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CHIN MUSIC. CONCERT BY THE FULL BAND THE HOUSE TESiEXDAT. (Laughter.) ^H^^ frA IN General Debate on the Army Bill Closed and Five-Minute Talks Commenced Weaver, I)e La Matyr and Wright. Green backer*, Declare for theDemocratic Pro- grammeEloquent and Patriotic Speech by Tucker, of Virginia Garfield At tempts a Reply to the Vigorous Assaults of the Past Few DaysAll Debate to Close at 13:30 To-DayGeneral Capital News. House of Bepresantative* CLOSE OF GENERAL DEBATE. WASHINGTON, April 4.The first to ad dress the House was Mr. Singleton, who stated the question to be whether the House had the courage and determination to repeal the pernicious laws or would falter and fail in its duty to the country. It must be said to the honor of the present e-secutive that since ms inauguration no iroops had been sta tioned at polhner places. That was true and it must be set down to his credit, bat who could torecast the views of his successor ard say that the scenes enacted under the last administra tion might not take place under the next? In the ice of this disgraceful law which it was now proposed to repeal the boasted freedom of America was a mockery and a lie. Mr. Weaver deprecated keeping open section al animosities. He had been amazed at the gentleman from Kentuckj when he had alluded to the heruhtary right of the Democratic party to rule this country, and he compared that party to the children "of Israel in their wander ings from Egypt to the promised land. Per haps there was some similarity in it, but the gentleman had mistaken the army, and it was Pharoah's armv he had alluded to. That party had got their Joshua in the Senate and their Caleb in the House, ani all others had fallen in the wilderness and their Moses in 1SS0 would die in Nebo, particularly if he was a hard-money man. Gentlemen on both sides could tight on this iisue, and then in two min utes stand up on Saturday evening like loving brothers and vote to carry the House over Mon day, bill day, to prevent the Greenbackers from introducing measures for the relief of the peo ple. (Laughter) It had been said of David, after he had collected material for building a temple dedicated to peace, that David should not build that temple because he was a man of war, and now it had been said on high that these old parties should not build anew temple of liberty in this count'y, because they were parties of blood, and a new Salomon must be created to build up, and the Lord was raising that party now. The National-Greenback party wanted no soldiers at the polls. (Applause on the Democratic side). Nor did they want the presence of any armed men when e'ect ons were ben held. Neither did the Greenback pirty want the test oath for jurors, nor did the National-Greenback party want any mar shals at elections, unlebS the history ot the elections after the experiment Bhould have been tried would prove that the country could not get along without them, but he had not the least doubt of the con stitutional power of the government to protect citizens at the Dolls. lb was only a question of policy amd necessity. As to the supervisors that feature ought to be re tained the lawwith a modification that they should be chosen, not 10m the two parties, but from the parties having Congressional tickets in the field. That would give the Greenback party a chance. (Laughter.) His party al3o opposed the concentration of so much power in the hands of the appropriation committees. He wanted to say to both the old parties, or he might say to the factions represented here to day, that the Greenback party said to them, that they conld not make this sectional issue the issue for 1880 nor for 1879. There was an other Richmond the field, ho would have them understand. The recent election in Chi cago was a decided National-Greenback party triumph. He warned the House that nnlcs they passed measures for the relict of the people very few gentlemen who now occupy seats on the lloor will ever see the chamber a#ain. Mr. De La Matyr expiessed his intention to vote for the bill as it stood. He thought the House had better show some desire to relieve the people instead of giving themselves wholly to a wrangle over the firing upon Sumtci, the returning to slavery of Burns, the fiasco of John Brown, and general criminations and re criminations. Mr Joneb, of Texas, opposed the placing of political legislation on anappiopriation bill. Mr. Wright condemned the reopening of the dead issues of the wai, and predicted defeat in 1&80 for the party that raised them. Mr. Hawley, Conn., followed, denouncing the purpose of the majority, which would leave the government to be carried on by the voluntary service of its offic rs, or by volun tary subscriptions such as flowed into the treas ury in 1860. It was threatened by gentlemen of the majority that if the President should veto the bill they would apply the thumb screws to the minority in oTder to obtain a two-thirds majority, and failing" in that the appropriation should fail. It was not now a question of merit of the statutes, but of method's, and the Democratic method was dangerous, reprehensible and to be opposed. He asked the other Bide of the House whether tho pending issue was a good one foi them before tho people, was a nice thing to go to the hustings with. If so then they Bhould bring into the House an independent bill for the repeal of this election law, let tho House vote upon it, and let the Senate vote upon it. Let the President velo it if he would, and let Congress then try to pass it over the President's veto, and if it failed to do so then the Democratic narty should take thu issue on its shoulders, should put it on its flag, and should go to the people in 1880. Were they af laid to do that. In obedience to what mysterious plans ot a conspiracy was it that Congress had to be called heie in extra session, and that tho mmoiity was lold that it must vote for what was wrong, or that the govern ment would be starved. (Applause on the Re publics side.) If the Democracy had a good issue in the measures why not go before the people on them. You think, he said (addressing the Democrat ic side of the house), that because we love this child we will stand by, and at the last moment we will yield everything that you ask, rather than that you should strike. You know that we love the country. You know what we Will do for it. Yor know, th mk God, what we have done tor it (loud applause on the Republican side), and yet you come and tell me that the army is not to be paid, and that the Piesident and judges are not to have the salaries, that the war department shall go penniless for two years unless I say yes to your proposition, against my conscience. Do you think I will do