Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 11, 1875, Page 4

TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. RATER OF SURTCRITTION (PAYARLR IN ADYAXTEL Tastage Prepald at this Ofee, 813,400 | Weekly. | year, 14 ¥ z d:fi .61 | Five caplsi 00 e dopie WANTED~Una active agent in esch town sad villsgs. Spooial arrangemanta made with saoh. Fpectmen coptas sent free., oul delay and mistakes, be smro and gira Post. Cannty, ddress in fall, Including State and Remittances may bomads oithor by dral OfSioa srder, or in registered letters, at TEAMA TO CITT AURSCRIARRE, Datly, delivered, Sunday excented, 205 vents perweek, Dally, éelivered, Bunday fncluded, 3() conts per week, Address THE TRINUNE OOMPANY, Oorusr Maditon and Dastbos Chicsgo, Il TODAY'S AMUSEMENTS. M'VIOKKR'S THEATRE—Madison strast, batwoen Desthorn and State, Engagsment of Aad, Adelaide Ristorl, ** Marls Antolnstta,." ACADEMY OF MUSIO~Hsliatod ptreot, hotreen Mad- ";n ln“d Monres. Lagagoment of Mrs, Lander, * Ellz. abeth, NOOLEY'S TURATRI-Nandolph strest, batwesn Clarkand LaSalls, Kmaerson's Miasteals, ADELPHI TIIRATRE—Deatborn atrest, sorner Men- roe. Varioty Knthstatumont, EXPOSITION RBUILDING-Taks Shors, foot of Adams strant. Dati)s Pioturs of * Lookout Mountaln,!” "SOCIETY MEETINGS. ASHUAR TODG?T, No &%, A, T, & A, M. masting thin (Tucsdny) avening, 4 thetr hall, 10 Munrco- sty for Lusiness and wark on ¢ Seuond Logreo. The 3.~ Regular traternity cordlally invited, 0. 1T ORAYE, Secty. Che Chicage Ceibune, Tuesday M orntng, May 11, 1875. Two Leavs myorth editors, burning with all tho 1uub gpl enmity of Messrs, Porr and Suong, of Tatonswill, met in a theatro last night dmf pg g yepresentation of *Deborsh” by Janot ygehek, and ndded a murder to the oxciteny it of the ovening. "It | recent action of the Board of Railroad nad Warehouso Commissioners, increasing the rates of grain inspection faes, is bardly jue tifiohle logally or as a matter of polioy. L ader the presont rates, o surplus of fees ac- <t imulated ; if the rnles are abovo what is i ded to pry the expenso of tho servico, it .en tho only change shonld be a reduction. £ ho fact thot tho surplus has been loat, por- m anently or temporarily, Is no warrant for lavying increased taxcs far imepection to mako good the deficiency. Let tho legal steps bo {akon to recover the money of the fitale improperly withheld, or scondalously Joaned out, or unwisely invested; cortainly the public shonld not be tnxed to pny the debts of Mr. Hinrra nor those of any of his friends, Lnlest aecounts limit to fifteen the num. ber of passengers roscucd from the wreck of tho stenmship Schiller, In the official in- quest yosterday upon the bodies so far recov. cred, the jury, frecing from blame or respon- aibility tho brave and efficient oflicers of the ship, roturned o verdict of sccidental drown- ing, but recommended the cstablishment of atelegraph line botween Bishop's Lighthouse snd tho shore as 8 means for averting similar disasters, and expressing the opinion that, if such talographio eommunication had beon available in tho cese of the Schiller, the save ing of lifo would havo beon vaatly focilitated. Another wreck is roported—that of tho Trench steamer Cadiz, which was loet near Brest, on the voyago from Lisbon to London, sixteen pooplo porishing. Aoy Eraza hes sustained a sovere disap- pointment in the decision of Chief-Justice Lows, renderod yesterday at Salt Lake City, in connection with har application for a writ to compel Brramax to pay the henvy alimony decreed by ox-Chief-Justiss AoKsax in the divorco mult, from which she expected to roalize some $18,000 cash in hand, besides $500 per month herenfter. Chicf-Justice Lows roverses and annuls the sction of hia predecessor en the Bench, and rofuses to compol the Mormon Prophet to disgorge of his great wealth an clogant compatency for his divorced ninoteonth. In effect,Judge Lown decides that, as thero was no valid marringe, both parties being aware of the fact of polygamy, there should have been no divorce, and henco no alimon,; e It is now considored cortain that the Secre. tary of tho Treasury will decline to toke the responsibility of tearing down the walls end digging wp the foundations of the Chicago Custom-Houss, but will dofer action in the matter until specific suthority is obtained trom Congress. Thisauthority, it is belioved, caunat bo abtained within s year from the Present timo, but in the interval it is thought probable that the existing contracts for the Uuenn Vista stone will bo annulled by Seere- tary Buissowon account of the sorious defocta 3aid to havo been developed by the oxaminae tion just concluded by the council of oxperts; and 'thu(. Mr. Porrem, the Supervising- Architect of the Treasnry, will throw aside tho present plan, which, it will bo ramem- berod, was soverely eriticlsod and not gen. erally admired at the timo of its completiory by Morrerr, snd will ercot the Cuastora. JHouse upon a botts:r kud cherper plan. Proceedings y oatorday in the Brog! klyn seandal caso rel ated chiofly to the alibi ques. tion, In robratial of Mr. Bercmn's. tosti. mony to the effect that Mrs. Mountaw's ace tount of {b o famous interview was wholly n Iabrieatior , it was sought to prove that Mes, AL could not hnve concocted the utory, aa sha nareated, fo her uncle the details of that inter- <iew Jater in tha same mont’i, but the do. fonso objocted, and the Cow ¢ ruled out the toslir nony, 14 wis w barron victory for the defr nse, ns Mra. Eoox v.as at once intro- dwsed on tho part of (he plainti, and ¥ stifiod that she saw sfr, Beromen coming out of the MouzToN me nsion on tho day in question; My, Mowtox corroborating this proof by swearlng th at Mrs, Enpr called just a5 Mr, Bexowen loft,, and that tho interview was the subject o f convorsation between the two lndles, They alibi bubblo was still moro thoronghly pun oturod by thoe testimony of a witness wkoso marriago anulversery ocourred on tho 2d cf June, and who conld theroforo awear o thry day as the one on which he saw My, Breor.xn on the street and going toward tlovrron' s resldence, It is announced that Iha plaiatift’s rebuttal will be concluded to- day. T — The Chlcagoproduce markets were gonerally woak yestordny, with more doing. Mesa poth; was active and 8730 per brl lowor, olos- lof; a$ $21.80@01.85 cash end $21.40 for Jane, Lard was setive and, 500 per 100 s lower, closing af 918,10 cah and 15,20 for Juns Mol wase dull snd eadder; of 8]0 for B 3t x> Ve shoulders, 11§@1130 for short ribs, and 12ja for short clears, Iighwines wors in fair do- wand and firmer, at $1.15@1.16} per gallon. Lako freights woro quiet and unchanged. Flour wns qnict and stendy. Whoat was more notlvo and 1§@2¢ lower, closing at 9030 