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The Ford Brother.-who They Are.

ST. LOUIS, April 4-The Ford brothers,
one of whom killed Jesse James yesterday,
reside on farm about two miles from Rich
mond, the county seat of Ray county, in this
State. Robert, who did the shooting, is only
about twenty years old. Their house is said
to have been the rendezvous of some of the
james gang, and it was there that Dick Lit
tie killed Wood Hite, brother of Clarence
Hite, who was recently sentenced to twenty
five years in the penitentiary, and is now in
prison. 1t is said both belonged to the James
gang at one time, but this statement does'not
seem to be verified. The family came from
Virginia fifteen years ago, and has always
been considered very respectable. Fer some
time past both brothers are believed to have
been in the detective service, and specially
engaged in hunting out members of the
James gang. Their aunt-Mrs. Balls sup
posed to be the lady who recently had
secret interview with Governor Crittenden at
Jefferson City. Governor Crittenden, at the
request of the police authorities, ordered out
some of the st. Joseph militia last night to
guard the body of the dead outlaw, as there
seemed to be danger there would be an at
tempt made to capture it. He has also or
dered out parts of two companies at Kansas
City to serve as a guard at that place.
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LONGFELLOw.
WILLIAM WINTER.
(Dead. March q. 1882

kDtuus HdTch a, 1871
Alone at night he heard them sigh
These wild March winds that beat his toni
Alone, at night, from those that die,
He sought one raw, TO light his gloom.
And still he heard the night-winds moan,
And still the mystery closed him round,
And still the darkness. cold and lone,
Sent forth no ray, returned no sound.
But Time at last the answer brings.
And he, past all our suns and SHOWS,
AT rest with peasants and with kings,
Like them the wondrouS secret knows.
Alone, at night, we hear them sigh
This wild March winds that stir his pail:
And, helpless, wandering, lost, we cry
To his dim ghost, to tell us all.
He loved US, while he fingered here;
We loved him-never love more true!
He will not leave in doubt and fear,
The human grief that once he knew.
For never yet was born the day
When, faint OF heart and weak of limb,
One suffering creature turned away,
Cnhelped, unsoothed, uncheered by him!
But still through darkness, dense and bleak
The winds of March moan wildly round,
And still we feel that all we seek
Ends in that sigh of vacant sound.
He cannot tell us-none can tell
What waits behind the mystic veil!
Yet he who lived and died so well,
In that. perchance, has told the tale.
Not to the wastes of Nature drift
Else were this world an evil dream
The crown and soul of Natures gift,
By Avon or by Charles stream.
His heart was pure, his purpose high,
His thought serene, his patience vast:
He put all strifes of passion by,
And lived to God, from first 10 last.
His song was like the pine-tree's sigh
At midnight DER poets grave
Or like the sea-bird's distant cry,
Borne far across the twilight wave.
There is no flower of meek delight,
There is no star of heavenly pride,
That shines not swe eter and more bright
Because he lived, loved sang. and died.
Wild winds of March. his requiem sing
Weep DER him, Aprils sorrowing skies
TIL come the tender flowers of spring
10 deck the pillow where he lies:
Till viOlets pour their purple flood,
That wandering myrtle shall not lack,
And, royal with the Summer blood,
The roses that he loved come back:
Till all that Nature gives Of light,
To rift the gloom and point the way,
Shall sweetly pierce our mortal night,
And symbol his immortal day!
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Could and Vanderbilt.

