Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 15, 1885, Page 4

¢ THE DAILY BEE, Ouana Sww Youx Orron, e, iishod every momning, Sunday. -v‘lomy morning m','..’.‘.’.'t‘- in tbe The 100 | DO ¥he Weakly Bes, Publihsed svery i, POSTPAIS One Year, with premium One Yoar, withoul prei Bix Months, without premium .. ©ne Month, on trial. connmroNDERCR | leations relating to -:t“h?:e‘-o?fl“dubl addressed Vo [ FURINRSS LETYRRA. o TLatters and Remittances shoul Ptn PUBLRING COMPANT, ONATA- \he Koiton ar vua All Bustness pidessesd to T Drafta, Ohecks an Whle 86 the order of the eompany. THE BER PUBLISHING CO., Props. E. ROSEWATER, Eprron H. Fitch, Manager Daily Oiroulation, % Box, “::‘Dmlln. Neb, Excraxp annuslly imporcs from Ras- According to eable advices the Anglo The London Daily THE DAILY BEE-~WEDNESDAY APRIL 15, 1885 -—__——__—'—————__“—-———‘_—“—‘—‘——_———‘—‘—‘m Orrien Now 914 AxD #18 Fanuax 2. | Rusvlan war-cloud grows more threaten- | for a man of its own strie. Roox 8 Tarsvma Bond- |ing from day to day. News of yestorday says that If “‘Gen. Komaroff's reports were the only answers e e WYOMING'S WEALTH. THE THREATENING WAR-OLOUD. | has s splte against some official, or be- [sald that ‘‘the eause that trlumphed oause some clique desires to find a place | when King Vietor Emanuel crossed the Roman frontler was the cause of {he soclalists and Infidels of Genev more, no less.” —no It is & little singular Ex Governor Hogt, of Wyoming, de- | that this almost forgotten speech should Russla would give there would be little [serves well at the hands of the peo-|now be raised againat Mr. Klelley, but it ed of the formality of declaring war.|ple of that territory for the adver-|has been reproduced In print, aud it may Wednesday | Guns would go off themselves, We have [tislng he I glving lts resources. Ina|be possible that the Italian government rather to fear 'a bland-evaslve answer.” |recent lectore In New York, which has| will refuse to recelve him, as It hes & # % | This oplnon, which cannot be consldered [atiracted considersblo attention at the |right todo. Had Mr. Kielley been ap- 76 | otherwise than correct, is based on the |hands of the press, he told the people of | pointed minister to some other country experfence of the past. The mistrast on | the metropolis of the immense natural | we wounld probably never known anything by the manner in which the Ruesians enstern capltsl for Its development. Newsaod Editerial | the part of the English is accounted for | wealth of Wyoming, which only awaits|about his opinlon of Victor Emanuel's course, The inoldent goes to prove that have pushed thelr advances In Central | Wyoming, eald he, equals the area of | printed words never die. Asin, For fifty yoars every advance has Post offios orders 4o be made par* | heen preceded by an assurance that it | Pennsylvania together, was not to take place. the states of New York, New Jersey and and is balf agaln A 1RTTER containing €5 as a contribu- When Khiva was | larger than all New England; the larger | tion to the consolence fund hat been re- captared by Gen, Kaufman in 1873, in|portion of the 100,000 square miles of |celved at the navy dopartment. This is #pite of nolemn assurances that nothing of the kind was In contemplation, tho czar declared that he had given him sirict orders to evacuate the territory of Wyoming ls a perfect gerden, supporting at preeent over 1,600,000 head of cattle. In the mountains aro gold, silver, tin and Immense deposits of sia about 260,000,000 worth of grain snd |place Immediately, but he afterward |ocopper. Thereare twoiron mountains,the flour, which is ono-fifth of all the grain | acqueisced in'hegeneral’s represontations, one red hematite and the other magnetle and flour that John Bull buys abroad, | that this was imposstble, as if he did, the |ore, the smaller of which is 1,000 feet This cxplains why wheat rose when the [ Khanate would becomea prey to the |high, and contalns 1,300,000,000 tona of report of war between the two countries [ wandering Turkomans: Slmilar aseur- [fron. Immediately below this ars im- came. Ir Omaha only had a mayor llke ances wero glven gubseauently, that Merv was In no way an object of Russian de- eire, but within three or four years this monse fields of lignite, = speclos of bltuminous coal, largs enough to supply the world, There are also large Vavghan, of Councl Bluffs, this elty |, woq gelzed on, the reason belng the [soda lskes, one of which alone contains would got more fres advertising than it | ¢ypyjence and Faggressivencss of the |4,000,000,000 tons of soda which is worth has had for years. Vaughan's card i8 & o Tarkomans who had thefr head- |$50 a ton. Then, there are untold miles model for any mayor. He has Invaded quatters there. All this, and a good of petroleum fields which