cash and $1.02} for Juno, Corn was notive and 1 lower, closing at 713c cash and 7330 for June, Oats were in good demand and relatively firm, closing at 62}e cnsh and 6330 for June. Rye was dull and easicr a¢ $1.06@ 1.07. Darley was quict and firmer at $1.30@ 1,82 for May., llogs wero active and 5@100 kigher. Sales at 90.50@8.60. The eattlo trade was dull and prices wore wenk at $3.60 @6.75, Sheop mot with a light demand at about Saturday's quotations, ‘Wo publigh this momning au elaborate and Interesting account of Seorotary Dmusrow's successful raid upon tho fraudulent whisky ring in Bt. Louis, Chicago, and Milwaukee, The fact that our report is in a large mensurs darived from strictly official and authoritative sourcas will command for it anusunl attontion and intorest. It will bo seen that tho Scere- tary of the Treasury discovored, soon after ontering upon the administration ot his De- partment, the existenco of a well-organized, formidable, and, so far, successful plan for the perpotration of rovenne frauds by tho secret and illiclt maon- ufacture of distillery products upon which no fax was paid. Among thae first re- sults of tho discovery was the quiet dis- missal of severnl storekeepers and gnugers in tho districts to which the frauds wero traced, but, upon the whole, the most abso- fute secracy has been successfully malntained as to the rovelations resulling from the in. vostigation, Tho frauds brought to light are enormous, involving an estimated quantity of 50,000 barrels of illicitly-distilled whisky, and, from the facts ascortnined, it scems cor~ tnin that extansive resignations and romovala will bo the provailing opidemio in the Intorunl Revenuo Servico for somo timo to come. In addition to the officials positively implicated in the frauds, n Jarge numnbor will bo invited to re sign who, though not guilty of collusion, have throngh negieot nnd Iack of propor watchifulness rendered tho frands possible. It is o mognificont achievemont on the part of Secretary Bnistow, and ouo which promises to make him famous for the rest of Lis lifo, ORIMINAL INTIMIDATIONS, A week ngo, two men who were professional ottendants at tho lower class of vavioty thentricals in this eity quarrelod about a wonian in the samo business, and ona of them, Werenm, stabbed the othor, Davrny, Davume hes sincs died of his wounds, The moan Wercn admits tho stabbing, but alaims that it was done to save his own lifo, ‘Wo do not propose to discass tho facts of this homicide,—they aro to be investigated by a court snd jury,—~but wo wish to cail at- tontion to n circnmstanco disclosed in tho ovi- dencs. The man Wrren, it appoars, {s woll known to the polico; is well known to tho largefratornity of which he was amembor, and waa noted for his ll.tomper and quarrolsomo disposition, e lias boen guilty of frequent ncts of violence, and, if we mistake not, has Leen arreated, but has never beon prosocuted. Tho reason given for his escape from convie- tion is that tho witnesses did not dare to ap~ ponr against him ; they considered it danger- ous to their personal safoty, and even to their lifo, to nppenr and prosecate him, How many cases are thera where like in. timidation is practicod to provent erimipal prosccution. How often are men and wonuen threatened with death, with personsl vi- olonce, with destruction of property, with slandor and defamation, if they dare to proscoue: criminal offenses. ¥ow of- ten s it thet teslimony on criminal trials fulls short of what the same witnesses had previonsly eworn to, and fally; short of the dircctness and certainty nocersary to con- viction. Itisn question whetlior much of this is not due to intimidation, and it is pos- gible that the ends of justica iry eriminal cases aro defeatod fully as often by i'atimidationas by bribery, In this case tho wafortunate woman who w292 canse leading to the homicide atoud in fearof the man vrho abnsed her, and had not dared to prosesv.to him. This man ‘Weron had escaped pre.secution for other of- fonses, and his succosy, in theso had possibly made him comparativcly defiant of the law, and indifforont to i3 penalties, One of the wort?; incidonts of erime is this vory business of intimidation, The burglar discovered in & hedroom, with pistol in hand provonts aa ularm, and escapes with his plunder, Ths same burglar nndor arrest and indictmerd, Yhrough associates and partners, threatons that, if ha be convictod, the prose- outing witv oss may expect the severest pun. ishment, Threats of personal violence, of being & mrian marked for punishment, of hia howso varked for burglarions visitation, of his farejly for constant surprige and alarm, and ti.renta of boving his houss, or his storo, or lis warchouse burned, and a hundred otlvsr forms of intimidation, are thus nsod to Prosvent the conviction of nceused erlminnla, 'I” ais businesa is practiced more extonsively Yaon s gonerally supposed, and that it is sue. cessfully practiced thera ean be no question, 1t is notorious that persons robbed of valua. ble property can recovor it, when atolen by professional thioves, by offering to pay moro for its roturn than the regular prico which tho thief can obtain from the pawnbrolker or other roceiver of stolen goods. It lsalso notorious that this is now a goneral way to recovor stolen proporty. Bo, too, whona criminal is under nrrest, an offor to return the propoerty, in cnse he be allowed to go freo, and a threat of future spollation, including bodily injury, in case ho is prosecuted to con. viction, has it effect, and that those frequents ly aid eriminals to escapo is beyond all ques- tion. It Is uscless to complain of tho woaknoss which thus compromises with erime. Tho fact I8 ns wo have stated, and society suffers tho consequence. It is a rosult of tho weak- ness of the police system, ‘Tho police aro no longer capable of ropressing orime, The or- dinary policeman §s roduced to the duty of Loopingorderon the stroets and making arrests for violntions of municipal offenses, Tha pro- £osslona} criminal hasbut little fear of the po- lico, How far tho efficionoy of our manic. ipal polico system has beon destroyed by the organization of detective polleo is a problem, A detective officor known personally to every criminal, and lknowing overy eriminal, necessarily degonerates to a mere go.botwoon, ia to negotiato for tha restitution of property, 4xd personal charsoter, sod me Whatever information he may obtain he gota from some other oriminal, but the officer 14 necessarily o hampored by his personal and professional relations with the fratornity that ho can do nothing. The most ke can do in consideration of a monoy reward, and the oscapy of the criminal. As the orlminals are more numerons and are more intelligent