The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 9, 1900, Page 7

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, JULY 9. 1900. 7 AL OF FLAME SUAROUNDS COML MINES AT TESLA I Fire Fighting to the Great Works From Destruction. R Terror Lest Sweep of the ly Spreading Brush Con- stion Should Wipe Out Town. SEIPGRSEEE e San Francisco Call, 5 Broadway, July 8. Tesla, with the extensive mines, has been threai- by a great brush f Corral Hollow, surrouna- For many miles along the of the canyon the timber . been burnt out, and so tlement has the fire raged f men have been constant- flames which are licking £ in their path. started from sparks thrown n engine which is operating a steam a gravel pit near the town. hilisides the flames had free before warning of the danger e given a tremendous start had obtained by the flames that were ng “brush and undergrowth from the mines and to check the sweep hours the fires ing camp were night a sud- was raised scores of The night was one 3 for steadily and fierce sweep was toward the at e swept out of ) every avail- back the roaring e »r many hours e battle and fires at the edg Latest re- that the fire, tinguished d. nor will people be and prop- ve miles s received that the The dam- country d on 1l timber. MEN INJURED IN THE HOME MINE the Home ck last night, ¥ and Jo- v mangl - o m el lacerated it putate it to-day, his ndition rely blinded in re destroyed ully cut and HEAT DROVE HIM INSANE. for the Suicide s Brotner. acg Sar s wa develop TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. - McFarland Loses On a Foul. NEW YORK, July 8 n exciting . . h with t he v 2 t i track at New Farland finisk F. A M hree heats, but lost - Bartley Lee Dead. F Lee, a laborer, who lived at ma street, died at St. Mar sterday morning and the b he Morgue. His death was ed by & clot of blood n. _He wae at a picnic at rk Wednesday, had a French turn and early next morn- nto the Cosmopolitan Mission streets. He fell 5d fell to the floor. He en to the Clty Prison and booked v le hecame unconscious in his to the Receiving Hos- he case was diagnosed as . Later he was re- and then to Bt. Mary's ns Organize. nty officers of the { Hibernians met yvester- on at Mission Dolores Hall . new branch of the order, vision No. 20, with a p of After addresses had T ¥ v. Fathers Brannan dent Frank Conk- J. Donohoe and er following named of- ele President, J. P. sident, J. McDonnell: Wiiliam O'Shaug- M. A. McEvoy; Roylance Royla Improving. who was shot by front of the Win- morning, was ng Hospital to mother, 423 Bddy street, sterday morning. Bhe 1s slowly im. ving under the care of Dr. Martin, the meopathist. Moody will probably be taken from the hospital to_ the City Prison to-day and booked on & charge of assault to murder. ; 2 nee s has been ragiug | lling down | BIG MOVEMENT OF CALIFORNIA FRUIT EASTWARD Nearly Two Million Pounds Now Going Daily to the Market. That Part of the Green Crop Annual- 1y Exported Would Fill a Train Fifty-Nine Miles in Length. | e “Aside from those directly interested in the industry comparatively few people have a remote idea of the importance of the fruit-raising industry of California | and the true definitions of the words sup- | Ply ana demand,” said Master of Trans- portation Richardson of the Southern Pacific Company, referring to the pres- ent movement of deciduous fruits to the stern markets, yesterday. “The figures are certainly stupendous and run into sums hardly comprehensi- ble,” continued the gentleman. “The June shipments averaged sixty carloads a day, which accounts for 1500 carloads in the | month. This means nearly 47,000,000 pounds 6f the early deciduous fruits, such | as apricots, plums and peaches. Then | comes the rush of the midsummer prod- ucts, which Increases the exportation to seventy carloads per day, and this move- | ment lasts during July and August. This means 4200 more carloads. Then the Sep- | tember shipments drop back to about sixty carloads per day. ““This ratio,” said Mr. Richardson, drift- ing into progressive statistics, ‘runs up into a great total, and amounts approxi- mately to about 7800 carloads. The falling | | off in the latter part of the season is ac- | { counted for by the fact that the East- | ern fruits come into the markets —and | | reduce the demand for the products of | the Golden State.” Taking Mr. Richar: R R N N e e S | son’s figures of car- load exports the total number of pounds | of California’s luscious fruits sent to tickle the palates of people beyond the Rockies” amounts to 202.000,000. These 7800 carloads, in plain, coid figures, do not appear to amount to an astonishing total, but when it is understood that the represent a solid train of cars each carry- ing 26,000 pounds and extending fifty-nine mil »nably intelligent idea af the - -of the horticultural industry | ifornia can be formed. | e exports should not be confounded with those of that part of the State south of Tehachapi, from whence are shipy thousands of carloads of citrus fruit The rallroad statistics show that there is practically no demand for the deciduous fruits of this State in the Southern States, the movement of horticultural product eastward through Sacramento being fully'| per cent of the total. | —_———————— TENNIS PLAYERS ARE IN | PRACTICE FOR DOUBLES L he Hardys play to-day on the Western champignships, at the Kenwood Club, Chicago, one match in singles and one in doubles. The Kenwood Country Club has this year the largest number of en- tries it ever had. In the doubles twenty- | nine teams are entered. The Belvedere Tennis Club will have an open day about July 15. The new courts will be shed in a few days. The club as a membership of fifty, all residents of the island. A majority of the lady players desire that the championship singles be held in San Rafael the third week in August, in- stead of the 9th of September at Del ite, They claim that if held in San there will be at least sixteen er from the California O San Rafael clubs. ranged in the her was ay ibers of th of the Ca atches were betwee i JIph | d d | t nberg beat | and Worthing- | for the championship will be h the latter L A W part of the 1 at 1 n “ Jones Jr. of Salinas is now the champion | of that section ‘ i | | ACCUSED OF STEALING A LANDLADY’S PURSE! W. C. Isaacs, a walter, was arrested at | an early hour yesterday morning by | Policeman Fraber and booked at the City | Prison on @ charge of grand larceny. The | complaining witness is Mrs. J. H. Riley, proprietress of a lodging house at 6 Turk | street. | lsaacs and another young man named Hermann went 10 the 10dging house about | 3 o'clock in_the morning. They were | <hown into Mrs. Riley’s room and while the was absent for a few minutes, it is | degedt, her_purse containing betwe 3199 from a pocket in | ber jacket, which was hanging in a closet | in_the room. | Mrs. Riley missed the purse and sent | for. Policeman Fraber. By the time the officer arrived Hermann had disappeared. hen Isaacs was searched at the City | Prison no_money was found in his pos- | sion He denied knowing anything out the stolen purse. The police are | searching for Hermann. B Small Crowds at the Resorts. The effect of the Fourth has not yet worn away, and in consequence the crowds that gathered at the park, beach, Cliff House, Chutes and baths yesterday were =mall. No accidents or incidents | worthy of mentlon occurred. The Wil- sons still Temain at the Chutes, and are | the attraction. The usual aquatic _pro- gramme entertained the crowd at Sutro baths. Following were the results: 50-yard dash, juve Sunberg won, C. Au- gustus second: special under-water swim- ming race—F. Owens won, 8. Carter sec- ond: diving for plate—F. Gruenman won, | H. Seebach second, A. Sumner third: high diving, for boys—H. Ryan first prize, H. Duke second prize; trick and fancy | springboard diving—H. Duke won, B Riddle second i —_————— 1 Handball Games, | At the San Francisco Handball Court | westerday afternoon the following matches | were played: M. Kirby and E. Bq Ty beat 1. Regan and P. Falo, 21-13, 21-20 P. McKin | 3. MeBonaia beat 1 uitet and 3. Mo | N . 