New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-02-24

deal Of money on two or three occasions, but he
then became the slave of q fixed idea" and many
who knew him believed him to have been more than
little mad toward the last. His Passion Play
was probably conceived in reyerential spirit,
but it was mono the less a mistake. and when it
failed he lost heart accused the world Of injustice,
and so descended to suicide.
"a new basis of negotiation " is TO be adopted
with the Hoyas by France. Probably it has been
realized at last that the subjugation of people by
shelling the ground and the woods is too slow a
process, while tho difficulty of catching the
Hoyas themselves is insuperable. A new basis
is therefore decidedly seasonable.
According to the general press dispatches revolt
has broken out at MassOwah, which is spreading.
This sounds somewhat more formidable than it
really is Massowah is a small coral island.
which is fully occupied by the buildings of
the Khedve's officials and garrison. and by
the miserable huts of about 1000 fellaheen.
At low tide there is communication with the
mainland, which ceases when the food tide
begins to come in. Tho mainland is a wild
country chiefly possessed by lions, panthcrs, leo
rards and other wild animals, but becoming more
fertile and more cultivated as one goes southwark
toward the high lands of Abyssinia. There Is mil
itary route from Massowah to Kassala along which
there are water stations. What may be the condl-
ton of the territory between Mass0wah and KasSala
cannot be known, because the telegrsphic cOmmu-
nications of Kassala with Berber in the northwest
and MassowaA in the southeast were broken some
time ago, before the defeat of Baker Pasha by Os-
man Digna. The position of the troops at Kassala
has long been desperate, and the information that
the Governor favors Ell Mahdi is no doubt
the prelude to a surrender. There can be
little hesitation in accepting tie TACT that
the various garrisons that have held out for the
Khedive Will now surrender 10 the insurgents
Warned by the fate of the troops at Sinkat they
will no longer endure prvations and death for
Christian power that is unable to protect them, but
will make the best terms they can for themselves.
But Massowah is an exception. 1t is held by Mason
Bey, a brave American officer and its position is
such that it is fairly impregaable against attacks
from tho mainland. AS the soldiers are moro numer-
Gus than the citizens there is no danger OK any
uprising except military one; and one OF that
nature is very improbable.
The Utica Observer is in search OF plan to dis
tinguish the two Chicago National Conventions
Nothing easier Let it be understood that when
tho Chicago Convention" is mentioned reference
is had to the convention that is TO nominate the
ticket that as usual is to win i'll November. IL this
plan is generally adopted it will Of course be con-
venient to call the other convention simply the
Democratic affair.
The murder of three colored persons in order to
sell their bodies to 8 medical college re-
calls the crimes Of Burke and Hare, the
Edinburgh resurTectionists, and points the
moral that the practice OF many medical
colleges, of paying high prices for cadavers," Is
liable to become an incentive to murder, the more
especially when it is understood that no awkward
questions are likely to be asked concerning the
cause of DEATH In the case just discovered the
skulls of the three victims were all fractured show
ing that no attempt had been made to conceal the
violence used Yet the college authorities received
the bodies Enthusiastically, and put them away in
the pickle-vats promptly. No doubt subjects"
are desirable for anatomical and physiological in
structon, but if they cannot be procured without
murder colleges must do without them.
Another call for bonds has been issued, but 1t IS
not Of immediate effect upon tho Treasury surplus
or the money market So long as money is offered
in abundance at 2 per cent or less. there is no
likely to be any anxiety on the part of the holders
of per cents to get cash for their bonds. The
Secretary can get rid of some Of his surplus when
the call natures, because the interest will then
cease, but at present the accumulation of money in
the Treasury is no trouble to anybody except the
Secretary himself.
A writer In The London Spectator appears IN som
doubt as to whether tropical hurricanes are really
more destructive and heavier In their impact than
the severest gales which occur In Great Britain
He saws that tropical hurricanes do not throw down
brick houses This may be so in the East Indies |
but In the West Indies such buildings have been |
by hurricanes. and In the tornadoes Of
the Western States both brick and stone prove ncap
able of resisting the force Of the wind We should
be inclined to say that there is really no room for
doubt as to the superior energy Of hurricanes and
cyclones to the severest ordinary gale that ever
blew A typhOon for instance, manilests Its power
by its peculiar influence upon the soa. very hard
gale let us say the hardest that ever blows on tls
British coast raises the sea- and the longer 1t blows
the higher the waves will be- But the typhoon
does not permit the to rise ut all. Every lifted
wavo-creSt Is instantly swept away IN fine spray,
and when tho wind Is blowing at the rate of 10O
miles an hour the surface of the ocean Is but for tire
clouds of spray, as smooth and fat as IN a dead
calm. Nor is 1t until tho weight of the typhoon mas
passed that the sea begins to rise.
1t is reported that owing to tho refusal VI my
West sponge CATERERS to sell their stock ruiinS
prices sponges worth $4,000 are now lying unSoiu
In that city, Evidently this Is the tilno loF the
sponges that are won't to be accumulated in the
corridors of tho hotels OF the country to throw
themselves upon the market
"summing" which has become fashionable ID
IonAon. and has Just boon countenanced by TIA
Prince Of Wales, is not a new diversion. twas
praotised just before tho French Revolution BY
u any members Of the French aristocraoy, aud the
poor OF Paris not only not grateful for the in
forest shown in them, but resented tho Intrusion.