Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, April 18, 1881, Page 4

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Entered at the Post-Ofica at Cheago, 1l as Stconde he Clase Matter. 3 For tho benefit of our patrons who desire to sen aingle coples of TIE TRINUXE through tho mall, wo Rive Lioratrith the transiont rate of postaio: Fixht ana twolro Pagb Fapore T leot aga Vaperocses o Forelg Etght and Twolvo Pago Pw Ao SER G TRIBUNE BIFANCIT OFFICEs. — Ao CnicAgo TRINUNE hna catablished branch * ofices for the recolyt of Aubscriptions and ndvertiso~ ments as follows: " NEW YOUK~itoom 2 Tribune Dulldiog, F.T, M- FADLES, Manager, . GLAZGOW, Scotland—Allan's American News Ageuoy, i Itenfield-st. LONDON, .Eng~Ametican Kxchange, 449 Strand, HENRY F. (1LL1G, Agont, WASHINGTON, D. =101 PR AMUSED . Tnverls's Vhentre, Teotrorn streot, corner of Monro o Yhoridan, the Tragedian. *Louls NXL” Hooley's Theatre, Randolph streot. betwoen Clark ond La Ratle, Ene gagoment of Hobson and Crano, *A. D. 1" AcVicker's Theatre, i Madison streot, betwaen Stato sad Desrborn. ""The Logion of Honor.' 3 @rand Oper 181k street, opposit now Court-Touso, Xnguge- < moot of D'QOyley Carta & Rice's Comle Opera Cume pany. “Bilje Taylor” : ' Qlymple Thentre. Clork sireet, batweon Lako nnd Kandolwh, Ene gagomont of Snelbaker's Comblnution, Vartety on- Academy of Muslo. Fatated street, near Madlson, West Side, Varloty entertainmont. e e e MONDAY, APRIL 18, 1881, RS e il Ml ait ey BRI e CooLr winds with rain or snow, followed by clenring weather, for this reglon to-day, s— . T'ue complets restorntion of Candahar to Afghan control Is et for next Friday, when the Ameor's infautry will enter the city, nnd the formnl transfer by the British commander will tako plnce, ey T, hins beon deelded by the Brickmakers’ Assoclatlon of this clity thal no advance upon the wages of Inst fall be dewannded, wages having been ralsed then, and belng now at'n satisfactory fignre, A sensible conelusion. - Di, Mmnas O, Ilxynock, o prominent and highly respeeted physioian of this city, dled . suddenly yesterday morning of heart dis- ense, Ilis denth will be sincerely nionrned DLy thanedioal profession and a largo circlo - of frjends. “ THEY nro,getting terribly nfrald of Nihil- .+, ism In Rowmnania, as tho Chamber of Depu- ties hag enncled n very sweeping mensure of i} - protection, Tho law nuthorlizes tho Govorn- “« b nient to expel all forelgndrs oven suspected of entertaining designs dangerous to public Becurlty. . Turne seoms to be no probability of o break in the Senatorial | deadlock In Wagh- Ington this week. On the contrary, there is & prospeet. of speeelies. from Senater Ed- munds, Frye, Conger, and Jnrrison, and 1tis expected that Lord Roscog will alr his views and his'grlevances atan chrly day, Tho out- ook I8 far from encouraging. Cor. FrepErick D, GrANT has tendered liis resignation as an officer of the United ‘States nrmy, 1is resignation as an offleer of Gen. Sherldan’s staff has boen alrendy ne- cepted, and his resignation of his position in the arny -will doubtless bo accepted by the i+ Secretary of War. Col, Grant has ncceptod o position”In ‘connection with n Southern 4 rallronds . 1 “~Puxlarge’ space occupled In our columns 4f' , this morning by ‘descriptions of’ Enster ser- i By " vlces in the varlous churcles of Chleago yes- terdny tetls how joyously and generally tho grent Christian festival was celebrated In this clty. Besldes the nimerous nccounts of / decorations and ceremoninls there will be « found Interesting sermons approprinte to the . -oceagion by Prof. Swing nud the Rev, Dr, and con in Clnclunati * wasTun *wide open” yesterday, notwith- - slanding & proclumation by the new *Ie- +form? Mayor that all such places must bo closed., 1t would appenr that the new Mayor 1s a-radleal Sunday-obsefvance man, for, nithongh the law ‘was flagrantly and definnt- ly violated under his’ very nose, no arrests were madé.’ It is snid, however, that the Iny-breakers will be taken In to-day, ’ e e—— + A1 efforts to induce the ey of Tanis to peacetutly permit French troups to enter his domaln have proved unavalling, Ilo re- fuses to give his consent to n procoeding which, in his judgment, has as its ultimate purposs the permanent absorption of ‘Tunls “ns o part of, the French posscssions fwAf- rien, and announces that ho will not take the responaibllity for tho fatal consequences eer- .tain- to .follow. the French invasion.- A French gunbont crilsing nlong tho ‘Cunistan * coast In the vieinity of Turbarkah was fired « onfrom n small-fort on shiore, but whether the, fort wns manned by Khoumnls orby o ' peguiar Tunislan garrison Is not known, e Aonarmo aud {utoresting account of the greot flods In Dakots, Towa, and Nebruska {3 glven -In our telographic dispatchios this . worning. Tho corrospondent hus undor- taken to suminarize the tremendous dumage ‘. intligtéd by high water nccompaniud by great Jeu gorges, and to present & view of the pitus otioli 8g J¢ nppenrs along the banks of the i Aftgsourt -Rlver and s tributarles, and has succeeded In giving - o compro- henslve necount of the sufferiugs .and losses sustalned Dby tho unfortunate residents of the overiiowed districts, The comparatively small destruction of human, Sito Is n gratifying feature of the cuse, but the suffering, privations, and Joss of homes aud propeity have been something nlmost .. - unparalleled. i+ e, intelligence of the sudden death yesterdny morning from apoplexy of’Col. Tlenry W, Farrar will bring gvlet and regret o an exceptlonally wide circle of frlends andpequalntances in this elty, Possessed in . nmerked dexree of the sociul, business, aud nenly qusalitles which winand hold friend- ship, Col, Furrar was ox‘ae of the best-known and most popular gentlemen of his nge In Chicago. Jinving served with dis- tinction ns an officer In the Union Army during the War of the Rehellion, Col, Farrar enme to this city soon after the advent of pence, and was for many years Tdentified with the Evening Jowrnalas)ts Dbusiness manager, Ilohad latterly heen oc- cupled $n looking nfter his mining Interests, and nt the thne of hls sudden taking-oft secmed to have before him a bright and prosperous future, A moro extended skoteh ot his lifa will bo fotind In another column, e . NotAnrw: ns ‘I'ng Cricaao 'Trinuse of Suinday, April9, was In 1ts sizo and varied charncteristies, Tnge Tumune of Sunday, Avpril 10, far surpassed tho Issue of the week provious. Yesterdny’s Tinusr consisted of twenty-four pages of seven eolumns each, and contained seventy-seven columns of ad- vurtisoments, Over 60,000 completd coples wers printed and sold, ten and one-half tons of swhite pper belng used for the pure pose. This maminoth editlon, it should bostated, was lssued In the regular course of husiness, and without any extra effort or waplurgn” whatsoever. The immense vol- ume of ndvertiaemonts eame to tho pnper without solteitation, persistent “drmmining,” or reduction of regular rates, * They cama ns the whids come, of their own neeord and un- sollefted. Ttwaa not necessary to hnnt them up nnd take them