Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 1, 1880, Page 4

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Two members of the Russian Embassy at Constantinople were yesterday fired upon in thatclty, and one of them wounded, by two persons who maile their escape. In tho Town Legislature the Dill to amend the law of tax exemptions so as to render church property taxable in that State has. been indefinitly postponed. A vore of thanks has been tendered by tho Parnell Central Committee ht New York City to the people of Chicago for thelr grand reception to Messrs, Parnell and Dillon on fi the occasion of their visit to this elty, A MESSAGE from President Hayes on the Monroo doctrine Ix expected this week. It fa thought he will take decided ground against the control and operation of an inter- oceanic canal by foreign Governments. Tit Chinese exodus from California seeins to have begun. Two car-loads of the people whom Kearney has declired “must. go” passed through St. Louls yesterday en route for Phlladelplita and Now York, and 500 more aro to follow soon, ——— ‘Tire “strong sentiment in favor of David Davis” Is widerstood tn Washington to have been one of the reasons for the unwillingness of the Domocratle Committee to toeate the National Convention In Chicago. ‘here ty no sich sentiment In this city. ———_— ed with the subject of tho Irish relief movement we print this morning a sermon preached yes- terday by tho Hey. W. JL Ryder, D.D,, of St. Paul's Universalist Chureh, in which tho ground fs taken that intenperance ant tho Tapney must be numbered as mnong tho chief sources of Ireland’s, woes ‘and suffer ings, Amona the Ute euptives lately taken to Washington are two who ate belleved to have taken part In the fearful outrages at White River Agency, but Miss Mevker, after aview of their stolid countenances, fs un- able to positively identify elther af them ns having been eoncerned in the atrocitles per. petrated upon tho white men and women uf the Agency, Arr a mass-nceting yesterday at thelr lial on West ‘Taylor street tho Boheminn resl- dents of Chleago passed resolutions protest ing against what they deem the unjust netlon of the Board of Eduention in refusing to Rrant the petition that the Bohemfan lane suage be taught In the'Throop School, whieh is located ina district thickly populated by this nationallty, —_—_—_—_———-——= Sucu fs the condition of Prince Bismarck’s heaith that It is expected he will not. be able to appear ti the German Parliament on the occasion of tho dubute of tho Army bill, Jn such an event Count Von Moltke, who Is n strong advocate of the palley of Ine creased armament and added burdens of tax- ation for tho support of a vast qilitary es- tablishment, will represent the Government in the support of the mensure, ———————. Conaneas hina been In session thirteen weeks, and with the oxeeption of the pussare of « fow unimportant bills, none of tho Tegular public business has been transacted, There haye been no exelting and protracted Polltical debates to offer as an exense for thls do-nothingisin, the explanation of whieh can only be found in the unwillingness of the Demoeratle mafority tasette work resolutely and attend to the really hnportunt and nee sary work of the session, —— ‘Tue railroad companies will have to make another and much larger reduction of grain frelghts If they expect to prevent water- Toute competition from euttlag down tholr business,. Five barges, bound for New Or- leans, and containing 250,000 bushels of com for export, Were yesterday taken In tow at St. Louls, ‘The cost of shipment at present Tullroad rates for this amount of grain to New York would be about $70,000; by way of the Misslssipp! River to New Orleans the cost 4 $27,000, ‘Tie friends of Senator Thurman in Ohio are said to be quite at 4 loss to determine the precise degree of advantage they have gained by the location of the Democratle Convention in Cinclnnat!, Ordinarily such a victory would eusiiy be construed as favorable to the Presidential prospects of a fuvurit son, but this fs not an ordinary condition of things, and itIs by no means clear that the usual advantageous resulta are to be anticl pated, Nothing is clearer than that Cincinnati could not baye obtained the Convention without the support of the Tilden mev, and it is falr to presume Uhat thelr support was not rendered except by the definit direction of their chief. Itls this consideration that troubles the friends of Mr. Thurman, and theif grattfeation at reeurlng the Convention §s largely mixed with apprehension of some deep design which the crafty old schemer of Gramercy Park harbors in connection with the location of the Convention, That it botes no good to tho Thurman movement they gravely fear, Tne telegraph war between tho Western Union and the American Union Companies is daily assuming fresh complleations and Jarger dimenstons, Tho Intest move is the withdrawal by the Baltimore & Ohfo Rall- roa Compnny of Its 0,000 miles of telegraph Ines from the Atlantic & Pacific control (virtually the Western Union), and tho transfer of these Hnes to the American Union, An injunction lins been sued out by the Atlantic & Tactile which will for the present prevent the transfer of such wires as were erected by that Company in 1876 and 1877. CoronED people from the South continue to arrive In Indiana in search of permanent homes, in spite of Senator Voorhves’ Exodus Investigating Comuittee, but it cannot be shown that the leading Republicans of that State aro in the slightest degree responsible for the influx. A number of these gentlemen are shortly to appear before tha Committee ft Washington to testify In their own behalt In refutation of statements that the Immigra- tlon of negroes hasbeen alded and encouraged by them. The attempt to show a political ob- ject In connection with the movement of col- ored people into Indiana has been a completo failura. nnd the investigation set on foot by Voorhees a discredituble farce. Tne sermons which In full or in part are given in our columns this morning Inciude a discourse by Prof. Swing upon the interest- Ing topic, the eighteen years of the Ife of Christ, between the ages of 12 and 30, of which no record is given in any of the Sertpturo. memolrs,—yenrs which Prof, Swing thinks were full of intellectual growth and development, and which were preparing the way for the full manhood of mind In the Christ of 90. Also sermons by tho Rev. RK. W. Patterson, D, 1, preached in tho Fourth Presbyterian Chureh, on “Duty and Sin in Relation to ‘Holy Things’”; by tho Rev, Clinton Locke, of Grace Eplseo- pal Church, on “Lhe Chureh a Necessary Factor In Human Soclety”; by the Rev. If, W. Thomas, at Centenary M Chureh, on “Tho Kingdom of God”; bythe Rev, E. 1. falvin, at the Third Unitarian Chureh, on “A Plea for the Adoption of a Syatem of Or- ganized Codperative Charity tn the City of Chicago”; and hy the Rey. Dr. Mathewson, on “Eternal Rest. ———_—_——_ CAUSE AND REMEDY FOR HARD TIMES IN CALIFORNIA, The condition of affairs In San Francisco Is not very cicournging. 