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The Ieannette Henrcl,.

WASHINGTON, March 1O.- Secretary
Hunt has taken up the Jeanette search
case and is considering the advisability OF
purchasing the whaling steamer Mary and
Helen now at San Francisco. This is a
most desirable vessel and if che can be
purchased at tair price will be secured at
once and the work of fitting out the expe-
dition begun. 1t is not desirable to start
the expedition before July first, by which
time everything will be in readiness.
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Nothing LiRe Lea1ber.

PITTSBURGH, March 1O.-The National
Convention of Tanners and Hide Manu-
tacturers was in session this evening,
about one hundred delegates from different
portions of the Union being present. The
object of the convention is to make some
arrangements to secure better classification
of brands of hides, and also to bring their
influence to bear on Congress in op.
position to the stream pollution bill.
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o-aDre Ju,r,I forLe Duc.. E,,.ce

WAeHrxGrox, March 1O.-Members OF
Congress almost monopolized President
Gar6eld's attention to-day. He received
calls from large number of them and
had not much time to give to the many
others who came to see him. A delega-
ton consisting of Professor Simon New
comb. Major Powell and Professors Atwar
and Ward called and urged the appoint
ment OF Orange Judd as Commissioner OF
lA1riculture. u
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New YORK, March 1O.-It has come to
the knowledge of the officers of the United
States Mutual Accident Association that a
man is travelling throughout the West and
Southwest representing himself as author.
lied to establish agencies. Several drafts
cashed by Western and Southwestern
banks have come to hand and been dis.
honored. No one is authorized by the
company to establish new agenciea.
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Chicago Men sympnthIze wtth the Roer,

OHIcHBO IIen y L1pRIhlLe Win the BOerB.
CHICAGO, March 10.-A mass meeting of
sympathizsrs with the Dutch Beers in
Transvaal was held tonight in the First
Dutch Reformed Church. There are 5000
pure Dutch in the city and they were in
large preponderance at the meeting.
which was large, orderly and deter
mined body ofmen. Speeches were made
and resolutions adopted declaring that the
English nation was determined to conquer
the Beers IN South Africa, only because
they are naturally free men, and rendering
cordial sympathy to their countrymen in
the Transyaal, who are heroicalIy vindi-
eating their right to freedom against the
power and usurpation OF ENGLAND.
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PACIFIC SLOPE,
WHr0R just NOW rs NOT QUITE SO
PACIFIC.
Progress OF Ihe KaIIOch Murder Trial
Rain suOrms-A DeaIh which Re.
calls Famous IneidenI IN
Ihe History OF Ihe SAM.
Inry Commission.

SAN FRANcIsco, March 1O.-In the trial
OF J. NJ. Kalloch for the murder of Chas.
De Young, the defense having brought
forward considerable cumulative evidence
to show that six shots were fred, one of
which was by De Young, have to-day be.
gun an examination by medical experts
and others to show transitory mania on
the part OF the prisoner.
The Moody and Sankey meetings con-
unue TO be thronged nightly.
mere have been rain storms throughout
the state In the last forty hours. The
water has receded from the great portion
Oh the recently flooded valley lands.
Geofge w Greeley, pioneer resident
ana extensive land owner in Butler coun-
", died yesterday. During the war he
gave sack of flour to the Sanitary Com
mission which was sold and resold at
aucnon IN al! the principal cities of Cali
Iornla ana Nevada and then sent East,
reahZing altogether over $500 for the
benefit of the Commission.
AT Maxey, Arizona, last evening, Dick
Lloyd, the notorious COW boy, shot E.
Mann, justice of the peace, and was
himself shot dead by one O'Neal.
AT Eloorado, Nevada, Hank Parish shot
man named CLARK, over game of cards,
ana then killed q selloon keeper. When
the Coroner came to serve, Parish. at the
muzzle of the pistol, compelled him to
take from the saloon keepers pocket the
money he had won from Parish. and re.
turn it to the latter, who deties arrest, and
remains atlarge.
BIG FIRE AT RosITA.
Ros1rA, CAL, March 1O.-Early this
morning fire occurred in Miller's GRO
Gerry, and spreading destroyed the entire
business part of the city with stocks of
merchandise, including the Postoffice and
contents. The fire was incendiary, an.
out house, ice house and floor of the gro
Gerry having been saturated with oil, The
out houses were the first discovered to be
IN names, and Immediately after the flames
broke out in the interior of the store. An
explosion soon occurred, spreading the
ire brands in all directions. The water
supply was soon exhausted and the flames
allowed to take their course. The loss
is estimated at S13O,OOO.
The insurance cannot be stated, but it
%m1 cover only small portion of the loss.
an records pertaining to the County
Court were saved.
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PoTrsvILLE, March 1O.-several years
ago the Anchor Colliery took fire and the
creek was turned into it. The water re-
mained until tonight when, without
warning, it broke through the side of the
carrying away the props and
timbers of the mines and greatly damag.
ing the road bed of the Reading Railroad.
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The statue of McPhersop.

