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The New York herald., 1879-09-13

teryiewing reporters that he always did it;
that he always had story of a storm. ''lt
was storm, quoth he" He always came
to them, when found out, with that excuse,
and they confidently anticipated that he
would do the same Oh this occasion. But
they were glad of chance to head him off
with evidence that there was no storm.
Behold now, however. he comes with his
story of storm, and they meekly credit
him once more Let US suppose for mo-
ment that his story is true. Is it conceded
that it is right for the harbor to be filled up
if it happens to storm as the scows are on
the way out with mud or rubbish?
The New York herald., 1879-09-13
Anti-La md iordism I'm Ireia md.

Our Dublin letter gives an interesting
picture OF the progress of the anti-rent
movement, which seems to have taken par
ticular hold in the West OF Ireland, and is
now spreading to the North. For genera
tions the hali-starved tenant farmers have
been paying the money drawn from the soil
into idle hands that carried it out OF the
country, and spent it anywhere but in Ire
land. 1t meyer circulated in any shape in
the land where it was made. SO long as
the harvests we're bountiful and the heavy
rent could be made with just enough sur
plus to hold body aud soul together the
wonderful buoyancy of the Celt sufficed to
keep the small farmers cheerful where
less light-hearted people would be driven
to revolt. But bad harvests and American
competition have depressed these long
suffering people sufficiently to make them
set about remedy. and 1t is all the worse
The New York herald., 1879-09-13

and painful accident which has Kcl'
Courtney out of his shell for over week
and has already made him thin aad nag
gard, lends force to the suggestion that IL
would be well to defer the day little.
The contest gives promise of being in
tensely exciting throughout, and both men
should go to the score in their very best
condition. They seem to have taken spe-
cial care to have the race thoroughly fair
and to share with the public the desire
that it may settle once and forever which
of these two exceptionally distinguished
that nothing will prevent it from being the
most brilliant race ever rowed on American
waters
The New York herald., 1879-09-13
GOVERNOR M'CLELLAN'S ILLNESS.

on Thursday Newark gentleman visited Orange
Mountain, intending to see Governor Mcclellan at
his residence there. He unable to him. as
he was confined to his room from the effects of o
severe attack of collie. This gave rise to report.
which was widely circulated yesterday. to tho
effect that the Governor was dangerously Ill and
that three ply ysicans had been in attendance upon
him. HERALD reporter Visited Orange yesterday
and found that kilograms OF inquiry had poured in
from ali directions. DIR. Pierson who attended the
Governor, laughed at the exaggerated reports
about his patient, and said that there
never had been the slightest cause for
alarm. The Governor will be about to-day
tomorrow and will attend the state Agricultural
Fair at Waverly next week. The reported serious
illness Of the distinguished gentleman caused much
excitement In New Jersey and this city. Mrs.
Mcclellan thought little Of her husbands illnss
that she made mot the slightest mention of II TO Dr.
Seward, Of Oraugev whom she met Thursday
The New York herald., 1879-09-13
The Dock Department and the Harbor.

The virtuous indignation of the Dock
Department on the subject of the dumping
of clay into the ship channel by one of its
contractors has reached decidedly lame
and impotent conclusion. That depart
ment has accepted the plea that storm
was coming up in extenuation of the offence
of the contractor. Now, it is very well
known that storm was not coming up.
The testimony of the reporters was conclu-
sive on that very point The weather was
clear and the sen calm. II was also we'll
known to the Dock Department that the
contractor would allege storm as his rea-
son. Dock Department people told the in
The New York herald., 1879-09-13

for England if it is to be shown that that
remedy must be revolutionary one.
Whereas the national" sentiment was the
chief impulse of the three or four abortive
risings since 1900. the threatening agitation
now pervading Ireland has a material basis
that gives it a grip on classes that, what
ever their sympathies, held previously
aloof. The silent activity Of the govern
ment shows that it is aware of q rising
danger.
The New York herald., 1879-09-13

