Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, April 29, 1878, Page 7

TIIE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: MONDAY, APRIL 29, 1878 CUSTER'S OLD T08 A Running Sketch of Men and Things About Fort Abra- ham Lincoln. Pon-Pictare of '‘Comanche,” the Only Living Burvivor of the Custer Hassacra, A Cnster Sabre Usedt by a Postmaster for 8 Stove-Poker«--Cusler's Theatre and House. d Ladies and Officers of the l’fl‘:—d&en. l&hamnn'a Miss Dean —~An Anacdote or Two. The ‘A Would-be Assassin of Louls Napoleon an Officer in tfis Seventh Cavalry ---The Plot. A Dead Order of Abraham Lincoln's fasusnce---His Idea of Sun. day Work in the Army. fpectal Correspondence of The Tribune, Brsstanck, D. Toy April 25.— Comanche," {he ooly llving survivor of the Custer massacre, {38 horze, as the recent order from ten, Sturgls, published in T Trisunz, bore pleasant wit- pess. 1e f8 bound to he o notable animal, 1lis serrice entitles him to all the recoguition hehas recelved, aud a great deal more, Your corre- spondent hiad a1 interviow with Camanche the otherday, It was held in company with Gen. £ D. Bturgls, Commandant of Fort A, Lincoln. Comanche was summoned before tho headquar- ters of the Scveulh Cavalry, and the usual questions of the interviewer putto him. Mo acknowledged tho futerviewer's speech with o toss of his head, a stamp of his foot, and a * fourish of his beautiful tail, [le{s as old as tke regiment, and older, but e can't talk. ills proud keeper, however, tvas standing by hishead, and, with soldicrly courtesy, savod Comanchc’s reputation. Tl answorod that Cowmanche was & veteran, 21 years of age, and had heen with the Beventh Cuvalry stice its organization j0'60. Thera wasonly one horse in the reg- [ment as old In the scrvice, ntid hone 10w o bighly estcemed. Binco tien. Sturgls’ order {here was 8 general revival of fnterest in himn throughiont the garrison. It was suddenly real- {zed that thero was o hero amon them, 1B CARRIES BEVEN SUARS, from as many bullet-wonnds, ‘There are four back of the foreshouklers, ons through a hoof, and_one on clther bind leg. In the Custer bat- tie-fietd three of the balls werc extracted from his body, and the last one not taken ont until Aptll, 7. 1lo was found by Serireant DeLucy {0 s ravine where he had crawled, thero to die and feed the crows. e was ralsed up and ten- derly eared for, His wounds were serious, but not ecesenrily fatal, If properly looked aftor. Capt. Keogh's leg was broken by onc of the balls that entered tho slde of his gallant war- borse, Comanche s mot a great horse, physically talklug; Le Is of mediumn slze, neatly put up, but quito noble- looking. “He I8 very gentle. Ilis color is “claybank.’” Jle would mako a hand- some carriage horse. Tho scrvice ho has seen roves him an anfmal of alimost cverlasting on- urance. John Rivers, of Company 1 (Keozh's old troop), will cunscicntiously ubserve that he fsnever required to endure any more work, 0ld age will be the only thingz he will have toconquer. His stall will be the cleancst and warmest [n the fort, and his forage thoe best the srmy affords, Houceforth Comanche will be the pet of tho Northwestern wing of our army, A OERERAL VIEW. While ostenslbly visiting Lincoln to meet Comanche, your correapondent took n general survey of the post. There was little that sinelt of guupowier or scalps, and there was leas that scemed to favor Banning's bill, There was com- fort apparcul 1o the quarters of both officers sud men, but nothing cxtravagaut in tho np- voiotments. Gen, Bturgls oceuples the two- ury frame bouse that was so well known as Cusler's home. It s avery comfortable resl- deuce, mnd, without beinga mansion, It s no- Lody! hock.!? Mra, Sturcle, Miss Ellu Stur- Els, Miss Boyle, of Waahington, cumprise 1he famlly, with the General as the head. A recent theatrical performance hrouglht out Miss Bturgis as an amateur performer of excellent falent, Miss Boyle also played a creditable rm Thetheatre wus a foature of Custer's me, There wus a lonz bulldfug with severn! hundred seats, sud a company of very rood players. ‘The theatro 18 uow lilled withi tGunr- \ermaster's stores, and tho shadow of Shuk- seare [s vanlshing, tligher up the slopo on which the cavalry barracks aru erccted, o now tfiflvclhbulldhlf(. The **otrcuit rider ™ might we a moral revolution In the fall of tho theatro and the rise ot the house of Uod, CUSTER'S SWOLD AS A BTOVE-POKER, In the Post-Oflles at Lincoln is o stove-poker that will be stolun one of these flne duys, Lt is scaralry sabra that belonged to Custer. It 103kes u‘nrknl pwker, und has 3 double value fathenind of the Postmaster. He has had frequent offera for the poker by relie-huntera, Lugic declines every time, He won't go back on Custer, Wuat 13 called the * Custer clement” of the Beveuth Cavalty hus nearly nll disappeared, e only officer now recoguized 8 ono of the Cuater group Is Capt, Moytan, Hic wife fs a suter of Capt, Culhioun, the finest-looking of- ig:fii;hculd Seveoth, and ong swho fell near OEN, SUZRMAN'S PRIBND, Mid3 DEAN, Apost bus ts gossiv and ‘its cliques, it lebritlos aud its nobodics, its suldicrs aud its shamg, 1ts genuine peoplo and s pompous up- ll_xm‘ To talk intelllzently of any or all would Tequire 8 gpecial knowledgro that 18 not at hand st uow, Awmanis tho Indies of Lineol is Misa hun. gfimc.!lbur of Maj. Tilord's pleasany f’m‘ She 18 o Boutlieris lady, u alster-lu-law :h Maj, Jllford, and the Miss Elies Dean of erain's Memoirs. Iu May, 1861, not yet ap- I‘m nted to tha Coloneley of the Thirtecnth l}’txullr Intantry, W, T, Sherman went up to “c ralroag-oflice n Bremen, St. Louts, asusual, e ard nl.’ every corner of the streets that s uteh ! wera moving on Camp Jackson, o '1:1 an, Ingtead of goiniz out to sew *thefuy,’ m:nu“ howe, walifue up aud dowu the pave- o o front of his Louse, lstentn lor the sound ' ‘nllukzur In the direction of Cuinp Juckson. m;: 40 dolng, Miss Eftza Dean, herelnbefors oy uumliunllud Teeumseh across the strect, o wid i that ber brother-in-law, Dr Scott, Toieretdrzeon fin Geu, Frost's camu, then i the mrgu O the Bouthorn cause, but nuimtually u m‘_tmnp.lucnmd Just out of town i Linlell's i kl.ii Buv wasdreadfully asral that he would that ed. Bhcrman reasoued with hery saylng GEN, LYON, :l:“c&mmnml of the United Bintes troops, was o o ar-army oflicer, and that, if he hud gune wm:)"' rted, bo would tuko with him a force 'w“cnl to maky resistauce finposaible. Buo oo Hot by comforted. ‘I'ne State cainp was up fll‘l; '?ufx Imeu {u;:n the trsy nnlnl » Louls, und they were proud, ;VM“Ioum tght, Bherman repiied :n!