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LATEST CABLE NEWS.
AYaddintjton Routs the Enemy All
Aloii? the Line.
*
CORTI AND MENABREA.
Arresting- tlie Officials of
the Moscow Station.
WEST AFRICAN WARRIORS.
Afghan Hillmen Put Their New
Governor to Death.
"AMERICA'S FRIEND."
[by cable to the iieral0.]
London, Dec. 5, 1879.
There has been a heavy snowfall at l'esth and
throughout Hungary.
The Sportsman announces that the oarsuian
Elliott has coiumenccd training for his match
with Boyd.
The Standards Vienna despatch says :?"The
subject of submitting the Greek question to un
international tribunal is now under considers
tion."
Tlio Innian steamship City of Berlin has been
fitted with an electric light. If the experiment
succeeds all the Inman steamers will be supplied
with tbese lights.
Twenty villages in the Kirdschali district of
the Iihodope mountains have risen in arms and
500 of the insurgents have seized the local fund
and made prisoners of the gendarmes.
The Australian bark Olivo, Captain Barbavoricli,
from New York October 27 for Gibraltar,
has been abandoned in a sinking condition.
Her crew have been landed at Gibraltar.
A heavy snow storm fell yesterday at Paris
anil all over France. Bailway trallic was partially
suspended in some districts. At Cher,
bonrg a terrific storm was blowing off the coast.
Borne disasters to shipping are reported.,
The Daily News' Berlin despatch says:?"The
famine in Upper Silesia has become so serious
that in many villages over one-third of the
population are starving. Famine distress is
appearing in Saxony among the peasants and
Weavers." .<
The French government has directed thfe
Governor of Senegal, Western Africa, to send
an expedition to explore the region lying between
the Upper Senegal and the Niger rivers
and report on the feasibility of the construction
of a railway between the two rivers.
CLEOPATRA'S NKKDI.K.
The obelisk presented by Egypt to the United
States, and on which operations for its transfer
to New York have been progressing for somo
time, is still standing at Alexandria, but tlio
preliminary labors for its removal are nearly
terminated, and its embarkation is expected in
a few days.
NATIVE CAVAGNARIS.
A despatch from C'ubul to thd Daily News
reports that the Governor of Maidau was killed
by a party of Afghan regulars and hill-men on
the 3d inst. The Governors of Kohistan and
Logar Valley have been menaced with the snme
fate.
WHY TIIK GO LOS WAS BUBPENDHD.
The Times' St. Petersburg correspondent
states that the (Solon was suspended
for its outspoken articles upon the
widespread misery nnd poverty iu tho
interior provinces, tho university question,
agricultural schools, and tho dishonesty,
and barbarism of the communal authorities.
Tbere is some hope that the term of suspension
will bo shortened if the Golos promises to behave
better in future.
ITALIAN AMBASSADORS.
It is announed that Count G'orti, the present
Italian Ambassador at Constantinople, will go
to London, und that Count Memtbrea, tho
present Ambassador at London, will replace
General Cialdini as Ambassador at Paris.
[Count Corti is one of the last professional
diplomatists in Italy. For thirty
years ho has served his country in various
Foreign Offices. After holding tho Spanish mission
ho wus sent to Washington, and took an
active part iu the international arbitration,
wbioli was highly favoruble to Itulv* He lias
been Ambassador at Constantinople since 1870,
and had a seat at the lierlin Congress. Count
Menabrea is chicfly noted for his services in tho
iield. llis name ranks high among living Itulian
generals.]
11KLGIAN BISHOPS AND TIIK FOI'E.
A Brussels despatch of yesterday says:?"The
Archbishop of Mulines will publish a declaration
this evening stating that 110 differences
ciisi uetwccu mo nmj one nnu ioc Belgian episcopacy
relative to the Education law. [In on article
published in tlie lHhats, which lias attracted
attention, M. John Lomoinne says:?'"While
granting eonc?Mionit enforced by necessity,
while advising a compromise, the Pope has
yielded in no matter of doctrine. If there
could bo an 'opportunist' 1'ontill the former
Nuncio to King Leopold I., the former
Bishop of Perugia, Leo XIII., would lie
be. Even Leo XIII., however, cannot go
beyond a certain point. lie will warn
the Belgian episcopacy to ho more prudent, and
aiient, or, in other words, to commit fewer blunders
and give way less to impatience.