it (with great earnestness)? Do you really think so? Have you tho least idea in the world that I will do it, oi that any man here will do it? In obedience to what conspiracy do you come here to do it (Renewed applause on the Republican side You are not piopos mg abetter law or a better way of using a force to sustain the federal powci, bat you come with one sweeping demand that the whole of this legislation must be wiped out as unconstitutional, and that federal troops must under no circumstances be employed. Ic looks to us, gentlemen, as a very de termined attempt on your part not to carry the country in a political campaign 1880 but to take possession of it a3 jou have taken possession cf a large portion of the South. You have avowed your desire to unite with our friends of the greenback persuasion. It looks hopeful to you that you have come mto your heritage at the same time that this rag tag and bob tail of all financial elements has about got a foothold Gentlemen, all frankness I warn yon agaiust some of your friends. There are men the Noith to-day who wall: around with proud head, ponderous brow and solemn utterance, who say they are atatesi-.en and who tell you that the North will stand by you. Gentlemen, I tell yon that they cannot deliver the goods. (Loud laughter and applause.) You ouaht to know these men. Y^u stood like biayo men where else to get out of the storm There is guarantee in the present attitude of your party for the integrity of the nation, because you are inviting these greenback men here to come in with you, when, as history vouches, these schemes of theirs are wrought with inflation, bankruptcy, disaster, national dishonor and repudiation. We are just as much in earnest as yon are, and I tell you that yon are mis taken your judgment of the North, and that you art mistaken in your estimates of the future. In conclusion, gentlemen, if in the legislation of the past we have done anything wrong, it has been fronfti zeal which I hope God will pardon for liberty, freedom, justice and a free ballot. (Loud applause.) Mr. Tucker spoke at length upon the legal questions involved, and then in allusion to the statements from gentlemen on tho other side that they would never yield, said he warned them that in the conflict between power and liberty, if power would not yield liberty was just as firm. (Applause on Democratic side.) Would his friends from Ohio and Connecticut, Garheld and Hawley, vote for the proposed re peal aa a separate measure? Mr. GarfieldI would vote to repeal these clauses if brought up separately, but not to make them asyou propose to make them. Mr. Tucker replied that his friend stood on very nairow ground, that on the merits the law ought to be repealed, but that on account of the method of its passage the President ought to veto it. How conld that be? What right had the President to say anything in re gard to the method of its passage, if he had no objection on the score of its merits? The mat ters which it was proposed to interfere with were matters under the peculiar guardianship ot the House of Representatives. He remembei ed the fkrce struggle four years ago. He remembered those four years with sorrow. He had believed he was right then, and if the time was to be passed over he would do again, upon his honest convictions, what he did then. But that time had passed away. He had come back to the Union with an honest purpose, and no man who knew him would gainsay the sincerity of his declaration that he had no purpose in view asa member of Con gress, or as a citizen of the United States, but to make the union a glorious union among the nations of the earth, and to make this govern ment a success for the liberty, prosperity and independence ot its peepie. The past was dead and buried. The convictions of the past had no longer any motive power over his actions, which now were dictated by what he believed to be his duty here, and what he believed to be the highest interests of his mother common wealth there, (pointing to the South.) If he could map ont the future of this coun try, if he could map out that pelicy whioh he believed to be best, he would say "cling to the constitution asthe only hope of the country." He would maintain the power of the federal government in all its integrity, and he would preserve the power of the States in all their au tonomy and local self-government. He would preoerve the rights of citizens, protected by the habeas corpus, give them free trial by jury, and free ballots. He believed the government of the United States to be the best system of gov ernment ever devised by the will of man, but in the matter of the power of the government and the liberty of the people, ho would put that power at its minimum and that liberty at its maximum, consistent with the safety of society. He would have law on tne judgment seat, wearing the crown and ermine, gently and with unmailed hand, leading forth liberty as his wedded wife. He would have the army and navy to be wil ling servitors of liberty, to expel on her call all invasions upon his saored precincts, or to put down the despotism of licentious mobs. If his aspirations and hopes, his dreams and visions, could be realized, feeling as he did that the sere and yellow leaf was approaching, that the evening of his life was come to its close, he might the* with humble reverence repeat the prayer, "Now, O Lord, lettest thou thy servant depart in peace for mine eyes hath seen the solution of my people's liberty and seen restored the grand and noble system of the constitution of our forefathers." During the course of hi* speech Mr. Tueker was frequently interrupted with applause and at its conclusion was warmly congratulated. At this point the general debate closed and the bill was considered under the five minute rnle. Mr. Garfield said that during the last four days fifteen or twenty demolitions of his argu ment of last Saturday had been made in the presence of the House and ot the country. All of them save one had alleged that he held it to be revolutionary to place this legislation on the appropriation bill. If they had any particular pleasure in setting up a man of straw to knock him down again, they had enjoyed that pleas ure. They had never claimed that it was either revolutionary or unconstitutional to put a rider on an appropriation bill. No man on tho Republican side claimed that. The most that had been said was that it was considered a bad parliamentary practice. All parties in the country had repeatedly said that the gentleman from Kentucky (Blackburn) had thought that ho was especially severe in showing that he (Garheld) had insisted on the passage of the conference report in 1872, in an appropriation bill that had a rider to it, and had said that it was