Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 23, Number 48, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 July 1874 — Page 6

THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL TUESDAY, JULY 7, 1874,

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NOT L'.CT. Mary Brotberton In McMillan's Maazlne.l I Keing rooted like trees in one place, Out braln-foliace tossed Uke th leave of the tree that are caustat Ky the four winds of heaven, some thought li.owsoutof the world Into space, And Beeais lost. II. We fret, the mind labors, heart bleeds; We heilere and we fear, We believe an3 we hör in a lie. Or a truth ; we doubt till we die, Furhlindly examining creeds With a sneer. III. To life we apply an inch rule, And 10 its Btntowtr: Fach to elf an Infallible priest, Knrh struta 'o the too of the fea't, ,y says to his brother, "'lhou fool '. tio down lower.'" IV. r.Ulr?n Ute trees from our place, ;ld, era bedded, enmiaiaod ; Our dead leaves are raked up for mould. And come that n'ere sun-ripe and gold, biotvn out of the world Into tpa:e. Are not lost.

GENERAL NOTES. The French academy has selected Livings tono as the subject for its poetical pr.za to be answered in 1S75. . Coggia's comet is claimed by sone one else and there U a proepec of a suit ia cour: tc establish Ue owneiship. The Paris Ptrie believes that the abdication of Vict'f Eaiminuel ia not distant. Prince Humbert will succeed. Some of theaUimnl of Union College objected to Governor HartranfVs delivering the address bebre the literary societies of the college, ani the governor was informed that he need nut come. Mrs. Liliie devereux Blake is to deliver the oration at the grand celebration at East Orariße, N. J., n July 4, the first time in the histcry of th3 country that a wouiau was ever Fourth of luly orator. The marriage of the Princess Louise, eldest daughter of the king of the Belgians, with the Duke Phillip of Saxony, will take plae at Brussels toward the end of August next. Great fetes will be given at Brussels to celebrate the event. The chaplain wio was supposed to have eu!o:tf.9d Jim Fisk on decoration day, wjen his monument w dedicated, has published a rani denvinw thai he had alluded to Fisk at all. lie was shaking of Meade, the sculptor, who designed e monument. General Menabrea Zately astonished the Italian parliament bj his clear and frank declaration of the danger of liY should a French army invade the peninsula. General Cialdini, in an admirable speech, approved the conclusions of afenabrea. Mme. Rjstori, with a jframatic company of thirty persona, will f&y in South Amer ica during the summer or rather the antipo dean winter, It is understood that she will then co to Mexico And visit the Uniea States before finally returning to Italy. Miss Lavinia Ge'odell, lately connected with Harper's Bazar, has been admitted to the bar as a practicing attorney t Taxmnaville. Wis., after passing a very niWHtable examination. Miss Goodell is the first woman admitted to the bar in Wiscon sin. It is said tha. King Louis, of Bavaria, has been summoned to meet Prince Bismarck at Kissingen on account of his separatist ton dency. and that a council 01 German royal ists will prooaoiy ckj convened 10 obtain Lis abdication unies ce shouia subservient-. become more The, id Fall River line between New Ylrk and Boston, which for several years has teen operated by the Narraganset ci.Dhin vmnanv. has been sold to the fcK Pnlonv Steamboat Company, of Ma. rhusetts. and henceforward will be managed coniointly with the Old Colony Railroad The Massachusetts Woman Suffrage 83 sociation will celebrate the Fourth of Jul y in Harmony Grove. South Farmington Mrs. Mary k. Llvermore will be the orator nfthe dav. Poems will be read by Mrs Jnlia Ward Howe and Henry B. Blackwell, Brief addres are expected from Lucy Stone and other Paper flour barrels are being made in Iowa. Hey are said to be air-tight and water pof, to weigh much less tkan the ordinary' wooden barrels, and to te aWto stand nore rough usage. One of the manufacturirs predicts that in nve years every barrel of Western flour will be sent Eat in barrels made irom the straw the wheat grew on. While Mr. Bergh was Bitting in his office the other day two ladies entered, and one of them handed him a little box, which, upon opening, he found to contain a 50 greenback and 5250 in gold. After remarking that it was intended as a mark of their appreciation ol the work Mr. Bergh was engaged in, the ladies retired, positively refusing to leave their names. The Toronto Globe's London correspondent enables the paper to announce that Mr. Cartwright, the Dominion minister of finance, has aacceaaally placed four millions sterling of his loan upon the London nxmey market at the low rate of tour per cent. "This is the first time," says the Globe, "that a Canadian unguaranteed Joan has been obtained at so low a rate of interest." The export of wheat from New York for June, it is predicted, will exceed any month in the history of the trade. Then it will be large, indeed, as the figures show that the exports ol wheat from New York in October, 1873, reached 8,070,700 bushels. The exports of wheat fr m New York to the 2)th inst. were 4,551,300 bushels. A relative increase would carry the aggregate of New York to 6,826,900 bushels. Eugene Hall, suggests the Boston Transcript, will be the eighth person from New England who ha served as postmaster-gen eral. The others were Samuel Oägood of Massachusetts, 1789; Timothy Pickering of Massachusetts. 1792; Gideon Granger of Connecticut. 1802 to 1S14: Jacob Collamer of Vermont. 1819: Samuel D. Uabhard of Connecticut, 1852; Horatio King, Maine, 1861. The owner of "Apology." who won the Oaks stakes oa Epsom Downs, is a clergy man of ihe Church of England, who resides In the North of Englaal, and races usder the name of "Mr. Lunde." He appears to think that the ownership or rice horses is not qaite in accordance with his sacred call ing, for he int rouua to an me sporting oa pen-, reorienting the editors not to given:" real nan. TliO d! y in -a nq Japan expedi tion asr'- " Formosa pirates is aitribua largely tithe activity of the American minister. On the eve of its departure Mr. Bingham l-uftd a manifesto, warning Americans not to jln or in any way to participate in tbe affai'. fie appears to have suddenly chapged hi' tews, and the reasons that Infi tiencwd tu n are the subject of curious speculation.