All such counsels, however, are merely
dictated by policy. At bottom, and from
% doctrinal point of view, Hi* Holiness
la, and necessarily must be, of their opinion,
(n fact Leo XIII. is a monarch who sides with
the insurgents. The present occupant of the
Papal throne is more prudent, more patient
ami more humauely wise than his predecoaimv
ud he socks a nioUim vivtndif but any ouc who
rendu the details of the negotiations bctwwn
the Belgian government with the Vatican wDl
co tlint practically speaking liumo makes no
compromise on any point."]
THE CZAR'S ESCAPE.
SAVED BY A CIUNaifi IN THE TIME TAHLK CLEMENCY
TO NI11IMSM FOUND UNAVAILING?ALEXANDER
AT HT. PETEIUJUURU.
I 4UV CARLE TO TIIE HE1MLI).]
London, Deo. 4, 1N70. j
The Timrn' Berlin correspondent, discussing j
the recent attempt on the Czar's life, explains
that the Czar's railway journeys are generally
made with two trains?one for himself and suite
* and the other for the servants and baggage/
Hitherto ithusTjeon customary to allo\\ the latter
train to act as a kind of Mairtur. On the
present journey this order somehow became reversed
and the imperial train took the front po- '
nit ion. Unaware of this change, the assassins
calculated upon tho Czar being on the second j
NEW YOKJ
train and explodod their mine accordingly. The
l same correspondent adds:?''There call l?o no
doubt that we have lure a repetition of n crime
j which liau lately become too l'requcut iu Russia,
I anil it in equally certain to what party the per:
petra'tors belong. Committed but a day or so
alter the Czar, in leniency, had commuted
the sentence ol' death passed on the nihilist
Mirsky, the outrage ol' Mouday night cannot
but imbue tho government with a repentant
Bpirit iind intensify its resolve to show no pity
to those incapable of companion."
The C/.ar arrived at St. Petersburg safely
at a quarter to three o'clock yesterday afternoon
and proceeded to the Winter Palace in an
Open sleigh. Great crowds of people and
troops lined the streets and cliecred him enthusiastically.
The Queen yesterday telegraphed
to the Emperor of Russia congratulating
him on his escape from assassination.
The St. Petersburg correspondent of the fiaily
jVcir# says it is reported that many arrests have
been luade in Moscow among tho railway ein
pioj os*
WADDINGTON WINS.
overwhelming vote in favor op the m1nistbt?gamllel'tas
policy gives the day
to tne government?is it prudence ob
irresolution? ?a working majority.
(by cable to the herald.]
Paris, Doc. 4, 1879.
Tlie ministerial crisis lum come and gone.
The debate in the Chamber of Deputies to-day
lias decided the question lor a time. You will
recollect that in a despatch sent to the Herald
a fortuight since I stated that the Ministry was
safe until February or Muach. So far as I can
judge from the debute to-day it is safe until M.
Gumbettu thinks it time to quit his present
position of inglorious ease. The opportunity
to-day furnished to the Ministry tb explain its
position and policy was atl'orded at its express
demand. An interpellation was deposited by MM.
lirisson, Alloin-Targe, Floquct and other members
of the extreme Left and Union republicans.
M. Hrisson opened the debate with an able
speech, in which the ministerial shortcomings
on questions of judicature, of the gendarmerie,
of thfe military schools and of the maintenance
oi jnarsnai caurouert in an important military
position, aud the retention of functionaries hostile
to the Republic, constituted the chief gricvrtyices.
The results of all this were indecision, hesitation
and anarchy in all the branches of public
administration. In the presence of such a state
of things aud on seeing republicans set aside to
make way for reactionists, the country asked
itself if a Republic were really founded iu
France.
CHAMPIONS IN THE ARENA.
M. Waddington's speech in reply was weak in
argument. The Cabinet, he said, represents
the various opinions which find representation
in the Chamber. Without it the Chambers
would not have returned to Paris. The government
would recall the magistrates to a
sense of their duty and resect to the
Republic. It will not give full liberty
to tbc press, because the government is
opposed #o license outrage. It will give liberty
of association when all parties disarm. In a
word, M. Waddington's speech, by its firm
tone, gave the Chamber to understand that the
Cabinet would bo satisfied with nothing less
than a vote of absolute confidcnce. The Premier
was followed by M. Ploquet iu a sharp, telling
speech, attacking the Cabinet on the amnesty
and other questions, on which he maintained
that the Ministry was not iu accord with the
sentiment of the great muss of republicans. M.
Jules Ferry replied in indiscreet terms, which
induced quite an uproar aud brought M. Paul
de Cassagnao to the tribune, where be
delivered one of his characteristically violent
speeches. After a second caustic speech from
M. Floquet, M. Devezc, a rising youug deputy
of the Left, made au eloquent and forcible ai>peal
to the patriotic sentiments of the Chamber
iu support of the Ministry, and ooncluded by
moving a vote of unqualified confidence.
