Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, November 9, 1877, Page 2

THIS CHICAGO TRIBUNE: FRIDA . NOVEMBER 1877. - T GETTYSBURG af um A obdock e onder | it in peltjon and helng hesides an officer of | Bl dune g wark and donnted its salue ac- | the body rushed ab hia duitr whom ho ne Tl ticksts which wero being peinted some [ of o man'a nnse protruding fram the e, 1 ¥ wan . piven Gen, Tiood to advance tpon | unaenal prompiness, saaacity, and ntellizence, | cordmely. “If a perfectly sound man ks fm- | cused of haging been intimate with Canachinteh, | whore thereabaut. Tt §a rald that 100,000 bt r Gen. Longstreet's Part in the Battle. Why Cen. Lese Turned Aside from Harrisbarg, How tho Baitle Was Brought Omy and How 1L Ended. New York T¢mes. @en. James Longstreet, of New Orleans, hns made publie bis views of Gen laee's advance into Teunsyivants, from the inception of the movement to Its disastrous close. The poiut npon which Gen. Longsatrect mainly insists is, that the campaign iuto Pennsylvania, while of- Tensive in strategy, was inteaded 1o be purely ‘defensive fu tactics, the purpose belng to choose a position In the cnemy’s rear and compiel bim to attack. It was the abandonment of this pollcy that. in his opinfon, led to the fatal result at Gettsyburg, and this mistake hu bellcves to bave been not a matter of deliberate judgment, but “*the inpulse of a great mind disturbed by anparallcled conditions. Inthe absence of Lis cayalry, Lee moved Into Pennsylvania as, ONE WALKING INTO THE DARE, and it was the report of a scout thut grave him the first Intimation of Meade's whereabouts, and turned him aside from his march on Harris- Vburg, The cucounteronthelstof July Uen.Long- street shows to have been wholly accldental, and it was then that e Uelieves Lee committed ) an crror {u not elther vigorously prosccuting the ! temporary sticcess, or else mancuvering so as to -compel Meade (v moake the attack, When the aseault was made on the 2d It was by Long- |-street's corps alone, whercas, (€ J1ill and Ewcll \had simultancously advanced, Meade might “have been dislodged. it the attock sufii- cently showed that the Federal l(m.-(llun ! was ~ then impregnable, and lickeLt's clarge on the third day wans o forlorn hope that ought mever to have been made. 1 These are only somo of the main polnts brought {mmrnnl in Gen. Longstreet’s paper, a luree portion of which is ocenpled with n defense of {“himself ogunst the nccusation of tanilness. After the battle Gen. Lee sald to his officers: 414 16 a1l my fault.” Lec acems to have been !earried away by overcoufldence in the prowess | of nis troops, and to have belfeved that they ~could do anything, * The enewy is there,’? ho sald, in reply 10 o remoustrance against the as- -sault un Cemetery Ridge, *and H 1 MEAN TO STRIKE mia" On the morning of the 1at Gen. Leo and myselt }151! his headquarters together, and had ridden ‘threc or four miles when we heard beavy firing | along HUl's front. The firiag became 50 heavy that -~ Gen, Leo left me and burrled for- Iword to ‘scc what it meant, After at- cnding to_some detalls of my murch I ifollowed, The firing proceeded from the cn- gagement between our advance and Reyuolds' {corpe, In which the Federals were repulsed, “This reucontra was totally unexpected on both ysliles. When I overtook Uen, Lesat 5 o'clock tthat alternoon, he sald, to my surprise, that ho ‘thought of attacking Gen. Mewde upon thy heighta the next day. Gen. Lee was impressed Awith tho ldea thnt Ly nttacking the Federals by could wln:F them in defail, 1 reminded Lim that %t the Federals were there fu tho morning it ‘would be proof that they had thelr forces well ‘§n hand, and that with Pickett in Chambersburg *oand Staart out of reach, wo should be somewhat *in detail. He, howerer, did not scem to abandon the kica of attack on the next day. Hescemed under a subdued excitement which occusionally 1ook posscaslon of him when “the hunt wos up," and threatened his superb equipoise. The -phinrp battle fought by Hill and Ewell on that -day had given him A TASTE OF VICTORY, When 1left Gen. Lee on the night of the st ‘1 helieyed that lie had made up his mind to -attack, but was confldent that be had not yet determined as to when the attack should”be made. Thoe asscrtion first made by Uen, Pen. dictop, aud cecnoed by Lis coufederntes, that L was ordered to open _the attack at sunrise is totally false. Gen, Leo mever In his life gave e urders to open an attack at o sedile hour. 1w wus perfectly ratisfled that when I had my troopa i position and was ordered to attack no tine wus over lost. On the night of tho lst I left’ him without any orders at all. Ontho morhing of the X1 [ weunt to Gen. Lea's hiead- quarters at daylight, and reuewed my views ogalnst - making ~ an attack, Ho seemed resolved, however, and we dlscuseed the probable results, We observed the po- vitfons of the Federals, ond got a general fdes of the nature of the ground. “About sunrise Gen, Lee sent Col. Venable, of his stall, to Gen, 1's headquarters, orderlng him to wmake a reconnolszauce of the ground in his {ront, with a view of making the mainattack on Ids left. A short thine ufterward ho followed Col. Venablo in person, Heo returned at about B o'clock, nud informed me that it would not do toliave Ewell open the attack. He finally de- “ermined that 1 S1IOULD MAKE THE MAIN ATTACK on the extreme right. It was fully 11 o’clock when (ien, Lee arrived at_ this conclustoh and ordered the movewent, In the mesutime, by Gen. Lee's authority, Laws' brigade, which bt heen put upon picket duty, was ordered to re joiu my cotnmand, and, upon my lumidnlun Lhat it 'would be better to awalt Ite arrival, Gen. Leo nssented. Wo walted about forty miuutes for thuse troops, and then wmoved forward, A deluy of several bours occurred in the Joarch of the troops. The causs of this delay :was that wo had been ordered by Gen. Lew to proceed cautiously upén the forwhrd move- 'ment, sous to avolil” belng scen by the enemy. Uen, Lee ordered Col. Juhuston, of s englocer corps, 1o Jead and conduct the hesd of the column, My troops, therufore, moved forward {indtr the wnddawee of u speciul oflicer of Gen, ce, sud with instructions’ to follow his direc- “tlous. 1left Gen. Leo only after the tine had -stretehed out on the march, and rodo along with Hood’s division, which was {n the rear, ‘I'he march was neeessarily slow, the conductor {requently encounteriug points that exposed the troopa 1o the view of the slgnal-stution ou ‘]hmmlTuip‘ At lepgth tho column halted. Alter waiting some tlme, supvosing that it would soou move forwand, 1 scut to the frout to “Anquire the cause of tlic deloy. 1t was roported that tho column was awaiting the movements of *Col. Johnston, who wus trying tuleadit bysome ‘route by which it could pursue its march with- out fallivg under view of the Federal siisnal- station. Looking up toward Reuud Top, I waw that the sizual-station was In full view, and, sas wo could plaluly see this statlon, It wus pp- ‘parent that our heavy columns were seen froin helr position, aud that further efforts to con- <ol ourselves would be a wasto of tine, I becume fhpaticnt ut this delay, and deters wined o take upon mysel! the responelbility of HUIYING TUE TROOKS YOLWAI I did not order Gen. Luws forward, because, as the bead of the cobtnun, bo bad direct orders frow tien Leo to follow the comduct of Col. Johnston. ‘Therefore, I sent orders to Houd, who wus In the rear and not incutabered by these Aurtrirctions, to push hig division forward by the wnst direct route so as to take pusition on my Fuchit. He did so, and thus broke up the delay, *Ihe troops were rapidly thrown futo position, aud preparatious were iuado for the uttack. It wuy be projer just bers to consider the relatlve strength andd position of the two armles, Uur oriny wis 53,000 !n!:mlr{; Meade's was 05,0003 these arc our bichest fizures and the encmy’s lowest, We had learned on the nlhit of the 1st, from some prisobers caplured near Seminary Ridge, that the First, Klevewel, und Third Corps bud arrived by the Emmittsburg rowd and had tuken position va thie bicighits in front of us, und that yetnforee- ment d been seen comiug by the Baltimore roud just after the