JUDGE WEsTBRooK yesterday, in vacating
the stay granted by Judge Ingalls, in the Nichols
ease, has brought it back to where it was before
the stay granted, thus making the argu-
ment on the merits of the writ in October the
standing order of the Court. Whether legal in
genuity can meanwhile upset the threefold de-
cision in this direction remains to be seen.
The New York herald., 1879-09-13

The Evening Post Answers-in Part.
Pointing out q mistake in the Euening
Post the other day. we took occasion to ask
it whether it "believed that it may be ex-
pedient and necessary for the republican
party to renominate General Grant?" The
Post answers as follows 1--WE rate the
military services of General Grant very
high. We rate his civil administration
great deal lower. It is identified in the
public mind with bad school of politics
and with unscrupulous politicians. These
men and their practices incurred defeat
after defeat for the republican party, lost it
the control of both houses of Congress and
brought it to the verge of humiliation. The
mischief of the return of General Grant to
same class of politicians, if not the very
same individuals Of the class. Besides, and
even if these and other conclusive objec-
tions did not exist, we agree with General
Grant that two terms in the Office of Presi-
dent is quite enough for any man.
We believe that the denomination of
General Grant is neither 'expedient' nor
necessary The movement to that end is
coinciaent with an impudent reassertion Of
themselves by the most offensive politicians
of the republican party-men who have
brought it to deaths door and who would
probably yet take it over the threshold but
for the amazing faulty of the democrats.
We asked the Euening Post at the same
time another question :-"Will it support
General Grant if he is renominated by the
Republican Convention? and to this it
makes no reply. We do not ask for any,
however; if we did we should be treating
the Post as ungenerously as it is treating
General Grant when it demands further
assurances from him; and that we do not
mean to do
The New York herald., 1879-09-13

A MOTHER WITH Four CHILDREN, the eldest
seven years, the youngest sixteen months, walk
ing for "A fortnight the streets of this city beg
ging by day and sleeping in Railways by night
until prostrated by disease of the lungs is ter
rible fact for the wellto-do to ponder over. This
was Rose Shandley's fate, as told briefly but
pithily elsewhere.
The New York herald., 1879-09-13

THE NEGRO EXODUS, as viewed by Fred
Douglass, is simple and effective plan for
teaching the value of the "despised and hated
negro to the South 1t puts it to the chivalry
whether they will share hog and hominy with
the black or give up whiting and take up the
shovel and the hoe themselves.
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of numbering the Chisholms in Mississippi s one
of those curiosities of trial by jury which puzzle
the admirers of that institution. BY the light
of this verdict may, however, interpret the
indifference of representative Mississippians
when asked If they approve the Yazoo plan.
The New York herald., 1879-09-13

The INNER HISTORY of the financial tinkering
done and doing by England and France in
Egypt is Interestingly laid bare in another
column. There practical difficulties after
all in the way of the new process of foreclosing
a nation for the benefit of its foreign creditors
which are worth the study.
The New York herald., 1879-09-13

WITH THE RETURN from the summer resorts
comes the very unpleasant news for many fami-
lies that their houses have been burglarized in
their absence.
The New York herald., 1879-09-13

WALL STREET YEsTERDAY.-Stocks were ao-
tive and prices irregular-steady on the average
Money was steady at to per cent on call
loans. Government and railway bonds were
less active, but strong. State bonds, as usual
were dull. Exchange was quiet and steady.
The New York herald., 1879-09-13

SOME CURIOUS DETAILS of the life of thehomi-
cidal Levantine and American citizen, E P.
Miriam, who killed an Egyptian Bey, will be
found in our Cairo correspondence.
The New York herald., 1879-09-13

DETECTIVE TACTICS such as exhibited by the
man Stark, who became a prisoner to worm the
murder secret out of Bucholtz have amid their
general responsiveness some features of very grim
humor, as when Stark warned Bucholtz to keep
the hidden money from his lawyers.
The New York herald., 1879-09-13

