Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 May 1889 — Page 4

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Strand. TARIS-American Exchange in Paris, 33 BouloTard des Capucinea. NEW YORK-Gllsey House and Windsor IIoteL PHILADELPHIA A. pT Kemble. 3735 Lancaster avenue. CHICAGO Palmer nouae. CINCINNATI-J. P. Hawley A Co., 154 Vine street. LOUISVILLE C. T. Deering, northwest corner Third and Jefferson streets. T. LOUIS Union News Company, Union Depot and Southern IIoteL WA8TTINGTON, D. C Biggs House and Ebbitt House. Telephone Calls. Business Office 238 Editorial Rooms 242 Municipal elections will occur to-day in many of the cities aud incorporated towns of Indiana. TnE President and Secretary of tho Treasury have set to-morrow to take up and dispose of the appointments of collectors of internal revenue. ' All the compliments recently paid to General Fisk for his supposed good sense and honesty in abandoning tho third-party Prohibition movement will have to be canceled. He has not done it. What Indianapolis needs is free gas, and if the citizens but say the word it will have it. No man nor set of men can prevent the success of the enterprise if all who are in favor of it will cooperate. The women of America received no recognition in the recent centennial celebration at New York, and they were similarly 6nubbed by tho managers of the French centennial celebration at Versailles. , Wnr so much fuss over one blank cartridge fired fit President Carnotl A shower of such harmless missiles are aimed at President Harrison every day, only they are not fired out of a gun, but from Democratic mouths. TnE personal effects of ex-President Cleveland, now stored at Red Top, are to be sold at auction. His personal popularity is not named in tho list, but as it would hardly bring out many bidders it is probably as well to allow it to go into inn-c-s d-s-t-dc. TnERE is never any telling where Ben Butler will break out next. Ho has a nice little row on hands with Admiral Porter, but, as ho revels in rows and as Porter is amply able to take care of himself, it is the part of discretion, as General Sherman says, for others to keep hands off. SISUBMS BlMSBBBBsssssssiM The burning of sixteen ice-honscs at LaPorte, with their 20,000 tons of ice, can hardly make any perceptible decrease in the supplies of that commodity, but if any ice-dealer in the country fails to use tho loss as a basis on which to raise rates, or, at least, give short measure, he may bo regarded either as a reformed man, or not up to tho tricks of tho trade. , A great commotion has been caused among tho Rocky Mountain Indians by the prediction of a leading medicine man, that when the snow has come and gone once all the dead Indians will return to life. Ho also predicts that at the same time all white men will disappear. At the risk of being sued for libel we venture to pronounce tho prophet a fraud. Hon. John II. Baker, ex-Congressman from the Thirteenth district, has declined the appointment tendered him by the President, as a member of the commission to negotiate the purchase and opening to settlement of the Cherokee strip. Mr. Baker has served tho public faithfully and efhcientlyin political life, and his acceptance of tho appointment would havo added materially to tho strengtli of the commission. The visit of ex-federal and confederate otlicers, headed by General Rosecrans,tothe battle-tield of Chickamauga was an interesting occurrence. It is not often that former enemies in battle revisit the field after twenty-five years and walk over it together to recall old memories and locate historic spots. Tho Chickamauga party has just done this amid much good feeling. Last night General Rosecrans was given a reception in tho house where he had his headquarters in 18G2, which was largely attended by people of the vicinage. A Washington correspondent who undertakes to give an accurato portrait of each of tho Cabinet officers describes Attorney-general Miller as a man of about tho President's height and age, but with a dark complexion, and "hair and beard still black." Stay-at-home Hoosiers have heard that Mr. Miller has succumbed to giddy fashion sutliciently to don a swallow-tail coat and to seem to like it, and they have not been disposed to criticise him severely for so doing; but they will be pained atthe suggestion that he has suddenly become so addicted to social vanities really it can hardly bo that he has taken to dyeing his locks. Ex-Pension Commissioner Black hides behind the government and expects to be protected from the consequences of all his acts of injustice to old soldiers. He will, of course, endeavor to maintain that in perpetrating" these injuries ho was actuated by a high sense of official duty and not by personal malice, and that ho had no thought of tnkjnjr advantage of his position. If Gen. mc2i had been able to foresee, four

years ago, how tho next presidential election was going he might have ordered his course diffeiently. It is not improbable that he would now prefer to havo tho good will of the veterans, which he forfeited to further his political ambitions.

