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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-01-06
PORTER's CASE ABROAD.
n German Military Critic on the Second
Battle of Bull Run.

Battle of Bull Run.
Philadelphia Times.
An able and interesting work on the case
of Fitz John Porter has recently been pub
lished in Germany. Its title is, "Der Field
zug in Nord Virginien i'm August, 1862" aud
its author is F.. Mangold, an artillery officer
in the Imperial service. 1t contains between
three and four hundred pages, and has at
tached to it several carefully-prepared and
valuable maps. The author remarks in his
preface that such cases as that of Fitz John
Porter are fortunately very rare. He adds
that it is a very remarkable case for the
reason, first, that an officer of General Por-
ter's ability and high rank should
have been accused of treason and DISC
bedience OF orders, and should then have been
convicted on false testimony and should
still have escaped with his life. This is a
repetition of what has been said by other au-
thorities, that General Porter should have
been condemned to death or else honorablv
acquitted, and that the court-martial which
tried him stulGitied itself in ado pting the
middle course which it did. Secondly, that
after it had been fully ascertained that so
great an injustice had been done to a distin-
guished and patriotic officer so many years
should have been permitted to elapse with
out awarding to him the restitution to
which he is so clearly entitled, the author
lntlmatlng very distinctly that the treat
ment which General Porter has received
from our government has cast a very dark
stain upon the name of the American peo-
pie.
Major Mangold states that his sole object
In publishing this work is to contribute his
mite to the defense of a skillful and meritor-
Ious officer, who has been cruelty outraged.
In scathing terms of rebuke he on
the course pursued by Generals Mcdowell
and Pope, neither OF whom has gained any
distinction except as the defeated command
nrG IN fUn of rha V1Aof AienatuA,-. Iz4.l- r
tie war, and he points out why it was neces-
sary for them to pursue the course which
they did in ordar To savesIor thelnsslvzs any
Dowell and Pope, the commanding officers
at the first and second battles of Bull
Run, should have been permitted for
the past fifteen years or more to hold the
high rank in the United States army which
they have done, while General Porter has
been disgraced and several other officers of
rare merit have been compelled to remain in
inferior positions, furnishes a striking COM
ment on the gratitude of republics.
The work of Major Mangold, though of re-
cent date, was written some time prior to the
appearance of General Grants article in the
North American Review. Both writer's in
many particulars appear to have taken the
same views of this important case. and the
German officer clearly demonstrates as he
proceeds with his work that General Porter
was for his conduct at the second battle of
Bull Run deserving of high commentator,
instead of the unjust and ubiquitous sentence
imposed upon him by the court-martial.
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DR.. Harter's Iron Tonic.

The attention OF the readers OF this paper is
called to the advertisements of Or. Harter's Iron
Tonic, which appears IN another column. 1t Is
indorsed by all physicians AS containing the
very elements essential to the eradication of the
seeds of Dyspepsia, General Debility, Female
Diseases, want of vitality, etc, from the system.
The medicine Is manufactured by the DIR. Harter
Medicine Company, ST. Louis, Mo. A large force
'Of men Is kent continually at work receiving and
filling orders and shipping goods, and the sales
are rapidly increasing. You may have "A preju-
but in this case it would he absurd, for 1t Is "A
medicine compounded with great care by skilled
persons, and contains iron and calis2ra bark, in
connection with the phosphites, and any who
have the slightest knowledge of medicines know
that these are necessary In cases where the con
stttutiOn is shattered or weakened. Let at least
one hottie he tried by You who are in need of
medicine, and you will thereafter use it and save
many an expensive doctor bill.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-01-06