PASSENGER RATES on the railroads of the
country are the theme, interesting to almost
every citizen, which absOrbs the attention Of q
busy convention now sitting in New York.
The New York herald., 1879-09-13

WAS MRS. MILLER's FAITH that her runaway
husband would soon be punished enough with
out the law due to her belief in u retributive
Providence to a knowledge of her rivals
temperl Hamlet was not the only philosophi-
cal Dane.
The New York herald., 1879-09-13

The probabilities are that the ,oeather in Ne,o
York aud its ricinity today ~iH be cloudy and
cool, niM rains Jollosced by gradual clearing.
Io-mo,row il ,cM be partly cloudy aud colder
IN the carly portion, follored by clear or fair
fLe,
The New York herald., 1879-09-13
Il TRIPLE e SH e e T.
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new YORK. AlURDAY. SEPTEMBE l3. 1879.

Adretsers respectfully requested to hand
im their advertisements prerious to eight o'clock
i,i the ereaing TO insure proper classification.
The New York herald., 1879-09-13

THE "RoBBERY BY AN ACTRESS" case dwin-
died to nothing yesterday. Property valued at
$500 first shrunk to $35 and next fell to $5
worth. Finally it was decided that there was
no robbery at all. The motive of the arrest
puzzled the innocent Judge.
The New York herald., 1879-09-13

slaughter, and they knew that his slaughter
would wipe from the slate of contemporary
politics the whole occupation, and they con-
sented to the occupation SO qualified for
that very reason.
England must now, therefore, begin
again. and she must begin at the first line.
That is to say, she must make O new COM
pact with Russia. She has exhausted the
other one. 1t was made for case that is
completed. Journals and politicians and
Jingoes, all over England, will roar and
fume great deal about the vengeance to
be taken and the reparation to be exacted
for this butchery. just, in fact, as they
roared about the Zulus; but then, no great
military nation as near to the Zulus as
England is was interested in the fate of
Cetywayo. England must now attend to the
quiet intimation from ST. Petersburg that,
before she proceeds to exact Of the Afghans
satisfaction for this outrage, she "must
have an understanding with Russia in
regard to the measure of the satisfaction to
be taken" Russia will not permit an in
dulgence of fierce revenge upon those
people for an act that was so much in ac-
cordance with their nature as to be readily
foreseen by all who understood the game.
Her reasoning is that England should have
stopped when Russia exacted a condition
that must necessarily make the invasion a
mere show and sham, but that if it was
necessary to make sham war in order to
save the position of an English Ministry Eng
lon fx1,o s,kc sc oil 10
AS Russia will require England to deal with
her as to tho satisfaction to be taken, so
certainly she will require any further steps
than those of mere satisfaction to start from
a new consid Grafton of the relations of the
two empires in Asia.
All the history of the negotiations with
Russia on this subject has not been known
in England hitherto. It will come out now,
perhaps, and England will be able to see
at what price in secret humiliation her
Prime Minister purchased the public tri-
umph of invading under Russia's nose an
Asiatic province whose ruler had secured
the promise of Russian protection. And
when England fully understands that the
famous scientific frontier, of which she has
heard so much, and which was to guarantee
her against Russia in Asia was obtained by
o war made under Russian sufferance, per-
mission and patronage, as we may say, and
that this war was waged and closed in con-
ditions imposed by Russia, she will, per-
haps, cease to regard the Earl of Beacons-
field as politician who leads all Europe
by the nose.
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melia.
Had Russia gained as the price of her
neutrality in Asia no other advantage than
the concession from England and the other
Powers Of suspension of that clause of
the Berlin Treaty which required her early
evacuation of the Turkish territory she
would have pledged her neutrality at o
very cheap rate if the advantage that
England was to gain by it in Asia was to be
a substantia one But Russia seems to have
played her game in the confidence that the
advantage England might gain would be as
evanescent as it has proved; in the faith
that the condition imposed would destroy
every chance for the success OF England's
occupation. She believed she had effec-
tually put q spoke in the wheel of her
great enemy, and that she intended to
do SO there can be no doubt. Indeed,
public men in England who now see the
effect of the condition Russia had exacted
as plainly as the Russians saw it at the
time, point to the Russians as the real
authors OF the calamity, and charge that
they instigatod the slaughter That u.s. OF
course. preposterous; though undoubtedly
the government would like to encourage
that view. To say that it is Russia is to
give public opinion scapegoat and cover
the governments fault. But the Russians,
though they did not instigate the massacre,
were from the first aware that an English
Ambassador placed Ia Cabul rs the sign of
British domination and not protected by
the presence OF an army was toredoomed to
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1879-07-05
NO MORE SHAKES.