FBEE GAS FOB PA0T0BIE3. It is absurd to talk about getting free gas for factories through any existing company or organization. Neither of them can do anything of the kind or ever will. The three companies now organized cannot begin to supply the city for domestic purposes. They could not do it last winter, and cannot next. Two of them were compelled to cut off most of their factory consumers in order to supply private ones, and to-day a great many factories are unable to get gas at ordinance rates. Neither the Trust nor the Indianapolis company will ever furnish free gas for factories. Tho latter has never proposed to, and tho former is in no position to attempt it or to consider the proposition in any shape whatever. Tho managers of the Trust arc in no position to assume any new obligations or contracts, or make any new promises, and it is bad faith and trifling with tho public to hold out any such idea. The only possible hope of free gas for factories is in an independent movement specially directed to that end, like the one now on foot. If this movement fails, all hope of free gas fails with it, and our people can devote themseves to swapping jack-knives and trading in chips and whetstones. The present movement is entirely feasible, and can be made entirely successful, if the people will take hold of it with a will. It is the only opportunity in sight to boom the city, and it is' a grand one. Free gas would make this the greatest manufacturing point west of Pittsburg, and tho present movement offers the only possible chance of getting it. PACTS AGAINST FANCY. General Young, of Georgia, delivered an address at Atlanta, on Confederate Memorial day, in which, after eulogizing the confederates as native-born American descendants of revolutionary patriots, and whoso later ancestors had fought in other wars, he said: Do you know the secret of their devotion to duty and honorf It was because they were American citizens to the manor born. There are more pure American-born citizens in Georgia than in half a dozen Western States. People believe that we have been harmed because the stream of immigration has been turned from us. Not so! We are under everlasting obligations to I them for the favor. They have watered their own blood at a fearful rate, and have left our stock pure and free from the thousand taints that immigration brings. There are more American-born citizens in the Southern States to-day than in any other section of the country. We can make duo allowance for State pride and for the disposition of an orator to magnify his theme, but that kind of talk is largely nonsense. Men are not necessarily any better for having been born in America, and at best thero is more or less foreign blood in the veins of all native Americans. Wo aro a composite people, and our blood is very mixed. Those who can trace the longest lineage of American-born ancestry will find that it runs at last into foreign soil. Nowadays, the question is not so much where a man was born as what sort of man ho is, what aro his character apd principles, what can he do and how well he does it. The assumption that tho quality of a people's blood is deteriorated, and the standard of national character lowered, by race mixture is not supported by facts. History shows the reverse to be true. Tho strongest races have been mixed ones. The Anglo-Saxon, than which there is no stronger, is a mixed race and of composite blood. It took centuries to form it. The first settlers of Georgia, whom the OTator seems to regard as exceptionally pure-blooded, were not only the result of a mixture running through generations, but were further mixed and crossed with Irish and Scotch, thus introducing a new strain of blood. Animal breeders know that the highest types, and sometimes results of surprising excellence, are produced by crossing families and mixing different strains of blood, and that the best strains will finally run out if not thus reinforced. It is true that, owing to the movements of emigration, the Southern States havo fewer foreign-born citizens than those of the North, but the fact correctly stated is not that the Southern States exceed tho Northern in tho number of native-born citizens, but that tho latter greatly exceed the former in foreign-born citizens. In 1880 Georgia had a population of 1,542,180, of whom 1,531,G16 were native and 10,504 foreign born. Indiana had a population of 1,978,201, of whom 1,834,123 were native and 144,178 foreign born. South Carolina had a population of 905,577, of whom 987,891 were native and 7.68G foreignborn, while Illinois had 8,077,871, of whom 2,494,295 were native and 583,576 foreign born. The figures all the way through 6how no scarcity of native blood in tho North. The Northern States exceed those of the South in native population as well as in foreign born. The latter have not been an clement of weakness to the North, and certainly their absence has not been an element of strength to the South. The statement of tho orator quoted above that "there are more pure Americanborn citizens in Georgia than in half a dozen Western States" is ridiculously untrue. Intended to magnify the superiority of the South in this regard, it only calls attention to tho fact that it has lagged in the race of population, native as well as foreign. Any one of the leading Western States has moro native born inhabitants than Georgia. This wild orator says "there are moro American-born citizens in the Southern States to-day than in any other section of the country." The statement is very wide of the mark. The four States of New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indiana contain more native-born citizens than all the Southern States together. It would be interesting to know in what respect tho blood of the North has been so terribly deteriorated and demoralized by immigration. Our orator says that Southern blood has been left "pure and free from tho thousand taints'that

immigration brings." Do these taints appear in Northern lack of schools, churches and charitable institutions, in an absence of happy and contented homes, in the lack of an intelligent press, :n the failure to develop a literature, in the low state of agriculture, manufactures and commerce, in the decay of patriotism or tho decline of manhood?' In spite of "tho thousand taints that immigration brings,7 wo think the North will compare favorably with the South in these respects. Such speculations are not particularly profitable, but if indulged in at all, they should be based on fact and not on fancy. Our Georgia orator drew on his imagination for his facts. .