revolutionary in the Democratic party to resist it. What he (Gar held) had said on that occasion, and what he said now, was that it was revolutionary in the gentleman's party to refuse to let an appro priation bill be voted on four days. Gentle men on that side had said that the House should net vote on the appropriation bill be cause there was a rider on it. He had tried to prevent that rider being put on, but when the minority insisted that the House should never act upon it, he had said that it was an unparlia mentary objection. The Representatives did not filibuster to prevent a vote on the pending measure. The majority had a right, however indecent it might be as a matter of parliamentary practice, to put a uder on an appropriation bill and pass it. When the bill was sent to the Senate that body had a perfect right to pass it, and when it went to the Presi dent it was the President's constitutional right to approve and sign it. If the President signed it then it would be a law. But it was equally the President's constitutional right to disapprove it. Should he do so then, unless the other side had a two-thirds majority in the House and Senate to pass the bill notwith standing the Senate's objection, it could not be passed without the flattest violation of the constitution. for wm Nobody on the Republican side had brought up the question of a vote. It had been brought up by the proclamation of the Democratic cau cuses and by the conference committee of the last House, that had written down as their programme that they most bind together these elements of legislation and send them to the President that if he did not approve them the Democratic party vould not vote supplies for the government. You, said he, (addressing the opposite side), threatened him in advance. Be fore vou let him have the opportunity to say yes or no, you walked into this capitol with your threats against him. In your high-sound ing proclamation you threatened in the index. It remains to be seen whether in the body of your work, and iu its concluding sentences, your thunder will bo as loud asit was in the opening chapter. (Applause on the Republi can Bide.) Let not gentlemen say that I or any man on this floor, have threatened a veto. It would be indecent to do so. It would be indecent for any one of us even to speak of what the Ex ecutive intends, for none of us has the right to know that. But you in advance proclaim to him that if he dared exercise his constitution al power you would refuse to vote supplies of the government. In other words, that you would starve it to death and that is the prop osition my distinguished friend from Virginia, Tucker, says that under our constitution we can vote supplies for the army but for two years, and that in a certain way the army ceases to be if supplies are not voted. He is mistaken in one thing. The army is an organization in dependent of the appropriation bill so far as the creation of officers and rank is concerned. The mere supply of course comes through the appropriation bills. If you refuse supplies to the army it must perish of inaction. The gentleman from Virginia says unless you let us append a condition which is to us a redress of grievances, we will let the army be annihilated on the thirtieth of June next by lack of food and shelter. That is a fair argument, that is brave, but what is tho grievance of which the gentleman complains. A law, a law of the land, a law made by Representatives of the ing a law. If he can get rid of it by all the powers of consent that go to make or unmake a law, then he can do so whether it is a grievance or not, whether it is good or bad. If the gentleman from Virginia wants to take before Amerioan people this proposition of letting our army he annihilated on the 30th of June, unless the President, against his conscience and his sense of duty, shall sign what he sends him, we will debate that question in the forum of every man's mind. If what the gentleman from Kentucky (Blackburn) calls the return of the Democratic party to its heritage, is to be signalized in its first great apt by striking down the grand army of the United States, the people of this coun try will not be slow to understand that there are reminiscences about that army which these gentlemen would willingly get rid of. (Loud applause on the Republican side and in the galleries). In the course of further remarks, Garfield expressed his willingness to help the Demo crats wipe from the staute books the law authorizing the use of the army at the polls if a bill for that purpose should be intro duced in a regular manner. Mr. New offered an amendment providing that nothing in the section shall be construed as abridging or affecting the duty or power of the President of the United States, under the constitution, to send troops on application of the legislature or execntive of a State. Mr. Baker, Indiana, offered an' amendment to the amendment making it unlawful for any one to have on his person fire arms, bowie knives, clubs or bludgeons in the vicinity of a place where an election is being held. The chairman, in ruling out Baker's amend ment as not germaine to an army bill, en countered a good share of opposition from Mr. Conger, against whom he threatened to call in the services of the sergeant-at-arms, to which Conger replied with defiances. Finally, how ever, the angry passions subsided, the commit tee arase ana the House, after ordering all de bate on the bill and amendments to cl seat 12:30 o'clock to-morrow, took a recess until 11 to-morrow. THE GERMAN MISSION. TENDER TO WHITHLAW MID. WASHINGTON, April 4.The fact that the German mission was offered to Whitelaw Reid of the New York Tribune last December seems to have been one of the best kept secrets whioh tho present administration had. It is now first made known by publication of the following correspondence which has heretofore been treated as confidential: DEPARTMENT OF STATE, WASHINGTON, Dec. 23, 1878.My Dear Mr. Reid: The President has desired, as far asit was in his power, in mak ing his choice of ministers to represent the United States abroad, to attach more import ance to tho pubho position and public services of eminent members of the Republican party than to their mere relations to any political or personal interests within the party, how prominent how ever these may be. In accordance with this desire I am directed by the President to ask your acceptance of the German mission, made vacant by the death of Bayard Taylor. It gives me personally great pleasure to convey toyou this wish of the President, and to expiess the hope that you may find it in accord with your inclination, and to be not inconsistent with other obligations, to undertake the pubho service which the President asks