Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, June 20, 1880, Page 6

THE CHICAGO RIBUNE: SUNDAY, GEN. GARFIELD. pupils: all honor and love him, and will support him, lwas ghing to say without reference to politics. And 1 may or will add, that the intelli- ‘The Life, Character, Services of the Republican Candidate. n Address Delivered at His Birth- place in Orange, Cuyahoga Connty, Ohio, : Up -Satarday, June 19, 1880, by B. A. Minsdale, Presi- war cou general education, was finished’ and he. was ready ‘to devote himself to the work of the world, his political pulses began to stir. A year or two Before deat of Hiram College. Apectal Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune, CLEVELAND, O., June 19.—O.e! of the ar m educator closed nt the age of 30, But it did not eluse until he hud demonstrated that, had his inclination and the needs of the country not drawn him to the army and the forum, he would have made au incom parable head of one of our mt und enthusiastic advocacy of these stu- jents will be no small element in the approach- and Public | ing canvass. Hiram is scattered over the Na- tion. and ie has come out for Garfield. ing Gartield in Hiram I should be 1 would fain speak of bis private is services to the public as lecturer aud of bis growing fame. But 1 His career as an ad preachei ust, pass these things by. ent universities. gam now to follow him toa rger theatre. Jp to 155 n. Garficid had taken no partic- interest in public affairs. He bad been ied with other matters. But, now that bis THE REPUBLICAN PARTY HAD SPRUNG UP ‘most appropriate and fitting gatherings that | as an immediate consequent to tho Kansas- are likely to assemble during thepresent ca:n- Nebraska legislation. 1ts original mission has been thus stated by its present _standurd-bearor: paign came together to-day at a spot held | «Cony familiarity with traffic in the bodies gacred by all Northern Ohio as the birth- place and scene of the early life of Gen. Gar- field. The old farmers who had known the General from infancy gathered in with their wives, children, and grand- children and dedicated the spot by raising a fine Garfield and Arthur pole. Many people attended from this city and surrounding towns, and at the close of the dedicatory. services adjourned to a neighboring grove, where the speech of the day was delivered by President Hinsdale, of Hiram College, one of the General’s old friends and pupils. ‘The speech was*received with much enthusi- asm. THE ADDRESS. Fruvow-Crtizexs OF ORANGE: I assure you that no common pole-raising or political mass- meeting would have drawn me to your quiet neighborhond to-day. My public appearances have generally been on non-political occasions. Besides, your invitation found me on Com- mencement-Day weary with the labors of the closing college-yeur, and no ordinary occasion of any sort could have induced me to forget my weariness, und to undertake. these June days, the preparation and delivery of a public address. But, degming this meeting much more than a common occasion of any id. I looked upon your call as the call of duty. Hence] um here. | rhe 188) ‘And, pray, what is the occasion? The occa- lon is Sistory, rather than what we do and say. It was on this spot that, Nov. I. 1Sd1. a boy-baby first opened his great Saxon eyes upon the face of Nature, and that Inter his Saxon hair first uttered in the wind. That boy-baby has grown to be famous; and his life, public services, and character are the subject of my address. ABRAM GARFIELD AND ELIZA BALLOU, Jkis wife,—he from Massachusetts, and she from New Hampshire,—came to the spot upon which wwe have assembled, in 183. They bad bougat the den of external bondage. At that cr Republican party was born. It drow its first in- spiration from that fire of Liberty which God has lighted in every human heart, and which all the powers of ignorance and eranby: can never wholly ic game t beleaguered and ussatled Territories were strug- gling for Freedom, and drew around it the sacred circle of Liberty which the demon of Slavery has never dared to cross. 2 forever. Strengthened by its vietory on the frontier, the. youny party, under the leadership of that great man who on thls spot twonty years ago wes made its leader, entered the National Capitel and assumed the high duties of govern- ment.” Resid tohis judgment, to e place where we are gathered and its | jon hold the daz was demanded both by patriotism and by the logic of Republican doctrine. It was the second sixgo of his resistance to Slavery. He entered the army as Colonel of the Forty-scc- ond Ohié Regiment: His military life I cannot minutely follow. of the Rebels; ou thered field of Shiloh; he become Chief of Staff to the Army of the Cumberland, and stood by the side of Thomas at Chickam: two yexrs of his soldier-life he had shown dis- and souls of meu hud paralyzed the con- sciences of a majority of our people. The bale- ful doctrine of Stute-sovereignty bad shaken and weakened the noblest and most beneticent powers of the Nationul Government; and the erasplue power of Sluvery was seizing the virgt in ‘erritories of the Wost und dragging the Ld extinguish. The Republican party to deliver and save the Republic. entered’ the arena where the It mado them free aims as these sp- his feelings, ind to imagination, He enrolled himself UNDER TUE REPCBLICAN BANNER Ayoung party with such is at once:'and well I do remember the pride with which we Hiram boys heard the first political speeches of our young hero! In 1859 he was sent to the State Senate by the Portage-Summit Dis- trict. Hure be served bis term, and stood with ablest of his compeers. In the spring of |, as he left the Senate, the storm of Rebell- broke upon the Nation. That heshould up- He cleared the Sandy Valley he commanded a_ brigade ga. In the inguished ability and cournge; and then, as the |. that | ti hhere in the forest a small piece of land. Gouble butions Were put upon his breast by, the they hoped to clear up and pay for by their toil. He wasa man of large facuity and generous mature; what she was will soon appear. Hardly hhad they made a fair beginning when, from over-exertion, expusure, and medical quackery, Garfield died. Tradition says that,as he lay dy- ing, he said to bis devoted wife, “1 bnve planted four saplings in these woods. 1 must now leave them toyour care.” Tho youngest of these saplings, «. Garfield, the Republican standard-bearer in | U the Presidential campaign of 1850. The widowed mother's outlook was most for- Didding. Asmall farm tncumbered with debt, a dense forest only purtin{ly broken by clear- ings, a scattered populution almost as poor as herself, made up her immediate environment. She was about 3) years of age, small of stature, but great in ability and-in resolution. Putting aside the mistaken but Miodiy-meant ad- ouse the Military Committee. be served on the Cummittee of Ways and Means. In the Fortieth Congress he was Chairman of the then ayearand a half old, was James | Military Committee. Bucce: Appropi session of the Houss, ho Went back to the Ways and Means, where he has sinoe served. On all these Committees he direction of Secretary Stanton, he left the tent of the soldier for the halls of Congress. He took his seatin the House of Represent- ,atives of the Thirty-eighth Congress in Decem- ber, 182. Naturally, the Speaker placed him on in the next Tess Then he was the head of ‘he Committe on Banking and Currency, andin ¢ Congresses the nble Chairman’ of the jutions. When the Democrats took pos- PERFORMED VALUABLE SERVICE. He was thorough in committee-work, assiduous in prirute study of vending questions, and sn able debater on the floor,—by no meaus a com- Mee Oe selennes 08 seen the | oa comblnation of quaittics, But the branches should 5 that Ic with which be was direct- children should not be scattered, Advisers { $f (CRIAMOR PEM mee ar come yielded to her will. and she had her way. Ican- pot tell, even in brief, the story of her trials + and her struggles. Suffice it to say, she kept up the home, cared for the four saplings until they were ready to be transplanted, and then sur- rendered the farm and house to other hands. I aust take Jeave of her with saying, ALL HONOR TO MOTHER GARFIELD! This fierce struggic for existence was young Garfield's first, and perhaps most valuable, school. Poverty, self-denial, and hardy toil meted out tonim their severe discipline. One has wisely said: ‘The man of culture isthe man who has formed his ideals throuch Jabor and self-denial"’ In this sense no one could be bet- tercultured. In this school were formed his habits of application, of endurance, and of in- domitable purpose. The familiar woud-chop- ping and canakdriving stories, which L bave neither time nor desire to tell, have a threefold Significance: First. they reveal the nature of his early life; second, taken with his