1f a term of vio- lence be avoided for the present, the causes which have produced this condition of at fairs will not beehanged. ‘The grent bust- ness “boom” which has extended to ail other parts of the country appears not to have benefited California, Her large eltles are fied with laboring men who have no work, who have been unemployed for along tine, and who are really suffering, while alongside them are the comparatively few holding immense wealth,” Kearney has bee come & power in the State with-the fle and discontented workingmen, and awar between accumulated wealth and unemployed Inbor is. openly declared. Theexpulsion of the Chineso from California is but an incident of the renl condition of aftuirs. Kearney hhnself is but an inefdent of the changing elrenm- starices of the State. If Inbor was well em- ployed, If wages were remunerative, if the Sunte was really prospering,—there would be no Kearneyism and no Kearney to head mebs and foment mischief. Men at work and earning a comfortable living pay but Ht- ite attention to brawling demagogs of any de gree, andimuch Jess to fellows who preach disorder and strife. But Idle men with fam- Dies to support, unable to obtain work at any wages or the fordinary comforts of life,do beeome listeners to and followers of Communistle brawlers, to whom, ordl- narily, they would pay no attention, Kenr- ney"s success Is due ton condition of atfairs in Catifurnin which naturally throws to tho surface Just such men, He is not so much 1 cause as he is anefect. If it were not Dennis Kearney it would be somebody else as bad or worse, F The money capital and movable wealth of Callfornin aro gradually, but pretty rapldly, leaving It. Tho employers are moving away, but the unemployed are left behind. Seeurl- ty to life and property Is weakening, and be- tween tho collapse of gold and silver produc- tlons on the one hand and the fleree threaten- Ings of the hungry, Idle mob on the other, California Is brought to face a new condition ofatfairs which should have been foreseen and been provided against in time, California was settled by an Amerlean pop- ulation seeking gol, The great bulk of the sultlers in tho years following the discovery of gold went there expecting literally to pick Up nuggets in the plicers, ant, gettlng a fort- une in a brief tine, to return to the East to enjoy thelr wealth, ‘This was the motive which urged the vast majority of all the thousands to {drag thelr weary limbs across tho interminable desert plains with ox-teams and on foot, and others to sall there by the Isthnius or around Capo Horn, Every ditch, gully, creck, stream, and mountain sto was explored, searched, washed, and probed, until every ounce of freo gold and dust was gathered; then followed the pick, and the drill, and the hydrautio machines, the borlng, the sluking of shafts, and the blasting, until, at last, the gold has ceased to reward the Inbor; and so thoroughly has the State been searehed thot even the Chinese fail-to find enough tn the tailings to support thete frugnl lives, Those of the orlgtnul settlers who did not return to the Kast went Into tho cities or en- gaged In agriculture. ‘The sliver mines of Nevada revived fora tine the mining zeal, but large capitalists, making costly opera- Hons, crowded ont tho smaller adventurers, and the mountains have been tunneled and disemboweled until, at last, the silver Is now us oxhausted almost asta the gold. Instead of fat dividends, there ia now p senson of con- fisenting assessments, and the stocks which oneo represented millions have dwindled {ato thousands, ‘The exhaustion of the silver and gold mines has left tho Californians pretty much stranded, Tho great “boom” Js past. ‘I'he revel has ended, ‘Iho building of elttes and rallronds has ceased, ‘Tings fro stagnant, Capital has stopped Investing And speculating, and Jabor has begun threat- ening and mobbing; all Is excitement, dis- content, and anger, Tn the meantime California ins neglected durlug these thirty years of gold and silver hunting a greater source of wealth than was ever hidden in her mines, In tho vast yalley that Hes between the Slerras and the coust- Tango of mountains ts to be found the great field for Industrial production and of inex- haustiblo wealth, ‘This valley extends south from the neighborhood of Sacramento tu the volnt where the two ranges of mountains unite, It 1s three hundred miles long, by from thirty to fifty miles wide. The soll is enriched by tho alluvial deposits of ages, THE CHICAGO washed down from the snow-covered Slerra Nevaias, This valley, capable, if watered, of more than Egypt's productiveness, {3 nlinost, Diighted by a destitution of rlutall, What- ever may be tho ralufall on the high mount- alns, tho great valley is left untouched, ex- vcept during the brief term known as tho “ralny season,” which takes placo for a few weeks in the winter-time, Nature, how- ver, ling furnished tho meana whereby this inumense valloy enn. be made pro ductive, Through its -entire length courses the beautiful San Jonquin Hiver, ‘This river is fed at comparatively short dis- tances apart by n series of streams bearing water from the inclosing mountains, ‘These atreams, ranging In size from tumbling brooks to nnvignble rivers, aro never dry, but filled at all seasons. This’ entire body of water, capable of thoroughly irrigating a plain twice the size of the entire San Jonquln ‘Valley, is borno away to the ocean, and no effort Is made to utilize tt, The result is, that there fs not more than ono fair crop raised every three years in this valley, which contains more than seven militons of acres of Jand that can be made more fertile with water than even the Valley of the Nil, The climate {s better even than that oftEgynt. It is overything the heart and health’of man can wish,—nt once warm, breezy, bracing, free of malaria or extreuies of heat or cold. The soll, sunshine, and salubrity cannot bo excelled on tho faco of the