M. Lepisrc, Minister of the Interior, next ascended
the tribuue and entered into a long defence
of the acts of his department. Nothing
can be less dignified or more amusing thiui the
oratorical manner of this gentlcniau, which
kept the Chamber alive with sullies.
l-ltOl'OMlNO AM AMKXDM KNT.
M. Allain-Targe, on tlio part of the extreme
Left, made on amendment on the motion of M.
Dcveze, granting a reprieve to the Ministry on
eondition of its exhibiting redoubled energy in
ftitnre. M. Waddington immediately ascended
the tribune and announced that the government
would only accept tho vote of confidence
moved by M. Derexe, and that it rejected
the amendment moved by M. AllainTarge.
Tbe Chamber then proceeded to vote,
and at a late hour tho result was announced as
follows:?"At tbe conclusion of the debute in
the Chamber of Deputies the order of the
day proposed by M. Devexe and accepted
by tho Ministry was put to tho vote,
and, by a majority of 243 against i
107 out of 350 voters, was adopted by tho
Chamber following tho text of the order of ,
the day. The Chamber, after having heard tho \
declaration ol the Cabinet, is (tcrsuaded that it
is firmly resolved to make the government of tho
Republic respected, and has confidence in tho
vigor with which it will remove from public employments
functionaries who are hostile to our
institutions, and therefore passes to the order of
the day." Almost all the members of the extreme
Left abstained from voting. The minority con- |
slated of deputies belonging to nearly all groups
of the Uight. It was rumored in the Chamber
that the (lifhle des Hceaux, M. Lo Hoyer, had
announced his intention to retire from the Cabinet,
but this had probably no other foundation
than In his abstaining from taking part in tho
debate.
M. Paul de Cassagnao was formally censured
by the House for refusing to retract an insult
which he had offered to M. Jules Ferry.
The Timm' Paris correspondent, discussing tho
vote in the Chamber of Deputies yesterday, soys
the Cabinet has thus been placed on its feet with
tho sugyort of au uiuettiud and iueuhieieut ma
IC HERALD, FRIDAY, DE<
jority, because nobody knows liow to replace it.
Whenever it can be replaced the Cabinet will
lull.
MR. POTTER'S PANEGYRIC.
THE ENGLISH APO.STLE Of FEEE TKADE FINDS
MOBE PUILANTIIBOPY, MORE SOBltlETY AND
MOIiE HEAL PBOOEEHH IN AMElilCA THAN HE
# EVEB FOOND IN ENGLAND.
[BY CABLE TO THE HERALD."I
Luninin, Dec. 4, 1879.
The London correspondent of the Muurhrster
(luardian says:?"Mr. Thomas 15 ay ley Potter,
Member of Parliament for Rochdale, who recently
visited the United States, on his reappearance
in London has beeu warmly greeted
by Ihs friends. The people of the United Stutes,
Mr. Potter thinks, differ in some important
points from our own. They do not, he says,
make fortunes there in order to found landed
families, and the consequence is that possessors
of large fortunes more often devote them
to the public welfare. The mass of the
people are more sober, and therefore able to
work more continuously, if not harder, than our
own people. Mr. Potter does not apjiear to be
sanguine as to an immediate advance by the
Vnitcd States m the direction of free trade, but
he seems convinced that the policy of free trade
will ultimately prevail in the United States, if
oidy because they are such large exporters of
produce of the soil. Mr. Potter speaks enthusiastically
of the progress and prospects of the
United States, and of the solidity of the republican
institutions of that country.
CALABAR CANNIBALS.
THE WAR OF KINO AUACQREE AND AM AFRICAN
CHIEFTAIN?PRISONERS KILLED AND HATEN?
BltlTISH INDIFFERENCE?HOSTILE ATTITUDE
OF KINO JA JA.
[by cable to the herald.]
London, Doc. 4, 1879.
The conflict which has broken out in Now Calabar,
West Africa, is between King Awachree, of New
Calabar, and his followers on one hand,
and a powerful chief, called Will Draid, and
his adherents on the other. Some time since
the King of New Calabar died, and the accession of
Amaclirce to the thront has not given general satisfaction.
