Morning journal and courier., 1881-08-24
Price Four Cents

babies have seen enough and more than
 enough, and have begun" loud protest
 against further imposition land outrage, the | bugle will sound, and the same spotted holsss | that we used to see will prance into the ring
 with their fantastic riders, the same kind of
 & clown, only trihe worse than the one seen
 in the previous circus-which is the only diff l ference we could ever detect in clowns-will
 brawl the same kind of a song, the words of
 which, being unintelligible to three-quarters 1 of the audience, may be and will be bought l for ten cents by the same kind of people who
 bought last year and the year before and the year before that and will buy next year and
 forever. In parenthesis let us remark that | there are people who would deny the poor
 such necessaries of life but we would not. | The exhibition of fairy life CD in the ring | will end while the blazing summer sun is yet I high in the western heavens, the town will | suddenly teem with new life, suburban vehi- cles, varied but not imposing, will chatter | through the streets, and for such of these people as do not stay for 8 second install
 ment in the evening the day will be done, | the excitement over, before them the hum
 drum grind of their daily life and with them
 8 shadowy regret, a desire for rest. and a l headache And the village toiler will come home to his supper and find them gone no man knows exactly whither, but sure to come again and again, and yet again as the stars l roll on their ceaseless round and time grows gray.
 The evening audience will be 8 different but not better one. It will be made up of l village people and they will buy lemonade and peanuts and prize packages, laugh at the 1 stalest of jokes and bestow their dimes on
 the vendors with little regard for value re- l celved-just like the country folk There 1 will be the glamour of artificial light, but otherwise the performance will be pretty l much the same in the afternoon-or worse, | for the afternoon patrons have it in their power to praise or condemn to purpose and the circus folks know it. It is doubtful, nev- | ertheless, if anybody that had made up
 his mind to go to a circus was ever kept away by the mere ad- monition that it wasn't worth seeing But however that may be- the ''entire change of programme" will not be apparent to the superficial observer, except that along to- wards the close it will be officially announced that grand Ethiopian concert will include the evenings performance, and from that time on the attention of the audience will be
 divided between lodging the wretches who climb around on peoples shoulders and poke
 boxes of confectionery and pails of slops into their eyes and dodging the rascals who sell l tickets for this wonderful Ethiopian extraor- dinary Africanus entertainment that is to en- sue. The circus thenceforward is no longer
 to be thought of in the fierce struggle for ex-
 lstence that will be carried on by these strad-
 ding and vociferous vendors of tickets and truck
 The Ethiopian entertainment will not be
 worse that the one last year or the year be-
 fore. That certainly would be impossible.
 Nor IS there any probability that it will be
 better, but the same kind of people who paid
 their quarter, fifteen or ten cents last year and
 remained to be humbugged will be on hand
 again as anxious to see the thing
 through if it takes all night. 'tIt won't make
 much difference hundred years hence" (oh,
 abominable maxim of improvidence and
 wasteD and they hate to go back from the
 tent to their grind. That is the secret of it.
 Such we say will be the circus Not that
 we know anything in particular about this
 circus Ca very good circus no doubt) but as 1t
 has been so it will be we judge. Circuses are
 very like, save in size, and that Is why they
 are so numerously and continually attended.
 It is not the performance; it is the smell of crushed grass and tobacco smoke, the yell of
 the side snowman and other hyenas the flap of the canvas, the groan of hurdy- -gurdy, the climbing up and sitting down in a great breezy tent, the chatter of thousand peo- pie, the hutter of five hundred ribbons the so-called lemonade and so on that the people go to see and hear and endure If in these respect all clrcuses were not alike, this great national entertainment of the American peo- pie would speedily perish and leave no sub stitute behind.
 The Battlefield in the Wilderness.
 From the Philadelphia Timesl
 h the Wilderness are the best preserved heeiprlnts and claw marks of the war The face Of the earth retains scars as well as the face of man, and nature when let alone will show scratches made by those who long since have been gathered beneath her green As soon as a line of breastworks was thrown up In these untrodden forests there sprang from the subsoil all sort of shrubs and wood-plants, which, with the coating of shatters blown from the pines around, resist the wear and tear of time. The wilderness is wide stretch Of timber on rocky, rolling land, covering the northeastern corner of Spottsylvania county. At the southern edge, few miles from this heart of 1t, is the Chancellorsyille battle ground, fifteen miles below is the scene of slaughter at Fredericksburg and to the south IS Spottsylvania court house, where occurred the terrific twin battle to the one delivered here. Every square mile of land in Spottsyl- vania IS historic-a place of battle upon which to fight meant to slay. But, unlike the oth- CT fields in the country, this upland corner, hemmed in by the Rapidan, is heavily tim bered with scrub oak, pine, chestnut and ha gel, with br1ars and chincapin bushes spring ing at the roots of the trees There is an oc casional opening, and at this point, on the Wilderness run, branch of the Rapidan are several farms, some comfortable dwellings and store. The land immediately border ing the run is more Jertile than that at the distance of mile or so and narrow strip of 1t Is now in corn grass. When the battle was fought tavern stood near the Orange turn pike on a hillock at the side of the stream. put It was torn down by soldiers, and since then there has been no attempt at restoration. Within sight of the store, whither country men for miles around come to trade, are four farm buildings, while somewhat to the north IS mine from which gold recently has been taken in paying quantities. Looked at while in the midst of it's deepest shadows the Will derness IS 8 bowling one, indeed, but, seen from the store, it isn't half as bad a case of the forest primeval as I expected to see
 Riding out the pike with the obliging young storekeeper we came to a point where at the edge of an oak belt is a new growth of pines which lift their small green cones twen- ty or thirty feet above the ground. At the time of the battle this pine woods open field and through it ran @ ditch. The ditch remains, but it's bed is dry and overrun with weeds. Flies buzzed around our heads and bit our hands we made our way along the ditch, for here three thousand men fell and we were searching for evidences of the struggle between Warren and Ewell. Of bones there were none in sight, but rusty cante ns were as plentiful as persimmons, and I had the good luck to find 8 stump from the heart of which we picked a number of Mimic balls. The storekeeper tells me that after the desperate assaults this ditch was so filled with bodies that in one place miner, shod with bloody grime walked for two hun fred yards or more with human heads for stepping stones. But Warren and Sedgwiek, under Grants stern eye, gave back in kind. 50 it comes that alone the clearly marked inc of rebel entrenchments on the other side 'f the thicket are several mounds and just as many trifing relics of the canteen kind as Ire to be seen in the ditch. The canteens hat noticed stood, among the weeks where he men of the North are incIined to the oval n shape, but those picked up along the Con- ederate breastworks were round and flat, otarr Jampaigners and those familiar with the of the two armies will recall that he rebel canteen was as different from the anteen of Yankee make as is Kentucky ,orn-juice from Connecticut cider or Jersey ightning.
 1 rode along the Brock road for about hree miles to the ruins of the Brock house D small, fallow, unfenced field, half way to rodds tavern. The growth of timber on sither side of the road is unbroken. There s not sight of human habitation. The woods dense that at some points it is impossible to see twenty yards within, and