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THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE: WASHINGTON, D. 0., THURSDAY, MARCH 15, 1883.
NEWS OF TrjE WEEK,
A Dismal Record of Crimes and
Casualties.
WIGGINS WORSTED
"Wliatis Going- on at tlie Seat
of Government.
The Secretary of the Treasury having di
rected that the word "cents" be added to the
new five-cent piece, the superintendent of the
Philadelphia mint, who produced the orginal
coin, is preparing a new device for the back. No
order has. however, been uiadc suspending tho
coinage of the new five-cent pieces, and they
aro being issued from the Philadelphia mint at
the rate of nearly $3,000 worth a day. Tho
demand comes exclusively from private persons.
The director of the mint has received a letter
from J. W. Ilclffrich, formerly coiner at the New
Orleans mint, and now superintendent of the
mint at the City of Mexico, sta ing that ho has
a contract for "coining 190,000,000 pieces of
nickel coin for the Mexican govt rnment. The
value of the coins is designated simply by a
Roman numeral. The reverse side of the five
cent Mexican nickel is almost an exact coun
terpart of the reverse side of the five-cent nickel
now being issued from the Philadelphia mint.
It is also stated in this connection that tho
French government has adopted tho nickel
coinage in.it cad of bronze.
The clerk of the Court of Commissioners of
Alabama Claims has made a partial estimate of
the amounts involved in the claims now pend
ing before that court. Twenty-two hundred
cases out of 5,700 filed aggregate near $1 1,000,
O00 without interest. If judgments were
awarded for the amounts claimed in these cases
the interest would probably run the aggregate
up to more than $20,000,000. It will thus bo
seen that tho court will have no difficulty in
disposing of the undistributed remainder of tho
Geneva award, about $0,500,000. The court
now has under consideration two questions of
considerable interest to claimants, Aiz: first,
whether in certain cases awards shall be made
upon a gold or currency basis, having reference
to tho war premiums on gold ; and, second,
what, within the meaning of the act creating
the court, is a " Confederate cruiser," and does
a privateer without letters of marque from the
Confederate government come within themeau
ing of the act?
Tho Treasury Department, on the 12th inst.,
mailed copies of the new tariff act to all col
lectors of customs, together with instructions
that sections seven and nine of that act to go
into effect at once, and apply to all goods in
warehouse as -well as to goods imported after
the date of the passage of the act. Section
eeven repeals duties or charges heretofore
added in ascertaining the dutiable value of
merchandise for the purpose of tho assessment
of duties. This action will cause a considerable
reduction in the amount of duties collected,
which reduction is estimated by some at five
per cent, of the entire amount collected. Sec
tion nine of the tariff act changes the manner
of ascertaining the value of merchandise con
signed by manufacturers in foreign countries
to agents in the United Slates, and for which
there is no foreign market value, for the reason
that the goods are specially manufactured for
sale in the United States only.
The printed volume of diplomatic corre
spondence, which is now in the course of publi
cation, contains a letter from Minister Lowell,
dated July 14th, 182, inclosing copies of the
coercion act, which had just received the
royal assent. Mr. Lowell says that there are
a great many naturalized American citizens
in Ireland, besides those who havo rendered
themselves obnoxious to tho authorities, and
lie fears the alien clauses of tho act may
strengthen " the temptation of private enmity
to bring false accusations, as it undoubtedly
increases the opportunity for them." Secretary
Frclinghuyson, in his reply to this letter, says
that the revival of the alien act has caused the
President "to feel anxiety as to its probable
effect on the business and social relations of
American citizens, jiartiroilarly those of Irish
birth."
It is authoritatively announced that the sal
ary of Colonel Ochiltree as member of the House
from Texas is to he withheld until the settle
ment of his accounts as United States Marshal
ibr Texas. The accounts unsettled are in ref
erence to the expenses and disbursements of
deputy marshals, for which Colonel Ochiltree
claims that he is not responsible. He was Mar
shal during the reconstruction epoch, when in
Texas, as in other Southern States, numerous
deputies were considered necessary to preserve
the peace and enforce the laws, and it is said
that it was an impossibility for the Marshals to
exercise a rigid scrutiny over the accounts of
their deputies.
Lieutenant Robert M. Berry, who com
manded the steamer Podgers, is in Washington
superintending the selection of articles to be
sent to the lchonthes Indians, in the vicinity
of St. Lawrence bay, as a reward for their
assistance to the crew of the Podgers. Lieu
tenant Perry has been offered a mission under
the Belgian government to the western coast
of Africa, where an attempt is to be made to
civilize the natives.
Eear-Admiral J.W. A. Nicholson was placed
on the retired list recently by operation of the
law. He is succeed in command of the Euro-.,
pean station by Pear-Admiral Cliarles H. Bald
win. Pear-Admiral E. P. Calhoun will he re
tired in April. The vacancy in the list of rear
admirals will be filled by the promotion of Com
modore P. W. Shufeldt.
The envoys from Madagascar and their suite
were, on the fcith inst., entertained, as the guests
of the Government, by an excursion to Mount
Vernon, in company with the resident diplo
matic corps and a number of other distin
guished persons invited by the Secretary of
State to make up the party.
The Governor at Curacoa has expressed his
regret for the firing upon the United States ship
Valencia by the fort in that harbor. A police
man who failed to present the Valencia's fort
pass to the military guard was responsible for
the mifctak". The firing of shot by the fort
hasheen prohibited.
The question as to when the tax on capital
and debits of banks, bankers, and national
banking associations will cease under the ope
rations of the act of March 3 to reduce internal
taxation has not j'et been decided. No decision
will be made on this question until a case
arises.
It is denied at tho Treasury Department
that the members of the tariff commission are
still receiving pay at the rate of $10 each pir
diem. No money has been paid to its members
on account of service since its report was made.
Mr. John I. Hayes is now settling his accounts.
The Secretary of the Interior has leased to
Carroll T. I Lobar f, of Fargo, Dakota; Henry
F. Douglas, of Port Yates, Dakota, and Pufus
Hatch, of New York, a number of small tracts
of land in the Yellowstone National Park for a
period of ten years.
The Attorney General has discovered that,
contrary to the impicssion, the item of $3,000
for Mr. Reed's services in defending Guiteau
was omitted by the conference committee on
the sundry civil bill.
Tho President has accepted the resignation
of James ;ii!il!.m as Treasurer of the United
States. Assistant Treasurer Wyman is men
tioned as most likely to receive the appoint
ment. Judge Edmunds, President pro tern, of the
Senate, ha-, apjoiiited George W.Scaver, of Ver
raout, his private secretary.
CXIME6 AND CASUALTIES.