esied by Egelic, the Bishop Of Durham, it
was again completely destroyed by fire,
John Of Salisbury, a noted alb
bolt, in 1918 commenced the
foundation of the building of to-day. The
grandeur of its outline so greatly impressed
the country folks in the neighborhood that
they christened the new cathedral Peter
borough, the Proud" and the principal feat
ures of the building as it was then, the mas
sive column in front, and magnificent arches,
over eighty feet in height, have survived the
inroads OF modern Improvements, and re-
main to-day as they were originally planned
and Executed by the Twelfth century archi-
tect. The cathedral consists of a large nave,
with side aiSleS, with n choir terminating
in a semi-circle at the east end; while the
side aisles make a complete circuit of the
building. The transcript was designed by
Sir Reginald Bray. and the central tower
was built by Abbott DeWaterville. The
latter piece of work, however, had to be re-
duced by three stories some years ago. as, in
the opinion of competent judges, its fall
was only a question of time. Peterborough
was often made a resting place By English
sovereigds as they journeyed to ana from
the North.
Edward III. held the Faster festival there
with his queen in the 1927, and the little en-
tertainment cost the Abbot of the Cathedral
5 $500. Cardinal Wolsey celebrated the same
feast there on n more elaborate scale 200 years
afterward. The body of Catherine, of ARA
gan, the frs: wife OF Henry VIII, lies be-
tween two pillars near the altar, and lovely,
but unfortunate. Mary Queen of Scots rested
there until her subsequent removal to West
minister, where she now sleeps, long forgot
ten. The cathedral underwent some terrible
usage at the hands of Cromwell in 1913. 1t
was utilized by him as a stabling place for
his soldiers horses, and the troopers tore
down valuable monuments, and ruthlessly
destroyed many priceless relics of past ages
in their puritan fury. One of the soldiers,
it is said, having discharged a musket shot at
the statues of the four evangelists that stood
above the communion table, was struck
blind by the rebound OF his own bullet.
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LOSSES BY THE FLAMES.
Destructive Fire at Cohoes, N. V,
Burning several Iron Mills.
Fl COHOEs r
Rolling-Mills Burned, Entailing a Loss o
Nearly Half a Million.

Rolling-Mills Burned, Entailing a Loss of
Nearly Half a Million.
CoHoEs, Jan. 5.-The rolling-mills of Nor
rison, Colwell &c Page are burning. The
Pilot Mills of P. Gugerty, and the tubing
works of A. G.. Curtis & Co., are in danger.
A high wind is blowing.
A later dispatch says the rolling-mills are q
total loss, and the Pilot Mills are burning
fiercely.
Subsequently, the fire was got under con-
troll. Morrison, Colwell & Pages rolling
mill, O'Brien & Powers knitting-mills, and
the Pilot Mills were totally destroyed. The
loss exceeds $3.50, 900; insured for two-thirts.
The fire originated in the wheel pit of
the rolling-mill, Work was suspended last
Friday for repairs, and was to be resumed
this morning. During the severe cold last
night the wheel was frozen in the pit. The
engineer began thawing it out by the usual
process, whehs by some accident, the oil
caught fire and the flames spread with most
wonderful rapidity. The iremen did splen-
did work, and successfully diverted the
fire from the central portion of the city,
which includes the great knitting manu-
laCtOIleS. n more rapid IRE never was SEEM.
Inside one hour from the time the oil took
fire in the wheel PIT, the entire
works had been consumed, ard nothing
was left but the furnaces and their chimneys.
The flames drove the workmen away so
quickly that they had no time to think of
drawing the furnaces, hence the loss is much
greater than it otherwise would have been,
as the iron will have to cool in them and
they will then have to be taken apart.
The total loss on the rolling-mill is now
estimated at $500, 600; the insurance is about
$50 900.
The flames were driven to the Pilot Mills,
which were soon enveloped. The fire ran
riot through the oily and combustible ma
terial, and communicated from one story to
another with great rapidity. Within five
minutes this imnense brick structure was
totally en~veloped in flames and the fremen
utterly helpless to stay their progress. Soon
a gasoline tank exploded, rendiug and level
ing the walls. Loss on Gugertv's mill, $780,
600; insurance $3.50 900. O'Brien & Powers
mill occupied a portion of the Pilot Mills
building, and is involved in the general ruin.
Loss $350,000; partially insured.
The Morrison, Caldwell & Page rolling
mills, in which the fire originated, cost, it is
claimed, $500, 900. Loss on building and ma
chinery, $250,000; insurance extensive and
we'll distributed.
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Galveston News.
New-fangled ornamental stoves, as intri-
cate as a steam engine and more wasteful of
coal. are pronounced to be a mistake. One
hundred pounds OF coal might be burned in
a stove constructed entirely of mica without
radiating heat enough to comfortably warm
a small bedroom. A considerable portion of
the outer surface of these stoves which is not
mica is nickel, copper or silver, rendered
very smooth and highly polished. If one
should seek, by careful study, observation
and experiment, to find materials that would
radiate the smallest amount of heat, he
would FINALLY select the substances named,
and would finish them in the manner they
appear in the modern parlor stove. The re-
manning parts of the stove which require
strength, are made % iron, it is true. which
is, when rough, a very good radiator. In
the stove, however, it is highly polished or
covered with plumbago, which is rubbed till
it is as smooth as plate-glass. In this condi-
tion it is a very poor radiator OF heat.
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a Long, a Last, a Sad Farewell.

