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S.-x-KKiia C. WFDNESDAY~ MARfoi 27, 1895. NO._______35.___ SILVER AN IDEAL MONEY. IT IS THE BEST CONTINUOUS MEAS URE OF VALUES. Gold Shown to Be Four Times as Subject to Fluctuation-What Silver Has Done for Mexico-The Metals Compared on Their Merits--Goldbng Delusions. Does justice require that silver be remonetized on the old ratio of 16 to 1? Let us bring this issue to a plain test of facts right at the start, and to that end I beg leave to take a case in which I am personally interested and which is but a type of many thous ands. My home is in a town of some 2,000 people in the Wabash valley, in a region singularly blest by nature in climate, timber. coal, rock and water, and with a soil fruitful in all the pro ducts of the middle temperate zone. There I own a little real estate, and every fact herein given is within my gersonal knowledge and can be veri by the records. Several years ago the county bonded itself heavily to build a jail and courthouse and for other purposes, and some of the bonds are still due, and I as a real estate owner must pay taxes thereon. When this debt was contracted, a $1,000 bond would have bought in that town 952 bushels of wheat. It will today buy 2,326 bushels. It would thei have bought 1,700 bushels of corn. It will today buy 3,000 bushels. It would then have bought eight good average farm houses. It w~ today buv 20. It would then have bought 10 acres of first class land within easy sound of the courthouse bell. It will today buy 20. And so I might go around the list, for of all farm staples pork is the only one sold at near the old price, and that, as everybody knows,is a purely accidental ana tem porary matter. Now,I respectfully submit the ques tion to any honest man as yet untaint ed by goldbug sophistry. Is not the practical tesudt just the same as if the government had sent the army there compelled those farmers and owners of town property to pay $2 where they hadagreed topay $1 And if this be, as we believe, the result of leo-islation, wherein it is morally one whit better than highway robbery? Nor is this an extreme case. We have the official facts in the federalcensus and the au thorized statistics of the nation and states. G LDBUG SOPHISTRIES. .I anticipate the answers. We are all familiar with them. The first is that invention has greatly cheapened pro duction. This is a self evident false hood. There is not an implement now in use on the farms of Indiana that was not then, save possibly the twine binder, then invented, but not in gen eral use. The labor cost of farm pro duce has not decreased by so much as 2 per cent. But suppose it were true. Should the creditor have all the gain of an advancing civilization? Is not the farmer entitled to at least one-half of it? The goldbug argument on this point is self destructive. They assert that invention and the consequently increased production have cheapened commodities 50 per cent. They next assert that the enormous outpour of the mines has cheapened silver 50 per cent. Therefore, they say, silver is not "honest money." If the premises had smallo, the conclusion would never catch it-so far are they a part. We know it to be true that products have cheapened 50 per cent. in terms of gold;i' it be also true that advanc ing has cheapened silver in the same ratio, is it not conclusive that silver is the best possible continuous measure of values? Is it not, our enemies themselves. being judges, the ideal money for which economists have sighed so long-the money which will through all the changes of years, buy most nearly the same amount of com modities? Is it not indeed the only money which works exact justice, en abling the creditor to buy as much as did the money he lent and compelling -the debtor to pay no more? I maintain, however, that their con tention as to silver is false. I insist that of all products of human labor silver is the most consistent in value that is, it bears in purchasing power the least variable relation to other commodities-and that gold is, by nat ural law, as shown by geology and metallurgy, at least four times as sub ject to fluctuations in value as silver. Of this I will treat later. Much is said of overproduction, especially in wheat, but it has repeatedly been proved that the world does not yet produce all the wheat it wants. Our agricultural department shows that consumption of the grain has de creased inthis country, cheaper stuffs being substituted, and in Europe there are still 100,000,000 people who can not afford wheaten bread, but use rye, oats and potatoes. Are we to suppose th hvdo that for fun? No, the od'~creditors have their grip on on the throats of the world's produc ers, and the law is on their side. That claim of theirs we sadly admit. STRONG POINTS FOR SILVER. We hear much also of the comueti tion of Argentine and other lands4 but the fact is skillfully evaded that it is the war on silver which has stimulat ed the export from these countries. The Argentine minister, Dr. Zeballos, tells me that if the world's present policy be continued his country will shut out all American grain from the Europeon mar-kets -uthin ten years, and Senor Romero. Mexican minister. in a written reply to my questions. says: "While it is true that the Mex ican coin when converted into foreign exchange has no other value than that of the silver bullion contained in it. it is also a fact that the difference has greatly encouraged and increased the export other products, and has also greatly favored manufacturing, in or der to avoid the buying of exchange to pay for imports from countries hav ing a gold standard. The purchasing power of the Mexican silver dollar has not been changed in Mexico. so ther-e is more stability in prices and wages. which is also a gr-eat advantag-e. Our economic conditions ar-e now better than those prevailing in gold coun tries. We have fewer failures, and the increase of trailic has prevented our railroads from going into the hands of receivers." Will some one kindly mention a gold basis nation where the general conditioni is im proving. exports inecr(2sinlg and nio no railroads going into the hands