Morning journal and courier., 1880-03-01
General Grants withdrawal or failure to be nominated on the first ballot.

General Grants withdrawal or failure to be nominated on the first ballot
 If some painters who painted the Tay ministers who declared that the fall of the
 bridge was 6 judgment will have something to explain. These painters have testified that when at work on the bridge they saw numer-
 ous bolt holes empty; that they found bolts in holes where there should have been rivets,
 and found rivets without heads and bars
 loosened and nuts unscrewed; that one of the
 supporting columns of the high girders which was cracked from top to bottom was held to-
 gether with four hoop bands; that sometimes
 the oscillation of the bridge was so great they
 feared it would fall. The evidence has natu-
 rally created considerable sensation, but its
 value cannot be estimated until the railway
 inspectors are heard on the subject.
 We are sorry to learn, as we do from the
 Christian Union of London, that Mrs. Victoria
 ''Woodhall' is coming back to this country
 after she has published her views on marriage
 for the instruction of the English people.
 This is the way the Christian Union talks
 about her: ''That woman who has devoted
 her whole life to doing angels work should
 have been 50 maligned and perseouted, even
 up to the gates of justice, where alone she re-
 ceivsd verdict of blameless, is one of those
 marvels which the pages of history only can
 explain, and which show that all those who
 have fought for good cause, from saints and
 martyrs downwards, have had to pass through
 their Gethsemane of mental suffering too ex-
 quisite for human utterance. She has passed
 through her Gethsemane, and when she re-
 turns to her native land her people will vie
 with each other to make reparation for the
 cruel injuries they have done to the noblest
 minded and most self-sacrifcing of women
 whose only fault was that she loved them too we'll" The Christian Union had better send 6 reporter over the water with Mrs. "Wood- hall" so that it can have full and authentic accounts of the ''vieing."
 The bill to be prepared by the Senate Con- mittee on Indian Affairs will mark a long step forward in the treatment of the Indians by the Government. The plan outlined by the committee includes the permanent localization of the Indians by allotting homesteads to them, with the provision that the lands so all lotted shall be absolutely inalienable during 8 period of twenty-five years; the extension over the Indians of the general civil and criminal laws of the United States, or of the respective States and Territories within whose borders they are located, and the continuation of a cer- tain degree of assistance to them by the Gov ernment in the line of progress until they be- come self-sustaining by means of agricultural and pastoral occupations. It is not proposed by the committee to transfer the control of the Indians to the War department, but the bill will largely divest the Interior department of discretionary power in regard to the Indians by placing them individually under the con- trol of the country's general laws. The pro- visions of the bill are not to apply to the five civilized tribes of the Indian Territory This plan meets the approval of most of those who have interested themselves in the Indians behalf.
 The debate upon the bill for the relief cf General Fitz John Porter is expected to begin in the Senate to-day. Senator Randolph, who has charge of the bill, intends to press it to a vote without unnecessary delay. General Porter has been in Washington much of the time this winter and his health is extremely poor. Senator Randolph was asked if he had heard the story recently published that was told by Rev. 0. D. Ayers, of Bridgeport, in this State, to the effect that one night he saw General Porter in conversation with three rebel generals, one of whom was Robert E. Lee s'Yes, I have read it. replied Governor Randolph. Nothing could be more ridicu- lous; it is sheer fiction. I wish somebody would alluds to if during the approaching de bate; I would not be long in disposing of it." Referring to General Getty, one of the officers who sat upon the recent court, Governor Ran dolph said that he had short time sincs re- ceived from him what in his opinion was the most manly letter he had ever read. It was written in acknowledgment of 8 note from the Senator accompanying four bound volumes containing the evidence and arguments heard by the court in the case. In that letter Gen. eral Getty said that he felt as who ought to ask pardon for having done General Porter the cruel wrong of having for seven teen years believed him traitor to his cour- try.
 Among the other evidences of progress Tn Japan is completely organized geological sarvey, with full staff of native surveyors, under an American chief, MT. B. s. Lyman. The first Report of Progress of this survey, for 1878 and 1879, has just been published, and contains some accurate and valuable in formation on the mineral wealth of the coun- try. MT. Lyman reckons that the coal fields of Western Japan contain about six hundred and twenty million tons and if one-third be de- ducted for the working, there will remain four hundred million tons, representing val ue at the coast of one thousand million dol lars Inconsidsrable as this is in comparison with the large and rich coal fields of other lands it is quite equal in value to all the metal products together, except iron. The copper of the workable mines scarcely reaches the value of seven hundred and fifty million dol lars the eight or ten gold and silver mines, which were formerly worked and may be so again, may, including the lead, antimony, and ;o