Honolulu Saturday Press.
Last Saturday evening twenty-nine lepers
were sent from the branch Leper Hospital to
Molokai by the steamer Mokolil. The steam
er anchored of the marine railroad, and the
lepers were brought from the hospital in
drays and taken to the little jetty at the
quarantine grounds, from which they we're
carried in boats to the Mokolil. There was
one Chinaman in the lot; the others natives,
sixteen males and twelve females. A large
number OF people were gathered at the hos
pital to see their friends, and later, at 5
o'clock, when the lepers were taken to the
steamer, they assembled on the shore to bid
the unfortunates a last farewell. There was
considerable walling by those on shore, and
the parting scene was an affecting one.
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CONSPIRACY LAW.
Jere Blacks Letter of Legal Advice to Men
Under Arrest for Fomenting a Strike.
t4+.r., Saaog1

Pittsburg Special.
The following letter from the Hon. Jere-
miah S. Black is in answe to one written by
Mr.. D. r. Jones, miners general secretary,
in relation to the arrest of Messrs. Jones and
Anderson for conspiracy, on information OF
the Waverly Goal Company. After a few
preliminary remarks, Judge Black says:
ANY number of employers may combine
together and act in concert TO reduce the
wages of their workn:en, and nobody has
ever called that a conspiracy. But if the
laborers in a shop unite TO increase their
wages, and threaten to quit work unless
they are better paid, this, according
to the old decisions in England and
America, is a criminal offense. More recent
cases, however, lay down the rule that a
body of laborers may as lawfully say what
they will take as employers may determine
what they will give. Somewhat slowly, and
with evident reluctance, capitalists have suf-
fered the Judicial mind to reach the con-
clusion that the employer does not exactly
own the workman. III, therefore, the aim of
you association was nothing more than to
put up the price of your labor to a s~atisfac-
tory standard and to counteract the natural
tendency of other interests to reduce it. you
are innocent people, and the court will say
SO. / infer from your letter that you solic-
tied others to join with you and make a de-
mand for wages as high as your own or
else stop work. That was not wrong
elUner. Ii you naU a right 10 form the aSSO-
citation, you had an equal right to get as
many into it as you could, so that outsiders
might not defeatit its purpose by cutting under.
But you did not %contine your membership or
your influence to your immediate fellows
working together with you IN the employ
ment of the same master. You went to an
other mine, owned by other parties, and per-
suaded, or tried to persuade, the underpaid
coal-diggers there that justice to themselves,
as well as to you, required them to lay down
their tools unless they got the rates generally
received in the neighborhood. AT first blush
this looks like intermeddling with a matter
which did not concern you. But, in truth, you
had a fair interest in it, because the accept
ance of smaller compensation by one man
always tends to depress that of another.
Your resistance to low wages was, no doubt,
weakened by the admission of others near
you. This principle is understood by en-
ployers. Ii Scott, and Garrett, and Jewett
would agree to reduce the wages of the labor
ers on their railroad 20 per cent, Wander
bits refusal to do likewise would be a thing
OF evil example in their eyes, and they would
exert all their influence to make him come
down to their level. Persons engaged in a
common cause, whether it be to raise or
! lower wages, are entitled to the support
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-01-06
NEWS BY ATLANTIC CABLE.
The PaIais Bourbon Still Thronged
with Admirers of Gambetta.
The Swollen Rivers Gradually Declining
No Cause for War Between Ger
many and Russia-Cable Notes.