In securing the removal of the duty
upon importations Of quinine, Senator
Davis, of Illinois, did not hesitate. on
Tuesday, to throw the full weight of his
bulky proportions against the opposition
to that scheme i'll the Senate. AS was to
be expected, the weight of the ponder
GUS Senator crushed all resistance, and
the generous-hearted old statesman from
the prairies of the great West sat down
upon the protective tariff men to the eN-
tent of several hundred pounds. Senator
Morrill,. of Vermont, seldom expresses an
opinion as to the tariff which is not re-
spccted for its sagacity, and intellectually
lie has few superiors in Congress, but the
truly great Senator from Illinois triumph
ed over him. The heavy tax on quininc
is stricken from the list, and hereafter
the poor are expected to reap the benefits
of Il free use of drug which poverty
has heretofore made it difficult for them
to procure.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1879-07-05
THE FEDERAL JUDGESHIP.

After long and bitter contest ofnear
ly four months Mr.. Mathews name was
withdrawn as Judge of the L. S. District
Court for Maryland, on Tuesday, and the
name of Thomas J. Morris, Esq, of the
Baltimore bar, sent by the President, to
the Senate which appointment was almost
Immediately confirmed. Mr.. Morris is a
gentleman Of high personal character.
and standing, and although comparatively
q young man, has achieved some local
reputation as a lawyer. The President
in this, as in his appointments in Mary
land generally, has taken everybody by
surprise. The Baltimore Ucrold, in no
ticing the appointment, speaks of it as be-
ing highly gratifying to the members of
his profession and our citizens generally,
as he is Il gentleman Of education, of cul-
ture. of refinement, of honorable profess
sion and high social position. He was
born in Baltimore, on the oath of Septem-
Der, 1887, his ancestry being of Maryland
origin Besides the home education, which
he received from upright and euitufed
parents. far more valuable than the train
ing of any school. he was early sent to
the celebrated private school of John
Prentiss ut Medtield Baltimore county.
In due course he went to Harvard Col
lege, Cambridge. Massachusetts, where
he graduated. On leaving College, he
began the study of law with his present
partner Edward Otis .Hinkley, ami in 1853
was admitted to the bar by Judge Martin
i'll the Superior Court. Soon after he
formed a legal co-rartnership with Ed
ward Otis Hinkley and .Johh y, Norris
his brother under the firm of Hinkicy Il
Morris.
In politics Mr. Morris was originally a
Wing, but upon the breaking out Of the
civil war he took sides with the govern
ment and advocated the preservation of
the Union by the military power, and has
always been consistent Republican.
Upon the election of Governor Bradford
he was appointed one of his aids with the
rank of Colonel the only public position
he ever held. Although an active sup
porter of the government during this try
ing period, he never had any desire to
hold office Mr. Morris is in the prime
Of life, is a prudent. careful lawyer, and
has devoted himself mainly to Office prac-
tice and the trial Of civil causes. lie may
be said to be a pains-taking, laborious
Industrious student, and, consequently, is
thoroughly familiar with the acts Of Con-
gress, and with the modes Of procedure
i'll admiralty and other cases over which
the Federal courts have exclusive .juris-
diction. In style. Mr. Morris is entirely
unpretending, and i'll his intercourse with
his colleagues Inc is frank and commune
cativc, and in his personal relations with
his brethren of the bar, his equal temper
and courtesy of manner, merit and re-
ceive the highest regard. The judicial
honors which he has won will take him
from the sphere of an active and lucrative
law practice, but the bench will gain
learned honorable, impartial and incor-
ruptible judge.
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But why did he not go to those friends
in the first place, set forth his difficulties,
and ask their assistance in a plain,
straightforward way? Would not that
have been better, merely as a practical
operation, than recourse to crime. al
most certain to be detected?
LATE on Saturday afternoon last two
storms met over the lower part Of Baltl-
more and swept the water front of that
city from Light street to Canton, doing
great damage. Nearly one hundred build
ings were unrooted windows We're broken
by hail, and signs We're blown down. y
coal oil place at Canton was struck by
lightning, but the rain, which fell i'll
sheets, soon put out the flames. Thomas
A. Sanders, bathing in the river at Spring
mdcns, was drowned Several persons
We're severely injured by being blown out
of their carriages or overturned with the
vehicles. 4 storm at Ellicott City, sew
eral miles from Baltimore blew down a
tree and killed a man and his horse.
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Application for Confirmation.

