Morning journal and courier., 1880-03-19

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 had two conversations with President Lincolr on the subject, and that the latter told him
 that he did not think General Porter meant tc
 be traitor, or Shat he had any sympathy
 with the rebels, but he believed his feeling of disappointment and disgust at the removal et
 Mcclellan, and his bitter personal enmity to-
 ward General Pope, caused him to sacrifice the Union cause, so far as his action was con-
 cerned, to gratify bitter feeling and personal
 malignity, and the practical effect of such in-
 duIgsnce of his feelings WAS just as disastrous to the Union arms as intentional treason
 would have bsen, and hardly less deserving | of as severe punishment.
 John Bright tells the South a wholesome truth in letter written to gentleman living l at Atlanta, Georgia. He says: ''As for your | old slave South, you will have few Englishmen settling there so long as the old temper of your people continues to exist. We hear of | the i'll treatment of the negro, and of the hos ! tile disposition of many of your white popu- l lation towards families who come from the North. I know not how much of this is true, but so long as the belief in its truth exists,
 your Southern States will make small progress in comparison with the North and West. You have soil and climate, but you will not easily or speedily shake off the old curse, and men iron, Europe will prefer country where
 slavery has not prevailed, and where the
 negro is not a considerable portion of your
 population
 Mir Walker, statistician of the New York
 Produce Exchange, puts the future demands
 of Europe for wheat and the possible supply
 from this country at figures which make an advance in the present price of grain rather than fall probable. He estimates the de- mand at from 2O,ooO,0Oo to 15o, 1000, 900 bushels from February l to September 1, the supply from this country at 77,500,00o from the Atlantic and Pacific coasts and Chili, with about 16, 500, 900 to come from Russia and Egypt. This leaves a large deficiency to be supplied at advanced prices by the supplies coming in from early haryests in this country before the technical beginning of the crop year, September 1. Mir. Walker has the best facilities for knowing the facts, but it is diff cult to believe that only 77,5oo,ooo of crop of 42o COG, 600 to 40. GOO, 900 bushels are now left to go abroad.
 In connection with the project of ship canal across the Isthmus, it is interesting to know something of the commerce that goes around the Horn, between the Atlantic and Gulf ports and those of Europe and the Paci- fc coast. A report made by the Collector Of the Port of San Francisco shows that during the fiscal year ending June 30th, 1879, there were cleared from that port for foreign ports 259 vessels via Cape Horn, with an aggregate tonnage of 342, 721 tons, and twelve vessels with a tonnage of 22,1 175 tons, for domestic ports, the aggregate value of their cargoes being $2, 725, ,O69. During the same year, fifty-eight vessels entered the port of San Francisco, having passed around Cape Horn from foreign ports, with an aggregate tonnage of 68, AIS tons, and fifty seven vessels from domestic ports with an aggregate tonnage of 92, ,683 tons. Twenty seven vessels cleared from San Francisco with cargoes valued at S2 166, ,69O, destined for transfer across the Isthmus of Panama, and twenty seven vessels entered the port with eargoes that had been time occupied by sailing-vesses in making the voyage from New York to San Francisco, via Cape Horn, is stated to be 132 days.
 The English newspapers are engaged in an attempt to compel the authorities to admit re- I porters to witness executions. At recent hanging the sheriff refused to let in the gen. tlemen of the press, whose cause the coroner 1 espoused, declining to hold his inquest within | the prison walls and contributing to the ex- citement, so that the matter got before Parli- | ament. Mir. Cross, the Home Secretary, prac- tically left the admission of reporters to the | discretion of the sheriffs. As double exc cution was about to take place at Liverpool | the reporters renewed their petition, and the l High Sheriff for the County Palatine declined | to admit them unless they would subscribe to | the following pledge: ''1- You undertake | that merely the fact of whether the execution | has been carried into effect humauely or other | wise shall be recorded. ?. You undertake | that no details regarding the personal appear ance CT aots-either before or at the time of | execution-of the wretched criminals be re corded. B. You undertake that your repre- sentative shall not furnish any information to | any other paper whereby the above condi- | tions may be broken" The editors Of the | Liverpool newspapers declined to be repre- sented on any such terms, Lord Houghton, who as Mir. Monckton Milnes took most prominent part in bringing about the change from public hangings to executions within tho prison walls, is about to bring the whole subject before the Lords and it is understood that he is strongly of opinion that the public should on such occasions be represented by | reporters Of course it should. HIN LOTS TO SUIT.