The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1876-04-19

OF Police have observed that after every
panic at the Bourse they have twice as
much work as usual on their hands.
A PRESSURE ON BLAINE.-The two Gin.
cinnati papers-tle Gasetis and CONNER
eial-are inclined 10 press Mr.. Blaine
into more definite explanation touching
the Arkansas bonds that we're found
among the assets Of the Union Pacific
Railroad by Mr.. Harrison, OF Indianapo-
liS, one Of the government directors, in
1873. The Commercial OF yesterday has
the following paragraph on the subject:
The Chicago later. Ocean speaks OF the
story connecting Mr.. Blaine's name with
the transaction in Arkansas Railroad
bonds as ian anonymous slander." But
it is not anonymous. It has the name
OF Mr.. Harrison, OF Indianapolis, as its
inlOrser, and he is a gentleman whose
word is US good as his bond, where he is
known. Mr.. Harrison says that when he
called the attention OF the Board OF Dircc.
tors Of the Union Pacific to the peculiar
assets for which $4,000 had been.paid,
he was told that the transaction must not
be investigated, for Mr.. Blaine got the
money. Mr.. Harrison expresses himself
ready to 60 before any committee that
Congress may order and testify to what
he knows about that business. Mr.. Blaine
moved the resolution for the Credit Mo-
bilier invcstigation,and he knows how to
draft q similar resolution in n matter
that affects his own good name.
Mr.. Blaine is placed in dilemma by
being thus called on, as he is by the Com.
mereial, to demand an investigation at the
hands Of the House. lie himself says
that the Democrats would drag him along
until the meeting Of the Cincinnati Con-
vention, with cloud OF uncertainty
hanging over him, and that, OF course
would be death. On the other hand, it
il plain that nothing short Of an investi-
CATION will remove the cloud that has
gathered and is gathering over the eS-
Speakers head by reason OF the offer
Of Mr.. Harrison to go to Washing
ton and testify. The question is,
what does Mr.. Harrison know? 1t is
intimatcd very decidedly that he knows
something, and, Furthermore, that he is a
man OF responsibility, whose word carries
weight. 1t looks as il he himself feels
that what he could tell before commit
tee might be worth hearing. We do not
see how Mr.. Blaine ia to escape demand
for an investigation, even although it on
crates as he says it will. A refusal to
make such demand will seemingly op-
crate the same way.
AE one OF the straws that show how this
thing ia looked on at Washington there
is report that Mr.. BIaine's
friends arc laboring with him
to withdraw as Presidential can
didatc. They tell him that II he will do
so he can name the man upon whom
the Cincinnati nomination will fall. In
such contingency who would Mr..
Blaine name? Not Morton, for did not
this report about him come out at In.
dianapolis, the home OF Mr.. Morton 2
Not Conkling. No, not by jug full.
Why not2 Because Of that savage pass
age .at.arms between Conkling and him
self as far back as 1866, at the time
Blaine accused Conkling OF violating the
law by receiving pay as a Judge-Adyo-
cate while holding his seat as a member
Of Congress. Conkling ended his reply
to Blaine by characterizing the latter's
conduct as "ungentlemanly, impertinent,
and having nothing whatever to do with
the question" To this Blaine replied in
his own peculiar way, ending his remarks
as follows:
"As to the gentleman's cruel sarcasm, |
hope he will not be too severe. The con-
tempt OF that largeminded gentleman is 80
withering; his naughty disdain, his grand.
Eloquent swell, his majestic, superemi'
nen,, overpowering turkey.gobbler strut
has been 40 crushing to myself and all
the members Of this House, that l know
that It was an act Of the greatest temerity
for me to venture upon q controversy
with him. But sir, know who is re-
sponsible for all this. know that with.
in the last FIVE weeks, as members Of the
House will recollect, an extra strut has
characterized the gentleman's bearing. 1t
is not his fault Il is the fault Of another,
That gifted and satirical writer, Theo-
iore Tilton, Of the New York Independent,
spent some weeks recently In this
city. His letters published in that paper
embraced, with many serious statements,
little jocose satire, part Of which was
the statement that the mantle OF the late
Winter Davis had fallen upon the mem.
Der from New York. The gentleman took
Il seriously, and It has given his strnt ad.
ditional pOmposity. This resemblance Is
great. Ii Is striking. Hyperion to a
Satyr, Thersites to Hercules, mud 10
marble, dung.hill u diamond, singed cat
to a Bengal tiger, whining puppy to a
roaring lion. Shade Of the mighty Davis,
forgive the almost proclamation Of that
jocose satire"
That passage.at.arms between the two
distinguished gentlemen ended their per.
sonal aud social relations, and TO each
other they have never spoken since.
An order was given on Monday at