Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, April 6, 1881, Page 9

THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6, ISSI—-TWELVE PAGHE IRISIT LEGISLATION. The Substance of Mr.”Gladstone's " Proposed Land=Tenure Bill. A Virtunl Adjustmont to the Prinei- | ples Known as the Threo F's. o Probable Opponents of the Measure=Views from oo English “Taberal® Stand. . oints Speclal Correspondence of Thie Chieago Tribune. Losnos, Eng. Mareh 12,—The MHouse, of Commons finally settled np its business of coercion fast night when the bill prohibiting the earrying and possession of wrms wa read o third thme ant passed, but in a form mneh Jess arbitrary than when 1t was Introdueed. Sufar, therefore, Parllament 1 free to enter ona v and less heartburning phose of Trlsh leglslation. But the way 18 ANYTHING BUT CLEAR YET for the intraduction of the Land-"Tenuro bill, and, from what Mr. Gladstone satd on the subject Inst night, it is doubtful whether the first reading ean take plnce before Enster Phiere §s certaln routine business which must be disposed of before March 31, the ehd of financial year, If the law Is to be preservel unbroken, nnd the duo and prompt payment of the varlous services unsus- pended. This business comprises over fifty yotes In Committes of Supply, which require to bo passed by the 21st [ust., and which nt this date Inst year had slrendy been «dls- posed of. Following the votes in supply comes tho Wuys and Means bill, and after that the Budget; while, In ndditlon to the demands thus made on the time of the Tlouse, the Government Is in duty bound, especlallydn viow of a recent ndverse voto u the Iouse of Lords, to set an early day for tho discussivn of their Candalar policy, to which thoy -have been challenged by the Opposition. Over and nbove these pressing mntters, wo aro also threatened with a re- vival of tho Bradlaugh controversy, owing to u deciston yesterday in tho Queen’s Bench adverse to the member for Northampton, ae- cording to which he Is 1iuble in penalties for fllegal voling in the Tlouse of Commouns, Of cours Mr, Bradlaugh will appeal; butif he, on the one hand, insist on golug on voting in tho meantime, and if s adversaries on the other persevers In moving forn writ for n now election, scenes aro lkely to oceur which will mako confuslon worse con- founded., = ‘T'aking nll theso circumstances into con- slderation, it Is scarcely probable that the first reading of the Land-Tenure bl will tuke place on this side of Enster, aud tho more espeelnlly ns NO PROGRESUWHATEVER could bo made with it tlil May. But, for that very reason, and not to disappoint ex- pectation entirely, Mr, Gludstone may take an enrly: opportunity of explaining to the Tiouse the llnes on which the bill, which bo deseribes as ** the great mensuro dealing with fand-tenure in Ireland,” proceeds, In that ense tho substance of this much can- vassed measnre will shortly be known to you. It will bo found to be a virtunl adjust- ment to the principles known ns the thres ¥'s, The Stundard came out the uther morning with a forcenst which - was ~I have anthority for saying—In some main polnts correct, and chiefly crred where it attempted to be explielt. ‘Tho forthcoming measure crentes nnuuthorlty {or the revision of rents; practically eonfers 1reo sale, and estublishes tho right of contine uous veeupaney. This Inst 13, to all intents and purposes, * fixity of tonure”; but fixity of tenure must not be confounded with fixity of rent. The right to fix the rent dues not belong to the tennnt, s the Land League hns Deen clalining; nor can rent be left In the cirowmstances to the rough adjustment of natural lnws, -In Englaud and Scotland the rent of land, lke the price of otherthings is proverly left to the undisturbed working of ceonomlic Inws; but in Ireland, where there are few or none of those great Industrics which in tho sister-countries furnish the means of livellhood to millions, the milllons look to the soll, and the demand for Loldings 15 out of alt propurtion to tho supply. As tho Tesult of this, A SELF-DEVOURING “EARTI-IUNGER? vaulln anng the unlanded classes, which ias placed thei at the merey of rack-renting Iandlords, aud of o cluss of “middlemen who buecame tenants simply to act as petty land- lords,—and not to culflvate the soil, but to sublet it. “The Land-Tenure bill 15 a full recognition of these excoptional eircume stunces i tho easo of Ircland, and an exten- sivoattempt to deal with them; and, 1f it also embrace n seheme of land reclumation and fimproyement, IL must present welghty claims to b regarded as “the ‘urum nieas- ure” which Mr, Gladstone deseribes it, Not only for what 1t s In {tselt, but ulso on ac- count of all that”donends on 1t both in and out of Ireland, the Land-Tenure bill will be by far the most Important tueasure cnu'mzlnlg e attention of Parlinmont thls session, It offers Mr. Gludstona what mulv prove 1o be his inst “P‘"’““""y of teaying his-mark once mote on lrish leglslatlon. ‘The continuance of his Ministry 13 wlso involved in its success or failwie; and, that belng so, it i3 searcely neeessary to udd that domestle reforms in general, and Irish roforus In particular, de- dend upon 1ts fssue, In the last fifteen or twenty Gludstone has been the authorof two radienl reforms In Iroland,—the first boing the nboll- Liow of the Irish Chureh, awd tho second the Lund net of 1870 The third' great mensure by which he proposed to deal with Irlsh Erievances was THE UNIVERSITIES DILL, the object of whieh wus to concuntrata the educational Institutlons of Ireland on the common ground of u Natlona! unsectnrlan university, Dut, aithough tho bill was n toncesslon to the Homan Cathiollcs, it was defeated fn the Commons by thros votes, and, Ry Mr, Gladstone hmself expressed if, *iF not by a comblned, yet by n conenrront, of- forl of the lender of the Opposition [Mr, Discacli) and tho Ltoman' Catholio Prelacy of Ireland.” “This reverse wus the {mmedlnte vause, flrst of the reslgnution of the Glad- slone Ministry, and next of tha dissolution of Durllument, wiileh resulted tn the return of the Conservatlves to a six vears' lease of Jower, and cnhsm‘llunlly to an arrest of ro- form In Great Britain and Ireland, What hapuenod then, might be repented ngafh, in “Whleh case rotarm of the borough-frunciise Ll:' l{)lt}-hmu would be postponud fur years to ‘That the borough-franchiso Is n cryln Rrievance, fs attested by facts and fi;?ueg i!,l(lcll W tho following: ‘There nro -ton orouighs In Ireland, ench returning u repre- sentutivo- to DParlinment, whoso constituens cles, added toguther, ASIOUNT ONLY TO A TOTAT OF 2,605 ELECT years Mr, Tralcs, represented by who at the lust election Downpatrick, represented nd, who_polted 1705 New (Y Topresented by Mr. Foley, who polled low, csenlod by M arl I n:]ln Ir. Dawson, olled 1493 Dangurvan, represented by )'Donnell, who polied 159; Youghal, it ted by Sir John McKenna, who m ed 1533 Dungaunon, represented by i, ickson, who polled 198: Ennls, represonted “) 3. Flntznu, who ~polled 134 Poctovling- ml" represented by Mr, Fitzpatrick, who 0 )fid l.lll.'