of receivers: GQLI> APPR~EUIATION. Is it poss.ible to dislocate silver from its traditionary connlction with gold, to divest the mind of misleading im pressions due to the long habit of quoting silver in termis of gold, and eta nfair view of the metal on its mer its: On this point I first present a bit of history. In 1871 silver was as now a commoidity, and gold was the same, for 1both were denionetized by the greenback. Near the close of that year a ten ounce silver bar (no fiat, no buying it up by government credit) sold in New York city for --13.10 in gold. Gold was at a lower premium than some vears after, so the bar of silver was worth almost exactly $15 in greenbacks. This would then buy in New York city 9. bushels of wheat, 26 of oats, 15 of rye or 18 of corn, and likewise 80 pounds of cotton or 30 of wool or 361 of bar iron. Today that ten ounce bar of silver would sell, I believe, 6.3O, which would buy in in New York city 11 bushels of wheat, or 112 pounds of cotton, nearly twice as much bar iron as in 1871, somewhat less of rye, oats and pork, and some what more of other things. On the general average of 100 commodities the purchasing power of uncoined sil ver has declined, as near as I can esti mate it, 10 per cent. Now it is clear to my mind that 10 per cent. is equal to the cheapening caused by increased invention in mining ana reduction and by the general demonetization. It would take columns of figures to prove it, but I also believe it to be true that the smaller cost of producing commodities, due to inventions since 1871, would with a stable money have been balanced, or nearly so, by in creased consumption, and that as measured by an ideally perfect or ab solutely invariable standard commodi ties have really cheapened but the merest trifle since 1871. All the rest which appears in the nominal quota tions is due to the 40 per cent increase in the prerchasing power of gold. BLINDED DY sELF INTEREST. The cold bard truth is that on this particular point the goldbugs are af flicted with a delu-sion like that which possesses a child or a green landsman voyaging down a very crooked river. Now the sun is on his right and now on his left, at one time in the north and again in the southeast. while woods and hills mos e around him in a regular devil's dance, but to his eye the boat goes straight on. The landsman knows better, and the child can be taught better, and both will admit the truth because they gain nothing by self deception, but the goldbug's inter est blinds him, and though convinced by unanswerable figures he would still deny the truth. Our creditors have assumed, as if it were a primary truth, that while all other articles on earth are perpetually changing in value gold alone is gifted .vith the great attribute of God-imi mutability. They have asserted this so loud and long that they have come to believe it themselves, and this radi cal error has debauched all their po litical thinking. In vain do we point out to them that a bar of uncoined sil ver widl exchange for nearly as much as 30 years ago, while uncoined gold will exchange for 40 per cent more. In vain do we prove the steady decline of all commodities in equal measure with silver, and that regardless of new inventions or relative production. SILVER THE MOST -CONSTANT VALUE. 1 would not rashly rush in where magels fear to tread and contradict sci entific men who have made an ex austive study of the subject, but cer tainly all the evidence in my posses ion goes to prove that silver is the most constant in value of all the pre ,ious metals, and that gold is extieme lvariable. I present a few reasons. Nearly all the silver is produced from deep lbodes-great fissures extendino o unknown depths in the earth, causea by primal convulsions and filled prob ably by mineral rising in a sublimat ed state. A true fissare vein once well opened is a permanent property and the supply therefrom is, as a rule, tolerably regular. Such mining is in every sense a legitimate business, an d even if there is an immense yield for a few yet'rs it makes but a triflino dif erence because of the vast stoc - al ready in the world. Gold, on the other hand, is larg-ely he product of placer, gulch and bar, of washing in gravel beds and pickingr nuggets from apparently accidental ieposits. In such mining there is no :ertainty, and hence a gold famine ike that in the early part of this cen ury is followed by a gold glut like that of 1850-60, and that in turn by a gold famine. It is true that there are permanent a-ad reliable lode mines of rold, but enough of the others to pro luce great variations. Let gold be quoted in terms of silver, and all men would soon recognize that it is the eore variable in value. And if any reader thinks that the gold basis will broaden to fit the needs >f commerce let him consider these facts, given by the eminent staistician ulhal: "Ini 1800 the interntional :ommerce of the world aggregated but 3,510,000,000, less than the exports nd imports of the United States last ear. In 1840 it was but $82,865, 000, )00, when all the world had but 4,515 eles of railway and ocean shipping of but 1482,000 tonnag-e. Today the world has 384,000 mil~es of railway, >ver 4t.000,j00 tounage of ocean ship ping, 14 intercontinental ocean enbles nd an international commerce a lit tle in excess of $18,000,000,000. But redit currency sup plies the deficien :y." Unfortunately true. Credit has expanded far beyond the sustain ing power of the gold basis. And that's what's the matter with the coun try. J. HI. BROwNING. PiU'lp St. Gorge Cooke. RiemioNcD, VA., MIarch 20.--News has just been received here of the eath in Detr-oit of Gen. Philip St. eorge Cooke, the father of the late Gen. John R. Cooke, of this city. and Mrs. J. E. B. Stuart, of Staunton, the widow of the famous Cavalry chief. Gen. Cooke was borni near Leesburg. in this State, June 1:3, 1809. H~e gradi uated from West Point ini 1829. Dur in tile civil war Geni. Cooke wa in the Fedral armyv. and was op~posedl by his own son anid Gen. Stuart, his s>n-in-]aw, both of whmom were on the Confederate side. This division be tweeni father and son caused an es trangement.