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FIRST PART.
FORTY-FIFTH YEAH.
PITTSBURG-, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1890 TEN PAGES.
THREE CENTS.
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PAGES 1 TO 8.
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PARNELLUHDER FIRE
He Presides Over a Meeting of
the Irish Members,
But There Was
NO CONCLUSION REACHF.
All Are Now Waiting to Hear Fro
tlie Delegates in the United
States, Yhose
ADVICE WILL HAVE JIUCH WEIGHT.
Ihe Fate of the Ilome Knle Cause Appar
ently Hanging Upon the Decision
of Dillon and O'Brien.
SOME SIGNS OF A REACTION NOTED,
Although Davitt cad Others Are Exploit is Their
Dcmtnd 'or the Retirement of the
Uicrrered King.
A Y1CLDJT ATTACK KATE UPON GLADSTONE
TBT CABLE TO THE DISPATCn.3
LONDON. November 26. Copyright
.Mr. Gladstone's letter has caused a startling
change in the political situation. Immedi
ately after the verdict in the O'Shea divorce
case there was a prospect that by the retire
ment, temporary or otherwise, of Mr. Par
nell, serious injury to the home rule cause
might be averted. Now it is merely a ques
tion whether the cause shall be damaged or
ruined.
The unwise and inexplicable tenacity
with which Parnell holds on to the leader
ship has already driven back into the
enemy's camp thousands of Liberal Union
ists who had practically made up their
minds to rejoin the orthodox fold from which
they bolted in 18SG, and there is the gravest
reason to fear that many more Liberals will
vote against the policy identified with Par
nell's name whether or no he retires; that is
to say, immense harm has already been done
which no tardy repentance can remedy.
More Than a aiornentary Disaster.
But Mr. Gladstone's retirement from po
litical life, which can only be avoided by
Parnell's resignation, means not momentary
disaster, but temporary ruin to the cause of
home rule. The Nationalist newspapers,
from the Freeman's Journal downward, ar
gue that the Liberal's cannot obtain or re
tain power without the Irish support.
That is true to a large extent, but it is
equally and more emphatically true that
Ireland cannot obtain home rule for a gen
eration to cnnic without the assistance of the
Liberal putty, jnd every day which passes
with Parnell still at the head of the Irish
party will ahuiatc shoals of sturdy Liber
als who have been deeply incensed at what
they consider his contemptuous rejection of
Mr. Gladstone's advice
That advice was given reluctantly and at
the very last moment Gladstone up till
last Monday had been given to understand
that Parnell would retire for a season.
Inside Illstorj of the Letter.
"When it became known that the Irish
leader had uo such intention, the letter to
Morley was written and confidentially com
municated to Parnell. It was not made
public until Parnell had publicly rejected
the solemn advice which it conveyed.
In considering the present situation the
fact must be borne in mind that Gladstone's
action receives the unanimous and cnthusi
tic support of the Liberal party from its
leaders down to the humblest members of
the rank and file. But on the other side
there is neither unanimity nor enthusiasm
except in indignant resentment of the in
famous and cowardly manner in which Par
nell has been attacked by the Torv press.
Trusted leaders such as Justin McCarthy,
Thomas Seston, Michael Davitt and Arthur
O'Connor have urged Parnell to how his
head to the storm icst it may inflict serious
injury upou the cause.
"Worst Phase of the Situation.
And, saddest result of all, there is danger
that the Irish Parliamentary party, which
for years has presented a solid, unbroken
front to the enemy, may be split into factions
Kith similar demoralizing effect in Ireland.
To-day's meeting has been adjourned until
Monday, when a final decision must be
taken.
It is an open secret here that the interval
has been designed in order to obtain full
possession of the views of the Irish members
now in America. It is not an exaggeration
to say that the immediate future of home
rule depends upon "William O'Brien and
John Dillon.
During this meeting, however, it became
known that if Mr. Parnell did not give way
1C of his followers intended to resign their
seats. Colonel Nolan was the only member
who spoke in favor of Mr. Parnell's reten
tion of his office.
Allusions to rarncll's Sacrifices.
Justice McCarthy in the course of his
speech made frequent touching allusions to
Mr. Parnell's great sacrifices ior the Irish
c.-.use, aud these allusions were received
with the cheers of his auditors. He con
cluded in these words: "Mr. Gladstone's
letter has placed us in a very difficult posi
tion, but after due consideration it is to be
hoped that Mr. Parnell will see his way to
retire, for the present at least, from the
leadership, and so save the sacred cause of
Irish legislative independence."
John Barry, Messrs. Sexton and Lane.
Dr. Cummins acd others, spoke in a similar
vein. The Irish members are very reticent
about the meeting and decline to say any
thing to the journalists. All they will say
is: 1t will be all right." The latest ex
pressions suggest a feeling of mutiny in the
party in consequence of Parnell's dogged
determination to stay, but again there are
signs of reaction.
"Why the Letter Was Withheld.
Mr. McCarthy explains that he did not
ci-mmunicate the contents of Mr. Glad
stone's letter to the Parnellite meeting yes
terday because Mr. Gladstone had requested
him to consider it confidential if he found
that Mr. Parnell contemplated spontaneous
actios. At the beginning of the meeting,
Mr. McCarthy says, he snd his colleagues
were ignorant of the course Mr. Parnell
would pursue, the prevailing impression
being that after receiving practically a vote
of confidence, he would retire from the head
of the party, at any rate temporarily.
Alter Mr. Parnell's unanimous re
election, Mr. McCarthy found himself in
a difficult position, and concluded that
nothing would be gained by reopening the
question.
ATTACK OnIjLADSTONE.
THE THUNDERER EAGER TO IMPROVE
THE OPPORTUNITY.