contain 1,000,- Washington, and when he sent his card | 4ou) more, has produced In England a|000,000 berrels to the square mile. To to Grover Cleveland the prosident at|yqr of passionate beliof in Russlan per- | his sudlonce these tales of natural wealth once ordered the usherof tho White|ggy which Komaroft's fighting without|and resources, although trae, seemed House to admit the Council Blaffs curi- osity as he wanted to gaze on him. fubviidetoll dneheinh orders only Intensifies. England regards Russia as her natural enemy. Itisthe general belief among more wonderful than the storles of Alad- din and his lamp. It is an indi'putable fact that Wyoming affords to eastern Tue New York Journal continues to|4o Eoglish that Russia has formed and |capitallsts a magnificent opportunity for grow in popular favor at such a malntained the purpore to aggrandiza the profitable investment of money in en- rapld rato that ita clrcalatlon will 800n|}erylf by the acqulsition of the territery | terprises_that can_easily be_developed reach 250,000. In antlcipation of such | \gioining her, and that this sggrandize- |into the most gigantic wealth-producing | deceive him in horso trade, because he an enormous clroulation the Journal has | pgng go threatens England’s potsesslons |Industrios that this country has ever just put in four new perfecting preeses |;, yngi, that a war, at some time or an- |seen. Wyoming certalnly has a bright at an expense of $100,000. These prosses | her, {5 inevitable. The indications are | fature if capital can only be secured. We will be capable of handling & daily 1880 | ¢y it will be precipitated at an early |know of no other section of the west that |always the first consoience money known to have beon received at the navy department, aad {t fs suspected that it comes from John Roach, Now, then, let Sccretary Whitney do the fair thing by at once ac- cipting the Dolphia without any further rod-tape ceromony, as Roach says he has been offered by Russla £100,000 more for tho boat than our government has agreod v pay. Mr. Roach, however, may not bo allowed to eell his boat to Russia, even {f ho has an opportunity, Grants Love for Horsee, When General Grant first entered the White House as president of the United States he owned over a hundred head of horaes, The loreman of the stables in which thess horaes were kept was Albert Hawkins, who is now coachman for pres. ident Cleveland. No one knows better than Albert how devoted General Grant was to horses, and some of his reminfs. cences on the subject of General Grant and his stock may not prove uninterest- Ing reading at this time. Albert says General Grant was an excellent judge of horseflesh, It was a difficult matter to is familiar with all the polnts that are conaldered In examining them. He could look into a horse’s mouth and te!l his exact age within a few months. He insisted that his horses of 260,000. No paper In tho world over | 4oy Such seoms to bo the oplaion of |offers 5o many tempting fortunes for |should never bo ll-used, either in or out attained such an immense clrculation as| 4o Jeading newspapers, the prominent | comparatively small investments, the Journal has, in so short a time. SEcRETARY LAMAR will be supported by the popular volce if he makes & clean sweep of the land department In his bureau. The Incldent of the Southern Pacific railroad tract, some forty miles by twenty in extent, is most suggestive of rascality, The late actiog commls- slongr is acquitted of any wrongfal pur- pose, ‘‘having signed the order, with hundreds of other papers, In a routine way,” the law clerks falling to call his attention to it and nobody knowing ex- actly where it originated. Bat it will be conceded that an office in which a tract of land two-thirds as large as the state of Rhode Island can be disposed of In this fashion 1s ripe for reform. Tar New York World, which evident- ly thinks that Bartholdi's statue of journal, has undertaken to raise the nccessary fands to complete the pedestal for that statue, and the indications are that it will succeed In its enterprise, but it is a disgrace that the great city of New York with ita dozens of millionairee, any one of whom is amply able to bulld the Bartholdi pedestal out of his pocket money, shou'd go begging dimes atound the country and allow a newspaper to constltute itsslf the beggiog agent for thoss dimes. Tae New York electlon law -provides that after the counting of the ballots they shall be burned, the objecy belng to prevent any access to them by the “fine workers” after they have been ofticlally counted. The law has been demonstrated tobea good one; partica- larly In the recent presidential election, when it was shown that a majority of a thousand in a total vote of over & mll. Jion was as gecure as a majority