New-York tribune., 1881-03-31
GENERAL NOTES.

Fully seven thousand persons are reported
to have visited the steamship Partisan at Boston. last
Monday inspect her accommodations for the trans
pOrtaton grain and fresh meat The huge refrgera'
Tor III which the meat Is carried required In its
construction 900 Of lumber IL kegs Of nails and
6OOO feet Of threeQuarternch hair felt It has ca
pacity for 200 quarters of beef, and will require
twenty-five tons OF Ice for the trip. The beef was
slaughtered in Chicago and carried TO Boston on train
Of twelve cod-blast REFRIGERATOR To-day the Par
isian sails for Halifax. where she win arrive tomorrow
on board, admission OF 10 cents being charged apd
the receipts sven 20 ne m ma T @ the moor Of
Boston amounted to more than $2,oOo.
Patent medicine advertisements usually
splay such monotOnOrs devotion TO the making OF ex
travagant claims and the relating OF miraculous cures
that it refreshing TO find one OF entirely different
character catalrh doctor In neigaooiing city
closes q circular which contains not single testL
monta" with the following tangental flight OF rhetoric:
When look at that vast nelG flIed with the pale
nations OF the dead and the bending stones covered
with moss, sheG tear and says Ignorance ushered
thousands there. Tney sleep under tea solemn pres
the sad hemooks the tearfu, willows ID the embrac
ing vines. They sleep beneath the shadows of tho
clouds careless alike OF sunshine Of storlD each 10
the WindOwless palace tave One sentiment for caar-
rhAl people living and dead. cheers Tor the living;
tears Tor the dead"
Kansas boasts that, while foreign immgra-
ton IA pouring into other States hor new settlers
are nearly all Americans In article on subject In the
Kansas City Journal there significant paragraph TO
the effect that the negro exodus caunot he successfully
urged as an Offset 10 this advantage, because the State
has already absorbed the few thousands thus addedto
its population and better for their coming though
the student descent Of these fuves did create tenn
porary embarrassment IN few localities This frank
statement is singular contrast to the reports which
were freely circulated, ana which THE TRIBUNE was
frequently urged to print that the coored refugees were
arriving In mutudes which no man could number ana
becoming burden which the State Of tssf alone was
utterly unable support The JesarnaI doubtless SPEAKS
with rs fall knowledge and pracscaly with the Same
authority fit were published in Kansas instead OF
lust beyond the border No doubt the refugees have sur
fered not tte aud 30 have poor people eyerywnets.
hut the most intelligent and bestiDio peoye IA
Kansas have always objected 70 having the state neu
10 view as beegar for means 70 support tue men y.
women who expected become uselu eillhens y,
the future And this view was nelo witnOu nsh
intention of disparaglng those who nave deyoeu us
time and labor to caring for the homeless nesrVoe
The death of "Old Abe,r the famous war
eagle of the 9th Wisconsin regiment has espeu i'
numerous biographical and obituary notices, po' -
least interesting OF which is en- trferyiaw,-w 1ss
,oGukee Dail1 Repxbliean vita Maior Dawes, wA' rs
merly commanded accompany In Abes' ~.
bird Joined the armys In TIE spring of lsoi' aA
lowed &c faithfully through many 5loooy nss,s sS
weary marches. He was In the beid shfeo 'eaAs'