earth; but itisa treeless plain, a thirsty, parched expanso, with plenty of water rolling through It un- touched, unutllized, and {dle to the sea, While the whole land erles out for water, no man gives. it a drink from these flowing streams, a Callforntia fs of sich.a warm and equable temperature that tho land, with proper Irrl- gation, will regularty protluce two erops— one In summer and fall and one in winter and epring—every year. At present, and since the American odeupntion of California, tho whent crop of the San Jonquin Valley Is a fair ono once in about three years, averng- ing perhaps fourteen to eighteen bushels per nere; the next year tt may average ten, and and the third year five, or nothing, There is no rotation of crops,—it Is whent, whent, wheat; or, If there bo nny change, it Is bar- Jey on wheat stubble, No grasses are grown, no root crops,—nathing but grain, ‘The land is becoming exhausted bythis sort of farm- ing, with shallow plowing, and no manuring or clovering. * ‘This same land does notfall to yleld thirty to forty-five bushels of whentperacre, and other crops in proportion whcrover the experhinent of applying water Is fairly tiled, Instead of 0 valley blooming with unexampled productive. ness, it fs suffered to le idle during eight or wlne months of tho year,—uyetlow, dry, bar ren waste, over which the winds Lear almost perpetual elouds of dust. The cultivution that {s adopted. is trifling; the earth is merely seratehed, The land is held in immense Spanish grants by mo- nopolists who are content with cultivat- ing some of It In the cheap and wnsctentifie manner described, or using it for a few halt- starved flocks of sheep ar lean herds of vattle to rove over in quest of the seanty herbago on those dry plains and the parched foot-hlll ranges. ‘Tho necessity and the abundance of means at hand for frrigation are well understood by observing Californians, Irrigating companies have been formed, but the ldnd-owners will not pay for the water they need, and nre eon- tent to wait fora“ good crop” overy three years. ‘The eltles of Californin abound with multitudes of unemployed Inborers who would tako this Iand In small, workable farms, but who have uot the means, to firo- vide for Irrignting “it nt thelr went ex- pense, nor to purehasa tha water-of Ate companies at high prices. ‘The remarkable situntion ty therefore presented of intlions of acres of land capable of being made the most fertile In the world left u dry, barren, dusty plain, and sixty thousand able-bodied and idie laborers almost starving In the State for want of employment} So engrossing has been the search fur gold and silver, and the speculation in mining stocks, that the cullivation of the soll ina proper manner has regarded as beneath tho attention of a people expecting to become milllionatres by striking bonanza smlnes; and yet in thot neglested San Jonguin Valley rests more annual wealth than was ever found ‘in the mlnes of the Pacific Const, Now that the gold crop and the silver output have eensed to pay the cost of producing them, and the days of sudden riches by stock-gam- Ding have drawn near to thelr close, and Californian {3 confronted with a popula- tlon willing to labor, but dented the oppor- tunity, the long neglected duty of tho Stato becomes g mutter of absoltite ‘necessity. Under the new Constitution the Legislature is clothed with ample power to do what fs needed for the present emergency. It should at once provide a system of general irrigation canals by which that entire yalloy shall bo watered, ‘Tho supply of water is abundant; all that ts needed Is a system of ennals con- neeting with one another, Intereepting it as it is pourlng down the numerous streams from tho imonntuing, and distributing the water through that vast plain. The area watered by the Nilo is not so great us the uren of this valley of California, and it sup- ports {lve millions of people. ‘The State has the power to establish auch a system, and to lovy a water tax for that purpose; a sinall annual tax por acro- will reward the Jand- owner a hundred-fold: “Instead of a scanty crop every third or fourth year, It will give him two big crops annunlly, Instead of requiring. ranch of 20,000 or 60,000 neres for sheep to wander over in search of herbage, not even furms of the pralrlo sizo of 160 or 200 neres wil! be needed by one farmer, as 40 to 00 acres of well- Irrigated Innd in the valley of California will glye a profitable support to a man and his family, There is the Innd, the fertile soil, the genlal sunshine, the unexampled climate, tho almost perpetual season of fruits and flowers and of all crops, and there 1s the abundance of svater flowing idly through thnt plain, All that fy needed Is for man to Utilize that water, multiply its chunnols, ine torcept the rushing streams and conduct tho water through 8 lurger area, and the earth will teem as it has nover teamed beforag the parched, yellow plain will be covered with verdure and become an over-producing hor. vest fluld, and from the Inexhuustibie soll will spring forth @ richer and u more con- tinuous reward to the Jaborer than was over found In any placer or in any bonnnzy uncovered by the highest perfection of selence, ‘nis 1s no mero theory or {dle speeulation, 98 cyery man who has visited Sult Lake can bea witness as to how irrigation will trans- form an alkall desert Inte blooming gardens and frultful flelda, The land around salt Lake City, which Is the centre of 150,000 pros- perous people, bears no comparison in nut ral fertility with the soil of. che California vulleys, und the clinate of the former ta the equablo nnd gentat warmth of the latter ‘The quantity of avullable water in the Salt Lake Valley for (rrigution purposes is not ny, fifticth partof whatcan be found in thy: Btuto of California, for It is not the San’ Joaquin Valley alone that fs thirsty and cay be watered, but numerous other valleys, as tho Great Sacramento, the Feather, Yuta, Fel, and Russian Rivers, containing anagero- gate of fully ton millions of acres that cube, and require to be, irriguted before vlelding a ot TRIBUNE: MONDAY, {ithe of the produce of which they are capa- bie. " A system of general irrigation In Callfor- nin would greatly increase tho suppltes of wafer by reason of the eviporation that would rist’ from the watered carth, which, borne by the winds ngatnst the lofty Slerra Mountain wall, would condense {nto rain and rin down agatn in torrents to the rivers, and bo spread by means ef the canals In