21410, 217 McNamara and W. | Cummings beat J. T and 8. Garvey, 21-9, | [ 12-18, 21-16; ugh and J. R, Bock- | man beat_E. Lynch and D. J. Sheehan, 21-20, | P e W Willlams and M D ook | P. Hutchinson and P. Kelly, 21-5, 21-13, 21-14 | W_'Cope and J. Gallagher beat H. McLaughlin and J. Powers, 21-16, 19-21, 21-13; W, Fisher and | W. H. Steberst beat P. Ryan and G. B. | ward, 21-16, 1821 2115 E. White and W, Johpson beat R. Regll and T. Serres 21-12, 2037, 19-21: J. Colline and J. White beat M. T | Kilgation and J. Harlow, 6-21, 21-15, 21-12, 13.21, | 2% —_——— Catholic Truth Society. A meeting of the Catholic Truth So- | clety will be held at St. Mary's Cathedral 'next Wednesday evening at 8 o'clock. = Bome important business will be trans. acted, and the officers of the soclety wish large at the meeting. and disheartened lot of men. DEAD BURGLAR IDENTIFIED BY POLICE AS AN OLD OFFENDER .70—®+®+9-0$—0—0—0—0+0-+.r : ! % : LOUIS FERREA ETECTIVES Dindn and Wren have made known the {dentity of the D/ man shot Saturday night by Alfred Hubert while attempting to force an entrance into the grocery store of D. W. Tietien, st and Washington streets. He proves to have been an old offender named Luigi Ferrea, a notorious petty larcenist and a criminal upon whom the police of San Francisco have long had an eye. His picture is in the Rogues’ Gallery of the Police Department and his record is of the worst. On November 9, 1894, he was held to answer in the police courts on a charge of burglar: having entered a shoe-store ar Stockton street. On he was sent to the Detectives Recognize Remains of the Man Killed by Alfred Hubert as Those of Luigi Ferrea, a Notorious Petty Larcenist and Ex-Convict. B e S -4~ Preston School of Industry for two years. At that time he claimed he was but 19 years of age, in order o escape confine- ment in San Quentin. As an alias he fre- quently used the name of “Frank Wil- liams. A sister of the dead burglar, Mrs. August Garibaldl, who resides Union place, said yesterday: “My brother’s name was Peter. The last I heard of him was when he was em- ployed at ‘Cutting’s packing house. He got a card from there when he was laid off, which was about two weeks ago. He had been employed in a San Jose barber- shop as bootblack for two moriths before he went to work as a packer. I have at 10 not seen him for some time, but am not | B O R AR ICEE SRCER R SN 1 * L4 . £ * s > o o * pS b & * ° ¢ * * L 4 + ° + & . £ 4 + L 4 . L 4 R4 5 3 1 *® T ® * - . 4 "5 . 3 | ¢ ALERED HUBER $ WITH DEADLY AIM GROCERY EMPLOYE PLACED BULLETS IN BUR- || . GLAR’S HEAD. i L B S R S o R e Oy ShCS S0 000640000000000000-00 | surprised at the manner of his death. He | bas always been in trouble with the po- | ce. born here in San Francisco. He was often called ‘Som’ting,’ because when asked once what he had in a bag he used that word in replying.” The dead burglar had two sisters and a brother residing in San Francisco, and his father is a ranch hand in Santa Clara County. They were unable to give any details about his aetions of late, as he very seldom went near any of them. Alfred Hubert, who kept such a watch- ful eye on the property under his charge and stood up so bravely for his employer's interests, was released from prison yes- terday morning on $1000 bonds, his sure- ties being D. Y. Tietjen, his employer, | and H. W. Wreden of the ‘Washington | Brewery. GRAPE CROP 1S SVED FROM FROST BLIGHT Livermore Vineyards, Badly | Bitten, Are Revived by a Cloudburst. Oakland Office San Francisco Call, 1118 Broadway, July 8. The Valle of California, has been saved from de- ¢truction. The Livermore Herald, after a careful survey of the situation, has the following report of the conditions: arly in the spring the vineyardists of Livermore Valley were a discouraged A succes- sion of dry seasons had affected the vines Seriously and a severe frost at a critical stage left most of them without the hofie of a crop and very dubious as to the future of their vineyards. Fortune smiled upon them finally and showed her favor in a peculiar way. “Barly in May a sl hower of raln which almost equaled a cloudburst in intensity | broke suddenly over that portion of the ‘alley where most of the vineyards are ed and in half an hour’s time fully A more opportune 104 an inch cf rain fell. 0 :hnwer never descended. The languishing vines revived and sent out new growth v blossoms, and the Arst 'g':pb}wa blighted by Jack Frost will get a very fair second crop, and they have a good show of wood for next year. is more marked in some vineyards than others, and while the crop will not be up o the average the situation generally is far better thm} the most sanguine grower r y hope for. h“:!l‘:g)mos}; remarkable case