In the matter of the sale of one acre of
land assessed to William Pcterkin
levied upon and sold by Samuel H..
Miller. Collector OF State and County
Taxes for the Third Election District
of Cecil county. and sold for taxes due
by said William Peterkin for the years
1916 and 1871.
In pursuance of an order Of the Circuit Court
for Cecil county. the undersigned. the purchaser
of said property at said sale. hereby gives notice
to all persons interested in said property. sold as
aforesaid. t" be and appear in the Circuit Court
for Cecil county. on ur he.nrc the third Monday in
September. 1879, to sluw causc if any they have.
why said sale should not he ratified and confirmed
The property sold is located in the Third Flee
ton District OF Cecil county. State OF Maryland.
ut Elk Landing. adjoining" lands of the heirs of
the late William Hullin"Sworth (of II. and of
the heirs of Rudolph Bennett. Sr.. and more par
ticuarly described as follows:
LOT NO. =. Beginning" at the stone at north
caStcrnmost corner OF Lot No. ]. and runnin!.
thence north ten degrees east nine perclLcS tn an,
other stone; thence North eighty degrees west into
the Elk river: thence down said river tn the inter
section of the n0rthcrnmoSt line of Lot No. /:
thence by and with said line of Lot No to the
place OF bcginning.-and cOntainn" about one
acre of land. more or less.
June IS lSIg-3w JOHN II. .JAMAR
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Application for Confirmation.

In the matter of the sale of nine acres of
land formerly belonging to Peter Quinn
levied upon and sold by Samuel II. Mil
Ter. Collector of State and County
Taxes for the Third Election District
of Cecil county, and sold for taxes due
by said Peter Quinn for the years 1876
and 1871.
In pursuance of an order of the Circuit Court of
Cecil county. the undersigned. the purchaser of
said property at said sale hereby gives notice to
all pe.sons interested in said property sold aS
aforesaid, to he and appear in the Circuit Court of
Cecil county. ON or before the third Monday in
September. 1879. to show cause il any they have
why said sale should not be ratified and confirmed
The property sold is located in the Third Flee
ton District o Cecil county. beginning mt Il large
white oak stump ut the mouth OF IL lane leading t.
the residence OF Thomas Hemphill and runnin.
thence north eight y-ninc anu 6nc-uuarter degrees
east eighteen pcrchcs with Collins land to the line
between the States of Maryland and Delaware
thence north one and one-hali degrees east eighty
pcrchcS with said State line to other land of Peter
Quinn; thence south eighty nine degrees west
nineteen and one half perchcs with said Quinns
other land to the land Of Stephen PLUCK: th.ilre
with said l'luck'S lar,ts snIlFh an" degree west
eighty perohcs To the beginning --runtaininy nine
acres of land more Or leS-
June 2s-5w JACOB TOME