At Hunter's Point, N. Y., just !eforc noon on
Sunday last, officer Patrick Cas-y, of tho Hun
ter's Point police lores, shot and instantly killed
roundsman Richard Comisky. The murdered
Totindsmuii was sitting at his desk in the first
3ccmct .:. ej-biug with two officers when sud
denly ("a -y entered. It was noticed that ho
"was under the influence of liquor and acted
rather str.ui; ly. He went info the r.-ar room,
and eil!"d Sn the two officers to help him fix
his pistol. Th. y did so, and, shoving it in his
7cke-t, 'a- y walked out to where Comisky
smL. Wheti within two foet of the unsuspeefc-
Jwr Coattsky he halted d said: " What do 3'ou
&3ok- uk t-i for." ConLiky replied that it was
t wake him do his dny. Without another
-ntftdCosoy drew his revolvcrand fired. The ball
JkiU:' Ci .j.i !i..'f inch below C'oaiiskj's eye, and
'" Lt fell K. . aL The murderer was instantly
secured and hurried to tho county jail. It is
supposed that Casey was in a state of insanity
when he shot Comisky. On tho way to the
jail ho manifested great fear, laboring under
tho impression that every ono wanted to kill
him. Comisky is a brother of the chief of the
Hunter's Point fire department.
A dispatch-from Memphis, Tenn., of tho 12th
inst., says that the water has fallen nine inches
since the decline set in, and will fall nioro
rapidly as soon as tho river gets within its
banks. Two negroes, Tom Brown and Aaron
Smith, were drowned last week near Austin,
Miss., by the capsizing of their dug-out. Tho
break into Totten levee, thirty-five miles below
Friar's Point, flooded all tho country as far
down as Australia. This break is just above tho
lino of tho second Mississippi levee district,
which remains intact, and planters within tho
district do not fear an overflow. Two men,
names unknown, wero drowned Friday ten
miles north of Marion, Arkansas. At Helena,
Arkansas, there aro between 500 and 700 col
ored refugees wholly unprovided for and pow
erless to h el p themselves. Tho levees around
Helena wero never more secure.
On the night of the 7th inst. an cast-bound
passenger train on tho Little Pock and Fort
Smith Railroad was boarded by forty men two
miles west of Mulberry Station, Crawford
county, and 140 miles from Little Pock, Ark.
The robbers ordered the passengers to throw
up their hands, and began firing pistols. The
conductor, John Cain, who was in tho rear car,
was fatally slsot. Before the robbers could
reach the engine Engineer Rogers started tho
train and prevented tho robbery. The high
waymen jumped off while the cars were in
motion. Superintendent Hart man oQers$10,000
reward for the capture of tho robbers, one of
whom has since been taken, lie was wounded
in the face and arm, and, being unable to keep
up with his companions, took refuge in aTarm
house, where he was traced by the officers.
A terrible explosion of dynamite, which re
sulted in the instant death of one man and
serious injuries to three others, occurred on
the 9th inst. at Fleming's stone quarry, in
Dead Man's Hollow, near McKecsporr, Pa. lt
appears that Daniel and George Hcminger,
Noble Gilky, and an unknown colored man
were at work in tho quarry, and one of them
attempted to thaw out a can of dynamite used
for blasting purposes which had frozen. An
explosion followed with a loud report, scatter
ing rocks and earth in every direction. Daniel
Hcminger was killed outright, and- Georgo
Heminger and the colored man wero so badly
injured that they will die. Noble Gilky wis
also hurt, but his wounds were slight.
A dispatch from Helena, Ark., says tho first
loss of human life by tho flood in that region
occurred Sunday by tho upsetting of a house
twelve miles south of Helena, in which were
six adults and four children. The children
wero drowned. Tho former were rescued by a
party of hunters, who took them off tho roof
after they had clung to it three days. The St.
Francis swamp contains hundreds of horses,
mules and cattle standing up to thefir throats in
the water, their owners being unable to rescue
them. Many carcasses aro floating about. Tho
legislative committee is examining into tho
condition of the people of the overflowed dis
trict, and will report in favor of giving State aid
to the actual sufferers.
James Templin went into tho police court
at New Haven, Conn., on the 7th inst., and
complained that somebody had shot him in tho
head. The man appeared to bo insane, and
acted so -wildly that tho judge sent for a
surgeon. A flattened bullet was found pressing
against the base of his skull, and when it was
removed tho man instantly recovered his rea
son, and charged a man named Win. Cowles
with shooting him.
In Cleveland on tho 7th inst. Wm, Lyon,
fifty-five years old, went to a dwellingoccupied
by a woman who was divorced from him five
years ago, and asked for a bowl of soup.
While slie was preparing to comply with the
request, he drew a revolver and shot her in the
face, inflicting a severe wound. Then he put
the pistol to his own head and fired, killing
himself instantly.
A fire broke out on the 7th inst. in tho Cam
bridge fiats, a largo building in East Sixty
fourth street, New York. Mrs. Wakeman,
aged 50, and her daughter Pose, who occupied
the fourth lloor of the building, were suffocated
by the dense smoke. The loss is estimated at
$00,000. Mrs. Wakeman was the wife of Abram
Wakeman, w3o ws on rvoywr of the pox t dui i tig
Lincoln's administration.
Gov. Crittenden has pardoned Clarence Hite,
a noted member of the James gang, who pleaded
guilty to the charge of train robbery in Febru
ary, 1882, and was sentenced to twenty-five
years' imprisonment in the Missouri peniten
tiary. The pardon was issued on the recom
mendation of the penitentiary physician and
the board of inspectors. Hito is in tho last
stages of consumption.
On Monday last, in Philadelphia, John S.
Syren shot his hi other's wife, Lizzie Syren, in
thebreastand then shot himself through the
temple. Both are in a critical condition. Mr.
Syren, the husband of tho injured woman,
keeps a bakery. His brother John, who came
here froin Germany about a year ago, is believed
to be demented.
A. L. Johnson, a young man, was shot dead
on the 7th inst. in the court room of tho Miller
county court house, Texas, in presence of the
judge, jurors, attorneys and spectators, by C.
E. Dixon, sheriff of that county. Tho trouble
arose from Dixon making war on gambling in
stitutions in which Johnson was silently in
terested. Pasqualc Majono and Michael McGloin wero
hanged in New York on tho 9th inst. Robert
Cochran, colored, was hanged at Clayton, Ala.,
tor tJic murder ol M. L. Drew. The prisoner
took a drink of whisky, lighted a cigar, scaled
himself on his coffin and was driven half a mile
to the gallows. Ho confessed his crime before
the drop fell.
On the 9th inst. a scow, while being sculled
across the basin of tho Morris Canal, Jersey
City, was capsized and thirty passengers thrown
into the water. Its occupants were laborers on
their way to the Jersey Central Railroad yards.
Three were drowned, and four among the' res
cued are so badly injured that their recovery is
doubtful.
The residence of Mr. Simon Cronise, near
New Market, Md., was destroyed by fire on the
night of the 7th inst. While Mrs. Cronise was
in the act of rescuing her daughter, aged five
years, the lloor on which she was standing
gave way and both perished in tho flames. Mr.
Cronise and several children were saved.
A life convict named Samuel Ulum has just
been pardoned out of tho Michigan State prison,
where he has been confined twenty-nine years
for the murder of a man named Eslabrook, in
St. Joseph county, in 18513. There is little doubt
that Ulum is entirely innocent of any connec
tion with the murder.
The jury in the case of Col. Theodore Hyatt,
president of the Pennsylvania Military Acad
emy, tried recently at Media, Pa., for cowhid
ing Thaddcus Lowe, a cadet, returned a verdict
of acquittal, tho defendant to pay the costs.