of a hun- dred thousand would have been. At a recent mags meeting of respoctable citl- military men and officlals of England, Tt 1s believed that Lord Dufferin, the vice- roy of Indla, entertains a slmilar opinion, The ovidence concerning him is that he LAND COMMISSIONER SPARKS proposcs to follow In the reform footsteps of Sec- retary Manning, who haa tabooed novels f the stable. Any man who was known to ill-treat or misuse one of hie horses was immediately dismiseed. The general teok a fancy to Albert be- cause he was always kind and gentle in dealing with the stock under his charge. After the general became president, he thinks tho time for warls at hand—that |and other light and rccreatlve Ilterature | sold many of his horsss in St. Lonis snd the advance of Russla menaces Indla,and that it must be met, now. On the -other hand, the Russians are anxlous for war. The growth of the emplire in Central Asia is the aim and object of the.war party, which is very powerful In Russla, and which has been preparing for a conflict with England and walling for a favorable opportunity. That opportunity seems to have come with the failure of the English in the Soundan campalgn. If the Russlan war party can influence the czar, and tt is very likely that it can, there will be war, and war on a giganticscale. Meantime England indicates her readiness for the and sea, deceived by any ‘‘bland-evasive” eorrespondence is pending. CIVIL SERVICE REFORM OMAHA. I¥ there la to be any reform in the clty government, the fundamental principal should bo the appliance of the sams rules to the affalrs of the city that are applied to the affalrs of business men. Compe- toncy, honeaty, and sobriety should be the maln requisites for every public officer. There s no good reason why there should be any change In the police force or In the office of marsbal, or in any other office in the city, every time the from the treasury department library. Mr. Sparks has intimated in a an unoffi- cial way to the employes in the general laud office that they will best consult thetr own comfort, and possibly thelr of- ficlal safety, by subecribing hereafter for none except democratic newspapers. He says that If be concludes to retain *‘our literature’” he shall change its politics, and feed hls clerks on such sound demo- oratlc pabulum as Te Washington Post. In the good old democratic dsys, Thomas A. Hendricks was commissioner directed Albert to come on to Washing- ton and assume control of the president’s stables. nfS FAVORITES, The general's favorite horses were Cin- clonatus, Egypt and Jeff Davis. The former was as gentle as a lamb, and he knew and obeyed the general at all times and under all circumstances. Cincinnat us was a good saddle horse, in addition to being a first class horse in harness. The general could ride him to any pointin the city, jump cff his back and leave him when |standlog for any length of time un- hitched, No matter how long the gener- al remalned away,, when he returned of the general land office, libraries for|Cincinnatus was waiting for him. He did the mental improvement and recreation |not pay any attention to clrcus pa- of the employees In the varlous depar:- “Liberty Enlightening the World,” was | conflict by the most active preparations | ments were unknown and probably not partly Inteuded as a compliment to that | for strengthening her forces on land [desired by the clerks. days. rades und was not to be frightened by noise and confusion in the street, When the general diracted him to stand and They were re-|walt for him Ciccinnatzs would not She does not propose to bs|quired, however, under pain of dlemissal [budge until the general had mounted answer | If they dared to refuse to subscribe for, | hlm: from Rasula, but Intends to be prepared |even if they dld not read adull daily | for any emergency, and thoroughly |organ of the administration published in|made for an equestrian statue ropresent— equipped to check sny advance that may | Washington. Commissioner Sparks seems |ing Grant mounted on his favorite war be stealthily attempted while the war [to be inclined to go back to the good old He reminds us somewhat of the During the general’s socond term in e White House arrangements were horse, Clncinnatas, Albert says ho cannot remember the name of the sculp- tor, but he recollects the clrcumstances bar-kecper in a mining camp, who, when | distinctly. Every day tor nearly a month paguoe cock-tall, pulled out a revolver, end pointing 1t at him, exclaimed: “W.h-at! A champagme cogk-taill IN | an eastern tenderfoot called for a cham-|the general would go down to the stable, have a bridle and saddle put on Cineln— natus and off he would go to meet the eculptor. On several occasions Albert accompanied him to a beautiful spot In You'll take whisky