The Sun.
London, England, 1870-04-20 00:00:00

TIIE SUN, LONDON. WEDNESDAY EVENING, APRIL 20, 1870.

EASTER MONDAY AT WESTMINSTER

ABBEY.

Of all the gay holiday sights presented by London on
Easter Monday, the most remarkable was Westminster
Abbey. Notice had been given by the Dean and Chapter
that Mondays would be free. On other days fees are
charged for viewing the historic art treasures enshrined
within its walls, while on this day of the week, and for
the first holyday time, the people were able to pass un-
questioned over the building, except during the time of
service, and were allowed to take their own
view of things without the intervention of
a guide. The result was that thousands of persons
Passed through the building, nor was there any disorder.
Of all the crowds which thronged east, west, north, and
south, on Monday, those visiting,- the Abbey and its con-
tents were not only unexceptional as regards orderly
conduct, but for the main part they were reverent and
thoroughly appreciative of the place and its associa-
tions. The people who attended were to a very great
extent of the " working classes" in the truest
sense of the term, and it was easy to see that
there were present the artisan and labouring classes
of nearly all grades, for all the workers are not in fustian
—and they had come with all their households. There
were, too, country tradesmen and country townsmen, a
few "genteel people," a few farmers, and a tolerably good
sprinkling of soldiers and sailors. It is, perhaps, worth
while adding that there were none of a distinct class,
known to all experienced in London life as the skulking
class—the " working men " who never work. The
visitors came in family groups, consisting, in some in-
stances, of three and four generations, for, in one group, a
young mother was helping her " granny," who, on her
own part, was informing her tender guide that the place
was much thn same as it was when she was " a gal," a
most remote period, judging from appearances. The
people trooped in so fast that it was impossible to count
them, but no less than 8,000 visited the chapels, while
some 4,000 or 5,000 must have wandered in at the north
door and out at the west with an idea that they had seen
all that was to be seen. From chapel to chapel
they passed, at some periods at the rate of
60 in a minute, and this for a considerable time.
The Times observes that if any plea were needed for the
removal of all difficulties in the way of a free intercourse
with our history, "writ in stone," those crowds of Mon-
day would supply the plea in the general ignorance of
throngs of English people concerning the place itself and
its contents. The holiday people are not chary of giving
information to their own class, and at any place of
general and open resort, at the British Museum,
or the Kensington establishment, an inquiry is
soon answered froth several in an on-looking group; but
in the Abbey chapels, where parties, in the widest extent
of the word, were looking at monuments, there were
no unprofessional guides who could give impromptu
information from actual experience. It must be stated
that on many of the most noteworthy monuments and
relics notices had been placed, evidently by the
thoughtful Dean, whose name is so intimately asso-
ciated with the Abbey; but the crowds hungered for
more knowledge, a knowledge which acquaintance only
can give. The visitors made the best use of their liberty,
eyes, and knowledge, however limited the last may be,
and groups were seen displaying all the enthusiasm of
learned antiquarians in striving to decipher the words on
some dusty monument. " There was no disorder seen ;
there was a quiet observance of the regulations, and for
hours the Abbey was enjoyed by as sober and as earnest
a body of holyday makers as ever set out on a fine Easter
to pass an interval of cessation from labour."

GENERALS SHERMAN AND LOGAN.