4n Avenging Nemesis Declared to Have at
Iist Overtaken the Liberal Leader
''lie Language Used of the Most Violent
scription.
rilV lUM.Ar'S CABLE COMrAJTT.
on, November 26. The Times pub
lish morning the following remark
able n the political situation:
Sir. C " now ocenpies the most pitia
ble ana ting position that can pos
sibly he co ' 'or the trusted chief of an
historic par.. .absolutely at the mercy
of a man who h. rcated him with open
and even ostenta. -n. He has not said
in so many words .
nell most retire from
unless bis pointed app
a farce, that is the actuai
far committed himself to
Parnell's retirement that
he or Mr. Par-
'eadership, bnt
dismissed as
i has so
-Ir.
fused his oyn withdrawal from
the only course compatible with a
of honor and self-rcsnecr. Mr. Pat.
content himself with his present reve.
Kilmainham and may oblige Mr. Gladsto
retiring after fully demonstrating his powei
remain; bat even in that ease nothing can con
ceal or obliterate the fact that Sir. Gladstone
is a suppliant for his mercy, and that it rests
entirely with the chief of a criminal conspirac
to close the career of the quondam Liberal
leader with a most deplorable and ignominious
fiasco.
The gods are jnst. and of our pleasant vices
mate instruments to sconrge us. Mr. Glad
stone has ot late prostituted his immense abil
ities, his vast popularity and the prestige of his
long career In order to debauch the moral
sense of the British people, to obliterate from
their minds tbo broad distinctions between
right and wrong, and to impose upon them the
rule of sedition mongers and criminal conspir
ators. For himsplf and his party he has con
doned falsehood, fraud and violence upon a
colossal scale, and has not only condoned, but
ued them to manufacture political capital.
He has waded up to the neck in amoral slough,
confident in bis fancied knowledge of the bot
tom, and has suddenly plunged head and ears
into an ungucssed abyss.
Mr. Parnell has been found guilty of offenses
of which the British public is peculiarly Intol
erant in public men, but even that does not ex
plain the revulsion of feeling of the last few
da s. The divorce court was bad enough taken
by itself, bnt its main effect has been suddenly
to break doun in the thousands of minds the
elaborate fictions by which Mr. Parnell's pre
vious misdeeds vastly greater from a public
point of view had been concealed from not
wholly unwilling dupes. Mr. Gladstone's
Nemesis is a sndden illumination of the past by
the light of tho present, and a revelation of the
moral consistency in his Irish ally which he
would have given much to conceal.
Mr. Michael Davitt has just been seen by
a reporter on the subject, and he said: ''If
Mr. Parnell does not retire, and the party
does not depose him, the cause ot home rule
is dead. I will not say it is doomed, but it
will be certainly dead for the next ten years
bcyoud all hone ol resurrection."
WHAT MIUM.L SAYS.
FRIENDS OF IRELAND SHOULD NOT FORM
HASTY CONCLUSIONS.
Gladstone's Letter Has Caused a Grave
Crisis, but the Fatriotlsra of tho Irish
Leaders May be llelied Upon in the
JEmergcncjj.
New York, November 2(1 Mr. Gill,
M. P., the only member of the Irish delega
tion to-day in New York, was in telegraphic
communication with the other delegates,
who arc in different parts of the country ad
dressing meetings, and with fiis colleagues
in Parliament in reference to Mr. Glad
stone's letter. Mr. Gill states that tbe meet
ing of the party in London to-day was post
poned for a few davs at the suggestion of
the delegates here, to afford, them an oppor
tunity of consulting together. They will
probably meet for this purpose on Friday,
at Cincinnati, and by that time a full inter
change of views will have taken place.
Mr. Gill warns friends and sympathizers
of the Irish cause in this country to beware
of forming hasty conclusions on the infor
mation thus tar received. He declares his
flat disbelief in the alleged anger of one of
the Irish members at Mr. Parnell's alleged
refusal to summon a second meeting. He
is equally incredulous as to the statement
that an Irish member said the Irish party
would follow Parnell, even if home rule
were put back for IS years. He says such
statements are perfectly absurd,
A grave crisis has undoubtedly been
caused by tbe publication of Mr." Glad
stone's letter, but the Irish members, their
leader included, may be relied on to act in
this crisis with the same patriotism, wisdom,
unity aud disregard of self which have
characterized their policy for the past 11
y-'ars and which constitute their chief claim
to the confidence of people whom they have
so ably and faithiully led. Mr. Parnell and
the Irish Parliamentary party will de
cide the question presented to them by Mr.
Gladstone's letter apart from any personal
consideration whatever and wholly in con
sideration of the best interests of the cause
which he and they have brought to the
threshold of victorv.
IRISH PEOPLE WANT WORK.
Many "Whom It is Thought Will Shortly be
Without Food.
Br Associated Fress.l
Dublin, November 26. The people of
Swineford, County Mayo, are greatly disap
pointed over the refusal of the Grand Jury
to guarantee even one penny to assist in
carrying out Mr. Balfour's plan to build a
railroad from Golloney to Clara-Morris.
Crowds of people throughout the distressed
district are demanding work from the
priests and Poor Law guardians. It is ad
mitted by the antborities that within three
weeks many of the people in the Swinelord
district will be without food of any kind.
Delegates have started for London to urge
upon the Government the necessity of taking
steps for the alleviation of the distressed.
Families in Great Distress.
DcBLirr A deputation representing 200
laborers waited upon tbe Board of Guardians
at ICillarney to-djy and asked for assist
ance, stating that they were unable to ob
tain work and that their families were in
the greatest distress. The board resolved
to ask the Government for the needed relief.
Twenty-Eight Fishermen Drowned.
London In a gale off Ofstan, Norway,
40 boats of a fishing fleet were sunk and 120
damaged. Twenty-eight fishermen lost
their lives.