During the conflict mentioned in the previous
despatch no quarter was tihown to the wounded or
prisoners, who were lm mediately killed, and
in mnuy oases eaten by the lower classes
of natives. It was thought that the British
naval commander would not interfere unless
English factories were tlxreatenod or destroyed or
h-uj.il a<ik4aikta
luuwaigu, wwuuj ID BUU?U1|{
almost equally with Now Calabar, uud the trade of
the district is almost at a standstill. King Ja Ja is
also reported to be collecting forces and war material
to join in tUo struggle. In such an event the
inhabitant* of the throe rivers would be drawn
into the conflict. Her Majesty's ship Dido
was outside the bar at Bonny, ready to enter or send
in a boat in case of necessity. The number of Her
Majesty's ships will shortly be increased. [Tho
scene of this conflict is the scene of tho great African
war fought between the native princes, Oko
Jumbo and Ja Ja, ten years ago. The same chieftains
and sub-chiefs who took paA in that conflict
are in arms to-day. Ja Ja has grown old,
but the martial spirit is still strong in
him. He has forgotten the defeat he suffered at Oko
Jumbo's hands, and la as ready for mischief as of
old. Tho former quarrel originated in the rival
claims of1 the two great "houses" of Bonny, respectively
headed by Oko Jumbo and Ja Ja. The
King, a very young man, was a mere nonentity
between them. Bonuy town is situated on
tho east bank of the Bonny Biver, and the
principal approach to it is through a creek. On the
banks between the town and tho river aro various
inclosures with houses of wood or sheet iron,
the property of British merchants, containing
various kinds of cargoes and stores. Here
the belligerents had been making their preparations.
Oko Jumbo's side had mounted
over three hundred guns of various calibres,
from six pounders to thirty-two's, with three sixtyeight
pounders and hundreds of men aimed with
Snider and English rifles. The defences consisted of
a kind of sunken earthworks, strengthened at intervals
with casks full of mud and sand,
and masked by the various houses and inclosures
among which they were prepared. Tho
guns wero laid so as to fire flush with the
ground, their carriages being sunk in the earth. At
tho rear of the principal houses wero large pits,
covered with planks, in which tho women and children
were placed in comparative safety. Ja Ja's defences
were much tho same, but ho had not quite so
many heavy guns and his earthworks were not quite
so strong. As soon as tho fiuht was imminent
the "King" fled to Juju towu. On September
13, at dawn, a man belonging to Ja Ja's side
blew a horn in tho market place. This was at once
followed by a guu from Oko Jumbo's side and
promptly answered by Ja Ja. Tho fight then became
general. Home houses wero riddled. Others were
demolished. The din was indescribable. J a Ja's
war canoes bombarded the neighboring village. Iq
tho afternoon Oko Jumbo oponod fire from
a hitherto masked battery, which enfiladed
Ja Ja's lines and wrought havoc. The
bush round tho town swarmed with sharpshooters.
In the evening Georgo Andorrogu, bravestof Ja Ja's
subchiefs, made a dashing sortie. His uien got confused
in the dark. A panic ensued, and they fled to
their lines. Ja Ja escaped during tho night. After
the battle tho beach was strewn with shot. Iu tho
town the sceno was horrible. Tho air was loaded with
tho stench of human fle h. Many bodies were still
roasting in the burning housos. The temple,
with its monuiUental pyramids of human
skulls was blown into fragments. Oko Jumbo
went in tnumpn to too uritisn agent
to explain Uio cautso of tho war. "Suppose Ja
Ja pull bat for me," ho aald, "war bo ctono. Suppose.
Ja Ja no do so, I make him." Such was tbo battlo
of Bonn;, fougbt In lHti'J, and there la little reason to
doubt that it has just been rofought on about the
sauio prlnclploa and by almost tbo same combatants.]
GllANT AND THE 1'ARSONS.
[BY TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALD.]
Chicago, Dec. 4, 1H70.
Qoneral Grant rocoivod the ministers of tho
various denominations atoneo'olock this afteruoou.
The day being lino there was a very large attendance,
ltev. E. P. Goodwin, on behalf of the minister!!, delivered
an address, to which General Grant replied
briefly, thanking tho gentlemen for their wclcomo.
lie referred to tho recent war, saying he had no
doubt It was a punishment for wrongs committed.
Ho thought tho Gospel would unite tho nation and
insure Its pcrpotulty to gouerations to coine. llo '
closed with nu apology for tho mformalMy of his
speech, not having prepared a reply.
QUANT'S VISIT TO CINCINNATI.
Cincinnati, Ohio, Deo. 4,1.h7u.
Tbo executive committee for tho recoptlou of
General Grunt next Thursday have perfected their
arrangements, and will proceed to Louisvlllo next
Wednesday morning, to return with tho city's guest ;
on the tollowiug morning.
At the public lauding a triumphal arch will bear i
the words, "The Gates of tho City," whore tho
party will bo welcomed to Cincinnati in an
address by llejamin Kggleston, ai:d a large
floral key, whorewith to opon the
city gates, will bo presented by two littlo girls.