General SHERMAN has not chosen tamely to sub-
mit to the attack made upon him personally, and
U. S. A. officers generally, by Mr. LOGAN in the
House of Representatives. To understand the
dispute, our English readers should know that
much jealousy has existed between the volunteer
and regular officers employed in the Civil War, that
the leaders of the volunteers are Generals LOGAN,
BUTLER, and BANKS ; that all three are able and
powerful men, but having taken up the trade of
soldiering in an emergency as amateurs, and stepped
into the ranks as full-blown Generals, they, as
might have been expected, made some grievous
blunders, for which their regular brethren did
not spare them. And as GRANT, SHERMAN, and
other professional soldiers, bluntly recorded their
opinions on the volunteer officers, they excited any
but kindly feelings, of which they are now reaping
the fruits. Mr. LOGAN'S attack on the Command-
ing General, and on the service over which he pre-
sides, was directed with great ability, and skilfully
covered under the plea of economy. He thus
touched the nation on a tender point and fastened
its attention on his remarks, while Gen. Stimuli
bad to sit in the House and listen. He had no
means of repb ing except by letter, but he has done
this in what, to him, must be a very lengthy com-
munication, written with great force, and bristling
with points. LOGAN might have carried the day
had his remarks not been directed against the most
celebrated offiCers of the age, and those who had
rendered the country a service it recognizes as be-
yond price. Ibis was HERMAN'S strong point 1' a
well as LOGAN'S weak one ; and the General has
used it with great effect. " What money," he asks,
"will pay MEADE fcr Gettysburg? What SHERI-
DAN for Winchester arri Five Forks ? What THOMAS
fur Chiekamanga, Chattanooga, or Nashville ?
What Americans would tear these pag-s from
our national history for the few dollars saved
from their pay during their short lives ?" The
bare facts, however, strongly favoured Mr. LOGAN,
for General SHERMAN is pail $18,780 per year ;
Chief Justice CHASE $6,500. Gen. SHERIDAN is paid
$14,803 per year ; Vice-President COLFAX, $B,OOO
General Li ALLECK is paid $9,862 per year; the
Secretary of War, $B,OOO ; and precedence seems
to have been awarded in much the same ratio.
Now this, under ordinary circumstances, would not
be right, for it places the Army in the higher
instead of in the lower position, recognising force
as superior to brains. But the circumstances are
not ordinary ; for in the Army the nation now
deals with men who have rendered the highest pos-
sible service, and at a very great sacrifice. SLIER-
MAN says mournfully—" Death is already doing his
work among our veterans, it being susceptible of p roof
that the death-rate among officers and soldiers of the
late war, though they may have escaped the bullet,
13 at least double what is the case with civilians of
like age and condition who stayed at home. The
number of officers left in excess of the organization
one year ago was 622 ; the number in excess to-day

is 485, showing a diminution by death, &c., of 157."
Well might he exclaim, " I confess, when listening
to the debate in the llouse of Representatives on the
Army Bill, and when an amendment was proposed
to permit retired officers to hold civil office, I
was pained to hear the remarks of many members,
who seemed to think it something very wrong."
The law of 1869, disbanding 20 regiments, pro-
hibited further promotions in the Staff Corps till
Congress should remove the prohibition, and all the
staff organization of the army is rapidly disappear-
ing. The General disputes LOGAN'S figures com-
paring the staff of the American with those of
foreign armies; and a ids, to compel the PRESIDENT
to discharge in terms of the bill four of his old
Generals, who have served under him and fairly
canted their commissions, would be the most un-
gracious task ever imposed on the Executive. To
degrade the Brigadiers-General at the heads of
Bureaux from their rank and pay to that of Colo-
nel is a cruelty none but soldiery can realize ; in-
deed he contends that such an act has never been done
anywhere, except on conviction by a court formisde-
meanour or for incompetence. Even the promised
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swing of $3,000,000 would not be secured, for it

will merely be taken from the higher and given to
the lower grades—and here we would ask our
readers' attention to this fresh illustration of the
truth of the remarks we recently male on Clan
and Popular Governments. He cleverly turns the
tables on those who have contrasted his own pay
with that of the high civilians, remarking that it

has " been a shame that a country, with 40,000,000
of people, should stint their Chief Justice and
Cabinet Ministers as this Government now does."
Had not some kind friends presented him with the
house his predecessor bad occupied, he could not
have lived on his salary. in keeping it up he has
spent all and more than all his pay, as his position
obliges him, did not his inclination, to treat hos-
pitably his Army friends who come from all guar-