SENATOE HAMPX0K HUET.
Accidentally Shot by His Son While on a
Gunning Trip.
Columbia, November 28. A telegram
received here to-night states that Senator
Wade Hampton while out gunning on his
favorite hunting grounds, in "Washington
county, Miss., was accidentally shot by his
son, McDufhe Hampton. The son it seems
fired toward his father and wounded him in
the head, one of tbe shots striking his eye.
His injuries, howcver,are not believed to
be serious, and it is not thought likely that
he will lose bis eye sight The accident
happened in the same locality where the
General a few years ago lost one of his legs.
FEELING ITS POWER.
Both Parties Inclined to Flirt With
the Farmers' Alliance
SISCE IT SHOWED ITS STRENGTH.
Leading Men of the Two Great Parties An
alyze, the Movement.
TI1E BALANCE OF P0WEK IK 1S92
imOM A STAFF COnrtESFONDENT.3
"Washington, November 26. A promi
nent member of tbe party of the Farmers'
Alliance, who is now in this city, said to
the correspondent of The Dispatch to
day: "I believe that within eight or ten
years the formation of a party out of all of
the discontented elements of this day will be
possible, and that it will be strong enough
to sweep the country, but just now there are
too many leaders and would-be leaders in
all of the movements outside of the old par
ties, who are wedded to the ideas and asso
ciations of those parties, to make a new
party successful so soon as 1892.
"Here, for instance, is Powderly.the dicta
tor of the Knights of Labor, on his way to
Oeala to attend the.convention of the Alli
which meets there next week. But
"n1 suppose that he is there in the
tie downfall of the old parties?
.. great scheme all along has been
p tb Knights out of politics, the only
v , they can win anything without
iK-l to violence, and has only departed
frrnwthis principle occasionally in his own
State, in the interest of the Democratic
party, when he did what be could safely do
to swing tbe order in that direction.
SPECULATING ON rOVDERLY'S CHANGE
"Either he has changed his ideas very re
cently, or his influence among the Alliance
people will be to keep them from independ
ent action. Possibly, however, his purpose
may extend no farther than to take a hand
in a marriage of organizations; which will
give him a new lease of life, as the Knights
grow lukewarm in their support of him. I
am heartily in favor of the union of all the
classes that arc exploited by the million
aires and monopolists, but I tear for the sin
cerity and permanency of the union with
such leaders as Powderly at the helm.
However, I shall watch the outcome of the
convention at Ocala with deep1 interest."
All of the "Western and Southern Con
gressmen, as they drop into town, have
something to say about the Alliance, and it
is plain to be seen that members of both par
ties are disposed to enter into a serious flir
tation with the organization. Representa
tive Dockcry, of Missouri, one of the ablest
of the Democrats, a "hayseed" himself and
thoroughly in touch with the farniers,speaks
thus of the matter:
"It is a powerful movement, growing oat
of the disapproval clas.9 legislation, which
has been going on for the past 30 years.
"With wlte and fair treatment by the Demo
crats, such as they are sure to receive, the
Alliance movement is going to prove greatly
to the advantage of the Democratic party in
1892.
VfHAT inE FARMERS WANT.
"There are three things the farmers want,
and they may expect to get them through
the efforts of the Democratic party. They
want a greater volume of money; they want
to get their farm implements and those
necessaries which they have to buy at
prices cheaper than they now have to pay,
aud they want an enlarged market forJarm
products.
"The Democrats are endeavoring to give
them all this by the wisest and surest means
possible. They will enlarge the volume of
money by the passing of an act for the free
coinage of silver, and by a reform of the
tariff they will reduce the prices on their
clothing, their binding twine, their plows
and all the necessaries they have to buy, and
will, at the same time, enlarge the market
for their products.
"We propose to give them reciprocity
that means something; reciprocity which
will be a benefit to the farmers. It is not
reciprocity in homeopathic doses that they
want. They want a good old time allo
pathic prescription. They want a fair ex
change between what they buy and what
they sell. In 1SG0 the farmers on the
Eastern coast, with less than half the popu
lation they now have, exported 5256,000,000
of surplus farm products. In 30 years,
with the tremendous increase of population
and the easy means of transportation from
all over the countrv, there is a surplus sale
ot but SS31.O00.000. It ought easily to be
double this."
SUB-TREASURT. SCHEME IMPRACTICABLE.
Speaking of the sub-Treasury plan Mr.
Dockery thought that the great mass of
farmers would not press that if they got the
relief they ought to have. That plan looked
to the borrowing of money; the efforts of the
Democrats would be directed toward lifting
the farmers out of the borrowing class.
McMillan, or Tennessee, says: "In our
State tbe Alliance has not worked in antag
onism to the Democratic party. On the
contrary, our nominee for Governor was a
member of the organization and was nomi
nated and made tbe race ou a simon-pure
Democratic platform. It is an indisput
able fact that the economic system under
which we have been operating for some
time past has proved disastrous to tbe farm
ing interest. It will be the office of the
Democratic partv to try to remedv their ills
as far as may be possible. The sub-Treasury
scheme as presented to Congress is imprac
ticable, but there are Constitutional means
of relief that can and will be given."
Republicans do not talk so openly of the
scheme of making bids for Alliance sup
port, bnt it is evident they recognize the
danger to them in the movement, and will
take some steps to counteract it and take
the wind out of the Democratic sails, by en
acting or proposing to enact, legislation for
the relief of the farmers. Some, .however,
depreciate the importance of the move
ment. PETERS KNOWS THEIR POWER.
Representative Peters, of Kansas, who, by
refusing renomination got out of the way
just in time to escape the land slide which
passed over his district, besides a number of
others, says that if the Farmers' Alliance
succeeds in preserving their organization
until 1892 they will hold the balance of
power and will be a very important factor
iu the Presidents coutest.
