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J Xtoily H @lob£. Official Paper cf the City and County. Prints] and Published Every Day in the ear ' BY THE ST. PAUL GLOBE PRINTING COMPANY No. 821 Wabashaw Street, St. Paul. THE DAILY GLOBE. SEVEN ISSUES PEU WEEK, Daily and Sunday Globe; one dollar per month. SIX ISSUES PER WEEK—BY MAIL, One month 00 cts I Six months.....? 5.03 Throe months. . ..$2.50 | Twelve months.. 10.00 THE WEEKLY GLOBE. An eight page paper published every Thurs day, sent postpaid at $1.15 per year. Three months on trial for 25 cents. ST. PAUL, SUNDAY, MARCH 11. 1888. The London Times claims to be able to prove the complicity of the land league in the conspiracy to murder officials. Before swallowing such an absurd assumption the public will await the proof, which must be exceedingly strong to be convincing. It hardly stands to reason that the gov ernment can with impunity make up the back dnes of Marshal Ochiltree, of Texas, out of the pay of Member of Congress Ochiltree, of that state, although the Och iltree in question be one and the same person. Tqe storm at Halifax last evening was quite lively for a time, but not nearly equal to expectations. The tide rose high and the gale was heavy, but no damage was done save to wash away a few barrels of flour. Wiggins will have to do better to-day if ho wishes to save his reputation. Moncube D. Coxway, in an address at the Wagner memorial service at Finsbury, London, said there were periods in tha history of the world when a new order of men came ferth. This was shown, he said, in the er^ whereof Cariye was the prophet, Emerson the interpreter, Darwin the first fruit in science, and Wagner in art. The Hon. Wm. A. Russell, represents the Seventh Massachusetts district in Con gress, and he had the honor to be hanged in effigy a tew evenings since by constit nents of his who took this method of show ing their disapprobation of the postmaster appointed at Ayer Junction. Mr. ftussell has declared himself a naw recruit to the civil service reform standard. When Two-per-cent Hubbell was called j as a witness in the Chalmers-Manning con-1 tested election case from the Second ili3-! sissippi district, it was ascertained that the celebrated Hubbell fund amounted to $liGO,OOO. Mr. Hubbell stated that all tha papers, check books, etc., of his committee were burned the second week of last De cember, and the ashes tell no tales ef the "Hubbell corruption fund." The result of the congressional elections last fall was quite satisfactory t» the country, notwith standing Mr. Hubbell's big money. It gives the Globe much pleasure to be able to announce that Col. Allen, at th» urgent solicitation of prominent citizens, irrespective of party, has reconsidered his determination not to sllow his name to b« used for mayor. While he will not seek a nomination he will accept a nomination if tendered. Col. Allen, as president of tha council, is next iv order of promotion, and now that he consents to tke use of his name the promotion will follow. Mayor Kice, it is stated, will under no circum stances be a candidate for re-election. Dcbing the last four months the expert trade of the United States exceeded the imports by tbe sum of ninety-threo mil lions of dollars, and yet it is stated that this balance of trade in our favor brought less than eight millions in specie from Europe to settle the difference. This means, of course, that American securities held abroad, were reiurned in adjustment of accounts. During January the exports from the southern states were quite large, the port of Kew Orleans being second to New York in amount of shipments, and Galveston ranked third. The e»xportations from Baltimore, Charleston, Savannah, Wilmington aud Norfolk, during January reached into the millions each. Now that congress has adjourned the Washington correspondents seem to be hard up for sensations, and they htive set their wits to work to invent them. Their latest production is a blood-curdling story of an attempt to assassinate ex-Secretary Blame. The fact that the window of his carriage was shattered the other evening is the only basis for the story, which Mr. Blame treats with supreme contempt. There is no motive that any one could have for taking tha life of the ex-secretary, and in the absence of such motive it is reasonable to conclude that a stone thrown by a mischievous boy broke the glass about which so much has baan tele graphed. We were afraid it would work that way when we saw the names of tho commis sioners. To think that ex-senator Ramsey should devote his mature years to stimu lating polygamy is painful in the extreme. This is the give away which the Chicago Times famishes the commission: The visit of the Utah commission to Salt Lake last summer appears to have stimulated rather than checked polygamy. Polygamous marriages are said to be more frequent than before the passage of the Mormon bill, and John Taylor, the boss Mormon of Salt Lake, has been par ticularly active in multiplying the number of wives ever since the departure of tke commis sion. He is now using tho mysteries of the church to promote this object. Not long since hi- had a "revelation"' specifying three promi nent Mormons and directing them by the express command of God to become polygamists. They hare hitherto been monoganlsts, but the fear of the wrath of the church is so groat they will probably be obliged to obey this divine injunc tion and do a little wholesale marrying. Until the commission has a "revelation" that Brother Taylor, and his followers must be handled with out {jlpv^s, there is no doubt that polygamy will n^'i..