GENERAL BUTLER AND ADMIRAL PORTER. General Butler's attack on Admiral Porter will injure himself more than it will Porter. He says Porter acted tho coward at New Orleans, rushing down the river pell mell with his whole fleet away from an enemy that was not even pursuing him. The charge is preposterous on its face. If what General Butler says were true it would be desirable to have the truth of history established even at this lato date, and at whatever cost to established reputations. But it is utterly at variance with contemporaneous history and with Admiral Porter's career and character. If he had done what General Butler charges, his superior officers and those who were with and under him at the time would have known it. So flagrant an exhibition of cowardice and incapacity would not have remained a secret twentyfive years. Admiral Porter's conduct at New Orleans was not called in question at the time, nor wTas his conduct in other emergencies of the war. For his services at Vicksburg, being then a commander, he received the thanks of Congress and tho commission of rear admiral. He received another vote of thanks from Congress for his reduction of Fort Fisher, where General Butler gained no laurels, and his entire course during the war was marked by bravery, ability and heroism. Ho received four separate votes of thanks from Congress. It is rather lato in tho day for General Butler to attack an officer with such a record. No doubt some mistakes of judgment were made during tho war, but General Butler was not sufficiently infallible to justify him in making such charges as this. His refusal to attack Fort Fisher after it had been practically reduced by a terrific bombardment from Porter's fleet brought upon him severe criticism, and his position was not bettered by the fact that another officer, a little later, made tho attack and captured tho fort. However, the war is over, and General Butler is foolish to revive it. A WORD POR THE GRADUATES. . The commencement season, with its many happy girls, its fewer but no less happy boys, its white dresses, blue ribbons and roses, its neat little essays aud flowery speeches, and, last but not least, its diplomas this season so important to the youth and of so little consequence to those who look back on it is once moro upon us. The elders, who now value so lightly theironce treasured bits, of parchment, find it difficult to sympathize with the enthusiasm of tho graduates, but, if they cannot meet expectations in this line, they may at least refrain from throwing a chill upon'tho occasion by representing it as of little account. In tho summing up of a lifetime tho school graduation counts for little, perhaps, but it is, after all,; an event of moment when it occurs and is not to bo belittled. It marks an epoch, the first important one, in tho young lives, and is the mile-stonq which stands at the parting of the ways between childhood and maturity. Once graduated, the school boys and girls become, in their own estimation, at least, men and women, and do, in fact, begin to take up the more serious responsibilities of existence. Their ambitions and aspirations, their hopes, and dreams, and theories are to be met with tender consideration, and not with discouragement, for out of all those hopes must como what is to be good in their lives, and it is not tho part of kindness to wantonly crush ambitions that are known to be extravagant and without reason. Let the youngsters enjoy their day undisturbed by the cynics. On Sunday the French people began a series of celebrations in commemoration of the great events that fixed tho world's attention ono hundred years ago. The meeting of the States General of 1789 was appropriately celebrated at Versailles, President Carnot paying tribute to the courage and sacrifices of tho men of the revolution. This demonstration was fittingly supplemented yesterday by the opening of the Paris exposition, which, despite tho political uncertainty now prevailing in France, furnished no indication of tho apprehensions that must exist in the minds of those charged with the administration of national affairs. New Yorkers feel good over the centennial celebration. The liberal management and patriotic display havo brought the metropolis more compliments than it has had for a long time, and furnished evidence that patriotism is not dead even in that niost mercantile of cities. Now, if New York will behave itself the next hundred years we will all unite in another centennial. John Bkant, editor of tho Waynetowu Hornet, writes to the Journal to the effect that he is not the John Brant mentioned iu the Crawfordsville correspondence of this paper on Saturday last, in which a niau of that name is charged with vote-buying. 1 Alitor Brant 6ays he is yet too young to vote and took no part whatever in tho election of last 3' ear. To the Editor ot the Indianapolis Journal: The poet Whlttier. In a letter t the secretary of the Howant Society, of Lonlou, speak of Jrelletani Woolman. Who were tirellet and Woolman, and where can I learn something of them I j. m. u. Monrovia, Ind. Rev. Stephen G relict was boni in France, in 1773, and died in Burlington. N. J., in 18.5. His parents were wealthy, ho was well educated, and entered the French anny. Owing to political troubles, he left France in 1795 and cam to New York. There he joined the Society of Friends. He engaged in mercantile pursuits, accumu

lated some wealth, and became noted for