you. I am, my dear Mr. Reid, very truly, WM. M. EVABTS. Whitelaw Reid, Esq. THE NEW YORK TBEBUNE, NEW YOBK, Dee. 30, 1878.My Dear Mr. Evarts: I must tender to you, and beg you also to express to the Presi dent, my thanks for the unexpected offer of the mission to the German empire. Two con siderations render this high*honor peculiarly grateful. You call me to a post last held by a near friend, and you do it solely on the flatter ing estimate placed by yourself and the Presi dent upon my public gervice. I have always thought the citizen ought to attempt any task to which his government may snra mon him, but the work in which I am now engaged, which is also a public duty, seems to give greater oppor tunities for me, at least, for serving the coun try, and for advancing those views public policy which we agree in thinking essential to its prosperity, than any that conld be afforded in the new field you propose. Nothing, there fore, bat a sense of duty induced me to ask that you allow me to decline the brilliant position you offer. I am, my dea* Mr. Evarts, faithfully yours, WHr.BLAW Rs. Hon. Wm. Evarts, Washington. WALLACEil~COMMITTEE. THE CONPHES9IONAL CAMPAIGN. WASHINGTON, April 4.At the session of the Wallace committee to-day George 0. Gorham was recalled, and furnished statements hereto foie called for, from which it appears that 732 circulars were sent to employes in the depart ment, 430 of which were not responded to, 200 were returned and 272 resulted in subscriptions amounting to 13,247. He had found* cases where the circulars were sent to persons receiv ing salaries of less than $1,000, and he wished to correct his previous statement on that point. John G. Thompson was called by the Repub lican members of the committee, and detailed his connection with the Democratic Congres sional committe in 1878. No money was col lected from employes of tho House of Repre sentatives. Witness devoted most of his time during the summer of 1878 to conducting the campaign, but came to Washington on the first of every month to see to the disbursement of members' salaries. Did not neglect his official duties. Duncan 8. Walker, secretary of the Demo cratic Congressional committee in 1878, testi fied that the headquarters of rthe committee for a portion of the campaign were in the room of the House committee on agriculture. The amount collected by the committee was $4,695. The number of documents sent out was 1,031,- 700. The documents were nearly all folded in the room of the House committee on post roads and printing. A large number of documents were sent out by the committee under the frank of mem bers of Congress, but nothing not privileged. Postage was paid on all documents not frank able. Witness lead a statement showing the expenses of the folding room for 1878 were $205.98, as against larger sums, ranging up to as high as $109,000 the last ten years. Harry Cobaul, captain of the watch in the treasury department, testified he had charge of furnishing Pennsylvania voters in that de partment with free transportation to their homes.andtax receipts where they had failed to pay their taxes, both of which were furnished by Rnssel, acting for the State Central Repub lican committee. GENERAL CAPITAL NEWS. FOUB PEB CENTS. WASHINGTON, April 4.Subscriptions to the 4 per cent, loan since yesterday's report, $6,502,750. MOLINE WATEB POWEB. The secretary of war has given a decision in the matter of the lease of the water power op posite Rock Island arsenal to Moline county. The secretary decides the lease cannot be given consistently with the interest of the govern ment and recommends an appropriation of $150,000 to maintain and improve the power. OUT WITH LB DUO. Prof. C. V. Riley, entomologist of the de partment of agriculture, says the causo of his resignation was unwillingness to run any further risk of being treited discourteously whenever he made any suggestion for the ben efit of bis division. LAST OF THE 5-20S. The secretary of the treasury will issue a carll for the balance of the 5-20s of '67. To day and to-morrow a call will be issued for all the 5-203 of '68. This will close the whole of the series of 5-20 bonds. The two calls amount to $59,565,700. The aggregate calls including these since Jan. 1 amount to $349,565,700, mak ing the annual saving of interest $6,991,314. No further subscriptions will be received for 4 per cent, bonds, except for $10 certificates, un til further notice. FOTJB PEB CENT. STTBSCBIPTIONS. opeople, made through all the proper forms of following was issued this afternoon: consent& known& to our constitution, and iiti \n^Ltt^\f\^oltT^^^i X^*^^ iin Treasury Department^office o* the Secretary, KMWUMJ'Who went to Canada or soma.1 I a the ordinary and constitutional way fit repeat 'Washington, D. 0., April 4. 1879.-SuDserip. tions to the four per cent, consols having been received-to the full amount pf the 5-20 bonds outstanding, the circular o* this department of date Jan. 1, 1879, inviting Bach subscriptions, is rescinded. The $10 refunding certificates will be sold as heretofore under circulars of dates March 12th and 26th. The onager cent, consols will hereafter be sold for redemption of 10-40 bends of the act of March S, 1864, upon terms to be hereafter presented. [SignedJ JOHN SHBBMAN, Secretary. BONDS CALLED IN. The secretary of the treasury has called the following 5-204, principal and interest to be paid oiLand after July 4, next: $50 No. 133,001 to No. 123,833. Both inclusive. 8100 No. 234,001 to No. 245,Q00. Bothinclusive. $590 No. 115,001 to No. 118,680. Both inclusive. $1,00* No. 213,001to No. 227,429. Both Inclusive. Registered bonds redeemable at pleasure in the United States after the 1st of July, 1873: 50 No. 3,251 to No. 3,279. Both inclusive. $100 No. 23,701to No. 23,829. Both inclusive. $500 No. 11,561 to No. 11.S83. Bothinclusive. $1,090 No. 44,601 to No. 44,732. Both Inclusive. $5,000 No. 17,051 to No. lM. Both inclusive. The bonds outstanding and represented by the above mentioned numbers constitute the residue of those issued under the act af March 3,1857, consols of 1867. The large subscriptions to the 4 per cent, to day, exclusive of the regular subscriptions, weie from New York national banks. Chicago "Tribune" Correspondent Jailed. CHICAGO, 111., April 4-Frank A. Nevins, correspondent here of the Chicago Tribune, was to-day commited to jailby Speaker James for contempt in refusing to tell the House committee his authority for,certain statements published in the Tribune. Counsel have been engaged for him. THE NEWS IN CHICAGO. CHICAGO, April 4.The news from Spring field to-day that Frank Nevin#had been com* mitted to the county jail for contempt of the house in refusing the source of his information for certain dispatches to the