and akillfol men than the offiolal dotsctives, and as ths latter too often lack personal integrity, Lharaters THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: TUESDAY MAY I, R N —————————— ———— —————— s ———— w{mfly unsafs ns witnossos ovon agnlnst eriminals, the result i that the men who aro criminals successtully outwit and ciroumvent the detactives, Tho community, faillng to rocolve protec. tion, or to erijoy socarity from the system of municipal police, fall back of necossity upon such menns of salf-protoction as fs offered them. Thus they pay moncy to got back their proporty, and willingly purchase ox- emption from eriminal violonco and visita- tion by lotting criminala escaps conviction. Thero onght to bo a radical remedy for all this, but who will propose it and apply it ? B —— THE BCHILLER DISASTER, There {a something about tho loss of tho ateamer Bchillor which should arrest tho at- ;tention of the English, French, and Amori- can Governments rolative to coast dangers, Tho story of tho survivors falls {o cast any blame upon the officers of the ateamer, as was the cnso in the Ioss of tho French ateamer, Villo du Havre, and the White Star steamer, Atlantie. The commanding officor was com- potent, brave, and loyal, 'Tho stoamer was of tho most recent and npproved coustruc- ton, The danger of tho storm was fully approcinted, and the Onptain nnd hin offficers wero on the alort to avert disnster, Tho stenmer docs mnot appent to hnve beon overcrowded mor deficjont in tho appliances of n first-clnss phssenger ship for meeting ondinary dangers. Bhall wo then dismiss tho case a3 ono of the jnevitable nccidents boyond the control of humsn ageney? The tendency of the timo ia op. posed to any such admission. The wreck of tho Schiller shonld mtber suggest renewed inveatigation into the const dangers off France, England, Trelaad, and the American const. Tho subjeot is so important that the three Governmonts might well join in an internntional commission of seientifiec mon introsted with an investigation of the wholo matter, whose report should be the basis of thorough international regulations. Thero ore two pointe in the Schiller disas- ter which might have beon covered, aa it now soems, by precautions for which there were no provisions, It secms that tho lights from tho islands, of which there aro two, wore not visible in the fog., But such no emergency should be guarded ngninst; there should bo pther signals for fogs, as far.renching and as trustworthy me lights. Mero is one subject Tor investigation and improvement. Another is furnishod by tho horrible information that the guns and rockets fired from the Schil- lor wero taken by the inbabitants of tho islands to bo signals of arrival, and not signals of distress, ns they renlly were, It is reported that many additional lives wero lost on sccount of this dresdful mis- talto, Such an error should be simply impossible, and would bo if thero were s woll- catablished system of signals, Theso two points above suggest a field of inquiry which shonld be bogun without delny. It should bo undertskon under Government nuspices, and wo doubt not that ity results wonld lead to regulations governing all steamship lines that would save thousands of human lives and ‘millions of dollarsin the future, The destruction of wealth in the loss of tho Behil- lor alone would have sufficed to covor all tha o7.ponses of such an internationnl commission 18 we havo suggosted, and probably also of the additional sppliances adequate to protece tion from the coast dangers. Bomo years ngo the Iowa Legislature abol- ished copital punishmont in that State, Itis sald the act was rushed throngh with inde- cont haste, in ordor to save a partiondar red- handed murderer from the seaifold, to which he hnd just beon sentenced. Be thisasit mny, the law was cxpeotsd by the sentimont: alists to stop tho grent crimo st once, Whon tho Stato censed taking a man's life, thoy 8aid, mon would censo tnldng it. Sympathy with the pests of sooioty carried the day. The Logislature deprived the peoplo of Towa of ono gront safeguard of human life. It sbolished hanging, for the snke of tho mur- derers and ot the oxpense of socloty. In commonting on the faot at that time, Tne TamvNe prodieted that tho number of murders would at least not doecrense; that an impulse would be given to other crimes; and that Jynch law wonld usurp the place which justice had heen forced to abandon. This prediction, then Justified by the experience of the past, has aince been justified by whot hoa proved to be the exporience of the then future, No regular reader of the Town pross can fail to have been struck by the onormous criminal record of that State. For an agri- cultaral community, it ia something np- palling. If thera are fower murders now than thore wore before the abolition of capi- tel punishment, Iowa must have been, at that tine, one of the most unsafe residonces in the country. Wo do not know what the Coronore’ books may show, but we do know that it now requires a good many special dis- patchos to eka ont the Associnted Press roports of Iowa murders. Probably no one will question the recent dovelopment of Iynch Iaw. Within a week after the sentimontalista carriod tho Legislature, a man suspocted, and only suspected, of crima was lynchod in the neighborhood of Des Molnes, and the lendors of tho murderous mob said that they had organized to do what the law refused to do,~hnng murdorers. Buch bloody reason. ing tells with many people. It iz neadless to dilate on the moral resnlts of lynching, It is usually far more barlar. ouns than the crime it Is intendod to punish, Take, for instance, this last oxample,—last, that s, forty-eight hours sgo, There is no (knowing how many victims havo boonlynched in tho interval. One Geonae N. Kinzuaw, resident in Storoy County for twanty yoars, hag succeoded in mainiaining o°first-olase feud with hils son-in-law for somo years, ‘Tho lat. ter's barn was barned down recently, Then thointolligent mobwhichlives in 8torey Coun. ty seizod Kinxatan and came vory noar hiang. ing him. They finally relentod, and let hin go. Hobadalotof thomarrested, Tholr eases are to tocoma up on tho 18th inst. The prosecuting witnoss has now boen got rid of, Bunday morning, at 8 o'dock, the mob took him from his bod and murdered him. The manin for lynching bns geized even the so. called gontlo sex in Towa, Witnoss the dis- graceful raid ot Wilton, near Davenport, the other day., The reoord of our nolghborlug State is not rofreshing rending. Whatthe sentimentalists onll *legal murder " has bean abolished, but illegal murder scoms 1o have taken its place, ‘Che bonefit of the change ia not apparent. ——— The Hon, Witk A, Wazxten, who is entitlod