his charities, and also as a preacher. In the latter capacity he traveled through tho Southern States and New England, and later all over Europe. In 1831 he made a second missionary and preaching tour to Eur ope, being absent three years. John Woolman, a noted Quaker preacher. was born in New Jersey in 1?J0, and died in England in 1772. He began life as a tailor, but took to preaching, and made many missionary tours in the colonies and among the Indians. In 1772 he went to England, and died there. His writings have been much admired, and were praised by Charles Lamb. To the Editor of tho Indianapolis Journal: Where would a person be examined for the cadetship text year, at Annapolis, and by w homf Would a person he examined at home before he went to Annapolis! Anoi. The appointments are made by the Secretary of the Navy, on recommendation of Congressmen, and it has become customary for the latter to order competitive examinations of the candidates in their respective districts, and to make their recommendations accordingly. Address the Congressman of your district to learn when a vacancy occurs. After appointment another examination is made at Annapolis, and if the candidate does not stand the physical and mental test he is rejected. ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. A copt of John Eliot's Bible has just been parchased by the trustees of the British Museum. One of the new Cardinals, Schoenborn, Archbishop of Prague, was a soldier in the battle of Padua, in IStJG. Ir is said that more money can be made in England nowadays by painting the pictures of dogs than by taking humau portraits. IIon. CHauxcey M. Dkpew recently received a letter which had been mailed at Melbourne, Australia, simply addressed to his name without further direction, which goes to prove what is in a name. The Rev. Dr. J. B. Strickler, of the Central Presbyterian Church, Atlanta, Ga., has within the last year declined caUs to nine other churches, and also a oiU to the chancellorship of the State University. 1 The average life expectancy . in the United States is now fifty-five years, and the death rate is the lowest in the world, notwithstanding the fact that there is one physician to every six hundred inhabitants. Ex-Mayor Stoklet, of Philadelphia, has given to the Fresbyterian Church at Bethlehem, Fa., a splendid pulpit made of brass, ivory and onyx, inlaid with mosaics. It is a memorial of his niece, Mary Stokley Evans, who died a year ago. Jules Simon, the French statesman and orator is now in his 6eventy-flfth year, though he looks younger. Ills rank in the popular estimation of frenchmen is correlative to that of Gladstone, so far as statecraft and oratory are concerned, lie has a low, yet resonant voioe, and a calmer manner than most GaUic speakers. At a church party lately held at McDonough, N. Y., forty young ladies were put up at auction and sold to the highest bidder. A. countryman believed the sale was bona fide, and put up aU his cash, $7.49, on the prettiest lady bil off. It was dilttcult to convince him that he couldn't remove her to the paternal fold. 'George Kennax, the Siberian traveler, has returned to Washington. The summer he wiU devote to the preparation of his book on Siberia for the press. The book will be issued about Christmas, shortly after the conclusion of his Century articles. During the winter he will go on an extended lecture tour under the management of Major J. B. Pond. Members of the InsUtute of France appear, as a class, to be extremely long-lived. The late M. Chevreul was a notable example; indeed, he is the only member who ever lived beyond a century. Yet, although he entered the Institue at the comparatively early age of forty, he is only fourth on the list as far as official life is concerned. Cassini was a member for seventylive years, Fontenelle sixty-six, and Jussieu sixty-three. M. Chevreul, at the time of his death, had been a member sixty-two years. It is told of Mrs. Morse, the wife of the great electrician, that she was a deaf mute when he wooed and won her. The affliction, however, was not congenital but the result of accident, and the father of telegraphy never rested until ho had brought back to her speech and hearing. A lady who met her then says that Mrs. Morse was an Incessant talker, and delighted in nothing so much as the sound of speech, and especially laughter, so much pleasure indeed did she find in it, that she would sometimes go away by herself and Indulge in long peals of it, simply for the sake of using her ears. It is not," says Mme. 8araa Bernhardt, "because I am always extravagant that I am always in want of money, but because lam always being robbed by my directors. Shamefully robbed! I have been cheated out of miUions aud millions. One trusts the rogues, does not read over tho en gagement as carefully as one ought to do, and signs. Then there is always a line about a forfeit or something else which one has overlooked, and it is there that the director is in ambush. Between the thieves on one side and the small prices paid in Paris on the other, I really often wonder how I get a piece of bread to put between my teeth. Of all countries France is, perhaps, the one where an actress earns the least. Look at What Ellen Terry, Bernard-Beere and Mary Anderson earn. Why, they make as much, 1 am sure, In a week as I do in a season." Pbeident Harrison carried away with him from New York an illuminated programme of the services at St. Paul's, beautifully designed and printed in many colors. On its first page it bore this inscription: A form of prayer and thanksgiving to i : Almighty God for the inestimable bless-: ; inga of civil and religious liberty, set : : forth by the Bishop of the Diocese of : : New York, to be used by : BENJAMIN HARRISON, I I RESIDENT OP THE UNITED STATES, I : in St Paul's Chapel, on Tuesday, the : . thirtieth day of April, a m : mdccclxxxix. : Tho prayer-book used by Bishop Potter during the services