Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-04-18
WASHINGTON R0MANCING
THE ANGLO-AMERICAN CORRE.
SPONDENCE ALL BOsH.

disruption of Our Glass Art Relations
With England-A GrOundIess Room
Started by the News MOngers-Cana-
dian Discrimination Against American
Whisky.
WASHINGTON, April 1.-THE dynamite
hends and the talk of the Irish so-calIed
leaders in this country have caused the
ashlngton newspaper correspondent to
do more rOmancing to the square inch
than ever Eli Perkins accomplished in his
palmiest and most inspired moments. The
British Minister here has taken no steps
Whatever in regard TO the utterances of
the O'DonOvan Rossa school of patriots
who fight for Irish liberty with their
mouths-and at long range. And vet
the Washington correspondent has
all but given the correspond
ence between Minister West and
the State Department, in which the for
mer is made TO threaten, diplomaticallv
yet very strongly, that unless the tongues
OF the Irish-American takers are curbed
Great Britain Will find it necessary to
Dreak the present peaceful relations exist
ing between her and the United States.
Ihls statement has been followed ND as
the dynamite plot thickens by the details
OF the very threatening crisis upon which
our peace hangs. Every fresh interview
tnat ODOn0Yan Rosa has with himself
gives new impetus 10 the writings of the
average Washington correspondent. In
many cases the rOmances which they
write upon the subject of our relations
with Great Britain have gone so far into
detail that after reading some of them
you naturally expect to hear next that
Minister West and Secretary of State
Frellnghuysen have had regular rOuoh
and tumble fight. Imaginary "attacbes
of legations" have been interviewed on
the subject of the diplomatic relations be-
tween the United States and Great
Britain, and have been induced to give
the most startling kind of infor-
nation; and at the bottom of it all
there is, upon the authority of Secretary
Frelinghuysen and Minister West, not the
least foundation stone. There has, i'm
Iaet, been no correspondence whatever
between them upon this subject. | have
seen much newspaper rOmancing in my
days. L may have participated i'll it in
harmless kind of way myself sometimes
but must say that in all my experience
L have never heard of any subject upon
which SO many newspaper dime novels
nave been written as upon this one. 1t
is little dull i'm Washington Just now,
but the boys are piling it on a little too
thick even for dull times.
The whisky men have made discovery.
1t is that the treaty of Washington has
been violated by Great Britain and that
the United States has been Disseminated
against despite the clause in that treaty
which puts our country upon the same
footing with Great Britain or that enjoyed
by the most favored nations. That we are
TO have that footing, which is about all
that we ever got from the treaty of Wash
lngtOn, is certainly one of the clauses of
that paper. Canada is, of course, part of
Great Britain. The Canadian Govern
ment has refused to allow American dis
tillerS to send whisky into her dOminiOns
in packages of less than ninety gallons.
The whisky of other nations is not pro-
hibited in this way. 1t can enter Canada
in packages of any capacity. These be-
ing the circumstances, the whisky men
make the point, which in view of all the
facts seems to be well taken, that the most
favored nation clause of the treaty of
Washington Is violated when American
whisky is Disseminated against.
Two of Marshal Longstreet's deputies
have just been convicted in Atlanta.
Their conviction was the result of the in
yestigatiOn which the Department of JUS
tice made some months ago into the af-
fairs of the Georgia MarshaFs office. 1t
will be remembered that the report Of the
special agents who made this inYestiga-
tiOn stated that there was some
negligence in the Office and the
deputies had been doing wrong.
No reflection upon the honesty of General
LOngstreet was made. All of this was duly
chrOnicled in the News. Thereupon Gen.
Longstreet's son, in dubious English said
that what your correspondent had written
was all untrue, and that no investigation
had been made, and that the deputies were
all right. Gen. LOngstreets son. if l re-
t,aa1 lApr ariQr aIS n al
in his denial. In view of the conviction
just made think, if he will use a retro
spective eve; he will commune with 4im-
self about how little he knew when he
wrote his denial of what the NEWS had
printed.
There was started in this city a few
months ago what was augured would be
q dismal failure. 1t is place of amuse-
ment to which the admission is a dime.
The place where the show holds forth is
on the delectable south side Of the avenue.
All the performances in the show or any
other line which take place on the south
side of the avenue are usually very much
off. Because of the locality of the place
of amusement and the small price of adj
mission, it was said that the management
would lose what little money it possessed
and then walk out Of town.
But there has been nothing of the kind.
The show is going on and has a large pa
tronage both night and day. What was
never before seen in a place of amuse-
ment south of the avenue is now seen in
this dime exhibition. Ladies and chill
dren-in fact, the audiences are princi-
pally ladies and children-crowd the mu-
scum part and fill the seats where the
performance is held. There is a good va
riety performance, with all of the low fea-
lures taboOed, and museum where the
wOOlly horse, the fat boy and other curl
Osities equally entertaining can be seen,
land ali for tine small sum of ten
cents-twO small nickels." The
performance is generally a pantOmime,
with Side-shoWs of VentrilOquiSt, magi-
clan, and other features dear to the femi-
nine and childish heart There is also a
Punch and Judy. Who ever gets tired of
Punch and Judy? l would almost as
soon see a good Punch and Judy show as
listen to a Wagnerian opera. Alto
gether it is a remarkably good show. 1t
gives a perpetual Christmas matinee to
the children; and L notice that the small
boy who used to pay his ten cents to sit
in the gallery of the COmique where he
saw and heard things that no one ought to
see and hear, is deserting that temple and
squandering his wealth upon the museum
and pantOmime. 1t is doing good work.
The presence of ladies and children in the
locality where this cheap entertainment is
furnished cannot fail also to be OF good to
the denizens thereof. This show is really
doing missionary work. POTOMAC.