--j^h bi Utah. : BIRDS Of I-.YIL OH EX. it is .appointed for all man to die, and it ia also appointed for a great many to make superlative assee of themselves. It ia probable that no class of people have succeeded as thoroughly in showing their ears as the weather prophets, from the days of Noah to those of Wiggins. The ancient patriarch who, tradition informs bs, escaped from a deluge by building a raft, was the ouly one of the entire gang ■wh'£soc neded in hitting the, nail on the k .td. au . -.v • BO elated with his success that lie i ■ iwith proceeded to get drunk, and • ..i.e . 6ulxering t irom me in-r-'i'ibu consequences the next morning, car-ril o ~.i- ot- his sons .and his progeny ihr-.n^h all time, and' as a result we find the sons of Ham waiting upon the tables in our all-night restaurants and his daugh ters taking in washing at eighty cents a dozen. Noah's success as a weather prophet seems to have inspired people in all ages to try their luck in predicting events of the future. MotherShipton, if reports are true, made quite a hit in foretelling disas ters, but 6he was shrewd enough to post pone her disasters till after she had been dead for half a century, lest she might be compelled to make explanations that might not be altogether pleasant. Miller and his disciples predicted the end of all things many years ago, but notwithstand ing the fact that the celestial robes of the chosen few had been prepared beforehand, and th t they were seated upon the house tops awaiting the sprouting of the feath ers that were to become wings and bear t'jem speedily to the golden streets of the New Jerusalem, the trumpet of Gabriel didn't sound, and the saints were com pelled to return to their everyday occupa tions of washing dishes and hoeing pota toes. Tice, and Vennor, and Couch, and Hazen, and Wiggins, have each, within the past ten years, endeavored to anticipate the future by predicting the sort of weather we were to be favored or afflicted with. Like all men who throw a javelin at a mark continually, they have succeeded in hitting it occasionally, but their failures are innumerable and far outnumber their successes. Were it not for the gullibility of the ignorant, the predictions of these self-appointed seers would provoke only a laugh, and ba forgotten almost aa soon as made. But the assumption of superior "scientific knowledge" on the part ef these charlatans has inspired a certain degree of respect for their opinions in the minds of the common herd, who cannot permit their anguries of evil omen to pass without feeling a great deal of anxie ty. Hence the perturbation caused by tha prediction of Canada's latest weather sage Wiggins. He predicted the greatest storm of modern times as im pending between the Bth and 11th days of the present month —a storm that would sweep life from the ocean and devastate the dry land from tho Atlantic to the Paci fic, and from the frigid regions of Labra dor to the Gulf of Mexico. Fishermen re fased to go to their grounds until after the date appointed should have passed, and scores of vessels refused tv put to sea, while people on the land provided them selves with places of refuge against the devastation of the impending tornado. The excitement has been wide-spread, and business and commerce have been inter fere J with to a great exkent. The storm j foretold has not materialized up to the I present writing, and it is safe to say it will i not come. It is true thare have been and j may yat be considerable meteorological | disturbances, as there always is in the I month of March, but nothing uore. If j the entire tribe of weather prophets will j hoed kindly advice they will creep into thbir holes, and draw the holes in after them, so that the world will never agaia I hava knowledge of their existence. SEISING. And Jesus answered and said unto liim, what wilt thou that I should do unto then? Tho blind man said unta ldm, Lord, tliat I might receive my sight.—St. Mark, x:sl. Everything must be considered a foe to men, be it a belief or a habit that comes between them and the light of truth. If there be no God, as the atheists declare, the sooner men find it out the better. Any faith that has no claim for credence but age, no foundation in natnre or revelation, is only a blind to shut out the light. How foolish would a farmer appear who thought that the farming implements his father used were good enoufk for him and should stick to his wooden plough, and sickle, or th« manufacturer who should use the spinning wheel and hand loom, and reject the mule j»uny and power loom. luveatiou aiued by seiontifie knowledge kas been advancing and improving the appliances of trade and industry. The forces of nature are made subservient to luuii. Dots sot tho clearer light of the niaeteantk century reveal more plainly th« will of God, and his marvelous plan of taxation? The ancient seekers after truth, w*re s»reof only this: "No evil cam befall a good j. an liviag or djinjj." and no •vil man can oscape tho penalty of his ■ias; of the rest each man must seek for himself. Now-a-days, while scientific men inscribe mpon their portals "ver itas reritas," Christians cry "infidelity, heresy to every departure from old creeds. Because the fathers believed it consis tent witk the character of Gad, that infants and heathen should suffer eternally for not knowing him, is it binding mpoa their descendants to aocept the same sacrilig ions doctrine, when kin word is directly opposed to it! Because the church kolds that part of the kaman race are predestined to eternal damnation aid will meet their doom witkout 0110 failure, must intelligent men and women accept this tenet of faith when Christ said "whosoever will may I come," and every sensible person knows ; that he can be saved if he will t The an- j tkordox church holds that all men are im- j ■aortal, that an ev*rlas.iug life of joy i or misery awaits every individual, and erer.r year new names ar? added to the roll of church memberships of persons who have never investigated this doctrine, who can give no* reason for the faith they