Mr. Peters ought to know something
about the Alliance, for it was in his district
that the Alliance man "without socks on"
literally lifted tbe Republican candidate
out of his silk socks. He thinks that the
Alliance movement is like an epidemic, the
grip, for instance, and that it is passing over
the country from "West to East. Its influ
ence, he thinks, will be felt in the Northern
aud Eastern States whose population is
made up to any extent of agriculturists. His
idea is that the worst ofit is over in the
West, but that the East is yet to have its
turn. The Alliance, he says, is no respecter
of parties, and that tbe Democrats will come
in for some hard raps before they get
through with it. LlGETNER.
MHII0HS FOE PENSIONS.
Banm Estimates a Deficiency for This Tear
of Over 833,000,000.
"Washington, November 26. General
Raum, Commissioner of Pensions, was to
day before tbe sub-Committee of the House
Appropriations Committee having in charge
the preparation ot the Pension Appropria
tion bill. Tbe appropriation for pensions
for'the fiscal year 1890-91 made at the last
session of Congress, aggregated $97,090,761.
General Raum estimates that' the deficiency
for the present fiscal year will amount to
between 532,000,000 and 533,000,000. He
bases this estimate on the payments made on
account of, pensions in previous years and on
the amount paid out during the first quarter
of the present fiscal year.
- For the fiscal year 1891-92 General Raum
estimates that 5133,173,085 will be required
on account of payment of pensions. The
appropriation for the fiscal year 1890-91 for
examining surgeons is 51,000,000, and Com
missioner Raum asks an increase of 5500,000
on this item for the new fiscal year. For
clerk hire at the 18 different pension
agencies the appropriation for the present
year is 5250,000. The Commissioner asks
an increase in this item for the new fiscal
year o! 5200,000, making 5450,000 in all.
TO SUCCEED QUAY.
FASSETT MAY BE A CANDIDATE AGAINST
CLARKSON.
no is Said to be the First Choice of Presi
dent Harrison A meeting; of the Na
tional Committee Expected in a Tew
Weeks.
ISfECIAI. TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCH. 1
Washington, November 26. Senator
J. Sloat Fassettis at the Arlington, afflicted
with neuralgia, caused by a cold draught in
the sleeping car coming from New York last
night. He is on his way to Asheville, N.
C, where his mother and sister are, and also
Mr. J. S. Clarkson, the vice Chairman of
the National Republican Committee, of
which Senator Fassett is Secretary.
Partly on account of bis neuralgia and a
good deal, probably, on -account of the ex
pected arrival of Senator Quay here on Fri
day, Senator Fassett will stay in Washing
ton Monday evening and witness the as
sembling of Congress. He himself deolares
that politics have nothing to do with
his visit here, but the Repub
lican politicians here conjure up many
things in connection with a meeting
of tbe National Republican Committee,
which it is said will take place in a few
weeks. They assert that Senator Quay is
to resign, and that Senator Fasset is here to
arrange the manner of doing it, which will
not in the least hurt Senator Quay's feel
ings. One report is thattbePresident prefers the
young New Yorker to Mr. Clarkson as the
Pennsylvanian's successor, on account of
the Iowan's predilection for General Alger.
Whatever the facts may be, conversations
between Messrs. Quay and Fassett here and
between Messrs. Fassett and Clarkson at
Asheville must prove interesting to both.
FABWKRS IN COUNCIL.
Meeting at Harrlsburg to Form an Alliance
Organization.
tSPECIAI. TEL11GRAM TO THE DISPATOH.1
Harrisburg, November 26. The meet
ing to-day of the Pennsylvania branches of
the Farmers' National Alliance and Indus
trial Union was not a success from a numer
ical standpoint Of tbe 26 counties
in the State in which alliances
have been organized only 12 sent
delegates to tbo number of 28. Tbe counties
represented were: Adam, Armstrong,
Berks, Dauphin, Crawford, Greene, Frank
lin, Lebanon, llndiana, Lycoming, Potter
and Somerset. The main purpose of the
meeting was to form a State organization
to be under the control of the National Alli
ance. U. C. Demmlng, State Organizer, was
made temporary president of tbe conven
tion, and E. Il.-Wernerr of Somerset, was
elected secretary. JC committee to frame
the constitution and bylaws of the Alliance
was appointed. Among the resolutions
submitted for consideration is one favoring
the sub-Treasury scheme as a remedy for
the care of an alleged contracted currency.
CUBED BY HYPNOTISM.
A Physician Mesmerizes tho Craving for
Opium Out of a Victim.
tSPECIAI. TEL1TGIIAM TO THE DISPATCH.!
San Francisco, November 26. Frank
Edwards, the young opium fiend now in the
House of Correctiou, claims to be cured ot
the vice by hypnotism, excited by Dr.
Brown, the jail physician. Brown is a man
with singularly large ey:s and a great mes
meric force. He determined to try bypno
tizingEdwards.becausehefeired the prisoner
would become insane from sheer craving for
the deadly drug. He obtained such com
plete control over Edwards, that the fiend
enjoyed the first rcfreshiuz sleep he has
known for years, gained flesh, and lost all
desire for the dope, which had been neces
sary to his existence for 16 years.
A lellow prisoner, who didn't believe in
bis reform, offered him some gum opium,
but it made Edwards sick, although before
being hypnotized he would have enjoyed it.
The physicians are undecided about tbe
permanency of the effect, but Dr. Brown
will experiment ou other fiends and test his
theory.