fight of the 1st. From an futereepted disputel we learned that another corps was in cainp about four milcs frown the teld, We had every reuson, tberefore, 1o be- leye that the Federuls were prepate] to renew the battle. Our army wos siretched in un eliiptical curye, hing from the front of Round fop wrount Seminary Ridge, and en- veloping Cemetery Helelits oo the Jeft, thus i uepuce of four or tive wiles. The y vectbled the b ground fu front of us, iz inussed within o curve of about two miles, uarly concentric with the curve described by our furces, His Hne was about 1,400 yurds from ours, Auy oue will sec that the propositiou for lis fufertor furee to assault and drive out the Iuasses of troups upon the heights was A VERY PROLLEMATICAL ONB. My orders from Gen, Lee wers * to euvelop the cuey's lett and benin the attuck there, fullows oz dp us Bew us possible the direction of th Eulunttsburs road.” Xy corps occupled our rhzlit, with Hood ou the extrewe right and AMlc- Laws vext. Hil's corps was uext to sulue, iu frout of the Federal centre, uud Ewell was on our extreme left. My corps, with Pickett's di- vistou sbeent, bumbered Lardly 134,00) men. 1 realized that the fight wastobe & fearful one, Lut, Lelog assured that my flauk would be pro- tected by the brigades of Wheox, Perey, Wrizbt, y, uid Mabove movipge en echelon, vud that Ewcil was to co-uperate by o direct attack onthe sueiuy's dgbt, avd Hill to threaten bis centre, sud witack if oprortunity offered, und thus pre- vewt reioforcetsents fromn belug launched eftber syuinst myself or Ewcll, it scewed that we Wight possibly dislodge Wis great aswy fu fond the enemy, and, hureying to the head of McLaws? division, I moved with hia line. Then was fairly commenced what [ do not hesitate to pronotnee (he best three hours” flehting cvet done by auytroops on any attle-fiekd, Dircetly 1 front of s, oceunying the peach-orchard, on a plece of elevated ground that Qen, Lee desir me to take aod hotd for Wis artitlery, was 1 Third Corps, of _the Federals, commanded hy Gen. Siekles. My men charged with great epleit, and diglodged the Federnls from the peach-orchiard with but littTe delay, though they fought stubburnly. We were Lhen on the erest of Saninary Ridge. The artlllery was hrought forward, snd put_Into position ot the peach- orchard, The infantry swept down the slope and goon reached the marshy ground that lav between Seminary sud Cemetery Ridees, fight- Ing their way over overy foot of ground, and azainst overwhelming oitds. AL vvery step we found that reinforcements were rnuring fnto the Federals from every side. Nothing contd stop my inew, however, and they commenced THEIR IEROIC CHARAR uptheside of Cemetery Ridge, Ournttack wnsto rmzms in theareneral direction of the Emmitts- urg . Road, but the Federal troops, ns th were forved from point to paint, avaiting 1 selves of the stone fenees and bowlders the monotaing ax rallyiug poitits, so_sunoyel our right flank that Gen. Houd’s division was ohliged to make u parifal change of frunt o as torelieve itselfof thisgalllug lank Are, Thisdrew tien, MeLaws a little furthier to the right than Gen, Lee had auticipated, ko that the advantages of the ground enabled the F 1o deluy our purposes uutil they could ocenpy Little Round Top, which they list then discov- ered wos the Kev to their position. The forve thrown upon this pofat was =0 strongas to selze our right, us it were, (i n vise, 8till the battle on vur vinia iine contiued to press. The situation was a critlal one. My corps had been fighting over an lour, having encountered and driven buck Hue atter line ol the enemy. 1n front of them was a high and rugzed ridge, on fis erest the bulk of tha Potowac, numbering six to one, and scetrel resting behind atrong positions. My hrave fel- lows ucwar hesiated, however. Their duty was in front of them and they met It They charged up the hill in splendid ‘style, sweeplne every- thing before thein, dislodgine the enemy in tlie face of a withering fire, When they had falrly started upthe second ridee Ldlscovered that they were sullecing tervibly froma tire that eweptover their right and left flauks. L ulso fouud that my left flauk was not nretected by the brizades that were to wove en echelon with it. McLaws' Hue was consequently spread out to the left to protect fts funk, und Hood's lne wis ex- tonded to thie right to protect its flank from the sweeplyg Hire of the large bodles of troops that were pasted on Round Top, ‘These two movements of extension go drew my forees out that I3found myself attacking Cemetery Hill with o single line of battle aguinst not less thiun 50,000 troops. My two divisiona at that time were cut down 10 3,000 or $,000 mew, 4,000 liaving been killed or wounded. We felt at every aten the heavy stroke of fresh troops— the sturdy regulur blows that tells 2 soldier In- stantly that he_ has encountered reseryes or re- inforcements. We received NO BUPPOBT AT ALL, and there was mo cvidence ol co-opera- tion_on any side. To urge my men fore ward uvnder” these clreumstances would have Leen wadness, and 1 withdrew them in good order to the peach-orchard that wo had taken from the Federals varly In the afternoon. 1t may be mentivaed lere as {Hustrutive of the daunt spirit of these men that when Humplreys, of Mississippt, wus ordered to withdraw his troops from the charge ho thought there wus some ulatake, and retired to o captured battery near the swale between the two ridges, where we halted, and when ordered to resire to the new 1ine n sccoud time he did so under protest, Our men bad no thouyht of retreat. They broko overy Jine they cucountered. When thie oraer to withdraw was given w courier was eent to Gen. Leo luformiug him of the result of the day's work. Before pursulog this narrative fur- ther, I shall say 8 word or two concerninis this ussault. 1am satistled that my force, nuinber- ing hardly 13,000 men, encountered during that three and s half hours of blowdy work, not less thou 63,000 ot the Federals, aud yet thelrenarge wasa not chieeked nor thelr Hing broken until we ondered them to withdraw. 1 found thut niche that 4,5% of wy men, more than one-thiru of their total number, hud been lelt on the tleld. 1tstory records no parallel to the leht mude by thiese two divisions on the 2d of July at Gettyy- burg. It may be Imagined that 1 WAH ASTONISHED atthe fact that wo received no support after we had driven the Federals from the peach-orchard and 1,000 yards beyund. It Gen. Ewell liad en- [ . the army in bis front ut that thue (sny 4 o'clock) he would bave prevented thelr massing their wholo ariny In oy front, and whiie lie snd 1 kept their two wings cugaged Hitl would have found thelr centre weuk, und should hava threatened ft while 1 broke through thelr left and dislodged them. Having falled to move ot 4 o’clock, while the cuumf was [u his front, ft was still more surprising that be did not ad- vuuce at 5 o'clock with vigor aud prouptucss whien the trenches fn front of him were vacated, or rather beld by one siugte brizade (as Gen, Meade's testimony before the Cominittee on tho Couduct of the Wur stats ho tukon P theso trenches and scattered the brigade that held them, he would have found bimself fn the Federals' flank aud reur, 1lis uttack in the rear must have dis- ludged the Federals, a8 it would have been to- tally unexpected—it belug belleved that ho was in front with me. 1Lill uharglug upon the cene tro at the same time would inve {ncreased thele disorder, aud we shoud have wou the tleld. But Ewull did not advance untll 1 had withdrawn my troops, and the firat corps, ufter winulug sitlen alter position, was forced to withdraw }:)um the field with two corpa of their comrades within stzht and restlng upon their anns, Ewell il not move untll about dusk (according to his own n-purl.t‘l He then occupled the trenches tho enemy had vacated, }Ecu tien, Meade's re port.] Tue real csuse ol Ewcll’s uon-compli- aueo with Gen. Lec's orders was that he had broken his liue of battly by scoding two brl- fl"“‘ ofl on sume duty up tlis York road. Gen, rly says that my fullure to sttuck ut sunrise wus the cause of Ewell's line belng broken at the thoo 1 did ottack, Thisls NOT ONLY ADSUND, BUT IMPOSSINLE, After sunrise