\ and Kinsale, ropresented by Mr, Vollugy whe polled 113, "Theso gentiemen Iutlm elected by the votes of some 1,400 per- L mfi und yet the ten ure oue-tenth b 10 wholu representation of Ireland i arllament, Jut there are more anvin- i nlx_t‘lum these; Indeed, the representation I ELE;H'IIl us a wholp {8 one great anomaly, lllcllLrlL]} referto it in order to lmpress the et -‘x'n the cnuse of yeform In Irelaid, e ll‘l unny directions there is noed o re- b ;'fi' ‘levends In tho neur future on the.fato A 6 Land-Tenure bill, ~ ho N}il’lrewuluuuu of thls new 1ssuc will ba i n";.nul Tor u ditforent array of forces fiu hthut which wo seo at present In the uué"'? of Commons, The Consorvatives nre .Im;mr showlng slins of abandonlug thelr HAN hvcnl ullisiico with the Liberals,und wo g uws J:ftly seo thew n their proper colors Trad efenders of the existing system in aduel b But the struggly will bo moro than ekween the Goverument aud the rog~ 054 who [r, D ular Opposition, There are ample prospects of u general melée, und U4 pEpaRe o0 LACK 01 PHOMISCUNUR SKIRMISINNG, The Opposition will not hve tho spport of all thely followers, aud thy Government e 8ute 1o he hurassed by free Ianees on its own side of the [Touse, The Lund-League party also s n dark foctor, whose share In the husiness s altogether problotmatienl, In my letter in T Triust: on the 23d of Decemher last, L snid that the Parnellites izt yet be keen netine in concert with' tho Taries o defent Mr. Gladstone’s mensure of relief, nd already they huye taken nsten 1 ¢ furtheranee of that object. Two of theiy: nnber, Messrs, Flnhgnn and Healy, hnvpg been at Coventry, where un eleetion i3 gol n g o to-day, Instricting the Irish clectors th a'eo 1o ‘,m'u thelr votes for the "Tory eandldat arder to defeat o really uble and refor Liberal, Sir “Ughtred” Kny Shuttlew o I'hat s to say, they are trying to puniel. the Government for ila coercive leglsiat' em by aldlge the retury of an opponent of jts re- tedlal measures but no net on the ort of tha frreconeilables of the Land-Ler..ne can now surprise snybody, The Coer ston Witls focuseid the wills and encrgles of {hat Jittle bunu as—titere 14 goodd reasun for t: ::lluvlmf— they are not likely to be foenswd aguin, Thero nre men among them Wik o will be ns sineere in promoting the Land- T'enure bl ns they were sincers In resisthys coerelon, and this fil-judged diversion st Cryventry will not tend to unlon among themgelves, "1 fi);)llduflt that the coursu of evoits will show s, < AS FOIt TIE CONSERV ATIVES, there eun be no doubt that on. Lhe laud ques- tion they lave heen consviterably *‘edu- cated "—to borrow o woll-Finown phrase of their great chilef—sinee the overthrow of tiie Compensation-for-Disturbance b Inst sum- n Itis trug that their education on tho Inwd question has not beery the sugar-plum process which Mr, Disranil suceessfully su- perintended ab the time of the ast_extenslon of the suffrage, On the eontrary, It hns been xlullu severely birched fato thém in_avery different sort of seliool, nud the Land-Leaguo agitation lins been wholesome discipling to o Jarge and duldard cliss on whom milder lessons were thrown away, Now that Nnblmyhn: hns nge/in beeoms nctive ns o condition of oceunat ey, it does the 'Forles ny Snjustico to unticipa.se that they will take nd- vantageof altered eircumstances to impair and obstract Mr. Getadstone’s measure. On the other hand, It 'whl be a point of honor with the Governuzent that it shall pass essen- tlalty uniutpalresl, and the Speaker’s new rules plaee o poneerful engine at thelr dis- vosal for forclug thelr measure through. Un the whole, 118 PROSPECTA ATE HIGHLY FAVORADLE, even with the Yiouse of Lords looming in the background. 4ts fate in the House of Lords will be deternrined by its fortune in the Com- mons; and {1 the Commons the hope, Iif not Intriusically the strength, of the nieasure lles In the foet that 1t comes before Parlin- ment with the consenton the one hand of great territerinllsts of the Whig traditions of the Duke Argyll and the Marquis of Ilart- ington, and of such earnest Rudienls as John Bright nnd Joseph Chamberlaln on the other, ‘'he objoction may perhaps be raised by some Radlcals ns well ns by the Land-Leaguc mems- bers, that 1t inherits’ the dofects of a bybrid matronauze; bAt, whatever its defects, the bill ought to have, a priorl, the grent merit of availubllity, 1f it have this merit, thy de- fects muy be more sentimental than real, RaxpoLri, JUDGE EUSTACE, A Dofensc of His Action in the Chicage & Yowa Rallroad Cane. Tv the Editor of The Chicago Tribune. CHICAGO, April 2—L noticad in your Baturday Iy8ue the proceedings of n meotiug nt Aurora, Lield on Friduy, at which & committeo was ap- ;pointed to fuvestigate tho Judicial action of Judygo Eustace, of Dixon, lu the Chicogo & Iown cuses, - A plnnce attho Commitice appointed nt the meeting on Friday night shows that it {s com- posed, In part, of defeated Inwyers in tho very cuses In which thoy seck to have tho Legisine ture Iuvesgato the condncet of the Judge who dofented them, Br. Charles Wheaton hus been -connouted with ll the iitigatlons bofore Judge Eustace, in which tho Chicugo & lowa's inter- csts wero affected, and lay been uniformly de- feuted; and this cnlls to mind a remark of tho late Judgo Grover, of the Now York Court of Appeals, thatyIn tho county in which ho lived, when w lawyer was defonted he bud two remedless one to iako an uppeal, liko n sonsivle mun, und tho v to Aiu down tuthe tavern and swenrat tho Caurt. M cred 8 third remedy which u lawyer has, and that is to Linpeash the Judge, A fow fucts in conneotion with the litigation of tho Cnicago & lowa Rallroad will pit tuo atter before tha public in such n light that they may underatand just want Judge Eustace -ald und hid reagsons for doing it y 1u March, 1820, tho Town of Aurora, which had fnvested $100.00) In_tho originnl Chicago & fown Ralirond Cowspany, presentod §ts bl to Judgo Kellum, of Syeamore, and procured from him an njunction restraiming uvery stockuoidor of tho Colcago & Iown Ratlrond Compnny, us ut present organized, from dlnruslm; of tholr atock or voting it at tho munual eleetlon for Directors to be' held 1n March, 1880, or nt any election thorenfter. Tho Chlengo & lown Rallroad Com- puny, 18 1t prosent orkunizod, 18 u consolldated Conpuny, cousisting ol tho origlual CI.IIungol& lo Town Itillrond Company, and tho & Carroll County Rallrond _ Campuny, which wero eousolitnted nbout “June, 1870, The Town of Aurern was a subscribor to tho stock of tho originsl Chicago & lown Ruilrond Compuny. Tn tho biif presented by 1t to Judge JKellum it set forth that it was n stockholdor of sbicugo & Towa Iafirond Company, er wiis r stockholder In_the con- solidated Chilengo & Iown Iufiroad cnm‘Ynuy: thut It never was consulted in tho consolidution of tho two K:umlmnlus. and that tho consolida- tion wus frawdnlent and void, us fgninst it Upon nblll thus disclosing upon its fuoo thnt the Q'own of Aurors wis not i stuckholder in tho present Ch lcmiu & lown Rulirond Company, but a stockholder fu tho company which bueame de- funct by the consalidation, Judge Kellum grunted tho injunction befora referred to; and by thnt injunction ull tho stockholdurs of the Chis cugo & lows Raflrond Compuny wero restenined from voting at the clection in 1880, and tho Town of Aurord, not a stockholder In the Cotpnny at ull, but on it stack fa tho orlginal compaty, assumed to elect n Bowrd of Directors for the condolllated compuany, and that Donrd of Directars, vonsisting of seven mombers, owned but ono share of $100 iu tho consolldnted cum- puny, At that time the Chicago & Iowa Ratlrond Com- Pany was in the bundsof Recelver Holcomb, np- puluted by tho Federal Court 1n this clty, Not- withstandiug prompt nction wua tuken by warranto proceeding to ouat the Board this l“o_ tendedly ¢lucted by the Town of Aurors, thoy applied to Judgo litodgptt and procured an o der, in tho mouth of May, that Recelver ol comb doliver the rallrond to the Chicigo & Iown Rtaltrond Compnny, anid desigunted four mems- hors of this Hoard thus cleoted to receipt for it. Ou thoe 19th of Juno, 180, tho Kecelver aboyed the order of Judgo Blodgett. That order 3 put sakl roud Into the hands of tho Honrd who clalmed to have boen elect- od tho Tawn of Aurora, when on Y the faoc of ita bill, sworn to by Judge Monton it uppeared that it wab not o stockbolder at ul The stockholders of thu Chleago & lowa Rail- rond L‘umlmny wero not satlatied to Intrust tholr wvroporty lu the hands of such a loard thus pro- tendedly elected, and sowe of them filed In the Ciroult "Court ot Ugle County n bill sottlne the above, among othor fucts, und that tho Court would tnke' pos of the rond, by u Raceiver, to protect it agniust these people. The Court per- ceiving that no tnjury conld result to the roid norto the parties