was that published in 1790 by Hall & Sellers, and was the one made for President George Washington. It was used by htm for years, and is now the property of Mr. ti.JL.lL Barlow, of New York. A nAsniNO young damsel of Ga. Was a moonshiner, burglar, and fa.; But her neighbors cried: "My, What turpitude! why. She's a seoond Lucrezia Ba." Tho Globe. COMMENT AND OPINION. To compel the liquor-dealers to support the public burdens that their trallic creates Is a mere matter of justice and a step that our excise commissioners should be compeUed to take. Albany Journal. The American public is less lenient toward everything and everybody else than toward its favorite base-ball players. And comparatively few of the players are worthy the patient consideration shown them. Evening Wisconsin. The fact is there is no getting away from the conclusion that the safest plan is to require stock to b? slaughtered where the meat is to le consumed, and to provide for an efficient inspection before killing. Buffalo Commercial Advertiser. A Mormox minister can go to the piney woods of Georgia and convert 80 per cent ot some of the families. Were those families first brought here, not one in a hundred oould ever be caught in the meshes of tho Mormon net Salt Lake City Tribune. Unless both sides take hold of the eight-hour problem in a friendly spirit aud with the intention of solving it together to their mutual advantage there is likely to be a grim anniversary celebration of the Haymarket riot next Mav, either in Chicago or 6ome other American city. Chicago News. We are very much inclined to believe that the poUceinan lias got tho upper hand of the Anarchist. The whole of this murderous brood has been taught that there 1 at least one thing they uiut respect humau life and the fact Las been brought home to them in a way they are not likely soou to forgot New York Tribune. DoN't put away the flags aud decorations where they can't be found, for the United States is going to have another big celebration in about three 3'ears. It wiU commemorate the discovery of this country by ChrlitopUer Columbus, and as there are several nations interested in that event the celebration will be shared by the three Americas. Iowa btate Register. Tin; best and most loyal American Is he who looks upward aud forward for the whole country, who desires a homogeneous development, the symmetry of which U marred by no deformities of swolleu wealth or shrunken civil self-reflpei'U Commerce aud money getting are factor iu national growth and proper parts of tho whole body; but they are not the blood and bones of the Nation. New York Press. Let tho federal government atlck to its own work. That it should become the paymaster, and so the iusplrer of protestors of history and political econeiny, audthe Interpretation of tho Constitution, and the science of taxatiou, is not to be borne. Thee aud all other arts an I sciences can be learned, misunderstood, or f rgotten by the American people at their own wiU aid Uicir own coat-New York Sujl

THE BUTLER-PORTER ROW

The Qnarrel Begins to Show All the Characteristics of a Common Brawl. The Admiral Says the General Was Drunk When He Hade His Recent Speech, and the Litter Offers to Prove the Former a Liar. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Washington, May 6. Admiral Forter has been interviewed again on tho chargo of General Butler that he ran away at the battle of New Orleans. After quoting letters from Secretary Welles and others. Admiral Porter said: "It is all nonsense to say that we forsook our duty for an hour. The forts surrendered to me, and Butler knows it. Ilis position is untenable, and he never would have attacked me had he been sober. That speech of his was a drunken speech, you know, ril give him enough of a reply, however. I'll lire it at him for tho next three weeks, and then hS will let me alone for live years. I shall not hear any more from him during my lifetime, for I don't expect to live another live years. I suppose he was celebrating his 'capture of New Orleaus.' He claims it, I understand, although tho city was in possession of the marine corps for fully three 'days before Butler and his troops got there. I know that, because I towed them. When that bird of ill-omen," he said, "takes offense at anyone, he 'bottles up' his venom until, in one of his maudlin intervals, he expels it. Oa my first acquaintance with Butler at New Orleans, he sunt mo an impertinent message, upon which I wrote to him that if ho did not send me an ample apology I would take personal satisfaction. He had to make the apology, after doing all he could to dodge the issue. Since then we have not been at all like-Damon and Pvthias. About once in every lire years, after one of his drunken bouts, Butler makes a spasmodic rush at me, like a mad bull, but I have always caught him on my horns and thrown him flat on his back. I wonder the public should notice what the old imbecile says, and, except for the fun of laying him out again, I would not notice him now. He is the only man I ever heard of who could outlive the contenpt of the whole Nation, could always run away in time of war, and yet flourish.