Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 May 1883 — Page 1

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WHEN INDICATIONS. THURSDAY Warmer, fair weather, followed ly local rains. The finest Clothing we have had this season came in this week. They are imported Suitings, popular in merchanttailoring houses, and are seldom found in ready-made establishments. We are showing them in Men’s and Youth’s Sack and four-button Cutaway Frocks, at about half the price of custom work, at the ONLY WHEN

LABOR TOPICS. The Cincinnati Shoemakers* Reasons for Locking: Out the Workmen. Cincinnati, May 16. —The shoe manufacturers held a meeting to-day and adopted resolutions giving their version of the cause of the lock-out, which, they say, is forced opoa them by the action of the union men. They say that under the present situation of affairs it is impossible to submit the matter to arbitration unless the men who have quit work will go back and resume the positions they held before they quit work. They therefore give notice that their shops are open for any workmen not directly shut out under the operation of the terms of the arbitration agreement. Thi3 means that all nonunion men as well as all union men not members of the assemblies that belong to the arbitration board, are at liberty to work in these shops. The Miners’ Convention. Pittsburg, May 16, —The miner’s interstate convention reassembled this morning, John Mcßiide, of Massillon, 0., in the chair. The committee on credentials reported eighty delegates present from Ohio, Maryland. Illinois and Pennsylvania. After adopting rules governing the convention, a committee on general organization was appointed who made their report. A lengthy discussion then ensued on the question whether the organization be open or secret. L. A. Crow, of Maryland, vigorously opposed an open oganization, but the majority favored it and the matter was referred to a committee. A resolution expressing sympathy with the striking miners of theJPittsburg district met with considerable opposition, but finally passed. The afternoon session was called to order at 8 o’clock. The committee or organization presented the following, which was adopted after discussion: “Wlioreas, Tlie condition of the miners and laborers of this country shows the urgent and tymiarilate necessity of organization, not only in different localities, but of different States and Territories of the United Stales, and “Whereas, Poet experience has shown that the failure of different organizations among the miners is due to causes too numerous to mention, in order to avoid failure in the future we mustendeavor to avoid allcomplioated’technioalIties and establish an organization a9 simple in its laws and forms as possible, and at the same time recognize that true fundamental principle that injury to one district or locality in any State shall oe the concern of all; therefore be it “Resolved, That we, delegates of the miners of the different States represented at the interstate convention, believe and know that it is high time the miners of the United States should endeavor to organize themselves into one orfanlzution, recognizing the different orgauizalons in different localities and without interfering with the present form or ways of working, call upou them to mass with us for the good of all, and endeavor to establish organizations where none at present exist. “Resolved, That tills organization be. known as tlie Amalgamated Association or Miners of the United States, and the object of the association shall be, first, to bring within its fold every miner and laborer about mines in the United States; to secure uniformity of action in matters pertaining to interests, eto., of members; second, adopting whenever and wherever practicable the principles of arbitration; third, to shorten the hours of labor as far as practicable; fourth, to restrict the product when deemed practicable. Resolved, That the officers of this association shall consist of an executive board, to be composed of the presidents of the different States, and said board to select their secretary, and to meet at least once in six months, or as often ns necessary, to discuss the condition of affairs in the different localities, and whenever it is deemed necessary to take action on questions regarding the advancement of the whole, it shall be submitted to their constituents tor tlie purpose of deriding whether such action should be taken or not. President Mcßride then appointed tlie following committees, after which adjournment was taken till to-morrow: Committee on Constitution—R. B. Hanna and John Davis, of Ohio; John Costello, T. J. Atkinson and R. Davis, of Pennsylvania. Committee on Ways and Means—M. F. Conway, B. Berkly. J.' Morgan, H. Smith unu 0. Duncan, all of Pennsylvania. Board of Arbitration Proposed at Chicago. Chicago, May 16.