Wilmington daily commercial., 1875-01-09
FIRST EDITION.
philadelphia.
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LEaIsLArURE-aR. WALLACE AND THE U. y. BEN
AToRsHIp-THE LIppIScoTT AND CHAMBERS EN-
oYcLopEDIA DISPUTE, 10. &c.
Special Correspondence Of the Commercial.
| PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 8.
| The Southern question enlists the attention OF
our people almost to the exclusion of local mat.
| ters. Without venturing so far from my field al
to discuss this question it will perhaps be allow
| ed that the condition of feeling hero is a
fair subject for comment. The opinion can be
| honestly Expressed that on the part of Repub-
| licans generally there ia no conviction that the
| administration has forfeited its claim to popular
| support. 1t may be understood, of course, that
| the Democracy is violent in its denunciaton of
the President, but that goes for nothing-lnas
| much as any pretext would be seized by it for
the purpose Of enliHting opposition to the exist
| ing government. The question is how do the Re-
| publicans standP No doubt there has been some
| detection, but close inquiry fails to show that
| it has been at all considerable. Many earnest
party men feel that the New Orleans affair IL ex-
| ceedingly unfortunate and some blame the
| President for sending an impetuous commander
| like Sheridan to Louisiana, instead Of a more
| even and philoSopnic leader such as Sherman,
but they for the very great part unite in the be-
| lief that the Leaguers are the real criminals
and that their reasonable propensities had OF
necessity to be put down by the strong arm of
The lnilammatory Southern appeals -
| backed up by Northern subservience NJ
| similar appeals were supported in
| he North in times which are but too well re-
nembered-are to be taken with many grains of
allowance, and that it will be found when official
| intelligence is received that the s'dspersed"
members Of che Louisiana Legislature were ras-
| cally interlopers illegally insisting upon their
places, and that no power short of that which
was invoked could have protected the true IN
terests of the State. This is the prevailing Re-
| publican opinion and efforts to change it on the
| part of some of the newspapers have been with,
a..
| must be said that the party by no
means approves of General Sheridans ex-
| traordinarily iil-judged communications to the
Secretary of War. They .deplore those mistakes
a great deal more honestly than the opposition
who are excited to such a frenzy thereby, yet
believe, too, that the Lieutenant-G General had no
| such thing in his mind as Wholesale devastation
and that they were the expressions of a military
man who sees his way only in the light of his
own profession and to whom the civil processes
are shadowy and vague. Soldiers have made
similar mistakes ere now, but such laundering
is a different thing from treason. 70 sum up
all we believe here that the President is doing
his conscientious duty that it will be found in
the end that he has done wisely that he erred
somewhat in his choice of agents that his chief
captain was rash and said things which he did
not mean to be taken in the wholesale sense put
upon them by the opposition
There il just a prospect that the Abattolr
project may be defeated. l conclude it is I'M
derstood that the reference is to the determina
ZION OF the IenHBy1Yhnlh llallrOau 70. 10 esbAD-
lish huge stock-yard and slaughter house i'll
the vicinity of Market st. bridge, on the West
ern side OF the Schuylkill. The matter has been
pressed with IA violent disregard of the health or
comfort OF citizens. There may not be anything
sensational about this subject, but it is one of
the most vital questions that has been raised in
Philadelphia of late times. That its Importance
's not overestmated can be seen from
brief excerpt from tho opinion
Of distinguished medical authority, DIR. John
II. Rauch, of Chicago, President Of the Ameri-
can Health Association, whose views were sought
upon the matter Dr. Rauch gave it as his con-
viction that even when "trying" operations
we're going on at the yard the ordinary effluvla
of the place would afflict neighborhoods within
a full mile of the establishment, and that these
effuva, in addition to being very dsagreeable to
the sense, would be decidedly detrimental to
health. DIR. Rauch's opinion has been endorsed
by over one hundred of the principal physicians
of this city. 1t seems impossible that
even the railway magnates should ov-
erride such protest as this. They
are firmly set i'll their design, but they may be
made to feel the force of San aroused public SEN
timent, as some one once observed. 1t must
be noted that the objection is not to the abattoir
system per 'e. The conjoined plan for the etor-
ing and hlauShteriug of cattle will relieve the
city from the numerous small establishments
which are nuieances to their immediate neigh
borhoods, and is endorsed by medical men and all
well Informed persons. But the question of site
s all-important. 1t is imperative that the estab-
lishment should be far away from the region OF
residences. Dr. Rauch and our college
of physicians suggest the mouth of
the Schuylkill as proper location for the pur-
pose and this would, Ill sanitary way, answer
well. But the convenience of butchers and deal
ers il also to be considered and it ID doubtful II
the extremity of " the Neck" is not too far re-
moved. Better there, however, than in the very
centre of the CITY,
The Legislature met this week and the event
as usual made itself felt i'll the current of city
affsirs The singular change in the composition of
the hpuy pt cd than ordinary amOuDt
of attention to the opening of the session, but
SO engrossed are the Democratic members over
the U. s. Senatorship that little can yet be gath
cred of the probable attitude of the body OH
public questions. The election of Senator is
fortunately fixed for an early date, otherwise
legislative routine business would have but a
poor chance. Hon. w. A. Wallace =" Coffee
Pot" Wallace az he has been affectionately
termed appears to have still the best prospect
FOR the coveted place, although Mr. Buckalew s
making vigorous EFFORT to prove him (Walace)
ineligible by reason of his present membership
III the Legislature. A formidable array of legal
authority has been collated by Buckalew
on this point, which some say is
having an effect and others aver does not amount
TO much. Perhaps some readers might like to
know that Mr. Wa.lace's sobriquet was gained
through his alleged connection with naturaliza-
tion frauds 1t stated that bogus papers
were issued for election purposes while Wallace
was chairman of the Democratic State Central
Committee aud that to give these documents an
appearance of age and trustworthness coffee
grounds were freely used hence the compliment
tary cognomen assigned the chief conspirator.
1t may possiblybe all lie, yet the nick
name sticks to him, and will as long as he lives.
A topic which interests bookish people is the
discussion between Messrs. J. b Lippincott 4
Co., of this city, and Messrs. W. IL II.
Chambers, the Edinburgh publishers, relative
to the American Edition. of "Chambers' Encyclo-
pedia" 1t appears that the Messrs. Lippincotb
purchased duplicate stereotype plates of this ex-
teneive work of the Messrs. Chambers but saw
lit in issuing the reprint to make various altera-
| lions and additions to suit the work better to the
| American market. They claim there was nothing
| in their agreement with the projectors to
prevent this revision. The SMessrs Chambers
| hold that the Encyclopedias has been garbled and
| mutilated, while the Lippincotts assume to show
| the corrections i'll matters of fact, espe-
| cially in facts relating to America Thus they
| hold that they had right to correct the state
| neit that Florida il the mo eoutherly of the
| confederate States of Ame erica" They claim
that there we're 'perhaps a thousand instances
where changes were thought similarly necessa-
| ry. The principal troubles of tho Mes sra.
| Chambers seem TO be that the Lippincott
| g lltion has leaning to Protection
ms cad Of towards Free Trade "a in the original,
| IN cl ef of ali that the American book speaks
dspsra ,ingly of the Prince of Wales. The Messrs
| Iiippincutt admit that they fell into mistakes in
these two respects. On the whole, however,