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THE DIPLOMATIC SCANDAL.

Jacob R. Shipherd, accompanied by his wife,
appeared before the House Committee on For
eign Affairs, at Washington, on the 21st of
March. He handed in certificate from his
physician that his recent illness had been quite
serious. Shipherd was examined at length by
the committee. He stated that he in
dorsed to President Garfield and Sec
Rotary Blaine, in May, copies of the
prospectus of the Peruvian Company. In New
York, on May 80, he had prolonged interview
with Minister Hurlbut, who said the President
regarded the case as strong. III law and equity
as it could possibly be, and action would be
taken if it would enable Peru to pay her in
demnity and get out of her trouble with Chill.
Hurlbut was assured by Shipherd that it would
result advantageously to him if ne
made no opposition. Shipherd had two
extended conversations with Blaine at the end
of July last. and asked that both Chilli and
Peru be officially notified of the right to the
guano fields asserted by Americans, which the
Secretary said should be done at once. In
letter to Hurlbut Shipherd states that $3.50, 900
of pool stock in the Peruvian Company had
been reserved for the Minister and his friends,
the terms of payment to be arranged at their
convenience
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ing nothing to alleviate the suffering, trusting
TO the suficiency of the Government bounty.
There will be little or no stock left
in the flooded district. A gentleman VINO
made the trip from Vicksburg to Yazoo City
reports the condition of the inland districts
as bad or worse than reported. Sunfower, La
fore, Bolivar, Goahoma, Tallahatehie and
Tunica counties are entirely under water. Issa-
quena, ,Yazoo. Holmes and Washington coun-
ties are about one-haff and Warren county
about one quarter so. The total population OF
these, by the last census, was 152, 442, and of
these atleast 109, 900 are.c olored laborers made
absolutely destitute by the, feed, and who
must be supported by outside contributions I'M
til the river falls and work is resumed.
The region south of Memphis is swarming with
buffalo-gnats, which are killing what little stock
was saved from drowning. One. result of the
overflow has been to prove to the satisfaction of
the natives that the levee system is failure.
Millions of money may be spent in repairing
the damage already done, but in the opinion
of the knowing ones, it will be thrown away.
Reports received at the War Department in
Washington estimate that there are $4,000 des-
titute sufferers in the flooded regions between
Cairo, ILL.,, and the Gulf of Mexico. 1t is be-
ieved that an appropriation of 1000, 900 by
Congress will be required before these people
can again become self-supporting.
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WASHINGTON NOTES.

Jacob r. Shipherd appeared at Wash
ington, before the House Committee on Foreign
Affairs, on the 18th inst, and was sworn. He
at once raised question as to what constituted
a United States official, and the committee went
into secret session to define the phrase The
investigation was then postponed to the 18th,
and Mr.. Shipherd returned to New York to ar
range his papers in accordance with the decision
Of the committee.
Large numbers of petitions have been
received at the White House for the pardon Of
Sergeant Mason.
The House Committee on Railroads
and Canals have agreed on an appropriation
of 100000 for the Hennepin canal, but
minority report against the project will be
made.
The tobacco manufacturers, in session
at Washington, adopted a memorial to Con-
gress protesting against the passage of the
leaf-tobacco bill, and asking that no change be
made unless the entire tax be abolished
Minister Morton cabled Secretary
Frelinghuysen statement that he had never
been connected with any business transactions
needing the intervention of the Uuited
States, but his firm had contract to receive
nitrates and guano shipped to New York in the
ordinary course Of commerce.
Guiteau is said to receive nearly $50
per day from the sale Of autographs and pho
tOgraphs. Most Of the money COOS TO his pub.
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An Awful Omen in Rome.