at half, third, and quarter rates In ‘order to mukea show. These ad- vortlseriients constituted tho voluntary ox- pression of n vast local” community which embraces both the elass haviug somethini to sell and the clnss ablo to buy—-n community which In npeculiar sense relles wpon Tk Trinuss a8 a_medinm of Intercommunica- tiom, ‘Tug; Senatorinl eauens whish decreed the “(endluek? was run by half a dozen mem- bers who bullied the others, Fanlse reasons swere glven for the ndoption of the resolution that no more nominations sent in by the President should be ncted upon until the Domocrats surrondered the clerkshivs, door- keepers, and clonk-room waiters, and until Gorham and Riddleberger wero Installed In oftice, ‘The pretense alleged for this resol- tlon was that it woutld resnit in breaking up the Bourbon party In the South If Riddle- berger, Readjuster, was made Sergeant-nt- Arms, - 'The bulk of the Senators swallowed this ubaurd and puerile Iden, and have neted on it for n inonth or more, refusing to con- fiem any, of the President’s nominees until the Demoerats first consont to the clection of Tiddichergor, Readjuster. As It is o matter of indifference to the Democrats whetherany of Qarfield’s nominees are ever coufirmed, they refuse to_nagree to tho clection of Ma- hone's man for Sergeant-at-Arms. But the swheel within o wheel in the Republican eau- cus was Lord Roscoe, who s opposed to tho contirmation of Judge Robertson ns Colleetor of New York. ' 1lle snw that, If the Sonaic teted, Robertson would' bb confivmed by large majority, . ‘The only way ho cotild stop s confirmatlon was ‘to provent the Senate from golng in‘o executive sesston to act upan appolutments, and to keop the Sennto from golng Into executive session he got up tho scheme to force tho election of Senute clerks, doorkeepers, splttoon-clenners, apple-wonien, ate., at this extra®session, and before any more . appaintiments of tho Presldent were ncted upont, 1T started tho absurd ldea that tho electlon of Riddleberger In ndvance of all other business was the only thing nocessary to smasli; tha '*Solid. South,” and that, 1€ o single excoutive - ses- sion of tho Sennto were held before this wag done, the Solid South could ‘not be smashed! It Is this weak Invention that the. New York * Boss” has palmed. ol on such ‘of the public ns were stmple-minded enongh to swallow it. Since tho middlo of March lie hns mafhtalned the Senatorial deadlock, stopped nll business, and prevented the con- firmation not only of Judge Robertson, but of 950 other appolntees of the President. Such 1s the true Inwardness of the wholo matter, ———ee . THE ANIMUS OF TEE BOUBBOR SEN- ATORS, 5 The treatment of Senator Mahono by his Demooratic nssoclntes 1 o revival of planta- tlon manners and Insolent personal bulldoz- ing of twenty yenrs ngo. The determined attitude of the North In Congress, tho reso- luto stand made by the Northorn people, - the War of the Rebellion, nnd the respect which that war engendered for the Northern mud- sills, cooled down this Southern insolence, and the orack of the Whip has not beon heard for n long tinie, nor the bombustlé thrents of the chivalry. The samo policy of intimida- tlon, bulldozing, and odtracism, however, has been brought to bear upon Senntor Mahone, and with mora than ordinary insolence,’ be- canso he happons to come from that section. ‘The wholo policy of the attack, conimenced by Ben 11111 and followed up o swiftly and fiercely by the Bourbons, ina been to smirch Iils personnt eharacter. The attack has not been made upon political issues, nor has any arguinent been mudo upon the differences of opinion. The Senatehasalwaysbeen regurded as tho forwm whero great Nattonal questlons are discussed coollyand dispasalonately, aud where courtesy in debate and’ polite treats ment of politieal opponents nlways obtained, Nothing of this kind has characterized the trestiment of Senator Mahone, la hns chal- longed them to o diseussion of tho lssues, but the only rejoinder hng beon the foulest personal abuse, commenelng with the charge of vennlity, covortly and consequently cow- ardly, made by Ben Il and euding with the refusal to allow him o palr, which s tantamount to_ personal ostracism. There has not been such a cracking of whips, such un indecent displny of plantation Insolelica and hombast, such » torrent of foul personnl abuse, slice the days of the alaveholders, ‘It has not been lessened by the fenr of the - Bourbons to stand up in a manly fashlon and make' the charges squarely to ' his face, They have dealt n Innuendoos and’ In- direct nllusfons, nlways the ready ro- sort ot cowards, - ‘They have eracked thelr whips ubout him, but have been careful not ta hit”him, ‘They hnrdly care to divectly provoke a man who hus proved his courngo upon the battlefleld, but this does not lessen tho fufamy aiul dishonor of thelr course, 'Tho gawe will' not work, however, T'hnes have changed within the Just quarter of ncentury, Mo hinve changed durlug tho snme time, ‘Tho old race of timid politiclans who accepted tho lash without complaiut or oboyed Southorn dictation to-escape It hins pussed’ awny, The \War not only emanel- puted the negro from slavery, but the Noith from the sluveholder's whip-lnshing, . ‘The dny has passed when Northern men con bo coerced Ly Juthnldution, by personal threats, or by blackguardisin, Senator Mahons hns held his ground pationtly, and yot without allowing any lmputution 1o’ yest upon his porsonal’ cournge. . Much . ss the Southern Tonrbona would lke te provoke him fnto & dquel, If they wers suro they could take s We, It Js yvery doubtful whethor thoy will go to that length with .n. nmmn - who courageously’ (lefies the’ “whole ' howl- ing paok, Much snd nsslduously au they Lave strlven o' Intimidato the Republican side, no white featlior has yet been'shown, Tho ranks. are . unbroken and tiie Southern borbast, and braggadocelo, aud Insolence nra waated upon the alr of the Seuate Chumber, Mepnwhlle these Democrats who so. vio- lently object to Senntor Mahone’saction with the Itepublicans make o objection to Senns ho represents a great Repub- Ilean State, heeause he nets with thom, and Senator Davls, oncoe a Republiean, and owing alt his politienl clevatin to Republienus, s treatedd with conrtesyamd enjoys Criendly interconrse with the Republican sido of the Senate Chamber. No whip Is eracked oyer Iiis portly form, 1o taunt s Intrled at him, no chargo i3 mado that he sold out to Detno- flinls, no Republiean refuses {o vale with . 7 “'lic ennso of thisdavilish treatment of Sen- ator Mahono Is not difilealt to find, 118 be- canso he hag dared to break with “Bourboi- fsm, They aro dolermined to mnfutath the Solld South and Ity eornor-stont of State- soverelgnty, add that no Southérn inai shatl appear In Congress ns a¥ Ropublioan without lostng his soclal stntus and being branded and manltronted In such o mauner that 1ife in the South would be intolerabla and his thtlu- ence would beloste ‘This Is the nnimus of the attack upon Sonator Mahmie, and tho at- tnek hus been all the more virulent Leeause S enator Mnhone Lins 1ot cowered beneath it Without proclaiming himself a Republican, 10 stands opposed to Southern . Bourbonism, and will not necept s bribes or notleo its thrents, and’ in that nosition there fs even moro danger to tho Solld South than if he had deelared himsotf at the ontset a Repub- fiean. 