CINcINNATI, March 1O.-The elegant
bronze statue of Gen. J. B. McPherson,
will be unveiled in this city at the Re-
union of the Army of the Tennessee. April
7th. 1t it will remain in this city for a
few weeks and then be removed to Clyde,
Ohio, where the remains of the dead hero
are inferred.
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Gueau Whtt.nker MA N,

NEw YoRK, March 11.-From the TIL
6rtne: In the Whitaker court martial yes
terday Expert Southwick testified he had
discovered paper on which q note oi
warning was written. 1t had been writ
ten over with pencil and this writing
atterward erased by rubber. The words
erased were those used in the note oi
warning and they were in the handwriting
OF specimens Of Whittaker's writing given
him
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ProhihIIInn Rn1ia.h

RALEIGH, N. c., March 1O.-The people
will in August vote to ratify or reject the
bill prohibiting the sale or purchase OF
any spurious liquors except wine and
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AFAMOUs FORGERY.
BOmethInE New About the MOrey Letter
OfInEamOuS Memory.

OfInEamOuS Memory.
WASHINGTON, March 10.-In view of the
exposures that are about to be made, the
following letter from Hon. A. S. Hewitt to
the Chairman of the Republican Commit
tee is very curious one. Little has been
heard of late in regard to the Morey letter,
but those intrusted with the investigation
of that conspiracy and forgery have never
for a moment relaxed their efforts to dig
cover the guilty actors. These attempts
and Information has reached Washington
which lustifes the statement that the
public will soon be made acquainted with
the full history of the Morey letter infamy.
1t can also be confidently stated that the
members of the National Democratic
Committee will stand before the country
as particeps criminis. The following is
the text:
OFFICE OF COOPER, HEWITT & Co., I
q BCRLISGsLIP, N Y, Feb. Z, 1881.
Ny DEAR GovERSoR:-Int the New York
Express of Saturday evening found pub
ished what purported to be q letter from
you, in which you refer to your efforts to
discover the so-cslIed Morey Chinese let
ter. You say:
I've believe We shall get at the true in
1Eardness of the matter, but we need
Nz4Ou6y WILL "uICE 70 prosecute the IN
.quiry. We are asking our friends to con-
tribute in sums of 300 or less"
From positive statements which I have
seen IN the newspapers 1 had reason to
suppose you had already secured evidence
sufficient to establish the authorship of
the wicked letter, which I supposed to
have been sent by General Garfield, and
which he afterwards repudiated a. brutal
1 regret to learn that this is not the case,
and being convinced that it concerns
Democrats quite asS much as Republicans
TO get at the true inwardness of the mat
ter, es you term it, I inclose herewith
check for 500 as q contribution toward
the funds necessary to bring the inquiry
to successful conclusion In case your
request does not bring you sufficient
means for that purpose, beg that you
will let me know, in order that may Join
yCu in raising the necessary funds, and
earnestly urge you not to slacken your
efforts to hunt the rasCals down"
Sincerely yours,
ABRAM S. HEWITT.
To Hon Marshall Jewell, Chairman Ma
tionel Republican Committee, Hartford,
Conn
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A CavInE In at D1nsmore TunneI