A prominent broker, discussing the Van
derbilt- Gould alliance, said: ait is pretty
evident that Messrs Vanderbilt and Gould
have an intelligent appreciation of the
future, and are willing 10 back their opin-
ions with their millions. OF course it would
be premature to make public any details of
their plans at present, but it is impossible to
prevent some inkling of them from leaking
out, and from what L have heard am salts
fed that the whole world will be astound-
ed at their magnitude and compre-
hensiveness. In general terms believe they
embrace, first, practical consolidation of
the Vanderbilt trunk lines, including North
western AMI possibly Union and Central Pa
cifc; second, similar arrangement for the
Gould properties, making great Southwest
ern through route to the Pacific; third, q
money pool among the coal roads which will
regulate productions 70 as to insure reason
able prices to consumers and regulate diyi-
dends to the producers; and fourth, a consol-
idation of the telegraph and cable compa-
mics, transfer OF the same to the govern
ment, and a postal treaty between the United
States and Great Britain, under which the
people of both countries will have ample
Geographic facilities at the lowest possible
rateGO
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THE.CIorUKE. sNe,..xo

Newspaper readers generally are aware
that the Irish party in the English House OF
Commons, and to some extent the Tory party,
have OF late years pursued policy of OBJ
struction to such legislation as they were
opposed to, by taking advantage of The loose
rules regulating the proceedings of the
House, SO as to raise technical questions,
make motions for the purpose of procrastl-
mating proceedings, and so delay final action
for days, and even weeks. These tactics have
caused Mr.. Gladstone to propose a set of re-
vised rules for the government of the House.
To one of the proposed new rules there was
special enmity, because it gives certain
majority of the House the power to enforce
"the previous question" at will, and 80 close
the debate and proceed to vote on the motion
before the House. Naturally, those who have
habitual recourse to the tactics Gladstone
and his supporters object to, strongly oppose
any change, but the government having made
it understood that they will no longer carry on
the nations business exposed to the obstruc-
tions and delay permitted by the present
rules, the subject has been taken up in
earnest. On Thursday last the prin-
ciple of the rule mainly objected to
by the opposition came to vote, under an
amendment which stated that no rule would
be considered satisfactory which would en-
able bare majority to close debate. The
amendment was voted by a majority of
thirty-nine for the ministers. This vote was
the more striking from the majority being
larger than the ministers looked for; it was
said that nearer INVENTIVE was all they
counted on with confidence; also a number
OF moderate Irish home-rulers voted with
the majority. As the principle here decided
involved the main difficulty in the case, the
other rules not being considered equally OBJ
jectionable, of course it is expected that the
whole MEASURE will be adopted, which is a
great triumph for Gladstone and will do
much to secure him in his position. The
New York Tribune states the nature OF the
change proposed to be made as fol-
lows: "The precise form of the pre-
vious question which Mr.. Gladstone
is introducing in England may be
readily defined. Mr.. Gladstone proposes to
invest the speaker, or the chairman of Com
mittee of the Whole House, with authority
to suspend proceedings and to ascertain the
preferences of the members in regard to the
continuance or close of the debate. The
previous question is moved at his discre-
ton, and not by any member, as is the prac
tice in the United States House of Repre-
sentatives; but the motion is not debatable,
and its adoption on division rests with the
members themselves. The form to which
closure is reduced is simply this: Debate
may be cut short and division ordered at
the discretion of the presiding officer if the
proposition be sanctioned by more than 200
members when the minority exceeds forty,
or by more than 100 members when the
minority is less than forty"
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The Laureate's Last.