They were out fifteen hours.
Robert V. Dodd, formerly a prominent citi
zen of Petersburg, Va., was shot and killed at
Hunncwell, Kan., on tho 8th inst., during a
difficulty with an unknown man. Tho de
ceased was a confederate soldier.
Frederick Berger, eight years old, died from
hydrophobia in New York last Monday. Ho
was bitten over two years ago by a Spitz dog.
The dog was killed and tho wound cauterized,
and no further trouble was expected from it.
The man who committed suicide in a shoot
ing gallery in New York on Saturday night
has been identified as Capt. John Hartley,
formerly of the regular army. Ho resided at
Saco, Maine.
PERSONAL.
The will of the lato S. L. Crocker, of Taun
ton, Mass., bequeaths $30,000 in charities.
Colonel Stuart, of tho English army, receives
a pension of 4,000 a year, granted in 1790, as
heir of William Peun.
Senator and Mrs. Beck, who had intended to
go lo Florida on the 10th, postponed the trip
on account of Wiggins's prophecy.
Judge Davis, who has gono South, it is said
lias made public tho fact that his wedding
would take place on tho 11th inst. at 11 a. in.
Tho President is still indisposed, and has
refused to see all visitors oxceptiug intimate
friends. He has been suffering for some time
from a catarrhal affection.
David Rumsey, ox-judgo of tho supremo
court of New York, died on the lth instant,
aged 73. He was a member of the Thirtieth,
and Thirty-first Congresses.
Lieut. Charles Seymour, U. S. N., died at
Charlestown, Mass., Saturday, of pneumonia,
in tho 36th year of his age. His funeral took
place in New York on tho 12th inst.
Mis3 Ida H. Hosmcr, three feet tall, and
Robert II. Huzza, three feet six inches in height,
midgets on exhibition in a Brooklyn museum,
were married recently on tho 6tago of the
museum. The bridegroom was a widower.
Governor Butler has dismissed Mr. Clark
from tho office of insurance commissioner of
Massachusetts, but Mr. Clark has not yet de
cided whether to vacate or hold on. For tho
present ho continues to discharge the duties of
tho office.
The members of tho Nebraska House of Rep
sentatives, at the close of tho late session, pro
resented Mr. James F. Zediker, first assistant
clerk, a handsome gold watch. Capt. Lee, of
Furnas county, made the presentation speech,
to which Mr. Zediker responded in a pleasant
vein.
Right Rov. John Quinlan, Catholic Bishop of
Mobile since 1859, died on the 9th inst. at tho
pastoral residenco attached to St. Theresa's
Church, New Orleans, aged about 53 years. In
18G9 ho attended tho Plenary Council in Balti
more, and subsequently was ono of the dele
gates to tho Vatican Council at Rome.
Ex-President Diaz, of Mexico, and his party,
arrived at Austin, Texas, on tho 7th inst., and
wero welcomed by tho Stato authorities. It is
mentioned as a remarkable coincidence that a
saluto should be fired in honor of General Diaz
on tho anniversary of tho day that General
Sauta Ana took the Alamo.
Ex-Governor William Sprague, of Providence,
R. I., was married on the 8th inst. at tho Vir
ginia Hotel, in Staunton, Va., to. Mrs. Dora
Inez Calvert, who had arrived thero from
Greenbrier county, West Virginia, a few hours
before the ceremony was performed. Tho brido
is a native of Connecticut, but has resided in
West Virginia fourteen years. Tho newly
wedded couple took the night train for the
North.
A dispatch has been received that Judge
White, of tho Supreme Court of Ohio, and who
was recently appointed United States judge of
tho Southern District of Ohio, died last Mon
day at his residenco in Springfield, Ohio.
Judge White was a brother-in-law of ex
Speaker Keifer, and was one of tho most emi
nent jurists of Ohio. Ho had been ill but a
few days.
Nathaniel Thayer, a well-known capitalist of
Boston, died on the 7th inst., aged 75 years. Mr.
Thayer was a generous patron of Harvard Col
lege, having erected Thayer nail and given
largely otherwise. He had been a leading
spirit in developing tho railway system of tho
West, and was also identified with mining and
other large enterprises. Ho had also been a
director of the Now York Central, the Michigan
Central, tho Chicago, Burlington and Quincy,
and the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Balti
more roads.
Fully 50,000 visitors were in Atlanta, Ga., on
tho Sth inst. to attend the memorial funeral
services of Governor Stephens, which wero
opened at 10 a. m. by a prayer by Rev. Wm.
Adams. The several speakers were introduced
by Senator Colquitt. General Gordon read a
series of resolutions, prepared by tho citizens'
committee, eulogistic of the deceased. General
Toombs, General Henry P. Jackson, Judge
Crawford, Senator Brown, Colonel C. C. Jones
and Dr. H. V. M. Miller also spoke. Dr. Tal
mngc made the closing prayer. Tho funeral
procession was a mile and a half long, and took
half an hour to pass a given point.
Tho "international baby," the son of Gen.
Trovino and his wife, the daughter of Gen. Ord,
was christened on the 11th inst. by Monsignor
Montez de Oca, Pishop of Nuevo Leon, receiv
ing his father's name, Geronimo. Tho cere
mony was performed in tho oratory in the
Bishop's palace in Monterey, Mexico, in tho
presence of 011I3' a few civilians, military dig
nataries, and immediate relatives and friends
of the Trovino and Ord families. Gen. Diaz,
ex-1'residcnl of Mexico, and his wife were god
father and godmother. It is understood that
Gen. Trovino has consented not to oppose the
candidacy of Gen. Diaz for the presidency in
183-1, with the condition that Gen. Diaz will
turn over the presidency to Gen. Trovino when
his term expires in 1869.
POLITICAL.
Governor Grant authorizes tho statement
that he will veto the bill passed by tho Colorado
legislature taxing the net output of mines.
In the Arkansas House of Representatives
tho bill compelling all the railroad companies
in the State to reduce the passenger fare to three
cents per mile has been defeated.
The Georgia "Stato Democratic committco
has called a State convention, to meet at At
lanta, April 10th, to nominato a candidate for
the gubernatorial chair, mado vacant by tho
death of Governor Stephens.
In Philadelphia, Saturday, Thomas Mahcr,
Jr., Isaac L. Slrcor, and Joseph Myers, con
victed of making a fraudulent return as elec
tion officers were each sentenced to threo
months' imprisonment, fined $100, and disfran
chised for tlie xicriod of four years.
Tho Tenncsseo House of Representatives has
passed the State debt bill exactly as it camo
from the Democratic caucus, to pay fifty cents
on the dollar and 3 per cent, interest on all but
the State debt proper and the bonds of educa
tional institutions within the State, for,which
thoy propose to pay par with the contract rate
of interest. Tho bill will probably pass the
Senate also. A resolution censuring United
States Marshal Gosling, of Texas, for his action
in' securing the reward for the arrest of ex
Treasurer Polk was defeated.
WIGGINS WORSTED.
Ills Great Storm Proves lo bo a Ulerely Local
A Hair.