SrEUBENv1L1E, O., March 1O.-The esst-
ern approach to Dinsmore tunnel, on the
Panhandle road, caved in about midnight,
delaying No. 6. which passes through here
vest at 1870 A. NJ, eight hours. About
fifteen carloads of earth and rock fell on
the track, and being in the approach OF
the tunnel, it was hard to work at. The
track is clear at this writing, and trains
are running through all right.
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SUICIDE OF AN AssEnBLYmAN,
Troubles Traced Back 10 the Contest for
the aenaIOrshIp OF New York.

l MALONE, N. Y, March 10.-There is nc
longer any doubt that Assemblymen w
D. Brennan came to his death by suicide
In his pocket diary was found the follow.
ing note, addressed to his wife:
To LAURA: have committed the dread.
full act of fself-destruction. Blame yourself
nothing. Ihave only love for you and my
dear one, but death is pleasure now. /
leave to meet you where peace reigns.
| WILLIAM.
He is known to have purchased strych-
| nine q short time before his death. He
was man without an enemy in the Leg
islature, and was universally honored and
| esteemed. His domestic relation were
most cordial and happy, and he enjoyed
successful and paying country law prac-
tice. That such a man should commit
suicide is indeed strange.
Some of the reasons OF his recent de-
preston are, however, known here among
his intimate friends. He went to Albany
in January some what enfeebled in health,
and entered heartily into the contest of
Mr.. Skinner for the Speakership. When
that contest was over he began q canvass
for Mr.. VIM. A. Wheeler for the Senator
ship. 1t was hopeless from the start, but
Brennan labored hard to work up an inter-
est for Wheeler, and in the Senatorial eau
Gus nominated him in q formal speech
and voted for him in the only ballot taken.
Platt succeeding in the first vote. Speak
er Sharpe announced the appointment of
Mr.. Brennan as Chairman of the Ways
and Means Committee. Brennan had
previously broken somewhat from the De-
pew forces and signed the Sharpe snan
caucus CALL When the appointment was
made it was at once rumored that Major
Brennan and the Wheeler men were tn
have gone for Crowley if second vote
had been taken, and that his appointment
was the result of bargain.
This worried and harrassed Mr. Brennan
in perceptible way. Added to this,
Wheeler himself seems to have got it into
his head that Brennan deserted him at a
critical time, and that his chances were
thrown away by Brennan as his active
friend here. A more senseless notion
never prevailed, for Wheeler never stood
q ghost OF chance. However he at
once wrote letter to Mr.. Brennan, who
had always been his near friend, and who
bore him the highest regard, complaining
OF the action and lntimating that he would
have succeeded had not his chances been
traded away by his friend for patronage.
Wheeler's friends became impressed with
the same idea, and an Indignation meet
ing was held, it is said, in which Major
Brennan was denounced in severe terms.
All this was to those who knew the
truth the rankest injustice. Brennan,
naturally OF very sensitive disposition
and already suffering shattered nervous
system, broke completely down under it
and rapidly sank into an alarming condi-
tlon. He many times astonished his COL
leagues seated near him in the House by
fits of grief and tears, during which he
would refer to these troubles. He was
unable to get the matter out of his mind;
sleeplessness followed, his mind wander.
ed at times, and suicide resulted.
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NEw PHILADELPHIA, O., March 9-Fred
Raupert, farmer of Fry's Valley, in this
county, while choping wood, last evening,
split his head open, laying his brain bare
At last accounts he was still living, but it
is feared he cannot recover,
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Fatal Quarrel Amonr yVomeu

CYNTHIANA, KY, March 1O.-During q
quarrel last night between Ann Ward,
Irene Fowler and Sallie Carr, all colored,
Carr drew knife and stabbed Fowler in
the neck, severing the carotid artery and
causing death almost instantly.
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CanadiaD Ler,aIntIve No1.,

OTTAWA, March. 1O.-A resolution has
been passed by the House declaring that
in order to encourage the manufacture OF
beet root sugar it shall be exempt from
excise duty for eight years.
The Senate has adopted an amendment
to the temperance act, and the amended
bill was passed. The amendment exempts
ales, porter, lager beer, cider and light
wines from the operation of the act.
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Jumped His Board RtII.

