The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-07-19

sent Q ,etrepge contrast to those which
the two soldiers are now witnessing In
/ the height or xs1bndon season. nSsd
[gs+And now that you have seen q
good dealQ England and Englishmep,
pray how does 1t. all strike you T'
well, It would take q long time tn
tell all that one thinks about England -
said Gen. Grant. "In the finsf place,
the country isso beautiful everywhere
that one never ceases to nd miro It. II
have been to Bath and Southamptm
and driven Q good deal In the, neigh
borho0d Of LondQn--tO Richmond, and
other places-and everywhere IL Ii the
sah1e.' All the land ID cultivated; one
sees comparatively little wood and IT, IL
difficult to imagine anything more
beautifu than 10 all Is. Yet, 0fcOufse,
one cannot but rooollect how over pop
ulated the country 10. Here syou can
no longer produce enough food for
your own people. In our country we
could raise the means of support for
SOC, 600, 0o0j and to-day we have only
about q, 600 900 more than England.
We might not be able to buy anything
whatever outside, and be cut Of nom
all the rest 'Of the world, and yet we
could get enough fOut OF the, ground to
live upon. What could England DO II
any disaster Happened to cttt her of
from the rest Of the world ina similar
mannerr''l isad ilSt.pbdsg ssgi a. !,
e.4-lED DINING IN ENGLAND sTnsb
- ~ You ought TO- be- . great judge on
the dinner question now. Don't you
think we can dine better as q rule IN
the United States than here ?''s"Well,
the dinners are good enough here; but
i think they are better In America.
Our markets offer b more varied stlp-
ply or provisions. Here the dinners
are nearly all the same wherever you
gO.ni s.That n partly the fault of the
cooks, who persist In sending up the
same old dishes year after year. m ~As
for the large cities and townSsI have
never seen any 70 well managed. n. an
that ] have been to are governed on
sensible principles. Here In Tendon,
for instance, you have Lord Mayor,
who il chosen FROM the Board of
Aldermen In his turn, and the Alder
men are men who take an interest In
the welfare Of the city" (Hete Gen.
Grant went over the framework OF, the
City Government with great accuracy
"What contrast all this presents to
the state Of affairs In New sYOfkl!
There, money raised by taxation. has
been stolen, by, Wholesale, and now
property will not sell for the vallie Of
the mortgages that are on It, ana tide
clare do not SEQ what Ia to become Of
the city. The debt Is enormous, See
how well the paving and lighting are
looked after here, and how carefully.
the traffic IL managed. The police,
too, seem 10 be excelleRt ~ u" And yet
they have quite as hard q set TO do
with rs the police OF New York, and a
good many more Of them." III" No
doubt. i have not noticed 20 many
OF the poor about London as I expect
ed to see, although / have been down
Whitechapel and the Mile-end-road
and other places. At Bath. the people
were most enthusiastic, and / was,
much gratified with their Kindness to
me they were very noisy and good
natured.b 1t IL no wonder that the,
General noticed the latter, character
istics, for an American crowd Ia gener-l
ally very quiet, never indulging In
horse play seldom cheering, and not
al~ avs good natured, or at, lleast not
demonstratively SO. 81 hope still to 60
to Birmingham and Manchester" said
he, "and other large cities, for I am
very curious 30 rec them. Then Lshall
20 to Scotland, and be back in London
In about two months from now. !
cannot speak too warmly of the tecep-
ton have everywhere met with thus
far. 1t was quite unlocked for.o +.
MI THE ALABAMA CLAIMS.
1.-THE people ofthe two countries like
each other well enough; tits the writ-
ers who have made MOST of the mis-
chief.n EYES," said the General, land
/ think good feeling has been increase
ing ever since the settlement of the
Alabama claims. / was very glad they
were settled (; for II they had not been, ,
war would have arisen
out Of them some day and the constant
OF that would baveied to
evaporation and illsfeeling. was
very glad" he repeated, ITO get the
question out or the way.r ~
" But is 10 not q pity that More
money was asked for than can be dis
tributed 20 - hahn 4.,,..
That is q mistake,'' said the ex.
PRECEDENT, with some earfiestness; ''as
/ will explain 10 you. . AT first, Con-
gress thought that the sum awarded
would not nearly. suffice TO meet the
most obvious and pressing OF all the
claims for C0mpensati0nI 1thoee which
had not been covered by insurance or
by anything else, Therefore, Con-
gress said TO the Insurance companies,
'You cannot hAve q. portion 6f this
award, for you have already reoo0ped-
yourselves by way premipms;' and To.
persons who had their property des-
troyed by the Alabama md. other
cfuieem, but who were partly dnsAreds,
IL said. You cAnn0t hava sny either,
So TIA that 4 ruisd out Tie IN isfss sr part Of
the eAses. Bet % high was the rate Of
In those days that scarcely
tSinS Sh Yik2 ~ ~ ssIaS s a
srs ~ the depfedati0As o. tbs Aruise1s'
are entitled to some oongill erakion; and
the surplus now femaiKins VIII net
10 fAr. Congress '6i4kfnAfly limited
Tho claimants to o very smsll 0f0l6,
and that n why Il happened that there
must rem ef1bes That ithSs SfhcSnt
was sswardei Cor injury duue 20 the
United .6tates; and no one can doubt
that the injury AZ fairly Appraised,
would repreSent evetf'A kfe&tsr sum
than that yepresmtsd at 0snsvaJB To-
distribute ~ fairly smepg the, psrsons
nOet entitlcd 70 Il may not be an easy
matter; but we Sdstafned dAYhage To-
the fun amount swardod, W. ny the
lsastl-how We shall divide n among
the injured peJDpps n another matter
You may depend upon IL Conf ree3 Will
Do Whst'i II f{ght Ab0ut itnext 6eeslon. /"
lf"I an guro there Will 10 Dahyfwk0
will b. gled - hee. this explanation
d the ~ fsf, .fbf Il y much mlsundsr-
&oc6, I'D ~ cauied Sol]e }sSllhE.',
II nid - z al.sywssu9ia NJ spoke
70 pne 500 aftegI eAnqe heEe abost IL,
Sf%. -wSVSts IA III Us msoE i sor
the damage done TO our cosnnnepee, fsil1
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