The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1873-02-07

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GEN. McCLELLAN.-Mr. jaime
T. Fields, the well-known author
in lecture entitled masters o
the Situation" delivered by hin
! a few evenings ago, in New York
l administers the following sever
blow to that very much oYerrateC
officer, General George B. McClel
Ian. Mr.. Fields says:
Eleven years ago, a vast Grove
of eager and excited men and wo
men assembled just outside O
! Washington to witness a review o.
the grand army, then under com
mand of Gen. Mcclellan. It was 8
scene of great and absorbing in.
terest, for it was a revelation to
thousands upon thousands of spec.
tatOrs gathering there, of what
could be done for the preservation
of American liberty and Law, and
how instantaneously a force could
be mustered to guard them.
1t was brilliant answer to the
doubling heart, and strengthen
ing influence to the quailing spirit.
The review that was then about
to be held was to prelude series
of magnificent victories, and the
war was to end in sixty days. AS
if American uniforms were not
various enough to gid the splen-
dor of the day, foreign decorations
must be added to the glittering
show. The French Princes of the
House of Orleans, the son and
grandson of Louis Philippe, rode
to and fro among the Generals
staff, and recalled by their brilliant
appearance other days of this re-
public. Bugles sounded, squad
rons wheeled into linz. Cannons
reverberated, and martial music
rose from innumerable battalions.
The prominent figure of the day
was indeed marked man.
All eyes searched the field for
Mcclellan, and followed him from
point to point. AS the young
commander galloped up and down
the line, laundering cheers from
more than a hundred thousand
troops and spectators rolled after
him. "How well he ridesr' whis-
pered the Prince de Joinville. ''The
finest horseman 1 ever saw" re-
sponded the Count de Paris, and
the Duke de Chartres endorsed
his praises. "Never was anything
so elegant chorused the Gener-
ais fair countrywomen. But as he
rode past q group of spectators,
among whom l happened to be
standing, / heard these fatal words
from the lips of an old soldier,
''He is not master of the situa-
ton" Soon afterward, when It'd
ings of defeat and modification
came rolling back upon us, l re-
membered those CHASTITY words,
and trembled for the issue.
ADVANTAGE OF THE POSTAL TEL
EGEAPH.-Mr. E. H. Derby has An
article in the February Atlantic
strongly advocating a system of
Postal Telegr0phy.
Let us picture the results to the
United States, should it adopt the
policy of the Swiss, Belgian and
British nations, and invest ten
millions of dollars in the con-
struction of the Geographic sys-
TEN, and manage it by Commits
sioners under the Postffioce De-
partment, as our lighthouse sys-
TEN is now conducted. The ma
ton might issue for this outlay
ten millions in five per cent. bonds.
either to the freedman's or postal
banks, or the Treasury Depart
ment. The interest on this would
not exceed halt a million and
the annual expense at $37 per
mile Of wire would not reach four
millions and half dollars. The
new system would become a candi-
date for a business exceeding nine
millions of dollars; for the West
ern Union Telegraph Company last
year rose, according to its report,
to So, 557, 095.77. drawn from r.
444,499 messages, and have been
progressive.
If England, with siXty-three
thousand three hundred and nine
teen miles of wire can send six
teen millions of kilograms yearly,
this nation, with one hundred and
twenty thousand miles of wire,
could easily send thirty thousand
kilograms at cost of less than
six millions of dollars, or twenty
cents per message, and with a
profit of one or two millions
yearly.
Should the nation, guided by the
experience of Europe, pursue this
course, no American company
would have right to complain.
1t would be the policy as well as
the duty of the postoffice depart
ment to tender to existing compa-
MES the cost of replacing their
lines in payment for those they
have erected. The nation would
also undoubtedly sanction moder-
ate payment for the good will of
the business: they can ask no
more. The interests of commerce
and society imperatively demand
a reduction of telegraph rates in
conformity to the policy of the
most liberal and enlightened ma
tions of the globe.
BURNING Conn FOR FUEL.-A