\z thy Aok men of the best famfiles Jldn’l. likko to by e a0y better thun unlnmrr pevnle. Sher- e rueu up the street, and in a few minutes Whe Juan reuning at full speed, crying out, T 'u{ ve surrendered! They've surrendercd 1 el u'm back and raug Mids Dean's door-bell, pt ‘;»munuul the news ho brougbt she an- "“I‘l“nznmeu the door in lie tace. Shermun Hind Yidently she was disappotuted to tind iy istaken fu Ler eatbmate of the rash mb_hot the beat familics.” Last summer et b)munn visited Maf, Tilford's aud s, s Dean ugain, It was under muldn!{m‘:‘ clrcumstances, but the Geueral Iefraln - from getting cue in_on oL He was discussing a law that ooty ome {nterest Lo the wilitary prese Lo tripped up on the dateof fts pussage, "mc;‘lun Passeil gway buclk i 'Ud or '8} you mumuvu" It well, Ml Deanl” Miss Dean eral ik stam the doar i the face of the Gen- doub yps but there W hardly any 10at oy at_2he “possessed the spurit about erteen, lllk thu 1s & well-lnformed lady, and 13 Uona) pogciouut the ‘unnhuu for ber conversa- uw‘mluurcu 20d for her chojce welections of Gon ulluu.nv. She L a lady of ths old school. the wite l;bqnhuumu:rn this post. e I8 Eevenee b First-Licut. James Humbert, ot the eenth Iutuntry, Are, Col, H. E. A. the u\g‘u‘h.' lufavtry barracks, (s o daughter T ulhum. family, of wumnflzmu, Del,y DuPogy, ™ e carrage and breeding of the possrr anouT TUX OFFICEUS. m‘:&’.‘pf‘"z usbout the ofileérs uf Lincolu, a smm'fimfkvu that Gew. Sturgls cutered the Le ba gepe 22008 101346, 1t wue evident that 102 hg \A'Jm bls country loug euouzh. Notiee are gy fduteut, Licut.” B. A, Guoton, we ; !m.bu 13 u son of au ex-Kebel Major- ol Georgla, Lut none tbe Jess compe- Muy. Lewts Mersill, o South lsine, Is 8 twember of the sud s resdest of Livooi, ¢ was the netive agent in putlinz & quictus upon the 8wamp-Angels. It he was voted any money by the Moses Loglsiature, there 18 no evldence of Jt now in Ll<” manner of Uving or his fnvestments herenhouts. Il Is known in thn fort s a mechanlcal genius, and s lover of nusie and law, Maj. J. €1, Tilford entered the nriny in 1861, and at this late day has been called upon to answer charges from headquartera in 8t. Paul, alleging that he bas made public official dis- putehes tn telegraphic transit. Cupt. Thomas il. Freneh, the man who fought Tike a devil with Keno, and {s no more afrald of o * Henry " than a potato-gun, ross from the tanks. French s a Marylander. LIBUT, €. ¢, DE RUDIO {s an [taltan, and one of the Orsinf conspirators to nsnseiuate fonls Napoleon. ‘The plot falled, and Do o nearly lost his head. It was lying on the block when his pardon reached lim, ing the Orsini plot, Chambera® Encyelope. s: *Townrds “the cod of 57 Oraini re- mired to Parfs with the lntention of assassi- nating Louis Napoleon, whom he reckoned the great obstacle to the progress of revolution in Haly. s assoclates in this_diabolical desien were perrons hamed Plerd, De Rudio,and (Gomez. Providing thenselves with bombs, they took up ekt statfan i n iouse cluse. by the Uncea. sl on the evening of the 14th of January, '8, Lust na the caeringze contalning the Emperor and Em+ press were drawing ap, they threw three of the dendly missiles under tho ‘carrisge. An explo- sion took place and several people were wound- cl, one or two mortally, but their Majestica re- mnined unhurt, The ‘nssassing were “arrested, tried, and sentenced; Orsint, Pler, and De Rudio to capital punishinent, Gomez to bard tabwr for life, Deltudio's life was spared at the interceacion ot the Empress, hut Pler] and Orsinl were ehieaded.” De Rudio 18 calied n Count. His wife Is an English lady. Hehasa boy named Herenles, and two tiels, lloma ond Italla. It s a bright family thronghont. Do Ludio cotered the Amerlean army in '64 a8 a Becond Licutenaut i a colored regtment, OTIER OPFICENS Capt. A, 1 Baker, Quattermaster, s n son of the oreat Senator whio fell at Ball's Slufl. More of hilm hereafter, Licut, Nicholson fa the son of tho naval oflicer of that name. llo 18 one of James Gordon Bennett's fricuds. He i8 an ath- lete and a popular ofileer. Licut, A, Il Nave 1s une of the most popular of the popular, The citizens ltke hhn.” Ilo buys real estate, aml rides tho tinest horse In tho recinent. [ls charger {8 a Kentucky thoroughbred, and can Eive filvaullnkum blizzard o hard race. Mal. “ack . Corland, of the Sixth lnmutre' is an old Michizan volunteer oflicer of the War for the Unlon. e s noted for his legal lore and hisloyalty to Custer. Whittaker, tho author of the **Life of Custer,"” ucknowledged the great assistance received from Corland In preparing that book. Corland cane very near golng down with the man lic so miteh sdmired. “The night hatore Custer left ‘Terry with those gencral fu. structions about runming Sittlng Bull down, Corland had » warm talk with Custer, ending with Corland’s declaration that he would rather dle with eome men than o live with others, Custer pressed his hand and sald: # Mnjor, 2o to Gen. ‘Terry on board the Far West, present him my compliments, and say that I wish you to accompuny mo to-morrow.” It was a personal request, but, hupplly for Cor- land, Gen, Terry replied that his presenco on board the steanier was necessary. He couldn’t spare htm. A MAN OF EXVENIENCE, The man of Lincoln with thy exverience is F, F. Girard, the interpreter, o hns been thirty years beyond Bismarck, and In that time bas peen more roughiug it than the majority of mankind ever dreamed. 1o fought and traded with Indiuns for twenty years; we might truth- fully say for thirty, Ile’ls aboutover withboth now. At old Fort Berthold he traded for two years without ever turning his back upon customer. He knows Sittmg Bull, saved his 1ite once, was with Reno in the Custer fight, and passed as near Death’s dour os was possible and not full fn. Girard eame lnto the Far Weat- be- fore Yellowstone Kelley was born, 'Thers {8 no scout, froutferaman, or trader hereabouts that can offer such a varlety of personal his- tory. Girard Is now a qulet, well-to-do eardeoer and cattle-rutscr. Hesupplies the post with vegetubles, mitk, butter, egpes, and chick- cns, and tho market with fresh beof, He also owns the clalin, 100 acres, on which the town west of theriver on the Northern Pacifle Rail- road will have to be located. THE THADEIL'S DONANZA. Tho sutler of a pust {s always an Interesting cliaracter to the ariny boys, ‘Lhe first trader at Lincoln was 8, 8. Dickey, a brother of the llon, Dickuy, the successor In Conigress of Thag Btevens, from the Ninth Peansyivania District, Robert Wilson and Jack Morrow, of Nebraska, were his partners and capltalists. Tho profits of the trader's store the firat year—1873—wero 830,000, Dickey was crowded out and a Quer- termaster’s clerk, . C. Seip, was