strajght In your'n, or | the vicinity of the Soldiers’ Home, where nuthin’.” The tenderfoot took whisky stralght, end so Mr, Sparks proposes to make his employes take Bourbon newa- papers straight, or off come their heads. Tae district attorney of New York City proposes to Institute proceedings agalnst Fox and Harding for the part they are the cast was made, JEFF DAVIS, Gen. Grant frequently visited the presidential stables, went Into the stalls and talked to his horses, just as though thoy were human beings, and wero capable of understandiog every word he said to them. The Jeff Davis horse was a_terrible kicker and a biter, and the stable hands were ufraid to people elect & new mayor. The main |t3kiog In arranging a prize-fight between | go noar his stall. His feed had to be question is, aro the mn who are holding | Sullivan and Ryan. It istobe hoped | pested into him from an_ adjoining stal. office competent and honest, and other- wise qualified? Take the police, for in- that such eteps will prevent the New York sports from sending tho two brufs- zoms in Chicago It was resolved thatfrauds |stance. There Is no more reason why | &8 to some remote point to hammer each In elections were made possible *‘because of the deficlency in oar state election policemen, who are tralned like soldicrs by yoars of experience, should bs dis- other, not that the prize-fight will be det- rimental in any way to the men engsged laws,” and the leglslaturs was petitioned | mlesed every timo a new mayor comes [ 1t, but becaueo it will be moro or loss to pass ‘‘an efficient election law similar to the onoe now In force In New York.” This is a deserved tribute to the New York law, which has withstocd the severost posslble test—that of a close vote in a presidental electio vantage which Mr, Paxton has gained in exchanging his lots on the corner of Elghteenth and Farnam streets for the old court house property, every intelli- into office, then there would ba for dlsmlssing army officers and the rank and file every time a president’ comes into power. Prl. vate employers always give preforence to demoralizing, wherever it may take place, to the whole country. Such an event fightlng, which ought not to bs tolerated anywhere. The New York Zimes, which The genera), however, hed completo con- trol over him. He could_enter his stall, handled him as ho desired, and, In fact, do anythiog he wanted with him, *Old Jefl” know hls voice, for as soon as the general entered the stable he would throw back his ears, and move around restlesely in his stall until tho general showed bim somo attentlon, On saveral occasions the stablo bands tried to de- now |awakens an unusual Interestin prize- | ccive Jeff by imltating the general's voice, but as soon as_he dlscovered the decep- tion he made his heels play a lively tane on tae sides of his sfall. Albert las re- old, tried and trusted cmployes. They |urges the prosscution ¢f Fox and Hard-|mained at the white house during the psy them higher salarles than they do to | ing, the promoters of the proposed fistlc | administrations of Grant, Hayes, Garfield ‘WaATEVER may be thought of the ad- [men who are untrled, and who have just | enterpriee, eays: entared thelr service. Suppose a busl- ness firm should change proprietors. Would that necassarlly Involve a dis- missal of all she clerks and of the most The instigators of & pr'zs fight are much worse than the fighters. graded that they doubtless regard their profession a praiseworthy one, and them- gent person mast admit that the exohange | reliable salesmen, travellng agents and | selves as heroes who are not afraid of between county and clty is of incalcula- ble advantage. In the first place, we shall now have a safe bullding for the archives of the city which certainly need protection sgainst poseible fire, In the next place, the controversy between oounty and clty ttled forever. Mr, Paxton will doubtless go right on and book-keepers? No sensible man would consider it to his Interest to dlsmlss everybody in the establishment that he has just purchased, umless indeed the employes areall found to ba Incompetent, dishonest and worthlass, Mayor Boyd s indebted to ward poll- ticians and political atrlkers, but there 1s hard fighting. The well-dressed, pros- perous, and comparatively intelligent scoundrels, who induce these poor brutes to fight are Infinitely more contemptible. They want to make money out of the broken bones of the fighters, and they take pleasure in watching men pounding one another with the pluck and endur- ance which the cowardly patrons of the ring do not possess. Were it not for fel- erect a large and costly bullding on the | no reason why the clty of Omahs should | lows like Fox and Harding prize fighting old court house site, thereby adding to the taxable