SHERMAli'd ANOE. QBIEV WHY HE MOVES TO ST. LOUIS. TUE STORY TOL1 IN LETTERS THE POSITION OK THEUÜNKRAL GRANT'S VIKW IN 't6 The difficulty between general Sherman and Secretary Belknap is bes told by the follow ins letter?. The first is frm the Gen erl to the Secretary: Headers Army of the United State, Wa.suisuton, D. C, August 17,1870. Gncrtl Ii". Ii', lldknap, SrreUtryof War: General; I moat respectfully and argent ly iuvite your attention, at leisure, to a mat terofdeen interest to future commanding generals of the army more than myself o the impaative necessity of fixing and clearly defining the limits of the powers and du ties of the general of the army, or whomso ever may succeed to the duties of couiraancier-in chief. The case is well stated by General Grant in his letter of January 25, ISCfi, to the secretary of war, (ür. Stanton,) hereto ap pended: and tboiiga l hnd no othciai an swer recorded, I reinem btr that General Graut told me that the secretary of war had promptly assured him, in conversation, that he fully approved of his views as expressed in ttiis letter. At that time the subject was much discussed, and soon after congress enacted the bill reviving tne grade rl ireueral. which bill was approved July 2-5, 18(56, and provided icat tne general, wnen commis sioned, ' may be authorized, under the di roction aud duiing the pleasure of the presi dent, to command the armies of the United fstates," and a few days alter, viz: July 2S, lbö'j, the law was er.ac:ed wtich denned the military peace establishment. Tne enacting clause reads: inattne an unary peac9 es tablisbment of the United States shall here after consist of five regiments of artillery, ten regiments of cavalry, forty-five regiments of infantry.the proiessors and corps of cadets of the United States Military Academy ,and ich other forces as shall be provided for by this act, to be known as the arnly of the United States." The act then recites in great detail all the rarts of the army, making no distinction between the line and staff, but clearly makes each and every part an element of the whole. Section 37 provides for a board to revise the army regulations axd report. and declares that tiie regulations then in force namely, those in 1803 should re main until congress "shall act on said re port;" and section 38, and last, enacts and provides "that all laws and parts of law in consistent with the provisions of tbis act be, and the same are hereby, repealed." Under the provisions of this law my predecessor. General Grant, did not hesitate to command and make orders to all parts of the army. the military academy and staff; and it was . under his advice that the new regulations were compiled in iCS, that drew the line more clearly be tween the high and responsible duties of tie secretary of war and the general command ing th9 army. He assured me many a time peiore I was called hare to succeed him thai he wanted me to perfect thedSstiaction, an4 it was by his express orders that on assumat the command of the arniv 1 speciucally pliced the neads of the staff corps here in Washington in the exact relation to the artiv which they would bear to an ajrmy in tL Held. I am aware that sabHeqeatly, in hil order of March 26, he modified bis lormer oners of March 5, but only as to the heads of I bureaus in Washington, who have, he toil me, certain functions of oilice imposed on them by special laws of I congress, which laws, ui course, override all orders and regulations; buk I did not understand, either from him in pe.on or from General Rawlins, at whose instance this order was made, that it was desigiei in any way to modify, alter, and ehaiee his purpose that the department and divsion commanders, as well as the general of the arinv. should exercise tne same ojmnand of the staff as they do of the line of the army. I need not re mind th3 secretary that orders and renits are made to and from the Mili tary Academy which the geneial does not evn see, though the Military Academy is speciucally named as a part ol that army which ha is reouired to command. Leaves of abseace are eranted. the stations of oö cers are hanged, and other orders are now made diiectlv to the army, not through the geneial, but direct through other officers ti the adiutmt general. So long as this is the case, I surely do not command the arinv of the Unitea states, and am not responsible for it. I am aware that the confusion resulting from the fact tnt the .17th section of the act of July 28, 18T6, clothes the army regulations ol ist with the sauction of law, bat the next eection repeals all lwa and parts of laws inconsistent with the provisions of this act. The regulations of 1863 are but acompuatioik of orders made prior to the war, when auch lien aa liavia and Flovd took pleasure in stripping General Scott of even the aemblauc-eof nnvsr. and purposely reduced to a mere cvher in the irovernment of the army. Not out word can be found in thoae regulations speaking of the DUTIES OP THE LtSUTEN ANT GENERAL commanding the army, o defining a single aft of authority that devolved on him. Not a bin ule mention Is mads of the rights and duties of oommaader-in-chief ol the army He is ignored, and