has adjourned that other reproach to the country, tho Star route trial, alone remains as a Washington attraction. Russell Krrett closed his Congressional term on Saturday, in obedience to tbe invitation of some 1,600 majority of the people of his district, and he was on that day commissioned as Pension Agent at Pittsburg. He will keep the pensions straight and growlingly perform his duties with fidelity and as be must have an office, and as the people won't give hira one, he has been put just about where he will do the most good. Tub Stab eoute people doubtless intend to take their summer vacation next Christmas.

A remarkable looking fish, half shark and half alligator, was caught iu the lower bay recently and taken to Chester. It is thought that it is a new variety of shark and that it had bceu cruising about the Delaware, hoping for a chance to try conclusions with Mr. Jay Gonld aud his yacht. It doubtless was saved from a very sad fato. Congress left the silver dollars to pile up iu the manner of Philadelphia The Republican Club of the Eighteenth ward doesn't want to get left if there shall be any political rewards under Chief Engineer Ludlow.

It has formally passed a resolution indorsing Select Councilman llumm's vote for Ludlow, and published it as an official abstract from the minutes. Chief Ludlow will please take notice. Spencer in England wonders why Sheri dau should wish to stay in America. A man in Reading has invented a contrivance by which a person buried alive may make known his condition to the outside world. If the same man will now improve his invention so that it will blow a body snatcher into tho next county ho will earn the life long gratitude of the whole colored race.

Tnp. whisky men can fall upon tbe necks of the river and harbor statesmen. Tub newspapers will probably liavo to run without censors for a year or two now, as it will take some time to develop a class of statosmen who know what journalism ought to be as well as the recent band of river and harbor patriots who were always so freo with their advice. The Washington, lobbyist will not rido home in a parlor car this time. As is in perfect accord with the eternal fitness of thiugs, Mr.

Jay Gould's yacht is very carefully written up in Mr. Jay Gould's newspaper, which will now be distributed over tho country to give some idea what a great mau a great speculator and capitalist really is. Betrayed by Congress, Cbceslquake creek should dry up and blow away. Tnis country ought to bo proud of the fact that tho largest kind of a flood requires twenty days in which to travel from the Allegheny to the lower Mississippi. Thero is nothing small about this country, except its estimate of some things at Washington.

Perhaps Eavoninaiiitriniarivo is Number One iu a burnt cork disguise. Senator Cameron doubtless is prevented from resigning by the thought that there is no one capable of taking his place. Such ideas sometimes occur to great statesmen. It is now in order for somebody to scold the late lamented Congress for doing business on Sunday. Still, it was necessary that tho country should be saved.

PERSONAL. Mr. Blaint. works about three hours daily fit the composition of his book. Mr.

Hikrmtadt, (he artist, is the guest of Governor General borne in Ottawa. Mayor of Chicago, announces that he is a candidate for re election. Mrs. Cari.yle's letters, edited by Mr. Fronde, will be published next month.

Mr. Fbrkjiax's Impressions" of America will be published shortly by Longmans. Mus. Agassiz, the naturalist's widow, is trying to raise 8100,000 for the Harvard "Annex." Gknicral Loxohtrret rode thirty four miles lust week to pay a visit to Chickamauga battle field. Mr.

AfrroR, the United States Minister in Rome, is collecting illuminated manuscripts aud ancient missals. John Kelly, the Tammany politician, passes much time in his library aud he is said to aspire to literary fumo. Harvard, Amherst, "Williams and Yale Colleges will receive from tflO.000 to SoO.tKW apiece from the estate of the lute Henry T. Morgan. Captain William Dintomu, commander of the British steamer Persian Monarch, liasboeh presented by the King of tbe Netherlands with a gold chronometer iu recognition of his efforts to save the disabled Dutch steamship Edam in January, 1SS2.

Eliiiu Veddeu now enjoys wealth, but, as a correspondent of ttio Troy Timrs learns, ho was strolling with such difficulties as to be an object of sympathy in New York twenty years ngo. A gentleman of my acquaintance," says tho same writer, mentions lending this very artist one dollar, which was gratefully received." Judge Pottle, of the Glasscock, Superior Court; Senator A. S. Morgan and a number of lawyers went fishing after the adjournment ol court the other evening. Tho bout capsized and cast the whole party into the witter.