that moraing Col. Venuble and Gen. Leo were ot Ewell’s headquariers dis- cuuln'glhc policy af opentug 1ho attack with Ewcli’s col ‘They left Ewcll with this detinito order: that he' was to hold hiniself in readiness to support my uttack when it was made, It 18 silly to say that ho was rcml{ ut sunrise, when ho was not ready at 4 o'clock when the atgpek wus really 13 orders were to hold himsell in reidluces to co-operite with my attack wheu It was made, In breakmg his hue of battle he rendered himeelf unable to support e when ho would have been potential. Touching the faifure of the supporting brigados of Anderson's divisibn 10 cover MeLaws' think 1y echelon muvements, as dirceted, thero s lttlo 1o be sald. “'liosy brurudles acted gallumtly, but went astray early lu the fight, Gen, Anderson, In his report, ssys: A strung fire was poured upon our rizut tlavg, which had become de- tached frow McLaws' left.”” Gen., Lee, allud- fng tothe uaction of theso two brigades, says: * But baving become separated from MeLaw, Wilcox'’s and Writht's Urigades advunced with Kreat '.;ullnmrv. breaking successive Mucs of the eucuy's infantey, and compelling hin to abane don much of s armlcr[v. Wilcox reached the foot aud Wrizht galned the erest of the ridge itself, driving the cnemy down the opposite wide, but taviuz besome s, d from Me- Luwa', and t;m.v heyond the other two brigades ol v ivision they were to attuck in frout and ou both lanks, und compebied to retire, being unable to bring off auy of the cuptured artil- lery, MeLaws' left wieo fell buck, und, it beins now nearly dark, Gen, Loozstreet detensiued to awuit the urrival of ettt So anuch for the netion of the firet day, . d bot se Les thiat night. On the next noruing e to see tue, and - feard that be wad still o Lis dlsposition Lo attack, tried to guticipate him by saying: “General, § have bud iny svouts oul ull niiht, und 1 dod that you still buve an eveelleut opportuaity to wnovd around 1o the rizht of Mewlc's army and waveuvre biw into attackivg us't fle mrhud, poiuting with biy fst st Cewctery Hitl: &7 cnemy is there, and Tt 1AM fill)IN T “’:1‘“ L felt then that It wy duty Lo express o, convictiovs; I sald: *Gen 1 lave been r{ soldier all my life, Thave been with sotdicrs engaeed n flzhts by couples, by squads, cow- panies, regiments, divisious, a urmics, awl should kuow us well a3 suy une what soldivrs cando. Itisny opinlon that wo 1500 wen ever arraved Jor battle can take that posltion,” poiutiog 10 Ceumetery HILL . Leey Tureply 10 U, ordered we to prepary Pickett's divislon lor the attack. 1 should not bave been so urgent had 1 ot foreseen the hopelessoess of the propused assault. [ felt that 1 must soy a word ufiaflnu the sacritice of wy men, aud then 1zt that iy record was such that Gen, Leg would or could uot wiscoustras mr‘ motives. 1 suld 4o more, bowever, but turned away. The most of the wornlug was ronsuned in walting for Pukett’s wen gnd gettiog into position. The plan of assault was as lollows: Our artillery Wus (o be mussed in a wood from which Pickett Was 10 charze, und it was to pour 8 coutinuous Lire upon the cewetery. Under cover ol thus fire aud eupported by it, Pickett was to charge. Our urillery wus In charge of i . B Alexander, & Lrave aud wifted oflicer. Col Waltow was wy Chict of Artillery, but Alexane der, beivg at tbe Lhuad of the colitimn aud belog was given charge of the artiliers, The arfange- ments were completed about’1 o'clock, Gen. Atexander had arranzed that a battery of seven ele! pound howitzers, with fresh lorses aud full calssons, were to charze with Pickett at the head of his line, tmut Geu. Pendleton, from whom the guns find been horrowed, reealled them just before the charge was mude, and thus deravzed this wise plan, Never was 1 so de- vressed as upon that day, 1 {elt that. my men were to be sneeffievd, and that [ shotld have to order them to make A NOPELESS CIARGE, 1 ad tnatructed Gen. Alexamder, being unwill- fug to {rust myeclf with the entire responsi- hility, to earefully observe the effect of the firg upois the enemy, and when it began to tell to notily Vickett o begin the asstult. I was so much impressed with the hopelessucas of the chargre that 1 wrote the following note to Gen. Alexander: “If the artillery fire docs not have the effect to rive off the encmy or greatly demoralize him #o a8 to make ong effurts pretty certain, 1 would pre- for that yon should not advize Gen, Piekett tomake the charge, I elall rely a great deal on_your judgment to determine the matter, andrRliall expect you to let Plekett kuow when the monient offers.” Ko my note the tenerat replied as follows: I will only be able to Justze the effect of our fire upun the enemy by hia retura fire, fur his fufantry s but little ex- nosed to view, ad the smoke will obscure the whole field. 16, aa 1 infer from your nute, there is an Alternative to this atlack, it shoald he virefully considered before opening our fire, for it will take all the artillery ammunition we have left to test this oue thurvushly, and if the result is unfavorable we will “have mone left for auother effort, sud even it this 13 entirely succcasful it can only be 8o at u very bloody cost.' T sifll demred to save my aneit, and felt that §0 the artillery did vot pro- duce the desired effect T would Le Justified in holding Piekett off. 1 wrote this note to Col. Walton at exactly 1:30 p. n ‘‘Let the batte- riea open. Onler zreat precision fn tring. It the batterfes at the peach orcburd eannut be used ugninat the polnt we intend attacking, let them open on the enemy at Kocky HilL" i cannonading which opened nlong both lines was grand. In a few moments a courler brought o note to Gex, Pickett,who was standing ucar me, fram Alexander, which, after reading, hie hand- od tome. It was as follows: **If you are coms oz at ull you must come at onec, or [ canvot give you proper support, but the enciny's tire has ot slackened at all; at deast clehteen guns are still liring from the cometery itself,” After 1 bad read the note Picketi sald to me: S UENERAL, BIALL L ADVANCEIY My feclings Jtul eo overcome tne that I would nut speak for fear of betraying my waut of coutklence to bim. 1 bowed mi' aftirmatlon and turned to mount iny horse. Pickett fmmedi- ately ralil, * I shall lemd my divislon forward, &ir™ T epurred my horso to the w where Alexander was stationed witliartillery. Wien I reached him he told me of the disappesrance af the seven fzmm which were to have led the chargre with Plekett, and that his smmunition wus 80 low that he could not properly support the charze, I ot once ordered him to stop tt until the nmmunition was replenished, Lie {nformed e that e bad no ammuuition with which to replenish. I then saw that there was un hcl{v for it, and _that Pickett must advance under his orders. Ho swept past our artillery In eplendid style, and the men marched steadily und compactly down the slope,” As they started up the ridge vver 100 cannon from the breastworks of Lhe Federsls hurled a raln of cannister, grape, and shell down upon them; still they pressed on untll half way up the slope, wiicn the crest of the hill was fit with o solid sheet of tlaine as the miasses of infantry ruse and fired. When the smoke eleured awny Plekett’s diviston wns gone. Nearly twwo-thirds of hisu dewnd on the field, and the sure vivors were sallenly retreating down the hill, Murtal mawcould not baye stood that fire, In hatf an hour the coutested ficld was cleared, aud the battle of Gettysburg was over. —— TELEGRAPHIC NOTES, Speciat Dispatch to TAr Chicago Tribune SrniNgrIELY, 1L, Nov, 8.—The Governor to- day commissioned Miss Ida M. Wood, of Jack- sonville, Notary Public, maRing the twenty- fourth ledy now holding such commissions, twelve of whom are In Chicagu. Wucentya, W. Va., Nuv. 8.—Capt. Thomas C. Wilson, of this city, wholas beenan Ine spector of Bolters oud Engines since 1670, and his ussistant, Mablon Rogers, of Gullipulis, wore - yesterday removed from ofllee by Bupervising Inspector Fehrenbach for allege neggleet of duty. Thelr successors will Leap- pointed on Saturday next, .\lunmnx[i,‘;Vlov 8.