is that of Mont Rouge Vinevard, which the frost had devasted to such an extent that no | op was expected by Mr. Bon and he Crom Dad fears that some of his vines Would not survive the season. No vine- vard in the valley presents a more thrifty appearance now than Mont Rouge and Mr. Bon informs us that he will have a far better crop than that of last year.” —_————— BOERS AND ENGLISH PRAYED FOR VICTORY Rev. William Rader Delivers a Dis- course on the “Puzzle of Prayer.” “The Puzzle of Prayer” was the topic of the sermon of Rev. Willlam Rader at the Third Congregational Church yester- day morning. “Men pray more out of necessity,” he said. “It is not their duty or conscience that makes them pray. When General Grant was on_his deatbbed General How- ard came and saw him. ' ‘Can’t you tell e about prayer? was Grant's Trequest. The prayer of man does not determine the mind of God. The divine creator does that which in_his great power he thinks best Yor us. Take the Boer and English sol- ajers. They both prayed to God to bring them victory. They both lincerel% thought that they were in the right. We must leave it to God. and he will answer our prayer in the way he thinks fit. Race Prejpdic® a Sin. The Rev. John A. B. Wilson, D.D., deliv- ered a stirring sermon at the Howard- street Methodist Episcopal Church yes- terday morning. “O woman, great is thy faith; be it unto thee as thou wilt” was the text used. “The story of the woman who e*.w enormous grape crop of Livermore | one of the chief vineyard centers | rowers whose | This | | to | filled with pleasure. Jesus,” the pastor sald, “and to him told her sad story, is a narrative well known arly all’ of us. The woman’'s daugh- s ill, and she, with her maternal love, was anxious for our Savior to heal her.” There are several lessons to learn from this story. First, to make no issue on unimportant things. Jesus did not stop to reason with her and explain that her daughter had insanity and not the devil. It was a day when demonology en- tered into everyhing. All diseases were supposed to be the work of the devil. Jesus took the case, and wasted no time on unimportant things. It was a cure, not a diagnosis. “Secondly, faith is the great agency of human uplifting. Faith that cannot stand testing is not worth having. True faith is the principle of life and action. Again, another lesson to be learned is that Jesus ignored race prejudice. How_ dreadful is that narrow-minded idea! You cannot g!ume anybody for what they cannot elp. In the evening a special service was held for_the members of the Order of United Moderns. Dr. Wilson delivered the address, and a special musical pro- gramme was arranged for the occasion. OLD FRIENDS PICNIC IN SHADE OF REDWOODS Society Enjoys an Outing at Sunset Park in the Santa Cruz Mountains. ter w: The “Old Friends” may be old in point | of friendship, but that's the only antique | thing about them, as any one who at- tended their picnic at Sunset Park yester- day will agree. From 8 o'clock in the morning, when they set out, till when, twelve hour later, they landed at the ferry on their return trip, the day was An immense crowd took advantage of the day and journeyed up to the Santa Cruz Mountains. Swings and roundabouts worked overtime, and the man behind the lemonade bar had to be revived at intervals so hard worked was he. In the pavillon couples whirled in waltzes or hopped the light fantastic in polkas and schottisches. Al Doherty made the Tag bables In the bowling alley look like 30 cents without the 3. Secretary J. E. Slinkey was purloined by “the girls” early in the game and was only to be viewed at intervals. Edward Close, the man with the badge, acted as referee on the floor. Never have the *Old Friends” had a more enjoyable outing. The committee responsible for the jolly day consisted of Al Doherty, A. S. Page, Dr. F. F. Lord, James Lestrange, Frank Willlams, Melville Hermann and J. E. Slinkey. e Plenty of Fun Furnished. An immense crowd of merrymakers at- tended the Riggers and Stevedores’ Union Association picnie, which was held at Shell Mound Park yesterday. It was the forty-seventh reunion of the kind, and the attendance was large. There was no end of amusement for the crowd. In addition to the dancing, which was the chief . t- i traction, there