- which was not heard un til just before the latter's death about four yeau-s a go. About that time Gen. Philip St. George Cooke camne on here andl a perfect reconciliation took place. Thme son entered the Confederate army as an Otlicer- in a North Carolina regi ment. H~e wa a brave and fer-less soldier, and at Gettysburg received a wound in the head, which c-alme near povng fatal. Thme elder Cooke en tered the Federal arnuy as a lieutenant ini the 6Oh infanltry. Hie wa- in the Black Hawk and 31exican wars. D~ur ing the Kanmsas troubles of 1l.30--57 heC headed the cavalry expedition into Utah. lie commanded thme regular Feder-al caralry of the Army of the Potomac during thme late wvar. GenI. Cooke is understood to have beenm THE ENLISTED MIALITIA. THE NAMES OF THE NEW COMPANIES THAT HAVE ENLISTED. Sixty-eight Companies Out of One Hun dred and Ten Have Enlisted and are Nowv Ready for Service. COLUMBIA, March 21.-There can be no question that the new military law. with the enlistment feature, has had the effect of weeding the service down to a stand. The losses have been even greater than was expected, but the Adjutant General's oflice is satisfied that those that have re-enlisted will go into service with renewed vigor and that it will be the basis for one of the very best organizations in the coun try. The last annual report of the Adju tant General indicates that there were two hundred and seven companies in the military service. This included the eighteen companies of the Nation al Guards and one hundred and ten companies that were organized on the spur of the moment during the Dar lington dispensary trouble. At the time it was thought that a very small percentage of the companies that were organized during the excitement would stick and the prophecy has been car ried out. Of the one hundred and ten companies that were organized within the space of two or three months after the "rebellion" only twenty-two have seen fit to keep up their military or ganization sufficiently to enlist as re quired. Some additional companies of both the old and new ones will be -iven a little time in which to send in their enlistment blanks, as ther have shown the department some valid rea son why the returns have not yet been forwarded. Altogether there will not be a hundred companies that will com pl with the new requirements. and with such a force Adjt. Watts thinks he has the making of a splendid corps. The followin- are the companies that have alread v sent in their enlist ment reports and will secure places in the reoroanized force: Allentale Guards, Allendale. Anderson Rifles, Starr. Bamberg Guards, Bamberg. Troy Rifles,. Troy. Hampton Imperial Guards. George ton. "B. R. T."Guards, Lamar. Fairfield Rifle Guards, Winnsboro. Liberty Hill Riles, Liberty Hill, Kershaw. Pomaria Rifles, Pomaria, Newberry. Governor's Volunteers, Blackville. Tillman Volunteers, Orangeburg. Edisto Rifles, Orangeburg. York County Volunteers, Old Point, York, Green Brier Rifles, Rockton, Fair field. Hazlewood Rifles, Chester. t Ridgeway Rifles, Ridgeway, Fair- i field. C Pea Ridge Rifles, Kelton, Union. C Gary Evans Volunteers, Springfield, Orangeburg. t Tillman Rifles, Cross Anchor. Spar- i tanburg.. t Pickens Rifles, PickeAs. t Eem Guards, Lvra, Florence. Calhoun Light 'Infantry, St. Mat- t thews, Orangeburg. a Farley Light Infantry, Ridge a Spring, Edgefield. Troop A, Brunson, Hampton. Troop B, Varnville, Hampton. 1 Troop E, Brunson, Hampton. Troop G, Stafford. Troop I, Peeples. Troop L, Okrtee.t Troop K, Gillisonville, Hampton. Combahee Mounted Riflemen, Whitehall.t Simpson Rangers, -c Chicora Rifles. Mount Pleasant, r Berkeley German Artilery. Charleston. a Lafayette Artillery, Charleston. t German Fusiliers, Charleston. Sumter Guards, Charleston. a Carolina Rifles, Charleston. Irish Volunteers, Charleston. Moultrie Guards, Charleston. Montgomer; Guards, Charleston. Washing-ton Light Infantry, Coin pany B, Chiarleston. . Beaufort Volunteer Artilery, Beau- c fort-. Marion's Men of Winyah, Geor~ge- s, town. Lake City Light Dragoons. Lake ~ City, Williamsburg. a 13arlington Guards, Darlington. Dibble4Light Dragoons, Orangeburg. Edgefield Rifles, Edoefield.t Edisto Mounted Rifiemen, Edisto Island. r Edgefield Light Dragoons, Edge- is field. Edgefield Hussars, Edgefield. q Georgetown Rifle Guards, George- t town. 't Chesterfield Rililes, Chesterfield. Richland Volunteers, Columbia. Hampton Light Di-agoons. Panola. j Connor Mounted Riflemen, Panola. c Santee Rifles, Elloree, Orangeburg. 1 Peak Guar-ds, Peak's, Lexington. 4 Hask-ell Mounted Riflemen. James r Island Island. Lee Light Infantry, Chester. r Montgomery Guards, Spartcanburg- 0 Johnson Rifles, Union. Manning Guards, Manning. Mauldin Guards, Greenville. Palmetto Rifles, Aiken. c Sally Rifles, Sally. Santee Cavalry, St. Stephen's. Wassamassaw Cavalry, Jedburg. Sweetwater Light Dragoons. 1Ham- r burg. Richardson Guards. Montimrenci. The last r-epor-t of the Adjuntant g Gener'al showed the~ following recapit- i ulation. Companies. t Cav-alry............3~>5 Artillery.......... ......... 1 j Infantr-y.................. 49 l Toal------- --- a Naval Militia.............. National Guar-d.............19 e Reserves .(ne-w)............110 t -- c Grand total............207 It is a significant fact, and one that ought to be thought of, that every one of the eighteen companies of coloredi men has enlisted, and, what is more,. ( that they are all anxious to get posi- t tions in the ser-vice. The enlistment cyclone st ruck the 2d ~ regiment with more force than any other in the State. Out of the eight oild e companies that were in this regiment only three remain. the Richland VoI- ( unt'eers,the Lee Light 1: dantr-y anid thet For-t Motte Guard.wbie b will enlist in a few days. Ainmn ti.: older comp~a nies that go out of servitie with the many reser-ves that were organiize-d af- 1 ter the " rebellion" arec thiese,or at least I it isso thought.