New-York tribune., 1884-03-25

ing houses have been opened near Madison square
IL may be expected that District-Attorney Olney
will straighteway call upon The Herald to produce
it's proofs and that the city staff OF that paper Will
be summoned before the Grand Jury to supply the
evidence. which our Police Department., with
its thousands of mon kept up at q
cost of millions of dollars yearly. and our
highly paid District-Attorneys office, with ltS
numerous assistants fail to furnish. or course me
Herald will be eager to do the work Of the District
Attorney for him. But yesterdays article is
strangely inconsistent with its editorial remarks OF
few weeks ago, when it refused to be convinced
that The TRIBUNEs statements about the revival
of gambling were true.
The Carlisle Volunteer suggests that Mr. Tiden Is
@Hickory Broom" For Hickory Broom read Slip
perry Elm-accent on the adjective
General Gordon has been unhappy since his arrival
in Khartoum. His genius for dealing with semi
civilized races is essentially self-reguatng. When
subjected to the restraints of Ministerial decisions
in London and to the caprices of haf-lnformed Eu-
ropean sentiment. that genius is paralyZed. III ne
could be invested with supreme power in the Soudan
and could oOntrive to have the wires between hhar-
tour and Cairo cut for two or three months. he
would have the conditions that seem to be essential
TO the development of his plans. AS it is, he feels
for policy that is not his own by public that is
not competent to render Judgment. His dissatIsfac
ton with tho course of events is eyinced IN
familiar talk with a correspondent OF The London
Times at KhartOum He seems to apprehend that
General Grahams victories will go for nought, that
the British Government will not act promptly, and
that the emissaries of the Mahdi will succeed in
raising the tribes bet ween KhartOum and Berber
and further down the Nile. The Mahdi he despises
as having no real power outside of Obeld, but he
cOnfesSes that even timd nOnentity may become
formidable through Jealous emissares when
backed with the pronounced policy of abandonment
without establishing a permanent Government"
As Lord Harrington has stated in the Commons that
the Ministry will not countenance the appointment
of Zobehr as Sultan, the decisive step which Gen
eral Gordon has been awaiting cannot be taken.
InactOn and delay must ensue, and since the tribes
about KhartOum are aware that General Gordon has
no authority to organize permanent government
they have been already tempted to defy him and to
give active aid and encouragement to instruction.
Carter Harrison is now spoken Of in some quarters
as the Moses of the Democracy of Illinois. 1t is
understood that ever since he turned their dinner
into bowling wilderness the members of the Iro-
quois Club have spoken of him as a bold. bad
conOclast.
The Thetls has had veritable Arctic cruise from
Dundee to Sandy Hook. On the 10th parallel she
entered field Of ice and steamed through it for
seventy-five miles The ship was beset on all sides
with ice from eighteen inches TO two feet IN thick
ness and was only extroated tf being headed for
what the experienced Arctic sailors recognized
water sky. The entire voyage was tempestuOus,
the seas breaking the vessel constantly and the
weather being intensely cold. The Thetis encOunt-
cred the same drift of ice from Newfoundland and
Labrador which has been menacing the safety Of
the transatlantic fleet during the present month.
The ice was IN motion in large fields unusually early
in the season, and cebergs of extraordinary dimen-
sions have been deserted in ATTITUDES whore they are
seldom seem This movement of the ice may be in
terpTeted as betOkening early spring in high ai
tudes which will bo favorable for the of the
relief expedition. 1t may also indicate winter of
unwonted severity during which the ice formed in
lower latitudes whore it has been broken up early in
the spring. In that case the progress of the ex-
pedition will be retarded. The Thetis is stanch
ship, thoroughly constructed and well adapted for
Arctic navigation. In few weeks she will be
steaming nOrthward on har errand of mercy.
Governor Begole, of Michigan, announces himself
as strongly in favor of the nomination CT General
Bntler for the Presidency by the Democratic party
This is the first gun for Butler but it IS not believed
to be loaded
A San Francisco merchant wishes the Collector of
the Port to classify importation of dried lizards
for use as q Chinese medIcament, as insects" The
Collector Is In doubt, and appeals to Washington
for instructions. Experience shows that great
deal of latitude may be permitted in customs olassi
fcations as for example those of' Germany, where
canned goods were styled manufactures in metal,
etc. But perhaps Frank Bucklands experience is
more in point. He was about to travel on an Eng
lish railway, and had with him monkey and a tor
tOise The conductor insisted that he should put
the monkey in the dOgbO and would listen to no
remonstrances. At last Buckland asked him if the
tortoise also must go in the dog box, upon which the
conductor delivered this judicial opinions NO, sir!
A cat Is a dOrg; and monkey is dorg; but
tortoise is hInsectp Now if tortoises are insects
for purposes OF railway transportation, why should
not lizards be put in the category for customs
purposes1
We tell Mr.. Watterson frankly as a friend that if
he is going to read Mr.. Randall out of the party
there should be delay in beginning the funeral
exercises. Why, Henry there is not day passing
that Randall is not picking up delegates to the Chi
cago Convention. OF with his head! So much for
bucling against free trade.
All the markets were WEAK yesterday. There was
almost a panic in grain at Chicago, and no one
seemed to want produce. whether it would grade
or not The New-YOrk market sympathized with
Chicago aud was weak throughout. The stock
market was still weaker, and without any new In
telligenoe of Importance prices declined rapidly.
The fall in Erie, though it started at a low figure
was enough to prompt .he report that " John Bull
was trying to buy the road at his own price "a
thing he has mover succeeded in doing. The decline
in the stocks of trunk line roads sufficiently ex-
paued by the reduction of rates and the prospect Of
u more or loss prolonged struggle. The contest
would result to the advantage Of stockholde in the
end, however. if it should lead TO tho adoption of
more elective means for the regulation OF traffic.