was a fine racing pro- gramme prepared for the young and old, and the fat and the lean of both sexes. There were 115 gate prizes distributed. Alexander Campbell was president and Thomas Benson treasurer of the general committee. The sub-committees were made up as follows: : Arrangements—P, Colman, D. Keane, Thomas Keegan; reaeption—T. Hinés, Charles Bullard, P. Juzix, Willlam Brown, P. Denn; floor—Wil- llam McCracken (manager), Andrew Erickson (assistant), Charles Battrusch, J. Brenjord, J. Crouse and Bernard Johnson. —_——————— Demands on Police Pension Fund. Registered demands on the police relief and pension fund will be paid at the city treasury to-day. Treasurer Brooks kept the clerks in the office at work up to midnight Saturday making the appor- tionments, so that the demands against this fund should not be kept waiting a day longer than necessary. general fund is exhausted and demands on that can- not be pald until some decision is reached :fq‘.:w"‘ the St. Mary’'s Park appropria- HUMBLE DEFDS MAY BESULT I GREAT G001 | Father MacCorry Preaches a Stirring Sermon at St. Mary’s. B R A “The Power of Litfle Things” was the | subject of the Rev. Father MacCorry's sermon at St. Mary’s Church last evening. The reverend father opened his discourse with a short description of Moses’ wonder- ful miracles with the rod. He drew his listeners’ attention to the fact that great | deeds can be accomplished by small en- deavors. “People with small talents have done some of the greatest things of the day,” he sald. Father MacCorry paid a glowing tribute to the late evangelist, Moody. E “This man made a vow.” ‘he sald. “He determined that he would speak to at least one man a day on the subject of salva- tion. After making that vow he lived long enough to speak to 18430 people individu- ally, and we cannot imagine how many hearts he touched In this way. I was holding a mission recently in the country and a lady attended one of the services. 1 met ‘her and asked her if she was a Sund@ay-school teacher. She replied in the affirmative, and toid me that she had a class of five small boys. She said that she thought that they were voung urchins or | she would not have postponed school that | day. She wanted to hear the mission. | How foolish she acted. That afternoon | she might have spoken something that would have appealed to the hearts of those five young urchins. They might have grown up devout men and they might have gone into the world and saved | hundreds of lives from sin. Look at a small acorn. It is insignificant, but if it | is -planted In good ground it will make a | large oak tree.”” The Rey. Father Hannigan preached the | sermon at the ves})er service at St. Mary's Cathedral. He said in part: { “The world has to a certain extent come | under the influence of Christlanity. Yet a great many men only profess the Christian faith with their lips.. They confine them- selves to one or more virtues. They think that if a man does his duty to the world | that Is emough. There is mo appro- | hension on hi§ part, no sense of self-con- demnation. Such, my friends, is the re-" ligion of the man of the world to-day. It is beautiful on the surface. but is not good | in the sight of God. We may not all sin | in the same degree. The Pharisees lived on the surface; they lived up to the letter | of the law; they weré acceptable to them- | selves, so their thought they were accept- able in the sight of God. The Christian should know that there is only one way | to happiness. He should know that there | is one to whom he owes everything. Such | is_the basis of true religion.’ | “We should all obey God's command to | Jove our enemles,” said the Rev. Father | Sasia at the evening vesper service at st.! Ignattus Church. “From the day that the | angels sang ‘Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace and good will toward men’ till the present day that has been one of the laws that all Chrustians should act up to. This is a commandment of sin- | cere love. Do not carry any revengeful | thoughts or wish your neighbor injuries. | God is the avenger of your wrongs and | will act for you. He commands that we banish all unkind thoughts from our minds. Again, in another part of the holy | book he says, ‘Revenge is mine; I will re- venge.' " The British Government used 124,000 gal- lons of corn whisky last vear in the man- ufacture of ess powder. He 1s about 30 years old and was & | tion. i THE BEGINNING OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY. Copyright, 1900, by Seymour Eaton. 