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New-York tribune., 1879-05-09

The negro exodus now in progress was not un-
foreseen by careful and intelligent observers OF
events III the Southern States. so long ago as
1871, President Grant, in conversation with the
Hon. Andrew ID. White who, it Will be remem-
bered, was a member OF the Commission appointed
to visit Santo Domingo and inquire as to the de-
STABILITY of the purchase and annexation Of the
island, expressed the opinion that the course pur-
sued by the Southern whites toward the negroes
would eventually drive the latter to emigration
aud the principal argument in his mind in favor
of annexation was the advantages Santo
Domingo would offer in such a case for colonization
President Grant very positive in his belief that
the social and political condition of the South made
such result inevitable, and also that nothing short
of n general movement of the blacks such as he an
ticipated, and as has apparently recently begun,
would bring the people of the South to their senses
and teach them the necessity of cultlvating ami
cable relations with the class upon whose labor
they are SO dependent for their own prosperity and
comfort
New-York tribune., 1879-05-09
amnsemenis amo Meenuss Go-Nl5hi.

BROADWAY THFArRF-" Otto German"
FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE" Fatlnitza."
LYCEUM TiIENTRE-MInstrels.
NInIOS G ARDEN" Black Crook"
OLYMPIC THEATRE" EAsSOmmoirs'
PAEk iIlsAT ATRF-" lie Petit Dnc.'
SAN FRANt1sCO MTNsTREis' OPERA HOUSE.
sTANDAKD IUFATRE-" II. NJ. :. Pinatore'
ENfGN SoTARE IHEATRF--" The LOST ChlluTen. -. .,
WITIACS's THFATRk- p. NJ: Childrens "Pnafore
sP H.: "Tho SNOWFALL
BRo ANYWAY T\RrRNACrE-National Temperance Society
KOsTrK 4 RAL'S-Cuucert.
KUnrZ's GALLERY-Pctures.
MN -YOlk AQJANUN-Day ana Evening
STENwAY UALI.--COucert.
New-York tribune., 1879-05-09

Tie Grand Jury has decided that it is not
penal offence to give four silver quarters in
change for one-dollar bill. Justice Otter
bourg should mediate upon this great legal
truth.
By large majority the House of Repre-
sentatives declined yesterday to vote that the
Government must pay ten hours wages for
eight hours work The dOwn-trOdden work
ingman who will still be compelled to labor
ten hours o day may perhaps console himself
with the reflection that there are men who
would lie glad of the opportunity to take his
place with all its haTdships
So Senator Morgan informs the North that
the Army bill is TO be passed because the
people of the South, knowing the horrors of
bayonot rule and having now been freed from
if. are determined that the North shall no
longer suffer it. If this speech could have
been made few months ago it might have
aided materially in the formation of the ice
crop.
Ney-York interests were prominent In the
Legislature yesterday. The bill forbidding
the building of an elevated road on
any street south of the City Hall,
not already granted for that purpose,
was ordered to a third reading in
the Assembly. Mr.. Brooks's bill authorizing
the construction of an island on Robins
Reef was passed in the same house. In the
Senate the bill reducing the salary of the
Commissioner of Jurors to One-third its
present figure was passed, and the Governor
has since signed it. Mr.. Strahan's bill, which
a
heads of departments, which the Mayor neglects
or fails 10 ill within thirty days, was reported
with two amendments. One of them, very
properly, strikes the District-Attoney, who is
not a city officer, from the list of the Commits
sion, and another preseribes certain regula-
tions with respect to the removal OF officers,
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SuslUess MONIES.