—A letter of condotence, signed by 2,1 ench resldents, has been for- wurded {o Madame Thicre, o ————— TEMPERANCE. Specigl Dirpateh to The Chicaao Tridune, Inpiaxarons, Ind,, Nov, 8—~1he Seventh Cougressional Distriet Christlun Temperanco Cohvention adjourncd to-day ufter two days zessfon. Mlss Anna J. Dosne, of Valley Mitls, Is Prestdent. Miss Matlida Kilbourne Is Secre- tars, The usual resolutions were adopted, and an additional one commending Secretary MeCrary for the order relative to the use of 1iquors Uuring business hours, and recotninend- ing that he woke the order apoly to the entlre day. 'Theproposition to :-smhllsh u work-house hus . fallen through, owing toa defect In the law, which does not grive the Mayor jurisdiction In cuses whers more than thirey days' iniprison. ment can be nzsessed. G ) S —— THE PITTSBURG RIOTS, Special Inavatch to The Chicaza Tribune, Prrrspia, Nov. $.—The Urand Jury tolay concluded the examination of the ease of Gen. Pearson, charged with murder in ordering the Phitadelphla troops to fire on the mob duriuz the July riot, und fenored the Ll It was gen. eralty supposcd that the case would not bu con- gldered until the dectsion of the Supreme Court on the vontempt cuse of tho Governor and other Htate oflicers, nud the anuouncement that the bill hud hgeen Ignored ereated universal surprise, 1t now looks a3 it none but the rank und llle will sutfer for participation fu the rlot. —— TOO WET. Npectal Disnated ta The Chicago Tribune, Mo, ik, Nov, 8.~Thu continued rains are injuring very materially tho crops In Urundy County. The farmers were very hopeful carly fn the fall on account of the corn crop being above the average, both inquantity and quality; but tie rolus huve continued so much of the thne for the past fonr weeks thut the grouml bas Lecouie thoroughly saturated, Farmers have uot been ublo to Ful Intu thelr fields to husk, and very much of the com bs falliug over, the ground belng so full of water u-xu’& does not huld up the lnaded atalks. Cuonslacrublo of what Httle corn was picked prior to the roins I3 roiting tu the celbs oL acvount of the continucd wet weather, - e— . SOUTHERN NORMAL UNIVERSITY, Bpectal Diwated (o Tas Chlewza Iribune, CAnsoNDALE, 1., Nov, 5. —Thu Jun, Thomas 8. Rideway, L. M. Phillips, and Dr. James Robarts, constituting a quorum of the Trustees of the Southern Hlinois Nurmal Usiversity, met hero toslay, ‘Thoy exwnined the hesting uud Itzhiting apparatus retently put in the butlding by John Church & Co., of Chilcago, under In- spector A, L, lde, of Sprivgiield, 1L Every. tiing was fouud complete uud in first-class order, the builers sud sudistors belue of the best waterial. The apparatus was recelved, and an wider drawn on the State Treasurer for the smount due the contructor. ‘This school pruspers sceotd to vone in the Stute, ——— e GALENA, . Wpeciat Dispatch to The Chicuga Tribune. Garena, 111, Nov, 8.=The dead-dock which has prevatled'for elght mouths lu the Board of Aldercn of this ity was effectually broken fast ulgght by the resiguution of one of the wem- bers who las heretofore voted with®the majorl- ty. A mass uf papers were acted upon sud - rtant busiuces dlsposed ol that Loas Leen lay- i for twonths to the great detrlment of our city. ‘fue people aye rejolelis tion of the light, which Litterly wy axed. A special election to 4l vieaney of the disgusted Alderivay bus been called for the 19th fusi, it THANKSGIVING. CoLusmsrs, 0., Oct. 8.~Gov. Young to-day Isaucd his proclanation lixiug the 20tk of No- vewber 85 4 day vl thanksglying and prayer. = — . Consuwmption & Disease of Indoor Life. . Among the natives ot Seocgunbla pulmonary affectivus are not only nearly but sbaotutely uukuown; a slugle 3eur Passed u the overs crowded man-pens and stecrage-hells of the aslavetrader often sutled 1o develop the discaso its that most viruleot form kuown s walloping consuwption; wnd the brutel yl:lulcrs of tho Spantsh” Antilles made s yule ol never buviug an fwported vegro befure they had **tested his wind,” L ey trotted hiw up-bil and wutched trutions. [t Lie proved to bo *“a roarer,” en teri ity they kuew that the duvgeun prizoned for life,' gays llaron d'Arblay. the Belglan philanthironist, *‘his lungs, as a rule, Will flest show aymptoma of disease,nnid shorten his misery by a hectie decline, unless he should commit sufcide,” Ouar home statistics show that the percentage of deaths by consnmption it each Slate hears nn exact. proportion to the ereater or smaller num- ber of Inhubitants who follow indoor occupa. tione, aml 13 hlchest fn the fsctory-tdstricts of New Eneland amd the erowded citics of our Central States. In Ureat. Britain the rate in- creares with the latltwle, and sttuins Its maximum helght in Glasow, where, as 8ir Charles Brodie remarks, windows are opened only one dday for every two in Birmlughiam, and every three anda hall {n Lomlon: ‘but moing farther north the percentage suddenly suks from twenty-three to eleven, and cven to six, ff we crossthe fifty-seventh parallel, which warks the boundary between the manufactr- Ing countles of Central Scotland and the pastor al vegions of the north, 1t i3 distreseingly probable, then, to say the teast, that consuwmption, that wost fearful reourge of the human ruce, ia not o * mysterions dispensation of Providence,”” nor o “product of our outrageous climate, but the direct con- sequence of the outewreous violation of the physical Jaws of God.—=Dr, Felic L. Uswald In Troputar Sclence Monthly. CRIME. ASTONISIIING CRIMINAL, Correpmintence Sew Vork World. HosespaLg, Py, Oct. 80,—Four years ngo James O. Mattice, tin-peddier for a Binghamton firm, was married in Greene, Chenango County, N. Y., to ayoung Iady in that village. Some time afterwards, havingin his possession nearly 21,000 of the firm's money, lic disapoeared with thelr team nod wagon, and fn Ulster County all trace of bim tas lost. Some weeks altcrwards the horses were found fn a thick plece of woods in the upper part of Ulster County. Tiedton tree they had starved to death, after cating all the foliage {n thefr reach and gnawiug the bark off the trees around them, In 1874 Willtam Clark, an apparentiy well-to- do yvung man, appeared {n the farming districte of the Penusylvania counities bordering on those of the soutiérn fler of New York, e was in search of 3 woud farmn, displayed consideraply money, and obtalued tie confldence of one rich farincr naned Lennox to such i extent that he beeame the latter's son-in-daw after an’ ace qunintance of but three weeks, Shortly there- uiter the furmers of Western Susquehanba and Bradford Countlea lost severnl horses. No trace of the thieves or their booty could be found, and it wus apparent that there was o systematic 1nn of vperatione. Cerlatn actions of farmer Lennox’s son-in-taw aroused suspicions. An old hand-bill describing a horse and carrlago that had been stolen from ativery-stable in Cen- tral New York some six months before, and ulso giving the description of tho thief, was scen by one of the farmers hanging fn o bar-room AN at Towandu. The atolen property was the horso and carriage Willinn Clark had when lg eame to the neighborhoad, and had sold to Mr, Lennox, und the description of the thief fitted Clark exactly. The farmer hostened liome, and Clark, alias Mattice, was arrested, On the wa tou Justice's, while passing through a plece of woods, thu prisoner. having thrown the oflicer off hia guard, knocked hilo senseless with some heavy weapon, and, although o wagon-load of furtners wers close bghind Lim, cacaped fnto the 75 horse-thleves began to operate amonz s of this, Luzerne, aud Susquebannn Countles, * A mun pamed Love, who hud taken u\}n his residence In Lower Uroome County, N. Y., and who had married the servant of a farmer in thut \1t-lnl!')