1tis nnold, old game tho Bourbons are playhug, but nt Inst they find it does not work, ‘I'ie New York Tribuna very aptly charnctorizes the situation In the following paragraph 1t I Just this Dourbontam that Senntor Matone and his m\rll)' in Viegiinin have attucked in its citadol, it is Bourbonism that stande at bay to- day §n the Sonnte of the Unlted Statas, obstriict- ng tht reguinr ordor of procoedings, and doliy- ing publie business for tho anke of putting down thoe only formidable insurreation tuat lins over arison 1 1ta awn ranks, The Bourbon ton- ators huve n \n:r{l clenr comprehenslon of tho situntion and of tho peril to thuir . puwer that it Invalves, Up to the present time thoy have had no dificaity in putting down any symptoms of a rigligg ugninst thons, Whon au Individunl pro- teeted pgainst continuing the control of tho pal- ftics of tho Houthorn States 1n tho hunds which had braught so much wischicf upon thom, and waro workig in the stno direction with plr- poses unchanged, thoy huve eitier brought him baek, na Senator’ Brown, of Georgin, virtually confyssou that they did him, by muklng b un- comfortible and unsafo for him, or they bave simply Inbeled him ns l(u]:ubllonn. with the ime- rncn\ jon of renegade and traltor which they ive contrived thut the niune stinll carry,—us it thy cuso of Lonustroot and Mosby,—snd de- stroved his infitence, Thoy hbave dpparently settied one thig, und that 15 that no mau can ag n rule be sufe i the purault of hla business, or buve any soclal recognition, or stund 8 n rop- utable eltizen, who 18 kuown 18 o ltopubliean, or who votes tho Republiean tiekot, o question of readjustment long ngo passed out 8¢ the controversy. 1tisnow n question of Bonrbonism simply, The Solid- South nud State-sovereignty Lourbbns seo the danger nhead when one' man boldly breaks from the ranks and lins tho conrage to stay out, spite of cajolery and whip- crackipg, and holding both in equal con- tempt. 1lence thelr fury, C—————— . THE BUBPRISE AT SHILOH. Clen, Sherman’s recent nddross nt the mill- tary reunion In Cinelnnafl, tenying that tho Union army at Shilol was taken by surprise on tha morning of April #, 1862 hns **sur- prised” s0 many oye-withesses that many valunble contributions have been made to tha history of the avent, Qen. Sherman wns n West-Pointer, was second In command to Grant, and had charge of the army at' Plitsburg Landing -while Grant was at Sgvannab, nina miles down the river, A “surpriso’ of tha urimy, thorefore, refiects upon him much more soverely than on Uen, Grant. Shermun wroto . letter to Grant on. Saturday atternoon, Aprll 6 Speaking of o sninll skirmish between his .outposts and the Hebels, in. which. he. lost twelve men and took ten prisoners; ho snys: 41 Infer that the enemy Is In some conslder- able foree at Pen Ridge [Monterey—nabout ten miles boyond his Mues on the' rond to Corlnth]l. Yesterdny morning thoy erossed n brigade of two reglinents of Infantry, one of cavalry, and one battory of artillery, ta the ridges on which the Corinth rond lles. ‘Thoy haited tnelr Infautry nta point five miles in my front, sent a dotachment to tho north of 0wl Creok, and the cavalry down to our front.” Thla report to Grant completely lulled. him to tho Impending dnnger, for at that vory moment Gen, Alvert Sidnoy Johnston wns formimg his lines of battle fn- Sherman's front, 40,000 strong—threo lnes of 13,000 ench, with 5,000 reserves, and 5,000 of For- rest’s cavalry on the wings. It was the whola Confedernte army which was unfold- ing tn hifs front all day Snturday, and he did not kuow It though he was specinily warned of hmpending danger by Cols. Worthington, Buckland, and Hildebrand, Col. Buekland aays In his report that on Saturdny he found tha roads on his entire front swarming with Tebel cavalry, and that his pickets had dis- covered tifantry and srtillery, ** Several thines during tho day I'reported these facts to Gon. Sherman, It was belleved through- out Shermaw’a division that thera was o Iarge Rebol forco immediately in our front.” MMajor Ricker wrote ns follows: * Gen. Sher- man asked me what was up on tho front, Itold him I lndmet the advanco of Benu- rogard’s army; that he was ndvancing on us, Gon, Shermnan sald it could not bo possible; Boauregard was not such-n fool ns to leave Iifs buse of operatjons- and nttnel us In ours, 1t wasa merereconnolssnncs in force,—noth- ing more,” Gen, Buell sald in his testimony that, So far au preparation for hattla 1s con- corned, 1o army could well have been taken mora by surprise than wns the Army of the 'Fennessec on the 0th of April,” Doth Sherman ‘and Grant belloved at that moment that the Rebel army was at Coriuth, twenty mlles away; und that only o brigade of Itebels was watehing nnd demonstrating in tholr frout, "The attack on Sherman noxt morning was ns unexpeeted as n thunderbolt from . the clear sky, nomatter what he snya about it now, - Gen, Grant hlmsolt* hins nover denled that ho was taken by surprise, After yecolving tho report from Sherman abave quoted, he wrote to Gen, Ilnlleck, In St Louls, hls Commander-in-Chlef, o follows: BAVANNAIG, Aprll B.=The main forco of the aymy is ntCorinih, with troapsat diferunt polnts east, [Tho mnin force of the urm:{‘m. that vory momont wad doploying iy lino of battls within nu hour's muorch of his cnomupment] oo o Ruell wili be hora bimsell to=tluy, Bowme akir- mishing Look piaco botween our outguards yov- terday and to-day, 1n o subsequont dispateh the' sdme doy (April 6) ho writes to Ilalleck, stating that *Our outposts have been atincked by the ciiemy, apparently in considernble force, I Immediately - wdnt ‘up, but found all quis ot 5 » » ‘ThieRcbels had with themthree pleces of tirtillery, and some- cavalry and Infantry, ~how much cannot Le esthmated, " I have searcely tho falntost Ilen of an atiack (gen- el one) belug mado upon us, but glll ba propared should such n thing tako place,” Grant nd Sherman eyidéntly expectod some skirmishing on outposts, but nothing more, Not u treo was cut dowis not a rod of abat- Is was bullt; net o spadeful of earth was hrown up; ho defonslve measures were takon; uo order of baitle was pianned; no asslgnment’ of “positlons for divisions’ and brigndes wis made,~nothing beyond throw- ingg out some pickets n fow hundred yards in tho woods In front,” © © . When Gen, Grantat Savarinal wasnyoused Ly the soundsof cannou-firing arouid Shitoh about - sunrlse—nine uiles’ distangsas the crow flies, but twoelvo wiles by’ river.and Jand—ho supposed 1t Lo be 1o morp than s reconnolasanece o the part of the Jebels; and Do was apprehonsive ot the sume time IhtLl{ might be ajnosk to' cover. the yeal: point ol nttack—viz : Gen, Lew Wnllace's diviglon at Crulnp's Landing, half way between -Savau- CHICAGO TRIBUN nah, his o dquarters, and Pittshurg Landing. 