"ALDERNEY BRAND
PUy alwsvs CONDENSED MILK.
COCoAINE soOthes the irritated scalp, removes
the dandruf end affords q rich ustIe 10 The hair.
WHAT PAROLE is among horses, Isaac
Smiths ''We.ghtess' among unbrelas-eads them AL
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1879-02-13

In Maine, where even crabapple cider is
under ban. the strictness OF the linuor law
has, according to Governor Garce1on, caused
more dangerous substitutes in many instances
to be adopted, which also require prohibitiye
legislation. The excessive use OF tobacco, snuff
dipping and orium-eating in various forms. and
the Use OF chlorOform and ether on pocket
handkerchiefs are suggested as evils resulting
from prohibition, which need TO be checked.
Governor Garcelon, who is a physician OF emil
nence. should know whereof he speaks and il
Maine designs to prohibit Injurious stimulants
1t will not be consistent TO consider the war at
an end with the suppression of dilutions OF alec
h0l
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10 Judge from the comments on the appoint
ment OF Hartranft as postmaster at Philadel-
phia. one might suppose that TO receive a few
votes in Presidential nominating convention
perretually incapacitated one from holding
any Office thereafter that is not OF national i'm
pOrtance. In this connection, too, 1t is sagely
remarked that no party would think of going
TO post Office for Presidential candidate.
Some peculiar disqualification is found, it
seems, in the exercise OF the duties OF an Office
requiring ia large cities great executive ability
which does not apply TO rail-splIttng, tanning
OF jawng in the courts.
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rARD.
Y MK. JOSEPH 8. SESSFORD. VITO was for
twenty years with Mr. FRANCIS LAME, in the Look
informs his friends and patrons that he is NOT now
connected with the PlctUre-frame and Art Store
1l03 Pennsylvania avenue, but is engaged at the
Art and Picture frame Establishment of MIR H. n
BARLOW; l223 Pennsyivania avenue where he will
he pleased to see them. febl32W
e FINE WAMSUTTA SHIRTS to order. 81 so
" superior SHIFTS to order. ............... 90
Ne'y Best SHIFTS to order. - 90
resdy made, only ......--................. ~
The Celebrated "Daval' SHIRT, Daval Mus
lin, and ele CANT 3-ply Linen Bosom. only. co
UNDERWEAR, GENTS FURNISHINGS, NICK
WAR. Satisfaction guaranteed in all cases. at
DUBREUfL BROS
Branch Baltimore Shirt ManufactOry
feb13 I'm 461 PennspFUnnf1 0ppnHe.
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science in the public schools of the District of