property. Had not this ar- rangementbeen consummatedthe property would have lain idle for years until the supreme court rendered a decision, The clty can now go on and make all pay his political debts. The only proper way, under the circumstences, to satisfy this class of people is for Mr. Boyd to put | s his hand in hls pocket and pay them. This would be a great deal more satisfac- tory to himself as msyor, as it would al- would become obeolete; and the way to bresk up prize fighting is to send Richard K. Fox and Willlam Harding to the ty of bolder law-breakers on Black- well’s (aland, Tre British government has requested and Arthar, and will probably be re- talned by President Cleveland, Las week he took a trlp up in Pennsylvanis to look at a feam of hories which Pres. ident Cloveland thinks of purchasing to drive to his private landdu, which 1s now being bulltin New York. T General Grant’s Modesty, 8¢, Louis Globe-Democrat, It is generally held that to be a great goldier a man must be lospired by a very deolded foeling of personal ambition; snd the history of mast of the famous military chieftalns seems to jostify such a view. But the career of Gen. Graut Is a shining. example in the opposite direction, There is nothing 1n all the wonderful story of his life to show that he ever fora moment sought to compass & given end for the purpoee of exalting himself. Very likely he often felt in pressnce of enterprises of great pith amd moment that & certain measure of credit would and should come to bim If he should succeed, and it is only reasonable to believe that he felt a preliminary arrangements for bullding [low him to be more independent, and it [that the Alert, which was used n the | thrill of pride and del/ght slways when » fire-proof and much-needed clty hall on | certainly would be more desirable so far ground that is In every respect as ellgible | as the city Is concerned, It 1s the only | fax where she will be recelved by the and desirable the old house location. court house and within a stone's throw of | lot of barnacles hangiog to him. Greoly relfef expedition, be sent to Hli. court | way In which he can be frco to make a | English authoritles, Under the recent It 1s opposlte the new | good r¢cord, but he cannot do it with a | 8et of congress the veasel is to be returned | he pursued his steadfast, persavering, There | to the government of Great Britain with | self-reliant course. He never asked for the county jeil. Lsat, but not losst, the [are some men in offics, it is true, who[the thanks of the United States, The county commissioners are now able to|chu be replacid with better and mors re- take the necestary steps to protect the | Mableones, whohave had more exper'ence, new court houte by ballding & retaining [In all such cases the council will doubt- wall that wills damsge from land-slides. sloners deserve a great deal of oredit for | clty government she councll should resist the care and dlligence which they exhib- | every effort to displace trled, true and finally getting them settled amicably and [ ply seekiog office, either as » reward for satlsfactorily to all parties. their political work, or because tomebady Washington, ure it against possible | leas ratify the mayor's cholce, but If civil | the British need every avallable versel in The comumis- [service reform s to be the rule in our p— Ix 167 M. Kielley, ited in conducting the negotistions and }competent officers by men who are siw- { to l@l’i, which vessel 1s now In New York, end will be ready to sail on recelpt of orders from | ciate his services, ha never murmured It {s evident feom this that | even when he must bave felt keenly that Injustice bad been done him, view of the coming war with Russfa, made a speech in Richmond in e denounced the occapation of wa G W5 his victorles were recoguized and ap- planded; but it was not to gain popular pralse in the firet instance, or to achleve honor for the mere sake of honor, that promotion, he never intrigued for advan- tage over a rival, he never complained that the government was slow to appre- Ta all the range of military blography, snclent sn modern, it s not possible to find another record so free from suspicion the new minlster | Of s2llishness aad 80 consistently modest lndpl un'unming. employln , forward 3- me by Victor Emanuel as acrime, and core tnoreased rank and enlarged com- Where others were inflaence of every kind to ir individual fnterests, to ee- mands, Grant was content to move qulet- ly along, doing his best wherever he hap- pened 15 be placed, and saying as little ahout it as possible. It would be curl- ous to contrast his plaln, practicsl re- ports of battles ho fought and galned with the picturer ae, jubilant and self- celebrating documents prepared by othor noted commanders under such