ters. " I claim that I have earned my past and
present pay ; that during the war, when I com-
manded more men than the Duke of WELLINGTON
had in Spain, my pay as Brigadier and Major-
General was less than his private secretary's,
and was so small that, though I lived on a sol-
dier's rations, my pay was not more than enough
to maintain my family in Ohio." This bold,
out spoken letter was addressed to the lion. HENRY
WILSON, Chairman of the Senate Military Com-
mittee, and has had its effect on the country. Mr.
LOGAN made a long reply from his place in the House
on the 29th March. The clerk read General STIER-
MAN'S letter to the Beiresentatives, and, after term-
ing it extraordinary and remarkable, Mr. LoGaN
went on to say that members of Congress had got
that letter written, and it would better become
them to deliver their own arguments than invite the
General of the Army to make a speech for them.
It ought not to have been written at all, and its ex-
traordinary feature was the use of such language from
the General of the Army. Of course, Mr. LOGAN
vq-as defending the taxpayers, the crippled soldiers,
and the soldiers' widows, and resisting the usur-
pation of power in the hands of a few men.
These men in high positions were not law-makers,
but law-obeyers, and they must not dictate the
amount of taxation to be paid for their benefit;
" Whenever legislation becomes so stifled and
crippled that a man who stood up for the people in
a manly, honest, and proper spirit was to be at-
tacked in the columns of the newspapers by high
officials,demanding that Congress shall not do certain
things, then he- would say farewell to the liberties
of the country." Was the country to be turned
over to a few aristocrats as in Europe, were titles
to be borne, caste established, an order of nobility
to grow up? It was the boys who carried tiro
musket, who made the Generals and the Presidents,
too. Then to the delight of the galleries, General
LOGAN declared he was there "to defend the
rights of these men and their widows and orphans,
and to defend the liberties of the people ; and
whether assailed by Generals, by Marshals, by
Governors, by Kings, Princes, or Potentates, by
newspapers or by aristocrats, he would still be
found making war against dictation and dictators,
against aristocracy, and in favour of Rt3publican-
ism." The bill introduced into the Senate to re-
duce the Army to 25,000 men i 3 much more liberal
in its provisions. Indee I LOGAN'S was more cal-
culated for disp'ay than as a practical measure,ibut
we arc bound to add, however ungenerous the re-
marks of the Representative might appear towards
soldiers of such distinction, they are not without a
good effect, for soldiers of distinction are, in truth,
the most dangerous men a Republic can harbour.
—Anglo-American Times.

AMERICAN CORRESPONDENCE.

