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Omaha daily bee., 1883-01-27
I he Times on the Sandwich Islands

Special Dispatch to THE Bgs.
CHICAGO, January 26. Tho Chicago
Times says: Looking at the matter on
all sides IL i'd difficult to avoid the con-
clusion that 1t Is the inevitable destiny
of the Hawaiian Island to become at
no very distant time, either an attach
ment of China or colonial dependen,
cy Cf some energetic western power.
The latter is tho more probable and
the probability Is that the power to
which that sugar kindom win be an
nexed If not America, will be Eng
land. So great Is the probability Of
this that it may be regarded
as an alternative for American states,
men to consider in all senousnesa:
Shall tho Hawaiian kingdom ba an
American or an English colohy2 Some
aay, should the race of protective
tariff demsgOgues not stretch out to
the crack of doom, we may hope to
present Homo 6g1re Of respectability as
rivals Of our English cousi,s for the
rich commerCe of the Pacific. If we
fail TO realize the importance Of our
present opportunities, wa shall have
only ourselves TO, If we then lament
that the Hawaiian arehspslago is not
an American but an English colony.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-01-27
New York Weather.
Special Dispatch to TnE BEE.

sPCuaI D6pAIch 70 THE BE
UTICA, N. Y, January 26 Tho
Thermometer in the northern part of
the State this morning Is Ia : to 80 .
b elow zero.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-01-27
1hs SIuegsrs in New York

Special Dispatch 70 THE BEE.
NEW YORK, January 26. -Jem Mace
and Slsde arrived hers This morning.
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SECTIONAL STRIFE.

The Louisville COwiey-JoWnai
was evidently in a sanguine mood
when it said: 1.-THE battle is won at
last, and is now, thank God, over.
The terms North and South are moth,
ing more than geographical express
sions. The period of persecution is
dead. New questions, nom sectional
in their character, are arising; and
the Democratic party having sur
vived an hundred deaths, it is i'm.
portant that its press should be of
equal potency with ITSELF" 1t is
questionable whether the terms
North and South are nothing more
than geographical expressions. 1t
would be well for the country if they
were. But As long As demagogues
can be found whose political stock in
trade is a bloody shirt they will con-
tinue to wave it and keep alive what.
ever of sectional strife now exists.
The time may come when differences
having their birth in sections will
cut no figure in political contests,
but 1t is not at hand now. The bat
ties of tho civil war will be fought
over again by stump speakers mex
year, and if they don't keep alive
sectional animosities it will be be-
cause the people have become wiser
than their leaders.
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NIHILlSM.

what is Nihilism?" is a question
frequently asked. The author OF
Underground Russia" according
to the Salt Lake Herald, gives in his
his work a brief and comprehensive
answer. His account is that from
1860 to 1870 nihilism was a philosoph-
ical and literary movement, which
turned the educated classes into ma
terialists and secured for women
equal rights with man in civil law
and education. Since then it has be-
come a phase of socialism, and its
leaders desire freedom of speech and
freedom Of the press in order that
they may propagate their views.
If this freedom is conceded.
together with such political rights
as will enable the people to
guard it, the nihillsts offer to abar-
don their present policy of terror and
content themselves with peaceful
weapons. They say that the rulers
Of Russia; including the Car and the
official class, have no community of
interest with the mass of the nation.
which sympathizes with their aims
as far as it understands them, and
that they have done nothing more
than proclaim aloud, amid the re-
ports and flames of their explosions,
what everybody either thought or
whispered with q hesitancy and
tlmid voice amid a deluge of adula-
ton and general compulsory reti-
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The Iron Workers Strike.