3 e — AMERICAN POLITICAL PARTIES. —————ia XIII. The Political Situation in 1854. The election of 1552 had shown the utter incapacity of the Whig party to deal with the political problems of the time. So com- plete was the party demoralization that few believed it could ever again cope with its formidable antagonist. The weak, half- irreconcilable enemy. The Middle States were uncerts To the South then, fav ors must be given. A long and full debate in Congress made clear to all the scope and probable effects of the proposed legisiation. Phe excite- ment in_the rth grew even more tense. Throughout, the winter and spring | public meetings wAthout number were held to expre the bitter indignation of the people at bein hearted manner of its treatment of slavery | had allenated alike its anti-slavery adher- ents in the North and the strong Southern element which cpposed the policy. The lack of genuine political and moral convictions, coupled with a deficien- cy of political wisdom and statesmanlike foresight, was the disease of which the Whig party died; or, to change the figures, these were the rocks upon which the party was split into fragments, the larger por- tion of which drifted into the stream of Knownothingism, which was rapidly spreading over the country, especially in the Eastern States. which called itself after 1551 the Free De- mocracy, also gained accessions and reached by 1851 the height of its influence. Its greatest strength was in the North- west, and its more sanguine members hoped that Whiggery was to succeed Free Democracy. Meantime the Democrats felt themselves to be on the crest of the wave. Their fol- lowing, too, was swelled by Whig dissen- slons and failures. The new Democrasic President, suave and popular and using after the accepted Democratic fashion all the resources of his office for the party advantage, seemed destined to cement Democratic | The free soil party, | thus tricked and be remonstrances ling Congres t ited in The bill ; rity In the House and a large one in the te. Long before plans had been t for saving the new Territory for freedom in the only way whigh would s possible should the bill become a law. If the inhabitants of Kansas were to determine its status as free or slave soil, then those inhabitants must be anti-slavery men from N trayed. Petitions and flooded the truck platform and pulp vert the disaster. 25 by a small maj ern States. As yet but a h: iful of whi were to be found in the wh great tract under discussion, but as soon as the In- dian titles which barred the way should uish rs would pour in by at least. into the southern por- tion, which was deemed the more fertile and the more att The New England E chartered with a capital of millions of dollars before the Nebraska bill had passed, gave a practical and effective ex- pression to Northern agitation. Before the summer of 1854 had closed some 300 anti-slavery emigrants had begun the long journey from the seaboard to the debat- able land. All the way they _received accessions to their numbers, doubling and even quadrupling them. Movements for a New Party. A variety of efforts to collect into a new igrant Aid Soclety, more closely the party ‘'of experience and | political body the scattered forces oppesed prestige and to carry it on to greater tri- | to the Democratic party followed the LR e R e D e e T e A S b4 . . P ? - + ES 14 3 1 & id . 