Tacitus records that just prior to the
breaking out of the insurrection of the
Iceni, headed by their heroic Queen
Boadicea, the Roman subjugators of
Britain were alarmed by unequivocal
indications of an approaching storm.
SAT Camalodunum the statue of Nero
fell to the ground and turned its back
where the face had been, as if it fed be-
fore the enemy. Women were seen as
if mad, singing wild songs, in which
they foretold the destruction of the
colony. Strange noises were heard In
the House of Assembly, and loud howl
.ngs in the Theater. In the estuary of
the Thames there was an appearance
like that of sunken town. The sea
assumed the color of blood, and human
forms appeared to be left on the shore
by the ebbing tide" These terrible por-
tents were remembered by the Romans
long after the rout of the Iceni and
the death of their warrior Queen some
where between the sites of COldbath-
fields Prison and the terminus of the
Great Northern Railway. That the ex-
listing age, however. obstinately refuses,
as a rule, to attach any belief to portents,
and wholly disregards the croakings Of
ravens, be they never so hoarse, from
battlements, the hooting of owls, and
other premonition from the brute crea-
ton, Italian patriotism might be slightly
alarmed by an occurrence which has
taken place at Rome. On the occasion
when the anniversary of King Victor
Emmanuel's death was commemorated,
and as the lengthy procession was
streaming down the Capitoline Hill on
its way to the Pantheon, there was heard,
high above the clangor of the brass
bands, a strange and dismal bowling.
Whence came this lugubrious ululation?
Was it the voice of the Cam@an Sibyl,
lowering in mid air, invisible to the
multitude, but making audible her never
ending moan over the confagration of
the Capitol in which the books that she
sold to Tarquin were destroyed? After a
while the source of the bowling was
traced. For a very long time fierce
controversy has ragged among antiquar-
les as to whether the celebrated bronze
figure of wolf, called by Byron "the
buuuu0ISbIlCh6u HURST VI I6Ou03 LII Oh0
Museum of the Capitol, is the wolf men
toned by Dionysius and Livy, or the
animal whose efigy is cited by Cic 70.
Apparently with view to bringing these
polemics to close, the Municipality of
Rome have in recent years caused to be
excavated, in the rocky side of the
Capitoline, den in which accommoda
ton has been provided for twoliye wolves.
They are obviously, could they become
articulate, entitled to dub themselves
respectively the Ciceronian and the
Dionysian wolves; but, as matter of
fact, the unfortunate beasts, pent up i'll
checrless captivity, are not unaccustomed
to relieve their exacerbated feelings by
shrieks and yells, which probably Gull
minated in ear-splitting howls under the
intolerable provocation of patriotic
hymns from an indenfite number of brass
bands, playing, as Italian brass bands
usually do, villainously out Of tune
London Telegraph.
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The Tide of immigration.

NEW YORK, March ~.
The immigration of Italians is greater than
ever before known. Within two days 1,670
have landed here, and large numbers are on
their way. OF other nationalities now arriving
the German takes the lead. Since Jan.
nearly all of this class have been farmers
with means. There is every prospect that,
unprecedentedIy large as the grand total Of
immigration was last year, it will be eclipsed
by the figures of 1882. The records of the
past two and half months show this to
be fact Since January last year the arrivals
were 1882; this year, II ,O42; February, 1881,
9.753 this year, Is, 1872 twenty days of March,
1881, II 1886; this year, 1862; total three
months last year, 29,831; total thus far this
year, 43. 676 increase, 1875. The total for
the month of March last was 27,7OS. 1t is ex-
peeted this year it will be 10000 at least. This
will make an increase of nearly 50 per cent. for
the first quarter, and, if it continues in the
same proportion during the remainder of the
year, the population of the United States Wlil
have been swelled nearly $4,000 by people
from tie Old Werld
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Imprisonment of American Citizens in
Ireland.
WASHINGTON. MarnI


The Department of State sent the
Committee on Foreign Affairs yesterday
copies of the Geographic correspondence be-
tween the department and the legation
at London respecting the imprisonment of
Americans in Ireland under the Coercion
act. The cases of McSweeny and Hart are
especially alluded to. In his negotiations
regarding the former, Mr. Lowell failed to OBJ
tain from the British Government any informa-
ton beyond that contained in the warrant ct
arrest, but was assured by Lord Granville that
McSweenys conduct brought him under the
Coercion act, and that he could not be released.
Harris reputation is bad, and he will not prom
Use to behave better if set at liberty. Lowell
does not believe either of the two is more inno-
cent than a majority of the persons arrested
In answer TO the departments instructions to
waive, for the present, all discussion of the
justice of these arbitrary imprisonments, but
to press for early trials of the American "sus-
pects," Mr.. Lowell states that her Njesty's
Government has promised to give the matter
Immediate attention
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Five Little Bows Buried Alive.