appointed trader, The Helkvap influence ratsed Selp ux for the beuefit of Jurdan, of Keokuk, Ia. crooked grain transaction wrought Seip's down- fall, and_ Custer’s enmlty to Belknap elected Capt. Wiltam Harmon irader. Harmon had Deen a trader at Rico and a Captaln ju the regru- lar army. 1le {snow the truder, and fs con- sidered “solid " with the nilitury, The prolits of the storg are not big now. It ‘comes in com- petition with Blemarck, and must cut it mar. grins accordingly. Many of the offleers order from Bismarck TIHH ARMY AND INDIAN MOVEMENTS, 'The six cumpanies of the Sevent Cuvalry lo- eated at Lincoln are not expecting any very lively serviee this summer. ‘They tizure ou a littlo feld duty towards the Black Hills, and robably some alonz the lue of the Northern acille extenslon, ‘There Is little excitement Just now In couscquence of the high water fu the Mlssourl aud oll {ts tributarics. Thy gtreams urg not only hard to ford, but the ronds ore heavy. Bosides, the pross Is just growing green, and without grass there is'no chanee ot un Indian vislitation. With good grass on the rairtus and the creeks fordable, thy hostlie will tuotn like u big sun-flower, Lt {8 now botween hay and gross. When the latter Is well up, tho country may expeet anything and everytuiug ju the way of Tudlan news. Tho bloodlest cam- palizn ou record is contingent upon the bumor of oty old mediclue-man. If Sitting Bull coun- scls business, or yiclds to the alvico of his young men, there {8 no telting the lssue. The recent report publisbed from Sheridun'a heud- qunrters, that the Nea Perces wero very slck of thely assoclation with Sitting Bull,camethrough Curls (Hison, of Bismarck, — Gilson's reliabilivy can only be matched by “Gath's.” Bismarck people lauch ut the lden of hid getting nny truthful information. Without chursetenimng him as o bud man, we can say he 18 s nearly ir- ponalble 03 4 scout can got. It is u question whether all thess yarns sbout Bittlng Buli's poverty, unhappmess, and dissatisfaction are not *cock atd bull " storles, lnveuted by the Indians to keep tho army in camp untf Xw " Biuug contuderacy 18 rwl{ to declare war, Indian's truo lnwunilncss Is as unfuthowable as Beceher's, g AN OILDER OF LINCOLN' VIOLATRD, Quo thing is notiveablu at Lincoln—that s, a violation of n fumous order fssued in Novem- ber, 1563, The same {8 true of the whole army. Lincoln 18 no exception,. Sunday s a duy of juspection and parade. 3t ks the lardest doy of tho week, The custum provalent * steals so miieh from the soldier und God Almighty,” {n the langiage of un indignaut protestant, (e 18 n generul order from Abraham Lincoln to the contrary, It reads after the followlmy fashion: “Puo President, Cummaunderdn-Chlet of tho Army und Navy, desires und enjolus the orderly ohseryvanes of e Babbath by ‘the otlicers oud 1nen in the milltary aud naval service, The im- portaneo for man pud beast of the prescribed weekly rest, thu sacred rights of Christian sols diers wind sallurs, a beconnng delorences to the best sentiment ol a Cluistian people, and a due rezard for the Diviue will, demana thut Bunday Labur [ the army and nuvy Lu reduved to the wneusure of atriel necensity.” Tho dlsclpling and characterof tho natwnal” forces should not sul- fer nor_ the cunge they defend be fuperiled by tho profanation ot the day or nanie ot the Moy Hizh Thatadmirable order {3 still a law in the arty, but it fs o dead letter. UUTLOOK, e CONGRESSIONAL IN THE GALENA DISTRICT, To the Editor of The Tridune. QaLexa, L, Aprit 27.—In regard to the re- cent action of our Congressman, Mr. Burchard, on the reduction of the tax on Southeru tobac- cv, und the refmpusition of the udivus lucome taxou the North, thero 8 wuch excitenent smoug his Republicap constituents in this part of bla district. ‘The loyal wen who bave voted for bim for tive succesalve terms aro at aJusa to uccount for bis joluing the ** Cunfederate Briga- dicre® In fmposing au unjust and distasteful tux upou tho thrify aud sndustry of Jlinols, to gratify the disloyal seutiments of the Bouth anit. PA)' Rebel claling, A loud call wallega up to uve Mr. B. resign his scat, fn order that tho Republicans may elect sume tnan from this “banner Republican dstrice! who will truly represent thelr sentiments, and not outrage thelr convictious, Mr. Burcuard bas gained g factitious tmpor- tance Iu Congress by havivg mnn placed upon the Cotmmitiee of Wuys und Means. e was i\l.\um there fo the firse fustance by Mr, Bpeaker H1alue, us 8 sort of & compromlss member, who budt no tixed potious on finuuclyl avd revenue questions, Clrcumstauces have led to a contla- uguce Ju this vosition, until he bas abused it In the wost shuwelul mavner to the prejudice of his party aud hts countitusnts; snd now bo has cut louss from the Rupublicans of the district undd the country ou this vitul guestion of au in- eowe-taf. As un bonorable wap, he cau do vo Jens than resszn. There are many able sud true Tepubiliaus i she district who would make weat creditable Represeutatives, who would truly represent the party, and who would not pander to the Rebel and Communistic sentiment of a Congreas which {a bent upon revenging {taclf upon the poople of the North and West. Already there fa much talk as to who shoutd ba his auccessor, for no onu Is rash enough to suppose that ke eould be re-elected, even if 8 packed convention should nominate bim, of Which there is no possibility, Of the candidates principally apoken of, there is the Hun. Jamca hinw, of “Carroll County, Inte Hpeaker of thy House of onr Btate FLegielature, an abla and true man and a sound Repubtican; Ma). It M. A, Hawk, of Carroll Connty, has bee suoken of as a candidate. Therc s also Gen, 15, F. Bhicets, of Ogle County, an intelligentand upright man, and who rerved most creditably in tho War of tho Rebeilion. In Whitesilo County there have been named s candidates Col. Miles 8. Henry, formerly s Btate SBenator, end present Mayor of Bterling: the fon. James Dinsmore: Judge McCoy; and the Hoi E. B. Warner, vresent Commntastoner of Equ: zatioa of this district. Thoy are all good men, and would make acceptanie renreaentatives. It {8 not yet known whether Ju Daviess County will present s candidate or not. I it should do so, there would be but_ono man thought of: it Is the Hon. R. th McClellan, our present State Beuslor, who, in the fast Legistature, distinguished himsolf as one of the sblest and most useful members of the Heisa very able lawyer, amid a gen- tlon, enjoylng the unbounded confidence of » classes of the cumm\mlt{. There may be other entloinen not named; but, as there §s to be an nevitable change, it is of publle intcrest to canvass tho merits and qualiications of tha prubable successor of our uresent apostate Con- gressinan. A REPUBLICAN. CRONKRIT! A Disgnated Demacrat's Critleiam of the Late Democratic Ntate Convention, Its Platforn, and Ita Candidates, T the Edtor of The Tribune, GALENA, 111, April 27.