CHICAGO, May 25.-From inter
views with leading iron men of this
city it appears to be a settled fact the
iron mills of Chicago will shut down
June LIST unless some unexpected
concession is made by the AmaIga-
mated Association before that time,
which is deemed highly improbable
by the manufacturers.
The Union Iron and Steel Com
pany, which vas expected to resume
work June LIST, has apparently abail-
doned all intention of doing 50.
Judge Moran, in Circuit Court to.
day, delivered an opinion in one OF
the "bucket shop" eases, holding;
with Judge Talery, that the Board OF
Trade cannot discriminate in deciaf-
ing to whom it's quotations may oe
sent. The decision is the second one
in the lower courts in favor OF the
bucket shops.
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SILVER AS

In view of the fact there are those
who lose no opportunity to educate
the public mind to hostility to one
Of the precious metals it becomes the
duty of the friends of silver to place
all the facts concerning the status of
that metal before the public. Bullion,
ajournal that has done much toward
combating the evil teachings of mon
omelallists, contributes the following
additional testimony in behalf of the
interests of the country. We do not
hear so much regarding the useless
silver that is being piled up in the
Treasury vaults as formerly, although
we still 60 on coming over $4,000, 600
of standard silver dollars every
month. Unfortunately the critics of
silver have not now even figures to
back them, and without either figures
or logic they do the only sensible
thing they can do, and that is MAIN
tain a dignified silence. The last
Treasury statement shows that on
October lst there were $66, o92, 667 of
the standard dollars in the Treasury.
against which S64, 149 $40 certif-
Gates were issued. There were only
$l1 1853, $50 of the certificates held by
the Treasury, leaving $50, 500, $50 in
the hands of the people. With the
81 ,942,757 of silver dollars in the
Treasury not covered by certificates
and the certificates not in circulation,
the Government really holds only
$l3, 5O2, 4S7 of the coin out of nearly
Sion, DOC, 600 that have been coined
since the Bland bill becamea lawt
On the other hand, the gold coin and
bullion in the Treasury on October
LIST, less certificates outstanding,
amounted to nearly $17O, OOo, 900. 1t
is plain enough, therefore, that silver
has its uses and the employment of
silver certificates is a most sensible
plan.
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The Helena Herald editorially ex-
plodes two or three sticks of dyna-
mite under Governor Butler for hold
ing up Massachusetts to the ridicule
and abuse of the country in his in
vestigations of the Tewksbury aims.
house matter. The Herald, like
many other Republican journals,
does not hesitate to lay bare to the
public gaze any crookedness for
which a Southern State may be held
responsible, but when Massachusetts,
refinement and "culchaw" are Sc
riously compromised by such expos.
ures as were made by Butler it has
tens to draw a vail over the disgust
ing scene and to divert the public
eye by an attack upon the man who
above all Others, should receive the
thanks of humane men.
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THE INSANITY PLEA,

A few weeks ago United States
District Attorney Corkhill delivered
a lecture before the Medico- Legal
Society of Washington City, "Insan.
ity as a Defense for Crime" in which
he asserted that what is called moral
or emotional insanity should never
be countenanced in a court of justice.
If man is judged insane he ought to
be tried by a jury on that charge,
and, if the charge is sustained, sent
to an insane asylum; otherwise be
held strictly accountable for the
crime. MI. Corkhill quoted a num-
Der of authorities to show that real
insanity is a disease, and wound up
by giving the so-called medical ex-
perts the following send-of:
1T is the most astonishing fact in
the whole history of the admlnistra-
ton of criminal jurisprudence that
within the past few years, .nurtured
by the v~agaries and senseless theories
of medical men on the subject, and
by the testimony of So
called experts, almost every criminal,
when a%rraigned, offers insanity as
his defense, assured that he will have
the assistance and support of eminent
medical authors and experts. And,
as a consequence we have had just as
many different kinds of insanity as
we have had crimes. But there is a
class well known in every commune
ty, who by their energetic character,
their vanity, their egotistical declara-
and by their arrogant assump-
become prominent. They are
aot always men who wear long hair,
You have them in your society, un-
less the press misreports some ofyour
discussions. They are doctors with
patients, and ministers without
parishes"
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Here is a hard blow given to the
silent man" by the Minneapolis
Tribune: ut was not the soldier. but
the politician, that was snubbed by
the veterans of the Army of the Po-
tomac who refused to elect General
Grant president of their association
In view of this thrust at the General
it may be asked whether Grant is
more of a politician now than he was
when he was elected to the Presi-
dency the second time. Has Grant
changed? or has the Republican
party revised its opinions concerning
him? The proper answers to these
questions are that Grant is the same
Stalwart Republican he always has
been, and that Republican Half
breeds are now looking at him
through different glasses than they
used . few years ago. No, Grant has
not changed, but a portion of the Re-
publican party has. That's all.
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RECLAMATION
BY THE
TERRITORY OF MONTANA.