clrcum- stances. If he was ever known to csll the attention of the government or the people to any particulsr service of his own in a boastfol way or with any sug- gestion that 1t deserved special notice, we have not heard of it. He was more likely to ignore polnts of that kind en- llrel{), or to disparage his personal skill and bravery by generous commendation of those engaged under him in bringiog about profitablo and splendid resalts. The concurrent testimony of all bis per- sonal friends and associates, during the war and afterwards, is to the effect that he seldom apoke of his achlevementa in the firat pernon, or by comparleon with those of anybody else, and never without obyi- ous embarrassment. He tslked frequently and with e nphatle praise of thingsdone by others; but there is only cne Instance ve- ported where ho ever took direct credit to himself, and that was when he sald with regard to the criticlsm that his successes were malnly due to the fiot that he had so many eoldiers and somuch power, and that avy man of ordinary capacity would have succeeded with the same opportunities: *‘Thero is only ore anawer to make to that. Gen, Lee sor- rendered to me. He dldn’c surrendor to any other Union general, though I be- lieve there were several efforts made in that direction befora I aseumed com- mand of the army”. And tho same answer in substance may be made to all the criticisma of his military operations, His victorles are his viodlcations; he could not have won them over the able adversarles witk whom he contonded if he bad not known his business thor- oughly. There was no lack of envy among the ofticers of the Unlon army, and no lac of peraonal acheming and misrepresenta- tlon; but Grant never permitted himself to stoop to anything of that sort. He suffered from it more thsn once, but it was nat In his natore to retsliate in kind. If chicanery and falschood could have arrested his trlamphant progrees, his career wonld have ended at Shiloh, If not before. The wonder now, when all the facts are known, is that his traducera did not suc- ceed in pulting him down and daepriving the country of his Invaluable services at atime of sorest need. Perhaps they would have done so but for the discern- Ing judgement and eaving confidence and frlendship of Mr. Lincoln. Certalnly Grant could not have circumvented those who were working to accomplish his re- moval if he had been obliged to rely up- on his own talent for that order of con- troversy. It is doubtful if he would have tried to defond himself according to the ordinary msthods. He was there to do his duty simply, and_uot to ecramble for place and power; aad that continued to be his attitude throuhnout the war. The same signal modesty character/zed him after peace came, and & trusting and gratoful natio inslsted upon adding to his superior mllitary reputation the high- eat politlcal honor in its gift. He did not seek the presidency; the presidency songht bim as it eought Washington. If he could have had his own way, he would not have ac cepted it. When notified of his nomina- tion—a nominaticn that was a spontene- ous tribute from the people—he said can- didily that he would prefer to remain with the army, not only because bis posi- tion was agraeable, but also becauso he distrusted hie capaclly to perform suc- ceesfully the dutles of a president. It wes only in view of the fact that the country seemed to ask ft of him in a way that left him no choice that he consented to take the place. There was probably never a time In the next succeediog eight years that he did not fecl the eame way about the matter. He had no pelitical ambi- tlon, and his honors in that line, like those fa his milltary life, were in a sense thrust uporr him. Tt can be sald cf him more truly than of any other man in the whole list of renowned soldiers and ralera that fame came to hlm, not becauss he longed for It or planned for it, but be- cause he went straight shead serviog his country, unmindful of himeelf. Poss!- bly thatis the only way after all in which fame really worth having is to bo so- cured. . ——— Secretary Whitney's Echool-Days, Easthampton (Conn,) Willistonian, Gon. Whitney wasa man of great abil- ity, of very genial mannars and generous nature, and from him his disiinguished son inhorits his most marked qualities. 