DETROIT, March 1O.-At Port Huron,
this State, John steinbury, jew, was
lodged in Jail last night for trying to Jump
his board bill at a hotel, and was found
dead in his cell this morning, having
hanged himself with rope made of strips
of bed clothing.
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a Successor for ConEer In abe House.

DETROIT, MIcH., March 1O.-The Re.
publican Congressional Convention to
nominate candidate to fill Senator Con-
gers vacancy, in the Seventh district, con-
vened to-day and after balloting into the
evening adjourned till tomorrow. There
are four candidates, John T. Rich, OF
Lapeer county; Edward Weeks, of
Macourt; B. W. Huston, of Tuscota, and
Richard Winsor, of Hurnon. Rich leads
in the ballots.
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THE COLOR LINE.
RederaI Marshal douglass to be Given Z
MiastOu-

RedeFal Marshal DOuglaSS to be Given q
MiasIOn-
WASHINGTON, March 1O-There is an
impression well defined that President
Garfield will offer Federal Marshal Doug
lass mission, the object being to recog-
nize the claims of the colored race through
him and at the sane time avoid a repeti-
ton of the unpleasantness which grew out
of the Marshal's position during the pre-
ceding administration. That position re-
CURED him to otfiGiate at receptions in the
White House and be received ps an equal
by those calling there, which, in some in
stances, wes repuSnant, especially to peo-
pie from the South. The President does
not care to do snything to offend pre-.
JUDGES unnecessarily, and hence the
understood purpose to give Douglass an,
other place, and the mission to Brazil has
been spoken of in the connection.
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A New Policy submII1etI 10 parneI,.

LONDON, March 1O.-In view of the con-
clusion of the debates on the coercion bill.
the extreme Liberal pressed new policy
to the attention of the Parnellites. 1t is pro-
posed that by studiousy moderate oppo-
sition IN the Committee OF Supply the
Home Rulers should endeavor to oblit-
crate the strong feeling prevailing against
their conduct in England. This accom-
plished, in the event of the land bill not
being thoroughly satisfactory, certain Lib
erals will undertake to participate in an
appeal to public opinion in the Provinces.
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A CoIOred Deekhand DroWned

GALLlPoL1s, o., March 9.-Samuel Kelly,
q colored deckhand. was drowned at this
wharf last night, while attempting to
board the Buckeye State from the wharf
boat: His mother is chambermaid on the
Pittsburgh.
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ProIonrInrtheP Pence-

LONDON, March 1O-In the House of
Commons Gladstone said the government
assented to prolongation of the armistice
with the Beers. The announcement Was
received with cheers by the radicals,
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Death from Trying to bleach Her Hair

WABASH, IND, March 9.-Jane Melrose,
a young lady of this city, has recently
been using a preparation to bleach her
hair. A few days ago che became sud-
denly i'll and on yesterday died. Soon
after her death her face and hair turned q
deep green color. Physicians here state
that her death resulted from the chemicals
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RIaIne,s PrIvare seere,.-v

WASHINGTON, March 1O.-Mr. Walkar
Blaine has been appointed private secre-
tary to his father, Secretary of State. o.
L. Judd, of Ohio, was appointed tele.
grapher to the President.
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NEW YoRK, March 1O.-Over three hun.
dred immigrants have landed at Castle
Garden within the past twenty-four hours.
The arrivals are remarkably large for this
time of the year.
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DIED.

THORNBURGH-On Ihur.sdav r,o,,Ir- A,o,.,,
10 1851. at 1880 O'clock, DAVID IHoEEnURgH. IN he
Friday afternoon at O'Clock Friend, NJ The t.,i,1
are invited to attend. Iatsrnent at Stone Church
Cems.ery, 1 S-u-o-
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Angus Cameron Elected Senator.