fruetlfy{ng streamicta over the grateful land, ‘The Mormons assert that the rainfall of thelr valley has doubted since irrigation has been adopted, Tho same effect ona vastly greater senia would unquestionably follow general irrigation in Callfornia, ‘That is the solution of. the Industrial problem on that const. ‘That {3 tho only way to mako the ex-Goldon Stato prosperous and happy and give her a full share In the great business boom that has waked up the Nation, —_—_—_——— THE WAR AGITATION IN EUROPE. The threatening attituite of the Continental Powers in Europe continues, and tho specch of the Emperor of Germany at the opening of Partinment, professing a destre for pence, ts looked upon aga blind by those who go be- low the surface. The Paris correspondent of the New York Ténes: writes that there are very few people In France who do not be- Neve that war will break out between Aus- trian and Germany and Russia before the spring is closed, but asserts that France will not be drawn {nto it unless her personal rights are assailed, Upon this polnt he says: Yet ho ({Hixmarck] was not dikeouraged, and, renewing the game which ho played go success= fully with Napoleon 11, at Biurritz, ho haa per= sunded M. Gambettn that if Franco will remain perfectly quiet, and Fook on ns a disintercated Bpectator at the settlement of tho Austro-Russo- German inbrogtio, she may,be rewarded for her forhenranes by a present of Alene and Lore rifine without the shedding of a drop of French blood or the expenditure of a centine of French money. Noone but Prince von Bismarck would have oven dreamed of the possibility of turning tho napirations of Braned into a weapon wugainst, her, but GQumbettu has switlowed the balt, and given n tuelt promise that France will not Inter= fere in any quarrel in whleh her personal Inter- ests shall not be directly involved, What Germany hag done tn the way of In- creasing her army and nrmaments, erecting new fortlfications and repairing old ones, aud necumulating material of war, lay already been told In these columns, Meanwhile Austria is straining every erve to place her- self in readiness, not for defense shnply, but also for offensive war, She has jeopardized her finances by increasing her army, and, according to the same correspondent, his prepared herself for an immediate attack upon Italy should sheappear In the field as anally of Russia or should the Jrredentt lenders spring any revolutionary manifesta- tions. ‘The German Government hos far nished Austria with a Ist of these leaders, Vienna fs to be put immediately in a state of defense, As against Russin, the Govern: ment hos appropriated a large sum for erec- tion of detached forts around the’ Capital, and also an additional eredit for the eomple- tion of the Cracow forts, and has voted to appropriate 100,000 florins to fortify the passes of Semlgrad and Przemyst, which, it elaing, will prevent Russia from interferlng with the mobilization of the Austrian army, Another significant index of the genernl danger is afforded by the action of Switzer- land, whieh has always been noutral ground, ‘Lhe Gevernment of tho little Republic has decided to erect somenew fortson theFrench frontier, and the German press lias expressed. great plensure at this movement, ns it affords: new seeurlty against attacks from France, and are urging the Swiss to make these fortifications us strong ag possible, suggest- Ing to them that their independence may speedily be In danger, ‘The French press, on the other hand, though they deny that there is any possibility pf a French invasion of Germony through ‘Switzerland, are yery mucb dissatistied with her proposal to creet new fortifientions, Upon Jils point a dis- pateh to the London Tiines from Berlin say: ‘Tho French army would encounter many great obstacles Inau eventual merch through Bolgiun: to the Lower Rhine provinces, for it would be obliged to detach a large forea in order to wateh Antwerp and to protect Ita right dank agulnat the Germin troops eoncentruted near Metz and Diedenhofen. “Hesides this, it fs quite fomible that the othor Powers, and particularly: Jreat Beltain, would protect ‘tho neutrality of Belgium, Tho French, {t would therefore nie peat, would find few politleal and inilitary dlil- culties tn attacking the southern frontier of Germany, passing through Switzerland. ‘Tho Upper Hhine can be more eusily passed, and the Lunes of operation ure teas endangered fn that. quarter from an attack on the sido of Struse bourg. Tho French would be at the same tino Very welt protected by Belfort andthe mountains of the Voxes, and would not tIindany very strong: Gorman fortreases to bar thofr farther progress, 11s, moreover, not likely thit the other Powers would protect tho neutrality of Switzerland, 18 their Interests are not engiged thore, and [tis Not fenred that Switzerland would be annexed by the victors, At la diMeutt to conceive that all these gi- gantle preparations haye been suddenly com- menced merely for purposes of defense, or why thoy should have been commenced at all, [€ there wero not yomo alarming danger in prospect. For ordttury purposes of de- fense no Increase in ayules or armaments would aye been needed atall. How soon the struggle will come no ong can say. Tho present confusion in Russta ond the absolute necessity of concentrating her: quilre military power to put down Nihilsm may delay it for atime, but the strain upon thdrelations of the Powors {3 nowso great that HXte short of Aimimculous combination of circumstances ean ayort ft i SPEQULATIVE FREEMASONRY, . A fow days ago: the New York World re- celved a special enblegram from Egy to tho effect that; after lowering the obelisk it Alexandria, Lteutennnt-Commander Goiv ringe discovered nt the base certain designs In stone as follows: A masou’s square of stone, a pura: white stone representing a Inason’s apron, a perfect altar, a rough and imperfect. altar, and n mason’s trowel of fron. Immediately upon the publication of this dispatch, Sp:culative Masons, or Free and Accepted Masons, began to construct theories that seryed to wenve lute the tradi tions of thelr Order evidences of, a prehts- toriv origin not heretofore warrented by the facts, ‘Tho venornbla ond learned Rob Morrla, of La Grange, Ky., howaver, at onep Inid hiv Jeonoclustic hand npon this and almitur ‘sn- perstitious assumptions of the neophytes, and most effectually disposed both of the Wurtd and Lisutenant-Communder Gortlnge, {0 1s only two or three years slice Dr, Morris te turned