The "new" patriotic song by Mr.. Tenny'
son, sung with so much success by Mr.. Stan
ley this week, and intended for use in socia
gatherings at home and throughout the colo
mics on the queens birthday, is, as has beer
stated, an adaptation of poem which frs
saw the light some thirty years ago. The
original will not, however, be found in all
the complete works of the laureate. II
is longer by two stsnzas than the adaptation
and although it speaks generally Of the Brit.
ish empire, il contains no dire6t reference tC
the colonies. Instead, there are these two
verses addressed 10 the United States, follow,
ing upon one 10 France:
Gigantic daughter of the West
We drink to thee across the flood
We know thee and we love thee best,
For art thou not of British blooS2
Should wars mad blast again be blown,
Permit net thou the tyrant powers
To fight thy mother here alone,
But let thy broadsides roar with ours-
Hands all round
GOD the tyrant's cause eonfound,
To our dear kinsmen of the West. my friends.
And the great name of England round and round.
O rise our strong Atlantic sons
When aga INST our freedom springs,
speak to Europe through your guns,
They CAN be understood by kings.
Thou must not mix our queen with those
That wish to keep their people fools.
Our freedom foemen are her foes,
She comprehends the race she rules.
Hands all Ioundi
God the tyrant's cause confound.
To our dear kinsrlen of the West, my friends,
And the great cause of England round and round
Readers of W liam Backs novels will find the
first OF these verses among the ether snatches Of
song very prettilv introduced in the charming
Adventures of a Phaeton."
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George Scoville, Guiteau's counsel, is Sc
riously i'll.
The secretary of war sustains the view
of Northumberland Swain that the
sentence is invalid.
The Supreme Court will adjourn for the
term on May S.h, and will not hear argu-
ments after April 18th.
United States bonds redeemed at the treas
ury under the 105th call, $40, 687 $50; 106th
call, SIS, Ais, $50; 10th call, SIS, 569, 800.
The President will not act in the case of
Sergeant Mason until tine Supreme Court
disposes of the question of the legality of
his sentence.
The House Committee on Foreign Affairs
will probably continue the examination of
Shepherd tomorrow. Shepherd was at the
capital to-day.
Secretary Folger says it is true that a
banker recently submitted proposition to
replace the extended BIS with $500, 000, 900
legal-,enders at two per cent, but beyond the
submission nothing has been done in the
M after.
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whom their rawlings had misled. Without
going into the details of this craze,
it is enough to say that it was from
first to last a disgusting exhibition
OF human frsilty and nearly resulted
in the murder Of the pastors wife by her
frenzy which his prophecy OF her death had
kindled in them. While they were gathered
about her the presiding elder who had been
summoned from a neighboring town arrived
and put stop to the proceedings, exclaim.
ing in righteous wrath: ats the work OF
the devil. There is no religion about this
fidmmerv. BY your disgraceful actions you
7 ave put the Methodist church in this town
LEX twenty years. Get out of here, every
Que Of you" Gradually the persons involved
ia this affair have recovered their reason
and many of them are deeply mortified at
The reproach which they have brought upon
III If church and community.
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THE CHURCH AT WAR
with the PeOple-It is Declared TO be
Heresy 10 Hold Thai All Power
is Derived from them.
New York Herald.

There was recently held at Cincinnati a
provincial council of the authorities of the
Holy Roman Church tor that particular
province of the Church made up of the States
of Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, Indiana and
Michigan. From these five States nine
bishops attended, and the Importance of the
assembly and of its declarations as to doc
trine and conduct flow from the fact that this
council of prelstes is the recognized ecclesi-
astical organ of absolute authority under the
pope for all churches and Cathol cs within
the province. Provincial councils in the
Roman system are for the churches and
Catholics of a defined region what ecumen-
ical councils are for the whole Church in
the world at large. Only seven gen.
eral councils have been held since
Apostolical times; but the provincial coun-
ellis that have been held to d, fine the posi-
ton of the Church, and TO declare Its will
and opinion on the various facts of human
history and conduct as they have arisen in
the various countries of the earth and in
various parts of the same country, are in
Vulnerable. What is of consequence in re-
spect to the council Just held at Cincinnati is
that its remarkable declarations are binding
upon the opinion and conduct of all good
Catholics in the five States named; that in
proportion as any Catholics in those States
rejects these declarations-which, as thus
presented, must stand to him as the inter-
pretalions of the will of God-he rejects his
religion. 1t can hardly be an exaggeration
to say that the Cincinnati council makes il
impossible for any man to be in that province
at once a good Catholic and good citiz, II
Of the United States, for while it condemns
many theories that are mere philosoph-
ical rubbish in politics it condemns also
the very theory of a popular and Dem
ocratic State. 1t declares that the
doctrine of human equality is a gross
error and that it is heresy to hold
that "all power is from the people" This is
not merely due to a blunder of confounding
politics with religion, but the council holds
that State cannot rest upon the will of the
people, and that governments and States
must be founded upon the law OF God" and
that the preist is the proper exponent of that
law. If this pastoral is not corrected by the
superior authority OF the pope the Catholic
Church, in part of this country at least,
enters upon an open war against those con-
ceptions and theories of politics upon which
the liberties of the people stand.
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TIMES REYENGEs.