'The Purdy road led out westfrom Crmp's Landing, and there was nothing to prevent n forew of Itebots from marching down that rond and snddenly striking Wal- laee's division, which wus stationed thore muarding army stores, and destroying It be- fora 1l could be rotutorced. . When Gen, Grant proceeded up the river on tho steamer Tigress to Pittsburg Landing, he stopped at Crump's Landing, ad there held a consultation with Gon, Wallace In re- gard to the sounds of hattie there wore being leard p the tiver, 316 told Wallnee to et s wholo division in rendiness Immediately and awalt ordors, ana to bo ready to march alnmoment’s notice, ‘This-was about8n. nki If Gon. Grant had known ab that inter- viow that tho wiole Itebet army of 46,000 tuen Tiad nssanitod his seattered, unprepnred di- vislons in their peacoful sylvan encampinents back of Plttsburg Landing, 'he would, of course, havo ordered Wallace to marel timme- dintaly and with all speed for the bntttefold, Bymarching west on tho Purdy rond less than threo mllos, and thon turning to its left less than two miles, tho Wallnce diviston would Tiave been on thebnttlefield beforelito’elock, nnd hnve ehecked the Rebe! onsetand turned tho tido of buttle, = "o allnca's men’ atdod to thelr arms from 8:45 n,m. untll 10:45 o n Hstenlue to the ronr of tho buttle. Somo of tho regiments farthest up the Purdy rond coulil hear the cheering of.the Unfon soldlers off on thelr loft, nt about 9 a'clock, when they had won some ulvantago over the Rebols, ' Gen. Grant, reachied the seeno ot earnage about 9:16 7, m, Ills mind wes speedily disnbmsed of the notlon that it was oniy n felnt to make an attack elsewhere, or nmere reconnolssancey he saw at once that it meant “husiness, He says In his roport, “I did not belevo they. intended to make n doter- mined attack, but slmply a reconnolssance.’; But, ns soun as ho pereelved that 16 wns o do- termined nttack, lio digpatehed an Alde to Wallaee, ordering it to mareh up the Purdy rond to a point paratlel with tho position of Gon, Sherman, ant thero file left on o conn- try rond neross Owl Creck Valley, and form 1n behind Gen, Bherman’s division: In fif- teen minutes nfter receivink this ordor, which wns nbout 11 .., oleven of Wal- sInce’s rogiments were in motion (one belng left to guatd the stores). Alittle ‘befors 2 p. m., when his leading regiments ek tieened Inon the road neross the Owl Creek quagmire to joln Shermnn's line, Wallace found that Sherman had been drlven baek twvo miles, and the ground was hield by Riebels which ho expected to ocenpy. 1lo theroupon halted his forco and began a countormarch back through the mud to the river at Crump's Landing, which no reached nbout 4 p. n., and then marched up the Ten- nessea Itiver -to Pittgfurg Landiog, four wiles, gottiug there towards sundowi, and Just ns the battlo was over, What effeet Watlues might havo, produced if he had. arched boldly ‘forward across 0wl Cragk Valley, and thrown his divislon ilpon thoSrenr of the Tebel loft, ean only Lo n matter of conjecture. It *would cortalnly - have taken the Iiobels by sgurprise” {o be thus caught belween two fires, 1lo ‘might have eaplured and destroyed n brigate or two of their line, pnd ehanged the whole nsbeet of affalrs; or he, might have Leen defeated and thrown back In confusion. into tho Owl Creek Val- ley; hut 1t is very cortuin that a bold forward movement would have mnde o commotion and a disturbance In the Rebel ‘rear. As It was, he countermnarched, and wasted tho day In reaching Plttsburg Landing. But there Is moro testimony that Gen. Urant did not antleipato an attack on his un- fortified, unwrotected, unprepared eamp ek of Plttsburg Landing, and did not bolleve even that norning that the. sounds of ar- tillery which lioheard really meant o pltehied’ battte, ‘I'his proof is furnished In the lotter of. n_private soldler—-Jarvis Blume—which wna printed in Saturday’s TrinuyNe: My regiment (Lo snys] was the Eecond Kentucky Infantry Volunteors, in Gon, William Nolson's division, ‘and the advance of Buell's ‘Army of the Ohlo, which marchied nuross tho country from Columbin to Suvannal, Tenn, 1Urnu(ahundqunrlou).n olnt olkht milos bo- ow (north) of the sconw of tho battle of Pitts- burg Landing or Siiloh, linmediately In our (Nulson's division) rear ware tho divislons rospectively of Gens. Orlttenden, Van Clovo, Waoad, McCook, Rosscaut, and Thomas, following one mud rond by painfully siow and todious wmnrches. Nolson's division—which, as 1 have shown, WAS the advance of Uuoll's "Armly ol the Ohlo,” 35,000 strong—nrrived ufter five dnya” dreary march at Suvatinah, "Tonn., ot G.o'clook Suturduy, tho Aith af April, the ovoalug beforo the first day's ‘hattle, A TThe enotny, strongly fortifled and intrenched, were at Corlnth, In Northern Mississippl, twenty miles inlaud,—west of tho river, Just ncross tho Stato line, ificantly snld In his Gon. 1ucl somowhat. s ollicul report ot the battle: **1 wae surprised upon ardlving at Savannuh to find_ don, Grant's army encamped upon tho weal bank of tho Tan- nesdco Itivar, without fortilications ur fntronoh- ments, with u stronkly-intrenchied and woll-for- tifled enamy within a day's march, and a deop rivar biehind him.” Wo (Nolson's divislon, 4,600 strong) Iny in blvounc on the hilla just buck of tuoTown of Havaunuh, on Saturday nigbt. Sunday; April 6, dawnod bright, warm, ang ** All Nature was glad intho sweat Lreath ot lnrlnf" 1t wus nduy such ng grudees the bonor of Lowoll's rare duy in Juiie. Wo fulrly roveled n thio deliclous languor of un Avell sup. Firlng up the river Legin goon after sunrise,—nt tirst In slogleshots, then in lrmq\llnr rattle;und preaently with tho unmistakablo mothud of. 1 groat and desperato battle~s0 thut by 0 o'clock tho awful two duys! slnughitor was in Tull progresa. ‘Tho sopuds of battiv woro borng dowts on tha river's surfuce as b?'nnnmml vonduit, bolug very pluinly heard olght miles nwny. Ton, 11, 13 o'clock camu, an wo still innotively luy in eamp at Buvannah! Moenntlino the din of buttlo incrensed percopti- hlfy. ‘Tho faces of tho oftleors (and the Infootion of nnxiety vnsily lmparted to the ranks) began to A(row sarious, t longth, about half-paat 12, the sun beating down vory warm and summer-like, wo wore bustily culled Into lino aud sturted by * gordu- roy” ronds for tho battiufield. 