TERRITORY OF MONTANA.
EXECUTIVE OFFICE, HELENA, May 19, 1885,.
On the sOth of May in many Of the States OF
the Union the graves of those who died that
the nation might live" will be solemnly Coco
rated with flowers or the national flag that they
defended. In some of the States Memorial Day
is an annual holiday, sacred to patriotism: u
sorry to say, no Post Of the Grand Army Of the
Republic, I earnestly hope that Memorial Day
will not be forgotten: The motto Of this loyal
Loyalty" In the spirit of these words and rec
ollecting that we are now one country, and that
there should no longer be dissensions between
those who had honestly learned at their moth
the Nation was the supreme motherland, the
doctrine of State sovereignty. or National
supremacy, respectively, for which the martyrs
OF two contending armies died in battle, would
Confederate, to sanctify Memorial Day in this
Territory by clasping hands over the common
graves of American soldiers dead. l recon-
mend the Observance Of the thirtieth of May
was purely domestic. To treasure its hostilities
as if victory had been won over a foreign foe,
alien forever, is unwise and entirely subversive
Of the great lesson = the war for "a more per-
feet Union"
As the grandsires of Northern and Southern
men stood shoulder to shoulder a hundred years
ago, under the eye of the great Virginia rebel,
who had no treason in his soul, George Wash
lllklOll, u u llCu Vi VuOuk0u0, 1O1kCLt1uB 10tCA
.antagonisms, stand side by side to honor the
graves of those over whom one flag floats for
ever. Both armies did their best, and God de-
cided between them. One was right, the other
wrong. Both were honestly in earnest. That q
perpetual union cannot be discovered, and that
the States within their limited sphere are sover.
eign local governments, are the two immortal
lessons of the conflict.
We are now a nation of brethren with one
hope, one flag, one destiny. Let us all reverence
the graves of the American National dead. Let
Montana set the example of Fraternal Charity.
Now, therefore, 1 do hereby appoint
WEDNESDAY, THE THIRTIErH DAY OF MAY, In
SLANT,
as Memorial Day, and l do hereby request that
the people of Montana do abstain from their
usual pursuits on said day and engage in such
public exercises as are appropriate.
Given under my hand and the great Seal of
the Territory Of Montana. Done at
Helena, the Capital, this nineteenth
SEAL day of May, in the year Of our Lord
one thousand eight hundred and
eighty-three, and of the United States
the one hundred and seventh.
JNO. SCHUYLER CROSBY.
BY the Governor:
ISAAC d. MCCUTCHRON, Secretary.
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Bismarck Tribune: "The night
was calm and still and the song of
the red -breasted warbler came borne
upon the air with a beautiful dis
tinctness. 1t sang for fully an hour,
its half-platntive, half.joyous melody
coming 70 us as We sat in our south
window in a weird and enhancing
volume of harmonious beauty" As
Col. Lounsdale. the editor of our
bright Dakota contemporary, ap-
proaches the physical proportions of
David Davis, his 'wierd and entranc-
volume of harmonious beauty" could
not have been properly framed in that
"south window" Either the window
or the sentence needs reconstruction.
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An exchange in noting the fact
that General Mcclellan was in Rich.
mond a few days ago for the first
time, adds: HE started to make
this visit in 1862, and has been TWEEN
ty-one years on the road" This
intended fine bit of irony would pos
sess a cutting edge if it were not
directed against one Of the most
capable and conscientious gentlemen
that ever wore the uniform of an
American officer. General McClel-
Ian would have reached Richmond
when ''he started to make the visit
in 1862" if he had been backed by the
mel and means afterwards placed at
the command of General Grant.
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Mr.. James Keene, in giving his
reasons why he sold one of his fine
pictures, said one of them was he
thought he foresaw a panic aud a
financial crash such as was never
heard before. But as it is we'll said
the first condition for a real panic is
general confidence, and confidence
we have not had in financial circles
since 1873. There have been indi-
vidual instances of recklessness and
there has been wild speculation, but
the general money market cannot be
said to Indicate confidence so long a.
4 per cent. bonds sell at 12O and 3 per
cents sell above par in a new and
growing country like this. The
croakers can look the bond list owe
and they need not feel sure of ruin
until there are more signs of conf
dcncc shown there.
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Trunk Lines in Council