PARIS, Jan. St is estimated that $4,000
persons yesterday visited the Palais Bour
bon, where the body of Gambetta is lying.
The cabinet council has invited the com
manders of army corps and judges to attend
Gambetta's funeral. In consequence of the
New Years fair on the Boulevard, the funeral
procession will pass through the Rue de
Rivoli, the Boulevard de Sebastopol and the
Rue de Turbigo. The entire front of the
Chamber of Deputies is draped in respect to
Gambetta.
The lumber of wreaths sent to be placed
on Gambetta's coffin exceeds 1000. Over one
hundred Populations from the provinces will
attend the funeral. Eight o~rations will be
delivered at the entrance to the cemetery of
Pere La Chaise. Among the speakers will
be the Minister of Justice, representing the
government, and Peyrat, vice-president of
the Senate, representing that body.
The statues IN the Place de la Concorde
will be yelled tomorrow. TIL troops will
march past Gambetta's coffin at tho gates of
the cemetery of Pere la Chaise.
Duclerc, President of the Council, is I'M
well, and will be unable to take part in the
funeral ceremonies. Lacour will speak in
behalf of the government of national defense,
Chafour for tine Aisace-Lorraine Association,
and Kable for the A!satians.
Pere H%yacinthe will preach the funeral
sermon on Sunday.
The gas and electric lamps in the Place de
Concorde will be lighted and yelled with
Grape on Saturday.
There will be funeral services at Nice on
Tuesday, the municipality bearing the ex-
pense.
One hundred thousand persons viewed the
coffin on Thursday and Friday.
The Paix denies that Gambetta's death has
produced any great change in the foreign
policy of the republic, which neither desires
nor fears war, and adds: If forced into il
by the action of any power, France would
undertake it without, as it would have dom
with Gambetta."
A Berlin dispatch states that the Provin-
cial Correspondence concludes a warm tribute
to Gabetta thus. 1T is our right and duty &c
pay testimony to the greatness of thi:
extraordinary man, whom we have
learned to know in honorable com
bat, and whose future d~escinies We fol
lowed with the respectful sympathy which
he compelled alike from friends and foes"
La France asks: What has France done
to Death? Has Bismarck signed a compact
with it? General Chaucy's death is a great
sorrow. The Germans feared him as they
dreaded General Skobeleff."
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KANSAS CITY, Dec. 5.-The Journals AL
buquerque, N. NJ, special says: cat Union,
near M~esilla, on Tuesday last, Aligo Garcia
died under circumstances which led to the
suspicion of poisoning. His wife has since
confessed that she murdered her hus-
band by putting arsenic in his
food, About a year ago, she, an
attractive senorita of good family, married
Garcia, but continued, %clandestinely, to re-
eeive the attentions of Jose Mannete, a
former lover. Garcia's presence being irk-
some, they at last decided to put him out OF
the way. Mannete accordingly procured the
drug. and it was administered by the woman.
Both are now in Jail.
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HARDsHIPs OF HONESTY.
President Gardner of the Lime Kiln Club
Drops "a Few Practical Hints.

Ia hC VI tht Alth ALL OluD
Drops IA Few Practical Hints.
Detroit Free Press.
ut agin becomes my painful dooty to an
nounce de faek dat death has invaded our
ranks" said the president as the last notes of
the triangle died away. wv ord has bin re-
ceived dat Elder JON %Spooner, of Winches-
ter, Varginny, I'm no mo-. He jined dis
club about two y'ers ago, an his interes' in
1t was undated up to his dyin' hour, In
his death we has lost a good man, but we
has at de same time gained some valuable ex-
rerienee, in case we feel like accepting it.
Elder Spooner believed in de motto: Hon
esty de best policy; an he died poo. He
loved his naybur as himself, an his naybur
had altogether de bes' of it. He had charity
fur ali, an dat KEEP his chilPen widout shoes
an his wife tied down to a kaliker dress fur
Sunday. His motto was Excelsior, and his
Sunday dinner was as thin an hard as sheet
iron"
"Doorin' de summer sezun, when fuel
doan' cost muffin; folks kin go basfut, an any
sort of a man kin arm a dollar a day, it am
well huff to hang God Bless Our Home
ober de doah, and spank the chill'en wild a
Doot-jack labeled: Oar am room at de top
but arter winter has shet down, the man who
won't trade proverbs fur '~taters, and notices
fur bacon, may make up his mind to feel
hungry hat de time: Elder Spooner was
shus, an darfore ragged. lie was full of
mercy an pity an sympathy, an darfore had
the reputashun of bein' weak in de second
story. l doan' advise any man to be wicked,
but | desire to carelessly remark dat de real
good man who am obleeged to turn his paper
collars am Stunned by society and LATED at
by de world"
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DR.. Schroeder, of Berlin, has been sum
moned to London to attend the Prince OF
Wales.
The remains of John Howard Payne were
shipped from Tunis for the United States yes
terday.
The Henry Stevens collection of docu-
ments relative to Benjamin Franklin has
been purchased by the United States govern
ment.
A note from Lord Granville to the British
representatives abroad proposes that the
Suez canal be treated virtually as an arm of the
sea, freely open to navigation, but subject to
a rule f%orbidding belligerent operations both
in its channel and within a certain distance
of its e~xtremities.
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PETERBOROUGH CATHEDRAL.
One of the Most Venerated and Beautiful
Structures of England.