Interestod in It by tho ap- pointment of u Rocoelvor, and that damago inight result to the road if the rund was por= mluml,m retnuin Ji the hands of men who nover wore elected Directors, he, a8 n sonajblo Chnne cellorggopolnted tho sawme Htecelver that hnd so succesStully munnged and controlled the rond far nearly threo yonrd fn the Federal Court, Judge Fustnee unde tuly order in- chambers, It {8%a question amoog lawyers whother n Judge inay mako such an ardor In chumbers, Luwyors are nonrly ecquully divided on that point, and to euve any question u stmllar bill 8 tllod by tho samu stockhbolders in tho Leo County Clrouit Court, fn term timy, aud tho s llecelver way again appointed by J udigo Eustave, July 1. Under thuse appolntments Holcotb took possessfon of the roud and hus over sinee munuged und controlled it; and there 14 HOL 4 I, oxeupt ho dofented attornoys, or tho ousted Board of Directors, thut bas ever complalned of hls munagemont, Judgu Montony end Churles Wheaton, cluim- ng 1o represout tho Chicago & lows Rnllrond Compuny, but who nuver had any suthority from Its legul Toard of Diroctors, entervd u - tfon i tho Leo County Clrenit at tho October torm, 1080, to vaeito tho orderuppointing tho Recuiver, Judgo Bustuce holding court, but bo foro tho' motlon “was beard they voluntarily withdrow t, and did not appear upon tho Ooul bearing of . the casy at® ‘:gn smme term, but thoy sued out n writ of wrror from tho Appollato Court, Seconi District, to roverss ihe onler mude Jily 1 by the Log Cireult Court appoluting Mr.” Holcomb He. ceiver, I'hut writ of orror was heard ut tho last terin of tho Appetinte Court and dismissed on thu grounds, trst, thut it was not 4 tinal order; fevond, tmt tholr' Temody waos o Bave moved tuio Cort wrunting the ‘Urder to vaeato it At tho Outebor teri, in tho Loo Clreult, a tusl do- creo wis ontered, continulng Hoteomb in the Recolvership untll varioua Htfgitions montton- ed In the bill (nmnongwt whilch wis tho qUo wavrun- 1o proceediog 1n Cook County to oust thut Jllegn) Bourd ot Divectors). To reverso tho final decreo tho sume degal gentlemen, without any authority whutever from the legul Llowrd of Dircctors, sued out a° Writ of ercor from the Appellate Court, Sccond District, and uppliud to \Lu( Court for u suporscdoas, snd that Court mado the most ustonlshing order thut the Judicial snnals of Hlinols can furnusb, It et Not h anly grispended the power of tha Lo Girewit Lot & to enforce ita decree, bt paguired the Re- celv o to tuen uver the road and vroperty {n his han 4 to four members of this flegal Bonrd, pria tleatly appointing them four Ilecelvers, wiihout requirig tham to glve any Uurd or_ geeurity for tholr falthful ¢ eaditet, Tho ‘Supremo Court, upan n proper ircord promprly insua u welt oF oreor o soverso £aisnotton of tho Appellnta Court, and super- fiodedd tho ordor which thoy hind putered, lenving tho rond In tho hands of "It8 proper Hecever, antistied with this disposition of thinga, # el ued ont o welt upremo Court Lo reverss tho degree, on the fmagloary wrownd that it luvolved a franchise, hut thoJudge raited 0 SUDOrSEdCns oxprens ABro with tho hosdoasion. of tho roud by 1A lecelver, This 1nst writ of crror wiis digs missed at the recent term of the Supreme Court ut Ottawa, “This fllegal Hoard of Directors becoming sate fstled that tho Town of Auroru wns @ stock- holder i the originnl Chickzo & Towa ltntirond Company only, concetvod tho brilinig schoo of Iasuing ten khares of stock In tho consoll- 02 KAING LWD of error from the Tae County i dited Compnny nmong 118 inembors, three outsiders a share ench, for the Av | piiriose, aa Btuted in tho resbiition wttiorlz. g s fwsue, to rafse woney to enrry on’_litigation In_the mmn of - the Chicako & Towa Company, They iksted rocolints for tho ten sharces of atock, and enlentuiod (o bo able to _coptrol the eleetion of Directors in Mnreh, 1881, by ineans of thoso ten shares of stock, us nll atlior shares of atock in the Com- prny tens undor Injunction, from votinie o Fionia fio stocknotders of tho Chicueo & Town Hulirond Compuny lenrucd this faut. Just hetora the election was 1o bo hetd in March, 1881, and ono of thom flled n bIIt i the Ogle County r. Wieaton s discove" Clreult Court sciting forth In full thio facta above stated. quoting from the bl of tho Town of Aurora, above roferred to, tho sworn atatement of Judge Mon- tony that tho ‘l'own of Aurora wns not a stock- holiler i the present Chicngo & Jown Railrond Compnny, und prayiue for on injunction re- atralning the Town of Aurora, this illegal Bonrid of Directors, niued the holders of the recelvts for tho phove ten shares from holding any election for Directora In 1881, It wlso prayed that Churles Wheaton -and 1t (. Montony should b c strafned from taking iy furthier proceedings courts in tho nawe and on behalf of the Chlenga & Jown Ratlrond Compuny, on the ground that thoy brd no authority frum the = ruil- rond cmnnnn{ to represent It fn vourt; it nlso prayed that nil of the parties defendunt be re- strained from creating uny indebtedness agalost the roid, or atlempting to prove up any claim aigaingt the roml, uatit tho quention was doters mined whethor they bud nny vlght to represont the Company, Anil If uny person witl tuke the trouble to rend tho bill, which wng sworn to by .18 reputable & eltlzen a8 there 18 In the City of Chicugo, ho will see that, ns extruordinury a8 tho fnjunction grauted on sald Bill mny scem to be, it was more thun warranted by the alicgations i tho bill, and tho talk nbout |lllficuu|llngnm Judge for granting nn hjunctlon when the bill proying it fitlly Juatliles its issue, 15 simply tho talk of batied uttorneys, and n tho time shall come that a rallrond coup or an indls yidunl hns not norlght to ko Into a Court of Chancery and proeuro an injinctlon restralning Inwyers or nnybody else frum Involving it or him in Mrigutton, Without I8 or his consent, tha Courts of Chancory of 1lllunis should bo closxd, What wus sought by tho bill wus thut unauthorized persons ~ should not he per- mitted to involve this raflroad in cendle: unnccesanry and frulticss litigation, amdl t Injunction “nccomplishedd thut object exueti; and henco nll this bue and cry by thoso defer ed Inwsers in tholr attempts to get money out of this Compnany for servives whicli the Compn- ny never employed them to perfortn, And whut further shows the judgment and r(lml aonse of Judpe Lustaco l’l( yrunling the njunctfon Is the fact that on tho yery duy that the cleetlon should have been held n 1881, Judge Rozers of the Circult Court of Cook County, prououiced a decrco whict ousted that lllegal Board of Dircctors from oflice, on the ground that the vole of tho Town ouf Aurara stock was (el and vold; and thus completely vindleating tho course of tho stockbolders who flled thobill, and Judge Eustace who granted tho [njunction, From this brief stujement it will be scen ‘how much of foundation thore I8 forthis Aurorn mceting, und tho procecdings tonttemnpt tasinivel tho reputation of one of the ablest dwlges In tho Stato: and If the Legzlslature of tho State of llinols hus no other business to do thnn to take up tho causo of u banled and defeated lot of at- torneys. and to harnas nud annoy tho Judee who ustly defeated thom, they bun better eloso thelr Besslon aud_roturn to their dadly voe: 9 Neltlier tho Judge nor the sullcitors who drew the pupors hnve the slightest Tenr of the result of an {uvestlgation, ns vothing could come from it but confusion to 1ts Instigntors. . JUSTITIAS NEBRASKA. Its Variable Climunte — 'Tho Wntere Cournes of the State—=Npring Floods, Spectal Correspondence of The Chieago Tribune. Lixcors, Nob., Murch 3L—~Your correspunds ont has truveled quite uxtensively in lhls§llfl(h and has hud opportunity to judge of the sofl, climato, wator, ote., 08 thoy renlly are, uot only in the summer months, but in tho winter season;”| when fow tnen caro to prospect farthor thin thelr.. own door-yard, It {8 well to suy fir tho ~ onmset thut no two soneons ure aliko In Nobraskn: that It §s, n variable cli- mate, and the chunges are often sudden and phonomennl, Thore 18 no lkelihgod that tho coming summor wiil be simliar to tho sumne sen- 800 of lust year: on tho contriry’, it 18 quite cor- tain not to be. Tho sumner of 1880 was remnvk- able for its heat aud dust, and for tho high winds which provalled ail tho scuson through. Tho wintor which hus just closed has been re- murkablo for fts soverity, for the nmount of 8nnw which has fallen, und’ for ita * bllzzards.” Another such 4 winter never wus known in tho Btate: and it is not likely to bo repeatod ver: Roon, If ever agaln. Thero 18 this nbout tho eli- mate of Nobruskn that I8 cujoyablo: thore Iy mnly of sunshine; thero {8 nothing of ¢ sad, dull, hoavy untmosphere- which 18 80 comunon in” . tho tates esab of the Mlssissippi River, The wind muy blow; the dust may iy in clouds, ns it frequentls does; but, novertholess, the sun will shine, Thery s anothor thing, not exuetly climatie, but 1t hns refereneo thoreto: tho wore than ' good ronds of the Stato. Uenerally tho year round, bLoth suwmer and winter, tho golng 18 good; tho ronds are dry, lovel, lard-puckod, and unobstructed Ly hills, rocks, or trees, ‘Thore are uo_Inrge rivers In Nebraskn,—tho Platte bemg of muro lmportance than ullothors, wlthough i reality it Is u decldedly usclens Atroum. 1t 18 of no consequoncs us aeommercinl thoroughfure, or for milling or munufacturin purposes, and 1e fn fuct almost . dond wusto ol spaco. LIt ix shullow, runs slugelsh, 8 cut up by sund-bare, and 8 nearly without timbor niong its sbores, About nitthat can bosaid io its tavor Is, that it furnishes water for tho millions of wattle which feed on tho adrcent lands: and it supplics wwolature, and thervby erentes the finest prsturge In the worlil, The Danks of the Platto itro o level with the rest of tho country, und .overy Bpring nud full the river ftaelt overilows and aprends out ko a groat luke, This N[lrlull it 1s fairly outdoing Itsolf fn this particulur. Fa milvs und miles west of Owmuha tho river bus brakan [ts bounds, and is sprending out over the prafrio like an island-dotted sea. 'fho Union Puclfle Iinflroml truck fs submerged, and ull elso in tho near vicinity of thoe river Is under wator. ‘The othor atrenms af the State, buth Inrgo und small, aro tollowin I3 thio sumo oceupntion of tho Plattg. The Republican Hiver, which, thao Platte, 16 the lurgest in tho Stute, on a bonder for soveral weoks, The Republicun flows moro rapldly thun thoe Platto, 18 d and has clenrer water, 1t f8 4 bold stron this pring has been unreasonably turious. Over $100,000 worth of bridges and mlllllui Jroperty has been swept nway recently by the high witer: and tho sottlers uloug the stream predict stitl greater disaster. The Illue Niver, Nomaha, and Nlovrara are fino_stroumna, tho 'fimit-nanicd boing different trom all athars in the State {n the fact that it is elenr, cold, hus a pebbly bottom, and (4 fringod with s guinelty of good tiuibor, 4o Bluo furs nishes first-cliss witer-power for n number of flng wills. ''he Nemala I8 alse |I'(m>d streant, and waters tuo finest ugrleultural land in the Btate. Tho Niobrura cines diveet 1rom the mountaing, aud 18w cloar streaw at its hoad, but beeomvs dull and imuddy s it Hows souths ward, 1ts bunks nro eteep, und It selilom overs fluws, 1 Taet, none of tho' threo strenms Just named ket unraly very ofton. ‘This spring ih hive heon saumewbut Inclined 1o apread out wn- neceswnrlly; but in tuls particular ouly the Plutte, tho Rupublican, and the very small streams of the Stato uro muking themscives 0. rivg the historian of Lin. tronbl Sik yeurs ugo this g colid Bias It that Balt Crock—a littlo muikdy strohin, doep, sluguish, and treachorois—roas 5o hiuh In'two duys thut'tho overflow reacied tha business vortion of thoe oity, u distance of balf amiio fron the mstn chunnel, I this bo tene, tho stream I8 repunting itself this year, Within slght of Lincolu, nbout #ity houscs, and us wany wvlors corneeribd, barns, mills, lumbors yurdd, vonl-houges, ¢to., wro surrounded by wuter, and the only way to rensh any polut across tho crock 18 by boat, Tho reason for tho unusual rise of water In Nebraska may bo briotly oxplained in the fact that un extriordingry winowit of suow foll dur- Ing the winter, and the mountuing to the north Nkl wedty us the 8now mmelia, are sending down torrenty of water, ull of which fulls hito and feeds tho rivers of Nubraska, The only thing to Lo surpriscd at (s, that the Hoods ure ot gruater than they uro. A weck or two henco, or o wmunth, and there may bo 4 general froshet that will deown out overybody, Meanwhilo the poo- ple ot Nebrusks hopo tor tho best, - ————— = Synounym Hoaton Ihai, * For ‘lunatics 'read *Scnutors,' " saysa Ca- nndian \"‘fgmm vxplanution of u typokrapbical vrror, What's tho uso of maklog o tusy ubout synanymst —eei—— ev. A, Opltz, of Schielsingoyvilla, Wis, an honored Germun minlster, writes; “Iwus . sulforer with rheuwatisin _for yoars, Friends reeommended the use of St. Jucoby Ol L trled It g wgist confess that the ré- sult wuy estonishing. Havinge burdiy used up tho limst bottle, I found rellef, and the seeond one eured me. I theretoro feel under obllgations, und shall recumuend this etfect- Ive remedy whenever Ihave o chunee” GREECE. Warlike State of Affairs at the Capital of the Hellenes, Tho Nation All Ready for a Btruggle with Its 01d Enemy, the Turk. Seventy-five Thousanl Rfln Armed and Fquipped, and Ready to Move ata Day's Notice, Corretpandence of g Parls Journal—Trandated for "'lfi'hl‘ Chie }U{I Trilnine by Stantey. ’ ATuENs, Greece, Morch “The clurions are sounding; regiment succeeds regiment, eannon re balng mounted; the strects are filled with soldlers who are maneuverlng: surrounding plains are ocenpled with mill- tary barracks; every sailinie vessel aml steame bunt which Iands at the irieus unlonds thelr revolvers, and sabres, powder, equipments, and haversaeks, Athens Is no' longer a city, —itisacamp. And from the izl steps of tha Aeropolls, at sundown, Is heard from nil pirts of the surroumnding country the flourish of trumpets, and tho multiplied calls of the wrmy which Is to FIGHT THE TURKS BEFOIE HOLL 1Y, Suceh i3 the unexpected aspectunder ihich Greece presented ltself before my eyes, 'This probably 18 no great news to the diplomats, hut I think others will be surprised. ‘The Greeks contemplate entering upon the campaign almost immediately. ‘There are 5,000 men under arms, completely equipped, and furnished with oxcellent Gras guns, which have been sent to them from Austrin. Thelr eavalry-sabres come from Austrln; tholr powder-tlasks and belts from Itussin; the factory of Krupp & Co,, at Essen, [sat this moment making for thom cannon ot the liest models; whilst the United States of Aummerien has just forwarded pleces for serv- fce In thelr strongholds. ‘There are cart- rldges by the milllon in thelr nrsenals, and 20,000 chassepots are deposited in the barracks. The infantry whom I see maneuvre every morning, are as well drilled as our own, and remind e of the Itallan soldiers, with thelr irot-gray uniforms trimmed with red, As to the hearing of the officery, It Is admirable beyond expression, 1 wish I could hmpress on the minds of thuse who read this the profound sensation I ex- !mrlenv:cxl In finding here, In this Attien so 1ttle known, A VEMTABLE ARMY OF THE LATEST MODE, and ready to_entor in line in a fortnight, or to-morrow if King George und his Ministers s0 desired. All the sons of tho aristocrncy havo been Arllllng for three months, as well as the sons of tha people. The former have supplied themselves with danimskeened arms, on which are Inscribed: their cscutehenns and thelr numes,—names of ancestors erucliied l\l‘!'n lzunmd allve by tho Turks duriug tho late ‘T'here is nothing talked about but warsand, when business nffalrs are broached, the re- )ally Is, ** We will talk of this after the war,” il Is the preoccupntioti- of all this ity which 1s the most French ond the most Paristun fn the world. 