from an exhaustive archiwolugival tour of Syria and Kaypt, his mfsston being solely in the-tntefest of Speculative Free- masonry, j In cvaard to th pretended discovery of Livut. Gorringe, Ib Morria says: + ‘Now, all this reuds ke tno ordinary states ments of tho bucolit press concerning the eun= tonts of Indian mourds, und, were not the Alex- andrian reports wellbucked up, | would consider the whole story n cusard, Forasto the sumira and trowel they are dio necessury touls of 2 tocturo, and ne moreFreemavonte than the bread ate or the wing drut during tho ereetion of our edifice, ‘That such fobjecta whould be found In the orovices of a qrout platform is a matter of course. As to io two altura, thero ‘s no. regulur form of aj Freemuson’s altar. bel round, square, trapgular, hexayon, and al Other gona up tu twelve. Ag to the pure white stone ropresenting eae apron, the ide in absurd. Who cin edneave the emblem of an pron? Why, tho emblem of a pulr of suspende would be as suggestive, Following up the reputed discovery In this veln, Dr, Morris reminds ushow “avery year or two hoWwspapers! are ogox with new dike coverfes in Freemaxpnry. Some local savant opens an Lndlan mind, finds a stone which has a. rlghy angle|pr two, and behold! atl through the press [ye news circulates that the Monnd-Bullte]} were Freomasons, A visitor to the Westin tribes observes an In- dian woking bis flousand gestiuulations, MARCH 1, 1880. sees someting that slightly resembles a Masonic sign, and tho dudlans have thelr Masonic lodges. A traveler up Lake Supe- rlor observes on the Painted Rocks somo drawings fatntly resembling Masonic em- blems, and the builders of Solomon's Tem- ple journoyed through Amerteal Thus the ald Order is made a Inughing-stock of men,” Freemasonry tn this century and in the elvilized world does not need any such dig- aging and delving among the dcbris of the past, And, while it 1s essentially specula- tive, 9. né well operatlye in that Its traditions bear the impress of fraternal zeal and brotherly love. If has grown with tho growth of elvillzalion, Kept step with tho march of Hberty, and {fs not like good wine, venerated by any alr of mustiness, But Dr. Morris goes stil farther in Its erliicism of tho alleged discovery. Ie sys: The accredited account of the threo olelisks: nt Alexandria ip that thoy were removed front Tleliopolls by order of the: firat Cresar (ted 1 C,. 44), and whatever may bo found at thelr bases were, of course, deposited thereat that time, In regard to Musonte symbols in: general, there fare not many that are ancient, In my own thine Ulive seen tho emblema in Masonic use in this country mulliptted tenfold. Jolin Sherer cov- ered bla“ carpets” with thom with lavish hand. Albert Piko bus invented them by scores, Mackey, Macey. and ull mantuniinakers have well-nlgh exhnuated symbollsms, But fow Ma- sonle emblems ancient, Lahey BRITISH BARBARITIES IN AFGHANISTAN. Itisnotan unjust accusation to say that, in its wars abroad, the British Government has permitted lis agents to commit na greater amber of barbarities than that of any other Christian people. ‘These nets of atrocity have not been confined to the savage allies which, in necordance with Its habitual polley, it employs whenever practicable. Its commis- sloned officers and its soldlery have frequent- ly Deen the active agents, n¢ well ns partici- pants, in these erlmes, whieh, for cold-bload- ed ernelty and inhumanity, have never been. equated by any clvilized nation, aud which, wellattested facts as they are, should have aroused against It the exeeration of mankluds The people of the United States have good enuse to understand tho truth of this state- ment. In the wars of the Revolution and of. 1912 the erneltfes practiced by the British and thelr Indian allies upon our ancestors wero slnply indescribable. It is Impossible to enumerate tho sufferings to which our soldiers, when taken prisoners, and our front- jer settlers were subjected. Recent events. occurring in Afghanistan and: South Afrlen show that the century which’ has elapsed since tho Revolution, and whieh has to some extent assunged tho bitter memories of our wars with England, ins made no change in British policy. Snvnges ns tierce and barbarous as our Indians are still em- ployed whenever It can be done, and British oflivers and men still perpetrate acts equally atroclous as those whieh won for dhe British army an infamous reputation tn this country: ahundred years ago. ‘he course pursued revently by Sir F, Roberts, commanding the British troopsin Afghanistan, has been fully in necordunce with the polley pursued by his Government for centuries, Public opinion in England regarding his barbarous conduct has forced from iil a statement of the num- ber of Afghans who have been hanged by his orders xinco ho entered Cobul. It has been necessary also for hin to give the rea- sons which prompted his extraordinary ac- tion. ‘To the cred. of many Englishmen, his reasons linye been regarded by them nas wholly InsuMictent to justify such cruelty, but the British Government has given no In- divation whatever that his course hus met with snything else than its hearttest ap- proval, Gen, Roberts reports that elghty- nine persons were hanged by his authority after he took possesslon of Cabul. Of these, forty-nine wero executed in three con- secutive days,—eleven on Nov. 10, twenty- elght on the next day, and ten on the day following. ‘Ihe reasons assigned by him for thege executions were that Magistrate and sixvof tha men had been convicted of dis- honoring tho bodles of tho officers of the Cavarnarl Embassy, seventeen for at- tacking escorts and having property of. the Embassy In their possesslon, forty- nine for proved murders of camp- followers and suspected’ of being en- gaged In the Cabul outbreak, and fifteen for killing wounded soldiers as well as for implication In tho attack on the Residency. Gen, Moberts has {n every mannor treated the Afghan people us rebels to the British Government. ‘They were told by hin tn one of his proclamations that if they opposed the advance of the British treops they would be so considered. Inn subsequent prociama- tion he offered amnesty to those who had opposed the British advance If they would give up thelr arms; but he scrupulously ox- plained that thia amnesty did not extend to those who had been guilty of Instigating tha troops and people of Afghanistan to oppose the British troops, ‘and he was also careful to add that such persons would be treated