— At a meeting of mastermasons and builders this afternoon a communication was received from the committee of the trades assembly proposing a plan for a settlement of the bricklayers’ strike. The plan proposed the formation of a board of arbitration, one member to be appointed by the master builders, one by the Bricklayers’ Union, ami one by the Trades Assembly, its decision to be final, and both parties to bind themselves to abide by the result. Tho proposition was unanimously accepted by the master builders, and a committee appointed to select men to serve on the board of arbitration. The Bricklayers' Union will meet on Friday. If it accedes to the proposal work will be resumed on Saturday morning, and the board of arbitration begin its labors at once. An engiue un>l eighteen freight oars wore thrown down an embankment on tho Reading & Columbia railroad, near Eplirata, Pa , yesterday, and George W. Haiti, master medianio of the road, was killed. The disaster was caused ky a plank maliciously placed norms tho track. Mr. Horace I)kown, of Ipswich, Mass,, writes that, he finds Cough Rush an excellent remedy. A single doso relieves tho most aggra rating cough Immediately

RECALLING WAR MEMORIES ♦ - Annual Reunion of the Society of the Army of the Potomac. Beautiful Weather, Large Attendance of Members, and a Brilliant and Imposing Street Display. Spirited hut Good-Natured Contest Over the Election of Officers. The National Theater Thronged at Night to Listen to Townsend’s l'oem and Magiunis’s Oration. THE PROCESSION. Perfect Weather and a Splendid Street Demonstration. Washington, May 16. —Despite the lowering clouds and threatening weather of yesterday, to-day has proved most auspicious for the opening ceremonies of the reunion of the Army of the Potomac. The showers of yesterday laid the dust, and to-day a fresh breeze from the northeast, with a cloudless sky and bright sun, made the day a perfect one, both for those who marched in procession and for the thousands of spectators, who, from an early hour this morning, lined the streets. By 9 o’clock this morning the various uniformed military organizations which were to take part in the parade, were on the move, and sounds of martial music greeted the ear from a dozen quarters. At 11 a. m. an escort under command of Brevet Major-general R. B. Ayres, U. S. A., took their station along Fifteenth street, with the right resting on Pennsylvania avenue. The society of the Army of the Potomac, under command of General A. A. Humphries, president of the society, and his staiF, formed in column of fours at the Riggs House. At 11:20 the procession moved, breaking from right to left and marching up Fifteenth street past McPherson’s statue; thence through Vermont avenue, Massachusetts avenue, passing the Thomas statue , to Rhode Island avenue; passing Scott’s statue, through Conneticut avenue; passing Farragqt’sstatue, to Seventeenth street, to Pennsylvania avenue, passing in review before the stand erected upon the pavement opposite the White House. Dense crowds of people lined the entire route of the procession, and gave ample occupation to the mounted police in keeping a passage open for the procession. Bhortly before 12 o’clock the President was notified of the approach of the procession, and with the members of his cabinet and other invited guests, proceeded across the lawn to the stand, which was approached by a flight of steps from within the White House grounds. Upon the stand were the President, Secretaries Lincoln and Teller, Attorney-general Brewster, Postmaster-gen-eral Gresham, Justice Field, Senators Miller, of California, and Butler, of South Carolina; ex-Senator Windom, Representatives McKinley and S. S. Cox, the English, French, Spanish, Brazilian and Chinese ministers, and the ladies of their families; W. W. Corcoran, General Sherman and staff, General Hazen, General B. S. Calef, General Livermore, General Ingalis, General Schofield, Admiral Nichols, Admiral Rowan, the commissioners of the District, ex-Post masters-general H. King and J. A. J. Creswell, Marshal McMichael and others. The head of the procession reached the stand at 12:10, and the last of the carriages which brought up the rear passed at 12:50 p. m. Os the Society of the Army of tlie Potomac there were about 1,600 men in line, and together with the various organizations composing the escort, about 3,500 men passed in review. Along tlie line of march there was a liberal display of banting and much enthusiasm. It was the first representative gathering of the Army of the Potomac in Washington since the war, and United States soldiers of twenty years ago marched past the stand, many of them gray-haired and bearded, and bowed with the weight of the intervening years. It recalled the review of 1865, when the army of the Potomac marched up the avenue ami passed in review before the President 100,000 strong. In the procession were many wellknown and familiar faces, and there was a constant interchange of recognition between the passing veterans and those upon the stand. At 1 o’clock tlie escort was dismissed at tlie Riggs House, the point from which tlie procession started, and the Society of the Army of the Potomac marched to tlie White House and paid their respects to the President, who received them in the East Room and greeted each member as he was presented.