Peterborough Cathedral, the central tower
of which is to be demolished, is one of the
finest religious edifces to be found in Eng
land. 1t was built upon the site of the old
monastery founded by one of the Mercian
thames, Saxulph. The Danes, during one of
their periodical m%arauding excursions into
England, about the year $40, attacked the
building, and, after a protracted siege. bat
tered down the walls, slaughtered the priestly
inmates, and set fire to the cathedral itself.
causing its complete distinctions. King
Ethelwold, surnamed by his subjects THE
Skillful Architect of God" rebuilt the place
some years a%fterward, and it remained intact
1ntil the year 1l16, when, as had been proph-
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scious fit. Strenuous efforts are being mad
to capture the villains, who are supposed to
be trampS.
CRIME IN GENERAL.
Two Georgians Arrested in Ohio, Charge,
with Mail Robbery.

Two Georginns Arrested in Ohio, Charged
with Mail Robbery.
CLEVELAND, Jan. 5.-Anton Gaus and
Herman Fogel, of Atlanta, were arrested in
Canton, yesterday, at the instigation of a
Postofice Department detective, and brought
here to-day and bound over for trial before
the United States Court, charged with rob-
bling the mail. Gaus was discharged by an
Atlanta firm by which he had been employed;
he afterward went to the postoffice
and there got the firms mail. 1t is alleged
that he opened various letters and distracted
money and checks amounting to a consider
able sum. He found Fogel, and the two
came north, getting the checks cashed at diff
ferent points on the way. Gaus is an expert
penman, and It's supposed he forged the in
dorsements on the checks. An officer started
tonight for Atlanta, with Gaus and Fogel as
prison erS.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-01-06
Death of Gen. ChanzY.

PARIS, Jan. 5.-General Chsnzy, the we'll
known French general and life senator, died
suddenly on Thursday night.
General Chauzy died of apoplexy, at
Chalons. He will be buried there. The
papers dep1ore his death, uniting his memo
ry with that of Gambetta. the latter being
described as the soul and Chauzy as the
sword of resistance to the German invasion.
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OTHER FIRES.
Business Houses Burned at Peoria, Causing
Serious Loss.

CHICAGO, Jan. 5.-The Inter Oceans Peoria
special says: Fire, this morning, burned
out Chalmers &c Myers, wholesale leather; A..
Schradsky, clothing; D. j. Collighn q Co.,
boots and shoes; and Cutter G. Holdridge,
wholesale hardware. Loss, 500, 900; insured
for $52, 500, as follows: North American,
So, 900; Phoenix, of Brooklyn, So, 900; North
British, $1,000, German, of Peoria, 81, 900;
don, $1,000; Liverpool, London & Globe,
81, 500; London Insurance Association, 81, 500;
Hamburg-Bremen, 81, 500; German-Ameri-
can, 81, 900; Royal, of London, 81 900; Spring
field, of Massachusetts, $1,000; Scottish I'm
ion, $1,000; Niagara, $4,000; Continental,
90 O00
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On the Lookout for an Abductor.

ST. Adams, VI, Jan. 5.-The people and
police of northern Vermont are on the look
put to prevent John Edwards, a colored farm
hand, reaching Canada, whittier he seems to
be fleeing with Kitty Marsh, aged thirteen, a
daughter of a well-to-do farmer. Edwards
called at the school for the girl and took her
ont for n drive
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Tho Floods Slowly subsiding.

WIEsBADEN, Jan. 5.-The Rhine is falling
at Mayence, Coblentz and Cologne, The
Main and Lair are also falling steadily.
Navigation of the Neckar is reopened.
The Grand Duke of Baden has given $500
for the relief of the sufferers, and the EN-
peror has specially ordered everything posi-
Bile to be lone for them. Wreckage and
dead bodies of animals are drifting down the
river.
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PARIS, Dec. 5.-To-day, while Paul De Clere
was watching by the side OF Gambetta's cata-
falque, Mayer walked into the room. De
Clere SAID: You have no right to approach
the coffin of the man you insulted during
life" With these words he struck Meyer,
who returned the blow. Bystanders sepa-
rated them