‘;, was at last suspected, In the sutmner of 187 farmer in the northern part of this county hind 2 horso stolen, and a trace of the thief was found and followed. He was arrested With the property as he wus prepariug to cross the Susquehnnna River Into New York at the Busquebanna Depot, Hu proved to e not anly Love, who had a wife in Broome Lounty, but Clark, allas Mattice, who had vaarried o “girl In Chenango County, and robbed Iis employers of $1,000 and a teans. Il was brouzht to (lonesdule and Jodged fn fafl, Hewaa furanishied touls by members of his gang, who trere svrcml oll over this scctions made » key and unlocked the door of his ceil and the outer door of the {ail, und cscaved, He went direetly baek to Busquetianna County, and three days after getting away {rom Honesdale Jail broke into s store at Great Bend, stols severul Ittndred dollurs, und the samo night stole s lorse und wugou. He was arrésted beforo ho grot away with his booty, nud wus locked uo in jailat Montrose. Before Court met hedug Lis way ont of jail and apatn escaped, although ho was fol- lowed by the Buerdf and shot utiive times, ong shot at least tuking effeet, as a tratl of blood shiowed. Nothing having been scen or heard of Mattice after his escape, it was belloved that the shot had been fatal to him, und that the cominunity was rid of a peraon wlo was becorns ing its terror, A réward of 700 was offered for hiim. leeent events prove thet the theory of Aattlee’s klillnig was erroneous, Wit the career of this erluiinal moPhave been ufter bis cscapo from Montrose up to the 12th of September last Is not kuown, On that day he had the awdaclty to make bis appearance In Greene, Chenungo County, where he married his tivat wife. 1le aeclared he had reforined, bt he was mlsityg next day, a8 were about 0 worth of woods from the store of o mer. ant vained Swith, and a valuable horse und wagon also belonging to hm, Mattleo covered up his trucka 2o skillfully that he actually could not be traced out of sizht of the village, Notices of the robbery, withdescriptions of tho property andd thief, were sent fn all dircetfons, but witli- out cffeet. Thu owner of the proEcrty ave ur all hopu of flmlh»t: It, when, week before lnst, Sherllt Ditlon, ot lancock, Delaware County, recel tter from the Chief of Pollee of Purtland, Me., stating that o man glving his wame as Wil Clark had been arrestod fn that city, huving bn his posscsston a horse nnd wagon which he had offered to disposc of at such aridlenlously low prico that it was sus- peeted that he hiud stolen (. ‘The prisoner safd he sl relatives in Hancock, N, Y., and that Lo came frowm Shokan, Ulster County, A descripe tion of the property and prisoner was given, Sinith's deseriptions tallied with the one from Malne. ‘The Bherif? at once notifled Smith, and the. Portland uutboritles were telegraphed to hold the prisoner, Bmith first went to Shokan, and learned tnat Mattieo had disposed of the stalen merehandiso near there, When he reache ed Portland ho learned that Mattice had cut his way out of the Jall, and had escaped, . uo trave of him heing found, Tho pmfcny W3d recov- ered, but thu costs of secovering it bud eaten up Its value. Muttlce had soveral othier assumed vames, A CURIOUS INDIAN CRIME, Correxpondence New Yink Worid, Tonox10, Onty, Nov, 2.—3Mr, Charles Raukin, an oflicer of the Hudsow's Bay Compauy, has Jjust reached icra with the detalls of o brutal Indian murder fu the Nipissing region, the mur- dered man being Capachinteh, Chlef of the ‘Temagamiuzues, and the wu=derer his brother, Blrzosce, the Movse-Calf, The brother, with Bhargosce’s wife, danghiter, and son, were tray- eling together on o Lunting expedition in the Round Luke vountry. Cuanachiutel, or Clelt-fu- the-Rock, hiad thres wives, with the youngest of whom b suspected that Bhargoses wus tos fne tinute, As they sat by the camp-ire one uight, Cauachinteh began Lo sing o favorlte Indian sung, which runs something in this stralng He was my brotber sud 1 loved him; (um‘rle- when lio wax weary food when b jay In fevel But while § bunted bo loved my Jove, O, falve and wicked brother Who, while | hunted, foved my love, Shargoses felt that this soug was afmed at him, and Le ordered Lis brother 10 stop singing, Canuchluteh then addressed Shargosee's wile, telllng her thatlier husband loved other women, and bldding Lier return to hicr father, the Chiel Koruwee, who lives near Mattaws, Ile alse made o specch tu Bhargosee, fu which be up- bralded him for Lis conduct, and to Shargosce's sou aud duughter, I which ko deplored thelr father’s eriuie, which, e safd, would cuuse them 1o be hated and despised by thy whole Tema- wumbngue uation. Attes this the Chlef withdrew from the fire, aud, retiving to u swatnp uear by, chanted the Indlan “soug of desolativn," us evidency that Le was fu grest griel, Shargosce and fawdy retired ulso, but about daylight the former roused bis son Louls, u lud ot §, aud told bim that thoush his eyes had been clesed bo b not slept, for he Lad made up his wind to kil Canachivteh. Louis cried, but his father Vhevatened to killbi also. Tie futher aud sun flhen uurnmhcd the swamp wheee Canachitnteh was sl fln;iuihh mournful soug. SBhanzosce asked bim how he felt, but Cusachioteh turned his back to L, on which Bhargosce drew au ay¥ from bis belt aud struck bim ou the back of tho head. Cuvachiutch rolled over futo the wwatnp, but wanaged to stugger to bis fect. Mo was 8 uan of great strengtl, ulthough upwardy of 70 years old, and, sciziug o stick of wood, eried out tbat be would not die glone. [io reachod forward to . strike Bhargosee, but stuwbled over u 1ok, sud the latter struck bim suother blow with the ox, splitting bis skull. The lad Louls on ran back to the fire asud awoke lis mother oud sister, who, on scelng Sharguscs dragging IAI- brotber's corpse towards thew, yebewently dewounced bim as & wmurderer. Shargoseo ‘was cursged at this, sud droppiog 8he fled, and Shargosee’s wife held on_ to him until slie was far ont of his sight, The girl reached Mr, Rankin's post at Round Lake flat eveniug, and o party returted with her to the scene of the munles ‘The found Louis and his mother alttine by Canachinieh’s hady, which Bhargoseo had mutl?n(ml ina deeadfud manner, Bhariroges himsell was found next morntnz In the woods, and was arreated and taken down 1o Mattawa Jall. Jwdee Doran, of this town, left yesterday to hold the preliminary inguiry, Blinrgrosce’s defense s that hie killed Canachintely beeanse of his Intimacy with Iis danghter, but she and her mother. aud brother, who are de- tained nt Mattawn, deny that, and tell the story ns It I8 glven above, & AR DROWNED IER CRILDREN. Trog (N, ¥.) Times, A terrible affalr occurred at Mechanicsville this morning, which has shocked the whole com- munity. 'The wifo of Stephien Way, residing on Maln street, has at times duriug the past yenr shown evident signs of mental derangement, though not of s serious nature. - This mornini, Letween 4 o'elock and b o'clock, Mrs. Way stole guictly from the house—ler hushaml belng asleen up stalra—takhng with hee four chlldren, Clara, Fred, Ueorge, and Wilile, nged respect’ fvely 0, 6, 4, and 11§ vears, Procceding to “the creck running fn the rear of the premises, she threw Fred and Ueorge into the stream. She then coaxed Clara to o to the edye of the creck to ascertain (L she could &ee hier brother Georze, nud u‘mn dolntr ro the ununatural motlier pushied the little girl into the water, threw in the baby, and then concluded the trazedy by jumplug into the stream herself, The water of the ereek ut this point Is deep, and the current a swiit one. In romo miraculous manner Clara managed to reach the shore, sud, hnstening to the houae, informed her father of the dreadful oceurrence. Alarm wasat once given, and the wife aud motlier discovered with the boy Gcorge strugeling in the waterat a noint fiear the river. and they were hoth res- ened, but Fred and the little baby were both drowned, The hodies were fonumd nbout nn hour afterwards nd properly caved for. TINCENDIARIES, Spectal Dispateh to The Lhicago Tyiune, GrAND HAveN, Mick, Nov, 8.—~Four men were arrested aud lodged in full this morning, and other arrests are to follow soon, on charges of burning buildings here over a year ago, Our ity has suffered terribly from - Incondiury fires, and great pains have heen taken to fasten the guilt tpon the right partics. It has been a long trial, but is thought to bu well done. The de- talls are not yet ready for the public. AN ABSCONDER. CrxciNyaTi, 0., Nov. 8.