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New-York tribune., 1882-04-22
WHEN DOES SPRING BEGIN7

We do not ask tins question with tho design OF
narrowing up the feelings of gentlemen with the in
0uenza who yearning to have the current
ethereal mildncss" become several degrees moro
intense. Nor do we ask it in tho interest of any
young persons of either gender who have quantity
of spring poetry which they would fain throw
upon the market in the nick Of time, rather than
before or after the nick. We ask tho question:
When Does Spring Begin in the interest of com
merce, with q view of preventing the iron entering
the soul of the PhGnix Iron Company. sut was
put on trial in Philadelphia on Thursday, involv-
ing $2S 900, which turns on the question, When
Does Spring Begin
Ii appears that some months ago q well-knoWn
Philadelphia firm made contract for several
hundred tons of iron from the PhGnix Iron
Company, the stipulation being that the iron
was to be delivered in Philadelphia "In the
early spring of $780," Some of the iron did
not reach the firm until April "a, 1880, and
hence they claim there was violation of the con-
tract because April "a is not in the early spring.
Counsel for the firm argued that spring
III this latitude, both in ordinary parlaDco and in
the iron trade, begins on March 1, and that early
spring counting month and half from this date,
ended on April d. In reply to this counsel for the
Ph9nix Iron Company contended that, according
to all authorities, both English and American,
spring does not begin until March 20 the time fixed
by astronomers, and consequently the delivery of
the iron i'll early spring. In support of this
position. and by way of rendering it impregnable
Gibraltar. counsel, learn from
The PkHadelphia LodGer's report of the case,
offered III evidence among other works Of recog-
nized authority The TRIBUNE ALMANAC. But for
reasons best known to itself the Court ruled out all
the almanacs submitted to It-sOme half dozen in
all. The Ledger adds that pending argument
upon similar offers from other scientific authorities
the Court adjourned and the case will be resumed
this morning."
All persons interested in having the date Of the
genesis of spring and the exodus OF winter de-
termined once for all by judicial decision will
follow this novel trial with lively interest If the
Court knows tsclf-and its failure to appoint TIE
TRIBUNE ALMANAC sole referee in the premises will
raise the presumption in the public mind that it
does MOTT will decide that spring hereabouts, like
Easter the world over, is " movable" institu-
tion. Speaking seriously, tho PhGnix Company
has unquestIonaby got the right of the matter.
March, April and May spring months, but the
formal, the scientific, the astronomical, the only
real opening of the season occurs when The TRIB-
UNE ALMANAC says 1t occurs" March 90 II
noon" This fact about spring ought to turn the
winter of the PhPnx Iron Company's discomfort at
having iron of the value Of 9S 600 thrown back on
their hands into glorious summer. They are bound
the suit to win unless justice in Philadelphia
declines to walk hand in hand with starry-eyed
knowledge.
New-York tribune., 1882-04-22

friends, who made their own game some
twenty-one years ago, and in the spirit partly
Of confidence and partly of "bluff" staked
all their "niggers" and great deal more be-
side. The rebellion was on their part great
gamble. They played for an Independent Con-
fedcracy with slavery as the cornerstone, and
they staked on it not merely slavery, but their
own dsfranchisemcnt and the chances for ne
gro suffrage, negro equality and even negro
rule. They played the game with eyes wide
open and full knowledge of the possible con-
sequences. Mad gambling, to be sure, but
they forced the game and dealt the cards
dealt them to an unwilling adversary at point
of pistol-and would listen to no compromise
until the cards were called. They lost; lost
everything independence, "nig-
gers n-all. Much has been restored to them,
but the victors, having fairly won the "nig-
gers,n have clothed them with citizenship and
set them up for themselves; and they propose
to retain so much as this, at least, of the
stakes in that great game. Was it fair gam
ble7 If it was, the men who lost must abide
the result. The "nigger' is a citizen, and has
equal rights with the man who staked him in
the game. And it is not chivalrous or honest,
now that the game has been played, for the
loser to either whine about it or try to get
even by cheating.
New-York tribune., 1882-04-22


on April 1s. The Vegas mail. however, was
carried quite as fast. A party of natives
received the letters on February 20, the
postage being thrco bottles of whiskey,
and on April arrived at Kolymsk. Thence
the pail was sent by express to Yakutsk and
was received at Irkutsk on May 20. This was
as good time as Mr.. Glider made, although
natives and officials were the postmen. The
first part of the road is frequently travorsed
by traders from Kolima, and the remaining
stages are regularly made by Government
couriers. Mr. elders experience in Arctic
travel enabled him to endure the terrible strain
of this Journey of / 800 miles with the ther-
mometer between 800 and 500 below zero,
and he was SO fresh at the end that he pushed
hcadlong into new adventures on the Lena.
His grit. intelligence, resolution and good for
tune have made him the hero of an lD-tated
Arctic expedition.
New-York tribune., 1882-04-22
PERSONAL.