1 was amazed ntthis, for, since earliest childhood, like the com- munity m general, I had hagined Greece was tlie sume country to-ny that the pan- philet of M. About” (*Ln Gréee Contempo- ralne”)deseribed thirty years azo. This book SEEMS VERY UNJUST AND ANTIQUATED to the traveler of 1831, This, however, Is a vory naturul supposition. Who cunies to Greece? The Engtish tourist sometimes, the German Professor, and the French savant. All these, retleent, In their nature, and hwving no eyes for anthing but the Parthenon, the Iropylen, and the venerable rins of anglent Athens, do not care to trouble themselves' with modern nt- Conmunication with Greeco IS also diflicuit mnd expensive, it requires a voynse of live diys . from Marsseilles, hich does not necord with the taste of every one; but u ralfrond startine from Avlonu, opposlt Otranto, and redeiting Athens by _Jx}nlnn. will bo- the sulvation of Attien, s It w TWD MONTHS vill open tht route to Athieny, and present to tho world Athens us It is quu))'. e Greeks know atl.this: therefore, without awaiting the asslstanco of ruy oue, thoy started the worls, and have uccomplished great things, To use a just comparison, 1 should sny Atheus of tu-tay ’ (GHEATLY RESEMBLES NICE, not the old Italinn city, but French Nice, all newly buflt, with it imwense hotels, ™ its gardens, its squares scaresly vcrl’eclen[, its vnst houses of inarblo and stone, ‘Uhestreets are handsonie, tho stores numorous and W supplied. 'The people are pollshed, reserved, without arroganee, and without spparent poverty, Since L have been hero 1 have not seen a single beggar, and wy tollcity §s be- yond bounds when [ fi myself ‘on_ the streets without being as<uiled by mereiless solleitors, ns In Simthern Italy, In the midst of the spaclous streets, und boulevards planted with trees, wider the bright light retlected by the whiteemarble — houses, earringes circulate In great mumber. Theso nll have the appearanco of gmln equipages, with thely arabesques and luxurl- ous cushions,—leading travelers to_ suppose that il Athons 1s polng to o narrluge-fate. Thers I3 alwuys n grenteonanotion ad hurry In the streets,—u varlety of costies serving to enllven the evor-chunging panoramn, In the commereinl quarters, however, all ure at- tired In European costume, Persons in casy circumstanees pay great attention to their dress on gala oceasions, when black dress- couts and white eravats nre de rlgueur. I repeat, that one would believe himself AT CANNES OIt NICE, On ascendlng the hill of thoe Acropolis, wo henold the Egean Seabelow, Ity blus and nio- tlonless waters extending front Salamlne to Phnlére, and bathing in the distance the shores of Egina. It Is in this Httle polished corner of the Orient that thestorm of revenge hus been brewlng ever sinee the Treaty of Berlln, on nees t of promises not havimg been fulfilled, Greels irredentn has lost no thue, Mitlons have been spent In nrming “Grecee, nnd tho Minlster of War has sald, e army ean maren,” The moment his come, tho troops aro ready, and the King will put himself at the head of tho nrmy In the month ot May, to oc- cupy Epirus aud 'Fhessaly, that obst{nate di- plomney hay refused the Greeks, M. Bar- thélemy Saint-Hiluire is here called * Sanetn Hilaritvs,” rd the people lnugh, It Iysearcely necessary to state that, on belolding ail theso soldlers, and all this ex- cltemont avery day, my thoughts turn to our Tarls as 1t was In 1830, when the cry went forth Incessantly, ‘o Berlinl To Berthal™ 1 had an intorview this norning with M, THICOULIS, Jformer head of thg lellenic Cabinot, This wentleman resldes In a pretty mansion on the place de Concorde (plateatt tes Omenotas), A Greek fn natlonal costume Introduced me, on_the first_story, to o cabinet artisticaliy furnished. Before proceeding 1 whil stato that there Is no Republican party In Grocee; that all heve are Constitutional; and that two men, M. Trlcoupls and M. Coumoundouros, alternately are in power,—tho one having overthirowil' the othier, two or thres times in Ministeriul afinirs, 'These Parlinmentary vigtorles anmd defeats, however, have not hara the potitical signification that they have In Frane M. Pricoupls Is not In the mendcnv at ents but le will again obtaln it “Was it Tio favored this war? or was it the Min- Ister Cououndouros? 1t 18 of Uitle n- portance, Mr, ‘Fricoupis was in oftica when [Ilu atfuir of the fwmous disputeh of 3L Cor- bett and of the 50,000 guns took ph The tormer Minlster ot Greeee I8 very atfab) mory Fre than tireek, speaking one lune gunge withextremo tacllity, and extraordln- rily wsx-mmlui:n Partsian well krhown, M, Rufmond Deslurdes, Director of the Vaude- ville, Conversation Immediately turned “lm“ the affalr of the Helbronner guns and enrtrluges, which ML Tricoupls constlered of very triling woment, remnrking: * You seg how litls this prohibition of the French Govermnent troubles us, Al of our men are armed, und these number 750000, Germany, Austrig Ttusaly, wd Amorlea have furntshied us with el‘lflwlmn(s and guns of all deseriptions, and wllt contnue to suppy us. “ut,” 1 asked, Ministry were thy Fronch ofiiciatly by “Certadnly, Wa were refused by Frunce, and we npplled elsewhere, “Waiat o you think ot the pollcy of M. Barthélewy Salnt-litaire?” 1t caused us much trouble, Fora trifle, I-‘muce, with It theory of peacoat uny price, Wi i [ LUSE 14 TUTELARY INFLUENCE IN TUE ot “\What Inwression did the discussion of the French Chambers regarding the gunsand eartiidees make in Greeee?” A sl Bnpression, A8 to mysclf, 1 hinve Just recetved Parisian Journals which Invite me to lell the truth, What truth ? The trath I have just told yow. and which hus never heen disguised from any one. We wished ty bll{ guns from the krench Gov- eenment, and were answered ‘Yes! And, at the moment of delivery there, the. Minls- ters have been overcome by your love of wince (yours was not in jeopardy), and (i} o contral ‘This was wot doue Iy secret. 1 ngain eat that it was proclaimed toall Europs that we wished to purchase aring and awmunition,* ¢ Many correapmidents of English jonrnals, as well ng German, arrived here yesterday, aitructed by events goine on In Atheus aud the prospect of an early campaign. LIFE IN WASHINGTON. A Doackward Spring—Easter—=Garfleld’s Pirat 2 The Administration and e Prean—White Houne Iteception— Excentive Carringes—Sumimer Plnne ~Exodun of the Evarta=2irs, Zinlnets Sturdny Nights=Hlaine's Efcalth— Diplomatle and Conknlar Appojunts ments=Seeretury Hunt—Another s mer=Itenors for the Navy—=A IRoom in Real Mstate—Corcoran tho Banker— Charity Iall—Senators) Wiven Jtes ceptlous—Diplomatic Corpr—Conling Statlo Seerctary Lincoln — Clara Earton—Clrens War—Tasonie—Seurch for the JScanuette—Theutrical—Alle Foolw Dy, BSpectal Correspondence af The Chicagn Tribune. Wasiinaron, 1), C,, Aprll 3,—~The zodine Bhows slkns of spring. Plump shad are cnught in the Potomac, fragrant mint en- livens the matitudinal libation, and the cro- cuses bloom in the gardens. But, neverthe- less, “ winter lingers in the Iap of spring,” treating us to blizzards of sleet, and snow, and slush, which keeps up the demand for umbrellzs and for overshoes, while hnpe- cunfoud younu men have not bebn able to pawn thelr ulsters without suffering from the storms. Vennor tells us that the entire month of April is to be more or less stormy, but Euster will be here In n fortnight, aud will be cefebrated by Nature and by man with an outburst of pomp and glory, of bright vernal colors put on by women and by trees, and of hymmsof rejolelng from bivds and churchecholrs ns though it was the initial day of o new ‘ereatlon, People may prate about “symbolflsm,” and scoff at altars decked with lilies or with crosses of wilil azaleas, but this season of the year, when the piant bursts from itsseed, which is left in the ground to rot, says impressively to man, *“Dust thou nrt, and unto