—It 13 reported that Carl Sack, of Eichberg & Back, las abscondel. o has been borrow!ng money from friends and business-men,'giving tho firm’s checks, which Im\‘wmml worthless, mnounting to nearly £20,000. Tue flrtn made an assignment to-day, DEFAULTING TAX-RECEIVER. TiextoN, N, J., Nov, 8,—IL bas been discov- cred that Walker £. Bartlett, the Recclver of Taxes of this city, and proprietor of the Amerl- enn Hotel, is o defoutter of from $15,000 to f.'c}olt:o {lo was arcestud Jast night und fudzed u Jalt, - SMALLY® CASE, Coruaniy, 8. C., Nov. 8.—Thy wotfon to re- move Congreseman Sialis’ case to the United states Court was overruled by Judge Town- send. The argument vceapled all day, e 3 LOCAL POLYTICS. Settling the illa=It Was Miles Kehine Who Changed the Democerntio Tickets, The Republican County Exceutive Committeo hield its laat mnceting yesterday afternoon for the purpose of nuditing bills und closing up the various udds and ends of the campaign, From the way reporters wero bounced when they ex- pressed an all-consuming desire to sit around and lsten to the proceedivgs, and from the fact thut there was more or less prellminary talk about the course of the press in attucking members of the Committee and scensing them of nceepting bribes for omitting the line “ Agalust tho Stute-Uouso Appropriation? on tho tickets, it began to be npparent that that $200 business would come up for an niring, Under such eircuwmstanees, it would, of vourse, have been utterly fmproper to let the reporters stoy, although some people will obstinately think that it the business had nil been stralght, with nothing to conceal, there could have been 10 possible ubjcction to letting tho procecdings 0 before the public. Lut the Clialrman of the Jomulttee, Mr, Charles B, Farwell, thought ditferently. 8o dld several of the members, and the resuluof u caucus on the subjeet wos thut the reporters wero uvited to take o watk, More thau that, the iuvitatlon was repeated un- il it beeame too vresslng Lo withstand, and the reporters withdrew to the outer courts to wait untll the jie was over. It took about an hour to audit tho bills and Investigate the tieket-printing Lusine Naturally enough, severul of the eembers of the Cominittes who had been eharged with beingeonnected with the fl!njuyumhlu business were exceedingly wrotty an DEMANDED AN EXPLANATION from Mr. Farwell and Mr, Bravton. They would probably bave: put S8enator Riddlo and R, 8. ‘lompson on the rack, but the fonmer had walked forth before the meethng came to order, and the latter did not appeur atall, From all that vould be learned in regard to the proceed. ings, Mr. Furwull ~ corroborated the whote story, with the exceptiun of the charge " ‘that ¥200 bad passed be. tween him, hls confreres, and the delezation of two from Spmrgfluhl, That hoe utterly snd steadfastly denfed, By way of explunotion, he 18 reported to havo sald that ho belleved the omission of the line was perfeetly right and proper. [ prople didu't cliooss to vote for the wpproprlation, they could seratch out the line “For the Btate-House Avpropristion,” and ifthe appropriution did not get o um{orny of the votes, ns wos the case, It wonld belost. Bellev- iz thut the one line wos all that was uecessary, and that there was nothing wrong o umittig the Jine * Agalust, ete.,’” he bud Guken tho lib- erty to have the tickets so printed, after consut- tatlon with the mewmbers ol the subcommittee, Brayton,. Riddle, und Thowmpson. Fur all of which ho wus wlfllug to be beld * persouslly responsible,’”” and, ns he further expresseil blnself, *‘to stand all - the curses. Mr. arwell also acknowledized tho truth of the story nbout an ngreement in regard to the printing of the theket Letween the Kepublican sommittee aud Miles Kehoe, but mein dented the truth of the {200 story, Whatever e had done was doue with the beet of motives, unfue fluenced by noney considerations, aud sgaln did ho declare thut he was prepared to take oll the curses, The Committeo upparently felt satiafled with Mr. Farwell's self-culpatory metbod of exonernting them, nnd asked him no further questions, As for Brayton, le sald nothihg. I o certaln newspaper chose to uttack a man who had worked hanl for the success of g he waan't the mun to talk back, My, Braylon us- sumed tho role of Injured funocence so per~ fectly that the Committes hadn’t the hieart to keep him on the ruek, and he was ollowed to full off, ANl that he would say ufterwards o the reporters was, Lhat be had never o bis fife held u conference with Democrats, As o the rest of the story be wus dumb, nefthicr atiirming uor denving, but employing the * quiet con- tempt "* method. Ald. Rawleigh, the Treasurer of the Come mitteg, Will pay th: bllls at his oflice this worn- fugg, What i3 cf, afterall clafms have been sai un:-a would yot curieh suybody Lo auy great exteut, THE ONLY DEMOCUAT who turned up ut the Pulner Jlouse yestenlay was Becretury Jurry J. Crowley, late of Kehou's Campalen Commlttee. Hu looked lke one risen trom the dead—a veritablo Lazaras, His Lair had fairly turncd gray sincs be read the last returus Tucsday wight. To Josse Hipple, the clerk in the office, lie lud but oue word to say, aud that was adten.”? ‘Thus, the haunts of Democracy will b~ hereafter deserted. The headguarters have been permauently closed, aud the halls which ouco kuew the tread of Lynch aug Lieh, und whers the fumous coall- tlons were inade, will know thew vo more. The leaders of that campalgu have burled themsolves out of sleit, sud will provably disappear from bubllc guzs unpl there i3 occastun for suother emocratic funerul, next fall. THB LELICS OF TS CAMPAION aro found un every street-coruer, oud among thuse thought vecessury to be brought fu yes- tenlay were the following: ‘The clection of Stepbens and the defeat of Barrett were of course bt about by the geveral result, but the udvantage of 1wors than a thousand votes which Stepheus and the otber candidates bad over Barrett in what 7o culled the Irish wurds sppears to be due to the elfurts of Alexunder Sulhivau, a young man who was tricd for ourder, and who lald up o rudye sgatnst Barecty ut the thwe, Ho wasun- erstoud to bo the orgauzer of the cawpulin, aud was bucked up by aa oreanlzation kuown 83 the Clan-na-Gael Boclety, As carly os § o'clock on - clection woring the party were around Thoruton's plees wultvg for the I3 these eplits with Barrott off were sent out and worked for by the Sullivan party. ANOTIER MATIRR OF TICKRTY swhich was witely commented on by Repablican voiers was that exact fae-afmiles of the very pe- culinr Republican ticket were sent. ont, withJ. Charles Eaines” name fnstead of Knickerhock- er's. It is hardly possibly that thero could have been. n counterfeit printed else- whero than o the Jowrnal fob oftice, “capecially as thye cut at the head” of the regular tickets wos nur poscd to bo (or perhans known to be) in Mr. Jel urf'u hands, It was commented yesterda) that It was not exactly in the way of “fair deal- duge for the printers of tho regular ticket to uso any of its distinguishing marks n the mannfac- ture of splits. It does not appesr, howeser, that thie scheme profited Halnes much, tf ft :\lml, perhiaps more wotldd have been heard about Some of the Democrats wore busy yesterday In neensing Dave Thornton of having sold them ont, It is not stated why they think so, except, nerhaps, thut Dave gave up the tight early, and went back to his business, There was conskderable uneasincss felt yester- day mmong gome Republicans about tho BTOLEN BALLOT-HOX FIOM GRAND CROSSING sblslrlct 4, of [lyde Park), and 1L was asserted It sald box would some day turn u[: with enough votes for Guenther in It to elect him— of, ruther, to semd Wlieelor to the courts Lo wait n year or two while the Rime kept Guenther In pozresalon, The reporta receivod in’ the city gave Wiheeler U7 mnjority In that district, Without this iy malority would be 10, TI, therefore, the box should show up at the critl- cal moment with about 175 for Gucnther ond a few over 0 for Wheeler, there would be a fuss, By the way, [sn't it rather strango that Grand Crossing, which could ouly turn out 150 votes when there was so much excitement In the Prestdentinl contest, could nrcnr Inter, fn the face of o nutformly small poll, Increase its voto to %11 The settlement must be prospering. It scems from latest advices that Mr. Brayton, of the Republican Campalgn Conmmitied, was one of the Sub-Committee who called on the Democrats to advise obont folsting the State- louse steal on the people by leaving off lina © Agalnst.” Mr. Drayton fs the zentleman to whom n reporter went” the uvcnln;i: before clee- tlon usking ubout the matter. At that time Mr, Hrayton denled polut-blank that ho ever kuew, thought, or had “ever heard, avout the matter. 