Prof. Wiggins, tho weather prophet of Ot
tawa, Out., hist December promulgated tho fol
lowing dire forecast: "A great storm will strike
this planet on tho 9th of March next. It will
first be felt in tho Northern Pacific, and will
cross the meridian of Ottawa at noon (5 o'clock
p. in., London time) of Sunday, March 31,1S83.
No vessel smaller than a Cunardcr will be able
to live in this tempest. India, tho south of
Europe, England and especially tho North
American continent will be thetheater of its rav
ages. As all tho low lands on tho Atlantic will
bo submerged, I advise shipbuilders to place
their prospective vessels high upon the stocks;
and farmers having looso valuables, as hay, cat
tle, &c, to remove them to a place of safety.
I beg further, most respectfully, to appeal to
the honorable, the Minister of Marino, that ho
will peremptorily order up tho storm signals
on all the Canadian coast no later than tho 20th
of February, and thus permit no vessels to
leavo harbor. If this is not done, hundreds
of lives will bo lost and millions of dollars'
worth of property destroyed." This prophecy,
through discussion by the newspapers, attracted
wide attention. Tho time designated for its
fulfillment was eagerly watched by a largo
number of persons who had faith in it. Many
of tho New York and Now England fishermen
staid in port, and mado preparations for the
blizzard. The signal Bervice observers derided
Wiggins and his prophecy. His predictions,
however, wero not fulfilled, although on tho
11th inst. a heavy storm prevailed in certain
parts of the Canadian provinces. Waterloo,
Quebec, was visited by ono of the severest snow
storms known for years, and two distinct shocks
of earthquake wero felt. At Montreal a heavy
fall of snow was noted. At Halifax a heavy
wind, rain and hail storm prevailed on tho
night of the 10th inst., and tho tido-wavo was
reported as tho highest ever known. No se
rious disasters wero reported nevertheless, and
the storm fell short of the violence predicted
by Professor Wiggins.
The Wild Freak of n Lunatic.
From tha New York Tribune.'
John A. McGoady, of 5S East Broadway, Now
York, an employee in the Central Railway
Company's gas works at Communipaw, N. J.,
became seized with a sudden freak of insanity
yesterday morning and nearly ended his life.
While ho was emptying tho retorts about 0:30
o'clock, an idea struck him that an explosion
was about to occur, and ho ran out of tho
building without waiting to put on his coat or
shoes and stockings. Barefooted and bare
headed, McGeady ran through tho snow in tho
direction of tho ferry and mado his way on
board tho boat Central, which was laid up, but
had steam up ready to start on hor first trip.
With tho idea of getting as far as possible from
tho explosion uppermost in his mind, McGeady
untied the boat and started the ongino. The
pilot and engineer, who were sleeping on
board, were awakened by the motion of tho
boat, and wero amazed, on looking-out. to find
her going in the direction of New York. Tho
engineer stopped tho engine and tho pilot
went to the pilo't-houso, and, finding McGeady
therc,.took him down stairs. In tho hurry
tho engine1 had been stopped on tho center,
and tho pijot and engineer wero obliged to go
down to work her oil'. In theirabsence McGeady
jumpcd info tho river and swam toward tho
dock. He,was almost exhausted when ho was
picked up by a dock hand named Stevens and
a watchman named McKain, who went to his
assistance -in a rowbnat. Ho was taken at
onco to the Charity Hospital, whero ho now
lies in a critical condition in consequence of
the exposure and cold bath.
Commissioner Dutllej's Narrow Escape.
PiTTSrsiTRG, Pa., March 13. Tho Washing
ton sleeper of tho western express train on tho
Pennsylvania Railroad, due hero at 8:1G a. in.,
caught firo near Wilmoro Station, Allegheny
Mountains, at 4 o'clock this morning, and was
entirely consumed. Tho passengers escaped
without injury, but lost nearly all their cloth
ing. Among those on tho car wero: Commis
sioner of Pensions Dudley ; Col. Ben. Wilson ;
Gen. Cochcns, of Indiana; Col. Davidson, of
Beaver, Pa., and Col. Portor, postmaster of
Conuellsvillo, Pa. When tho train arrived
hero many passengers wero half-naked. The
Pullman Car Company's loss is $20,000.
Tho Toet IVhilticr and tho South.
Tho Selma (Ala.) Times gives a pleasant ac
count of the celebration by the students of the
Dallas Academy of the 2d inst. as a day of
honor to Mr. John G. Wbitticr, and publishes
tho following letter from tho poet to the
teacher of the school, written when it was in
tended to havo the celebration on his birthday,
in November :
WiXTnitop JToTrr,, 1
TlnsTON-, Eleventh Month, Hth dav, 1SS2. J
Mist Nillic C. UiMis.
MyDkah Fimkxd: I thank thee for thy kind
note. Say to tho dear young' people under thy
charge that while I loved liheity sunt hated slavery
I hud never imy but the kindest feelings toward
the people of the South. I believed that they would
be more prosperous nnd happy if slavery should
cease, nnd I think it i.salready evident that the South
lias now started on the road to a higher degree of
prosperity than it has ever known, and no one can
11101c heartily rejoice in your welfare than myself.
AVe ae now one people we have a common in
terest in the Union. Let u.s forget the unhappy
p.ist in the brightening prospects of the future, hay
to thy .scholars that it gives me real pleasure to
know that they are to remember me 011 my birth
day, and that they have my prayers for their -well-being
and growth in virtue and intelligence, and
that as men and women they may be n blessing to
their beautiful South. I am their and thy friend,
Jon.v G. AVmrriiut.
THE OLD 'WORLD.
Something About IVIiat is Going on in Other Lands
Tlmn Ours.
Tho negotiations between General Wallace
and tho Porte in Constantinople in regard to
potrolcum warehouses is approaching satisfac
tory settlement. Great distress is reported
in the county Mayo, Ireland. Tho report
that Mr. Parnell would resign his scat in Par
liament if tho land reform bill should fail is
denied. The British House of Commons has
forbidden trap-shooting. Tho British
steamer Gloucester City, bound to New York,
has foundered. The crow were saved. Gen
eral Bronsart von Schellendorfl' has been ap
pointed minister of war for Germany. Lady
Florence Dixie makes the charge that Mr. Par
nell and Mr. Eagan have failed to account for
152,000 of land league funds. Two hundred
girls havo left Limerick, Ireland, for New
Hampshire. Miss Hay land has recovered
100 damages from Mr. Bigoar, M. P.. for breach
of promise. Tho police in Moscow havo made
a number of arrosts having somo relation to the
public pence at the coming coronation of the
Czar. Twenty-nine socialists are being tried
in Vicuna on charges of high treason and mur
der.1 Floods are reported in districts of Bom
bay. Eight dagger-knives have been found
in tho Ring's End basin, Dublin. Prince
Bismarck is ill in bed. Tlie commander of
the French squadron at Madagascar has been
ordered to blockade tiio shore. A large party
gathered to witness tho trial at London Satur
day of the Tripp electrical tram-car. The car
ran a distance of four miles satisfactorily.
The British government has ordered that meas
ures bo taken for the relief of tlie starving peo
ple of Loughrea. An election for a member
of the French Chamber of Deputies to fill tho
vacancy caued by M. Gambetta's death took
place on tho 12th inst., but without a result.