dust thoushalt return,” but THOU SIALT RISE AGAIN] Meanwhile our ehureh voeallsts are rehears- ing their Easter anthems, and good musical crities say that the best singing will be at the colored . Roman Catholic clinpel. Some of thie female singers have wonderfully fine volees, and when the * Plnafdre ” eraze was atits hight this colored cholr went on tho stage. ‘I'heir singing was excellent, but thelr acting was broad earfcature, and provoked such continuous roars of laughter that they withdrew from thelr engagement disgusted. GANFIELD'S FIRST MONTIL at the White Ilouse hasnot beena very plensant one for him, and he finds himself antagonized on every hand. Ile has, how- ever, but carrfed ont the program which he had arranged at Mentor, and If Vice-Presi- dent Arthurand Senator Coukling are not satisfled, ex-Gov, Reuben E. Fenton and George Willlnm Curtis are. The failure of the Senate to act on the nominations which have beensent inls very embnrrassing to President Garfield, nnd he has requested those Senators who are his friends to have the nominations neted on if possidle. TIE PRESIDENT LOOKS THINNE! than he did nmonth age, but his health never wns better, his appetite is good, he sleeps well, and every pleasintday he enjoy wride on horseback, 1o shows plainly that _horegards his Cabinet as constitutional ad- visers, and not asn Board of Dictators, and he has told the Sccretaries that when they cannot attend f Cabinet meeting they need not send their nssistants s substitutes, This rather takes down the Assistant Secretaries, who have been in the hablt of talking about what they heard at * the last Cabinet meet- Tug” in su oracular manner. Tho new Pres- fdent has nlso dmpressed upon his Cabinet, and Mr, Blaine has seconded the ukase, that they must BEWARE OF THE PRESS, No member of the **fourth estate” was Invited with tho Congressimen and otbers to the reception at the White House, or to the Saturday evenlng gathering at Sceretary Blalne’s, althowgh some of thoe older quill- drivers have often been nsked by the Presl- dent and the Premier, In other days, to place themand their actlons favorably before the publle. Now nehange hns come over the spirit of thele dreawns, and they are unwill- ing a word shall n[) oar {n print nbout the Administration unless filtered throueh M, Smalley to the New York Tribune, or Mr, Ifuiton to the Daitimore clmerfean, with o fow dropplogs from the sanctuary .into vivaelous Frendng Star, This may be sad! Yot L have not seen n carrespondent in tears, RECEIVIONS AT THE WIITE MHOUSE on "Tuesitny and Friday evenings nro numer- uuslf' attended, neavly ull of the visitors here availlng themselves of tho privilege, alihongh Miss Grundy Snead endeavors to bnpress upon tho public mind her kden thatonly those who are favored personal acqualni- auces of - Mrs. Gardiekt have any right to bo there. Mra. Guriteld, however, makes no diserimbimtions, aud receives all who attend with court nd n ¢arewonn smile. She is aided Ly M3, Gene Sheldon, who has heon hur{.—nusc ut the White Liouso sinew the 4th of March, and who acqulred n thorough knowledgo of Washington otiquet during the serviee of her husband as - Ropresenta- ive from - Loulslaun, from 1860 to 1875, On ‘Thursdny lust tho guests ut the White louse table were RUTHERFORD AND FANNIE JAYES, Miss Fannle had romalned hera to finish up some studies, and her brother Rutherford had come for her, nnd also to settle up gomy business mutters left by the outgoing Presl- dent, Including the sate of his carrlige and horges, When old John Adams canie here a8 I’ruumun:‘, lorses and cavriages tormed part ot tho furnishings of the White House, wnd tho four-ln-had used by tho Chlef Maglstrato belonged ta Uncle Sam, - Jetfers son, who preferved riding on horseback, and who brought bis riding-uug from Monticello, bad the lorses miul carrlages soll and tho wmioney spent in table furniture, Now every Secrotary and bureau oflicer rides inn CAIIIAGE Ol LANDAULET at the expensu of the General Government, but the Presldent has to provide hisown team, nithouglh It i3 intlmated that the forage used ut the White House stables s provided by the Dopot-Quartermaster. Gen, (rant used to drive good horses; but Mr, Huyes commissloned Private-Secretary Rogers to huso bis, and o sortler set of nigs nover gruced the stalls of n second-cliss livory- stable. Gen. Gurefield knows what n good horse I8, pud we niny expeet an lmproventent in the Wiilte House'tutnout, 1le I3 also fon of horsebaclk oxerelse, sl un‘n)'s u gullop by hiwmself futo the country, When summer comey, sl Congress govs, lo Intends lo change his quarters to the houss occupled by hls predecessurs at THE SOLDIENS' OME, that ho can enjoy more liberty for rlding and walking, 1o has also dechled to luvoe the Executive oftices removed to the now Depart- ment budlding, which will_enable Col, Rek- well to have the White llouse thoroughly overhanled. It will not be strange it the Executlve offices aro not moved buck again, ns the White House is uow deficient In uecommodation, Mrs, nyes' young lady uests used to sleop twe and somethnes threo fil o bed, whieh was *geat fun’ for the girls, but not very comfortable, | GOOD-UY TO THE EVANTS! i was tha soclal word of Inst week, The ex- Becretary, with his wmiablo wifo and /his quurtet of duughters, huy been soclally very popular heve, uid their departure wius jren- erally regretied. 1o will tuko to Paris Lilrs, 'ty, Miss Bottle, and Miss Lonlse, T'Ilh kg (who 15 engaieed to Miss Beltie) a8 fils privato seerotary, und the jovial Bam Ward as his gustronomle pmveyor, to” gut up bunguets for the Commisslon which wiil celipse the Paristun repasts. Miss Rachel Bherman will ulso flwum‘muy the Evarts’, as will the other Conulssloncrs, ex-Scnalors Uowe und Thurman, 'The devurtnra of all - the result ot his exertions, and wil these peanle, who will sail from New York on ‘Tuesday, has left quite a vacaney insocinl efreles her M. BLAINE'S SATURDAY N1GITS, she following tho example set by Mrs. Bvarts, were Innugurated last night, and the some- what seanty room of the Secretary’s house on Fifteenth street was fully oceupied. The diplomatie corps was out In full foree, of course, and there wasn - good sPrlnkIIm« of Congressuen, bireanerats, and offieers of the nriny wid navy, Mrs, Blaine, who i I “f it personnl appenrance, wasnssiated e \'Inzh?' Miss M. A. Dodie, Dbetter keown us Gall Hiamilton, and by Miss All , L débutante this winter. ‘The supper rfect, and *the Ollo Idea” of enld water ag the only boverage Is not sdopted by Alr, Blalne any nore than it was by Mn Evarts. RECBETARY TLAINE'S HEALTIC has not been good of “lnte, 1o has en- deavored to follow Beaconsfield’s rule, and never to suifer vietory to elate nor defeat to depress hin, earrylug the vigor ssul intensity of his youth into his b5ist year. But eotit—he calls it rheumatism—hnys marked 1l us n vietin, and e ling severnl times of Inte heen forced to pass his days In bed, a martyr to agonizing pains. It was n great stroke of good fortune for him that he was able to seeure the services of Mr, Hitt ns Asslstant Sceretary of State, ns ho ean thus feel seeure that no blunder will be mads in his absence from the Department. DIPLOMATIC AND CONSULAR APPOINTMENTS are to be innde by the seore when the dea loek Is semoved in the Sennte, as it probubly soon will he. Mr, lowells, wno was ro- cently deposed from the aditorship of the Attantle Monthly, and who I8 a relative of AMr. Hayes, Is understood to lave the promise of a place, and qgulte alot of those politieal dend-ducks, ex-Congressmen, are here plteously inploring plnees as’ Ministers- Plenipotentiary or as Consuls, T'rue, they are generally Ignorant of every tongue ex- spt their own and of internntional law: but they want to be able to draw a salary from Uncle Samuel's coffers, and this appenrs to thent to bu the ensiest way to do 1t THE SECRETARY OF THE NAVY Is becoming a general favorlt, and he hins al- rendy mastered soma Intricate complications MWhich had been tangled up by U, Thompson and hls successor, Ge i 1resid Gartield 1s talking about making o trip by sen to Rhude Islaud, to see the hon il the graves of some of his ancestors, and Seeretary Hunt will accompany him should he so go, They will also Inspeet * Consters’ Harbor Island,” near Newport, where It Is proposed to establish n depot. for the traintng- ships, ory to speak more plainly, o sunpner resort for the oflicers of the navy at Go - ment expense, Newport had the Naval Academy for a while, nt the beginnlng of the War, when Annapolls was used a8 ninilitary statlon, and the embryo paval heroes had high times, On the island whers the train- Tnz-ship Is to he located the boys ean be kept nnder better diseipling and not permittald to induige In the dissipations of the fashlonable suter resort, us the middles did. THE REALAESTATE MARKET 18 ACTIVE, and several of the new Senators, with sume wealthy eapltulists, ara securing winter resi- denees here at the Natlonal metropolis. It is mdeed a delightful sojourning place, with nothing proviuetal abont it, and every res speetable strauger receives a hearty wel- come. 