1 Mr. Brayton was of the Conferencs Commits tee, and knew ull about the matter, ond if he cousldered the businessan honurabls and honest one, why did he deem it necessury to tib about ft. to the publict KEHOE DID 1T, To the Editor of The Tribune. Citrcago, Nov, B.—~The clarge azalnst tho Democratle Exceutive Camnpalien Committee of Cook County nppearing In your fssue of the Tth inst, Is wholly untrue. Tho facts are these: QOur Commlttee considered the question of the State-House nporopriation fully, and decided to print the tickets both “for” and “agaiust.” The ticket was clectratyped fu that way, and those for country towns printed and clreulated. Friday last overtures were mude by the Repub- ltean Campaige Committee to have all tickets unifori, as to the State-House npprocrlullun, and {L wus unaniimously voted by our Commit- tee nelther to change the tickets as ordered, nor to inform the Rupublicans how our tlekety were prepared. Mr. Shutt, of Spriogfield (sukl to be u Kepublican Benator), Interviewed seyeral members of our Cummittes other than the undersigned separately; but, thouch sonme one of us was constantly at- the commitice-roums Friday, Sature day, and Monday, no other action or voie was nsked or taken by our Committee on that !Ill!{uuk, nor digd the Committee vote for or authorize any change to be made in the ticket, Lato Monday eveniug, after all vur clty tickots were printed, sorted, uud ready for distributlon, our Chairman, Mr. Knuuu, stated that the ticl cts had been changed by dropping the words “agalnst the nlmrcprlnuon.“nnd that 8200 had Leen pold to the Republican and Democratic Committees for the expenses of thechange. It was then too late toreetliy this hich-handed action, and wo could only protest and submlit to the luevitable, and use our endeavors to defeat the appropriation at the polls, which weare happy to suy was accomplishied. Our Cominit- teo was o uiit agafust this incasurc uutil after the tickets bad been ordered, 'The vreckse timo when our Chairman experienced this change of beart und the actual _preuments used ore alike unknown to us, We hope you will permit o showiug In your columns, by those who know, just how much monoy was actuall pald, nud to whom on each cotnmittee, for thi nefurlous work; also, why thoso confercuces with Senator Shutt were seeret and uway from the committee-room, so that those lkely to up- pose the chauge were unable to do so. ~Wo de- mand a full and vmurch(nfi Iuvestigation, that “uo pullty wman escape.” Respoctfully, ALLAN C, STuny, 1), 8, Luvesor, Fraxcis A, HOPPMAN, DAVID HALLANIN, Peren ANy, Mombers of the Democratic Exccutiva Campaign Committeo of Caok County, TUB LIEUTENANT-GOVENNOR LIRS + ILAINS, v To the Editor of The Tribune. Cincago, Noy. 8.—You moke a quotation frou tho Times, iu whichny nanc {s mentloned In councetion with the one-slded method in which the State-llouss appropriation ballots were printed for this county. Ido not desiro to stand uuder tho unjust imputation thus made. 1bad nothing whatever to say or do fu connection with the printing of sald ballots, While fuvorlug tho appropriation for tho com- pletion of the State-House, for tho one and only reagon that Lam satisficd that the necessary work remalning to be doue on that great public edifice could bu dons much _cheaper now than ever hereafter, yet Icould net bo s party to any proposition or mothod by whichuny purtion uf the citizens of the Stato would be deprived of its right, privilege. or facllity of iving due expressionto thelr sentiments’ on so vital o question of publie expenditure. Respectfully yours, ANDRBW BHUMAN, AND EX- NOT GUILTY. Ta the Lditor of The Tribuns, Erx Grove, Iil,, Nov. 7.—I notleo in to-day’s fssuc of your paper o charge that the Reoub- lcan Exccutive Commitiee sold out to s man from Springfleld for the amall sum of $200 to vriut the ticket *for State-llouse approprine tion" fnstead of “for” aud “agalnst." As fur as T am personally concerned, I did not meet with the Cowmittee at the time final action was taken on the city tckets, but talked with sotito of the Commitice about the matter, who cuncurred with mo that ¥ for”, and “u;:n{mt" should be put on, so votens could take their chofee, And the tickets for the vounty towns wers 80 printed, and every voter whuy voted in our town availed bhnsclf "of the privilege of voung agalust, 08 you ¢an n-ndui e by the re- turus, Yours truly, » 3. ALLEN. . - R — = Exportation of Southi-Awmericau Horses to Europe, in o pamphlet recently published in Paris some futeresting detatls aro given of the expor tatlon of horses from the countries ndjucent o the River Plate, or lio de Plats, At the ont- breaks of the Indlan mullnfl. 2,000 horses were urchused Ly the English Uovernnent on the hanks of the Plate, and shipped for Indla in the barbor of Tusenada, In March, 1574, & number of horscs were conveyed by steawer from Lhe Plate to London, whery they were sold at un’ average price of $148 cach, "One particular pair of gruy horses realized 3358, und a few wonths afterward were resold for $716. In August of the same year furty horses were shipped fu Buenos Ayres tor Marweillcs, but only sold on arrival ut un averaye prico of $sv'cach, In June, 1876, twenty-eight horses were landed fo Ilavre Irowm Buenos Ayres, and of these twenty-six wero at once bouglt for the remount cavalry depot at Bee-lellunlu, fu UOctober of the sama year cighty-one more horses were dlsembarked §n Frauce, und of these, agaln, sizty-threc were at onve purchased by the remounut commlission, ‘This year ninety-six horses have been already taken to - France frum the Plate, sud the greater number of these have passed futo the hauds of the French Governs went, The total number of horees I the cou trles bordering the Plate bs cstimated ab 5,000, U, and the average prico of a horse is stuted to be about &i. In France, ou the otber buud, the total uumber of horse given us 8,312, ol the wverage value ot 65 1t way, th fore, be anticipated that the latter country will ethil furtbier develop the importation of horses for military purposes from the banks of the Plate. Of the quality of these horses thie writer of the pawpblet we yuote from speuks In bigh terws, and he believes that with proper treat- tacot they may be retsined it fur service for twenty-tive yeurs, = Queor Refuge of un Kscaped Prisoner, Lutchfield (Conn.) Enquirer, Olticer Bisketuin iriatid Ciafics Lockwood, an cacaped prisouer, {o Sbaron, under curious clreumstances, receutly, Tho fellow was fu joil bere expecting soon to be discharged, when ho Luok the opportunity to cecape. r. Blakewan lm‘:d L to o bo use occupied by a alrs. No- few miles tbis side o Sharon, On eoter- ¢ was Lold there was po such insn tbere. wede a thorough search, howeyer, und while Xawiuiug the collar Lappened to Dotico the Up 1 L2 one of the cellar walls: whereapon he s, to resurrect Mr, Chinries Lorkwond, why, {' found aliso and iwell, carefully covrial iy g der few Inclies of earth, with only rnaig: his face exposed to mimit of 11 Leogin Blakeman was standing dire when he discovered the tel Ile {s now safe fu Jal. The ine might succeed In the case of a tem Dt there are persons in this world, Litehfietd Connty, so constricted t] the hose tlluminates a pretty larg il makes that style of concealment out of th questlon, 8 MORTON AS A ILUMORIST, Why tho Grent Indlaninn Eschowed Wit gy Tis Speoches—His Enrly Kaceras ng o Ifamorous Bpenker—An Indianapols Ay ence Dissppolinted—Anceilote of Tom Con win=Sonntor Morton's Lato Suppers, Speetal Correrpondence of The Tritains, Corustnus, O, Nov. 7%.—The great Indany Sonator fs dead and hurled. The panceyriy have been sald, the obituarics written, and the statesman who first comprehended the maznj. tude of the Rebeillon, and whilo the couuly af the nation studicd, and even the great Lincoly hiesitated as to the proper measure to purae, who, even hefore the proclamation for 7.