It is fciid that (50,000 persons aro out of
work in Paris, and that American travelers
are de'erred from entering Paris on account of
the disturbances there. A British cruiser has
gono to Madagascar. Mr. Ashton Dilke,
brotherof Sir Charles Dilke, has died at Algiers.
Tho Porto has notified tho foreign repre
sentatives in Constantinople that the treaties
of commerce will expire March 12, 1SS4.
The steamer Navarre, bound from Copenha
gen to Leith, foundered during the gale of tho
7th inst. Thero were 81 persons, mostly emi
grants, on board, only 16 of whom 0 of the
crew and 10 emigiants were saved.
Tho survivors givo tho following account of
tho loss of tho steamer Navarro: When two
hundred miles from Christiansand tho Navarro
was struck by a heavy sea. The cargo shifted,
and on tho 7th inst., the forehold filled, when
a fishing smack approached the Navarre, ten
men took a boat and hoarded tho smack, let
ting their small boat go adrift. Tho smack
sailed round the sinking steamer, but having
no boat w as unable to render her assistance.
In a short time another smack arrived on tho
scene. Fifteen of the Navarre's mon endea
vored to reach her in another boat, but it
swamped, and all its occupants woro drowned.
A steamer arrived at tho spot only in time to
rescue six persons, who were struggling in tho
water as tho jNavarro was louuderiug.
The London Times of tho 11th inst. in an edi
torial says: "Wo havo good reason to believe
that the inquiry now proceeding will implicate
tho land league beyond doubt in tho immediate
patronage of crime in Ireland, oven if it does
not establish its direct connection with tho
'Jnvincibles.' The flight of Patrick Egan,
unless explained, is a moral acknowledgment of
guilt, from tho damning consequences of which
none of his associates can escape."
A GREAT MAN GONE.
Death or 1'rluco GortsrlmkolY, tho Kussian States
man. A cablegram from Baden-Baden, Germany,
announces the death on Sunday last of Princo
Gortschakolf, ox-chancellor of tho Russian
Empire. Ho was born July 1G, 1793, and edu
cated at tho University of Kharkof. Having
acquired tho rudiments of diplomacy under
Nesselrodo, ho was in lb3t appointed secretary
of legation at London. Six years later he was
made charge d'affaires in Florouce, and, in
1832, councilor of the embassy at Sienna.
While at Stuttgart in 1811 ho negotiated tho
marriage of the Russian Grand Duchess Olga
with tho Crown Prince, (now King of Wurtcm
bcrg,) which event led in 18 1G to his being
made privy councilor. In 1850 ho hold the
important position of plenipotentiary lo tho
Gorman Diet at Frankfort, and four years lator
ho succeeded MoyendorfT as ambassador in
Vienna. His reputation was greatly enhanced
by the tact and ability he displayed during tho
Crimean war and by tho treaty of Paris, signed
mainly through his inlluenco in March, 185G.
Ho now succeeded Nesselrodo as minister of
foreign affairs, and in tho following year at
tended the Emperor Alexnndor in his inter
view with Napoleon III in Stuttgart. His
policy at this timo was directed to tho restora
tion of Russia to tho position of iufluence in
Europe which had heeu lost in consequence of
tho unfavorable issue of tho Crimean war. Ho
advocated tho application of tho principle of
nationalities in the Two Sicilies, and at tho
samo timo found opportunity to disclaim any
idea on tho part of Russia of taking revenge for
past defeats. His popularity at homo and
prestige abroad were greatly increased in 18G3
by his declaration of aversion to foreign dicta
tion, taking a3 tho occasion of making this
declaration tho interference of foreign powors
in behalf of tho Poles during the insurrection
of that year. In July, 1SG3, ho was promoted
to tho olllco of chancollor, a position ho filled
until within the last few years, when ho volun
tarily retired. His most brilliant achievement
was his securing, at the London conference in
1871, a revision of the treaty of Paris and tho
formation of another, which put an ond to tho
neutralization of the Black Sea. This was done
during tho Franco-Prussian war, when, uudcr
tho exigencies of his situation, Bismark became
willing to yield to the pressure, of which
QortsouakoQ" made a timely application. Tho
Gzar rewarded his chancellor for this removal
of a stigma under which his peoplo chafed by
conferring upon l""i tlia dignity of sereno
highness, in tho Coufral Asian question of
1873-'74 he favored a conciliatory policy to
ward England, and his course during ihb last
war with Turkey is still fresh in tho public
mind. Ab there is a suspicion that Princo
GorfschakofT's death resulted from poison, an
autopsy will be made on the body.
THE POOR OF PARIS,
Household Economics Common-sense
in DressEducation.
Special correspondence National Tribune.
Paius, Feb. 20. Paris in winter is a cheer
less place in point of climate. It is not crisp
and snowy like New England, nor bright and
balmy like Washington; but gray, sunless, and
prone to daily showers. Tho air is mild, how
ever, so that the grass is green in the Champs
Elyses, and except fora superabundance of mud,
sight-seeing is easy. Thero aro two opposite
ways of spending a week in Paris: ono may go
to a hotel in the Anglo-American Quarter,
where English is the prevailing language and
shopping tho r,hief occupation, interspersed
with visits to churches and picture galleries; or,
one may go to some quiet nook in the Latin Quar
ter and live among the students and working
people close to tho Notre Dame and the College
do France. By adopting tho second plan one
gets nearest to the heart of tho city life. It is
difficult to get iu America a fair "idea of tho
peoplo of Paris, for tho French novel, dealing
chiefly with unhappy domestic life, gives a bad
impression in one direction, and the infamy
of the commune has stamped upon the Paris
ian working people an equally bad reputation
in a different direction. What one sees in the
Latin Quarter is a population orderly, laborious
and thrifty. By degrees it dawns upon one
that most of the conspicuous features of tho life
about one are largely explained by two quali
ties of the French mind patience and calcula
tion. Of course, this is a very old story; but it
comes home to one with new force in living in
the midst of a French population. French
housekeeping illustrates this combination of
qualities capitally. Economy of land leads to
tho compartment system of building, and
cellar and garret room is not plenty. Coal is,
therefore, bought in small quantities often by
the bag and is used with extreme care. Each
room is heated by a tiny grate firo for which
logs and kindling are prepared with precision.
It would bo wasteful to use paper for lighting
fires ; waste-paper can be sold and used in a
variety of ways. It is an economy, on the
other hand, to use a special product for kindling.
Accordingly, one buj-s for two cents a dozen
"boules" or balls made of tightly-rolled strips
of thin wood soaked in turpentine. To besure,
labor is expended in making " boules ;" but what
docs French labor cost! It would bo a waste
of 100m and coal to do the family washing in the
house, and this is accordingly given to one of a
multitude of women who profit' by tho equable
climate to use the Seine for their washing ap
paratus. Food, like space, fuel and waste-paper,
is used with minutely careful calculation.
household economies.