4 - * . . ® ? . . ps {5 . + kS » * + » \‘é * 5 4 » & . be b * + - ® + + * Be e s es e e 000 umphs. Southern _slaveholders in the selection of his Cabinet Southern prejudices were thoughtfully regarded. The | elections of 1853 confirmed the party leaders in the expectation of a long lease of prac- tically uncontested power. The Democrat- | ic majority in each house of Congress was | large, and no effective opposition appeared from any quarter. The Kansas-Nebraska Bill. | Out of the clear sky came the thunder- bolt. The question of slavery was deemed by politicians of all parties to have been definitely settled and removed from the | list of political problems by the com- promises of 1820 and , by which the whole of United States territory was par- | celed out as open either to freedom or to slavery. Anti-slavery. sentiment did in- deed continue to spread and deepen, but there seemed no opening for effective ac- Triumphant Democracy held reins of the chariot of state and saw no itfalls In the smooth course which the 'uture unrolled before it. A bill had passed the House In 1853 for giving a_Territorial organization to Ne- braska, which then included what re- ¥+0+0+0+0+0+0+0+. ) the | read | Pierce's inaugural with complaceney, and | effective until t STEPHEN A. DOUGLAS. @ ¢ O+ 0+ +0+0 ¢ : B R S S e SR O mained of the Louisiana purchase—a vast tract stretching from the Indian Ter- ritory to Oregon. That bill, drawn in the ordinary form, said nothing about slavery. The Missouri compromise was un- derstood to have made free soi. forever of all that region. Pro-slavery members nat- urally opposed the bill and were able to revent its passage through the upper ouse. When the same bill came up in the rext Congress it was referred by the Sen- ate to the Committee on Territories, of | which Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois was chairman. His report, made in January, 1554, was a startling one. It opened anew the great dispute and gave a new and un- | foreseen turn to the old contest. This report presented the original with amendments which incorporated a | new and far-reaching discovery of the | brilliant Senator. The compromises of 1850, by which the Territories of Utah and | New Mexico were admitted to organiza- | tion, left the question of slavery to be de- cided by the people of those Territories. That action was now declared by Senator Douglas to be the adoption of a prlnclple] universal In its application to the Terri- | {fories of the United States. “‘Henceforth,” | said he, “‘all questions pertaining to slav- ery in the Territories and in the new | States to be formed therefrom are to be left to the people residing therein.” Thus | ortack 'of Congress, passed for a specific purpose, was pronounced a great consti- tutional rule applicable to the whole coun- try and restricting the action of all sub- sequent Congresses. This novel interpre- fatlon of the legislation of 1550 wholly re- | moved the subject of slavery from Con- gressional control and placed it with the settlers of the Territories. It established. as its author set forth in his powerful final speech upon the bill, the just and logical principle of true democracy, *“popu- Jar sovereignty,” and the non-interference | of Congress with the institution of slav- | ery. The Missouri compromise was prac- tically annulled and siavery in the Terri- forles of the Louisiana purchase became once more an open question. Dixon of Kentucky moved an amendment definitely Tepealing that part of the Missourl com- promise relating to slavery, and this Dou- glas incorporated into a new draft of his ill, and in its final form the bill divided the Nebraska tract into the two Terri- | tories, Kansas and Nebraska, declared the fugitive slave law to apply to both,and the | Missouri compromise, so far as it con- | cerned slavery, to be ingperative and void | as inconsistent with the principle of non- intervention by Congress with slavery in | the States and Territories, as recognized | by the legislation of 1550. 3 The Northern press was quick to see the | pearing of the committee’s report. “Slav- ry takes the fleld,”” the newspapers an- hounced to their anxious readers. Severe reflections were cast upon the motives of the author of the movement. The Demo- erate party had no abler member than the “Little Giant” from Illinofs. It was plain that this voluntary bringing forward of the apple of discord was the result of deliberate and careful purpose, and that the support of the administration must be assured. Douglas aspired to lead his y as Clay had lead the wm1 . and e certainly sought its Presidential nomi- nation for 1856. To that end he must have the support of the South, with its 120 electoral votes. Of the West. his own sec- tion, he felt secure. The East was his | | | in, | of barbarism, | | Whig defeat of 1852. None of them proved Nebraska bill of 1854 supplied the needed element for