to tho crodit of bringing order out of the dismal confuslon of Louislana politics, now fully indorses the rolnatatoment of the four Democrats which was denounced by the oxtremists as a violation of the eompromise, Ay, Wamaexa's) acgumaedt la, thal, & thsia was no quornm in the Louisiana Iouse at the timo the fonr Democernts were unseated, tho Inttor had never been legally doprived of their senta; and, ns thoy have uince done nothing to forfait thoir rights, their rainstato- ment was o simplo act of justico, 'ho line of argumont iz clear and roasonable, It shows, too, that A, Wirren's purpose in eccuring the compro. mise was not to gain n partisan advanlage, but simply to nvert disastar, and to restoro penco in Loulsinna on the fairest basis that caald bo concoived §n n condition so torn and distorted by nbuses and cxcessca on both sides, The restoration of the four seatsin quostion to tho personn to whom they wero originally awarded was o natural result of the reorganization of tho Ilouso under the com- promise, and Mr. Wnrzzen docs nob find that tho partisan disadvantage of tho result is sufliclont provocation for rejecting it or de- nouncing it ns n breach of faith. If the Louisiana people on Loth sides oould be ac- tusted by motives aa puro as those of Mr. WieeLss, their troubles would soon be atan ond, OENTENNIALS, TThero are only two centonuiala this weok, and both of thom ara rural. One of them, howover, 18 of nationsl importance, and tho other is of a curlous charactor, which will probably find no parntlel among ell the many colobrations of tho next fourteon years, Tho Inst of thess, by the way, will probably bo tho centonnial of tho insuguration of the first Prosldant of the United States. It will be on April 90, instend of Maroh 4, 1889, ‘becauso the Congressmen of a contury ngo did not as. semble on the nppointed day, and when thoy finally got togethor spent thres weoks in do- ciding whether the President should bostyled “ His Righnoss” and * Protector of American Libertics,” or not. One hundred years ago yesterday, Ernan Az knocked at the door of the room in which Devarracy, Commandaut of Iis 2Ma- jesty Gronor IIL’s fort of Ticonderoga, was sleoping. Tho British officer, domanding to know by what authority he was nsked to sur- render, recolved the famous answer: ‘'In the namoof the Great Johovah and the Con- tinental Congress.” This formidable bracoof opponents was too much for English valor, Tho fort was taken withont tholoss of a man. Among the pracious spoils were 120 ennnon. Dexrpict AnNoLp was one of tho captors, Ho tried to take command over Auney and, when that failed, marched by hiz side to the attack. It is a curions foct that Arvey » nevor did nnything olse notable during the war, and does not secm to have served in the Continental army, although ho held s Colonel's commission in it. Porhaps an imprisonmont of nearly threo yearsin a Dritish ship and in irons broke his spirit. Yesterdny had nnothor centennial yeminis. conca connaated with it Mny 10, 1775, the Becond Continental Congress met at Philadel. phin, heard the nows of Lexington, and pro- cceded, vory soon therenfler, to appoint Gronox WasurNaroN Commander-in-Chief of the Colonial forces. The socond contennial of this wesk will be colebrated ot Greensburg, Westmoreland County, Pa., on the 1ithinst. The unique foaturo of this is that the thing oeclebrated ‘wrs tho passngo of a set of resolutions avow- ing the most abject Ioyalty to Gxonox IIL And this a month after Lexington. Noxt weck Thursdny the Mecklenbnrgers do their orating, and spoechmnking, and bon- firing, ete. They are just mow engaged in trying to prove tho authenticity of their Doclaration, Their new arguments sre sironger than the old. Next month, Juno 17, comes Mresnohu- gotts’ groat colobration. It is tho contenninl of Bunkor Hill. There will be 20,000 troops in lino, and, if Boaton isto be beliaved, about 20,000,000 spectators, South Carolina and Maryland will send some soldiers, and thers will bo, of course, an endlass amonnt of hand- shaking noross tho ex-bloody chasm, The moro, tho botter. The centennial era will doubtless give birth to bunkum galora, but it will sure- 1y do solid good, novertheleas, and tho eoun- try will come aut of it more united than aver bofora, A Committes of the New York Legislature has made & roport upon the subjoot of ter. minal charges in grain (ransported by canal to New York OCity. They find that the chargos in the harbor of Now York for hand- ling grain nrriving by canal-bonts are oqual to 5 cents por bushel, and are for wolghing, olovating, storing, lghterage, townge, whasf. ngo, and harbor fecs. This doos not includoe the charges for demurrage by the boats, which have somotimes to lay in tho harbor thrue wooks before getting to the dock, They find, also, that the charges in Buffalo oqual 2.82 conts; and that, adding the two togethor, these charges oqual 8 conta por bushel. The canal freights, Btate tolls, eto,, and 4 cents for Inke freights, make a total of 22 centa per bushel ns the coat from Chiengo to New Yorlk, Tho cost of transporting grain by all rail from Chicago to Ballimors, and putting the snme in elovator, is 15 conts per bushel, and about the sama rate to Philadelphia. To New York the rates by rail correspond with the othor through routes, but then there isin New York tho confusion, delay, loss, and positiva cost of unlonding the cars upon light- ard, moving the grain to the ship'sside,whoro it hina to b clevated,—all equivalent tosaveral cents per bushel more. From Chicago the freight by lake to Montreal, sud putting in olevator thoro and thonce on the steamor, does mot oxceed 13 to 14 conts, and yet tho Now York Zridune inslsts upon paying the dobt of the Stats of New York by main- trining high rates of toll on grain moved by tha Erie Canal! dsy & posm commencing— Gad plty the wretelied prisonery Ta theirlously vella to-iay, 1t woa went us by & correapoudent at Jollet to whom {t was glven by ¢ Cal” J, W, Youxa, & conviot now in tho Ponitontiary, who clained to Do tho aathor of it. e poem was dedicated by its supposed suthor fo AMaf. W, M, Tayrom. Now comes Afr, Cuanres Firz-Bimoxg, of this olty, snd ridicules the clalms of Col. J, W. Youna, of the Illinols Penttentiary. Ife does aven more, Hewends us an oxtract from the Rochoster Union and Democrot of Fabrusry, 1867, with a poem commenclog— a T and beanng to its conclusion & palntol dentity with the poom publlshed in Tum Tumsusz of Bundsy. This olrcumstanoce is & little suspictons, awpecially sa the extract from tho Rochostor paper bearw the initials ‘B, L. B, lotters which Mr, Firz-Smioxe usys are the initials of Miss M, L. Rewsr, of Brighton, Mooroe County, N. Y., pow Mrs. Avpeng