(From the Anglo-American Times.)
NEW YORK, April 2.
We have had some very severe weather. On
Sunday there was a howling storm, which blew
down a house, burying a family beneath the ruins
All the incoming vessels r, port frightful gales. The
steamer Camilla brought 13 passengers of the Vene-
zuelan, from Liverpool, bound to Aspinwa'l, which
she fell in with disabled, but- the crew remaink d on
hoard to work the vessel into port ; now it is feared
that she has foundered in some of the later gales
she must have encountered. The Ericsson saw a 600
too vessel bottom upwards ; the steamer Northum-
brian saw the wreck of a brig, with mainmast
gone close to the deck, and foremast close to the
cap. A Convention has been held at the Fifth-
avenue Hotel of the general ticket agents of the
railroads to complete arrangements for the summer
traffic, Mr. A. A. Barnes presiding. The through
rates were discu sed during the greater part of the
day, and, it was finally decided to adhere to existing
fares, with few exceptions. The late William
MeConville's will was proved last Saturday, and I
give you a list of the bequests : —Asylum for Roman
Catholic orphans, $5,000 $2,000 towards building
a Cathedral in Brooklyn ; $3,00J to Sisters of the
Good Shepherd ; $2,000 for the New York Cathe-
dral; to the poor of Brooklyn, $1,500; to those
of New York, $4,500; to the Bishop of Dunmore,
Ireland, $5OO ; to the Bishop
.of Down, $5OO. It
is reported here that the Viceroy of Egypt is en-
gaging Americans who served during the late war
on both sides for his army, and that his agent has
already secured some as regimental co omanders.
Among these is General Harvey M'lvor, who
served on General Escabedo's staff, and two Vir-
ginia officers, Lieutenant-Colonel Hunt and Major
Mason, and these gentlemen have sailed for Liver-
pool in the steamship Tr ipoli. Generals Loring
and Silby have taken up their commands in Egypt,
and negotiations are said to be in progress with
officers of the regulars in high command. The fol-
lowing ca9e was lately tried :—Mr. Haws,travelling.
on the New York and Harlem Railroad, picked
up a package of $1,015, which, being unclaimed,
he handed to the conductor, saying he supposed
the company were rightly entitled to it. It was
duly made over to the proper officers, who were
unable to trace the owner, whereupon Mr. Hews
demanded She money, as having the best right to
it, an las the company di I not recognize his right
he brought an action to recover it. The company
contend that as public carriers the law makes
them responsible to the owner, and 'the Court
held that although the defendant had no positive
right, the plaintiff had none whatever. General
Butler has been here, as his inquiring mind is beet
on ascertaining how the 'I znzes got Gen. Garfield's
report on the Gull Panic, and Mr. Shepherd, the
ceief e ritor, and Mr. Bacon,the assistant, have both
been summoned to Washington to esp'ain matters
more fully. The Times was certainly premature in
its publication. The fairest " beat" in news has
been the SUCC,Z3 of the Tribune in getting the first
report of the sinking of the Oneida. Precautions
had been taken by that journal to secure a rapid
transmission of news, if anything important oc-
curred in Japan or China, and the gentleman it
had commissioned acted promptly and with judg-
ment. General Butler returned on Tues lay, after
having dined at the Astor House with John Rus-
sell Young, and his nephew we are soon to lose,
as he is about to start for Egypt as Consul-Gene-
ral. There is to be a great meeting of the Cuban
League, at Cooper lustitu'e next Monday, in
which prominent speakers will take part. An
import art meeting was hell th ere on Wednesday
to oppose any money being granted to schools for
sectarian purposes, and a number of leading
speakers, among whom was the Rev. Henry,
%Yard. Beecher, expressed very strong opinions
on this subject. The boats of the People's
line have begun their nightly trips to Al-
bany; they are the Drew, the St. John, and the
Dean Richmond, all superb seamera. The Bailey
excitement is subsiding, although the mystery con-
tintlis. Many of those who best know Mr. B tiley
believe that he has been murdered, as they cannot
otherwise account for his disappearance; a'tliough
thesl2s,oooof defalcati m might be advanced as good
cause. They sly that he was an abstemious man,
and so frugal as to live far within his means ; that
he was honest, holding high notions of honour; that
he could, had he chosen, have got, twice the sum he
is accused of stealing, from the whisky ring by
simply resigning his otlice. A letter has been re-
ceived from him by Collector Pleasanton, which is
believed to be genuine, though without date or
post-mark, ha, ing been dropped into a box of' this
city. In this the fraudulent appropriations are
acknowledged, but all the clerks in the office are ex-
onerated from blame. The general impression is that
Bailey is in Canada, but some believe he is nearer
New York. The President has ordered the dis-
charge of all the clerks, feeling greatly shocked at
the amount of dishon, sty which has transpired
even emong high officials, and he says that men
who have breathed such an atmosphere shou!cl not
be retained. Mr. Eugene Schuyler has had the
good fortune of being promoted from his consul-
ship at Rove], with a salary of $2,000, to a secre-
taryship of Legation at St. Petersburgh, on $l,BOO.
Vice-Cormuodore J. G. Bennett, of the New York
Yacht Club, has been given a grand dinner, in view
of his departure for England to run the interna-
tional race with the Cambria. The entertainment
was given by Commodore If. G. Stebbins, and
Frank and George Osgood,at the Union League Club,
thirty sitting down to dinner. Among the mar-
riages in New York was that of Miss Gracie Gar-
land a Southern young lady of great beauty, to Mr.
Edwin Matthews, an English gentleman, they have
started on a weddin, tour which will bring them back
next month to
_embark for Europe. A considerable
number of our citizens are preparing for an Euro-
pean tour. Among them is Colonel and Mrs J.
Conolly, Mrs. August Belmont, Mr. Charles Frost
andlamily, Mr and Mrs R. C. Graham, Mr. Her-
bert Noyes, of the St. James's Hotel, on an ex-
tended visit, and many others: Captain Mayne
Reid announcr:s a lecture at the request of many
gentlemen on Lord Byron, of whom he is an ar-
dent admirer. He considers Mrs. Stowe ought to
be flayed alive, and that lady, notw.thstanding-her
sex, will meet with little consideration at his
hands. An addition has been completed to A. T.
Stewart's upper store, and we can now boast
beyond all dispute " the finest shop in the world."