the BUSINESS MEETING. An Exciting; bat Good-Natured Contest Over the Selection of Officers. Washington, May 16. —The general business meeting of the society was held this afternoon, and after tlie transaction of routine matters, President Humphries announced as the next business in order the election of officers for the ensuing year. Up to this point perfect order and unanimity had marked the proceedings. The scene, however, which ensued, and the discussion which took place in the course of the next three-quarters of an hour, recalled most vividly the closing hours of the Forty-fifth Congress. Motions and amendments, calls of order, appeals to the chair, which the chair could not hear, or, if hearing, could not make himself heard in reply, followed each other in rapid succession. The best of good feeling, however, appeared to prevail, and each gentleman who struggled to make himself heard above the uproar seemed to be burdened with the idea that he was about to submit the one proposition which would cut the gordian knot and relieve liis unfortunate comrades from the perplexities into which they had fnllen. Nominations for president having been declared in order, General S. 11. Mann, of North Carolina, on behalf of the Sixth Corps, announced the name of “that grand old soldier, Generul John Newton.” As soon as the applauso which greeted this announcement had subsided, Major Joseph Stever, who occupied a seat u A >n the stage, a<i-

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vanced to the front and shouted at the top of his voice the nomination by the Fifth corps of General U. S. Grant. Cheers and cries of “Grant!” “Grant!” “Vote!” “Newton!” “Grant!” for some minutes made it impossible for any one to hear a score of gentlemen who were on their feet to be heard. Then followed a running discussion us to General Grant’s elegibility. Someone from the stage declared he was an honorary member. A voice from the audience replied: “He has not paid his dues.” Another called out, “For fourteen years he declined to become a member of our society; why burdeu him with this honor now?” Finally, General Humphreys gained attention, and naively suggested: “If I remember rightly, General Grant, at one time, was intimately associated with the army of the Potomac, near the close of the war. I think he is clearly eligible, if you choose to elect him.” This was received with shouts of laughter and applause from all quarters, and it was moved to proceed to a ballot. General Mann then arose and stated that, after consultation with several of his associates of the Sixth corps, as there seemed to be a general desire to elect General Grant, he would withdraw the name of General Newton. This was the signal for renewed commotion, accompanied by cries of “Good,” and “Don’t withdraw,” which was heightened when General Barnum, of Connecticut, in ringing tones announced that he would withdraw the name of General Grant. A Voice—What right have you to withdraw him? General Barnum—As presiding officer of the Fifth corps at their meeting to-day, and because I know personally that General Grant, though he was thought not unworthy to command us at Appomattox, does not desire onerous duty in these piping times of peace, and would not permit his name to be the subject of controversy. If there be a single objection, I withdraw his name. The president being unable to make himself heard, General Horatio C. King, the secretary, essayed to straighten out matters, and finally the nominations of Generals Grant and Newton were renewed, and the balloting proceeded. After the appointment of several committees the result of the balloting for president was announced as follows: General Newton, 155; General Grant, 117; scattering, 7. General Newton’s election was made unanimous, and, with the exception of president, the old officers were re-elected. Brooklyn was selected as the place for tlie next reunion of the society, and the meeting adjourned.