—We sce that the papers have little to say in reference to the Demacratic Couventlon which asscmnbled at 8pringlicid on the 11th of the month. To those ol us who bave been reared In the Democratie schiool of politics, after reading the resolutions sdovted, aud after lovking over the names of the vandl- dutes nuomluated, this general slicoce 18 nola matter of wonder., That men should be dis- gusted with hypocrisy, empty professions, and ¢ is nnlnm{. 1 "Mr. Uondy, who, we be- 18 ;icncmlly admitied to be the author of the meaulneless echash of sentences dubbed a latfori, cxpects to ride into the United Stutes enate through the instrumentality of such bosh, he Is donmned to disappointment. Bul tha Ilmlnrm. boshy aud meauingless as it Is, Is nfimtely better then the candidates. ‘The fetlow Cronkrite, who is expected to marshall the Iemocratle hosts to victory tnis {ull, ts a nice bird to be placed at the head of a Democeratte ticket. His first essay in politics was iu the Town of Freeport, in the vear 1840, when the honest Democrats of 1ilinots wera making every effort to clect to the Presidenc thelr honored and tdolized leader, the lTamented Dougins, At that time this untaught sud in- signiticant demagogue was dotng all in his power to orwanize the Danites 1n this section, and for years he has nlumed himsell upou the fact that’ his was ono of tlie scventecn votes which Btephenson Cuunty gave for him who waa nnbn»qnumlg' the Rebel Gen. John L. Breckiuridge, C. 8. A. Wo bolieve, that while n mainber of the Leglslature fifteon years nfter Douglas’ death, In order to make himsell solid with the many admirers of the dead statesman, T did vote for th bill appropristing money to ftnish hlsmoounent. Douglas’ romalusdescerved to be honured with a State monument, bud Breekinridge was afitter man for the Prestdency | Four years ago this pink of political consistency, with one or two othiers, organized the Llberal party in this scction, and anpointed themsclves delegzates to the Springficld Convention. He came home and tuok the Democratic nomina- tion for the Leglslature, aud after the election, wlion the Legislature met, by reason ot his ob- scurity, wormed himself into the good gr;r :8 of the Liberals oud hclgml to organize the llouso by the election of Halnes as Speaker, with the dlstinet understandinie that a Democrat was to bo made President of the Scuate, And many of tha loadiug Democrats at Springtleid wilf re- memper this burly, uocouth member from Btepheunson urging “the Liberals to clect A, A, Glenn over the gallant Col. Tom Casey, the Deinocratic nomitee for that position. We should say that tuese things would make the name of Croukrite a tower of strength in Bouthern Iilinols amoug that storling alid Denocracy who, above everything else, admire honesty in polu(u. y 1t the wan had any abllity he mizht ianke amends for his past record, but bis liead 1s us barren of idors os a Bpringiicld bagnlo s of vie- tue. Buch men as Col. B. B, Coulter must feol re« freshed at the treaument of u party which will deliborately ignore and pass over thelr clalms and thelr record, aud take to its embrace the worst embodiment of a political hermaphrodite in tho State, Let the Colonet be comforted, for even the ola hero of two wars could not get o recognition at the hands of this Convention of dead beats and disreputables! 1t tho Republlcan party cannot improva upon this sonscless declara~ liuu of princlples, and place o moro respect able man in every particular ot the head of their ticket, then verlly, Judgwcat, thon art fled to brutish beasts, And men bave lost thelr reacon. A Disoustap DEMOCRAT. ——— - — BURCHARD AND THE INCOME-TAX, To the Editor af The Tribune,, 8rencing, 111, April 27.~A large number of people havo been wondering I the press of the country were to lot the most odious of all taxes ever hinposcd upon any people bo again enacted lnto o law without protest, Your editorfal on the Income-Tux is good, but does not giveall tho objections to sucha tax. Thosc who were revenuo oflicers when tho old income-tax was & law will hear witnews thot the peaple bore uil other taxes fmpozed upon them With a cheerfulness truly commondsble, but the lncome-tax cansed moro“omplalnut than all other kinds put together. It was not the dollara and cents that people objected to so much as it was ths hiquisutortal nature of gotting it, In order to find out who has made $2,000, an Assessor must ba up- olnted, whose duty it is to escertain that fact. xperienca teachies that vou eannot always tell who has an tocome of $3,000 and wha hns not 3 aud, as a result, every mun, whether fu business or nat, must make a returu. Under the old law, Whiteside County had threo asaistant Assessors to do this work in the time aliowed by law, ‘recetving pay at the rate of #4uday., The only way theso Assessors can tell who has an {ncome-tax and who has not {s tu notity st ‘im""' in thelr respectivo divisions to appear and wake returus, 1t By, Burchard could stand and see tho look of contempt and disgust that came over peo- ple‘s fuces when ques wers weked undor outh us to the Incoue from children’s and wife's Jabur, outwoes to hired glrls, doctors, aud o thuusand other equally ‘odious questions that must bs put under such a tax, he would never cast u vote to restors t. 1t Is my honeat conviction that the Income- tax law did more to demorallze the American peoplo than all the laws ever passed by Con- t: 39, Ay peopla regardlng 1L porfecrly egitimate to make o false returns and swear {0 it. [have secn men of unblemfsned reputa- tlon othicrwise swear toa false return without cven o blush, and yet thoae men's word au oath wera zaod n any other transaction, 1 do not guess at it, but I kuow, from an ex- ericnce of efght years with this sud other Boverument taxcs, that the poople of AMr, Burcnard's district wheluing mujority and il hu dues not us 8u at once. He may conclude that it will bss popular move to support this tax uuider tho plea of #taxing the rich,’ but he underestimates the futelifzoncs of his constituency it he expects to b justified by sucha plea. "o wemory of that tax fs nof forgotten, and neullla remeumber that all must submit to the inquisitive Asscasor vfl‘l but does bis duty best whols the most gl Tuo treachery of people's ewory is fearful uuder such a liw, aud there are a3 many ways ol construing ite woudrous detalls as there