Show TELEGRAPH TIDINGS the dog will wag the tail in the next republican convention pessimist predictions on do lessups project by the panama press ex minister write writes warm words on gambetta by W U telegraph Telee raph to the republican jan aone one result of the two dinners forbes of boston cave gave b liere ere a few days ago is a lute tute for the crandler scheme of representation in the rc ite publican national conventions which wl fell ia is quite likely to bo be approved it ia is understood to meet the approval app royal of chandler mcpherson forbes and martin hartin and that renders ita its adoption by the national committee almost a foregone conclusion aa as the gen gentlemen clemen named compose alf all but one ne of the committee subcommittee sub the chandler mc pherson plan ian contemplated a large increase in n the membership of the convention the difficult i rtha way of applying tb the a plan an was the fact that between the and laud congresses thera there was a reappointment i of members and therefore it would mould bo be bard oftentimes to decide whether a district had a member in cither either of the i P congresses Con gremes named the plan it w v pretty well agreed on obviates t is difficulty by ignoring the congress and and basing the appointment of extra dele delegates Fates upon the number of republicans in each house douse of the congress As the elections last fall were unfavorable to the ilia republicans this limitation of additional delegates to the membership in the next congress would not give the distinctly republican states that which it is intended to give to remedy this it itis is proposed to allow three instead stead in of two additional delegates for each republican publican le senator or representative senta tive this is going to give ive the republican states the nomination of the presidential can candidate didat a in the chicago convention it was very noti not cable that the lie strength of the old guard lay jay almost entirely entire v in states that cou could I d not under any ci circumstances reum stan contribute one vote in the collego college to the election of the candidate the members of the national committee havo have como conic to realize the fact that even in republican states success cannot be counted as a certainty the candidate must be beabe acceptable cep table to the republicans in the republican states or he cant be chosen in the ming convention at chicago georcia had exactly as much to eay say in determining who should be the republican candidate for dent as michigan did in the convention organized aa as proposed michigan Ilic higan would cast 43 votes as eho abo will have two republican senators and five tire republican Represent representatives at alves and gia gil will cast twenty two had this rule been in force aken when iho the convention was held in chicago blaine would have been nominated for president in a good deal jeal less than thirty six ballots the abold thing is summed up in the sentiment that in the opinion nion of the committee subcommittee sub of the rational dional committee haying the matter in charge the tail has wagged the dog long enough the proposed pro ed rule is that there shall be two delegates d e le at large for each senator and two district delegates fore forea a ca cli I re r tentative or territorial dal delegate ferrei and three extra delegates ia for each republican senator or represent Re representative presen tat ire in congress existing at the time of tho convention the delegat esat large arc are to be elected by the stale convention called on not lesi than fifteen days published notice and held not less than 25 nor more than 45 days davs before tho the national convention this last provision is aimed at tho premature campaigns like those in pennsylvania and new york in ISSO where the grant men inen elected al all illicit their r delegated delegates to the national convention before the ilia people generally were aware that anything was going on as tile national convention was then so remote district delegates aro to be elected in similar district conventions or they may be selected by district representatives at the state conventions assuming that tho the next con gress will contain 33 38 republican senators and 12 I republican we roem abers bera of the house the convention of 84 will consist of 1303 members of whom will be distributed dittri bated as now and will be extra delegates allotted allAtt ed to i and districts whore where Ilie chero roaro aro republican majorities warm words cantago Cn tAGo jan tho tribune has i a long ion letter by telegraph from hon llon E B washburne ofsan orsan antonio in wh ichiho gives reminiscences of gam betta whilo Wash burno was 31 minister to france ho lie bays a great light lias has gone out and the world loses one of its most gifted brilliant and eloquent men of the ago age ho ila was distinguished even in though a young member of the chamber of deputies and being in the front rank of a little band of able courageous men inen who mado made face against the tile empire in its pride and arrogance his ilia power was often manifested I in U tho those ge turbulent and exciting scenes in the cli Ci amber famber before the war was declared and the empire fell he ile was cool when the people e p le broke broko up