'To understand tho awful dltiouities of locomotion It {s only Ticoussary to stiuto that, with the Inspiration of o fimnt Laitle in progross, and being oulled upon y inperative ordera to make ull pussibly husto, 1t tnok our division from 13:00 until B o'elock p. m, tomuke the dlstanco of twoive milesl Wo ware thon fortiod norosson trauAportsto tho op- pusit shore, and filed up tho historic gorge or do- ilo known s ** Pittsburg Landing,” and were suonon tho platean in tho’prescicoof Gon, arant, who, with w common solillor's btonso on, an unilt elgar botwoen his iy uwe, and a grim, imperturbible, itogred vxpreasion on kils bonrdo fiice, presented u strony contrast to our fdoal *horanf Fort Danplaon,” and the natty, uni- formed, and cloguutcomnundor uf our Avwy of tho Ohfu, Mal,-Gun, Don Carlos Buoll., No furthor fighting wns douc that avonlug, oxcopt tho famaous onslanght by tho Robols on the park of ortillery msscu by J. D. Webstor, Chiof of (o, Grant's Btatl, nodr the dofilo lead- ing to tho water's sdgo. - - ‘This slinple narrativa tells the whole story, Buell’s army had reached Gon, Grant’s head- quarters nt Savannnh Saturday cvening be- foro the buttle,' At that moment Gen. Grant hud no knowledga of any pending nssault on his encampinont at Shiloh, Whon Grant henrd the booming of the eannon that morne ing, If he hod supposcd 1t proceeded from a rend binttle, and that-the -army had made n *tdatorinined attack? on-his eamps, he would cortninly hinve ordered Buell to mareh hinme- dintely to Pittsburg Landiug, which his lead- Ing divisions woukl have renched at noon, and, coning on the flald within au hour lator, he would have arrested the Rebol advance, aud changed defent Into vietory thon and there, ns was dono the next day, But Graot, not divintiig where the real blow would fall, orfwhether It was anything wmore than o veconnolssanco, was unable to glve a ‘com: mwiid Lo cither Wallace or Buell to march to the battletield, until after he hiad visited tha sceno of action hlmnself, and found that hls apmy was In rapld procoss of belng defented, Then he acted promptly, losing no thne in ordering buth Wallace and Buell forward, Qur correspondont well remarkss . If u battlo Had beon Buell's army] have. boon allowed to rest in pesco within ¢all und within sound of tha roas of the canuon for practically fifteeu hours— Saturday oyeulng il Bunduy noont Was the IONDAY, APRIL 18, 1881 expeoted, would wo [?f’ bnttlo of “8hiloh* o sueprise? Moat cortainly At fovts horrihle, costiy, blood) mtrprise; and 1ol Illlr‘)rllml that =0 great a woldier mnd such a briillant weiter na Gen, Sherman should, niter the Inpsee of ninetoen years, elabuetely lbor (o demanstrato and deelives that 18 was not sueh. e e | OREATING: BY 1HE BOUTHWEST POOLS, We printed yesterday o letter from shipper to polnts south nnd southwest of Chicago protesting agninst the heavy and yorsistent. dlseriminations ngainst this city by il the rous in the Southwest pool. After discussing the subject genorally, the writer thus specliles Wstances of the way and of the purposg for, which this discrimination 13 made, o snys: Wo hava now i our gonnulun two exponso ills of_goos shippod fn March lust to n party 1o Connell Binfts, In,, whero half the quuntity trom Cniengo vost moro than doublo the nmotint frotn Teorit, second-ginss frofghts or, In otlior wonts, tho rato from Peorld 8 10_conts and from Chis cngo 70 cente,—40 centa por 100 puitnds In fayvor of Peorln _agaliat Chlmm. 18 thix Justice to Chiengo, after nfl hor lberality to eailtonds In tho past? Hhio hios permitted thom to onter tho elty Irom sl ireations almodt to the businoss contre, and_now wo find stic la loft out, com= pared with 8t, Louls and Peorin, 88 1 ono-horse statfon, whorens in_ tho past tironty yenrd sho hna beon of more value as o Ihlnplng int to wil rallronds contoving here than St, Louls, TPoorln, and alt intormodigto pointa combined. Cnn anything bo donv, or nre the inerchants o Chieago generully aware of this unjust diserin- fuation ngninet her Intercsts, or must thoy tumely submit to 12 ‘Tho time wits whon il rallronds running west or southiwest from Chieago carrled nil classes of frefueht, and were giad 10 ot it at the sning rates au from 8t, Louls, hut whon they entered into the puol. combination thoy virtually sold Chiougo out, #nd a8 1 consequonee hiva driven 1 lurgo tralo nway from hor which it will be hard for her ‘to ever got back nmaln, Got 8t Lols tarliTs and olnssiicution polnts namud and you_ will find lota of lexitimato matter which “"’”.'{{“l merchnnts will bo thankfulto you to ventliute, "I'hese facts come terus Instrong complaints avery dny, nud they are suftiolently numor ous from Iown nlone to justify the bolief thint the practlee 1s uniform and general, The ool §s mantpulated by Chiengo ronds ngainst Chiengo, In otherwords, Chiengo ronds run empty tralns from this elty, and refuso to take frelght oxeept nt rates which aro designed to make purchnsers get tholr goods from St. Louis. Every dolinrof freight lostby this nool to this city 1s n direct loss to these raliroads, which look to Chicago and not to St. Louis for business, ‘Cho * pool” Is depended on to equaliza recelpts and to-keop up rates, but the pool 18 not tho loss suleldal to the ronds which have Chicago for o market; thay can coni- mad ull the business they can do, and need sharo with 10" other roads, tho effcet of tho pouling betmr contined to the exclusion of trada from this ey, ‘The fact that the ronds from Chieago to the Westand Southwest levy tax of from 1010 0 conts por 100 pounds on all frelght shippeid from Chlengo grenter than 1s charged from other shipping points shows how binidly these ronds pormit thom- selves to bo pooled in the worst forn of com- merelnl diseriminatton, "Phera Is no appun! save to public opinton, Wa therefore Invite every man who finds Blmself aggrieved, who finds himself over- taxed and pjundered underthis pool arrange- ment, to send to us for publication the fucts In tho cnse. - The mare of theso conununlen- tlons the batter, That Is the only modae of rodress left open 1o the publie, and this can be best nndy most promptly done by post- ing in the' public press, “day after day, and ns thoy tnke place, all, instances of over- charge, diserimination, and opprossion. Wo will opon o bullotin in this paper, whereon every man gonsclous of any of tho injustics of thesapools or other disoriminations may post the fncts nnd purticulars, so that the publie may see how little the railronds enre for tho Interests of thiscity, and especlally how littlethey eare for the ** Boards ” and other legal bodies estublished to enforee the luw of the State, ——r———— THE 'ADULTERATION BILL. One of-the firat bills Introduced in the Stato Leglsintiire InJuinary was the one of- fered by Mr, Chisholm, of' Kane, to prevent and punish the adulteration ‘of nrticles ot foud, drink, and mediclne, and the salo there- of when adulterated, This DIl passed the Ifouso on Friday by nearly’ s unnuunous .voto, and Its pussage In the Senato should be o matter of course, and without delny. ‘The It enncts that 1o porson shall mix or color, or pernit any, person for him to mix or color, any articls of food withauy ingredient or materlal, so a3 to render- the artlolo In- Jurious to health or deprecinto the valuo thercof, with Intent that the samo jmay be sold; and no person shall sell or offer forsnle auy such articloso mixed. No person, except for the purpose of conipounding as u medi- cine, shall mix, ote, any.drug or medicina with any Ingredient or matorlal so ns to af- feet ln]urlpusly tho quality or potency of sueh drug or medicino, with intent to sell the same. No person shall adultorate any ar- tlclo of faod, drink; or medicing: by milxing with any other Ingredient or materinl, whether injurious or not, for the purpose of galn or profit, or sell or offer-the