MrLwAUKEE, March 1O-Senator Angus
Cameron was to-day elected, at Madison,
to the unexpired term of the late Senator
Carpenter.
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Fatal Vaccination

NEW YoRk. March 1O.-Chief- Engineer
James W. Whitaker, of the United States
Navy. died in Brooklyn from erysipelas
resulting from recent vaccination,
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Iaine FuaiOnIsts Nominate Another

AUGUSTA, Ne, March 1O.-The Fusion.
lists in caucus nominated r. A. Frve, Of
Bethel. as their candidate for United
States Senator.
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Santa Anna's diamond,

NEW YORK, March 1O.-The creditors of
ex-President Santa Anna, of Mexico, have
secured through a surrogate $50, 900 worth
of diamonds to settle their claims.
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Rumored Chnnges Boz ll.e EngIl.n CnblneI

LONDON, March lO.-It is rumored that
Mr.. Gladstone will retire as Chancellor of
the Exchequer after the next budget has
been presented. Mr.. Childerr, Secre-
tary of State tor War, is mentioned to puC-
ceed him and the Marquis of Harting-
ten will succeed ChildeTH. The Earl of
Derby is spoken of as Secretary OF State
for India.
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in service December 81. 1ssO:

In addition to the above, 8 locomotives
and $50 coal cars will be received early in
1881, upon contracts made during the
year.
The last 500 coal cars contracted for
have capacity of twenty tons each. The
equipment received during the year ali
needed repairs to maintain its efficiency,
One hundred and nineteen coal cars
were thoroughly rebuilt and the entire
cost charged to operating expenses.
AT the conclusion of the reading OF the
report the balloting for directors began.
The election of the following Board was
determined upon the first ballot, all the
shares represented, 16,OSs, being unani-
mously cast in favor of such action: Selah
Chamberlain, DIR. w. S. Streator, Amasa
Stone, James Mason, r. p. Myers, Clsve-
land; E. p. Rhodes, w. w. Holloway.
Bridge port, o. ;Clement Russell, NJ 8 sillon;
Id. B. Perkins, Warren. Owing to the ab,
sence from the city of number of the di.
rectors, the organization of the Board and
election of officers will not take place at
present.
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CONC BACK to 1he aIetropoIIa.

WASHINGTON, March 1O--General and
Mrs Grant left here this morning on the
limited express for New York.
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SAN Francisco. March 1O.-Epizooty
prevails to a serious extent in this city,
greatly incommoding the street car COM
panies.
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DIR. A. Scott's Cough Syrup, 25 cents.
For sale by all druggists in Wheeling.
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StoEm on me New England COast.
BOSTON, March 1O.-A severe storm pre-
vailed last night all along the coast. and
still continues, A number of vessels are
in distress.
, 1881-07-09

without regard to sex or season. The
result was the total extirpati0n OF
several species. "One might as soon
expect to meet q sea-lion on London
Bridge as on any one of the islands
in Bass's Strait" was the reply of a
New-Zealand naturalist to an enquiry
about the s%ea-life that early voyagers
had observed. The same, result has
happened at the Falkland Islands, at
Cape Horn, and on the Pacific sea-
board OF South America. A vessel
called the Betsy took 1000, 900 skins
from the Island OF Masafuera at the
beginning of the century, an exploit
which left no survivors for future
adventurers and the island of Juan
Fernandez, where in Anson's time,
there were seals in abundance, has
now only a few stragglers to show.
The same thing happened at the
South Shetlands. In 1922 British
sealers took away 800, 900 skins for
the two years, killing males and fe-
males indiscriminateIy, and leaving
the young to die. The fate Of the
sperm whale might furnish a useful
lesson in the same direction. 1t was
once abundant in the South ern Ocean,
but is now all but extinct, from the
very same causes hat we have point
ed out above in the case of the seals.
The American whalers observed its
maternal affection, and found il easier
to kill a mother and her cub together
than a mother alone. A few years of
this policy, added to the use of steam
ers armed with projec,iles of cunning
c%ontrivance, and the fishery had to be
given up as nc longer profitable
THE Saturday Reriew.
, 1881-07-09
L.. .FABER
AGENT FOR TIE NogTHERN
ASSURANCE COMPANY
Or LONDON.

DEsTRUcTIoN.-When the Southern
Ocean was first opened to British
enterprise by the discoveries Of Capt.
Cook, it teemed with animal life.
Fur seals and hair seals abounded on
the coasts of Australia and New Zea-
land and on the outlying Islands.
They were at once set upon andtkill-
ed, the slaughter being conducted