Chicago Tribune, occasioned much interest Injournalistic circles, as this is the first case of the kind ever occur ring in Illinois. The Tribune announces edi torially to-morrow that it will light the case with all the power it may be able, and that it has engaged eminent counsel. It prints inter views witft prominent lawyers here who agree that the paragraph complained of by the legis lators was not sufficient basis for the aotion at Springfield against its correspondent. SIXTH WARD BLAZE. Mat. KuliVs Store Goes Up in Smoke. Lost night about 11:30 o'clock a disastrous fire occurred in West St. Paul, resulting in tho total destruction of Mat. Kuril's store. The building was a story and a half high,, and par tially csnstructed of brick and framework. At the above designated hour some of tho neigh bors detected the signs of the fire, clambered on the root to investigate, ai found the inter or in the rear in a full blaze. The alarm was given and soon quite a concourse of people assembled. Willing hands undertook the task of saving some of the property, but by this time the flames had taken such a hold, that only a very few minor and valueless articles were rescued. The material of the building was of the most inflammable kind, and only a few moments after the first discovery the whole structure was wrapped in flames and speedily consumed. It is estimated that the house was worth about $700 and the stock of goods in store was variously valued at $100 to $600. There was a partial insurance on the building and stock, but in both cases so small that it may be con sidered only nominal. The supposition venture^ by the by-standers is that the fire was the won of an incendiary. Mri. Kuhl attributes it to tramps. Yesterday afternoon two of this fraternity applied to her for a meal she declined giving it until they sawed some wood she needed. This they posi tively rtf used to do, and went away in a threat ening and surly manner. She thinks her house was fired in revenge by these two men. This view is son. ewhat confirmed by the locality in which the fiist signs of the fire were discovered and also from the time it originated. Mrs. Kuhl left the store a short time before 11 o'clock and went to her residence on the bluff, where her husband is confined to a bed of sickness. Scarcely a half hour thereafter the fire burst out of the store-building. It is presumed that the tramps were on the watch for her to leave, and immediately after her departure consum mated their dastardly revenge. Thefireas men tioned was found to have originated at the rear of the building. Access to this part was very easy, as the building was flush against the bluff. Mrs. Kuhl is certain that the fire did not occur through any carelessness in regard to the fire in the stove the stove door was closed and the fire almost out when she left. The loss is a severe one upon Mr. Kuhl and family, and particularly so at this time, as he is only recovering from a ions and expensive spell of sickness. No alarm was turned in to the fire department by the police officer on watch, and nothing was known of the fire on this side until it burst forth in full glare through the roof. KINO LEAB. John McCullough's Masterly Rendering of the Bole Last Night. The ^performance of King Lear at the Opera House last evening attracted a very select audience of ladieB and gentlemen. It is one of Mr. McCullough's favorite char actersa conception at once massive and grand. The make-up of the actor i3 most elaborate, and his rendition of the lines of the great dramatist painstaking and in tensely dramatic. A king of fonr-score years, who has surrendered his kingdom to his thankless children and finds himself dis ownedan outcast in a cold world, with none so poor as do him reverencebecomes a prey to melancholy thoughts, and finally his reason totters and he finds companionship with foola and lunatics.. The slow creeping on of madness was most eloquently depicted by Mr. McCullough, and his colloquy with Edgar, who was simulating madness, was as fine apiece of acting as has ever been rep resented upon the boards. In the fourth act, too, he was simply grand, arrayed as he was in the fantastic garb dictated by a ma niac's conceit. A withe of straw for a sceptre and a clont for a crown, he strode the boards with all the majesty of amonarcb, giving utterance to his wild fancies with most telling vigor and elocutionary effect. In all his sentences his madness seemed more real than assumeda too stern reality for picturing upon the stage. Mr. McCul longhwas heartily applauded throughout, and called before the curtain at the close of each act. As Edgar, Mr. Charles Barron achieved great success. His acting was all that conld be conceived as desirable. When he per sonated the madman, crowned as a king though arrayed in rags, he fairly divided the honors with Mr. McCullough. Mr. Langdon, as Edmund, was also excellent, while Miss Stockman's rendering of the part|of Cordelia was a thoroughly artistic one. The remain- I der of the support was far superior to the average. Tins afternoon, by special request, Mr. McCullough will repeat his great play of "Virginius," and in th6 evening will appear in "Richard III." In neither of these roles has this artist a superior or even an equal. Both entertainments will be a rare treat to our citizens, and there ought to be crowded houses. The Weather To-Day. WASHINGTON, April 51 A. M.Indications for upper lake region: Warmer, clear or partly cloudy weather, northwesterly winds be coming variable or shifting to southeasterly, followed by stationary or falling barometer for upper Mississippi and lower Missouri val leys warmer, clear, or partly cloudy weather, winds mostly southeasterly and falling bar ometer. C\ A T)T Xp OTTTfcOAITOTil? POLITICAL AND GENERAL WORLD NE tTS. BAILBOAD EXTENSION. Russian grand duke Nicholas Constantino witch in a work just published recommending the construction of the Orenburg & Tashkend railway, announces he is preparing an expedi tion to pursue his study relative to railway matters beyond the boundaries of Asiatic Russia, across Arudaria as far asthe defile of Bemian in Afghanistan, and in the direction of Cabul. It was announced sometime since that the grand duke had been exiled for publishing the work in question, but his views now seem to have found favor, and great preparations are making for the expedition. PBOTEST. In the house of commons the nnder secretary for foreign affairs made a statement concern ing the announcement that the government had protested against French oecupation of the island of Matacany, and said representations had been made to the French government in respect to the affair. UNIfBD STATES CATTLE. LONDON, April 4.The Gazette contains an order of the privy