rOET AND ORATOR. The Evening Meeting Poem by G. A. Townsend, and Oration by Major Maginnis. Washington, May 16. —The exercises this evening at the National Theater drew together an audience distinguished, enthusiastic and sympathetic. The stage, auditorium and galleries were filled, the one with officers of the army met to celebrate its triumph, the other with surviving members of that army, their friends, and the welcoming people of the city of Washington. The interior decorations of the theater were brilliant. General Humphries, the retiring president, opened the exercises by introducing Judge Edmonds. While Judge Edmonds was speaking, General Sherman came on the stage from one of the wings, As he moved across to his seat in front, the veterans caught sight of him and interrupted the speech t o give him a welcome with three rousing cheers and a “tiger.” Many veterans, in their enthusiasm, stood upon their seats and waved their hats. At the conclusion of Judge Edmonds’s address, the Marine band rendered the “Star Spangled Banner,” and then the President introduced the poet, George Alfred Townsend, who, with much feeling, delivered a poem, the reading of which was frequently interrupted by applause. The poem is as follows: Civil soldiers, re-assembled by the river of your fame! Ye who saved the virgin oity bathed in Washington’s clear name! Which of all your past commanders doth this day your memory haunt? Scott, McDowell, Burnside, Hooker, Meade, McClellan, Halleck, Grant! There is one too little mentioned when your proud reunions come, And tne thoughtful love of country dies upon the sounding dram; Lot me call him m your muster! Let me wake him in your grief! Captain by the Constitution, Abr’ain Lincoln was your chief, Ever nearest to his person, ye were his defense and shield; He alone of your commanders died upon the battle field; All your Generals were bis children, leaning on him childißh-willed. And they all were filial mourners round the mighty tomb he filled. Tender as the harp of David his soft answers now become, When amid the cares of kingdoms rose and fell some Absalom: Aud his humor gilds his memory like a light withiu a tent, Or the sunken sun that lingers on the lofty monument. Like the slave that saw the sunrise with his face toward the West, As it Hashed, while yet ’twas hidden, on a slender steeple’s crest, So, while Victory turned her from him, ere tho dawn in welcome came, On his pen Emancipation glittered liko an altar flame.* Feeling for the doomed deserter, feeling for the drafted sire, For tho empty Northern hearthstone and the Southern homo uflre, Mercy kept him grim as Moloch, all the future babes to free, Aud eternal peace to garner for the millions yet to be. Not a soldier of the olassics, lie could see through learned pretense, Master of the greatest science, military common sense; As he wutolied your marches, comrades, hither, thither, wayward years, On his map the roads you followed, you can trace them by bis tears. In the people clamored, in the front the Generals missed; In his inner couucils harbored critic and antagonist, But he ruled them by an instinot like the queen’s among the bees, With a henlth of soul that honeyed publicuus aud pharisees. Faith of faith, wo looked behind us for a chief of higher tone. While the voice t hat drowned the trumpets was the echo of our own; Ever thus, my own companions! Genius has us by tho hand, Walking on the tempest with us, every crisis to command. Like the bugle blown at evening by some homesick son of art, Lincoln’s words, unearthly, quiver in the universal heart, Not an echo left of malice,* scarce of triumph In tho strain, As when summer thunder murmurs in pathetic showers of raiu.

Years forever consecrated, here he lived where duties be, Never crying on tbo olimate or tbe toil’s monotony; Here his darling boy he buried, and the night in vigil wept, Like bis Lord within the garden, when the tired disciples slept. How his oall for men went ringing round tlie world, a mighty belli Anf} the races of creation came the proud revolt to quell! Standing in tbe last reaction on the rock of human rights, Worn and mornful grew his features in the flash of battle lights. Once, like Moses from tbe mountain, looked he on the realm he won When the slaves in burning Richmond knelt and thought him Washington, Then an envious bravo snatohed him from the theater of things, To become a saint of nature In the Pantheon of kings. Faded are the golden chevrons, vanished is the pride of war; Mild iu heaven Ins moral glory lingers like the morniug star, And the rreemau’s zone of cotton his white spirit seems to be, Aud the insects, in the harvest, boat his army’s reveille. All around him spoiled or greedy, women vain and houor spent, Still his faith iu human naturf lived without discouragement; For hie country, which could raise him, barefoot, to tbe monarch’s height, Could he mock her, or his mother, though her name she could not write! Deep the wells of humble childhood, cool the springs beside the hut— Millions more as poor as Lincoln see tbe door he has not shut. Not till wealth has made its canker every poor white’s cabiu through. Shall the Great Republic wither or the infidel subdue. Stand around your great Commander! Lay aside your little fears! Every Lincoln carries Freedom’s car along a hundred years. And when next the call for soldiers rolls along the golden belt, Look to sec a mightier column rise aud inaroh, prevail and melt! ‘Note.—Tho people of a city were commanded by the orucle to assemble on a plain outside of tlie city, and he who first saw the sunrise should bo made kin**. A slave turned his back to tlie sun and looked up the shaft of a high temple where the sun’s earliest rays flamed, and ho cried, ”1 see it.” He had been told to do so by a wise citizen, who stayed at home. This citizen, revealed by the slave, they made king, ;uid he was the wisest that ever reigned there.