same for snlo, unless the same bo o manufactured, used, or sold undor ita trua'and npproprinte name, and notice that the smiie Is mixed or fwpure 1s marked, printed, or stamped on each pucknage, or unless the’ purchaser shall bo. fully ‘Informed by the seller of its true nnwo and Ingredients, No person shall mix olecomargaring, sulne, butterine, beef-fat, lard, or any other for- olfzn substance with any butter or cheese In- tonded for human food without distinetly marking the packagd' with the propor nane of the artlclo and the porcentnge of olcomnr- garine or sulne which enters Into its compo- gltfon ; the purchaser 18 also to be Informed- of tho charnoter of. the articlo o is buying. ‘The penalties for violating this act are some- what severe, nnd nve thusset forthin the bilt ¢ Any person convicted af_violating any provie- fon of uny of - tho foroy rootions of this sor, shull, for tho first oifo ¢ tined not less thatl £5 nor more thun 82003 for the second offouso 1o shall be Ained not leds thun $100 por moro thun 200, or contined in tho County Jail not less than one month nor mord than 81X inonths, or both, at tho disoretion of tha Lourt ; and for tho thiird and all subsequont vifensos he shnll bo Nined not iess thiun $h00 nor more than €2,000, uud fme prisoned I tho Ponitontiory not loss than one yoor nor more than five years, A question has boon ralsed of Into ns to Thomus Jefferson's rolxlous views. Theronood 0 no quustion, for ho hus sottled it himaell, To wad un Tutidel, or, a8 ho chose to turm it u Ma- torlalist, By his own uccount ho was as hutoro- dox'ns Col, Ingorsoll is, aud in sowme rospeots evon more 8o, In Jofforson's works, Yol 1V, pawo 820, will bo found n lotter which bo wrote to Williain Bhort In 1820, and from whivh tho fol- lowing I8 an oxtracts j Tut whilo this ayllabus la meant to placa the character of JJi u I8 truo HRDT, a8 1o Inpos. tor Himsolf, but us W iirulu roformer of the fles hrow code'of rvllflnn, t 18 not to bo understood hat Lum with Him i wil §0s doctrines, 1amu Muterlalist; 1o tukes tho side of Spiritunliving o preiches the officucy of repentaice towards furgivencas of. sing [ require n counterpoiso of youd works to redeam it, ote. Aneng llmmymn tud discourses fmputed Lo’ it by Hs biogri phics, I tind many passuges of flne imogiintion, vorrect morality, atd of the most lavely bunovos Jencet nnd otlers, sgain, oF 80 much lirnoranue, 80 much absurdily, s6 Much untrath, oburlatai 1sim, sud hnposturc as 10 pronouney it impossie. blo that such contrudiotions should have proe ccoded from the sgiuo buing, | sepurato, thores fore, tho kold from tho dross, vestore (o i tiy formor, and jeave thoe latter to thoe stupldity of sotno and the roguory of athorsof il 1) mly‘ 3 e ———— CuAnsrs B, Busiyy, of New York, nfmem- bor of tha New York Stato Legisluture, ' bas In. troduced o bi whioh, If 3t bocomes n lavw, will put an eud to tho use of gluvose In the manu. facture of all kinda of beer, 'Tha LIl provides that all beer made from glucose ' shall be soid only whon tho purchaser.s fuformed by the vouder that glucese wu used instoad of mait In its man utaoturc, Tho' Larrels, v krys, or Lot~ tics vontulning glucode boer ‘must bu marked with tho words » glucosa boer,” Heavy penals tlcs nra prescrived for auy violation of" thisact, The {uformer recelves one-half of tho flues vols lected, Mr, Brelm 'hos mude bimeelf & benc- faotor. of mapkindby the Introduction of thls blll: ho should, bowayor, havo gous one p facthor by including the manufaoturers of ail kinds of eonfeotionories. Tu tho Uity of Bt Loula glueoso 18 wsed to o great oxtent in tho manutaeture of beery to such ar oxtent that rome of tho old sud honest brawers thero Ro- riously objeat, In a communication to the Wests tiche Post, ta this abominablo” bosr-counterfelts ik process. In that communioation they sy Wo aro Informud from authentla sottrcea that corn and glucoss nro oxtensively uscid by somg browers uf 8t Louis in tho manifuctura- of beor, A luw stimibie to that Introduced by Mr. firohtn 418 the Now York Legisintiro would teof incalenlabio henolit to the boor-catstm- e pulitio, ns well as to wl honost mannfacturs erof tha hovernge. Notalono does tho conns terteltor who usea gincoso or corn fustead of bartoy-malt awindia tho publio out of tinmonse BUIIN OF toney: ho 19 also able to undarsell il bonest brewers in tho ninrkol, theruby ruiniog thom i tholr businoss, or compelling thom to n‘\‘\"l‘lflo it tho sumo manner ay they do thome BOIY Our Legisinture fa sthl In session at Spring- field, and boforo 1t adjourns it should pass a iy siinllnr to tho Grehim luw of Now York, forbid- ding tho salo of Leer made from corn or glilcos fn this Stato unloss it Is doslgnated ns such on tho vaokage which contalns the liquid, It can- notbodonied any longer that thoabominablostut 18 manufacturad largoly In this as woll as nolgh- borine States, compelling honest manufucturors nand doalors ta do tho same or be: drlvon, hut of tho flolil, Homa thne nko Titw TRINUNE took oo-, caslon to state that tho half-breeds and * Grons- ora" of Contral and Bouth Amerlen mako tholr toor (chicn) from corn. It muy bo gued onough Luey for thent, but it {s not a beverugo Ot to be drunk by n whito man. e ——————— ¢ A Sraxese delegntion has arrived at Lon- dun with u cart-lond of tho most vostly press onte for Queon Victorin, Tho chef d'muvre of tha collegtion I8 n golden spittoon, Amang the Binmosu tho spittoon fea pleco of furniture of tho bighest importance. Tho placo of hunor In overy woll-regtilated Slameso houschold (s al- ways nasigned toit, 1f a Blamese welcomesn fricnd to his home, he doca uot spit in tho cus- paidore, but in the friond’s face, which means tho Aume ns a kigs or a squooze of the hand, His Sinmoso Mujeaty would also gladly have con- forred tho lusignia of the order of tho White Elopbunt wpon her Brisish Majesty, but the laws governing that ordor stipulato that tho ro- alplent tnust lave caught or killed a llan, or & tiger, or n leopard, orn rhinoceros to ho worthy of snch distinction. 