The procession will then wiud through the olty to
Musio Hall, where Mayor Jacobs will deliver a second
welcoming address.
Mrs. General Grant is not to be forgotten in tho !
honors pnid to her illustrious husband, While ho
Is banqueting at tho Grand Hotel and listenlug
to after dinner speeches With ouly gentlemen
around him a reception tor Mrs.
Grant lias been arranged to bo held at tho rcsldenee
of Mr. Washington MeLieiu, proprietor of tho inquirer,
at which the leading ladiee lu Cincinnati soBittjr
will be present. I
3EMBER 5, 1879.-"VVITII SI
I Ft E LAND.
Iuteresting Interview with (lie
Member for Belfast.
MR. BIGGAR, THE HOME RULER.
Historical Development of the
Irish Landlord.
THE HEKALD AND THE AGITATION
Farnell and Finigan to Sail for
New York.
AID FOR ERIN.
[BY CAliLS to THE HEUALD.l
London, Doe. 4. 1879.
Tlic Thiies publishes thin morning a second
edition giving the following cable despatch from
its Philadelphia correspondent:?
"The copious reports on Irish political affairs
published in the United States deeply interest
Irish-Americans, but 110 important movement
has been made yet. The Nkw Youk Hkealii
has a strong urticlo counselling the Irish in
America not to part with their hard earnings to
aid Parncll's schemes. The Hkkai.d says:?
"If Parnell could carry out his crazy programme
the mud cabins would be as numerous
ten years hence as they were in 1841. What
we say, therefore, to the Irish of the United
States is, "Not one cent for Parnell and his
crowd, but millions to help emigration to this
country." Hero is room enough and to spare
for all who come. Here are cheap aud fertile
lands, and every Irish family may easily, with
but common industry and economy, own its own
acres, llere is work at good wages. Here are
no landlords and no bailiffs. But let us have no
Feuiau nonsense; no proposition to "free Ireland"
by processions three thousand miles off.
That does no good; it only tills the pockets of
adventurers and demagogues."
Tlio Times' correspondent continues:?"The
Herald rightly represents general American
sentiment on the subject. No probability exists
of Irish-Americans contributing any cousid"
erable sum in uid of Mr. Parncll's scheme.
paknell to sail for new youk.
It is announced that Messrs. Purnell ami
Finigan expect to start for New York on tbc
17tli iust. The former gentleman has also
issued a letter in which ho states that the Sligo
prisoners would he tried at Carrick-on-Sbannon
on the 11th iust.; also appeals to the public for
subscriptions to defray the expenses of the defence.
AN INTERVIEW WITH BIGGAR.
THE CELEBRATED BOMB BULB MEMBER IN
COMPLETE ACCOBD WITH PABNELL?BE EXPLAINS
HIS IDEA OP SETTLING THE LAND
QUESTION IN IBI'LAND.
[BY CABLE TO THE HEBALD.]
Belfast, Deer 4, 1870.
It has been rumored tliat Mr. Biggar, M. P.,
who was Parnell's first obstructive lieutenant
in Parliament, was not in complete sympathy
with his chief. The reason why tho rumor
gained ground was undoubtedly because*
Mr. Biggar has taken so little aetivo part in the
recent agitation. Desirous of ascertaining
from the renowned Home Ruler the true stato
of feeling between himself and the Agitator,
tho lhutALD correspondent called upon Mr.
Biggar. In response to nry questions Mr. Biggar
expressed himself as being in complete sympathy
with Mr. Parnell's imitation. Ho said
that there was uo limit to his belief in the rights
of the tenant farmers as opposed to the landlords.
The Correspondent agjted liim why lie had not
taken a more active part in the agitatiou.
Mr. Biooau?I have a business necdiug my
constant attention, but I hoi?e to retire next
summer, and then I shall devote myself entirely
to politics and the interests of the country.
KIUIITfl OK LANDLORD AND TENANT.
CokkkhfondkkT?>> bat is your idea ot a settlement
?l" tin; land troubles of Ireland f
Mr. Uiuuak?In the tirst place I dispute tlic
absolute right to tlie laud which the landlords
claim. The history of land teuaney in Ireland
cunmit be ignored as Englishmen ignore it.