'There Is not here any of the British exelusiveness so affected at” Boston,—or the brilant superticlnl co-lueuy of New Yor or the merenrial frivolity of New Orleans, or the activity and business go. Bui “life In Washington exerclses n seeret faseInatlon over all whe have ever so- ed here, and It presents the combin tlons ot literary und fashionable socl ty, & free-and-easy” code of etiquit, anda rather low standard of morality, 1t Is jo- cosely sald that when the Distriet was first lald out It wus provided that THE RECONDING ANGET should have no Jurisdiction within the ten miles square, Certainly the shameless nets of sume of the Congressmen show that ear mitich that o record will b nstie of (|:I|IL N they don'’t made against theny, True, they are sorely tempted, mat _ceven now those “fishers of men,” the ludy lobbyists, are castig thelr Ines among the new menbers lieré or renew- inz the atlexinnee of the olil enes. Itfs the weneral beilef that there will bu lots of sul- shdy blils, railroad jobs, and other sehemes for deplefing the publie treasury brought before Congress at the next winter's session, THE ISTIMUS COALING-STATIONS arejustnow presenting atemptinge prize for the plunderers, ng Congress aporoprinted 330,000 for thelr establisliment. "T'his {3 elnlined for what Is known ustho Chirlguf Company, hut it 13 nsserted that thelr conditionnl grant liag tong been forfeited, ns thoy never complied with the terms of their eoncesslon. Ambrose Thompson, & well-known “lobbyist, 15, how- ever, endeavoring to get this §200,000, and 1t Is somewhat surprisuig to see how many Congressmen ho has enlisted toback him up, SECRETARY LINCOLN found himself much embarrassed on his entry futo oflice by the nets ot n clerle numed Noal, who had somehow managesd (o seenre supremney over Seeretary Itumsey, and had ruled the” War Department, Among other explolts by this enterpnsing Hebrew was the sealing of the sularies of ulot of newap- vointiments authiorized by Conzress, so as to make o lnrger number with smaller saliries than was Intended. Appolntments were made to these pinees o few diys before the close of the last Administrntion, and they were rushed through, but Seeretary Lin- coln sat down hard on the whole nreange- uent, and syuelched 1t ‘Fhie salaries were fixed as ariginally estabtlshed by law, and the places were filled after exambnation of the appileants, ‘Then the Sceretary had GEN. IIAZEN ON THE RAMPAGE, the enstodian of sunshing and storm having underaleen to clninr the right to desizuate such otlivers of theuruy ns he desired for the Signal Service, Gen, Shermun, on the other hand, elabmed that 1t was his rlght and (duty, as Genernl conpnanding the army, to detall such oflicers us he thoupht most suitable for the Signal Serviee. retury Lincoln properly approved of Gen, Sherman’s views, nmlL“ OldProb " Iazpn must tuken back sea THE SBENATORS' WIVES recelved on Thursday, Jrs, Ilnwley wore a Dluek satin dre: ornamented by herself with elegunt palntings of tlowers, ferns, and Jiax Mrs, Dawus wore o dark-brown” 8llk; her daughter has gone to New York, My, Mahone wore n dress of wine-colored velvet, with o portion of her weniticent dinmonds, the flnest in this elty, Mrs, Logan wore u bluck sitk dress, embroidered in col- org, and was assisted h“ HOlve Logan,” whoso husband, Willlam Wirt Sykes, s now Cousul nt CardlT, In Wales, "When Mrs. Logan returns to Chicago after this exceut| sesslon sho 18 to recelve n visit from her daughter, Mrs, Pettln, Mrs, Carpenter, nlas! witlta the adjourument, that o committes of Senators may escort the remalns of her de- ceased Liusband to their last resting-place in Milwaukee. TIE DIPLOMATIC CONPS o will soon bo scuttered for the summer, Sir Edward Thornton talky of gohiyg ngain to Jawvel 1L on the bank of the Merrlmae, nbove Newburyport, in Mussachusetts. Mon- sleur Qutrey 1s going to Fran but may ru- turn this full Iy season to ocenpy Madame's plensant house—cottage — they enll jt— ut Newport, Monsleur —Yaoshlda, the Jupanese Minlster, talks of renting cottage on _ the stiu-share, wherg the young Indies. frowm Yeddo now ol ed- uenfed In this country r.'nnJu\ss wnonth with him, The Chinese nro meditatlng & stauhier sojourn In the mountalns of Western Mury- Inid, where oy can enjoy themselves thelr hone tashion, and remain for days on an oplum drunk If they so desire 1t Seflor Znmueonn, who firststarted the present trnde Bmpulse with Mexico, I8 delichted with klve ono of those fétes for which he has made the . Moxican legation eelebrated, WILLIAM W, CORCORAN, our benovolent miilionaire banker, {3 quite feuhle, but hopes to be nresent nt the coming marrluge of his grent-nlece, Miss Nicholsoi, to Pitt Cogke, o san of Honry D, Coolke, Wi went to Leadville after the Northern Pacitie crush, und_has_aceamulated n handsomo property. Mr. Corcoran hns not oniy ene dowed the art gallery here, but the lLoulse Hotie, o balaco structure for the accommo- datlon of ity gentlewomen, most of them Southerners who lost thulr property durlng tho War. Ono of tho most Interesting of these lml)ecunluns yer haughty dmnes {5 Mys, Lotiin "P'yler Semple, o duughter of John Tyler, who 13 entirely blind, THE CHATY BALL . for the benefit of the Children’s Ilespltal is to be given this year on a seale of unusuud maguificence at ths Natdonal Thestre, The orehestra wind parquet 18 10 by tloored over on a level with the stage, aid the **first fan- flies” of the Disteice Wil oceupy the boxes, Tho sup'nur wlil be served In the adjacent Twmperlal Hotel, to which access will bo ob- lalned by t‘lllllllfill hole throwgh the wall. I'he young snobs who figure in the German at the assuimblies und club-dances huve notl- fled the mnnagers that they cantot atford to pay 5 per tieket, but If they can beo admitted nt half prico they will ot only ottend, but dauce, 1t 13 uot hwprobuble that this modest \ £ 9 vequest will be granted, ns the ladies won't o to o ball waless thoy know that there will be a supply of duncing inen there. CLARA HARTON, whe did so much for the Unlon wounded during the War, and to whom Congress gave 815,000 for her record of the graves at Anders sonville, is here on n visit, and I3 warmly wetcomed by ' the boys.” " The Grand Army of tha Republic proposes to give her o recep- tian, i she Is the reciplent every day ot beantiful boguets from the poor fullows whe were 80 gently and tenderly cared for by her at the front, A CICUs wan s belng waged hero betweon _the advertising ngentsof Forepangh and of Barnum, each claiming to /have the *biggest show,” and abusing the rival exhibition, "Ny the free uso of printers’ ink in the nuwsnnl;r-rs and the display of eolored posters they have nctually worked up the community to wn Interest In the question, and every one will want to ate tel both shows to ses walch Is the