- I came very near thrashing him while he was military Governor of New Orleans, and am sorry that I did not do it. The General is going to write a volume of 'reminiscences.' If he will come to me I will give him a bookful about himself which will enlighten tho public, who may have forgotten the time when he went by the name of 'Beast Butler1 among the children in the streets." General Butler, fortified behind ponderous legal tomes and immured in huge piles of manuscript, sat in his office on Capitol Hill this afternoon engaged in the preparation of a reply to, Admiral Porter regarding the New Orleans v episode during tho rebellion. He has enlisted the assistance of his law partner, O. D. Barrett, and business of every sort will be subordinated to the work which was inaugurated by the General's utterances at the recent banquet at Boston, Mass. When a representative of the United Press interrogated General Butler as to the course he would pursue concerning Admiral Porter, he replied: "When Porter will say that he did not go down the river with his fleet below the bead of the passes, on the day that Farragut passed the forts, I will prove he lies. He has not said that yet." Among the papers on General Butler's desk, and which will be a prominent factor in the proposed answer, is a brief of the record in a case which was tried several years ago in the Supreme Court of the District ot Columbia, before Jndge Humphrey. On the brief is inscribed: "Supreme Court, District of Columbia; in Admiralty. No. 2C9. United States in behalf of the Officers aud Men of the North Atlantic Squadron versus the Ironclad Ham Texas and the Beaufort." "We will show up a transaction in which Admiral Porter was interested," said Mr. Barrett, "and in which he claimed prize money aggregating $&8,121.G6 for the capture of these two vessels, when, as a matter of fact, they were in possession of the army. It was in the closing days of the rebellion, and these two alleged men-of-war were on the point of destruction by the confederates after the surrender of Lee. Admiral Porter put in a claim for the amount of prize money stated, but the case was thrown out of court, and it was shown that the-two boats only brought $5,000 when they were disposed of." "I think Admiral Portor will find it necessary to consume more than three weeks in settling General Butler, and the prize-money case is only one instance that we will cite against him in this controversy. It is not upon hearsay evidence that General Butler has made the statement that Porter ran away from a floating dry-dock and two 6mali confederate steamers. After Farragut went from the passes and ran bv the forts to New Orleans, General Butler followed in his headquarters boat, and was thus between Porter and Farragut, and able to see and judge what transpired. Had General Butler acted upon the information given him by Porter he would have abandoned Farragut and ceased operatious against the forts. but he was better informed than the commander of the mortar flotilla, who, the day after he had reported that the confederates were in pursuit of and would destroy the fleet, retraced his steps when it was shown that there was no foundation for his scare. This controversy will not be settled by pooh-poohing on the part of Admiral Porter, as no will iiud out before we are done with it." Dr. Tanner's Interview Slightly Inaccurate. Chicago, May 6. Dr. Tanner, the great student of suspended animation, asks the Associated Press to correst au error which occurred in an interview with him on the subject sent in these despatches on Saturday. In that dispatch, which was quoted verbatim from an article published in one of the afternoon papers of this city, he was made to say that he knew of a case in which the body of a young man lay in a vault for three years, and was afterwards restored to life. The Doctor says that the period hero mentioned is slightly in excess of the actual time. The young man lay in the vault three days, instead of three years. In another place the Doctor is made to say that he had interviewed a lady near Indianapolis who had lain in a state of coma for fourteen day, and that six Indianapolis doctors had pronounced her dead, after making the usual tests. Dr. Tanner says that ho saw the lady in Indianapolis, but that her home was in Steubenville, O.. at the time of the occurrence. In regard to tho opening of the tibial artery in tho case of Wilhelmina Stahl, of this city, the Doctor desires it stated that he did not say that had the girl revived she would have bled to death and the doctors would have been murderers, but that his statement was to the effect that such an operation was no test, as shown in the case of the Steubenville lady in whose arm a vein was opened without receiving a flow of blood; but she returned to life nevertheless. Unfortunate Boomers on the Return Starch Arkansas City, Kan., May 6. Tho suffering of the battled boomers finds most Eroimnent evidence along: the northern order of Oklahoma. Yesterday one thousand wagons in the march down, and eight hundred wagons on the way back, were counted. The groves in the Arkansas and Walnut river valleys, that ollered camps for tho boomers before the descent, aro tilling agaiu with tho returning unfortunates. There aro hundreds of families among them who sold everything to make the trip, and now have nothing left. Tho sight of men. women, and children, who are thus unprovided for and desolate, with the mere frames of horses surviving to drag them along, is pitiful. Guthrie still holds the majority of population, and is not yet symmetrically formed. Oklahoma City is the most promising town site. Captain Crouch, the old successor to boomer Payne, was on Saturday elected Mayor, defeating a preacher, whoso platform was against gambling and whisky. As long as the latter is excluded, as it is now, serious trouble cannot occur in Oklahoma. m Whole Family Drowned. Wheeling. W. Va., May 6. A torrible accident is reported from Braxton county, this State. V. B. Harr and family lived in a thiuly-settled district, and yesterday ho and his wife aud two children started to visit a neighbor. A mountain stream in their nath was swollen out of it biinlcH. I .but llarf attempted to cross it in a canoe.