with- out merey as rebels. From these reasons offered by Gon. Robarts, it can enstly be seen that many of the men were hanged for no othor reason than that, In the discharge of a patriotic duty, thoy had fought agulnst tho British Invasion of thelr country, Responsible correspondents of English pa- ors, who were present with the army at the thne, positively asserted that many of the excentions were for no other cause than par- Ucipation {n the battles against the British troops, ‘Tholr letters and telograms were subjected to military censorship, and, If any doubt of the correctness of their statements had existed even In the mind of the commanding General, sych statements would haye been sup- vressed. Gen, Roberta’ reasons have been trampal up to meet an outraged public opluion ut home, ‘The Afghans wero hanged by Nim for stuply defending thelr country and homes against British {uvasion and out- mee, and ho has but repented the. usunl chupler of Britlsh cruelties upon a people unable to protect themselves, and who had glven no enuge for British aggression, ‘Tho accounts from South Africa aro far more horrible, ‘hoy have not been snb- atontlated so fully, however, as those com> mitted in Afghanistan. The account glyen by Dr, Russell, correspondent of the London Telegriph, shows that the behavior of tho British troops In the villages of the Trans- vaal has been. slinply outragcous, State ments published in some South African vapors, and not denied, are to the eifect that In tho attack upon Sekukunt’s stronghold the allles of the English, the Amaswazl, were gullty of savage barbarities yreater even in thelratrocity (han those at any thue jutileted by Indians ‘upon our frontlor settlers, ‘Ten thousand of these savages partlelpated with the English troops in the uttuck, Their character for ferocity Ind: been fully re ported to the British Government in 1876 by the authorities of the Cape. A remonstrance was nb that tlie addressed by the English Ministry to the President of the ‘Trans yaal Republic ‘against thelr employment, and the British Government, in commenting upon the subject, stated that {¢ yiowed with the utmost horror the use of sich alllos for the prosecution of hostilities against Seku- kunl, Transvaal was, howevor, then Indo pendent, Since its foreed annexation the viewsof the British authorities havechangod, ‘They have not only employed the Amaswazl as auxiliaries, but so far have given no Indi- cation that the flendish eructtics practiced by these savages Ubon Sckukuni’s people have met with thelrcondemnation. The Volkshlad, a Dutch organ in South Africa, states that in the sight with Sekukuni the Swazls, were multy of cutting off women’s brensts, burn- ing Infants, cutting throats, and flaying chil- «ren of Bor 6 years of ago. As yet tho Brit- ish authorities have (aken no action regard- ing this statement, lis correctness has not been dented, nor from present appenrances ean any action relative to lt boexpected. Tho British troops have been successful Scku- kuni ls a captive, and the success of the ng- fair will bé allowed to cover the sins com- mitted. 1t is unnecessary to comment upon these flustrations of the policy puraued by tho British Government, They spenk for themselves to every Christian mind. ‘They serve to corroborate the fret which we at Jeast in the United States have enuse to re- member, that the British Government, so far asitcan do so, permits neither hiunen nor Divino Jaws to tntorfera with its schemes of conquest, “PERPETUAL MOTION.” Trobably.thore has not been a tine within tho puat twenty yours that somo one In this elty was. not nt work endeavoring to solve the Imposalblo problem of “ perpetual motion.” Sometimes as many as two-or threo bave been simultaneously: racking thetr brains in this direction. If wo suppose that Chlongo is a falr sample of tho reat of the clytlized world in this particular, wo must eonchite that many scores of mon are always wasting thelr energies upon this scientific ab- surdlty. ‘Tho revolution of a wheel under tho action of magnota fixed near {ts clreumfercnco Is a type of ono class of Inventions; which aro failures becauso magnets Jose their power, and*eyen change their condition, under the proposed cire cumstances. The iden that tho desired mo- tlon can bo obtatued by the pressuro of a dead welght was entertained in good {ith a few years ago, though self-evidently ubsurd, By far the greatest number of in- ventora, however, seck to obtain “ power" by caudlng weights to descend with a greater “Tteveruge” thin that by which thoy aro raised. Tn some of tha muchines which the writer has examiued, the appiratus is complicated so much as to muke it difeuit to detect tho error; butitisthoro always. Bulls deseending at tho elrcumference of nwheel and rising newr tho hub; welghts falling down an inelined plane and lifted porpondientarly, or the reverse: moreury transferred up and down tna similar way, ote., tire the staples of thought about * perpetual motion.” All may be proved to be fallacious by any one who ting mastered tho frst principles of the sciences of meebnanica, The “inventor” onco committed to the idor seldom gives tt up. except when Ifo ends. Ho builds a“ machine" rudely, and thinks that its fatlure to work 1s solely owing to the fuct that it isnot well constructed. He tries to induco edit- ors to commend tho principle, and mon with inonoy to help him to develop tt. His fallure in both direetions only deives him back more com- pletely upon himself, and he broods over the mintter nil the morv intensely and doggedly as he belleves that ho is an unappreciated, abused man. Argument with him fs of no value. Tho Person who disagrees with him is simply proju- diced or dilnd, nnd fs denounced as refusing to uld indeveloping the greatest discovery over youchsafed to mortals, Tt would bo absurd to suppose that we know altho forces of Nature, or the best modes of using those nt present burnessed to the service of man. Itis not improbable that our investt- gators will yet flud out mens of obtaining * power” ata cost which will be insignificantly small as compared with that now necessary. Tut thoy will never get somothing out of noth- ing, nor succeed In obtaining an effect which ts grenter than its producing cause. Hence tho perpetual motion is {mpossble, because It can never be reallzed so long ns tho above-named conditions exist. Just ng we can multiply noth- Ing into any finite numbor we please without ob- tuining a result greater than zero, so may wo experliinent