precipi- tating the moral and political earnestness and purpose held in solution In the seeth- ing caldron of Northern sentiment. Po- litical action in sever nf the Northwest- ern States crystallized about the Free-soilers, Free Democrats, Anti ery Democrats and Abolitionists all came “anti-Nebraska” men. Local organ- izations began to. the white heat of in n ag: Dougla Ere long in all the western States a new party appeared, and plans for nat action were discussed. On the 24th c May, the day before the e their differen final passage of the Nebraska’' bill, the powerful New York Tribune of Horace Greeley called for a “union of all the ele- ments of the opposition” to the nefarious action of Congress. The autumn elections of 1854 strengthened in the lower house the opposition to the Administration. The situation in Kansas continued to ab- sorb attention. The President issued in December a special message which de- clared his intensely partisan attitude against the free-soll movement. Acrid debates in Congress, the assault upon Charles Sumner by a Southern ‘“‘fire- eater,” the march of events in the distant Territory where the deadly struggle drew datly nearer to the fatal plunge into bloody civil war—all this = continually widened the sectional breach. The out- look was gloomy in the extreme. The Republican Party. At this dark hour the Republican party was born. The name was one which had been associated with American politics al- most from the beginning of our national history. It had never quite disappeared from party nomenclature. Even yet the Democrats claimed it as a part of their official designation. It could not be ab- sent from the thought of any who con- templated a new party organization, and it had been assumed in some of the Northwéstern States for the new State party. For the new national party it was adopted, as Greeley says, “almost spontaneousl In February. u 1856, a_delegate convention met in Pittsburg and organized the Re- publican party. A long and able exposi- tion of its principles and purposes was set forth, and a nominating convention was called to meet in Philadeiphia in June. All who deprecated the repeal of the Missouri compromise and favored Congressional control of the Territories were invited, but.only Delaware, Mary- land and Kentucky of the slave States sent delegates. Into the Republican party went the body of the free-soilers, among whose leaders were Sumner, Chase, Julian Hale, Frank P. Blair and C. F. Adam the antl-slavery Whigs, among whe were Greeley, Thaddeus Stevens, Lincoln, Seward and Fessenden; many of the Know-nothings, like Banks, Colfax and Henry Winter Davis, won as time passed by the anti-slavery feature of the party olicy, some of the original abolitionists, vejoy, Giddings, Garrisop and Wendell Phillips, though these were not nominally of the party, and only acted with it to spur it on to new aggressions against slavery. Others came directly from the bill @+ S+ b e eiseieseseg R e JOHN CHARLES FREMONT. Qo400 00+000+000 ! Demoeratic y, and did much to win Evulanly 'or the new organization. ading men among these were Gideon Welles of Connecticut, Cameron, Hamiin, Trumbull, Montgomery Blair and Wil- liam C. Bryant. Only earnestness of con- viction and true devotion to principle could have united in one effective organ- ization elements so diverse. The platform of the Philadelphia con- vention declared the party opposed to the repeal of the Missourl compromise, to slavery extension and to the rejection of the agpeal of Kansas for admission as a free State:. while it favored internal im- provements, ignored the tariff and called upon Congress to exercise its sovereign pwer over national territory by prohib- in the Territories “those twin relics Dolyxanv:y and slavery.” John C. Fremont and illlam L. Dayton Were nominated, and the party cry for the campaign was. ' “Free soll, free speech, free men and Fremont!™ JESSE MACY. Iowa College. Charged With Grand Larceny. Jennie Hume was arrested yesterday on complaint of Foerster Gagzi and booked at the City Prison on a charge of grand larceny. ey occupy adjoining rooms in a lodging house at 307 Fourth street and Gaggi accuses Jennie of going into his room and stealing $%5 Iruo’m his trous- ers” pocke She gnan! denies the accusation.