San Francisco, 11th March.
The restoration of the Republican party to power after four years of opposition was effected without friction or incident a week ago to-day. Mr. Harrison has surrounded himself with a cabinet in which Mr. Blaine is the only conspicuous figure. Mr. Windom, the Secretary of the Treasury, filled that office fora brief period during the white livered" administration of Garfield; but for the past six years he has been chiefly known as a promoter of speculative enterprises in Wall Street, notably the Eads Ship Railroad. Mr. R. F. Tracy of New York owes his appointment to the faction feud between Platt and Miller of that State. Tt was impossible to reconcile York and Lancaster, and the President gave both the go-by and picked up a gentleman who is known simply as a sound lawyer, and a friend of the late Henry Ward Beecher. There is no danger of his tainting the Cabinet with the sexual philosophy of the pastor of Plymouth, Mr. Haruson is the sternest of all ible moralists, and Tracy himself will have the navy in charge, in which weight of metal is just_now of more importance than elective affinity. The other members of the Cabinet—with the exception of who was chosen by reason of his liberal Wanamaker, the tailor of Philadelphia,
donation to the campaign fund, and who may thus be said to have bought his office—are obscurities, personal friends of Mr. Harrison. The Cubinet in a word is a Blaine Cabinet.
There is a picture by the late Gustave Doré which was intended to represent a visit of the late Victor Emmanuel, i re Blaine swayed the crowd. He has never found bottom with his sounding line in the ocean of ignorance and stupidity; and it was he, undoubtedly, who suggested to Mr. Harrison this remarkable line of argument. His hand is still more easily discerned in the paragraph concerning the surplus. The President says:—"'While a Treasury surplus is not the greatest evil, it is a serious evil. Our revenue should be ample to meet the ordinary annual demands upon our Treasury with a sufficient margin for those extraordinary but scarcely less imperative demands which arise now and then. The expenditures should always be made with economy and only upon public necessity, Wastefulness, profligacy or favouritism in public expenditure are criminal; but there is nothing in the condition of our country or our people to suggest that anything necessary to the public prosperity, security or honour should be unduly' postponed. It will be the duty of Congress wholly to forecast and estimate the extraordinary demands and having added them to our ordinary expenditures, so to adjust our revenue laws that no considerable annual surplus will remain, We will fortunately be able to apply to the redemption of the public debt any small and unforeseen excess of revenue, This is better than to reduce our income below our expenditure, with the resulting choice between another change of our revenue laws and an increase of the public debt. It is possible, Tam sure, to effect the necessary reduction of our revenues without breaking down the protective tariff or seriously injuring any domestic industry, "The construction of sutticient number of modern war-ships, with their necess: armament, should progress as rapidly as is consistent with care and perfection in the plans and workmanship. The spirit, cour-
I can get on nicely for a week. But if I spent His, 1,500 on seed what about these JWtvomo, to the cottage of a peasant who had a remarkably pretty daughter. ison have ye and skill of our naval off 'a sea many times in our history given numerous applications for food with which cross the river on the 2nd or 3rd April there seed without money for food would be thrown away. visited by Brethren from Ying-ton?
Can you give me any notion of the districts
Thus take Liao-yang and Newchwang proper and follow the river. I take charge of all on this side of the river. I am low asked to cross the river and deal with the opposite bank, and where the want is confessedly greater than on m: own side. Shall I be treading on anyone's footsteps? or helping where others have helped? I am simply besieged wherever 1'go, ko," by people from the weet of the river, In Newchwang on the 27th and 28th, the Government Commissioner gave a miserable dole to these people, viz: 900 cash (about 9 mace) to every adult, and the hal€ of that (450 cash) to every child—and the people had to walk to Newchwang for it!
30th March.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.