Joseph Head, who recently died in Boston at the
age of ninety was the oldest living graduate
of Harvard College. He belonged to the class of
1904
Efforts are being made by Governor Hamilton, of
MARYLAND to annul the marriage between his
daughter Clare and her husband John Stanhope.
The marriage was a clandeStlue one and took place
last summer.
+. b. (iowen. the president of the Reading Rail-
road, who arrived in Europe yesterday, has under
taken among other thing, to negotiate a loan there
of Fl 000.0 GOO for the 1ilewator Pipe Line Com
pany to pay off existing indebtedness and extend
the work OF the company.
Ernest Morris, the young naturalist and explorer,
of indianapolis Ind, brought home with him from
his recent trip South America 800 plants fifteen
of which are claimed to bo new discoveries The
collection is now III possession Oh ErasUus corning,
of Albany, \. \.
A picture of Drcd Scott the slave who was made
famous by his connection with Supreme Court
decision which remanded HIM to slavery, was pre-
sented TO the Missouri Historical Society last week
by the widow of Theodore Barnurn. who purchased
Scotts manumission. The Hon. j. Milton Turner
made the presentation speech. ScOtts portrait was
placed upon the walls beside that of Thomas Ii.
Benton.
Roswell Smith, the publisher of The Century maga-
zine. has given a check for 81 900 TO the American
less. in East Ihirtieth-S toward the erection of
chapel in memory of his grandson Roswell Inncss,
who died recently. The chapel will be built at
Oceanport. n. j., near Long Branch, where the
society has a sum- mer home for the Children under
its care 1t VIII cost about ~, 600 will be designed
especially for the children and will be called the
Roswell InneSs Memorial Chapel
Mr. Wckersham Whose name was incorrectly
spelled Wickershal in some of the dispatches yes
terlay) just named to be Charge dAilaires in Dem
mark took prominent part in the meeting of the
National Education Association in Washington, in
1873 There was an interesting debate upon the
relative merits of the old academy and the high
school of the present day, most of the people par
tjcpating having been educated in the old acad-
emirs General Garfield delivered a brilliant ad-
dress entitled Brick and Mortar ys. Brains"
The new Inman steamship City of Rome will sail
for Liverpool to-day with 21O cabin passengers,
among whom are the Rev DR.. Henry Day, son and
daughter; the Rev. DIR. Edward A. Fogger, Bishop
OReIlly, of Springfield, the Rev. +. j. Flynn, the
Hon s. I. Smith and wife, II. H. Van Setback J.
Ralston Grant and wife, W. ii. Blatch G. Balln.
Mr.. and Mrs Edward +. Caldwell, William Doug
lass. Colonel William Osborn, Captain j. B. Pryca.
Sanlne Raynor, and Mrs. George Il. Blanchard
The North German Lloyd steamer Neckar has 50
cabin passengers among whom Mrs J. Pierpont
Morgan, L. Skougaard- Seyerini. Felix Brown, vito
New-York tribune., 1882-04-22
V4S 1T 4 F1IR G1WBLEP