profess. :$ Scientists prove conclusively to them selves and their followers, that the germ from which mankind sprang is mortal and mupt perish, and they thus conclude that d*-iih is an eternal sleep. Accepting the declaration of Christians that the Bible tenches the immortality of man, which they have proved impossible, they throw it aside as worthless. Does the Bible t»»ncla the immortality of man * If it does not, may it not be possible to reconcile religion aad science? Concede that man is mortal nud corruptible and that eternal death is the penalty for his sins, did not Christ die to save him from the power of death by conquering death in his own person? Hear his words, "Whosoever believeth on me shall never perish but shall have eternal life. He thttt believeth not on me shall not set) life." St. Paul said, "The trumpet «hall sound, and this corruptible must put on ineorruution. and this mortal put on immorality." "As a man thinketh, so is ho" the Bible declares, and for a man to obstinately hold to an opinion for which he can give no reason, is to stultify himself, and close his eyes to the light. Reason and intelligence were given man kind to examine and weigh subject*, and determine the true from the false. In THE ST. PAUL SUNDAY GLOBE. SUNDAY MOKNING, MAECH 11.18*3. matters of business or science, men think for themselves. Why not in religious things 'i "Search the scriptures, for in them ye think ye have eternal life, and they are they which testify of me," is the command of God. The proper attitude in which to search the scriptures is one of humility and teach ableness. To form one's opinions on r( - ligioue subjects outside the Bible and then go there for proof to sustain them, is not the way to see the truth, (hie person may believe that God has prepared a lake of tire in which hie enemies will be tortured day and night internally. Filled with this belief ho tea the Bible, not to learn the truth but to sustain the opinion he has formed, aud he reads the scriptures through the sp. ctacles of his faith. Had he searched God's word to learn the truth he would have read '*The wages of 6in is death/ "The wicked shall not be." "They that bow to the iiesb. ehull of the flesh reap cor ruption." V.ho is to blame for the wide prevalence of error, for the false doctrines that are preached in orthodox churches? An aged minister was once asked what was the meaning of the Second Death. He replied, "I do not know,l have never heard it satis factorily explained." Yet this man had preached the doctrine 'of eternal torment for more than forty years. Are not many preachers "blind leaders of the blind?" When man, ministers and laymen, seek for truth, looking to God for light, "in his light shall they sea light." A Mew Finn. As an indication of the commercial growth and financial prestige of St. Paul no better evidence could be had than the large number «f firms and business enter prises that are being continually added to meet the demands of the increasing trade of St. Paul. Among the departures in this line laet week was the formation of a co partnership between Col. A. R. Kiefer and Mr. Edw. J. Schurmeier, both well known and reliable citizens of St. Paul. They have gone into the business of commis sion brokerage, real estate, stock and merchandise. Their office is located in Kiefer's new block, No. 190 East Seventh street, where three handsome rooms have been fitted up. They should command the confidence and support of a large proportion of the busi ness community, and their labors will no doubt be crowned with success. Sad Effect of the Xeic Fee Bill. To tiie Editor of the Globe: To avoid any misunderstanding I wish you would say that Mr. Harrison has re signed tbtt position of deputy sheriff vol untarily on account of his health, and be cause of the fees or income of this office under the new law not being smllcient to make ii worth while to work for. Fbsd RICIITH. THE IRON INTERESTS. Meeting of Associations ia Philadelphia ail si I'ittkburg. PmLAPELPHiA, March 10.—The firms bo longing to the Philadelphia Rolling Mill association, anticipate no trouble when the new scale is put into effect on Monday. The new schedule is based on thereduction in price of bar iron from two and four teuths to two and three-tenths cents per pound. In large mills, heaters will be re duced from sixty-five to sixty-three and one-half cents; rollers from thirty-six and one-half to thirty-five and one-half, and helpers from thiity-two and one-half to thirty-one and three-fourths cents per ton. The wages of the rest of the hands will be reduced in tho same proportion. Pittsbubq, Pa., March 10.—A mass con vention of the First district Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers' as sembled here this afternoon, and remained in session five hours. After adjournment it was announced that the only business transacted was the election of sixteen del egates to the national convention to be held in this city April 7, at which a scale of wages for the ensuing year will be for mulated. From an unofficial but reliable source it was learned that the finishers, at the convention, will propose apian whereby their wages will be increased about 15 per cent. If the > proposition is carried and strikes ensue the puddlers and mack rollers wiil withdraw from the asso ciation. Officers of the association spoken to refused to affirm or deny this. The Eighth district Amalgamated As sociation of Iron and Steal Workers, in secret meeting, considered that the scale ef wages go into effect June 1. It is under stood the workmen decide not to demand any radical changes in present wages. There is talk of a new scale. A Mil icipal Muddle .settled. Jarbinqfiuld. 111., March 10.