The original grants to the landlords from
English kings did not give them the
rights which they now claim. Tenants
then had u* much interest and participation in
the laud as the landlords, who only managed it
for mutuul beuctit. The only right which the
landlords have is prescription, one of the chief
provisions of their grants being the engagement
to furnish a certain number of soldiers. The
landlords gradually assumed absolute ownership
and exercised the right to depopulate
estates at will. Moreover, the English kings
had no right to give giants extending beyond
their own reigns. I claim, therefore, that (^ueeu
Victoria's Parliament has the right at the
present time to dispose of this property as it
may think best for all classes. If you allow
that the landlord has the absolute right he
claims to turn off the population, us the
Duke of Sutherland did in Scotland, you
have only to logically extend the argument
in order to prove that he has the power to rent
his land to the French government, to allow
French engineers to erect fortifications
thereon and to populate it with French soldiers
to the constant menace of Knglutid.
The landlords assume that their absoluto
ownership of the land was acknowledged. This
is not so. Parliament did not acknowledge it
when, iu 1K1M, it passed the Poor law and
forced the landlords to pay half of the poor
late, though previously the landlords had not
paid a penny to support the poor. Gladstone's
Land act was another attack on the right ;
claimed by the landlords. The wx-Premier liim[
soil' last wuok acknowledged 1'ailiaiucnl'a light* j
JPPLEMENT.
over tho land. This disposes of the talk about
confiscation and the taking of what beltings to
allot her.
ltKSl'LTS UN I) tit II IK NKW KKGIMK.
C'OH HEfil'ONIJKJiT?Supposing the people possessed
tho-laml, would there not )>o a new rnoe
of landlords iu a few years' timet
Mr. Bk;gak?No. The lirat instinct of an
Irishman is to keep all the laud ho ean work.
He would never sell unless obliged to. CM'
course there would be exceptions, but, an a rule,
there would be but few landlords. One grout
reason for raekrtfntiug is that the tenants may
be kept from increasing the size of their holdings.
This was not always so. About thirty !
years ago tho lundloTils thought it would be
most profitable to let the land iu hu ge farms,
and thusobliguthebulkof the populatiou to work
as farm laborers. Hut this plan caused such a
great increase iu wages that large farms did not
pay, on account of the cost of working them,
uud to-day a farm of twenty acres, which may
be worked by a farmer.and his family, will sell
for as much as a farm twice the size, because
tin- latter- necessitates hiring laborers.
lilGGAlt in sympathy with 1'aunkll.
My idea of a settlement of "the laml question
follows:?I would first lix the yearly value of
the holdings, giving the tenant credit lor ail improvements.
1 would deprive the landlord of
the power of eviction so long as the rent, was
paid. Furthermore, 1 would give the tenant the
option of buying up the land in a lixed number
ol years, after which the tenant would himself
be the owner.
Gokkespondent?What do you think would
be the ell'ect of sueh a plan f
Mr. Biggar?A prosperous peasantry and the
productive power of the country doubled.
Couuksponden'T?Your plan differs from Parnell's.
Mr. Bicgau?Only as regards detail. In principle
we agree. ParuoU's plan is perfectly
feasible, however.
Cohkksfondknt?To what extent does the agitation
depend on Parnell ?
Mr. Biggau?Almost entirely. The people
need a leader, und he is eminently fitted for
such a post.
Cokkksi'okdknt?Do your Homo Rule principles
and sympathy with Parnell's crusade
affect your business 1
Mr. Biggak?N o; although I know of three
cases, one in Ireland, one iu England and one in
Seotlaud, where my agents were rebuffed on the
ground, as oue dealer expressed it, that Home
Rule hams were not wanted. American competition,
however, is making itself seriously
felt in the provision trade throughout Great
Britain.
Alter a few moments' further conversation
the Herald correspondent withdrew. Mr.
Biggar, it should be stated, is the owner of a
largo provision establishment iu Belfast. The
celebrated Home Ruler is a short, spare man, apparently
about fifty years of age, and in appearance
and accent a Scotchman rather than an
Irishman.
A land meeting wua, held yesterduy
at Nenagh, county Tipperary, at which
3,000 persons were present. Edward
Dwyer GMr and Patrick James Smyth,
home rule Members of Parliament, were
among tliu speakers. Resolutions were passed
calling for abatement of rents and for a peasant
proprietary.
PARNELL DEFENDED.
A NEW EXPLANATION OF THE SIGNIFICANCE OF
iniHH EMIGRATION?POLITICAL MOTIVES tTNMA8KED.
To the Editor of the Herald:?
I Lave always boon told that Americana aro a peculiarly
generous and disinterested race, but I never
fully realized the fact till I read your editorial of
this morning on tho Irish question. In tliis you,
taking the same happy view as Besconsfic-ld, suggost
emigration as tho only remedy for Ireland's wue.