All except the Judge swam ashore and he held court on the top of a stump until nearly midnight, when he was rescued. I). II. Kino, Henry Holt and other New Yorkers are to establish what the New York papers mention as a "hiah toned colony" on the north shore of Long" Island Sound, near New Rochelle. Bonrcpos, or ood Rest, fs the name selected for tho colony, in memory of David Bonrepos, the minister who accompanied the first settlers of New Itoohollo in their flight in 10H1 froia Frauee.

Speaking the other day of "Hickory" Jackson, General Sherman said When I first camo to Washington city as a boy I went up to a sort of paling and hedge in the rear of the White House and peeped through, with a good deal of awe, to see General Jackson taking his walk, with a staff in his hand, in the grounds, and I can recall yet his very lean, slender figure, bony chest and long face and big, broad briuimed hat as he walked up and down." STATE PRESS COMMENT. The Milton Miltonian compares Governor Pattison's reform boom to a bumble bee, because it was largest at its birth. The Greenville News sensibly says that in sending rich men ond lawyers to Congress, to the exclusion of successful business men, the people make a great mistake. The Harrisbnrg Telegraph believes that Governor I'attison would send tho Attorney General to the extreme corners of tho State to collect a debt of This is the old fashioned style of economy. The Bedford Gazette feels eonfideut that the stealings of one session of a Republican Congress would exceed by millions of dollars all the Democratic defalcations of half a century.

The Republicans were fortunate enough to get tho opportunity to distinguish themselves In this nay. The Towanda Reporter is of the opinion that the Philadelphia Representatives who wanted to Unfit the reporters, bully the chairman of their committee and who yelled their defiance of newspapers and decency achieved the distinction of being the champion fools of the present Legislature. The West Chester Republican, in commenting on the fact that a wished to stop the running of printing presses at niirht on tho ground that they were nuisances, says that without that sort of nuisance Philadelphia to day would be groaning under an enormous debt and be bled to death by official leechej. The Harrisbnrg Patriot evidently seeks to annihilate the Republican party atone blow. Ilsiiys that tho Republican party has burgeoned and bloomed with promises on the subject of tax reduction, but In its rotten ripeness it produces only apples of Sodom, bitter with tho oshos of disappointment This sounds quite severo, The Altoona Bonds.

The AHoona authorities and journals have been needlessly irritated about the special dispatch in these columns detailing the discreditable financiering of the thrifty and progressive mountain municipality. The Tribune puts iu the plea of confession and avoidance by saying: "Whatever irregularities there may have tieen about the issue of city bonds, the money was obtained aud spent, and there is no disposition among our people to repudiate their just obligations," and tbe Radical says: Our financial condition is bad enough every one knows, but there is no use iu making it any worse than it is." If Tuts Times has been misled into any exaggeration of the financial troubles of Altoona, it will gladly receive and print the truth; but denouncing the publication, the correspondent or the public journal, is just about the last thing men would do who have a plain, indisputable answer to the charge. Tho plain truth is that Altoona issued bonds, sold them, spent the money and has failed to meet its obligations with creditors. Probably the issue was irregular the mild term for all sort of official wrongs and it is probable that the money was improvideutly expended; but that was the fault of the people and not tho fault of the creditors. To whatever extent, if any, the publication in these columns wrongs the Altoona authorities, we shall gladly aid them in correcting it but the good citizens of that prosperous hive of industry will most conclusively answer all imputat ions against their in tegri fy by promptly demanding and providing for the payment of the matured indebtedness of the city.

The one way to prove that there is no thought of repudiation is to repudiate repudiation by paying the interest and principal of the obligations as denominated in the bond. Mahoneism has made several attempts to gain a footing in Pennsylvania, and made some progress for a season in Williamsport, where there was much provocation; but it is the most costly of all methods of paying municipal debts, and Altoona should hasten to remove even the suspicion of it from her skirts. The Foolish GUI. There are few things more discouraging than to undertake to give advice to young women. And yet there arc few people who are more in need of advice.

The average girl is predisposed to foolishness of some kind, and she nearly always has her way. Once in awhile fafe or something of that sort will save another from tiie consequences of a foolish scheme, but fate is too considerate to interfere with what a young woman sets her heart upon, and she therefore cau invariably have her foolish way. In a great number of instances the young woman's foolish way is to carry on a matrimonial campaign without the knowledge of her parents or friends. She finds some just lovely young fellow whom nobody could like but a foolish young woman this she always seems to have sense enough to understand and then she gets him to run off with her, because it is so perfectly romantic and sweet. There, are some subsequent features of the affair which are not always so romantic.