- t The Gordon Volunteers, Blackville. The Edgelek Guards, Johnston. The Gordon Light Infantry, Win-t Catawba Riules, Rock Hill. Governor's Guards, Columbia. Columbia Zouaves, Columbia. Clinton Rifles, Clinton. Sumter Light Infantry, Sumter. Orr Rifles, Piedmont. Charleston Light Dragoons. Charles Lon. Sumter Light Dragoons. Summer ville. Manigault Light Dragoons, George town. Cheraw Guards, Cheraw. Capes, Light Infantry, Parksville. The Adjutant General is now arrang ng for the firt series of inspections. COTTON GOES A BOOMING. [t Is Nearly a Cent Higher Than It Was a Week Ago. NEW YORK. March 20.-The Sun ays: Cotton advanced 13 to 14 points. ,losing firm, with a net rise for the lay of 11 to 12 points, with sales of '34,000 bales. Liverpool advance 3 )oints on futures, but reacted and .losed weak with a net advance for the lav of 1 to 1; points: spot sales 25,000 )ales atan advance of 3-32d. New Or eans advanced 7 to 9 ponts. New fork ware house stock is slowly in ,reasing. It is now 175,000 bales. Lgainst 243.000 a year ago, 276,000 in 893 and 387,000 in 1892. Silver con inued strong and advanced -d in Lon [on and ; cent here. Print cloths vere firmer. Brown goods are trono-er than they have been in many nonth~s. The semi-weekly interior receipts. as eported by New Orleans, were :32.000 )ales, agains. 12.000 last year and 15, 00 in 1892 Shipments 32.000 bales gainst 18.0o0 last year and 24,000 in 892. In Manchester yarns and cloths vere dearer than last reported, but >uyers refused to go on. Port receipts odav17,4012 bales against 23.929 this tavs last week and 7,384 last year: thus ar this week 74.047 bales, against 92, 146 thus far last week. Spot cotton [ere was quiet at an advance of I ent: 300 bales delivered on contract. louston received today 2,216 bales, .gainst 4,659 this day last week and 771 ast year: St. Louis 1,215 bales, against 51 and 207; Memphis 872 bales. agains ,156 and 131: Augusta 284 bales. ,gainst 4S2 and 83. The Southern pot markets were general firm Wilm ngton advanced + cent. Mobile Sav .nnah, Norfolk and Augusta + cent. onp New Orleans and Memphis 1-16 ents. New Orleans sold 5,000 bales .nd Memphis 4,725. New Orleans re eiots 'tomorrow are estimated at 6,000 o 9,000 bales, against 2,093~last week nd 1,449 last year. Prices are now 5 to "88 points h'gher than a few reeks ago. To-days features: It almost seemed s if everybody in town was buyino otton to-day, and the bears seemea o crawl into a hole and pull the hole a after them. Wall street and other utside people were buying. The outh, Liverpool and the Continent iought heavily. -On the advance here was some realizing as usual; but a spite of this the closing figures were he best of the day. As for specula ion it exceeded anything seen here a a number of years. Everybody is [inking of the future of the next crop nd a possible decrease in the acreage s well as a certain decrease in the se of fertilizers. Outside of that there the increasing activity of general usiness in this country. The great trength of the British cotton mar :ets, the steady rise of silver, the ad 'ancintg spot quotations in this coun ry, the better outlook for the dry oods trade, the broader stock market, he larger investments in bonds, be >kening returning confidence among apitalists, the stronger rates for ioney, in a word, the no- cheerful spect of things in the domain of comn 1erce and finance. Fixing their at mntion on these -things the cotton ulls find their courage increasing nd the speculation has a breadth not een for many a month past Other Spanish Outrages. TAMPA, Fla., March 20.-Passengers n the steamer which arrived from [avana bring news of reports in cir ulation there of further depredations y Spanish cruisers on American yes ils along the Cuban coast. The latest sport is to the effect that the Spanish unboat "Arcedo" fired into and sank n American schooner off Puerto tare. It is reported that the crew of 1e vessel, numbering sixteen persons, erished with it. It is not known thether the schooner had arms or car ied an expedition for the Cubans. It ;reported in Havana that the schoo er had sailed from Key West. In uiries, however, fail to "show that any oat is missing or u~nreported, except 'iose engaged in legitimate trade. lany sailed recently for West India orts with fruit cargoes. Puerto del adre is a harbor on the northeastern oast of Cuba. in latitude 21 degrees 7 minutes N., longitude 76 degrees 2 minutes W. It has a long and nar ow entrance and atfords excellent nchiorage. It is not far from the lace where the Spanish gunboat fired n the "Allianea." The Spanish crui er "Infanta Isabella."~ Captain Due as. has sailed for Havana. It is be teed she has withdrawn on account f the "Allianca"~ affair. Found Gold in a River. NEW YXC)1, March 20.-There ar i-ed last night a young man who, :iee Wednesday morning last, has een llving towards this city at the 1stest'possible rate, with a piece of .ighly interesting news. His niame is 'homas Gordon and he is a member of Lie cooperative community of Liberal [ormons, Bhutr. San .Juan county, itah. He is a school teacher, and took is pup~ils on a geological expeditioii iong the San Juan river. They dug p a number of nuggets and some a e gold. All pursuits were suspend d and the entire community went to aic river on noon Monday and at the lose of daylight on Tuestday there had een taken from the river bed bythe se of the most primitive methods. old in :iakes and tiny nuggets equal o 2.300o. A meeting of the elders de ided to dispatch the school teacher a New York with letters to influen ial friends. Gordon left Bluff last Vednesday and with a single change f horses, reached IDurango. Colo., ighty-two m iles, the nearest railroad Oit, ini time to catch the fast train ni Thursday. lie declines to discuss le details of h1is nlission. Thiirty-five Killed. VIEmAMarchI 20.-A dispatch from 'roppau thiat thirty-live bodies have eenl taken from the mine ow-ned by be Archd~uke Albrecht. The Arch uxke Frederick has ordered that ani unual pension of 10(1 llorins be paid hie widow of every victim, the first nymnent~ ~~ to 1Zpi t ne FIFTY WIDOWS WEEP. FIVE TIMES FIFTY ORPHAN CHIL DREN CRY. The Light of Sixty Lives Blown Out by One Terrific BIast In Rock Mountain Mine. Wyo - Searching For the Dead. EVANSTON, Wyo., 3arch 21.