New-York tribune., 1886-04-05

speculation. though print cloths ceclined as
much The spectators consider the floods at
the South more important, in their possible
effect upon future crop, than the actual con-
sumption of-cottou, in its effect upon the great
surplus already accumulated.
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Solicitor-G General Goode will have the floor to-day
before the Pan Electric Investigating Committee.
He will explain how he was enabled to sanction a
most unusual proceeding the part of the Gov ern-
ment against patent after twenty-four hours ex-
animation Of the subject: why he neglected to re-
fer the application to the Interior Departments and
whether he knew that the Attorney-General owned
one tenth of the Pam Electric stock.
IF Mr. Gladstone falls let HIM fall like states
man and great Minister, not like one OF Mr. Hux-
ley's policy -mongers.
The number Of volunteer historians who are
pressing forward just now to tell how the Rebellion
was suppressed is not surprising the fact that
they all have something TO say which interests not
only the grizzled veterans who are getting old
enough to enjoy the fighting OF their battles over
again, but the young voters who have been born
since the Star of the West fired upon in
Charleston IIarbor. Captain f.. Mcdonald, of Penn
sylvana, has recently stated that the Pottsville
Light Infantry. which was then the Oldest organ
ization of the kind in that State, took time
by the forelock and offered its services
to the Government before any other com
pany had fairly walked up to the need
of such prompt action. The tender was accepted
by the State and National Government, and this
company WI h four Others numbering five hundred
strong reached Washington on the afternoon or
April -, 81, twenty four hours ahead of the six
hn
era ly spoken of as the first defenders" Captain
Mcdonald claims that the first blood shed in Balt
more was from a wound received by Henry Ycrger.
private in his command, and that he had the first
meal cooked for the Massachusetts, 9th on their
arrival at the Capital 1t may be that Massa-
chusetts will have some testimony to offer in re-
butta Of this claim 1t is certainly an honorable
distinction TO have been first at the front.
There seems TO be a good deal of human nature
about even an Apache. The chiefs who have sur
rendered to General Crook now assuring hun
that all the evil they have done must be ascribed
to Geronimo, who does not happen to be III the
hands of the military. The Spenlow and Jorklns
plan of action is clearly one which the untutored
savage is as capable of evolving as the civilized
man of the period, and an Apache warrior when
cornered evidently thinks upon pretty nearly the
same lines rs a New-York Alderman.
Waite must have acted upon the advice which
George Bliss says that he gave to Foshay. Rich
mOnd and others namely, to keep nothing back"
That is a good story which the Rev. Dr. Rush,
secretary of the Freedmens Aid Society of the
Methodist Episcopal Church. tells to the Annual
Conferences before which he presents the claims of
his society. \ young negro in the South had been
converted and at once wanted 10 preach. His
elders thought he was not fitted for the important
work: but he well-nigh staggered them by relating
a VISION in which he had plainly seen the letters
&C. p. C."-which could mean only "Go preach
Christ A white-hared negro preacher slowly
arose and told the ambitious young brother that,
while he had no doubt seen the letters in vision,
he had failed in the Interpretation. They probably
meant SO pick cotton" " Go plough corn"
This settled the matter preacher in the New
York Conference. when the story was told few
DAYS ago remarked to a friend sitting near:
wish we had men In our white conferences sharp
enough to explain away as satisfactorily the argu-
ments by which our young incompetents try to CON
vince the committees that they have been called to
preach the Gospel
Tammany Hall seems to have 1" knocked out
the County Democracy in the rapldity with which
it got rid of branded members But that is hardly
to be wondered at, considering that the task OF
purifying the County body was intrusted to that
eminent patriot and sterling reformer Hubert o.
Thompson.
It's difficult to understand just where Professor
Huxley stands. lie dI>approves OF Gladstones Irish
plans vet indorses Farnell AS Mr.. Gladstone Is
endeayorlng to follow out ParnelPs Ines this
is paradox. If the Professor had denounced Par
nell and Gladstone both, his attitude would be in
telliglble But to approve the Irish leader who Is
indicating he methods of pacifving Ireland, and to
denounce the English leader who Is trying to apply
those methods, indicates use of the scientific i'm
agnaton so alien to all known scientific principles
that the student of Professor Huxley's political
ideas is IN danger of becoming giddy.
The action Of the steamship company in doubling
the rates of seerage passage between San Francisco
and China seems to put the unfortunate Mongolans
In a still worse position than they occupied before
With the Anti-Chnese League aud the boycott
driving them out of the State and the high rate OF
TRANSFORMATION stopping their exodus they are in
bad way. The situation in fact IS suggestive of
modern spelling of the Egyptians.
If Mr. Hubert O. Thompson were sincere in de-
string to purge the County Democracy of persons
who had brought 1t injury and discredit, he would
move n resolution expelllng ex-COmmlssloner OF
Pubic Works Thompson.
Commissioner Atkins was too tragic, if anything
in denylng having used his Office to further the
interests of the Pan-Electrlc Company. Il would
cut nv hand of at the wrist" he exclaimed, be-
fore would do such thing" The Attorney-Gen-
eral did not cut his hand off at the wrist. He
merely cleft everything to Goode" " and hid himself
III Hominy Hall.
The complete official statement of the British iron
trade last year shows an actual consumption III
Great Britain of 5,74S,497 tons of pig iron,
decrease since 1852 of 1914 per cent But the
decrease in the quantity exported was much larger.
namely, 454 per cent since 1882, the quantity
exported last year having been only s6l.l6O tons.
1t is also especially noteworthy tEat the produc-
tion of Besesemer steel rails has decreased even
In ~ the