saust be petty ofllvers to enforce it, aud there is not one wan in a thousand who ever mado an lucomne return that did not elther fguorsutly or willfully commiv perjury. We may concede the justice of the tax, but the wuauner of get- ting ut feis disgusting fn its deiails, frritatin in its application, sud cruelly unjust au demoralizing in results, and teuckies men to desplse & government which uiakes its subjects testify under oath bow much butter each oyw wakes a year, snd bow much is cousumed by the family, aud what it ja worth a pouud, and 80 on through the whole catalugua of_incomes and out goes. . Mauy vl the hitherto friends of Mr. Hurchard bavo besu surprised and {'ulued at his votlng to restoro this odious tax; but, as be has dune of 1ate 5o mauy thivga that are equally unaccouut- uble to fair-winded people, Lis fricuds bave ceased to try to explain for him. Ouve tuing s sury, he docs not kuow public sentineot in his district if be thinks the peopls will support hiw iu bis etforts to restore the fncome tax. OB3savER. ould vute by an oye L restoring this tax, erstand It, he should do ' i i | 1 i enate. tleman of tha higliest ntelligence and cultiva. . MARINE NEWS. The Tax on Vessel Proparty, and Its Effect. Important Heeting of Marine-Insnrance Officers to Be Held at Cleseland. Nautical Mishaps, the Late Tug Acci- dent, and Other Matters, NAUTICAL MISILAPS. ‘The schr Johu Miner arrived In Duffslo Friday minus ber Jibboom, The schr Herbert Dindiey foat her large snchor and had sll her canvan torn In the breeze of Wednesday on Lake Erle, Kinzaton WhAtn: Capt. t1arkin feil down the hatch of the barge Dnlnth, and was considerably hurt. There's 8 kick in the old man jet. Friday morninz the tug Dayvlon, with lighters and chalos, begon operations on the tug Esgle, which is on (e rocks in the Niagars River on the Canadian side, Ina rquall Wednesday off Long Point the schr Maize hat her jibboom broken an)maineal split, and 1ot some of her Jibe, The sche Anglo-Sazon als0 lost so f her »alln, Tne Bullalo Erpress says the eche Ialsted did wet some of her wheat carzo, and it will re- quire $2.600 to repalr her damages, A telegram wans recelved st Milwaukee Friday snnonncinz that the tng Crasader lad released the Leviathan from Guli Island reef ana taken her into Beaver liarbor, where temnorary sepales were being made, Althourh leaking badly, her aame ages arc 1ol as severe as fiest reborted. Sho was expected to arrlve at Milwaukee Saturday. 'l cne Willlam 1. Ogden arrived at” Escanaba Friday, tut, the weather being fosgy, she could nat get in, and #he dropped anchor abont four or five miles ontside, Ske was driven in ciose to rhore, and when tho foy lifted ehe appeared as | #lie was ashoro, The prop E. Il. Hale went to hee Eaturday afternoon, and reporied her safe about a ile from shore, LAKE INSURANC AT CLEVELAND. Kpecfal Pirateh to The Tritune. CrevELAND, O., April 28,—Marino maiters are very duli here, and have been for a week past, When the scason first opened, some weeks eince, things moved off brlekly for a fow daye, ond, there being & number uf cargocs to be sent to the Upper Takes, charters were taken and the vesscls moved off; but that being done there Is new but lttle on hand. Tulais the natural outgrowth of the cx- ceeding forwardncss of the scason. The purt here was open 8 month hefora the Welland Canal, and when o ittie Jocal business was done there waa bat little left. Tho consumers or coal had Jaid Ina snpply to inat til the usual time of open: ing of navization, and prefer to consume the old supply befors beginmng upon the new, The con- sequance of all this is that the shipoets here com- pinin that there Is no roarket, Aud now the men along tha harbor are demoaning the furwardness as much as they rejolced in it & few weeks since. They provhesy that 1f muay havo a bad In- fluence upon the whaie sesson, and are initing withh intcrest to sec whether the summer's trafic will at alt comiprneate for the present duliness, rexuit of the vresent dullness 1s that o st taken for almost any rale, and tis Impossible to got & reportof them, If large taics coula be ohtained no broker would object 1o their publication, as that has o good effect opon trade, but when the rates sro lowand what arc ;:lonfldum\.\ not payinz, they greatly object to pub- catlou, "There arc overy day s few clearances made at the iarhor, but the vesseln are mastly loaded with zen- eral merchandise, and none of the great epecial work of the sesron bias been begun as vot. A number of cargocs of lumber lave arrived from Michizan, but the dealers have a large supply fn thin quarter, which they have wintercd over, and the trade ln this will not.be large for some time to come. THE TAX ON VESSEL PROPERTY, In conscquence of the alleged excessive taxatlon, vessol-owners at this port are changing the port of Lail of their craft, so that floating property, ae far an ite osteneiblo owneorship here ls concernea, Is growing beantifully less, Several owners have Intely changed the ports of hall of about fifteen veesels, Including ten tuce. So far as can be lcarned, the asscasmenta are not based on any rex- Istered valuations of vessols, Indecd, tnat wonld be manifestly unjust et tho preeent time, when vewsel propurty is not 1 demand, and 1t is dificult to fix any valaation upon It It (s known that merchants and otlicrs make tho very mininium re- turns on thelr property, onid vessel-awncrs clajmn that they should certatnly bo entitled to inlar rivileve, 30 lone as tho law or custom niore onored In the breach than in tho otwervance, If the oxceasive tax-lovy on veasol propurty fs per- alated 1n In this cliy, vessel men sy that there will not be a good vesscl eredited to the port, TOWING RATES, Cut and siash appoars to be the game some of the tug men are up to, but §f they can wtand i, It Is pretty safe to say the vesscls can. A few doys ago wo published a slatement of charzes made by a tug in taking veescls from Lako iluron to Lake Krie, but yesterday some figures were learned which knocky the other far futo the shade, The tug W, A. Moore passed up, having the schrs Francis Talus, Fred A. Morse, Christine Niluson, and Augus Smith in tow. The Palms wna towed from Cleveland to Lake Huron for $05; the Augus Bmith from tho mauth of the Detroit River to Lake Huron for 860, iere the tug addeid {ha achr Merrick to lier taw, charging $30 to Lako Huton. It was ree portad that the schr Halsted, whicy passed down a }ew days ago, puld only §25 from Lake Hurou tu Lake . Yesterday forenoon a contract wan made between the achr Merrick and a tug, wherehy tha tur agreed tocome here from Port lluron, Hzit, and tow tho Merrick up for §10, hut, as it woulil be Inta befura tho tug could get' here, 1ho Captain of the Merrick decided ta go np in the tow of tho Muure,—Uetrowt Past und Tribune, 27ih, 1OuT NURON. Pont IlunoN, Mich,, April 2H,~Parsed Up— Portage, Java, Indla, City of New Raltimore, 0. Townsend and consort. Delayed on acconnt of weather—Props St Fanl, Dirckhicad and barges, Sanlluc and coneart, 8, 1), Cnldwell and consort, Bertechy, schir C. Nilssou, Down—T'rops Nowhargh, Henton, Omtarly, 5t Tonte, Marino City. Porter, Chambertin and con. surt, Wales ond consurt, Mavflower and barges, East Saginaw and consort, Missour] and barges, Fmplre Riate; schrs Willlam Grandy, Jeesle Tioyt, D, P. Dubbiny, Fiying Mist. J. It Denson, Ewma ¢, Huteineon, “W.' 1. Taylor, William auna, Sophia Minch, Pleton, Frankie Wilcux, Tho prop 5, 1. Caldwell and consort roturned this aticrnoon on account of tho roughnees of the weather outshie, While endeavoring 1o turn aroundabo grounded on the: Canadian wide Lelaw this city, Ier consort, the Guiding Star, did not geton,” She can be released with very little din- Cullf. Wind northeast, frosh, Weather clondy. THE LATE TUG ACCIDENT, Tugmen secin to he ol one oploion regurding tho accideut to William Moran, who way kilied on the tug Van Schalck Saturday morning. They censure (he ofiicers of the stimr Shaboygau for windlog as they dhid, without, ns they assert, proper lights and eigualy, aud call alteation to the fact that Moran signaled tho eugincer 1o back thetug as svon av ho saw the line, The oiMcers of the steambaat made connter ‘stalcuents before the Coroner's jury, and tho (atte tute body censared both \be sicumuost ofticers and the Vessel- :)wuun‘ ‘Fowing Company for alieged neglect in ho matter, tho rst for wot lwplaviag proper aud the other for uot having lfll{h’!enl help al d thelr tngs s0 that men could make proper watchos, A lawault la very likely 10 re- sult, unlcas the matter Is compromised. RATHER DULL AT DETROIT, The Detroit Kvening News, of Wednesday; thue comments on wharf businoen in that city: **A Babibath-like caln wasobscrvable alony the wharses yesterday and Lo-day, broken ouly by the foot-fall of the hrlrt-hrflkrn 1narlne reporters or the | enores of the dock-walluperg aweetly repo ¢ 00 nten- the salt-barrels and bewde the warehnus day the holy bush was alziost painfal in Wiy, Apromincnt tug man was ssked f the ug en would forn aun sesociation tbis year, llo asily answercd, *Damguo,® borrowed the report. «r's Iast chiew of tobacco, and went 10 sleep again.’ IMPORTANT M TING OF MARINE- INSURANCE OFFICER: A meeting of (Icners] Agents aud repr tatives of marine-Insurauce companles will be beld at Cleveland on tho 30th {nst., to conmder matters of importance counected with hull sand caryo Jusur- ance. 1t is surmised (hat some action will bo taken that will prevent lucal .Sm“ from exercisiag so much power o futu; nd pot an end 10 rate-cuts ting, #0 far a¢ they aro coucerned. sigual THE WELLAND CANAL. Advices to Capt. E, P, Dorr, from Port Colbarne this morning, elste that the Wellsnd Cansl will be ready for navigstion un the 3d of M. nd thatthe coutractors at that ‘ahu have advanced their work sullicicntly to have It upened now. Qoit ber of b e ‘}t‘b"%‘fll at the elevator. NAVIGATION NOTES. AT CHICAGO. Thoe stmre R. B. Hayes and San Diego arrived bere yesterday on their Erst round trips to Buffslo. The foating clevator Chicsgo transfesred 11,000 bu of cora from the cansl prop Chins snd barge, £aturday, to the prop Montgomery. Amongthe arrivaly yestezday wes tho gchr Eras- tus Corolog, with ber lofty ucw epare. Ler walus topmast. ve feetin leneth, and fs the tal on the lakes. re twenty-fanr carzoen of inmber on the I ninz, and amony the craft were the stcam barzes Lelrnd. Trader, and Colin Campbeil. The strar City of Fremont, of Spencer's Lire, arrived up atdrday with n carzo of aalt and fieh from Bay City. Capt. Willam Camninge is in command of her. ‘The prop Fonntain City, the favarite passcager craftof the Weatern Transportation Company‘a TiniTalo and Chicago Line, atrived hare yosterday Afteraoon on hee firel trip of the season. She hroaght abont MK) tons of merchandise, Capt. CGioron repnried o pleasant pasusge np, with the exception of the fieat day ant from Taifslo, when he exrerienced some g weatner. At Detroit he taok on 25 soldiers for Mackinaw, and dating the trip had about ) pasarnzire ELSEWIELE The prop Nebraska is now having new arches pnt in at the Untun Dry-Dock, Hofalo, One of the new ¥anit Canal gates is finished, and he other nne neatly o, A 1.300tonship named the New City was launch- ed at itlack River st week. The tag I, L. Johnson, Capt. Rummagze, goes to Mackinaw, to treck in that nelghborhood, The steam yacht Childs, of St. Clair. hay heen e, and wlil go rold tosome one in New York Stai there room, ‘The sche David A. Weils, Cant. Thierkaufl, was the fiiat schooner to make tho round from fuffaiv o f'hlc:(?u and back this season. ‘The damages recently sustained by the stmr Rivaralde in being ron Into at Malden vy the barve Gould wera repuired yesterday, ‘The Detrolf Newe man puts it thos: Loeal its are dull, and thero i bat Jitlv of it In the liouscs, which are so empty that s footlall makes a horrible echo, i Capt, (Elh" \‘;nrdh.‘n{ l)e:mn. m.ll nlai‘l a yolun- nry. itjon in bmakrupicy, with a showing of um.Bfn lh’munu antl nary an naset, " The old stmr Algoma, lying at Collingwood, is complained of in her present position, and the Bullettn aake for her removal, An exchange eays the stmr E. B, Ward, Jr., forneriy of Detroft, ir now at_Halize, londnras, ond will, if a contract can be closed, carry the 1oyal matle by way of the Uniled States, insteza of Via Jamalea, 'The grain shipmenta by lake from Milwauken ant week aggregated 41,500 b, —all wheat. The prou. Champlain Las areived at Cleveland with rome lieavy consliumentaof goods, the firad via in the Erfe Canal this veasun. The pehr Thomas Gawn, dismarted last f&1l, has baen entirely refitted at Black River, and bas ar- nved st Cleveland, ‘Thera Ie & scarelty of satlors at Toronto, and (n a week thero will be berthe for & good many—when the versela howin to move, Deputy:Marahai C, L. Penney attachea the barge William Vanuatta st St. Clatr, Thursday, to zatisty the claim of C. \¥. Jowes et al., of Bualo, for & ¢ bill of 85, ‘The schrs Barher and Rakerare In the dry-dock 3t Mewnrs. Woil & Davideon's. shipyard, Milwaas kee. The Leviathan will also be docked at the sauo yard. Complalnts ate dally Leing made of the conditlon of theentrance o fenton Marbor, 3 “bar o has cd Ja the centre, and in fair weather jt re- es conalderable ‘mancuversng to get fn or out, and in atoriny weather it fs extremely dangsrous. Green Bay Gazette, 24ith: Capt. William Aga, of the schr Iansen, upon arriving in Milwaukee yea- tetdny, on hiafieet trip from Buffalo for this sea.’ ron, wae met by the sacl mersape from hero of the death of his wite, [le arrived home last cvening, Tho rush of emigrants fromn Canada for Maniton continucas the steamers of bath Canadlan Hoes take up numbers each telp, Oa her lunt down trip the Maniinha vrought eome disappointed settiers back fram St. Joseph's Ialand, The Alpenn Arqus eaya tiat on laet Friday there werc cight theee-masters, two two-matle three barzes loading with lumber at tant port. The Yesuels wonld average about 3500, 000 feel of tum- ber each, so that tae amount of lumber carried by the fleet would amount to 1y 4. 