A BIG RECEPTION
Given to Pattison, Black, Barclay and Kerr
in Philadelphia.
rSPECIAI. TELEGRAM TO THJS DISPATCS.1
Philadelphia, November 26. The
Young Men's Democratic Association gave
a reception to Governor-elect Robert E. Pat
tison, Channcey F. Black, Captain Will
iam H. Barclay and Chairman James Kerr
this evening, and tbe event was the signal
for an assembly of many leaders of the
Democracy from every section of the State.
In preparation for their distinguished
company, the Association, through a com
mittee on reception, had their rooms lav
ishly decorated, and the three long balls
presented a brilliant scene, the City De
mocracy being well represented, while the
brethren from the country completed a share
in a gathering witnessed at bnt rare inter
vals in Philadelphia.
EEIE SAILBOAT) EMPLOYES.
The Basis of What is Thought to he a Last
ing Peace.
New York, November 26. The last of
the conferences between A. B. Thomas,
Executive Manager of the New York, Lake
Erie and Western Railroad. Company, and
committees from various branches of the
federated organization of Erie railroad em
ployes was held to-day at the offices of
company. The basis of a lasting peace was
agreed upon. The result of the conference
was that the company agreed to pay full
time to tbe firemen lor idleness consequent
upon accidents, in case they were fonnd to
be blameless. Several others of their de
mands were also agreed to, such bs local
runs and payment for them, also rules rela
tive to suspensions.
EUSHIN& THE W0EK.
Ore From a Connecticut Gold Mine to be
Tested in Pittsburg.
rSFECIAL TELEGRAM TO TUX DISFATCB.t
West Haven, Conn., November 26.
The gold miners on the farm of August
Prakin, near this place, are rushing work in
the famous mine recently discovered there.
They have opened a trench 300 feet long, 8
or 10 feet deep, and have excavated 500
pounds of rock.
The ore is to be sent to Pittsburg to be
crushed and smelted, and then the miners
may know whether it will pay them to go
on with the mining. They expect to work
tbe mine all winter. "Some of the ore is
very rich.
ft
MIGHT?
PROBLEM
Now Confronts the People of
the Broad Mississippi
Valley, From
PITTSBURG TO MONTANA.
The Waterway at Present Most Koled
for Its Ravages Should
BEING PK0SPERITY TO MILLIONS.
Nature Called Upon to Defeat the Machina
tions of Monopoly.
THE NECESSITY FOR UNITED ACTION
TAPER NO. 1.
The ancient Egyptians, fathers of civiliza
tion, when at feast brought in a grinning
skull; and thus, in their brief hour of en
joyment, recalled to mind the certain pangs
and travail of the luture.
We, the people of the United States, to-day
make feast and thanksgiving for these many
blessings which make us so happy and so
prosperous. To us, especially to the people
ot tbe Mississippi "Valley, there has fallen a
fuller measure of opportunity, a larger
share of tbe bounties of nature, than to any
other people.
To satisfy our love of action and of gain,
we are eager in use and development along
the lines marked by habit. Absorbed in the
work of to-day, we little heed questions not
immediately concerned therewith, however
important they may be. We leave to
morrow to care for the things of to-morrow.
We lack a wise forethought. The hints, the
promptings, the warnings of nature and his
tory make little impression and leave her
lessons unread. She is past; our faces are
turned from her. But, nature is ever with
us and before us; her lessons are momentary.
We may shirk, but cannot escape that just
balance which gives us great duties with
great blessings. While enjoying the one we
are reminded of the other; and in this, our
harvest time aud yearly feast, we are again
reminded that the flood season is fast ap
proaching, and once more we shall see that
which might enrich us work our undoing.
We shall see those rivers which should be our
greatest pride and blessing become our
shame and curse.
RAVAGES OP THE WATERS.
Brother men of the Mississippi Valley,
holders of the heart and grandest section of
this splendid land, with the glory and the
grandeur comes crying ior solntion this
material problem, vast, pregnant for good
or ill, for wealth and happiness or misery
and blight.
Each year the flood wafers ravish our
fields, counties and States, destroying life,
drowning our brothers, washing away their
property: and retiring leave waste and sod
den,tnoseu1ds that should be fajr and fer
tile. What should increase our wealth and"
happiness becomes a source of widespread
poverty, disease and death.
Each year we hear the cries and see the
appealing hands of those whose homes are
devastated; each year our hearts are wrung
to know the ravages of fever.
Ob, the famino acd the feverl
Ob, the wasting of the famine!
Oh, the blasting of tbe fever!
Oh, tbe wailing of the children!
Ob, the anguish of tbe women!
Despairing fathers stalk their ruined
fields, that yield no nurture for the children,
but rather from their rank surfaces breathe
the deadly miasm, enervating those it does
not kill, destroying many thousand beloved
lives, paralyzing a people, impoverishing
millions.
Can we not end these miseries?
We must! We must make these rivers
our b eneficent servitors rather than leave
them untamed monsters.
EACH NEEDS THE OTHER.
Our Northern bills are rich in lumber,
ores, oils; our flocks and herds yield wool,
fibres, meat; our fields abundant grains; our
craftsmen turn these into all manner of
necessary, serviceable and beautiful things.
The Southern lands yield fibers for our
clothing, fruits, sugar, tobacco and many,
other things necessary and desired by the
Northern men.
But what exchange goes on?
The sugar and cotton of the South go by
sea to New York and New England, or to
Europe, and reach us at last through many
hands, aud devious, most expensive ways;
while our own productions follow the same
crooked, costly channels to our Southern
purchasers. Natural and profitable courses
of trade are inverted and our growth is
checked because we all pay donble and
quadruple tribute to Eastern middle men
and railroad corporations.