purposely too, aa a part of tpo program resulting in the rebellion that the army without a legitimate head should pass into the anarchy which these men were snapmg ror tne wnoie country I invite your attention to the army reguia tions of 1847. when our best soldiers lived among whom was your own father; and see paragraphs 43 and 4!), page 8, and thsy are so important that we quote them entire: "43. The military estaDhshment is placed under the orders of the major general eomanding-iu-chief in all that regardt is discipline and military control; jts penal arrangements proper.'y belong to the administrative department of the staff and to the denartment. under the direction of the secretary of war. 49. The general of the army will watch over the ec,omy oi the service in all that relates to tbeexpendlture of money, supply of arms, ordinance and ordinance stores, clothing, tqaipments, camp equipage, medical and hospital stores, barracks, quarters, transportaton, Military Academy, pay and subsisteice in Bbort, everything which enters inP the expenses of the military establisamen-, whether personal or national. He wil.'lso see that the estimates for the midtary rvlce are based on proper data, and mide for the objects contemplated by law, büc necessary to ibe support and useful eJolyment of the army. In carrying Into effect these important duties ha will call to his counsel and assistant the staff, and those officers proper a bit' opinion to be employed in verifying -nd pursuing all the objects wbich mav equlie attention. The rules and regulations established for the government of He army and the laws relating to the nsiUsry establishment are the guides to thtf ciiamanding general in the performance ofhis duties. Why was this, or why wasallmention of any field duty for the head of the army left out of the army regulation? Simply because Jefferson Davis had a purpose, and absorbed to himself as secretary of war, as General Grant well says, all the powers of oommander-in-chlef. Floyd succeeded him, and the last regulations ol 1863 were but a mere compilation or their orders, hastily collected and published, to supply a vast army with a new ediiion. I contend that ail parts of these regulations inconsistent with the law of

GENERAL

July 28, are repealed; I surely do not ask for any power my sei U but I hope and that now, while we have A MILITARY PRESIDENT and a military secretary of war, that in the new regulations to be laid before congress the next session the functions and duties oi commander-in-chief will bo so clearly marked out and defined that they may be understood by himself and by the army at large. I am with great respect, vour obedient servant, W. T. Sherman. -, General. Tue following is the letter or General Grant on the division of authority wbich is referred to in General Sherman's letter: Washington, Jan. 29, 1SC0. , 7c lion. 11. M. Stanton, Secretary of Wan

From the period of the difficulty between Major General, now Lieutenant General Scott with Secretary Marcy during the ad ministration of President rolK, toe command of the army virtually passed into the hands of the secretary of war. From that day to the breaking out of the rebellion.' the general-in-chiel never kept his headquarters in asbintfton, ana could noc, consequently. with propriety, resume bis proper functiors to administer the analr9 or the army prop erly. Headquarters and the adjutant general'i office must be in the same place, iäaring the war, while in the field, my functions as commander of all the armies were never impaired, but were facilitated in II essential matters, by the administration and by the war tlepartment. Now, however. that the war is over, and I have brought my beadqunarters to this city, I find uy present position embarrassing, and. I tbrnkr out of place; I have been intending,-3r did intend, to make the beginning of fiie new year the time to bring this maiter before you, with the view of askiaz-to have the old condition of affairs restored, but from diffidence about mentioning the matter have postponed it until now.: In a few words I will state what I conceive to be my duties and my place, atid ask ' respectfully to be restored to them and it. The entire adju tant general's office should be under the entire control of the general-in-chief of the army. No orders should go to the army or the 'adjutant general except throusrh the geneal-ln-chief; such as require 1HE ACTION Or THE PiUSSlDENT would- be laid before the secretary of war. whose actions would be regarded as those of the pcesident. In short, in uiy opinion, the generai-in-chie! stands between the presi dent and the army iu all official matters, and tie secretary . of war i between the army. through the general-in chlef, aud the president. I can very well oonceive that a rule so long disregarded could notf or would not. be restored without the subject being presented, and I no'v do so, respectfully, lor your sonsideration. U. S. Grant, Lieutenant General. Odfrial: George K. Lset, A. General. Afterward General Sherman, thinking it of 2at importance that a decision on the question should be-reached, wrote President Urasut a letter on tje subjOLi. while cn route for aahforma on fcostnp VV3&t. The follow-J nsr is the letter- of Genecal Sherman to resident Grant: 0 ah A, September 2, 1870. O'tumtl U. S. Grcutt, Washington D. C. : Dear Generzx: I have- received yousr ixost acceptable letter of August 13, and assure you that I am perfectly willing to abi & by any decision you may malte, w e bad-a aiost enthusiastic meeting at Des Moina, tnd General Belknap gavs us a fine, finished address. 