Between the lines wo read, "Send us ovor a couple of
Million of Irishmen in order to swell the democratic
vote and fill tho democratic pockets." Fortunately,
tho present loaders of Irish opinion do not think
that tho best way to help Ireland Is to depopulate
her and transfuse her life blood into the veins of
America. Our people have a right to happiness and
prosperity in their own country, and, please God,
spite of tlio opposition of American politicians,
they will yet have it. Yours, sincerely,
BoUUK.ntown, N. J., Dec. 3, 1879. F. PAKNELL.
THE OBJECTS OF THE LAND LEAGUE EXPLAINED?MESSRS.
PAHNELL AND FINIGAN
ABLK TO PAY THEIR OWN HOTEL BILLS.
To thk Editor of the Hkuald:?
As one of thoso who have solicited subscriptions
from the Irish in America to support tho IjmhI
League recently established in Ireland, 1 hone I may
be permitted to say a few words in defence or that
body. In the first place, my brother, Mr. Parnell,
who is presidout of the I.eague, intends to pay his
own hotel bills if ho comes to tho United StatesFrom
the facf that Mr. Finigan is a gentleman
who commands a handsome income, I
think It likely that ho will do tho same.
With reapoct to tho general misappropriation of
funds which you predict, I need only say that the
League is a public body and must givo an account
ot its expenditures. Should it fall to do so it would
bo in the power of the meanest subscriber to prosecute
the executive for elube/zlement.
A (amine is now beginning in Ireland, although
the majority of t^ people have enough to live on
during the coming year. The Land League takes
up tho position that tho cultivators of the soil
have a right to keep enough out of their
own earnings to buy themselves Indian meal to cat
anil furl to cook it witn. Tho English government, |
ou tho other hand. asserts that the landlord unut
have all hia usual pout, and It it is not paid troops
will bo sent to eject tho tenants from their holding
and seize their uioney and stock. Consequently
tljOKO who do not pay thoir rent must dio hy tho
roadside, but thoso who do will h?ve tho privilego
of dying under a roof. Thla ta exactly wiiut toolt
place thirty-two years ago. Thla murderous programme
tho Land I.cjgua hopes to buttle by
developing thu rnoriuous power of passive
tcsistuncj which a people situated liko tho Dish
must have. You, by your article of tho 3<l December,
deliberately incite the English government
to destroy, by cold and hunger, hundred* of
thousands of unoffending men, wouieu and
children. Your talk of bringing 4,000,<XH) of peoplo
from Ireland to thla country duriug tho uext throo
mouths la an absurdity. The working people of
this country know that another Irish tamlno would
cause an immense ruah of starving wretches to |
these shores, and a proportionate fall In wages hero, |
I therefore implore all those who Uyo by lal>or in
tliia country to help the Irish Land League and s.vo
themselves from misery and Irclsnd from ruin.
Yours faithfully, ANNA PA KNELL.
Tituston. N. J., fee, 3, 1S7S).
SYMPATHY WITH THE IHISH.
Mokthkal, Dec. 4, 1H79. I
At meeting Of the Ht. Patrick's Society last night
a committee was appointed consisting of four members,
presidents of Irish societies, to wait upon the
clergy and' obtain their consent to collcct mouey for
the distressed in Ireland.
The St. Patrick's Hociety has called a mass meeting
for Monday night, at which resolutions will be
offered condemnatory of tlis coluiuct of the imperial
government iu arresting the three agitators.
SUSPICION QUIETED.
Nt. Louis, Mo., Deo. 4,1879.
Mrs. Alice Dnnbrongti, who has been In Jail at
Belleville, 111., the past two mouths, ou a
charge of poisoning hor husband, about a
year ago, was discharged to-day. Dr. Dean, of this
city, who subjected her hnsbanu's stomach to hemleal
analysis, having reported thst he could Und no
evidence of poison in that organ. (
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A DIAMOND SWINDLE.
Slit. BAhLOW WANTS TO GKT PACK HIS IH
VESTMENT AND SUES A WIDOW,
[ux TELEOBAPH TO THE HERALD.]
X-ufisviLXJC, Ky., Dec. 1, 1879.
A suit for $143,0U0 was filed in the United
States Circuit Court to-day by Samuel L. M.
Barlow, of Now York, against Mary Arnold,
wife of tho late Phillip Arnold, of diamond
fame, ami executrix of bin last will. Two,
items uro embraced in tho suit. Cuo for $100,00<
rep rcseu ts tlio cash fraudulently obtained bj
Arnold from tho plaintill, and tlio othel
$13,000 represent* tlio interest on the #1(10.000 from
July 'J'J, lt>77. The following fact* are contained
in barlow's petition:?lie .<tuteg that iu
October, 1871, Ashburg llarpendiug. William
It. Lent and lieorgo L. Dodge. under
a pledge of secrecy communicated to him that l'liiiip
Aruold had discovered a diamond field in
one of tho territories of tho States on
the borders of New Mexico and Arizona.