science in the public schools of the District OF
Columbia as follows:
Section /. That the school Officers shall intro
duce, as part OF the daily exercises of each
elements OF social and moral science, including
industry, order, economy. punctuaItty, pa
tienee; seif-denial health, purity, temperance,
cleanliness. honesty, truth. Justice poitenesS.
peace. fidelity. philanthropy. patriotism, self
respect. hope, perseverance, cheerfulness cour-
age. elf-reliance, gratitude, pitt, mercy. kind
ness, conscience. reflection and the will.
Section 2. That IL shall be the duty of the
teachers to give snort oral lesson every day
upon one OF the topics mentioned IN section OF
thls aet, and 10 require each pupil TO furnish
thought or other illustration OF the same upon
the following morning.
Section ;. That it shall be the duty of the
commissioner OF Education to direct the opera
tions under this act, and report upon the result
in his annual statement.
Section 4. That emulation shall be cherished
between the pupils in accommodating thoughts
and facts In regard to the noble trails possible,
and In illustrating them by their daily conduct.
THIS is asking for bread and getting stone
In fact whole volley of stones. The pupils
and teachers who are confined In these damp,
reeking stench-trapS OF school-roonlS and who
are suffering from rheumatisrns diphtneria,
and all sorts OF ma1arial diseases, are to spend
their time accommodating thoughts" upon pa
thence, seif-denial, health, purity. temperance,
cleanliness, politenesS, hope, perseverance,
cheerfulness, courage, justice, gratitude, patrl-
otlsrn, and so on. But Senator Burnside's edu-
cational scheme. intended as the panacea for
the ills OF our school system, is not much more
absurd than the ideas OF many who profess to
be adopts in educational matters. 1t is about
time that q little common sense should be
brought to the question: - What is education"
II is about time that the point should be raised
whether physical education and training
should not be considered of some account, as
well as mental Observation-Disclosures it is not OF
some Importance to enter upon the battle Of life
with sound body, as well as with forty horse
power. damned, rammed and crammed BRAIN
whether a system OF education that imprisons
our school children in such pestilent Black Holes
of India as above described, while they are
undergoing this examining process, Is not
failure.
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j
Large and small houses, in all ssutiois sl5 to saal
For Rent lI-nfarnishsIf
20 I2oS NV, Is rs., all mod INNS , 500
70 90 xlst W. II rs, ali mo 1 iInps 49,
70 80 NV, Is RS all MOI. impS., ann stsb IS
20 70 b e., IL rs. all nod. inps...,.,.. 81
10 no Jenna. ave NV. q rs , gas, water e. ~
80 - Isl St, GeotowD, hrs. m , large rsrd 40
S,ore and Dwelling 1906 Pa. av., store s30 iw'r "a
&c 20 Sth NV, r., all mod ;rGps and staoe 40
e.. xe NV 3-Story, gas. wat r, &c...,,..- ~
Store DWelllng, It'll q, 9rs, m. j. IS s2S.d q
Mn so Trs2 ia ave. u. W., and watsr - p
10 ~, NV, s rs, all mod i'm ps. ... u
No pc, IL rs, all mod. imps ..........., 20
NJ. TT n Jersey ave. Sc rs, gas and water %
S,o Ia nv, 3story, rs, water, Sc. 20
Stofes q dwellings,. 10th ST near u w each %
W q, Stn Sc, rs, water &c IA
NJ 1 1aoa . ne; 8 rs. water and gas ~ IS
so' 1873 q 1918 n Hamp. av new rs n m ~
SSS sW, b rs, water, large vari stabie Il
NJ. ioM Conn ave, rs, water large aida WI X
Nos: ". and S29 n. Jersey ave 6 rs TX
NJ lsIe ermont ave-, rs gas and water *
W S3i rih n e., r., and water largo yari *
20 i1i5,llS5 Park Place, 6 rs water BE 9S.na "a
NJ % % I'm St, Geo'towa, rs, water ~ N1 e
NJ NJ 20 Nv, rooms large yard ..... e
nus, and 10 Liberty St, 4 rooms wstsr 3
For Sale
nave large bulletin of Houses and rots Co.
'oilns VI ouSlng are requested to cali ~ va
IoANs NEGoTIATED by f. A MCINTYRE tr
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THE TRADES.

DOOHBINDING.
u The public 10 respectfully informed that thu
LfCETT BOOKBfNDERY
VOL nen are employed. and the work turned o1f
~l be IN the superior stye whicn has slWays bs,-,
a chEracterittlc of the establishment
HeIy 1913 Pen.syiua,aia0 ce.. I'd oa,-
GIBSON BROTHERS,
VI pEAGtiO AL BOOK AND JOB pSrSTERs
sOlx Pesanstfranta nee, WASHINGTON, &c
" Fine Printing Specially. japISly
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LOST AND FOUND.

| OST-GOLD SPECTACLES; near SIS 10Th at.
- NV. or on r bet cen 18th and 9th SITS. A fun
reward given at the above number IT.
7 Ob1 OR STOLEN-In Philadelphia. on 5tb inst
- my POCKET BOOK, containing money and val.
liable papers, among which Certificate No. los
WASHINGTON City, in my name, and endorsed by me
All persons are warned against purchasing the same
as transfer has been stopped at the Bank and upi.
cate asked for. b. T. G. MORSELI, febII At
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wv YORK SHOE STORE.