There is no more room for storing provisions
thau for storing coal ; and the cook buys the
ingredients for each meal as she needs them,
paying cash for them and retaining one sou in
cacli franc (or five cents in each dollar) as her
percentage. If an unexpected guest should ar
rive to dine, there would be consternation in
camp, for somo member of the family would
probably have to go dinnerlcss. Fortunately,
an unexpected guest never does arrive; French
formality prevents such interference with fam
ily calculations. A certain meagerness in tho
meals is atoned for by dainty cooking, which
extracts all possible nourishment from and be
stows all possible attractiveness upon simple
materials. This meagerness is partly concealed,
too, by the unfailing abundance of good linen
and glass. In tho care of table furniture, ser
vants aro especially trained; and, although the
high standard of neatness involves destructively-frequent
washings of the napkins and
table-cloths, darning is made so fine an art that
French linen probably lasts longer than the
same article in America. A curious economy
of space, at tho expense of patience, is made in
bathing arrangements. Bath-tubs are rare in
private apartments, and it is a common thing
to see a long hand-cart, managed by two men,
convoying a tin tub and a cylinder of hot water
to tho house of an invalid or luxurious person.
Persons of limited means, however, usually go
to a bathing establishment, carrying their own
soap and paying a few cents for the luxury of
warm .towels. The same patience and calcu
lation is shown prettily in the little shops and
booths where vegetables aro sold. Here,
strings of onions, earefully hung, servo as deco
rations, and bright bunches of carrots and dark
beets are disposed among green lettuce, cab
bago and Brussels sprouts, until the booth looks
like a large bouquet. In tho smallest butch
ers' shops diminutive legs of mutton are hung
in rows and decorated with ruffs of still paper
inviting to tho eye. But nowhere is such pa
tient care and thrift shown as in the care of
children. Tho contrast in this respect between
London and Paris is incredible. In Paris
there aro comparatively few little children, for
the custom prevails among the working peoplo
of sending their babies to Normandy to be
brought up by relations in tho country. When
this arrangement is not feasible, however, tho
Parisian child is the object of most scrupulous
care. It is always warmly and neatly clad ;
and, in the street, almost invariably has some
older person's hand in its tight grasp. The
ragamuli'm, as ho thrive3 in New York, is prac
tically unknown in Paris. When a child is
born, the work of saving for it begins. Girls
must have dowries and boys a little capital for
beginning business; and to this end there is a
most careful avoidance of decoration and ex
pensive toys. There is a noteworthy absenco
of ribbon from tho Sunday dresses of the chil
dren in tho family groups on the- Boulevard
St. Michel, where tho working people llock on
Sundays as they flock to Central Park or Fair
mount. But as thero is no tawdry extrava
gance in the dress of tho French workingman's
child, so thero is no pinching, starving, freez
ing want. Life is a grinding struggle, but it
is calculated beforehand and there is provision
ahead for all bad seasons. In tho education
of French girls thero is a good example of
this. All French women sew skillfully and
most of them aro good cooks. There is no dis
position to make fine ladies of girls whoso
fathers earn small salaries.
COMMON-SENSE IN DRESS.
Arithmetic is drilled into girls in a thoroughly
practical fashion, and, in case of need, almost
any French girl can become a book-keeper. In
amnll hotels tho wife of the proprietor is book
keeper as well as housckoeper, and the habit of
keeping mmuto accounts 111 ordinary house
keeping is a matter of course. The dressing of
French women is all carefully adapted to se
curing neatness and beauty with plainness.
French working women oxcol in this, and
secure healthfulness in dress besides, which
their idler countrywomen do not. Tho mil
liners, who abound in the Latin Quarter, are
models of seusible, wholesome dressing, in
their plain woolen skirts, falling scarcely below
tho shoe-top; closely fitting, warm woolen
jackets, and heads bare, oxcept for the hair
prccisoly braided at the back. It is amazing
what an air of comfort and simplo elegance
grows out ot the neat lightness ol this plain
littlo costume, which iB always spotless and
fresh. Tho general outcome of the patient
caro to live within tho year's earnings is that
no ono reaches the ragged point of poverty.
Nevertheless, the conviction is gradually forced
upon tho observer that tho French working
man's comfort is a very limited possession and
exclusively of his own manufacture. Saving
at every point, destroying nothing that pa
tient, laborious ingenuity can utilize, toiling
persistently, ho extracts a self-respecting exist
ence from stern conditions. What tho govern
ment can do to help him help himself, it now
does efficiently. Tho French monetary systom
is woll nigh perfect. The centime, sou, franc
and five franc pieces are of" full value and
admit of exceedingly small purchases. The
abundance of small monoy makes tho habit of
cash payments easy, and tho presence of tho
postal savings bank ready to receive deposits
of a single franc encourages tho habit of saving.
A rigid enforcement of comprehensive adul
teration laws secures pure food; but something
remains to he done to protect the laboring man
from his own longing for stimulants. Tho
theory that drunkenness is less iu wino-grow-iug
countries receives a severe blow when ono
sees vermuth (wormwood) and absintho stupe
fying a large proportion of the workmen of a
wholo vast capital in a country Tonowned for its
wines. So oxcessive is tho use of absintho that
it is said that in casos of suicide and assault
without discoverable motive the stock Parisian
decision is "absintho." In tho direction of.
education Paris i3 making a magnificent eflbrb.
EDUCATIONAL ADVANTAGE3.
The state of tho primary schools is problem
atical, hut of technical training and tho general
higher culture there is generous profusion
for whomsoever will take what the authorities
are eager to give. The Sor DDnn8 or University
of Franco, with its 8,000 sluclotfta, requires no
fees, and tho College do France, more liberal
than Harvard and the Johns Hopkins Univer
sity, admits women. The only limitation upon
the Btudent is the limit of his own abilities; for
he must have a bachelor's degree before read
ing law or medicine. Indeed, the administra
tion of degrees is extremely careful, and an
anomaly such as that by which Jefferson Med
ical College has 011 occasion bestowed the de
gree L.L.D. is inconceivable under the French
university system. It 13 firmly believed in
Franco that training is requisite to success,
and for tho professions, as well as for tho trades,
a long and laborious process of preparation is
undergone. Moreover, the government is not
content with supplying in a general way tho
funds for education. On the contrary, the
most minute and thorough supervision of
every department of education throughout
France is constantly maintained. In the
matter of collegiate degrees it would seem
desirable that our own State governments
should follow tho example of France in this
direction, for the American college degree as
bestowed at present is of disgracefully small
value. Apropos of the admission of women
to the College do France, it is interesting to
know that a young woman who graduated
from Cornell University some years ago, and
was refused admission for post graduate work
ny the Johns Hopkins university, has recently
received at Zurich the degree Ph. D. summa
cum laude, the fourth and highest degree
within the bestowal of tho university and one
never bestowed upon a woman since its founda
tion. This student is now either in attendance
or about to become a student at the College de
France; and it is not a pleasant consideration
that she owes to the liberality of the institu
tions of two countries of Europe gratitude for
training refused her in America. In art study,
too, women have fine opportunities in Paris,
though in this direction America is more just
in giving equal opportunities to equal merit
than France, or than America herself is in
university matters. Outside of the Ecolc des
Beaux Arts, art instruction in Paris is man
aged by a sort of middlemen, who rent rooms
and form classes, to which the leading artists
go as critics. The artists usually give their
labor gratuitously, and the students' fees
merely cover the pay of models and tho rent
and profits of tho middlemen. In classes
composed exclusively of women there is usu
ally less criticism and higher charge, and tho
tone of work is said to be less fine. Recently
a move has been made in the direction of ad
mitting women to the classes of men, and the
standard of work required there is found to be
attained and well held by the women admitted
thus far.