The return trip and the divorce proceedings are rather more matters of fact. Sometimes the veil of romance is lifted rather sooner. This happened to a North Carolina girl not many days ago. She had completed all arrangements for leaving her parents and running away with one whom she loved and who, she believed, loved her. She waited at the rendezvous for him for hours, but he did not meet her.

As she had deceived her parents, so he deceived her. Had she been a sensible girl of course she wouldn't have found herself in such a position, but not being sensible the disappointment overthrew what little mind she had. She is now in a lunatic asylum. Experiences such as this would be an effective warning to any but girls. Very few of them would have been so badly broken up by a little disappointment as was the North Carolina girl.

The most of them would have returned home and waited iu ambush for spine one else with more sticking qualities. They would have come to their disappointment a little later on, but they would have come to it all the same. These things are no worse nor better than they formerly were; they will probably be neither worse nor better iu the future. Tim punr.rc appearance of a street cleaner on South street tends to dissipate all doubts as to the truth of Wiggins' prophecy concerning next week's crack of doom. A widow itf Montrose, who has three marriageable daughters, claims that iu Pennsylvania marriage is nothing more than the promise of a man and a woman in tho presence of witnesses to tako each other to be husband and wife.

It is said that two young men who have been visiting the widow's daughters have engaged counsel to contest impending suits for breach of promise, while another young man has left his home for fear that one of the widow's daughters will claim a third of his property. It is to bo hoped that the widow's law cannot be enforced. Young men must not be frightened out of matrimony in such a maimer. Congress having been removed, it would now be a good idea to take hold of somo of the Philadelphia ash heaps. Thb fact that no fewer than 10,519 persons were detected in tho past half year trying to defraud tho North London Railway Company by riding in a superior class to that for which they had paid or by paying no fare at nil, is a pretty striking proof that the'aveniKo Englishman is bound to rise in the world regardless of expense.

That sort of ambition on stilts never stood for any great length of time and never will. It is tho wrong way of taking care of tho pennies aud a sure way of losing the pounds. Mr. Stepiiuns was an exception that proved the classic rule "a sound mind in a sound body." Senator Tabob, tho six weeks' statesman who took in the short Senatorial term at the late Colorado auction of two Senatorshipu, closed his illustrious career in statesmanship by a gorgeous marriage with Hiss MoCourt. As Senator Tabor has another wife living and Miss McCourt has another husband living, Father Chappelle, tbe Catholic pastor who married them, was imposed upon by concealing from him the divorce of both the particB, which A Brief Sketch of the Career of the Confederacy's A'ico President.

After being an invalid for fifty years and very ill a number of times, Al exander II. Stephens, one of the best known men in our public life, is dead, lie was born of Pennsylvania parents, iu Taliaferro county, Georgia, February 11,1812. His origin was humble and his boyhood was passed in that condition ofexaetingindiistry which raises Its victims just above poverty. His father died when he was lifteen years old, up to which time he had never been in school, and he was thus early thrown upon bis own resources. He was a small, puny boy, with scarcely enough vitality to live to manhood, but bis intellect was bright and his ambition wns early aroused.

He worked his way through school and college ond succeeded in securing as good discipline as his State afforded. He then studied law and entered upon Its practice in the town of Crawfordsville, within two miles of Ms birthplace, in lie was successful from the beginning. He was not a great lawyer in the acceptation of the term in these, biter times, but be had ihe ready, overwhelming eloquence which in those days and in his section made the criminal lawyer the most successful of men. HIS POLITICAL CAREER. Having this it was natural that he should be drawn into public life.

Accordingly he was elected to the State Legislature in where he remained in one house or the other for eight years. In 1K IH lie was first elected to the lower house ot Congress, where ho remained until IS.iii, when he declined a re election. He foresaw the civil war, and while his attachment to the Union was strong his love for his State was stronger still. When the Secession Convention of Georgia met Mr. Stephens made what has always been considered his greatest speech in opposition to secession.

But the currout was too strong ftfr him to stem, when its was directed by such men as Robert Toombs, Howell Cobb, Joseph 15. Brown and Ben Hilt, so Stephens finally surrendered and went with his State. Once in tiie charmed circle of secession it was thought desirable to hold his eloquence and influence and he was elected Vice President of the Confederacy, serving throughout the fitful life of that failing experiment. His influence in the conduct of the war was never great, because his was a sort of half hearted support, though he tried to persuade himself that lie was in earnest. After he was fairly launched on the revolutionary experiment he made a speech, in which lie outlined the coming glory of the new Re public, wlueh us to be founded upon the cornerstone of slavery, a position so extreme that bis uttor nnces were used against the Confederacy In foreign countries and condemned by many of the Southern leaders as unwise.