The mills of the gods grind slowly, but
sooner or later they do much fine grinding.
This is illustrated in the rise and fall of the
knaves who robbed and plundered the tax
paying people of the South while they were
disfranchised and ruled by ignorance and
corruption. Indeed, an avenging Nemesis
seems to dog the tracks of the adventures
who SO long preyed upon the defenseless
people of the South. 1t would require
several pages of the APPEAL to give the rise
and fall of these men. Nearly every one
has come to grief. Ames, OF Mississippi, is
an outcast. Barbour Lewis left Memphis
with an ample fortune, but his wealth
turned to ashes and he is now as poor as
when he commenced the work of persecution
and plunder. Dorsey is in Mexico, wooiDg
death as an escape from the penitentiary.
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REINFORCEMENT.
The Bill Recently Passed by the Missis-
sippi Legislature, With the Letters
of Messrs. Chalmers and
Singleton on the Subject, the Chief Topic
OF Discussion in Our Sister State
Chalmers's Bill in the Horse.

WASHINGTON, April An the House 10
day General Chalmers introduced 4 bis
amendatory of the apportionment bill, " Eicii
was referred. 1t provides that no consrrs
sional district in State shall contain 10000
more population than another in the same
State, unless such excess be necessary to pre-
vent the subdivision of county, bat in NO
case shall the difference exceed 10000; and
until the State shall comply with this law
representatives to the Forty-eighIh congress
and subsequent congresses, shall be elected
from the same districts which elected them
to the FortY-seyenth Congress
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BRITISH BREADSTUFFs.
Weekly Review of the Market by the
Mark Lane Express.

LONDON, April 4.-The Mark Lime E1pres'
in its review of the British grain trade fol-
the past week, says: English wheat in Lon
don was very quiet at unchanged prices.
Barley malt had downward tendency.
Other grains were without change. Foreign
breadstuffs were slow, and foreign -four very
inanimate. Maize was too dear for buyers
at its nominal value, American ex-quay be-
ing 30s 60. Barley was very quiet and
weaker. Oats were lower. Beans were
irmer. Cargoes off-coast were very literally
supplied and in very feeble demand. No. 1
California wheat declined in some cases Is,
Sales OF English wheat during the week,
35,S79 quarters at ASS Id, against 2S,6l7
quarters at AS Id for the corresponding
week last year.
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MEMPHIS APPEAL
LINGERING sUPERsTITION