The copper of the lakes and the Mon tanas,
the lead of the upper Mississippi and the
farther West, the grain and flour and lum
ber of the valley's head, the wool, coal, oil,
iron and steel of the Ohio Valley all these
and their manufactures, and countless other
forms of wealth, should drain naturally
down the valley to the Southern States, and
farther distant conntries, iu direct exchange
for their production of fruits and fibers, of
sugar and vegetables, of tobacco and rice,
of coffee and rubber, of gold and silver, and
many other things we want and now obtain
only by the costly Eastern route.
A DEMAND FOR TRANSPORTATION.
We protect our industries from foreign
competition of .laboring men, unranked and
feeble; but we leave them subject to domes
tic dictation of rich men powerfully com
bined iu corporations and trusts controlling
transportation.
We are not truly human while we drain
the rich and thriving North across the
hearts and hearthstones of our Southern
brothers.
We are not really free so long as a trans
portation trust can dictate to us where .we
may labor, and where we must be idle; which
of Nature's bounties we may use, and which
leave to lie dormant; which of our brothers
we may trade with and which we must
neglect.
We are not protected or secured in just
enjoyment of our profits so long asa railroad
corporation can charge "what the traffic
will bear" leaving us a mere precarious
subsistence while they wax fat and insolent
on onr labor, airing it like some oriental
Eunuch among a harem's slaves.
Compare the lake region with our valley.
The men of the lakes have not our coal, oil
and gas, onr herds and flocks, onr ranee of
climate and productions of onr developed .
industries. They have not a tithe of our ad
vantages of productiveness.
But they have what we have not Free
Transportation. Their line of travel trends
from East to West, ours from North to
South. They iave fewer people than we,
and a partial wilderness on one side.
GROWTH OF LAKE COMMERCE.
This narrow line of travel from Buffalo to
Duluth has built up a trade and transporta
tion almost equalling that which crosses the
Atlantic from the old continents to both the
Americas. If the commerce of the lakes
aud lake cities develops in the next twenty
years as in the two decades just passed, it
will exceed the trade on all the oceans. Are
we not to share this growth?
Are we of the valleys of the Mississippi
and its tributaries to feed others fat and be
ourselves gaunt?
Are we to be mere under-laborers to the
corporation nabobs, to the aristocracies of
the coast and lake dwellers?
Are we to see our trade drained out, and
our cities become mere way-stations?
That is the future marked out for us un
less we fill out nature's plan; unless we
make our rivers navigable for large steam
ships at all seasons; unless we join hands
from Pitt?burg to Montana, from Minneapo
lis to New Orleans, and welding in one unit
our millions ot beings, set resolutely to the
task before us, and force it to the end, un
faltering before its magnitude, unappalled
at its expense; until "the Father of Waters
runs unvexed to the sea," and bears on its
broad bosom the commerce of the myriad
dwellers on his banks; until all tbe branch
ing feeders carry to and Iro the products of
our labor; until our river transportation is
safe, continuous and free to every man who
can build a boat or navigate; and until this
monstrous yeaily misery and waste from
overflow are forever done away with, and
all our people look upon our rivers as their
roadways and the chief material source of
their wealth, comfort and happiness not as
to-day, harrowed by thoughts of the anguish
they may bring to-morrow.
BELIEF AND REDEMPTION.
Since the first stick of type was set in the
MississiDpi Valley it has been the sad duty
of the press to record loss, misery and death
caused by the floods; and to complain of de
ficient transportation and dangerous naviga
tion, and the resulting injury to business and
loss to the people. Desiring to serve the peo
ple in a more substantial way than merely to
chronicle their misfortunes and voice their
complaints, arid believing that the time has
come for controlling the floods in the Missis
sippi and its tributaries, and creating free
water transportation thereon, we propose to
submit to them a plan of relief and redemp
tion. We believe this to be imperatively de
manded both by the dictates of humanity
and the necessities of com mere:.
Heretofore there has been a separation and
a clashing of interests that are really identi
cal in their aim; too often there has been an
antagonism of measures which their respect
ive authors looked upon as distinct and op
posing, but nbich were really but different
portions of the same broad plan. There has
been no unity of action, as there Lai been
no unity of design.
In this seriesof papers we will snbmitto the
people a plan sufficiently comprehensive to
meet the requirements of nature and to sat
isfy the interests of all the people of all sec
tions of this valley.
Free and extended discussion will un
doubtedly lead to a solution of tbe question.
We ask the people to earnestly consider
the measures proposed, and to give their
united support to what their judgment ap
proves; and we urge the people of the
Mississippi Valley to unite upon a well
digested plan; and when so determined and
united to use every effort at their command,
political, commercial and social, to speedily
inaugurate the work and urge it to com
pletion. Engineer.
A BBTT.T.TATTT WEDDING.
Marriage of Miss Anna Wilson to a State
Department Official.
ISPECIAL TELKOBAM TO TOE DISrATCIM
Washington, November 26. Miss
Anna Wilson, only daughter of Judge Jere
M. Wilson, the" leading lawyer of Wash
ington and former Congressman from
Indiana, was married to-nigh to William
Haywood, of tbe btate department. Judge
Wilson is a warm friend of President Harri
son. Rev. Dr. Barttlett, of the New York
Avenue Presbyterian Church, officiated.
Among the distinguished guests present
at the wedding reception were Mrs. Har
rison with her father, Dr. Scott; Secretary
Blaine, James G. Blaine, Jr., and Miss
Hattie Blaine, Secretary and Mrs. Rust,
Attorney General and Mrs. Miller, Senator
and Mrs. Sherman. Senator and Mrs. DoIdo.
Judge and Mrs. Shellabarger, Representa
tive and Mrs. uutnwaite, airs. h. v. JNUes,
General and Mrs. Watmough, Mr. and Mrs.
John W. Foster and their daughters, Mrs.