The Oration of tlie Day. Following the poem came the oration of Major Magiuniß, who spoke as follows: Surely, comrades, as you again came down to the Potomac, and to your eyes agaiu appeared the white vision of the Capitol, around which, phantom-like, have clustered memories that have attended you through a long peace, amid the struggles of existence, in the fields of everyday endeavor, iu the temples of gain, where trade worships at tlie altars of profit and speculation kneels to tlie divinity of dividends, surely the stones of twenty years were rolled away, and cut of the sepulchre of each comrade’s past came forth a young, an ardent, an heroic spirit; a youth who had laid dowu his scheme of life, abandoned his career, and with the spirit of a patriot and the devotion of a martyr offered himself to that country whose startled hills were echoing to the guns of Sumter, aud whose first appeal and first command to the meu of our generation was “Rally on Washington!’’ The address waß an eloquent recital of the record of the Army of the Potomac, vividly recalling its deeds on the field of Chancellorsville, An tie tain, and particularly Gettysburg. While disclaiming any intention to depreciate the merits of any of the men who at different times commanded the army, the speaker thought General Pope was unequal to his great task, but con- = ‘>ml him loyal and earnest. He indignantly repelled the charge that tbe Army of the Potomac was unwilling to fight under a general from the West, in confirmation of which he pointed to the hopefulness with which it welcomed Grant, and the ardor with which it followed Sheridan. After an eloquent decription of the repulse of Pickett’s famous charge at Gettysburg, the speaker passed to another phase of his address and spoke as follows: After a campaign of maneuvers—Bristow and Mine rnu—the Aulic council was superseded. The couutry was tired of the aspiring politicians, newspaper generals, and other marplots of war, who had been directing our movements from Washington. Grant was made conimander-in-cblef of the armies of the Union. He accepted the responsibility on the assurance that it was coupled with tho power, and took direct supervision of the war in Virginia. In the barbarous days of a frontier town I once saw a tight between a mastiff aud a wild cat. The dog was confined to the circle of his chain, the cat had the freedom of the enclosure. 80, the Army of the Potomac had to range around this city, and the bauds that held the chain generally pulled it at the wrong time. When Grant came to the head we knew that the leash would be cut by the edge of that sword which shone with the light of continual victory in the West. That the dog was loose! Aud however the method of lighting may he challenged it is beyond dispute that under Grant the Army of tho Potomac got a chance to fight. That never more would it rally on Washington, but ever on to Richmond until the recall was sounded by tho lips of victory. The high honors in our war fell to our educated soldiery. Middle-aged political generals could not compete with them, but many young officers who studied wliilet hey fought graduated in the school of war, masters not only of its practice hut of its written science. They took off their eagles and stars at tlie close of tlie conflict, so thoroughly equipped iu a now useless profession, that In anew or more prolonged war some of them might have startled the world with generalship and soldierly capacity. These now commanded regiments, brigades and divisions, which they were competent to handle in a wooded country where communication with heudquarters was difficult. Under our new chief the urmv hopefully plunged into the Wilderness. It tuet a bloody cheek, more bloody than usual, for it whs in the very la!r of the enemy. But it did not make tlie usual return to camp. Instead of retiring Grant struck out by the left flunk. Ho pounded Lee whenever lie got a chance, and Loo struck back with interest. But tho army, which never had refused to stay with its leader, now felt that if had a leader who would stay with liis army. The veterans had long been in the fiery furnace, had taken more chances than those of Napoleon’s wars. The choice aud noble spirits, whose ardent natures take no thought of danger; who lose themselves in the enthusiasm of action, and glory in the “rapture of the light;” whoso fiery lips seek tho very chalice of death, and receive with joy “the saorameut of eternity;*' the very pick and flower of these fell in tlie Wilderness campaign. Heroism stood appalled at the hopelessness of individual endeavor; but there was no flaw iu tlie metal of tho army. A corps might bo disabled to-day; it came up fresh to-morrow. Tho sun went down on the scattered wrecks of a division; it rose next day ou a restored organization. The onset of the army could only bo stayed by its destruction. It could know no defeat but annihilation, so it fought by day and marched by night, and after planting its advancing feet iu many bloody footprints, it passed its old camps upon the Peninsular, aud found itself again upon tho James. THE ADVENT OK SHERIDAN. Then Lee tried to relieve Richmond by his old plan. He made a diversion on Washington. Early oumerushiugdown the valley and reached the defenses of this city. Cabinet and Congress were sorely frightened. It required all Grant’s courage and prostlge to prevent the army being brought hack from tbe James, aud the state of war in Virginia returned to the situation of 1862. Lincoln, who ever stood between bis generals and tbe politicians, called on Ueuerul Grant to come to Ills aid, aud the General oamc up from City Point and retuforoed the President, with his demoralized advisors. Tlie valley had beou the read for the raids on this capital. It was the grain Held c.f Virginia, and the geueruls we had kept thero were aids to the