(FROJI OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
WASHINGTON, April 1.

General C. C. Washburne, the Representative

from Wisconsin, is striving 'to have the manage-
ntmt of the telegraphs transferred to the Govern-
ment. He maintains that both in France and in
England the success of the Government control
has been complete, and he says he has late advices,
which show an immense increase in the telegraph
business in Great Britain, besides greater facilities
to the public, demonstrating the advantage of the
change in England, though this is contrary to all we
have heard on the subject. The Senate propos :s
to double the subsidy now paid to the Pacific
Steamship Co. for increasing the trips from San
Francisco to Hongkong to two instead of one each
month, making the sum per annum a million in-
stead of half a million of dollars. Commissioner
Delano has sent a circular throughout his Depart-
ment, impressing on its officers the necessity' of
civility and courtesy in discharging their official
duties ; rude or offensive language the Commis-
sioner regards as a sufficient cause for removal. A
settlement of the war claims for the State of Mas-
Sachusetts has been effected by Col. Tufts, agent
for that State, who has received a draft for a
balance of $132,900. The Comanche Indians re-
cently made an extensive raid in Western Texas.
Over forty families were massacred, very many of
the houses were burned, and several hundred horses
captured. It is believed the commander at Fort
Hill might have prevented some of the massacres.
General B. F. Butler has received a letter from
Mr. Allen Melville, of New York, containing this
singular proposition. Melville says he is a holder
of State Bonds, which Minnesota has repudiated ;
that Minnesota, thotigh rich, will not pay her
Bonds, will not arbitrate, and will not consent to
be sued by her bondholders, therefore the only re-
source is to have her sued by another State. He
asks General Butler if Massachusetts, for the honour
of the nation, will undertake to do this, and offers
to procure for Massachusetts a certain amount of
the repudiated Bonds as a gift to some charitable
institution if that State will agree to the proposi-
tion. In reply, General Butler, who does not
seem to be always on the side of the repudiator,
thinks it probable that Massachusetts would accept
Bonds amounting to $lOO,OOO or more in support
of her State Charities, and undertake to collect the
sum by means of a suit. The Hon. John W. Cald-
well, of Ohio, has returned to Washington, from