AUTISTIC TRAINING.
It is, however, in the artistic training
which Paris offers to her artisans that the
American is chiefly interested. Mere study of
shop windows is capital training to the eye in
certain directions, and the collections of ob
jects of industrial art aro thoroughly admir
able. No one is limited to these collections,
however, and thero is usually a proportion of
workingmen in every crowd in the galleries of
paintings and sculpture in the Louvre. This
magnificent palace, created by the taste of a
series of luxurious rulers and the wealth and
best architectural skill of the nation, is now, of
course, public propertv, and the evident sense
.of ownership on tho .part of the unfailing
stream of visitors suggests that yet another
word might bo added to the " Liberie, Egalitc,
Fraternite" graven upon every public build
ing in Paris. The inheritance of fine
buildings is an advantage possessed by the
European workman over the American, for it
enables the European to see examples of beau
tiful work in the surroundings for which they
were designed. The Museeduny is an ex
ample of tiiis. The building is a gem. Built
by certain rich monies in the neighborhood of
1500, itwas thought worthy to bo honored with
the presence of tho royal family, and a daugh
ter of King Francis I was married here to King
James V, of Scotland. Inside and outside the
Musee Cluny has kept its medreval appearance ;
and the low-ceiled rooms, lighted by square
windows, decpsct in thick stone walls are cosy
yet, in spite of their stately carved chimney
pieces and cold waxed floors. Whatever wood
work can be carved is carved with master skill,
and rich cabinets and carvings of all sorts
gathered through many years, find a fit and
harmonious settiug here. Ten thousand speci
mens of stained glass, ivory, and tapestry,
bronze and china, offer to the artisan whenever
ho choses to come and study this public treasure,
to which he has gratuitous access, suggestions
for design and finish by which the "French
workman is ever eager to profit. Sooner or
later America must make still more cuergetic
efforts for the artistic education of her artisans
if she is to hold her own against European com
petition ; and comprehensive technical educa
tion is the necessary logical consequence of the
American protective system. For if it is right
that the beautiful product of cheap European
labor should be prevented from coming into
competition with the product of dear American
labor, it is only just that the American laborer
should be required to mako his product as
beautiful as the foreign one; otherwise, the
consumer is forced to buy an inferior article.
In many directions the American laborer does
this and more; and in the manufacture of
mauy articles of iron and steel tho American
product surpasses the European ono in beauty
of design and finish. Thero are, however,
industries in which this is not yet achieved
and can never be achieved without the estab
lishment of well-chosen collections of objects of
art and the maintenance of efficient schools for
technical training. Moreover, an opportunity
is wasted in our great cities, where much might
bo done in the direction of art education, by
tho establishment of evening classes in the
public school buildings. In Philadelphia, in
view of tho disgraceful dearth of evening schools
for workingwomen, a number of classes have
been opened by private associations, and it is
found that thero is a large constituency eagerly
awaiting every such opportunity. Meantime,
the government of France strains ovcry nerve
to induce its artisans to improve their taste,
their skill, and, in consequence, their value to
tho industrial wealth of the nation. F. K.
te
SHOT YOU, SAH!"
lloir General Grant Rewarded Soldiers who Obeyed
Orders.
From the Chicago Inter-Ocean.
I met a man the other day called "Soldier
Sam," an honest fellow, and ono of the true
bluo boys of the late war. Ho had served
under Grant, and could tell reminiscences of
tho great General by tho hour. The best of it
was that his stories were always authentic. I
remember, said ho, that while we wero down
on tho Mississippi a big barge loaded with
bombs and gunpowder was lying alongside tho
wharf. Grant had given orders that no ono
should snioko on board that barge. I suppose
the old tub had thousands of dollars' worth, of
.powder under her decks. So tho corporal sot
a guard thero and ordered him to shoot the
first man who should cross the plauk with a
lighted pipe or cigar. Woll, when the word
got abroad wo kept away, for wo knew that the
ordor meant business. One day when I was off
duty General Grant rode up on his horse. Ho
woro a big blouse and a slouch hat. He had
no star, no side-arms. Wo all knew him with
out tho aid of trinkets.
"Is that tho powder-boat?" he asked.
I told him it was.
Ho looked at me sharply over a red-hot
cigar, and said: " I'll go on board, then."
I knew he'd never take that cigar out of his
mouth except to eat or sleep, so I said : " Gen
eral, if you walk across that plank smoking,
tho sentry will shoot you."
Ho saw that I was in earnest, but he said :
" Don't you suppose he knows mo?"
"Of course ho does, General," I replied.
"But he's been ordered to shoot the first man
caught smoking on that barge, and he'll do it.
That's the kind of chap ho is."
Grant looked rather amused. I reckon he
nover intended to go near tho old barge. He
just wheeled his horse about, and away ho
went.
That evening I told tho sentry all about the
talk. The next morning ho and. tho corporal
wero ordered up to the General's headquarters.
The sentry was a black man; btit when he
heaid that Grant wanted to see him he was
rather white. He went up.
"Can you read?" asked Grant.
"No, sah; I nebbor had no chanco to l'a'n."
"Do you always know mo when you see
me?"
"Yes, sah."
"Suppose I had gone on boatd that powder
boat with a lighted cigar, what would you have
dono?"
"Shot you, sah."
"But I am your general I" exclaimed Grant.
"Yesah; and wo jea' obeys yo' orders,"
said tho sentry.
Grant looked the men all over. The cor
poral was trembling, and tho sentry was ac
tually pale j but both were as firm R3 rocks,
At last the General relaxed. "Woll, sir," ha
said to tho negro, "we'll make yon a corporal:
and this other man shall be a sergeant. I pro
mote these men !"
"I tell you we did'nt forget that," said Sol
dier Sam.
THE MAGAZINES.
The March number of tho Grand Army Ma
zinc, which is the third one of this periodr al
contains a large amount of interesting orig'ual
matter for the general reader, bcaids ui
that appeals directly to the old soldier. It 13
profusely illustrated with cuts of decided artis
tic merit. It opens with a poem, "Either t- 9
Persian Queen," by Prof. T. N. Hask 1!, af.-r
which come "Old and New Colorado," "H 2
kiah Tucker," "Satisfaction," 'Severlni's re
venge." " Come, Dreams," " The Trouludcur "
"Wagner and His Works," "The Origin of
Mountains," chapters III and IV of th'Vrial
" Stronger Than Love," "A National Sir: r
Capital," "Baby's Eyes," "Raphael Ki,'
"Women's Auxiliary Societies," "Th-- Fr -'h
Pcpablic," " No Man's Land," "A Trip to Ne
braska," "A Colorado Mining Town," an I o" r
articles, m audition to notices of nrvr V
and other ably conducted editorial dej
'- -3
irt-
menis.
