, 1881-12-23

The secretary of state with the approval
of the president will very soon make pub
lie ali instructions bv the department to
ministers Hurlburt and Fitzpatrick i'll re-
gard t. the difficulties between Chill, Peru
and Bolivia.
The slayer of J i'm Fisk having met with
great pecunlary success in California, Is
living in a very extTaVagant manner In
New York Two large houses which he
owned on Twenty fourth street have been
added to the Hoffman house, OF which he
is said 10 have become part proprietor.
Josie Mansfield is in New York leading
quiet life on her own means.
The Commercial Advertisers Washing
ton special saye: Owners OF silver bullion
have apparently become frightened at the
recommendations of Secretary Folger and
Direc.or of Mint Burchard regarding the
discJnlinuance of coinage of standard
dollars, - there. was more than double
the usnal amount of bullion offered to the
treasury this week at somewhat educed
rates. - - %
Lucy Fowler, has Instituted suit against
VIM. /. Crump. steward at the executive
mansiofI, for $1,000 damages for slander.
She Was employed as cook at the white
house III July last, and alleges she WAS
discharged because Crump told Mrs. Gar
uCli sue " dS - lliltl anu 5IOio liOAh
the executive mansion. She claims her
reputation has been injured TO the extent
OF the damages claimed.
One of the most elegant entertainments
of lie season in Washington thus Tar Was
given at Wizards hotel by representative
BeltDrd of Colorado, in honor of Gov.
John l.. Routt, who Is now here on a
short Visit. II Was dinner of very sump-
tuoua description, and the guests were Sc
lectcd from promiuen: congressman of
both pUliIIca! parties, and best Known
Washington journalists.
Il is rumored in army circles that Adyo.
cate General Swain has affirmed the tind
ing OF The court in the Whitaker case.
lie has spent months going over the 1000
pages OF testimony and has given the
matter the most thorough sitting. IL is
said that he finds that the court martial
couvicts Whitaker of mutilating his own
ears, and he sustains the verdict as based
upon the evidence bearing upon the case.
IL is believed, therefore, that the end of
the whole matter will be that Whitaker
will be dismissed from the army and his
case vii! disappear at last from public
view.
1t is reported that the presidents mes
sage " ilh reference TO the South Ameri-
can question does not read at all like the
manuscript furnished by Blaine, as the
views of the department on the subject.
1t is The habit of heads o. departments
to furnish the executive facts bearing
upon their branch of service for the pres
ident's resume of the state of the union
and the consequent recommendations
1t is understood that Blaine. in transmit
ting the state department recommends.
ton had incorporated language altogether
too vigorous for discretion in regard to
Chill and Teru. The president quietly
took his own views OF the proprletes of
the kituatio On and modified the language
TO more calm expression which was re-
served in the message.
The Posts Washington correspondent
saws: Sparks ldemocrat) of Illinois saws
there will be sharp agitation of the tariff
question this session. Exactly what shape
the fight will take has not yet appeared;
but il is coming, and when lJ breaks there
may be time at least for serious divisions
in what has been the democratic party.
1t is presumed that new school prOtec-
ZIONIST democrats would make trouble,
but free traders are going TO make
square open fight and trust to the future
to show the wisdom of their boldness. He
believed that Illinois would approve
c'cN
majority. and in greater or less degree by
all states OF the grain belt. Sparks en-
phatic language, taken in connection
with other western leading democrats,
bears ont the belief held by many that
that wing of the party is about ready to
sW ing away from Pennsylvania'd leader
ship.
A Washington special says: The testi-
mony of leading people of FreeporL has
completely upset GuIteau's theory of IT.
sanity. All the Illinois witnesses upon
the stand showed that INSANITY i'll the
Guiteau family had not been heard OF
until after'the assassination, and that the
whole thing was manufactured for the
protection of the miserable assassin.
There were quite number of prominent
people in the court room on the sth,
among them being Gen. Sherman, John
Russell Young, Bonanza Maekay, Senator
Fair, Rev De Witt.Talmage and several
actors. The latter made special study
of Guiteau, and their theory about him is
rather interesting. Mr.. Harris, leading
man of Mary Anderson's company, who
has been OH the stage for the last thirty
years, said: "Giuteau is not insane, but
is q very good actor. To be sure, he had
the advantage OF realistic Surroundings
and is acting for his life, bat still he de-
serves credit for his cleverness. lie has
not, perhaps brains enough to bo insane,
but certainly sufficient to be very danger
ously eccentric. One strong evidence
against the idea OF insanity Is the fact that
he grows weary at times and rests himself
Just a. II man acting on the stage. Now
fatigue is something utterly unknown to
a man insane. The brain of an insane
man is never Wearied. This fellow Gui-
teau nurses himself up to the acting
point, either by pretending to write, or
hiding himself behind newspapers which
he pretends to read. 1t is much easier to
act where everything is real than where
everything is advertised and is artificial
as on the stage and in play. There is
no instance where one in the most per.