subsequent history, they show the power of the man; third, they teach that there is one country ou the globe where a boy need not be born on the steps of the throne or in the seats of wealth to rice to dis shed places, but that the best which America has to offer is within the reach of the ‘poor bos’s brain, and beart, and hand. YOUNG GARFIELD'S SCHOOL-TRAINING ‘began in the old school-house that stood on yon- der knoll. Here, on due effort, he exsily led the school. Attheage of 17 he went, in quest of wider Study, to the Free-Will Baptist Seminary s Chester. The See of ae dite aheraicres had ready appeared strongly marked: he was studious, truthful, generous, thoughtful, and reverent. Icannottarry at the cross-roads of Chester. By the time that he was 20 he had Jearned what the district schoo! could teack him: he had well begun the classicsand higher mathe- matics,and bad gained some of that valuable discipline which comes of teaching 1 common ‘sobool, In the fall of 1851 he took his way to Hiram, where the Western Reserve Eclectic In- stitute had been planted the yeur before. In the catalog of that year I read bis nume: ~ Jumes A. Garticid, Cuyaboga County.” The next year he appears both with the teachers and the students. dread aguin, “J. A. Garfleld, Tencher in the En- mnittees did not.absorb his ability and his energy. Ho served on many spectal committees; notably did he conduct the investi; Panic of I5w, subjects of great importance to the public, in which your common Congressman bas small in- teres entific surveys, in the life-saving service, and in many more. He became the feader of his party in the House, and its best-known member. He would have been Speuker bad not 8 shift in pol- ities given that office te the opposing party. All the time, he was renderiag bis party and the country distinguished service on the stump, not only in Ohio, but in other States, ‘What was more natural, then, than that, when the last etection gave them the Legisiature, the Repub- licans of Ohio, in louking for a successor to Judge Tburinan in the Senite, should, with one voice, call for the statesinan Who, chosen by the Nineteenth Obio District, had come to be really the representative of the Nation? chosen by the unanimous voice of bls party the ora day that they could choose him under the law. tion of the Gold Ho interested himself in many in the census, in education, in the sci- He wns But I must drop the life of Gen. Garfield, that Imay attempt an estimate of his character and services. 1. BIS PHYSICAL CONSTITUTION. There rises up before me the Garfield whom T first saw. in 1653,—strong-framed, six feet high, broad-shouldered and deep-chested,a massive head surmounted by a shock of tow-colored hair, and a large blue eye. adolescense that belongs to the is the same to-duy, oaly time has rounded out his ficure, browned and thinned his hair, and marked bis face with lines of thought. Heis a Ue had the pulpy of =. He eater and sleeper, works easily under high Pressure, und bas x power of physical endurance that can hardly be overtaxed. 2. MY ESTIMATE OF HIS MENTAL CHARACTER has already been foreshadowed. His power of jogical analysi: of rhetorical excels in the patient secumulation of facts, and in striking generalizations. ti loves to roam in every field of activity, aclights in poetry ig and claselication is very great; exposition, hardly surpassed. He ‘As a student, he io and other works of the glish Department and of the Ancient Lan- | imagination; loves the abstruse things of "Then his name drops from the Hiram | philosophy;. takes keen interest. in catalog to appear imorediately in the Junior | scientific research; gathers into his store- class of Williams College. In thisinstitution, by | house the facts of’ history and politica; and HIS ABUUTY, SCHOLARSHIP, AND CHARACTER be won the confidence and admiration both of the students and the instructors. At the head of the Faculty stood Mark Hopkins, then in his Prime, Graduating in 1956, Mr. Held turned to Hiram us Teacher of ci guages ana Literature. The next year, being 26 ears old, he was made the head of the Institute, gad this place he held and filled until he went into the army in 3861. Hoping that he might re- turn,—unwilling to part even with his name.— the Board kept him nominally at the head tio years longer. Then he fell out of the catalog, to reappear asa Trustee and us Advisory Prin eipal and Lecturer in 1564 and 1865. Then his Dame finally disappears from the Faculty-page of the catalog. His last service us an instructor was an admirable series of ten lectures on “Social Science,” given in the spring of 1871. 1 must say something more about Garfield in Hiram, for there his public life bezan. Perhaps I shall best describe him by telling what be was to his students. These regurded. him witha RESPECT, AN ADMIRATION, AND AFFECTION guch asI have never seen given to another teacher. His greatness us a teacher and ad- Ministrator did not lie so much in b:: technical scholarship, his drillmuster teaching, or his schoolmaster discipline. His power was in energizing young men and women. He stimu- lated thought, arouscd courage. stiffened the moral fibre, poured in inspiration, widened the field of mental vision, and created noble ideals of life and character. He was more than a teacher and adininistrator, the student found him a helper and 2 friend. To me Gen. Gartield is no more than he was before his nomination atChicago. M. dent and the scholar. Congress these twolve years past has more won upon our scientists, our scholars, and ourmen ot literature. He was the friend of Henry and of Agassiz; he is the friena of Howells, of Lowell, and of Parkman. 1 quite agres with Alfred Townsend in saying that no man since John Quincy Adams hus carried to tho Presi- dential Chair g0 thorough a training, so wide an intellectual appreciation, or so rich a scholar- ship. WithaJ, he is an orator. Ho has not the massive grandeur of Webster, the brilliant Geclamation of Clay, or the fervid passion of Henry. But his speeches are strong in faot, ribbed with _ princi polished in dit Warm with the ilustrsted by a volume of incidents. day, the representative of a great public Jour- throws over it all the life and warmth of his own uriginality. Of course, he is not a Sones a Des Curtes, a Newton; no man in public —not even Gladstone—can_ be ife But his era] culture is broad, deep,.and generous. e bas the best instincts and habits of the stu- Probably no man in those. Georgo ple, lucid in urgument, ston. rich in illustration, and al power of a nobio heart. i. HIS MORAL CHARACTER is the fit crown to his physical and. intellectual nature. mind. His generosity of uature is unstinted; all his life, public and private, is marked by great unsclishness. For the most pnrt, he has neglected imuterial acquisition: but his means, as well as his time and talents, are at the calf of Noman has a kinder heart orn purer those who need them. All these points could be ‘The other nul asked me, * What do the people who know Gen. Gartield think of his integrity?” Had my wits been about me, I should bave answered: “Did the mea who saw Chevalicr Bayard bold the oridge of Garichnno against the Spaniards doubt his courage? id those who saw Sir eee eee ho Sucilat the furrom | Philip Siduey talt on Zutphen-field question bis Gpon my paruents, 1 istappeared in Hiram, | SRVuInE?” As it was. frst answered in w gon aeeerrne ene ¢ | eral way, and then added: “Uhave known Gen. He soon made a capture of ny heart. At that | eral a ipentscoeven soars. fos auteur tia time the leading Hiram men were called Philo- matheans. from the Socicty to which they be- Jonged. In un address delivered in 1875, speak- ing of the old Hiram days, I said: “Henry James (an old Hiram man) speaks of the Philo- matheans as ‘wonderful men,” mentions those that he thought the ‘master spirits,’ and adds: “Then began to grow up in me AN ADMIRATION AND LOVE FOR GAKFIELD that has never abated, aud the like of which I bave never known. A bow ot recognition or a le word from him was to me an inspiration.’ The exact paralicl of my own experience. ‘Gar- icld, you have txught we more than any other man. living or dead; and when I recall those early days, when [ remember that James and 1 ‘were not the list of the boys, proudrasI am of ourrecord as a soldier and statesman, I can jardly forgive you tor abandoning the academy Tor the fieldand the forum!’ And the cheers with which the oid chapel rung as 1 read the paragraph. showed that a heart-chord had been ru struck. -it wus in Hiram, in 1858, that Mr. Garfield mar- Tied his wife, Miss Lucretia Rudolph, daughter of the now venerable and always worthy Zeb Rudolph. A Hiram poet, celebrating in uot in- elegant verse the Ladies' Literary Scciety, MAS SUNG? “ Again a Mary? Nay, Lucretia— The noble, classic name That weil betits our fair Indie, Qur sweet and geutie dume, ‘With beart as teal and ioving As e’er was sung in luys Of high-born Roman matron In old beroic days: Worthy ber lord illustrious, whom Honor and fame attend; Worthy her soldier's name to wear; Worthy the civic wreath to share = hat binds her Viking’s tawny hair, : Bight proud are wo the world should know As hers, him we long azo Found truest helper. friend.” THOU. HIRAM OF O10, Rough thou be little among the thousands of ‘our educational Judab, yet out of thee has-one | he may be called a ‘man of war’; men, or none, begrudge him his triumph. ocrats vied with Republicans the other day in rth who shail rule our political Israel. Pee ecettc Institute and Hiram College—two ‘on the eve of the Chicazn Convention. bim: scrappy notes, othors dissertations. ouu side of a loug and intimate correspondence. N but J would be willing, so far as affeoting his churacter {3 concerned, to have them yo into a 1 know him as ‘well_as’ one man can know an- other,—! know fim as well as I can know an- other; andthere is no interest thatone man can coniide to his fellow-mun that I would not FREELY INTRUST TO HIM.” A little later. another reporter called upon me in my study to obtain some facts that might be of interest to the public. {hud just thrown the private letters that Gen. Gurtie(d had written to ine upon the floor. ‘There were some hundreds in all,—tho first written in January, 18%, the last 'T guid to “Here are iny Gurfleld letters. Some are They aro They relite wo a creat many subjects,—business, domestic matters, religion, polities, fe at home, and life xbroad. With few exceptions, Lhave nplresd them since they were lirst received. <b munis more zealous of his houor than am I; ‘hoe land without my over ”" The Chicuzo reporter k, “ What do the peopte who know ‘Thero is no better test than this. Now, 1 fearlesly suy thar, the nearcr men have come to Gen. Garficld, the greater has been their confidence. usual Tinay say that he bas inspired un- pect and faith in all large-minded and geuerous mien. without regard to politics. Last pee. in pointing for my students the moral of life, I said: “#HE HAS COMMANDED SUCCESS. His ability, knowledge, mastery of questions, generosity ‘of nature, devotion to the public and honesty of purpose have. done the work, He has never bad a political ‘machine.’ He has never forgotten the day of smull things. ‘He hus never mude personal enemies, It is dif- ficult to see how a political triumph could be more complete or more gratifying than his elec- tion to the Ervce: Capit Who think politics in a bad way. pusitive convictions, freely uttered. mate. No barguins, no * slate,’ 10 at Columbus. He did not even go to the City. Such things are inspiring to those je is a man of Politically, and yet few Dem- tames, but one school—has seut into the world | Washington in snowing him under with con- 6.000 pupils. These are scattered all over our ‘nion, Some hundreds of them were fellow-stu- Yata'of Garfield's; other hundreds were bis said that he wili go to the g7etulations: some of them were as anxious for election as any Republican could be. It is Senate out an en- emy thi ” that’manbood is more than party. 4, HIS CHARACTER AS A PUBLIO MAN. ‘oa great extent this topic has been antici- Resa But something more specific should be anid: trom indorsing all of Gen. Garfield's public ‘acts Thoso who know me will hardly Sharge me with being a fulsome eulogist. He hings that | have been has suld and done somé things that | have been ‘some others that [ have had much at BA side of our correspondence would fully show that Lhave not been so overawed by own opinions. pe. bub ie Liars cuous abilityand asingle eye. He has co ieee nctinieln tho rigat direction, He has striven to muke the public service clean and honorable; to make the Goverament one ‘of statesmen and patriots, not of demagogs and place-men: and in ovory way to diguify and en- sorry to have him say and do. dound heart. his ‘greatness as to concesl m. But thisI sce: Hehas serve moved noble the Republic. Anewspaper-mun from a, distant city saree , the otherday, “ Howdo you ex marhinge jack of ‘Gonfide ve in Mr. Carileld courage? He answered that he hud and in pet places that he! few questiol Svlid Sout diors.” If ee " WHAT FOLLY 18 COMMITTED IN THY NAME! Ihave knowna minister of the Gospel to be calied a coward because be could recognize the worth of thu3e who did not worship in his artisans charge loyal to his own convictions of truth und duty, deres to think In both cases what is culled cowardice is the genuine moral courage. ‘To go with the stream—to bless with your sect, or to hurrah with your party—is slight proof of yourself in moral isolation, to bear the jibes of those whom you call your brethren, is a very high proof ote ‘uttered many noble words, but none nobler than those spoken in the Onio Scnate-Chamber just int a single instance in uring the tweuty years that 1 have been in public (xlmost eighteen of It United Stutes), I have Whether I was mistaken mn the pian of my life to follow my convictions, at whatever personal cost to .myseit.| I_bave represented for many in Congress whose approbation though it may soem perhaps a little egotistical to say it, I yerdesired conyenticle. Similarly, eager with cowardice the man who, and act for himself. courage, but to stand out by acter. Such a man is Gen. Garilela. aftor his late election: “ Let me venture to regard to that work, inthe Congress of the tried to do one thing. or otherwise, it bas ears a distri greatly desired, but, sult more the approbation of one person, AND HIS NAME WAS GARFIELD, He is the only man that [am Sorapelied fo bai with, and eat with, and live with, and die | His tenure and, ir I could not@have bis approbation, should have bud compavionship.” There is another festure of his public life that up these lust years in our country a class of public meno who take no real interest in public questions. They care nothing for the exposition of sound political doctrine. They do not aspire to be teachers of the people, orto lead the thought and the conscience of the Natfon. Their polit- Icannot pass by. There has spruag ther side of the Chamber. These oo eeeo rable to all parties. They show Tsald, * Who doubts his courage?” ard in Washington cked backbone. A revealed that those who hold this opinion thought that bu did not denounce “ the with suflictent severity, and was t properly netive in “stirring u g dios. If Pmay parody Mme. Holand," 0 cour- of Any man’s uprightness. But my great point 1s yet before me. ‘The Western Reserve is Northeast Ohio. It was originally settled by New-Englanders, and its population has the thrift, tho keen intelli- gence, the habits of local self-government, the political instincts, and the morals of New En- gland. Tho muil-clerks on Mr. Vandorbilt's rail- Fuad will tell you that thero is no population of equal numbers on the long line reaching from New York to Chicago that writes and reads 50 Tuany letters, and that receives through the mails so much reading matter. ‘The Nineteenth Ohio Congressional District ts the’ enstorn part of the Reserve. Probably it hus retained the New are blood and tradi- tions in a bigher degree of purity thun any other part. It early becnme deeply interested in the Anti-Slavery movement; andthisgreatly quick- ‘ned the interest of the people in public aifairs. ‘What is more, this district hud formed a set of MOST VALUABLE TRADITIONS OF ITS OWN. In 183 it elected Elisha Whittlesey to Congress, and kept him there until 1839, a period of sixteen years. Mr. Whittlesey may not have been 4 man of strong mental force, put ho was a man of clear intelligence, of trained ability, and of va- ried knowledge. Above all, no mun of greater honesty ever Sut in the halls of luxisiition. It was his unsullied honesty, more than his ability, that ied President Tayior to appoint him Con- troller of the ‘I'reasury,—an olfice that he heid through two Presidential torms. Here, by his unguostioned probity, he, first of all men us tar as Liknow, won the name of “Watchdog of the Troasury.”’ On the retirement of Mr. Whittlesey from Congress, Joshua R. Giddings steps upon the scene. Ho represents the district twenty years, and then retires. Sr. Giddings was one of the old Anti-Slavery leaders; to borrow a figure from one of Gartleld’s old speeches, Gid- dings was always found, iike the white plume of Navarre, in the front of the battle. He was a man of great ability, probity, and honor, THE MARKED POLITICAL CHARACTER of the Ninotecnth District was formed during the eight terms of Mr. Whittlesey and the ten terms of Mr. Giddings, No district tn the Union had 80 large aRapantioan majority, and it stood correspondingly high in all the elements of po- liticnl churacter. No constituency, in ull the particulars named, could appeal more strongly to the ambition of a Ropublican statesman, Nowhere did the Mobilier and Salary matters make a deoper fiupression than on this most senaltive and jealous constituency. Gen. Gar- field had now represented it iu tive successive Congresses; and, although then not so well known as he is to-day, his name had crossed the Continent to the West and the ocean to the Eust. The district felt very proud of him. He was nominated the first tiiae by a small mujority; the second time without opposition. His third and fourth nominations were vigorously con- tested; but he triumphed so easily and go de- cisively that upposition fled from the fleld, and lott him in secure possession. No representa- tive held his constituency with a tirmer hand. promised to be us long as that of Whittlesey or even Giddings. But now all was obanged. A Republican Convention that met in Warren for some local purpose DEMANDED HIS RESIGNATION. Most men denounced, all regretted, nono de- fended, what hud been done. All that the stanchest friends of Gen. Gartield presumed to dowas tosay, “ Walt until you bear the case; hear what Garfield has to siy before you de Fe as confident of his uprightness as I can be 's foal netivity may be summed up thus: Violent | tormine that he is dishonest.” Indulge me again antagonism to the opposing party: a careful | iq personal word. Returning homo from looking after public patronuge; the organiza- | Washington after the adjournment, [ 1ound my~ tion of the “machine”; the cunning and eeltish manipulation of the voters. To political reform, tothe betterment of the Government, to rais- ing the standard of public life, they nre indiffer- the farthest remove fram No sooner had he entered Congress than he entered heart and soul upon the teal ques- tions of the day, The War over and Rovon- struction passed, he saw that American politics Noman could now serve the Nation by rehearsing the old Slavery debates; by fighting over tho battles of joors of Congress; by unduly ing controversies that were forover set- eat. Gen. Garfield these. was entering upon a now era. the War on the prolon ued. He sui that WHAT THE COUNTRY NEBDED was wise discussion and legislation on the Ctvit 1 re Service, the revenue, currency, banking, sumption, and the hundred other questions that do not ap- peal to the imagination,—but that are dry, sta- tistical, unpoctic, and as distasteful as possible to your “war-horse.” Ina noble speech on the Tam aware that tinancial subjects are dull and uninvitmg ju com DArLSOT with those heroic themes which sorbed the attention of Congress for the lust five yeurs, To turn from the consideration of armies and nuries, victories and defeats, to the array of tigures which exbibits the debt, ex- penditure, taxation, and industry of the Nation, requires no little courage and self-denial; but juestions we must come, and to their parties, and all thoughtful citizens must give their best efforts " He grappled with these politico-businoas questions with the power of a giant, and the zeal of a missionary. More than forty of his Congressional speeches nave Thave a complete are by no'means _sent!mentnl,—that ourrency, delivered in 1865, ho said: have al to these solution Con; political ETERS, for muny years to como. appeared in pamphlet form: ie of them, and will read you SOME OF THEIR TITLES: “Free Commerce Between the States, tional Bureau of Educata gad Specie-Payments,” ‘fn States Bonds,” | Ninth Census, " “Public E- penditures and Civil Service,” “The Tariff,” “Currency and the Banks.” "Debate on the Currency Bil,” ‘On the McGarrahan, Claim,” “The Hizht to Originate Revenue Bills,” Pub- lic Expenditures.” “Curreney and the Public * Appropriations,” “ Counting the Eleot- Repeal of the Resumption Law," w Schome of American Finance,” “Khe Suspension und Resuinption of Specic- c Faith. oral Vote, “The Ne Tarif, Na- “The Public Debt jon of United self in the midst of the tempest. Cleveland editors hesitated to publish uny statement of the salary matter that varied from the current ver- sion. One of them said tome, * This vote bas taken us right inthe pit of the stomach.” Per- haps the best illustration that Lean give of the intensity of teeling ig this: Knowing asI did the groundsof Gen. Gartleld’s action, and the spirit ia which he had acted, I felt it my duty to sayin private conversation, in the newspapers, and even in the Hiram pulpit, * Gen. Garticld is. nota thief. Hehas not robbed the Treusury. ‘Whether he is rightor wrong,Ido not argue; but, whother right or wrong, he bas acted honestly, and with AN BYE SINGLE TO THS PUBLIC GOOD.” And some of my neighbors said: “ Mr. Hinsdale has a private right to think Gen. Garfield honest, if he can; but tet him keep his opiian vo him- self; he has norightto injure the college of which he is President, nshe willdo by bearing public testimony.” Garfield wrote mo from Washington, sadly, but resolutely: ‘The dis- trict is fost, and, #8 soon ag [can closeup my affairs here, 1 am eoming home to capture it." And be did cupture it. He issued bis pam- phicts, “Review of the Transactions of the Credit-Mobilier Company” and **Iocrease of Salaries,” from Washington, and then came on to Hiram, These pamphiots, with a personal speech in Warren sumewhut later, constituted his direct defense. When the next eeupaien opened, he went as usual upon the stump. He rarely referred to the charges against him, and never did unless compelled to do so. He grap- led with the questions of the day. He weat rom county to county, and almost from village to village. His knowledge was so great, his argumentation so Jogical. bis spirit so eurnest, and his bearing, both public and private, 50 manly, that men began to ask, “Cun it be true that Mr. Gartield is such a mun as they tell us?” Prejudice yielded slowly, though surely. Tho next campai, it was the sumo thing over. Garfiela had now tobe returned himself or leave uplic life. After a strugzie that shook the istrict, he was renominated by a three-fourths vote of the Convention. ‘Two yeurs later the resistence was loss, By this time he had WON BACK THE MASSES. Only those who hud been very violent tn oppo- sition now stood out. These bad to be won back one by one. Two years later there wns no op- position whatever; tho district hnd been re- Payments, lon of the National Govern- | captured. Ip 1878 be was retlected by his old- ment to Scienc Sugar Tariff.” ‘Chis may be | time majority, Opposition was now no more. a tedious recital, but tell me what Amorican | Men who bad been most denunciutory now were statesman cin show a better list of titles. the knowledge, and THE HIGH PURPOSE that he brought to its cultivation. Even the and oynical, though He hus been for many years un industrious member of Congress, who has borne a prominent and able part in the work of legislation, has long had a considerable share res of impor- tance, and whose opinions on tho great topics of Nation—that cold, critical, very able journal—says; * ia shaping or carrying wll mens the duy are perfeotly well known. Fellow-citizens, I must dismiss my estimate of have already dismissed my sketch of his Hfe. You will not accept either as com- ‘eat mass of facts at my command lic cannot spexk ot the pious son, the tho the man, as 1 plete. A unused, hopeful brother, faithful friend. Mentor furm,to the obliging ueighbor, Teannot go with him to bi in War, in oratory, in Jife that he chose to follow. There isone branch of my theme thatI must dwell upon a litue longer. I nave spoken of Gem Gartield's INTEGRITY OF CHAIACTER.- Full welll know that this willbe denfed. In fact, the mud-battery haa already opened fire, discharge rr” “Salary- e Golyer Pavement,” and “ Visiting and from this time on we shall hi after discharge of “ Credit-Mobil rape ic) Statesman.” something about these matrers. Tn the first phice, these things will not come the Thurmans, the $ of the Democratic party, but from those inferior men who by in- and fatten upon garbage. e,L must spenk of these from the lips of the I: Baynrds, aud the Pi stinct scek the yutt {nthe second p things in the ageregute. This is not because Shrink from meeting them one by one as counts of an indictment, but from the stress of time and place. In the third place, Lam not going to affirm that ‘Ss acts in all these matters were wise or politic. T shall not now argue the ques- tion on that ground at all, No mun is bound to dinate or friend does or dom. A certrin number Gen. Gartlel defend all that his says, On grounds of of mistakes can be ov looked, especially if man moves through a large life-orbit, 6 long as. we retain our faith in bis moral soundness; but destroy my faith in the foundation of character, andT bave no more to say,—not even for Gen. Garfield: i whl grant. ther, for the present, that it would buve been better for Gen Garnet had be never scen Oakes Ames; had he continued to vote against the salary legisiution