—A decision has been illed to-day in the supreme court in a quo warrant case, Wm. Jayne ts. A. "X. J. Crook, reversing the decision of the circuit court of Sangauon county, and appellate court of this district. The case was a suit by Jayne et al. to oust Mayor Crook and the city government, who were elected at a speoial election in May, under the general incorporation law adapted by the city, by a regular election in April. Jayne was eleoted mayer at the April election, bat under the new charter, tken adopted the old mayor and counoil olaiaaed j the right to hold over until their success j ors were elected and qualified. They oall !ed a special election for May. at which | time Crook was elected. Jayne brought the suit to expel Crook. The decision of tke supreme court was unanimous and con- I firms the title of Mayor Crook. To Vitalize aud Enrich tke Rl*o<l Dr. Halliday's Blood Purifier is pre-eminentlj superior to any other medicine. By a combina tion peculiar to iUelf, it work* wonders in th« blood, sharpening the appetite, curing bilious ness, eradicating scrofula, and bringing health, strength and happiness where every other rem cdv has failed. Try it now as a spring medi cine. Sold by all druggists, or by the proprie tor, 8. Blackford, 274 East Seventh street, St. Paul, Minn. Noyes Bros. & Cutler and Merell. Sahlgard & Tliwing, wholesale agents, St. Paul. l'rotestiug AsaiMst License. Chicago, March 10. —At a meeting of the commercial exchange this afternoon, the commission grocery brek«rs resolved jto proiest to the city authorities against | tbe annual pnyment of a license of $50 j levied against them. If the protest is not heeded the brokers propose to test the le gality of the license in the courts, on tha grounds of their being singled out for as sessment from other brokers, to their jeo pardy. Wigcins' Storm Has been announced. We now invite the at tention of the public to the fact that Messrs. Knight & Castner, architects, are located at 856 Jackson street. Prompt and able services guaranteed. Your patronage is respectfully solicited. Challenge to Row for the Sweepstakes. Bostok, March 11.— George Hosmer is sues a challenge to Courtney, Riley and Lee, to row in the sweepstakes with him for $2,000, or singly for $1,000 a side, three miles with turn, in July. Reading's Russia Salve has proved its effi ciency by a test of seventy-five years' constant tee. Try it. WASHINGTON. THE "ASSaSHIXATIOX" OF i:\-SECIIE TAItT BLAISE STILL I'XEX- I'JLAIXEI). I'resitWnt Arthur as it Vocalist—Judge Davis* .Marriage—Carl Scliurz as a Civil Service Reform Helper—The Hank Taxes —The Gall Displayed by Senator Tabor— The City Full of Presidential Aspirants— I'"iu«nc-i;il Statement for the Week—De partmental Gossip. I Special Telegram to the Globe.l Washington, March 10.—''Whs Jim Blaino the target for a bad rnarksmtUi a bullet?" is now the conundrum throughout the capital. Personal friends declare the Btory was manufactured out of whole cloth with the malicious intent of annoying the ex-secretary. Enemie3 assert that hench men concocted the tale iv order to let the public know that the great calcium light, sunstroke statesman still lived. Blame himself was asked to throw a gas jet upon the dark spots,but was unable or unwilling to give much information. AKTHUB A 8 A VOCALIST. ■ "While perambulating the carpeted I halls and rooms of the executive uianniou I yesterday," aays the Critic, "our reporter I had his attention attracted bj a series of I rich baritone' vooalisms proceeding from I tha private part or np stairs, and as the last notes of "Wait nntil the Clouds Roll By"' were wafted out upon the hushed air. he halted in front of the parlor door. ''Who was that singing V he in quired in a monotone of an attendant who slood near by. "Sah,"replied the atten dant, "That's the president, he sings nearly every evening for his daughter, Miss Hellie." Just then the notes of an accompaniment on a Knabe grand were borne to the listner's cars, and a childish Toice pleaded, "Oh, papa, please sing that again,"' and almost instantly the presi- I dential throat was cleared as a preliminary I measure and the clouds began to roll by I in a clear baritone way, accompanied by I Mis Nellie's most charming accompani- I ment. The air finished Miss Nellie gave aII final flourish over the keys and the listner I imagined that he could see the great chief I step back and make one of his dignified I bows to an imaginary audience.'' JUDGE DAVIS' MAIIIiIAGB. Judge David Davis has been th 9 center of tha social worltl for the last throo weeks. Every night he has been invited out to some din u»r, and he has been invited to two or three receptions a day for apward of a month. This week, his last in Washing ton, has been particularly crowded with social events. He will probably never re turn to the city, llis great popularity could not be better testified to than by the fes tive honors heaped on him since his re tirement from public life. He is very sen sitive npon the subject of his comiag mar riage. Ha has himself often said that he would never marry agnin, and was always the first to poke fun at old men marrying young wives. Having expressed himself so very strongly upon tlio subject, he has been very reluctant to confess his own intemtion?. He left to-day, possibly to avoid publicity, accompanied by Judge Otto, for North Carolina. He is very much afraid of the crowd of New York reporters, who have already gone on ahead to write up his wedding. He will do everything possible to avoid publicity. UNLUCKY Di HIS MABBIAGBS. Father Chappell, the French priest, who married Senator Tabor to Mrs. McCourt the other night, received $200 for the job. >Tken he learned that both parties had been divorced he was very indignant, and sent back his fee, saying that it was no mar riage. Since then he h^.