DcmoresVs Monthly Magazine for April is f il!y
up to tho high standard its publisher has .fc
for it. It does not contain a single art! la
which cannot be read with profit and r I . - -"The
Admiral's Ward" is continued, cCi
among the shorter stories are "A Romance in
Purple," "An April Adventure." "Joe P s. r,
Ranchman," and the " Story of the Ma Istrr "
a translation from the Norwegian. Jenny Ju 3
gives another chapter of "How Wo LI. i
New York," Miss kate Sanliorn an ara-i I 5
sketch, entitled "The Conundrum of the N. .c
tecnth Century," Mrs. Hungerford on1 c I r
popular articles, and Miss Hetta Ward ''K- j
Art and Homo Comfort." These, wi.h l. -other
articles of interest, and " Current T t: "
and the varions departments, make up nn 'ex
cellent issue of this readable periodical. Sj ill
attention is given to tho illustrations. "TLa
Flight into Egypt," a steel engraving, and tLa
etching of Watts' celebrated picture, "Wc. A
man, What of the Night?" being especially
fine.
HISTORIC EVENTS
Which Our Subscribers Wish Written Tp in Tfa
Tribnne.
To the Editor National Tribune:
Won't some ex-soldier, who is posted and
competent, givo accounts in The TRiBiNccf
battles of Pocky Gap and Droop Mountain,
West Virginia, fought by General Averill; tlo
lSftl battle and retreat from Winchester, Vir
ginia, under General Crook ; and the Lyr.r'i
burgh Paid, under General Hunter, including
the battle of Lectown, in the valley, und.r
General Mulligan, and oblige,
Joe WouTniNGTON,
Battery B, 1st W. Va. Light Art.
Spsinkle's Miixs, O.
To tho Editor National Teibune.
I havo been a constant reader of your papei
for nearly one y ear ; am now getting along prat
middle age, and have no hesitation in pro
nouncing your paper chief of all. I anxiously
await its coming each week, and always give it
a grand, reception. I read all tho letters of
ex-prisoners with great interest, histories of
battles and campaigns, and the progress of tLo
Grand Army; all of which is an abundant
feast. Let tho good work go on until the end.
of time. I have been anxious for a long time
to hear something about the Red River cam
paign ; for to my notion it was the hardest
campaign of the war. I say this because of my
connection with the army as a soldier during
all the time while the war lasted ; was in thir
teen hard-fought battles and many other cam
paigns; hence I venture the statement, on the
honor of a soldier, it was the hardest campaign,
of tho war. I do not think General Bank3
would care if it wero all published now, though
in command of that ill-fated expedition. It
would be only a matter of great justice to tha
surviving comrades and that old hero, A. J.
Smith, who had command of 10,000 troops
detailed to go with Banks up Red River by
General Sherman, when he started for Atlanta
in the spring of '6-1. Who will now come to
the front with the Red River campaign? T do
not wish to be first, but wiU give my experience
as the spirit moves. F. A. Nilis,
Late Lieut. Co. D, ibth HI.
Washington, D. C, Feb. 26, 1533.
To tho Editor National Tribune :
Cannot some one write up for your paper an
account of the blowing up of the rebel Ram
Albermarle, at Plymouth, N. C, in li, by
Lieutenant Cushing? It was one of tLe most
daring feats of the war. I was sick uPh yellow
fever at Roanoke Island at the time and can
not now remember the particulars. After the
town was shelled by our gunboats it wus garri
soned by a portion of the Massachusetts Second
heavy artillery, and Colonel W. D. Wardrop,
of the Ninety-ninth N. Y., was in conunrinl of
Roanoke Island. N. P. B.
ST. JOHN5BURY, VT.
Tho Alleged Burning of Marietta, Ga.
To. the Editor National Tribune:
I fully indorse the statement of George H.
Cooper, of the Ninety-eighth HIinois vclan
teer infantry, in regard to the falsehood of the
burning of Marietta, Georgia. I was with.
General Sherman from Chattanooga until I
was wounded, on the 4th day of July,
1SG1, at Nickajack Creek, fourteen miles from
Marietta, was taken from there to MarA.t.-, and
was thero in hospital for three months, and I
know that the town or any part of it was not
destroyed by fire during that time ; also. I have
been thero since the war and talked with rar
ties that lived there during the war,ai.il I have
never heard them say anything about r T eing
destroyed by fire. My opinion is " M Quad" den't
know anything about it. A. B. H r... :,
Co. G, 30th O. V. I.
Middletoavn, Ind., Feb. 26, 'd3.
To the Editor Natxoxai. Teibcxs:
I also have read the articles of "M Quad
relativo to tho burning of Marietta, G.i., and
believe it in fact know it to lie a fa .. ri port.
I was there in person on July 3d, -ltl, "tli "nd
6th, 186-1, and the town was far fr in '.::g
burued at that time, and again in Vuut cf
the same year I passed through M.iri tta en
route for home and still it existed. I am c 1 the
opinion that "M Quad's" war re-m.ri-c area
are cut "on the bias," and lean, as does tha
Free Fress, toward the suuny side.
H. C. Smith,
Co. D, 11th Mich. Vol. Inf.
Glendale, Mon. Teb., Feb. S3, 'd3.
The fireat-Granillather of Turtles.
From the Quitman Fret Press.
jrreat-jrrandaddy of all tho turtl 5 in
Tho
Georgia was caught out ot the bpenco Iske a
few days ago by S. J. Harrell. lie weighed
S2 pounds, measured 4 feet and thr-c Incls in
length, 2 feet and ten inches in width and waa
13 inches between the eyes. Iu his stcjach
was found three big catfish, two raoui '.s, an
old fish basket, four licktwood kno , -n oil
pair of boots and a milieu hur. The b
aud
by a
the jug are supposed to have been I
seining party last summer.
THE PRESS ON RHEUMATISM.
Durangs Rheumatic Remedy has a I irg sale
in this city, and possesses the repu a of
being a decidedly great medickie. EL,a (2
P.) Gazette.
It has created more stir among iLc
matic sufferers in our county than any r
ever introduced here. Farkeii&urg , t'a.
Journal.
No medical preparation has givin -satisfaction
to our rheumatie siu. 1
Dnraug's Rheumatic Remedy. JL
-'l7
slats
-uush
rs as
iris
Va.) Gazette.
Maryland is full of people who havo beea
cured of rheumatism by Durangs P. . -iua'da
Remedy. Baltimore Sun.
No medicine is more used than P 'rang'a
Rheumatic Remedy. Our doctors pr rlla ife
for rheumatism, and it never fails t lo tha
work. Waterloicm (N. Y.) Times and P: - -xi.
It cure3 rheumatism when averclm clsa
fails. Xashville Tenn.) American.
Durang"s Rhoumatic Remedy has beeu adver
tised in this city for several years, arl Jucz-Za
high. Cumberland (Md.) News.
It is a positive cure for rheumatism. At
lanta (Ga.) Constitution.
Some of our best citizens have used it wiik
great success. ffichmond (Va.) Whig.
It absolutely cures when every fchu.g - " fills.
Sold by every Pruggist. Prloo one d-'Iar a
bottle; six bottle3 five dollars. Staid Li frc
pamphlet to R. K. Hclphenatiiae, Drubi,I
Washington, D. O.
