New-York tribune., 1880-10-24

pares we'll with the Pennsylvania deposits,
is the conclusion which one of our staff corre-
spordents has reached after going over the
ground.
Our readers are favored this morning with
another chapter of European travel from the
practised hand of our regular London CORE
spondent. Americans beng comprehenslvely
divided into two classes-thOse hO have ana
those who have not been to Europe-this essay
is certain to please everybody. Those who
have been among the Alps will be glad to
hear of the pleasures of the journey as re-
counted by so accomplished a traveller; those
who have remained at home will console them
selves with the reflection that they have
escaped the thousand annOyances to which
every tourist is subjected.
General Grant MAKES an admirable witness In
a military investigation. There are no traces
of hesitation, his manner is direct and incsive,
his information is entirely at his command and
his sef-pOssesslon under hot fire of cross-ex-
animation is perfect. His testimony at tie
Warren Court, alart from the fact that 1t VIII
have an important bearing upon the issue OF
heated controversy, is So character site OF the
man that we hope none Of our readers will neg
lcct to examiue it. There is an interesting pas
sage toward the close wherein he deDrecltes
anything like independent act N on the battle
field. lie does not think that subOrdnates have
any occasion to think for themselves and con-
slider whether the cOmmander-in-chietk knows
what lie is about. General Grant has been
abroad since his days of battle, and has met The
greatest soldiers Of the age face to face but he
found nc general molc precise AMI arbitrary
in this respect than be was himself.
Mr.. Hughes has seen the torchight process
sioDs and heard the stump rhapsodIes, but ike
a loyal Engshman is unwilling to admit that
Americans take any more interest in their poll
ties than his own countrymen d. in theirs.
"They have another way Of showing interest
that is all is his off-hand conn. ent Ger
tainly the interest shown by the English poole
in the general elections Of last spring was as in
tense as the excitement of our Presdentia' con-
tests. While the comparative estimate is pei
feclly Just, Mr.. Hughes will allow us to suggest
that his countsymen have borrowed some
American ideas which have intensified popular
interest in their political conflicts. For eX-
ample, the system of secret voting was intro
duced not many years ago. and Mr.. Gladstone
has made within a year two elect on journeys
which closely resemble American stamping
tours This intensity Of national feeling is
good sign, on whichever side of the Atlantic it
may be seen. 1t is better for any progressive
country to have too much than too little poll
tics. TIE strain of popular excitement soon
4 oGoo Of Il
indifference are more lasting
General Garfield has a right to he angry.
he not only denounces the Mercy letter as The
york Of "a clumsy VILLAIN who cannot spell
/" or write English or initiate handwriting but
calls upon the National Committee " to pat the
"case in the hands of the ablest detectives at
/" "once and hult the rascal down." HIS asscr
tion that the lith0SIaphic copy of the letter
cannot fail to be pronounce forlcry AT Sisht
by all who are familiar with his handwriting is
not an eXaggeratiOn. Any one who compares
the so-caled fac -sime with uHdsputel letters
will see that 1t is a cIamped and Iabored imita
tiGn Of an easy, flowing and rapid hand. And
il j. totally different, too, from another lac
sinilc Of an alleged letter from ,ntTal Garfield
pujlshid in the same paper only few weeks
ago. Then, whatever General Garfield Is, his
worst enemy will hardly say he is Ilterate,
and does not know how to spell. Aud
as if even all this were not enough,
now come the Post Office officials and
show that the very posimark was actually
not in use at the time tie alleged letter
was written In short, the evidence that the
whole thing was Il deliberate forgery
for political purposes is overwhelmingly on
elusive Ar. Barnum and his associates can
not have been ignorant of the real
nature of the document, and must share
in the inlamy which attaches to
all concerned in such an Outrage-an
outrage for which all decent citizens
win yet hope 10 see its perpetrators sent to