1 ba 6 conduced to go over to San Francisco to attend the annual celebration ol the pioneers, to bo held on the SUb lost. From there 1 will make a short tour, aiming to gei back to SL. Louis, via Dea ver, by the first of October, and so cn to Washington, without unnecessary delay. Conscious of the heavy burden already on you, I should refrain from addiDg one ounce to your already load of care,, but it seems to me that now is the time to fix clearly and plainly the field of duty, of the secretary of war and the conimandug general of toe army, so Wiat we may esaape the unpleasant coutrovc-rsj that gave so much scauAalin General Scott'a time, and leave to our successors a clear field. No matter what the res It, I promise to submit to whatever decision that you may makb. I also feci certain tiat General Belknap thinks he is simply executing the law as it now stands, but 1 an convinced that he -does not interpret the aw reviving the grade ot go renal, and that 'fixing the peace establishment," of 1868, asl construe them. For instance, I am Bupposni to control the DLSCIPUlE OF THE MILITARY ACADEMY as a part of fie army, wbereaa General Belknap ordered court f Inquiry in the case of the colored cadet, made a detail, reviewed the proceedings, and made hia order, without my knoving a word of u, except through the nevspapers; and more locently, when I went U Chicago to attend to ome division business, I found the inspector general, Uardie under order from the &. cretary of war tt go to Montana on some claim business, ah i s. is, ma orders should go to the parties through me. If all the stan offcers are tubjoct to receive orders direct from the secretary of war it will surely crash with the orders which they may be in the act of executing from nie, or from their immediate commander. I ask that General Blknap draw some clear, well-defined rules tor my actin, that he show them to ae before publication, that I make then my remarks, and then that you make a fioal decision. I promise faUhfully to abide by it. or give up my commission. Please show tkis to General Belknap, and I will be back early in October. With great respect, your obedient servant, W.T. Sherman, General. No action having Ken taken on this subject, and the question still being a matter of . it I CMtA.tnn iinn easaut controversy, ueuoim cum man decided to act upon a desire he had long ago expressed to the president, ana remove uis family to St. Louis, where he bs a home, and where in his judgment, ho could more satisfactorily arrange bis private sffairs. He accordingly was informed by the president that no objection wonW now be made to his removal, and be therefore addressed the secretary of war the followicg official request: Headquarters of mt rmt, Washington D. C, May 8, 1874. General W. IP. Belknap, Secretary of War: General: I now have the honor mostreBDectfully to request that I may be permitted to remove my headquarters to St. Louie, Mo., in the month of October next, in the aama manner and to thesame extent granted to my predecessor, Geaeral Scott, shortly after the Mexican war. STRONG REASONS, official and personal, impel me to this step, and 1 make this reaaest at this early date because six month's notice is required of me in certain necessary preliminaries in St. Louis. With great respect, your obedient servant, W. T. Sherman, General. To which the secretary of war replied as follows: War Department. Washington City, May 11, 1S74. General W. T.Sherman, United States Army, Washington, D. C.: General: I have the honor to acknowl edge the receipt of your communication of the 8th instant, asking permission to remove your headquarters to St. Louis, Mo., in the month of October next, and to Inform you tht it has been submitted to the president

of the United States. With the assent of

the president, consent is given to you mov ing your neaaquarters to St. Louis as you aesire. a copy oi the general order wblcb it is proposed to issue upon the subject is herewith inclosed. You will perceive that it does not change the present order of busi ness with this department. It is only deemed best Lere to add to Its provisions the suggestion wbich was made and carried out in tue case or uenerai sk-ott that no ma terial change khall be made In the stations or troops or commanders without previous approval by this department. I am, general. very respectruMy, yonr obedient servant. W. W. Belknap, Secretary ot War. . , HE OFFERS TO RETURN HIS HOUBX- , G eneral Sbermvn is now living io n res idence purchased for Geaeral Grant, and repurchased by som? of bt personal frieads f r him on Presideo Grant's election. Hay lng decidtd to leave this ciSy, aud the howse hating been presented to hbsn as a home, he at once wrote a letrer to secretary Fish, wfc