hest, Meanwhile the hellicose ngents mecet quieily Iute every evening to enjoy n social gloss and to lnughat the befooled public. MASONIC, Columibla Cnmummlar{ of Kniahts Tem. plar, to which President Gartield belongs, propose to give n grand Pmm-:nmh- coneerf on the nlght of Easter Mouday, ‘The Scot tish Rite Musons will eat thelr Paschal Lamb on the uight of Mautday ‘Thursday, with the venerable Al Pike at the head of the table und Dr, ckey, the Masonle wrliter, at the foot. Lafayette "Lodge, No. 19, will give supper onl Thursday everdng whith will bo attended by the prominent members of ** tha mystic tie’ herenbouts. Soma of the Free- tnsons are prepuring to glve a warm wels come Lo a Boston commandery which Is ex- peeted to pass through here soon on its way to Richmond. THE SEARCH FOR THE Although many of those who seck to pens etrate the dark and frozen mysteries of tho Northt T'ole never return, no_sooner is i new expedition proposed than brave aud truo -men present themselves, anxions to endure hardships and privations. Such adventurong nien enrich the history of our Repnblie with grent exwmples of sacrifice and devotion, of enrturance and courage, Lient. IR, M. Berry, who will soon sall from San Franelse tha Helen nnd Mury in search of, the Je: nette, bs a native of Kentueky, endunl nt the Naval I8 over six feet in hi slaue, and somewhat experienced fn Aretle explora- tions, 1le witl taken balloon for observa- uimq. and sigual bombs for nocturnul dis- plays. - THEATRICAL. ‘I'he Bernhardt 1s to liounr us with two performances this week, and by way of ex- citlne an appetite for tragedy, we have had the ponderons Janausehek, miserably sup- mntéll. and often exelting ronrsof Iahghter by N8r boanbastie rendition of pathetic pas- sages, To-morrow uizht the * Plrates of Penzance " will be praduced by n volunteer combliiation of professional and amatenr talent. for the henetit of the Cashier of the National Theatre, Wo havw also had o reture from Gough, whose relinsh of old fell flat on o small nudlence, and Miss vaee, i reader, who erented a favors uble Hpression. ALL-FODLS DAY whs becommgly celebrated here, and the male und femate elo vied with ench other in thelr practical Jokes, while e friends of Senators Anthony and Conger, remembering that It was the bisthday of those genttemen, sent them flowers anl conwratulations, Henry Dadge, the Washi F fivm of Wall-street brokers, v private wire n request tolngni - clnlstatus of Messrs, U, I Greene & Co, Afts era frujtiess seareh of an hour Dodge teles graphed baek thathe could find o such firm, and reeelvert the reply. *Thanks, 1o are green. "Fhis 1s tho ist of Aprll.” Charles Abner, a German elgar dealer, was the victing of friends, who inserted an advertisement in the papers stating that he wonlid price for four black Qo of boys and dogs surrony iy, und there were some livoly thzhts, RacoNTEvn THE WHITE ELEPHANT. EHow ho Lotos Club Jolkers Put Upa Job on Col. Thomus Knox, NuEw Your, Aprll i—There §s n goad deal of fun In club cireles justat present at the expense of Col, Thomas Knox, a prominent member of the Lotus. Mr. Knox has gathe ered qulte s much famehs a teaveler as he hus as n nevspaper writer aml wuthor of books, Some $ime azo he received from. tho King of Sium the Order of the Whits Eleptant. From the day of its arrival tha 1life of 3Mr. Knox has been n burden to him, “The fustant his fellow club members awak. ened to the fact that he possessed this troase nro they lunched o sclieme which has been the terror of his life. {1 took shape In the - form of telegrims, The tirst that ecnme wag us follows v PIMLADELPIIA, March 23,—Thomaa 17, Knor, Lot or Chi, New'Yonk: Whnt will you take for yourwiite' clephant?” Numme the lowest pricn, Cunnot Mr. Forepnugh werango for bis exhibi- tion here nid throukhout the country at u fale price? Itwould wivee your books an cuoenns sale through vur mdvestising. . Cias. H. Dy ‘This struek My, Knox as vatther strango, but he laid the disputeh awny and sadd no more ghout It Soon another “telegraph boy trotted in, - My, Knox tastlly opened the en velope md rend as follows: T, W Inor, Latos Club: WL give €5,000 for the'uso of your white olephunt. Aw nnglous to getit, Do you appenr with tho anitial n the ulternoun und evenlug? Answer Bty expense, i, Lo HLALDEMA Suparintandent Zoblglenl Garden, Pilludolibin. The telegraph boy just eseapud a pa welght which Mr. Knox shled st hiim, when the colored hoy e in with the thind dis- I’: . Mr, Kiox had apuzzied look about iis face when he tore open the envelope. 1t changed to an expression, of e a8 he pe- rused the Tines thereln, “hey wer Thow, W, Knor, Lotox Club, New Yorks 1 benr you hove w white elephunt, Wikl give doubls ho bigghest bld you get Tor tho touting seison. Have 1o objection to stathyz your naime on the Dilts. Willitlso put yon upatordinary hotel frew of chrge, W, €. Cour, Philadelphin. "T'hen eame annther messige with this eazer Inguiry from Charles Day: 1low lnrye Is your white clephant, and how did he come from Slam? Col, Knnox now heean to see the point, and ANYW this ns follo New You, March o Chartes 1. Dy, Phlladelphia:” Tuchxling caso of Moroceo lenthis er,f welghs nhout wi ounco und o balf, wud cutne {n W registered letter from Gen. Hildes wman, United Stutes Consul at anckol Trosmas W, k “'ho Inst telegram convineed the enterprise ing Day that be had been solil, and ho prompt= Iy ineknowledwed the fact inaletter to tho owner of the whitv elephant, Dut there w, other compatitors, Mr, Knox actually bolled over In his wrath, He dld not actually sweir, beeanse he 13 a plous young man, hut ho distinetty sald **dam [0 FHs frionds thought apunlesy was approaching. But Iy wasn’te Instewd o distrier telegraph hoy cno in with un envelope blazoned over the front with tie bronze tuces of n great cireus trlumvirte. * An wnswer, it you please,” sald the lad, Mr. Knox wus Decomlbug desperate, thg wais ovident, from the way In which he ripped np the faces of the three show men, ‘I'iks was what fetl upon his ngonizod vision: MADISON HQUARE GARDEN, Maroh 23,—Thumigs W, Knox, kg, Lot Club=Dran St 1w fn receipt of Informution o the cifeet tat tho King of Blnm dutuly presented you with u whilte elophaut, I this fare unhond i3 renlly in your possesgsion 1 am propared to Ity or jease it upon sutisfuctory terius, But the anioul must Lo gunuine, 1do ot desire any paluted el phunt puased off on wy patrons, Bluce the ootly Ao was dan iy, with | ave uvouded thut wort of thimg. Thorafore [ shouli roquire n cortlfiente from the Kluy, Who 1§ o pere sonul friend of mine, to tho cifoct that tha unls il fn questlon fd the real white elsphant, Can yun produce sieh . doeumenty Wo witl ensily iirewiwe other mattens. You cat hivo tho inids dio wing to yonrself for tho exbibltion of your vuriosliy, und will not be axpected to dellver your ghiort loeture about the wnlwal more thin throe tmes daily, Plonso lot me kave your torms by the middlo of the week, 1w, my dear s, yours truly, BT BARSaL, Mr, Knox hastily gnthered up hls hat and eano and departed to some unknowy toeul- ity, whones ho did not return for somo days, When he camo hiek thoro were vast guant- tles of disputelies and letlers awaltiig his arrival, und the portorassured him that inny unkempt and anxlous men hiyl been luuklmi for hiim at the door, Mr, Knox wmuttered something about liking to il tha fellow who put the triek i motion, and st hinself up o Innar oo, decoration of the white elephant not beun seen sinee, hows ever, nind Do earefully avelds all eonversn tlons whieh mny lead up to that subject. e —— Ancient Iecordy, 1u the oflies of tuo Becrotury of Now Nexieo, at Banta Fé, uro deposited the most auclont ot elul_docsizonts in the United Stutes, running back nearly a hundred yeurs beforo thy landig of tho Pilgrims ut Plymouth. One of those hise torloul treasures I ournal of thy A:ml‘l)\u’ll ot Now Mexico in 10, slyned by Diouo do Vardras, and containing & full dccount of the vamw wikn. !