- lost another fee. He it was who performed the marriage ceremony between Col. Coppinger and M:?s Alice Blame. The fee in tkis case was $300. It appears that Elaine's r*si dence is in St. Stephen's parish. Father Chappelle belongs to St. Matthew*. The St. Stephen's priest has complained against Father Chappelle for entering his bailiwick. Father Chappell© has settled the matter by turning over the $. r>oo fee to the St. Stephen's uian. He appears mot at all proud, for he promptly pocketed the ■oney and the alleged affront Father Chappelle has put npou him. OABL SHUBZ has arrived, and will remain here for a few da/s. Ha immediately iaterviewd Mr. Eaton, and promised to give the civil service commission the benefit of his ex perience as a civil service reformer under Hayes. He is very eager to have his code of examination adopted and professes tha most profound anxiety as to the future character of the commission. The commission met to-day and merely orgaaized. They will now begin the grand hunt for a chief examiner, the man who is to do all the mute work and whose appointment will leave tke commis sion free to attend to their private affairs. TUB BANK TAXK3. The question as to when the tax on the capital and dt-noaits of banks, bankers and national banking associations will cease under the operation of the act of March 3, has not yet been decided. No decision will be made on this question until a case arises. The statement that an opinion has been requested from the attorney gen eral is incorrect. It is the opinion of cer tain officers of the treasury department that snoh taxes mast bu lovied for the pe riod ending March :>, tha date of the pas sage of the act. Unle?s this ruling shall I r»vail the natior-al bank* will have to pay taxes on capital and deposits to January 1, and other banks and bankers to Dec. 1, giving the latter the advantage of one month's taxos. TABOK'9 CHBBK. Truly, Tabor was a dti^y while he lasted. He furnished more good paragraphs dur ing his thirty days ia the senate than many other members do in six years. Here is another about him: A faw day's before ad journment, while Edmunds was in the ohair, Tabor beckoned David Davis ever to him. The good-na!urod Illinois senator went over to Tabor's seat. Slapping him on the back Tabor «id: "Look here, old man, they tell me you are going to get married. lam thinking of getting spliced myself. What do you nay to a bang-up, double-barreled nuptials r Let's get spliced together. We can hire a couple of Pull man cars and go on our wedding tour. We will paralyze the country. If yon say the j word it shan't cost yon a cent." Mr. ] Davis didn't say anything. He just walked away. FBESIDENTIAL A9PIBAHTS. Gen. George B. McClellan rented a house in a fashionable part of the city early this winter, and remained here during the sea son. He held regularly weekly receptions and gave numerous dinners. A Demo- cratic wiseacre says: McClellan has presi dential aspirations. He thinks his high record as governor of New Jersey entitles him to special consideration. Washington has been full of Democratic candidates, who have conducted their canvasses by social en- tertainments. The list of modern Demo cratic leaders who aspire to a place on the next presidential tickot is an eminently aristocratic one. Justice Field still aspires, and it is said this is the reason why he gave such a vigorous dissent last Mon day, when the majority of the supreme court held that there was no remedy against state repudiation save in good fp.ith and the honor of the state itself. His Jis- ruling opinion was much mora elabor ate than tha majority opinion. It will be printed in an elegant pamphlet, with clear fac*d type, upon cream tinted, paper for general circulation. The Democrats think they ara goinj; to win next time. They do not see how they can be beaten. Tho vex atious tariff question is out of the way, and the country may rest assured that a con servative majority in the house among the Democrats will be against bringing it up during the next congress. The Democrats are perfectly certain of New York. Ex- Senator Coukling, who was here the other day, said that he did not see how the two factions of the Republican party in that state could be brought together before the next national election. Keifer, be fore his departure, said that the tariff bill would lose the state of Ohio to the Republicans by at least 150, --000 majority. He thought Indiana wonld go too. He was very anxious to beat the bill, and if he could have gotten enough support from his own side to make a de cent showing, the tariff bill would have been beaten upon the 3d day of March. Charles Emery Smith, editor of tke Phila delphia Press, was here during the last weak of congress, and he worked very hard to beat the bill. Its passage in the shape that it finally became a law would lose the state of Pennsylvania, he said. The Democrats, who are now so cheerful, ba6« much of their hopefulness on the dis sensions in the Republican party, its lack of leadership, and their own good fortune in being out of power and irresponsible during the last two years. [ Western Associated Pross. ] GKAVE CnABGES AGAINST ARCHITECT HILL. Washington, March 10.