-An explosion occurred at 6 p. m.. yester day in the Rocky Mountain Coal and Iron Company mines. No. 5. at Red Canton. Up .o noon today fifty-nine deaths were known to have resulted. Those killed on the outside by flying timbers were: James B. Bruce, foreman: 0. Malt by, superintendent of motive power: W. E. Cox, head carpenter: Wm. Sell ers. Jr., James W. Clark, all married, and Jerry Crawford, single. The following have been brought out: Willard. James Lamb, Fred ."Morgan. married, and S. Clay and W. H. Grieves, single. The large force of men is now at work. to recover the bodies of the fol lowing men. all married, known to have been in the mine at the time of the explosion: Wi. Morris, John T. Clark Jas. Clark, Wim. Langden Sr., David Lloyd, John T. Martin, George Critchler, Jhon Thebey, John Lester, Wm..'Wagstaff, Chas. S. Clark, Jas. Hayden, Ratt Silta, Walter Miller, Samuel Hutchinson, John Dexter, Henry Buarton, Samuel Halsey, Tho mas Booth, Ben Coles, Samuel Bates, Thos. Hutchinson, Isaac Johnson, John Lamar, Angel Dermodv. Bap tiste Julion, John Ferne, John 'Harley, Matt Johnson. II. A. Sybon, Wim. Pope, Johin Wilkes. Chas. Kasola, Gus Kasola. Aaron Butt, Wur. Wee dop. Jas. Hutchinson. Wm. Sellers, Sr., Hugh Sloan, Henry Sathren. and the following unmarried men: Albert Cark, Wm. Graham, Marshal Lang den, John Morris. David W. Lowey, Geo. Hydes, John G. Locke. There are fifty widows and fully 250 orphan children in the camp today as the result of the disaster. There is no fire in the mine and the work of recovering the dead bodies is proceed ing as rapidly as possible and will probi'ly not be completed today. The interior of the mine is badly wrecked. caved in many places and full of foul air. CAll the'buildings at the mouth of the mine were wrecked. The en trance to the mine is by vertical pas sage into the side of a hill, not a per pendicular shaft and the workings are very extensive. No explanation of the disaster hasas yet been discovered. The work of recoving the bodies goes steadily on, night and day, rushed forward by volunteer squads of min ers and other citizens who relieve each other from time to time. The work is attended with grave peril and the first group of miners wno ventured to brave the gas, fire damp and crumb ling wall's were overcome and had to be rescued by others. The terrific force of the explosion in finding vent at the mouth of the slope, blew the heavily timbered shed over the mouth of the slope and over the passageway leading out to the tipple. clear into space, mowing down the tops of the power house. tipple shed and other buildings at the mouth of the slope, more effectually than chain shot could have done. A little boy who had come to the mine with a horse and buggy to take his grandfather. Henry Burton, home at the close of the day's work was driv ing over the slope near it mouth on the public highway at the moment of the explosion. He and the horse and bun'ny were thrown almost perpendi culia'rl in the air, fully twenty-five feet anid all fell in a heap into the mouth of the slope, where the buggy was demolished. The boy was picked up unhurt and the horse, an hour la ter, was rescued not much hurt appar ently, although badly signed and stun ned. The shock of the explosion was felt for miles around and was distinct ly heard at Evanston, seven milest 'The Rocky Mountain camp, general-< ly designated as the Central Pacific< mines, has two mines, Nos. 5 and 6, t with one mine face, making t wo sep Irate mines with 150 feet pillars separat ing them. This leaves No. 6 unharmed, but deprives the company of one half of its capacity. This is the third dis istrous explo~ion in this vicinity. In 1881 No. 2 mine. Rocky Mountain, ex ploded, killing thirty -six Chinese and four white men. In the spring of 186, in Union Pacific mine, No. 4, thirty-six men were killed. Newell Beeman, the manager. ar rived from Salt Lake tonight and has tened to the mine. The scene about the mine last nigh t and today was heart-sickening. The air is filled with the agonizing.ereamns otfifty widows and 230 orrhants as they "gathered about and saw the dii torted features and mangled remains of father or husband, son or brother. or realized at last that there was no hope to see their loved ones rescued live from the mine's cruel dlepths. Help and succor have been tendered from all sources. The mules that1 were in the mine were killed as were 1 the men. evidenmtly by the force of the' concussion, and a're removed as fast as they can be reached. The explosion blew out or loosened all the timbering and supports, and racked and shattered the walls and roof of the interior- of the mine, so I that the search for the (dead is attend- I ed with great peril. The work of re covering the dead becomes more ditli cult as the working parties advance toward the seventh level, where it is thought the thirty-eight men who have not been found were gathered to await the coiming of the last man trip of the day which was to take thenm to the surface. A few lives were saved because of the time of explosion. The miners quit work at 6 o'clock and it is custo marv for them to be near the entrance anid'come out juist as the whistle blows. A number hiad come- out and some had just left thle:etrance to the mine slope, away fiom the working tunnel. whlen the explosion occurred, thus escaping1 ueath. Sixty men per'ished in the disaster, theirty-eight of whom are still in the mie. About theirty of the dead be Iongned to the A. 0. C. W., and were Lnsured for $2.000) each. ADouble Murder. IULUTH LI. INN., March JA.-A hor' ible dule murder ocurrd yeste'r Ia a t \lciegor,. a smeallI place seven timie fro~mm Duluth ini Aike'n couu ' .1 The settlenmenit is inhabited most- t ly b I ittlins and two fammilies got iito ai quarrel ovei' the cutting of someis timber w hich each claimed as h is own. . This morning A. Cristti and his broth er Nichmolas. took rities and deliberate-s v shiot Benjenno aiid his wife. Thes nan's head was almost severed from 1 his bodi. Te murderers ha lied. A DIPLOMATIC SENSATION. A Cabinet Meeting in Washington to Con sider the Situation. - WASHINGTON, March 29.