council, taking effect from to-day and continuing in force for two months, according to which cattle brought from the United States to London may be transhipped in Victoria docks to another vessel for convey ance to the foreign cattle market, and cattle so transferred shall continue to be deemed for eign cattle. Slaughter of cattle on tne quay will, therefore, not be necessary. FAMINE IN EGYPT. The English commission sent to upper Egypt tq investigate, report several thousand deaths from starvation. SHOT HIMSELF. Isaac Fletcher, member of parliament from Lackermouth, has shot himself. Zululand. CETTEWAYO FOB PEACE. LONDON, April 4.A special supplement to the London Gazette has been issued, contain ing a dispatch from Lord Chelmsford, enclos ing a report dated March 1, from the border agent at Umvote, to the effect that messengers from King Cettewayo had arrived there. Cet tewayo asks the missionary bishop to explain that he did not desire war and was sending the persons whose surrender had been demanded by the British, to be delivered to the general at Roorke's diift, when his messenger and pi quets were fired upon and -a battle unpremed itatedly occurred. The Zulu general who per mitted the battle to oocur is now in disgrace. Cettemayo now asks a resumption of negotia tions, with a view to a permanent settlement of all contested questions. The messengers in reply to a question stated that the Zulu army had dispersed to their homes. The above con firms reports which were current at Cape Town, March 11th, that Cettewayo had made overtures for peace, which reports were dis credited at the time. The overtnres de not seem to have caused a more peaceful feeling. Hayti A MILLION DOLLAB FTBE. NEW YOBK, April 4.Miragoane was destroyed by fire on the night of the 16th of March. The Haytien government is sending relief. Five or six thousand people were rendered homeless. The property destroyed included 50,000 bags of coffee, 18,000,000 pounds of logwood, of which 800,000 were to have been shipped to France and the remainder to New York. Loss about $1,000,000. Germany. THE NEW TABtFF. BEBLTN, April 4.A draft of the proposed tariff has been published, to give the country an opportunity to discuss it during the recess. The duties on tobacco are 120 marks per 100 kilogrammes on leaf, and an excise of 80 marks on native tobacco. Egypt, FIGHT WITH A SLAVE TRADER. LONDON, April 4.The Egyptian officer sent to break up the slave depots at Bahr El Gazal Kardafan reports an engagement with Sulei man, chief slave trader and owner of twenty five depots, in which women alone were wait ing importation into Egypt to the number of 10,000. The Egyptian force numbered 3,000, a part armed with improved rifles, and were en trenched. Suleiman with 11,000 Arabs made several assaults, but were completely defeated and fled iu disorder, leaving 1,087 dead. The Egyptians lost twenty men. CATBO, April 4.The report of the English man sent by Revers Wilson to inquire into the famine in upper Egypt shows by statistics that 10.000 persons died by starvation alone in Girgeh Kena and Esna. The famine, which was really a money famine caused by over taxation, has now terminated but has left disastrous con sequence. If {similar taxation continues, another partial failure in arise of the Nile will cause a famine worse than the last. Miscellaneous. S1*?8"*" 1 OLD Modification by England of the Restrictions Against United States CattleTen Thou sand Deaths in Upper Egypt from Famine Cettewayo, the Zulu King, Sues for a Resumption of Peaceful Negotiations Negotiations with Yakoob Kahn Said to be Progressing FavorablyFight Be tween the Egyptian Array and a Slave Trader's Force. England. THE OBDTJBATE POETE. LONDON, April 4.In the house of lords last night the Marquis of Lansdowne complained that the negotiations between the porte and Greece were unduly protruded and recommend ed resolute guidance of the porte by the great powers, to induce it to comply with their wishes as expressed in the Berlin conference. Lord Salisbury, minister of foreign affairs, de nied that the negotiations gbad taken a long time. From his experience of oriental negotia tions the {prospect of settlement is not ap parently very near. England has continued to advise the porte but "resoluts guidance" smacked of saltpetre. Lord Beaconsfield be lieved there were modes of adjustment satis factory to both parties, and pointed out that the advice of the conference to the porte rela tive to the line of frontier was not a command. SETTLING WITH TAKOOB. LONDON, April 4.In the house of commons Northcote stated negotiations with Yakoob Khan were actively proceeding, according to information received to-day. Further commu nications of a very definite character were under discussion, and the government was momemtarily expecting additional communi cations. SILVER. LONDON, April 4.A deputation of the Liver pool chamber of commerce on the silver ques tion was received, to-day, by Sir Stafford Northcote, chancellor of the exchequer, and Lord Cranbrook, secretary of state for India. The deputation, through its chairman, said its object was to direct attention to the serious depreciation of silver and its damaging con sequences to trade. Sir Stafford Northcote said the question was very important and very complicated that any change in the laws af fecting the currency of this country must be considered with extreme care that it cannot be undertaken without a knowledge of what the views of other countries are likely to be that question already had been and was still being very carefully considered by the govern ment, both with reference to the relations be tween England and India,and in its more general aspects. He could not Bay more at the present stage of the matter except to assure the deputa tion their views would certainly be taken into consideration in the study which the govern ment was now giving the whole subject. MADRID, April 4.The coalition for the elec toral campaign ot the constitutionalists, pro- an* republicans professing^the views Senor Gastelar is an accomplished fact. LONDON, April 4.A dispatch from Lahore reports the arrival of the British agent at Cabul a few days ago has had a favorable in fluence on negotiations. A Rome dispatch says the Vatican has pro posed to select a nuncio for Munich favorable to Bismarck. BERLIN, April 4.Alterations in the tariff made by the biyidesrath increase the duty on cheese to 10 marks per hundred weight, makes the duty on leather range from 12 marks to 80 marks for fine goods, and fix the duty on cot ton yarn at 18 marks. RANGOON, April 4.The king of Burmah will be formally crowned Sunday, when disturb ance is expected. VIENNA, April 4.The New Free Press states that the Austrian counsel at Widden has been expelled