Dulles and Mrs. Hensley, from Watertown;
Admiral Rodger;, Robert Scranton and
bride, with Miss Scianton, from Pennsyl
vania; Minister and Madam Romero. Mr.
and Mrs. John W. Thompson, Mr. Fenna
and Mr. Adee, of the State Department; Mr.
Sevellon Brown, Chief Clerk of the State
Department, and Mr. and Mrs. Frederick
E. Chapin.
BOUGHT BY THE G. A. R.
ANDERSONVILLE PRISON SECURED BY A
SOUTHERN POST.
Tho Historic Spot to be Transformed Into a
Park for Union Soldiers All Points of
Interest to he Suitably Marked.
:rpecial TEicartAM to the msFATcn.1
Augusta, Ga., November 26. Tbe
famous Andersonville prison, stockades and
grounds, near Americus, Ga., where thou
sands of "Union soldiers were confined,
suffered and perished during the War of
the Rebellion, is now the property of the E.
S. Jones Post, G. A.R.,of Macon. The land
was nnder several mortgages which were
held by loan companies To-day the last
money was sent to the Corbin Loan
and Banking Company, and the
Jones Post got the title to tbe
property, all legally conveyed and
perfectly secure. The purchase includes 80
acres of the stockades and tbe fort surround
ing this enclosure, a driveway 100 feet wide
and the right of way for an avenue leading
from the depot to the place. The driveway
and the avenue will be graded and macad
amized, and the other portion of the pro
perty will be converted into a beautiful
park, with serpentine drive", walks and
fountains here and there, and beds elegantly
laid off and covered with the rarest trees,
shrubs and flowers.
Ou the highest hills and in the center of
the property will be erected a magnificent
club-bouse for the use of the members of tbe
G. A. K., the E. S. Jones post and their
friends. Each point of special interest will
be marked by some suitable building or a
statue which will tell the story of the spot
on which it stands. At tbe historical
Providence spring a large amphitheater
will be erected and a portion of the annual
Decoration Day exercises will be held there.
Everything will be fixed upon a magnificent
scale and the work throughout will be one
ot love and patriotism.
Speaking on this line, Commander I. D.
Crawford, of the E. S. Jones Post, said:
"There is no speculative scheme about it at
all, it is a work of sentiment. We are as
thoroughly reconstructed as it is possible for
us to be, and it is onr love for our former
command which prompts us to do what we
will do. Tbe money will be raised by means
of subscription made by the members of the
10,000 posts of the G. A. R. which exist in
the country. What we fail to raise in that
way will be raised from the same source by
means of a call from the National headquar
ters of the organization. We are receiving
subscriDtions every day and there will be no
trouble getting the money necessary. When
tbe plaus have been carried out, the grounds
and whatever there may be on them will
stand as a monument to our comrades who
suffered and died there."
THEIR GOLDEN WEDDING.
Judge Hoar Celebrates the Fiftieth Anni
versary of His Marriage.
rsrzciAi. TELEQ1AM TO the DisrATCn.1
Boston, November 26. Judge E. Rock
well Hoar and his wife celebrated their
golden wedding at Concord to-day, the re
ception taking place on almost the same
spot on which the marriage ceremony was
performed SO years ago. The reception was
given by their son, Samuel Hoar, attorney
for the Boston and Albany Railroad. Sen
ator George Frisbie Hoar was one of the
most conspicuous of the hundreds of persons
present. Congratulatory messages were re
ceived from all parts of the world.
Judge Hoar was tbe son of tbe statesman,
Samuel Hoar, and grandson of Captain
Samuel Hoar, an officer of the Revolution.
He was Judge of the Court of Common
Pleas from 1855 to 1859 and of the State Su
preme Court from 1859 to 1869. He was
United States Attorney General from
March, 1S69, to Julv, 1870. and was a mem
ber of tbe Joint High Commission which
framed the treaty of Washington with
Great Britain in 1871. He also served as a
Massachusetts Representative in Congress
from December 1, 1873, to March 3, 1875, his
affiliation being with the Republican party.
He was President of the Board of Overseers
of Harvard College from 1884 to 1887.
HE WAS BURIED ALIVE.
The Death of a War Veteran Recalls a
Terrible Experience.
terrciAi. teliobam to thb dispatch.!
Burlington, November 27. Abner L.
Dunn, a war veteran, aged 76, is dead and
buried for the second time. Hedied several
days ago and in accordance with his request
made before his death, he was not buried till
to-day. Several yeats ago Dunn was declared
to be dead by the doctors. His body was
placed in a coffin and the burial rite was
being performed when, to the horror of
those present, manifestations of returning
life were exhibited. Tbe coffin was quickly
opened and Dunn was found to be alive.
The story of his experience is a horrifying
one. He was vividly conscious of all that
went on while he lay apparently dead. He
heard the conversation of his friends and
conld even see their faces through his half
closed eyes, but be could not speak or
move. His condition of mind was terrible.
Every facnlty was strained to make some
sign, but his body was like stone. Suddenly
he felt a breaking as of bones, when he
found he could move his limbs. Then he
made the warning noise that attracted the
attention of the mourners. He has had a
terrible dread of death ever since, and
begged that his body be held till death was
absolutely proven.
SCIENTIFIC SUCCESS
Expected in the Second Attempt at
Execution by Electricity.
NEGE0 WOOD TO GO NEXT WEEK.
Warden Ensh Now Perfecting the Neces
sary Arrangements.
EIPEETS ENGAGED TO EXPEEIMENT
rSrKCIAL TZLEGBAM TO TH3 DIirATCH.1
New-York, November 26. The author
ities at the Sing Sing State prison are de
termined that the killing by electricity of
Joseph Wood, the colored murderer, shall
be a scientific success, if it is possible to
kill a human being decently aud instantly
by electricity. Warden Brush will guard
against the mistakes that were made at
Auburn when Kemmler was tortured to
death. He said to-day that there was not a
doubt in his mind bnt that Wood would be
killed instantly.