of 1873; had he not. a8 an attorney, presented tho merits of the famous wood-puvement to the Board of Public Works; and had he not gone to New Orleans in Granting, for the sake of What then? Are we compelled to cast away our contidence in the son of Orange, nominated the other day in Chicd- the winter of "i6-'7. argument, all this, [ ask gor" Lanswer, “xo, NO!” It was in the winter of 1872-'73 that the Credit- + Mobilier developments aroused and alarmed the ‘They secined to Point to 8 corruption nd not been generally sus- ted. Mr. Gartield’s name, from no Toul fault of his own. appeured in the history. Nu sooner had the House of Representatives disposed of the Mobiller than the snlary legislation was en- The Forty-second Congress had been un- popular: the Mobiller transactions had scandal- the public bad ulways becn jealous of Congressmen voting up their own country, in public life that pected. acted. zed the country; Does itnotread like the table of contents to the speoches of Daniel Webster? You seo that I bavo. mentioned none of the proper party speeches. or ot those made on ceremonial occa- sions. The captions of theese speeches disclose the tleld of his most valuable public fabors since 1806; the speeches themselves show the ability, the Supreme Courtof the United States, to the lecture-huil, or to tho social circle. Jn taking leave of this branch of my discourse, I will eay that Gen. Garfield i3 remurkuble for the balance, harmony, and roundness of his nat- ure. He bas distinguished himself in education, a sislalion; und he might have been distiiguished in almost any walk of I feel bound, therefore, to say warmest in his praise; and it was actually left to the friends who bad stood by bim through all the storm to supply such criticism as every pub- lic man needs to keep him in proper tone, When the Senatorship quesion came up last fall, the Republicans of the Nineteenth District bad but one objection to his election: unwilling- nuss to lose him as their Kepresentative. And, now that he is on the way to the Chair at Wash- ington, { may say no equal population between the two oceans wil! give him a greater majority than this ofd constituency. Xor should | fall to mark how the victory was won,—how the district was recaptured. It was not accomplished by management; James A. Garfield is no“ manager.” -1éwas not by tlatter- fug the peopie und uppealing to popular pas- sions; Gen. Garfleld isno demagog. [t was by the earnest, straightforward exposition of solid political doctrine; it was by the high bearing of the man; inn word, it was by the impact of his mental and moral ‘power upon intelligent and honest minds. I may go further and say, as it was in the dis- trict so it wus in the State. Ina sense, in 1873 he had come to be the Representative of Ohio. He pissed through a State us well ag a district or- deal, and came out approved. My reply to the mud-battery is three-fold: 1. ‘The esteem and confidence of as able and honorable Democrats as thore are in the land. 2. The vindication and indorsement of the great constituoney that was molded by Whittle- sey and Giddings. 3. The vindication and indorsement of the great State of Ohio. But there {fs another and MONE OVERWHELMING REPLY than all those put together. Ido not bolieve that the Chicago Convention could have nom- inated another man who touches the American mind and heart with equal power at somany points. His early lite of toil and hardship, us well as bis sympathy with the working ciasses, endears him te the toiling millions. There is o pathos in that early history that touches the heart of the humble ‘worker. His masterly grusp of Politico-business questions, and his steady enity to sound doctrine in ull the fuancial mad- hess and treachery of the iastten years, gain him the support of merchants, manufaectur- ers,and bankers, The school-texchers of the 1 | land count tim one of their number. Hoe is more than acceptable to the religious men, to temperance people, znd to the ministers of the Gospel. Enter the chill atmosphere of the col- legeund university lecture and recitation rooms, whose masters are not stirred by campaign- stories, but who respect thoroushness, scholar- ship, and noble character, and you find that he is u' favorit. Enter tho bure quarters of the tolling student, who is struggling with his pov- erty and his lessons, and THE NAME OF GARFIELD IS AN INSPIRATION. A friend writes me, the evening of the nomina- tion, from the great University of Michigan: “T cannot refrain from dropping you a line to- night to congratulate you an the well-deserved triumph of your friend, Gen. Garfield. Every- body bere iain high glee. No othor candidate would have been so strong, Now let the Democrats do their best." I do not stand ‘here to vilify’ the Democrats or thelr coming candidato. But this I say with- out expectation of denial from any man of senso or honesty. No mattor who that candi- dato may be ([ hope he will bea good ons), the ballots that are cast for Gen. Garfield will FOP” resent a vast preponderance of what is best in American society, And this is my fourth and finul answer to the muil-battery. Fellow-Citizens: Thave now responded as best Tcould to yourcall. { fear I have spoken much too long; if so, my exeuse must be whnt yet re- mainsunsaid. I beve spoken of Gen. Garfleld’s life, public services, and character. His noble bearing at Chicago was the FITTING CROWN OF HIS ANTE-PRESIDENTIAL LIFE. In the words of another, his fellow-delegates “raised bitin on thoir shields”; and, when the people have raisod hin to the Chair of Washing- we shall have a National Mag- is a Pay; so that everything conspired to ton and Lincoli the public indignation to its depths. “a | isttate of whoulwe shall be proud. ‘Then, roar wave of objurgution, bearing upon its your tallest pole toward the sky! Let it stand breast **Steal.” **Hobber,” “Grab.” start | ffa1and upright as he whom it is meant to ed on the <Atiantic shore, rolied to the | honor. Throw from its top the National banner Pacific and back again. Mr. Garfield bad vi ously opposed the increase of salaries, ponder bilis by a decided vote. gress, he con sequiesce an fous meusure. m= 1 when it was forved upon one of the great appro when the Con- ference Couninittee insisted that it should re- main, when further resistance was either nuga- tory or would involve an extra session of Con- ded tbrt it was his duty to te for the bill with the obnox- in se domg te may have been wrong; that question I do not argue; my propo- that he hus so ably served on many a military and civic field; and, as its folds roll out upon the sweet air of Heaven, let them bear the dear, the bright, the honored name of the widow's son, of Ohio's pride, and of the Nation’s statesman. $$ “I Am All Played Out”? isacommon complaint. If you feel so, get a Package of Kidney-Wort and take it and you will at once feel its tonic power. It renews the healthy action of the kidneys, bowels, and liver, strength sition Is, that and thus pu HE WAS HONEST AND PATBIOTIC. to the weary body” natural life an Porhaps I may be indulged in saying that I was that I was thoroughly ee en in Washington at the time, familiar with all the hi history, and then, as now, [ The careworn and overworked find comfort and strength in Malt Bitters. THE CENSU What Gen. Wright Is Doing to Get a Full Enumeration. How the Floating Population Is Se- * eured—Correcting the Lists, Schedules in the County Clork’s Ofice—Iow to Make Them Available. ‘The newspaper invitation to the public to communicate with or call upon Gen. Wright, Superintendent of the Census, for the purpose of correcting any errors or omissions which his enumerators muy have made, was largely road yesterduy morning, and was the means of direct- inga number of people to the fourth floor of the Government Building, Where peopie couldn't very well go in person, they sent letters or postal-cards, calling attention to the errors or omissions which they desired corrected. ‘These were brought to the attention of the enuimerators, and the complaints, or sugges- thong, rather were duly looked into. This op- portunity to correct the work of the eaumera- tors will be open to the public cither at the Su- perintendent’s office or atthe County Clerk’s of- fice during the whole ot the coming week. Tho work of enumerating is practically fluished, but 80 anxious is Gen. Wright to have bis ‘figures. correct that he hopes everybody will embrace this opportunity to assist bim in’ the Inudable desire while there !s time t doit. After the schedules are forwarded to Washington it will bo tao late for corrections, and the figures so forwarded will have to stand. GEN, WRIGHT INDIGNANTLY DENIES THE ALLE- GATIONS in acertain morning newspaper yesterday that any of his men were losting around beer-saloons aud drawing full pay. It doy of lei dee ior: ing,—which he