Bolivia, as Minister to the United States, and was
informed by Secretary Fish that the country could
not receive one of its own citizens as Minister from
a foreign State. Mr. Caldwell quoted Mr. Bur-
lingame's case, which, however, did not meet
the objection, as he had been appointed to all
the treaty-making powers, and not subject to
recognition solely by the United States. The
Turkish Minister has given orders for a large car-
pet in one piece for the east room of the Ex-
ecutive Mansion, for which a new loom will be re-
quired. The Turkish Minister called to inform the
President of the honour intended him by his Im-
perial Majesty. The President has given General
Butler two of his ten appointments for cadetships
to West Point and Annapolis, but the other
Butler might make a better use of them, as he
knows what their real value is in the market. We
are getting as clever in bribery and corruption as
in the East. The other day a basket of flowers was
sent to Ebbett House to the wife of the Chief of the
Bureau of Engraving and Printing. In the basket
was a paper enclosing $1,700, which unfortunately
reached Mr. M'Cartee's hands, who made it over to
the Secretary of the Treasury, and was by him
placed in the Conscience Fund towards the liquida-
tion of the National Debt. An investigation is
going on, but the generous donors have not been
discovered. General Butler, it is stated, is push-
ing to get ex-Senator T. C. Murphy into the
place now filled by Collector Grinuell. Several
efforts against that gentleman have lately been
made. Mr. Perry's case has been discussed in
the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, and
a voluminous correspondence between him and the
Minister of the Madrid Legation' Mr. Hale, has
been before the members. They have decided to
remain neutral, and recommend Colonel Hay, the
present Secretary of Legation, to be confirmed in
Perry's place. The official announcement of the
ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment has been
received with a burst of enthusiasm by the negroes.
A Committee waited on President Grant, and ten-
dered him their thanks on behalf of the coloured
people, and he is to have a serenade to-night. An
Envoy from San Domingo has arrived here with
despatches from President Baez, and has had a
long interview with Gen. Gran}. Baez is willing
to extend the time for the ratification of the treaty,
which the President strongly favours, and even
hopes to achieVe, though the General is much
against it. General Ames, it is rumoured, is about
to be married to Miss Blanche Butler. He has
been admitted to a seat in the Senate by 40 to 12,
only 6 of the minority being Republicans, and four
of them were members of the Ju liciaryCommitte ‘,
which had reported agairist his admission. So the
young
,General, for he is very young and goad-
looking, has pursued his lucky carter since the
day when he served his guns so well on the trying
field of Bull Run,afterwards capturing a fort while
his future father-in-law was incliting despatches,
showing it to be impregnable. An absurd case of
m'staken identity lately occurred. A Philadelphia
paper mistook Samuel Hooper, Representative from
Massachusetts, for W.H. Hooper Mormon delegate
from Utah, and wrote a sprightly leader under the
impression that a Representative from the old Puri-
tan State had strenuously upheld Mormonism, de-
claring polygamy to be a divine institution, and
monogamy the offspring of those heathen nations,
the Greeks and Romans I and didn't poor Sam catch
it,—and wasn't the old Bay State hauled over the
coals ! But the hon. gentleman had the article read
by the Clerk, amid shouts of laughter, in which the
wrong Hooper joined, as well as the right Hooper.
Can't you do something of that sort, instead of
being always so stupidly correct? and I will get
your article read by the Clerk, which will be a fine
advertisement for the A.A.T. Do you recollect the
case of a Catherine Brown, who had the impu-
dence to take a seat in a car of the Washington
Alexandria and Georgetown Railroad ? Of course
she was rebuked and turned out, whereon she
brought an action against the company, and has re-
covered $l5OO damages. There has been a row
going on about the premature publication, in the
New York limes, of the Gold Panic report, and its
correspondent, Mr. Crouse has been up before the
Sub-Judiciary Committee. Mr. Frank Smith, the
House reporter, said that he made a copy of the re-
port,wbich Mr. Crouse forwarded to his paper, with
tha injunction not to publish it till it had been pre-
sented to the House, a condition not observed by
the paper. The death of Major-General Thomas
has left a vacancy to be filled, but it is not known
which of the eight Brigadier-Generals will be
selected. The President will attend the fune-
ral, which is to take place at Troy, New York.
No officer was more beloved or respected. Indeed
some men considered Thomas to be the first of
American Generals, and the grief at this sudden loss
of so valuable an officer has spread over the coun-
try. A General Order has just been issued abo-
lishing the Fifth Military DiStrict, which was
formed of Texas, now admitted as a State, and the
Department of Louisiana has been broken up, that
State being added to the Department of Texas,
head-quarters Austin, General J. J. Reynolds com-
manding. The garrison of Little Rock is to be
relieved by a detachment of the 6th Infantry, and
the commanding officer of the troops in Arkansas is
to report to Gem Reynolds. The State of Arkansas
is added to the Department of Missouri, and the new
Department of Texas will form a portion of the Mili-
tary Division of the South. Sparring in the Senate
still continues. That assembly by no means re-
sembles the pictures of the birds in their little
nests, which, by the way, I have always believed
to be a false illustration, and my impression is that
the Senate does resemble the harmony there pre-
vailing. Last Tuesday Senator Thurman and his
colleague were very angry with each other, and did
not take much pains to hide the feeling. Mr.
Thurman was interrupted by Mr. Sherman, which
he resisted, even unto dividing on the question,
for the sense of the Chamber was against him ; and
Mr. Sherman carried his point, which so disgusted
Senator Trumbull that he accused the Senator from
Ohio of gross discourtesy to the Judiciary Com-
mittee, complaining of the indignity to him and
the presumption of it. Sherman, however, dis-
claims any such intention, but steadily maintained
his ground, and so successfully that Trumbull with-
drew in annoyance. The scene was animated, and
enlivened by Mr. Vickers, of Maryland, who, being
entitled to the floor, arose, with a huge roll of ma-
nuscript, and called for a glass of water, to the dis-
may of alll parties. Mr. Sherman asked him to
give way ; Mr. Thurman called out, " Don't ;"
some Senators cried, " Do ;" others shouted, " Stand
fast ;" while Mr. Vickers sat down, got up, sat
down—as the violence of the storm swayed from
one side to the other ; but finally he bowed politely.
to Mr. Sherman, and gave way. Idaho had en-
acted a law putting a special tax of $5 on Chinese
in that territory, and a bill has now been reported
annulling it.