CHICAGO. May 24.-At Iowa the
Trunk Line Association Commission
has submitted a dispatch from Fink
announcing that til eastern Trunk
lines have decided to stop all pro-
rating arrangements of the Califor-
mia business, and that hereafter thew
will charge on such business their
regular proportion between Chicago
or Mississippi river points and the
seaboard. This important action
was taken by the eastern Trunk lines
because heretofore Commissioner
Fink was permitted to direct the
route for the west-bOund California
business. But since the extension of
the Southern Pacific to New Orleans.
the Central Pacific people have been
directing all the business they could
to 60 by steamer'to New Orleans. and
thence by rail to San Francisco. Re-
sides this the Central Pacific for
many years past has made con-
tracts with California shippers who
pledge themselves to make ship
ments excluding the Pacific Mail
line, giving them rates at about one
third OF the published tariff rates.
Thus shippers who would not make
exclusive contracts with the Central
Pacific were charged about three
times as high rates as the other shin
pers who did make a contract with
that road. The Trunk lines have
since rated on contracts, thus sacri-
icing much of their earnings IN
such business. Hereafter they will
charge their full proportion on pub
lished tariff rates.
On account of this action the roads
from Chicago and the Mississippi
river points west will have to sfon
their prorating arrangement with
Pacific roads, also, they cannot
afford to accept a prorate onlv on
contract rates and they paw the
eastern roads full Proportions If
the published rates. After disclssinu
the matter for some time. durin9
Which opinions were freely expressed
that the action of the trunk lines vas
just and proper, and calculated to
break up the discrimination hereto.
practiced by the Central Pacific.
Commissioner was instructed to
request the various Pacific roads west
OF the Missouri River to meet the
Iowa trunk lines in this CITY next
tuesday for the purpose of taking
def1nite action In regard to this mai,
Ter. 1t was also decided to hold a
meeting next Tuesday with represen.
tatlves of the Union Pacific. the Rnr.
llngton & Missouri River, the Sioux
City d Pacific, and the Northern Pa
cine, TO agree upon rates for live
stock from Wyoming, Utah and Neb-
raska, and to form q pool in this bus
mess if possible. vi
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CORONATION OF THE GEAR

Next Sunday is the day set apart
for the coronation Of the Gear of all
the Russias.. He has entered Mos
COW at the head Of one Of the most
impressive military parades Of mod
ern times and amid the glitter and
glare of royalty in it's most gorgeous
state he is engaged in the prelimi-
nary ceremonies which are to usher
in the more important event of the
great occasion. Representatives of
every civilized nation on the globe
are present. He whose credentials
are stamped with the insignia Of roy
atty struts in gaudy uniform and
flashing jewels beside the plainly at
tired representative of a republic
while body guards, detectives and
servants elbow each alike in prying
around to detect signs of danger. King
and serf, aristocrat and plehian, SOL
der and civilian make up a motley
and imposing assemblage upon which
the spectator may well look with
wonder But in the midst of the
grand ceremonies, while the eye is
plea led with the magnificent sur
roundings and the ear is filled with
the rich music of q score of we'll
drilled bands people tread with fear
and caution. The Nihilists are there.
The ground may open and engulph
a thousand souls or the wh,zzing
bomb may scatter death in its track.
The thought is not a pleasant one,
and yet it finds a resting place in the
minds of all. from the king whose
itching brows await the coveted
crown to the meanest servant who
crowds to see it placed thereon.
What hollow mockery! On the
one hand despotism and injustice are
fastened upon millions of people;
upon the other suffering, want and
misery witness the riveting of the
bands that hold them in subsection.
throttling liberty is the
picture presented in Moscow to-day.
The American who looks upon the
wilt exult in the freedom he
aud prize the more highly the
enlightenment, contentment and
which flow from it.
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Warden Botkin applied last week