strongly disbelieves,—it i3 almply impossible for them tu earn full pay, much less todraw it. _Euch enumorator is paid two cents for each name returucd, with the linitution that the pay shall not exceed $4 per day. ‘lo secure 200 numes a day, he says, a very fair day's work, and few bave been able to go veyond it. If an have gotten fifty or sixty namega day, and thin they are tobe palda fullday’s puy. they will find themselves sadly mistaken. In other words, every un wil! be paid for what he has done, and, if anybody bus been louting, after getting a few nares a day, ne will regret it when the day of settlement comes nround. Curious to know justhow the enumerators were able to get THE NAMES OF SAILORS who have their resideuco bere, but who are sel- dom at homeduring the aavigation season, a re- porter yesterduy asked Gen. Wright to explain the manner of gathering them In. SHis expiana- tion was, briefly, that the cnumerators call at every house in their several districts and ascer- tain the number of people living init. Quite a number of tho sailors have farmfies and homes, and upon their families the enumerators depend for their information. If they buve no familfes, they either live in boarding-houses while in port oron the vessels themselves. The boardin; houses are thoroughiy canvassed, and in this way the enumerutors secure the uames of the men who live there, including those who for the time being muy be on the lakes. In addition to all this, the enu- merators visit every vessel in port and pick up the names of thelr crews. In this way they get the names of those who live on board and the names of: those who don’t, and the Ixtter are compared with the results obtained from 4 can- vass of homes and boarding-houses. Thus the enumerators have a ready mode of verifying their statistics. ‘The census practically con- sumes the entire mouth of June, and very few vessels are away from Chicuyo over a fortnight or three weeks. The liability to skip any of tho sailors is therefore yery smull. An honest attempt is made to get everybody, and if some few are skipped it is not a matter, owing to the dilliculties involved, which should occasion uny surprise. The school census men proceed more independently, but Jess carefully. Their census, so fur as this par- ticular class is concerned, is really nothing more nor less than an estimate. They allow, say, 6,500 sailors to this city, and then proceed to divide the number up as they think it ought tobe divided, according to localities. The United States census mun, on the other hand, has to find « name before he can put it down, and the result ix that every name he gets represents somebody, and his work isn’t a mere guess. . _NQ RETURN HAS YET BEEN MADE from the residence of Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Storey. It uppeurs that the cuumerator who went there the other day was a woman, who conducted her- self with becoming politeness, but who was re- fused admittance, us well as the information which it was her business toobtuin. This lady avers that she heard Mrs. Storey, from her posi- tion at the head of tho stairs, tell the servant that she would not see her caller or give her the requisit information. The request to see Mrs. S. was thrice made and thrice refused,—the lfst time with a vicious slam of the door and the turning of the key in the lock. The same lady, while her reception at most houses was decont and even kindly, mut with rebutts and studied impertinence ut the hands of some of those who move in the first circles. Espectally was this the case at the residence of 2 well-known graja and commission man on Indiana avenue, between Sixteenth and Bight- eenth streets. The gentleman himself was not at home, but his son was. and, according to the enumerntor. improved the opportunity to show bow ungenticmanly and insulting he could be. Had the gentleinun himself been at home, the young hopeful would hurdly have attempted such tactics. ad he doue so, however, nobody who knows the futhor for a moment doubts that the son would have been extended over the parent's knee and subjected to an unpleasant corrective. THE COUNTY OLCRK'S OFFICE. , Yesterday afternoon a Trrecnx reporter in search of some vital statistics dropped into the otlice of the County Clerk aud mude an examina- tion of the census returns, whick he found there on file. Commissioner Wright, who has chure of the takmg of the census, divided the city into about 190 districts, and appointed an enumerator to each. The law provides that the returns made by the enumorators shall be placed on exhibition with the County Clerk for correction, emenda- tion, or addition. There were returned up to Jast evening about thirty books, representing as many districts, and not more thau half a dozen people had turned up for the purpose of mak- ing any examination. And if they did, it would do them little good. What is needed in the County Clerk’s office is o large map showing the boundaries and number of each district. With this before him, it will be very easy for the suspicious but patriotic citizen to ascertain whether his nume or that of his im- mediate neighbor has been omitted. All he will have to do will be to find out his district from the map and call for the carresponding book. A reference to the alfabetical list of names will immediately determine whether he bas beoa listed. As it is now the citizen is obliged to wade through a mass of books, reading on tho covers thereof the description of the respective districts, and at. the same time - making a mental calculation of just where his residence is before he can ascer- tain whether he has been counted or not. ‘The books, which only give the namea, sex, color, and age, are generally well prepared, und are & eredi?, though u few are smeared with blots of ink, and on every other page or two is an erasure, Commissioner Wright should sce to it that a’ proper map is bung up in the County Clerk's office as an adequate means of aiding in making the, investigation for which tho daw provides. A WRATHFUL ENUMERATOR. To the Editor of The Chicago Tr{bune. Carcaco, June 19.—An article in a morning paper is calculated to deceive the citizens of Chicago as to the manner in which Commission- er Wright is performing the duties of his posi- tion as Supervisor of the First District of Lli- nois in the enumeration of the United States census; also, as to the ability and disposition of the hard-worked enumerators to perform their part. In the first place, the enumeration is not supposed to be completed to-night, even in the enumeration of the city proper, as some enu- meration districts run higher by several hun- dred people than the original estimate, and by a pronsion of the law or by instructions from the nterior Department the Supervisor is allowed to extend tho time for the enumeradion of such districts 23 are in excess of the original esti- mates. Up to this afternoon, at 3 o'clock, the eopied lists of only about thirty enumeration districts were on file ut the Clerk's office. And then the statement of the paper as to enumerators in many instances having purpose jy avoided whole blocks in their rounds, Is ridic- ulous aud false, I challenge the writer to pro- dacs au ingame of fhe kind. There is an utter absence of motive in an enumerator's doi that, for it is his desire that his district “ pare out” lively io numbers, nadie i reasonable to suppose he hus a greater bill against Cocle Sam if he schedules 3,000 people than if it be only 2,000. -As an instance of the justice or injustice of these complaints which the writer ef wae’ aot ticle claims to bave listened to, a resident of the North Division came into the Clerk's oltice this afternoon and complitined ‘that his family had not been cnumer ated, and that he could not find anywhere in the block a family that had been visited by the enumerator. After making inquiry it was ascertaincd that tho mucle abused enumerator bad not yet completed his t work, and had as yet been wnabi reach the grumbler’s neighborhood. at the man had been reading the unjust article, and took it for granted that the enumerator had completed his w tiled @ copy of his lists. Some enuimernvors oo slower inenumerating than others; but 1 do not believe Gen. Wright will have any fauit to find with the manner iu which his ‘assistants bave done their work after he bas inspected their final reports, the newspaper statement to the contrary notwithstanding. If enumerators had generally received as little encou: ment in their work as the enumerator of the district in which the editor of that paper rea‘des reveived at the hands of'lus family, they would not get JUNE 20, i880—SIXTEEN PAGES through with thelr work In twelve months. I am oredibly informed that his family utterly re- fused to give the required information, and or- dered the enumerator from the door. The young man, being of a rather timid turn of mind, re- tired, and obtainea his information elsewhere. The editor must certainly know that it is not within the choice of any inhabitant of the United States whether he shall or shall not fur- nish the information required by the enumer- ator, The fourteenth section of the Census law says: nat each and every person more than 20 years of age, belonging to any family residing in any enumerution district, and, in case of the absence of the heads: and other members of any such party, then any agent of such family, shall be and each of them hereby is required, if thereto requested by the Superintendent, Supervisor, or enumerator, to render a true ac- count, to the best of his or her knowledge, of every person belonging to such family in the various particulars required by luw ;and who- ever shut willfully fail or refuse shall be guilty of amisdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall forfeit and pay a sum not exceeding $100.’ It is well for Mr. Storey that he did not fall into the hands of some one of the plucky enumcrators in the employ of the Government, else he might have been the cause of a little sensation. a ENUMERATOR SEVENTY-TutRD DiStutcr. THE RAILROADS. EAST-BOUND FREIGHT SHIPMENTS There has been quite an improvement in east-bound freight shipments by rail during the past week. The shipments for the week just closed amounted to 47,099 tons, against 33,300 tons the week previous, an increase of 13,798 tons. The cause of this heavy increase in business was the advance in rates by the lake lines until they reached figures that made it as cheap to ship by rail as by lake. Aweek ago corn rates to Buffalo by lake were quoted at eight cents per bushel, the highest figure reached at this season for many years. Of course, lake shipments have fallen off in consequence, and they would have suffered still worse had there not been a material reduction in rates during the week. Corn rates by lake were quoted yesterday at about 6144 cents. a falling-off of about 14 cents from the hight figures quoted. The shippers succeeded in breaking the lake rates by starting rumors about a week ago that the railroads were doing an enormous business. It was claimed that one road alone had con- tracted for the transportation of 109,000 bush- els of grain in one day. This, of course, was greatly exaggerated, but it is true that the Michigan Central has contracted for quite a large amount of grain for Europe, and the other roads havealso done a much heavier business than before, when lake rates were more reasonable. The Michigan Central has succeeded in getting low ocean rates, which enabled it to make coutracts for a larger amount of business than it could have done otherwise, and this road is conse- quently rapidly reducing its shortage in its east-bound percentage. ‘The reduction in Jake rates during the past week is Bardly sufficient to stop the grain movement by rail, and the railroads will continue to do a heavy business and the vessels a light one until the latter sce fit to make a still further reduc- tion in rates, which, however, is hardly prob- able, asthe vessels in the grain business independent of the railroads are very few, many of the larger craft having engaged in the ore and coal business, and those that re- main will try to get as high rates as possible in order to make up for the losses they suf- fered in previous seasons. The following statement will show the amount of business done by the various Eastern pool lines from this city, exclusive of the business done by the Chicago & Grand Trunk, which is not yet reported in the Board of Trade statements, although this road is working now with the pool lines, and makes reports to the Trunk-Lins Commis- sioner: Grain, | Prov's, Flour,|tons of tons of | Total Bris.'|200015.|20001,| “tons. Michigan Central..! 7,778) 16,402] 1,118] "18,987 o Shore 45h] gue] 2060) 12> Fort Wayui 4,663] 6,285] S78y| 10,548 Pan-Handle. 50] _"g6u] 2186] Bz Baltimore & Oiiio..| 60] 1,540] Tani] 2 Total 18,202] 84,096] 10201] 47,009 KANSAS PACIFIC BONDS. Lawrence, Kas., June 19.—The important scase of B. W. Lewis, Jr., vs. the Kansas Pa- | cific Railway Company to foreclose a mort- gage and secure income bonds, came on for hearing to-day in the District Court of this city... On the part of Lewis it was alleged that the net earnings of the road were appliable to the payment of the interest on the bonds, while, on the other nand, the Company alleged that the bonds and mortgage were void, for the reason that they were issued without any consideration to a pool composed of contract- | ors and Directors of the Company. Mr. Shipley, ot St. Louis, and Mr. Green, of Lawrence, appeared for the plaintiff, and, upon the case being called, dismissed the suiton the part of che Trustees, and asked to have the Court dismiss the whole case, but the Company, by its counsel, opposed .such dismissal, and demanded a trial upon its counter claims, asserting that } the Company was ready to prove that the bonds and mortguges were illegal and void; the Company was annoyed by suits in various localities upon the bonds, and de- manded an immediate trial, that it might establish the invalidity of the bonds, and so be tid of vexatious suits. The Court de- cided that the Company had a ‘right to have the question of the validity of the bonds tried upon the pleadings as they stood, although the Trustee had dismissed nis part of the suit; but, upon the claim of Mr. Ship- Jey that Lewis was not ready for trial and desired to make further reply, the cause was continued till the October term. FAST TRAINS. The various Western roads centering in this city change time to-day. All the roads will bring in their through trains, which used to arrive at ‘about 3:45 p. m., at about 3:30 p. m., to make connection with the fast trains to the East which leave liere at 3:30 p. m. The Kansas City & Colorado express and the Pacific express of the Burlington will all come in at 2:30. There is but little change in the time made by the ether trains of this Company. ‘he Chicago & Alton Denver ex- Press, which used to come in at 3:40 p. Will hereafter arrive at 2:30 p.m. ‘Shere is no alteration in the time of the other trains on this road. The Illinois Central changes the time of its Dubuque train, which will come in at 2:45 p.m, the Atlantic Express of the Chicago & Northwestern and the Omaha train and the train from the Missouri River points of the Rock Island will come in at.2:30 p.m., and the Davenport train will leave Davenport half an hour earlier than before, and will get here half an hour sooner. THE SOUTHERN WAR. The Cincinnati Gazette has the following additional news regarding the great contest between the Chicago, St. Louis & New Orleans and the Louisville & Nashville Rail- roads: The coils are tightening with fearful rapt around the great Louisville © Nastviliy ne tem. We mentioned yesterday that the Chica- go, St. Louis & New Orleans had entered the field to crush this combination, and wera abundantly able to enlist the codperation of some of the Louisrille & Nashville allies, or, if Need be, do issingle handed and alone. Notice bad peen served upon Br. Newcomb that after Sunday next all intercourse between the lines would cease, and a new order of things and new combinations would be made, in which and to which the Louisville & “Nashville folks would not be invited. Yesterday the move was made by a combination by and between the Onio & Mississipp: and Chicago, St. Louis & New Or- Jeans, whereby both roads agree to work all Southwestern business to or from Cincinnati and Louisville via Odin. A throueh sleeper to New Orleans will be put on from Cincinnati and Louisvilie with the express understanding that it shall be landed in New Orleans as quick as the quickest. This new route is. only about twenty-five miles the longest, but when the excellence of the roadbed and equipments js taken tato consideration, {t is fully 100 miles the shortest time route.’ Hith= grto the Ohio & Mississippi has been one of the Louisville & Nashville's ‘principal feeders, be sides buving all the influence of that line to hetp it got business out of Cincinnati, and with no opposition at ail in Loutaville. This ts ail changed. The Ohio & Mississippi will not work against the Louisville & Nashville in this city, but will entor the field at Louisville for its shacs of the New Orleans business, It is needless to say that this Odin route combination is the se- verest blow Mr. Newcomb has had from ai quarter. 