Banriy, of Chicago, s Iady who has written many other pooms, Undor the clroumatances, wo must ooncludo thas Col. Youxo'-lahum;t l;: h:l:-x:ty .l; nnd;;:u:m- 'y cloud, aod that ho has shown oas m‘:u: sn extended mofourn ln the Penitene tisry, which we hiope fulure Governors will nob aveclookt when ths {nevitabls pelitien vemes Eouid for hd Bhidts ¢ Qol & Ve Yocatdy 1878. THE BOYS IN BLUE. Preparations for the Reunion of the Veterans, History of the Origin and Fortunes of the Grand Army. Its Speoinl Ficld of Labor—Offcers for the Present Year. Arrangements Mado for the Becoplion of tle Ralional Encampment. Programmo for Thursday's Procession ’imd Line of March. The Competitive Drill---Distinguished Guests Expeoted. Regimental Mectings. The assembling of tho Natlonal Encampment of tho Grand Army of the Ropublic, and the varlous army sacioties which meot with it, will commence to-marrow, and for theeo days the city will bogiven up to the vetorans, who can fght’| thelr battles over agaln, aud rojoico that thoy livo to tell tho atory. Yestorday waa a bostling day among ths local commitiees, who ara hurryivg up matters as speedily as possible, Their arrangomonts, as far 84 completod, are given bolow, ——— THE GRAND ARMY. HIBTORY OF THE ORDER. The grand reanion of soldiers of the War of the Rolellion, which has beon so long plavned, and whioh tho present woeek will seo bogun and onded {a this aity, owen ila oxistence fo tho of- forts of (homombera of tho Urand Army of the Republie, an organization wide spresd in mom. barship, but vory little undoeratood by the publle outside [ta pale. No othor secrot sooloty in oxlat- onco bas boen tho objoct of 8o much vitupora~ tion an this one; no other has been 8o ofton and porsistently sesailed by nowspapers and politi- cidv, and, floslly, not ouo has dozarved it so Lit tle &g far a8 its aims and purposou aro concornod. 1 TUR onna of tho Grand Army was in the snccessful closs of the Warof the Itcbeilion, which sent back into ctvil life more than o million of soldiers, tanny of whom bad divelt togelhor for yoars ia the flold, and had beon comrades and frienda in tho hardsblrs and privations of the soldicr’s life, Scattered over tho land tho veterans could not koep a conatant communication, and it was tho notutal desire for a reunlon with msaly friends that suggostad the idoa of tho ordor to fts found- ers, Tho Grand Army was not dewised in any one man's bralo, nor did it hsve its inception in any ono locality ; it graw naturally ontof tholittle clobs and knots of soldler fsiends who hiad re- nowed in poaco tho pleasant friondships firet formed on the pickot-lino and avound tho camp- five, TIE FTUST FOST of tho order, formed immodiatoly after thoe closs of tho War ln 18G5, was nothing more than suoh n cotorie a4 this, bnt whon it waa found tuat thors were hundreds of other localities that could ba jolned with the firat thero camo the ar- anization fever, and sorapidly did it apraad that n faly, 1866, ecarcoly o vear afloc tho War, the State of Illinols had ovor forly posts, and in 1868 over 800, with more than 40,000 members, 'Lheso two or thiron yoars may b callod the golden age of tho order, go far as mora_membership was concorned, bub the practice of that timo in some mattors had init the seedu of the decay of tuo Ordor, xnd tho fall from the height was tromeudoua. Ta appraciata thoso eauses of disintegration it necds to con. sidor the objects of tho Ordor. These wers, ay above notod, primatily, the dosire to keop aliva army uuoc(ntlonn. sud by intercliange of ex- porienco_and opiniona to koop frech tha acenes of tho War, and iucidonts of the moldior's lite in camp. This, of course, was not all, for no organizatiou could hopo for success it it doponded for exiatence npon the dosires of mau to remember tho hortors of tho battle- fleld, The organizors desirod also to keep in viaw tha cost of liberty and tho suppression of robellion, and to preserve the hallowed memory of tho dead, as woll as to bring comfort and re- liof to the families boreavod by the War, Thona wore the nobler impulsos and causca walch Joad to the widoaproad growits of the Order, if they did not inepira ite organization. Iad only these abjocts beon keptiin viow tho Order would hava been at this time in a much moro flourishing atate than it s, but the truth is that tho mane agers in this and many othoer Siates sought to uea the orgaaization for political purpones, being inoited theroto by malnly selish motives, It is of record that thoy succeoded, and that, in the Preaidentinl campnign of 1808, thoss porsoos and papers wore subntantially correct who as. sorted that the Order was nothing moro than & vast politieal engine, having lmmense anor. which it should not havo had, and meddling in mattors whick concorned it not, ns au oider. THE RESULT of this stat of thingy may ensily be imagined. ‘Thoxe woldiers who nud joined tbo Order to care ry out the objects ot forth in the origioal deslgn were divgustod with tho stato of thinge, sud yesigned protly unanimously wharover tlioy found themsolvca unable to control thie organization, and to Foep it out of the hands of the politicians, The withdrawal of thess men took out the real backbone of the Order, and the politicizns wlho had jolned only to give themsalves aner dropoed ‘the mattor at oncs, nn eoon a8 thoy had foished tho campsign, or a8 so0n as they found that the power thoy had hopod for had devertad, - In this twofold dao- sortion the Grand Army sufferod grostly in numbers, Infinenco, and usofulness, and the yoars 1669 aod 1870 may be called the period of utmost dopression, oats dropped fn pleces on all aidos, and clarters were aur- rondored almost without numbor, Never- thefess thero wera in aliost overy State a small number of Posts which continued to keop thom- polyes otit of tha pool, and among them the Order was kept up. As ilustrating tho cou. dition up to 1871, the Adjutant-Goneral reported a5 follows at tho National Eocampiment hold at Row laven, Conn,, in May of tha year: Tlio Depastment of lilinols waa first organizod an s pevmanent depariment July 13, 1866, In 1808 the dopartment numbered over 30’ Pesta, with s esti- 1nuted zaembership of over 43000, The departwcut ouibiraces at presoit Lt 23 Pusla, Tlig Deparimen of Indians hiad, 1n the fall of 1609, 310 aftective Pusta and a memborship of hetwean 25,000 and 30,000, Witlin two years only one Yost—ihai st Nowtonville—aurvived. Thin state of thinga was nem{“unlvenul. o8- pocinlly {n the Wastarn Htates, but there wers oxceptions, and thess woro mainly East, in Maruachusetts und Yormout, During the yoar 1872 the Grand Army was rotty noarly at's atandstill in most States,” Tho Jow it had recoived waw almost fatal, batit strngyled on, and