The present spirit and purpose of Southern
BOurbOnism are fairly illustrated in the
mark of a Democratic member of Congress
concerning the pending contested election
cases in the House which was quoted in The
L TRIBUNEs Washington dispatches yesterday.
:" don't care" said he, speaking of Dlr.
Lynch, the cOored man who contests the seat
of Mr.. Chalmers, of Mississippi, :" | don't care
whether he was elected or not. No niggcr
shall ever hold a seat i'll Congress again
"if my vote can prevent it, There is
degree of brutal candor about this
statement that when compared with the
devious indirections by which Democrats
of greater cunning and less sincerity
undertake to accomplish the same end, has
merit The statement is both bold and bald.
1t does not stoOp to invent pretextS or offer
excuses, but comes out in the sharp defiant
way that conveys the admission that it is ut
terly unreasonable and indefensible. There is
something i'll the bigotry that simply plants
itself on an assertion and refuses to listen to
argument or bulge an inch that, without be-
ing precisely chivalrOus, recalls the old notion
of chivalry the miscalled chivalry that made
it point of honor to stick to Il statement
once made, no matter how often or how an
mistakably it was proven blunder or a lie
But in another respect the position here taken
differs decidedly from what used to be de-
scrbcd in newspaper romances rs the chivalry
of the South and Southwest. In those
pleasing fictiOns chivalry was represented by
the planter loaded with money and attended
by several slaves as body-servants who was
free with his money, took special delight in
games of chance, played high, usually lost,
and accepted the results of his losing game, if
not always with philosophc compOsure, at least
without ever attempting to cheat his adversary
out of the stakes. When the representative of
chvary in the old days, after losing all his
ready cash on mistaken valuation of " three
of kind,n put up "niggcrn or two on a
"full" and lost them, he gave up the "nig-
gers with or without bill Of sale, and hay-
ing once turned them over to the winner, no
longer expected them to stand behind
his chair or render him personal service.
When he had exhausted his funds and
his "niggers" and the chances of the
game he usually had tho decency to set
back his char and seek in rum or religion
consolation for his losses. The broad
brmmed planter who had stakcd "niggcrr
on drawing to a bob-tailed flush and had
failed to "fill made it a matter of pride TO
give up the entire "nggern without so much
as asking the allowance of a drawback on ac-
count of his clothes. lie had named his own
stake and had lost, and he gracefully sub
mitted.
The case is different with our Bourbon
New-York tribune., 1882-04-22

brother, and at the first convenient opportunity
kill him in the name Of his Church KAHN re-
fused to commit the crime, but he aifirms that
in the summer of 1856 Babbitt was assassl'
mated, on his return from Washington, and his
belief is that the assassination was an act
"done in accordance with the laws OF SAID
"Church, instigatcd thereto by the ADVICE ana
@couusel of George q. Cannon ana other por-
@sons in the authority of said Church" MT.
Rain made three aifdavits on this SUBJECT
and tbey are all interesting reading. Concern
inc his veracity and trustworthness as wit
ness. there arc strong and unequivocal state
ments from Ex-Governor Woods, OF Utah, and
from two members of the Mormon Church. We
give all these, together with an affidavit setting
forth the doctrine of Blood Atonement AS IL mas
been openly preached in the Tabernacle at Salt
Lake.
Vc commend these remarkable documents to
the careful perusal of all who wish to under
stand the true nature of the institution upon
which the Republican party has set its heel. In
tbe light of them it is well to read over the fare
well speech of Mr.. Cannon in Congress, IN
which he defended his Church as divine in
stitution, and said he did not envy the feelings
Of ,nv man who voted against him. any
"peoplc,r he said "practise polygamy because
they believe it to be right, and religious duty,
in obedience to a command Of God given for
"the redemption of the race" Blasphemy of
that kind will never again be heard on the floor
of Congress. and tor this relief We have to
thank the Republican party. Why the Demo-
cratic party should desire to uphold such an IN
stitution ana such a man would be an inexpli-
cable mystery had not one of their own members
furnished the key. In his speech on the un-
seating of Cannon Congressman Atkins sad :
"Mormons have been guilty OF believing III and
"somo of them of practising polygamy. But
@they have been guilty of another sin also.
"They have committed the offence of belong
"ing to the Democratic party" There you
have it. They vote the Democratic ticket,
therefore they must be upheld by the Demo-
cratic party. There is nothing inconsistent
about this course. The same party upheld
slavery because the shareholders were Demo
Gratis; they excused the Ku-KluX because the
Ku Klux were Democrats; they defend the
ballot box suffers because the tissue ballots all
bear Democratic names. But what party
this policy accumuafes-slavcholders ku-
Klux murdcrers, ball0t-bo suffers and polyg-
amsts Emerson says a mans friends are his
magnetisms. What a curious magnet the
Democracy is!
New-York tribune., 1882-04-22
GENERAL NOTES.