1ts failure to makeanyt Te “agreoment’ with the Weauern © amare senger business they bonsting! ‘Absolute control of This th platmed give up willingly if they will, but give ig up they must or carry it for nothing, And thig ig nocall. ‘The Cinciunati Southern, Alapat & Great Southern, and Meridian & Vickre Roads will not be idle spectators: on the woe trary, they will be [important factors in the pions to elther put a stop to Mr. Newcomb’s arbitra and reckless policy or annihilate him, The si Hons between these Itnes and the Chicane’ Louls & New Orleans Hond will be of tne ey8s friendly nature. Every facillty will be geet thom, ‘and their businoss will be torwssie? promptly and with dispatch from Jackson, Ag soon as they can arrange their time through sleeper will be put. on viu Chattssee,® making close connection at Jackson wine ee Odin route train for New Orleans. In additye tothis the Marietta & Cincinnati and Baltim & Ohfo will naturally want ro takoa hand poo? fight. and will do it by putting on throngy at? ers from New York. Bultimore, and Wane to connect with the Odin route trains in this city. ‘The Baltimore & Obi sight of thelr” froleht interesta nyo in this new fled They app ey in tho habit of tosing sigur Tt C4 anything that has a dollar in it foe the: outlook at this time is nor at all encouragie> 2 the Louisvilio & Nashville interest, bet secr will they or can they do? ‘To enter into a Sere against these powerful combinations woulh ee sheer folly. Defeat would be an absolute cere tainty, and to submit without ancffors ore atte of resistance would be cowardly. They would, become the laughing-stock of the whole Taile road world, But ft is thelr own fault: they oc eted everything in sight. They have b, reckless in their seeming greatness. The; have gone beyond the bounds of all well dehaee business principles. Thev have become roud, dictatorial, tyrannical, and sellsh, disregarding the rights of everybody in their bold march tor conquest. But they veaturod out too far, recklessness is recoiling upon their own ‘They are between the inillstones, and the stones are grinding. Verily, the way of the greg sor is hard. bebe MEMPHIS & CHARLESTON, Mempuis, Tenn., June 19.—At a meeting of the Board of Directors of the Memphis & Charleston Railroad, held in this city to night, Vice-President C. M. McGhee re signed. E. M. Cole, President of the Virgi ia & East Tennessee Railroad, was elect to trorot the ehtire consolidated line eo ge e phis to Bristol. =a ITEMS. ‘The friends of Mr. James Brown, the pop. ular General Western Passenger Agent of the New York Central Railroad in this city, will be pained to learn that he is confined to his bed by a serious attack of inflammatory rheumatism. It is hoped that he will pull through all right, and soon be abl again attend to his duties. x id ‘The Union Pacific Railw: pany about to build two more ines. com ee north from Cheyenne through the Powder country'and Big Horne mining districts to Fort Phil Kearney. Construction from Chey- enne to Platte will commence about April L This road will be known as the Wyoi Black Hills & Montana. ‘The other has ii initial point at Echo, on the Union ey and Pat penetrate 15 Fark City, the centre of ie Ontario mining district. It will the Summit County Railroad, be called Mr. J. C. Gault, General Mana: H. C. Townsend, General Panenger ay aa of the Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific, were in the city ‘yesterday to mike arrangements for assuming control of the Chicago, Pekin & Southwestern Railroad, which fs been ac- quired by their Company. The road is now in the hands of a Receiver, who will proba- bly be soon discharged to alinw the Wabas! to take charge.. The road runs from Joliet to Pekin and Peoria, and was one of the original Hinckley roads. It is to be run in connection with the Toledo, Peoria & Wap saw Branch of the Wabash. OBITUARY. COL. DAVID L. PHILLIPS. Special Dispatch to The Chteago Tribune. SPRINGFIELD, IIl., June 19.—Col. David Phillips, Postmaster of Springfield, died thiz morning after a fingering and painful ilfness. Mr. Phillips wag born in Williamson County, Oct. 27, 1823, and wasa distant relative of Wendell Phillips. His father, William Phit- lips, moved to St. Clair County when Col. Phillips was quite young, and there heres ceived a limited eduction; but he was all through his life a close student and deep thinker, and, although self-taught, was an. unusually well-informed man. When he, reached his majority he. was ordained as a Baptist minister, hav- ing been a_ pupil of the Rev. John . Peck, his first charge being at Elkton, in Washington County. Subsequently, ro Phillips had charge of the Baptist Church af Jonesboro, Union County. ina few years he gave up preaching. and entered the service of the Iinois Central Railroad, removing to Anna, and remaining in the employment of the Company for many years. In 1860, Mr. Phillips was a candidate for Congress against John A. Logan, and in 1861 he was appoint- ed United States Marshal for the Southern District of Illinois, by President Lin- coln, hol the position until the death of ‘the latter, and di a period when its responsibilities were una sually great. In 1877 Col. Phillips was ap- inted Postmaster by President Hayes, held the office at the time of his death. In 1863 he became chief proprietor and editor of the State Journal, a position which brought him into prominence in State politics affairs, Col. Phillips was a man of strong conyic tions, always positive, fearless and outspoken in the expression of his opinions, and an unusually vigorous and forcible writer. In 1366 he assumed the Presidency of the Belle ville outaern Illinois Railroad, known as the Cairo Short Line, which was built un- der his management, and continued Presi- dent until now. In 1876 he was a candidate for Congress against William M. Springer, iti re ctor fight and strong canvass, and reduc Springer’s majority more than ‘The funeral will occur at 2 o’clock to-mor Tow afternoon. Col. Phillips has been fai ing for months, and his death has been ex- pected for weeks. Paul Selby, of the Journal, is talked of as Mr. Phillips’ successor. PROF. HIRAM COLLIER. Special Dispatch to The Chicago Tribunte Lrxcoty, Neb., June 19.—The sad news Was received here to-day of the death of Prof. Hiram Collier, Professor of Experi- mental Physics in the Nebraska State Uni- versity, which occurred at San José, Cal, this morning. Prof. Collier was 48 years old, graduated at Hillsdale College in March, S64, was afterward Professor in the samé college, and also in the Pennsylvania State Agricultural College. He came here in 1876. He was a faithtul worker, and_ brought om consumption by overwork, of which dis he died. GEN. JOUN A. SUTTER. WaAsuinctox, D. C., June 19.—Gen. John A. Sutter, the discoverer of gold in Califor- nia, died here yesterday. He had been sick about a week with inflammation of the kid- ne} His aged widow resides at Litiz, Lan- caster County, to which place his remains will be taken for interment. J. BRADBURY. Sr. Louts, Mo., June 19.—A dispatch from Fairbury, Ul, says: “J. Bradbury, an torial writer on the New York Tribune under Horace Greeley, and later one of the assocl- ate editors of the New York World, died hers Thursday evening, ,gged 69 years.” A ——— A Novel Invention for the Preservation of Life at Sea. Boston Advertiser. ‘The question of absolute sufety on the Sound or ocean steamers is likely to be answered 5000" er than wasexpected. A patent has recently been issued, and {s only waiting a proper oppor tunity to be developed, which is believed tomecs all the conditions of safety and is likely to the sea of many of its horrors. It is 2 Boating Vessel, in the shape of an inverted ballot: which Is entirely covered, the entrance belnz by & man-hole in the upper part, reached from & latform wholly sunbundiog the vessel, an! ‘rom which stnall iron ladders drop down to tbe water. Inside, arranged around the widast par are seats and berths, and under the covered bo tom is space for provisions. Ventilation is pro- ¥ided for by an ingenious and novel device, The boat fs udapted for shoal or deep water by 8, last weight which is raised or lowered from within. ‘tis furnished with keel and rudier- Its peculiar feature is Its method of motion. This is automatic. [t is obtained by wave or wheels attached to shafta which are connected with a small propeller. ‘The principle of th wheels is that whatever way the wind blows or the waves move the motionis always in the same direction and under the control of the rudder, ‘The boat can be made of metal, and the size ca2 por Bat i so weyers for rown, they are allowed the sam: Southern, no more or less. in that tere tee Dothing but their temper, neither did they gain anything. But by this Odin route arrangement they will have to surrender, whether they will ornot, the very cream of the freight and pas- be regulated by the needs of the vessel to which it belongs. It is proof against fire, always rides vertical. is easily dropped from the ship, andoss be bandied by any one who knows how to turn & It 18 simple in construction and pee fectly safe in the roughest sea. The invenwr the Rev. Dr. Haskina, of Cambridxe.