in some places mado docided galvs, In others tho momborships foll away oven from tha low dgures aliuded to. The au- nual meetiog for that year—the sixth—was hold at Olaveland, May 8 aud 9, The roport of the Adjutant-General rendored at that time shows that thore Lad been some progross, but not s great doal TNE PROGRXES OF T GRARD ARMY i duriog the following yere was considerable, and it seomed from the reporta as though the betler duys were coming In. A thorough svstow of in- wpection had boon ipaugurated in the previous year, and waa carried out falthfully, giving wuch valuablo information, The lssf moeting of tho Natiooal Encampment—at fIarrisburg, in May, 1874—showed » considerablo improvement i0 mombership, and a stroog incresse iu onthu. pisem in the Ordor, Tho organizalion alko bad been porfested to a greater exteut than ever be- fore, and, perhaps for the firel timo in the his- sl ¥ moeting all the roquired roports wi tho Dopartments of Maine, New Yormont, Mussschusetts, Thode I xf‘ccl;lnnt, $."l¥l°'kb Navlhxag. Pll]l‘ otomao, Virglals, Gsorgis, Oblo, Tilina cousin, Minnesots, Dalitorols, and Oragon. The amound of disbursoments in charity for tbe w)z-o foz a3 vould be lei was over 045,000, ILLINGIN, The e, Ondee {n Tincls bay T T e invereating to remdsrs who remambor ths cam. palan of 1863, Iilinols was a ploneer in the fonnding of Posta of tha (irand Army, aud had atone time the largest memiorship of any oue Btata. Thero bolug 1G5 & steonz pollt- feal feeling growing out of ths woll-rameme bered Joliwson movoment and tho clasp- Ing-handa-ovar-tha-bloodg-chasm sontlmont, both partion bocame “impizassed wiili tho idea that thoy must_at all hazardy control tho drand Army, The Tohnsonites wanted tho in- dorsement of the soldlors (or thieirera of concord sud fratoruity, aud the Ropablicaus thought it propor that the aoldiers ahioald understand thad they might loss the fruits of the War by giving up fncnutionsly all thoy had gainod, Thus bo- lioving, both partien ritahed nll the men thoy conld into tha Posty, and tho Ordor mwolled in 1868, ag before uoted, to over 40,000 mombers, The firat dopariment organization was had July 1, 1866, at Speingiiold. “Over 380 deleaten wore presant. The first oflicera of tho dopart- meot woret Gen. Jobn M, Palmer, Commander; Gen, Jobn Cook, Asaiutant Commander; Col, J. C. Weber, Adjutaut-Goneral, ote. Tha conven- Uon aud its notion ware nupposod to hiave beon dictated by the Johnuaniten, and ita succoss was quoted an & proof of the provalonco of tho roconcilintion doctrine. Following the eloction of 1808 tha Order in Iilinola bogan to wano from crunes which have beon noled, aud in 1871 the 800 Posts had dwindled to 25, In tho Adjutant Goneral's report for 1372 the Dapartment of Illinoia was claseod a4 in “'a disordeted and dormunt state, making uo re- ports, and suowings little sigus of lite,” 'Fho roason for thia s thua given: Tha Dopartment was ruined by politieal cliqnes who abandoned it 28 noot as they bad sccomplished tholr selfials purpones, and leCt (o tholr auccessors o mere shadow, withant life, withont induence, and, what is sifll worao, without tha reapo;t aud good will of (he woldivra and people, At thls time the officern of the dopartmont were Hubore Dilgor, Comnamler; Guy 1. Qonld, Senior Vice-Commaudoer, and Thomsa G, Lawier, Junior Vico-Commauder. Tbe prospocts hofore the Ordor in Tiiinos waro atatod iu tho ofticial roport to bo that the Commander bad in- auzurated a syntematic effort {o ro-catablish tho dapartment on & aound boxis, and was aoufldens of wuccens, DURTN® TIE FOLLOWING YEAR &18‘,3) tho ofticors of the dapartment wora : Gny 1. Goul, Commandor; James T. Palmer, Sanlor Vies-Commaudor ; and Uearga N, Carey, Junior Vico-Commandor. It was mainly owing to the nnwentiod and well-dirocted oBorts of tho Commander that the depatiment, during this year, Logan {0 Rssimo onco more s placo among tbe organized and disciplivod forcoa of the Ordor. By groat efforts Mr. Qould snccecodod [} Humng aome twolvoe Dosta [n activa aervice, [ laying the way for the ravival of othiers then suspended, The Inspoctor Usoeral's report notes that tho best of feoling provailed in the dopartmont; that tho Order was In oxcellaut hands and efiicoutly administered. The Adjutant-Gonoral noles in Dbis roport of the samo yoar that tho condition of tho dopnrtmoent was very much improved. ‘The repart for 1874 shows ten posta and 512 mombers in the Stato, with a good prospact of grontor increaso, The ofticors of the dopartment for the present yoar aze: Commander—T1, Tlliard. Sentor Vice-Commander—T, G, Lawler, Junsor Vico-Commandar—W, 11, Kiog. Assistant Adjutant-General—J. 8, Reynolds, Clues Mustering Oficer—A, 8, en, Judce Advocate-Gineral—J, 1i, Bchutt, fedical Director—Dr, L O, Mitchell, Chaplitn—Charles E, Beach, From tho ten Posts which the dopartment re- ported last year the Ordor has now grown {o twanty-ono, and all of them wili take part in tho procossions of to.morrow and Thumsday. The names of tho Posts fn the Hiato now aro Ran- som, Novios, Burrell, Sherman, McCullough, G, H. Thomas, Sedgwick, Bartleson, Whittior, Wy~ man, Liocola, Lyens, ‘Turnor, BMecPher gon, Martn, Arrowsmith, Tob MecCook am '@, Ward, DPottor, Rawling, an Bheridan. Dosides those, tho Stato bonets the Sturling City Guaras, a nnigue or- gamzation, boing voluntoor military company composcd eatirely of mombors of the G, A, R., and uniformed and equipped in full, Tie numbers of the Order for the prosont re- port linve incressed to mbont 1,800 {n the Btate, nug it is expected that ovor 1,200 will be proscnt during the pressut rounion. THE UNIFONAL uned by the Grand Army has beon often mbject- od to revision, but at prasent it connists of a blue cloth cap, with * G. A, . in gils lotters on tho front, and s whito leather belt with an emblsmatio bucklo, Whito gloves are aleo worn, Bome Dosls havo olaso blousos, but thoy ars not common, the eap snd bolr, with dark clothios, furnishing » sufiicient distinction for pubdlic occesions, Noarly avery Poat Lias & small numboer of muskols gonerslly Joaned by the Stato suthoritios, TUE DADAE of the Ordor {s & five-pointed bronze atar, made from captured eabnon, aod having upon the obveras & soldier and sallor clasping hauds over two littla chitdren and smiled upon by the Qoddosy of Liborty, ‘The logond fs, “Grand Army of the Iopublic. 