‘.‘0;1 men was made, sent on the offer of eight. ook ments from Indlana to flight during the War, has gone foto history. It now s fn order, therefore, to gather up the scraps of persong Incldents and tralts of charactor and recorg them for the uso of the future historian, It was my very zood fortane somo thne sing tospend a few dagys in company with au ineiyy. gent gentleman who has nlways lived 1y e central partof this State, and who was cdueateq ot Oxford Univarsity, where Scnator Mortog studled for two yeara, This gontleman way great admirer of the Senator, both nan Triend and a statesman, and never tired of talking about him, Of the many thiugs which he perhaps there 18 nothiog which has not lieq made vublie exceot that during bis sehot dagy and for a period subscquent theroto the sedaty Bcnator, who scarcely ever eracked a joke fg his later life, gained quite a reputation asa wp, The gentleman discoursed about na follows: *You would ardly suppose that Morton poe sessed the clements of wit, would yon! Well, &lry T carnestly bellove that if e had turned iy mind that way he could lave surpasesd tho vast majority of those Who profes somicthing fn that line, and probably Lare equnled the very best. 1'well remeriber bian ing him read scveral very humorous produe tions at our littls soclety cotertalnments, ang when he was assigued the preparation of s rey) ular soclety paoer, he always kept his audicnce convulsed “with laugh ‘Tho hest part of ft was the conplete nonchalance with which by did ttall. Jlo never scemed ta know that he had said n amart thing, aud while he delivere] it his face wore tho same sober aspect that way its wont while propoundiug the most soild BCNBC, # Upon leaving college he carrled the taculiy with hin, to n greater or less extont, into the practice of his profession. ITo wus rurceastut ag ridieule. Finally hie went lute politics, and after awhile ho made n spcech, at Terre Hane, T'think 1t was, which was irresistibly funny fram beginning toend, ‘The qu ple were almost fu- sune with delicht over It. They Inughed uptil Inughing becama o burden, and'suill sally after sally of wit continued to cone, and strokes of ridieule were delivered with such unerring pn- cislon, stralight from the shoulder to thejr AT, that it waa really consldered one of the et things of the kind they ever listened to. Fal. Ittes for roporting speechies were not very goul theni but such account of it as could bo patl. cred was pablished in the papera lu-the viehily, aod copled, as I remember it, In every direction over the Btate and futo the papers of othg States. From this, fnvitations to speak pourul i upon hlin from every direction. Men who Lud never scon hilm or hicard of him befure wurg anxious to hear Llm, ami connnitiees from strauge portions of the State sent hlin urzent fuvitations, Isaw him right at this criste, and he really professed to lie i trouble. 0 Thls 18 somethiog of a hit T have mady thus far,’ ho sald to me, ‘it 1 do not permit it tobe my ruln, 1 feel tho danger, and [ am polug to strugglo against it. All these mita 11008 buve poured fu on account of the speech the other night s they ull expeet somethiig wit- ty. Now, the questfon in my mind fs, wicther Lhayo the mora! stamina to disappoint them,! 41 certaluly ree no reason why you shonld, sald 1, really quite proud of my iriend's ability, 44 Well, nlr: then 1will proceed to tell you,! sald Oltver. *There have been many young men just startiog who have wreckedthemselver, Bo far us reputation fs uuncunu.-d', slmply from gafhing the name of being wikty. ' “How ls thati' said I, Intercsted, ‘Tte cnslest thing In the world,! he replied. - fOuly tho greatest punsters live to any age, and they aro gencrally cast aslde after afew months of amusement, likon child’s old doll, and never cume out again only on stale oceaslons for a display on account “of what has been. A pal- Itldan who goes into wit ns o reculur thing must oxpect to sacrilee everything else to it He will gealn 1o reputation os o sound man, e will never get very bigh i bouors, Peoplewill say that he'ls a good **stumper,” but his ju ment will bo a thing of susplcion. PPeople will dislike to truat It. They will not deem the author of witty sayings capable of originativg Jurge, solhd mensures, Tu this way It §s a0 ereat rlsk that one runs ln yiclding to the popular de wand to bo butorous. . *‘This was an cntlrely new dea to me, Not being troubled In tho least degree with humor on my own part, I had thuueht no further than that the popular applause called forth by it wis of the most permanent and best quality. Hea Ing it put du this light, I wdvised Oliver that, It ho thouzht Le could deliver an acceptshle snecch atter the wsual mode, perhiaps he hat better try that way, But I must contess that I -‘llnl su With much "hesliancy and mauy forebule n F"\Vcll. he had nm‘cs(ul the invitation wakh had come up from Iudisnapolts to speal In that city, A crowded hall greeted his appearatie, the nudicuce belng ready primed and oty walt ing for the tirst tiuder spark of wit to convul: all present with laughiter, “The speaker took the stand and spoke fer two hours, uever once giving utterance 108 joke, u puu, ur searcely a fancy skef Itwa simply o plafy, conclusive, convindng argi- wment, *4J thought he was witty, sald one disap pointed Hoosleras ho J=ft the hall. § 44 A d—d rood speoch, clear and convinelng.! said another, ¢But I didwt seo whers the wib cmno ! *Of courso.the audicnco concluded there must have been some mnistake soawewhere, bu the matehless power of the oratory, the win sowmne persuasivencss of the argument, made up for it to u lurgze vxtent, and thus the life of tie great man whom I elaly as one of my oldest und best frieuds began," . ‘I'sus the pentloman would talk, and I en- couraged hin in it, for I always delighted in Mstening to well-outhentieated reminiscences of great men, speaking of this subject of wit fu the poli- ticlun, and the effect which it has upon the public mind, I am reminded of what Gen. G- field tells concerniug the late llou. Thomas Corwin: e says that In the latter portion of bis lifc Curwiu greatly regretted that he ever puraued the course he did Tn bis political hfe. 1o said that it hud been tho means of retarding kis course. o obtalied the reputation of buivgs wit, aod the people, while they wmliht be pleased to hear hitn speak, alwoys expecte witticisias, never wanted to hear wizy thiv; and, if they did, were disappointed. pass for o clown, who {8 good to wintse, but when u great micasure b to be conshlered, 8 suber-minded stutesiuan must bo cousulted Tho Grucrsl sald b was truly pitltul to Lear the great man talk, and to Wi uess the deep regret which he expe rienced in the wattery that the opioion wa wholly unfounded that beeause Corwin was 8 hyworist be was not at thy same time capatl ol tho must careful cunsideration of subjects of the most diftienlt nature, Corwin by bis cul; leagues and compantons was coushlered & great stalvsman, oud the spparent injustics Wbl K“ l:llum.- bim by the people was decply rescit y i, Postwaster-General 'l'yger. who was very inth mate with Benator Morton, s autborlty for the statement thut the latter’s life was very [ aliorteued lv(.lhhllludll of living. Siuce he lust 1h¢ use of hls lmbs of course by was unible 10 Luke Lhe exercise which is necessary for healt hi but his uppetite and eeneral faculties pemamne uniwpaircd. Ho was slways g ditigent stucenly studying uotll far fnto the night. For several - years of tho latter 1" tion of nis life he was almoot constanl lyiu the habit of partaking of a hessty unful; supper just-before retiviug. Atter workiug until 12'or | o'clock bo would order Ifll rezt lar weal, and when it cane would vartuke beart iy of 12, When the dauger of this courne Mli poluted out to bim be would say, *Ob, welh way as well ono way as auotlicr,” of make sutng Lizht remark, aud vontinue the practi ¢ Wheu it fs rewenbered that he was Y f;? means on old way, sud that by was of nnl\:\ physlque and apparently made to endure utol bardshlp, the statement really bas muh l.\; appearance of truth, 'The giant frame whic required ‘miuch food stimulus wes gives 10 suuch,sud broke down Guiu Lis dyerload ; e th