from his hotel, and otherwise ill treated by order of the governor, in conse quence of some petty dispute between them. URGENCY. YABSATLLES, April 4.The Senate voted nr* gency in the grant in aid of amne3ted com munists. GOV. DAVIS' LECTURE. The "Certain Tendencies of Modern Thought"An Eloquent Production. A large and cultivated audience assembled at the Central Presbyterian church last even ing to hear the masterly effort of Ex-Gov. C. K. Davis, who lectured on the pregnant theme of "Certain Tendencies of Modern Thought," whioh was handled in the capti vating manner usual with this brilliant speaker. The conventional term leo ture, as applied to the subject mat ter of the speaker's thoughts, is only partially significant, as the effort was more closely allied to the finished and scholarly production of the essayist. The elegant diction and full, rounded periods were characteristicof this most fascinating style of oratorical declamation. The essay was logically constructed, fault lessly delivered, and abounded in specimens of the most chaste, unique and appropriately ornate figures of speech, while many of the allusions were remarkable for novel origi nality, and, even with this, showed evidences of thorough research. The speaker said, in commencing, that modern thought was not only exceedingly active, but that it was proportionally self sufficient. It pretended to be eminently constructive, and every worker in its guild, from the architect who plans to the journey min who carries intellectual mortar in his hod, is in competition for a contract to be let by his present age, to take down and then rebuild the whole structure of thought. Its skeptical progenitor of one hundred years ago fulfilled its destiny by the publication of thousands of volumes of simple denials. It believed in nothing and succeeded in pull ing down everything. After describing the destructive tendencies of many systems of modern thought, the speaker said that by newly discovered evidence Catalinewas made to appear the John Brown of antiquity, con spiring for the rights of common and down trodden men Henry the Eighth, the adulter ous wife murderer, a veritable merry Andrew in saintly disguise Elizabeth, queen at once of England and virago, is simulated by the men-milliners of history as the possessor of all perfections, which Leicester or Essex would have scorned to feed her vanity with. Mary, Queen of Soots, is represented either as the French lily, all white and pure and fragrant* or as the Scottish thistle, spinous, unsightly and cruel to the touchboth of whioh this beau tiful hybrid doubtless was to the same de gree. Robespierre is better^nown by some of these clairvoyants of history than he was to the generation in which he murdered. To them he is not the presiding devil of the hell whioh he helped to create, but is the saintly precursor of a pure political dispensation. A critical and brilliant analysis of the pro ductions of Strauss and Kenan was here given, in juxtaposition to whioh was placed the startling, historical paradox of Judas Iscariot, whose several conceptions and treatment of the great Master, as seen through the lens of ancient and modern his torians, was powerfully delineated. The dis coveries of Newton and Kepler were adverted to, and the new impetus given to modern thought by these great philosophers was for cibly portrayed. The science of jurisprudence, chemistry, metaphysics, electricity, heat and force, the speculations and discoveries of La Place, to gether with their far-reaohing consequences, the soul-searching scalpel as it sought for the hidden springs of thought, were alluded to at length, and the respective subjects gave evidence of the profoundest analytical re search. Thecompendius wisdom of Burke, the re fractive speculation of Fox and Mcintosh, the brilliant intellective corruscation of Dideru, together with their social, political and scientific philosophies, were alluded to in the most ornate and figurative language, while the peculiar mechanism of their tenets was analyzed with the most exquisite fidelity to the lives of these illustrious and historical characters. The abstract theories of Hubbes, Plato, Spencer and the eccentric opinions cinetured within their orbits of thought were also minutely criticized. The polemic though diametrically opposed disquisitions of Bronson and Fetche were next spoken of, and the peculiarities of these great thinkers were most beautifully illustrated. The lecturer spoke of the de structive and pernicious theories of the nihilists, closing with an eloquent predic tion astothe probable beneficial outcome of the war of sects and opinions. A SOCKER FOR QEOKGE. The True Inwardness of the Republican Party. The Albert Lea Standard, a staunch Re publican paper, quotes the comments of Bill King's paper on the recent change in the custom house and then exposes the party: A more infamous tissue of infernal false hoods than the above paragraph never found space in the columns of a journal professing the slightest claim to truth, respectability or decency. Geo. W. Moore has held the office spoken of for nineteen consecutive years, and during that time has been the lowest, dirtiest scavengerexcept Crowellof the most cor rupt political dynasty that ever held the reins of powec in this or any other Statea dynasty that came into power through shameless cor ruption and held it by wanton bribery, sup ported by almost every political dead-beat, moss-backed office-holder and pine land thief in the State, until overthrown by a band of determined, honest men. The Twenty-Six Million Dollar Suit. SAN FRANCISCO, April 4.In the suit of John A. Burk against J. C. Flood et al to recover $26,000,000 which defendants are alleged to have unlawfully appropriated from the funds of the Consolidated Virginia Mining company, the court to-day overruled the demurrer of de fendants and ordered them to answer in thirty days. Disastrous Freeze in South Carolina. CHARLESTON, 8. April 4.A hard freeze last night seriously damaged early vegetable crops. Loss to truck farmers around Charles teston is estimated at a quarter of a million. Miners' Strike. TKBBE HAUTE, April 4.The miners of the Block coal fields are all out, and at a meeting held yesterday and to-day at Brazil, positively lefoseto submit to a reduction of 10 cents per ton, i iniiiiiiiiii SECBET SERVICE. EXCITING SCENE XN A. COVET. KENTUCKY Secret Service Detectives Accused of Fur nishing Counterfeiters With tho Tools of Their Trade The Indiscreet Lawyer Making the Charge Barely Escapes Ac companying His Clients to JailOther Criminal Blatters Disastrous Fire at St, Louis. SHOVEBS OF THE QTJEEB. LOUISVILLE, April 4.Pending the recent trial of a large number of counterfeiters in the United States circuit