Confederate commissaries. After some trouble with Halleck and the rest, Graut got a man of his own. Then the clouds of shame and disaster which had overhung our arms were pierced by the luminous rays of one of the most brilliant reputations of the war, and the scene of Stonewall Jackson’s fame became the field of Sheridan’s glory. Tho road to Washington was forever closed, and the little gamecock of the Union armies stood crowing at the gate. Our honored armies of the West were now everywhere successful. The magnificent Sherman had marched through Georgia, and tlie stride of his troops was over the Carolinas. The temerity of Hood was repressed by sturdy old Thomas. The extremities were paralyzod, and now came the final blow at the head and front of the rebellion—Bheridan’s victory at Five Forks—tho onset of the army—the capture of Petersburg—the fall of Richmond—which no one stopped to see. It was no longer “on to Richmond;’’ it was “on to Lee.” Tho race for life or death came to its goal at Appomattox. The armies which had fought with a heroism never equaled and a chivalry never surpassed faced each other for the last time, aud the Army of Northern Virginia, with a dignity worthy of its great deeds, laid down its arms and standards to its triumphant but magnanimous conqueror—the Army of the Potomac! What had this victory cost! From May, 1861, to March, 1864, the losses to the Army of the Potomac were, in killed, 15,220; wounded, 65,850; captured, 31,378; iu all. 112,448. From May 1, 1864, to April 9, 1865, killed, 12,500; wounded, 69,500; captured or missing, 28.000; aggregate, 110,000. From the beginning to the close of the war, killed, 27,720; wounded, 155,652; captured or missing. 59,378. A grand aggregate of 242,750. Adding those who died of gun-shot wounds the number of men who lost their lives in action in tlie Army of the Potomac was 48,902, probably one-half of all who died from wounds ou the field of battle in all the armies of the United Btates. Add to this tbe deaths from disease and the discharges for disability, and yon will see why w r e have so large a pension roll. * * * THE GREATER MARTYR. But another and a greater martyr was to fall beside the Potomac. In tho midst of all our rejoicings our great friend, our President, was stricken down; the commander-iti-chlef of our veteran armies, the greatest in tbe world; the grand admiral of all the navies tbat guarded our coasts or ranged the distant seas. All the serried battalions, which would have laid down their lives, could not save him, or frigate or iron-clad carry him over the river to whose brink we all must come. Like tho humblest of his heroes—whose unknown face looked up from the sod—the man whose name shines on the rook of immortality, above the waves of oblivion and the tides of time; the great central figure of the war, stepped down from liis high office into tho cold waters of death and disappeared ou the shadowy shores of the hereafter. But, comrades, the result is worth it all. Who oould have dreamed that problems, involving not only tlie government, but society Itself, could have been so soon and so satisfactorily settled! Romance and poetry will embellish, and the ivy or time make picturesque, tlie heroism of defeat; but every passing year will make more plain the decree of the god of battles, that the lost cause was justly lost. Even now those who fought us glory in the strength and greatness of that nationality which they proudly share aud would willingly defend. They see the band of Providence in the defeat of a cause that w-ould have left America, like Europe, a group of warring States, and, sharing in all its privileges and blessings, rejoice in the success of the war for tho Union. This reconciliation and renewed allegiance—which conquering monarchies have failed to win in centuries of endeavor—is the glory of a republic. Peace has been greater than war. The skillful hands of science have brought into use unknown powers of the air aud mysterious forces of the earth, and the lovely hands of art are crowning our country with beauty. The numbers and wealth of our people have nearly doubled. So has our territory; for the oondemued deserts of the West turn out to lie granaries of bread and pastures of meat for the world. The forbidding rocks of old geographies have resolved themselves into mines of silver and gold, and under their frowning peaks are found parks, canyons, waterfalls and gej'eers; the sublime glories of nature; the pleasure ground ot mankind. The genius of America has united our distant coasts with bands of steel, and planted her feet on those blue precipices which old explorers used to call “the land of tho shining mountains, beyond the western plains.” To this city, where they had met, the oomrades of many years were called, tbat they might part. You crossed the Potomac, and turning your backs upon its banks, marched in review up the aveune. Tbat river of steel, wave after wave, passed the White House and moved by the Capitol, to break and Dart aud return to the uttermost parts