That everything has cause, and that the
cause must always be adequate to the effect
produced, are propositions so plain that nc
person of ordinary intelligence would think
of calling them in question. That, in weigh
ing, an article in one scale can be raise d
only by putting weight into the other is
evident to the simplest, and also that
the weight must be, at least, equal to that of
the article. To expect that eight ounces in
one scale would balance pound in the other
would be laughed at ridiculous. Let the
causes producing a given effect, however, be
numerous and intricate, especially if some
of them are unknown, such as the causes
producing the weather, for instance, and the
two propositions above are entirely ignored.
Here it is that superstition comes in; and,
often even among people of some cultiva-
tion, effects are believed in; for which no
cause, or no adequate cause, can be assigned;
and people have beliefs they commonly
deny, and expectations that something may
take place even though no reason can be
given why it should. Chance remarks,
little slips in the conversation of those
with whom we mingle, often reveal the ex-
istence of this lingering of superstition, this
faith in some unprecedented possibility. We
met with instance of this in Tennessee
paper of Saturday last. The article was
headed: "To Kill Trees, or Sprouts" then
followed
There are three days this year when this may be
done. When the sign is in The heart on the dark
of the moon in May, on the 9th, 18th and 26th of
dne month ot. BY single chop or bruise with an
or cut the wood. No need to grub them up or cut
them down. as they will certainly die within the
done every fourth fifth year, and this is one of
the years when 1t can be done.
T. II. DAVIDSON,
in Auburn Coonranger.
The editor of the paper adds: ave pub
lish the above for the benefit of our bucolic
friends who may have any pestiferous vege-
tation they may wish 10 get rid Of; the
remedy is simple, and if effective is GER
tainly great boon to farmers; it is at least
worth trial. Cut this out so as not to for
get the date and let us know the result"
Here the editor is just ON a level with the
"Coonranger," whatever that may be; he
publishes the receipt for the benefit of his
friends as a simple and effective remedy and
great boon, and he is anxiously curious to
know how a trial will turn out. Well may
Tennessee statistics prove her illiteracy
when one OF her editors, forgetting that
everything must have a cause, and that the
cause must be adequate to the effect, can
give such proof of the failure of "the
Rchoolmaster to be abroad"
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ton has filed lengthy opinion in the case OF
the commonwealth against the Standard Oil
Company for the recovery of back taxes. The
Court holds that the commonwealth is enti-
tied to recover from the defendant upward
of $50, 600, for which sum, with interest, pay
ment is directed TO be entered unless excep-
items shall be fled within the time prescribed
by law.
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sAAAhAAPoA APAuchnAC "a ncthfchoAs ia,
were reported in South Bethlehem, Pa, last
Saturday. The previous days report said
that not single case was known to the
health committee in which the sufferer had
been vaccinated. The principle of vaccina-
ton could not we'll have stronger confrma-
ton. Nevertheless sympathy is not to be
withheld from a people overtaken with SO
great an affection. Nurses are becoming
scarce; business is at standstill; the uni
versity and other schools have dismissed their
pupils; twenty deaths have occurred, and a
much larger number will undoubtedly be re-
ported within a few days.
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The Bird of FreedO IN.

The keepers of the American eagle at the
capital are getting ready to let him loose.
A bill designed to commit the United States
10 the construction Of the Tehsuntepec ship
railroad has been reported, and the Nicaragua
canal scheme is about to be set before the two
houses. In the course OF the debate the bird
of freedom will soar. Blaine's foreign policy
will be Landed 10 the skies. The importance OF
water communication between the Atlantic
and Pacific. through the mountains of Gen.
trail America, will be described as transcend
ing anything else that has been dreamed of
by man. Any quick imagination can pic
ture the scene that will be presented when
the congressional orators get warmed up.
The back ground should be the doors of the
treasury.
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vanderbiIi's Funeral.

New YORK, April 4.-The funeral OF
Cornelius ]. Vanderbilt took place this
morning from the Church of Strangers. VIM.
H. Vanderbilt and wife, and nearly all the
members of the family, were present. A
delegation of associated pioneers OF California
were also in attendance. The service for the
burial of the dead was read by the Rev. DIR.
Deems, and at the close the remains were
taken to the Grand Central depot, where they
were placed in special train for removal to
Hartford, fer final interment.
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ST. JOSEPH, April 4.-The coroner's jury,
after the examination was concluded, retired
to prepare their verdict, and returned the
following: 1--WE, the jury, find that the de-
ceased is Jesse james, and that he came to
his death by pistol shot in the hands of
Robert Ford"
This city is full OF strangers who have
been attracted from every direction by the
news of the tragic death OF the notorious
ouflaw
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Couldn't Carry Out His Plans

ST. LOUIS, April 4.cMattie Rollins, wife
of Dick Little recently showed Poet-Dis-
patch correspondent a letter received about
two weeks ago from Jesse James, in which
he stated he would stay in this country until
he had killed him Dick Little, and then
he and his brother Frank, and their families,
would put the Atlantic ocean between them
and the United States.