-The pros pect of serious complications which threaten the United States through probable European encroachment on Venezuela and Nicaraguahasassumed a phase of such danger to the principle laid down in the fonroe docirine that a special cabinet conference was held at the White House this afternoon to consider the subject. There is no doubt whatever that these subjects are considered by the President and Sec retary Gresham as of much greater im importance to this country than the Allianca incident or the recall of Min ister Thurston, and must be handled with unusual delicacy and with the knowledge that a misstep may plunge the Government into embarrassing complications with not one but sever al of the principal European nations. The Conference was attended by the President. Secretary Gresham, Secretary Carlisle, Attorney General Olney and Secretary Lamont. It last ed several hours, but Mr. Lamont withdrew after a brief attendance. Mr. Gresham took with him to the White House the official copies of much of the recent correspondence on both the Venezuelan and Nicaraguan ituations, and he remained with Mr. leveland sometime after his col leagues had left. It cannot be learned whether any additional information in the matter reached the State depart nent today, but it is said that Mr. Bay ird has failed to arrange the Mosquito ,roubles with the British Gove -nment n a matter satisfactory to the United states. Great Britain's ultimatum to Nica 'agua demanding an indemnity forthe xpulsion of Mr. Hateh, the British onsular agent, from Bluefields, and :hc report tnat a British warship is on aer way to enforce the demand, is the lates, known serious phase. of the diffi :ulties growing out of the Bluefields iffair, and as action by this Govern nent may involve a new construction )f the Monroe doctrine, it can be seen iow slowly and carefully the Presi lent and 'his advisers are obliged to eel their way to prevent any possibil ty of blunder, or to neglect anf ad rantage that might weaken the politi al censorship which the United States 3rovernment holds over the South Limerican and Central American Re publics. In the Venezuelan affair the United states Government finds itself opposed :o such strong adversaries as Great Britain, France and Germany, with Beloum as an incidental factor. The ettlement of the claim of Great Britain :o certain Venezuelan territory is the main cause for alarm, and to this is idded the prospect that Germany will ;end warships to collect a large amount >f money guaranteed German con actors for the construction of the 'entral Venezuela Railroad. France mud Belgium have a common ground or action disturbing to tn j ace of :he little South American Republic, aamely: The expulsion of the French ind Belgian ministers from that coun try. Both Governments have protest ,d against the exnulsion, and France will send a naval vessel to take their mnvoys home. The Monroe doctrine and its ramifi :ations contain ample authority, it is -aid for the United States to display mn active interest in the threatening tttitude of Great Britain and Germany mud while the probable action of F'rance and Belgium does not seeming .y come within the scope of the doc rine, it is understood to be the belief >f the Government that all four of the Powers involved will join issue in op >osition to the United States to-secure heir several ends, and such amnalga nation is likely to beg-et a desire on he part of all to extend their domin onls. The conference at the White House oday was necessarily of a strictly se :ret character, but it is learned tonight rn good authority that no definite ac ion was agreed on. Three Daya Fighting in Lima. NEW YORK, March 20.-The Herald's 3arraco, Peru, cable says: The rebels uwd the Government troops have been ~ngaged in battle in Lima for three Lays. The attack by the rebels under Thief Piercia, -assisted by D.urand, )re and others, began about 4 o'clock 3unday morning. All communmca ion with Lima has been cut off and it s impossible to learn the strength of ither force. All reports are based on umors and speculation. It is known. iowever, that there was heavy cannon mnd musketry fire Sunday aind Mon lay. This continued almost without essation until sundown of Monday. ['wo distinct explosions were heard on ~Ionday, but the place wher'e they oc urred is not known. There was a re iewal of firing at 5 o'clock Tuesday nornii: g and it continued for six iours. It is reported that the firing hen ceased, so as to permit the con ending forces to care for the dead and vounded. The reports from Lima are >f necessity meagre. From one source t is reported that President Caceres iolds the p~alace, thme principal plaza. ort Staeattlima - nd Exposition quar'e. It is also reported that lie has losed all avenues ci approach to the ity with armied forces. There is an >ther repor't that a detachment of re >cls entered the city but are hiemmed n by Government troops. It is also -eported that the rebels are awaiting einforcemnents which are expected o reachi the subur'bs of Lima to-uight. [lie rebels, it is said, have posted 500 men this side of Lima and will uttempit to break through the ranks of lie Government troops at once. So ar as known the houses and buildings ni the city are uninjured except a few ligh buildings, which are riddled with >ullets. All trains have stopped run ing since Saturday. Foreigners liv ng in this village are endeavoring to irganize an urban guard to protect roperty from looters who attempted commnit depre-dations on Monday 'ight. A Marchn Bhizard. S-r. LorTs. March 20.-The snow tormi in this v'icinity has been general ;urinig the past twenty-four hours. tepr~ots from Southern Missouri and Jlin is show that the storm has beeni evere in these sectionis. At Colum >us, Ind.. since this morning a heavy now storm has prevailed. Street iar ravel has been stopped and railway ravel greatly impeded. The stormu is till raging and is the most severe in -ears. The snow is six inche's deep~ .nd is dlrifting. At Perey. Illinois. a teady nor'thwest gale, with blinding now and minute particles of ice. is >lowinig at the rate of forty-two miiles~ BIG FISH IN THEIR NET. Many High Police Olicials Dragged Into Court. NEW YORK, March 20.