of the Union. But of all those whoso tattered standards floated on tho air, aud whose triumphal music filled the heart with joy, bow few there were of the faces that four years before had marched down that avenue tho other way; had marched down to the battlefield, the hospital, the grave. How much vaster the shadowy hosts of the dead, whose pale memories moved with the column and kept time to tho march. From scores of fields, consecrated by their deaths, forever sacred to their memories, they could not come, unless it shall bo to meet us under tlie walls of a oity more desired than Richmond, more resplendent than Washington, iu the last reunion of tho army of the Potomac. bherman’s reception. At the conclusion of the oration there were loud calls for General Sherman. The veteran commander, stepping to the front of the stage amid a storm of applause and ringing cheers, pleasantly alluded to the old saying of the Army of the Potomac, that “they did not want any bummer,” and said, “I was the person to whom you referred” A laughing chorus of denials came from the veterans. Tlie General proceeded to point out that memories of the war were common to all soldiers of the war, to whatever army they belonged; they followed one flag, he said, and fought in one cause, and that cause tlie Union of the country and the preservation of the government transmitted them by honest forefatli ers. lie thought it was well for the survivors of the war to gather together from time to time to compare notes, for they were reminded, daily and weekly, that they were growing older, and that it was wiser to settle the little differences that existed between them during the war. He was willing to concede to the Army of tlie Potomac all that the orator who preceded him had claimed for it, but he thought the laurels of the war should be shared bv all who fought in it. As General Sherman retired the band played “Marching through Georgia,” the members of the society and the guests on the stage rising and joining enthusiastically in the chorus. There were loud calls for Rosccrans, Schofield and Slocum, and the latter responded in a brief speech. Telegrams of regret at inability to be present from Generals Hancock and Sheridan were read, and the exercises closed with “Dixie” and “Yankee Doodle” by tbe band.

Disappearance of Young: Kittson. Winnipeg, May 16.—There is considerable excitement over the disappearance of William Kittson, son of Commodore Kittson, of St. Paul, who was stricken down with smallpox a few days ago. He was taken to tlie hospital at Winnipeg, but escaped while the nurse was temporarily absent from the room. He was delirious when he escaped. Men with horses were scouring the prairie all day, but search was in vain. It is’believed ho is dead, as there were but little hopes of bis recovery. The city offers SIOO reward for the recovery of the body of Kittson, dead or alive. The Ruali to Europe. New York, May 16. —Over 300 saloon passengers sailed for Liverpool on tho Alaska yesterday. Many persons who desired to go in the saloon, but who were unable to secure accommodation.-*, took a steerage passage, preferring to risk pulling through to being left behind. The three steameis leaving today took 800 passengers,

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IRISH AND RUSSIAN NEWS. How the Pope’s Letter to the Bishops and Clergy Is Received. What the Arrears Act Has Done for the People—Many More Arrests for Conspiracy to Murder. Fitzharris Is Sentenced to Penal Servitude for Life. The Preparations for the Czar’s Corona* tiou—Extraordinary Military aud Political Precautions. THE IRISH. Mr. Big-gar Says that tlie Pope’s Advice Should Be Treated with Respect. Dublin. May 16.—A meeeting of the National League was held here to-day. Biggar, member of parliament for Cavan, in a speech, said that anything coming from the Pope should be received with much respect by the league. They should, at the same time, express their opinions in plain, but inoffensive terms. Biggar said he was not suited for such a task, and that further it was unsafe for him to remark upon the present manner of administering justice. He urged the importance of preparing for the general election for members of Parliament. Wayne, Parnetlite member of Parliament for Tipperary, said the Irish people should take their and not politics from Rome. Parnell, was the head of their political church. Mr. Kenny, member of Parliament for Ennis, described the Pope’s circular as a shameful insult to the priests aud people of Ireland. The Freeman’s Journal, commentingon the Pope’s circular to the Irish bishops, says his Holiness has been misled, if not entirely deceived by emissaries of the British government, who know if the Parnell party remains unbroken he will bold the balance of power in the next Parliament. At a meeting to-night in support of the Parnell testimonial, Thomas Sexton, member of Parliament for Sligo county, was one of the speakers. He violently attacked the government, which, he declared, was the worst that ever ruled over Ireland. He said that the Papal oircular applied only to the clergy and not to the laity at all. He thought it might be desirable to send a deputation to Rome to explain to the Pope the true condition of affairs in Ireland. Sexton said the Irish people were sorry to lose tlie valuable services of the clergy, but that, with or without these allies, the movement must go on. His speech was greeted with cheers.