The habit in America of carrying loaded re-
volvers leads to an immense amount of homicide, the
great majority of the cases arising from the acts of insane,
frenzied, and drunken men. Doubtless numbers of deaths
are caused by the momentary impulse of irritation at
hasty expressions in the beat of arguments; but the fol-
lowing instance fairly illustrates how the mass of them
originate :—On Saturday, March 19, while J. C. Rhine-
hart, a school teacher, and E. J. Connell, a carpenter, were
walking near Manchester, Ohio, they were met by a drun-
ken man, named James Huff, who drew a pistol and shot
Connell dead. Rhinehart drew a pistol and shot fluff
through the body. Before Huff fell he returned Rhine-
hart's fire, mortally wounding him. Rhinehart and Huff
died a few minutes after.

The American papers show up the error of Mr.
Goldwin Smith's assertion, that in the Northern States
the English emigrant now finds himself not only in a
foreign, but in a hostile country. It is extraordinary
that Mr. Smith should have written so unguardedly.
Englishmen are received with kindness in the Northern
States, and this is demonstrated by the fact that 40,000
now annually settle there, a number constantly increas-
ing, while very few return. If they were received so
unkindly in the Northern States, and so heartily wel-
comed in Virginia, considering that the resources of the
Old Dominion are equal to those of any emigration field
on earth, it is marvellous that so many should seek the
discomfort and avoid the attractions. Virginia is all Mr.
Goldwin Smith represents it to be, but ho seems to have
gone crazy since Mr. Sumner's celebrated speech on the
Clarendon-Johnson treaty, and to be peculiarly thin-
skinned to the severe criticism the attitude of England
towards the United States deserved and received in Ame-
rica, although he himself had been among the first to
acknowledge how wrong England was. A leading New
York " weekly" ass )rts, " The England hated here is an
abstraction, and vary few aro the individual Englishmen
identified iu the minds of Americans with the England of
the Alabanza." After ridiculing the Professor's statements
about Irish influence, the same paper adds, "English im-
migrants are as sure of a warm welcome from Northern
Americans as immigrants from any other country what-
soever; and if we were to say a warmer welcome, we
should not, we think, be far wrong." .