NEW YORK SHOE STORE.
COS Pennsylvania apen,se. TN
PREVIOUS To TAKING AN ACCOUNT OF -
STOCK. i WILL SELL ALL MY FALL AND
WINTER GOODS AT PRIME C0sT.
FEW QUOTATIONS.
Laoes Pebble Goat Button BooJs. ...... q 90
Ladies' Cusiom made Goat Baton ............. 1 90
Ladies Custom made, Navy Blue, Diagonal or
Checktop Button..... 1D8
Ladies Goat. Solid Leather, Side Lace. ........ Loo
Ladies' Custom made, Cost Lace..........-.... LIS
Ladies' French Kid Box Toe. Button. ......... 90
loo other styles ranging in price 10 TO 400
Gents Solid Leather. Congress Gaitere Loo
Gents Bay State Shoes ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. Loo
Gents Hand stitched Calf Congress. 500
Gents fBurt's} Calf Congress ............... $50
Gents (Furt'sI Calf Button Boots. $50
Gents Fine Calf Boots ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. AIS
Gents ZOO styles Boots and Shoes. SOC to COG
Gents Best Rnbbers, <5c., LADIES' ...........-. n
Gents Best Arctics, 81 &C. Ladies' 30
An kinds OF Shoes for Boys and Children ii un-
heard OF low prices.
These are the best and cheapest goods ever offered
NJ any legitimate sale IN this city.
janstr GEO MCCARTHY.
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FAMILY SUPPLIES.

o. r. WHOM & CO..
feb1l-2w 5Of 9th So. n.,c.
IN POUNDS GREEN RIO COFFEE LOO
w Best Sugar Corn, pr doz. ................ 81
coed Family Flour, per barrel. ..............5 so
Nice Patent Process Flour, u barrel. It's
10 pounds Turkish PT7lnes. ................ -
10 POUNDS Breakfast Hominy ........ -
Pine Apple Cheese per pound. 10
French Peas String Beans nd Mushrooms
Best Sweet Cider, Per gallon ................... 90
Best sweet Catawba Vine. per gaIlon........ / 90
pound Malaga Graves 20 cent? Oranges per doz,
10 to rs cents. Colgate l. Co.'s Toilet SOAPS fne
assortment.
G. g. O'HARR & SON,
feb5-tr Rafwean NJ sn6 n
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A n IMMENSE SLAUGHTER
IA
f9l PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE
THE GREATEST BARGAIN JUST RECEIVED
FROM ONE OF THE LARGEST AUCTION
HOUSES IN THE COUNTRY
We WILL NAME Few PRICES BELOW.

WE WILL NAME a Few Prices BELOW:
Mems Calf Boots at s.: former price 81 so Mems
Heavy MP Double sole Boots. Sl75; former a.,
price - 9e Gents Dress Boots, %; for III
An in@ense lot of Gents Caters from ~
up to 81
Youths Boot. 10 ID. a, 80 cts pair Youths Bay
State Shoes at cts. a pair.
A large lot Ladies' hlpners, with without heels
81 70 cts. Ladies' hid Lace, Baltimore made, at
Sl.75. "
At The above house be found the largest assor-
ment of Ladies' Misses and Childrens Shoes IN the
city, at astonish hing low prices
LacIes and Children's kubbers at rs cts pair
rev line OF scent Shoes jnst received at the
GREAT BOSTON SHOE AUCTION HOUSE
431 Pennsylvania arenue
sE Sign of the Red Flag
febs-ly J.. RTCH0LD. Proprietor
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DOR NEW YEARS DAY,
Oh ANY OTHER DAY.
Cho.oe Sherry Wine. "a 10 per gallon
Five-yeAr Ola WHISKY. ......... $50
Pure New England Rum
Methuselah Whisky cess years.. -. 400
Bakers pure old Bye Whisky .. 100
Old Topaz cherry Every hne). 400
gallons Duny's Celebrated Cider for tnvaids for
Sl0C, at
HOWARD'S,
deol0-Sm Cor. 7th and L. streets n.sc.
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EMBRACE THE OPPORTUNITY
COMFORTABLE HOUSES EASY TERMS. LONG
tIIME, NINTH STREET AND FRENCH
STREET NORTHWEST

