Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1882-11-17

President Arthur Out
of Sorts.
EX-SENATOR SPENCER WANTED N
TIE STAR ROUTE TRIALS.
Grants Conviction Of Fitz-John
Porter's Innocence.
IT WAS PORTER's DUTY NOT
TO OBEY ORDERS.
Al Order Of Such a Nature IS impossible
to be Carried Out.
SPECIAL TO TIE sESTrSEL.l

WASHINGTON, Nov. 16.-The Presidents
very much out Of sorts. One OF his minor
ills is a letter addressed by the two Massa-
chusetss Senators to Secretary Folger,
giving Collector Worthington a severe
hauling over the Goals for helping the
Democrats elect their candidate for Gov
ernor. The relations OF Worthington and
his newspaper to Butler are such that the
truth Of the charge is highly probable.
Another letter, and one more irritating to
the President, because more personal, is
from Messrs. HerTick Kerr and Bliss, in re-
gard to ex-senator Spencer. Daring the late
star Route trial by the Government coun-
sci, il ia well kno" that he sent the Pres
ident a letter, st 20 forth that Spencer,
a Government oL-rfa was wanted as a
Government witp>- at could not be
found, and was con5trriug a great favor
on the defense By keeping out Of sight.
No attention has been paid 20 his letter.
The time OF the second trial draws near
and Spencer has not been found. He is
wanted very much. This Government
counsel cent another letter to the Presi-
dent, calling his attention TO all the facts
in the case. OF course the President does
not exactly like - have his attention
called to the thing; IL intimates that he
wants to protect Dorsey. The President
wants every violator Of the law punished,
Of course, but he ia not very anxious to
sec a useful Republican statesman, the
Secretary of the National Committee, the
man whom he toasted as the savior of In.
diana in 1880. behind the gratings of a
p~enitentiary.
Grant says Porter is innocent.
New YORK, Nov. 16.-General Grants
new magazine article, entitled "An Unde.
served Stigma" concisely reviews the case
of Fitz-John Porter, giving the ground
for his former belief in Porter's guilt and
his present conviction of his entire inno-
cence, and appeals to the Government and
the country for prompt action in Porter's
behalf.
The Herald says of Grants views touch
ing Fitz-John Porter: General Grant de-
clares straightfor wardly his conviction that
was not merely justified in not act
ing on the half past 4 p. M. order, but that
il was his duty not TO act on that order.
His reasons are that Porter knew the facts
to be different from what they were sup
posed to be by the commander who issued
the order, and was not, in point of fact, in
the position in which the order supposed
was, and that the order involved the
forcing OF tho battle on the day on which
it was given, and was not received until
nightfall Of that day. To act on it he
would nave acted contrary to the spirit Of
the order itself, These are good reasons,
but it takes a great while to get justice
from Congress, and Grant himself illus
the difficulty. 1t required about 10
years to convince him Oh these points.
But IL a man instructed and experienced
n war could set this case right only after
,uch an interval, what can we expect of
he average Congressman
Monumental Cheek OF h Gem
tury."
WASHINGTON, NOV. 1~6.-speaker Keller
anne here immediately after his election
O get a friend Of his appointed Judge of the
States Court for Southern Ohio, in
he place Of the late Judge Swing.
John Sherman has just arrived on a
imilar errand, but wants the place for
Bateman, who, two years ago, was
hief of his Presidential-boom Bureau.
This, however, is not the only claim Bate
nan has upon the consideration of the
resident. When Secretary Sherman re-