As proof of their stalumnnt thojf exhibited a bag
which contained diamonds iu tho rough, together
with other precious stones, intermixed with wand
and earth, which they said were discovered by Arnold
iu the ullogeil diamond Hold, and that a
large quantity from the same Held, exceeding in
value $300,UWt, had boon deposited iu the
Bank of California, iu San l''riticisoo. They
olaihud to represent Arnold, but he refused
to enter into any business compact with any one
but Arnold. The three men accordingly induced
Aruold to gu to New York and cull
on Barlow, which ho did on November
1, 1871. lie then confirmed tin statements made by
Harpendlng and his associate*, and further
stated th it in crossing a stream his raft
was wrecked, and a quantity of diamonds
obtained on liis visit which were worth
a n.illi.tn .... w !,,*! ti,,,.,. I).
graphed to the cannier of tho Bunk ol' Calitotuinin*
quiring about the diamonds which were said
to bo deposited in that bank and received
a reply lrom tho cashier that a bag of
great value had been deposited with hiiu.
Thin iod Barlow to believe tho story of
Arnold nnd his associates was trite, aud
agreed to advuuee ifltio.ooo. providing they
could get an act panned by Congress to secure thoui
iu the fruits of tho discuvory, uu(l further on
condition that a surVey should bo inado of the
location by a competent engineer. Arnold replied
that he would be perfectly willing to have the
ground surveyed, but it would be impossible at that
season of the year, as the ground wan coverod with
snow, aud it could not bo surveyed without great
trouble and danger. The result of the conference t ,
was that, eventually, tho Uolconda Mining
Company was formed, and in the spring
Mr. Harlow named an engineer to go
to the spot and report. Arnold and
his partners accompanied the engineer to the place,
and It socms that everything was arranged to deceive
him. Diamond* were, indeed, found in the dirt, aud
the engineer was deluded by the advunturera into the
belief that a diamond bonanza was at laat found
in this country. He went back to New
York and reported that it waa a bond
Jiite mine. Mr. Harlow then furnished
$ 100,000. Shortly after the rumor bc^an to circulate
that tho whole thing was a huge fraud.
' Another engineer was despatched to the so-called
diamond field, and reported the thing a grand fraud
and that tho ground had been "salted." Litigation
was then begun in the courts, and after
a long legal light the thing wound up in a compromise
but it seems by the tiling of the present
suit that it is not yet settled.
A BUYS CRIME.
[BY TF.LEGItAPH TO THE HEGALD.l
Ualtimobr. Md., Dec. 4, 1379.
Lewis A, Miller, fourteen years old, waa convicted
of manslaughter at Hngerstown to-day. In
June last ho becamo involved in a trifl- ,
ing dispute with somo companions, among
whom was Charles O. Norris. about his
own age. After warning the latter to desist from his
taunts, young Miller weut to his home, procured a
shotgun aud returning fired at Norris, killing hi in
Instantly. I
ATTEMPTED ARSON.
An attempt was made to burn tho frame dwelling
No. 319 East Eighty-fifth street, owned and
occupied by Patrick Coffey, at a quarter-paat
twelve o'clock yesterday morning. Tho fact waa
discovered almost immediately and a policeman extinguished
the flames. A woman named Bridget Muldoon,
was arrested on a charge of setting the
house on fire. Coffey and his family were asleep in
the building at the time.
HOTEL ARRIVALS.
Sherman S. Rogers, of Huffalo, and Burton O.
Cook, of Chicago, are at tho Windsor. Tbomsa
Swiuyar.i, of Toronto, is at tho Brovoort. Ex-Con
grossman John 1). Alloy, of Boston; Prcfossor J. W.
Churchill, of Audover, Mass.; William T. Minor, of
Hartford; Colouol H, 8. McCorub, of Uelawaro, and
It. C. MoOorniick are at the Fifth Avonuo, Judge
Charles S. Lester, of Saratoga, is at the Park Avenue.
(itjuoral Thomas B. Kooyh, of North Carolina, and
John F. Mines, of Utica, are at the Metropolitan.
Ex-Congressman John M. Davy, of Rochester, and
K. K. Hart, of Albion, X. Y., are at the GUsoy. State
Engineer Horatio Seymour, Jr., of Utica, is at the
Brunswick.
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