L.
The Citizens Building Company offer to all who
desire to be their own landlords few of those new
IeSt, Gomfortabie and well built TW0-ST0RY
HOUSES recently erected on French street Between
and and 9th and 10th streets NV containing 6
rooms, bath room. latrobes, ranges and all the mod
ern improvements, cellars under the entire house
- ALSO,
TWO THRFEST0RY HOUSES on 9th, near r
street NV, ii rooms, bath room, &c. all modern
improvements.
These houses should be seen to be Appreciated
being in one of the best locations in the city built
IN the best manner, under the supervision of q
building committee and best architects; convenient
to three street railways.
These houses can be purchased upon small cash
payment ana long time on deferred payments They
reht for almost enough to e9ualize the deferred pay
ments. Open for inspection daily. For price terms
&C. apply 10 B. F. BIGELOW,
iebt-Im at National Bank of Republic.
E'oR SALE-A new eight-room BRICK HOUSE
with fine dry cellar. range. latrobe heater, gas
bath hot snd cold water and water closets in fine
Thoroughly modern house, for $500 (Which is
s10Sb less than cost. This is Internationally a
great bargain. Apply to NJ. II. ROHkER, No. 5I3
It'll street. feh3tr
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j. GEORGES,
y Manufacturer OF CENTS Fine BOOTS. SHOES
aud CATERS,
Corner 9th ana G streets, under National Hotel
SIGN OF TIE BIG BOOT
Repairing neatiy executed New Eastics inserted
IL Caters 10y patent machine; proc rs oents ~ 81
1anS-lm
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FOR RENT AND SALE.

T. A. MCINTYRE.
IL. REAy. ESTATE BsoxER
NO ?lS street, opposite Masonic Tsm,-e
Fer Rent {FHraished1
Large and small houses, in all sections sls to s2ll
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TO HORSE OWNERS.
! n Use e the III, TAYLOR LEWIS IMPROVED PAT
NTRUBBER HORSE Shoe PAD II will nre
Vent Slipping. Corns. Quarter Cracks, Contraction
sc: Aud will give ease to horses with tender feet
1t is cheaper than the old iron shoe as il ia more
durable Give them trial. Can be had OF " A
Taylor, St, between LIST and I'd NV: Murray =
Barker, Ohio ave, between l4th and 18TH alta r r
Roland PENNSYLVANIA ave-, near St James, Ho.a4
Head9narsers, 32S Pennsylvania ave. NV n p
LEWIS, Manager State rights for sale at nricas
short time t. Iti 3. III
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ME STATESMAN'S YEAR BOOK
FOR 1879,
Just received direct FROM London. and tor sale By
ROBERT BEALL,
BOOKSELLER AND STATIoNER.
tehl3t 49S Pa. QU., ad OininH Nation al Hotal
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GEORGE D. CUMMINS. d. D.. First
Memoir. 81. 60 Life of Richard Fuller, D. D.. by
Or: Cuthbert; $3.50. Goethe and Schiller; Their
Growth of RELIGION, 10y Max Muller $3.50 Hered.
ity, with Preindes on Current Events, by Joseph
81 so Jesus of Nazareth: Who BE Was and What
Is He Now; by Rev. VIM. Patton, ID. D.. 1925
For sale by WIN. BAI4LANTYNE & son,
febl2r 1873 tn street.
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THE REPUBLIC TOMORROW will contain the
views of COL ROBT g. IN6ERsOLL, on Edu-
cation ana Oratory, and an interview with SENA-
TOR DAVIS. concerning the Presidential question
and Democracy. fsbS
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WANT Ozone more YOUTH to study all branch.
w es Of Civil Engineerins and Arithmetic, (Sur-
Neylne NJ MATHEMATICS, Drawing, Training, Bookkeep.
IL z, included) at office. 200 st. NV daily. from
to . O'Clock monthly fee, SO only. fehlI 81.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1879-02-20
The Faithful Sentinel.