was one of the dotiorst- tendering return of the bouse through bits to tbe friends who bad pretented it to hnrx giving very frankly bis reasons for taAinj; tins oorre. Secretary Fish replied that they ceuld not receive it; that it wai presented to him foy the benefit of himeeir ad family, acd that if he did not occupy it t a residence tbat the proceeds of i; beloaaJ to his lamily. General Sherman will therefore sell his presidence if an opportunity eifere before he leaves the city; if not it will be rented. THE PESKY REDSKIN3," BRAVES e THE WAR PATH FlltirfS AT TUE MAILr TRAIS LOOKING FOR A BRVXI. A letter to the Chicago Times gires some particulars of the Indian movements ha In dian territory: The Indians evidently raean business now- Within the pa three- days they have made attacks on ourmail wagDns and in each ca a soldier was seriously wounded. That aiy account cf these incidents may be better understood,' it is necessary that I should exptain that our nearest railroad station ami regular posto-Hce is Dodge Citydistast from bereO :iles,.ncai!y due north. .The mail service between here and there is-perforated under the dirsetion of the post commander. Gen. Brooke; An ambulance, orligbA wagon, drawn br raulea is- used. Tiere a?s- two stations-between here and Dodge City, the first- at theCimarron crossing, 35 miles fronv herethe second at Blufi crek, 3. miles further.. At each of thesfrthe- rattles are changed. By tbis arrangement the-mail wagon is enabled to make round trip every four days;. The stations have-usually been guarded by four or five men and a nan-commissioned officer,, though recently thai number was increased The last out-going noail, accompanied by the usual escort, a. non-commissioned officer and two men, ex&uWe of the driver, left here last Friday, the 19. b. Between 1 -and 2 o'clock on that day, lust as the mail wegou hadi crossed Buffalo creek, a small stream 2 miles fom here, four Indians fired4nto it from an ambush, one rtf thn shntjw SArioiiRj-v wnnndincr rnrnAMl shearer in the upper part ot the thigh. The corporal wauiug on tne driver's- seat. The guards hurriedly seized their-arnje while the driver plied- the whip to his team, and galloped up the-hill. The Indiana, .who were mountod( foUowed, and coiitnenced discharging, their revolvers in their usual unsteady manner. By this time the soldiers began to get their work in and firedseveal shots. One ot the Indians was seen to tumble from his horse and then ALL USAPPEARED. The wagou continued on. Early co-yesterday morning (Saturday) it arrived in- Dodge City, delivered the mail, end received a frs&h lot. Orjarriviag at Tort Dodge, whicb is on!' a short distance from the town, the guard in charge learned that Major C E. C'ompton, special inspector, and Dr.. Glover Perm, medical director of the department, were about to start for Camp Supply, accompanied by It men. It was then arranged that the mail should accompany these officers and their esKrt. Mjr Compton and Dr. Perin occupied an. ambulance, whil the escort was equally divided aud placed in two others; the mail wagon brought up the rear. The little train left Dodge City some time time before noon, anJ trotted briskly along. No'-hing happened until the party reached Butfato creek. They passed thüe locality where tae mail wagon bad been attacked on its way up, haJ crossed the creek and were coming to the conclusion that there were no Indians about or that if there were any, they were- afraid to attack so large a party, when suddenly party oi Indians sprang up as it were out of the pround, and fired a volley into the wagons. On leaving the creek crossing, there are two roads leading up a rathar sharp hill, known as the old and new road. The new road is the most traveled, and, although the easiest to ascend for loaded wagons, is bounded on each side by deep ravines and high banks alternately. Among these natural covers the Indians had posted themselves 40 strorg. But 1 a 1 i i. .1 1 : -. l ; mroou iuck wuuiu uav it, loo unit) inuu bad taken the old road. The Indians noticed thia t once, and commenced changing their posiiivn. Bat eöect their movement it became necessary for tbcm to show themselves. It was then a portion of tLm commenced firing at the soldiers. The escort of 14 men and the mail guard jumped from their wagons and deployed as skirmishers, at the same time moving toward the top ot the hill. A continued fire was kept up all this time, the Indians discharging their revolvers very wildly, and while on the run. After the escort and train had reached the summit of the hill, the Indians not caring to expose themselves further, disappeared be hind the banks and into the ravines. It is estimated the Indians fired MORE THAN A HUNDRED SHOTS. There were many "close calls," of course. A number ot the leadeu messengers went whizzing by in very close proximity to Major Compton and Dr. Perin. Still only one soldier was struck Private O'Shean, one or the mail guards. A bullet passed through the fleshy part of his arm, above tne eioow. as to tne Indians, it is not known what injury they sustained. Durlne tue tta.irmiu uuo w as seen io iaii oh nis pony, but he may have been only slightly