a huge whale. harpOOned off Provincetown
Oh Monday, was towed into Of Boston docks On
wednesday 1t weighs u tons 62 feet long and 50 feet
In glrth, and Its jaws have a spread Of 2j feet Tho
monster % Is now UNDERGOING the embalmlng process and
VIII probably swing round the circle In the wake Of
some travelling show during tae summer.
Gulteau does not like Jerseymen, perhaps
because he regards them the OF Jersey
Justice Several residents OF that State visited him in
his cell the other day and received civil treatment from
the assassin until they told where they FROM when
lie refused TO talk with them longer. Not even tho
offer OF hye dollars could induce him 10 sell his picture
and autograph 10 OF the party although I'm iicr
presence he granted that inestimable boon one
else for dollar.
An American author now in Munich writes toa
friend In this city: "a German lady told cool story
at the dinner table last evening that WILL think amuse
you In Switzerland few months ago she met with
ono Of our countrynen who, in circle Of ladies and
gentlemen at large hotel, was bOasng Of the great
freedom enjoyed by the people OF America so SUPERIOR
ne sad TO that enjoyed by any other naton the Garth
WHY said he pulling ont Of his pistol pocket revolver
uaVe Inoested from one end OF the United states TO
the other"
One of the most beautiful country roads in
NewEngland is that which winds in many gentle curves
from Maiden, in the suburbs OF Boston, to stoneham
and the lOvelest point in s sinuous whore il
bends around a grassy knoll in Melrose which
noble old buttonwood has stood guard for a cen.
try The County Commissioners have lately decided 70
cut down the and level the knoll for purpose OF
Strengthening the road Against this desccration Mr..
Wilson Flagg, author OF The Woods and By-roads Of
ewEngland," has entered earnest protest. " Let
the people OF Merosc," he writes The Boston Tran
script, let all those who from and other cities
have tourneyed over this old road and admired the no.
bic buttOnwOod and the picturesque knoll which t
stands rise and Indignantly protest against this unwar
rantabe act Of sordd stupidity cannot believe that
the public look tamely and allow this shameful
thing TO be done. The destruction Of this place would be
perpetual disgrace the civilization OF Eastern Masss-
chusetts and the County Commissioners should have an
injunction laid upon their progress Immediately By
proper legal action" Mr. Flagg right. many Mas
sachusetts towns such brutal sacrifices have approached
the enOrmity Of murder in the first degree and any
one who majestic elm laid low In order that
hideous and ill-smelnc asphalt pavement might make
lovely village look like ugly city Will JOIN hear.
and soul in Mr. Flaggs ndienant protest.
New-York tribune., 1882-04-22
IHE NEVIS THIS MORNING.

PonFIGN-Details have been received in regard
10 the death Of General Hurlbut. -= In the first
three months thus year 3,S92 persons were evicted
In Ireland the total number of arrests thus far
amounts to over 900. - Further particulars
have been received regarding the maltreatment OF
the Jews at Balta. - Riots have occurred
Among miners in Wales and in Cornwall England
CoNGREss-The Mississippi River Improvement
bill was discussed in the Senate; the Committee on
Education recommended an appropriation to aid in
the support of common schools; the bill to allow
retired Army officers 10 hold civil Office was favor
ably reported - In the House the bill to afford
assistance to Congress in the investigation of claims
against the Government was debated; PENSION
bills were considered last night
DoMEsTIC.-Hallct Kilbourn yesterday was
awarded verdict of 81 90 600 against ex-Sergeant-
alarms John q. Thompson in the Circuit Court at
Washingtop - General William l.. Burt, of
Boston, died at Saratoga. - Many persons were
injured and much property was destroyed by the
storms in Pennsylvania. - 1t is reported that
ten Mexicans were killed in the Indian outbreak in
Arizona 80 The Oregon Republican Convention
nominated ticket. - Warren l.. Whitney was
killed bv the explosion of boiler in paper mill at
iCIaremont n. II. - The spinners and weavers
IN the Harmony Mills AT Cohoes have decided not to
20 TO work on Monday. - train was thrown
from the track by robbers at Kansas City and one
man was killed - Ex-COunty Treasurer Dun
dore OF BeIks County Penn, gave himself up last
night 80 The Assembly Judiciary Committee
began the investigation in the Manhattan suits at
Albany
CITY AND SUBURBAN.-Wilam Sindram was
hanged yesterday al the Tombs for the murder of
Mrs. Catherine Crave. "A suit has been
brought by the County Medical Society to eDjon
The United States Medical College from issuing
diplomas. - The trial of the OGorman-A Arnoux
suit was continued yesterday. - The dog show
was closed. - An injunction was granted re-
straining the jersey City authorities from tearing
ND the tracks of the Delaware. Lackawanna and
Western Railroad. - Gold value of the legal
tender silver dollar (41212 gransl 50 CENTS
Htocks opened lower. afterward were irregular and
feverish and finally closed strong and excited.
THE WEATHER.-TRIBUNE local observations in
dicate clear or fair and warmer weather Their
mometer yesterday Highest, 620; lowest, 40
average, 4S0.
New-York tribune., 1882-04-22
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New-York tribune., 1882-04-22

