New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-02-22

Adeptshp moreover must go In for Life, f0r there
is no conditional admission This Is pity, because
it deprives the world of the information which
might be derived from the experience of the neo-
phytes who fail to win tho goal.
The late destructive hurricanes OF tOnadOes In
the Mississippi Valley appear to have been accom-
panied by all the CHASTITY and terrifying phenom-
ena which arc associated with these disturbances.
A dazzling red sky at midnight; black clouds
appearing to be lighted by fire from within; hail
stones as large 40 walnuts; furious eccentrcios OF
the wind are all spoken of. AS usual the storm cut
a swathe narrow and irregular, and as usual every
thing struck by it went down. trees and houses
alike The tremendous energy of the wind in these
storms seems justify the suggestion that there may
be some other force at work, and many facts
pon to electricity az the probable agent No dis
coveries regarding these tornadoes however, are
likely to show how they can be avoided.
Mr.. Morrison's boom for the Presidency Las not
been heard from of late. His friends fear the worst
The continuous strength Of the market for good
securities was the noteworthy feature in the Ex-
change on Tuesday and yesterday. The buying
was no longer confined, as for some months it gem
orally has been IN times Of advance to the specu-
latOrs of the street; there steady purchasing,
and good deal of it, by solid investors The tone
of opinion with regard to the future of the great
corporations has changed materially within the
past MONTH Whatever the immediate course Of
the market may be, there is now a growing conf
dence in tho permanent value of the properties
which the better class of securities represents.
During the debate upon the Roosevelt bill one OF
the Democratic Aldermen opposed it on the ground
that the Board of Aldermen was founded by
Thomas Jefferson" This would seem TO be good
time to quote for Jeffersons benefit, de mortas nil
nisi bonum.
A Washington Territory correspondent of The San
Francisco Chronicle alleges that the smuggling OF
| Cinnamon from British Columbia has attained the
proportions Of a regular business there. lie says
that they come from Victoria, and are smuggled
| across tho Sound to Dungencss, Point Discovery
or Point Wilson. The distance is about thirty-tYe
miles, and they como over at night, III lndlah
canoes accompanied by white guides or pilots
IA wages in British Columbia are much lower than
on the American SIDE and as 1t has been found
practically impossible to watch the coast line, I'M
less large force is placed there this gging bids
! fair to continue. 1t is estimated that some eight
| hundred Chncs have already been smuggled into
Washington Territory. but considering the facilities
! afforded thu, cannot be thought large number,
aud in fact it seems almost tc cast doubt upon the
hypothesis that tho Chinese eager to cross the
| border.
The law inerferes TO regulate tho sale OF p0sons.
Why can it not be employed to regulate the sale OF
| other things dangerous to the publcf There are
plenty of places III this city where so-called toy
pistols but which are quite capable of killing. any
one are sold at prices which bring them within the
reach of the boy Of the period and no certainly
ought not to be trusted with deadly weapons. There
Al ia
public holiday, but attempt has yet been made to
restrict their promisouous SALE Is IL not tle sohe
| thing was done about thisY
| Gold began to go abroad yesterday. but the
amount was not large, and the money market was
| IN no way disturbed Nevertheless, one is some
| what perplexed to account for the observation Of
leading banker that it would be the best thing
that could happen, to have $l0000,OO0 or
500. 900 900 in gold sent abroad" If one cares at
all for the credit of the Government he can hardly
rejoice to sec gold drawn out Of the Treasury IN
such amount while silver accumulates.
The House Of Commons seems to DO deteriorating
in its sensitiyeness to bad language, if we may
iudpe from the fact that Mr.. Healy was not called
TO order when he referred to Lord Rossmore as " a
bigoted. malevolent young pup" The only differ
once between this kind of thing and Democratic
convention is that in the latter Mr.. Healy's sooth-
| ing remark would have been the signal for light
of spittoons, whereas the Commons appear to have
| taken the matter alphabetically.
lecturer has stated that the Pacific coast Is so
defenceless as to be at the mercy Of even a small
Power like Chill. That Is nothing The same may
be SAID of the Atlantic coast Chill has ironclads
superior to anything in our navy, and the latter
could not hope to bar her way successfully If she
proposed to enter the harbor of New-York In hos
tile Quse. Yet Congress does not appear to think it
worth while to make any appropriation for the IN
movement of tho National coast defenceS.
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