Peter the Great was a tyTant, but, on
the whole his tyranny did good service
for his Russian subjects. Arbitrary, as
all despOts must be, he was not without
rude notions of justice, and a certain
consideration for those who merited en-
COuragement. One day young recruit
was standing guard before the door Of
the entrance to Peters private chambers
in the palace of st. Petersburg. He had
received orders to admit no one. As he
was passing slowly up and down before
the door, Prince Mentchikoff, the favor
ite minister of the Car, approached,
attempting to enter. He was stopped
by the recruit. The prince, who had
the fullest liberty of calling upon his
master at any time, sought to push the
guard and pass him, yet the young man
would not move, but ordered His High
ness to stand back.
you fool" shouted the prince, "don't
you know meP
The recruit smiled, and said, Every
well, Your Highness, but my orders are
peremptory to let nobody pass"
The prince, exasperated at the fellows
impudence, struck him a blow in the
face with his riding whip.
Strike away, Your Highness," said
the soldier, 'but I cannot let you go il"
Peter, in the room, hearing the noise
outside, opened the door and inquired
what it meant, and the prince told him.
The car was amused, but said nothing
at the time. In the evening, however,
he sent for the prince and the soldier.
As they both appeared, Peter gave his
own cane to the soldier, saying
THAT man struck you in the morning /;
now you must return the blow to that
fellow with my whip.
The prince was amazed. "Your mai
esty," he said, "this common soldier is
to strike me"
Il make him captain" said Peter.
"But Pm an officer of your majesty's
household" objected the prince.
81 make him a colonel of my Life
Guards and an officer ofmy household"
said Peter again.
"My rank, your majesty knows, is that
of general, " again protested Mentchikoff.
'Then 1 make him a general, so that
the beating you set may come from
man Of your rank"
The prince got a sound thrashing in
the presence of the czar, the recruit was
the next day commissioned a general,
with the title of Count OroinOff, and
was the founder of a powerful family,
whose descendants are still high in the
imperial service Of Russia.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1879-02-20

The Mud March.

Soldiers the propitious moment has
arrivedl" so commenced Burnsides' ad-
dress to his army on the ever memorable
evening of January I9, 1868. Stung by
his defeat at Fredericksburg, he had de-
termined, by a master-stroke, to vindi-
cate his fame as a strategist, and pluck
laurels from the overloaded brow Of
Lee.
The army was then arranged in three
grand divisions, each comprising three
or more army corps. These grand dlyls-
ions were known as the right, the CEN
ire, and the left. The pickets Of The
right extended 10 and above the dam
across the RappahannOck, a mile or
more, above the village Of Falmouth, and
cavalry videttes patrolled the country
from thence to the mouth Of the Rapldan,
thus extending the Gordon until a juno
lion was made with the Army of the
Shenandoah. The left rested upon the
Potomac at Belle Plains, and had lines
extending to the mouth Of the Kappa
hammock.
Burnside's plan of battle involved a
change of frOnt-that is, passing the left
grand division to the right of the line,
leaving the right and centre in position.
The movement was to be Immediately
followed by the remaining grand divls-
ions so soon as pOntoOn bridges had
been established, and there was a rea=
sonable hope that the expeditionary at
tempt of the left would be a success.
In the march Of the left grand division,
many difficulties were encountered and
overcome, until the rain set in, and then,
if prudence had been consulted. the
troops en- march would have gone back
into camp. But forward was the order,
and onward pressed those devoted men.
The right grand division, although no
titled of the movement, had not broken
camp, and it was painful for the men
thus chained to discipline and orders, to
witness the struggles of their compatri-
Ots without giving helping hand. The
road passed over the front of those who
were guarding the right Of the line, and
q steep hill was in front-between it and
Falmouth. The mud seemed internina-
ble, and the rain descended in torrents.
Forty horses were attached to q NapO-
leon 12-pounder gun, and they could not
bulge it. Eight horses usually did the
work. CaissOns and pontOOn boats dec.
grated the hillsides for miles around, and
the pitiless rain descended in torrents; /;
baggage wagons were abandoned; the
cavalry moved at a snail pace rations
had given out; shelter was impossible.
Burnside had succeeded in changing
his front. but the elements had not been
propitious; the enemy we're made aware
of his plans and the expedition was
abandoned. The left grand division re-
turned to camp. Afterwards the right
and center used TO ask the left boys if
the propitiOus moment had arrived?
That Mud March was the most demor-
alizing influence that ever disturbed the
Army of the Potomac, and had Lee taken
advantage of its effects, he would have
gained a victory, the consequences OF
which cannot now be determined.