to the end of time and be no nearcr than now to the creation of power. ‘Tinene has been a tobacco war at TLouls- yilto which hus resulted In some concessions to the pubile. The Tobacco Board of Trade, con- slating of buyers and warchousemen, had fi senlo of fees which, under tho rules, required unani- mous consent fo be changed, The feo wns $3 per hogshead, oxneted of tho buyers, with four months’ free storage. In May, 1879, thirty-six buyers seceded and started a separate Board of tholr own, and thero were several non-Bourd warehouses. Ono of thom started a paper in tho intereat of tho trade, and tho seceders have flourished. Tho war botween tho Donrds was brought to a conclusion a fow days ago, by an agreement by the old Bourd to reduce the feo demanded of the buyers to $1.50 per hogshead, and tho term of freo storago reduced to thirty days, Thoterms wore agreed to, All tho ae- cedera except Mr. Harthill, who had catahlished tho. paper, were elected members of tho old Hoard, Upon being informed that tholr nsso- elute Mr. Harthill hud been rejected all tho othors refused to accept tholr election, and tho wir wns ubout to break out afresh, when Mr. Harthill begged his friends to complete the re- arganizution, and then he would apply formally for admisgion. Thus ‘the mutter stands, 1t ts claimed that tho revolt has saved tho tobacco- buyers ag much as $30,000 during tho time thoy acted indopondently of tho old Bonrd, which was evidently controlled by the warchousomen, ——— Ir reads tke a romance to seo the Albany Evening Journal opposing with all its might, day after day, a cardinal mensuro on which tho Gov- ernor of {ts purty had set his heart. Sinco tho Journal was founded, the State has had flye Whig Governors and five Republican Goveru- ors; and it bas been tho personal and political organ and mouthpiece of every ono of thom till now. But tho nomination of John F, Smyth by Qoy. Cornell for reappointment to tho office of Superintendent of lusurance seems to be a load which the Journal cannot carry. It poura col- umn after column of admonition upon the head of the Governor for udherjug to Smyth, and warns the Republicans of the Senate that the party cannot afford to have his nomination con- firmed, An attempt was made lately by frionds of tho Governor to buy the Journal; butthe pro- prictora replied that, a8 the proposition Involved tho surrendor of thelr purpose to chango tho tone and polley of the paper, “no price could be muned which would be accepted,” A wurren from Toronto, dated Feb. 25, reports that the charter of tho Hurop & Ontario Bhip-Canal has beon extendud for ten yenrs, ‘The indofatignble Prealdont, F. C, Capreal, Eaq., wna nbout to leave for Ottawa to induce, If pos- sible, the Dominion Government to take charge of und push the greut untorprise ta completion, Tho {minenso progress of the Northwest, as shown by tho figures represonting tho. bualncss of our olty for tho past yoar, will Curulsh a aub- atantin basis for tho frionds of the measure to urge its {mportuncoe upon the attention of the Dominion authorities, Let thom completa it, and to cseapo the oxtortion of the railways tho Central States will furnish it with all tho busl+ ness It can possibly do, —_—— Tue wirkansus Gazette finds tho shoa pinching, It says of tho now ordor of Asalstant. Postinaster-General Hrady reducing tho “atar'* service to one mall a week; ‘This will give us but one mail a week betweon his place and Pine Blutt, and cut down to ano mail a week all other routes In the Stute carried ‘by coaches, wagons, or on horseback, It fs aime ply an outrage upon the state, The Gazctle muy divide the blaine, if it chovsea, between tho Hepublican Postmuater- Genorul and the Democratic Congross, but cer- tainly tho latter must boar the houyler part of the load. Mn, DANA having been betrayed inte de- eluring that no Democratle candidate should bo nominated who did not favor tho use of armud. foreo to suppress the Confederncy, the World promptly stupa forward with wlottor written by: ‘Hldon in 1861, in which ho said he felt it tobe “nsucred duty to pofuse bis sanction” toany. expression tending to“ an appeal to the sword for the solution of the difforcnecs between tho North and Bouth." Hut perhaps this lotter was only & oryptogram, and meant somethiug en> Uruly different from what uppearod on Ita face, ene Ann now It cventuntes that the Democratic patriot, Garcolon, of Maino, wha recently at- tauipted to steal tho vote of that State inthe interests of ‘Tilden, was gullty of foryory in ore dering tho Town Clork of Somorville to fill out & certiticate of eloction taa Fusion candidate and sign tho namos of thoXclectmen. : The Clerk oboyed his letter of Instructions from hia superior and forged thelr names, and on this falso certilicate tho Fusion candidate was given as stolon seat, tho original cortificate having beon dostroyed, alvo by Gurcelon'a instructions. This wes the Spit case oxamined by the Loylalativy 5 Investigating Committee, and fraud wi a ita It i Announced that beginning of moro disclosures nature tocome, Having raved thie te eae reformer out of tho Atate-Iouse, tho pia of tho people nf Mutno ought to ba to mers ee Into sone court whers such things are properly dealt with. a Tur Keokuk Gate Clty reports tt of mnothor pleco of tho big aerolite wh pi coy, Minnesota, Mny 10 of ‘hla pleea weighs ninety-two and and vena found by Mr. Robert Peta at Coes Township, In a alouih which has dried uy eee tho fall of tho object. ‘his, with tho tive lane nieces, makes n eottective weighty at ett pounds, besides soverat fragmenta, someog the ofrespectable size, Tho moteor is Interesting, howover, outskte of its unusual mass, on ey count of the fact that [tis wrare Apeelmen . ina ehemlenl sonse, It ts now het analyzed, ni Shorvuphy NA Btritck this ts only the he finding hich fell in last year, i Ir there Is anything tho D Bress are renily to stand up ta, tho peo like to know what It [a, Sane of he tne ato not reudy to express nn optilon about aise @) The Election laws; (2) tho Fitz John Portes caso; (3) the contusted election cases in Minng- sotn and Indlunns (4) tho domonetization of grecnbacks, though onc of tholr prominent caus didutes for the Prosilency favors this pote (6) tho disfranchiscinent of negroes In the South, ant, in fnet, every tmport question of the day. RURiEOE, Poltloat mocrats in Cone Tux Hon, Rowland E. 