the chamber of mo deputies p aties and flocked to the hotel do villa ville where the dethronement of the emperor was to take place appearing at one of the windows of the parlor gambetta proclaimed the republic of france and threw to the crowd below little lists the names of tho the deputies who were to constitute the provisional I government of france under the nameon name of government sf of the national defense such ashout of deliverance went up from front the great at throng as us has rarely been he heard rt in the worlds history the tile new ministry Oam gambetta betta at ita its head immediately took popes possession hion of their portfolios he ile relates his 1113 own difficulties in protecting the german interests inta rests hero thero while the empire lived and the astonishing grasp with which aich gambetta at alonco once understood tho the whole question Call calling bigon on him lie found a young man of ordinary y hight and size he lie afterwards bec became auie beavy with fine manners address handsome fhe falong blak glossy hair and a full beard lie ile did a everything grything possible e tand and did it immediately to augment gaie the troubles of tha the germans gambetta being be ee lecter as representative to the tours mission did not shrink from a hazardous haza a trip from the city in a balloon and RI made the tr trip baci TI ly Y he ile soon became beca me iu in fact the pd dictator act of f france and t h a true history of that dictatorship is yet to be written it will be come one of the most interesting infer esting episodes in the history of france sin gle ge handed alone ho lie aroused the drooping spirits of tho people raised and equipped armies accomplishing all that mortal could in stemming the tide of disaster which was overwhelming his lils country lie ile raised and disbursed the millions cotton gotten through morgan fe co in england and the most rigid examination of his affairs by enemies when the war was over only hla his lianda hands were clean and his records unstained Aft after ertho alio war his advice was bought sought more than that of any other man the greatest speech of his life was that made at versailles on the occasion of president McMahon UP 1114 in I turning away way his republican ministry mi try and replacing it with a ministry hostile lios to alio re republic bl mr Wash arh acu bume rne has at ills his house a portrait I t bitof of gambetta painted dipre expressly ry f for ir r al him I m t european avents jan the railway between tha this cit city yand and bellegarde Bel legarda is 13 washed away and direct communication with france and italy is interrupted ru ted I MANNHEIM I jan the town appears to stand on an isthmus in the middle of a st vast bea tho the great rhine dam gave garo way tonight to night A steamer and 45 boats rescued the ilia people by torchlight the village of fries is deserted and one third of the inhabitants of appau have abandoned their homes acen A central relief committee has been formed it appe appeals abt for help for the sufferers prater jan A plot the life of the crown prince rudolph is reported reported discovered WIESBADEN V rus BADEN jan ten thon thousand sand persons are rendered bakeless ham bam eless by the hoods floods in the districts near worms and in danger of starvation ion two thousand persons are homeless at ludwigshafen Ludwigs hafen 2000 at mannheim 2000 at worms they are lodged in schoolhouses and churches more dykes have broken at mayence Ala yence VIENNA jan tho bridge of was washed away today to day with several persons upon them the danube has risen to the height of maties A thousand persons in the lower part of the thi city were compelled to quit their homes the office of the railroad connection vienna with moravia ia is suspended the largo railroad bridge across the danube is demolished and the vienna terminus of the road is hooded flooded business budget araw EW york jan dun fe co re port failures the past ls t year ear against ai jn in 81 the lia liabilities b aties millions enill ns against 87 millions the proceeding year these figures are not interpreted as unfavorable since the tho cumber number engaged in trade lias has greatly increased in una this view of it the failures are not half so great as in 1879 dun ct co have brought the list of failures down to the close of the year 1882 thus bechring fcc be greater accuracy than aas as possible in in the statements given out by another agency before it was possible to yet get information from places distant from froin telegraphic communication muni cation their circular refers to the largo large extension in the lines of credit of the last few fow years resulting from undue anxiety to dispose of goods without sufficiently careful security as ws to the ability to pay for them which is directly traceable to overproduction in the manufacturing centers in the anticipation that the volume of business will be maintained at arat a ratio loof of increase as grea great t as that which marked the recovery from years of depression res slon economy and restricted tu business siness to a state of the highest prosperity this thin however it is stated is the only sinister feature in the prospect P for while the trade of the country is reported not to be in the most lie athy order the condition of the