Mr. James Morton, an accomplished and enthusi-
astic Philadelphia mathematician, claims to have
solved the problem known squaring the circle.
Our hearty congratulations Mr.. Morton. And now
before you proceed to discover perpetual motion,
the North Pole, and the lost Plead, perhaps you
would have the goodness TO inform the country
whether the square described upon the hypothenuse
of the handsome young Senator, Don Cameron, is
greater than the area of all the rest of the Repub-
lican party of Pennsylvania.
New-York tribune., 1882-04-22
and three children, F.. Won Bernuth wife and two
children, j. ElInger and DR.. Ewald Willing.

and three children, F. Won Bernuth, wife and two
children, j. Ellinger and DR.. Ewad Wulfng
The revenue steamer Corwin, which has been
selected as the vessel to go TO the relief Of The o
GERS and crew Of the Rodgers. is commanded bv
Lieutenant M A. Healy, the senior lieutenant Of
tho Revenue Marine Service. Lieutenant Healy ba.
had number Of years Of service in Alaska and in tba
Arctic, and became so infatuated with il that who,
two years ago last May the Treasury Department
ordered the Corwin a short cruise up Behrnr,
STRAIT to get news Of tho Jeanette he your teered
for the work. and was detached from the command
OF the revenue cutter William f. Chandler al this
port' Whlch nc had held for two years and half
and was ordered to the Corwin AZ executive anj
navigating officer. He was afterward detached and
omeTed To tho revenue cutter Rnsh, and was .
Gently put IN command Of tho COrwIn.
New-York tribune., 1882-04-22
1mueements 60 Niabt.

kAclpyuY OF MUsIC-2-"EAfrcaine O On "Af,er
XrBKY's FARK TnEATRk-2-" DNoi'0"''
the Opera" N p,o,cs"
BooTH's THEATRE-2-" kicho"e"'
Revenge" - ,C..,ro,to"
BAvrELYs FIFTH AVENUE inhAi"h ""'
Kirke." - ,,,.,r,v q and g." White
HAvHR.Y's liTH STREET '"'N
U,yvpIy,s Nlnro's GARDEN-2 ana =" nc ne ,e DaiVe
80 y" .xc,sco OPERA HOUSE. and 8" NJ ~ . 80.
s1ISn.Sp 1'liFArRE-2 10 and 10" tla'Ye i,u,"'
Tu,,II T,lNArRE-2-" Ihe Haunted N"7uo
Royal MILDLY" ,~
yuY ans CoMIQUE-" Squattcr Sovereignty ,,a,,,,,
CSIoN SQUARE THEATRE-"Fa Far troA INC N-e
I crowd"
WA,IACK's TuEATRE-l 80 and g." Youth.
BUxNKLL's MUSEUM 80 e.
MANSON SQUARE GAEDES-2 ana S-tlfcu%
NATIONAL AcADEMl OF Decentralization
New-York tribune., 1882-04-22
PUBLIC OPINION.
THE DEMOCRATIC DONKEY.
From The Syracuse Standard Rep }

With unusual aSlnlneneSs, some DemOcrauo
organs hing themselves 10 think that their partys rep
in the House hamperng every effort 20
improve the wretohed navy which bears the American
ag The party thai hows for the protection OF Amer
can citizens abroad howls just loudly when an az
tempt put forth to strengthen the principal agency for
protecting them.
New-York tribune., 1882-04-22

On Thursday the Assembly, during a spasm
of sense, decided to adjourn finally on May
49, Having thus demonstrated its appreciation
Of the value of time, the Assembly turned
around yesterday and passed a resolution call
ing for an adjournment from Friday until
Monday, with a consequent loss Of two whole
Gays Consistency is one of the most engaging
of Jewels.
New-York tribune., 1882-04-22
POLITICAL STRATEGY THAT Is A LITTLE toe
DEEP.
TV,s M ,.grffN Nouasss aeyrIfp pseN

President Arthur seems to be- and il is AL
legged lie l., working conciate the south and revive
the Republican party in that unprOmsing section but
it strikes OF the Southern Republicans that he h.s
takcn very singular way OF showing ms interest oy ~
ring the only reprcsen OF the South no had In ms
Cabinet and substituting Northern Stalwar- Las
strategy Is too deep for them
New-York tribune., 1882-04-22

Persons ledr'ng tOUn for the season, and sum
uer trapeller8, can hare THE DAILY TRIBUNE
mailed to them. postpaid, for 81 20 per month,
the address being changed as often desired