-The indict ments handed in by the Oyer and Ter miner grand jury yesterdaynumbered ten. Six were against present police olicials and four against former mem bers of the department. Eight of the bench warrants were executed by Sup erintendent Byrnes this afternoon. The indicted officials are: Inspector William W. McLaughlin of the detec tive bureau. Captain Jacob Seibert of the Union Market Stree:; station. Cap- I tain Murphy of the West One Hun dredth Street station. Captain James 4 K. Price of the McDougal Street sta tion, Captain John J. 1onohue of the West Twentieth Street station, Patrol man Henry Schill of the Leonard Street station. ex-Captain William S. Devery, ex-Wardman Edward Glen non, ex-Wardman James Burns and another member of the department. whose name for the present is with held. Burns is a fugitive. Superintendent Byrnes gave out the names of the indicted olicials at l0:20 this evening. With the exception of ex-Wardman Burns and the ex-police men not yet in custody. all the men mentioned surrendered themselves at police headquarters between 9 and 10J o'clc.ck. Inspector McLaughlin was the first to put in an appearance. He < was followed in short order by Cap- i tains Seibert. Price. 'Murphy and Do nohue and Patrohnan Schill. Ex-Cap tai Devery and ex-Wardmanai Glen non came a little later. Superinten dent Byrnes personally served bench warrants and turned the prisoners over into the custody of Ispectors S Williams and McAvoy. At 10:30 the superintendent directed the two inspectors to take their prisou ers to the district attorney's of flee. in spector Williams took inspector Mc Laughlin, ex-Captain Devery. Captain Seibert and ex-Wardnian tlennon. Inspector McAvoy took Captain Dono- I hue, Captain Murphy. Captain Price and Patrolman Schill. The party left headquarters by the 'Mott street en trance. The court of Oyer and Ter' miner met at 11 o'clock today. The district attorney read out the names of the police officials indicated. They are: Inspector William C. McLaugh lin, ex-Captain William S. Devery, Captain John J. Donohue, Captain S1. I J. Murphy, Captain Jacob, Siebert ex Captain John T. Stephenson, Captain Edward Carpenter (retired), Captain James J. Price. Wardman Henry W. Schill. ex-Wardman Edward J. Glen non and Jas. Burns. Judge Ingraham fixed Inspector McLaughlin's bail at $20,000, C:,ptain i Murphy's at $10,000, Captain Siebert's t at $10,000, Devery's at $10,000. Dono- t hue $2,500, Price $2,500, Ex-Wardman f Schill's was fixed at $11,000-for brib ery $5,000, forgery $5.000 and for ex tortion $1,000, making $11.000 in all. t Glennon, the ex-Wardman s, bail was t flexed at $10,000. Ex-Captain Steven son and ex-Captain Carpenter were not on hand up to noon but they were I expected at any moment. After bail had been fixed in each case, District Attorney Fellows stated that he would on the first Monday 'In April move the cases for trial, and asked the court to set a day for pleading. Judge Ingra- i ham then fixed Thursday next for the indicated men to plead. t Judge Ingraham, before adjourning court, recommended the speedy dis-r posal of the charg'es ag-ainst the mem-( bers of the policeedepartiment. "Theret is no reason for delay," he said.t "-These cases should be tried at once.t They should be taken up before thec summer vacations." The police board today suspended Inspector McLaug'hlin, Captains Sie-( bert, Donohue, Mfurphy and Price anda Patrolman Sc-hill from duty and directed the superintendent to assign other officers to the command of thet precincts which the suspended captains were in charge ~of, and also to the de-e tective bureau. Says It Will Help Silver. WASHIsGTON, D. C.. March 20.- I Senator Teller does not regard very se riously the possible effect of Japan's 1 de manding-a large war indemnity from China in gold, and is of the opinion s that instead of injuring the cause ofi silver it will aid it. "I have no fear," he said today. I "thiat in any event Japan will go to a I gold basis. The people there have b been accustomed to the use of sil'.er and the country is too pr1osperous and c progressive with n atters as they are c for them to desire a ebai ige. Natural- c ly, however, and not wihtanidinig the'v popularity of silver for' local p)ur- i poses. they will ask that indenity be paid in gold because oi its greater pur chasing power in Eur-ope and America with which continents Japan has large dealing and also because she will have e probably contracted a large wvar debt. Still if Japan should conciude to go to a gold basis that fact woulId only in a crease the scramble for gold and wea would only increase the scr-amble for 1 gold and we would have antothier cir'- a cumstance to show thje inadequacy ofb thle gold supply. Leavinug out 01 consi deration what .Jaanay :ieldcae 1o d(1. with reference to a monetaryx uasi. the demarnd upon China for sa'y k20t, (000,00 in gold would 1eessitate a e gr'eat scurrying about for the mal. a China does unot colleet to ev'ceed -15. I 000,000 in gold annuallyx on her im a port duties, and that is the only way thle gov-ernmnent has for- ettin gold t in the or'dinary~ course of business. It wxill therefore be necessary thatshb wouldl go linto the mar'ket with her I bonds at-d r-aise the gold in Amnerica and Europe. In that ev-ent fully two - thirds of the anmount would be taken t from this country and any one mary easily see wvhat a drain it woul~d als'o becoine a great object lesson and would I believe, strengthen the silver cause. A Dastardly Crime. BLacKBUJRO, S, C., Marchl 2:0.---This I morningabout 2 o'clock Will &e warit. age about 20, night teiy;rap. operiator at Blackbur'g, was lying on a ta ble ais-a leen in his oflice with the 'dor unl0or i ed xvhen some p~arties etune ini ami nd'ob bed his poks Wheni he w.k .c ': 9 knocked hinm n' the hea m-mm ing' two veryv a-Ixy wou 'ihi cut h is thr oat. h-at n. fr I. K. utesaf ter' thIex eut noa. tii o w'ent upl to the hotel netu d w'n.be up lie s is eriusl bart bu t int dagero0us- 1] r'0obbers gt a bou)t 81'.2 friom the tine- 11 ket drawer.i Tey went to Parkr's store and cut a gliass out of the winuowa anid went in and stole .sev-eral things ti and prized the safe open. Conitets I not known. They p our'ed keroaine v oil in the stno and cookedmm o- egs.4 rTISTED BY A TORNADO. A FRIGHT FOR THE PEOPLE OF OUR SISTER CITY AUGUSTA. Fortuiately Nob~ody was Killed-Twenty H ouses Utterly Destroyed and Twenty Others Badly Damaged-Total Loss Thirty Thousand Dollan AuGUSTA, Ga., March 20.