1lor British Majoesty hnving not euught nny of the above-namad wild bonsts, but simply having canght n "Tartar, when she attacked tho Stoars, tho Inslgnin of tho ordor af tho White Elephunt will not decorato tho broud bust of tho Empress of ol the Indias, e ——— Iy consequenco of the appolntmant of the Pansluvist’ lgnatiull to. thoe offico of Minlstor of Publle Domuting, tho Wienor Tageblntl tnkes a very gloomy view of matters and things at 8t Potorsbury. Thnt paper writesundera late dato: Wa do not beljove In an’ atliance hietweon tho Cosanoks and o Ropublia: wo rogard an offenslve and_defensivo tronty Lotweon the Autocrat of the Nortl nnd Gumbetta a8 an improbablo oc- currenes, Jlut we areof opinfon that Austrin can greot tho ascent of"Alexandor 1L, to tho Russinn throns only with deepest concern aml serlousnces, Porhipa tho bomus uf the Russtun Ninllists _havo enused gronter damugo to our Btate wlairs than we ure _uble nt npresent to forcsoe ‘mnd Jwdwe, - Porbaps Nihllistio nitra-glycorine has. uot alono torn tho poor Caur's Doy, Lut has also givon our exiating peacoan linpercaptiblo, but iinvertheless surions, wound, A Czar who regords himsolf a8 tho pro- tector of thogreat Sinvonio timily of peoples, who would riile and ndiministor the affaira of Btato o8 tho crowned Incarnution of Panalavism, nust beforg lonie cudnanger the nost important Intersats of Austrin aud- proditeo an . tnevitable eolllsion betwaen tho two nelehboring Empires. Will our stutesmen bo successful in uverting tho danger by'a wiso potloy? S ——— Tue Iatest advices from St. Petorsburg relativo to tho fontonce of death passed upon ol those tricd for thy nesasinntion of the Czar have created among tho Comnuniatio and Nohll- Istio olomaonta of the City of Now York Intense oxgitoment and bittorness, Of courso tho sen- tence was' expeeted, but it was a%o goneral'y supposed that the punishment of Bophle Pirofr- sky would -ba departation to Siberin, Thoy thought that the Czar would not have the cour- ago to sanction tho mentenco of death passed upon tho girl, Loeauso tho duy afier her arvest he was infurmed by the Nihilistio Counell of Bt. Potorsburg that her denth would forfelt his own Hite. Tho Nilllists and Communista of Now York intend to colobrate the day of the death of tholr horolue by appropriate coremonics, e ——c——m D, Bruxyen, of Wattonweil, hins-Invented an cleotrie lotter-carrior In tho form of an un- derground raliroad moved by eleotrieity. The fnvention 18 at present baforn the Austrinn Ho-. cloty of Enginocrs for inspeotion. Tho locoma- tive can bo gulded and controlled from u sta- tlonnry polnt, beeauso tho battery, or'mative powery 18 not on tho locomutive; L doca not neod ony nccompanying nttendance. The loco- motive and traln can be constructed ot any dl- minutive size, and both will verform the same servico for any length of distance which the phenmatio tube will perform for short distuncoes. Tho finm of Blemons & Hulske, of Berlin, hnve cunstructed o naching accurdiug to Hruunes's plun and orders, and there are uo doubts entor tained of tho copupleto suvcess of the Invention. Acconniya to the Repue Politlque et Lit- teraire tho roforms to be expeeted from Alexan- der I, aro covered by tho following pointa: (1) Reduction of tho taxes and dues resting upon lnnde. () Modification of therovenucandfiuan- clnl syatews. (). Abolition of tho tax per enpita. () Pormission and facilitatlon of fmmigadon from one proviuce to anuther. (6 Organization of a system of credit for axrlcultural purposes. (0) Abolition of thescandnloussystem of disposing by gift of Government domains. (1) Changes In tho budget of tho army. Toaldos n few chunges in the powors and vights of tho Zernstwos and tho'convening of tha Deputios, who may pus thelr opinlon upon speolnl nuostions, this would Lo ull that coutd be expooted of AloxanderI1T. e ———— Tr 14 not ganerally known thut itk Is not only a guod solvont of quining, but that it also disguises Its bitterncss, A writer fn o madjost Jour tatea that If ono graln of tho sulphile bo dissolved fu an ounco of mitk tho solution 18 searcely percoptibly bittor. - A. doso .of five grains may bo taken In twoounces of milk with- out rondering It unplensant, and if taken in o tumblorful of milk tho ‘bitterness disappears, Another surgeon recommends tho uso of n soju- tion of quinine n glycerine, in tho proportion of ono graln to oud uram, tho doso tobutaken in o wineglassful of milk, . ———————— T 1809 tho Archblshiop of Molhourna went to Itomo to nttend tha Vatleqn Genergl Council, Buron von Miller had presented him with sume sceds of tho' Euealyptus globulus, which the Archbishon gave to the Superlor of tho Trapplst Monks, who asoupled thy Monastory of the Tro Vontaine, n loeality fearfully scourged annually by malarial fover, FProm this small beginuing wonderful resnits iavo ocoursed, tho gum trecs growing so rapidly us to exort alroady through all the region n most wholcsome etfect on the polsonous afr, X A xEw hydraulle shiv has beon bullt In Qermany,and on hor trial recantly accomptished nino knots an hour, Two husdred yoars ago tho exporimont wus mada of propelling vessols by oxpelling wator from the ste¢rn, and falled, us not sufliclont spood was attained. The new method was basad on the nssumption that tho propelling force leponds on the contact of sure fuces, nud not on the scctionul aroa of the flow- 10i wase, 80 6 number of tubusith narrow oute lots aro usod instond of ono large tube, —————— M, Joiy F. Mit.Licknapr, of Denver, an amploy6in the Deaver & Rio Graudo sbops, hoe invonted A carsbyako, which threatons to be & formidablo rival to tho Westinghouse afr-brake, 7t 1a gatd that tho entiro train of cars will Jm- modiutoly stop on tho uncqupling of & single cur, By the way, it [areported that in tho famous sult uf Wostinghouse and Eames for fufriuge- ment of vatont Westinghouso bas withdrawn the sult, paying tho costs, |, - —————— A NKW process of ‘tanning Is extensively used In Qermany, Bark fs wholly dispepsed with, and fnorganio compounds take®its placo, The new proocss requires from four toslx waeks for its completion, aad the particular featuro 1s doseribed to Lo (he action of ebromia ucld, for the gonorahon ot whivhé nuwber of substanocs, soluble in water, &re bruught togather so as to effept the deoompouition of bickromate of pote 1¥ the President would withdraw Judge Robertsou's nawmo for Collector-of Cuators of | Now York and jet Lord Rowooos the op- polutmunt tho Benute deadigek would: fmme- | diately be broken and the Peoate oould fwwe- diutely go nto executive session, without wait. ing for the ¢lectionof Riddloberger as Sergeants 1 rins aud Gorbam Iying protenses for Aeasion would canso inatantly. _PERSONALS, Sonator Butler, although ho wears Wood on foot, I8 1 tino dancer, 1118 tor connot be l.‘r,: siderod @ lght ono, although It mny by 4y, tustlo, . " A Byracuso (N. Y.) woman .has oblaing £200 damages from n pool-room kueper top [ rniu ofhor son, Tulned sons appenr m|,: protty choap In Byrueuse. Taaline Markham expresses a desirg to wivon n chance In loglthnato comedy, Thy tho first Intimation that there. wos nn,um: funny about Fauling’s legs. 4 * John W, Trottor Is the Democrat] didato for Mayor of Bloomington, 1), dfia’; chances of cleation nro rather sliw, Arotpyy seldom run woll.' —1tohert Bonner, 'ho "Coronto Meill hos begun the Pubitea. ] tlon of ncolumn of items hoaded » Ameriey, Nlllu!:i'; Woarn nlag that Canadu hna at Jagy n? solvod to recognire tho existonoe of the States, o Vg John Bright says that ‘Americans are only peoplo in the world who slgn their Damy legibly, Mr. lirlght was ovidently not on term of Intimato fricndship with Mr. Greeloy og jy, Splunor, s, . The Boston Journal says that the nmq'. itor of the Atlantie, Mr. T, H. Aldrich, wazes py mustneho down ton shnrp point and worrs gl ored shirts, Faro-dealors in Chicogo do thy saimo thing, o § “ A Cleveland paper speaks of a bm.wi conteat thoro us * tho firat gano of tho seasoy! 