'Trowbrid nated for Indian Comuntasioner in tues et ee romoved, isa native of Elmira, N.Y. but re. moved to Michigan when a chitd, about 182, He ‘was a olnssmute of Prosident Hnyes in Konyon, Coltege, nnd eraduated iu 1811, Ho hin eeryod two terns in tho Michtyan Benute, and was g. member of tha ‘Thirty-soventh, ‘Thirty-tinth, and Fortioth Congresses. Io Ig-ankl to bo ng able man,well versed in Indian affnirs, and, above all, honest, — Tose were manly titterances of Senato: Conkling when interrogated tn Washington toe Sthor das: ag. to whelter ho eontneatn tho d the Utiea Convention, “No, alr” anid heed Benntor, and. tie Senute if ow th Besslon et iny duty is here."—Fond da Lao Canemonwealth, Sonntor Conkling never sald any such thing, or he forgot it; for he went to Utica, and mado a powerful impression there. Tr fs very questionable whether the Amert- cat people are prepared to put tho choice of the next President of the United States in the hands oh aire Ignatius Donnelly.—Phladelphia Record Ignatius Donnelly would probably elect bine solf if ho had a ebunce. ——_ PERSONALS. Mr, Shuman’s boom is for saloor rent The Mey, Guckboard Murray ts going to Europe. Ex-Senator Slmon Cameron will be 8 years old noxt Monday. Perhaps Lessic Turner was asleep when that marriage tool placo, A onco famous Berlin prima donna has Just died In that clty at tho ngo of 90, Her stago name was Josephine Sculzo Killsehigy, Misfortunes never come singly, Not tone ago the Princess Loulso was thrown out of a sleigh, and now {t isannounccd that sho hus writton a play. ‘The Princess of Wales Is sald to be a skills ful milliner. When people are accustomed to luxury thoro 1s nothing Hke haying a dead euro thing on band In caso of hard times, We ara anxiously walling for the ans nouncement that “Mr. Anna Dickinson will son lend to tho altar tha beautiful and highly accompllabed Miss Whitelaw Reld.” Capt. Webb, the Channel swimmer, hasun- dertnken to swim alxty conscautive hours, and agrent many people aro in hopes ho will porsis¢ in the attompt, evon if it kills him, ‘The Austrian Dict appropriated $125,000 to defiay the expenses of tho fox-hunting visit of tho Empress to Ireland, now being mndo. It would seem that tho fox could have been taken to Austrian and chased awhile for half tho monoy. ‘The Mormons have no scruples over telling tho truth about thodend. At a recont funeral in Salt Lake, Prealdont Taylor remarked: “ Ilo died a drunkard—and he will find a drunkards grive, Ho lina gono to hell, and thero is whoro ho deserved to go.” ‘Tho young man who sends to this offices a poem ontitled * Wilt My Darling Come Again?'? is Informed that, this being leap-year, tho chances are greatly In favor of ber immediate roturn. Buy a bull-dog, sonny, and perbapsyou. can keop her away. One of the Empress Engenio’s pet names for hor son in childhood was ‘Monsieur Dixe Minutes," becauso of bis invetornto habit of dae manding ten mlnutcs more. As a little follow it was always his first word Jn tho morning whon ho was roused: ‘Ton minutes more!" and when too drowsy to sponk he strotched out his two Httle hands opon; hia ten fingers judicated tho ton winutes he still desired, A bright and beautifal schoolboy on the ‘West Sida astonished his teachor tho other day by stubbornly refusing to recite a portion of the lesson in Amorican history, enying that it was wholly unneccssnry. “Why, how is that, Jobnny?” said tho femalo In ctnrgo of the cinss, “ Recauso," said the boy, looking at her witha cold, plercing glance, “very sucker knows that history rupouts itself.” Such precocity Is, Inv deed, sud. The daughter of Spotted Tail, a tall, une Rainly young womon of 18, is studying in the Government School tor Indians at Carlislo Bare racks, Pa, Sho bn lately marricd tho half-breed intorpreter employod at tho barracks, and wher eent to do somo scrubbing tho other duy her lordly husband interfered, His wifo wna of Royal blood, ho remarked,—tho daughter of & Chiof,—and ho wanted her to learn only what tho white ludtes do, Even In this ago of enlightenment there Are vights which make ono shudder, and too fond fathor ono of them conststs In Inadyertent> ly looking Into the parlor aumo evening Just In time to aco tho young Indy next door hastily withdraw hor arm from his eldest son's walst, and boar tho blushing boy say: “Oh, you hors rid, thing! You really mustn't; you'vo rufiied my coat all up and broken my elgaret caso with your dreadful aquecaing.” Lonp-year is here. Miss Mlunto Hank fs deserlhed ag looking extremely pretty and picturesque whon sho daghes upon tho stage Inthe Inst actof tho “Taming of tho Shrow,." Pulling off her clouk of dinck allk, ned with plok, sho uppears in 4 magnificent dress of supphire blue velvet, looped over a akirt of pale -blue broende, Into whieh are woven tiny red and pink flowers, Her hat {sn Rombrandt of gray-felt hound with gold and trimmed with pink nud whito ostrich-feathe ora, “Myrtle May "Tho faot that George ring in somo musty peanuts on sou the ast thine you uttonded tho theatro Iu his company {6 nob tiecessarily an cyldonco of waning affection, nd ho niny have purchased thom unknowingly, at though, nas you say, it looks suapicious, Dy temporarily amothoring your ehagrin and gong out once or twice with wnother follow you cul rondily discover whether he really loves you oF {su perjured villain, P.5.—In caso he fs, don't forget to koup tho other fellow. Blache ‘Tucker-ltoosavella-Roosevet-Ma- chetta, formerly n Chicago xirl, but now asluser of some reputation, and a membor of Gilbert and Sullivan's company, met with # strange accident Saturday morning, und had a narrow escape from vory sorlous injuries, As it was, sho received bruises which prevented ber appeuranco In the ovoning as Maled in tho “Tirates of Ponzance. Mra, Machotta ocouples apartmonts in Twenty> olght streot, near Fifth avenue; Now York City ‘The colling In hor slgoping-room showed n few Uns not necessary to tho original frescoo dor signs, but appeared to bo perfoctly stable, Nes fore sho awakonod, and while tho nolghbors above woro beginning to stir about, a part uf the calling fll upon the bed, and sho was very Helly brutsod. Her husband, Signor Macholta,recelve a fow alight burts. a POLITICAL POINTS. De Kalb County {s uninistakably for Blaine for Prestdont,—Syeamore (10) Republican. Perhaps the pledged Republican delegates toChicago might go in ‘chain-gangs to insure unanimity of actiop.—Boston Herald (Ind.). In Pennsylvania everybody knows that the moveniont for Gon. Grant's nomination fs bole lownoss {tself. In Now York ‘this is also now dempnstrayed The lawlixwnvy vf beth slaved