Half way over the frai! boat capsized nr.d the whole family were thrown out Tho wife and ono child immediately Rank.

Harr. who was an cxpf rt swimmer, ftcizcil another and made desperate elicits to rcape. Ho causht on to tho ranoe, bnt was swept down stream, and pcriMuu oejoro help could reach him. The bodies havo been recovered. MILES OF BURNING WOODS. Great Forest Fires, Sweeping Everything in Their Path, in Minnesota and Wisconsin. St. Paul, May C Furious forest fires ar raging in northern Minnesota and northern . Wisconsin, and an immenso amount of damage has been dene. For miles, on thrco sides of Dnluth, tho fire rcges and many country residences havo been destroyed by the flames. On tho Hermautowu road, near Duluth, every dwelling for four miles has been destroyed. It is feared that eoxn lives havo been lost, as incoming fanners report a vast firo which is sweeping everything before it. A high wind is blowing, which makes it impossible for anj boadwaytobe made against the fire. It nnwt simply burn until thero is nothing moro for it to destroy. Several houses were burned yesterday near Spirit lake. A largo number of telegraph poles have been burned, and communication is interfered with. In some places, too, ties on the track have burned out, making it dangerous to move trains. South of Ashland, for UiO miles, the forests are ablaze. On the Fond du Lao Indian reservation over 20,000 worth of skidded logs were consumed. Other losses aggregating $10,000 also occurred on tho reservation. Cumberland, Wis., is almost wholly surrounded by tire. Tho losses aggregate 40,000. North of Grantsburg, Wis., the rim has swept the country, destroying everything in its path. Along theNorthern Pacific, in the neighborhood of Cromwell, tho tamarack forests and whatever else conies in its way is being burned. It is hoped a heavy ram will come soon to put a stop to the further spreading of the fire. Near Hinckley, Minn., Thomas Campbei; and Earnest lowel were surrounded by fire, and finally their camp outfit wai burned about them. They took refuge on, half an acre of plowed ground, but were terribly burned, and will die. Four yoka of cattle perished. A dispatch from Dnluth 6ays that there was qmte a heavy rain for a few minute in that vicinity, yesterday, which cleareu the atmosphere in Duluth of the heavy smoke, and checked somewhat thf forest fires in that neighborhood, but the showers were ' local, and the fires in most directions are still rag ing. Lumbermen who arrived yesterday from Ashland, on the Northern Pacific railroad, said there was but little ram there, audit did not do any good. Near Carlton Station, Wis., the house, barn and entire, plant of the brick-yardj of II. A. Pygat were destroyed. Superintendent Green, of the Northern Pacinc, isinfromBrainerd. He reports little rain in that direction, and the country coy. ered with smoke from the burning woods. An engineer of the ight train on the fcU Paul fe Dnluth roau. which arrived here yesterday moraintr, that on the run from Mission Creek at Duluth, 6ixty miles, there was no of a headlicht, tho tracks being lighten by the flames. Tho damage to settlers, ana farmers, and to lumbermen will be great. A good deal of stock is probably destroyed. Several lumber camps have been burned, out. Everywhere tnCcry is for rain. No Clew to Dr. Cronln's Whereabouts. Chicago, May 6. Tho supposed bloody mystery attached to the disappearance of Dr. P. H. Cronin, who was a member of a great number of Irish societies, was partly disposed of to-day. Hair, supposed to btf his, and found in a bloody trunk on th prairie near Lake View, was taken this evening to the barber shop. which Cronin frequented. The employes declared un hesitatingly that the hair was notCronin's that his was much coarser, not as long, and was inclined to be kinky. Police Captain. Schaack, who has met Cronin frequently, expressed a similar opinion. The bloody cotton in the trunk, another supposed clew, proved valueless. It to-day turned out to be ordinary batting, and not tho absorbent article such as tha