1861, 1800. Voteran.” On tho revorse Aro roprosontations of tho badges of each of tho hmnt'f-fom corps of the army. This star ia suspendod by a small uillk flay to s pin composod of an eéagla sur- mounting crossed caunon. The silk couneating ribbon is s representation of & flag if fora vetornn's badge, but of plain red or biue ailk if worn by a department or atafl oflcer, THE MOTTO, OR WATOLWORD, of the Arand Army hau always boon * Traterni- ty. Cliarity, and Loyalty,” which ia desigved to mean fratornity to comradas, charity co follow- men, and loyalty to country, Those wers but unmoaning words for many yoars, but, aluce tho reorganization of tho Order in 1871 and 1872, they hava been In truth its watchwords. . Liko all ottier secret arganizations, the Grand Army selects ita own mombors by ballot, a cor- taln small numbor of black-balls being suficlent to exclude an applicant. The only condltion prec- adent_to application for membershin is that tha candldate must have served in tho army or navy during the Wor of tho Itobellion, and have beon honorably discharged. Tif% ODOANIZATION OF THE ORDER Ig purely military, aud, a8 far oy possible, mod- oled aitor anarmylv the flald. An spplicant for admiselon is tormed & * recruit” and his lwtiation 10 & * mustering " Aftor being musterad, Lio bocomesn ** comrade,™ and that title isalways profixed to hisname. All the documents of the Order are slgned * In T, 0. and L.,” in rocognition of thainotto. 'I'ho assomblages of membors at any one plzoo ara tormod Posta, and each ona Is named aftor some woldier of the War, gonerally o local hevo. 'Tho Pousta in each Btate or section of country aro associated into a dopartmont, named gouerally after the Stato, '.ll‘hu ofticors of osch l'ostaro a Commander, Boulor Yice-Commander, Junlor Vico-Command- or, Adjutant. Quartormastor, Surcoon, Chap- Ialn, Borgeant-Mujor, Quartermaotar-Sorgoant, Oflicar of the Day, sod Ofiicor of tho Guard, Of thoee, tho Adjutant la squivalont to Boeretary aud the Quartermsator wnswers to Tresaurer in organizations, Ia the depariments the or. ganization is differont in (ko lower grades, though the fizst threo oflicers aro named as in the Ioatd. Dosidoes thooo, eaoh department ahould have & Modical Diractor, Chap- lalo, Ansistant Adjutaut.Goneral, Awmniatant Quartermastor-Gienoral, Inspector, Judgo- Advocate, and s Conncll of Adminie- tration of fiva mombers, Iu esoh do- puttment aca alsa two or thres Aides<la-Camp, and the aama number of Assistant Inspeotors and mustering officers. 'Thio last named are charged with tho organizatinn ot now Posts, TUB GIINEDAL DIREQTION of affalra of the whuls Oudor is vosted ju the *¢ Natlonal Encumn‘ment of the Grand Army of the Ropublic,” which 1 composod of & Com- mander-in-Clief, Benior Vice-Commandor~ m-Chief, Jumor Vica-Commaador-in-Chief, Butgeon-Geveral, Chaplain-iu-Chlof, Adjutant- Gonoral, Quariormastor-Goneral, Inspootor-Gon. eral, Judge Advocsts General, and a Counail of Adnlnistration somposed of one comrado from each departmont. ‘those oflicors proside ovor the whole oncmnpment, which coniists of tha dopartment ofticors and dolegates. The latter ere elected by the departmonts on a basis of one delegata for each 1,000 mombess or fraction thersof groster than one-half, Tho past na- tional ofticars of tle fired threo gradoes are also entitlod to soats in the National Encampment, Up to tho prosont year elglit conventions of {his Notional q-‘.numpmanfi hiave baen held, ‘Chey Iave boon located st Epringflold, Til, Toleds, Washington, Toston, Cloveland, New Ilaven, Coun,, sud Harrisburg, Pa. The Convention of the Encampmont which will nieet here this weakwill bs tho ninth in the organizstion. TOE PAST NATIONAL OVYICKLS of_the Order havo boen &g follows ¢ Past Commanders-in-Obief—B. P, Stevenson 1400), 8, A, Hurlbut (1807), Jobn A, Logan 1808, 1889, 1870), and Ambross F. Barnside 1871 and 1872), The prescat Commander, hatles Dovans, Jr., Was elocted in 1878, and thio prosent year is hisgecond of servico, Past Beoior Vice-Commanders-in-Ohlef—James . Mollean (1868 and 1807), Joshus T, Owen 1868), Lucius Faurchbild (1809 and 1870), and agner (1871 sud 1872), Jobn R. Goble : .md in 1874 and the preaent ia his second erm of sarvios. Paat Junfor Vice-Commanders-lu-Chlaf—R. . Foster J()uhnd 1887), J, R. Hawley J(xm sod 1849), Jamea 0:1 S 0 _and 1871), J, Warren AsT8), Edward Ferguson (18785 Ehin et o ! of the work of the Order is the dscoriti~n ¢t the yonr which will end as the present maeting &ro aa follows 1 Communder-in-Chitf—Chiries Darsna, Jr., Boston, Senr Vlce-Conmtandesoin-Chief/—~Edward Jurdiye, Now York, sfunfor ~ Vice-Commander-in-Chief~Guy T. Goul, Chifesgo, Surqeon-General—Tans Pawell, New York, Chaplays-ineCha/—Augustus * Woodlnrg, Rhagy nde Adjtitant-General—i1. T, Bitlsy, Marachnsetia, Quasiermarter-Genardi—A. B. I, Bprague, Msms. iacils, Insvector-Qeneral—, W, irown, Pennsyivyani, ldas-Advocaie-Gemeral-N, W, Doughas, Rhegs u Cownerl af Admintstrotin—Tdward Moare, Tand, M. 3 Willlam P, Mouos, Groat Falls, N, A, Tawis, Bt Aliwns,” Ve, 3 Atwiod Mass, 3 'F, W, Higginton, Nowp g Iartéord, Comn, 3 Litwin A, Locry, Iyn, 'K, A, M. Way, Now Brunswiok, N.J, ; Jamon W, 1. Phitmlelphis, a3 A. 1. Gunning, Washington, D, v, 1L, B, Nichols, Norfoik, Vs, ¢ 3. 1, Beymonr, Huiy s 073 3, J, Palmer, Rockford, 1li, 3 Gaba Totck, (., koeh, Wis, 3 Jamen Georgo, Rochenter, Miun, i Willan TCiualoy, Xau.; David J, Himmons, sy Adet-di-CampTlonry B, Plorcs, Chief of g Tdeton, Bamudi 8, Tiier, Mancherter, N, s yorl £, Swith, Montpellor, Vt.; Ueorgs s, b, Albane, Vi.; C.G. Atwood, Boston, Mase,; 3 Talmer. Providoncy T Xt 'We il Titim, Now Ton don, Cony, } Roswell M“ New York ; B, W, Nren. i N fugghatiren, N Terley, Now York ; Cole, 'Troy, N, ¥yt J, Ti. Woodrutf, Tronton,'s, s,} 3. K, Helms, Soh' fiaven, ¥a, 1 L, Twickoll, Wasiingt o, D, 0,3 B, ¥, Bickford, Itampton, Ve, 3 K, . 0. {, Clark, Cbleaya, Iil; M. O, ), 1, Gould, Winuua, iap, v, Yiaynoids, 'Loulsville, Ky. § B, J, Backus, Han Froycss o, Cal.; 'E, B, Bmll, Bangor, e, Assistant Inapectors-General—F1 W. W, Jennings, Harde Notfolk, Va.; I, ¥, B, M. Colver, Sandirky, . 