New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-03-14
The Rev. r. Heller Newton preached yes
terday upon Thomas Carlyle.

The Rev. X. Heber newton pIeachcu YES
terday upon Thomas Carlyle.
The collection of exotics made in the HOrti-
cultural Hall, Paramount Park, Philadelphia,
is one of remarkable extent and beauty
CORE spOndent describes some of its rarest and
most interesting specimens i'll letter on
another page.
correspondent who has just visited the
bloody ground OF Pittsburg Landing sketches
elsewhere the battlefield as it is to-day, with
some mournful relics of the fight and many
memories of it existing among the surround
ing population.
An Oneida Indian, who is an ordained cler-
gyman, preached in this city yesterday, and ID
the course of his sermon quantity rebuked the
Gin of profanity. He said re was thankful
that "the Creator did not give the Indian
"enOugh language to allow him to be prOtane
"without first learning English"
II ia q curious fact that the United States
and Russia, two widely separated nations ami
mated by peculiar friendliness for each
other, have now exchanged words of sympa-
thy, within a little more than fifteen years.
upon the cold blooded assassination of their
chief rulers.
Any movement which lessons the dangers of
GUNNER travel. especially upon the over
crowded and often decreplt excursion steamers
In our harbOr, is public benefit. The COM
pany which has already launched one iron
steamboat for the excursion traffic has six
other boats of similar construction under way.
These will make a welcome addition to the
Rummer fleet. 1t is pleasant also to know
that it is believed a tendency has set in of
building boats of this character of iron, 30
that in a few years the patched and painted
bulks that now endanger life at such reason
able rates may be driven from the water alto
gether.
Would it be too much to ask whole Con-
vress to blush Z For some of the members 1t
would be physical impossi5iity, and so the
right men would be apt not to blush And some
of them-thopgh the number is sadly small by
contrasu-have done their duty, and ought not
to be called upon to be ashamed of things
they have not done. But the Congressman who
have done their best to secure proper accom-
mediation for the great Library at Washington
are so few that in general Congressional hui
initiation they will not be missed. We want
the XLVIth Congress to read the account our
correspondent gives of the condition of the
Library, and then blush in body.
We print to-day the second of the remark
able series of Confederate letters, the first of
which attracted so much attention. The
promise we then made, that the series would
grow in interest. is fulfilled in the letter given
to-day. 1t was written by Mr.. Clay to Mr..
BENJAMIN after the peace negotiations with
Mr.. Greeley, and reveals the hopes and
fears of the Confederates respecting the
issue of the Presidential campaign Of 1864
1t will give such well-meaning men as joined
in supporting General Mcclellan for President
O strange sensation to see how the Confeder-
ate plotters, while processing to sue for
peace, were busy specializing on the possibility
that McClellan's election would mean to them
all they could hope to make by the overthrow
Of the Union armies. OF the rnen in the