New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-10-07

the expedition up the Red ri YER and afterward with
Sheridan in the Valley. predicted that we should be
| beaten in the former expedition when saw the want
OF discpI the army We would come into camp 9t
night aud sometimes there would not be fifty men In
regiment the rest struggling all the country said
TO Of my confidential officers: When we get into
fight shall be knocked all to pieces : and so we were
During portion Of the retreat after the battle near
Mansfield, had the rear-guard anil was kept so con-
stanty awake and going that hardly cared whether
should live die at last in the battle OF Cedar
Creek, OF which Sheridan hat the reputation OF saTng
the day think that General Wright tina. battle,
before Sheridan returned the rebel onset had
been repealed AM our lines formed II we had waited
TIL Sheridan got back done think we should have been
in the sane neglborhOOd. Wright was one OF our best
others and as modest as he was strong"
NOt long ago. while ascending the susquehanna River
toward the New-York line in Pennsylvania, came to
little town called Athens. lying of on plain II seemed
TO have Prominent buildings in IT, and In this respect
was in contrast to the smart town OF TOwanda, few
| miles further south In Athens born Joshua X.
Gddngs the old antslayery war-horse of the Western
reserve, who in the political father OF
Senator" Ben Wade aud of President Garfield. Gid
dlnUs removed to the West when young and was
the Representative from the Ashtabula district for
twenty-one years, and President Lincoln sent him to
Montreal Consul-Genera where be died. nearly year
| before MS patron.
after Giddngs. was also Penpsyvana-born, and came
| from the mountainous region Of the Delaware in the
northeastern part OF the State; Wilmot born in
| Madisons administration and Giddngs in washing
! tons. Wmot got pert Of his academy education az
| Aurora. in Cayuga County, New-YorS lie was long a
Pennsylvania Judge, and when he about 10 leave
| Congress in 1851 tue young Gausha Grow who was
only tYenty-seycn years Old selected TO nl his
place Wilmot became Senator Of the United States.
but he is chiefly known the nroducer Of the Wmot
Proyiso the FIST safeguard against the extension OF
slavery into the territory taken from Mexico. He intro
duced early February 1917, and It passed the
House by small majority. was rejected in tbs Senate.
and the House recedcd although the Proviso was
often introduced subsequently by other members It Is
attributed by Jacob Brukerhoh Of Ohio who il
still living. believe and by Others 70 Samuel Yinton,
the lather Of SIrs. Madeline " Dahlgren.
asked some politicians at Niagara Falls what the
prospect was the state purchasing OF the prop
cry there to make international park The best we
hone" said one, least TO begin with, IS that Goat
Island viii be bought Tie Legislature will take fright
| al q bill 20 acquire the river shore"
A man may be excused even on Broadway, for telling
big steer story. during the past "eo two steers
raised n Ahtabua County Onto, Of pure Durham breed,
| which we yhed together 1900 pounds They were on
private cxnIhton at q neighborng fair. and had been
moved all over country during the summer aud fall
and had brought u considerable m0ueyin one Instance
$500 reon, coming % single fair 20 see them, whose
ten cent pieces amounted 70 $500. These animals were
five feet Elk inches high any could see BY stand
ing u beside t.n AMI through the tcic-. Of tie body
the largest wa, four feet AMI two inches and twelve
feet six inches around the frame. told that they
would slaughter 40 scveutydve to eighty per cent beef
ont OF the crclss. making nearly $500 pounds, worth
| perhaps $1,000. 10 the ordinary price OF beef The
keeper sa yalt the skin Of each animal WAS worth dy
dollars o. be stuffed. These steer, are ted with great
/ ,rF.- nHI
| twins
found Ia Canada recent visit there thnt all was
not peace The oaEars of some or the statesmen were
called Iu tls opposition papers "uG pups and slug
! gers" The Gajz. the leading paper iu tho Dominion
Hpi leader headed jim sparnss watch saying that
| stephens w.s tho r'uru us oIC'r who counted in ~
the opro lie candidate. IL ae was Il" gerry nla,rsr
| aul Dis master committed 80 rDUp d,.lL' The same
paper attucoi che Wac oun'd or protective policy oua
.lI the public tlr.- were spent 20 aid the capitalists TO
! import labor n soou- that atorcr In tHe building
trade 40 Toronto only s--b year and hTirs-
lyrr 500; stone uasous only get 81 p day; car
p,ut.r receives -H-S year; AMI h'rue''-maAeE earn
| $500 But tiasmth only gc.1 - 20 week. painter
81 s. anu u'lstorar s.. working by the yelr Never
7l. the Dominion Government surplus OF wen
million dollars, aad spends nearly twenty pine u.i.ionl
! aunu'!ly
/ T,po. "a Newman socrrtqrv OF state Of Ohio gives
ms some figures worth considering about TIE pending
election In that state on; OF l2s3OoO0 voters in :he
United States Ohio has nearly 100000, or above one
fifteenth OF these more than 100000 are iore'snhon
lr less than 21OOO are clloIcL When the state was
admitted to the Union It east only 1901 votes ana
dI 10, reach quito 100 300 votes late as $780, when
there had been aten different elections FOR Governor
But Ia sSs Ohio had 100000 voters, aud In 1911 $780,
ODJ voters and then cuuousy enough the vote ieI on
for three different elections and not TIL Lincoln was
! made President lid ohio cast over iohvVO votes sAe
east nearly i43 900 in 500 and IN 1861 cast AL
600 votes and when Grant first elected cast nearly
! $4,000 votes This vote M TO nearly 100000
when U4vc4 WAS elected President and when Garhcld
ran the total cote was nearly 10000; and since that
time tho vote has harlly been within 100000 votes OF
the sum OF that Presidential year 1t fell Of just lOO-
900 the year after Garfield d'sd
Isay in this city last week boxed for shipment tur
bnc wner wheels one going TO 6uaemala an" the o'hcr
10 Tasmaniu. They were made III spIlhsh''u Oio M"
va. told that eleven thousand OF these turbine Whees
had been sold in about seventeen years they are driven
bv water pressure sometimes low as three feet head
In other cases as l gh three hundred feet head
robn I McElhone. chief reporter Of the House OF
Representaves mud eleven children andIeceh'y os'Oo
OF them by an accident with towing pece' "hch IL
| dured the amputation OF the boy leA' anu NO ' I'm
n, operation. Mr. McEIhone married daughter OF
,bo late DR. Philip O'Hanlon, agod and respected
rr.n citizen Of New Ora. whose son was quarter
master for General Moasnor IN the Union Army
Robe1t NcIauc the Democratic Ring nominee for Gov
ernor Of Maryland IS OF two prominent sons OF LOUIS
,yro,c nm emily president OF the Bal imore ana ONO
Ra,Iroad and Minister TO England Louis Mcihhe was
p,llwurcan who had originally been IN tue sumo @y
viii, John NJ Clayton, but departed therelfom al INC
rise OF Jackson aud think be voted contrary 10 tue "
trtctons of his State against tho Missouri Compromise
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