—Charges have been filed by a person whose name is with held against Supervising Architect Hill, and the secretary of the treasury is now considering the best method of investigat ing them. The charges were filed about ten duyß ago, while Secretary Folgor was confined to his house. They are prepared in a formal etyle with specifications and a list of witnesses who are paid to substanti ate tliem. Secretary Folger declines to make public the particular nature of tho charge. Hill says he knows nothing on the subject beyond the fact that charges have been made against him. He has not been made acquainted with their nature, but believes that they are siaply tha old charges revamped. He says he has been under investigation by disgruntled per sons ever since he has been in omce, and ho knows no reason why he should faar the closest and most thorough investigation into hismanagement of the affairs of the architect office. While nothing definite concerning the nature of the complaint can be learned at the treasury department, it is under stood the charges allege general misman agement, corruption and malfeasance in connection with the work on public build ings. It is said one of the charges is that Hill, as a member of the granite ring, which is alleged to have defrauded the government of a large sum of money, during his term of office. Representative Murch. oi Maine, is snid to be the person who makes the charges. THB TEEASUBY KEPOBT. A statement of the United States treas ury shows gold, silver and United States notes in the treasury to-day as follows: Gold coin and bullion, $179,052,503; silver dollars and bullion, $106,053,753; fractional silver coin, $27,638,623; United States notes, $45,937,755. Total, $357, --682,694. Certificates outstanding: Gold, $-12,322, --130; silver, $G5,517,300; currency, $10, --665,000. THE passman INDISPOSED. The president will make a short visit to Fortress Monroe next week, lie 13 feeling somewhat indisposed and it is to benefit his health. He has not yet decided whether he will subsequently make a 1 trip to Florida. HOTEL TO BE BUILBT AT YELLOWSTONE FABE. The secretary of the interior to-day for mally leased to Carroll T. Hobart, of Fargo, D. T.; Henry F. Douglass, of Ft. Yates, D. T., and Rufus Hatch, of New York, a number of email tracts of land in the Yellowstone National park, for a period of ten years. The lease comprises seven tracts of land aggregating ten acres, and it is provided that the several parcels of land shall not be within a quarter of a mile of any of the geysers or the Yellowstone falls. The term of the leas* is ten years from March 9, 1883. The parties of the second part agree to construct one of the principal hotels at Mammoth Hot Springs to cost $150,000, to contain no less than 250 rooms. Th*)y further agree t*> construct six smaller hotels upon plans to be hereafter approved by the secretary of the interior, at the following points: One near the gey sers; one ut the river side station; one at the Soda Bath Springs; one at Tower falls; one at Great falls and one on tho b*nk=s of the Yellowstone lake. It is provided that at the expiratiot* of the ten years the value of the buildings and oi her permanent im provement* belonging to the lessees, shall be determined by arbitration, and become the absolute property of the government upon the ratification of tbo appraisement, and the appropriation of the amount agreed upon, with a proviso that nothing is contained that shall be construed to bind the government to pay any compensation. The annual rental agreed upon is two dollirs per acre. The lessees agree to observe all the rules and regulations established by the secretary of the interior for the government of the park and to submit to the secretary for his approval, a schedule for accomodating the public. THE CHANDLEB-rOBTEBTIELD LAND SCEIP CASE. Koscoe Conkling and other counsel for the parties in the|Chandler-Porterfield scrip case made an argument before the secre tary of the interior to-day. The Chandler case involves the title of valuable land?, bordering on Sault Ste Marie river, Mich igan. Chandler's claim had already been rejected by Secretary Teller, but a re argument was allowed to determine more specifically the applicability of the Porter field scrip. The secretary held in his or ■ iginal decision that this scrip could be lo j cited upon public lands in a state of na ture, but Chandler's representatives con tend that this ruling is at variance with previous decisions. CIVIL BEHVICE MATTEBS. Washington, Murch 10. —Members of the civil service committee called at the exec utive mansion this afternoon, and hal a short conference with the president, in re gard to a general plan of operations to be observed in carrying the law into effect. It was agreed a committee should prepare a set of rules in regard to the questions under their jurisdiction, and submit to the president for his approval. The selection of chief examiner under the committee is not yet agreed upon. AKBIYAL OF EMIOBANT3 AT LIBESIA. Letters received in this city announce the arrival at Liberia of the bark Moniovia with emigrant?, under the auspices of the American Colonization society. They landed on the morning of Dec. 18, and embarked en the steamer St. Paul for Brewerville, where thyy are to locate. A prominent citizen writes, t'ais company of emigrants are of the right kind; have hud their lands surveyed and have cheer fully gone to work at cultivation. Their legislature had given careful attention to questions submitted, and much good was expected to flow fiom its action. The session was to close in a few days. President Gardner had felt compelled to resign his office owing to extreme ill health, and the legislature granted him si. <>(M), and expenses of removal to his home in Grand Bassa county. Vice Presi dent Russell was sworn in as president, Jan. 20, Hon. M. T. Womell being appoint ed secretary of the treasury. Interest con tinues to strengthen in thejcollege at Mon rovia and steps were being taken for the removal of its operations to the banks of the St. Paul river, or the regions beyond. A KNOTTY Q.UBSTION. The question whether the treasury de partment can legally withhold the pay ment of members of congress who are in debted to the government, is exciting con siderable attention just now.