Warden Botkin applied last week
to Governor. Crosby for additional
guard force. The request, we under
stand, was refused.-MINER.
An application for additional
guards, we believe, was recently
made by the Warden of the Peniten-
tiary. Governor Crosby strongly en-
dorsed said application and forwarded
the same to the Department of JUS
tice. The Governor himself has no
authority to act in the matter of sup
plying prison guards. - Helena
Herald.
The MINER has no desire to mis-
represent Governor Crosby. It sim
ply made the statement upon infor-
nation, and gladly makes room for
the Herdld's explanation.
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Star Route Trial.

WASHINGTON, May 25.-Ingersoll
made a rapid summary of the evil
dence as it appeared to him and con.
cIuded as follows:
Now, gentlemen, the responsibility
is with you. The fate of these men
is in your hands. In your keeping
is everything they love; everything
they hold dear is in your power.
With this fearful responsibility you
have no right to listen to whispers of
suspicion. You have no right to
hearken to promptings of fear. Be
ware of prejudice. Look to the testi-
mony, alone. Be not convinced by
the last argument. Listen not to
epithets instead of facts. Recall
every argument made in the case.
Put the evidence in the scale and
/ then have the honor and manhood to
say which scale goes down. We ask
from you an honest verdict. That is
all We ask. 1t is for you to say
whether these defendants shall live
with honor among their fellow citi-
zens, whether they shall live in free
air o r be taken from their wives,
from their children, from their fire
sides, from all they hold most dear.
1t is for you to say whether they
shall be clothed with honor or with
shame, whether their day shall set
without a single star in all the sky of
eternal night, whether they shall be
branded a criminals After all thew
have suffered, after they have been
pursued by the government, as no
defendants heretofore have been pur-
sued, 1t Is for you to say whether
their homes shall be blasted by the
lightning of a false verdict. You
must say whether their future shall
be one agony of grief and tears.
Nothing beneath the stars of heaven
is so profoundly sad as to wreck a
human being. Nothing is so pro.
toundly mournful as a home covered
with shame, nothing is so infinitely
sad as that which shall cast a stain
upon children. 1t is for you to say
whether this be such a verdict or one
in accordance with law and facts.
The prosecution is heated with this
chase and they are excited by hurt,
but l will say that in the end they
will be a thousand times better
pleased with a verdict of not guilty
than with what they ask. They
would enjoy their success, and they
would have you give to those aspira-
tions greater weight than to homes
and wives and children.
1 want a verdict that will relieve
my clients from the agony of two
long years; that will lift from them
the cloud, a verdict that will fill COM
ing days and nights with q sense of
JOY and gratitude forever to you one
and all. Many ladies were weeping
quietly when Ingersoll sat down, and
all spectators were visibly affected.
The defense here rested the case, and
court adjourned.
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Crook Whips the Apaches.

TOMBSTONE, A. T., May 23.-Dr:
B. II. Peterson, a reliable man, lus'
reached here from the ranch OF Don
Juan Elias Sonora. He reports the
arrival of a Mexican courier at the
ranch yesterday from the direction
of the headquarters of the Mexican
army with Information that Cfoon
had an engagement with a large oous
of Indians near Guacanope sierra
Mad.es last week. Crook had sen;
forward a portion of San Ca.ios
who were surprised by the hosll1.'
and driven back to the main oous.
A pursuit was then made by the en-,
tire force driving the hostiles 1r'nn
their entrenched position and Sllliii5
80, the remainder broke ana ileui
Crook Immediately took the trallan"
started in pursuit.