1t was while Gen. Whitney resided In Springfield that William snd his elder brother, Honry M. (the donor of onr Whitney prizz), were students in Willlston eeminary. Henry was on the scientific side and William on the c'atsical. Henryis now the agent and princlpal owner of the Motropolitan steamship line, ono cf the leading busi- ness men of Boston, Mr. Whitney was not distingulshed for scholarahip at echool, although he had fair rank both here and incollege. That model teacker and gen- tlemen, Princlpal Clark, was accustomed to say In recitation. **Whitney, a little lesy attention to the morning newspsper and a little closer application to the Vigll would be an improvement.” But he ex- celled in literary work, and wasespecia'ly attentive to the dutles of the Adelphi society. It may with truth be said that to u suscession of such men as Whitney the Adelphl owes It preeminence as a literary soclety. He was also_actlve in the soclal life of the echool and ia athle- tics, Inhis recent lecturs here, Dr. Hitchcock spoke of him as belog 8 mem- ber of the committee who first lald before Mr. Willisten the desirability of a gym- nastum for the school, and Whitaey acted as the chalrman of the committee, Darlng the greater part of his three years course here. he roomed and boarded at the house of Mre. Wells on Hayson ave- nue: but he occi No 16 in Bouth hall fora time. He is remembered here as a young fellow of fine figure, vigoro Physlque, and cultared bearing. Ho was not popular, In the too-common accept fon of that word to-dsy, but he slways malntained hls self-respect, and forced the respect of others, The esteem in which he was held by Principal Clark is shown by the pesition glven him on the snniversary stage, the last speaker, next to the valedictorian, This was a tribute to his abillty as & writer and speaker. At Yale he maintained his reputation and was the class orator of 63, Mr. Whitney's great rival here at Williston was Chu(u D. Adams, a fine scholar and excellent li‘erary man, the valedictorlanat Amherst in 63 snd for years pasta foremost law- yer in New York Mr. Whitney is an instance of a child of wealth who was not spoiled by his mocey. While here at school he bad ample means, bat this never weakened him or dulled bls ambiticn.” o — A telophone line is to be constructed be- tween Armwonh and the county seat of Keys Paha county, k | mitter snd a receiver. AN ASTONISHING INVENTION, Threatens to Supersede Both the Morse System and tho Telephone, Paitaverraia, April 11.—An inven- tion has recently been perfocted here that bids falr to revolationize all exist- ing systems of electrleal commuanication, both telegraphio and telephonic. The eecret of it has been carefally guarded by the inventors, Mesera, George M. Hath- awsy and James H. Linville, and by the small company ot large capitalists who control it while it was belvg fally cov- ered by patents, both Amerloan and for elgn, Now that all {s secare, It s to be suddenly sprung upon the public by an exhibition at the Continental botel, probably durlng the present week, as one of the gigantie eclentific surprises of the century. To state In brief what it Is, it is nothlog less than making telegraphy aa simple, rapid and easily withia com mand of everybody as is the operating of the callgraph or type-wrlter, Effecting what is claimed for it, it will ba the means of greatly reducing the cost of tel- egraphy, of enabling the opening of some 40,000 new telegraph stations in railroad and exprees offices throughout the United Siates whore there have hitherto been none, and of taking the place = generally of tho tele~ phone. Any person who can pick out a word on the keys of a type writer can transmit a mossagoe by the Hathaway system eccurately and with rapldity, only restrioted by the speed of the pieking, while, as for receiving mossages, tho strament does that automatieally, whether there Is anybody superintending Its ope- raticns or not. Thera was a privato ex— hibltion of the system to-day at the com- pany's oftices, No. 427 Walnut street, the resulis attained at which seemed to fully sustain all that is clalmed for this most remarkable invention. The instrument used is both a trans- The two lnstru- ments used in this exhibition were connected by about one hundred miles of wire coiled about the offices, Each ap- peared In its front part to bo simply an ordinary type-writer, with the Iettors, numerals, etc., on rafeed keys. Behind this rises a small cclumn, with blank paper wrapped around It, sm1 moved up line by line as required by a stmple de- vice. Inslde that column is a small hammer that strikes outwardly, so as to, whenever a key is touched, press the paperagainst the periphery of a horizontal wheel that lles between the keyboard and the column. Oa that periphery, in high relief, are the letters of the alphabet, numera's and polnts for punctuation. The wheel spins around with lightning Itke rapidity as the keys ara succersfully touched by an expert. When it bas to retrocede in the alphabetical order it flies back to a fixed polnt, as does the wheel of a gold and stosk lndlcator, but much more swiftly. All the dellcate and intri- cato electrical attachments necessary sre bolow, and whoa understood, are much less complicated than they ssem, their apparent