New-York tribune., 1884-03-02

broken up 10y como enterprisins man with capi'ai
enough hiring old deserted mills and putting '' ''
and competing.
Narrow -guacc railroads which on paper look Ho io"
scnablc. do not turn out successful in TrScuro' n,
the longest of these railroads extends from 'nou"
Toledo and from Toledo 10 ~. LOUIS P"'o'"
portion OF the road last week and was tod 'h' n"v
freight train went through that was not thrown iTo" %
track They undertake to do the business of olou
ruacc railroad on a narrow -cuagc, and hcnco LOAD the
oars IN hc top 40 that they become top-heaV! ana pass
inc oround the curycsat fair ratio Of speed capshe
The flood. in the West going TO c disadvantage !"
,+e rrnyth NJ somG 6wns lying DOWN upon tho rivers
whose active inhabitants having been tortured lor
two vp,crs by high water are moving back into the In
tcrIor on tlc railroads. Somo OF the Cincinnati manu-
focturers are going back 10 Hamilton, and tho people
about Marietta Parkershurg and adjoining towns are
good deal tempted to pull NJ their stakes. a raro"
conductor IN Ohio who had just como from Wheeling 'ou
me that lie saw box such carry cattle iled win
men, women and children without regard TO family RANK
aud he said that the cries OF the .cldrcn could be hcard
ron ono end Of these long trains to the other that
money was Of use, shelter beng the dccera'm anu
that was not 10 bc had.f
Presidential contest has never before been -ceh III
;hch the two political parties lad So little idea OF thclf
intentions within three months OF tho conventions.
Dung the past two weeks have been In the centre q"
the West In NcwYorR, Pennsylvania ana III inc D''I'
Of Columbia, and find that the lessons oi tIc last con
vcnons ac not forgotten. Almost everybody Is aura"
Of being suspected Of entertaining the Presidential Dee
IIo holds this little In his hand - the boys sed I" 90
at school, and puts his 10 hear If he Is still
alive and shake him mp little but das not let nun
ny around with a string attached 10 his wing in the sight
of visitors In Ohio Mr. Payne is at once the expected
! and the an.agoulled man. The old Nalandlgham anu
atos-back contingent regard him a no better thah Joh
I Sherman having the general financial apd 'ilh
ruo- and attachment to corporations For the present
th- element Is cOd1linS Joe McDonad' whom lh'S
clan as an Ohio man because he was born on their SIDE
of the line The MossbIck element IS very large ana mas
the same chasrin at Payncs that II had at BOOK
walters nomination. Thurman and Pcndlcton are ho'h
olnratc Durbin Ward also looks askant toward C!eFc
land Durbn ward told me that the Presidential chhd
date would either bo Mcdonald or Governor LnEI'h' o
Connecticut Yet extreme anti Payne men say that he
can get the whole state delegation tho "'"it !" "A'"
with ,.o same system that VOL linn the scna'crSmp'
| In the Republican camp the three men talked OF Tor
President arc Blaine, sherman and Lincoln did not
! hear Mr. Edmunds's lame mentioned In tho western
! state. though had an unusual opportunity 10 sec
people IN clusters and in aeerceacs heard tbe name
~ Andrew white mentioned in Pcnn'i ivni but II was
said ta he is conscientious free trader aud therefore
cond not run on the probable platform There i moro
curiosity Lincoln than any other eISop more AZ
taclmcn TO Blame, and reasoning about sherman
Tho Democrats In Ohio have a.cd 10 abuse Sherman
and ara calculating upon the probable results OF a
pitched battlo between hin and Mr Payne" sherman 10
supposed to he o little weak In the western Reserve
Blaine Is the expected dac among tho young men
tho Western college boys and those who are IN ther
temrer.Incnt aud instinct Western. Lincoln Is regarded
n ross'c Executive OF the strength and popularity OF
! both these men. The Democrats have got down
10 about two canddatcs Mcdonald and Payne though
hear a few cf tho soldiers still talking MP Hancock
Nine days ago SAT IN Tom " Corvin'- home at leb-
anon o. among Bis books. talking TO his daughter Mrs
Sage ana her husband who was The United states us
trict Judge Judge sage. without having pronouhc'u
paralities spoke to me considerably oi John Sherman
as perhaps useful to run in th" state of ONO win
an October election to prcccdc the Presidential contest
He said II there much enthusiastic to be sad Ia
favor of sherman, he man against whom u''o OF
nothing could be said Both the grandcmdith OF "oN-
erpor Corwin in the Sage family have entered inc army
voung Sage as an officer and his sister as an occr' "c
The late fire in Governor COrvins home did not damage
opy important books all affect Ills correspondence
which Judge Sage has put in order Unfortunately i'"
Of Governor Corwn's letters can be found thsy
were addressed to largo number Of persons ana 'he'o
cannot or Will cooperate 20 that they may Dc pre-
| ecntcd TO the public IN bis works