- The first controller of the treasury assumes ut can, and so informed the treasurer. In tpe case of Representative Ochiltree. the solicitor of the treasury is inclined to doubt the le gality of such a decision. He had an in terview with Secretary Folger this after noon, and made a point that it might be considered wrong as a matter of public policy to withhold the salary of a representative of the people, as tending to interfere with his constitutional perogatives. Secretary Fol ijer now has the question under considera tion. In this connection. Representative Ochiltree to-day Hied an argument with the first comptroller, protesting against his action in advising that his salary be withheld from him until a settlement of his accounts as marshal of Texas. Appli cation for compromise in this case for $500 has not been acted upon. STEAMSHIP AND BOILER REGULATIONS. T:ie secretary of the treasury to-day ap proved of rules and regulations and amend ments to tti9 same, adopted at a recent meeting of tho board of supervising ia- Bpeetors of 6team vesrels. The changes are as follows: Amendment to rule four requires the affidavit of local inspectors as to the genuineness of samples of iron sent to the supervifing inspectors for test. Amendment to rule twenty-three, regulates the location of steam fire pumps, exempt ing ferryboats from the provisions of tho rule. Amendment to rule thir- teen, relating to life boats, mod ifying the former rule, which was claimed to be in many cases impracticable. Amendment to rule fourteen requiring that all rubber or canvas life rafts be kept inflated at all times. Amendment to rnle fifty-s«ven, requiring officers and crews of river passenger steamers to be diseiplinad in fire drill and to keep a station bell. In resolution requiring that a new blank form for applicants for licenses a3 officers of steamships the amendment is in regard to form of certificate of iaspsection. The amendment limiting ductility of boiler iron to 25 per cent, reduction of area on highest tensile strength. The amendment ' requiring automatic pings on all metal life boats. The amendment requiring su pervising inspectors to notify local in spector of their districts of the final action in cases of appeal from decisions of local boards. The society disapproved of the amend ment to rule number two proposing a new method of determining the strength fof boiler flues to supersede formulas adoDt ed in 1882, which were suspended by the society upon a protest from the boiler makers that such formulas were imprac ticable. The society also approved of the follow ing devices for rise oa steam vessels: Life boats, life preservers, boas plug 3 and safe ty valves, and regulations for tho govern ment of inspector of foreign steam ves sel?. BEDaurTIOK OV BONDS. Secretary Folger has received an appli cation frsm the state of New York, through the state comptroller, for the redemption on the Ist of April next of $2,000,000 of United States bonds embraced in the last call, which will mature the Ist of May next, with interest only to the time of re demption, as the government would there by save one month's interest. The secre tary is inclined to assent to the proposi tion. THE SHBBIDAN EXTRADITION CASH. The state department has reoeived no in timation as to the intentions of the British government relative to the execution of a warrant for the arrest of P. J. Sheridan. Inquiry at th» British legation elicited in formation that no further steps had bean taken in tho matter. No instruction from the home government had been received to abandon further proceeding?. The steps thus far taken being merely preliminary to a hearing upon the merits of the ease with a restrved right on the part of the government to pass upon the evi dence adduced, and grant or refuse extradition papers for Sheridan. The action of her majesty's government in pressing or abandoning the case will be influenced by the weight and character of the evidence which it may be possible to furnish in support of the re quest for extradition. Thero is reason to believe the matter will not bo pressed un less the British government feels assured it can make oat a case which will satisfy the "t.;to department that extradition should be granted. HEAVY SUIT IOH DAMAGES. Tho*. Wortuingt^n, of Ohio, to-day filed a suit against E. W. Haghtley, thirl audi tor of the United States treasury for $50, --000 damages, on account of what are do scribed by the compiaint as "hundreds of false, malicious, libelous and groundless allegations, calculated and intended to prevent the payment by the United States Kovornment, of plaintiffs just claims" for army supplies furnished the volunteer troops at Camp Denuison, 0., in 1801. The complaint sets forth that the allegations referred to were made by the third auditor in various official reports and letters writ ten by him in regard to the plaintiff's claim and addressed to President Hayes, to the assistant secretary of the treasury, and to Congressman Butterworth. DOESBY ON THH J. B. B." CHECK AGAIN. Ex-Senator Dorsey furnishes the follow ing: "A dispatch from Denver states that the so-called Belford check was really given to J. B. Bissell. Their initials being the same, there seems to be a determina tion to insist that there was such a check and Bissell is selected for the reason that his initials are "J. B. B." If I ever saw Biir-cil I don't remember it. I certainly never gave him a check. I never played a game of cards for money on the cars in my life with anybody. There was never a cheek issued by me or an account on my books in the name of "J. B. B." To be certain as to this fact I have had my checks examined, running back for ten jears. THE OLD WORLD. CHARGES JSI THE LOSTHfN ''TIMES" AGAINST THE ZAITD LEAGUE. The tost Passengers of the Steamer Na varre—Arrest of Louise Michel, the Trench Socialist—The Advertised Meeting for To-Day Interdicted — aiiscellaneous Jottings from Over the Pond. GREAT BKITAIM. London, March 10.