Doctor carried in his surgeon's outfit. A report left at police, headquarters by Mr. J. C. Ellis that he had seen Cronin on a street car yesterday was investigated, with the result that the. man seen by Ellis was found to be Managas Lehnenof tho Windsor Theater. Saloonkeeper Conklin and wife, with whom Cronin boarded, deny that he was a "drinking man," claim that the hair found is really the Doctor's, and persist in tha theory that Cronin must have been, murdered. Several well-known gentlemen friends of Cronin adopt the 6ame view.. Many people, however, aro skeptical con eermng the affair, and express tho opinion that the Doctor will turn up all right fihnrtlr. . ' Louisville, May 6. Wm. Dietrich, scventeen years old, died at 10 o'clock this) inorniag from wounds received at thehanda of Sebastian Ebbinger, yesterday afternoon. Frank Burton, seventeen years old, and Kudolph Gossman, nineteen years old, were also shot at the same time, bv Ebbinger. and Gossman will die. The bhooH ing occurred in the country, near tho blind, asylum, and in front of Jos. Werner's saloon. Tho boys had gone out to spend the day in the woods. They took a keg of beer along, but late in the afternoon Burton announced that he would treat the oth" er boys to wine. They went to Werner's, saloon, but he had none of the kind they-, wanted, and the boys began "guying" him. Werner became very angry, and chascuV them out of the saloon with a whin. Ha struck several, and the boys began throwing stones in return. Ebbinger was in thaon Innn nml )iaariiif tTin rnw A o e Vi a I mt v take Werner's part. Tho boys continued throwing, and Ebbinger drew a revolver and began firing at them. Burton and Dietrich were shot through the bowels, aud Gossman in the neck. Ebbinger was arrested. He pleads self-defense. Ho is a young man, and has no occupation, but has been trying to get emplo3'meut from Werner as bartender. This is supposed to be the reason he interfered in the quarrel. Six Persons Drowned by the Capsizing? of a Sloop. St. John, N. B., May 6. Six persons left St. Andrews on Saturday afternoon in a sloop for their homo at a neighboring placo called Didequash. About 3 o'clock, whila still in St. Andrew's bay, a man named Holt saw the sloop capsize. He pulled in his own boat to the spot, but the little vessel and all the men had gone to the bottom. A government fishery protection cruiser has undertaken to grapple for the bodies. Tha names of the lost are Isaiah Lynn and his nephew Clelend Lynn, Henry Barnes, Thomas Anderson and a man named McLenuen and his son John. Somo of them were married men, with families. A Boom tor the Sioux 1 1 serration. Chamberlain, D. T., May 6. The blufls along the Missouri are becoming covered with tho white prairie schooners and tha tents oi hardy farmers from Iowa and other Eastern States, who have here cast their tents in anticipation of the speedy opening of the Sioux reservation, whe-n they will locate claims in the rich agricultural lands of tho fertile section. It is believed that the rush to the lands in the reservation, when finally opened for settlement, will resemble the now famous Oklahoma rush. The laud is in every way better than tha land in Oklahoma, and the amount is many times greater. IHthops of the United Itrethren Cliurelu CiiAMnKKsitUKG, Pa., May 6. The board of bishons of the United Brethren Church met here to-day to prepare their report for the great general conference, which meets iu York, Pa., in a few days. Bishop J. Weaver, of Ohio presided, and all the bishops wero present, including Bishop D. W. Fleckluger. of Africa. The sessions of the board wero secret. The board of missions of tho whole church meets hero to-morrow to prepare their quadrennial report. The Che Tournament. New York, May C The games of tho international chi'M tournament to-day resulted as follows: MacLeod beat Gossip, Showalter beat Bird, Tschigorin beat D. (f. Baird, Lipschutz beat Gunsberg. BlackBuruo beat Taubcnhaus, Weiss beat J. W. baird, Bnrrille beat Dcluinr, Mason beat Bums, llanham beat Judd, Pollock MaxUaex,