000, 000 feet, ¥. D, Andrews' new dry-aock at Port ltohinson 1r fnlated, and will be in working order an soon an the water is in the canal, It will filv! sixioen feet of watce on the mitre-sill, and ean duck anytuing that Is not aver thirty-five feet beani. “I'ne. Collingwood “Julletin, noticine the necar- rence that the stirs Quevec and Manitova struck on the bar in attempting ta po up the Kaministiq- ula, painta oat that it f+ not to be Inferred that the bar has incrersed, but that the water in Lake flltlu'nur 18 two fect juwer this seasun than it wos ant year, . Tho prup Durlinzton was detalned st Nay City Friday by ‘the Sherint's placing an altachment on enouzy of her cargo, consigned to the Youngs- town Lumber (.'umvnn{ of Ouio, to natlafy a claim of 40 held by bwift & Lockwood, of "Saginaw City. ,The Burlington had aiready clesred, and was Just atarting uul when the attachment was ma v, Buflalo Courter: Heveral vessols have run into port recently after unloading st Port Colborne and other Cansalan ports to escape a tonnage of i cente per ton, ‘This isa saving of from 8250 tn 100 for the scasun to these vesseln, they belng permitied to ctear from one American port to su- Y"‘E" stopping at forelgn ports to load and wu. ond, ERIE. Special Dispaich to The Tribune, Ewme, Pa., Apeil 28.—Arrived—Prop Alaska, Chicago: achea Chamnlon, F. W. Gifford, Charles Foster, Tuitalo, Departures—FProp Channcy Hulbert, Chicago; prup Alaska., PORT O CHICAGO, 'The following are the arrivals and actual sailings at this port for the past forty-clght hours cnding at 10 o'clock last night: AumIvALY, Prop Wiltlam Cripnen, Mauistée, Jumber, Market, sehr lied Wing, Buflalo, coal, nlxteenth sireet. Henr Han (lewo, Buitalo, coat, LIghi. House, senr 1. I, sen, Grand 1eavene, bark, North Hale ), coal. Madison strect, on. Juniory, Starke! rae, wood, Olen’ d, caal, Oiden’s ¥, T caal, Uhicaga svénue, [ Star col, Adama aireel. Cotnlug, Erle, coal. Adimstreet. 12412 Donk, st. Joe, lumber, Fourteenth street, Ntcars. Ludington, imber, 1811 16, dock, focking- e, Cldy Ranke, 1les, liush streét. . WV, lilanchard, Buttalu danaries, iraud itaven, lmber, Aflen Blip. -+ Muskeuon, Haisted street, Rahir Conater. Tallroad tes, Arnold bl 1p- Prop I, 11, Owen, Kacanaba, ore, N. 101G Mills, Behir Jewsia Ling, Escanua ores B 8. 1L Ml 4 iwven, Jight. caatof Tush. wa Htivets, Jumber, Mason biip, i Haven, Juiner, starket, » Cstiphell, Ludington, ju . Davis, Wiito Lake, tlee, ara, Muskegou, himber, Biet reury, Ludingtoy. lom fibband, Muskegon, Juta'r. City, Dunes Clty, luwi ilot, Kewainee, shingles Ak J. Hale, ,nun-] . %, p Cula, Buftuiu, sul L&D, aurel, Santiowoe, stone, ol stree: i, 13, Ataril 1, Girven Hay, Tutnber, Market, nd lisven, jupiber. (tush atreet, Uer, Market. Mariet, airegt, nenir Llve iak, 3 behr Abfgull, fted Biver, tew. 18 Echr Lisear, Goderich. salt, Hathas Kehr Glueatiar, Goderich, gl 1iatt Belr Lont eat, Muske Lelaud, s0n blip, Tweuty-second ——., Lasinlle sireet, inbe o kegun, sal Ludingtou, ) Wissahlckon, Buffalo, Bay, Alpena,'lumnber, Sia ik, woud, O sehr L, C. ruff, Cleveland, coal Rrhr¢our Hon, Cleveland, cosl, Ogde welir Oucouta, Hack fiiver, edal, Lake ¥ op Fehr Hutc Canal, eUstroot, r g swu, Ludtagtow, lumber, Cleeland, coal, Slagazing 8lip. nepr uskejron, lamber, Evav' Biip. %on, Slabe, Harket. : —, ties, R L. TG 1t dock. Trop iz, Stantstee, luniber, Lakesfreat, che ¥, A, Miyes, Alpeha, lumber. Market. Zolie Foreat, Girind "Hiaven, luziber, " Eighteeath raet, YRR J» firaat, Muskeaon, turaber, Magasine sl Rehe Ly B C0drea Muskegon. vmber. ietson bl Prop Trader, edtwster, shinglea Market, sehe W, £, ook, —o fuiaber, Markel, Sehe P8 Lockd, Diifalo, b, 3 weaty-second street lll|nlnrn. fuinber, Market, b frley ar Fonntaiu iy, T MPI“"IIHIIII. Muskegun, wood, I Schr Mary it Ann, Milwaikee, pot Sehetirofon, Slurgeon Hay, wood. Belie Jason Parker. Muskegon, wuod, Rush stroet, chr Lookout, tir u behre ‘ i l'tu.llt'h Yut of Kush sireat, leh, tuwlog, Rush street, . Fayetiv, weod, it ¢ ok St Rer i won, Waloh ebreet e i e ! RSle VUlr Droiiear Holland, wood. st of Tiush rach. Stroct ACTUAL SATLINUS. Schr Hinwood, White Lake, light. rehirC, N BManlates, "1“', St Japas, Stuskegun, 1tahe B0t Yomers ey, pralh § ‘tr Yomien SRl l”fml‘f White Lake, Hgbt. behr bunny side, Butfalo, grain. Behr Ll antipwoc, K 5‘{:1’ ) E Skinuer, “llli op zer, bl. Jose, b L. Js Conwar. Mua o o adares el Sraa ) L0 )y § . BeMPCUS: iavin ‘Woita Lake, it behr Coral, ’ro Moutgom: .:ll i f'rul w ke, Grag v uwing ‘rupl.l.lfl Ilu‘fl! Sflll U:Jvn, llllf brub 5Ky Lark. si. Jus, suadrich. St Bhavoyaan, Greca Lisy. suad btmr Muskegon. Muskegou. suadrio bur Corvas, B Jusepl, sundried, sebie Driver, Muskegou. lght. Fehr Gaing Cock, Muskegn. Tigh Scor Magdalens, mulfl en, Mght. reur Wi, Bated 3 . Tight, hr C. Alles, susk L chr Lorlsande, UK rala, Poup Lihal Comtasm s érain. ——— Folson lu Hewing-Bilk. e York Irbdune. A startliog paragraph bs golnie the rounds of the u:vnflpcr. resprcting pulson by the use of sewing-ailk, The victims wera women cwployed I lurge vstablishimeuts whers wuch baud-sew- qu was required. Fhe polson was lutroduced into thebumay system by the mouth, the women betng n the bubit of bliing the tbread, aud of twirliog it between tuelr lips wheo threading » needie. The pyatews of the sulferers indicuted Ieud poisonivg: paluter’s cile belug frequently vccatioed, This story cutes from Frunce, uud has recently taken deflnite shape in 8 communt. catlon to the Moniteur o Hygiene, Tt has no ap- plication to the newing-silk used in thiscountry, #s our manufacturcrs of that article pride them- selves unon the purity of it dyes. The French etlk-makera have not heen &0 fastidiotss, and, by welghting their goods. bave hurt thele sales. It fa to_be sald, howrver, that the welghting of silk In European dyelng is usually done with the salts of frou, Lut the Adatles, both Chinese and Japanese, have a trlck of welglting raw eflk with ralts of Jead. A dinginess s fmparted to the fAinfshed goods if the lead remains in them, and the American manufacturer {8 obliged to ex- tract that metai if he has been =0 unlortunate as 1o buy raw siik containing it. Sewing-silks that are inferior in any respect have their weaknesses exposed lo this market by an ingenlous svstem ol testing, which Ig now In general use jo whole- sale business. e — WESTERN IMMIGRATION AND EASTERN ALARM. To the Eddtor of The Tribune. Manitaz6, Minn., April 20.