He has engaged expert electricians to per
fect the arrangements, and to make the pre
liminary experiments. Who they are he
will not say, but he has great confidence in
their ability. They were arranging the ap
paratus to-day. Two hours' work will make
everything ready for the preliminary ex
periments. The question of having the
switchboard from which th? death current
will be controlled in the execution room has
not yet been settled, the Warden says:
A PROBABLE CHANGE.
It was in an adjoining room in Kemm
ler's case, and the doctors then said it should
have been in plain sight. The temporary
switch board is already up in the execution
room at Sing Sing, and in all probability it
will be left where it is, if for no other reason
than that there is but a single room in the
building, unless the four cells may be called
rooms, and a more convenient place could
not be found for it.
The death chair will not be put in place
before Saturday. It is similar to the one used
at Auburn. It was made by the convicts at
the Auburn prison. Whether it is exactly
the same as the chair in which Kemmler
sat. Warden Brush refuses to say, or rather
says he don't know.
The chair will probably be placed on tbe
west side of tbe building, only a few feet
from the door which opens into the room
where Wood and his three fellow murderers
are confined. This will do away with what
has always been oueot thechiei horrors of
executions, the long walk from the condemned
man's cell to tbe place where he is to die.
Wood will not have to walk 15 feet irom hia
cell door to reach tbe fatal chair.
THE PROGRAMME ARRANGED.
In this short walk be will be accompanied
by two priests and bis guards. He will step
right out of his cell into tbe presence of the
persons who have been invited to witness the
experiment of killing him, and hardly two
minutes will elapse before he is seated in
the chair, awaiting the shock. He will
hardly have time to lose his courage.
Warden Brush said to-day that he had
about completed his list of witnesses.
Representatives of the Associated Press and
the United Press called on him to-day, and
he told them he had decided, on tbe advice
of bis lawyer, not to admit men from either
organization to witness the experiment. At
the same time he invited them to appeal to
his superiors. State Prison Superintendent
Lathrop and Governor Hill, and if either
advised that press representatives ba ad
mitted to tbe prison he would include them
iu the jury of 12 that the law says he shall
select.
The work of preparing things in the exe
cutiou room went on to-day in the hearing?
of Wood and his companion, but they did
not know what was being done. Wood
himself took no interest in the noises ha
heard. It is not likely that anv .tests of the
apparatus will be made before Saturdayand
possibly none will be made until Monday.
MIDDLE OF THE TVEEK.
Although tbe warden can put Wood to
death at any time alter midnight Sunday
night, it is not likely that the execution will
take place berore tbe middle of the week.
Dr. Carlos McDonald called at the prison to
day and inspected the machine.
Wood's lawyer, J. R. Haire, called on his
client in the morning. Wood was kneeling
at prayer at tbe time. He did not notice
the lawyer for several minutes. Then ho
greeted him gravely. The lawyer told him
that Governor Hill had refused to grant a
respite even for a (ew days. Wood did not
appear to be surprised or affected by tbe
news. He bas been downcast sinre he baa
been in jail and has not had any hope that
he would escape the death penalty.
The lawyer told him to brace up; that
there was yet hope, and by Saturday some
thing might be accomplished. At all even t3
he should not give up hope until then.
Wood did not seem to be encouraged by the
prospect, and when tbe lawyer had gone he
resumed his prayers, and spent nearly the
whole day on his knees. Mr. Haire has
postponed his appeal to the Supreme Court.
He intended to make it yesterday.
THE GROUND FOR APPEAL.
When he came bacK from Sing Sing ha
said that he would ou Friday ask a Judge
of tbe United States Court ior a writ of
habeas corpus on the ground that colored
men were excluded from the grand and
petit juries that indicted and convicted
Wood.
Chief Clerk Soarks, of the Court of Gen
eral Sessions and Oyer and Terminer, re
ceived to-day from tbe United States
Supreme Court the remitter in tbe case of
Shibuya Jugiro, the Japanese sailor, whose
appeal from a conviction of murder in tha
first degree in the Court of Oyer and
Terminer in this city was denied by the
Supreme Court on Monday. District
Attorney Fellows went at once before
Judge Brady in tbe Supreme Court and
obtained an order requiring Warden Brush,
of Sing Sing prison, to produce Jugiro is
Oyer and Terminer on Monday, when a day
may be set for his execution by electricity.
AFTEB THE DOWSE,
Era Hamilton to Brlnz Salt Against Robert
Itay Hamilton's Estate.
ISrECIAl. TKLEQRAM TO THK DIlU'ATCn.l
New York, November 26. Eva Hamil
ton, who claims to be the widow of Robert
Ray Hamilton, will bring suit next week;
for her widow's dower in tho Hamil
ton estate. She will claim tha
custody of Baby Beatrice. Nona
of Eva Hamilton's relatives or
friends went to the State Prison at Trenton
to see her when she was released on Tuesday.
Colonel Fuller, Mrs. Hamilton's counsel,
said to-dav that Mrs. Hamilton had
gone to Philadelphia to remain for a few
days. Notwithstanding his assertion.there is
little doubt that she slept on Tuesday night
at Taylors' Hotel in Jersey City.
"If Mrs. Hamilton can prove that she is
the widow of Robert Ray Hamilton, she is!
sure to get one-third interest in his real
estate," said Colonel Fuller. "Tha
divorce proceedings are dead, apd
there is no doubt about our win
ning a suit for dower. No provision
was made for her in the will. I do not
know what the real estate amounts to. but X
have beard it estimated at about 5400,000."
Sherman W. Knevals, the guardian of
Babv Beatrice, says that he will not tell
Eva Hamilton where the child is.