, 1872-11-09
WASHINGTON.
Stanley and Colonel Evans.
New Railroads in The East---A Car
pet-Bag Chief Justice.
People OF Letters--- The News
Crusaders.

From Our 0,cn Correspondent.
WASHINGTON, Nov. !, 1872.
Tomorrow the people vote, the borses rest
In this city, few carts arc abroad cars do no
run in the streets and even the dre-engines ar
reduced to men to drag them. The electio,
makes no excitement, and all the clerks fee
confident that Grant will be reelected.
EVANS.
Colonel L. S. Evans, rho was lost on tht
Missouri, VAS q man Of vigor, adventure, ant
activity, and Of graceful and ID
4eresting style Of correspondence. HI
lived IN San Francisco, on the summit Of one q
those high and windy knolls overlooking ths
Golden Gate, and Was An accomplished horse
man, and faithful disciple of the art Of com:
munication. To learn, and to tell again. WAS hi
enjoyment and motive Of life. An actire mind
vigilant observer, and q healthy, masculine
writer, have been lost to the Pacific Coast. Last
April I went to Havana on the same line o,
steamers which Colonel Evans took when over.
whelmed with disaster. His fate brought rividiy
to my mind the strange elections in the proyi-
dence Of God. For that accident the Congress
OF the United States is responsible. We are
keeping our old wooden tubs afoat- be-
CAUSE Va cannot be allowed to pur-
chase iron vessels in cheap markets.
vessels with iron compartments, which fire
could not make such headway upon as to drive
crew and passengers overheard within sight OF
appalling mortality.
Since the accident to the Metis. the Sound
steamers go with only about half their former
complement Of passengers. Upon the Great
Lakes, meantime, Buffalo has got the start in
IRA. obi 1-,k
iron vessels start with the advantage.
RAILROAD AFFAIRS EAST.
Two strange matters have come to pass in
New Jersey. While the Pennsylvania Railroad
is suing the stanhope Company for
'hreach OF monopoly in laying new
road to connect the New jersey
Central with the Baltimore l. Ohio, the State
Chancellor has also made 1t appear that the
Pennsylvanit Company has no standing in
Court, because it did not do the technical thing
Of making certain public advertisements.
These matters reflect the deepest diecredit
upon the State Of New Jersey, and upon the
business Of special Incorporation by legislative
act. In our day, that State reckonB anongst bar
barous ones which does not get some general law
OF incorporation, by which the public may be re-
Heved from psying toll and blackmaif to lobbies
End leglslatora. The 6tanhope charter seems
to have been obtained by a fe1onious manip-
nlaton OF bills, so that the bill which VAS signed
had never passed. The stanhope bill, under
various snbtertugea, prescribed that railroad
might be made Of inteTlinking local charters Of
nondescript sort. Under the operations of this
hill, about 5000 lsborers have been at work be-
tween Bound Brook and Yardleyyille, and thence
On to Philadelphia. Bound Brook il 81 miles out
from Je1sey City, where the Jersey Central
Railroad strikes the Raritan River, west Of New
aHunswick; and the distance thence to Yardley-
vile, On the Delaware, miles above Trenton, ia
less than 80 niles. The country is higher, and
GhA Wild and inp1finu
than by the present route. From Yardley-
vile, the new line proceeds, by the aid
OF the North Pennsylvania and Reading
eonsolidated,~ ,~both to Pailadelp lphis, and across
country to Westchester and Baltimore. This
corporntion is called the National Raroad it aims
to be the New York arm Of the Baltimore l. Ohio
and Of the Philadelphia 4 Reading, Coal Rail-
anjunchons be laid upon it, BY next July. The
distance will be very nearly the Same, and the
time IS short. as By the present route.
As to the forfeiture OF charter By the Pennsyl- |
out Of the control Of Jersey politicians, every |
through traveller would regard 8 change back to |
the old conditions as a public calamity. The |
jersey roads are operated by the new 1essees |
with degree OF care, speed, and elegance here I
tofoxe unknown.
TEE CHIEF JUSTICE OF ARKASsAs.
To Judge from the rawlings OF the Chief JUS |
tice OF Arkansas, Mcclure, my letters upon the I
State State M must have been highly successful. He |
red chalk and his Eng1ah is ot chat tipstaE de-
sc1iption which might be expected from man |
educated in the la~ BY hdd!ing Billy Mungen,
and editor OF the Campoon daily organ. NC !
Cure's theory Of my object in Arkansas does
Justice to his coretousness. He says that was ]
employed. to run down Arkansas State
bonds at the period when the snnu-
to fall due. This would have besn true had my
name and nature been McClure's; but was too
dumb for the opportunity, and, falling to fall in
with him, it never occurred to me. There Was /
no BALE for the bonds at any price in New York,
who hAd tried it on. My mistake was, indeed, 8
glazing one. ought to have suffered some OF Nc
Clure's acquaiutance. He would, no doubt, have
put more designs into my head against the public
credit OF his State and mankind than Mephisto- I
philes could have poured into the ear OF Marga-
,et, or the serpent into the guileless /
Eve. An invincible repugnance kept me |
to the injury Of my pocket, and I became the
first historian Of the State, and incidentally the
only correct biographer Of Mcclure. Here is a
sentence culled at random from the synta1 Of
this head Of the Arkansas Bench. II such Chief
can?
wo do not Ike to make an alliance with Demo-
Or KnK but Te ggaa qa hands wh
next correspondent who enters the State- |
That's the only way to do it! For 3 man with
ears ia always dangerous to Mcclure; and even
the possession OF . nose, when he ia around, ia
= source OF calamity to the werner.
SOME CH1Ps FROM A NEW BooK.
An indebted to an old instructor OF young
people for = book called "a Manual Of Ameri-
can Literature, nearly $50 pages OF very neat
and impressive 1etter-press, where ruy breath
WAS taken, as ran over the index, with the
large and emphatic word GATH. In this book
there are departments given to humoriats, maga-
zinieta, editors, and disputants; and the series
at sketches in literature, between 1850 and the
latest period comp ahble with publication, isvery
remarkable for fnllness aud thoroughness. The
author is John S. Hart, LII. D., Professor OF
English Literature and Rhetoric at Princeton
College, and one Of the bequests Of New Eng
land to the Middle States. At years Of are. BE-
was removed from stockbridge,, Mass,
his graduation at Princeton. forty
two years ago Mr. Hart has been one Of the
most efficient educators and authors OF school,
books in the country. BE has personally
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