'Chig s o mistuke, Witd ducks have been intyy warkot for some timo,"—Spectmen Detmy Tunny long. i A medieal journal of Munleh says l'lm diphtboria eaughit by kissing 18 Nkoly 10 assumy o uch soveror form than if the disorso wer - contraoted or the contagion fmpnrted in somy othor way. Thisshould be o wariing (0 marriy men and hired glrls, A. Boston pnper says that the people of thyy olty nve greatly disnppointed beeauso they wory “ nat glven an opportunity to sce Miss Dickig. son {n her noiv doparture!” This Is certalgly g novel way of sayiug puits, but no Improvemeny on tho old style. ‘The Cinclimati Gazette nsserts posltively that Gov, Foster will not tuko a torolgn mison, There wns onco a emall boy who lookedt overy fenca and snw it largo bnlldog reposing benesty” ntree. Remnrking to himself that apples wery rathoraumheniiby ot that sedson of the yeur, thy littlo boy went away. _'I'he Columbus 7'hnes marks o new em iy Journalisim by dpponring with all its nterior cols umns priuted upside down. This will remony the diffien)ty of randiog it when mndaup totg dress-putterns and trunk-lininga. Forluoutely tho nows coltung, are right sldo up with car, and only the editorinls Inverted. “Torcigner '—Tho last President of thy United States wae 1L 1. Hayos, of Frewont,(, Tho prusont Presfdent of tho United Statea frd, A, Garfluld, of Montor, 0. Wao eanrot toh yuy who the next Presidont of the United Stateswii liey ns it 1s understood that tho otber townily Qhlo uve not aygracd upon A mat, e ——— PUBLIC OPINION. Vlckshufi: Miss.) Merald (Dem.)y "m munlelpal elootions North go Temoemt e Presiential oloctions nupuhuuu‘n, '&'11&5&‘ gusating preciston. Boston Transeript (Rep.): Mra, Garfeld has hireil & now ook for the White Houso wiik ont_consultiog u singly Congressman, Tol high-handed procedurd I8 sure 1o make trouble Bufinlo Express (1tep.) : The Owego Time, Sonator Platt’s home newspaper, and amod rorvid ndvocnte of that gentjomun's clecta lust wintor, now declares unequivooally In favn of Robertson's prompt contiriuntion, ‘Tho g of tho T'fmnex nro slniticunt—both at Owege .31 i aL, QsweRo. i Now York Tribune: 1t Is ahsurd for tht Dawmoorats to suppuss that’ they ure mukiogany puarty enplital by the Sennto dendlock. T popnlar disguat 14 divcetod townrd them fully muich 08 1t 18 to tha Republionns. Nelther pary s mukiyg anything by the Lungle both bay workel themsolves Into, T thoe Republ positiut wers ns bid again ns It i5'now it woud not bo subliclont provocntion for une Ropublicss 10 fuave his party und go over to tho Demouni( Forney's Washinglon Chronlele: Caw out tho. bargaln, Republican Sonutors, and you olect o nan to bo yourSeeretary who not onlp recently made apecchics nll over Califorsly nuatnst tho Hepublican Stato tickot, but Is noy donostneing through the newspaper ho editeiby Ropubliean Prestident hoeauso he darod ta nose funton Collectorof the Portof New York witko rumnu on hia knoes to nsk Mr, Conkling whetks io wight do (tornot. 180t not timo to paus; g inirmIEs ngainst this thing which ure ol Dorne on every brooze thut reiehes the Caplish will soon swoll futo s tornudo of publio opiniet thae will bode no goed to the Hepublican pary, “Mobité (Aln) Heplater (Deni): We nolt that Mr, Coukliug bas reacntly boen very poiit tn tho Democrats In tho Bonato, and bas taket no purt in recent debates, Demuorats canaty wo should hnpe, be decelved by this showol courtesy, Conkling hod sought to have th dondlock continne Ao us to stuve off action® tho nominadon of Roliertson, and ho was oned tho firt ta congratulate Muhone after ho kil procliimed his apostasy.. Ho hos had ng med 0 do with the present state of affniva in b Bouuto a8 uny man in that Lody, Ho has bt ono of the most bitter truducers of tho Soutbls the runks of the ftopublican party, ‘Iheroiind Feason, thon, why Dumocratd shoulid give bin any: ald In ' bis bt with the Adwlnlstris Tliey sliould treat. tho Administrusion falir= support what i goud in 1ty netion and opps what {8 bud. ¥ St. Louls Globe-Demoorat : ‘Tha presest Ilinols Leglatature hos tho bad distinctiond Dolnss the only Western Stato Assembly ¥l bas not adjourncd, or arranged to do solad short time, 1t bnsulso tho untortunate mk rloty of having scon tho birth of moro bills Jurious to lfe-lnsurance polioy-holders 4 have been produced tho past winter inall th othor Btate Legislatires of tho country 02 Linod. OF course, thoro 18 o vast pnp betwest tho presentation of a bad bill Rud Its fnal ettt ment fnto u law, and_hupplly nouoof thosedet rimantnl_meusiires havo yot pussod even B Banuto—-tholr orlginal nesi. Indocd, na witbot a solltary oxception they have beun hatch mombfin of tiro minority, thero ls falr roasoath hopo that thoir ultimute sucoess Is hngnm!i-l» Iiuck couuty Bourbons nnd Chicago Socilltt huve ariginated evoryone of theso yeudicst2f throatuning billa ngainet tho stability of e/ suranco, and it 18 nntural to oxpuot thut tho b ‘e4t ltopublican ‘mnjorities will stutup thom o4 of oxiutenco when thoy onmn ta bo voted Ul OF thio twenty-six other Loguwlatyres wiich att oo in sesslin this sonson, hune have dany 807 thing nguinst lifo-lusuruncy, und thore s rflu renson, to hope that the meinbors ot Nprigle will not court the Inmny dislionor of bullded $hto comploted statutosiuny of tho perniciny Dills upuu that subject which bive or may 00O Deford them, . Phitadelphin Timea: 1 Thoso who iaves® sumed that Jay Gould oouldi't run & nowspiP eucoessfully may discover tielr orror by not tho anunouncement made in yostordsy's Ne? York Tribune, It wns bougbt by Mr, Qould st alght yoats age, or rathor fiftysonsof b slinres wero Lought by hitn for £510,000, and it thon he lins run {t to suit hia political and nn; clal spoculations, with Mr, Whitelaw Lteld st oditor, In soma of What aro compuonly rest: 3 a8 tho ohlof features 9f Junrnulistio succss B Gould has not made tho Tribuna sccess{ul in what M Gould copsiders Journatiatic SUCE bo bas mado fiomlruly sucoesaful, Truds stockholdors bave bad no dividonds 83C o shures of the minorlty have littlo urket Vel but that wosn't what Mr. Gould wunted Tribuns _for, Ilo bulled luu\d boared B strout, bulicd and “beared politieal BATLL bullod uad bonred Preaidents, Henutoti, HeH soutatives, and Bupremu Court .xmhw:; Sders made it Duy, If tho minority stockboltl dldi't cous out su well it was thelr T fortuno sud not tholr fuuit, and thoy Cf ¥, 30l thomsolves with tho ruflection that ther by blano, . In runerdny'- edidon |:"' e erBNEY ortleth smlhc;m;(:. flw: b 5 aild that guring tha past year the 2vi nlned tho Bn'r oat _clrculation it bas H roachod.” Mr. Gould hus doubled the Cify, stook,of tho Company, which, ruting it & el lecuha rum for hl3 orikinal lmlm:albhumm tal Just $1,000,000; but Mr i wouldu'y_bo uxpeatud' to notlcu a littlo i1 tion 11ko wuteriog tho stock of his no m\muu dollary, when bo wnmrymlefl A -%nfl} ruliwuys by tens of milllons by & du’h;fl'm, pen, . Viewlog Journatism. from Mr. staudpalnt, bo bas mnde tho l‘rlbuuullfl He hag iuado [t pay hitselt aud nobody & 'y Just what. e wanted it for. GUL ny * old-fasbionod Journalists devoi; Sournalisim s au Sunorabis profeasiuti S5 e Wilter from i, Gould's iden of hewdpiby Cowy, but this is a froe country, aod €W 77, puys bid moaoy and takes his cholee, " Sk