3 I, O, Tawler, Rockford, 11, ; Levl Butler, 3112, noapoife. Hiun, s C. Maton Rinhe, Bsn Fraiels Gal. ¥, R, Btugll, Lisinu, e, Frank @, Okla, Wed Meriden, Coun, ; G, J, Tiiomus, Berlin, Wis, MY WORK OF THR OLDER, a8 bofora statad, is, in gencral tcrms, the ¥ fup aliv s of uld xesociations and the exarcing obarity toward aach 08 huvo boen Lereat:d war. Lo apeak moro partioularly of the waich Itw principles dovolve npons tho G Army, 1t may bo said that tho first and nost im. portaut iy the roliof of destituto soldiers, their wives and childran, and the renderiug asaistancs to familios of those who bave fallen. Thin Iy dona by donationsol money aud reliel in king by gm or officaca fn eacli Lost at thoir discretion, Each Post hns—or alaontd havo—a fund for tuis Eurpuna. gotherod in ways known to the mim. ars. Among the toothods used to recrust funds in mnny placos ia the presentation of theattical reprosontationn. ‘Chora aro sevoral playa waich liave boen writton for this ospocial purpads, sl whicli huve been the rourco of lorge sums «f monoy. In many ci608 ous actorand pinhar —ganerally the author of the play—goe: by in. vitation from Post to Post, solectd the astors ty fill hig cast, driila them, and suporintenda tiz [:lmducuun of tho play for thoe three, four, or Alf & dozen nights of its picasntation, '*Tha Drunimor Doy of 8biloh ™ hag beon brou tht el in thin way in s pgroat number eof tomn and cities, and soversl othor playa of & liko ua- ture are quita popular, o mavy placoa tho Pos ownn = ot of aconory, and always brings out tva or threo piays @ yoar, In theso casen the groe recolpts alwaya go into the Pest ‘Ureacury, fir the benovolent purposes spoken of, To shiow to whiat oxtent this work is carried, it may bo mon tionod tbat fn one year Ransom Post of Chicuye disbursad noarly §1,500, nd there wore, doukt. loas, many othor Posts deing moro, ANOTHER FEATUNE Thompmon, Taterson, N, J, vurg, P P Arin Pa.; P O, Ilawkes, Washington, D, 0.4, b, T soldlers’ graves, Tha idenof render.n: som) tribute tothe failenheroes of the Wai did nol par- hapa originato with the Grand Arm{,‘ but b has boen for many years tho office of that orgauiza. tlon whorovor it has Posts to take the loal in the coremonios, aud genorally to perform ther wholly. Thia eeromony of strowing graves of fallon soldiors with flowers has, sioca ilu adov- tion by the Grand Army, bosn made inlo a cepapn nte Nobionn! festival, which takes plico Auime ally, May 29, and this has come $o be called Decoration Day. The IE»rm:mn‘unma ot that doy vory with the strongth of tho Grand Armym any givon placo, and ars ofton earried on outnida and 1n_ the absence of suy such orgasicy tion; bnt genorally consist of =n ora. tion by some well-knawn soldior tresting of wome epoth or campaign of the War, fotluwal by the ceromony of laying wreatha of flovors upon the graves, and penerally a second oratin at tho graves. Tha oxpensos are nosxly slwajs borae by the Grand Army. T BOCIAL TART of the Grand Arny oxistouce—oatslde tho seayet meotings—aonsists of toativale callud Cn fires, where the membora of tho Pout und invi guests gathor in a hall and laten to & pupor i 5o pared by some member and troating uf somo in- cident, march, or nlm{nlgn in wmcfi tho writer has participated, This, followed by goueral con- versation and rocital of stories, serves to foom the pleasantont possible reareation fer s valiran soldler, — THE NATIONAL ENCAMPMENT, ARRANGEXENTS YOR ITd4 BECEPLIOI, A mooting of membors of tho Grand Army of the Ropublic was hold in the ladies' parlor st tha Grand Paciflo last evoning, to take fiual actiin as to roceiving the mombors of the National Encampmont, which holds ita ninth convention in this city begioning to-morrow. Department- Commapder Hilliard presided, dod about 10 comrados wore present, Col. Ilhliard said he hed prepared a programme within a programme, for the use of comrades of the G, A, I Itinas follown s RECEPTION OF DXLEGATRS, [Circular Order.] ‘Comrades of tausom Poat will attendfo the arrival of trains at Wells strost depot, 6:15 , 1r, and 10:.6 3. m, 3 6:30 and 13 8, m, Comradesof Lyons Post will attend to the ervival of Araing at the Northwestorn, Milwaukee, Clicayo & Pae cifle, Chicago, Danville & Vincenues, ani Ureat Eatte ern Ratlroads, Traine arrive st Northwesiorn, a, m,; Milwaukee, § and 10:30 s, m. ;' Chi- g0 & Pacifio, 10140 o, 1.3 0., D. &V, &35 m,} Graat Zastern, T:40 s, 1o, Comrades of Wyman Poat will attend toihe arrival of trains on the Alleligan Oeutral, Ilinols Centrat, sud foot of Lk f, 3ealgn + Titnols Central, 7:.0 and 120 8. G, B. Q. , and $:20 a, ni. Comrades of G. I, ‘Iliojnna Post will siiend the rr. rival of traina on the Chicago, Alton & K, Lowis, Pittsburg & Fort Wayne, and Mliwaukes & Si, It Madinon strcet Lridge, Cbicago & Altox, T:30a. . Pittsburg & Fort Wayne, 6:50and 9 a. m,; Milwaue kea & 8t, Pawl; 11 8, . Comrades of Whiltier Post will attend to the aerinal of tratuu ot Michigan Houthern, 6:30 sud 80 &, ti, and Rock Ialand u:t5 and 9:40 &' m. Comradas of Bob McCook Post will aftend ths arviva of trajus on Dalimore & Olo Rollroad, 8:35 u, 0. Vislting cowmrades will bs eacartod on (ielr arrival 10 {Lie goneral headquarters of the G. A. K., 179 and 181 Wabasls avenne, as tho escort for the Natioual Eo- compment will parade at 11 s, m. Comrades performing the abova duties will ohserve the noconsily of reaching hoadquarters k tie earlic t motoont possible, aftor the arrival of traius; & coils- tion will 'ba proparod for all comrados imediately on thelr arsval, Cotnmanders of Posts will see thatall detailssre Xept full, and at tha close of the Leunion on the 1k, thoy will'assiat In taking down and storlig the ever- recne, flags, elc., in order to thelr proyer preserva- £ for uvs o the 20 of My, On the morning of tlie 12th, all comrades of ho 0. A, 1, prosont in tlla eity, will report at 179 and 1si Wabash avenue, the Genvrul Hasdqusriers, promplly #4108, 30,, for sasigument o tle line of march ay vé- cort v the Natfonal Encamipment ; at 1115 s, m. the column will move in tha following ‘order 3 FORMATION OF E4COBT. Advanced Guard, Atthur Erbs, Oficer of the Dar, & Van Brunt, Onicer of the Guerd, Bix Cownrsdos, G, A, R, Depaztment Commander and Siafr, @nad Amiy Laad, M, W. Kevias, Guniuctor, olors, Drum Coiye, Sterllog Olty Gaards, G, A. B, Capl, J. W, I, Riam liough, Commiandec ; Rausom Post, B, J. B 1ok ; Novins Yout, T, O, Luwlor; Burrell Yost, W, H, Caln; Buer- T B e iy ndi ik nl lomss Poal g Ll 3 Hedg % Dartleson Poat, J, '8, Fheie Towp LL L. Mekinleys Whiluer Vost. P, J, Jansen; Wyman Fost, M, Umdsn* slock ; Lincoln Poat, 1L M, Gordons Lyooa Toat, At- titir Erbes Tarner’ Povt, A: 1, Wiauk s MePlersoa Tost, H, O. Clark; Mariin Poct, Robert Walsh; Ar> rowamith Poat, J. R. !lu(;in‘\vnr &l lls,-mt lgc:a; x;;)!i Qeorgo Bchsader § Bamitol (b, Ward Post, W. 8, Joul Tottgs Poat, 1, 8, 5unith; Rawlins Post, K, \V, Willard; Bheridan Post, J, I, !ll,:l':]y. Qolors, Gen, Charles Devess, Conmander-in-Chisf, and Per- Dapartments Ja-tha fotlowing ordee : Matne of crt , N oo ormaots, Masachurelts, 1Lods Ialand, Coungetici, Now, York, Now {o{l‘:y,‘}“:uuig - 0, ‘o e8! " 24 '““, lll‘l‘l‘:'eh, Mtasourd, mun, fifim Cale erads, Kanass, Wycmtag, Gulltornia, Cousrade Arthur ¥rbs I8 detazled to ast sa Oficor of g’h‘\ my} ';Jldufln;l;lndl & Ven Bzunt Is appoln(ul ard, They will Teport to Gomrade M. 2. miar, Adfuteot Genaral-1n-O) a.aday 1B 11th, 8 12 5., f 0a the wion sssomble A Gener ® #$ 10 8. m, will march from (houcs to thair prur;' [N e Ak R ol hnmhn" wizoet § this Hae of masch has slresd Desn indicated by General Rherman, Marsbal-br-Obil ot gt e Sl et the x Vice P e ‘“‘M will taks charge of 1hs