A dispatch from st. Joseph, Mo-, says
The city was thrown into fever of excitement
by the announcement that five boys had been
buried alive. An investigation proved the
truth of the report. 1t seems that half-doz-
en- boys had carved out huge cave in the
bank, which they used as headquarters for
spending their idle time. One afternoon five
of the party went out to their cave to read, and
that is the last seen of them
alive. About 4:30 or a. sixth boy
went out to the rendezvous and found it
had cayed in. lie felt fearful that his COM
panions might be under the earth, but man
who was near by laughed az his nonsense. The
boy, not willing to give up, began tearing the
dirt away with stick. and soon discovered an
arm which protruded up. This satisfied
the youth, and in a few moments
half-dozen men were removing dirt, and soon
the dead bociss of five boys were taken out.
The names of the boys are Nick Kell aged 10 !;
Allen Rhodes, g.; Sam Montgomery, 8; John
Montgomery, IA and Nick Garrish, II. The
heart of the latter still throbbed feebly when
he was taken ont hut soou ceased
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LATER NEWS ITEMS.

A Washington telegram says that Sem
ator Ben Hill has improved SO rapidly that he
hopes soon to ride out. His physicians think
the cancer has been entirely removed. There
Is no truth whatever in the report telegraphed
from Washington that the Georgia Senator was,
in dying coalition. s.r qsta-- e / Is
Judge French, Assistant Secretary of
The Treasury, is to be succeeded BY A. G.
Olmstead, of Potter county, Pa. The. First
Authorship is to be given to ex-Congressman
C. W. Gillfllan. -a.CaTaE 3
Gen. and Mrs. Grant were the guests
of the President at the White House last week,
and were quartered in their old rooms.
The Senate Military Committee will
report adversely on the. bill to place Gen.
Pleasonton on the retired list.
The ringleaders in the recent Corean
rebellion were first quartered and then decapi-
tated. E
In London, the Marquis of Huntley
was twice arrested for swindiing, and held to
bail in $4,000 and Ct, 500 respectively. -,
A fire near Northampton, England,
swept away twenty-five houses. At Emod.
Hungary, $50 buildings were burned, and nine
lives were lost.
The Massachusetts, Legislature passed
bill permitting womento practice as attorneys
at-law. g.
By the strike and lockout at the Pa
ci6c mills, Lawrence, Mass, there are stopped
1861 cotton spindles, 25,500 worsted spin
dies, 4,500 looms and other machinery, throw
ing fully $500 employees out of work. :
The wife of Sergt. Mason makes an
appeal for aid for herself and children, and ex-
presses the belief that her husband has been
sufficiently punished by six months imprison-
ment The Connecticut House of Represents
tives refused to receive resolution for Mason
restoration to the army.
A New York dispatch says that so far
$4,000 have been collected for Mrs. Sergt.
Mason and the baby, and it is estimated that
the fund will reach $4,000, if not more
It is stated in Washington that Gen.
Swain, Judge Advocate General, will report to
the Secretary of War that the court-martial
which tried sergt. Mason had no jurisdiction.
The body of Frank Saltwater was
found beside the railroad track near Tomb
stone, Arizona, riddled with rife bullets
and buckshot. He was brother of the famous
scout Texas Jack.
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CALL FOR BONDS.
The Secretary of the Treasury VIII
Redeem $4,000, 900 of Skies.