country cou nty itself was never more prosperous the power of absorption of con consumers and their ability to pay is ia n now ow believed to be greater in in proportion to the volume of indebtedness llian than evet before jackcon jumped STURGEON mo jan ilear henry y jackson a livery stable keeper after forging gin g his I uncles name J S lock rid to notes t f for or several thousand dollars I and borrowing n money of nearly everybody disappeared taking a woman with him lim he do isep Las canal PANAMA de 23 the herald referring to ta the party of engineers and others arrived in the san bias blas from new york says their visit is pro in connection with tive tivo activity of work anthe on alie panama canal during the present dry season much lluch work must bo be done and great activity shown if de Lessens recent Lesser declaration that he lie will w 11 finish the canal in 1888 is to be realized but then it is easier to build canals in paris part on paper than here on thu isthmus wh where ere the work is to be accomplished shed it makes but little difference how many contracts for canals canal cutting may exist on paper no such work lias has yet begun preparations on con arc are in progress but it is scarcely likely that these preparations will be aln finished asbed during the tire pres ent dry season deUs delesseps sta statement temen i that no danger acee be bo ended to the canal from earthquake tato Herald says wo we agree with him notwithstanding our recent experience and the slight shot k we felt fell yesterday for who except a prophet can cap tell where the next to come from babl clicks LONDON lo dox jan several huge gaps gap have bave appeared in tha the walla of f the tile central tower of the peterborough Peter borough cathedral the tower will ba be demolished the lis one of th the finest finestine fin estin in england PARIS jan J ana strenuous us efforts art are milking tor tar procure a judicial investigation into the circumstances unar dundei which gambeau received hia his wound A jealous jp jap jan the japanese prince Jar ulato who spent the christmas season hero here is not at all inclined to bo be social with americans evidently he be considers himself too preat great a man to hobnob with the distinguished people lof this country he ile even went so far as to refuse an invitation to dine with the president arthur for no particular reason save that it did not suit his convenience he ile also took special pains to snub gen van buren U consul at Tokio who recently returned to this country he did not indita him to any of his dinners and lively refused to allow him to accompany tho the party that went down to mount vernon in the early part of tho the week gen van buren is well acquainted with the prince and occupying the position lie does it is considered strange that he lie should have havo been so slighted to ft a correspondent mr samuel bryan a native of this counte country but for the past ten years connect connected with the Japa japanese government in the ial car pacify of postmaster general eaid said I cannot understand it an Ari is the best educated man roan in japan ho lie is well posted and fully understands the courtesies duo due to the president ho ila is very peculiar however he likes to bo be coaxed into things As one ono of the greatest potentates of liis his country he lie feels feel s tile importance of hia his rank is inclined to bo be offish and possibly did not accept the presidents invitation because it did not como come with sufficient ceremony dorlus death jan there are some curious curious features connected with the death of col deain which cc occurred in this city lie he waa was dining with some old frienda friends and they were discussing the which the work on the washington monument is now being pushed forward one gentleman remarked the monument waa was now very high higher in fact tha than the figure on tha dome of the capitol col devine eaid said it was truo true the monument was very high but that he lie soon expected to go much U ch higher than the monument As he lie spoke there words ho tank sank back into his chair unconscious and very soon expired col devine was a highly respected retired army officer gamb ats items PARIS jan memorials of gam gain beita betta placed in his coffin A bronze medal bearing his effigy the engraving representing the famous hundred three cold and silver coins and a copy of the letter of invitation to the funeral liged signed by joseph gambetta lowis adama i lewis and michael gambetta hia bis father Iril ther brother in law bister sister and uncle a A national monument to Gar gambetta betta is proposed ro posed the ne funeral of gambetta is post boned n d until saturday brisson and yo ules julea ferry are among the speakers it is stated gambetta repeat repeatedly edl e expressed P ressell a wish to be interred with h his m mothers others remains the cadets cabets of the ecole que asked to be allowed to act as a special escort at the funeral the body of gambetta has arrived A k deputation from the marseilles corporation ration accompanied the remains COZ r from belleville alsace lorraine delegates will precede the hearse at the funeral candidate candidates in cleveland NEW YOEK your jan the timet cleveland special says cleveland is ready to furnish president arthur with a |