—The transforma tion now going on in Mionesota is onc of those striking spectacles which astonishes every one who visits the State. The chanze Is so rapid and comprehensive that the inind of the casual visitor {s bewildered to some extent, and he asks himself i 8 movement s extraordinary can bLe stablc In its character} And will It not be followed bv & sbarp and perilous reaction? It this plicnomena activity were of n speculatiye nature, sucha reaction beyund a doubt would sooner or later sct in. - But it {8 not of this sort, 1t 1s as legitimate and as wholeaowne In ta char- ucter as iy soclal or Judusteial mavement that was ever put fu motion. Thousamls of abile-hodled and Intellizent men who have falled to find profitable employment in the Eastern States are almuly moving oty thiese fertlle fields, where IL fs cerfaiu that they can turn their Isbor and thelr capital to the best sccount, ‘This i all the mystery ther Jtcannot be eald that Minne o any spurious means to nnmrlcl{. 3¢ far from this, she has been so busy in the cultivation of her soil that she has cven nerlected toavall hersell of those per feetly legittimate aids which Providence, “or, rather, furtune, had thrawn within ner reach. Mipvesata wmight have made a prominent figure at the Praladelpina Exposition last year had ghe not been g0 much engaged at home n sccuring her mighiy crop as. to forcet for the time the great advantages she infzht thus Lave derived, and the triumphs she micht have wun, But the effect of ber modesty or her negll- f‘mw in this respect has been overcome by the nme ol her whest crop, the care of which was then abeorbing ull her attention. What vetter prool vould a new Stute give of her superfority than the capacity to bring furth from her bosom 40,000,000 of bushels uf “the finest quality of wheat [u a single scasun? And this Minnesota nas done. She hasdone this, too, in the most quiet manner, and without the least flourish of trumpets or movkery of scif-glorlfication ! But so bis a tact cannot well be nd, It pro- clalmus itsell. It nuises ftself sbrood, and the vast crowd of the unemploved who ean find nothing u tho stagnant cities fur their hands to do naturally turn thelr eyes towards a land where. at so small an outlay of labor or of cn ts so surprisine are produced. Could 1l juns of cause and effect be made more clenr and palpable! Wheresvever labor and capital are most want- ed. and where othier things being equal they Fiuld the larecst returns, thither labor and cap- ital will flow as natually as rivers descend fnto thie plulus. This Minnesota immigration, therefore, Is not an artlficfal or speculative affair, It is 2 move- ment based upon stern ccouomie laws, aud fs rezuiated fn its action by elmple demand and nu{mly. Sou long as labor van find more profit- able empluyment in Minncsota than in other States, so Tore will there be an cmigration is Inthe case. ol has resorted pull herscll fnto from those Htates {nto the broad and afliuent prafsies of that State. You cannot stop this movement, and no one should acek to stop it If they vould. It is onu of thoss normal ond healthy actions by which the disordered equilibrium of ‘soclety fs restored, and its general welfare promofed. And no one need fear that any bur will acerue, No harm cav come from o cause which nature herselt has sct in motion. The alarm, therefore, which has been mani- fested in certuln quarters fn the East ls wholly unfounded,—it Is a grievous wmistake, ‘I'he present lmmigration to the West will, fn tho end, prove to be, not a calainiLy,but o bivss. iue to the Fast, Those who are jeft will most assuiredly fAnd themselves more prosperons than befare, after the redundaney of their populn- tion, which Is uno of the chief causcs of the evha under which the country has been suffer- fug, shalt have been removed. have mare people in a8 communlty than can be protitably cmyluycd is not n blvesin, but s curse, It iy njury and a tox upon the rest. It fllls the towns with pauperism and crunc, and bringe the rewards of lubor down to Ho far from seeine ansthing to alarm them [n the present spontancous immlgration to the Wess, intelligent people In the Fast, who view the subject In o proper licht, should ecein it tntickt that I encoursgring, and lend to the move mient their caruest support. By so doing they would hu alding ou the juevitable progress of our vatloual developiient, be putting un end by peacelul meaus to labor-stries, and be laying upon n sound basls the corner-etoncs of o ree new vd proeperlty for themselves aud for thelr country, dJ, Esalas Wannen, ————— Plending for His Tormor Slave, Attanta (Gu.) Congtisunon, The case of the State arainst Oliver James, charzed with murder, was tried Just Thuisday at Clayton Superior Court, ang a verdlet ren- dered of voluntary manstaugzhter, with a recoms- wiendatlon to the merey of the Conrt, The prisuner was an old negro, about G0years of age, und widely Kuown in his' neighborhowl, where previous to the ditficulty he bad always borne the reputation of nlpnuunh w Industrious, and tuuflensive mau, In an encounter with Luke Dursuy, a negro of desoerats character, who, It seems, had oftered some fusuit to bis wile, Dor- sey was hilled. At the close of the trial the venerable David Jumes, the fatner of the Hon, John M, Janies, arose. Upon perinisglon (rom the Court, ho proceeded Ina voleo tremnlons Wwith emotion to spesk of the early life of the prisoncr. He had been bis maater, and snfsed him and watched over him in his boyhood. Ho had been the nurse amd companion of bis chil- dren, and the most obedient, affectionate, aml hard-worklug slave he had everown ‘Theold gentleman procecded in n touching appeal to the Court, but his volce fafled, and he could con- tinve no further, The tears’ rushed from bis eves, aud, kneeling at the railing near the pris- oner, he bowed his foce in - his hands aud gave vent to his feelings, In consideration of tho clrewnstances fu bis favor, the Judee Imposed & light sentence of three years In the Penitentta- . ———— The 'ennsylvanin Btatues. Philisdelublu Press. 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