wounded. The Indians ehowed themselves again, and, in fact followed the t ain for about two miles, but they kept at a respectable distance. It is said that au Indian will take anything, but .there is one thing he never takes, viz., chances. The arrival of the mail one day ahead of time, bringing the news of the two attacks, has created considerable excitement in the post. As I write, a portion of one of the cavalry companies stationed here is getting ready to go up the Dodge City road to meet a government train of 10 six-mule teams and wagons, on its way here, and which is expected to arrive at the Cimarron crossing this evening. It is thought that this large number of fat mules will raise the cupidity of the braves in an extraordinary, degree, and that, as it is pro jected by only seven or eight men, exclusive of the drivers, it is necessary to hasten to its protection. The expedition, if it may thus be called, consists of 40 men of company I, 6th cavalry, and is commanded by Captain Chaffrey. This officer is a veteran Indian fighter, and should it become necessary, he will not hesitate to let the Indians know that the government has not yet decided to inolude i mules among lits annual gifts to then. (A raid or dash into the post is looked for at any time. The greatest precautions are being- taken. Lee fc Reynolds' mules are hobbled and herded carefully duiing the day, and securely corraied at night. The , escort . for . the mail wagon will hereafter consist of 2 men, ".

PHASES OF HYDROPHOBIA.

A SURGEON'S STORY. TWO CASES POPXTLAR THEORIES REFCTED AN EXPERIENCE IN THE ARMY. An army surgeon writes to the New York Evening Post of his experience with hydrophobia: It was early in 1861, and we were encamped on the bank of the Potomac Our camp was overrun with dogs of all sorts, sizes and values, there having been a sort of tnania among tbe men for a long time for tb possession of at least one dog to his tent, and ao pretty nearly every stray cur we had met between Elm fra and Washington bad been appropriated. Tbe weatner was bot enough, but nobody had thought of hydrophobia, and the clogs ran about at will. I was thoa assistant sorgeon, and attended the sick call while the sorgeon in the adjoining tent took charge of sueh cases as seemed to me to need more careful examination than I cenld give tbem in the time at my disposal. One morning I was sitting at esU when tbwe came forwarA as his name was called, about the last penon one would have tboucht of lor a patient. He was a young Englishman, not more than twenty-one-years old. with an open, pieasaat countenance, rnddy cbeexe, and the picture in every way of periect health. When I remarked thiSj.and said to him that be did not loe-k ill, be replied with a smile that he did not eel ill, but tbere seemed to be something wreng with his throat. He then proceeded to Sell that oa going to the spring with tbe others that morning he had been seized. while stoopiag to fill his pail, with a "sort of fit." 3nd would have fallen in had a comranion not seined him in time. Since tlenr whenever he had tried to drink, he bad felta"lumpin his throat." and his head bad been carried over bis right shoulder.- Strange to sayrrooneof his companions hatt suggested hydrophobia; but, that, of conrse, suggested iteelf to me, though I had' never seen a ease. I did not, however, o-mmw-nicate my suspicions to him, but quietly toKä him to go tbe sur geon and have hij-tbroat examined- On en tering the surgeon'e tent after call., he met me at the entrace-,. saying. "We have a case ol hydrophobia, doctor." All this time the man bad not told wtiat bis disease- was, and was evidently somewhat wondering at his. detention when all that ailed him was a trilling trouble in histhioat. He "jroodered still more when wt? after A BRIEF OONBCLTATION, ordered an ambulance and told bin we bad decided to take him to thn-feospital in Washington for treatment W deemed ' It best. however, to avoid aU chanee of a panic in the regiment, and so he wae- started off. Arrived at the hospital, the scene on his reception was significant. Thsurgaon entered and reported his patient to the surgeon iacharge, wbo, however, being. busy, very imperfeetiy beard the statement, and was as much surprised as I had been to see walk in so healthy-looking a young man. Thinking be loosea noi ana iirea.sne aocior Kindrv ottered him a glass of ice-water, which was eaaerlv accepted; but no sooner waa the attempt made to drink it than the inevitable-convul sion followed. Tbe patient was then put into a private room, aed for the first time told what his disease was. Soon afterwards our surgeon took leave of him, when he requested - that he might be bound, saying that he felt, when the parox ysms came on, a desire to attack his attend ants, and feared tnat be might injore some of them. Up to this-time his paroxysms, though increasing ia intensity and duration, had been only convulsive seizures, and there bad been absence of anything like delirium or violence. From tbis time on, however, the attacks were more andmore violent until his death, which took place next morning. He exhibited none of tbe violent symptoms popularly supposejto belong to