court here, oonsidrable excitement was created by the issuing of a motion of District Attrrney Rnre against Col. Sam. McKee, one of the counsel for a number of the accused men, requiring him to deliver to the court certain steel dies used by the coun terfeiters in their work. McKee in his respnse to Rura stated that hecould prove that M. G. Bower, Marion Van Horn and H. B. Jones, United States secret service agents, had themselves both manufactured and sold the spurious coin, and that they had brought the dies in qnestion into the country themselves, and that his clients had never had them, nor did they belong to them. Judge Bal lard intimated strongly an intention to send McKee to jail for contempt of court, but as the dies were delivered to the court this was not done. The trials proceeded, and though every effort was made in behalf of the accused, hav ing the ablest counsel of the State, a convic tion followed in every case, and the prisoners were sentenced to terms varying from one year to ten years in the Joliet (Illinois) penitentiary, it being conclusively shown that the counterfeiters had owned the dies for years, during all of which time they had been en gaged iu the manufacture of spurious coin and currency, and the treasury agents deemed the conviction and breaking up of the gang their hignest duty, and paid no attention to attacks on them. Messrs. Bower and Van Horn and Jones have done efficient service in breaking up a gang of thirty-two members. The convicted persons will be taken to Joliet at once. ggj JUMPED THE TRACK. NEW OBLEANS, April 4.The engine and three cars of the northern bound passenger train on the New Orleans, Chicago & St. Louis railroad, jumped the track near Hazelhurst. Andy Caldwell, engineer, was killed, and Baggage Master Betts seriously wonnded. THE NATHAN SHOOTING. NEW YOBK, April 4.Mrs. Barret alias Birdie Bell, a woman well known in some circles of this city, was the person who shot Washington Nathan. Mrs. Marion Ward, wife of the actor, now in California, can only account for her name being associated with the shooting from the circumstance that she knew Nathan some years ago. No arrests. BRIBING A JUBY. OEADWOOD, D. T., April 4.The jury in the case involving the titles of Rose and Rhoderick Dhn quartz mines, a very valuable property, entered the court last evening, and the fore man reported that attempts had been made to bribe the jury by one of their number, Henry Robinson. Robinson, on examination to-day. stated in open court that Nicholas Vader had offered him large sums of money to influence the jury in favor of the" Rhoderick Dhn, and said Vader represented himself as being in the employ of Daniel Bogle, one of the owners of the Dhu, who could afford to put up for a fa vorable verdict. KILLED BY THE CABS. WHEELING, W. Va., April 4.A man, named Henry Summers, living seven miles west of Newbury, was instantly killed, this morning, by the west bound freight train. He was pick ing coal on the track and did not see the train. He leaves a wife and six children in destitute circumstances. A SPOBT MUBDEBED. GBEENVTIILE, Miss., April 4.Yesterday morning Matt Chrismore, a well known sport ing character, was murdered in his bed, his head crushed with an iron bolt, throat out and body ripped open the entire length. Suspicion points to an associate, now in jail. FIBE AT ST. LOUIS. ST. LOUIS, April 4.A fire broke ont at half past 9 to-night in the building 504 and 506 North Fifth street, occupied byS. M. Hamilton & Co., dry goods and groceries, on the ground floor, and Mack & Co., wholesale clothiers, on the other floors. This bnilding, an ell of which extends around to St. Charles street, is a complete wreck, and the stocks totally de stroyed. The two upper stories of 500 and 502, on the corner of St. Charles and Fifth streets, lately occupied by Appleton, Noyes & Maude, was also burned. The fire then spread to the rear of Althiemer & White's wholesale hat and cap house, 418 Washington avenue, and adjoining the clothing house of Myers Bros., and is still burning fiercely. LATEBThe fire now, midnight, is under control, and has not extended beyond the block in which it started. Althiemer & White's store is gutted, and Meyers Bros.', adjoining, dam aged a good deal by water. The Fourth street stores in Verandah row are all injured more or less by water, particularly Miller, Grant & Co., laces and fancy dry goods, and H. Probas & Co., fancy candies. The American Express company's office also received a thorough wet ting. The losses cannot even be approximated to night, but Mack & Co., Hamilton & Co. and Altheimer& White carried large stocks and their losses will be heavy, as they are nearly or qnito total. Dodd, Brown & Co. had about $7,000 worth of goods in cases stored in Ham ilton & Co.'s houses, all of which were probably destroyed. The insurance cannot be given to night or even estimated. The fire started in one of the upper floors of Mack & Co., and burned so rapidly that nearly the whole build ing was in flames before the fire engines ar rived. THBOUGH THE TRESTLE. MEMPHIS, Tenn., April 4.This afternoon the incoming freight train on the Louisville road ran through a trestle this Bide of Brownsville, Tenn., and precipitated the eng.ne and several cars, killing the engineer, Frank Riley, and wounding the fireman and hrakeman. A DAYTON FTBE. DAYTON, Ohio, April 4.A fire broke ont this evening in the machine shop and factory of J. K. Johnson, a four-story brick bnilding on Wayne street. The two upper floors were occu pied by J. L. Baker, sealing-wax factory, where the fire originated. In half an hour the entire building was burned and all its contents a total loss. Loss, $50,000. Baker's loss, $10,000 in sured for $5,000. Johnson's loss is $40,000 insured for $13,000. FATALLY SHOT. LOUISVILLE, April 4.A special dispatch from Paris, Ky., to the Courier-Journal, says, at Millersburg, Bourbon connty, to-day, Milton Wadington, while attempting to release his brother from the custody of the constable, was fatally shot. SHIP BURNED. GALVESTON, April 4.The ship Lancaster burned to the water's edge with 1,800 bales of cotton. Ballroad Superintendent Change ST. Louis, April 4.A Kansas City dispatch says B. L. Henning, general superintendent of the Missouri River, Fort Scott & Gulf, and Leavenworth, Lawrence & Galveston roads re signed to-day. It is understood T. F. Oaks, recently general superintendent of the Kansas Pacific, will be appointed to the position vacated by Henning. Major Henning has been general superintendent of the Fort Scott road since it was built ten years ago. Death of an Ex-Congressman. BALTIMORE. April 4.Judge James R. Stew art, a member of the thirty-fifth and thirty sixth Congresses, died yesterday, aged 71, m-\ i r2 i i