nv SCNA0eAAy VA bAAC IC&19AAEy VIII
Redeem S15.OOO,OOO of Skies
WASHINGTON, D. c., March Is.
The following call for bonds has been issued
by Secretary Folger
Notice is hereby given that the principal and
accrued interest of the bonds below designated
will be paid at the treasury of the United States
On the Sd of May, 1882, and the interest will
cease on that day, viz. Registered bonds, acts
July II and Aug. s. 1861, continued during the
pleasure of the Government under the terms
Of circular No. AZ, dated April IL, 1881, 10 bear
interest at the rate of 81 per centum per
annum, from July l, 1881, as follows $50, No.
2,l5l to No. 1900, both inclusive; 800, No.
IA, 701 to Nc. 1890, both inclusive; $780, No
lO,701 to No. l0,99O, both inclusive; 81 900,
No. 51,601 to No. 50, 400, both inclusive 5000
No; 1881 to No. 1880, both inclusive
$4,000, No. 34,951 to No. 81, $780, both inclu-
slve; total, $5,000,000 The persons forward
ing the bonds for redemption will observe the
rules laid down in the previous calls.
The Secretary also issued two ether calls of
$4,000, 600 each, payable May 10 and II re-
spectively.
Following is description of the bonds called,
payable May 10 Registered bonds of the same
act as the above, $50, No. 2,20l to No. 2, $50,
both inclusive 500, No. 81, 301 to No. 81, 500,
both inclusive /; $500, No 10,901 to No. II, 900,
both inclusive 81. O0O No 81, 1901 to No. s., $50,
both inclusive; $5,0O0 No. 16, 951 to No IL, ESQ,
both inclusive; $4,000, No. 35,501 to No.
Sc, 100, both inclusive. Total, $5,G00,0eO.
The call payable the 18th of May includes
registered bonds of acts as above, as follows:
$50, No. 1921 to No. 1850, DO b inclusive ;
800, No. 15, sol to No. 10, ZOO, both inclusive
$500, No. II, 001 to No. II, 100, both inclusive
81, 600, No. 5O,S01 to No SO, 500, both inclusive
5000, No. 17,O51 to No. II. 100, both inclusive
$4,000, No. Sc, 101 to No. SO, $40, both inclusive
Total $5,000,000.
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The Case of Cadet Whitaker.

WASHINGTON, March %.
At Cabinet meeting yesterday the case Of
Cadet Whitaker was disposed of by disap-
proving the sentence of dismissal from the
service imposed by the court, on the ground
that technical evidence taken at the trial was
improperly introduced. The record of the
court-martial case OF Cadet Whitaker viii
be made public tomorrow through special
orders of the Secretary of War. These orders
will set aside the verdict and sentence of the
court-martial, on account of certain irregu-
larities and informalities in taking evidence,
and will release Whitaker from arrest. At the
same time they will dismiss him from the Mill
tary Academy under the provision of section
1926 of the Revised Statutes relating to the
discharge of cadets if found deficient in
studies. The action Of the President in the
case is based upon an opinion by Attorney
General Brewster, to whom the Secretary of
War referred the report of the Judge Advocate
General that improper evidence had been adj
mitted in the Whitaker trial.
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Adeliua Patti.


Adelina Patti was born at Madrid,
April 9, 1913. Her full name is Adeiina
Maria CloriDda Patti Nicolini. She was
educated at New York, and on Nov. "a.
1859, she made her debut as a singer in
Donizetti's Lucia di Zimmerman.
She made her first appearance at Lon
don, May IA, 1861, in La Sonanan,-
buto, and Nov. is, 1862, appeared at
Paris in the same role. Patti afterward
sang at Paris, London, st. Petersburg.
and in some of the leading cities of
Europe with great success. She was
married at London, July 30, 1868, to the
Marquis de Caux, but the union was an
unhappy one, and the parties separated
The Marquis, although a titled indi-
yidual, was not all that was to be ex-
pected, and was long virtually supported
by his wife. Not long since Patti was
married to Nicolini, who il singing with
her.
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FOREIGN NEWS.

The London Times believes that war
between Austria and Russia is always a posi-
biity, but that there is no immediate likelihood
of an outbreak between those powers.
A memorial asking that greater leni-
ency be shown the suspects in prison has
been signed by fifty Liberal members of Par
lament.
1t is announced from Berlin that Aus
tria has finally determined to annex Bosnia
and Herzegovina in dead earnest, and that
Bismarck is urging the Porte to acquiesce.
1t is believed that the Gear has indi-
rectly treated with the Nlhiist leaders, they
promising him immunity from assassination
and he extending imperial clemency to the pris-
oners now under various sentences.
The Government of Denmark will
send out polar expedition in July.
Russian agents in Bosnia and Herze-
govina are agitating the slays against the Aus
TRANS.
In the event of a war Greece proposes
o remain neutral, especially with regard to
Turkey
While Emperor William was leaving
thu Academy in Berlin, his foot slipped on the
stairway and he fell, and his right elbow and
knee were slightly confused.
In the French Chamber of Deputies
the Government introduced bill allowing wit
nesses in law courts, instead of taking an oath
before God, to promise on their honor and con
science to speak the truth.
A rent collector of Clonmellon, Ire
land, was mortally shot while driving to church
with his family, and police sub-inspector was
fatally wounded in a disturbance in County
Sligo.
Some citizens of Ravenna, Italy, as
sembled to celebrate the anniversary of the
Paris Commune. A conflict with the troops on
sued, in which one soldier was killed and
another wounded.
Bismarck, being questioned on some
subject relating to internal affairs, replied that
his time and strength were fully occupied in
preserving the peace of Europe.
While Victor Hugo was entertaining
some friends in Paris, a telegram was received
fromSt Petersburg announcing that the Gear
had spared the lives of five Nihilists in whose
behalf Victor Hugo had pleaded On learning
the news Victor Hugo toasted the Gear.
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MISCELLANEOUS GLEAN1NGS.