hia malady, until after he had been informed of the na ture ot the disease-' Whether be would have done so, had he not been told, is an interesting question, but one whicb, unlortuaately, we can not answer. The second ease was that of a strong, middle-aged German, ot muscular frame,and dark swarthy omplexku,and like most Germans ofi his age and temperament, inclined to bypochondriaand delirium in almost any iiiner. He was in the hospital tent ill with some malarial fever, of which we had a great deal, but his ease was not at all serious, and.E wondewd somewhat to see one surgeon, vaqo had tire rare of the hospital patients, carefully giving all the patients medicines himself. One morning, however as I was entering the tent to hold sick call, tbe surgeon was BENING. OVER THlt PATIENT with so lie liquid medicine in a teaspoon, when the siek man sprang from hia bed and grappled tbs- doctor. The latter was a strong man, but be was taken unawares and would have been roughly handled had not two or three of us run to his assistance. The man was finally secured, but not until he had escaped from us and started yelling through the camp, the lieutenant-colonel finally catching him at the edge of a ditch, into which both rolled. The touch of the water brought on the poor fellow the most fright i 1 1 convulsions, and I then knew for the firt time vfet was the nature of h'f disease. We rorooved . him at once to the ordinance building (cur camp was in a fortification), . and made him a bed on the floor, confining bis hands and "slinging" his feet high enough from the floor to prevent bis standing upright. He very soon became rational, when we told him ol his danger, and he made his will, arranged all bis business afiairs, and during the day conversed freely between his attacks with the chaplain and others. His case differed from the other in this, that while the convulsions were no more severe, the delirious attack which usually not alwaysfollowed, was more violent, inasmuch that he, two or three times, drove his attendants, two burly fellows, out of the room. Yet, in all these attacks, there was not the slightest attempt at biting, nor was tbere any of the whining or barking like a dog of wbich one hears so much. I know that on one occasion, when his attendants had been scattered, I secured him and held him down while others bound him, and he made no attempt at biting, though he fought bard enough. To be sure he would grate his teeth, as men in delirium often do, and there was something of a gatheriiHr of mucus in his mouth and throat, from tbii-at'buc there the resemblance of the popular iAture of hydrophobia ceased. A curious feature , his paroxyms was that they were brought on by other causes than the sight or touch of water. One of the ordinance men engaged in filling canisters In the magazine came into the room for some empty canisters, and the light from tbe winnow, happening to rll no a bright tin, was r .fleeted in THE PATIENT'S FACE, and was immediately followed by convu'sions. I confess I was cruel enough in order to satisfy myself as to tbe reality of tbis to try the experiment with a bit of look-ing-glass, with tbe same result. A current of air, either from a fan or an open window, had the same effect. 'On the other band, I munaged to give him a drink only one, however. I mixed, with the assent of my colleague, a heavy ; dose of morphine with whisky and water much whisky and little water in a large tin cup, and telling tbe man what I wanted of him, raised his head on my arm and presented tbe cup, urging him to try and drink. He did try until he was nearly purple in the face, and finally

swallowed most of the dose, though he nearly bit the side out cf the cup. Attempts to repeat the experiment, however, failed. He died that night. We afterward ascertained that these two men had occupied the same tent, and owned between tbem a cur, which being aick one day, their comrades advised them to drown. In throwing the dog into the water be slightly scratched tbe hands of both. So slight were the wounds, however, that nothing was thought of tbem until atthe death of the men. It seems that the surgeon had .found out that both men had been bitten by the same dog, and hence his watchfulness of the German in the hospital and bis reticence. These cnes are remarkable chiefly as showing the diflerences produced by temperament in the manifestations of the disease, and the entire likeness of tbe convulsive symptoms, showing the identity of the poison and of the disease. Tbe period of tbe incubation was in the first case about three weeks, and in tbe second about four. It will be noticed that both these men were bitten on the- hand, and it is doubtful if c?se of hydrophobia basevei yet resulted where the bite was through tbe clothing. Tbofe bitten, thereiore, may take comfort if evn one thickness of ciotbhig has intervened, lor the poison, unlike that of a ser pet, is in the saliva, and ot conveyed thrwigh a hollow fang. STATE POLITICS, THE THIRD DISTRICT.. HON. 3T. C. KERR NOMINATED BT ACCLAMA