HIS CAREER SINCE THE WAR. After the close of the war he was arrested and confined in prison for some months. Naturally he accepted the results ot tho war with more heartiness than the extremists who had been foremost in the secession movement. Upon his return to Georgia he was elected the United States Senate, but as reconstruction was not yet complete he was not admitted. Still he remained a busy man and turning to his pen he wrote an elaborate work in two vol nmes on "The Constitutional View of the War Between the States," in which he adhered to his lifelong opinion that no Stale had a right to nullify a Federal law, but defended the rightof a state to secede when the compact of union wns violated.

In 1S73 lie was again elected to Congress, his second period of service continuinguutilhis election asGovernorof Geoigia last Atigust.Vhen he resigned from Congress. He was a more' picturesque than influential hguro in Congress. With nothing of the Bourbon in his make up, he was yet not able to throw off the limitations of bis early life and training. He became noted as a compromiser, a peacemaker, and was inclined to work outside of party trammels without reason. He was always attentively listened to and became one of the most popular men on the floor of the House.

HIS PERSONALITY. Mr. Stephens wns a man of a very kindly nature. He had a large heart aud bestowed his comparatively limited income Willi lavish liberality. Many orphan boys and girls were under obligations to him for favors when they most needed them.

He was nothing ot nn aristocrat and he always expressed something of bitterness against the men hom lie charged with forgetting the interests of the people. He was an honest man in oil the relations of life, and, despite bis occasional wavering, was one ot tho most interesting figures iu public life during the last generation. Mr. Stephens was never married. He lived near Crawfordsville and kept open house at "Liberty Ilull," which has long been famed for its genial hospitality to all comers, whether white or black.

He was full of reminiscences of old customs and people, which gave him personality more interesting, per haps, than niiyother man iu'public life during the last twenty years. Konrasiows's ckvtenxial. Preparations tor tin? Celebration Already BegunThe Committee at Work. Nouristown, March 4. The general committee ot one person from each election district, in the county, recently appointed by the joint programme committee chosen from the county oiticers and tho Historical Society, lias alreudy begun to outline a programme for celebrating the county's Centennial on September 10, 1884.

The main feature of the celebration will be an Antiquarian Exposition In the old Exhibition buildings, to continue three days, at which all the various trades and industries, education and general progress from the earliest dates, will be displayed. Memorial exercises will be held on September 10. A grand military display will also be given, uuder eomniand of General Hancock or some other equally distinguished soldier. The concluding exercises are to be a banquet, a hop and a musical entertainment by a choir of five hundred voices. The Zcclnml's Stormy Passage.

The Zeeland, Captain Euscbmann, of the Red Star Line, arrived port late on Saturday night from Antwerp. She brought over three hundred and fifty passengers and a general cargo of merchandise. The chief olticer states that they had but one pleasant day during the entire trip and encountered heavy seas and severe storms, which delayed the passage considerably. The brfg sailed from Antwerp on February 14 and was due a week ago. On March 3 she was driven ashore during a heavy snowstorm, Rami's Farewell to Congress.

From Dunn's Sunday Transcript, Congress came in like a lion aud went out like a drove of mules. The slides of March are come. Empty is tho house, member's gone. Therefore Move the Capitol. From the Providence Tress.

The atmosphere of reform in Pennsylvania seems to be more central at Philadelphia than at Harrlsburg. Harmony. Ho who with bold and skilful hand sweeps o'er The organ keys of some cathedral pile, Flooding with music, vault and nave and aisle, While on his ear lulls but a thunderous roar In the composer's lofty motive free, Knows well that nil that temple vast and dim, Thrills lo its base with anthem, psalm or hymn, True to the changeless laws of harmony. So he who on these clanging chords of life, With firm, sweet touch ploys the great master's score, Of Truth and Love and Duty, evermore, Knows, too, thai far beyond this rUtlr and strife, '1 hough he may never hear, iu the true time, These notes must all accord in symphonies sublime. IMe, Forenoon, and afternoon, and night! Forenoon And afternoon and night! Forenoon, and What? The empty song repeats itself no more? Yea, that Is life.

Stoke this forenoon sublime, This afternoon a psalm, this night a prayer, And Time is conquered aud thy crown is won. Mward S. Sill. i.