The earthquake in Central America
was not near so disastrous in its consequences
SIS first accounts represented. A good many
houses were shaken down, but fortunately no
lives were lost.
The failures of the week throughout
the country are placed at 14O, decrease Of 81
for tine proceeding seven days.
The famous Tennessee trotting stallion
Blackwood Jr., has been sold to Commodore
Kittson, of st. Paul, for $4,000.
The tide of immigration from Europe
to this country will, it is believed, exceed this
year even the heavy figures of 1881.
The Garfield Monument Committee,
at Cleveland, Ohio, have issued further ap-
peal to the public on behalf of the fund. So
far they have received 100000, of which
$4,000 has been contributed by Cleveland.
To make the monument a national one, they
desire $3.50, 900 more from all the States and
Territories,
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Usher, but he recently forwarded small sums to
the ScoYiles and to his brother. He has one
cell to sleep in and another for an office. He
expressed pleasure at the publication of the
letters in the Rosecrans matter.
Great CONSERVATION seems to have
been created in the United States Supreme
Court by the argument of Kansas lawyer who
appeared without collar or neckte.
The Warden of the Washington Jail
reports that Guiteau has lost his appetite and
had the sulks ever since he read an interview
in which Scoyille said he felt willing to have
the assassin hanged, in order to draw attention
to the need Of legal reform In regard to insane
criminals.
Scoville says that ne can get no coun-
sci to attend to Gulteau's case. The assassin
is sure he will be released by the court in banc,
in which case he proposes to leave for Europe,
and, after "doing'' the continent, return to
the United States to lecture. Scovile thinks it
would be better for the crank of the future
that Guiteau should be hanged.
It is now stated with considerable con-
fidence, says Washington correspondent, that
Senator Teller, of Colorado, is to be Secretary
of the Interior. The President said to-day to
friend that, now that the six months period
of mourning is about to expire, the changes
that he contemplates making will follow in
rapid succession, and that his friends who
have been complaining of inaction will be sat-
isfed.
The author of letter in the Wash
ington Post, over the signature of Justice, !"
in which violent attack was made upon the
late President Garfield, is William Brown. He
the Seventh district of Kentucky.
Minister Hurlbut's resignation was re-
quested and has been forwarded, and Minister
Adams has been recalled from Bolivia.
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POLITICAL POINTS.

The Democratic Congressional Com
mttee at Washington has chosen Gen. W. s.
Rosecrans for its Chairman.
A Republican House caucus at Wash
ington resolved, FIRST to postpone action on the
new rules for the present secondly, to oppose
the reduction of the taxes on whisky and to-
bacco thirdly, to urge the Tariff Commission
bill at every favorable opportunity.
The Republicans of Rhode Island
have nominated Gov. Littlefeld for re-
election.
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Starr. Ali!

A man on crutches, with one leg swad-
died. registered at st. Louis hotel as
Col. Starr, and hobbled to his room.
He had the govt terribly, he said, and
for day or two kept several walters
busy attending to his numerous and
petnlant wants. Then he remarked that,
Just to kill time, he would like to play
roker with somebody. 1t was not long
before professional gambler came
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The debt given for the German empire in
1880 does not include the debts of any of the
states composing it, but only the empire pro-
per. Mr.. Porter, of course, does not claim for
this statement absolute accuracy, but it is the
best that can be compiled from the data ex-
tant. The average yearly increase of indebted
ness since 1848 has been $489 ,079, and if
that ratio shall continue the aggregate at the
end of this century will be $32 $50. 781, 254.
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There has been n.

tile community. There has been no
competition for ten years past-since
the Merchants Union was broken down
and then absorbed. The Legislature of
Ohio has taken the matter up, and a
proposition has been made to limit the
charges of express companies within that
State The Hn1Lr