TION A TELLING SPEECH TKH PLAT FORM". By Telegraph to the Sentinel . Seymour, Ind., July I. The convention ot tie Third District assembled here- at 1 o'clock, with all the counties represented. Dr. McClare. of Jeffersonville. was chosen chairman- Entire harmony prevailed. There beubg no opposition, Mr. Kerr was aominated by acclamation, after which he made an elaborate speech, embracing the corruption in the a-iministratisn, the civil rights bill, muzzling tbe press,, tbe inequality of taxation, the unequal benefits of inflexion, the necessity of farmers protecting tuemselves, monopoly and the- tariff, witLr an elaborate discussion ot the enrrency question, the gist of which is irthe following resolutions, whih, among ethers unimportant, were odoptei after his speesh: llesci red. That we freely recognise the intrinsic and incalculable value to all the people of a currency based upon and convertible into,, gold and silver, as is obviously contemplated by the constitution; but we also deer it inexpedient now, while t!8 country laognishes under the effects of the recent f.naneial crisis, to attempt the resumption of specia payments' Resolved' That we bellere the best inter' ests and safety of the people- demand tbe repeal of lh& national banks and tbe substitution for their notes of an equivalent'amount ,of greenbacks, to be issued on the redemption of bonds, thereby reduaiog the burden of interest on tbe public debty and giving the -people better currency; The various counties had cae hundred and sixty-six votes in tbe Convention, all of which were-giren to Mr. Kerr. THET TWELFTH DISTRICT. CONVENTION AT XRT WAYNE INTENSE EXTTEMENT A. H. HAMILTON NOMINATED FOR CONGRESS. By Telegiaph to the atinel Fort Wayne, Ind., July L The demo cratic congressional convention met here today. Eli A. Brown, of Whiteley county, was chosen permanent chairman.. Resolutions were adopted calling lor economy and retrenchment in government affiairs, and a return to- specie payments as soon as possible without a reduo tion of the-volume of curreney. The candi dates befor the convention i were Hons. A. H. Hamilton, Allen Zollars, Walpole Coierick, andi Judge Lowry, of Allen, Hon. Milligan, of Huntington, and Hon. J. R. Bobo. of Adams. Judge Lowry, when called on to pledge bimself, appeared on the floor and made a bitter speech, charging his principal opponent, William Fleming, with fraud and corruption. He concluded by withdrawing his name and asking bis friands to defeat Mr. Fleming. Judge Lowry 'ft speech caused intense excitement, and will be refuted by Mr. Fleming. Mr. Hamilton was nominated on the second ballot araidst the wildest enthusiasm. He is a son of tbe late Hon. Allen Haaiilton,who foruerly represented this county in tbe state Seaate.. He is a nephew of Judge Holman, member of congress,and studiaJ law in the oSce of Senator Pratt. He is. a gentlemen of fine ability, extensive we '., and finished education.and is a very proinent Mason, being right eminent grai..l commander of Knights Templar of Indiana. His nomination .gives good sai auction, and he will probably have no. oi.iaiiion. CONGRESSIONAL CONTEST. DAVIESS COUNTY. The democrats of this county assembled at the court house in Washington, Saturday, June 27, for the purpose of appointing delegates to the different conventions. About tour hundred democrats were present, all the townships being represented. The friends of Messrs. Williams and Cobb were very active and energetic, but there was a clear majority for Mr. Cobb in the convention. Discovering this fact, Hon. John Hyatt and Hon. R. P. Haynes, the managers for Mr. Williams, endeavored to have the meeting adjourned to a future day. Tbis, however, did not carry, and the convention then proceeded to vote, and the result showed 191) votes for Thomas R. Cobb, and 15 lor James D. Williams. Many of Mr. Williams' friends had retired, and some of Mr. Cobb's friends had also left the convention before the vote was taken. The convention then proceeded to other business. Delegates were appointed to tbe different conventions and were instructed to vote for Thomas R. Cobb lor congress; Hughes East, of Greene county, for treasurer of.state; Dr. A. Patton.of Knox for auditor of state; and the Hod. James S. Morgan, of Daviess, for state senator. The delegates were instructed to vote as a unit upon all questions. Tbe result of thia convention leaves the congressional race in this district in the fubo wing condition: FOR WILLIAMS. FOR COBB. Sullivan ......... ......... ...25 Martin .. 1 1 6 21 2Ü Knox ........28 ( raword . CrawfoixL 6 lHibols... Davlesf. . Total Total 59 to The counties of Orange, Pike and Greene, having C2 votes, have already appointed ciL-ioafp8 but no instructions were given. It will be seen ky this that the contest will be close. Both gentlem hr have aspirations for this office and their rt-ppotive friends have been actively engaged in working up the people, aud it is presumed a large representation from each county will be present at the convention, which meets at Washingtoa on the 23d of July. A mysterious female has Just arrived in San Francisco, having walked the entire distance from Omaha. She says her name is Sophie Gastenhome, of Evanston, 111., unmarried. She wants to go back, and will give no reason for undertaking the extraor dinary journey.