Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-04-15

at ESQ A. NJ, the General walked into the
room and sat down near the physician.
When the bulletin was finished Dr. Douglas
read it to General Grant and said: % Is that
right, General? ," Yes. that's right, re-
sponded the. sick man. He frightened
with the morning hours, and at one time
remarked that he felt better than he had i'll
two weeks.
DECIDED IMPROVEMENT.
New YORK, April 14th-This morning,
soon after DR.. Douglas had issued his first
bulletin, and while Mrs. Grant was in the
adjoining room, the General babe the SER
want bring him pad of writing paper, and
on it he made 4 bulletin as follows: The
doctor tells me ! am better this morning. /
am better than [ have been in two weeks.
L. S. Grant" Having so written, the Gen
eral handed his bulletin to the servant and
told him that he should carry it to Mrs.
Grant, who was sitting in the library, al
most within sight of her husband. Mrs.
Grant read it, showed it to Dr. Douglas, and
with laugh entered the sick-room, where
pleasantrieS passed. the General joining
with a smile. This evening Colonel Grant
remarked that his father had walked more
during the day than for several days. Dur
ing the day he had signed business pa
per. but this evening he was a trifle less
bright, because of the fatigue resulting
from his activity through the day.
a gentleman who is thoroughly converS-
ant with Grants ailment, said tonight
The marvellous improvement in the Gen
erals condition is not at all surprising to
me. He may live two or three weeks, and
he may live two or three months. If he sur
wives till the early part of summer, he will
no TO t-pn of tba 1it,- m ha ,toi,
probably, as | do not think the sea air
would agree with him. If he had strength
enough think he would like to go to Cali
fornia. If he improves in the same ratio
during the next four DAYS, he will be rid
ing in the park this week. He does not
require SO much morphia now. Only six
drops of the solution were injected tonight,
instead of the customary ten drops He par
took Of three varieties of nourishment to-
day, and the General, being in facetious
mood, alluded to the food as his three
courses.
MIDNIGHT BULLETIN.
New YORK, April h-Midnight.-Gen
Grant, during the afternoon and evening,
walked several times from his bedroom to
his library, and enjoyed the company of
different members of his family. At 10
o'clock he retired. and since that time has
been sleeping in his chair His cough is
not troublesome, and the secretion OF
mucus is slight. His pulse and tempera-
ture are unchanged, and there is at present
promise for him of quiet night.
Two Rogues in Jail.
New YORK, April 14th.-Fish, the Marine
Bank President, who was denied bail yes
terday, is, probably, like his colleague in
infamy, Ferdinand Ward, safer in the
Ludlow street Jail than out. although his
counsel will renew the application before
the Court in bank next month. Creditors
are furious over the developments of the
trial, and are clamorOus for the possession
at least of his property, which includes
several buildings assigned by him after
the bank collapsed. Among the claimants
besides the mechanics liens of small
tradesmen, are some of the largest building
material houses, while two Connecticut
banks have prior claims on a mortgage OF
100000. In the meantime, Ward IS held
in the LudlOw-stre Jail on two orders OF
arrest-one Comprehending 100000 and
another SIS 600. There are also two bench
warrants out against Ward, issued in the
United States Circuit Court, charging fraud
ulent proceedings, also melting and coun-
selling Fish to misapply the funds of the Ma
rine Bank The demand is made by the
United States Marshal through the Courts
upon Warden Kieman to give up Ward to
the United States authorities for arraign-
ment on criminal charges. Whenever Ward
gets through with the civil causes, he will
find long account to render of himself to
the United States. Fish is very bitter
against Ward. He declares that he was
completely imposed upon. How was | to
know" he said yesterday, that he was a
scoundrel when 50 great 4 man as General
Grant was behind him and trusted him.
But as sure as there is a God i'll heaven.
where | go that man shall go. That is my
only consolation and hope. am an old
man, &C years old, Il time of life when man
needs and seeks rest | care very little
where that rest is to be found 1t may be
within the walls Of a prison. but ! shall be
sure that the same fate awaits Ward. |
would go through all | have suffered and
more, if it would clear the path from all
distractions to the final overthrow of that
man"
Malicious Charges Ably Answered.
New YORK, April 14th.-A communica-
ton appears III the Commercial BuletiR this
morning, answering the charges made in
California that the Southern Pacific Com
pany lease is a scheme to cheat that State
out of the right to tax and control her rail
roads The writer, evidently speaking by
authority, says that the control being in
the hands of a foreign corporation signifies
nothing. The State can only tax and legis-
late on property and traffic within its Dor
ders, not on interstate traffic. This can be
done now, under the lease tc the new COM
pany, the same as heretofore. There is
nothing very dreadful about a corporation
l Il
another. The insurance companies are do
ing 50 all the time. The Pennsylvania
Company controls roads in several States
east of Pittsburg The Oregon
controls thousands of
miles east of that State, and no
body has found anything to complain of.
1t is a fair supposition that the owners of
the Southern Pacific in California, Arizona.
New Mexico and the different companies
across Texas and Louisiana, desiring to fix
4 perpetuate unity OF the different links
into one through line, so that they might
no longer be at the mercy Of any one of
their number, have asked State authority
10 make of them 4 new corporation. with
power to hold and control their respective
This is what has been done
but in no wise changes the relations of the
roads TO the State that they are in, or to the
public, which will be better served by deal
ing with a single responsible concern and
if the stockholders of the various companies
have been satisfied, it is not for newspaper
critics to anticipate any wrong TO the public.
Ocean Steamship Traffic.
New YORK. April 14th-Since the re-
ports of trouble between England and
Russia, rumors have been flying around
Wall street to the effect that the Pacific
Mail Steamship Company intend taking
the steamers off the San Francisco service,
and plying them between New York and
Liverpool. The steamships City of Toxic
and City of Picking were mentioned IL this
connection. \ representative of the COM
pany said this morning: All these ru-
mors are the vriest bosh The Pacific
Mail steamers are taxed to their utmost to
carry the freight sent in now Where
would the benefit be in sending them to
Liverpool? 1t would only leave the coast
clear for the Union and Central Pacific. :
Another rumor, which seems 10 have more
is that the American line of
steamers of Philadelphia, under the same
ownership as the Red Star line, are the
subject of negotiations, to be run in con-
nectlon with the Northern Pacific Railroad.
As the flag under which they float would
be neutral, the occurrence of war would no
doubt have an important influence in the
question OF the future employment of
these vessels. Superintendent Wright of
the Red Star line, will neither affirm nor
deny the rumor this morning. He said if
any negotiations have been made thew
nmanated from the Philadelphia office
J. Il. Williams, of the Northern Pacific
Company, said: If war occurs between