Fitzharris Gets a Life Sentence. Dublin, May 16.—The trial of Fitzharris, the cab driver, as an accessory after tlie fact to the murder of Lora Cavendish and Mr. Burke, was concluded this morning. The jury returned a verdict of guilty against him, and he was sentenced to penai servitude for life. Judge O’Brien, in passing sentence, said: “The crime for which you are convicted is morally the same as murder. The deaths of Cavendish and Burke are mainly owing to your action in inducing Smith to point out the victims.” The prisoner appeared stupefied at the sentence. Daniel Delaney, charged with conspiracy to murder, was arraigned to-day. He pleaded guilty. Edward McCaffrey, who, last week, was arraigned on the same charge, withdrew his plea of not guilty and substituted a plea of guilty. Sentences deferred. Thomas Martin, indicted for conspiracy to murder, pleaded guilty, but was allowed his liberty on his undertaking to leave the country. Kingston and Gibney were then arraignet} on a charge of conspiracy to murder, ana both pleaded not guilty. More Indictments and Arrests. Dublin, May 16.—The grand jury have found true bills for conspiracy to murder against Kingston. Gibney find Healy, conspiracy to murder against Poole and and a true bill for threatening to murder against Mathias Brady, who was charged with making threats against tho life of tho foreman of the jury which convicted his brother, Joe Brad}* Patrick O’Brien, formerly secretary of tho Liverpool Land League, Michael Hynes, printer, ami Patrick Slatter, foreman to Hynes, have been arrested, in Liverpool, for printing and spreading the circulars forwarded to tradesmen in Dublin, recently, which were termed “an analysis of the special juries on eighteen trials under the crimes act,” and in which persons buying goods of those jurors were threatened. They were remanded for trial and admitted to bail. Altogether, six persons were arrested, at Bnllina, on a charge of conspiracy to murder landlords. An infernal machine, and a number of fire-arms belonging to the prisoners were seized. It is believed the arrests and seizures were made through the evidence of au informer. How Joe Braily Died. Dublin Bpcciul. At the foot of the scaffold Brady turned to the warden and said, “Take tlie book,” He never uttered another word, but slowly, deliberately, without apparent falter, mounted the eight steps leading to the drop, Canon Kennedy keeping by his sido ami Marwood with tho leg straps in his baud. A moment more and he stood on the fatal plank. Only when Marwood went to place the noose round his neck did he flinch. He jerked his head suddenly on one side, but recovered himself in a second. Exactly on the stroke of eight Marwood touched tho lover. Death was instantaneous; tho vertebra: of the neck being literally mashed,to nieces. Tho length of the drop being eight feet, eleven inches, the effect of thin on tho neck of a man who weighed fourteen stone, can easily bo imagined. Mur wood stated that he never hanged a criminal who gavo him less trouble or anxiety, or displayed calmer or more unflinching front. Tho Infernal Box Story. London, May 10.—The head constable r.t Liverpool maintains that tin story of tho discovery on a trails-Atlantic steamer o; an Li-