-At 9 )clock this morning Augusta was .-isited by the most destructive wind ;torm, or cyclone, since 1878. The :yclone came from the southwest with >ut little warning, and in less than a t minute had passed over the city into south Carolina. In its track there av destruction and houses were utter y wiped from their foundations and ;ent in all dirctions. over housetops hat were not touched by the bounding :ircular wind. Strange to say there vere no fatalities, though in many nastances roofs were carried away rhile the occupants were left unhurt. Che majority of the houses ruinedwere nall one story ones, as the iection of the city over which the tor iado passed is the city over which the ornado passed is that for the most ,art inhabited by the poorer class of vhites and negroes. The path of the tornado is a mile in ength from the first place it struck to hat where it finally rose and passed >ver. The path was in the shape of Ln S. and the tornado struck about very quarter of a mile, making our descents and rebounds,but the se ond one was perhaps the worst. This vas 1;n Ginnett street,between 8th and Ki streets. The first two house blown town were two small ones on the out kirts of.the city. The tornado then ,ose and came down aoain on Gwinett treet. The house of Willie Sims, the 7reat colored jockey, whichis a rather >retentious one, was the first to suffer. :t was twisted about and the chimneys arried away, doors blow from their iinges ant window sashes forced in. Across the street five small houses vere so completely demolished that here was no trace of them except a ew bricks from the chimneys and oundation posts. A square further, at the corner of summer and 8 streets a small house .ad the entire end taken out, leaving he interior expose like a scene m a heatre. Persons were in the house at lie time eating breakfast, but they es :aped unhurt. Outhouses in the yards ,vere lifted and carried off several ;quares. Three hundred yards further on is ;ituated the large flour mill of Miller k Co. It is an immense four story )uilding, covered enteirely with sheet ron. While the mill was not hurt by he wind itself it proved a target for he flying dricks, shingles and rafters, rom the ruined houses. A small out iouse from a yard a quarter of a mile way came sailing through the side of he mill. The force of the missile shat ered the iron, and the side of thelarge me. Scantlings and boards also )ierced the iron sides of the mill till it iad the appearance of a frontier fort tfter an attack by Indians. In front of ffiller & Co's mill an electric light >ole was blown down and the wires vere crossed with telephone wires, vhich grounded and struck a mule, nstantly killino him. Several huncred vards further to he northeast the wind caIne down Lgain and demolished one-half of the -ound house of the Central Railroad. )ne of the locomotives in the shop at he time was badly damaged, and the in roof of the remaining prtion of he building was stripped l'i-e apeeled >range. The roof of the Perkins .lanufacturing Company was also arried away. The paint shop of the jentral Railroad car shops was sprung nd thrown badly out of plumb, one ide of its foundation being blown way. Across Calhoun street from his twc small houses were demolished. On Fenwick street, near the South rn Railway yard, a house in which tre people were was blown away, eaving nothing but the flooring, and -et no one was hurt. In all about orty houses were badly damaged and wenty utterly destroyed. The loss is -ariously estimated, but it is conserva ively placed at $30,000. Augtusta seems to be the only place trueh by the wind. Persons who saw t. say th'at it looked like a whirlwind, .uid ~that it rose and fell like a rubber all. The noise was like that of many reight trains running over a long ridge. The width of the path was Ot over fifty yards. The great cyclone f 1878 pr.ssed over part of the territory overed by this, but did far greater *amage. Perhaps seventy-five people 'ere rendered homeless by this morn ag s wind. A Scandal in Washington. WASmrIoToN, March 21.-Secretary l orton's next annual report, it is stat d, will set out in detail, with names nd accompanying particulars, the acts in a transactions which will 2ake interesting reading. Some weeks go Mr. Morton wrote to the purchas rig agent of the seed division of the epartment. informing him that mem ers of Conorress had been charged :ith disposiiig of their seeds in a way ther ltan w-as conltemaplated by law, nd( iniStr~uctiig him to either verify r disprove these charges in the most ubstantial way. In less than a week Ie agen:',,rou'ght to the Secretary the :ritten order of a member of the iosse of Rlepresentatives for his entire uota of seed which he proposed to"s'ell > the .iepartmnent's agent for the sum f $75 The purchase was directed to e mrade and instead of cash the agent 'ave his check, which was properly udor~ ed by the vender and the money ;as wn~hdrawn from the bank. So it appetls that Secretary Morton now Las the seeds issued to this member, urne over on his written order, and Nso the check through which the nou1er was naid and bearing the sig iature of tihemem~fber wihosold the eThe dparunetiicials decline >) ienti'oh the nlame of the Congress een im: or' to locate him, but thle as ur '.-iien that the whole trans -on. name andc all. will appear in he re sa strikinigexample of the \il l whi:hthe Secretary has so fre hlntly cailed thne attention of Con s.'The full quota of seeds fur ished a member of Congress by the epartmencit consists on an average of 4,0 packages of flower seeds, 15.000 f vegetable and 82 quarts of field reds. orasses. etc. Tile total cost of qlsqota to the department is be wveen 98225 and 8245. The department this tra 1saction got the whole lot ac for 97.The Secretary is making n el fort i bolish the free distribu on1 of se'nas entirelv, for the reason dat it has grlowninto an evil that a's never' coutemplated when the