complication belng caused by their multiplicity. A scparate wire leads from each key to a single common wire, and each of those key comnected wires sorves either for transmlssion or re- ception of messages. The sending or ro- ceiving of a particular letter or figure Is governed by the strength of current re quired for just that individual one, and for no other. It seems very s'range that all thess varlous impnlses ehould be flashed along a wire—even In opposite di- rections at the same time—without jos- tling each other or getting mixed up, but they do. Many messages were eent and received in to-day’s test by non-experls ata spoed of from foriy to fifty words per minuta with greater azcaracy than ls usually shown by expeit Morso “‘apund”’ operators, and that speed, it was aflirmed could be greatly increazed. A noticeable and valuable feature of this system is that it prints clearly in the sight of the perscn transmitting a mi j 18 being sent to the receiv rors are ' avoided, or if committed are readily corrected. The messages sent over a wire by this Instrament, caonot bo resd by sound 80 that it 1s much more favorable to the privacy often desirable in businees than elther the Morse system or the telephone. the Hathawsy Instrument can be sd- justed to any system of wire communica- ticn and will work to as great distances as is required in telegraphy, it will be of In- estimable to rallroad and express com- pauies, bankere, brokers, merchants snd the general public. There are no formid- able complications in their construction, and expert electriclans who have exam: ined it pronounce It one of most wonder- ful achievements of the age. Should it only do hslf what 1 claimed for it, and that it shows it can do, it would practi cally revolutionizs tolegraphy. The company controlling this great in- vention has been organized upon & capi- tal of §2,000,000, but no stock is for sale, all belng held as an iuves.ment. The officers are: President, Thomas Cochrav, pres!dent{Giuarantee Trust and Safe De- posit company; vicy-president, J, H. Linville, C. 1 ; treasurer, Thomas T. Butcher; secratary, Wm. H. Wile, secro- tary 8. M, R. R, Co. This parent com- pany will simply dispose of territorial rights and supply {nstramenta. e — A Letter Written by General Grant in 1801, The following letter, written be Gen- ersl Grant from Galena to bis father-in- law, Frederiok Dent, then of St. Lous, bas pever before been published, and s of speclal interest at the present time, when the illusirlous writer fs the object Inasmuch as |y troubles the Southorners have been the aggressors, and the Administration hae stood purely on the defensive—more on the defensive than she would dared to have done but for her consclomaness of strength and the certalnly of right pre- vaillng in the end. The news to.day is that Virginia has goue out of the Unlon. Bat for the Inflaence she will have on the other border slave States this Is not much to be regretted. Her position, or rather that of torn Virginia, has been more reprehensible from the begiunlog than that of South Cerolina. She should be made tobear a heavy portion of the war for her guilt. Tn all this I can but see the doom of slavery. The North does not want, nor will they want, to inter- fere with the Institution, but they wlill refaso for all timo to give it protection, unless the South sball return soon fotheir alleglance; and then, too, this dis- tarbance will glve such an Impetus to the producton of their staple, cotton, In other partsof the world, that they can never recover the control of the market again for that commodity. This will reduce the yalue ¢f the negroes so much that they will never be worth fight- ing over sgaln. 1 have just recelved a lotter from Fred. (Frederick Dent, Jr.) He breathes forth the most patriotic sentiments. He 1 for the old flag as long a8 theio is & Unlon of two states fighting under its banner, and when they distolve he will go it alone. This {s not his langaage. but 1t is the idea not so well expressed a8 ho oxpresses {t. Julia and the children are all well, and join me In love to you all. I forgot to mention ~that Fred has another helr with some novel name that 1 have forgotten. Yours, truly, U. 8. Grast, e — NEWSP R OUTFITS. TO PUBLISHERS. . The Western Newspaper Union, at Omaha, in addition to furnishing all sizes and styles of the best ready printed sheets in the country, makes a specialt, of outfitting country publishers, both with new or second-hand material, sell~ ing at prices that cannot be discounted in any of the eastern cities. We handle about eyerything needed in a moderate sized printing establishment, and are solowestern agents for some of the best makes of Paper Cutters, P , Hand and Power, before the public. 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