— Tines says: "We have good reason to believe the in quiry now proceeding will implicate the land league beyond doubt iv the immedi ate patronage of crime in Ireland, even if it does not establish its direct connection with the 'Invincible?.' The flight of Pat rick Egan, unless explained, is a moral acknowledgment of guilt from the damn ing consequences of which none of his as sociates can escape. Unless Egan can clear his own and associates' characters, we shall not be surprised to learn that the leaders «f the land league who still remain in the United Kingdom may shortly find it convenient to follow Euan's example." A correspondent of the Times at Dublin says: ''The enrollment of recruits in the ranks of the 'Invincibles'still proceeds not withstanding the readiness of the men. now in prison to betray one another." At a meeting of the committee of Vir ginia bondholders yesterday it was re solved to do the utmost to vindicate the claims of the bondholders upon the state of Virginia, and to advise the holders not to take any step 3 towads converting the bonds under the Riddleberger act. It is understood thai if Patrick E^'an had appeared as a witness in the breach of promise case of Miss Hyland against Biggar, counsel for the defense would h;we asked him whether he had u=ed any of the funds of the land league for Hie Miss Hy- Uiud case. London, March 10. —A large party gath ered here to-day to witness the trial of the Tripp electrical tram car. It ran a dis tance of four miles satisfactorily, and ful filled renuireinoiito of tho board of trade. Trevelyn, chief secretary for Irelaud, in a speech in the commons this afternoon, assured the house that the condition of Ireland was more tranquil than for some time. Dublin, March 10. —Judge Lawson, ad dressing the grand jury at Armagh to-day, referred to the decreaso of lawlessness in Ireland. London, March 10. —Hie election for commons for Wyeombe resulted in the re turn of Smith, liberal, vro received 1,105 votes against T>s7 votes for Cursoß, con servative. London, March 10.—The owners of the Navarro,report following emigrants on the steamer: Carl Skrt, Haus Laaritzen, Olag Aarlson, Hading Aalteu, Jonas Aalten, Magnus Johannsen, Samuel Abrahameon, Anua Alin, Elna Aliu, Carl Yard, Anders Lindahl, Peter Idadstrom, Peter Jonnson, Peter Johannson, Olaf Petterson, Edrs Hagelborg, Angosturas -Ni'.sson. Adolph, Johasson, Olaf Nilssou, Peter Svenssen, Sugridstine Svensson, Sou Joliann Svens sen, Anna Sva&ssen, Sugrid Svenssen, John Potteraan, John Soliarp, Curl Setiarp, Anna Nyberg, Eva SvanssaUer, Eva Aalten, Mag nus Aalten, Lorisa Ahlgren, Johanna Ny gren, Johan Nygren, Adolph Nygren. Tilda Svenssou. Pehr. Jonasson, Louis Svenssen, Haus Anderson, Fred Nygren. Ivenemil Hagelborg, and Nioolai Emanuel. The last named passenger was heretofore named as Mannal Cobk, March 10. —The royal commission advise closing the Spike Island prison, tha scene of the recent revolt. FRANCE. Paris, March 10. —The socialists intend to hold a meeting Sunday at Place c!e Hotel da Ville. Riots are expected. Sev eral persons arrested on the Esplanade dcs Invalides displayed revolvers. The Jlepub lique Francaise :;sserts thure were mon archists deputies aud other monarchists among the rioters. ' Nineteen rioters were arrested yesterday and sentenced to various terms of impris onment, fhe maximum six months. Tho police discovered at the house of the persons arrested yesterday arms, explo sives and lists of the organizers of the movement for socialist meetings. Soir says: A warrant has baau issned for the arrest of Louis 9 Michael, charging her with pillage at the haa I of nn armed band, with making vioie-:t assaults on the police, with uttering seditious cries, aud with in citing to overthrow the established gov ernment. These charges reader her liable to a penalty from fiva years' imprison ment to twenty ;, ears' hard labor. The government will positively prevent the proposed meeting of socialists to morrow. No one will bo allowed to ap proach the Hotel de Vilie. R. Sherte says these meetings are mere ly precursors of a grand display on the ldth instant. In the chamber of deputies the minister of the interior, replying to Cassagnac, said the republicans condemned and monarch ists encouraged disorderly meetings, and that the government would euforoe order with all the mean* at its disposal. De Cassagu:ic protested against the charges made against the monarchists. He asserted that tho republic was answerable for the riots, which were only the begin ning. Ho said that whanever Ferry was in power the people starved. The minister of the interior rejoined that Caesa^nao'H. speech showed who were pleHsed at the rioting. Count de Maiile, a legitimist, exclaimed, "Yon are a calumniator,'' ani was called to order. The minister adiud, if through the action of Cassagnao's or any other party tho future meetings should less easily be dispersed, different miusare3 for re pression would be tiikon. Count de Mmi, a Catholic leader, said that cavalry charges would not solve social questions. The order of the day, pure and simple, was :i;:c«pted by the government, and was unanimously adopted, receiving 406 BUSS'A. St. Peteesbubo, Maroh 10. — \mong the prisoners to be arraigned a 1 thi ap^rotch ing trial of Niliihsts are saver.il important state criminals, ti.ree ufival officers, an army oilicar, and V. KobeeeS, constructor of the famous mine in Little Gaden. ■OSCKIXAKKOUS. Vienna, March 10, —The commander of the French squadron in Madagascar waters has been ordered to blockade the shore and occupy several parts of the island, bat not to send troops into tho interior. Beklin, March 10, —The statement of the Imperial Bank of Germany shows a de crease of specie of liH : 000 marks. Berlin, March 10. —The government has forbidden the introduction into Germany of the Vienna AUgemme Zeituny during the next two years. Berlin tribunals have already pronounced against two members of the journal. Home, Mureh 1). -Tho man arrested, suspected of being the person who threw bomb 3 before the rt.-udtmces of the Aus-